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PRELUDE
Exciting things are happening at UNCW. We have a new chancel- lor, James R. Leutze, who is bursting with energy and ideas for our won- derful university. He's committed to making UNCW a superb under- graduate institution and to positioning our marine biology program as one oi the premier programs in the nation.
We have a new alumni affairs director and new basketball coaches for our men's and women's programs. The calendar is brimming with the events they have planned. We're ready to share the excitement.
New students, staff, and faculty from many parts of the country and from other nations have joined us as well, bringing with them fresh perspectives and new ways of doing things.
New emphasis on international study has already resulted in UNCW's first formalized study abroad and exchange programs with universities in foreign countries. This means our students will have regular opportunities to live and study in countries like Equador and Great Britain.
And our alumni and parents associations are stronger than ever. This past year 1250 alumni donors invested $77,000 in UNCW while the parents of UNCW students raised $32,000 from 522 donors. We are building a strong base of support to enable the university to provide even better programs and services. This devotion to UNCW is unsurpassed.
We have a lot to be proud of. UNCW Magazine has been updated to reflect these accomplishments and the pride we take in our university. Examine it, read it, savor it. Let us know what you think. Your input is important.
We look forward to bringing you stories that reflect the best of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
- The Editors
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ARTICLES
DEDICATED TO THE CITIZENS OF NORTH CAROLINA
A profile of Sen. Henson Barnes, class of '58
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MONEY
What a bargain! The cost of an education at UNCW
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ARABIAN NIGHTS FACTS NOT FABLES
One UNCW alumnus shares firsthand information about life in Saudi Arabia
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ACADEMICS PLUS ATHLETICS EQUALS SUCCESS
How reports and sports come together
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IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Mapping strategies for UNCW's participation in the world community
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| A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI. PARENTS AND FRIENDS |
Volume 1 Number 1
UNCW Magazine is published quarterly by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Division of University Advancement.
Editor I Allison Relos Contributing Editors / Mimi Cunningham, Renee Brantley
Editorial Advisory Board / F. Douglas Moore, M.Tyrone Rowell, Howard Lipman, Carol King
Design / Modular Graphics Printing / Drummond Press
Cover photo by Curtis Studio, Wilmington, N.C.
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CAMPUS DIGEST
F AC U LTY
Drug Research
Robert Hakan, assistant
professor of psycho logy and 1980 graduate of UNCW, received a research award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to study the effects of dnigs on the brain. The $467,181 award is the largest ever received by a UNCW faculty member.
Hakan's research will focus on the nucleus accumbens region of the brain that is believed to stimulate the pleasurable feelings associated with using dnigs. Morphine, nico- tine and alcohol are among the drugs studied in Hakan's research.
Editor and Author
Carole Fink, associate professor of history, attended the second conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas Sept. 3-8 in Leuven, Belgium. During the conference scholars in the humanities, arts, and social sciences from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and America discussed the theme, "A Comparative History of European Nationalism: Toward 1992". Fink's presentation was entitled "The Historian as Patriot".
Fink has also been invited to join the international editorial board of a new journal, Contemporary European Histcrry. The journal, published in Great Britain by Cambridge University Press, will focus on the history of Europe since 1918.
Aid to Chile
William M. Wadman, UNCW associate professor of economics and 1989 Fulbright lecturer to Chile, returned to Chile this summer to negotiate a $10 million grant for the Chilean Ministry of Health. He served as a representative of the
U.S. AID team. The grant will assist in improving primary health care to poor rural and urban communities in Chile. President Bush is expected to sign the agreement with President Patricio Aylwin on his visit to South America in November.
DEVELOPMENTS
Sequencing Science
A three-year, $ 1 .47 million grant has been awarded to UNCW by the National Science Founda- tion. One of five awarded in the nation, the grant will support a pilot center to improve the scope, sequence, and coordination of middle grades and high school science.
David Andrews, associate professor of science education in the School of Education and associate director of the UNCW Science and Mathematics Education Center (SMEC), will direct the project. Other UNCW faculty involved in the project are Carolyn Dunn, associate professor of biology, and Charles Ward, director of SMEC.
The pilot project will focus on the spacing and proper sequencing of science concepts and topics taught in grades six through eight. The concepts will be tested and evaluated in seven North Carolina schools before the curriculum revisions are recommended nation- wide.
The program could lead to fewer dropouts from science, more stu- dents pursing upper level science, and a more scientifically literate population.
Scholarship Endowment
Estell C. Lee, former owner and president of Almont Shipping Company and 1955 graduate of Wilmington College, has presented a $ 1 million fully funded life insur- ance policy to the UNCW Founda-
tion. Payable to UNCW upon her death, the money will be used for scholarships in two areas, 80 percent to the Cameron School of Business Administration and 20 percent to the College of Arts and Sciences.
In addition, Lee has made a separate cash contribution of more than $140,000 to the UNCW Student Aid Association that will go towards athletic scholarships.
Lee cunently serves on the Board of Directors of Wachovia Corporation, Carolina Power 6k Light, Cape Fear Memorial Hospital, and the UNCW Student Aid Association. She is also a member of the N.C Board of Transportation.
POLICY
Drug Testing
In accordance with directions from the UNCW Board of Trustees, a mandatory drug-testing policy has been developed for all UNCW athletes. Implementation began in September, with all athletes receiv- ing a personal briefing by university attorney Paul Eaglin along with a copy of the eight-page policy statement for each player.
Testing may be done by random sample or based on reasonable suspicion. The policy also allows pre-season testing of an entire team. Tests may be done for a variety of drugs, including anabolic steroids, diuretics, cocaine, and marijuana.
Eaglin explained that test results will be confidential. First-time offenders will be counseled and given dnig rehabilitation as well as being subject to weekly testing. Upon second offense, the additional step of notifying the player's parents may be taken, and the player is also subject to being suspended. The third offense will cause eligibility to be canceled, which could lead to loss of scholarship.
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ALUMNI PROFILE
Dedicated to the Citizens of North Carolina
Baptism, blueberries, and bills mean a lot to this man. So do democracy and civic duty. Son of a preacher and one of 1 1 children, this North Carolina statesman knows the value of persuasion and persis- tence.
Senator Henson Barnes of Wayne County, president pro tern of the North Carolina Senate and 1958 graduate of Wilmington College, is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of North Carolinians.
"You have to have the desire to serve and a little fire in your stom- ach to fight for what you believe in," said Barnes about the traits of a good politician. "You have to realize that other people are just as smart as you
B31 Allison Rehs
"You have to have the desire to serve and a
little fire in your
stomach to fight for
what you believe in."
are and believe in their ideas just as much as you do.
"Compromise is extremely important in politics - not in your principles, but in how you accom- plish your goals," Barnes said. "You've got to develop a consensus, make good solid decisions and inspire others to follow."
Barnes' introduction to politics
goes back to his Bladen County boyhood when his father was active in local elections.
"My father got involved in the school merger and also hauled people to the polls to vote against beer. And a lot of the politicians came to see Daddy while they were running for office. I was always around politics," said Barnes.
With a law degree from UNC Chapel Hill, Barnes went to Goldsboro to practice law in 1961. "They elected me to the House of Representatives in 1975 and in 1977 1 ran for the North Carolina Sen- ate." He became president pro tern in 1989.
His legislative duties include appointing all Senate committees
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and chairs of committees, assigning offices and seats to Senators, handling the administrative business of the General Assembly, and presiding over the Senate in the absence of the Lt. Governor. Prior to his presidency, Barnes served as chair of the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee.
Barnes believes in the demo- cratic process and the quality of the people who serve in the legislature. "Every year I have served, I'm convinced of the validity of the system of democracy. You're not able to move bills fast, but it was designed that way for public input," Barnes said. He added, "Time and time again, I'm continually impressed with the people who run and work in the General Assembly." They're committed to doing their jobs well.
Serving in the military was a powerful influence on Barnes' life. It taught him detennination. "I learned if you're going to go after something, go after it hard." Barnes served three years in the Korean War with the 11th Airborne as a U.S. Army paratrooper in addition to serving in the 187th Regimental Combat Team.
Graduating with an associate degree from Wilmington College was another important experience. "Let me tell you about Wilmington College," Barnes began. "Hour for hour, I learned more at Wilmington College than I did at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Wilmington College was an out- standing school. It really prepared me well for my third and fourth years of college." Barnes earned a bachelor's degree in political science as well as a law degree from Caro- lina.
"I ran into President Randall after I'd been at Chapel Hill two years," Barnes said. "He told me,
'Henson, we're going to have to put you on salary. You've been the best PR we've had.' He had heard from my professors at UNC that I was high on praise for Wilmington College."
Job opportunity and education are essential to North Carolina's livelihood, as Barnes sees it. This translates into better roads and better schools.
The Highway Trust Fund bill, supported by Barnes, was passed by the General Assembly last year. "It is the largest amount of money appropriated for building roads in the history of North Carolina," said
"Every year I have served,
I'm convinced of the validity of
the system of democracy. You're not
able to move bills fast, but it was designed that way for public input/'
Barnes. It requires 52 percent of the new roads built in North Carolina in the next 1 2 years to be built east of Raleigh. "We need roads as good as those in the Piedmont," he said. "We're last in wages in the eastern part of the state. Good roads will bring good jobs."
But highway construction isn't the only answer to the state's problems. "To progress, education must improve," Barnes affirmed. "North Carolina is too good to be ranked where we are with our public schools. We have some of the finest colleges and universities in the entire world. It's incongmous that our public schools are ranked last."
As one solution to this problem, Barnes wrote the School Account- ability Act (Senate Bill 2), which calls for the restructuring of schools and the transference of authority back to local school boards. The bill states that, "Any school system that
can show improvement can qualify for differentiated pay for teachers worth up to seven percent of their salaries," Barnes said. "This will make our schools accountable and our teachers proud."
Other bills that Barnes authored include the First in Flight bill, legislation that created the license tags depicting the Wright Brothers' historic plane flight, and the Driving While Impaired bill passed in 1983, that increased the penalty for drunk driving. "At the time North Carolina led the country in drunken driver arrests and Governor Hunt asked me to run the DWI bill," said Barnes. As a result, the Tar Heel state passed the toughest drinking law in the country in the early 80s. Gearing up for this year's election in November, Barnes will be traveling around the district meeting folks. "You
must get a good cross-section of people involved in a campaign. Then the word gets out," said Barnes. "Too many times we try to campaign just with media but that's shallow support. You've got to get out and let folks get to know you."
This may be the last time Barnes gears up for a campaign. "I expect after this term I'll probably not run for the Senate again. I'm the senior partner in a five-man law firm and I own a blueberry farm in Bladen County," he said.
While his service in the Senate may be coming to a close, his future chambers may be in the courtroom and the berry fields.
Family values are as important as political values to Senator Barnes. He is married to the former Kitty Allen. They have two daughters, Rebecca and Amy, who are both third year law students. The Barneses were selected as United States Family of the Year in 1985.
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What do your tuition and fee dollars buy at UNCW?
Your "purchase" includes a student-centered education, a commitment to teaching, fine research facilities, a variety of clubs and activities, and pleasant places to live on campus.
"This is a place where students come first at all levels," said Chan- cellor James R. Leutze. "From the bookstore to the athletic programs to the library, teaching and working with students is our reason for being here."
Tuition and fees cover only 16 percent of the cost of a UNCW education. The state of North Carolina contributes nearly 70 percent, and approximately 14 percent is comprised of gifts, grants, contracts and other sources.
As state funds become increas- ingly scarce, however, private monies will become more important if UNCW is to retain its levels of excellence. The UNCW Board of Trustees confirmed this priority by establishing a new standing trustee committee on university advance- ment. This committee will take the lead in securing and coordinating the search for private dollars. The UNCW Foundation and Endow-
ment currently have assets of approximately $5.9 million.
"We will have to have a capital campaign as soon as possible to increase the university's endow- ment," said Leutze. A capital campaign is an organized intensive fundraising effort to secure extraor- dinary gifts and pledges for a specific purpose during a specificed period of time. The endowment consists of donated private funds that are invested. The interest earned goes toward programs and resources that enhance the university. Need-based and merit-based scholarships, faculty development, chaired professorships, and research equipment can be funded through a strong endow- ment.
This, in turn, attracts dedicated students and outstanding faculty, and enables the school to be a positive force in the community. "As we prosper, the community prospers. It's a symbiotic relation- ship. We co-exist and we need to work very closely together," said Leutze.
Investing in UNCW, whether you're a parent, student, or donor is the investment of a lifetime. Satis- faction guaranteed. -A.R.
Meet The
Co-chairs Of
Family Weekend
Carol and Michael Rose of Potomac, Maryland, have always been active, involved parents. They've been participants in their oldest son Marc's high school soccer career, for instance, shuttling him to games and helping establish a Washington, D.C area regional tournament for college recruiters. So it should come as no surprise, now that Marc is a senior and soccer team captain at UNCW, that they are members of the Parents Council and co-chairs of this year's Family Weekend.
Carol and Michael spend many weekends alternating travel between two campuses. Another son Greg is a junior at the University of Maryland.
Interest in their sons' achieve- ments is something they hope to bring to the Parents Council and to family Weekend. It is also some- thing they hope is contagious among other UNCW Parents.
"We've always been involved parents and hope to channel our interest through the Parents Coun- cil," said Michael Rose. "With other parents doing the same, we can all stay a little closer to our sons and daughters while, hopefuly, enriching their college experience just that much more."
Maryland and D.C. Parents Take Note
Many of you have received "A Parents Guide to UNCW". In putting together the handbook, the parents representatives for your area were omitted. Please take a few moments to jot their names down in your handbook.
Mike and Carol Rose
9800 Avenel Farm Drive
Potomac, Maryland 20854
301-469-7713
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PERSPECTIVE
ARABIAN
NIGHTS
The stranger asked me what my country was
My country knows no exile, no "abroad"
I told her: "M)> country is anywhere I meet
a stranger 1 can share friendship and love with
M31 country is an idea flowing with light
It is not bound to a flag, or a piece of earth
Yve left behind the tranquil motherlands
to those grown used to a settled life
Yve raced the winds on every horizon
The winds and I have sworn companioiiship
"An Answer"
by Ahmad al-Mushari al-'Udwani
Kuwaiti poet (b. 1923)
translated by Hilary Kilpatrick and Charles Doria
Facts Not Fables
by Allison Rclos
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UNCW alumnus Roger Fipps knows no strangers and has raced the winds on every horizon. His home for eight years was the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Now back in the states, Fipps '71 and '75, shares some of his experiences from living on the Persian Gulf.
"The Saudi people are ex- tremely hospitable. I was always treated well," he said. The Saudis are also very conservative, adher- ing to strict Islamic doctrine. Violators of the Koran, the basis of Islamic law, are not tolerated. For example, "Criminals are usually beheaded the next day for capital offenses," said Fipps.
Several Islamic customs were foreign to Fipps. One pronounced difference was the treatment of women in Saudi society. "Several times I was invited to dinner with Saudi families. I ate with the father and sons. The wife and daughters were not allowed to sit at the table. That was very awk- ward," Fipps said.
In addition, the nightlife in Saudi Arabia was quite limited because theaters, bars, and night- clubs aren't allowed. Public entertainment violates the Islamic country's doctrine. "Personal interaction was the main form of entertainment," said Fipps. "Most of my friends were Americans working in Dhahran. We'd get together and watch videos or just talk. The Westerners didn't mix much with the Saudis outside of work because of the cultural differences. At the heart of that was the Islamic religion," said Fipps.
Working for an American CPA firm that contracted with Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO), Fipps transferred from Raleigh, N.C. to Dhahran in 1980 to run ARAMCO's financial audit. He left the firm in 1982 and went to work for the OLAYAN
GROUP, one of the wealthiest family-owned corporations in Saudi Arabia. After working with them for six years, he left the company in 1988 to return to the States.
In May 1990, Fipps rejoined the OLAYAN GROUP. He is currently financial vice president of Crescent Diversified, Ltd., an equity investment company of the OLAYAN GROUP, and lives in New York City. "I'm responsible for financial accounting and reporting as well as treasury operations," Fipps said.
"I learned I was a typical
American who knew
nothing about the world
and the Middle East. In
contrast, I think the Saudis
understood Westerners
quite well."
Elaborating on the living standards in Saudi Arabia, Fipps said it ranged from either extreme. There are the superwealthy, such as the royal family, professional people, such as Western-educated doctors and lawyers, and the lower class which includes many small business owners. And about 100 miles outside of any major city many Arabs live very simply in villages, much as they did years ago.
The rest of the population is made up of internationals. "A lot
of the ordinary labor is imported labor," Fipps said. With an esti- mated native population of about seven million, Saudi Arabia relies on as many as five million foreign- ers to form its industrial base.
"With all of their oil money, the Saudis can afford to bring in labor from all over the world to do the "menial" tasks like collecting garbage or working as tradesmen," said Fipps. Many other highly skilled internationals come to Saudi Arabia to take upper level jobs and to avoid paying income taxes. As a result, the Saudi labor force is made up of many nationali- ties.
Asked how the Saudis viewed their royal rulers, Fipps said, "They wouldn't normally talk about their feelings toward their government. I think King Fahd, the head of state, was popular overall." He added that Saudi Arabia is home to many tribes or clans and that the views of the strongest clan prevail. "The Sunni Moslem sect is in control now," said Fipps. They favor a return to Islamic funda- mentals but aren't fanatic in their beliefs like members of some other Muslim sects.
Living in Saudi Arabia was a real learning experience for Fipps. "I learned I was a typical Ameri- can who knew nothing about the world and the Middle East. In contrast, I think the Saudis understood Westerners quite well.
"It was a very broadening experience. Being there gave me a much wider perspective of the world and what's going on. In the U.S. everything's based on one culture. But in Saudi Arabia I could be talking with a Saudi one minute, someone from London the next, and a few minutes later with someone from Japan or Lebanon."
UNCW alumni - going places and going strong. Where in the world will they turn up next?
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SPORTS
ACADEMICS PLUS ATHLETICS
EQUALS SUCCESS
by Ben Trittipoe
UNCW Sports Information Intern
Over the years, collegiate athletes have gained the reputation of being less than stellar in the classroom. The image of the "dumb jock" is quite prominent today and, in some situations, quite true.
That is not the case, however, at UNC Wilmington. More than 70 percent of Seahawk athletes gradu- ate within five years. This places them at the top of the UNC system's graduation rate, according to the last two UNC Board of Governors reports. Nearly 46 percent of all undergraduate students in North Carolina's public universi- ties graduate in five years and 26.5 percent graduate in four years. UNCW student athletes also consistently rank among the top three schools in the Colonial Athletic Association in graduation rate.
The student-athlete at UNC Wilmington understands that academics come first and sports are secondary to their college experi- ence. The coaches and athletic administrators do everything they can to help the athlete excel in the
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classroom.
In the UNCW Athletic Department Policies and Procedures Manual, it is written that the department is "concerned first with the academic endeavors of the 'student' before the athletic accom- plishments of the 'athlete' . . . The academic and athletic successes of each student-athlete are positive results of the department providing a balance of academic guidance and athletic development."
Pat Howey, assistant athletic director for academics and compli- ance, oversees a broad system that works to keep student-athletes on target for graduation. Howey works closely with each coach and helps them monitor each player's progress in class.
"Each (athletic) team is charged with monitoring study halls and the academic success of the players, but there is a lot of teamwork between them and me," said Howey. "The coaches know the players better than anyone and they can tell how an individual is doing. I help by making sure each athlete is enrolled
in enough hours to maintain his or her eligibility and see that they are making progress toward a degree."
The university's minimum academic standards must be met by all athletes. They must maintain a 1.2 grade point average with 6-26 hours attempted, a 1 .5 GPA with 27-58 hours, a 1.8 GPA with 59-88 hours, and a 2.0 GPA with more than 89 hours. Players are expected to participate in team study halls until they prove they can maintain a certain GPA on their own.
Chancellor Leutze, an adilete himself at Syracuse University, believes that academics and athletics can live in harmony on a collegiate campus as long as one thing is stressed: academics come first.
"I truly believe in the concept of the student-athlete, where the student comes first," said Leutze. "It's important not to take advantage of the student-athlete, using him or her only for athletics, because without a degree, he or she is being short- changed.
"I support a strong athletic program that goes hand in hand
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with a solid learning environment, and you need a good support system in order to have that. We're just kidding ourselves if we think an athlete won't sometimes need special assistance. It's a big job, but the university needs to help where appropriate."
Men's soccer coach Jackie Blackmore, who personally super- vises a mandatory twice-weekly study hall for freshmen and athletes with minimum averages, emphasizes education over sports. "The most important thing for these players is to get their priorities in order," said Blackmore, who is in his fifth year as coach of his alma mater.
"In order to be a success, you have to set aside time to study. The biggest problem freshmen have when they come to college is that they have a great deal of freedom, which they are not accustomed to. If they learn early what is important and learn how to structure their time, they can be successful both academically and athletically."
New women's basketball coach Sheni Tynes agrees with Blackmore. "Learning to discipline themselves and how to manage their time are two of the biggest things students need to learn when they first go to college," said Tynes. She requires all freshmen and those players with low GPAs to attend weekly study halls. "If they can learn to do those two things well, they will be successful in college."
Tynes added that the women's basketball team misses few classes. When on the road, she makes sure that time is reserved for study purposes. "I know a study hall in Hanisonburg, Va. is not the same as sitting in class in Wilmington, but we'll try to give them all the help we can," she said.
Men's basketball coach Kevin Eastman, also new on campus this year, said the athletic admin- istration's commitment to academics
was one reason the UNCW job was so attractive to him.
"Our administration is commit- ted to graduating our athletes and so am I," said Eastman. He noted that freshmen and also all players with a GPA lower than 2.5 will be required to spend time in study hall. "I believe we can be successful by not breaking the rules and having players graduate. It bothers me more having to make a call to a parent after four or five years and tell them their son won't graduate than it would to lose three or four more games a year."
Last spring, the athletic depart- ment gave the student-athlete more help. Athletic Director William J. Brooks and the General College Advising Center each made avail- able $ 1 ,000 to establish tutorial services specifically for athletes, which supplemented the Math Lab and Writing Place services available to all students. This new tutorial service, headed by Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences John Stokes, enabled student-athletes to obtain help with classes they were having difficulty with. "I think the program was a big success," said Brooks.
This fall, the advising center is making available a two-tape set entitled Where There's a Will, There's an A. Each hour-long tape makes common-sense suggestions on how to improve study habits and test-taking skills.
"Those who have used the tapes in the past and followed through on what they had to recommend have had pretty good success," said Stokes. "We hope the athletes will do as well."
Academic success does not go unrewarded. UNCW awards the Chancellor's Cup annually to the outstanding male and/or female student-athlete graduates. Each recipient must be among the top in his or her class academically, possessing at least ,i 5.0 GPA, and
must be a top athlete, bringing outstanding recognition to the university.
The UNCW coaches vote on the nominees and a recommenda- tion is sent to the chancellor for approval. Last year's recipients were tennis player Mark Kinkema, now a graduate marine biology student at the University of Michigan, and golfer Mary Thomas, who plans to work in marine biology at Sea World in Florida.
Student-athletes are also recognized within the conference. A lettering athlete with a cumulative or two-semester GPA of 3.2 or better is named a CAA Scholar Athlete and is presented a certificate of accomplishment. Twenty-two Seahawk athletes received that honor for the 1989-90 academic year.
The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), in conjunction with telephone mag- nate GTE, issues Academic All- America recognition. Athletes who are starters or key reserves for their teams with at least a 3.2 cumulative GPA are nominated, then voted on by the CoSIDA membership. Baseball players Paul Mun and Calvin Ganett were first-team selections in 1982 and 1987 respec- tively. Ganett, the Chancellor's Cup recipient in 1987, was a second- team player the year before.
Various coaching organizations also recognize athletes for their academic achievements. Goiters Mary Thomas and Nina Van Drumpt have each been selected Academic All-America by the U.S. Golf Coaches Association in recent years.
Greg Bender, a three-time CAA Scholar Athlete in men's basketball, was the Chancellor's Cup awardee in 1989 in addition to being nomi- nated tor the prestigious Rhodes Scholar program.
Academics and athletics - UNCW has the best of both.
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The Welcome Wagon of the 1990s may need to have sushi, salsa, and sangria in its gift basket and be versed in 1 3 languages it it's to properly greet newcomers to the neighborhood. With the explosion of technology and world trade, our neighbors today aren't just the people next door, but are the people in the next hemisphere or continent.
If UNCW is to be a good neighbor and participate in the world community, it's imperative that the university learn all it can about other cultures. Economic, social and political survival are at stake. "We really don't have a choice. We can't sit back or we'll be left behind," said Denis Carter, associate dean of the Cameron
School of Business Administration and an advisory council member for UNCW's International Pro- grams.
UNCW is becoming globally involved through the concerted efforts of the Office of Interna- tional Programs. Established in July 1989, OIP is responsible for developing study abroad agree- ments. The programs' objectives include modifying UNCW's existing curricula to encompass non-Western and global issues, offering a major in international studies, creating minors that focus on geographic areas such as Europe, Latin American, or the Middle East, and establishing student and faculty exchanges with universities around the world.
"It's important that students and faculty have contact with individuals from other societies and cultures because it gives them the opportunity to learn new ways of doing things. It's a mind- opening experience," said Gary Faulkner, director of UNCW's Office of International Programs and assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. "Chances are that our graduates will work for organizations that have a global scope so global knowledge is extremely important."
Twenty-two international students are enrolled at UNCW this semester and come from such homelands as Kenya, Venezuela, the People's Republic of China, Jordan, and Sweden. At the same
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time, some UNCW students are overseas. One UNCW junior, Julea Harless, is studying at University College of Swansea in Swansea, Wales, and two MBA graduates, Jim and Rene Mueller, are enrolled at Leicester Polytech- nic in England.
"Being from North Carolina or the United States you don't get any international perspective," said Harless. "By going to school in Wales I'll learn about Europe, about how different people live, and about different cultures."
"We'll be concentrating our studies on the economic and political changes in Eastern Europe," said Jim Mueller. "I anticipate important political and economic changes in the European Community 1992 and great opportunities for American businesses," Rene Mueller said. "The more we can learn about the changes in Europe the better for the U.S. economy."
The international students at our campus are excited about their learning opportunities too. Marie Capecchi, a citizen of Venezuela, is studying seaweed propagation techniques in the marine biology graduate program at UNCW. "My goal is to do joint research be- tween the United States and Venezuela," she said. After being here three months, Capecchi finds the environment and the people very nice. "I look forward to seeing the differences between where I live and here."
George Malahias, a freshman from Zimbabwe, plans to pursue a degree in music at UNCW. "Our university back in Zimbabwe isn't as advanced as UNCW. The facilities here are good. Back home we're faced with shortages and a lack of foreign exchange," he said. George lives with a family in Wilmington while he attends school.
Raymond Oluoch, a freshman accounting major from Kenya, is impressed with how friendly the people are in Wilmington. He smiled when asked about some of the questions put to him about his country like, "Do you wear clothes in Kenya?" and "Do you live in a city?" Oluoch comes from Nairobi, the modern capital city of Kenya with a population of 835,000.
Jim McNab, chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature and member of UNCW's International Programs Advisory Council, sees a lot that the university can do to enhance the international presence on campus and the level of awareness
"I'd like to see half of
our students have an
international experience in
their college careers and
at least five percent of the
faculty teaching, studying,
or doing research abroad
in any one year."
of world affairs. "We've got to increase the number of interna- tional cultural events on campus. The continuing education compo- nent has to develop tremen- dously," McNab said.
This includes mini-courses, institutes, and summer-intensive courses of interest to the non- traditional learner. Examples would be classes in international trade for regional business execu- tives or a course in Japanese culture for people planning to visit or move to Japan. "These courses would serve as community out- reach programs and could be the line through which graduate programs or planning are di- rected," said McNab.
Particular issues that need to
be addressed by the Office of International Programs include increasing the number of interna- tional students at UNCW, teach- ing English as a second language, and offering more courses in interdisciplinary studies. These are courses that are designed to draw from a variety of discrete subjects. "Our environmental studies program at UNCW is an excellent example of an interdisciplinary program already in place. We need to extend that concept to the humanities and social sciences.
"Ten years from now I see a curriculum in which the interna- tional component is required of all our students and I see 20 to 30 percent of our students spending at least one semester abroad," said McNab.
Faulkner is even more ambi- tious. "I'd like to see half of our students have an international experience in their college career and at least five percent of the faculty teaching, studying, or doing research abroad in any one year." Faulkner added, "If a uni- versity has an active and viable international program, 10 percent of the student body ought to be made up of international students. That means 700 for UNCW - that's adventurous. I'd be happy with 400!"
The spin-off of the interna- tional dimension at UNCW would benefit the community as well. "We'd like to have arrangements for students to live with families and to encourage our international students to become active in the community," said Faulkner. It's all a matter of reaching out.
With the emphasis on interna- tional study, UNCW is beginning to explore new territory. "It's a good time to be at UNCW," said McNab. -A.R.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
Chair
Rebecca Blackmore (Becky) 75 762-5033
Vice Chair
Jeffrey Jackson (Jeff) '83 763-6591
Secretary
John Baldwin (John) '72 675-6483
Treasurer
W. Robert Page (Bob) 73 763-1604
BOARD MEMBERS
Cape Fear Area
Frank Bua '68 799-0164
Carl Dempsey '65 799-0434
Mary Harris '81 270-3000 Robert Hobbs '84
Dru Kelly 73 392-4324
Norm Melton 74 799-6105
John Pollard 70 256-3627
Marvin Robison '83 395-61 5 1
Jim Stasios 70 392-0458
Wayne Tharp 75 371-2799
Avery Tuten '86 799-1564
Jessiebeth Geddie '63 350-0205
Triangle Area
Sonia Brooks '80 362-7539
Glen Downs '80 859-0396
Don Evans '66 872-2338
Randy Gore 70 832-9550
Dan Lockamy '63 467-2735
Jim Spears '87 677-8000
Barry Bowling '85 846-5931
Onslow County Area
Robert Joos '81 347-4830
Winston-Salem Area
Debbie Barnes '87 722-7889
Richmond-Metro Area
John Barber '85 804-747-9551
Charleston, SC Area
Patricia Corcoran 72 803-849-01 59
ALUMNI CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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Triangle Chapter Social Alumni Board Meeting
DECEMBER
UNCW closed for Christmas
JANUARY
Pre-game Social, George Mason Pre -game Social, Easr Carolina
FEBRUARY
Homecoming 1991
Hospitality Events Pre-game Social, Navy After-game Dance Pre-game Social, Richmond
MARCH
CAA Men's Basketball Tournament Richmond Coliseum Richmond Chapter Hospitality
CAA Women's Basketball Tournament James Madison Convocation Center Hanisonburg, VA.
APRIL
Inauguration of Chancellor Leutze
Azalea Festival
MAY
Commencement
Setting the Record Straight
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ALUMNI CHAPTERS
HAPPENINGS AND EVENTS
The CAPE FEAR Chapter
If you are a Cape Fear area alumnus, we hope you attended the shrimparoo held October 13 at Wagoner Hall. Volunteers are now needed to fomi planning commit- tees for the coming year. If you are interested, call Jessieheth Geddie '63, Cape Fear Chapter president, at 919-395-3054.
The TRIANGLE Chapter
The Triangle Chapter will hold its first event of the year on Tuesday evening, November 27 at the Haywood Hall house in Raleigh. Alumni and parents in the Triangle area will be invited to this special get-together, as well as area legisla- tors. If you are a Triangle-area alumnus and haven't received an invitation, please contact the Alumni Relations Office at 919- 395-3751 or one of the following event organizers: Don Evans : '66 at 872-2338, Nancy Pugh '75 at 834- 4841, Susan Gerry '87 at 833-1361, or Barry Bowling '85 at 846-5931.
The TRIAD Chapter
Attention all UNCW alumni living in the Winston-Salem, Greensboro, or High Point areas!! If you are interested in helping build this chapter, please call one of the following organizers: Debbie Barnes '87 or Haywood Barnes '87 at 919- 772-7889. Plans are being made for a fall function. We need YOU! Call the Alumni Relations Office today at 919-395-3751.
The CHARLOTTE Chapter Plans are underway for establish-
ing an alumni chapter in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County area. Two very enthusiastic alumni, Kip Kiser '88 and Ray Warren '79, want to hear from you. Call Kip at 704-553-7003 or Ray at 704-347- 7800. Support your alma mater by getting involved in organizing a local alumni chapter.
The ONSLOW COUNTY
Chapter
All Onslow County alumni should watch for upcoming informa- tion on our first fall event for the year. Plans are in progress for electing new officers. If you are interested in getting involved in your local chapter please call Bob Joos '81 at 919-347-4830 or the Alumni Relations Office at 919- 395-3751.
The RICHMOND-METRO
Chapter
The Richmond-Metro Chapter will host a reception/social during the CAA Basketball Tournament this spring. We need dedicated Seahawk fans in the Richmond area to support their alma mater. If you are interested in serving on a planning committee, please call John Barber '85 at 804-747-9551 or the Alumni Relations Office at 91 9- 395-3751.
ALUMNI PRE-G AME SOCIALS
The UNCW Alumni Associa- tion will host four pre-game socials during the 1990-91 basketball season. Many local supporters, faculty, staff, and friends of the university attend these socials. Each function costs the Alumni Associa- tion approximately $3,000.
After much discussion with our most consistent supporters, the
Alumni Association Board of Directors voted to charge an admission fee to the pre-game socials beginning this year. This will provide funds to cover the costs rather than using alumni donations raised during the year.
Non-members will pay $5.00 per person. An active alumnus with a membership card will pay half price or full price plus one free guest.
An active alumnus with a membership card and gold seal will be admitted free with one guest. Active alumni who contribute $100 or more annually to the association receive a gold seal on their member- ship cards.
Guests in addition to those mentioned above will pay $5.00 per person. Children under 1 2 are admitted free.
Please consult the Alumni Calendar of Events and make plans NOW to attend each of the upcom- ing pre-game socials! If you have questions concerning membership cards, please call the Alumni Relations Office at 919-395-3751.
UNCW AMBASSADORS
UNCW Ambassador n. 1 . An ambitious, motivated, bright, aggressive, admirable, and well- rounded student who is familiar with UNCW and represents it to all publics, including faculty, staff, parents, administrators, alumni, and prospective students.
Ambassador activities include giving tours, assisting in alumni and parents telefund programs, as well as hosting social events for alumni, parents, faculty, administrators, and friends. These activities make the Ambassador program a unique leadership experience.
If the Ambassadors can be of service to you or your organization, please call the Alumni Relations Office at 919-395-3751.
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NOVEMBER
TELEFUND (ENTIRE MONTH)
7 Globe Watch, 7:30 p.m., PBS
"Greece Turns West" hosted by Chancellor Leutze
10 Minority Visitation Day
12 Ten Cities: A Symposium "Brasilia" Bryan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
14 Globe Watch, 7:30 p.m., PBS
"Crossing the Pyrenees" hosted by Chanc. Leutze
1 7 Alumni Board Meeting
"Starting a Small Business" - seminar
Cameron Hall Auditorium, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (OSP)
18 "The Rise of Charlie Chaplin" 12:30 p.m. Luncheon Matinee - Hawks Nest/ Kenan Hall UNCW Office of Special Programs (OSP)
1 9 UNCW Wind Ensemble Concert Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
2 1 Globe Watch, 7:30 p.m., PBS
"The Austrian Way" hosted by Chanc. Leutze
23-24 Women's Basketball at Yellow Jacket Invitational (Georgia Tech, Pepperdine, East Tennessee State, UNCW)
24 Men's Basketball - UNC GREENSBORO
25 Women's B. Ball at UNC Asheville
26 Men's B. Ball - CAMPBELL
28 Globe Watch, 7:30 p.m., PBS "New Thinking in Hungary" hosted by Chanc. Leutze
29 Men's B. Ball at UNC Charlotte
30 UNCW Choral Concert Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
DECEMBER
1 Men's B. Ball at Appalachian State 2-6 TELEFUND
3 Ten Cities: A Symposium "Athens"
Bryan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
4 Men's B. Ball - STETSTON
5 Women's B. Ball - BAPTIST
6 Jazz Concert, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
7 Honors Recital, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Wilmington Boys' Choir - Hawks Nest 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. program (OSP)
8 Women's B. Ball - CAMPBELL
10 Wilmington Symphony Orchestra
"Walk-In" Messiah, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
1 5 Men's B. Ball - NORTH CAROLINA A&T
24-3 1 MERRY CHRISTMAS / UNCW closed
JANUARY
2 Men's B. Ball - CHARLESTON
3 Women's B. Ball - HOLY CROSS 5 Women's B. Ball - AMERICAN
9 Women's B. Ball -
EAST TENNESSEE STATE
1 2 Men's B. Ball - GEORGE MASON
14 Ten Cities: A Symposium
"Paris" Bryan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Men's B.Ball - JAMES MADISON
1 9 Men's B. Ball - at Richmond
26 Men's B. Ball - EAST CAROLINA
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ALUMNOTES
THE 60'S
David J. Stanaland '62 is a
teacher at West Brunswick High School in Brunswick County and lives in Shallotte, NC.
James T. Bellizzi '68 is self- employed as a doctor of chiropractic medicine in Leland. Dr. Bellizzi resides in Wilmington.
THE 70'S
David Michael Choate '70
owns Kitchen & Lighting Designs in Jacksonville, NC.
Michael W. Lewis 71 serves as minister of education and evange- lism at Wrightshoro Baptist Church located on Castle Hayne Road in Wilmington. He and wife, Sylvia, have two children, Kristen and Jon, and live in Castle Hayne, NC.
Patricia A. Corcoran '72 is a
health consultant for the Charleston County School District in Charles- ton, SC. She earned her M.Ed, from UNC Charlotte this year.
W.R."Bob" Page III '73 is with Jefferson-Pilot Life Insurance in Wilmington. He was elected treasurer of the NC Association of Life Underwriters at their annual convention held recently in Atlan- tic Beach. He will also serve on the association's board of directors for 1990-91.
Larry W. Wilkerson '73 is a
principal for McDowell County Public Schools in Marion, NC. He was promoted from principal at Glenwood Elementary School to principal at East McDowell Junior High School.
Jean Sumner Chance '74 is an elementary school teacher for the Conval School District in W. Peterborough, NH. She was nomi-
nated as a candidate for New Hampshire Teacher of the Year last year. She and husband, Timothy Charles Chance '74, a teacher for the Nashua School District in New Hampshire, have an eight-year-old son, Christopher.
Nancy Rendin Saucier '74 has joined Azalea Insurance Services, Inc. as a producing agent in Wilmington.
Phyllis Barnhill Wicker '74 is a
math/computer teacher for St. James Middle School in Myrtle Beach, SC. Phyllis received her master's degree in secondary education from USC in August 1989.
Cynthia Scott DeFusco '75 is
human resources manager with Tuscarora Marketing Group in Chapin, SC. She resides in Colum- bia.
Nancy Broghamer Doran '75 is
living in Fort Thomas, Kentucky with husband, William, and two children.
William R. Jones, Jr. '75 is
district manager for Thulman Eastern in Wilmington. He and wife, Pamm '75, president/owner of Airlie Mortgage Company, have a year-old son, "Tripp".
Holly Stimson Hutchins '76 is
health-fitness director at Clemson University Y.M.C.A. She and husband, Tom, along with sons, Will and Jeremy, live in Seneca, SC.
George Irving '76 is employed with Corning Glass in Wilmington. He and wife, Rinda, '76 owner/ operator of Kid Kare, a day care center, live in Winnabow with brand new baby Ryan George, eight- year-old twin daughters, Rachel and Rebecca, and two-year-old son, Robert.
Nancy Robertson Cummings
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'77 resides in London, England, with husband, Samuel Cummings, M.D., a physician with the US Air Force.
Belinda Foss Hall '77 is a
medical transcriptionist for New Hanover Memorial Hospital in Wilmington.
Cheryl Williamson Johnson
'77 earned her education specialist degree from Georgia Southern University in June and is an art teacher for the Effingham County Board o( Education. She resides in Springfield, GA.
Rick McKoy '77 is district sales manager, Raleigh region, for Gen- eral Mills, Inc. He and wife Beth Memll have two children, Jana, six years old, and Parker, four years old.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Robert W. Clary '78 was deployed recently to South America and the Caribbean and serves with Commander, South Atlantic Force, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. During his five-month deployment, he will participate in a number of exercises and visit several South American countries as well as Puerto Rico and Aruba. Clary, who joined the Navy in 1978, earned his master of science degree in '84 from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.
"Jay" Joseph W. Taylor III '78
has been appointed by Governor Jim Martin to a four-year term on the N.C. Structural Pest Control Committee. The committee regu- lates pest control applicators in NC. Taylor is president of Jay Taylor Ter- ro Exterminating Company, Inc., and lives in Wilmington with wife, Robin Rogers Taylor '87, and two sons.
Tami E. Cralley '79 is president of Harper Propane Service Inc. in Mt. Vernon, IL. Tami is also a certified public accountant.
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William C. Bridges, Jr. '80 is an
associate professor at Clemson University and resides with wife, Mary Noland Bridges '80, a math teacher for Pickens County Schools, in Central, SC.
Lisa G. Monk '80 is a medical technologist for East Cooper Community Hospital in Mt. Pleas- ant, SC. She is a supervisor for the second shift.
Chris Shove '80 is professor of regional and city planning for the University of Oklahoma. He was selected as an Outstanding Young American of 1989 for significant professional and community service. Chris resides in Norman, OK.
B. Garrett Thompson '80 has
been named city executive of BB&T in Cary, NO
Donna Fuller Coleman '81 is
employed with Coleman Supply Company in Southport, NO She and husband, William, live at Caswell Beach with children, Kathleen and William.
Kathryn JoAn Hamilton '81 is
marketing representative with Obici Memorial Hospital in Suffolk, VA. Prior to joining the hospital she was associated with CIBA-Geigy Phannaceuticals as a medical sales representative. She and husband, Lawrence M. Grossman, reside in Portsmouth, VA.
Ella Jayson Schwartz '81 is
administrator ot employee benefits, financial services/products for Cambridge Financial Services, Ltd in Richmond, VA.
Kimberlea Elmore Trezona '81 is a teacher for Wake County Schools. She and husband, Mark, reside in Raleigh, NO
Jan Hendrickson '82 received
her law degree from the Mississippi College School of Law in 1986 and is with the Public Defender's Office in Vero Beach, FL.
Elizabeth V. Hughes '82, a
flight attendant with USAir, lives in Hanover, VA.
John M. Matthews '82 is a park ranger with the High Point Parks and Recreation Department in High Point, NO
Joni Carter Wiggins '82 is a
training specialist for Rose's Stores in Henderson, NO She has been recognized several times by Rose's in the Human Resources area and has won trips to various places through- out the country. She and husband, John, reside in Hope Mills.
Marine 1st Lt. Kenneth W. Cobb '83 is a naval aviator. He received his "Wings of Gold" this past summer marking a culmination of 18 months of flight training.
Kenneth Dahlin '83 is the assistant waterways management officer for the U.S. Coast Guard Group in New York. Dahlin gradu- ated from Coast Guard Officer Candidate School in March 1990.
Sara Cooper Donaldson '83 is
an agent with State Farm Insurance Companies. She and husband, Mark, reside in Pittsboro, NC with their three children, Adam, Andrea and Lyle.
Allen P. Hunt, Jr. '83 is
director of finance for the State Education Assistance Authority in Richmond, VA. He lives in Glen Allen, VA.
Marvin 0. Robison '83 is
specializing in life, disability income, and group health insurance with George Chadwick Insurance Agency in Wilmington. He is manied to Margaret Taylor Robison, director of auxiliary services at UNCW.
Tammie Hayes Ferguson '84
substitute teaches for the Burlington City Schools and Alamance County Schools. She and husband, Chip, live in Burlington, NC.
Len W. McBride '84 is county executive director of the Orange County USDA-ASCS. He is living in Hillsborough, NC.
Sally Jane Moore '84 received the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree this past May from the College of Veterinary Medicine at NCSU. She is associated with Scotts Hill Animal Hospital, Scotts Hill, NC.
Melinda Tuttle Sass '84 teaches high school for Elizabeth City- Pasquotank County Public Schools. She and husband, Ronald, reside in Elizabeth City, NC with their two daughters.
Hugh Fitzhugh Caison '85 is a
phamraceutical representative for Roche Labs. He and wile, Nan Fish Caison '83, a lab supervisor at New Hanover Memorial Hospital, live in Wilmington.
Navy Lt. Kathleen J. Chimiak
'85 has completed the Military Justice Legal Officer Course at the Naval Justice School in Newport, RI. Completion of the course allows Chimiak to provide para-legal advice and basic legal assistance services. She assists in performing the administrative duties of a unit legal officer.
A. Dudley '85 is an associate on the accounting staff in the business services department of Fisher and Company Certified Public Accoun- tants in Wilmington.
Stephanie Jackson '85 is an accountant with the N.O Depart- ment of Transportation in Raleigh.
Donald P. Keating, Jr. '85 is an
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account executive with Chivas Products, Ltd. out of Sterling Heights, MI where he is responsible for the Chrysler Corporation account. Chivas manufactures interior soft trim products such as cup holders, door panels, interior lighting and miscellaneous trim products for the auto industry.
Dewey H. Lewis '85 has been promoted to chair of the math/ science division of the College Transfer Program at Coastal Caro- lina Community College in Jackson- ville, NC His division has 22 full- time faculty members and up to 15 part-time faculty. Dewey resides in Wilmington.
Richard Eugene Allen Loren
'85 is a clinical psychology intern with the Department of Behavioral Medicine 6k Psychiatry at West Virginia University Health Science Center in Morgantown, WV.
David Anthony Piepmeyer '85
is a manufacturing engineer with General Electric (Aircraft Engines) in Wilmington. David is currently enrolled in the MBA program at UNCW.
Wilbur Christopher Aydlett
'86 received the Master of Divinity degree from Duke University in May.
Charlene Anne Clark Core '86
serves as an emergency 911 telecommunicator for the New Hanover County Sheriffs Depart- ment. She and husband, Michael, a UNCW police officer, reside in Wilmington.
Terri Lee Cousins '86 is a
marketing services representative with Shoney's Inc. in Antioch, TN.
Thomas Mark Ely '86 is marketing sales account manager of technical services for Vanarsdale Associates, Inc., a Raleigh-based software services firm.
Kristy Crutchfield Garrison
'86 is a teacher with the Durham County Schools. She and husband, Chris, reside in Durham, NC.
Brian D. Garvis '86 is assistant store manager for Firestone Stores and acquisitions specialist for W.H. Frank Associates in Great Falls, VA.
Lisa Gilpin '86 is a medical technologist at New Hanover Memorial Hospital. She and husband, Mike Gilpin '89, a certi- fied recreation therapist for The Oaks in Wilmington, live at Wrightsville Beach.
Brenda Devereux-Graminski
'86 graduated from the University of Maryland in May with a master's in nutritional biochemistry. She and husband, Jerry, are expecting their first child in November. They reside in New Haven, CT.
1LT (P) Richard M. Livingston
'86 is a platoon leader with the US Amiy. He and wife Dana Farley '87, along with new son, Matthew Ryan, live in West Germany.
Michelle Conley McLaughlin
'86 is a 2nd Lt. with the United States Army Reserve. She will be entering the UNCW School of Nursing in January 1991.
Navy Lt. j.g. John E. Pasch '86
was recently commended while serving with Patrol Squadron-Five, Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, FL. He was recognized for his outstanding perfonnance of duty, professionalism, and overall dedica- tion to the service.
Cama M. Eby Rice '86 is a third grade teacher for Loudoun County Schools. She and husband, Christo- pher Tyler Rice, live in Leesburg, VA.
Paul G. Thompson '86 is a sales supervisor with Standard Register Company in Wilmington.
Robert Craig Warner, Jr. '86
works in operations with 20/20 Recycle Centers in Corona, CA. He and wife, Angela Leigh Mahaffey, live in Corona.
Gary Nelson Combs '87 is a
certified registered nurse anesthetist for Iredell Memorial Hospital in Statesville, NC. He received his Master of Science degree in allied health science with a certification in nurse anesthesia in August 1990.
Deborah DeTommaso '87 is a
certified personnel consultant with SENC Technical Services in Wilmington.
Matthew C. Donoghue '87 is
employed with American Airlines in Monisville, NC.
Eddie Games '87 is athletic director for Craven County Recre- ation Department in New Bern,
NC.
Amy Grimsley '87 lives in Chicago, IL where she is a flight attendant with American Airlines.
Marguerite McGillan Krause
'87 has been promoted to training instructor for Claims Administration Corporation in Rockville, MD. She and husband, Jeffrey, reside in Gennantown, MD.
Paula Clodfelter Mobley '87 is a senior lab technician with EN- CAS Laboratory. She and husband, Richard, reside in Greensboro.
Rhonda Nobles Thompson '87 is personal lines manager for Indus- trial Underwriters, Inc. in Wilmington.
George S. Ubing '87 serves as a sales consultant with E & J Gallo Winery In Miami, FL.
Norma A. Warwick '87 is a GS-9 Recreation Center Director of three facilities located in the Northwestern portion of South Korea.
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D. Mitchell Wells '87 is vice president/city executive with the NC State Employees Credit Union in Manteo, NC. Mitch and wife, Stacey Thrower Wells '88, are expecting their first child this month!
Angela Denise Wicker '87
received her master's degree in social work from East Carolina University in May. She is a social worker with Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro. (Denise sends a special thank you to all of her professors who helped guide her in the right direction! )
Holly Sides Allnutt '88 is
marketing coordinator for Law Engineering, Inc. She and husband Steve Allnutt, '87, have just bought their first home in Columbia, MD.
Paige Benson '88 is associated with the accounting firm of Lowrimore, Warwick & Company in Wilmington.
Clayton S. Boss '88 is a sales representative with Alfred Williams & Company in Raleigh, NC.
Brian 0. Cottom '88 is a teacher at Randolph Junior High School in Charlotte, NC.
Adam Collier Derbyshire '88 received his MBA from UNC Charlotte in May 1990 and is a financial analyst with Teledyne Allvac in Charlotte.
John Marc Dreyfors '88
received his master's degree in environmental management from Duke University in May.
Lloyd Hinnant '88 is a com- puter programmer with Abbott Laboratories in Rocky Mount. He resides in Macclesfield, NC.
James Earl Jones '88 is assistant manager/loan officer for Southern Bank & Trust in Ahoskie, NC.
Christopher Kevin King '88 is
an air traffic controller for the
Jacksonville, Rorida Air Traffic Control Center.
"Kip" Larry Lee Kiser, Jr. '88
is an account manager with Acacia Mutual in Charlotte, NC.
Richard H. Morgan III '88 is
operations manager for Franklin Veneers, Inc., in Franklinton, NC.
Mathew S. Shanklin '88 is director of athletic marketing for the University of Arkansas. He is responsible for all marketing, promotions and corporate sponsor- ships for the university's athletic department. Prior to joining the University of Arkansas, Shanklin was assistant marketing director for East Carolina University.
Rhonda M. Yadack '88 is a
commercial loan officer for NCNB in Jacksonville, NC.
Michelle L. Yates '88 is an
eligibility specialist for the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services. She will be entering the MBA Program at UNC Char- lotte this fall. She and husband, Wesley Greene Yates '88, a com- mercial artist, reside in Charlotte.
Marisa Clair Airman '89 is sales coordinator and representative for Bespak in Cary, NC. She resides in Raleigh.
Patrice Brazell '89 received a graduate assistantship to Bowling Green State University in Ohio and is working on the MFA in Creative Writing.
Brad Dent '89 is director of the Chapel Hill Tech Center and is in his second year of the MSW pro- gram at UNC-CH. He has been placed with the five-year Military Governmental Cardinal Mental Health Demonstration Project in cooperation with the Rumbaugh Clinic in Fayetteville where he will serve as in-home social worker.
Susan Renae Dodson '89 is
working on her master's in English at Radford University in Radford, VA. She received a fellowship at Radford to teach English 101 and 102.
Kristin D. Esterly '89 is a
claims adjuster with Integon Corpo- ration in Winston-Salem, NC.
Carla Garrison '89 is projects manager for the National Travel & Tourism Awareness Council in Washington, DC.
Donald Lee King, Jr. '89 is a
field representative with Wachovia Bank in Goldsboro, NC.
Robert James Lackey '89 is
store manager for Food Lion in Lincolnton, NC.
D. Todd Little '89 is a sales rep with Little Hardware Company in Charlotte, NC. He and wife, Lisa Wright Little, are expecting their first child in early November.
John F. Norman III '89 is
multi-lines claims adjuster for GAB Business Services in Raleigh, NC. He resides in Cary.
Jeff Padlo '89 is a sales represen- tative with Georgia-Pacific Corpora- tion in Birmingham, AL.
Howard Perch '89 earned his MSS in exercise physiology in July 1990 and is exercise physiologist - director of educational components for Industrial Wellness & Rehabili- tation in Mobile, AL. He lives in Daphne.
Joy W. Phillips '89 is an
elementary physical education teacher for Lee County Schools. She is also tennis coach and assistant softball coach at Lee Senior High School in Sanford, NC. Joy is working on her master's degree in P.E. at Campbell University.
Laura Leigh Raper '89 is
working on her master's in social work at East Carolina University.
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C. Robert (Bob) Clopper '90 is
a management trainee with Toys "R" Us. He and his family reside in Waldorf, MD.
Ruth A. Decker '90 attends Duke University pursuing her master's in health administration.
Carmen R. Kelly '90 is a social worker with Bowden's Nursing Home in Wilmington.
James Kraft '90 is an invest- ment broker with A.G. Edwards & Sons in Cincinnati, OH.
Beth Lynge '90 is a sales representative with American Airlines. She lives in Gary, NC.
Gregory Toussaint '90 is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
Marriages
Ella Jayson Schwartz '81 to
David Schwartz living in Richmond, VA.
Kimberlea Elmore Trezona '81
to Mark A. Trezona living in Raleigh, NC.
Joni Carter Wiggins '82 to John L. Wiggins living in Hope Mills, NC.
Hugh F. Caison '85 to Nan Fish Caison '83 living in Wilmington.
Charlene Anne Clark Core '86
to Michael Keith Core living in Wilmington.
Linda M. Rohrbach Donoghue '86 to Matthew C. Donoghue '87 living in Monisville, NC.
Brian D. Garvis '86 to Patricia H. Mehlhaff living in Great Falls, VA.
Cama M. Eby Rice '86 to
Christopher Tyler Rice living in
Leesburg, VA.
Eddie Games '87 to Susie Games living in New Bern.
Marguerite McGillan Krause
'87 to Jeffrey J. Krause living in Germantown, MD.
Holly Sides Allnutt '88 to Steve Allnutt '87 living in Colum- bia, MD.
Margaret C. (Kay) Andrews '88 will marry Art Hall '88 in Raleigh on December 8.
Brian 0. Cottom '88 to Dana
C. Beane '89 living in Matthews,
NC.
Lloyd Hinnant '88 will marry Rhonda Yadack '88 next May. Lloyd resides in Macclesfield, NC and Rhonda is in Jacksonville, NC.
Richard H. Morgan III '88 will marry Janine Gardner in December. He resides in Franklinton, NC.
Kristy Crutchfield Garrison
'86 to Chris Garrison living in Durham, NC.
Joy Mitchell Brownlow '89 to
Ray Dudley Brownlow living at Emerald Isle, NC.
Mike Gilpin '89 to Lisa Gilpin
'86 living at Wrightsville Beach.
Sherry Lynn Brisson Jones '89 to James Earl Jones '88 living in Ahoskie, NC.
Laura Leigh Raper '89 to Jeffrey Alan Hanis.
Gregory Toussaint '90 engaged to Sharon Collins, cunent UNCW student. The wedding is set for December 29.
Births
David Michael Choate '70 announces the birth of his daughter, Merrick Elizabeth, March 25.
Johnny C. Hester '70 and wife
announce the birth of their son, Adam, February 23, 1990.
Kathy Teer Crumpler '76 and J. Cameron Crumpler '76 announce the birth of their son, James Cory, February 1989.
George Irving '76 and wife, Rinda, '76 announce the birth of their fourth child, Ryan George, May 14.
Belinda Foss Hall '77 and husband, David, announce the birth of their daughter, Heather Rowan, May 1.
Raymond A. Warren '79 and
wife, Leigh, announce the birth of their first child, Ashley Elizabeth, August 29.
Lisa Martin Worley '81 and
husband, Tim, announce the birth of their daughter, Catherine Cailyn, December 17, 1989.
Gregory Scott Brooks '84 and Teresa B. Brooks '85 announce the birth of their second baby girl, Suzanne Renee, June 16.
Tammie Hayes Ferguson '84
and husband, Chip, announce the birth of their first child, Sara Dawn, May 22.
Melinda Turtle Sass '84 and husband, Ronald, announce the birth of their daughter, Kaylin Marlene, May 22.
Richard M. Livingston '86 and wife, Dana Farley Livingston '87, announce the birth of their son, Matthew Ryan, May 24-
Susan Cutrell Murphy '87 and
husband, Randall, announce the birth of a daughter, Hayley Susan, March 19. They have one other daughter, Kirby.
Janice Faye Wynn Puckett '87
of Wilmington has two-year-old identical twin daughters, Jenna and Rachel.
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Joy Mitchell Brownlow '89 and
husband, Roy Dudley, announce the birth of their son, Tyler Mitchell, May 20.
Dianne Cecelia Longo '89 and husband, Richard, announce the birth of their son, Nicholas, April 30. Captain Richard Longo taught ROTC at UNCW before being transfened to Fort Sill, OK.
C. Robert (Bob) Clopper '90
announces the birth of his son, Charles Bryant, May 15.
CAPSULES
Johnny C. Hester '70 is the operations environmental affairs manager for Cogentrix in Lumberton, NC. He is responsible for air and water quality for eight power plants in NC, VA and PA. Hester has two sons, John, a fresh- man at UNCW, and eight-month- old Adam.
Tamara Reavis Tripp 78 is cunently attending State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse. She is a full-time student in the RN/MS Nursing Program. Tripp completed require- ments for the B.S.in nursing in May 1990. She will finish requirements for the M.S. in nursing with a concentration in gerontology in May 1991. During the 1989-90 academic year, Tripp served as president of the undergraduate student body at SUNY. This academic year she will serve as treasurer of the Graduate Student Council and President of the Student Association for the College of Nursing. The RN/MS program at Syracuse is designed tor nurses with associate or diploma degrees in nursing and leads to the awarding of a B.S. and master's degree in nursing with a clinical nurse specialist concentration in three years of full- time study.
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David Wilson Freshwater '85 is
the owner and operator of a restau- rant called Laguna Aqua Dulce which is located in Cantinay Cuartos Boca de Rio, Isla Margarita, Sucre, Venezuela. David reports that his restaurant has the best fried mackerel steaks in the Caribbean and the only place in the Caribbean where one can get grits with stewed tomatos.
Wayne H. Smith Jr. (Skip) '87
is assistant director of the Alzheimer's Research Center at Duke University in Durham. His work as a research neuroscientist at Duke's University Medical Center has aided recently in the testing of a new protein which could someday be used in the diagnosis and treat- ment of Alzheimer's Disease.
Kathy Teer Crumpler '76
received her master's in public health from the UNC School of Public Health in 1985 and is serving as the health and safety programs supervisor for the Onslow County Schools in Jacksonville, NC. Following her graduation from UNCW in 1976, Kathy taught French for three years at Sunset Park Junior High School, worked two years in French West Africa as a rural medical assistant in the Peace Corps, taught one year as interim lecturer in UNCW's HPER Depart- ment, and trained health volunteers for the Peace Corps in the Central African Republic. She and husband, J. Cameron Crumpler '76, and new son, James Cory, live in Hampstead, NC.
The Honorable Raymond A. Warren '79 has recently been appointed by Governor Jim Martin to serve as a Superior Court Judge in Mecklenburg C 'ountv. Warren, a 1983 UNC-CH Law School graduate, was elected from Mecklenburg County in 1984 to serve in the State House of Repre- sentatives. Prior to Judge Wanen's
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appointment, he was associated with the Charlotte law firm of Tucker, Hicks, Hodge and Cranford where he practiced general civil law. Judge Wanen will be on the state- wide ballot in next month's general election. He and wife, Leigh Berryhill, live in Charlotte with two-month old daughter, Ashley Elizabeth.
Ralph A. Rouby '67 is execu- tive director/administrator of Piedmont Lutheran Health Care Center in Greer, SC. He is respon- sible tor establishing and directing the overall operation of Piedmont Lutheran's internal and external activities. Owned by Lutheran Homes of South Carolina, the health care center provides two
levels of care I to individuals age 10 and older. The nursing facility has 132 beds dual- licensed tor intermediate and/or skilled patients. Services include registered and licensed practical nurses, doctors, pharmacy services, dentists, physical therapy services as well as ancillary services including church services, arts and crafts, and a variety of social and cultural programs.
In Memoriam
David C. Rhyne '87 died on June 7, 1989, of cancer at his home in Cary, NC.
Aimee Clara Couvillon '89 died August 24, 1990, in an automo- bile accident near her home in Shallotte, NC.
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As we enter the decade of the 90s, we face new challenges in higher education. Everywhere you look changes are taking place. Changing demo- graphics are impacting enrollment patterns; restricted resources are prompting expanded cooperation between all levels of education; heightened competition in the world marketplace requires turning out graduates with good basic education skills who will be prepared for a lifetime of learning. Adaptability is the key to survival in the new age and here at UNCW we are placing this institution in the vanguard of the education movement.
This university is in the process of examining its image and determining how it can best serve its publics. We are developing new programs to cultivate national and international relationships. More evening classes are being offered to accommodate the educational needs of working students and retired people, and to make better use of our facilities. We are conducting national searches for an athletic director and a vice chancellor for the Division of University Advancement to ensure we retain people with the highest qualifications who can take us confidently into the future.
In April, we will host a two-day symposium on the reformation of public education and work force preparedness. Leaders in school reform will address the state of public education at the local, state and national levels.
UNCW is called to serve people in their search for knowledge. We must endeavor to be a purposeful, accessible learning community that meets all students' needs as we strive to become a true regional force in the Southeastern United States.
- Chancellor ]arnes R. Leutze
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ARTICLES
MIRROR, MIRROR
How do we look? Are students and faculty attracted to us? UNCW has a date with the future.
FASHION PASSION
A career that suits her to a tee
HOW CAN WE BEST SERVE OUR STUDENTS?
Retaining and maintaining our most valuable resource
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Dig a little, dream a little
A LIFE WORTH LIVING
Reviving and resolving difficult questions
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What on Earth do we do?
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A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI, PARENTS AND FRIENDS |
Volume 1 Number 2
UNCW Magazine is published quarterly by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Division of University Advancement.
Editor I Allison Relos Contributing Editors / Mimi I "unningham, Renee Brantley, Patsy Larrick
Editorial Advisory Board / F. Douglas Moore, M.Tyrone Rowell, Howard Lipman, Carol King
Design / Modular Graphics Printing / Drummond Tress
Cover photo by Curtis Studio, Wilmington, N.C
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FACULTY
Social History
A book by UNCW assistant professor of history, Michael Seidman, has been published by the University of California Press. Workers against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona during the Popular Fronts (1936-38) is a comparative social history of the Spanish Revolution in Barcelona and the French Popular Front in Paris. The book examines why a workers' revolution occurred in Spain and not in France in 1936. It also looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the working classes in Paris and Barcelona.
Seidman joined the UNCW History Department in fall 1990 as a specialist in French history. He has traveled and studied extensively in Europe.
Humanities Fellow
Jon Huer, associate professor of sociology and anthropology at UNCW, has been named an Appalachian Humanities Fellow for a yearlong appointment. He was one of 20 fellows named this year. The fellows will participate in several seminars and presentations centered around the theme, "The Springtime of Nations," that deal with developments in Eastern Europe.
Huer plans to write a book on recent events in Eastern Europe with particular emphasis on how the American model of government compares to governments of coun- tries that are rejecting communism.
Economic Indicators
UNCW economics professors Claude Farrell and William W. Hall, Jr. have developed an ex- panded set of economic indicators
for Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender counties. This is in conjunc- tion with their work in the business school's Center for Business and Economics Services.
The indicators are indexes that compare the cunent level of eco- nomic activity in these counties with the average level in 1982. This expanded information is valuable to public officials and business owners who are planning for the future growth and development of South- eastern North Carolina.
HONORS
Crime Prevention
The UNCW Campus Police Department has been awarded "Superior Achievement in Crime Prevention" by the Office of the Governor and the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety Crime Prevention Division. The award is one of five presented annually to city, county, and campus law enforcement agencies. UNCW is the only campus police depart- ment in North Carolina to receive the distinction twice.
Officer Hunter Davis accepted the award on behalf of the depart- ment. He also received an indi- vidual award for "Outstanding Achievement in Crime Prevention".
Davis has been with the UNCW campus police since 1987 when he started as a student security guard. In 1989, he became a police officer and progressed to the crime prevention officer position he currently holds.
Alternatives!
UNC Wilmington's drug and alcohol abuse prevention program, Alternatives!, has been recognized for its outstanding efforts in die tight against dnig and alcohol abuse. It is
the only college program to be honored this year by the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Con- trol Commission and the Governor's Highway Safety Program.
Accepting the award were Diane Reichard, acting coordinator of Alternatives!, and Christine Stump and Heather Houston, UNCW students and Alternatives! peer educators.
Student Affairs
Richard H. Mullendore,
UNCW associate vice chancellor for student affairs, has been elected to a two-year term as president of the National Orientation Directors Association (NODA). NODA focuses on developing successful student orientation programs and implementing national orientation standards. The groups's objective is to assist students in their transition to college life and to improve student retention rates.
Mathematical Sciences
Maria Blanton, graduate student in mathematics at UNCW, has been awarded the Sylvia and B.D. Schwart: Graduate Fellowship for academic year 1990-91. The nomination letter submitted in her behalf by the Mathematical Sci- ences Department cited Blanton's excellent grades and first-rate performance as a graduate student in addition to her superb performance in teaching introductory mathemat- ics and tutoring students. Blanton is the fourth recipient of the Schwart: Fellowship, established in 1987 to provide a grant equal to resident tuition and fees for the full academic year. This is the first graduate fellowship to be established at UNC Wilmington.
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How do we look?
Are students and faculty attracted tons?
UNCW has a date with the future.
UNCW is at a turning point in its career. The school's priorities are being reassessed in the face of new challenges. Its institutional image is being examined to determine how best to define, develop, and market the university.
"We're pulling together a group of individuals from the university and the community to look at our marketability," said Chancellor James R. Leutze. "We need to know what our cunent image is, what image we want to project, and how to increase our visibility. We need to find out what people think about us."
One reason for increasing UNCW's visibility and enhancing its academic curriculum is student retention. "Recent studies show that students like to stay at schools that are well-known and that have strong academic reputations," said Chancellor Leutze. "Part of this has to do with their friends having a positive impression of where they attend school."
Recruiting faculty is another reason for strengthening UNCW's
institutional image. "It will become increasingly difficult to attract and retain outstanding faculty with the graying' of the professoriat," said Chancellor Leutze. "In this market UNCW has to work harder to attract professors from a shrinking
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"We also hope that as we become more visible, more people in Southeastern North Carolina will seek out the university," said Leutze.
Improving the university's outreach services in the region will be a direct result of increased visibility. "We want to be accessible and to provide support for the public
schools, community colleges, and government agencies in the region," Chancellor Leutze said. For exam- ple, he's proposed that the university serve in the role of facilitator for planning in Southeastern N.C. for the year 2010. UNCW would provide the desired expertise, counsel, and technical support in planning for such areas as industrial development, education, and marine and coastal management, he said. "Twenty years is just one generation away."
Promoting the university has a lot of other benefits. It would generate a variety of subsidiary activities, according to Chancellor Leutze. These include funding for faculty to attend conferences and to bring distinction to the university, hosting events at UNCW that bring favorable attention to the university, and publicizing the school's excep- tional programs that are already in place.
UNCW will be 50 years old in 1997 and is poised to pursue new paths of education excellence.
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FASHION
word out about the latest trends and styles.
"If people can't come to New York to see the latest in fashion, we'll bring fashion to them," said Crook. She books shows through- out the country that spotlight the newest lines of clothing, accessories and cosmetics. In turn, the manu- facturers of these items donate samples and door prizes to be given away at the shows in addition to buying advertising space in Made- moiselle. "The ads sell the maga- zine," Crook said.
The continued success of these on-location events makes Mademoi- selle unique. "These shows are the longest ninning promotional events of any of the fashion magazines. We started doing these in 1973," said Crook.
One of the highlights of a Mademoiselle fashion show is the "makeover" session. Volunteers from the audience are selected tor hair and cosmetic makeovers. "It's really neat when we do the makeovers and get feedback from the women. They tell us how we've boosted their confidence and self- esteem. It's great to know that we've made them feel better about themselves." Some of these women are then photographed and featured in an issue of Mademoiselle.
Working on location requires a team effort. Crook and her six co- workers are responsible for lining up the models and seeing that they have all the clothes and accessories they need. The merchandising staff
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also sees that the music, banners, and props are delivered and the advertisements for each event are run in the appropriate issues of Mademoiselle and other media.
"Normally we'll send two editors to commentate at the show, a stylist to choose the clothes and accesso- ries, a hair stylist, a makeup person, and a photographer." The models are often hired from local agencies.
Crook, a 1989 UNCW graduate with a degree in marketing, has always wanted to work for a maga- zine. During the summer of 1988, she met with a publisher in New York who gave her some leads. She followed these up and landed a job as senior sales assistant in September 1989 at Town and Country, an upscale lifestyle magazine.
In this position, Crook was responsible for gathering statistics about the magazine's target audi- ence, affluent men and women ages 40 and older. In addition, she acted as a liaison between the sales staff, the production department, and the marketing staff. "Together we determined the appearance order of ads in the magazine," said Crook. Advertisers who committed sizable amounts of money to the magazine and whose ads ran frequently were able to designate which pages would carry their ads. "My experience at Town and Country was a great way to see how a magazine runs from the inside out," Crook said.
Crook joined Mademoiselle's merchandising staff a year later. "Most people come here from a
fashion background, but I was interested in the business aspect," she said. Crook and her colleagues market the magazine to young women between the ages of 18 and 34 who are career oriented, single, and have disposable incomes. "Now I'm able to really get involved in promoting a magazine by working with marketing proposals and working with a particular store's merchandise." She also gets to do some traveling. "I really like being on the outside," she said.
Moving to the Big Apple was a big step for Crook, a long-time Wilmington resident. "I began to realize that I had to look out for myself, I had to meet the right people and prove myself if I wanted to succeed," she said. "I was deter- mined to work for a magazine."
Life in Manhattan took some adjusting to also. "New York is very fast-paced. Sometimes it can get on your nerves," she said. But the variety of people and entertainment more than compensate for the hectic lifestyle. "My friends and I like to go to Broadway plays, the ballet, the opera, or to nightclubs in Greenwich Village to hear blues and jazz music," said Crook. She enjoys bike riding or jogging in Central Park too.
Crook plans to make a career in fashion and has high hopes for her future. "I want to grow with the magazine whether it be in selling, public relations or special events." And she'll do it with style.
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How Can We Best Serve Our Students?
Retaining and mdntaining our most valuable resource
by Allison Relos
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Student retention is the number one priority on today's college campuses. Administrators and parents alike want to know what motivates students to stay in school and what contributes to a successful academic career. Why? "Because serving students' needs in the best possible way is fundamental to a university's mission," said Bill Bryan, UNCW vice chancellor for student affairs.
Dick Mullendore, UNCW associate vice chancellor for student affairs, believes that a college or university inherits an ethical commitment every time a student is admitted. "What we've told that student by letter of admission is 'You can make it here.' Realistically, not all students can make it here without some help. We need to do all we can to integrate the academic and social components of college to contribute to the student's success," said Mullendore.
By accomplishing their aca- demic goals, students are more likely to graduate and go on to other achievements. A successful college experience can set the stage for a positive life experience, said Bryan.
"The more successful we are with our students, the better the return in terms of our image, alumni base, and recruiting new students," added Mullendore. "Ifwefailto retain students we're wasting taxpayers' money by letting a lot of talent walk away."
The percentage of students who enroll at UNCW and graduate in four years is estimated at 22 percent, said Bob Fry, UNCW director of institutional research. Approxi- mately 40 percent of freshmen enrolling at UNCW graduate in five years.
At UNC Charlotte 24 percent of freshmen graduate in four years and 45 percent graduate in five years; at East Carolina University 19 percent graduate in four years and 38
percent graduate in 5 years; and at Appalachian State University 28 percent graduate in 4 years and 50 percent graduate in five years. These figures were supplied by UNCW's Office of Institutional Research.
Turning Point
According to Bryan and Mullendore, a freshman's first six weeks at school are critical to that student's retention. "The more you can involve them in activities and organizations the better the chance that they'll stay," said Bryan. "And the development of a significant relationship with some member of the institution, someone they can sit and talk with, is extremely impor- tant."
This is especially true where faculty' are concerned. The real hook for creating a bond with the students occurs in the classroom. "It makes all the difference when faculty take a special interest in their students as individuals in and outside the classroom," said Bryan. Inviting students to their homes or to the University Union for a cup of coffee contributes to positive student response and retention. As an institution, UNCW is looking at ways to encourage and support faculty in these kinds of activities.
The Division of Academic Affairs has developed the Freshman Seminar to help retain students with special learning needs. "Students who come through special admis- sions who do not predict a 2.0 grade point average are required to take this class to learn good study habits and to become adjusted to a univer- sity atmosphere," said David Miller, assistant vice chancellor of academic affairs. "We've had very good success with this program." Comple- tion of the course counts as one credit hour and goes towards graduation.
Parental involvement is vital to
student retention as well. Informing parents about the opportunities and services available to their students, positions them to take an active role in their son's or daughter's educa- tional experience.
What characterizes the quality of campus life at UNCW? Both Bryan and Mullendore were quick to say, "Friendliness!" A responsive, caring approach is taken with the students and each one is treated as an individual. Study skills work- shops, leadership training, intramurals, and academic counsel- ing are just some of the ways this caring attitude is demonstrated.
Plans for enhancing student retention include devising a seminar for all new students that would give them an in-depth look at the university. "It would teach them how to negotiate complex institu- tions, how to be assertive, and what their rights are as education consum- ers," said Bryan.
An enrollment management task force made up of faculty and administrators is also being organ- ized to take a critical look at "the way UNCW does business," said Mullendore. "We'll be looking at what's in place to help our students be successful and what's preventing others from achieving success." A final report will be submitted to Chancellor Leutze by December 1991.
Examining the spectrum of student life at UNCW is essential to improving retention rates. "It's not just what happens in the classroom, but what happens in the bookstore, traffic office, dining hall, or library that makes a difference," said Chancellor Leutze. "All of these things in aggregate contribute to each student's experience."
By improving the quality of student life and strengthening student retention, UNCW is building a solid base for its future.
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Treasure Island is alive and well atUNCW. And you don't need a map, a schooner, or young Jim Dawkins to take you there. Just set your sights on Randall Library and drop anchor in Special Collec- tions. You'll discover a wealth of rare and unusual finds.
"Exploring Special Collections is serendipity in a way - unexpected hut totally delightful," said Lana Taylor, special collections librarian.
Housed in the Helen Hagan Rare Book Room of Randall Library,
by appointment during the week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The jewels of the collection include: an 1831 fore edge printed book, which refers to a scene printed on the fanned edges of the pages, Civil War documents, a North American wildflower book with waterflower renderings by Mary Vaux Walcott, 1 7th century books detailing the history of science, and the collected works of Galen of Pergamon, one of the great physi- cians of antiquity, printed in 1604-
under the auspices of the New Hanover County School Board," Taylor said. "We even have the cap, gown, and hood worn by John T. Hoggard, second president of Wilmington College."
As one might imagine, preserva- tion is paramount to maintaining the collection. Papers and photo- graphs are stored in acid-free folders and boxes. Plastic clips and rust-free staples replace paper clips and standard staples. Books and manu- scripts are shelved behind locked
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the collection embraces bygone eras in a variety of media. Books, manu- scripts, photographs, artwork, maps, and personal journals make up the bounty of the collection. Many are old and in fragile condition. Others represent limited editions or one of a kind items.
"The things in Special Collec- tions need tender, loving care," said Taylor. Because of their scarcity and fragile condition, the pieces aren't checked out like those in the general collection. But they can be viewed
Valuable books on local history by authors such as Isabelle Williams, Ida Brooks Kellam, Elizabeth McCoy , and Billie McEachern are also found in Special Collections. "These women were local historians who kept their great-great grandfa- thers' memories alive," said Taylor.
Historical archives detailing the history of Wilmington College and UNCW are housed in Special Collections too. "Correspondence, files, and photographs go back to the early days of the school when it was
glass doors. Documents and litho- graphs are framed or filed and interleaved with acid-free paper in large flat drawers. In addition, the temperature and humidity in the rare book room are closely con- trolled to prevent mildew damage.
One significant group of materials within Special Collections consists of approximately 2,400 78 rpm phonograph records of late jazz and big gand greats such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Glenn Miller. The records were
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donated to Randall Library in 1988 by Nick Ponos, a retired business- man and musician in Wilmington. "They represent a nice slice of music history from 1926 through 1979. This collection is a great adjunct for the UNCW music program," said Taylor. Special Collections also has a good sheet music collection with commissioned works for Laura Harriss Howell and Fannie B. DeRossett.
The North Carolina Visual Arts and Artists Collection is significant
get inquiries from as far away as Greenland."
Designated in 1969 as the rare book room by Helen Hagan, former director of Randall Library, the Special Collections room was named for Hagan upon her retire- ment in 1973. Most of the pieces in the collection were donated, left as legacies, or bought with funds from supporting foundations, while other items were brought in by people in the community. These are reviewed by Taylor and her colleagues to see
"My mother instilled in me a love for reading, a thirst for knowledge, and a desire to study the past." This influence led her to earn a bachelor's degree in history from UNCW in 1978. She went on to earn her master's degree in library and information sciences from N.C. Central University in 1985.
While Randall Library's modern computers and databases provide rapid access to a wealth of informa- tion, the search for information in Special Collections is more deliber-
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to the Special Collections holdings. It is the primary depository in the state for information on North Carolina artists. The collection contains exhibition catalogs from the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, announcements of gallery exhibitions, calls for entry in statewide art competitions, newspaper clippings, and art calen- dars. "We index each piece of information by artist and location of the exhibition," said Taylor. "We
Watercolor rendering of native American wild/lower from the book North American Wild/lowers, 1925.
how well they would fit into the existing collection.
Taylor immerses herself in her work and can't imagine doing anything else. "I like the sense of history I get by working here. How many people can go to work and thumb through a book that was printed in 1604?" she said. "When you're working with this material you get lost in it."
Taylor's affinity with Special Collections comes as no surprise. "I didn't just back into it!" she said.
Lana Taylor poses with a oversized book from Special Collections that includes drawings and color plates of beasts, plants, and animals by Mark Catesby.
ate. The materials found here are to be savored and pondered.
"When you walk through the door, you step into another world," said Taylor. "There's a certain ambiance here. You can taste, smell, and feel the stories these things have to tell. And there's a treasure for everyone."
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ALIFE WORTH LIVING
Reviving and Resolving Difficult Questions
Candace Gauthier confronts moral dilemmas and quality of life. She represents clients she never meets and deals with death on a daily basis. "It's so exciting - it never depresses me!" And so it is with a medical ethicist.
Gauthier, assistant professor of philosophy at UNCW and volun- teer medical ethicist, examines issues of right and wrong in the delivery of health care. "My focus is always on the patient's rights."
She brings this perspective to the classes she teaches, Bioethics and HIV and AIDS: Issues for Science and Society. "My work as a medical ethics consultant at New Hanover Memorial Hospital helps me incredibly with my teaching. It
gives me wonderful insights into the emerging issues in medical ethics," she said.
Today's hot issues include physician-assisted suicide, medical care for HIV-infected individuals, living wills, and anonymous blood testing. Grappling with any of these requires consideration of certain principles of medical ethics, accord- ing to Gauthier.
The principle of beneficence states that health care providers and related professionals should act toward patients and clients in a way that does no harm, prevents harm, and promotes good.
Respect for autonomy is a principle that upholds that fully competent adult patients and clients
be able to make decisions concern- ing their own medical treatment.
The principle of justice states that health care resources should be distributed in a just and equitable manner among all members of society.
Interpreting these principles is another matter. "Harm" means different things to different people. "Some see death as harm and some see a painful existence as harm," said Gauthier. This becomes a compli- cated matter when a physician who has sworn to "do no harm" must make a judgment call as to the best treatment for his patient.
Fidelity, voluntary informed consent, and confidentiality are other principles that govern rela-
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tionships in the health care system. Fidelity means that patients and clients should be provided with complete, relevant, truthful infonna- tion regarding their condition and treatment options. Voluntary informed consent supports a patient's right to agreement prior to treatment. Confidentiality means that health care providers and related professionals must not reveal information about their patients and clients or their conditions.
All of these come in to play in today's issues. "The North Carolina Medical Society is trying to get the legislature to eliminate informed consent for testing," said Gauthier. "Some physicians want to do away with anonymous testing and begin confidential testing. The problem with this is that the names of those tested are reported to the State Division of Health Services. These people may later be discriminated against based on the test results." As Gauthier sees it, this is a breach of the confidentiality ethic.
The living will, or advance directive, is another controversial issue. In this instance, a person fills out and has witnessed a document attesting to the kind of medical treatment desired. But interpreta- tions become muddied here too. The big question is, should someone in a persistent vegetative state receive artificial feeding or respira- tion? "About 10,000 people in the United States are in a persistent vegetative state and are being tube fed. The truth is, they will never recover. How then do you define quality of life? Are these persons being done more harm than good by being artificially sustained? And what about the money it costs to keep them alive? Yes, even money can be considered an issue in medical ethics," she said.
Gauthier's work at New Hanover Memorial Hospital includes holding an ethics confer-
ence each semester for the internal medicine residents, leading monthly discussions with critical care nurses, serving on the Infant Care Review Committee, and serving as a consultant for the Neonatal Inten- sive Care Unit. She's also helping develop a hospital ethics committee. As a member of the Infant Care Review Committee, Gauthier's job is to make sure that everyone involved in a case has all the information needed to assist in decision making. "My role is to point out and address the ethical issues and to give my opinion as an ethicist," said Gauthier. "I play devil's advocate and point out what's missing, but I don't make
"About 10,000 people in the United States are in a persistent vegetative state
and are being tube fed.
The truth is, they will never
recover. How then do you
define quality of life?"
medical decisions or clinical judgments."
As medical technology ad- vances, the decisions become more complex. "The technology used to keep people alive creates so many problems. Who lives, who dies, and who decides?" she asked. "And as this technology becomes more expensive, cost will become more of an issue too."
To protect your medical and ethical rights, Gauthier urges people to ask lots of questions. "Take control of your health care. Don't let the physician make all of the decisions. Ask what certain treat- ments have to offer, what the long- term results are, and what the cost of the care is. Before you agree to a procedure or drug, find out about it.
Most hospitals have a library," she said. A good journal recommended by Gauthier is Hastings Center Report which writes about ethical issues in lay terms.
In addition to her teaching and work as a medical ethicist, Gauthier chairs the university's Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects. This is a federally man- dated committee that evaluates all of the research at UNCW on human subjects. This includes the psychology attitude surveys and the memory studies conducted with children in the Department of Psychology, and the patient surveys conducted by the School of Nursing.
She also serves on another federally mandated committee, the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Twice a year she inspects campus facilities that house animals used in experiments. "I check for cleanliness, adequate heat and light, and room for movement. I also need to be concerned with the humane treatment of the animals and how they're euthanized," said Gauthier. The animals include rats, fish, voles, frogs, and toads.
In addition, Gauthier speaks to professional organizations and special interest groups. Last May she addressed the National Conference of the Perinatal Social Workers Association. She was recently invited to address the state confer- ence of the North Carolina Chap- lains Association. "I learn so much from every group I talk to," she said.
Gauthier is enthralled with her work and derives great satisfaction from helping people. "Even though I deal with sad issues, they're essential to understanding the human experience," she said. "Almost everyone will be sick and require health care. Everybody will die. If I can make people's lives and deaths easier and better, then I've succeeded in making a difference."
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Recipe for Destruction
Ingredients:
Mega-gallons of pesticides
Tons of sulfur emissions
Epic proportions of dying
species
Vast quantities of solid
wastes
Blend well.
Dump in natural resources.
Bury for 20 years.
Remove when ready to be
accountable.
A steady diet of junk food has had disastrous effects on Mother Earth. What was once a well- defined heavenly body is now a planet of polluted natural resources.
By teaching students environ- mental ethics and by developing their expertise in the sciences, UNCW is producing future leaders with the potential to effect positive environmental change.
"Depletion of the ozone layer, deforestation, accelerating birth rates - what is the carrying capacity of the world? What are we going to do with all of our waste?" asked David Webster, chair of UNCW's environmental studies curriculum in the Department of Biology. "I think human ingenuity can develop ways to minimize destruction to the environment."
"Our graduates are getting in on the ground floor of environmental occupations. They'll be the ones calling the shots in the next 10 years," said Webster. "Environmen- tal studies is a fairly new field. With the education they receive at UNCW, our graduates will catapult
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up the job ladder."
UNCW is the only school in the UNC system that offers a multidisciplinary environmental studies program, according to Webster, and one of only 40 or so in the country. Students completing the program are well versed in many areas and may work in such diverse fields as land use planning, waste water treatment, landscape architec- ture, environmental safety, or forestry. Curcently, there are about 80 students enrolled in the environ- mental studies curriculum at UNCW.
The program was established in 1972 in reponse to student demand, said Paul Hosier, UNCW assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs. Faculty recognized a need for broadening students' training in the sciences and organized a committee to address this need. The environ- mental studies curriculum was a direct outgrowth of this committee work.
Twelve academic disciplines contribute to the environmental studies cuniculum. Effective fall 1991, students coming into the program will be able to choose from four tracks of concentration: biol- ogy, chemistry, earth science, and environmental science. Additional academic departments that contrib- ute to the curriculum include: economics, marine science, manage- rial science, mathematical sciences, physics, political science, psychol- ogy, and sociology. "The breadth of jobs our students are trained to occupy is quite remarkable," Webster said.
Why Now?
Our environment has under- gone dramatic changes for the last three billion years. Why the
urgency to study it now? What's creating this demand?
"All the resources in the earth are limited, whether you're talking about diamonds or coal. Because they're limited, the earth has evolved very delicate ways to recycle these elements through the environ- ment. And we have altered every one of them," Webster explained. "People are starting to realize that the Earth as a living system has rights too."
"People are starring to
realize that the Earth as
a living system has
rights too."
Consider these facts. The United States makes up five percent of the world population but con- sumes 25 percent of the world's resources and generates 25 percent of the world's waste. "The city of Los Angeles produces enough trash to fill up the Rose Bowl stadium every day," Webster remarked.
During the past decade, the world's sea level has risen an average five percent because of global warming. This has been attributed to a buildup in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other gases generated by cars and industry. The implications are that low lying areas will eventually become submerged. "The highest point in Wilmington is 30 feet above sea level," said Webster. "A three or four foot rise means we would lose all the beaches and many of the housing develop- ments would be underwater."
Deforestation is also accelerat- ing at an alarming rate. Fourteen percent of Europe's forests now show
signs of injury linked to acid rain and air pollution. "The Black Forest was virtually eliminated by the industrialization of Europe," said Webster. Similar growth reductions are occuning throughout America's Appalachian Mountains.
An entirely different philosophy and mandatory changes must occur if we're to stem the tide of this environmental typhoon. "It's going to take a grassroots organization to keep environmental issues in the forefront of public awareness. That's where we're lacking in this country," Webster said. "It's also going to take a ground swell of commitment at the local, state and national levels to get the funding and policies we need to protect our environment. Strong politicians are going to have to pass tough laws that might not get them re-elected."
Webster was appointed as chair of the environmental sciences cuniculum because of his broad training in the biological sciences. He is also well-trained in field studies, according to Hosier, and does extensive research on endan- gered species and habitats. "I've always been interested in the effect man has on the environment," Webster added. Webster has high expectations for the environmental studies program at UNCW. "I hope it will rival our marine biology program. Give us 10 or 20 years to be the best EVS program in the country."
Eliminating fossil fuels, improv- ing energy efficiency, reversing deforestation, and enforcing strin- gent recycling are fundamental to the Earth's ecological diet. With regular exercise of the political process and large consumptions of education, our planet home can become environmentally fit. â–
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
Chair
Rebecca Blackmore (Becky) 75 762-5033
Vice Chair
Jeffrey Jackson (Jeff) '83 763-6591
Secretary
John Baldwin (John) 72 675-6483
Treasurer W.Robert Page (Bob) 73
763-1604
BOARD MEMBERS
Cape Fear Area
Frank Bua '68 799-0164
Carl Dempsey '65 799-0434
Mary Hams '81 270-3000 Robert Hobbs '84
Dru Kelly 73 392-4324
Norm Melton 74 799-6105
John Pollard 70 256-3627
Marvin Robison '83 395-6151
Jim Stasias 70 392-0458
Wayne Tharp 75 371-2799
Avery Tuten '86 799-1564
Jessiebeth Geddie '63 350-0205
Triangle Area
Sonia Brooks '80 362-7539
Glen Downs '80 859-0396
Don Evans '66 872-2338
Randy Gore 70 832-9550
Dan Lockamy '63 467-2735
Jim Spears '87 677-8000
Barry Bowling '85 846-593 1
Onslow County Area
Robert Joos '81 347-4830
Winston-Salem Area
Debbie Barnes '87 722-7889
Richmond-Metro Area
John Barber '85 804-747-9551
Charleston, SC Area
Patricia Corcoran 72 803-849-0159
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ALUMNI CHAPTERS
HAPPENINGS AND EVENTS
Annual Giving Update
This year's UNCW Annual Giving Campaign is moving along, full steam ahead. Presently we have over $60,000 pledged from 544 alumni. This number represents three months of intensive telephone calls from our student callers. This year we are expecting our alumni to donate over $80,000.
If you have not been contacted by mail or telephone, you may be one of the many "lost" alumni. Please complete the update form in this issue and tell us where you are and what you are doing.
Parents, you should have received your solicitation letter by now. Our student callers will be contacting those of you who have not responded by mail.
We look forward to a banner year and to meeting many of the fundraising goals we have set.
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STUDENTS
Pre-Med and Pre-Dental
In the last five years, 85 percent of UNCW pre-medical and pre- dental students who applied to medical and dental schools were admitted, according to Ned Martin, UNCW chemistry professor and pre-medical advisor. Seventy-eight percent of UNCW students who applied to medical and dental schools in 1989 were accepted, compared to 63 percent nationwide and 58 percent statewide.
Alumni board member Jim Spears (center) chats with Triangle area alumni at a reception honoring Chancellor Leutze at Haywood Hall, Raleigh.
Cape Fear Chapter alumni discuss Seahawk basketball strategies with Coach Kevin Eastman (bottom left) during their fall shrimparoo.
Charlotte alumni pose for posterity during the pre-game social of the UNCW and UNC Charlotte basketball game in November.
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THE 60s
Charles L. Dudney '67 retired Lieutenant Colonel with the U.S. Army resides in Waimes, Belgium. Dudney, who served in Europe during WWII, Korea during the Korean Conflict, and in Vietnam, is the recipient of a number of service awards.
THE 70's
Patricia Lewis Carroll '7 1 received her MBA from UNCW this past August. She is a mathematics teacher for EA. Laney High School in Wilmington.
Brenda Davis Cox '74 is a
librarian with Richlands Elementary School in Onslow County. She and husband, Donald, live in Richlands with son, B.P.
Derma Lambert '75 spent a month in Togo, West Africa conducting medical missionary work. She cunently lives in Charlotte.
John Cameron Allen '77 is produce manager for Hill's Food City in Elizabethtown, NC where he resides with wife, Barbara, and two chil- dren.
James R. Peterson '77 has been named controller for Strickland Insurance 6k Realty, the holding company for Atlantic Casualty Insurance Company, Atlantic Indemnity Company, Strickland Insurance Brokers and Premium Payment Plan.
Glenn Raynor '77 is the manager of environmental affairs at Dixie Cement in Knoxville, TN. He, wife Kathy '77, and two sons reside in Knoxville.
Robert W. Clary Jr. '78 is a Lieu- tenant Commander with the U.S. Navy living with his family in Puerto Rico.
Chester L. Mosley '78 is banking officer for United Carolina Bank in Raleigh.
Leonard Devaney '79 is a recent graduate of the University of Montana School of Law and is an assistant attorney general in Nome, Alaska.
Terry Evans '79 has been named an assistant vice president at First Citizens Bank in Jacksonville, NC, where he serves as vice president and program director for the Jack- sonville Kiwanis Club and is board president for the Onslow/Camp Lejeune Developmental Center.
THE 80's
Leslie R. "Becky" Cram '80 is an
actress/singer residing in Austin, TX. She has appeared on segments of Unsolved Mysteries and has had parts in industrial and feature films.
S. Cory Gore, Jr., '80 has been named vice president of mortgage lending for First Hanover Bank in Wilmington. Gore, licensed in NC as a general contractor and real estate salesman, serves on the Wilmington Board of Realtors, the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Society of Real Estate Apprais- ers. He is a past president of the
UNCW MBA Board of Governors.
Thomas Lamont, Jr. '80 has been promoted from assignment editor to news director for WECT-TV 6 in Wilmington. Lamont also teaches part-time in UNCW's Department of Speech Communication.
Marion A. Eppler '82 is an assistant professor at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she is setting up an infant perception research laboratory. Eppler finished work on her Ph.D in Experimental/ Developmental Psychology at Emory Univesity in August.
Robert D. Quigley '82 has been promoted to area supervisor with N.C.Management Company/Pizza Hut where he will be supervising restaurants in Wilson, Greenville and Washington. He and wife, Donna Stanton '81, along with children, Stephanie and Michael, will reside in Ayden, NC.
Carlton Fisher '83 is general manager of Coastal Realty in Wilmington. He was elected president of the Wilmington Board of Realtors for 1991 and serves on the Board of Directors of D.A.R.E., Downtown Area Revitalization Effort.
Eva N. Lightner '83 M.Ed., is a teacher at East Arcadia School in Riegelwood, NC, where she was selected the Bladen County Teacher of the Year for 1990-91.
Marine Captain Darrell L. Thacker
'83, recently participated in Opera- tion "Sharp Edge," a non-combatant evacuation operation while serving with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Lejeune. The opera- tion, the largest conducted by the
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Navy and Marine Corps team, was organized to initiate protection of American citizens and foreign nationals from the port city of Buchanan Liberia and U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia.
Jennifer Simmons Aycock '84 is
promotions director for TV 48 in Greensboro. She resides in Burlington, NC.
Elizabeth Gandy Cassidy '84 is a
reporter/writer for the Davie County Enterprise Record. She and hus- band, Kenneth Todd Cassidy '86, reside in Mocksville, NC.
Lisa J. Moore '84 is an assistant vice president and business banker for First Hanover Bank in Wilmington.
Stephen C. Sutton '84, store manager of Harris Teeter at Long Leaf Mall in Wilmington, received the corporation's Distinguished Manager Award recently.
John "Keith" Webster '84 received his master's in Industrial Psychology from UNC Charlotte and is a productivity analyst with First National Bank in Baltimore, MD.
John P. Wright III '84 is a vice president at First Citizens Bank in Raleigh. He and his family reside in Clayton, NC.
Rose Jacqueline "Jackie" Beamon
'85 is senior teller for the State Employees' Credit Union in Beau- fort, NC.
Heather Dittenmayer '85 is com- mercial claims coordinator for Yancey Insurance Agency in Raleigh.
Troy Mangum '85 recently moved to the United Kingdom after working at the Christian Youth Hostel in Amsterdam. Mangum traveled this summer to England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ger-
many, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Austria.
Donna Y. Meacham '85 has been promoted to supervisor in the Business Management Services Department of Lowrimore, Warwick & Company Certified Public Accountants in its Wilmington office.
James J. "Jay" Meyer, Jr., '85 has
been named city executive for First Citizens Bank in Salisbury, NC. In this capacity he will be responsible for all banking operations.
Amanda D. Miller '85 has been promoted from sales representative to account manager with Nestle Foods Corporation in Charlotte.
Paul H. Williams '85 is serving a 16-month tour with the Army in Sinop, Turkey and will be stationed at Vint Hill Farms, VA, April 1991.
Kenneth Todd Cassidy '86 is
product development manager for Wiltek Medical, Inc. in Winston- Salem. He and wife, Elizabeth Gandy Cassidy '84, reside in Mocksville, NC.
Allan Kent Cheatham '86 is a
manager/partner with Consolidated Cleaners, Inc. in Raleigh. He and wife, Cynthia Lynn Wilson Cheatham '86, live in Knightdale. Cynthia is admissions counselor for Phillips Junior College in Raleigh.
Penny Green Cobb '86 is a corpo- rate credit analyst with Qualex Inc. She and husband, Jeffrey L. Cobb, reside in Raleigh.
David M. Fair '86 received his master's in College Union Adminis- tration at Western Illinois Univer- sity in 1987 and is coordinator of residence education at East Carolina University.
Ronald J. Hunt '86 is a sales agent for Wilmington Seacoast Properties.
Sara E. Marks '86 is director of patient relations for University Hospitals in Chapel Hill. She resides in Canboro.
Michelle Mink '86 is enrolled full- time in the telecommunications program at the University of Colorado - Boulder.
Paul McCombie '86 has been elected banking officer of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company in Wilmington.
Pembroke Nash '86, staff appraiser for Cooperative Savings and Loan Association in Wilmington, has been elected president of the Coastal Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Real Estate Appraisers.
Debra Rogers Nielsen '86 was promoted to sales administration manager with Biomed, Inc. in Warsaw, IN.
Erin Philpy '86 is a paralegal with the law f inn, Jones, Preston & Brillo, in Chincoteague Island, VA.
Archie Raynor '86 is the branch manager and retail banking officer at Centura Bank's Hampstead, North Carolina office.
Kimberly A. Skipper '86 is a
realtor/sales associate with Art Skipper Realty in Yaupon Beach, NC.
B. Devaul Lanier '87 is employed with R&E Electronics where he i^
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responsible for commercial sales of telephones, telephone switching systems, security and alarm systems, cable television systems, local area networking and hospital communi- cation systems in the Wilmington area.
Stephanie Loftus '87 is weekend anchor and week-night news reporter for WWAY- TV 3 in Wilmington.
Marty Melvin '87 has joined WJKA-TV in Wilmington as a production assistant. He prepares commercials for broadcasting and performs production duties on the station's news program.
Eric Tilley '87 is employed with Tape Inc. as a regional manager in their industrial products division. His responsibilities include sales and service of industrial accounts in the Southeastern U.S.
Paige Benson '88 is an accountant in the business management services department of Lowrimore, Warwick & Company in Wilmington.
David K. Clack '88 is a staff accoun- tant with Black & Bass, PA Certi- fied Public Accountants in Clinton, NC.
Kimber Gasquez '88 has been promoted to development supervisor with River Enterprises in Wilming- ton.
BUI I. Hall '88 is a teacher and coaches football and baseball at Northwood High School in Chatham County. He resides in Cameron, NC.
Laura J. Macholz '88 is controller/ office manager for McGuire Proper- ties in Charlotte.
Anthony William Nellis, Jr. '88 is a Platoon Leader/Executive Officer with the U.S. Army in Germany. In
1989 LT Nellis graduated from Air Defense Officers Basic Course and from Airborne School. He received the Army Commendation Medal and is cunently serving a three-year tour of duty in Germany. He manied Edwanna Sutton, cunent UNCW student, in June.
Korene Z. Phillips '88 is a banking officer at First Citizens Bank, Wilmington where she serves as a commercial loan officer at the Plaza East branch.
Barbara Wilson Venters '88 is a
counselor at Raleigh Women's Health. She and husband, Wayne Victor Venters III, live in Raleigh.
Colleen Whilldin '88 teaches and coaches volleyball and softball at Elise Middle School in Robbins, NC. She resides in Southern Pines.
Vikki Gehring '89 is warehouse manager/purchasing agent for Allstate Glass in Fayetteville where she resides with husband, Malcolm Bullard. She also serves as financial advisor for Region V with Alpha Xi Delta.
Ruth Jones Kavanaugh '89 is a
supervisor with Food Lion. She and husband, David T. Kavanaugh, live in Charlottesville, VA.
Michael Morris '89 was recently promoted from sales representative to territory manager for Schlage Lock Company in Memphis, TN.
Gary Nail '89 is health/physical education teacher, head varsity baseball coach, and assistant varsity football coach at North Stokes High School in Danbury, NC. He and wife, Nora "Eugenie" Roberts Nail '89, live in King, NC. Eugenia is a special education teacher at South- eastern Stokes Junior High School in Walnut Cove, NC.
M. Jane Wiggs '89 is national executive manager for the Profes- sional Construction Estimators Association in Charlotte.
James A. Wilson '89 graduated from the Charlotte Police Training Academy and N.C Basic Law Enforcement Training in September and is a police officer with the Charlotte Police Department.
THE 90's
Patricia L. Carroll '90 MBA, is a mathematics teacher at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington.
Michael Edwards '90 is a sales representative for Carolina Phone & Alanns Inc. of Wilmington.
William Walker Golder III, 1990 graduate with a Master of Science in marine biology, is wildlife manager/ biologist of Audubon's N.C. Coastal Islands Sanctuary System out of Wrightsville Beach.
Russell Hill '90 is employed with Copy Systems as a representative for Canon copiers in the Wilmington area.
Navy Ensign Shawn P. Murphy '90 has completed the Officer Indoctri- nation School at the Naval Educa- tion and Training Center in New- port, RI.
Vonda N. Nelson '90 has joined Sun Brokers of Wilmington as a customer service representative.
Laurie Pandich '90 is a develop- ment assistant tor North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
Marriages
John "Keith" Webster '84 is
engaged and will be married June 8, 1991.
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Penny Green Cobb '86 to Jeffrey Langdon Cobb living in Raleigh.
Anthony William Nellis, Jr. '88 to Edwanna Sutton, current UNCW student. LT. Nellis is serving a three-year duty in Germany.
Mary Churchill Tettelbach '88 to
Navy Lt. Clayton Tettelbach living in Whidbey Island, WA.
Barbara Wilson '88 to Wayne Victor Venters III, living in Raleigh.
Vikki Gehring '89 to Malcolm Bullard living in Fayetteville.
Ruth Jones Kavanaugh '89 to
David T. Kavanaugh living in Charlottesville, VA.
Gary Nail '89 to Nora "Eugenia" Roberts Nail '89 living in King,
NC.
Births
Glenn Raynor '77 and Kathy Britt
Raynor '77 announce the birth of their second son, Brian Michael, November 29, 1989.
Marvette Rowan Livingston '78 and Buddy Livingston '80 an- nounce the birth of their son, Howard M. Livingston III (Tripp), June 28, 1990.
Tommy Manning '80 and Anne Winslow Manning '80 announce the birth of their third child, Crystal Leigh, September 16, 1990.
Karen Talbert '80 and husband Sterling Schermerhom announce the birth of their daughter, Margaret Grace, October 10, 1990.
Wendy Smith '84 and husband Thomas Bugbee, announce the birth of their son, Thomas Newton Bugbee, Jr. September 1.
David M. Fair '86 and wife Toni,
announce the birth of their son, James Edward Fair, August 25, 1989.
Debra Rogers Nielsen '86 an- nounces the birth of her soil, Kenneth Stuart, July 1989.
Mitch Wells '87 and Stacey T.
Wells '88 announce the birth of their daughter, Dylan Leigh, Octo- ber 18, 1990.
In Memoriam
Arthur Rowe Sawyer, Sr. '68 died of a heart attack January 3 1 , 1990.
Sherry H. Little '77 died November 15, 1990, as the result of an automobile accident near Raleigh. Little received her master's degree from ECU and taught physical education and coached the girls' volleyball team at Bethel Elemen- tary School. She was responsible for implementing a physical activities program titled "Every Child a Winner," which made her school a national demonstration site for the program.
CAPSULES
Rebecca Fancher '78, sixth-grade teacher at Roland-Grise Middle School in Wilmington, has been recognized for her teaching excel- lence in the field of language arts. She received the award from Governor Martin during the annual Governor's Business Awards in Education luncheon October 1 5 in Raleigh. Becky resides in Wilming- ton with husband Jack, and daugh- ter, Katie.
Gary K. Shipman '77 received the 1989-90 Addison Hewlett, Jr. Award for outstanding pro bono service during ceremonies held on the campus of UNCW last October. The New Hanover Pro Bono Program, co-sponsored by the New Hanover County Bar Association and Legal Services of the Lower Cape Fear, provides high quality civil legal representation to low- income and indigent residents of New Hanover County. Shipman, who received his law degree from Campbell University, was recog- nized for his many hours of pro bono assistance. He practices with the Wilmington law firm of Shipman, Lea and Allard.
Abigail Stuckey Saxon '86, an English teacher at EA. Laney High School in Wilmington, is a recent winner of the Sallie Mae National Award. The award, sponsored by the Student Loan Marketing Association of Washington, D.C., honors 100 of the nation's most outstanding elementary and second- ary school teachers for outstanding leadership and performance as first- year teachers. In addition to receiv- ing $ 1 ,000 and a certificate of recognition, she will be featured in an upcoming issue of Newsweek as a teacher tribute recipient.
Eric Tilley '87 is a regional manager for the industrial products division of Tape Inc. out of Charlotte. Tape, based in Green Bay, WI, manufac- tures pressure sensitive and water activated package sealing materials for the industrial market and mailing material for the consumer market. Tilley 's responsibilities include sales and service of industrial accounts in the mid-southeastem U.S. which includes Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Eastern Tennessee.
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Edward Hill '88 has been hired as the director of parks and recreation for the town of Carolina Beach. In this position he will he responsible for developing youth and adult recreational activities and supervis- ing and maintaining playgrounds, athletic fields, public parks, and other recreational facilities. Hill earned his bachelor's degree in parks and recreation management and worked for the city of Havelock, NC. Past activities include working with the New Hanover County Senior Games, the Special Olym- pics, and the National Youth Sports Coaches Association. His goals are to upgrade facilities, beautify the town's lake, and to develop more activities and cultural programs for the area.
Thomas Johnson Beckett '90 is one of five students selected from the entering class at ECU School of Medicine to receive scholarships and fellowships through the Brody Scholars Program. The program, established by the Brody family of Kinston and Greenville, provides scholarships to students who have demonstrated exemplary academic performance and leadership skills. Fellowships carry annual awards of $2000 over the next four years.
Steven D. Krichmar '90 has been named partner in the audit practice in the Boston office of Coopers & Lybrand, an international account- ing and consulting firm. Krichmar, a CPA, joined the firm in 1981 and specializes in providing services to high technology and financial
services clients, in particular invest- ment companies and their servicing agents. The Boston office of Coopers & Lybrand has more than 1,300 employees and is the largest ac- counting and consulting firm in Boston and New England.
Lawson Greenwood, a science teacher at Hoggard High School, was recognized as New Hanover County's Outstanding Secondary Teacher during First Union Na- tional Bank's Annual Outstanding Educator Awards this past Novem- ber. In addition, she was named Teacher of the Year by the New- Hanover County Board of Educa- tion. Greenwood began teaching several years ago as a second career. Previously, she had worked on chemical technology, cancer research and muscular research before earning her teaching certifi- cate at UNCW. Winning the award for Outstanding Secondary Teacher was Anne Bowen, wife of Frank Bowen, former director of UNCW Alumni Affairs. Bowen, who teaches at Williams School in Wilmington, was runner-up for Teacher of the Year. Both educators received a hand blown crystal apple and $1000 to be used tor individual professional development and special educational projects in the school system. The county school board presented Greenwood with $500 and Bowen with $250.
FAST FACT
As of December 1, 1990,
UNCW had recycled 38,730
pounds of paper since the
inception of its recycling
program in July 1989.
INSTALLATION PLANS
The pageantry of academic ceremony will cap three days of events when UNCW's Chancellor James R. Leutze is officially installed April 5. All alumni and friends of the institution are urged to mark your calendars now and make plans to attend morning tea from 8:30-10 a.m., Friday, April 5 on the lawn of the quadrangle in front of Hinton James Hall, followed by the installa- tion convocation at 10:30 in Trask Coliseum.
Preceding the installation ceremonies will be a two-day symposium on the topic, "Public Education: America's Real National Debt," funded by a $25,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Founda- tion. While details were not final at press time, national figures in the school reform debate are expected to participate in the seminar.
A highlight of the installation will be the unveiling of a ceremonial mace. This crafted symbol of the institution and the region it serves will subsequently be used in UNCW's academic ceremonies.
Events finalized to date include:
April 3-4
Education Symposium
April 4
Ball to honor the installation of Chancellor Leutze, sponsored by the Friends of the University, newly completed Union Center, 6:30 p.m. $50 per person ($25 of which is a tax -deductible contribution to UNCW)
April 4
Campus Dance tor students, gazebo and recreation field
April 5
Morning tea 8:30-10 a.m. Installation Ceremony, 10:30 a.m. Trask Coliseum.
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FEBRUARY
23 Wilmington Symphony Orchestra,
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
MARCH
1-11 Spring Break
2-4 Men's CAA Basketball Tournament
4-25 How to Create Bonsai, Office of Special Programs (OSP)
7-9 Women's CAA Basketball Tournament
7 - 4/18 Astronomy: Introduction to the Night Sky, OSP
8-9 Swim Team Tournament
9 Seahawk Track and Field Invitational
Pre-Retirement Planning, OSP
14 Seahawk Baseball - UNC CHARLOTTE, 3 p.m.
15 Organ Recital, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m. 23 Wilmington Track and Field Invitational 29 Easter Vacation
APRIL
3 Campus Hosts National 2-Day Symposium "Public Education: America's Real National Debt"
4 Ball to honor the Installation of James R. Leutze as Chancellor
5 Installation of Chancellor James R. Leutze
Breakfast 8-10 a.m. on the lawn in front of Hoggard Hall Installation ceremony, Trask Coliseum, 10:30 a.m.
13
Jazzfest, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
16-30 Financial Planning: Tools and Techniques for Your Lifetime Security, OSP
19-20 Women's CAA Tennis Tournament, Richmond, VA
24
Last Day of Classes
27 Wilmington Symphony Orchestra,
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
27-28 Seahawk Baseball - ECU, 7 p.m. and 2 p.m.
MAY
1 1 Commencement
14-17 CAA Baseball Tournament, Greenville, NC
20 First Session of Summer School Begins
29-6/1 NCAA Track and Field Tournament, Eugene, OR
JUNE
1 6-29 Office of Special Programs/UNCW Alumni trip to Greece
24-28 Summer Institute for CPAs, OSP
25 Second Session of Summer School Begins
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ABOUT THE COVER
The UNCW mace was introduced at the installation ceremony for Chan- cellor James R. Leutze on April 5, 1991. It will be carried by the faculty marshal at all formal academic ceremonies including commencements and convocations.
Designed by Jeff Morvil, a Wilmington artist, and created by Marvin Jensen, a Penland, North Carolina sculptor, the UNCW mace incorporates elements and materials important to the history of the school and region. The boss, or symbolic head, represents the essence of education, the flame of learning. It was designed to embody humankind's timeless pursuit of knowledge and quest for truth.
Below the boss are four official seals important to the school's formation and history. They represent: the County of New Hanover, Wilmington College, the University of North Carolina, and the University of North Carolina at Wilm- ington. Four bands are found on the shaft and symbolize the four schools of academic concentration within UNCW: the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, the School of Nursing, and the Cameron School of Business Administration.
The tenninus, or end piece, consists of a long leaf pine cone to symbolize the long leaf pine tree which was, and still is, a vital part of southeastern North Carolina's heritage. The long leaf pine is also the state tree.
The boss and tenninus are cast bronze that have been gold plated. The shaft is made of live oak, a tree indigenous to the area, often associated with strength and endurance. Years ago, the wood from this tree was preferred tor ship build- ing, not only in this area but up and down the east coast. The four bands on the shaft, consisting of gold-plated bronze, were designed to reflect the dentation in the Georgian architecture used throughout the UNCW campus. The inlay in each of the bands is made up of mother of pearl and symbolizes the university's ties with the ocean.
Contrary to popular belief, the mace dates back to ancient times. First used as a weapon, archaeological evidence indicates that it was also used ceremonially in the Chalcolithic Era, 4000-3100 B.C.E. Findings reveal that Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Mayan civilizations used the mace as a weapon and regarded it as a sign of power.
During medieval times the mace was used as a battle weapon by bishops. Usually made of iron or steel, the medieval mace was designed to pierce armor. This accommodated the canonical nile that forbade priests to shed blood by using sabres or swords. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the mace protected royal personages and later came to be identified with royalty. Today's ceremonial mace symbolizes the flame of learning, humankind's pursuit of knowledge, and quest for truth and wisdom.
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LEUTZE SPARKS UNCW COMMUNITY
Chancellor rekindles university pride and excellence
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A DAY IN THE SUN
UNCW basks in the glow or installation
EDUCATION AND NURSING SYMPOSIA
New concepts for the new age
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READING BETWEEN THE LINES
Deciphering the cost of college textbooks
CASTLES IN THE SAND
Worming the way towards natural reets
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THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL
Exploring New Frontiers in Television
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Volume 1 Number 3
UNCW Magazine is published quarterly by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Division of University Advancement.
Editor I Allison Relos Contributing Editors / Mimi Cunningham, Renee Brantley, Patsy Larrick
Editorial Advisory Board / Jane Smith Patterson, M.Tyrone Rowell, Howard Lipman, Carol King
Design / Modular Graphics Printing / Drummond Press
Cover photo by Curtis Studios, Wilmington, N.C.
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FACULTY and STAFF
University Advancement Jane Smith Patterson has been appointed by Chancellor Leutze to serve as interim vice chancellor for the Division of University Advance- ment. Patterson assumed her duties Febmary 1 1 and is expected to serve approximately six months. She is a partner in SUNAO Associates of Raleigh, a company of consultants that specialize in acquisitions, competitiveness, and quality improvements of organizations. Prior to her association with SUNAO, she was vice president of ITT Corporation's telecommunications division and served the state of N.C. as Secretary of the Department of Administration from 1979-85 under the Hunt administration. She is serving in the place of Dr. F. Dou- glas Moore, who resigned as Vice Chancellor for University Advance- ment effective February 22. Chan- cellor Leutze hopes to have Moore's successor in office by July 1 , 1 99 1 .
Nursing School Dean Dr. Marlene M. Rosenkoetter, dean of the UNCW School of Nursing, has been elected to the board of directors of the Wilmington YWCA. She has also been ap- pointed chair of the Community Relations Committee of the New Hanover County Board of Health and a member of the Health Promo- tions Committee for 1990-92.
W.C. 's First Professor The first professor at Wilming- ton College, Adrian D. Hurst, died January 22 of heart failure. Hurst began his tenure as a math professor at Wilmington College in 1947 where he taught until his retirement in 1968. In 1982, he established the Adrian D. Hurst Award to be given annually to the math major with the
highest overall grade point average. UNCW's Alumni Association recognized him posthumously as Distinguished Citizen for Service to the University 1990 at the annual awards banquet during the home- coming activities on Febmary 1. Also recognized at the banquet were John W. Baldwin, Jr. as Distin- guished Alumnus 1990 and Estell C. Lee as Distinguished Citizen for Service to the Community 1990. DEVELOPMENTS
New Trustee
Connie S. Yow of Wilmington was named to the Board of Trustees at UNCW to fill the unexpired tenn of the late Peter Fensel. Her term ends June 30, 1991. She was appointed by the UNC Board of Governors January 10, 1990, in Chapel Hill.
Scholarship Endowment
Wilmington Shipping Com- pany has established an endowed scholarship at UNCW in memory of Earnest W. Newman, a fomier vice president of the company. Annual earnings from the $10,000 endow - ment will provide tuition and fees for fall and spring semesters. It will be awarded annually to a junior or senior business student with a proven academic ability and a career interest in international business. Newman, a 1961 graduate of Wilmington College, served on the Board of Directors for Wilmington Shipping from October 1980 until his death in 1990. The scholarship, being given in Newman's memory, will be used to promote interna- tional study at UNCW because of his interest in overseas business.
STUDENT AFFAIRS
Greek Row The UNCW Greek system held a ground-breaking ceremony on January 26, 1991, for Olympus Park,
the university's Greek Row. Olym- pus Park is being built near the corner of Racine Drive and Market Place Way. The complex will include three fraternity houses, each designed for 1 7 men, and five fraternity suites and eight sorority suites, housing 24 people each. The 9.7 acre development should be completed by August 1, 1991. NEW PROGRAMS Study Abroad An academic program, 'Au- tumn Study in Paris" is being offered to full-time sophomore, junior or senior students in Fall '91. The program, sponsored by the UNCW Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, provides 1 5 credit hours including classes in art and literature at the University of Paris. The cost is $4,900 and includes everything but airfare and some meals. Students will stay with families in Paris. Dr. James McNab, chair of the Foreign Languages and Literature Department, will lead the orientation of the program. When students reach Paris, Dr. Edward Costello, director of the Paris Semester program will be the program leader.
Music Degree The Fine Arts Department at UNCW will offer a bachelor of arts in music education beginning Fall 1991. Cunently students of music earn the Bachelor of Arts Degree in music with a concentration in general music or pertonnance. Dr. Joe Hickman, associate professor of music at UNCW, said that the Bachelor of Arts in Music Education will allow students to go directly from undergraduate study into professional music teaching with an excellent chance of placement without first earning a graduate degree.
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"Fireball Leutze." That's what everyone who knows him calls him.
After his first six months in office, Chancellor James R. Leutze has made himself a welcome part of the UNCW family. As a matter of fact, you can feel the positive, upbeat mood around campus. He came to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington a deter- mined man with a vision of an outstanding university and a set of goals to achieve this.
These goals were compiled in a joint effort with the university community. Priority was given to maintaining the momentum of the university and to promoting the university as a vibrant, growing school.
Improving, reinforcing, and creating an academic atmosphere are also aims of the university. Promoting ties with the state's educational system and raising the visibility of the university are important in connecting the university with the community. Leutze is also planning for the future by setting priorities that will allow the university to raise funds to support endeavors that will establish it as a regional educational force.
The students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the community are among the many constituents with whom Leutze has already estab- lished a close, working relationship. He has spent much time touring the
Leutze Sparks the UNCW Community
campus, meeting people, listening, and getting a sense of the place.
He has now been in every building on campus, including the residence halls where he spent the night in Graham Hall after attend- ing a Seahawk basketball game. He spent an entire day with Ken Lemon, former UNCW Student Govern- ment Association president, going to classes and meetings with him.
Every Monday afternoon Leutze reserves the time between 3 and 5 p.m. to meet students. These sessions have been a tremendous success with students who line up outside of his office to take turns sharing thoughts, ideas, and suggestions with him. Students like the idea of knowing that he cares enough to take time out of his schedule to listen to them. One student said, "He's on our side."
In retrospect, everyone around UNCW agrees that Leutze has worked extremely hard to make the university more visible both nation- ally and internationally. He keeps a high profile. Since he anived at UNCW, he has strived to connect our university to the region. A major long term goal for Leutze is to make UNCW a southeastern regional facility. This facility will allow all communities in southeastern North Carolina to take advantage of UNCW's quality academic leader- ship. He is making this goal clear through numerous speaking engage- ments, radio programs, and televi-
sion appearances. He even creates, produces, and hosts his own show, Globe Watch, an international affairs series that airs on public television.
Leutze has been working to improve the status and reputation of our university. He has asked the LJNCW Advancement Committee, UNCW Faculty Senate, and UNCW Board of Tnistees to prepare a "needs list" that will include wants and needs of the university for fund-raising purposes. This list is important in improving the status of the university.
Leutze said, "Once you attend school here you have a strong vested interest in what happens to the university. Status is important to the alumni. When the university im- proves, their degree takes on greater meaning." Leutze is doing everything in his power to make UNCW a place to be proud of, not just a place from which to graduate. Leutze is every- where, spreading the word about the university, "the best kept secret in North Carolina," and laying the groundwork for the future. When asked if Leutze spreads himself too thin, senior Mike Dmmmond said, "I think for a normal person he spreads himself too thin, but Dr. Leutze is an exceptional man. He's doing a great job."
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Chancellor Leutze being sworn in by North Carolina Chief Justice James G . Exum, Jr.; UNC President CD. Spangler, Jr. looks on.
Installation: The Ceremony
James R. Leutze - military historian, host of the international affairs television program Globe Watch, and higher education administrator - was officially in- stalled as chancellor of the Univer- sity of North Carolina at Wilming- ton in ceremonies Friday, April 5.
Presiding over the academic convocation was University of North Carolina President CD. Spangler, Jr. Administering the oath of office was Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court James G. Exum, Jr.
Before an audience of approxi- mately 1 50 delegates of student organizations, universities and learned societies; some 300 UNCW faculty members; and 2,000 others, Leutze outlined five areas he plans to emphasize at UNCW during the coming decade: undergraduate teaching, marine science, interna- tional affairs, public outreach, and environmental concerns.
First among these is energetic devotion to undergraduate teaching. He stated that in terms of historic,
present and future direction, it is clear that UNCW is primarily an undergraduate teaching university. Leutze called upon all faculty to "give the undergraduate student a high priority."
"This does not mean that we don't require that our faculty remain professionally active. It means that we must honor and recognize tine teaching just as we do those who excel in other areas of professional accomplishment," he said.
Leutze cited the coastal location of UNCW as the reason for the university's "obligation to address creatively the marine sciences field . . . . water, whether the salt of the Atlantic or the fresh of the Cape Fear, is of vital importance to the people of North Carolina."
He said that marine science will be the jewel in UNCW's crown, "tor it is here that we make our most significant contribution to the state and the nation."
In a recuning theme of Leutze's, he pointed out that greater interna- tionalization of students is critical it
the university is to continue its role as a molder of citizens and leaders. In the area of public outreach, Leutze emphasized the role ot the university as a cooperative partner in solving society's problems, such as
Leutze cited the coastal
location of UNCW as the
reason for the university's
"obligation to address
creatively the marine
sciences field ."
poverty, providing inspired leader- ship tor towns and counties, and work force preparedness. He called for creative cooperation with enlightened business leaders and a partnership with industry "it our graduates are to keep American industry ahead in the competitive world that is now growing ever closer."
Noting that UNCW's campus is
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an excellent laboratory tor studying the environment, Leutze rounded out his areas of concern by pledging to "use our professional expertise to assist in addressing botanical and biological stresses brought about by rapid growth in the area." He noted that the Cameron School of Busi- ness Administration can help chart "the future of tourism and the proper mix of profit and environmental respect." He called upon UNCW to "imitate Dr. Suess's memorable character, the Lorax, that speaks not just for the trees, but for the air and the land and the sea on which our prosperity has been built."
Installation ceremonies culmi- nated a four-day series of cultural, educational, social, and ceremonial events that began April 2. Leutze, who became chancellor of the university in July, 1990, is the fifth chief administrator of UNCW and its second chancellor.
These ceremonies marked the first such activities in more than 2 1 years when Dr. William H. Wagoner was inaugurated as president of Wilmington College on May 1, 1969.
- Mimi Cunningham
Chancellor and Mrs. Leutze join students in their celebration of the installation at the residence life gazebo. This event preceded the Friends' black-tie hall at the university center.
The UNCW Gospel Choir performs at the morning tea the day of installation
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spring sun shone brightly on a campus that had been groomed to perfection. Large green and gold banners bearing a bold "UNCW" hung from street lamps. A new infonnation directory was built at the Randall Drive entrance to campus and an oak tree sapling was planted outside of the new Univer- sity Center. Classes were cancelled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. What was all of the excitement about? James R. Leutze was installed as UNCW's chancellor.
Friday, April 5, marked the official installation ceremony of Dr. Leutze. The week preceding the actual installation was filled with special events including symposia sponsored by the School of Nursing and the School of Education, a Free Expression Celebration between Kenan and King halls given by the Fine Arts and Communication Studies departments, a reception at the U.S.S. North Carolina hosted by the UNCW Board of Trustees, and a black-tie ball given by the Friends of the University in the University Center ballroom.
The day of the ceremony began
with
a morning tea under
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set up on the front lawn of campus. Students, alumni, faculty, staff, and the community were invited. Music was provided by the UNCW Gospel Choir and the UNCW Jazz En- semble. Campus tours were given by the UNCW Ambassadors.
The installation ceremony began at 10:30 a.m. in Trask Coliseum. The procession began with the UNC Board of Governors and the Leutze family who were followed by faculty, student and guest delegates. A bagpiper and the faculty marshal then led in the platform party.
A luncheon for platform members, invited guests, and the installation committee followed the ceremony.
An event like this does not happen everyday. UNCW pulled out all of the stops to see that the installation of Dr. Leutze was a memorable one. The ceremony celebrated not only Chancellor Leutze 's arrival but the arrival of the university.
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Public Education Spotlighted
During the week of installation, a symposium entitled "Public Education: America's Real National Debt" was held on the UNCW campus. It focused on the future of education and the role of the university in public education excellence. Several nationally known speakers were featured.
Dr. Barbara R. Hatton, deputy director of the Ford Foundation's Education and Culture Program in New York City, lectured on "Public Education Reform: Tine Unfinished Agenda." A tornner professor and dean of the School of Education at Tuskegee University and Atlanta University, she is also a member of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in New York City.
Dr. Marvin J. Cetron, founder and president of Forecasting International, Ltd., gave his keynote address on "Educational Renais- sance: Improving Schools for the 21st Century." As a pioneer in corporate, industry, demographic, and lifestyle forecasting, he is considered one of the foremost futurists in the nation. He was recently selected by People magazine as "one of the 25 most interesting people in America."
"Reducing the Debt: Imple- menting Creativity in Our Schools" was the lecture topic by Dr. Teresa M. Amabile, professor of psychology at Brandeis University. She special- izes in the study of social environ- ments and the effects they have on the verbal, artistic, and problem- solving creativity of children and adults
Former Mississippi Governor
William F. Winter, spoke on "Education: Where Do We Go From Here?". As governor from 1980 to 1984, Winter made im- provement of education in Missis- sippi his top priority. In 1982 as a consequence of his efforts, the state passed a nationally acclaimed Education Reform Act with emphasis given to early childhood programs, evaluation of student performance, and accreditation of schools. Winter is currently chair of the Kettering Foundation.
The education symposium was funded by a $25,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, as well as monies from the UNCW Distinguished Scholars Fund, the UNCW School of Education, and the Consortium for Advancement of Public Education.
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Symposium Features
Innovative Concept in
Nursing
"Differentiated Practice: A Model for the Future?" was the topic of a one-day symposium held Wednesday, April 3, in conjunction with activities for Chancellor Leutze's installation. It was spon- sored by the UNCW School of Nursing and the North Carolina Nurses Association in cooperation with the Wilmington Area Health Education Center.
JoEllen Koerner, vice president for patient services at Sioux Valley
Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., delivered the keynote address. She- has been active in implementing differentiated nursing in Sioux Valley Hospital and across South Dakota and is a frequent consultant of large scale organizational change. Historically, most nurses with different levels of education have been classified the same and have been used interchangeably. How- ever, the changing needs of health care demand more. Differentiated practice is a model proposed to distinguish nurses' job responsibili- ties based on education and experi- ence. Its objective is to increase job satisfaction among nurses, to deliver
higher quality patient care, and to improve the time and money management of health care organi- zations.
Marlene M. Rosenkoetter, dean of the School of Nursing, said, "This is an important, innovative concept for all levels of nurses, hospital administrators, and physi- cians. It is an opportunity to demon- strate in the work place what we have known for years, namely, that what nurses do should be based on education, experience, and compe- tence."
Amber Braswell Student Intern
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University Center Grand Opening
UNCW is pleased to announce the newest addition to campus. The grand opening of the University Center was March 13, followed by a three-day celebration. The official ribbon cutting ceremony was held at noon on the 13th. The exterior of the 42,000 square foot building was wrapped in yellow ribbon. Dark clouds moved in and a storm broke out right at noon but the bad weather did not dampen spirits. Hundreds of people turned out and scissors were distributed to help do the honors, only indoors.
The Fort Bragg Parachute Club was scheduled to parachute from helicopters onto Brooks Field but they had to cancel due to the weather. However, local radio station SURF 107 did a live broad- cast from the University Center and free pizza and prizes were given away. There was a reception for Gladys Fanis, a local watercolorist, whose work was on exhibit in the center's lobby. Indoor miniature golf was set up in the 6,000 square foot ballroom and comedian Henry Cho was featured in the Center Stage Cafe, a coffee house and snack bar.
Thursday March 14, the celebration continued with a campus-wide scavenger hunt and an outdoor recreation fair sponsored by the Discover Outdoor Leadership Center. In addition, UNCW students displayed informational posters describing their academic research projects. A College Bowl question and answer game chal- lenged other students. The band, Chairmen of the Board, entertained a packed house with beach music while later that night a traveling murder mystery troupe presented the "Mysteries on Campus" Dessert Theater.
The last day of events, Friday
March 15, was equally as action packed. There were climbing challenges on a low ropes course that elicited group trust, communi- cation, and decision-making. A pertonnance was given by the Cleff Hangers, an acapella music group, and UNCW alumni staged a talent show. The grand opening celebra- tion concluded with a dance in the ballroom. Music was provided by the band Risse.
Prizes were given away all three
days in post office boxes and vending machines. The new game room held tournaments and clinics in billiards, ping pong, foosball, and video-games were free.
There was excitement in the air, not only because of all the fun things going on, but also because of the beautiful new center that will provide our growing university with some much needed space.
Kim Brady
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Mace Makers
Mace designer Jeff Morvil with art director Allison Relos.
T
he university's ceremonial mace was unveiled at the installa- tion of Chancellor James R. Leutze April 5. Designed by Jeff Morvil and crafted by Marvin Jensen, the mace was months in the making.
Morvil, a Wilmington graphic designer and illustrator, made several different sketches of the proposed mace before coming up with the final version. "I was anxious to work with UNCW on this project because I've always had an interest in three-dimensional sculpture and woodworking," Morvil said. A winner of numerous design awards, Morvil designed the Wilmington 250th anniversary logo,
the 1989 Azalea Festival poster, and is developing a logo for the Cape Fear Museum, formerly the New- Hanover County Museum.
Jensen, a metalsmith and sculptor working in Penland, North Carolina, is studio and program coordinator for the Metals, Iron, and Sculpture departments at the Penland School of Crafts. He participates in many regional and national competitions and shows his work at numerous invitational exhibitions. He also gives lectures, demonstrations, and workshops on sculpture techniques and has been published in various art journals. Jensen's work is in the pennanent collections of The White House and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Marvin Jensen, sculptor of UNCW mace .
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That's funny. I had $250 when I walked in here. How could I have spent that much? I only bought five books - there must be a mistake. "Excuse me. I think you overcharged me. This receipt can't be right - 1 only bought five books. What? You've got to be kidding! There must be a mistake. Let me see the manager!"
There's no mistake. College textbooks cost a small fortune these days. Who's to blame? A lot of people believe the college bookstore is the culprit. But a closer look will tell you it just isn't so. Many factors beyond the bookstore's control contribute to the price of textbooks.
While retail bookstores choose the inventory they carry, the faculty determine the book inventory canied by the UNCW campus bookstore.
"Which books we stock is out of our control," said Margaret Robison, UNCW director of auxiliary services. "We buy what the profes- sors tell us to buy," said Charlie King, UNCW assistant vice chan- cellor tor business affairs. The Division of Business Affairs includes the Department of Auxiliary Services that manages the operation of the bookstore.
Prices range from $50 for a hardback book to $7.95 for a paperback book, said Arnold Siko, bookstore manager. The average cost of books per student is $230 each semester.
Used books are ordered when- ever possible. "We belong to PUBNET, an electronic ordering system that connects us with all used book wholesalers in the U.S.," said King. "We place orders first for used books and once that supply is deleted, we order new books from the publisher."
King said that the UNCW textbook inventory averages 24 to 27 percent in used books versus the average 10 to 18 percent found in most bookstores. "We're able to stock more used books because we buy back books from students," said King. However, the bookstore can only purchase students' books that professors agree to use again the following semester. If the professor requests another book, the market for the cunent book disappears.
The cost of textbooks could be reduced significantly is there was a three-year policy on using them, added King.
Book Policy
There is no university policy on reusing textbooks, according to Dave Miller, UNCW assistant vice chancellor tor academic affairs. "We do not have a policy that says a faculty member has to teach from a book for more than one semester, although academic departments may encourage it. Most faculty teach
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two semesters from the same hook," said Miller. Asked about whether there were plans for such a policy, Miller said, "No one has ever pushed for a book reuse policy."
Bob Appleton, chair of the Accountancy and Business Law Department, is a member of the
"It's hard to understand the
reason for changing books
after one semester. You
pay $40 for a new book
but can only resell it for
$10 or $15."
Kathy Riley, student
UNCW bookstore advisory commit- tee. From a faculty point of view, Appleton said, "Faculty need to select cunent books that are the best books for the course. They seldom pay attention to price."
Melton McLaurin, chair and professor in UNCW's History Department, supports the idea of a book adoption policy with certain provisions." I feel that a three-year book policy is acceptable for basic studies or survey courses. When teaching upper level courses taught every two years, faculty should be given the flexibility to experiment with new texts," he said. There may be new books in print that weren't available prior to the three-year class cycle, he added.
James Megivern, chair of the Philosophy and Religion Depart- ment, believes faculty should have the freedom to decide which book would be best to use in their course. "From my own experiences, often times after choosing a book it turns out quite differently when you begin to use it. I'd hate to be saddled with a book I didn't like for six semesters. A mandatory book-adoption policy becomes a quality issue. The book is
a principle medium between the instructor and the student. If the instructor doesn't like the book, that comes through."
Kathy Riley, a UNCW senior majoring in biology, supports a policy requiring the use of a book for two concurrent semesters. Com- menting on the cunent situation, she said, "It's hard g to understand the reason for changing books after one semester. You pay $40 for a new book but can only resell it for $10 or $15. Sometimes you don't get any money back. If there's new material coming out, professors should just add this to their lectures rather than require a new book."
"Book rental makes more sense than buying books. Most people are going to turn around and sell their books anyway," added Barry Gra- ham, senior communications major.
Several North Carolina univer- sities, including Appalachian State University, Western Carolina University, and Fayetteville State University, have adopted book rental systems. The program at ASU began in the 1 940s to accom- modate the fixed budgets of WW II soldiers who were returning home to attend school, said Roby Triplett, manager of the ASU bookstore. Today, ASU students pay $48 per semester to rent hardback books required for their course work. They obtain the books by presenting a fee card and their course schedule at the bookstore. Bookstore staff select the particular books, code the books with the last four digits of the student's social security number, and sign out the books on the student's fee card. At the end of the semester
the books are turned back in or purchased by students at a 20 percent discount. "The average student rents four books a semester," Triplett said.
The operation of a book rental system requires a policy on book use. At Appalachian, each department
"I'd hate to be saddled
with a book I didn't like for
six semesters."
James Megivern, chair, Philosophy and Religion
uses a book for three years. "This isn't unreasonable. Books usually change every three years anyhow," Triplett said. "Hardback textbooks can be supplemented with newer paperback books - our paperback textbook department does over $ 1 million in sales each year." Production Costs The College Sune Journal reports that the retail price of a typical textbook is detennined by a number of factors. Statistics compiled by the American Association of Publishers give the following price breakdown for textbooks: Royalties paid to authors account for 11.6 percent of the cost of a textbook. Another 1 1 .3 percent can be attributed to the publisher's marketing expenses which include salaries and promo-
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tional materials. The editing, design and printing production of the hook add 39.1 percent to the cost. The publisher's net income adds an additional nine percent. Part of this is used for reinvestment, expansion of service, and profit. The typical college bookstore markup adds
Textbook Cost Breakdown
are increasingly popular with instructors. However, these sophisti- cated teaching tools add to the overall cost of books.
Tear-out pages, computer diskettes, and audio cassette tapes are part of many textbook packages. These items, though convenient, make it impossible to resell a book. "Once a
Publisher's net income
Local, state
and federal
taxes
Publisher's marketing expenses
Bookstore markup
Author's royalties
Editing, design
and print
production
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another 20 percent while local, state, and federal taxes on a book come to nine percent.
Rich Mastrovich, customer service representative with John Wiley 6k Sons Publishers in New York, explains why book prices have increased. "Books have changed stylistically over the past 20 years, and these changes have contributed to their increased costs. Books have been made more visually appealing," he said. "Color photographs, better use of artwork, and larger page fomiats are being used so students can see and understand increasingly complex information. There's also a growing demand for more study guides. Students and faculty want more problems and solutions that they can apply in their learning." Mastrovich added that computerized testing materials, newsletters, overhead transparencies, and videos now accompany most textbooks and
page has been removed, the textbook is consid- ered incomplete and does not qualify for resale. As tor tapes and diskettes, it would be impossible for us to check the condition of each one of these to see if they qualify for resale," said Robison. The trend to include non-reusable elements in textbook packages contributes to a weak used book market, added King.
Late orders or overstocking of books in the book- store also contributes to their higher cost. "If we receive last minute book orders, we have no time to search wholesalers' inventories for used books," Siko said. "If we have to Federal Express them in here, that costs a lot of money too, especially since books weigh so much."
Ordering too many books often results in a surplus ot inventory. These books take up floor space that could be used to sell soft goods that absorb much of the overhead costs. "The textbooks are necessary - that's why we're here," said Siko. But the bulk of the book business is con- ducted for only six to eight weeks of the year. For the remainder of the year, the bookstore relies primarily on sales of soft goods like clothes, cards, and gifts.
When possible, new surplus books are returned to the publisher. However, the bookstore doesn't get
all of its money back. Sometimes it receives a partial refund. Often it receives a credit towards another purchase. Credit can be a problem because some publishers are so obscure that the likelihood of doing repeat business with them is remote. "We have credits going back three years that we've never been able to satisfy," said Robison. "That's money we'll never recapture."
Operating Costs
In order to cover its operating expenses, the UNCW bookstore marks up the price of books by 28.5 percent. By the time salaries, utilities, freight and an annual $75,000 loan repayment on the bookstore building are met, a seven percent profit is realized by the bookstore. "We are a self-supporting auxiliary service. We built this facility in 1985 at an original cost of $1.3 million," said Siko. The loan will be satisfied by the year 2000. According to state law, the UNCW bookstore must return any profits it makes to the inventory and expan- sion of the store and to the scholar- ships it supports. An expansion is anticipated in the next 24 months.
Cunently, forty-four $125 textbook scholarships totaling $5,500 are distributed annually to each academic department on campus. They are awarded to a student of the department's choice. In addition, the bookstore annually funds four in-state tuition and tees scholarships through the UNCW Student Government Association. The bookstore also contributes $30,000 annually to minority scholarships. Meanwhile, back at the bookstore .... "Well, it's still a lot of money to spend on books but I can see why now. I guess I just didn't realize what was involved. Now I know. See y'all later." I never really thought about it - why books cost so much. Wait 'til I tell my friends about this!
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Castles in the Sand
Worming the way towards natural reefs
Day by day, inch by inch, giant sandcastles are being built just below the ocean's surface. These submerged sanctuaries are the work of worms and serve as colonies for their larvae's meta- morphosis.
Made of sand and a secretion of proteinaceous cement, the reef settlements of adult sandcastle worms consist of interconnected tubes. The worms' larvae attach themselves to these tubes and metamorphose into adults. By identifying the cues or stimuli that determine where larvae settle, scientists may someday be able to plan and control the building of natural reefs.
Joe Pawlik, assistant professor of biology at UNCW, has studied the sandcastle worm for eight years. He was recently featured in the interna- tional research journal Science for an important discovery he and col- leagues made about the behavior of the larvae of reef-building worms. "Not only do the larvae respond to chemical cues in deciding where to settle and metamorphose, they also respond to physical cues," he said. The chemical cues consist of acids associated with the cement worms use to build the tubes. The presence of these acids induces larval settle- ment and subsequent reef building. The physical cues have to do with the rate of water flow in which the larvae move.
Understanding the worms' reef- building behavior could greatly impact coastal management and fisheries. Applying the control elements of chemical and physical cues in the building of reefs could assist in preventing coastal erosion and could provide habitats for fish
and cnistaceans.
Pawlik has studied laboratory- raised larvae in a controlled labora- tory flume, a long trough through which water flows at a constant rate. His experiments revealed that worm larvae tended to metamorphose in fast-flowing water rather than slow- flowing water. The results suggest that larvae respond first to proper flow conditions and then to chemi- cal cues that induce metamorphosis, said Pawlik. This is significant because it is the first time naturally occuning chemical compounds and water flow associated with larval settlement have been isolated and identified.
Once the larvae have settled and have undergone their rapid metamorphosis, the young adult wonns begin building their own tubular homes, adding to the colony that fonns large reefs. "The wonns build these reefs very quickly, usually in a matter of months," Pawlik said.
Pawlik began researching chemical and physical cues of
marine invertebrates while earning his doctorate in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the Univer- sity of California, San Diego. In 1983, he began to focus his research on the sandcastle worm, Phraginatopoma lapidosa calif arnica, because of its tendency to grow in groups that are close together. Pawlik joined the UNCW faculty in January 1991 . "UNCW is an up and coming university that is committed to marine science research. I came here because I felt I could contribute to the biology program," he said.
In addition to his research, Pawlik teaches invertebrate zoology to UNCW undergraduates.
joe Paivlik, assistant professor of biology at UNCW, shown here with the January 25 edition of Science. Pawlik is the first UNCW faculty member to have an article featured in the prestigioits journal.
In the future, he plans to work with graduate students as well, focusing on the study of settlement behavior of marine invertebrates. Pawlik also writes journal articles about marine organisms and the chemicals they produce to defend themselves. Allison Relos
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The Discovery Channel: Exploring New Frontiers in Television
by Allison Relos
Popcorn - check. Soft drink - check. Remote control - check. Viewing guide - check.
Dim the lights, hunker down in your favorite chair or section of the sofa, and prepare to he transported to the rain forests of the Amazon or the cockpit of a F-14 Tomcat. Hold onto your seat while you travel back in time to visit the domain of the dinosaur or zoom forward to glimpse the world of tomorrow.
Television - the transporter of cultures, the reflector of time. Its signals can jolt, dull, or jam the human circuit board. Its cathodic message can electrify or paralyze your very soul.
The Discovery Channel brings out the best in cable programming. Its documentary-driven, action packed format makes television entertaining, educational, and infonnative. "Discovery presents an open window to the world by bringing world class non-fiction programming to viewers in the United States and other countries," said Eric McLamb, vice president of communications at The Discovery Channel.
McLamb, class of '78, is respon- sible for developing and maintaining relationships with core media including TV consumer media, as well as trade and advertising media. His main interest is in the top 50 markets like New York City and Los Angeles, but he penetrates all
markets through a comprehensive public relations program. This is a big job considering Discovery is the nation's fifth largest cable network reaching over 54 million cable subscribers in the U.S. alone. "We have distribution agreements throughout Europe, Asia, Canada, and Japan," said McLamb. "We are also partners in The Discovery Channel-Europe which is based in London, and we have just made agreements to launch Discovery in Israel and Korea."
McLamb also works to reach companies whose products could be advertised to tie in with particular subjects being featured on The Discovery Channel.
Coverage
The media must also be courted by Discovery. "Our goal is to partner ourselves with all media so that they'll depend on us to give them accurate and meaningful infonnation," said McLamb.
A good relationship with the media takes time to cultivate. "It's a matter of developing a tremendous amount of mutual respect. The relationship between the public relations person and the reporter is a valuable commodity. My staff has learned that PR stands for personal relationships. We always have to remember that," McLamb said.
To get the most for the Discov- ery public relations dollar, McLamb said it's important to know when to pressure the media. "You have to
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know their deadlines and you have to be sensitive to their markets. We send press kits to help guide the reporter through the logistics of the upcoming program or publicity event. We follow this up with a phone call to ask if the press kit was received and to pitch coverage of the event."
The payoff is solid coverage that reaches the general public and Discovery's business constituents. This results in increased advertising revenues, higher ratings, and increased value for cable systems and subscribers. As a result of the network's PR initiatives, Discovery may be able to bring in higher revenues or stimulate interest with new advertisers.
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"We take Discovery articles that have run throughout the entire country and determine through a special system the physical monetary value of those placements. If we generate a story, for example, in The Detroit Free Press we tabulate and compare what it would have cost to have bought that space in the newspaper," said McLamb. That Special Touch
The promotional materials that tie in with a particular Discovery show or series go a long way in generating media and advertiser interest. "When we use premiums, we make sure that they really serve their purpose. They need to be cause-related, while directly and significantly delivering the intended message," said McLamb.
Discovery received interna- tional recognition for its "Africa" press campaign in 1989 that used elephant head mugs and stuffed toy elephants to help promote Safari Live: Africa Watch and Ivory Wars. These programs included a weekend of live programming from Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve and a one-hour original Discovery produc- tion on elephant poaching. Specialty Markets
The Discovery Channel doesn't draw the line at entertainment programming but also delves into educational programming. Assign- ment Discovery is a very significant part of Discovery's operations, according to McLamb. This daily educators hour consists of commer- cial-free segments that are classroom tools for teachers. The show can be taped and incorporated into teach- ers' cumculum plans. "For $1 25 a year, schools can receive a special kit that helps them use Assignment Discovery more effectively, including our monthly study guide called Spectrum. This includes study plans
and suggestions for all grade levels," McLamb said. "Nationally recog- nized associations that represent parents, school administrators, and teachers assist us with the program's development." In fact, the Texas State Teachers' Association uses Assignment Discovery to train teachers in new teaching methods, and the California Teachers' Association has endorsed Assignment Discovery for use in the classroom.
Interactive Library is another innovative product that will be launched by the network in May. It incorporates Discovery documentaries with background study material and will be marketed on compact disks and computer software. "It's just like a video encyclopedia designed to let people learn at their own pace. Many hour's worth of information are included in each package," said McLamb. The disks come with an instructional text and software that interface with a compact disk player, said McLamb. This product will be targeted first to schools and then to the general public.
McLamb has come a long way since his days of being the editor of the UNCW yearbook. "I knew what I wanted - 1 dreamed of being an executive in public relations who could benefit not only the U.S. but the globe," he said. "Going to UNCW gave me a solid foundation to do this. The professors I encoun- tered there taught me how to work and interact effectively with
people," McLamb said. He credits JoAnne Corbett, Elizabeth Pearsall, Sandra Harkin, B. Frank Hall, and the late Betty Jo Welch for their influence on him.
People skills are essential to McLamb's work. "Our roles are similar to those of the White House or State Department spokespeople. My relationship and my
Eric McLamb on location with The Discovery Channel in Kenya
department's relationship with the company are important to the company's image," he said. "We're on the tiring line everyday, whether it's with the media or partners of the company. They get a lasting impression of Discovery when they work with us. Our job is to make sure Discovery is properly and tnithfully represented to our con- stituents," he said.
McLamb has made some discoveries about himself since joining the network in 1988. He enjoys taking a personal interest in promoting the programming of Discovery. "I believe that what I'm doing impacts the public in a very positive way," he said. Obviously McLamb has tuned in to the right channel.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
Chair
Rebecca Blackmore (Becky) 75 762-5033
Vice Chair Jeffrey Jackson (Jeff) '83
996-4666
Secretary
John Baldwin (John) 72 675-6483
Treasurer
W.Robert Page (Bob) 73
763-1604
BOARD MEMBERS
Cape Fear Area
Frank Bua '68 799-0164
Carl Dempsey '65 799-0434
Mary Beth Hartis '8 1 270-3000
Robert Hobbs '84 256-2714
Dm Farrar 73 392-4324
Norm Melton 74 799-6105
John Pollard 70 256-3627
Marvin Robison '83 395-6151
Jim Stasios 70 392-0458
Wayne Tharp 75 371-2799
Avery Tuten '86 799-1564
Jessiebeth Geddie '63 350-0205
Patricia Corcoran 72 452-4684
Cheryl Dinwiddie '89 392-6238
Triangle Area
Glen Downs '80 859-0396
Don Evans '66 872-2338
Randy Gore 70 832-9550
Dan Lockamy '63 467-2735
Jim Spears '87 677-8000
Barry Bowling '85 846-5931
Onslow Cotmcv Area
Robert Joos '81 347-4830
Winston-Salem Area
Debbie Barnes '87 722-7889
Ric/irnond-Metro Area
John Barber '85 804-747-955 1
UNCW awarded 1 ,215 degrees at its 42nd commencement exercises held Saturday,
May 10, including some 1,140 bachelor's degrees and 75 graduate degrees.
Adm. William]. Crowe, jr. , (above) eleventh chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
under President Ronald Reagan, delivered this year's commencement address.
Commenting on the state of the world, Crowe observed, "To conclude because we have
serious problems that we are going to the dogs is nonsense . Previous ages have faced
more disease, racism, and poverty than your generation. The globe since its beginning
has faced terrifying changes, but it is still revolving on its axis. "
He quoted Art Bucnwald by saying, "I don't know if this is the best of times or the
worst of times, but it's the only time we've got," and urged the class of 1991 to "direct
your talents to improving our condition without moaning about our problems . "
He added, "One of our most urgent challenges is quality leadership. There is no dearth
of sound ideas, but there is a scarcity of leaders who can translate thought into action. "
In remarks that were liberally sprinkled with quotes from Abraham Lincoln, Paul
Harvey, George Burns, fane Bryant Qumn, and even a cab driver, Crowe urged the
graduates to keep an open mind throughout their lives, have a sense of humor, and
know the "greatest joy a human can know . . . the ecstasy of completing a job well
done."
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HAPPENINGS AND EVENTS
MBA Chapter
Attention all MBA graduates ! ! After many months of hard work and planning, dedicated graduates of the Cameron School of Business Administration MBA program have organized an MBA Chapter. This group has been very active in developing lines of communication with all UNCW MBA alumni. The chapter's first two functions, a fall dinner meeting and Homecoming Barbecue luncheon were successes with over 40 in attendance at both events! Plans are underway for the development of an MBA Alumni Directory and for establishing services and awards for prospective MBAs and new MBA graduates.
Committees for the MBA Chapter are being formed at this time. If you are a UNCW MBA graduate, we need you! Call one of the following officers for more information:
President
Matthew Hunter 919-3924803
Vice-President
Peggy Baddour 919-343-0161
Treasurer
Cheryl Dinwiddie 919-392-6238
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Eric Brandt 919-251-0090
... or call the Alumni Relations office, 919-395-3616.
UNCW Friends Black Tie Fundraiser Draws Capacity Crowd
April 4th event held in celebration of Leutze's installation
Over 273 UNCW Friends and supporters danced the night away at the Friends of UNCW Ball held in celebration of the installa- tion of James Leutze as UNCW chancellor.
The black tie event was held on April 4 in the new University Center Ballroom and was the first ball held as a fund raiser by the group. A capacity crowd enjoyed an evening of delicious food and wonderful music, but the most important aspect of the event was that proceeds of $4,500 were donated back to the university. At the annual Friends Tea on April 24 at Kenan House, Friends Treasurer Margaret Palmer presented Chan- cellor Leutze with a check for $4,432 to complete the $10,000 endow- ment established by the Friends in 1989 tor a named scholarship fund. In addition, $2,542 from The Friends annual membership drive assisted seven university depart- ments with equipment purchases that included a slide projector for the Department of Fine Arts; an overhead projector for the Depart- ment of Biological Sciences; a videoset series lor the Department of Mathematical Sciences; a letter machine for the Department of Residence Life; a computer hard disk for the Department of Philosophy and Religion; a child-size manne- quin for student CPR training in the Department oi Health, Physical
Education and Recreation. Randall Library received funds to microfilm back issues of the campus newspa- per, The Seahmuk.
The Friends of UNCW began in 1963 as the Friends of Wilming- ton College. At that time, the college's most desperate need was expanding its library. With the help of this group, Wilmington College increased its library holdings from 1 1,000 to 50,000 in a short period of time. Through the Friends' efforts, the library also received its accredi- tation. As the college expanded its educational programs to become a university, the Friends broadened their support to other educational areas. Each year the Friends solicit requests for needs from the campus community and their funds buy equipment that otherwise could not be purchased through meager state budgets.
Some of the prior gifts that have been provided by the Friends include a Stein way concert grand for Kenan Auditorium, a library for the Center for Marine Science Re- search, flags representing the homelands of our international students, and equipment for WLOZ, the student radio station.
Friends membership is open to anyone. If you would like to know more about the group, write to them at P. O. Box 3131, Wilmington, NC 28406.
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ALUMNOTES
The 60s
David R. Ansell '67 is employed with Ecobank Transnational Inc. and resides in Taipei, Taiwan.
Sam L. Garner '67 is executive director of the Thalian Association in Wilmington.
Lenwood M. King, Jr. '69 retired last June and resides in Wilmington.
The 70s
Mike Barham '74 passed the CPA exam last November and is a state cash management officer with the State Controller in Raleigh, NC. He resides in Garner.
Clement (Neal) Bell 74 is working on his master's degree at Hunter College and is an alcoholism counselor at Bayley Seton Hospital on Staten Island. He resides in New York City.
Dennis Fullerton '74 has been recognized as Eastern Region Salesman of the Year for U.S. Intec Inc., a manutacturer of single-ply commercial rooting applications. The company is based in Port Arthur, TX with manufacturing facilities/distribution throughout the U.S.
Forrest Frazier '76 is environmental manager for Amoco Oil Company in Houston, TX.
Charles Madison Young '76 is a chemist for Baxter Health Care Corporation in Marion, NC.
Cindy Efland Hale '77 is senior electronic delivery specialist for IBM. She and husband Jim reside in Roanoke, VA with 10-month-old daughter, Morgan Taylor, and 4- year-old son Hunter Travis.
Eugene Street Simmons '77 is
director of phannacy at Chatham
Hospital in Siler City, NC. Simmons, married to the fonner Catherine Chitty of New Bern, is vice president of the Lions Club of Siler City and publicity chairman of the Chatham County Democratic Party.
Terry L. Harris '79 is a chemist/ sales representative with Chemtreat, Inc. in Rockingham, NC.
Mark L. Stone '79 is a vice presi- dent and commercial loan officer at First Citizens Bank in Asheville.
The 80s
Tom Lamont '80 has been pro- moted from assignment editor to news director at WECT TV-6 in Wilmington. Lamont also teaches part-time in UNCW's Communica- tion Studies Department. He and wife Donna, administrative assistant in UNCW's Graduate School, reside in Wilmington.
Patricia Melvin '80 has been named assistant to the county manager for New Hanover County. An em- ployee of the county since 1973, she has a master's degree from Webster University in St. Louis, MO.
Wallace Ashley III '82 works for the N.C. Department of Revenue as an administrative officer in the Withholding Section of the Indi- vidual Income Tax Division in Raleigh.
Julia Pruett Dameron '82 is ac- counting manager with Power Pro Equipment in Lancaster, PA.
Amy Nan Waller Evans '82 is
medical technologist/lab supervisor for Southeastern Nephrology Associates in Wilmington.
Martha Pecora Norman '82 is a
parole officer with the Wilkes County Probation Office in Wilkesboro, NC.
T. Michael Satterfield '82 is a
resident attorney for the law firm of Kirkman, Whitford & Jenkins in the firm's Wilmington office. He will concentrate in environmental and business law.
Teresa Alward Davis '83 is em- ployed with Sears in Wilmington as a loss prevention supervisor. She is married and lives in Burgaw, NC.
Jeff Jackson '83 is branch manager with Centura Bank in Kernersville, NC.
Tim P. Jackson '83 is assistant vice president with NCNB in Swansboro, NC. He resides on Emerald Isle.
Gregory Scott Brooks '84 is director of operations for Royal Plans Inc. in Greenville, NC.
Jeffrey P. Carver '84 has been named a vice president at First Citizens Bank in Newton Grove, NC. He serves as city executive in Newton Grove where he has full management responsibilities.
James R. Grant '84 was recently promoted to research associate III working in the Immunology Depart- ment at AMGEN Center in Chan- nel Islands, CA.
Linda Grissom '84 is a registered nurse with Durham Obstetrics and Gynecology, P.A. She, husband Ken, and children Heather and Tara live in Durham, NC.
Robert T. Abbotts '85 is senior physician recruiter for the Depart-
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ment of Radiology for Kron Medical Corporation in Chapel Hill, NC.
Harry E. McClaren '85 is a Major in the United States Marine Corps. A pilot, he was recently deployed to the Persian Gulf aboard the USS Tarawa as commander of the ship's Cobra and Huey helicopters.
Rebecca (Becky) Swiggett Mitchell
'85 is a unit counselor for Charter Colonial Institute for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in New York. She and husband Craven W. Mitchell, an alumnus and nuclear power operator, live in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Martha Davis Wilkie '85 teaches special education at Bonlee Elemen- tary School in Chatham County. She and husband, Mike, live in Goldston, NC.
Meredith Casey Bourne '86 is
assistant vice president/product manager for BB&T in Wilson, NC. Bourne resides in Tarboro.
Catherine Culp '86 serves as an agent coordinator for Contel Cellular in Lexington, KY.
Angela Kiesel King '86 is head of the chemistry /physics department of Rutherfordton Senior Central High School in Rutherfordton, NC. She and husband Kim '87 live in Rutherfordton.
Chris Lane '86 is branch manager of the new Myrtle Grove Wachovia Bank in Wilmington. He and wife Cricket, '84 reside in Wilmington.
Paul McCombie '86 has been elected banking officer at Wachovia Bank and Tmst in Wilmington and serves as manager of the Market Street office.
Jennifer L. Owens '86 is a hydro- logic technician with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Wilmington. She was recently promoted to the environmental branch dealing with environmental compliance as it
relates to the archaeology and biology of government owned lands.
John D. Riddle '86 is a Coast Guard Ensign and recently reported for duty with Training Squadron-Two, Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Milton, FL.
Amy Lynn Tiller '86 works in laboratory inventory control for Applied Analytical in Wilmington. She plans to attend graduate school in theology and is a part-time radio announcer for local radio station WMNX.
Jim Wells '86 is manager of Duron, Inc., in Columbia, SC.
Jerry D. Boyette '87 has been promoted to assistant branch manager with Olde Discount Stockbrokers in Raleigh, NC. He was recognized as top sales producer for 1990 in the Raleigh office for the second consecutive year.
Mark C. Gatlin '87 is a commercial loan officer at First Citizens Bank in New Bern, NC.
Kimberly Lyons Gillikin '87 is an account manager for Applied Analytical Industries in Wilming- ton.
Deborah Elizabeth Hage 87 is a data review chemist with Triangle Laboratories Inc. in Durham, NC. She resides in Raleigh.
Kim Alan King '87 is vice president of marketing for Lakeside Mills, Inc. in Rutherfordton, NC. He and wife Angela K. '86, reside in Rutherfordton.
Robin Christine Latta-Smith '87 is
a drapery coordinator for Morcison's Ethan Allen Galleries. She and husband U.S. Marine Corps Captain Robert Craig Smith reside in Evanston, IL.
Jeffrey B. Mims '87 is owner of African Art Imports out of Raleigh, NC and has spent the last several
years traveling from London, England, to Cape Town, South Africa.
Richard K. Olsen, Jr. '87 earned his master's at Penn State and is cunently teaching at Radford University in Radford, VA. He plans to pursue his Ph.D.
Lori Ann Lane Streblow '87 is
social services director for Guardian Care of New Bern, NC.
Jonathan R. Babson '88 is serving as director of operations for Gentry House at Independence Mall in Wilmington.
Michelle Susan Daniels '88 is an
accounting specialist with the N.C. Department of Environmental, Health & Natural Resources in Raleigh.
Stella J. Dunn '88 is employed with the Pitt County Schools in Greenville, NC. She is a physical education/health teacher and girls' softball and basketball coach.
L. Markham Hibbs '88 has joined
Industrial Underwriters of Wilming- ton, an independent insurance agency specializing in commercial and industrial insurance, as assistant vice president.
Jim L. Keffer '88 is sales manager for Keffer Jeep Eagle in Matthews, NC. He and wife Sandra Morrow Keffer '88, a special projects coordi- nator for Carolinas Medical Center, reside in Matthews.
Sheri Lynn Davis Taylor '88 is a
partner in the firm of Clement Goodson 6k Company, CPAs.
Sheila Viola is sales manager with the Blockade Runner Resort Hotel at Wrightsville Beach.
Stacey D. Grabman '89 is a shelter care assistant with the Navy/Marine Corps Family Service Center in Okinawa, Japan.
Rachel Blanche Kni»ht '89 is
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production coordinator for Lewis Advertising in Rocky Mount, NC.
Randi L. Little '89 is a representa- tive with M&M/Mars Inc. in Asheville, NC where he covers the western part of the state and areas in South Carolina.
Donna Lynn Ludwig '89 is a
graduate student at East Carolina University in school psychology and works for the Wilson County schools as a graduate student school psychologist.
Robert R. Oakley '89 is a printer
with Impel Marketing in Durham, NC.
Debi Simmons '89 is management development/training coordinator for Piedmont Associated Industries in Greensboro, NC, a management development and rescue company.
Carol M. Tremblay '89 joined the Wilmington Star-Neivs recently as a photographer and graphic artist. She was formerly employed as publica- tions coordinator with St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, NC.
Joy Lynn Owens Usher '89 is a
fourth grade teacher in Penderlea, NC. She and husband Charlie reside in Watha.
The 90s
Suzette Renee Shipley Bolden '90
teaches high school mathematics at Southwest High School in Jackson- ville, NC.
Vicki Bridgers '90 has joined Habitat tor Humanity ot Greater Miami as the 1991 Jimmy Carter Work Project Administrator. She, new husband Henry, and six children reside in the Miami area.
Colleen S. Dougherty '90 is a graduate assistant at West Chester University in West Chester, PA where she is working on her master's
in counseling for higher education.
Carvie Gillikin '90 works at Shell Island Resort at Wrightsville Beach as sales manager.
David F. Kesler, Jr. '90 has been named a commercial loan officer at First Citizens Bank in Southport,
NC.
Eddena Raynette McLean '90 is a
sales associate with Best Products in Greensboro, NC.
Hans J. Miller V0 is an
antiteixorism officer in the U.S. Marine Corps in Springfield, VA.
Carolyn Stutzman '90 is employed
by Jones County as an Environmen- tal Health Coordinator. She lives in New Bern, NC.
Gary H. Wells '90 works as a sales representative with CBM, a com- puter group, in Wilmington.
Les Welter '90 is a media technician at Harvard University in Cam- bridge, MA.
Daniel Wheeler '90 is employed with Ajino Moto USA as a quality assurance lab technician in Raleigh, NC and is enrolled at Wake Tech- nical Institute in the Industrial Pharmaceuticals Program.
MARRIAGES
Teresa Anne Home '76 to William Everett Bell living at Wrightsville Beach.
Martha Davis Wilkie '85 to Mike Wilkie living in Goldston, NC.
Jim Wells '86 to Michelle Munn living in Columbia, SC.
Kimberly Lyons Gillikin '87 to Carvie Gillikin x)0 living in Wilm- ington.
Sheila Viola '88 is engaged to Jim Whitmeyer.
Rachel Blance Knight '89 will marry Vince McKnight on June 15.
Robert R. Oakley '89 to Ramona Oakley living in Durham.
Joy Lynn Owens Usher '89 to Charlie Juston User, Jr. living in Watha, NC.
Vicki Bridgers '90 to Henry Bridgers living in Homestead, FL.
Laura Lockwood Stirling '77 and
husband Roger announce the birth of their daughter, Tamsin Elyse, October 30, 1990.
Terry L. Harris '79 and wife Tammy were expecting their first child in April.
Frankie Clayton Trask '81 and husband Bill have a son, Cameron, bom June 4, 1989.
Martha Pecora Norman '82 and husband Rick announce the birth of their daughter, Olivia Rose, January 15, 1991.
Rebecca Mitchell '85 and husband Craven W. Mitchell announce the birth of their son, William Wood Mitchell III (Trey), December 28,
1990.
Meg Williamson '85 and husband George announce the birth ot their son, Justin Hunt, December 13, 1990.
Karla Lee Kepner Stith '88, resident of Pearl City, HI announces the birth of her daughter, Michaeline McTafferty, on December 6.
Les Welter '90 and wife Pamela announce the birth of their daugh- ter, Nia Annalisa, August 3, 1990.
In Memoriam
Jerry Wayne Ramsey '69 died December 30, 1990. Prior to his death, he was director of the Cape Fear Council ot Governments in Wilmington.
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Janeice (Jan) Baker Tindall 71 was
sworn in December 3 as District Court Judge for the 1 7A Judicial District of Rockingham and Caswell counties. Tindall, who ran in the Democratic Primary' in May of last year, went on to win in the Novem- ber general election. She earned her law degree from the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law in 1982 where she received law school honors for Best Overall Performance, Best Brief, and Best Oralist in Mandatory Moot Court competition. From 1982 to 1986 she served as assistant district attorney for the 17A District prosecuting cases on the District, Juvenile and Superior court levels. For the last four years she has been in private law practice in Reidsville, N.C. concentrating in criminal, domestic, personal injury cases, and estate planning and resolution. Her professional mem- berships include: 17A Judicial District Bar, Rockingham County Bar Association, N.C. State Bar, N.C. Bar Association, N.C. Acad- emy of Trial Lawyers, and the American Bar Association. Active in the Reidsville Lions Club, Reidsville Chamber of Commerce, and the Rockingham Community- College Foundation, she is a mem- ber of the Woodmont United Methodist Church of Reidsville where she serves as a trustee and former chair of the Administrative Board. Tindall is the mother of two children, Bnana, age 19 and Austin, age 16.
Daniel E. Jensen '67 obtained his Master's of Science Degree in environmental science and is director of health for 1BC, Inc. in Whittier, CA. Currently he is president of the California State University Environmental Studies Association and holds memberships on the Academic Council for Environmental Studies, the Associa- tion of Environmental Professionals, and the Planning Committee for Southern California Symposium on Environmental Ethics.
He has completed a hydrologi- cal study of the Upper Owens River located in the Eastern High Siena Nevada, Inyo County, Ca., and is working on a solid waste manage- ment program for a university of 32,000 students. In addition, he is researching the possibilities of adapting a wastewater treatment facility for wastewater reclamation to be used in landscape inigation.
W.R. (Bob) Page '73 is the recipi- ent of the prestigious National Quality Award for 1990. Page, CLU, ChFC, with Jefferson Pilot in Wilmington, was given special recognition for having qualified over the last nine years for this distinc- tion. The award is granted annually by the National Association of Life Underwriters and the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Associa- tion to qualifying representatives in recognition of the superior quality of life insurance service rendered to the public.
Laura "Lolly" Lockwood Stirling
'77 has been living in Japan for the last four years. Prior to leaving for Japan she was employed as a hospital representative for Sandoz Phanna- ceuticals in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since her stay in Japan she has been studying the Japanese language and teaches English to Japanese business- men at a local university. She has also traveled extensively in the Far
East with her husband, a manager with Hercules and Sumitomo Chemical. Their first child, daughter Tamsin Elyseand, was born October 30, 1990.
Braxton Melvin '77 was recently promoted to manager of planning and control, and serves as the assistant project general manager for Florida Power & Light's $630 million Martin Power Plant Project in Juno Beach, Fla. Melvin, who lives in Palm Beach Gardens with wife Diane and sons, Nathaniel and Joshua, is past president of the Palm Beach Gardens Athletic Association and was recently elected to the City of Palm Beach Gardens Recreation Advisory Board.
Bill Russ/Ttavel & Tourism Review
Estell Lee, class of '55, being sworn in as North Carolina's new secretary of economic and community development.
FAST FACTS
Approximately 100 parking tickets are given out each weekday at UNCW.
The average SAT score for entering UNCW freshmen in 1990 was 926.
The U.S. Postal Service on
campus handles 1,500 pieces of first-class student mail per day and 800 student packages per month.
The Student Health and Wellness Center sees an average of 70 patients a day.
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25 Wilmington Boys Choir Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
29-6/1 NCAA Track and Field Tournament, Eugene, OR
3 1 Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
(ArtsFest '91 ) Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
JUNE
2-6 UNCW Department of Psychology hosts National Convention on Animal Behavior Society, Kenan Auditorium
3-7/26 John Torres, Jr. sculpture exhibit
Kenan Hall, Mon. - Fri., 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
7 Frank Kimbrough Trio - jazz (ArtsFest '91) Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
8 Mrs. North Carolina Pageant Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
10-8/2 Weekly Summer Science by the Sea day camp, OSP
11 New World String Quartet (ArtsFest '9 1 )
Cushion Concert for children Kenan Auditorium, 2 p.m.
1 3 UNCW Student Orientation
14-15 New World String Quartet (ArtsFest '91 ) Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
16 UNCW Student Orientation
1 8 Mozart Choral Evening (ArtsFest '9 1 )
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
20 UNCW Student Orientation 20-7/2 Summer Institute for CPAs, OSP
21 N.C. Brass Quintet ( ArtsFest '9 1 ) Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
25 Second Session of Summer School begins
JULY
13 Big Band Dance ( ArtsFest '9 1 )
University Center Ballroom, 8 p.m.
25-28 "Fiddler on the Roof "
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
28-8/2 North Carolina School for Alcohol and Drug Studies, OSP
AUGUST
3 UNCW Alumni Triangle Chapter Picnic
Durham Bulls Baseball Game Durham Athletic Park, 5:30 p.m.
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ARTICLES
UNCW HAS RECORD YEAR IN FUND RAISING
Donors invest in futures
REFORM IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
Meeting the demands of the high-tech work place
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COMPUTER DISKETTES TAKE A BYTE OUT OF BOOK COSTS
A floppy alternative to hardbound copy
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COMPUTING SERVICES AT UNCW
Driven by excellence and programmed for success
BLUETHENTHAL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE
A sylvan sanctuary in our own backyard
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THERE'S A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE
UNCW's Student Health and Wellness Center
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GUARDIAN AD LITEM
Speaking out for children
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Volume 2, Number 1
UNCW Magazine is published quarterly by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Division of University Advancement
Editor / Allison Relos Rankin Contributing Editors I Mimi Cunningham, Renee Brantley, Patsy Larrick Editorial Advisors I M. Tyrone Rowell, Carol King
Cover photo - Venus flytrap, Bluethenthal Wildflower Preserve by Phillip Loughlin Printed on recycled paper.
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FACULTY and STAFF
Athletic Director Named Paul Miller has been named new athletic director for UNCW He came to UNCW from Louisiana Tech University in Rustin, LA where he served for a year as assistant to the president for athletics and for four years as athletic director. He has held positions with Missouri, West Virginia, and Salem College.
Miller replaces Bill Brooks, UNCW's athletic director for the last 33 years.
Teaching Award Recipients
Four professors have been awarded the first Chancellor's Awards For Excellence in Teaching, established this year by Chancellor Leutze. The winners from the College of Arts and Sciences are: William Overman, professor of psychology; Carole Tallant, associate professor of communication studies; and Michael Wentworth, associate professor of English.
John Garris, associate professor of management science in the Department of Production and Design Sciences, is the winner from the Cameron School of Business Administration. The School of Education winner is Bradford Walker, assistant professor of curricu- lar studies.
Each recipient was honored with a presentation in their respective area and received a $500 check.
A similar $500 award was estab- lished this year by the Student Government Association. The award is given to the faculty member receiving the most student votes. The first winner of this award is Gerald Shinn, professor of philosophy and religion.
CAMPUS DIGEST
Minority Affairs The Office of Minority Affairs has become a part of the Division of Student Affairs. This change will give the office a stronger support structure by placing it within the division charged with serving students. The office will report to Bill Bryan, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Minority Affairs will continue under the direction of Ralph Parker who has held that position since 1983.
Miller Named Enrollment Manager
David K. Miller has been named to a newly created position as UNCW's enrollment manager. He will supervise the areas of admis- sions, records and registration, finan- cial aid, general college advising, and orientation. This position brings together the key functions of student recruitment and retention.
Miller has been with UNCW since 1965. He began his career with the university as a physical education instructor, and progressed to full professor in 1978. Since then he has worked in the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs while continu- ing to teach.
FUNDING
NOAA Grant UNCW has received a grant of $2.38 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- tration (NOAA) to continue scien- tific work at the National Undersea
Research Center at UNCW The amount is an increase from 1990 funding and brings total grants from the agency to nearly $12.6 million. The grant will allow the center to continue undersea research in the Southeastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico and expand to the Flonda Keys. Funds for UNCW's research habitat, Aquarius, were also included in the grant.
NASA Renewal Grant Professors Richard Dillaman and Robert Roer of the UNCW Center for Marine Science Research have received a renewal grant of $48,500 from NASA for their research on space flight osteoporosis. This is a condition that causes loss of bone mass in astronauts who spend extended periods of time in the weightlessness of outer space. Dillaman and Roer's research centers on decreased blood flow to the extremities as the cause for space flight osteoporosis, which they have tested on rats by simulating weight- less conditions.
Z. Smith Reynolds Grant The Z. Smith Reynolds Founda- tion has given a grant of $75,000 to UNCW to formalize planning for regional service, a goal announced by Chancellor Leutze in July 1991.
The grant, in conjunction with a revamping of the Office of Special Programs, the university's external affairs ami, will allow UNCW to plan work in the areas of economic and community development, human resource development, and preservation of the region's natural resources.
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UNCW HAS RECORD YE
Other Parents 4% 4%
Corporations
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. record number of 2,243 donors contributed over $850,000 to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1991. Alumni, parents, friends, trustees, corpora- tions, and foundations were all part of this major effort to assist the campus in meeting the needs of over 7,000 students.
In addition to these private gifts, the university's Office of Research Administration received $5,477,746 in contracts and grants for activities dealing with local, state, and national concerns.
Most of the annual fund donors contributed in response to direct mail appeal or telephone calls from students who worked over 100 evenings in the advancement office as part of the campaign. There was a good response to this year's theme, "Buy UNCW a Cup of Coffee."
The importance of the annual fund drive becomes even more criti- cal as the university looks for ways to lessen the impact of mandatory tuition increases to be effective this fall semester. Scholarships play a key
Organizations 25%
Private Gifts to UNCW FY 1990-91
role. At UNCW, all merit-based scholarships depend on private gifts. Through the annual fund, new scholarships were endowed this past year while others were awarded through annual gifts. Other programs such as support for the wildflower preserve, faculty development, museum collections, books for Randall Library, and individual achievement awards were made possible with these gitts. Some donors have even established no- interest student loan funds.
Through the use of its founda- tion and endowment, UNCW can assist individual donors in determin- ing their own ways to help the uni- versity. Others are including the university in their estate plans to
create scholarships or other signifi- cant programs of interest. Some have chosen to create major gifts through the use of life insurance. Still others have chosen to set up trusts to fund programs of personal interest and of interest to the univer- sity. Often this is done in honor or memory of someone. The university advancement office is available to discuss these options and other possibilities.
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington is a major success story and much ot this can be attributed to the generous support of people who wanted to be part of the school's growth. The students, faculty, and physical facili- ties make our donors proud to be associated with UNCW.
Thanks for your part in a successful year. We look forward to the 1991-92 campaign being even more popular. 1
M Tyrone Roivell Interim Vice Qxancellor Division for University Advancement
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Reform in Science Education
MEETING THE DEMANDS OF THE
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Science - the why and how of things. Remember your grade school days when you were required to memorize plant and animal phyla or know the periodic table by heart.7 Can you hear your younger self saying, "Why are they teaching us this? I'm never going to use it!"
UNCW, in conjunction with East Carolina University, recently received a $1.47 million grant from the National Science Foundation to restructure science teaching and learning methods at the secondary school level. The goal is to bring excitement and hands-on learning to science subjects and to make science relevant to students' lives.
"This program is focused on a guided inquiry approach to learn- ing," said David Andrews, co-direc- tor of the N.C. Project for Reform in Science Education and associate professor of science in UNCW's School of Education. "This new method allows students to set up experiments and to develop hypotheses that help them under- stand how scientists investigate problems." As a result, students discover scientific concepts for themselves. They acquire problem solving and critical thinking skills that enable them to verbalize these
concepts and relate them to various events in daily living.
Why is science education reform needed.7 According to Andrews, most high school gradu- ates have a limited understanding of science and technology. Over one- half of the students in the United States don't take another science course after tenth grade. "This is hurting us in the world market place. Many of today's jobs involve computers and high-tech instrumen- tation. Without a solid understand- ing of science to draw from, our students may not be able to compete in the job market," said Andrews.
The reform project is based on the model developed by the National Science Teachers Associa- tion (NSTA). Referred to as the Project of Scope, Sequence and Coordination of Secondary School Science, the plan advocates that all students, beginning in sixth grade, study science every year until graduation. Existing science curriculums require students at all grade levels to memorize scientific terminology, symbols, and equa- tions. The new method of teaching science begins by introducing sixth grade students to basic scientific phenomena before
introducing them to abstract theo- ries and terminology. It continues to build on these concepts throughout their middle and high school careers. "These repeated experi- ences in different contexts will show them how to make connections to phenomena in the world and universe. It will increase their wonder - they'll be curious and want to seek out new information," said Carolyn Dunn, the project's director for instructional design and materials.
As opposed to the traditional "layer cake" approach in which science is taught in year-long discrete segments, the NSTA project calls for spacing out and coordinat- ing the study of several sciences. Several units covering four areas of science will be covered during the academic year. Included are biology
Mary Jessup, a lead teacher for the N.C. Scieiice Refonn Project at Noble Middle School in Wilmington, assists students in their study of fossils.
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chemistry, earth/space science, and physics. As students progess through their school careers they continue to visit these sciences at higher levels of abstraction.
classroom. "They're teaching devel opmentally. In the past we've too often tried to teach things to students before they were ready," said Dunn. This new instructional
A UNCW student teacher uses new teaching methods to demonstrate the theory of continental drift to sixth graders at Noble Middle School.
By teaching the sciences as part of an integrated whole, students gain a better understanding of how the sciences fit together as one body of knowledge. And by relating scien- tific phenomema to everyday occurences, teachers will empower students to have control over their lives.
For example, a unit on energy could apply biology to the study of ecosystems; chemistry to energy in the human body; earth and space science to the study of the universe; and physics to the study of rockets. Drawing from the world around them and from each of their experi- ences, learning becomes ingrained in the student's mind.
Another benefit of the reform project is that it gives teachers a lot of flexibility in how they present the instruction material thereby enabling them to reach different ability levels of students within the
approach lets teachers and students learn together and talk about what they've discovered. The teacher is no longer the "sage on the stage, but a guide on the side," said Dunn.
Students' learning will be eval- uated with written tests asking them to explain some activity within a unit. They will also be graded on the journals they keep and on homework assignments. Standardized tests will be administered as well to measure students' recall of information. Their scores will be adjusted to reflect the difference in teaching methods. In addition, perfomiance based tests will be given to measure students' problem-solving skills.
Only five awards for reform in science education were made nationally. These include Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Iowa, the California State Depart- ment of Education, and the Univer- sity of Puerto Rico. North Carolina's
is the only project being imple- mented statewide.
Seven school systems within the state have been selected as test sites for the program. The objective was to come up with a cross-section of students representative of different races, socio-economic, and ethnic backgrounds. These include Buncombe County schools, Char- lotte-Mecklenburg County schools, Guilford County schools, New Hanover County schools, Pitt County schools, the Winston- Salem/Forsyth County schools, and the Chapel Hill/Carrboro schools.
"Any school, rich or poor, urban or rural will be able to implement the new curriculum," said Dunn. "Initially, it won't require expensive or sophisticated materials although as we move up to higher levels of abstraction we'll need to budget to buy more expensive equipment to illustrate these concepts."
A curriculum development staff comprised of university scientists
The teacher is no longer
the "sage on the stage,
but a guide on the side."
and science educators along with lead teachers at project schools is developing activities to match the framework of the project. "We're really involving teachers and solicit- ing their input. They're helping in the creative process," said Andrews. In the past, a typical curriculum was designed without involving the teachers - they were just asked to implement it. By getting their input the committee can discern it the instructional material is really suit- able tor a particular unit and if the teachers will use it.
Family and community involve-
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Sandi Klein, science teacher at Virgo Middle School in Wilmington, teaches her students about oxidation. Klein is one of three lead teachers in the New Hanover County school system and serves as a liaison between UNCW and the teachers in her school who are implementing the new methods for teaching science.
ment are also vital to the program's success. "We're developing activities for families and other support groups that will enrich and extend the units being covered in the classroom," said Dunn.
The sixth grade science curricu- lum was the first to be developed. It was field tested this past spring in classrooms across North Carolina. Full implementation of the sixth grade pilot materials will begin in the fall, said Andrews. Meanwhile, the committee is beginning to develop the curriculum and activities for grades seven and eight which will be introduced into the classroom during the '92— '93 academic year. Funding for the refonn project will last through the development of the eighth grade curriculum. Afterwards application will be made for another grant to take the project through the high school grades.
The impact of the reform
project is great. "We predict more minorities and females will begin to study science at advanced levels as a result of this new approach to teaching. On a broader level, the refonn project will lead to a more scientifically literate society," said Andrews.
"No longer will students be restricted to looking for the 'right answer' They'll be encouraged to explore and gather evidence to sup- port their hypotheses," said Dunn. "We're not going to give them answers - we're going to teach them how to ask better questions about the world around them."
Allison Relos Rankin
For more information about the N.C Project for Refonn in Science Education call David Andrews at 919-395-3381.
REFORM PROJECT
STAFF
Dr. David Andrews,
Assoc, prof, of science education,
UNCW School of Education
Project Co-director, P.I.
Dr. Charles Coble,
Dean of the ECU School of Education, Project Co-director
Dr. Helen Weaver,
UNCW Director of Curriculum Development
Dr. Floyd Mattheis,
ECU Director of Implementation
Dr. Charles Ward,
UNCW Director of Project Networking
Dr. Carolyn Dunn,
UNCW Director of Instructional Design and Materials
Ms. Karen Hill,
UNCW Director of Project Component Coordination
Dr. Roy Forbes,
UNCG Director of SERVE (Southeastern Regional Vision for Education) Director of Project Evaluation
Bill G. Aldridge is executive director of the world's largest science education organization, the National Science Teachers Association. He spearheaded the national reform of secondary school science. Based in Wash- ington, D.C., Aldridge has worked with Congress and other government agencies in design- ing support programs for science education.
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"Unlike a printed textbook, text on disk can be customized for each specific class. And the cost is substantially less/
While textbook costs continue to spiral, one UNCW instructor has devised an innovative and inexpen- sive tool for teaching. Hal Lander, English faculty member, has replaced the traditional textbook for fresh- man composition with a "book" he devised on computer diskette.
"I couldn't find a textbook I liked to use in my freshman composi- tion course so I developed some exercises, reading passages, and tips on writing and made my own book," said Lander.
This book, which includes the course syllabus, assignments, and sample writings, is copied onto diskettes supplied by each student. Students can read these books on the computers in labs in Morton Hall or Randall Library or on their personal computers.
Homework is written and turned in on another disk, as opposed to turning in an assignment on paper. "During class, I pass one of my diskettes around and have the students save their assignments to it," said Lander. Lander grades and edits the assignments on diskette. He then recirculates this master disk in class so students can print off his comments.
Students are enthusiastic about this new teaching approach, said Lander. "If I need to know some- thing, I don't have to track down the teacher - everything I need to know is right there on the disk," said student Tracy Durham. "Working from diskettes is a lot different than working f om a book. It's exciting to work out problems on the computer," said Kevin Hayden, a student majoring in social work. "Doing school work on the computer parallels how society is
advancing technologically," said Cyndy Moore, freshman accounting major. "It gives us exposure to skills we'll need in the job market."
Collaborative learning among Lander's students has increased as a result of computer- assisted teaching. "The students interact more with each other. They become more involved with problem solving in their writing through this interac- tion. This builds confidence. Assign- ing group tasks on the computer has
fostered this envi- „^
ronment," said Lander.
Lander likes working from diskette because he no longer has to carry around stacks of papers to grade. "A master disk makes it easier to keep a permanent record of everyone's papers and to track the progress the students are making with their writing. At the end of the semester when I'm evaluating how well each student has done, I have all of their work in front of me in chronological order without the clutter of papers."
Creating and inputing the instructional material on the computer disk is no small feat. "Hundreds of hours have gone in to designing this disk - I've really got a small book here!" said Lander. Unlike a printed textbook, text on disk can be customized for each specific class. And the cost is substantially less. The 5 1/4" disks
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sell for $1 each at the UNCW book- store while the average price of a freshman composition textbook is $17.50.
In addition to teaching English, Lander is the coordinator of compuster-assisted instruction in the English Department and stays abreast of new software packages. He presents workshops to faculty who are interested in using comput- ers to support their teaching.
As students become more computer literate and have increased access to computers on campus, Lander plans to use disks in all of his courses, including literature courses.
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"I encourage colleagues in all disciplines to create their own books on disk. It saves time and money during the semester - you don't have to deal with all those handouts. And a book on diskette gives students a handy reference tool," Lander said.
Traditional learning tools are quickly becoming obsolete. Today's books and notebooks are tomorrow's diskettes and computer files. 1
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DRIVEN BY EXCELLENCE AND PROGRAMMED FOR SUCCESS
Computing
Services
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b\ Allison Relos Rankin
Computing services run the gamut at UNCW From a central computing facility referred to as the VAXcluster or mainframe to micro- computer labs found in classroom buildings, the university community has access to a wealth of computer resources.
Communications networks available to faculty, students, and staff allow users with VAXcluster accounts to send messages or log onto computer systems around the world. The university is connected to BITNET, a communications network of over 2,000 computers at more than 400 universities and research centers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Access to Internet, which connects government, industry, and education on several networks, is also provided. Messages can be sent
to colleagues around the world for a minimal cost to the university.
Massive storage space for saving and working with information is made possible through the univer- sity's VAXcluster with its 1 2 giga- bytes (1 billion characters) of mass storage space. "The VAXcluster allows us to pool our computer power to share among academic and administrative users," said George Quinn, UNCW director of comput- ing and information systems.
Videotext is one of the newest programs available on the VAXclus- ter. It serves as the information data base for university activities. Contin- ually updated, it includes, among other information, tacts about the university, current news releases, campus news, a calendar of events, and a faculty, staff and student direc- tory. Videotext can be accessed off
campus by dial-in modem. On campus it can be entered by those with access to the VAXcluster and via dedicated terminals in Randall Library, the University Center, and Wagoner Hall or any general use terminal or microcomputer in labs or offices connected to the VAXcluster.
UNCW's Videotext is inter- connected with similar systems at North Carolina State University the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Appalachian State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Plans are underway to complete connec- tions with all of the campuses in the UNC system.
Another on-campus use of the VAXcluster is the grading of student tests and faculty evaluations. The VAXcluster also provides authorized faculty and graduate students access
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to the Cray Y-MP8/432 supercom- puter, located in Research Triangle Park, N.C., one of the largest super- computers on the east coast, said Quinn.
The administrative function of the VAXcluster includes support of a total management information system: the Student Information System that deals with students' records; the Financial Records System that handles university accounting and purchasing; and the Human Resources System that records personnel information. A new Alumni Development System is in the process of coming online and will he completed in the near future.
The academic function of the VAXcluster supports course work, research, and communication by students in nearly all departments. Several microcomputer and terminal labs are available across campus for general student use. This fall semester a new general access micro- computer/terminal student lab will be available in Belk Residence Hall. The lab will provide processing on eight-station networked stand-alone microcomputers; or the microcom- puters can emulate VAX terminals and connect to the campus data network. This will provide access for the students, from their residence hall, to all computing and library resources on and off campus.
Students in the Cameron School of Business Administration have opportunities to use dedicated microcomputer hardware and soft- ware in computer laboratories in Cameron Hall. A variety of packages is used to support classroom and research activities in database management, financial and account- ing spreadsheet analysis, computer- assisted design and project management, expert systems, graph- ics, word and data processing, and statistical analysis.
Student teachers at UNCW learn the fundamentals of using computers in the classroom by train- ing in the microcomputer laboratory operated by the School of Education and the Science and Mathematics Education Center. Hands-on experi- ence in word processing, database management, and spreadsheets is offered. Teachers use the lab for workshops and courses covering topics such as programming, computer graphics, and math tool software.
Other departments and schools using computers in their course work include English, psychology, chem- istry, political science, sociology, fine arts, athletics, and biology as well as the School of Nursing and the Grad- uate School. UNCW's Center for Marine Science Research maintains links with colleagues and databases via Internet and NASA Life Sciences LIFENET a powerful fluid dynamics package used to model the flow of plasma and materials in bones.
"The university has been able to combine its resources to serve both administrative and academic needs,"
UNCW has recently provided the New Hanover
County school
system with access
to the VAXcluster.
This enables
public school
faculty to log onto
Internet, allowing
them to interact
with K-12 teachers
across the nation
and around the
world.
said Quinn. "The university's administration continues to provide the support for UNCW to stay abreast of the latest computing tech- nology available for our students, faculty, and staff."
According to Quinn, 202 courses at UNCW required work completed on the VAXcluster during the 1990-91 academic year. This amounted to 6,108 student VAX accounts. Thirty-five student workers assisted in the campus microlabs last year, logging 14,925 hours and recording 41,952 contacts with users.
Supplementing the university's central computing center is the SEQUENT computer in the Depart- ment of Mathematical Sciences. It is the primary- instructional system for course work in mathematical and computer sciences. A Silicon Graph- ics and a SUN SPARCstation 1 workstation support mathematical modeling and other research conducted by UNCW mathematics professors.
Randall Library relies heavily on its stand-alone computer system, the LS-2000. It supports an online circu- lation system and an online public access catalog (OPAC) for searching its collection of 340,000 hard bound volumes and other holdings. It is also capable of searching the holdings at all the UNC system libraries. Locally, Compact Disk- Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) databases are available for searching various subject indexes on the computer. And access to more than 9,000 libraries nationwide is provided by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) available through Randall Library. Micronet, another communications network, is accessible through the library. It provides teleconferencing capabili- ties linking universities and public schools in North Carolina.
Computing services at UNCW- the future is now. 1
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by Phillip Loiighlm
Fog writhes upward from the tranquil surface of the tiny pond . . . mist on glass. The hazy shadows of tall pines and cypresses take fonrt against the lightening sky. There is the stillness of those moments when the day and night creatures trade shifts.
The metallic blink of the camera eye disturbs the quiet. With the unnatural sound, other man-made disturbances become noticeable. The roar of the nearby highway increases with the beginning of the morning rush hour. Two joggers laugh as they pass on the dewy path.
An observer watching the sun rise over the pond in the Herbert Bluethenthal Memorial Wildilower Preserve might easily be in any forest in Southeastern North Carolina. In the solitude of dawn, it is easy to forget that the preserve is only a 10- acre plot in the middle of theUNCW campus. As the day progresses
though, the daily sounds of campus life filter through the foliage. The thump of high-powered car stereos and the calls and shouts of students remind one of the proximity of the "real" world.
Initiated with a donation from the widow of Herbert Bluethenthal, a resident of Wilmington, the preserve was set aside in 1973 by the UNCW Board of Trustees. It contains a varied sampling of local plant environments. One may choose to walk through the pine forest to view the long leaf pines. At the other end of the preserve one can observe the swampy pocosin or the gum and cypress lowland. Following the well- tended trail through
A sylvan sanctuary in our own backyard.
the thick brush of the canebrake, the sojourner will top a hill and look down onto a tiny pond. Just past the pond, there is an open meadow where, during the late spring and summer months, insectivorous plants such as the pitcher plant and venus flytrap, await their prey.
In the spring a sense of newness
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pervades the woods, emanating from the buds and new greenery of the maples and gum trees. The lush undergrowth of the canebrake can be fully appreciated in the summer, while cattails expand and burst in the marsh of the pond and the pocosin.
In the late summer and early fall, wildflower lovers may view the colorful blossoms of Autumn Gentian or Blazing Star.
Even in the starkness of winter, the preserve has a kind of majesty: the bare grey trunks of deciduous
trees stand like fumbled columns in some mad architect's dreamscape.
The preserve also offers an opportunity to bird watchers.
Native songbirds flit among the branches of the turkey and blackjack oaks. Crows caw from the tops of the pines. Herons stalk the shallow edges of the pond for minnows and frogs. Hawks cruise silently above the treetops, scanning the ground for inattentive squirrels. A careful and quiet observer might spot an owl resting from the night's hunt in the branches of a tall cypress.
The area provides a home to some wildlife, although the construction of residence halls and roads has limited the variety to smaller creatures. Squirrels play tag
around the trunks of hickory trees, chattering and screeching. Their nests dot the treetops. Lizards and blue -tailed skinks, disturbed from sunning themselves, scurry for shel- ter beneath the carpet of dead leaves at the approach of human footsteps. Turtles' heads protrude like peri- scopes from the surface of the pond. Along the muddy bank, a line of tracks like tiny human hands indi- cate that a raccoon passed by during the night, probably pausing for a drink. Tunnel-like trails, worn by the passage of rabbits through the "cat claw" briars, bring to mind images of Joel Chandler Harris' "Br'er Rabbit".
Human animals, too, find a place in the preserve, which is open to visitors seven days a week. Biology classes come on plant iden- tification field trips. A literature class may visit while studying Thoreau to get a sense of how Walden must have been. A poet may use the surround- ings to work out a troublesome line. Individuals find a quiet place to study, meditate, or just to be alone with their thoughts and nature. Couples walk the wooded paths together, sharing secrets and, perhaps, plans for the future.
The rising wind rushes through the tree tops. The whispering sigh muffles the intrusive outside sounds, blowing away the noise of civilized life. The camera eye focuses on the swoop of a sparrow hawk - the grace- ful curve of the wings, the lethal design of the raptor's beak, the translucent tips of wing feathers - all
could be captured in l/250th of a second. But the eyelid does not blink. The camera mind does not want to disturb the beauty again. The moment passes as the hawk disappears into the treetops.
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The Bluethenthal Wildflower Preserve is open seven days a week, every day of the year. Students, faculty, staff, and the general public are welcomed to visit. The preserve is located just behind the University Union. Adjacent to the parking lot that serves the preserve, a trail leads to the well-marked pathways. There, people may hike through the woods or just stop and relax on one of the benches that dot the walkways. Pamphlets that contain a map of the area and some basic information are available at the entrance. While tours of the preserve are intended to be self-guided, guided tours may be arranged by contacting the UNCW Department of Biological Sciences.
Food and beverages are permit- ted inside the preserve and the area around the pond is a great spot for picnics. Trash cans are provided and visitors are encouraged to use them. Visitors are also requested not to remove or disturb any plant or animal life.
The preserve is dedicated to the preservation of the rich and varied flora of Southeastern North Carolina and has been designed to provide a place of contentment and pleasure for those who enjoy and appreciate our native plants. New plants are added regularly and contributions are welcomed. Anyone interested in volunteering time to the main- tenance of the preserve is asked to call biological sciences professor David Sieren at 395-3197. i
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There's a
DOCTOR
in the house
UNCW Student Health & Wellness Center
Walking by the old student cafe- teria you might just hear the rumble of construction work. The building is being renovated to become the new home of UNCW's health services. Currently housed in the Burney Student Support Center near the Student Union, the Student Health and Wellness Center will move to its new location in late October.
The center provides diagnosis and treatment for students' basic health problems. They can visit the center for common ailments such as colds and flus, minor injuries, and general medical problems. A wide range of laboratory tests is also avail- able.
In addition, the wellness center handles weight control and nutrition counseling, crisis intervention and referral, and contraceptive counsel- ing. The center takes an active role in informing students about sexually transmitted diseases, a major issue facing college students in the 1990s.
The staff at the wellness center makes an effort to stress the im- portance of good health to students with every visit and to discuss the problem that brought the student to the center. The wellness center often
refers students to the LivWELL Center, its outreach program, for health education programs.
When the treatment needed by a student exceeds the capabilities of the Student Health and Wellness Center, they are referred to local specialists at New Hanover Regional Medical Center or Cape Fear Hospi- tal. Any costs incurred become the responsibility of the student.
Dr. Kathleen Jewell is the direc- tor of the wellness center. She des- cribes her job as "part-time clinical and part-time administrative." She supervises all of the workers at the wellness center and oversees its operation, in addition to seeing patients on a one-to-one basis.
The Student Health and
Wellness Center sees
between 7,000 and 8,000
patients each school
year, close to the total
number of students
enrolled at UNCW.
She is in her third of a five-year contract with the university. Jewell enjoys her work at the university, despite the long hours she puts in.
Bill Bryan, vice chancellor for student affairs, works closely with Dr. Jewell to see that students are provided with high quality health care during their years at UNCW Bryan believes that health education is equally important as health care. He wants the students to become responsible and knowledgeable about their own health.
Despite the high qualify of its sendees, the wellness center has a recurring problem with the number of students it is able to see on any given day. "We are understaffed - demand outstrips supply," Jewell explained. She also cited the limited number of examining rooms as a problem.
Despite its limitations, students coming into the office on any given day without an appointment are generally seen during that day. Students arriving late in the after- noon are seen during the next work- ing day.
The Student Health and Well- ness Center sees between 7,000 and
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8,000 patients each school year, close to the total number of students enrolled at UNCW. This is a small number compared to other universi- ties in the state. For example, East Carolina University sees 50,000 patients a year, three to four times the amount of students it enrolls, according to Jewell.
Between 1989 and 1990 the wellness center saw a 33 percent increase in the amount of students it treated. Jewell attributes this rise to the upgraded efficiency of the
Dr. Kathleen Jewel
center's operation. Instead of using examination rooms to give allergy shots, take medical histories, or handle referrals, students are seen in the center's inner hallway. This cuts down on the amount of privacy students are allowed but Jewell says most students don't mind if it means they can be seen more quickly.
The wellness center is sup- ported by a portion of student fees paid by all enrolled students ($49 per semester for students enrolled in six hours of classes or more) . This allows students to use the majority of the wellness center's services free of charge. There is a small charge, however, for allergy shots, pap smears, and contraceptive exams.
Jewell believes that minimal charges for such services as preg- nancy tests, mono and strep tests might reduce demand for services used the most by students. She esti- mates that currently 1,000 strep tests alone are administered each semester.
In a recent student survey, 7 1 percent of students surveyed said they would be willing to pay min- imal charges for services. Bryan has reservations about charging students. He is concerned that students who
has six examination rooms and one check-in room. The new center will have seven examination rooms, two check-in rooms, a treatment room, and a room for treating allergy patients.
Breathing treatments, check-ins, blood drawing, and other procedures that take up valuable exam room time at the cunent center will have space designated for them in the new center, freeing other exam rooms for more extensive patient visits.
In addition, the new center will be equipped with a pharmacy, some- thing students have been wanting for years. It will be managed by UNCW's Margaret Robison, direc- tor of auxiliary services. She expects the pharmacy to open by fall 1992. Final decisions concerning the details of its operation have not been made.
In addition, the wellness
In addition, the new center will be equipped with a pharmacy, something students have been wanting for years.
need health care might stay away if they were required to pay for health services.
This survey also indicated that 72 percent of the students rated the treatment given by the wellness center as superior or excellent, and 82 percent said UNCW's health services fulfilled their needs.
These positive feelings about the Student Health and Wellness Center can only increase when a new, reno- vated center opens this fall.
The entire second floor of the old cafeteria has been gutted to make room for offices, examining rooms, and a pharmacy. This new location will also house the LivWELL Center which handles health education, and the Student Development Center, the univer- sity's counseling service.
Currently the wellness center
center's new location will be equipped with a health reference library filled with books and video- tapes that will be available to students.
Jewell hopes to expand her staff when the new center opens. She will assess the center's operation in its new location and then decide the number and type of staff members she needs. She currently has one physician's assistant, one full-time and one part-time nurse.
They are all allowed to diagnose, treat, and prescribe medications. Dr. Jewell is required to approve their medical determinations.
The Student Health and Well- ness Center will be able to expand its services in its new location and fulfill the needs of UNCW's students with greater ease and speed. Ml
Carolyn Busse
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ALUMNI PROFILE
SPEAKING OUT FOR CHILDREN
GUARDIAN AD LITEM
Judy Page, guardian ad litem.
by Carolyn Basse
A growing number of children these days are born with crack cocaine in their systems. They begin life with two parents who are addicted to drugs, controlled by substance abuse and unable to take care of them.
These children are typical of the clients Judy Page '84 sees in her work as guardian ad litem in New Hanover County. "A guardian ad litem is a court- appointed volunteer that represents minors, children under the age of 18, who have been abused or neglected," she said. "The purpose of the guardian is to look at the situation objectively, to inter- view and meet with all the children involved and the parents and the relatives . . . Our primary role is to look at what's best for the children," she added.
Guardians work for the children, advocating for the placement that
will give the child a stable, perma- nent home. The guardian makes a recommendation to the child's lawyer before court proceedings as to what would be in the best interest of the child's future. The lawyer argues the child's case in court. That is, whether they should remain in the parents' custody or be turned over to a relative or guardian. A guardian ad litem does not take active custody of the children they work with.
The guardian ad litem program in North Carolina was created in 1983. They are the only volunteer workers in the North Carolina judi- cial system.
Last year 1 ,803 new cases of child neglect and abuse were reported in New Hanover County and 617 cases were substantiated when neglect or abuse was proven. Approximately 60 of these cases went to court and had a guardian ad litem appointed. This was in addi-
tion to the ongoing cases that hadn't been closed.
Cases go to court only after the Department of Social Sendees has exhausted all of its efforts to keep families together and to work on problems internally. Page is one of 44 guardians that handle cases in New Hanover County. The guardian ad litem office in Wilmington works with about 400 children per year, amounting to approximately 200 cases.
Page said that most of the cases she handles involve parents who are substance abusers. "When people are under the influence of drugs they become irresponsible and the chil- dren end up suffering," she said.
"They are unable to take care of their kids. They don't make sure they are fed. They don't see that they are clothed. Many times their kids go to school hungry and dirty. They're often left to fend for themselves."
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She added that in the majority of cases the families have low incomes or no incomes at all and that local communities can help break the poverty cycle by pro- viding more job training programs for parents. "Everybody tells them to get a job, but it's not that easy. They need skills," she said.
An example of a case Page deals with is children born with crack cocaine in their systems. "The early stages of a case require the biggest investment of time," she said. "This is when I get to know the children I'll be representing." Once establishing a rapport, Page begins to discuss the problems they have been having. When the case closes, Page stays in touch with families to see that every- thing is going well and to make formal reports to the court docu- menting that the judge's stipulations have been carried out.
She said the most difficult cases
the best indicators of a problem is the way children react to the person accused in an interpersonal setting.
Page is well suited for her volunteer work as a guardian ad litem. She earned her degree in special education from UNCW in 1984- Her experience with children goes back to her high school years. She volunteered as a counselor at a summer day camp for the mentally disabled. "I had a sister that I took with me. She left early because she was crying - she was scared," Page said. "I always felt comfortable with special needs kids. They are people who happened to be born in this world as they are. They didn't ask to be bom like that."
In addition to working as a guardian ad litem, Page is a teacher of behaviorally and emotionally disabled children at Mary C. Williams Elementary School in
"A guardian ad litem is a court-appointed
volunteer that represents minors, children
under the age of 18, who have been abused
or neglected/' she said. "The purpose of
the guardian is to look at the situation
objectively, to interview and meet with all the
children involved and the parents and the
relatives . . . Our primary role is to look at
what's best for the children."
are those that involve very young children. "You have to be objective about how much of what they say is reality, and how much is based on what other people say ... I keep observing and asking and listening until I feel comfortable with my recommendation." Page said one of
Wilmington. Her class consists of students who are unable to succeed in a normal classroom - they cannot sit through classes, get along with other students or the teacher.
Page's class is designed to teach behavior management. This means that the children are taught to
control their behavior in a classroom setting. Behavior management differs from behavior modification, a program that teaches behavior change in all the settings children encounter.
The highly structured class is based on earning points for complet- ing assignments and for behaving well in class. "We aren't taking away points, we encourage the students to earn them," Page said. As time goes on, more students will need pro- grams like the behavior management class she teaches, according to Page. "We have a new breed of children in the school systems now," she said. "It anyone is going to continue to teach in the school systems and be successful at it, they'll have to know not only how to teach but how to discipline." She cited the rising number of dysfunctional homes and increased drug use as major causes of problems for children in the school setting.
Prior to working with students with behavioral and emotional prob- lems, Page worked with a class of children who had various problems including the mentally handicapped, learning disabled, behaviorally and/or emotionally handicapped. She taught them in a single class because they functioned oh similar levels.
Does she make a difference in the lives of the children she teaches? Page believes she does. "I provide an opportunity for them to receive some knowledge in academic areas that would not be accessible to them in regular placement."
Page has hope for the children she works with, both in and out of the classroom. "No matter how awful it is, they can make it if they have the right motivators in their lives." Maybe that motivator is Judy Page. I
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Meet Your New Alumni Association Chair
As the 1991-92 school year begins, so too does the work of your UNCW Alumni Association. Like the university, the alumni association has made great strides hut the greatest accomplishments are yet to come. As the associa- tion's chair, it is my goal to involve more alumni in the exciting progress of our university by tapping each person's unique talents and interests. There are numerous ways for you to become involved!
Alumni association board meetings are held quarterly, with the February meeting designated as a general meeting open to all alumni. The board consists of 2 1 elected members who serve three-year terms, a representative from each of the alumni chapters, and representatives from the current student body. Members include people working in the judicial system, educa- tion, banking, civil service, and business. Graduates from the classes of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s serve and we anticipate election of one or more representa- tives from the 90s.
The association currently sponsors eight chapters in North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. Chapter events are held throughout the year. We also host several pre -game socials during the Seahawk basketball season. These get-togethers are a fun way to meet with classmates and rekindle school spirit!
Homecoming plays a major role in bringing alumni back to UNCW It presents opportunities for friends to reminisce about their college days and to become familiar with our ever-growing alma mater. As part of the homecom- ing festivities, alumni awards are presented to outstanding alumni and friends of the university. And we are considering adding class reunions to the home- coming festivities. Look for future announcements.
The alumni association is also active in supporting UNCW faculty and students through special departmental funding and scholarships. Another key program we support is the UNCW Ambassadors, students who distinguish themselves by serving at many university functions.
As you can see, your association plays an important part in the life of the university and we hope to do more. Our fund raising has more than doubled in the past three years and we hope to reach the $100,000 mark this year.
We have the opportunity to do great things in the coming years. I invite each of you to become more active in your alumni association and in chapter activities. I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible. Please teel free to write to me in care of the UNCW Advancement Office if you have comments or questions concerning the UNCW Alumni Association.
Sincerely, Don Evans
Evans, newly elected chair oj the UNCW Alumni Association. Board, lives in Raleigh and is a 1 966 graduate of Wilmington College. He was a charter member of the Triangle Chapter of the alumni association and served as its president for two years. Evans is employed uith Northern Telecom as new products program manager.
UNCW ALUMNI BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
Chair
Don A. Evans (Don) '66 872-2338
Vice Chair
John Baldwin Qohn) '72 675-6483
Secretary
Patricia Corcoran (Pat) '72 452-4684
Treasurer
W. Robert Page (Bob) '73 763-1604
BOARD MEMBERS
Cape Fear Area
799-0164 799-0434 270-3000 256-2714 799-6105 256-3627 395-6151 392-0458 371-2799 799-1564
Frank Bua '68 Carl Dempsey '65 Maty Beth Harris '81 Robert Hobbs '84 Norm Melton '74 John Pollard 70 Marvin Robison '83 Jim Stasios 70 Wayne Tharp 75 Avery Tuten '86
Triangle Area Glen Downs '80 859-0396
Randy Gore 70 832-9550
Dan Lockamy '63 467-2735
Jim Spears '87 677-8000
CHAPTER REPS
Cape Fear Chapter Jessiebeth Geddie '63 350-0205
MBA Chapter Cheryl Dinwiddie '89 392-6238
Oivsloai' County Chapter
Robert Joos '81 347-4830
Richmond-Metro Chapter
John Barber '85 804-747-955 1
Triangle Chapter Barry Bowling '85 846-5931
Winston-Salem Chapter
Debbie Barnes '87 722-7889
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Alumni Scholarship Winners
ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
Pictured below are the recipients of the 1991-92 Alumni Scholarship Awards. Each winner is entitled to one year's basic in-state tuition and fees. The scholarships are made possible through the Alumni Associ- ation Annual Fund.
Amy Hooker
Communications major. Wants to become a public relations officer for a privately - owned business.
Cyndi Moore
Accounting major. Aspires to become a Certified Public Accountant.
Mai Nguyen
Marine Biology major. Plans to pursue a teaching/research position.
Valerie Melvin, Grady Richardson, Mary Zaley, Donna Laufer, Kathleen McCann Melvin -Mathematics major. Plans to pursue master's and doctorate in mathematics and teach at the college level. Richardson -Political Science major. Aspires to become an attorney and politician. Zaley -Psychology major. Plans to pursue her Ph.D in clinical or counselling psychology. Laufer-Fihe Arts major. Plans to pursue a master's in art and teach studio classes at the college level. McCann -Psychology major. Plans to pursue graduate degrees and become a psychologist who works with adolescents.
Kathleen Schlichting
Master's of Elementary Education. Teacher at Wrightsboro Elementary School. UNCW alumna - graduated cum laude
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ALUMNOTES
The 70s
Robert McCorkle '71 has been named vice president and manager of the Plaza East Branch of First Citi- zens Bank in Wilmington.
John E. Russ, Jr. '72 is an account representative with Mann & Watters Inc., an employee benefits firm.
Robert A. Warren 74, grounds supervisor for UNCW has recently received certification as a Certified Plantsman by the N.C. Association of Nurserymen. This recognition is awarded following an intensive test- ing program on many aspects of horticulture.
Rebecca W. Blackmore '75 is asso- ciated with Boyle, Carter and Black- more in the practice of law in Wilmington.
Iris Rouse Clover '75 is a teacher for the Fort Bragg schools. She and husband, Michael W. Clover, have a seven-year-old son, Charles.
Wayne Tharp '75 is vice president for First Investors Savings Bank located in the Leland Shopping Center in Leland, NC. Tharp joined the bank in 1987 and served four years as vice president and manager of the Shallotte office prior to trans- ferring to the Leland office.
Gail S. Russ '76 is an assistant professor of management and quan- titative methods at Illinois State University. She and husband, Jerry Ferris, a professor at the University of Illinois, make their home in Champaign.
David N. Smith '76 has joined the staff of Lowrimore, Warwick & Company Certified Public Accoun- tants in its Wilmington office as manager in the audit department. A member of the National Association
of Accountants, the Construction Financial Management Association, and the N.C. Association of Certi- fied Public Accountants, Smith earned his MBA from UNC Chapel Hill.
Kevin T. Ferguson '77 is branch manager with S. A. Allen Inc. in Wilmington.
Judy R. Tharp 78 president of the Cape Fear Employees' Credit Union in Wilmington, has received the Credit Union Executive Society's 1991 Management Achievement Award. The award recognizes Tharp's abilities to successfully manage the credit union in an inno- vative fashion, showing measurable results beneficial to members and staff.
Francis G. Csulak 79 is director of the National Oceanic and Atmo- spheric Administration's New York and New Jersey (Region II) office out of Red Bank, NJ.
The 80s
Isaac Reynolds, Jr. '80 is a master scheduler with Black & Decker in Asheboro, NC.
Jim Tomosunas '80 is president of Coastal Instrument & Electronics Company in Burgaw, NC.
Glenn A. Warren '80 was promoted to field marketing manager with United States Surgical Corporation in Raleigh.
Donald Craig Swinson '81 is a
bankcard officer with First Citizens Bank in Wilmington.
Dan Kempton '82 is a software engi- neer for Data General at Research Triangle Park. He, wife Lisa, and family reside in Raleigh.
Dennis A. Clark, Jr. '83 is a senior hydrogeologist for Groundwater
Technology Inc. in Marietta, GA.
Neil Thomas Phillips '83 has joined United Carolina Bank as assistant vice president and office executive of the Shallotte South Office. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Loris, SC, the Loris Lions Club, and serves as chairman of the Loris Bog- Off Festival Parade. He and wife Fonda Fonnyduval have a son, Andrew Timothy.
Darrell L. Thacker '83 returned recently from a seven-month deploy- ment to the Mediterranean and west coast of Africa while serving with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Camp Lejeune and New River, NC.
Valvria Blanding Clark '84 is an
elementary education teacher in Nashville, TN.
Emma Catherine Brown Floyd '84
teaches for the Onslow County schools. She and husband, Vernon David Floyd, LTNCW alumnus and owner of Atlantic Marine at Wrightsville Beach, reside in Wilm- ington.
Barbara Bailey Healy '84 has been selected 1991 North Carolina Mother of Young Children. She and husband Mike Healy who attended UNCW also, live in Raleigh with
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their two sons, David Michael and Charles Timothy.
Douglas V. Nance '84 and M.S. '91 has been accepted into the Palace Knight program of the U.S. Air Force. The program is an "earn- while-you-learn" project designed to assist students pursuing doctorates in science or engineering. He will he working in the Aerodynamics Branch of Wright Laboratory's Armament Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base, FL and attending Geor- gia Institute of Technology.
Jonathan S. Guyer '85 has been promoted from senior auditor to assistant vice president for United Carolina Bank in Whiteville, NC.
R. Berry Love, Jr. '85 is assistant collection manager with United Carolina Bank in Whiteville, NC. He and his family live in Whiteville.
Major Harry McClaren '85 partic- ipated in offensive operations in Kuwait during Desert Storm/Desert Shield. Major McClaren resides in Oceanside, CA with wife Elizabeth.
Angela Benson Newman '85 is
completing her Ph.D. in produc- tion/operations management from the University of Georgia. She resides in Wilmington with husband,
Allen Keith Newman and is employed as a lecturer at UNCW
Scott Rodden '85 has been promoted to associate formulator at Applied Analytical Industries in Wilmington.
Shannon Parks Stephens '85 is an
associate formulator in the Formula- tions Development Division of Applied Analytical Industries in Wilmington.
Jimmy Dale Yarborough, Jr. '85 is
employed by USAir and lives in Elkridge, MD with wife Angela Williamson Yarborough.
Andy J. Bilodeau '86 has been named assistant vice president at First Citizens Bank in Raleigh.
Sandra Grainger '86 has been appointed branch manager of the Cape Fear Employees' Credit Union in Wilmington.
Kim Heine '86 is a paralegal for the law firm of Henry & Hatcher in Lake Kiowa, TX.
Julie Hieronymus '86 is a customer service and marketing representative with Sun International Trading Ltd. in Wilmington.
Brett Carlton Knowles '86 has been elected banking officer at Wachovia Bank of N.C. in Wilmington. Knowles joined Wachovia in 1988 as a management trainee in Laurinhurg and was promoted to dealer credit manager in Laurinburg and trans- ferred to Wilmington in 1990 as a dealer credit manager in sales finance.
Jerry Boyette '87 has been promoted to assistant branch manager with Olde Discount Stock brokers in Raleigh. He was recognized as the branch's top salesman for 1990.
Jeffrey Rogers '87 is assistant manager of operations at Big Lots in High Point, NC.
A. Denise Wicker '87 received her master's degree in social work at ECU in May 1990 and works at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro as a social worker.
Joe Benton '88 has been named relationship manager for NCNB in Wilmington. He handles commer- cial loans out of the main office in Wilmington.
James A. Jackson '88 graduated this spring from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX and resides in Tallahassee, FL.
Lee S. Johnson '88 is vice presi- dent/city executive for the State Employees' Credit Union in Laurin- burg, NC.
Daniel J. Madio II '88 is assistant branch manager of the First Union National Bank in Wilmington.
Kevin R. Neal '88 has been named a branch automation educator at First Citizens Bank's data center in Raleigh.
Beverly Raines Shelton '88 is a
marketing representative for Copy Systems Inc. in Wilmington.
Reggie Stanley '88 has been promoted to banking officer by the BB&T Board of Directors in Wilm- ington.
Anthony Young '88 is a pilot in the U.S. Air Force at K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in Michigan. He is married to Cynthia Meyers Young
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Karen Anne Zack '88 is a program- mer/analyst for Stanford University in Stanford, CA. In this position she provides technical support and consulting in various aspects of computing to the School of Educa- tion and seven independent labs on campus.
Jennifer A. Neely '89 is a sales specialist with First Union Home Equity Corporation in Greenville,
NC.
Brooks R. Pierce '89 has recently been promoted to banking officer at BB&T in Wilson, NC where he is a financial analyst in business loan administration.
Mary Beth Young '89 is a commer- cial lender with Branch Banking & Trust in Rocky Mount, NC.
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Ginger Azar '90 teaches science for the Orange County Schools in Garden Grove, CA.
Darrel Best '90 has joined Copy Systems, a Canon office products dealer in Wilmington, as a marketing representative.
Margaret Lea Eaddy '90 teaches English as a second language to Mexican students at North Duplin Elementary School in Calypso, NC.
Lewis E. (Buddy) Gambill '90 is a
teacher at Williams Elementary School in Wilmington.
Shelley Garrison '90 is an elemen- tary upper grade teacher for the Irvine School District in Irvine, CA.
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Lee Kirkland '90 has joined the real estate appraisal firm of Worlsey, Glenn & King in Wilmington.
John Schoolfield '90 MBA is
employed by the State of North Carolina, Marine Fisheries.
Suzi Sherfield '90 has recently joined Sun Brokers Inc. in Wilming- ton where she is a data entry operator.
Sherry Lynn Palmer Williams '90
MBA is liaison counselor/case manager for the S.C. School for the Deaf and the Blind in Spartanburg, SC. She and husband Roger C. Williams reside in Greenville, SC.
Bain Williams '90 is assistant manager at Sherwin-Williams in Whiteville, NC.
Kelly Northam '9 1 has been appointed by North Carolina's Secretary of State Rutus Edmisten as Education Coordinator for North Carolina notaries public.
Marriages
Roy Brinkley Turner 79 toAngela
Carol Babb living in Wilmington.
Emma Catherine Brown Floyd '84
to UNCW alumnus Vernon David
Floyd living in Wilmington.
Angela Benson Newman '85 to
Allen Keith Newman living in
Wilmington.
Jimmy Dale Yarborough, Jr. '85 to
Angela Gwyn Williamson
Stanley Crowder '87 to Sherry Lynn
Hess living in Wilmington.
Jeremy Lynn Jones '87 to Wendy
Gay Williams '90 living in Long
Beach, NC.
Jennifer A. Neely '89 to Burt
Sampson '89 this past July.
Ginger Azar '90 was married this
past summer and lives at Laguna
Beach, CA.
Shelley Garrison '90 married Capt.
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Christopher Holzworth this summer.
John Schoolfield '90 to Susan Roberts.
Births
Dan Kempton '82 and wife Lisa announce the birth of their son, Nicholas Daniel, October 31, 1990.
Valvria Blanding Clark '84 and
husband John, announce the birth of their twins, Matthew Jonathan and Jasmine Valerie, March 8.
Kim Heine '86 announces the birth of her second child, Zachary Stephen Heine, January 15.
Alison Shoulars Warren '86 and husband Glenn Warren '80 announce the birth of their son, Henry Wilson Warren, May 5.
Addendum
Charlie King, rormer assistant vice chancellor for business affairs, left UNCW in June to become vice president for business affairs at Radtord University in Radford, VA. Chosen from a pool of more than 160 individuals, King will oversee 1 1 areas including food service, physical plant, purchasing, budget and finance, and campus police at Radford.
He began work at UNCW in 1975 as assistant dean of students for residence life. Over the years he was promoted several times and held such positions as director of housing and business sendees. During his career at UNCW he assisted in the planning of more than 1,500 new housing spaces, expansion of the university union complex, and construction of several new buildings including a cafeteria facility.
King and wife Sherry, adminis- trative assistant to the UNCW vice chancellor for student affairs, have two children, Ashleigh and Garrett.
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PRELUDE
Winter Coastal
Fifty- six squadron pelicans snake toward the pinking sun and tiny eiders turn tail up to duck for tidbits. What greensilver magic this briny bowl of riplets coming home to shock my feet into December. No Christmas here. Just Spring strolling across a winter day.
The sea kale dares to creep
toward the ocean
secure in the reach of sentinel oats.
The sea kale shivers here
too young to know this
is not spring.
I came in April with friend and pocket
to pick plump leaflets
tasting of pepper-spinach.
I come alone on Christmas Day
bewildered to see the sea kale
brave before the crippling cold.
She will die before her time.
When softest lavender
sips the pink of sunset and
lies down blue silk
across the silver bed of Neptune
When duneshadow bleeds gray
like sleep across a warm sand blanket
When sand and seaspray cling
like thirst to mouth and eye
I turn my face to the Evening Star
and savor her wine.
Night drags itself across the beach on heavy slippered feet weights the restless waves into timid curtsies. The spotched seagulls one-legged hunched in dingy wintercoats sudden leap into flight windward into the dunes winging the last breath of dusk.
Dawn Evans Radford Class of '92
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ARTICLES
HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR PET TODAY?
How animals contribute to our health
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WILDLIFE IN THE CONCRETE JUNGLE
Lions and tigers and bears - oh my!
TAKING RISKS AND BREATHING EASY
Life before and after a double -lung transplant
UNCW ATHLETE KICKS AND SHOUTS
Soccer anyone?
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BIRDLAND
Photographs by Walker Colder
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DO YOU FEEL SAFE ... AT UNCW?
When bad things don't happen to good people
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SOVIET STUDENT TELLS OF HER HOMELAND
Back in the USSR
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Volume 2, Number 2
UNCW Magazine is published quarterly by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Division of University Advancement
Editor I Allison Relos Rankin Contributing Editors I Mimi Cunningham, Renee Brantley, Patsy Larrick Editorial Advisors I M. Tyrone Rovvell, Carol King
Cover photo - Tricolored Heron by Walker Colder Printed on recycled paper.
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FACULTY
Kaylor Returns to Teaching
Norman R. Kaylor, dean of the Cameron School of Business Admin- istration, has announced that he will step down as dean effective June 30, 1992. He will return to the faculty as a full-time member of the Depart- ment of Accountancy and Business Law.
Kaylor, 58, joined the UNCW faculty in 1971 in what was then the Department of Business and Economics. He was instrumental in the formation of the School of Busi- ness Administration, which was organized July 1, 1979. He became the first and only dean of the school. Today, the Cameron School of Busi- ness Administration has 1,300 declared undergraduate majors in its program and a faculty of 60.
Leiry appointed to Hazardous Waste Commission
Jack B. Levy, professor and chair of the Chemistry Department at L7NCW, has been named a member of the N.C. Hazardous Waste Management Commission. Levy was appointed to the Commission by Rep. Dan Blue, speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives. He will serve a two-year tenn expiring June 30, 1993.
A member of the UNCW faculty since 1968, Levy has served as Chemistry Department chair since 1975.
DEVELOPMENTS
Schweitzer Chair Selected
Edward M. Walsh, president of the University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, has been selected chair of the Selection Committee of the
Albert Schweitzer International Prizes. The prizes are presented at UNCW every four years to three individuals who reflect Schweitzer's philosophy of "reverence for life" and who excel in one of his areas of expertise, medicine, the humanities, and music.
This announcement comes as organizers of the prizes are making plans for the fifth Albert Schweitzer International Prizes ceremonies which will take place March 18, 1993, on the campus of UNCW
New Director of Annual Fund
Margaret Taylor Robison, an employee of UNCW since July 1982, and most recently director of auxil- iary services, has been named direc- tor of annual fund in the Division of University Advancement.
She will be responsible for managing an extensive telephone solicitation effort, making fund-rais- ing calls, and developing a donor research program. She will also be actively involved in the university's upcoming capital campaign.
ACADEMICS and ATHLETICS
Provost Approves Minors
Minors in chemistry, gerontol- ogy, and science, humanities and society were approved November 14 by Provost Charles Cahill, said Carolyn Simmons, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The three minors will appear in the 1992- 93 catalog. The earliest a student could graduate with the minors would be Fall 1992.
The latter two minors are inter- disciplinary. The gerontology minor consists of courses from the curricula of sociology, psychology, health,
physical education, recreation, philosophy, religion, and English. The science, humanities, and society minor focuses on an under- standing of why and how research is done, an appreciation of complex scientific, technological, and societal problems and achievements within a philosophical and historical context.
Sealiawk Basketball Radio Network
UNC Wilmington's 27-game men's basketball schedule will be carried live this season on Wilming- ton's WAAV Radio (980 on the AM dial) . WAAV plans to continue its broadcasts of the North Carolina State University games, but UNCW dates will pre-empt Wolfpack contests.
International Programs
The Office of International Programs is pleased to report that UNCW has approximately 70 inter- national students this academic year. This is twice as many as in the past. About one-half of these students are seeking degrees.
CORRECTION
Student Health and Welhiess Center
In the Fall issue of UNCW Magazine it was incorrectly reported that the Student Health and Well- ness Center employs one full-time and one part-time nurse. The center employs one full-time and one part- time nurse practitioner. The physi- cian assistant and the nurse practi- tioners are allowed to prescribe medication.
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Have You Hugged Your Pet Today?
?
Pharmacies aren't the only places that dispense medical prescriptions. Our four-legged friends and kindred creatures supply "medicine" that money can't buy. A wag of the tail, a contented purr, or a "peck" on die cheek go a long way in alleviating anxi- ety and despair or relieving bouts of loneliness.
Pet animals are so effective in influencing people's well-being that they're being used now in professional counseling and rehabilitation programs throughout the country. "Pet-facilitated therapy (PFT) has demonstrated I remarkable results in changing behavior pat- ^ terns of a variety of per- sons including the crim- inally insane, alcoholics, the elderly, cardiac patients, children, blind persons, and the mentally disabled," said Marlene Rosenkoetter, dean oi UNCW's School of Nursing. She has researched and written about the effects of pets on people since 1975.
Pets can be looked to as indica- tors of life patterns within the home, Rosenkoetter explained. In fact, many UNCW nursing students learn how to observe companion animals as barometers of the family system. An abused pet, or one that is dirty or underfed, for instance, may suggest more serious problems within the family unit. Animals, dogs in particu- lar, can also reflect the mood of the family, be it sadness, happiness, or fear. Dogs' behavior can tell a lot about what's going on within the family dynamics, according to Rosenkoetter.
'Animals are an important part of the lives of many people. As health care providers, if we are going
to address the health of those indi- viduals and the health of the family system, then we need to address all components," she said. Including the family pet as a part of the family health history is an important part of
Dennis Bowes and Damian visit with a friend in a nursing facility
nursing care that has been frequently overlooked. This human-animal bond can influence a nurse's assess- ment of the patient's well-being.
Dennis Bowes, a Wilmington pet therapist, and his wife, Susan, a registered nurse, train pets to be therapeutic agents. These animals are taken to nursing homes, domes- tic violence shelters, and hospitals. They visit with people and allow people tit stroke and cuddle them. This interaction between person and pet has demonstrated positive results in people's recovery time and in their emotional well-being.
Currently, the Boweses, who guest lecture at UNCW, are training their nine -month- old pet Dobennan pinscher Damian to work with abused children, children with cancer, retarded people, and residents of nursing homes. "When you bring a dog into a long-term care facility, it improves the residents' attitudes,
they reminisce," said Susan, who is the nursing director at a local facility. "Most of the residents have had pets in their lives. As a result they become more responsive — they talk more, and they use their
muscles more when they instinctively reach out to pet an animal." Animals also have a calming effect, particularly on people who are sick or have been abused, added Dennis. Children benefit a great deal from pets, said Rosenkoetter. They learn responsibility by taking care of a pet. As care providers, they learn to nurture, discipline, and begin to understand the importance of diet and exercise. Through their pets, they may also experience life stages such as birth and death. Shy people or people with speech difficulties respond wonder- fully to pets, Rosenkoetter said. Someone who is self-conscious may be able to communicate with their pet without risking humiliation. Someone who is lonely or depressed can benefit from a companion animal just by having "someone" to talk to.
"By being protective, loving, and nonjudgniental, animals listen, cuddle, and in effect say, 'You're not alone. You have me and I care,'" she said. "Pets foster positive feelings while giving the person an opportu- nity to be needed."
Our animal friends bring us love, joy, constancy, and comfort. Their companionship is good tonic for a variety of ailments. And best of all they're habit forming!
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LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS
oh my I
by Allison Reins Rankin
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ildlite in urban America? As development continues to grope and grind its way through our heart- lands and as nature sanctuaries are destroyed or altered, humans have fewer opportunities to view wildlife. However, a new discipline, urban wildlife management, is paving the way for people and animals to coexist.
Something about animals
and nature stir our very
souls.
"We're establishing urban animal sanctuaries that make cities more hospitable to wildlife and urbanites more appreciative of wildlife," said Eric Bolen, dean ot UNCW's graduate school and a professor of wildlife biology. "We're doing our part to increase the survival of species while learning about our fellow creatures. Some-
thing about animals and nature stir our very souls, Bolen observed.
Strategies for embracing wildlife in urban environments include designating places where animals can be seen passively. "Cemeteries, school campuses, parks, and rooftops of high rise buildings offer ideal spaces for urban wildlife manage- ment," said Bolen.
"Rooftops are the biggest single available unused square footage in the commercial districts of cities," Bolen said. "Most are very flat and conducive to nesting birds." Nighthawks, killdeer, and terns commonly build nests on roofs. In London, rooftop gardens with pools, trees, and lawns attract several species of wild birds including herons and mallards.
Cemeteries in Boston make up approximately 35 percent of the city's open space. Here 95 species of birds have been noted including game birds, hawks, and herons. Twenty species of mammals have also been recorded including
raccoons, striped skunks, foxes, woodchucks, muskrats, cottontail rabbits, oppossums, and gray squir- rels. Additionally, Central Park in New York City harbors, in season, about 200 species of birds.
School campuses offer optimum landscape settings for wildlife, despite heavy human traffic. The UNCW campus, for example, is noted for its large population offish crows. Normally these birds are thought to live in rural environ- ments, but the city of Wilmington and UNCW have an unusually large population of these birds, Bolen said.
Window ledges of skyscrapers provide readily accepted sites for various bird species, such as the endangered peregrine falcoln. This may be due to the availability of prey species such as pigeons.
The variety and placement of vegetation impacts the success of wildlife habitation. Stratification is key. Using different plants that grow to various heights creates a versatile habitat that attracts all kinds of animals. Take birds, for instance. "Some feed in the treetops, some feed on the ground, and you've got everything in between. Wildlife sorts itself out in terms of vegetative structure," Bolen noted. A well- designed backyard, then, can be a minature wildlife sanctuary.
An example of effective vegeta- tion stratification can be found on the White House grounds in Wash- ington, D.C. "It's very small in acreage yet because of the diversity ot plant lite, an oasis has been created in a highly urbanized area. There are many species on the White House lawn that you won't find one block away," Bolen explained.
It's important to remember that the tenn "wildlife" applies not only to birds and mammals, but also to
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It's important to
remember that the term
"wildlife" applies not only
to birds and mammals,
but also to insects,
reptiles, and amphibians.
insects, reptiles, and amphibians. "We create a hierarchy in our mind although there's no biological basis for that," said Bolen. "The migration of the monarch butterfly is, biologi- cally, every bit as wondrous as the migration of the Canada goose, but the butterfly isn't conceived of as a biological wonder. It's thought of as lovely, but nonetheless not that remarkable."
Parks and school campuses make wonderful places for instruct- ing students about the contributions of animals and the importance of wildlife. Insects, in general, make wonderful animals for close study. They can be observed easily in or outside of the classroom. "They can be put in a terrarium and studied year round. Predators, plant eaters, and scavengers can be placed in a single community and studied as a microcosm of an ecosystem, in the same way you could study an aquar- ium stocked with fish. "Insects shouldn't be sold short — they're very instructive," Bolen noted.
Universities are beginning to formalize their curriculums in urban wildlife management. Syracuse, the University of Arizona, the University of Maryland, and Colorado State University all offer coursework in this area of study, although no school offers a specialized degree. Two years ago, Bolen taught a course at UNCW on wildlife ecology and will teach it again if there's a demand for it. "One of my goals is to write a
college textbook on urban wildlife management. Of all the wildlife management textbooks, the one I helped write, the second edition of Wildlife Ecology and Management, is the only one that even has a chap- ter on urban wildlife," he said.
Bolen stays abreast of the latest research on urban wildlife manage- ment by attending symposiums featuring the work of international scientists. The concept of urban wildlife management has spread across Europe, he said. The British, for example, are building under- ground toad tunnels that are used by toads on their way to breeding grounds. These tunnels prevent them from being crushed by cars.
Urban wildlife managers not only facilitate the thriv- ing of species, but also respond to problems that arise when animals and humans share the same habitat. Birds living near airport runways, deer and coyotes inhabiting large cities, and geese that foul golf courses present potential problems to humans; while reflec- tive glass windows, industrial pollution, and genetic mixing between wild and domestic animals present hazards to wildlife.
The issues involved in balancing urban wildlife and
human interaction are challenging. But by working to nurture nature in the city, the human spirit can find refuge and our animal friends a home.
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ALUMNI PROFILE
HOWELL
Graham
Taking Risks
and
Breathing
Easy
B>' Carolyn Basse '92
"We're ready for you, Howell." The words he had been waiting for were finally coming over the line. After two long months of waiting, a matching lung donor had been found. He raced to the hospital last October 8, 1990, to undergo hours of intricate transplant surgery.
Howell Graham, class of '85, suffers from cystic fibrosis, a disease that primarily affects the lungs. It causes them to overproduce the mucous that lines them. Mucous clogs the lungs, providing an envi- ronment for inflammation and infection.
Graham was diagnosed with the disease at age two. Since then, he has performed an hour of therapy each day to keep his lungs clear. Despite therapy, during his last year
Howell Graham at the helm of his Boston whaler.
before surgery Howell found himself in the hospital four times, for two or three week intervals to clear up lung infections. His condition was taking a slow, downward decline.
Graham's doctors, members of the pulmonary staff at Memorial Hospital, UNC Chapel Hill, presented him with the option of a lung transplant. Because of the risk involved, the decision did not come easily for Graham. "They told me I had a 50/50 chance of survival" he said. "It was a very scary decision to make.
"CF isn't like other diseases," he said. "They can't predict what's going to happen at certain stages. They can't tell you how long you're going to live," he added.
After weighing all the risks,
Graham decided to go ahead with the surgery because the quality of his life was not what he wanted it to be. "It got to be such a grind," he said. "I couldn't do the things I wanted to. My back was up against the wall."
So he quit his job and left Wilm- ington for Chapel Hill to wait for a lung donor. He had made the deci- sion, and now all he could do was wait. For the next two months he spent his days in a physical fitness program to get in the best shape possible before surgery.
If everything went well, Graham's operation would be the first successful lung transplant in the Southeastern United States.
For the first few days after the transplant his condition was touch and go, while his doctors waited to
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see if the new set of lungs would he rejected by his body.
It's been over a year since his transplant, and Graham's lungs, from a 31-year-old Florida man who died in an auto accident, have given him a second chance at life. His surgery has opened the door to more trans- plants like his. Graham has found himself swamped with over 200 cards and letters. A hospital press conference led to statewide news coverage and a front page story in his hometown paper, the Wilmington Morning Star.
Publicity was hardly something Graham was used to. In fact, very few people even knew he had CF. "Most of my friends didn't know," he said. "I was afraid to tell them because I thought it would affect our relationships. I was afraid they would leave me out of things."
Graham is quick to downplay what he's gone through. "My friends still look at me as if I'm a hero," he said. "I just did what I had to do."
His health since the surgery has improved dramatically. The func- tioning of his lungs has improved, moving from 28 to 105 on a scale of
0 to 100. That means that his lungs are performing above the average 100. "When one of the doctors saw the results, he thought they were for the wrong patient," said Graham.
"My energy level is unbeliev- able," he said. "The number of things
1 can do now that I couldn't before the surgery is amazing," he added. "It's given me a new lease on life."
Four months after his surgery Graham went back to work full-time at a Wilmington real estate agency while attending classes to become a real estate appraiser.
And he's working to see that others get the same chance he had. He has become a member of a local transplant support group and makes regular media appearances to
promote organ donation. "Most people don't realize how important organ donation is," he said.
"If it wasn't for organ donation I couldn't have had this opportunity. I want other people to have that same opportunity." Since his surgery, doctors at Memorial Hospital have completed many more successful double-lung transplants.
carrier virus. Once the normal gene copy reaches the cell, the cell repro- duces itself with normal gene copies. This process reverses the damaging effects of the defective gene.
Last September two separate groups of researchers used this process to cure cystic fibrosis cells in the laboratory. They inserted nomial gene copies into cells taken from
'They told me I had a 50/50 chance of
survival. It was a very scary
decision to make."
Graham grew up, for the most part, in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of a marine lieutenant colonel. Graham came to UNCW and Wilmington in 1982. "I fell in love with Wilmington," he said. "I chose UNCW because the classes were small. If you had a question professors were willing to sit down and talk with you," he said.
There are roughly 30,000 cases of cystic fibrosis in the United States today. Among young Americans, CF is the most common fatal genetic disease. One in every 20 Caucasians carries a defective gene for the disease.
A child is born with the disease; it becomes active when a child inherits two copies of the gene, one from each parent. CF is diagnosed in one of every 2,000 births and half of CF patients die by the age of 20.
In the future, cystic fibrosis patients may not have to go the dangerous route that Graham did.
Two years ago researchers found the gene that causes cystic fibrosis. The discovery has opened the door to the possibility of a revolutionary new medical treatment, gene ther- apy. Gene therapy works by inserting a nomial copy of a defective gene into a diseased cell. The gene is carried to the cell by a harmless
cystic fibrosis patients and found that they functioned normally.
Doctors envision using gene therapy for cystic fibrosis by carrying nomial gene copies to the lungs with a nebulizer, a machine that turns liquid medicine into a mist that can be inhaled.
The latest round of research not involving gene therapy is taking place at the same hospital where Graham had his surgery. Researchers are testing existing drugs in the war against mucous.
The first, as reported by the Raleigh News and Observer, is amiloride. The drug, a diuretic, is currently used as a treatment for high blood pressure. In a pilot study the drug diluted the mucous in the lungs of CF patients when inhaled through a nebulizer. This was the first test of a drug that targets the primary defect in cystic fibrosis patients. Amiloride is now undergo- ing a broader study.
It's been over a year since Graham's transplant. He has returned to the normal life. If you happen to be out cruising the water- ways near Wrightsville Beach, you're likely to see Graham in his Boston whaler, indulging in one of his favorite hobbies, boating.
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kicks ry sh
by Angela Melcher
L'NCW Sports Information Intern
Gerard Schwenk appreciates many aspects of the game of soccer. He enjoys competing against opponents, the camaraderie of his teammates, and scoring game-winning goals. But he also likes perfonning in front of a crowd, competing with a female, and throwing his partner in the air.
That's why Schwenk has combined all of these favorite tasks into a dual role this year at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. When he isn't playing forward on the soccer team, Schwenk works out daily with the
varsity cheerleading squad, becom- ing one of the few student-athletes in the country to participate in the two activities.
The senior communications major from Alexandria, Va. began playing soccer at age five. He went on to star at Mount Vernon High School in Northern Virginia and was recruited by UNCW head coach Jackie Blackmore, 74.
For 16 years Schwenk has been kicking soccer balls and scoring goals. He still finds the game enjoy- able, but is happy to have found the new pasttime of cheering. "Playing soccer as long as I have, it's become
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second nature to me. I look at soccer as a job, but cheerleading is so new and fresh," he said.
Schwenk never thought about joining the cheerleading squad, much less actively pursuing a spot on it. He simply became involved last year after watching some acquain- tances during a practice session.
"Two friends, Mark Lyczkowski and Jim Padison, cheered their fresh- man year," Schwenk said. "I went with them to practice one day and became interested. I've never been in a situation before where I could compete with a girl. It intrigued me and made me want to get involved." Schwenk, however, was uneasy about explaining the new-found interest to his teammates. "I wasn't shy about my ability to cheer," he explains. "I was more nervous because of my friends on the soccer team. They didn't really understand what it was about, but as soon as they did, they were real supportive."
Blackmore knew nothing about Schwenk's decision to cheer until after the athlete made junior varsity squad last season. "I didn't know about it, but I talk about things like that with the team," Blackmore said. "They know- that if they take care of their school work first and soccer second that they can do anything else."
There was a period when Schwenk had to adjust to the many differences between the two sports. "The hardest thing to get used to in cheering was the attitude," Schwenk said. "In other sports, it's accepted when something bad happens it's
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okay to get back and take out your frustrations on the field. In cheering, you can't do that. You have to keep your temper calm and collected and always have a smile on your face."
Despite the differences, there are many similarities between playing soccer and cheerleading. Schwenk thinks they complement each other. "In each activity, you have to be able to control your body in space with others around you and you have to be able to distribute your weight prop- erly," he said. "The endurance is the same, not necessarily required by the sport but by the coach."
Schwenk has cheered for only a short time, but he has shown rapid improvement. After cheering last year with the junior varsity team, he made the varsity and is one of five newcomers on the squad in 1991-92. To polish his cheerleading skills, Schwenk traveled with his team- mates in late April to the Universal Cheerleading Association (UCA) national competition in San Antonio, Texas. "The fact that he is on the varsity team and went to nationals after only cheering a year lends to the caliber of athlete he is," said cheer- leading director Michael Lee. "He can just pick things up and excel."
During the UCA summer camp at East Tennessee State University in August, Schwenk and the rest of the Seahawk squad were invited to work next summer at the different camps across the country. It was during this camp that Schwenk experienced one of the difficult sides of cheering.
On the second day of camp, Schwenk and his first varsity partner, senior Crissy Shue, were performing a stunt. When Shue jumped up, Schwenk failed to catch the soles of her feet with his hands. Shue then fell backward and Schwenk couldn't catch her before she hit the floor. "I didn't feel well and it was hot when we were doing the stunt," Schwenk said. "Crissy landed on her shoulder
Gerard Schwenk and cheerleading partner Crissy Shue.
and bruised her collar bone. It was the lowest feeling because she trusted me and I violated that trust."
Shue, a senior from Lexington, N.C., was reluctant to place the blame on her partner. "It was our fault because we didn't have a spot- ter," she said. "I just went off the back. A lot of the mistakes have to do with not communicating. You have to trust the guys underneath."
Soccer is Schwenk's first love, but cheering has opened several doors for him. "I get to see the games up close and I got a contract to work all summer just teaching kids how to cheer," he said.
Both on the field and on the court, Schwenk is respected by coaches and teammates alike. "He's a very hard working individual and a very coachable athlete because he tends to place the pressure on himself instead of me," said Lee. "I have a great deal of respect for him because he's such a good athlete and he does well in the classroom too." Blackmore echoes Lee's sentiments, noting Schwenk's penchant for hard work and perseverance. "Qualities that stand out the most are his deter- mination, enthusiasm and work
ethic," Blackmore said. "He goes 100 percent after things that interest him. He's willing to work hard at it." After attending soccer practice, Schwenk changes clothes, takes a
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short rest and then it's off to prepare for cheerleading. "I don't know how he does it," says Shue. "I know he's tired when he comes in from soccer practice, but he doesn't show it. He never lets the fact that he's practic- ing all day ruin the workout — he just gives it his all."
Being busy often means having difficulty finding time to study. But Schwenk uses effective time management skills to stay involved. "When I was in high school I played football, soccer, and baseball," Schwenk said. "If I didn't have some- thing that would force me to study all the time, I would just sit on the couch and do nothing."
This season, Schwenk gained a part-time starting position as forward. He got his first collegiate start in UNCW's 2-2 tie with Methodist College on Sept. 12. "I wanted to improve myself to the level that Coach Blackmore wanted me to play," Schwenk said. "Since it was my last season, I looked forward to giving 150 percent for every game. It was easy to stay motivated for soccer because practice was so intense and there was always compe- tition on the team."
Competing is one thing Schwenk does well. He will remem- ber his playing years at UNCW with fondness and hopes others follow his unique lead. "People shouldn't be afraid of what they don't know," he says. "When you don't worry about what people will think, it usually turns out for the best." I
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Walker Golder,
undergraduate class of '85 and graduate class of '90, is a biologist and manager of 1 0 North Carolina wildlife sanctuaries for the National Audubon Society. He is responsible for maintaining stable and diverse populations of colonial vvaterbirds from Ocracoke to the Cape Fear area. Nesting in colonies, these birds include pelicans, herons, egrets, ibises, gulls, terns, and skimmers. Golder's work involves conducting habitiat research and management projects, fund raising, land negotiation, and accounting. He also observes and monitors birds and their habi- tats, particularly during the spring nesting season. He uses photography to document his observations. Golder's color photographs, as well as those taken by UNCW biology professor James Parnell and UNC Chapel Hill visual communications professor Rich Beckman, were featured in a 1991 calendar published and designed by Beckman.
The 1992 calendar is now available and can be obtained by writing to: North Carolina Coastal Islands, P.O. Box 5223, Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480.
For further information about this or regional activities of the National Audubon Society, call 919-256-3779.
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Do you feel safe .... at UNCW?
by Allison Relos Rankin
People traipse about the UNCW campus all hours of the day and night without thinking twice about their personal well-being. After numerous conversations with the staff in the Division of Student Affairs and the officers in the
A UNCW police officer on his nightly rounds with students.
Campus Police Department, I can assure you that this safe environ- ment is no accident - much effort is put into making UNCW one of the safest campuses in North Carolina.
Over 8,000 students attend UNCW; we have a faculty of 41 1 and a staff of 563. Hundreds of visi- tors come to our campus each year. That's a lot of people to be concerned about.
Chief Billy Dawson of the UNCW Campus Police and his staff of 16 sworn police officers and 17 security officers have the primary responsibility for campus safety. They coordinate their efforts with the UNCW Dean of Students Office, Division of Student Affairs, and with the UNCW Safety Depart- ment. Together they address such issues as safety in the residence halls and sexual assault prevention, as well as outdoor, traffic, fire, labora- tory, and office safety.
"We encourage everyone, espe- cially students, to be conscious of what they're doing," said Dawson. "A lot of problems arise from complacency." Students propping open normally-locked exterior doors to residence halls or giving out door lock combinations are prime exam- ples of carelessness.
"Students often have a false sense of security on a college campus and let down their guard," explained Dean of Students Pat Leonard. "They need to be aware of the consequences."
"Thefts could be decreased by 85- 90 percent if we stops to talk couy get tne
students to lock their doors," said Dawson. "In the last 1 3 years, there have been no forcible entry crimes in the residence halls — they've all been crimes of convenience."
"We have a lot of students who leave their room doors unlocked while they're in class or just down the hall," said John Johnson, UNCW associate dean of students and director of residence life. "This results in theft, usually committed by other students and not by people outside of the university."
Sexual assault prevention is the number one safety priority on campus. "It's one of our biggest programmatic efforts and always will be," said Leonard. However, this is not the case on some campuses. Articles in the latest issues of Ms. magazine or The Chronicle of Higher Education tell that college students are retaliating against rapists by writ- ing the rapists' names on bathroom
stalls. They're writing descriptions and other messages to warn other females because these victims feel that the university does not respond. "I think if you look at the way we handle sexual assault, we take the opposite approach — we're very pro- active," said Leonard.
Leonard and her staff work very closely with campus police in educating students about sexual assault, particularly acquaintance rape. Crime Prevention Officer Hunter Davis and Jacqueline Skin- ner, assistant dean of students, meet every semester with students in resi- dence halls and present programs on prevention. They also take programs off campus to share with commuter students. "Communicating with them and being pro-active is so important," said Davis.
Information about sexual assault and phone numbers to call for help are posted in restrooms on campus, including residence halls and academic buildings. And a peer education group, STAR, Student Team Against Rape, makes presenta- tions to students about sexual assault prevention. "Students talking to students are much more effective than you or I out there telling them about rape," said Leonard.
Added security measures include door peepholes in UNCW
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apartments, lighted entryways to all residence halls, and night reception- ists in the residence halls. These persons work from 8 p.m. until 4 a.m. checking IDs to make sure students belong there. In addition, all visitors to the residence halls are required to have escorts. Also, for the first time this year, door access control devices have been installed on the side doors of the all-female residence hall on campus. If a door is propped open for more than 30 seconds it sounds an alarm, alerting someone that the door is open.
Alcohol abuse is the underlying factor in approximately 90 percent of the crimes committed at UNCW Most of these involve vandalism, theft, and fighting. "Underaged drinking provides a whole backdrop of alcohol-related problems," said Leonard. Alternatives!, UNCW's substance abuse program, works to educate students about prevention in this area.
As far as outdoor safety is concerned at the university, landscaping and lighting play important roles. Sidewalks on campus have good clearance and are not bordered by any tall or dense vegetation. In regard to lighting, "I believe we have the best lit campus in the UNC system," said Dawson. "As a campus we've done everything from a physical standpoint to make people feel safe."
Other safety services include the Seahawk Shuttle, a van that trans- ports students to different parts of campus. It operates Sunday- Thursday from 6 p.m. until midnight and 6 - 9 p.m. on Fridays. Campus police also provide an escort service to walk people to their cars or build-
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ings. The service is available daily from 8 a.m. until 2 a.m.; afterwards it's contingent on police officer avail- ability.
According to Leonard, one thing parents can do to help protect their students is to remind them about simple safety points — lock the doors, close the window blinds,
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lock up bicycles.
Traffic safety is another concern on campus. This includes coordinat- ing the flow of pedestrian traffic, automobiles, bicycles and motorcy- cles. "We post officers during every class change at the intersections of Randall and Crewes drives and at Riegel Road and Hamilton Drive to facilitate the movement of traffic," said Dawson. His staff also directs traffic for all campus events like basketball games, commencement, and symphony performances and provides security for all these and other functions.
"We logged 4,000 hours of over- time last year among 14 officers," Dawson said, "and responded to
30,000 service calls." This included jumping cars, unlocking car doors, bringing people gasoline, and trans- porting and escorting people.
Fire, laboratory, and office safety come under the direction of John Geddie, director of campus safety. Accident prevention is his depart- ment's responsibility. "UNCW won the Governor's Award of Merit of Safety and Health in 1990, the third year in a row," Geddie said. The award is given to those institutions and governmental departments that achieve 80-90 percent compliance with the state's Safety and Health Program.
In order to review and evaluate campus safety programs and campus facilities, the Chancellor's Safety and Advisory Committee was formed in 1986. It conducts yearly walk- throughs of campus to size up safety features, particularly lighting. Made up of people from various university departments, the committee meets several times a year to review safety proposals.
Safety at UNCW has many dimensions. Its applications are broad. So when you visit campus, walk across a parking lot at night, sit in traffic after a basketball game, or visit with your son or daughter, remember what goes into your sense of security. Somebody's watching (out for) you.
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lasnost is alive and well. Dasha Krotova, a junior majoring in psychology, is here to prove it. A citi- zen of the Soviet Union, Dasha enrolled at UNCW after completing two years at Moscow State Univer- sity. She came to Wilmington to experience what it would be like to attend an American university. She left her homeland four days before the attempted overthrow of Gorbachev.
"Being open to information changed the people's consciouness and led to the fall of Communism," Dasha explained. This transition to a new form of government will be tough, she added, but the people who live with this do not consider it terri- ble — it's part of life. "Morale was getting very low. I was glad to see the people resisting," she commented.
"One of the goals of my country is to increase business activities. The Russian people are ready to move to a market economy. I am afraid that this will turn our quality of life into a superficial existence of making money, we'll become too materialistic, too Western," she said.
Asked how she would compare the United States to the USSR, she said, "I wouldn't make that comparison." She explained that despite the mate- rial shortages, the cultural heritage of the Soviet Union is much richer than that of America. "Just listen to our operas and classical music or watch a ballet," said Krotova.
Even the forms of casual enter- tainment seem to differ between the two countries. When young people get together in the Soviet Union, it's not at a restaurant or a night club. "We perform home theater, read poems, play musical instruments — there's more interaction there than there is here," she said.
The old architecture, especially churches, winter sports like cross- country skiing and ice skating, and the colors and lines of the Soviet landscape make Dasha homesick for her country. Eating differently has been an adjustment too. "I need fresh vegetables, seafood, and fruits — I feel like I am disintegrat- ing!" she said.
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want to get to college. It's less a question of being fancy — it's more a question of being educated," said Dasha. Most people study to be economists or to work in foreign affairs, she said. There's not a lot of private business. However, many people strive to work in coopera- tives, businesses made up of small groups of people who depend on one another for their resources and skills.
Dasha learned of UNCW through her father. He is a physics professor at Moscow State Univer- sity. He had heard of UNCW through colleages of his at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC. Dasha's mother is an English professor.
The future is bright for Dasha. Her immediate goal is to get her driver's license while her long-tenn goal is to do some more traveling and perhaps one day settle in Leningrad to begin a psychologist's practice. But wherever she goes, she'll take with her the experiences and friendships she's made at UNCW
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UNCW ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1991-
1992 OFFICERS PROFILE
CHAIR Don A. Evans is a 1966 graduate of Wilmington College with a B.A. in business. He received his M.B.A. degree from Campbell University in 1984. Evans is employed with Northern Telecom, Research Trian- gle Park, as new products program manager. His son, Alan D. Evans, is a senior at UNCW
VICE CHAIR John Baldwin, Jr. is a 1972 graduate of UNCW with a B.A. in history and political science. He is employed with General Electric, Castle Hayne as a schedule analyst and is married to the former Jane Allen, a 1974 graduate. Baldwin was the recipient of the 1991 Alumnus of the Year Award.
SECRETARY Patricia Corcoran is a 1972 gradu- ate of UNCW with a B.A. in health and physical education. She received her M.Ed, in health curriculum and instruction from UNC Charlotte in 1990. Corcoran was the Elementary Teacher of the Year in 1986 for New Hanover County. She also received the Governor's Excellence in Education Award that same year.
TREASURER
W. Robert Page (Bob) (CLU) is a 1973 graduate of UNCW with a B.A. in history and political science. Page is associated with Jefferson- Pilot Life Insurance Company in Wilmington and is married to the former Betty Thompson, a 1978 UNCW graduate. Page is a char- tered life underwriter and a char- tered financial consultant. He is currently serving his second term as treasurer for the N.C Association of Life Underwriters.
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Family Weekend was a tremendous success with over 600 parents, grandparents, and students in attendance. The weekend began with a reception giving parents the opportunity to meet with faculty, staff, and administrators. Informational sessions were held Saturday morning giving parents the opportunity to learn and ask questions on various topics such as "Career Planning for the 1990's," "Money Management and the College Student," "Home Away from Home," "Leadership Skills," "Entrepreneur- ship," and "Studying Abroad" to name just a few. Family Weekend is designed to make parents feel more a part of their son's/daugh- ter's education.
If you missed this year's Family Week- end, you will not want to miss out next year! Watch for the date of Family Weekend 1992 in the next issue of UNCWMagazine.
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19 9 2 Homecoming 1992 will be February 12- 16, 1992. This year both students and alumni will participate in many events. The festivities will include a parade, a bonfire, and the annual Alumni Association Awards banquet. There will be a pre-game social in the Hawk's Nest followed by the basketball game and the crowning ot the homecoming queen during half-time. After the game, alumni and students will be entertained by the band Chairmen ot the Board in the University Center ballroom.
Don't miss Homecoming 1992! Watch for details in the mail or call the Alumni Office at 919-395-3616 for more information.
ALUMNI CALENDAR OF EVENTS
JANUARY
25 Basketball Pre-game Social
Hawk's Nest, 5:30 p.m.
UNCW vs. Waiiam and Mary, 7:30 p.m.
FEBRUARY
15 HOMECOMING
Alumni Board of Director's Meeting
MBA Chapter Luncheon
Basketball Pre-game Social Hawk's Nest, 5:30 p.m.
UNCW vs. George Mason University, 7:30 p.m.
Homecoming Dance following game, University Center ballroom
29 Basketball Pre-game Social
Hawk's Nest, 5:30 p.m.
UNCW vs. East Carolina University, 7:30 p.m.
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7-9 Men's CAA Basketball Tournament Richmond, Virginia
19 MBA Chapter Round Table
Luncheon
APRIL
TBA Baseball Pre-game Tailgate
MAY
2 Alumni Board of Director's Meeting
16 Commencement
Setting the Record Straight
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ALUMNI CHAPTERS
HAPPENINGS AND EVENTS
The MBA Chapter The MBA Chapter hosted a very successful round table luncheon discussion with Charles C. Dean, Jr., president and founder of Dean Hardwoods, Inc. this past Septem- ber. Dean Hardwoods is a family- operated veneer and lumber business specializing in imported woods. The company is the largest importer of Burma teak in North America. Dean Hardwoods has been meritoriously cited for its work by major American boat builders including Bertram, Chris Craft, Hatteras Yachts, and SeaRay. Dean revealed how he successfully diversified his business to accommodate changes in the boating industry.
A round table discussion is planned for March 19 with Bertram Wolfe of General Electric. Please call the Alumni Office at 919-395-3616 for more details.
New MBA Chapter officers for the year are: President - Peggy Baddour '88; Vice President - Eric Brandt '88; Secretary - Cheryl Dinwiddle '89; and Treasurer - Ron Downing '85.
The CAPE FEAR Chapter
The Cape Fear Chapter hosted a reception in honor of Vsevolod Marinov this past October at Kenan House, home of Chancellor and Mrs. Leutze. Marinov is Moscow bureau chief of Wilmington's Independent Opinion Research & Communica- tions, Inc. He played a significant part in the defeat of the Soviet coup last September by letting people from the Russian government head- quarters use his Moscow-based FAX machine to send out President Yeltsin's decrees and declarations, as well as to receive messages about the
public's mood.
Following the reception, Mari- nov shared his involvement in the coup attempt at a presentation on the UNCW campus.
Future plans for the Cape Fear Chapter include a golf tournament. If you are interested, call Jessiebeth Geddie, '63 at 919-395-3054 or the Alumni Office at 919-395-3616.
The TRIANGLE Chapter The Triangle Chapter hosted a cookout this past August in conjunc- tion with a Durham Bulls baseball game. Special guests were new Athletic Director Paul Miller and new Head Baseball Coach and alum- nus Mark Scalf. Approximately 100 people enjoyed a late afternoon of hotdogs, hamburgers, homemade ice cream, and baseball.
If you are a Triangle area alum- nus and would like to get involved, call Chapter President Barry Bowling '85 at 919- 846-5931 or the Alumni Office at 919-395-3616.
The CHARLOTTE C/wpter The Charlotte alumni gathered this past August for a cookout at Lake Wylie in Mecklenburg County. Alumni enjoyed barbecue and all the trimmings in a perfect setting by the lake. If you are interested in helping establish this chapter, please call Kip Kiser '88 at 704-333- 0728, Ray Warren '79 at 704-376-3200, or the Alumni Office at 919-395-3616.
The RICHMOND-METRO
Chapter The Richmond-Metro Chapter will assist in hosting a reception/ social during the CAA Men's Basketball Tournament this spring in Richmond. Dedicated Seahawk fans and alumni in the area are needed to support their alma mater. If you are interested in serving on a planning committee, please call John Barber '85 at 804-747-9551 or the Alumni Office at 919-395-3616.
UNCW ALUMNI BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
Chair
Don A. Evans (Don) '66
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Vice Chair
John Baldwin Gohn) '72
675-6483
Secretary
Patricia Corcoran (Pat) '72
452-4684
Treasurer
W Robert Page (Bob) '73
763-1604
Immediate Past Chair
Rebecca W Blackmore '75
762-5033
BOARD MEMBERS
Cape Fear Area Frank Bua '68 799-0164
Carl Dempsey '65 799-0434
Dru Farrar '73 392-4324
Mary Beth Harris '8 1 270-3000
Robert Hobbs '84 256-2714
Norm Melton '74 799-6 105
John Pollard 70 256-3627
Marvin Robison '83 395-6151
Jim Stasios 70 392-0458
Wayne Tharp 75 371-2799
Avery Tuten '86 799-1564
Triangle Area Glen Downs '80 859-0396
Randy Gore 70 832-9550
Dan Lockamy '63 467-2735
Jim Spears '87 677-8000
CHAPTER REPS
Cape Fear Chapter
Jessiebeth Geddie '63 350-0205
MBA Chapter Cheryl Dimviddie '89 392-6238
Oralcni' County Chapter Robert Joos '81 347-4830
Richmond-Metro Chapter John Barber '85 804-747-955 1
Triangle Clmpter Bam- Bowling '85 846-5931
Winston-Salem Chapter Debbie Barnes '87 722-7S89
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Ernest Fullwood '66 |
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Ray Funderburk 73 |
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Gayle Harvey 78 |
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Deborah Hunter 78 |
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Mary Thomson '8 1 |
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The 70s
Dale P Lewis 70 has been named a vice president at First Citizens Bank in Wilmington.
W.R. "Bob" Page 73 was elected treasurer of the N.C. Association of Life Underwriters June 14 at its annual convention in Asheville, NC. Page joined Jefferson-Pilot in 1973.
D. Stephen Wells 73 is employed with Centura Bank in Rocky Mount, NC. He is a 1991 graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.
Martin J. Pelland 74 is owner/broker of MARPELL Realty in Hope Mills, NC. He, wife Roberta, and two chil- dren Matthew and Laura reside in Hope Mills.
Lynda Lennon 76 is an instructor/ resource specialist in the Literacy Learning Lab at Fayetteville Techni- cal Community College in Fayet- teville, NC.
Sharon Townsend Miggans 77 is a
scientist with Alcon Labs in Ft. Worth, TX. She and husband Jim Miggans reside in Grapevine, TX.
Former student trainer Jeff Porter 77, currentiy assistant trainer with the Atlanta Braves, took part in the 88th World Series last fall. During his days at UNCW, Porter served as a student trainer for Tracey James. Porter graduated with a degree in physical education.
Giles K. Almond 78 is owner of the accounting firm, Giles K. Almond, CPACFP in Charlotte, NC.
Glenda Davis Grady 78 is a proba- tion/parole officer with the N.C. State Department of Corrections in Samp- son County. She lives in Rose Hill with husband Dwight and two children.
Gwendolyn Taylor Hawley 79
received her master's degree in public administration in 1983 from East Carolina University. She is district administrator for the N.C. Judiciary in Jacksonville, NC.
Mark Lyman 79 is a casework super- visor in the Child Protective Services Division of the Rhode Island Depart- ment of Children, Youth and Fami- lies. In 1982, he earned his M.S.W from Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently complet- ing his M.B.A. at Providence College. He and wife Laurie live in Warwick, RI with children Shannon and Eric.
Robin Romblad 79 is program manager for Sprint in Atlanta. She lives iri Tucker, GA.
The 80s
John A. Dixon '80 is a pharmaceuti- cal sales manager with Rugby Labora- tories. He and wife Angela Croom Dixon '85, public relations officer of Boys and Girls Homes of N.C, reside in Wilmington.
Christopher Taylor '80 is the district manager for NEXXUS in Winston- Salem, N.C.
Major Joel E. Janecek '8 1 recently reported for duty at Marine Corps Combat Development Corps, Marine Corps Base, Quantico, VA.
Guy Pushee '8 1 is owner of Tavemay's Jewelers in Wilmington.
David J. Storey '81 and M.Ed. '91 is a counselor with New Hanover County Juvenile Services.
David S. Lee '82 is a health physicist for the N.C. Division of Radiation Protection and has just been elected 1992-93 president of the N.C. Chap- ter of the Health Physics Society. He, wife Julie, and son Brooks Page reside
in Knightdale.
Paul Jones '82 has been appointed to the position of property and sales tax accountant in the Tax Department of Burroughs Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park, NC.
Karen Phillips Bullard, M.Ed. '83, teaches the academically gifted at Ashley Elementary School in Cumberland County. She and husband Mark live in Fayetteville, NC.
Stephen C. Hambalek '83 is
employed with Dewberry & Davis as an environmental specialist working with wetland delineation and envi- ronmental assessments. He and wife Shelly Ray '85, a programmer analyst for The Nature Conservancy, live in Burke, VA.
Martha L. Hamel '83 is an attorney with Welch law firm in Myrtle Beach, SC. She is married to Kirk H. Gruber, a supervisor with the Worsley Company.
M. Lance Thompson '83 is office manager for Ocean Lakes in Myrtle Beach, SC where he resides with wife Marjorie and new daughter Chandler.
Michael Bright '84 works as a customer support representative for C&W Copier Services in Wilming- ton. Prior to joining C&W he was in the Navy from 1985-1991 and served on board the submarine, USS John C. Calhoun. He and wife Jennifer B. Bright '88 reside in Wilmington.
Rose Jacqueline Beamon '85 is
senior teller with the State Employees' Credit Union in Beaufort, NC.
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Former Seahawk pitcher Carl Willis '90 is now a relief pitcher with the World Champion Minnesota Twins. Willis played at UNCW from 1980-83. He made four appearances in the 1991 World Series. Willis started the year hy working in Portland for the Twins' AAA club and was called up after seven days of work in the Pacific Northwest. He went on to post an 8-3 record and 2.63 earned run average (ERA) with the Twins during the regular season, and didn't allow a run in three appearances in the American League Championship Series. Willis made 50 appearances while with the Seahawks. He compiled a pitching record of 20-16 in 290 2/3 innings and had an ERA of 4.09.
J. Stanley Hill '85 is senior accoun- tant with Watts, Scohie 6k Wakeford in Raleigh, NC He and wife Sherry reside in Knightdale with their two children.
Merle Peedin '85 is a branch manager for Carolina Builders in Raleigh. His wife, Kay Todd Peedin '85, was a bookkeeper for Ken Drugs prior to the birth of their daughter this past March. They reside in Wake Forest, NC.
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Meredith C. Bourne '86 has been promoted to vice president by the BB&T Board of Directors in Wilson, NC. Bourne received her M.B.A. from Campbell University.
Paula Huffman Brown '86 has been promoted to manager of Distributed Systems in the Information System Engineering section of Westinghouse Savannah River Company. She and husband Phillip reside in Aiken, SC.
Emily Maureen Adcock Davis '86 is a pharmacist for Eckerd Drugs. She and husband Boyce Duane Davis reside in Gastonia, NC.
Sandra Grainger '86 has been appointed branch manager of Cape Fear Employees' Credit Union's Wilmington office. Prior to becoming manager she had served as operations coordinator.
Lynne Marie Spooner Hornaday '86
and M.B.A. '91 is chief accountant with Applied Analytical Industries. She and new husband Nonnan Page Hornaday, Jr. reside in Wilmington.
Beverly Elm Johnson '86 is a
programmer analyst for Mecklenburg County. In this position she writes data processing programs for Human Resources, Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Detox. She and husband Joe Johnson, former chief of police at UNCW now director of public safety at UNC Charlotte, live in Charlotte with daughters Brittany and Jillian.
Janis McDonald '86 is an associate chemist with CIBA-GEIGY. She and husband Timothy (attended UNCW) live in Greensboro, NC with new son Patrick Ian.
John E. Pasch '86 has recently attained the rank of lieutenant in the Navy. He serves with Patrol Squadron-Five, Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, FL.
Sandra Rogers '86 is departmental secretary for the Department of Soci- ology 6k. Anthropology at UNCW
Stuart C. Sioussat '86 has been elected banking officer at Wachovia Bank of N.C. in Wilmington. Sioussat is branch operations manager at the Oleander Drive office.
Edward E. Troublefield '86 is in
resource management with Royal Crown Leasing out of Faison, NC.
Amy L. Utberg '86, former executive meetings manager for the Greens- boro-High Point Marriott, has been transfened to the St. Louis Airport Marriott as an executive meetings manager with the sales and catering department.
Blayne B. Burmahl, Jr. '87 is
owner/manager of Saltwater Surf Shop in Jacksonville, NC.
Jamie Louise McLean Combs '87 is
a certified critical care registered nurse at Iredell Memorial Hospital. She and husband Gary Combs '87, a certified registered nurse anesthetist at Iredell Memorial Hospital, reside in Statesville, NC.
Michael Downing '87 is self- employed in the area of real estate commercial property development and speculative investments in Fayet- te ville, NC.
Robert Gurganus '87 is a rural carrier with the U.S. Postal Sendees in Shallotte, NC.
Jeremy Lynn Jones '87 is control room operator for Cogentrix in Southport, NC. He and wife Wendy '90, an elementary physical education
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teacher at Waccamaw Elementary, reside in Long Beach.
Jennibeth Kennedy '87 is school- community relations coordinator for Lee County Schools in Sanford, NC.
Doris Diane Deaver Pettit '87 is
employed with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. She and new husband Alvin Petitt reside in Wilmington.
Paul Williams '87, an electronic technician with the U.S. Army, is stationed at Vint Hill Farms Station in Warrenton, VA. He returned this past summer from a 10-month tour of duty in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
Gloria Junkins Yount '87 is director of staff development and public rela- tions for Brunswick County Schools- Central Office. This past summer she was selected as a member of the 24th IDEA Fellows Program for School Administrators, a non-profit founda- tion designed to offer professional development to educators.
Jennifer Bender Bright '88 is owner of Avantage Distinct Fashions at Northwoods Shopping Center in Wilmington. She is married to Michael Bright '84.
Anthony A. Capehart HI '88 M.S. was awarded his Ph.D degree in neurobiology and anatomy from Wake Forest University's Bowman Gray School of Medicine this past summer. Capehart is now in postdoc- toral training at the University of Iowa.
Reynold Carrera '88 works as purchasing agent and warehouse manager for Keller's, Inc. He and wife Atlanta Koska Carrera '86 live in Wilmington with children Lana Eliza- beth and Christina Marie.
John David Griffin '88 is a research associate in the Department of Physi- ology at Ohio State University. He
received his master's from Ohio State in 199 1 and is currently working on his Ph.D.
Sharon Kauffman '88 is a kinder- garten teacher at South Lexington Primary in Lexington, NC. She and husband Scott '90, a sales representa- tive with Scott-Smithkline Beecham Consumer Brands, reside in Winston- Salem.
Maribeth Bee Nobles '88 is a phar- macist with Rite Aid Phannacy. She and husband Ronald live in Dunbar, WV.
Susan Elizabeth Hannan Scruggs '88 is a flight attendant with U.S. Air Group Inc. and is based out of the Baltimore -Washington International Airport in Baltimore, MD. Terri S. Willett '88 is a staff accoun- tant with Worsley Companies in Wilmington.
Jeryl Lynn Brown '89 is a telecom- municator for the City of Durham Police Department in Durham, NC. DeeDee M. Jarman '89 teaches physical education at Brinson Elementary School in New Bern, NC. She and husband Errol D. Jarman reside in Kinston.
Morgan Wells Magdanz '89 is direc- tor of the Sylvan Learning Center in Charlotte, NC. She and husband Gregory William Magdanz '86, regional account representative with General Electric, live in Charlotte. Lisa Mazzaro '89 is a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut. Jay Thomas Wolfe '89 is manager of Roti-Stats in Laguna Beach, CA.
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Mark Boggis '90 works in the Naval Security Group with the U.S. Navy in Homestead, FL. He is working on his master's degree in public administra- tion at Troy State University and is tutoring at Miami-Dade Community College.
Denise Taylor Bridgers '90 is director of accountancy at Taylor Manufactur- ing in Elizabethtown, NC. She and husband Jeff live in Elizabethtown.
Steven L. Calhoun '90 is a registered representative with Equitable Finan- cial Services in Rocky Mount, NC. Calhoun also serves as president of the Alumni Corporation Board for the Delta Sigma Phi Chapter at UNCW
Karen Davis '90 is a manager for A&G Sportswear's new Wrightsville Beach Store. Employed by the company for two years, she was previ- ously a buyer for women's wear and gifts at A&G's Hanover Center store iii Wilmington.
Carmen Rachelle Kelly Johnson '90
is social service director at the Brit- thaven of Wrightsville, a long-term nursing care facility at Wrightsville Beach.
David F. Kesler, Jr. '90 has been named a banking officer at First Citi- zens Bank in Southport, NC.
Barbara Yates Lupton '90 is an envi- ronmental technician with Weyer- haeuser Southern Environmental Field Station, New Bern, NC. She manages the bioassay laboratory and assists in fish sampling for dioxin and mercury.
Joanna Mazzaro '90 is a marketing assistant with Trial Lawyers of Amer- ica in Alexandria, VA.
Marie McMenamin '90 is employed as an advertising copywriter for Thomas Scientific in Medford Lakes, NJ. She lives in Swedesboro, NJ.
Emmitt A. Ray II '90 is southern regional director for Delta Sigma Phi in Indianapolis, IN. He is responsible for all chapters in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Okla- homa, New Mexico, and Colorado. Rob Sappenfield '90 is employed with Continental Industrial Chemi- cals in Charlotte, NC as an account representative.
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Jeff ("Salami") Silverman '90
worked for Dick Thomburg who campaigned to fill the unexpired U.S. Senate seat held by the late John Heinz. Thornburg served the state of Pennsylvania as governor and was appointed by Presidents Reagan and Bush as U.S. Attorney General. He left the U.S. attorney general position to run for Heinz' seat. Silvennan resides in Pittsburgh. Christine J. Slemenda '90 is in her second year of law school at N.C. Central University and works as a law clerk with the patent law finn of Richard E. Jenkins in Durham. She resides in Chapel Hill, NC. John R. Stetz '90 is a sales and service representative for Mann & Watters Employee Benefits. Al Gwilliam '9 1 works as assistant fann manager at a catfish farm in Tiburon, California. Kevin Wells Holton '91 is a sales associate for Jefferson-Pilot Life Insur- ance Company in Wilmington. Gregory Hal Turnage '9 1 has joined the staff of McGee Reprographics and Drafting Supply Company where he will be responsible for customer support for AutoCAD and DCA in the company's new CAD Division. Christine Marie Ward '91 is a sales representative with the Lewis Agency Jefferson-Pilot Life Insurance Company, Wilmington.
Births
B. J. Fusaro 73 and husband Michael Brondoli announce the birth of their son Matthew Peter Fusaro Brondoli, December 15, 1991. Sharon Townsend Miggans 77 and husband Jim were expecting their first child in December.
Wayne Steele 77 and wife Elaine announce the birth of their first child Gregory Anthony, September 4, 1991 . Mark Lyman 79 and wife Laurie announce the birth of their second
child Enc William, June 1991. Mary Noland Bridges '80 and husband William Carroll Bridges '80 announce the birth of their son William Taylor, October 8, 1990. David S. Lee '82 and wife Julie announce the birth of their son Brooks Page, February 17, 1991. Martha L. Hamel '83 and husband Kirk H. Gruber announce the birth of their son Aaron Stephens Gmber, Septembers, 1990. M. Lance Thompson '83 and wife Marjorie announce the birth of their daughter Chandler LeAnn, June 1, 1991.
Stewart McLeod '84 and wife Tammy announce the birth of twin daughters Hilary Anne and Caroline Lacy, September 2, 1991. J. Stanley Hill '85 and wife Sherry announce the birth of their second child Kathleen Alexis, April 10, 1991. Merle Peedin '85 and wife Kay Todd Peedin '85 announce the birth of their daughter Chelsea Amanda (Mandy), March 9, 1991. Janis McDonald '86 and husband Timothy announce the birth of their son Patrick Ian, August 13, 1991. Sandra Rogers '86 and husband Alvin announce the birth of their second son Adam Daniel, November 5, 1990.
Mary Pendleton Turner '87 and husband Dennis announce the birth of their daughter Mary Katherine "Katie", May 5, 1991.
Moving
Roy Page '84 and Joan Page '85 have
moved from Wilson, NC to Okla- homa City, OK.
Marriages
John A. Dixon '80 to Angela Croom
Dixon '85 residing in Wilmington.
Deborah Lynn Roseboro '83 to
Gregory Sergei Lorris living in Mt.
Pleasant, SC.
Emily Maureen Adcock Davis '86 to
Boyce Duane Davis living in Gasto-
nia, NC.
Lynne Marie Spooner Hornaday '86
and M.B.A.'91 to Norman Page
Hornaday, Jr. residing in Wilmington.
Jerry Dean Boyette '87 to Deborah
Sue Kleiner living in Tampa, FL.
Jamie Louise McLean Combs '87 to
Gary Combs '87 living in Statesville,
NC.
Jeremy Lynn Jones '87 to Wendy
Jones '90 living in Long Beach, NC.
Doris Diane Deaver Pettit '87 to
Alvin Petitt III living at Wrightsville
Beach.
Maribeth Bee '88 to Ronald Sha
Nobles living in Dunbar, WV
Susan Elizabeth Hannan Scruggs
'88 to Wesley Harland Scruggs living
in Laurel, MD
DeeDee M. Jarman '89 to Enrol D.
Jannan living in Kinston, NC.
Denise Taylor Bridgers '90 to Jeff
Bridgers living in Elizabethtown, NC.
Carmen Rachelle Kelly '90 to James
K. Johnson living in Wilmington.
In Memoriam
B. Frank Hall, founder of the Philoso- phy and Religion Department ot Wilming- ton College and UNCW, died June 30, 1991, at the age of 83. Hall attended Davidson College and Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia where he earned his doctorate of theology. He served as minister of Presbyterian churches in Motehead City, N.C, St. Louis, Mo., and Pearsall Memorial Church in Wilmington as well as the Little Chapel on the Board- walk at Wrightsville Beach. Hall also served as moderator of the Synod ot N.C, served on a number ot Presbytery, Synod and Assembly boards, and on boards of thtee colleges and two seminaries. For 20 years, Hall also wrote a Sunday column tor the Wilmington Star News.
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PROFESSOR, ATTORNEY, SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE
Alummus lays down the law
GREEN MAN— AVENGER OF NATURE
Comic hero for the 1990s
WHO'S DR. HU?
Easts meets West in the Cameron School of Business Administration
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CONGRESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS
Capital gains realized in D.C.
THE SOUTH
Its distinctive existence
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THE WRITING PLACE
Consultants help students hone their composition skills
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FIELD OF DREAMS
Former Seahawk pitches for championship Twins
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A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI, TARENTS AND ER1ENHS
Volume 2, Number 3
UNCW Magazine is published quarterly by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Division of University Advancement
Editor I Allison Relos Rankin Contributing Editors / Mimi Cunningham, Renee Btantley,
Patsy Larrick Editorial Advisors / M. Tyrone Rowell, Carol King
Contributing Writers/Joe Browning, Constance Fox
Cover photo — Melton A. McLaurin by John Domoney Special thanks to Buzzy and Margaret Jones of Wilmington for the use of theit riverfront garden in taking this photo
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FACULTY and STAFF
Vice Chaiicellor for Advancement Named
William George Anlyan, Jr., associate director of development, North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, was recently named vice chancellor for advancement at UNCW Anlyan will supervise the Division of University Advancement which is responsible for fundraising, constituency relations, including alumni and parents, as well as news, and publications. The appointment is effective April 1 , with one ot his priority assignments being to head up a capital campaign for UNCW, the university's first.
A 1974 graduate of Guilford College, Anlyan holds a juris doctor- ate from Duke University School of Law, awarded in 1979. He and his wife, Elaine Russos, have two daugh- ters and a son.
Vice President Dawson to Teach
Dr. Raymond H. Dawson, vice president for academic affairs and senior vice president of the 16- campus University of North Carolina, resigned from his position March 3 1 and accepted an offer to join the political science faculty at UNCW
Dawson joined the staff of former UNC President Bill Friday in 1972 as vice president for academic affairs and participated in long-range planning, personnel, and tenure decisions for the university system. A summa cum laude graduate in history from the College of the Ozarks, Arkansas, Dawson holds a master's degree in political science from Vanderbilt University and a doctorate in political science from UNC Chapel Hill.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Chancellor Leutze named Dr. Denis Carter associate vice chancel- lor for academic affairs. Carter will serve as a transitional member of the Office of Academic Affairs, continu- ing in this position after July 1 . Formerly, Carter was associate dean of the Cameron School of Business Administration.
Sports Information Director in Winter Olympic Delegation
Joe Browning, UNCW sports information director, was one of 12 press officers who assisted with inter- national press coverage of the U.S. team at the XVI Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France. USA team press officers coordinated inter- views with American athletes, coaches and staff, distributed infor- mation about the U.S. team to inter- national media, and staffed an office at the Main Press Center in La Lachere during the Games, February 8-23.
In his fifth year as athletic publi- cist for the Seahawks, Browning has assisted the U.S. Olympic Commit- tee with three Olympic festivals and worked at last summer's Pan Ameri- can Games in Havanna, Cuba.
STUDENT HONORS
High Graduation Rates for Seahawk Athletes
UNCW had the highest five- year graduation rate for all student- athletes of any of the constituent UNC institutions for freshmen entering in 1986. In addition to lead- ing the system in 1986 statistics, UNC Wilmington ranked second to UNC Chapel Hill in highest five- year graduation rates for classes starting in the three previous years.
For all student-athletes who entered UNCW in 1986, 75 percent graduated within five years. UNC Chapel Hill's rate was 71.4, with other institutions ranging from 21.3 to 55.2 percent. In 1983, 1984, and 1985, UNCCH topped the five-year graduation rates, with UNCW coming in second each of those years. These findings were released in the Sixth Annual Intercollegiate Athletic Report to the UNC Board of Governors at its February 14 meeting.
Students Attend Saxophone Alliance
Two music students from UNCW were chosen to attend the North American Saxophone Alliance's Region Seven conference February 28 through March 1 in Blacksburg, VA.
Senior Brad Davis of Charlotte and Sophomore Benny Hill of Wilm- ington were selected to attend based on a recording and a letter of recom- mendation from their professor, Frank Bongiorno. Davis and Hill are members of Equinox, a Wilmington band, as well as UNCW's wind and jazz ensembles.
GIFTS
Menorah Presented On December 10, 1991, B'Nai Israel Synagogue of Wilmington presented UNCW's Chancellor Leutze with a menorah to be used at Kenan House during holiday seasons or at any other functions of religious significance.
The menorah is a candelabra that is lighted for the eight nights of Chanukah, the Festival of Lights. This Jewish holiday celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks and Syrians in the year 125 BCE.
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ALUMNI PROFILE
ERNEST FULLWOOD
Professor, Attorney, Superior Court Judge
In September 1962, two teenagers stepped onto the campus of Wilmington College and added a piece to the school's history. Ernest Fullwood and Marshall Collins were the first two black students to attend what has become the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Nearly 30 years later, Fullwood can look back at a full career, first as a college professor, then as a lawyer, and now, one of North Carolina's elected superior court judges.
Fullwood didn't have to travel far to attend Wilmington College, then a day school. He was raised in Wilmington, the son of a barber and a domestic. Fullwood is a graduate of what was Wilmington's all-black high school, Williston.
"At the time, most of the kids didn't have the families who had money to pay for college," said Full- wood. "More importantly, they didn't have parents who knew a lot about colleges."
So Fullwood, and other students like him, relied on guidance coun- selors to help them make choices about college. "My guidance coun- selor called me in one day and said, 'We've got a scholarship to Wilming- ton College, and that's where you'll go,' so I said yes."
Looking back on his years at Wilmington College, Fullwood has positive things to say about the school and its students, faculty, and administrators. "I really don't remember having any problems," said Fullwood. "Of course, at first, I didn't know anyone but Marshall."
From UNCW, Fullwood contin- ued on to law school at North Carolina Central University and graduated summa cum laude.
Instead of practicing law after gradu- ation, Fullwood spent four years teaching law at N.C Central. "The dean took a chance on me," he said. "He thought I could handle it."
Even today, students at NCCU know Fullwood, who worked with the moot court team and taught the moot court class during his years as a professor at the university. The school honored him by naming its moot court competition and court- room after him.
In moot court competition, students argue cases based on points of law, like those that are argued in an appellate, or perhaps, the Supreme Court. Its judges are third- year law students and law professors. When the competition reaches its final stages, lawyers and judges from the community, including Fullwood, preside over the courtroom.
And Fullwood is well suited to that role. In 1988 he left private practice after winning a spot as one of three superior court judges based in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Fullwood generally serves North Carolina's first judicial divi- sion, which covers the state's first eight districts. The area spans the
eastern seaboard of North Carolina, from New Hanover County in the south to Currituck County in die north. The district extends west as far as Sampson, Nash and Halifax counties.
Superior court operates on the level between the appellate courts, where cases are argued solely on the basis of legal questions, and the lowest, district court, which operates without a jury. As a superior court judge, Fullwood hears cases appealed from the district courts, felony cases, and civil cases involving more than $10,000.
Every six months he travels to a new district. The North Carolina constitution mandates that superior court judges serve in a different district every six months. "It brings a commonality to the law," said Full- wood. "Judges who rotate don't have alliances to either the issues or the litigants. When I go into a district I don't know the local politics. I'm not interested in the local politics."
And with each new district comes a new courtroom style and a new way of doing things. "It's the same law all over the state but people are different and they have different ways of doing things. It's a meshing together of styles that makes the system work."
Fullwood stresses fairness when discussing his role as a judge. "The most that a judge can be is fair to the litigants and fair to the public," said Fullwood.
Fullwood's wife, Cynthia Malloy, works as a lab technician at a Wilm- ington hospital. They have three children, Shelley seven, Remie 10, andNadia 15.
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Avenger of Nature
English Professor Creates Comic Hero
by Teresa McLamb
Darkness covers the Green Swamp's massive oaks and cypress. Hidden within are two figures preparing to toss unmarked 55- gallon drums from the back of their truck. Thousands of miles away, deep inside the earth, a slumbering mass stirs, troubled by something it does not yet comprehend. At that moment, but many miles from the swamp down the Cape Fear River, a drunken poet undergoes a mysteri- ous transformation. Suddenly sober and alert, he stares at his new body: terrifying, unrecognizable, even to himself. The poet is not in control as he is transported to the dark swamp. Is he aware of his actions as he wraps green tendrils around the offending toxic dumpers, strangling their breath and saving the Cape Fear River from poisoning?
You can find the answer when D.C. Comics issues the first book of Green Man, a creation of UNCW English assistant professor, Dr. Richard Hill. Hill's idea and scripts for at least four books based on the mythical Green Man were purchased in January.
Introduced to the Green Man through the writings of John Fowles, Hill found the pagan figure so visu- ally arresting that he thought some-
thing had to be done with him. He changes shapes; he's always differ- ent, but he's always botanical. Often depicted in literature and architec- ture as a human face melded with leaves, the Green Man represents renewal and rebirth. The images appear in such diverse places as Gothic cathedrals and English pubs. In London alone, there are some 30 pubs bearing his name, according to William Anderson's 1990 book Green Man. Anderson even notes the existence, although rare, of a Green Woman on various buildings and in paintings by Botticelli. While his Green Man's role has changed through the ages, he is believed to be a fierce defender and protector of nature. This is the persona of Hill's comic hero.
"Nature is violent and indis- criminate; at least he's discriminate,"
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he says of his hero who often employes violent acts to protect the environment and wildlife. "We're past the point of taking the bad guys in to the cops." Green Man has one purpose: to protect Mother Earth at all costs. "He is a force of nature, so he is not hampered by ethics." This is unusual for comic book charac- ters. Superheroes usually are not merciless; therefore, the concept is troubling to some people, including D.C. Comics, says Hill.
Green Man may be merciless, but perhaps with justification and with results that many environmen- talists would applaud. Endowed with a command over all of nature's crea- tures, the Green Man of Hill's first comic book saves himself and a school of tuna by having them all swim in the same direction to escape a net and then sink the ship that is attempting to catch them. Histori- cally, the Green Man myth has delivered the message that taking care of nature is not a matter of manners. Nature will let us know when things go wrong and we'll live or die with those results, says Hill. We create deserts, oil spills, famine. So why should Green Man who is the avenger of nature be lenient with us? Hill answers by saying, "Green Man's punishment will be much harsher than notes to our mothers." He emphasized that Green Man is "literally a part of Earth itself and has all the force and fury of nature."
Throughout the four books, Hill also gives Green Man sensitivity,
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intelligence, and knowledge of the modem world through the borrowed body of a poet named Toole who is as famed for his work as for his drunkenness. Although Toole serves as the medium for Green Man, he has no control over his actions. Were he to be caught, Toole would be the one to suffer prosecution or pain — not Green Man who could abandon Toole's body. Yet, his discovery is unlikely, because it is inconceivable to law enforcement authorities that an ordinary man could accomplish the deeds attributed to the superhero. The perpetrator, therefore, might well remain a mystery. Or maybe not. Although he's been an avid observer of the adult comic book industry for several years, this is Hill's first attempt at working in the medium. "I didn't see any other way to tell the story about a living green man," he says. Also, Hill has followed the career of his Navy buddy, Denny O'Neill, "who almost single-handedly brought adult themes to the comic book industry." O'Neill also made certain that Hill had a tie to the industry by placing him in several comics. Batman's karate teacher was named Richard Hill. In one Wonder Woman comic, she is shown reading Hill's first novel, Ghost Story. With this kind of exposure to the comic book venue, Hill decided to offer his Green Man idea to D.C. As a divi- sion of Time -Life Warner, the company has the potential of expanding Hill's idea into movies
and retail offerings as they have with Batman and Superman.
Meanwhile, Hill has revised the script of his first book to incorporate more action, frequently switching between locations and subjects, a device suggested by O'Neill. However, the first book's publication date has not yet been set because an artist hasn't been found. D.C. "is likely to wait for months to find the
explores the Green Swamp and culminates on Bald Head Island. Describing himself as a writer who also teaches, Hill said he was hired at UNCW because the univer- sity was looking for a tenure-track professional writer. He continues to write and now shares his knowledge of the art with students in magazine and screen writing courses. This fall he will teach a graduate -level course
He emphasizes that Green Man is "literally a part of Earth itself and has all the force and fury of nature."
right one," Hill explains. "The fans know the artists, and they are just as devoted to the artist as to the writer. The artists have more influence." The creator and artist even share creation credit because the writer- creator writes it, but the artist- creator gives it visual form. Hill described working in this medium as a "delight."
Although he joined the UNCW staff just last fall, Hill is no stranger to the area. He actually set the scene of his first Green Man book near the Cape Fear River because of his previous experience living near the river. "I was a visiting writer at Southeastern (Community College) in 1983 and '84." While working on a piece about the Maco Light, he became aware of illegal dumping in the area. That locale appears in his latest novel, Sweet Memory Will Die, which is due out in September. Set around Hallsboro, a small town in Columbus County, the mystery
in nonfiction.
Hill has written seven novels, including Riding Solo with the Golden Horde which was accepted as his doctoral dissertation at Florida State University. He has published more than 100 screenplays, televi- sion scripts, short stories, articles, and essays. Two short stories are currently being developed for public television. His feature articles and book reviews have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Play- bay, Omni, and Village Voice.
Hill accomplishes much of his writing at his secluded home site near Hampstead where he and his son, Patrick, enjoy the natural beauty that Green Man fights to protect.
Teresa A. McLamb is a graduate student in English at UNCW, a free- lance writer, and a corisidtant in busi- ness communicatioiis and public relations. Slie holds a B.A. injourru.il- ismfrom l/NC Chapel Hill.
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Women in business positions before China's
cultural revolution were unusual; now
. . . "about halt sometimes more than
half the business students
are females/'
Who's Hu?
You may have already seen her bicycling across College Road en route to campus with coattail flying in the wind and a warm smile across her face. Dr. Yi-fen (Grace) Hu is visiting professor of accountancy at the Cameron School of Business Administration. She is originally from Shanghai, China, an area known as early as the 1930s as "New York City in the East" for its modern- ization and Western influence.
Western culture, however, is not foreign to Hu who teaches manage- rial accounting classes for under- graduates and an international accounting class for MBA students. Her early education began in a Catholic school and her first loves were music and English. Encouraged by her father, she decided to pursue a business career and attended Shang- hai Jiao-Tong University, graduating in 1950. After marriage and eventual relocation to Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Hu became director of accounting in a major chemical company where she worked for 16 years. Women in business positions before China's cultural revolution were unusual; now, ". . . about half, sometimes more than half the busi- ness students are females," she says.
China's move to an open trade policy in the late 1970s created a demand for teachers of Western accounting methods. As a result, Hu
became associate professor at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu. For the last 10 years, Hu's primary responsi- bility has been to design and develop new, foreign-related accounting courses, teach each one a few years, then pass it on to younger teachers. After completing the process she begins anew, ever welcoming the opportunity to travel. "After all" she says, "to better teach international accounting, one needs to BE inter- national ... in order to touch and feel the cultures!"
Hu has drawn from visiting professorships to Australia and the U.S. and years of experience in China as a basis for recent research
entitled "A Comparison of Account- ing Education Systems in Australia, The United States of America, and The Peoples Republic of China." This work has been accepted for presentation at the Seventh Interna- tional Conference on Accounting Education in October of this year. It will enhance her own course work and contribute to the increase of international business relations for many countries.
Hu is grateful for the easy access to new educational books and mate- rials in the U.S., many of which are still difficult to obtain through China's Foreign Exchange. She also corresponds regularly with professors in other countries to exchange ideas and share her information. Hu sees herself as still being a "new profes- sor" in many ways because she is always in the process of learning, even as she teaches others.
Hu's decision to come to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington was the result of her \isiting friends and relatives in the area five years ago. The local busi- ness community learned of her expertise through a friend of hers at UNCW. She was soon asked to make several presentations on the Chinese economy. Having been so graciously received by former Wilmington Mayor Berry Williams, the Wilming- ton World Trade Group, UNCW
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Dr. Yi-fen Hu stands with her "big green bicycle" in front of Cameron Hull.
business professors, and local accountants, Hu agreed to come back to the Port City, but only after a return trip to China. She still recalls feeling "so homesick" at the time and eager to see her husband.
During her four- semester stay at UNCW she has been delighted to see so much improvement in the UNCW business school. "Interna- tionalization of the business curricu- lum is very important . . . boundaries are expanding," she says. Last semester three new courses were offered in this area, including Inter- national Trade and Finance, Interna- tional Marketing, and International Management. Hu was excited to see more emphasis placed on interna- tional business. Eager to know more, Hu even sat in on a few of these classes in her spare time.
Much effort has been made on the part of the faculty and members of the business school to gain accred-
itation for the Cameron School of Business Administration. Self-study reports have been filed, the curricu- lum has been expanded to include international dimensions, and the evaluations have thus far been posi- tive. Hu now feels "a part of it all" and believes strongly that she will see UNCW accredited before she leaves in May of this year. Her next teaching adventure will take her to Hawaii for the summer and from there she will return home to China. "I have gained knowledge, expe- rience, and most of all, friendship here," says Hu. She admires our "outgoing . . . erudite and very inter- national Chancellor Leutze" and comments on how fortunate we are to have him. Leutze has the same quality she hopes students will gain from knowing her — the love of culture. "This causes you to think globally ... be more open-minded and, therefore, open to new
things, "she says. Hu looks forward to taking Leutze's video collection on "countries around the world" back home to share with her friends.
Everyone has welcomed Hu during her stay. She shared Thanks- giving with Bob Appleton, chairman of the Accounting Department, and his family. An MBA student she didn't even know brought her Christmas dinner directly from China! His family had just returned from a visit there and he immedi- ately thought of her and wanted to wish her a Merry Christmas. The mere sight and smell of rice wrapped in fragrant bamboo leaves gave her that "home away from home" feel- ing. "But," she adds, "all of the people here are so warm . . . always ready to help and some just go beyond ... a step farther. They are not expecting anything from it either."
She received a card with Merry7 Christmas, carefully written in Chinese characters, from a student thanking her for being such a good teacher; another sent a letter expressing regret that she is not a permanent professor here. On Valentine's Day she received red and white balloons from one of her classes. The invitations to socials, dinners, and concerts are endless and Hu regrets lacking time to attend each one.
Dr. Hu finds that even the motorists on College Road are friendly while they're stopped at the light. They smile, wave and motion for her to cross and this makes a "stranger feels so welcome here." So be on the lookout next time you approach the stoplight at Randall Drive and look for the tiny Dr. Hu on the big green bicycle — and continue the Wilmington custom of never showing "cold faces" to anyone!
Beverly R. Bower
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CONGRESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS
Many college students don't get practical field experience in their major before graduating from college. They take the courses needed to satisfy their degree requirements and then send out resumes by the dozen, hoping some- one will take a chance and hire them.
At UNCW, faculty and adminis- trators recognize that education goes far beyond what students learn in the classroom. All of the schools and many of the departments within the College of Arts and Sciences offer students experience in their fields through internships or other hands- on work experiences.
In a tight job market, internships give students practical experience that they can offer to perspective employers plus the chance to see if
"It's the best introduction
to political reality that any
student ever gets."
the career they're preparing for is really the one they want.
For political science majors, perhaps the most exciting place to be living and working as an intern is in the heart of the country's governing system, Washington, D.C. Students can also complete internships in Wilmington while taking classes at
the university. They earn credit by working at Charlie Rose's Wilming- ton office, the New Hanover County Planning Office, and at various lawyers' offices.
Since 1981, top political science students from UNCW have spent a semester living and working as interns in the nation's capital. The majority of students work for South- eastern North Carolina's two congressmen, Charlie Rose and Martin Lancaster. One student has worked for Senator Jesse Helms and another will work for him this fall.
"It's the best introduction to political reality that any student ever gets," said Lee Johnston, political science professor at UNCW and director of political science intern- ships. Johnston, the 1989 winner of the UNCW Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award, began the internship program when he came to UNCW in 1977.
"Most of the students who go to Washington get 'Potomac fever,'" said Johnston. "They don't want to come back — they want to stay and become staff assistants."
Senior Christine Bricker spent Fall semester '90 in Washington, working for Congressman Charlie Rose. For a young woman who grew up on her family's farm in Ohio and spent most of her summers working there, Washington was a big change.
Congressman Charlie Rose and Christine Bricker
"It was a big decision, but I decided to go for it," she said. "When I got there I couldn't believe I had doubted it. I was on cloud nine the whole time I was there," said Bricker. "They used to call me 'Smiley' at the office."
Bricker, who says she "thrives on law" and has always wanted to be a lawyer, chose the Washington internship to see if she might like a career as a congressional staff member instead. She left Washing- ton wanting to become a federal government lawyer. She will attend law school in the Fall.
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Senior Samantha Gallman spent Fall semester '9 1 interning for Congressman Martin Lancaster. Gallman, a political science major who wants to teach high school social studies, sought out the intern- ship to broaden her knowledge of American government and to make her lectures more interesting for her
Samantha Gallman and Congressman Martin Lancaster
students. "I thought it would enable me to bring more to the classroom," said Gallman. "There were just so many questions left out of the text- books," she said. "I felt that there was much more to learn."
For students like Bricker and Gallman, there are tough require- ments to meet before they can go to Washington. For starters, they must have a "B+" (3.5 or better on a scale of 4.0) average. The Political Science Department requires intern- ship candidates to be of junior stand- ing and they must have completed courses covering library research,
computer and analytical research, and advanced courses in American government.
Beyond basic requirements, Johnston looks at each student indi- vidually. "They must have a legiti- mate reason for wanting to go to Washington," he said. "They must be self starters."
Once students arrive in Wash- ington, they find themselves working alongside congressional staff members. They answer letters and phone calls from the congressmen's constituents about the status of legislative bills and why their
excited to be there that I couldn't even remember what he talked about," she said.
Afterwards, she walked down onto the floor of the House and met or "got to stand next to" many of the most influential members of Congress. "It was a night I'll never forget," said Bricker.
Gallman attended the 1991 Democratic Gala, the party's kickoff of the presidential campaign season. "It was just like a pep rally," she said. "It gives you a good patriotic boost to attend something like that."
After sending students to the
The Political Science Department requires internship candidates to be of junior standing and they must
have completed courses covering library
research, computer and analytical research, and
advanced courses in American government.
congressman voted the way he did. Developing a response usually involves studying the Congressional Record, talking with congressional committee staffers, and doing research at the Library of Congress.
"The work really requires you to become familiar with who does what in Congress," said Gallman.
While the interns do their share of clerical work and running for coffee, they are also exposed to significant daily activities. "I may have been filing papers," said Bricker, "but I was studying them and listening to all the conversations that were going on around me. I believe the internship was what you made of it."
Outside the office, Bricker's most memorable evening was attending a speech by President George Bush to a joint session of Congress. Representative Rose gave her the office's only ticket. "I was so
capital year after year, Johnston decided to try an internship himself. He spent part of the Summer of 1988 in Washington, working along- side college -aged interns in Charlie Rose's office. "After sending students up there for so many years I wanted the chance to try it myself"
Johnston hopes that UNCW's presence in Washington will some- day expand. His goal is to broaden the program so that students from other disciplines may share the Washington experience.
Students can contact Johnston for information about political science internships. Information and help in selecting general internships can be found at the Career Planning and Placement Center in the University Union.
Carolyn Bussc
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The South: Its D
From the baked earth of Mississippi cotton fields to the loamy soil of tidewater Virginia, the South holds a unique place in ,\inerican history and culture.
Its predominant Protestantism, agrarian heritage, and economic individualism make it distinct. The land and its people are at the core of its existence. And the duality of blacks and whites has probably done more than anything else to give the Southland its own identity.
Melton McLaurin, UNCW history professor and author of several books about the South, has studied race and its influence in shaping Southern and American society. In his last two books A Sepa- rate Past: Growing Up White in the Segregated South and Celia: A Slave, race is the common theme. "Celia, takes place in an antebellum period and Separate Pasts in the period of segregation. They both focus on, what has been in the past, one of the 'identifying' features of Southerness: the Souths deviation from national norms in race relations whether in slavery or in segregation," said McLaurin. "The racial views held by white Southerners in both periods did not differ markedly from those held by whites elsewhere in the nation. Racial relations practiced, however, differed considerably.
"Race remains the basic unsolved problem in American soci- ety, in my opinion," McLaurin continued. "And it's connected to every major issue that we're going to look at in the 1992 presidential elec-
tion. Race is related to economic problems in the United States, educational problems, social prob- lems — to any big issue you want to raise."
These problems have more to do with ideology than differences in skin color, writes Barbara J. Fields in her essay, "Ideology and Race in Ameri- can History." Over time, "(race) became the ideological medium through which Americans confronted questions of sovereignty and power . . ."
This power struggle is evidenced, according to McLaurin, in a two -or three -tiered system of economic opportunity. "One of the things that bothers me very much is this rapidly growing gap between the haves and have nots . . . and in the South, as in the nation, that takes on racial overtones," said McLaurin.
You see it in the 200-point discrepancy of SAT scores between whites and blacks, said McLaurin, in addition to the high rate of violent deaths among black men and the large discrepancy in income between blacks and whites. "That does not bode well for society," he said.
"If you have large segments of people who do not see a future in a society, who do not see that they can buy in, you're going to have big trou- ble. And blacks have never been included economically. I'm not talk-
ing about the South. I'm talking about American society as a whole. It's been a problem that's impacted the South more because there are a larger numbers of blacks, but Ameri- can society has never allowed blacks into the economic mainstream and that's still a major problem. When you look at what the sociologist Julius Wilson termed the 'truly disad- vantaged' you see that race is involved. I'm alarmed at the tact that so many blacks are outside the economic structure."
Awareness of Distinction
While growing up during the 1950s in the small town of Wade in Southeastern North Carolina, McLaurin became aware of the disparity between whites and blacks. He befriended many of the black customers who frequented his grand- father's store and realized that their realities were very different from his own. In his book Separate Pasts he writes, "That this extended period of close association with blacks came during my adolescence magnified the impact of that experience on me. It came at a time when I had begun to question the values and beliefs of my society. My association with blacks would continue, as did the question- ing, until I left Wade."
As a youth McLaurin began to ponder the "other" culture, the black culture. "The 'other' is always intriguing. In the South that I grew up in, you had a very, very well- defined 'other.' The clarity of that definition was made possible, in part,
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because of the difference in skin color. I think it's been an intriguing aspect of Southern life for all Southerners, white and black. It's been a part of the reality,"McLaurin said.
In Separate Pasts McLaurin recounts how he wrestled with the impoverishment of Wade's blacks. "I responded with anger to the undeni- able reality of their extreme poverty . . . The connection between their poverty and their race was all too obvious. Their presence was an indictment of segregation, an inescapable accusation of my complicity."
McLaurin writes of the guilt whites shared over segregation. "Perhaps I felt more keenly than most whites the guilt produced by the clash of segregationist doctrine and practice and the readily perceived human dignity of individ- ual blacks. I doubt it. Since my awareness of the conflict arose from contact with blacks, it seems reason- able to assume that most white Southerners who had similar contacts, and many did, experienced the same emotional reactions, the same doubts. Some, perhaps most, suppressed their feelings, but it is hard for me to believe that they never experienced them."
Today's South
In its struggle to overcome this ethical dichotomy, Southerners — black and white — have continued to draw on their common heritage and shared customs, be they speech, religion, or music.
The author Jonathan Daniels once defined the South as a place where "all nice children say 'no ma'am' and 'yes m'am.' " McLaurin, echoed his sentiments. "Using maam and sir is still considered being respectful of social order. It recog- nizes the generational differences between members of society without necessarily deferring to individuals. I think that's positive.
"The South continues to be much more religious than the rest of the nation," said McLaurin, "although it's been an overwhelm- ingly homogenous view of religion.
But I think it's true that as one moves upward socially in the South, one continues to retain a religious identification. That's frequently not the case in the rest of the country . . . It's very usual for a Southerner to invite a visitor to go to church. Northerners would see this as outside the bounds of proper conver- sation. Southerners are not trying to impose their religious beliefs on anyone — they're trying to welcome you into that circle."
That circle of shared experience is expressed in the homespun lyrics of country music, songs from the heart that express the pain or joy of simple living. This distinct form of Southern folk culture is of special interest to McLaurin. "Country music is a Southern art form, it's working class music," he said. "The use of language is absolutely phenomenal." McLaurin's latest book, You Wrote My Life: Social Themes in Country Music, is due to be released in the Fall.
Much of McLaurin's future writ- ing will probably deal with racial themes, he revealed, and he may even try his hand at fiction. In the classroom, he will continue to encourage his students to examine "ideas of innate differences." As for himself, "I hope I continue questioning everything and don't always accept the prevailing wisdom." 1
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CONSULTANTS HELP STUDENTS WRITE AWAY
Composition Skills
The Writing Place. The right place for students working on papers. The Writing Place, located on the second floor of Morton Hall, helps students improve their compo- sition skills.
"When I first came here in 1985, there was a slow, steady stream of English majors, but now we get students majoring in biology, nurs- ing, and the fine arts," said Deb Gay, office manager ot The Writing Place. "Since the 'writing to learn' approach has been integrated into non-traditional areas, students come to us from all curriculums."
Director Tom MacLennan became a writing consultant as a doctoral candidate at State Univer- sity of New York at Buffalo in 1975. According to him, writing centers were originally conceived as "gram- mar labs," places to receive tutorial help with spelling, word usage, and punctuation problems. MacLennan later discovered that students' writ- ing problems were more complex than simple grammatical errors. Students wanted to know how to start, organize, develop, and focus stories.
"The major difference between the labs of the sixties and today's writing centers is in the consultant- client relationship," said MacLen- nan. "Our consultants no longer act as editors or tutors, but as coaches and cheerleaders. The good coach raises questions and encourages the student to succeed. We try to make the student feel at ease. We strive for 'inter-subjectivity' (i.e. successful collaboration) , to help a student develop the best possible paper. A good consult- ing session ends with both student and consultant having learned something.
"A consultant empathizes with the writing student who is struggling to articulate experi- ence. Consultants are trained to draw out the student's own thoughts and feelings, not to write the paper. Many students underestimate the color of their life experiences and consider them to be trivial and not worth writing about. Our objective is to get them to toss aside this way of thinking. We help de-mystify the writing process and make it a bit more manageable."
funded by the Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences.
Jason Bradford is a pre-engi- neering freshman from Dallas, Texas.
George Fishbwm revises one of his stories by applying the word processing skills he learned in The Writing Place.
MacLennan credits "strong administrative support dating back to the 1970s" with pro- viding the success- ful, popular, and free services of The Writing Place that many students have come to depend on. It is
LaVonia Lewis hones her creative skills in The
Writing Place.
During a visit to The Writing Place, he said, "I'm not really creative. The consultants give me new ideas about my papers that I couldn't come up with by myself, general ideas to help me later. Overall, they help me write better.
"The best thing about The Writ- ing Place is that it's so easy to come here — it doesn't take long and it can only help you — it sure has helped my grades a lot! This would be good to have in high schools."
Like most students, Jason first came to The Writing Place after his instructor recommended the service to her students. That instructor was Jane Kirby, a UNCW graduate student and teacher's assistant. Kirby had noticed that many students have problems with focus and organization in their writing. "Sometimes students wander around in the dark. They don't know
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where to start, which focus to take. As a consultant myself, I have helped with papers in all stages. An important part of writing is getting a good start. Consultants help get students on track, to find a starting point.
"The main goal of The Writing Place is to improve communication, written and oral. The skills gained are of inestimable worth to students and consultants."
Other students and instructors have served as consultants in The Writing Place. Mary Dewayne- Lander, a UNCW lecturer, has worked there as a paid teacher and as a volunteer. While instructing an undergraduate "Writing for Teachers" class, she assigned her students to be consultants in The Writing Place.
"I felt that the experience would build their confidence and help them develop their own writing abil- ities. These students would one day be pursuing careers teaching and helping others, so I thought they needed this experience. And I firmly believe that students learn best from other students.
"Most of them resisted it," she
Office Manager Deb Gay and director Tom MacLennan
added. "They felt unqualified and lacked confidence in them- selves ... To a person, all my students later reported having much more confidence and having improved their ability to iden- tify problems in their own writing." j
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Michael Kendall, *
a junior English " Consultant Janet
education student and consultant, claims that his work in The Writing Place has helped prepare him for a teaching career. He had considered not working during the Spring '92 semester, but felt he would miss the benefits of consult- ing: "Meeting different people, help- ing them improve their writing, the camaraderie with the other consul- tants, and learning from them when- ever I run into my problems have been valuable to me."
According to Office Manager Gay, Writing Place consultants "act as guides, rather than teachers or tutors. They get excited when a student returns with an A on a paper. That's the biggest reward — not money. Many of our consultants are volunteers." These include professors, undergraduate and grad- uate students, and teachers and writ- ers from the community.
Director MacLennan keeps a "Smile File" of letters from former consultants and consultees. He makes notes of consultants' sugges- tions for improvements. He listens to suggestions, tries them, and if they work, makes them policy.
MacLennan would like to see more writing-process research gener- ated from The Writing Place, partic- ularly that which centers around the influence of gender and learning style on consultations. Recent writ- ing center research suggests possible differences between male and female
Fitzgerald works with student Jessica Wong.
learning styles and approaches to the consulting process.
He also believes that writing centers can help solve many educa- tional ills because writing is at the heart of learning in all disciplines, he said. As an officer in the Southeast- ern Writing Center Association (SWCA) , he stays abreast of research and developments in writ- ing education because, "A large part of academic writing combines theory with practice." His article on this subject, "Buberian Currents in the Writing Center," will appear in Theory in the Writing Center, a collection of essays to be published in 1993 by the National Council of Teachers of English.
This spring at the SWCA conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, MacLennan and consultant Kirby will co-present a paper about their research in The Writing Place. Their topic investigates the impact of Martin Buber's theories of collab- orative communication in the writ- ing center (Buber was a twentieth- century philosopher known for his study of effective communications). The paper echoes Kirby's and MacLennan's attitudes toward The Writing Place: "It's impossible to put a price on the ability to communi- cate. Communication is what The Writing Place is all about."
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Former Seahawk Pitches for Championship Twins
Field of Dreams
Carl Willis leaned over the microphone in the spacious ballroom of the University Center and addressed his remarks to the crowd assembled, many of them his former teammates.
"Everybody says that your college years are the best years of your life," he said. "Well, I'd have to certainly say that they were the best years of mine."
Willis, who earned his bachelor's degree in parks and recreation from UNC Wilmington, was honored recently after becoming the first-ever Seahawk athlete to play on a world championship team.
The Yanceyville, N.C., native enjoyed the best season of his nine years in professional baseball in 1991. After starting out the year in the minors, he joined Minnesota's big league club three weeks later and played a key role in helping the Twins capture the World Series crown over Atlanta.
Willis, 31, returned to campus to be honored for his accomplishments since leaving the Port City in 1983.
"I guess it was about 13 years ago that I was in high school and I got a letter from (former coach) Bobby Guthrie about UNCW" the big, burly righthander recalled. "I was a typical high school athlete headed for stardom.
"I had some professional scouts
come to see and asked me where I wanted to go to school. I said North Carolina. To my surprise, a hand ful of them told me about a coach in Wilming- ton named Bill Brooks and what a great baseball man he was.
"I went home, dug that letter back out and thought, well, maybe that's a good place for me to go. It turned out that it was."
The rest is history.
He started out with Detroit and reached the big leagues for the first time in 1984. He later had brief stints in the majors with Cincinnati and the Chicago White Sox.
Through it all, he never forgot those early years at Brooks Field.
"I remember I didn't get many people out my first couple of years," he said. "I had a lot to learn. Coach Brooks and Coach Guthrie spent a lot of time with me and worked a lot with me. I came here throwing a fast ball and didn't have much of anything else. I had to learn on the job.
"For the years I was here, Coach Brooks, Dr. Scalf and Coach Guthrie . . . they were Seahawk baseball. They were committed to us and we tried to do the best we could."
The teams Willis played on went 83-72 and he closed out his four
years
with a 20-16 record and a 4-09
earned run average. He improved
each season and posted a 7-4 record
with a 2.79 ERA in his senior year in
1983.
What made the events of the past year so special for Willis was the way they all happened. Before last season even started, he was consid- ering retirement, hanging up his cleats once and for all and returning home for good.
"I didn't know if I wanted to continue. I finished school and decided to give it one more shot. In my wildest dreams, I never thought I would be in a World Series.
Through it all, Willis has had one constant — his family. He met his wife, the former Rachel Butters, at UNCW and they are the parents of Alexandria, 4, and Daniel, who was born December 20.
"It was much tougher on my family than it was for me. They've been great. I'm glad this year happened and we could enjoy it together."
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BRAVES'
Assistant Trainer
Ironically, Jeff Porter has never met Carl Willis. Even so, the two still have a great deal in common.
The pair of UNC Wilmington alumni took part in one of the biggest sporting events in the world last spring when professional base- ball's World Series took place in Atlanta and Minneapolis.
Porter, who earned his bache- lor's degree in health and physical education in 1977, is an assistant trainer with the Atlanta Braves. He graduated from UNCW before Willis, a member of the world cham- pion Minnesota Twins, began his collegiate career in 1980.
For Porter, it's been a long run to the top of his profession. It's a run that's included stops with the Denver Bears (AAA), the Jamestown, N.Y., Expos (A), the Memphis Chicks (AA) , the Indi- anapolis Indians (AAA) and, finally, the resurgent Braves.
But it all started in 1977 when the Long Creek, N.C., native served three years as a student assistant for former UNCW trainer Tracy James.
"I have many fond memories of my days there," Porter said by tele- phone recently, busily preparing for the start of spring training. "I pick up the paper and always look for the ball scores. When I come home for the holidays, I try to go the basket- ball games if I can.
"I'm indebted to Tracy James and to UNCW because that's where I got my start."
Porter enjoyed the national spotlight thrust on the Braves during last year's dramatic run at the world
championship. When Atlanta defeated Pittsburgh for the National League crown, the Burgaw High School graduate was excited.
"It was something going into the dugout before the game and hearing the fans with the chant and seeing the 'Tomahawk Chop.' It would be 95 degrees and you still had goose bumps. When we started the season, we would have 2,000 fans and they'd be booing. It was just unbelievable."
The league championship series was just a tune-up for what would become one of Porter's biggest thrills.
"It was something going
into the dugout before the
game and hearing the
fans with the chant and
seeing the 'Tomahawk
Chop/"
"Being in the World Series is one of the biggest thrills for anyone asso- ciated with sports," he said. "I told my wife that you always dream of being in game seven of the World Series. We came up on the short end, but to get to game seven, that's been the highlight of my sports career."
Porter, who has a good sense of humor, says there's a simple reason why he became a trainer and not a professional baseball player.
"The last time I played baseball was in my freshman year in high school," he recalled. "If you can't hit, you can't play."
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Cape Fear Area |
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Frank Bua '68 799-0164 |
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Carl Dempsey '65 799-0434 |
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DruFarrar'73 392-4324 |
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Mary Beth Hartis '8 1 270-3000 |
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Robert Hobbs '84 256-2714 |
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Norm Melton '74 799-6105 |
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John Pollard 70 256-3627 |
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Marvin Robison '83 395-6 1 5 1 |
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JimStasios'70 392-0458 |
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Wayne Tharp '75 371-2799 |
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Avery Tuten '86 799-1564 |
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Glen Downs '80 859-0396 |
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Randy Gore '70 832-9550 |
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DanLockamy'63 467-2735 |
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Jim Spears '87 677-8000 |
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JessiebethGeddie'63 ' 350-0205 |
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Cheryl Dinwiddie '89 392-6238 |
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Robert Joos "81 347-4830 |
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John Barber '85 804-747-9551 |
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Barry Bowling '85 846-5931 |
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Debbie Barnes '87 722-7889 |
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Tommy Bancroft '58/'69 799-3924 |
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Mike Bass '82 791-7704 |
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BradBruestle'85 251-3365 |
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Ernest Fullwood '66 762-5271 |
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Ray Funderburk 73 791-8395 |
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Gayle Harvey 78 343-0481 |
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Deborah Hunter 78 395-3578 |
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Mary Thomson '81 763-0493 |
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HAPPENINGS AND EVENTS
Homecoming '92
"A Night with the Stars"
Homecoming 1992 was a week- end to remember! The annual Alumni Awards Banquet was held Valentine's night. This year's Distin- guished Alumnus was Frank Bowen. Also honored was Coach Bill Brooks as the Distinguished Citizen of the Year for Service to the university.
Saturday morning found many students up early preparing for the mid-morning Homecoming parade. The star attraction was this year's Homecoming Court and Men's Basketball Coach Kevin Eastman.
The Chairmen of the Board band entertained approximately 400 people in the University Center Ball- room following the basketball victory in Trask Coliseum. The Homecom- ing dance was a tremendous success with a mix of students and alumni.
Homecoming '92 was a weekend to remember!!
Cape Fear Chapter
The Cape Fear Chapter is currently planning an alumni/ parents golf tournament and river cruise for early this Fall. If you would like to volunteer to help with alumni events, please call the alumni office at 395-3616.
Watch your mailbox for more information!
The Homecoming Court is introduced at the after-game dance- Stephanie Ames, far left, was crow'ned the Homecoming Qiteen.
Bill Brooks, former UNCW athletic director and coach, left, is pictured with alumni board member Frank Biui and Brooks' wife Margaret. Brooks was recognized as Distinguished Citizen of the Year for Service.
Frank Boieen, center, winner of tins year's Distinguished Alumnus Award, is pictured with his wife Anne and alumni hoard member Wayne Tharp.
Family Weekend '92
HOLD THAT DATE
October 2-4, 1992 • Watch for details late this summer.
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The 60s
B.R. (Ron) Staton '63, CPA, is vice president, treasurer and chief finan- cial officer of Comprehensive Home Health Care in Wilmington.
Bettie Cavenaugh '65 is the adminis- trative director of pathology laborato- ries at New Hanover Regional Medical Center. Cavenaugh has recently been elected to a second term as president of the Coastal North Carolina Chapter of the Clinical Labo- ratories Management Association.
Jenifer Charita Buder Britt '68
teaches third grade at Wallace Elementary School in Wallace, NC.
Daniel K. Martin '68 has been promoted to chief probation officer for the Eastern Judicial District of North Carolina. He and wife, Cathy Currin Martin '69 are living in the Raleigh area.
The 70s
Dale E Lewis 70, assistant vice presi- dent of First Citizens Bank, has been named city executive in Havelock, NC.
Francis B. Gigliotti 74 is food service manager for the Marriott in Palm Harbor, FL.
James A. Poteat Jr., 74 is self- employed as an environmental consultant in Hampstead, NC.
Timothy Griffin Hoggard 77 is
employed by Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL, in the Pharmacy Department where he is a teaching staff pharmacist. He and wife Martha Pate Hoggard 77, have two children, Max and Molly, and live in Micanopy, FL.
Beverly Russell Stenzel 78 is a sixth grade social studies teacher for Wake County Schools. She and husband, Gregory B. Stenzel '86, head golf
professional at the Raleigh Country Club, reside in Raleigh, NC
Helen B. Hatch Chiverton 79 works at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in the Trauma Neuro ICU as a staff RN. She and husband William Scott Chiverton, Jr. '83, a teacher at Myrtle Grove Middle School, reside in Wilmington.
The 80s
E H. (Hugh) Heaton '80 is employed as an analyst with American Airlines in Pvaleigh, NC.
Philip Thomas Padgett '80 is a
teacher with the Onslow County Board of Education in Jacksonville, NC where he is head baseball and football coach at Southwest Onslow High School.
Granville Earl Smith '80 is pastor of Oleander-Devon Park United Methodist Churches in Wilmington.
Victoria J. Woodell '80 is a resource teacher with Moore County Schools in Southern Pines, NC.
Garry W. Cooper '8 1 is director of parks & recreation for Pamlico County Parks & Recreation. He and wife Canessa Cooper have a daughter and reside in Bayboro, NC.
John Marmorato '81 is a sales repre- sentative with Smith Engines & Irri- gation in Graham, NC.
Matthew Michael Wight '81 is a high school teacher and varsity soccer coach at Hoggard High School in Wilmington. He and wife Sharon Brown Wight '8 1 , a first grade teacher for the New Hanover County Schools, have a son Andrew Patrick.
Kimberly Howe Barbour '82 is a
psychology instructor at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington.
C. Richard (Doc) Lawing '82 is a
sales representative with Medline Industries in Lake Waccamaw, NC.
Margaret (Lorrie) Macon Davis '82
is a flight attendant with USAir in Wilmington.
Eric E Hubbard '82 is a model with Directions Modeling Agency in Fayetteville, NC.
Stephen J. Poulos '82 is working on his master's degree at Appalachian State University. He is a graduate assistant in ASU's Health Promotion Office.
JoAnn Kirkman Everette '83 is a
courier with Federal Express in Rocky Mount, NC.
Kenneth G. Paul '83 is the revolving credit officer/manager of Central Revolving Credit for Southern National Bank in Lumberton, NC. He and wife, Angela Pettigrew Paul '85 live in Lumberton.
Capt. Darrell L. Thacker, Jr. '83 is a
USMC pilot based in Jacksonville, NC. He was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal for service in Liberia.
Dan Dunlop '84 is station sales manager tor WCHL Radio Station in Chapel Hill, NC. Dunlop received his master's in political communication from Appalachian State University in 1986.
Michael J. Lawrence '84 is employed with Hanover Design Service. He and wife Mary Petelinkar Lawrence
'84, a physician's assistant, reside in Wilmington.
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Raymond Carraway Murphrey II
'84 is a technical writer with Sykes Enterprises Inc. in Cary, NC.
Janet S. Petri '84 is an investigator for the Defense Investigative Service in Fairfax, VA.
Robert T. Bartholomew, Jr. '85 is a territory manager for Campbell Soup Company out of Wilmington.
Robin Swart Caison '85 is fiscal director for Cape Fear Substance Abuse in Wilmington.
Anna Rebecca (Becky) Ferrell '85
has recently been named assistant vice president at First Citizens Bank in Raleigh, NC.
Henry Eugene Miller III '85 is busi- ness development manager for Miller Building Corporation and is vice pres- ident of MckN Equipment Rentals. He resides in Wrights\ille Beach.
Monica Williams Price '85 is a staff RN with the Brunswick Hospital in Bolivia, NC.
Chuck Rouse '85 is audit manager for Stancil & Company CPA's in Raleigh, NC.
Jeff Barton '86 is athletic director for the town of Southern Pines, NC. He is married to Kathy Moore Batton.
Ande Creekmore '86 was recently promoted to assistant manager of Olde Discount Stockbrokers in Raleigh, NC.
Nancy Burkhart Creekmore '86 is a loan administrator for DLTB, Inc. in Raleigh, NC.
James D. Finley '86 is sales and merchandise manager for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service in Racliff, KY.
Frederick (Freddie) W. Lewis Ed '86
has been named manager of the Long Leaf branch of First Citizens Bank in Wilmington.
Kathleen Flaherty '87 is a supervisor
account administrator with CompuChem at Research Triangle Park, NC. She resides in Cary.
Eddie Gaines '87 is athletic director for the Craven County Recreation Department in New Bern, NC.
Mark Clayton Gatlin '87 has been named an assistant vice president at First Citizens Bank in New Bern, NC where he works in the commercial loan department. He is currendy enrolled in the graduate program at East Carolina University.
Susan Gerry '87 is a programmer/ analyst with Computer Sciences Corporation in Raleigh, NC.
Nancy Canfield Hoggard '87 is staff RN-IV Therapy at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington.
Zeb Franklin Johnston '87 works as a sales rep with Tandy Corporation in Raleigh, NC.
Robin C. Latta-Smith '87 is owner of Classic Fabric Designs in Evanston, IL.
Kathleen (Kathy) Louise McDon- nell '87 is store manager for Pic 'N Pay Shoes in Zebulon, NC.
Ward A. Miller '87 is controller for EPS in New York, NY.
Peter C. Rooney '87 is has been promoted with Continental Insur- ance to marketing/business accounts dealing exclusively with the Commer- cial National Brokerage House in New York City.
Christopher Eric Schenck '87 is an
investment banker for J. W Gant in Austin, TX.
Sharon Simmons '87 works as manager of Pineapple Beach in North Myrtle Beach, SC.
Josette Corbi Smith '87 lives in Cairo, Egypt, with husband and chil- dren. She is employed with Cairo
American College as a French teacher.
Craig Alan Wade '87 is a manage- ment consultant with Deloitte & Touche in Clayton, NC.
Lisa L. Wilson '87 is a sales represen- tative with Old Dominion Box Company in Wilmington. She resides in Wrightsville Beach.
Joe Benton '88 has been promoted to assistant vice president at NCNB. He manages commercial loans out of NCNB's main office in Wilmington.
Stacie Lynn Breeden '88 is a medical claims processor of Biomedical Home Care in Clayton, NC.
Durward B. Clemmons III '88 and
MA '91 is self-employed as a paralegal in Burgaw, NC.
Kevin W Fischer '88 is a R E. teacher and head football and baseball coach at Southeastern Stokes Junior High School in Walnut Cove, NC.
Patrick D. Millar '88 is an education counselor for the N.C. National Guard in Raleigh.
Michelle Susan (Suzy) Daniels Moser '88, CPA, is an accountant with the North Carolina Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources. She and husband Mark Sean Moser live in Wilmington.
Kristy M. Russ '88 graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, TX, this past December.
Kimberly (Kym) Mcintosh Smith
'88 is the territory manager for Dale
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Carnegie Systems in North Little Rock, AR.
Jessica Barnes '89 is employed with CompuChem in Raleigh, NC as a FDT Account Administrator.
John M. Berry '89 is employed with Denison University as union program coordinator/activities advisor. Berry earned his master's degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1991.
Michael Gilpin '89 is a recreation therapist at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington.
Susan Ellen Holth '89 works in the Nuclear Assessment Department for Carolina Power & Light Company at Southport, NC. She is working on her master's degree in human resource development at Webster University.
Jean Joyner '89, formerly with the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Advancement Office, has joined Lower Cape Fear Hospice as volunteer coordinator in Pender County, NC.
David Todd Little '89 is a sales repre- sentative for Little Hardware Company in Charlotte, NC.
Daniel Schweikert '89 is an associate programmer for IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC. He resides in Raleigh.
Mary Jo Steinhoff-Williams '89 is
administrative assistant/business manager for Cape Fear Academy in Wilmington.
Dan Wheeler '89 is a machine opera- tor with Bristol Meyers in Raleigh, NC.
The 90s
ation director for the city of Arch- dale, NC.
Celeste E. Bulley '90 is employed with Olsten Services in Durham, NC as an interviewer/recruiter.
Jodi Ann Davis '90 is a math/science teacher at Camp Lejeune Depen- dents' Schools at Camp Lejeune, NC.
Melissa Goldman '90 teaches third grade for the Wake County (NC) public schools.
Carmen Kelly Johnson '90 is a social worker for Cornelia Nixon Davis Health Care in Wilmington.
Jeffrey B. Leech '90 is assistant direc- tor of alumni and parent relations at Albion College in Albion, MI.
Richard O. McGuinness '90 is a
computer programmer with New Hanover Regional Medical Center. He and wife Connie Loy McGuin- ness '83, assistant controller with American Crane Corporation, reside in Wilmington.
Mitch Norwood '90 is manager of Kinderton Country Club in Clarksville, VA.
Candace Wallin Bart '90 is a staff nurse at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC.
Jeffrey R. Bodenheimer '90 is recre-
Brenda Bonner Pate '90 has joined the Audit Department of United Carolina Bank in Whiteville, NC.
Karen L. Robinson '90 is employed with Holiday Delta Corporation in Wilmington.
Kimberly Louise Snyder '90 is a
mental health case worker with the Guidance Center in Bradford, PA.
Amber Braswell '91 is employed with
Management Concepts Inc. in Garner, NC.
Aaron Samuel (Ron) Cauble '91
was promoted recently to assistant food service director for ARA Food Service at Christian Brothers Univer- sity in Memphis, TN.
M. Eugene Clemmer '91 is an
account executive with Page East Inc. in Wilmington.
Jacob E. Cooke '91 teaches biology at Louisburg College in Louisburg, NC. He and wife Elizabeth reside in Raleigh.
Elizabeth Batson Erickson '91
teaches English for the Brunswick County (NC) school system.
Jeffrey W. Felton '91 is an accoun- tant with Nucletron Corporation in Columbia, MD.
Christopher (Cris) Kelly Mercer '9 1
is a teller with First Citizens Bank in Fayetteville, NC.
Lara Alaine Muffley '91 works at The Nature of Things Pet Center in Wilmington.
Douglas V. Nance '91 MS is a
research aeronautical engineer with the USAF Armament Directorate, EglinAFBFL.
Laurie Poteat '91 is an advertising specialist with Sun International in Wilmington.
Melissa McGowan Pressley '91
works with Executive Marketing Leader Consultants in Seattle, WA.
Angela Lee Robbins '9 1 is attending graduate school at the University ot Georgia in the Department of Student Personnel in Higher Education.
Elaine Shappell '9 1 MBA is supervi- sor of accounting for the City of Wilmington's finance Department.
Russ E. Tyndall '91 is a systems an- alyst with Unisys in Elizabeth City, NC.
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Marriages
Helen B. Hatch Chiverton 79 to William Scott Chiverton, Jr. '83
living in Wilmington.
Margaret (Lorrie) Macon Davis '82
to Timothy Brian Davis living in Wilmington.
Darrell L. Thacker, Jr. '83 to Vicki Olmstead '91 living in Surf City, NC.
Raymond Carraway Murphrey II
'84 to Colleen Patricia Moore living in Durham, NC.
Fredrick Alan Airman '85 to
Jennifer Louise de Roche living in Carolina Beach, NC.
Robin Swart Caison '85 to Donald H. Caison, Jr. living in Wilmington.
Julie Jowers Mohan Uehling '87 to
David Edward Uehling living in Cary, NC.
Leslie Capps Milligan '88 to Richy Milligan living in Greenville, SC.
Michelle Susan (Suzy) Daniels Moser '88 to Mark Sean Moser living in Wilmington.
Carmen Kelly Johnson '90 to James Kenneth Johnson living in Wilmington.
Tina Renee Buder Wallace '90 to
Thomas Lanier Wallace II living in Leland, NC.
Tamara Lynette DuBose '9 1 to Andy Ray Craven '90 living in Wilmington.
Melissa McGowan Pressley '91 to
Bobby Ray Pressley living in Seattle, WA.
Russ E. Tyndall '9 1 to Mylinda Smith living in Elizabeth City, NC.
Births
Hobby D. Greene 78 and wife Janie Irving Greene '80 are the proud parents of triplets, two boys, Jackson McLane and Adam Hobby, and a girl, Molly Elizabeth, born this past Valen- tine's Day.
Robert T. Bartholomew, Jr. '85 and wife Carolyn Clark '88 have a daugh- ter, Katherine Elizabeth born January 14, 1992.
David Todd Litde '89 has a son Luke bom November 5, 1990.
In Memoriam
Ken Rene' D'Aubour 71 died November 10 in Wilmington. He was the former owner and operator of High- wood Park Displays in Wilmington.
Brian Rex Benson 73 died in a plane crash this past February in Raleigh, NC. Benson worked for the Triangle J. Council of Governments, a regional planning group, where he had been responsible for developing a comput- erized mapping system. He earned his master's degree in landscape architec- ture from NCSU, had completed all course work toward his doctorate in geography and was working on his dissertation at UNC CH. He lived in Durham with his wife Kathiyn.
Capsules
Kenneth W Cobb '87, a Marine 1st Lt. with the Department of the Navy, is part of a 2, 100 member unit embarked aboard five ships of the
Navy's Landing Force Sixth Heet for a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean. Cobb will be partici- pating in various operations and training exercises designed to chal- lenge the mission readiness of the unit.
Eric Tilley '87 is regional manager for Tape, Inc. out of Green Bay, WI. Tilley, who lives in Charlotte, is a part-time actor and recently played in In a Child's Name which was filmed in Wilmington and starred Valerie Bertinelli.
Michelle S. Pape '90 is a sales repre- sentative with Polyfelt, Inc. an inter- national geo-synthetic textile company, in Kansas City, MO. Pape, a marketing graduate, is responsible for all sales activities in the mid-west.
Tess Elliott '91 represented North Carolina at the Miss USA Pageant held this past February in Wichita, KS. Elliott, who graduated in Decem- ber with a degree in communication studies, was one of the 10 finalists in the pageant.
Eric A. Brandt '88 MA, account representative for Metlife's Wilming- ton branch office has qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table, an award recognizing Life Underwriters tor professional quality service and production. Only two percent of Life Underwriters across the country achieve this status.
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APRIL
25 Wilmington Symphony Orchestra
Season Finale
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Thalian Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.
26-5/1 Elderhostel
Division for Public Service (DPS)
30 American Theater Arts for Youth
"Wizard of Oz" Kenan Auditorium, 10 a.m. 6k 12 p.m.
MAY
2 Seahawk Baseball CLEMSON,8p.m.
3 Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Children's Concert
Thalian Hall Ballroom, 3 p.m.
3-8, Elderhostel (DPS)
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& 24-29
7,14 Gbbe Watch VllI: A New World and Its 21,28 Challenges with host Jim Leutze,
North Carolina Public Television, 8 p.m.
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31-6/5 Elderhostel (DPS)
JUNE
3-6 NCAA Track and Field Championships Austin, TX
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SUMMER 92
ARTICLES
THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FOR UNCW
Charting the Currents of Change
MUSEUM OF WORLD CULTURES
Proclaiming the Beauty and Ingenuity of Humankind
THE MODERN AGE OF MUSIC
From Mozart to Megabytes
NUESTRA SENORA DE REGLA
A Ship with a Colorful Past
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FIBER OPTICS AND DISTANCE LEARNING
UNCW's Classroom of the Future
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MARRIED TO THE COMPETITION
Alumni Couple Says Mutual Understanding is their Most Valuable Asset
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Volume 2, Number 4
UNCW Magazine is published quarterly by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Division ot University Advancement
Editor / Allison Relos Rankin Contributing Editors / Mimi Cunningham, Renee Brantley, Patsy Larnck Editorial Advisors / William G. Anlyan, Jr., M. Tyrone Rowell, Carol King Contributing Writers/Beverly Bower, Carolyn Busse, John Matthews
Cover photo — Sunset on the Cape Fear River by Curtis Krueger Printed on recycled paper
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CAMPUS DIGEST
FACULTY and STAFF
Moss Named UNCW
Provost & Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs
Marvin K. Ross has been named UNCW provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. He is the former associate vice chancellor for marine sciences at the University of Califor- nia, San Diego, and served as the deputy director of the Scripps Insti- tution of Oceanography at La Jolla for five years prior to coming to UNCW
A native of Burlington, N.C., Moss earned a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and physics from Elon College in 1955; a master of science in nuclear engineering from N.C. State University in 1957; and a doctorate in physics from N.C. State in 1951.
Moss will replace longtime provost Charles Cahill, who will return to teaching in UNCW's Chemistry Department.
Marsliall Retires
UNCW Registrar Dorothy Marshall retired on May 29 following 43 years of service to the university. Murrie Lee has been appointed acting registrar until a new registrar assumes office.
Teaching Award Recipients
Five professors have been granted the Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching Award. The winners from the College of Arts and Sciences are: Timothy Ballard, professor of biology; Donald Furst, associate professor of fine arts; and Carol Pilgrim, associate professor of psychology.
Carol Chase Thomas, associate professor of special education, is the
winner from the School of Educa- tion. The Cameron School of Busi- ness Administration winner is K. Douglas Hoffman, assistant professor of management and marketing.
The winners were honored in presentations in their respective areas and each received a $500 check.
William Overman, professor of psychology, was honored with a simi- lar $500 award from the Student Government Association. The award is given to the faculty member receiving the most student votes.
IN MEMORIAM
George E. Bair
George Bair, retired special assis- tant to UNC Wilmington Chancel- lors William Wagoner and James Leutze, died on March 27 after a short illness. Bair was instrumental in the establishment of Wilmington Excellence, an organization devoted to improving the quality of life in New Hanover County. He also served on the Community Advisory Committee for the N.C. Center for Public Television Black Issues Forum. In addition, Bair worked closely with students in the develop- ment of UNCWs radio station WLOZ.
Bair came to UNCW in August, 1982, following two years of service at UNC General Administration as special assistant to then President William Friday. Previously, he had been director of North Carolina's educational television program from 1969 to 1980. He retired from UNCW in 1991.
Arnold Kimsey King
Longtime UNC official Arnold Kimsey King died April 1 at the age of 90. Kins; was instrumental in
getting UNCW (then known as Wilmington College) admitted to the UNC system. His work with the Board of Governors resulted in the establishment of the first graduate program at UNCW m 1978.
King was a member of UNC Chapel Hill's faculty for nearly 40 years and served in a variety of posts, including associate dean of the Graduate School. In 1964 he joined UNC's General Administration and became vice president of institu- tional studies. In 197 1 he was named special assistant to then President William Friday, a post he held until his retirement in 1986.
King Hall, which houses UNCW's School of Education, was named in his honor in 1970.
DEVELOPMENTS
UNCW to Publish New Humanities Journal
Beginning this fall, UNCW will publish the first issue oiNorth Caro- Una Humanities. The journal, to be published twice yearly, will provide a forum for humanities scholars both inside and outside North Carolina and will be written for a general audience. Dr. Melton McLaunn, professor of history at UNCW will be the journal's managing editor.
Mitchell Named SGA President
UNCW senior Joseph Mitchell has been elected Student Govern- ment Association president for a term running through April 1993. Mitchell, a history major from Greensboro, N.C, has been a member of student government since his freshman year at UNCW He has served as a representative at large as well as the organization's student services coordinator.
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CHARTING
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The Capital Campaign far UNCW
On April 8, 1992, Chancellor Leutze announced the kickoff of UNCW's $15 million capital campaign, the school's first. Designed to culminate on the university's 50th anniversary in 1997, the capital campaign will raise money to enrich the educational and cultural offer- ings at UNCW. Dan Cameron and Robert Warwick will serve as co- chairs of the campaign's steering committee. Cameron is former president of Atlantic Telecasting Corporation in Wilmington and is involved in commercial and residential real estate development, Warwick is managing partner of McGladrey & Pullen Certified Public Accountants and Consultants and is chair of the UNCW Board of Trustees.
Running a university is like running a business. It must be competitive, offer quality goods and services, and satisfy consumer needs. If UNCW is to thrive in the market- place of higher education, it must offer an attractive package to students and employees.
"To maintain a margin of excel- lence the university has to go out to the public and solicit funds for all of those things that make education better, that offer opportunity to attract better people, to attract better students," said Chancellor James R. Leutze. The capital campaign is the vehicle for accom- plishing this.
The objective in conducting a capital campaign is to build future support. "I think UNCW has evolved to become an important part of the educational system in North Carolina . . . this campaign will put us on course for building endowment for the next century," said Bill Anlyan, vice chancellor,
Division for University Advance- ment, and campaign manager.
"What's happening to colleges and universities now is that there's a lack of funds to run them properly. UNCW needs a substantial endow- ment to attract and retain quality professors and to upgrade the curri- culum," said Dan Cameron who is a member of the UNCW Foundation.
The foundation is a charitable, nonprofit corporation established for the sole purpose of managing private monies that support the university. Money given to the endowment can be earmarked for special programs. "Of course the best gift is unre- stricted funds because that can be used in the university's area of great- est need at the discretion of the foundation," Cameron added.
These private donations are invested and a percentage of the interest goes toward UNCW's faculty /staff development and recruitment efforts. "We're in a competitive environment for faculty
and staff and we need to supplement what the state pays in salaries in order to attract the best employees. We also need to be able to offer scholarships to the best students," said Bob Warwick, campaign co- chair.
The whole funding picture for state universities is changing, according to Chancellor Leutze. "It's becoming increasingly clear that the state is never again going to pick up as large a share of funding for state universities as it did in the 1970s and '80s, he said." This means that an increasing portion of private giving will have to supplement tuition costs.
People are just getting used to the idea of supporting public univer- sities because it's a relatively new phenomenon, Leutze observed. "Alumni and others must realize that private giving is important. Also, we hope that we have friends and donors in Wilmington, people who are not alumni, who believe in the university's mission.
"Alumni should be the back- bone of the campaign . . . because foundations and other donors often ask, 'What's the level of alumni giving.7' Contributors want to know the depth of alumni loyalty to the university. On the other hand, it the alumni aren't supportive, that sends a signal of indifference."
"It's important for us to build our alumni relations program so that we enfranchise all alumni, beginning
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with those folks that graduated from Wilmington College," added Anlyan.
Instilling commitment to the campaign is a crucial part of the overall strategy. "I've had several faculty call me and offer assistance in any way they can be used, and I'm sure, in the overall strategy, they will become some of the best salespeople we have. If we can get the faculty and the alumni to really back this campaign, then I don't think we'll have any trouble meeting our goal," said Cameron.
Marketing the Campaign
The capital campaign is essen- tially a means of forming, partnerships within and outside of the university. "Certainly a campaign encourages people to buy into the university, to take a vested interest in it so people feel they have a stake in its success. That not only means that they provide further support, but it also means they take a greater interest in what's going on at the university," Leutze said.
A primary area to benefit from the campaign will be faculty devel- opment, according to Anlyan. "At the heart of any institution is its faculty and clearly it's the excellence of the faculty . . . that enables a school to attract the best scholars and students," he said.
However, faculty resources are stretched thin when it comes to completing research requirements for UNCW. Financing a single research project can cost as much as $10,000. "Faculty are told that they have to do research, but there aren't funds available to underwrite travel and materials costs. As a result, faculty members pay tor research out of their own pockets. We want to
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minimize that as much as we can," Leutze said.
Campaign gifts also give the university the ability to react quickly to changing conditions. "The budgeting process for a state institu- tion is very complex. Sometimes that means it can very cumbersome . . . making it difficult to operate a dynamic educational institution like UNCW Having private, unre- stricted funds would give us a certain amount ot flexibility," said Anlyan.
The Campaign Team
A very capable team has been assembled to spearhead the cam- paign. "If you want to know why I'm
involved — 70 years old and looking for an easy way out — I would have to say it's the magnetism of Dr. Leutze. He's a very difficult person to turn down!" said Cameron, long- time community leader and success- ful businessman. He and his brother Bruce were instrumental in getting the Cameron School of Business Administration established at UNCW
Warwick's involvement with UNCW goes back to the days he attended Wilmington College prior to graduating from UNC Chapel Hill in 1 958. A member of the Board of Trustees for three years and a foundation board member for 15 years, Warwick has seen the school come into its own. "I think we have a great opportunity right now for UNC Wilmington to take another step up as a major university in our state," he said.
At the helm of the campaign is Chancellor James R. Leutze, who according to Cameron, "is not bashful at all about asking for money!" Daniel D. Cameron "People like to be part
of a winning team and a winning strategy," Chancellor Leutze mused. "People back winners, they back successful products, successful indi- viduals . . . and that's why they'll support our super faculty and superb programs," Leutze said.
"Our capabilities are only limited by our imagination and our energy," he continued. "We're selling a great product. The more people know about us and how good we are, the easier it will be for them to grasp our potential."
The capital campaign for UNCW — charting the currents of change.
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Academic Enhancement $9 million
Endowment for Scholarships
Science Laboratories and Equipment
Faculty Research and Development Fund
Honors Program
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Technology Fund
Campus Improvements $4 million
Myrtle Grove Property
Arboretum and Landscaping
Fine Arts Facilities
Education Facilities
Athletic and Recreation Facilities
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Unrestricted Endowment and Operating Monies
U.S. Congressman Charlie Rose speaks at the
June 22 dedication of the Aquarius, NOAA's
refurbished undersea research laboratory. It is an
integral part of UNCW's greatly enhanced marine
research program, that has been studying the
health of the only coral reef ecosystem m the
continental United States, for the past 1 0 years.
The Aquarius provides living quarters for
aquanaut- scientists. From its laboratory, scientists
can conduct extensive underwater research for
weeks at a time. The laboratory will be deployed in
the Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary in early
1 993. The research is being headed up by the
National Undersea Research Center at UNCW.
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The museum logo, an Ashanti doll, is worn at the small of the back by Ghanan womeii to ensure the birth of a beautiful child.
Suku dance mask, Zaire
The UNCW Museum of World Cultures is not housed in a musty and stale building that few students know exists. It is unique in that, different collections are strategically located within the sunlit entrances and busy halls of 14 buildings on campus. According to Dr. Jerry Shinn, museum director, the curious placement of these artifacts in high traffic areas promotes a certain type of "unobtrusive learning" where students can "bump into another culture" each time they enter a different building.
The museum evolved out of a trip Shinn made in 1967 with a colleague, Bernard Boyd, who was a professor of religion at UNC Chapel Hill. Boyd invited Shinn to go on an excavation in Israel. Returning with a collection of pottery and other arti- facts, Shinn placed them on display in UNCWs Randall Library for students to see. With growing inter- est and the addition of various collections from all over the world, the UNCW Museum of World Cultures was born.
Indonesian masks and temple flags, wooden statues from the South Pacific Islands, pre-Columbian pottery, and colorful "story telling" quilts from Thailand are only a few cif the items on display throughout campus.
The newest collection from Africa is housed in Hinton James Hall. Pictures, native costumes, textiles, and open books line the walls beneath a sweeping cover of colorful flags from many nations. Other unique items range from handcrafted jewelry to dried calabash gourds, which were once broken into pieces by African brides on their wedding day. The number of gourd pieces were believed to predict the number of children the woman would bear. The African collection captures the essence of the museum for Shinn and provides a visual example of how he would like to see future collections displayed.
Privately funded, the museum operates on a budget that averages $6,000 per year. A small percentage of this revenue is generated from the purchase of museum memberships. But yearly fund-raisers like the Museum of World Cultures Auction in November, a military show in July, and a toy show in May help supple- ment the museum's income and attract the public eye.
Many of Shinn's colleagues and even some students make up a group of donors who actually contribute artifacts or lend personal collections to the museum. Local newspapers, radio, and television also help to highlight museum activity.
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One of the most popular events funded by the Museum of World Cultures is the Bernard Boyd Memo- rial Lecture. Held only every few years, this lecture features a promi- nent scholar of religion and is named after Shinn's colleague who inspired the idea for the museum.
Indonesian masks and temple flags, wooden statues from the South
Pacific Islands, pre- Columbian pottery, and colorful "story telling" quilts from Thailand are only a few of the items on display throughout campus.
Shinn, who remembers Boyd as being student-oriented, has carried on the tradition. Every semester enthusiastic student workers and volunteers refinish display cases, put up displays, and help to research and catalog the artifacts. Shinn has clearly developed "a following" both inside and outside the classroom and admits that, "Without my students, I could do nothing. The museum would not exist."
With funding offset by donations and labor provided by volunteers, the museum collections have grown to such proportions that storage space pre- sents a problem. Three small rooms on campus are presently being used to store items but Shinn envisions the
day when every- thing can be acces- sible.
One of his goals is to have a dedicated facility on campus that would serve as the hub of the museum. It would provide a place for researching, pair- ing, labeling, and cataloging incom- ing artifacts. There J 8th century ceramic would be room to build new display cases and repair old ones. A refer- ence library would house books, videos, films, and music for student and faculty use.
Upcoming events sponsored by the Museum of World Cultures include guided tours for the Associa- tion for University Women from Chapel Hill and a special display for the Columbus Quincentennial. Some of the pieces for this display in Randall Library will be on loan from a donor in Newton, N.C. while other items have been part of a display in the Mint Museum in Charlotte, N.C. In addition, Emilio Moreschi, a collector of early maps, will lecture on 15th century naviga- tion. Other collections that will be featured during the quincenten- nial include colonial art from South America, religious artifacts and sacred church panels, and some pre- Columbian art and pottery.
Shinn is optimistic
Museum Director Gerald Shinn and Indonesian artifacts displayed in Alderman Hall
roof tile, Clwui about future growth and expansion of the museum. He and his students are eagerly preparing for yet another display. Thanks to the generosity of Naomi Yopp of Wilmington, a new display case is being constructed for use in the University Union. William Penna, an old school buddy of Shinn's, also contributed money to go towards a display case that will be used in Kenan Auditorium. Shinn is grateful for the addition of much needed space these cases will provide.
The long term goal of the museum is to feature something from every culture in the world. "Because so many cultures are dying, this dream can never really be reached, but it does give us some- thing to work toward," said Shinn. If the effort to save even a small portion of those worlds results in teaching and opening the minds of others, we will all benefit. BeverKi R. Bower
The Museum of World Cultures is open to the public during nonruil operating hours of the university. Admission is free. Visitors are welcomed to take a self-guided tour through the various buildings. Guided tours led by UNCW Ambassadors can abo be scheduled and are available upon request. The basic tour lasts about two hours but guests are encouraged to pause, look, and read for as long as they wish.
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FROM MOZART TO MEGABYTES
In a small room where symphonies are born and a conduc- tor's dreams are given life, Steven Errante sits at a keyboard composing and recording musical scores. Much like the composers who have gone before him, Errante wrestles with timbre and tone. As the music takes form, notes emerge. Emotions stir. The feeling is captured on paper.
For the last several centuries, composers have used dip pens and slow- drying India ink to inscribe their music. This was a toilsome task that required meticulous penman- ship. Revisions and corrections were "erased" by scraping the dried ink away with a razor's edge. As a result, it often took months to produce large orchestral works and to notate each instrument's part.
Today, computers and computer software provide a rapid and efficient means to transcribe and teach music. When coupled with an elec- tronic keyboard, computer technol- ogy enables the composer or the student to see what notes have been played by looking at the computer's
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This representation of a keyboard on the computer screen is used to teach scales. Using a mouse, the student clicks on the appropriate piano keys and then clicks on the "enors" box to detennine accuracy
video display terminal. This informa- tion can be saved to the hard drive or to a floppy disk and can be printed out for the player to review. Revi- sions can be made on screen with a simple maneuver of the computer's mouse.
In addition, computer technol- ogy enables the player to hear what's noted on the screen, otherwise known as aural proofreading. "You can listen for patterns and nota- tion— it's a wonderful composing tool," said Errante, UNCW music professor.
"Finale," a music-publishing software package designed for the Apple Macintosh computer, holds great promise for enhancing the creative process of composing music. "It was designed to assume many of the purely mechanical tasks such as copying out the parts for each indi- vidual instrument and recopying the entire score as revisions are made. This allows more time for creating rather than copying," said Errante.
The craft of composing remains intact, however, according to
Errante. "I still sketch music with pencil and paper. When the music begins to solidify, I compile all of my transcripts and enter them into the computer. This way I can print clean draft copies of a musical score and sketch in revi- sions instead of piecing together
bits and pieces of paper or recopying the entire score by hand," he said.
Errante also noted that produc- ing draft copies on the computer provides an interesting history of the evolution of a work, one that may not have been possible with the pen and ink method where revisions were often made by scratching away old notes.
Years ago music students learned about music theory and composition by working at the piano. Today, students at UNCW get "hands on" experience by using a computer keyboard and a mouse. Errante's creation of a music drill software program has been fundamental in helping music students develop their writing and aural skills. "It's been two years in the making — I expen- mented with the concept in my music fundamentals class," he said. The program offers students drills in note reading, key signatures, inter- vals, scales, melodic dictation, chords, harmonic dictation, and transpositions. Students can even hear what they're playing.
"The program allows students to drill themselves. It supplements what they learn in class," said Lori White, assistant professor of music at UNCW.
"It's like having a teacher there feeding you endless questions on music theory," said Ellen Robison, an instructor of rudiments of music and music theory. The students can use the computer disks in any of the computer labs on campus. Of course when they're working with this program they must wear headphones
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Steven Errante demonstrates the music skill drills program that he designed for the computer.
so they don't distract the other students!
Tim Otto, a junior finance major, thinks the music skill drills program is an ideal way to introduce someone to music theory. "It's addic- tive!" he said. "You stick with it because you don't want the computer to get the best of you." It rates students by the amount of time it takes them to complete each exer- cise and by the number of correct answers. "It's given me a better appreciation for music," Otto said.
Tandy Lowder, a junior voice major, said the program has really helped her with accuracy and speed in reading and counting music. "I've made good progress with my theory skills," she said.
Errante's currently working on a revised edition of his software pack- age that will incorporate rhythm and tie in with a theory text book that he wrote.
Another software package that Errante is exploring enables a composer to write electronic music by recording sounds — vocal, elec- tronic, or environmental — onto a
computer and manipulating the sound waves. "This is a very sophisti- cated kind of music composition," Errante said.
Student interest in electronic music has always been strong at UNCW, he observed. Synthesizers, or keyboards that can electronically duplicate the sounds of different musical instruments, have opened up all sorts of possibilities for compo- sition. "Technology is changing — students don't just produce hand written musical scores — they produce cassette tapes that are digi- tally recorded directly from their synthesizers," said Errante. These synthesizers feature all of the instru- mental sounds in a multi-part work. They even make it possible for a musician to change the key or tempo of a piece. This capability puts composers more in touch with their music, Errante noted.
Jay Manley, a junior majoring in classical guitar, recently composed a piece for acoustic instruments and programmed his synthesizer to repro- duce these sounds. "I recorded multiple lines of music from my keyboard and was able to hear the different parts of the piece. This gave
me an idea of how the different timbres or tones would work together," Manley said. While this realism is very satisfying to his work as a classical composer, Manley also enjoys creating new and unique sounds on his synthesizer.
James Brown, another music student at UNCW said using a synthesizer has made an extreme difference in his playing. Trained as a trumpet player, he has learned keyboard skills and has made great strides in composing. "It's like having a little recording studio with a small symphony orchestra," he said. "My world has become three-dimen- sional instead of two-dimensional. Musicians who aren't using this tool are really at a disadvantage."
In addition to teaching music fundamentals and composition, Errante teaches upper- and lower- level music theory, counterpoint, orchestration, and piano. He is also conductor of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, a position he's held for six years. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Juil- liard School of Music, Errante came to UNCW in 1986 from the Univer- sity of Richmond where he was a tenured professor of music and con- ductor of the Richmond Symphony.
While camping, hiking, and photography are Errante's hobbies, music remains his passion. "It's a powerful kind of communication," he said. "I enjoy conducting the most because there are so many variables for instrumental color. When you teach music, you show students the fundamentals, how to appreciate music. It's like teaching an airplane mechanic how to fix engines. When you perform, it's like flying."
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n November 15, 1861, Victor Malga (or Malya) , a Spaniard living in Pendleton, S.C., wrote to his family in Mataro, Spain. "We are feeling the terrible effects of the war," he said. "For a year now no one has earned a penny, and on the other hand, prices have risen, since much food, clothes, shoes, etcetera have reached an exorbitant price, and many families are suffering the consequences ot the blockade."
His letter was placed aboard the steamship Nuestra Sefk/ra de Regla, one of few ships leaving America, in hopes that it would find its way to Spain.
Malya's letter never reached his family. The Regla was seized during the Civil War by Union forces in 1861 and used by the U.S. Navy until the war ended. All correspondence on the ship was removed and later used in a court case to decide if the ship's Cuban owners were owed monetary compensation for the ship's loss.
When the court case ended, Malga's letter, and 800 other letters and documents, a portion of which were written in Spanish, were placed in America's Northeast Region National Archives. They were forgotten until 1990, when the hull of the Regla was discovered along the western shore of the Cape Fear River. A team of underwater archaeologists from the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher identified the wreck with the help of a group of Pender County middle school students led by academic enrichment teacher, Charles Baker.
Mark Wilde -Ramsing, a member of the archaeological team, wanted
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to know what the ship's name meant in English (Our Lady of Regla, a town in the province of Havana). He contacted the faculty in UNCW's department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for assistance.
That initial contact led to a six- month project for the department. Three professors, Drs. Joann and Terry Mount, and Dr. Carlos Perez, and two foreign language seniors, Susan Ball and Marta Roller, took on the task of translating the Reghi's Spanish documents that had been stored in the National Archives for the past 100 years.
They sorted through photo- copies of the documents and began the tedious task of transcribing all 1 83 pages into readable Spanish and then translating them into English summaries.
Deciphering Documents
Translating the documents turned out to be a task few of them had tackled before. "The students learned a lot," said Joann Mount. "We don't have courses at the under- graduate level that deal with things like this."
Much of the ink used in compos- ing the original documents had faded with age or had bled through the pages. Some of the document papers had darkened with age, resulting in photocopies that were nearly black.
"I don't know how we did it!" said Roller. "It was a lot ot guesswork."
The handwriting of many of the letters was difficult to read and many contained misspellings. The ship's captain, Ignacio Reynals, who Mount described as poorly educated,
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Once the correspondence was translated, the group was able to help piece together the history of the Regla and visualize what life was like for Hispanics living in South Carolina during the Civil War. "It was like reading a novel," said Roller. "I learned a lot about a community that very few people knew existed."
Many letters described the daily lives of their authors, "One of the letters I translated was from a man who had left two pairs of shoes some- where and wanted them sent to him," said Joann Mount. "Another told of a baby cutting teeth."
A prevalent theme was blockade running. "Numerous letter writers wanted someone to break through the blockade because they needed materials',' said Mount. "They needed staples like flour and molasses just to get by." Several letters hinted at the
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need for supplies; others made blatant propositions.
A letter from Hall and Company in Charleston, S.C. to Rigalt Dardel and Co. in Havana, Cuba, reads: "... we propose two expeditions under the Spanish flag, one with salt and the other with coffee . . . For our part we will invest up to $2,500 if it can be insured against sea risk and war risk ..."
Captain's Log
The Nuestra Senora de Regla was built in New York City in 1861 as a ferry boat for Havana, Cuba. The ship's completion came at a perilous time. The Civil War had broken out in April of that year. In order to reach its Cuban destination, the ship had to travel along the Southern coast of the United States where President Lincoln had ordered a blockade of all Southern ports.
Captain Reynals was concerned about what would happen to his ship if he needed to stop at any Southern ports. Its foreign ownership made it neutral, but would blockaders honor its neutrality?
In addition, the Regla was designed to be a ferry boat, not an ocean going vessel, and Reynals was unsure of how it would handle the long, turbulent voyage.
Despite his concerns, Captain Reynals and a crew of 22 began their voyage to Cuba on October 12, 1861. Just one day into the journey, the ship had to return to New York with engine trouble. Two days after it set out again, the Regla encountered a storm and was blown ashore at Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina.
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The crew threw coal and fresh water overboard in an attempt to lighten the load and thus free the boat. Once the boat was freed the crew discovered the engine was damaged.
The Regla managed to limp to Georgetown, S.C, where it was boarded by Confederate soldiers who demanded Reynals turn over all Northerners on board. When Reynals refused, he was taken as a prisoner to Charleston. The Spanish consul in Charleston arranged for the captain's freedom. To repay the consul, Reynals agreed to deliver several bundles of letters to Cuba.
By the 24th of November, the Regla was able to leave Georgetown, only to have its journey to Havana interrupted again. After three days at sea the ship was boarded by Federal Quartermaster Captain Rufus Saxton, who offered to purchase the Regla for use by the Union forces.
Captain Reynals refused, saying he didn't have the authority to sell the ship. The next day, Union commanding general William Tecu- mseh Sherman ordered the Regla to
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be searched amid rumors that Confederate letters were on board.
A carpet bag placed on the ship by the Spanish Consul was searched and found to have a false bottom. It contained letters that included refer- ences to blockade running and may have led to the Regla's seizure by Union forces the following day.
The Regla served the U.S. Navy until 1865, first as a transport for Union troops and supplies. After being renamed the Commodore Hull and outfitted with arms, the steamer served in the Albermarle Campaign patrolling the sound waters of North Carolina.
After the war, the Commodore Hull was sold to private interests in Wilmington and renamed the Waccamau.: It was used as a passen- ger and freight carrier on the Cape Fear River until it was burned by schoolboys in 1886.
The U.S. Supreme Court even- tually awarded $144,000 to the Regla's original owners, the Havana Bay-Mantanzas Railroad Company of Cuba, for the loss of their vessel and its sen-ices.
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UNCW's Classroom of the Future
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by John Matthews
Finishing his lecture on West African culture, Andrew Clark, assistant professor of history at UNCW, pauses to take questions. The response is enthusiastic: one by one, students from Cape Fear Com- munity College, New Hanover High School, and Hoggard High School receive answers to their various ques- tions. What makes this class unique is that none of the students had to leave their own campus to participate.
These students are part of a new two-year pilot program jointly funded hy Southern Bell and Northern Tele- com. These companies are commit- ted to improving education in North Carolina through "distance learning." The project, called "Vision Carolina," includes two interactive video net- works: one in the Charlotte area and the other in New Hanover County.
Site locations for the Wilming- ton area's network include UNCW, Cape Fear Community College, New
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Hanover and Hoggard high schools, and New Hanover Regional Medical Center, with UNCW serving as the network's hub. Each of these sites includes a classroom interconnected by two-way, full motion video that's transmitted over fiber optic cable to the other sites. The classrooms are equipped with video cameras, moni- tors for viewing the other classrooms, and audio equipment. The audio and video signals are coded into laser messages and sent through under- ground fiber optic lines to a receiving site where it is decoded into a video monitor and speakers. Since the students have microphones at their desks, they can talk back and forth with the speaker at the sending site, making the class interactive.
UNCW's fiber optics room is located on the second floor of Randall Library and is administered by Russell Rivenbark, a telecommu- nications equipment technician at UNCW and program controller for the network. "People have responded enthusiastically to this new technology," said Rivenbark. "The high school students have gotten used to it and seem to enjoy it. Students here at the university react positively, but we've only had the network on line since last November so
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not everyone is aware of it. Hope- fully, that will change as additional courses and special events are added to the schedule."
This past spring semester a vari- ety of courses and lectures were offered, including a criminal justice class taught from New Hanover High School, an engineering class taught from Hoggard High School, a lecture series on pharmacology broadcast from Cape Fear Commu- nity College, and a lecture series originating from UNCW that focused on world events.
Model Programs
"We are trying to find new models for curriculum development that will stress partnership and coop- eration among educational institu- tions," said Everard Smith, assistant director for the Division for Public Service at UNCW and the site coor- dinator for UNCW's fiber optics room. "One such course proposal under development is entitled Intro- duction to Science, Humanities, and Society. This interdisciplinary course will be broadcast from UNCW to the other site locations in Wilmington and will be taught by Dr. Patricia Turrisi, assistant professor of philosophy and religion, and Dr. Thad Dankel, professor of mathe- matical sciences. Also, medical resi- dents and hospital resource personnel will participate."
New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC), one of the first sites to begin broadcasting, will use fiber optic technology to present lectures on various health issues and preventive medicine. These topics will interface with the nursing programs at UNCW and Cape Fear
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Community College. NHRMC is sponsoring a series of eight seminars on adult health care issues that will be aired from Hoggard High School June 16 to August 4. NHRMC is also planning to build an alliance with other hospitals that have access to the fiber optics program. Doctors will be able to make diagnoses using
has a video conferencing network located in the Research Triangle Park. Once the New Hanover County network is interconnected with MCNC, the region will have access to the CONCERT network, which links together major research universities across North Carolina, including N.C. State University,
Students sitting in the fiber optics classroom at UNCW participate in a class originating front New Hanover High School.
the technology of the network.
"The idea and goal of this net- work is to maximize the educational and medical resources in our region and to branch out to rural areas that don't have full access to the services of a university or hospital," said Bob Tyndall, interim dean of UNCW's School of Education. Tyndall is also executive director of CAPE, the Consortium for the Advancement of Public Education, a non-profit corporation created by educators and business leaders to improve educational quality in Southeastern North Carolina. CAPE was instru- mental in taking the fiber optics idea from concept to reality.
"CAPE hopes all the school systems and community colleges in the region will be able to share the university's resources," he said.
New Horizons
What does the future hold for fiber optics technology? The next step involves establishing a fiber link to MCNC, or the Microelectronic Center of North Carolina. MCNC
UNC Chapel Hill, Bowman Gray, and Duke.
"Also, we will have access to the Mecklenburg County network and its 11 sites," said Jane Patterson, chair of the Cape Fear Educational Part- nership Network and director of the Division for Public Service, which oversees operations of UNCW's fiber optics room. "Hopefully, over the next decade we will see fiber optic cable extended to rural areas, even into people's homes. Students will be able to take classes without having to leave their living rooms." Patterson emphasized these last two goals were long-term and that there were obstacles in the way including complicated billing proce- dures that stem from access and transmission fees.
One interesting aspect of the New Hanover County network is that it includes technology developed at UNCW George Quinn, director of computing and information systems for UNCW, and his staff were part of a task force that developed the EPN, or Educational Partnership
"Hopefully, over the next
decade we will see fiber
optic cable extended to
rural areas, even into
people's homes. Students
will be able to take classes
without having to leave
their living rooms."
Network On-Line Scheduling System. This system, which operates off of the university's VAX computer, allows each site coordinator in the network to automatically schedule a course or event. Once a course is approved by the EPN curriculum committee, it is entered on the system by the originating site coordi- nator and is sent as an electronic mail message to Rivenbark, program controller for the network. Rivenbark uses this information to program a microcomputer on the network to connect the sending and receiving sites.
The EPN on-line scheduling system has proved very effective and is now available via dial-up access to the community at large. Anyone with a microcomputer and modem can call (919) 350-4065 and view the EPN schedule on-line.
Plans to upgrade the New Han- over County network are already underway. A new codec, the machine that codes and decodes the audio and visual signals, will arrive in August. This will enable the system to upgrade to a two-channel capability.
Meanwhile, representatives of institutions belonging to the Cape Fear Educational Partnership Network meet with the network management group to discuss ongo- ing operations and future expansion needs of the network.
UNCW's "Classroom of the Future" — making tomorrow's education possible today.
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We try not to talk a lot
about the business at home,
but we do have a lot of
common interests and discuss
new banking regulations
and things happening in the
community. Basically, we help
each other understand the
developments that relate to
both credit unions and savings
institutions.
The daughter of a small town- grocer in Southeastern North Carolina grew up loving people and learning how to run the family busi- ness. Her brother's best friend grew up helping neighbors and kin. As a young boy, he loved to explore the woods and beaches of his native Brunswick County. She graduated from UNCW in 1978 with a bache- lor's degree in management. He majored in management also and graduated from UNCW in 1975. They were married in 1977.
Today Judy and Wayne Tharp are in the banking business. They share not only childhood memories, but banking interests as well.
You see, Judy is president of Cape Fear Employees Credit Union of Wilmington while Wayne is vice president of First Investors Savings Bank in Leland.
"We're competing in the same neighborhoods!" Wayne revealed. Many of the members of Cape Fear Employees Credit Union (CFECU) are residents of Leland and employ- ees of DuPont, the credit union's original sponsor. Most of Wayne's clients live in Leland and rural communities in Brunswick County.
"One issue that's causing a lot of controversy between the two indus- tries is taxation," he said. (Credit unions are tax exempt and savings banks are not.) "We're both so committed to our businesses and our
Alumni Couple Says Mutual Understanding is their Most Valuable Asset
Wayne Tharp, vice president First Investors Savings Bunk
Judy Thaip, president
Cape Fear Employees Credit Union
stake in the taxation debate that we've drawn the line on discussing it. It's a very volatile subject!"
While a credit union is a nonprofit organization that serves its members, most commercial banks are stock-holder owned and operate to make a profit. These banks serve the general public.
Risk and Return
Judy took a leap of faith when she began her career with the credit union. After working for one year as an administrator with a government agency, Judy was anxious to find a job that would capitalize on her management and accounting skills as well as her love for people. "I answered an ad in the Wilmington paper that was looking for an ener- getic person who was willing to take on a challenge and work hard for a little bit of money, with the return being a prosperous career," said Judy. "I didn't even know what a credit union was!" she said. "But I really felt well prepared, given the educa- tion I had received at UNCW"
Judy is responsible for imple- menting policy set out by the credit union's board of directors which is elected by its 5,000 members. She is charged with planning the credit union's financial future. "I'm pretty adept with a personal computer, so I do financial projections and spread analyses as well as develop budgets. That's my thing — I really enjoy crunching numbers," Judy said. "But I'm also people oriented, which might be considered an odd combi- nation of interests!"
Wayne's background in banking goes back to 1976 when he landed his first banking job working as an adjustor for a consumer finance company. It was there that he learned how to collect the money people had been loaned. "That's good experience for anybody in this field . . . because they can learn all of the things to look for when deciding whether or not to loan someone money," he said. He did that for 18 months.
He then was branch manager, specializing in management and appraisal, tor Security Savings and
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Loan in Leland. "I loved dealing with real estate and appraisals!" He did that for nine years before taking a job with First Investors Savings Bank, a small community savings institution headquartered in Whiteville, N.C. With First Investors, he was responsible for starting a new branch in Shallotte. He was so successful, that in April of 1991, Wayne was assigned to start another branch in Leland.
"I've always worked in small savings and loans — I enjoy getting to know my customers," he said.
MARRIED
TO THE
COMPETITION
Wayne is the sole lending officer at First Investors and also works to recruit new business for the bank. He implements policy set out by a paid board of directors. As a branch manager with First Investors, Wayne administers all types of loans includ- ing mortgage, consumer, and commercial loans. He manages the office in addition to being the chief contact person for questions regard- ing construction of the branch's new building which should be completed by the end of the year. "Public rela- tions is a big part of my job, too," Wayne said.
Credit Union vs. Savings Bank
As a nonprofit and tax-exempt organization, the credit union's mission is different than a savings bank's because its goal is to build profit. "We return the profits to the members in the form of better
savings and loan rates in addition to free checking," Judy said.
In contrast, a savings bank pays taxes as well as dividends to its stock holders. It can also retain a portion of its earnings to invest in future growth of the bank, as in building new branches.
Innovation is key to remaining competitive in the banking business. Cape Fear Employees Credit Union demonstrated this when it fought to diversify its field of membership in 1985. "We were, if not the first, one of the first credit unions in North Carolina to diversify," Judy said. Originally, the first and only sponsor company of the credit union was DuPont in Leland, N.C. "However, DuPont began laying off employees the first year we opened and we were losing members, so we had to look for other sponsor companies," said Judy. Cape Fear Employees Credit Union now serves 14 member companies.
"The board of directors and I went to the N.C. Board of Regula- tors for permission to diversify . . . but we met with some resistance because the idea was new to their way of thinking," said Judy. "It took a few months for our plan to be approved, but we prevailed."
"Diversifying our sponsorship was a matter of financial survival," Judy continued. "Even though we've expanded beyond serving one company, the majority of credit unions still serve one individual company which makes them some- what vulnerable. If something goes wrong with the company, some- thing's probably going to go wrong with the credit union ... It can be a risky business. So it's wise for credit unions to broaden their operating base, if possible," she explained.
First Investors knows the impor- tance of innovation as well. "Ours was the first community savings bank chartered in North Carolina," said Wayne. This designation, awarded in
April 1992, gives the bank more flex- ibility in making consumer loans for car buying or home improvement. "Previously we were required to com- mit 70 percent of our loans to mort- gages and 30 percent to consumer loans. Now we can apply 40 percent of our loan money to consumer loans," said Wayne. "This flexibility enables us to better help our community of borrowers."
Knowing their Market
Both Wayne and Judy agree that the success of any bank lies in its abil- ity to react to change, its ability to network with other institutions, and its awareness of community needs. As administrators, they believe active participation in civic and profes- sional organizations is also important.
And they practice what they preach. Wayne is busy building sup- port for the beginning of the North Brunswick Chamber of Com-merce. In addition, he's active in his church, Grace Methodist, and is just com- pleting two three-year terms on the UNCW Alumni Association Board ot Directors. He has also been a mem- ber of Toastmasters, the Brunswick County Homebuilders Association, the South Brunswick Board of Real- tors, and has served as president of Hope Harbor Home, the domestic \iolence shelter in Brunswick County.
Judy, meanwhile, is a board member of the North Carolina Credit Union League and serves as secretary, in addition to chairing the league's Public Affairs Committee. Last year, she was one of three credit union professionals in the United States to receive the Credit Union Executives Society Management Achievement Award. Judy also served six years on the UNCW Alumni Association Board.
The Tharps are dedicated to their professions, their community, and to their university — you can bank on it.
Allison Rankin
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ALUMNI CHAPTERS
HAPPENINGS AND EVENTS
The TRIANGLE Chapter
The Triangle Chapter will once again sponsor a cook-out at the Durham Athletic Park prior to a Durham Bulls baseball game. The event is scheduled for August 22. Make plans NOW to join your friends and bring the whole family! Watch your mailbox for more information or call Barry Bowling, presi- dent of the Triangle Chapter (846-5931).
The MBA Chapter
The MBA Chapter will hold its annual dinner on Saturday evening, September 19, 1992. If you are an MBA graduate of UNCW, you will not want to miss this opportunity to join your past classmates for an evening of fun and food! More details will be mailed late this summer. For more information, call the Alumni Relations office at 395-3616 or Cheryl Hunter at 392-1803.
The CAPE FEAR Chapter Golf Toimunnent
The Cape Fear Chapter will sponsor a golf tournament on Saturday, September 26, 1992 at the Cape Golf Course located between Wilmington and Carolina Beach. The cost will be $75 per person and will include green fees and carts, breakfast, lunch, dinner, beverages on the course, and prizes! Corporate teams are encouraged! If you are interested in playing or need more information, please call the Alumni Relations office at 395-3616.
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UNCW ALUMNI BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
Chair
John W. Baldwin Jr. Qohn) 72
762-5152
Vice Chair
Marvin Robison (Marvin) '83
395-6151
Secretary
Dru Farrar (Dru) 73
392-4324
Treasurer
Randy Gore (Randy) 70
832-9550
Immediate Past Chair
Don A. Evans (Don) '66
872-2338
BOARD MEMBERS
Cape Fear Area
Tommy Bancroft '58/'69 799-3924
Rebecca Blackmore 75 762-5033
Brad Bruestle '85 251-3365
Frank Bua '68 799-0164
Jessiebeth Geddie '63 350-0205
Mary Beth Harris '8 1 270-3000
Norm Melton 74 799-6105
Patricia Neuwirth 392-9121
W. Robert Page 73 763-1604
John Pollard 70 256-3627
Jim Stasios 70 392-0458
Mary Thomson '81 763-0493
Avery Tuten '86 799-1564
Triangle Area
Glen Downs '80 859-0396
Don Evans '66 872-2338
Dan Lockamy '63 467-2735
Jim Spears '87 677-8000 CHAPTER REPS
Cape Fear Chapter Deborah Hunter 78 395-3578
MBA Chapter Cheryl Hunter '89 392-1803
Onsl<Ki' County Chapter Robert Joos '81 347-4830
Richmond-Metro Chapter John Barber '85 804-747-955 1
Triangle Chapter Barry Bowling '85 846-5931
Winston-Salem Chapter Debbie Barnes '87 722-7889
ALTERNATES
Mike Bass '82 Gayle Harvey 78 Gary Shipman 77 Kim Tuten '86
791-7704 343-04S1 762-1990 799-1564
(Area code is 919 unless otherwise indicated)
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ALUMNOTES
The 60s
Gail Tucker Buckley '69 is a Span- ish/French teacher for the Forest Area Board of Education in Marienville, PA. In 1989, Buckley received a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to study for five weeks in Argentina. In 1988 she also studied for several months in Spain. She and husband William D. Buckley 73 live in Cookshurg, PA.
The 70s
John Keeley Howarth 72 is a
teacher/coach for Caldwell County Schools in Lenoir, NC.
Edwin L. Martin 72 is employed with the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, in Pasadena, MD.
William D. Buckley 73 is director of dual diagnosis services for Clarion Psychiatric Center, First Hospital Corporation in Clarion, PA. Buckley, who received his M.S. from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 1991, was recently named state and nation- ally approved Certified Addiction Counselor Diplomat by the Pennsyl- vania Chemical Abuse Certification Board. He and wife Gail Tucker Buckley '69 reside in Cooksburg, PA.
Tom Hodges 73 has joined WJKA TV-26 in Wilmington as an account executive.
Zorie Brown 74 is employed with Lower Cape Fear Hospice in Wilm- ington where she directs and imple- ments hospice care programs within nursing homes in a six-county service area. Brown, who has worked with Hospice for 10 years, is in graduate school at East Carolina University.
Larry H. Graham 74 has been
elected to the local board of Wachovia Bank of North Carolina in Goldsboro. Graham is secretary and vice president of finance at Mt. Olive Pickle Company.
Ralph A. Olson 74 is a principal for the Wilkes County school system in Wilkesboro, NC.
Timothy David Nifong 75 is assis- tant attorney general for the N.C. Department of Justice in Durham.
Susan Joyce Taylor 75 is a liaison teacher for Cherry Hospital/River- bend School in Goldsboro, NC.
Teresa Anne Home 76 is in gradu- ate school at East Carolina University. She is working on her M.S. in rehabil- itation counseling and vocational evaluation in the School of Allied Health Sciences. She and husband William Bell, a building contractor, reside in Wilmington.
Jill Arthurs Kutsch 77 is senior claims representative for State Fann Fire Company in Kinston, NC.
Paul Wesley Dempsey 78 is a phar- macist with Rite Aid Phannacy in Mars Hill, NC. He also coaches the Mars Hill College women's tennis team. He and wife Paula have two sons, Joel and David.
Stanley Harold Harts 79 is a clerk- carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Rocky Point, NC. A genealogist, he has published three books on his family's history and is presently work- ing on five more.
The 80s
Tricia Schriver '80 is a teacher for Alternative Education in Chambers- burg, PA. She received her master's in education this past May from Ship- pensburg University in Shippensburg, PA.
Hannah Vaughan Brawley '8 1
M.Ed, has joined First Union National Bank in Wilmington as a mortgage specialist.
Alice Ward Allen-Grimes '82 is an
environmental scientist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Norfolk, VA. She and husband Jess Grimes, an architect, have a five-year old son Samuel.
Herbert C. Fisher '83 is general manager for Coastal Realty. He and bride Julie Ann Elkins Fisher '83, employed with Vocational Rehabilita- tion, reside in Wilmington.
Scott Brooks '84 serves as chief oper- ating officer for Royal Plans, Inc. in Greenville, NC. He has just become a partner in the Greenville Racquet Club.
Lisa Moore '84 has been named assis- tant vice president of Central Carolina Bank's Oleander office in Wilmington.
David A. Piepmeyer '85 is an engi- neer with General Electric in Wilmington.
Kimberly Sue Worley Sellers '85 is
owner/partner of Mill Work Special- ties, Inc. in Whiteville, NC.
Melany A. Wayne '85 has joined Alliance Federal Credit Union as branch manager of the credit union's University Landing branch.
Steven M. Hill '87 is a weapons assignment officer in the United States Air Force in Panama City, FL.
Mary Euie Croll '88 is assistant manager of Hudson Belk in Raleigh, NC.
Lelia Robin Weeks Poe '88 is
employed with Sylvan Learning Centers. She and husband Charles Christopher Poe live in Wilmington.
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George H. Smith HI '88 is store manager for Toys "R" Us in Spout Spring, VA.
Lewis H. Swindell IV '88 received his juris doctorate from Wake Forest University in May 1991. He is associ- ated with the law firm of Everette, Everette, Warren & Harper in Greenville, NG
Marti Lynn Gombar '89 teaches physical education for Camp Lejeune Dependents' Schools in Jacksonville,
NG
Hunter D. Houck '89 is employed with Nexxus in Wilmington. Wife Thelma Home Houck '88 is assis- tant manager tor Tradewinds Apart- ments m Wilmington.
Cheryl Dinwiddie Hunter '89 MBA
is operations manager for A.G. Edwards 6k Son. She and husband Matthew C. Hunter, Jr. '89 MBA, employed with CP6kL, live in Wilmington.
Amy Ingold '89 is social director for the Greensboro City Club in Greens- boro, NG
Anne Kennedy '89 has been appointed to assistant training officer at Southern National Bank in Lumberton, NG
James A. Wilson '89 is a police offi- cer with the Charlotte Police Depart- ment in Charlotte, NG Wilson was promoted recently in the N.G National Guard to the rank of 1st. Lieutenant.
Michael Wilson '89 MBA is director of education for Miller-Motte Business College in Wilmington. This past April, Wilson was awarded the "Dean of the Year" Award in Charlotte at the annual North Carolina Association of Inde- pendent Colleges & Schools
Convention. He and wife Cheryl Lynn (Crouch) Green reside in Wilmington.
The 90s
Candace Irene Wallin Bart '90 is a
staff nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Duke University Medi- cal Center. She and husband Robert Drayer Bart III reside in Durham, NG
Jennifer Ann Brown '9 1 is assistant production manager for Southern Fann Publications in Raleigh, NG She edits, proofs and designs maga- zines. Southern Farm produces 10 agricultural magazines per month which are distributed throughout 10 states and Canada.
Jeffrey F. Collier '90 is a dive instruc- tor with the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line out of Miami, FL.
Stephen E Evans '90 is a social stud- ies teacher and athletic trainer at Bartlett Yancey High School in Yanceyville, NG He and wife Tommie Jean Coates Evans reside in Semora, NG
Jeffrey Dean Hall '90 is marketing manager for Stevenson 6k Vestal MFC, Inc. in Burlington, NG
Thomas L. Hatch, Jr. '90 is a
teacher/coach at Anne Chesnutt Jr. High School in Fayetteville, NG
Denise Marie Jenkins '90 is associate manager of Oh! Brians Coiporation in Wilmington.
Jennifer G. Guidice '91 is adminis- trative assistant for First Union Mort- gage/USAA in Charlotte, NG
Chris Helms '9 1 has completed basic law enforcement training as a require- ment for a park ranger position at Jones Lake State Park in Elizabeth- town, NC.
Missy Hudson (Melissa) '91 is a recreation therapist with The Oaks at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington.
Carolyn Lassiter Jenkins '91 teaches home economics at Williston Middle School in Wilmington.
Tim W. Johnson '91 MBA is senior engineer for DuPont in Wilmington.
Jennifer Wescott Kostyel '91 is an
eighth grade teacher at Noble School in Wilmington.
Mary King Newton '9 1 is a sales and import assistant with Down Island Traders in Wilmington.
Adam G. Thomas '91 is a copier sales representative for Copy Systems in Wilmington.
Stephanie B. Wagner '9 1 is a staff nurse in the cardio- thoracic surgical unit at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh.
Traci A. Lavengood '92 is a manager trainee with The Continental Companies -Washington Duke Inn in Durham, NC.
Marriages
Herbert C. Fisher '83 to Julie Ann Elkins Fisher '83 living in Wilming- ton.
Lelia Robin Weeks Poe '88 to
Charles Christopher Poe riving in Wilmington.
Hunter D. Houck '89 to Thelma Home Houck '88 living in Wilming- ton.
Cheryl Dinwiddie Hunter '89 MBA to Matthew C. Hunter, Jr. '89 MBA living in Wilmington.
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Candace Irene Wallin Bart '90 to
Robert Drayer Bart III living in Durham, NC.
Births
Ann Stephenson White 77,
husband Frank, and 6-year old Amanda announce the birth of Brianna Noelle, December 12, 1991. They also announce the adoption of eight-year old Christina Elizabeth.
Wallace Ashley HI '82 and wife Jan are the proud parents of twins, a son, Wallace Raines, and a daughter, Eliza- beth Stone, born March 25.
James L. Keffer '88 and wife Sandra Morrow Keffer '88 have a new daughter Stephanie Nicole, born Apnl 23.
Capsules
James Stasios '70, CLU, ChFc, sales manager for Jefferson-Pilot Corpora- tion in Wilmington, has been granted the LUTC Fellow professional desig- nation. LUTCF is conferred upon life underwriters who meet training, membership and ethical standards jointly set by the Life Underwriter Training Council and the National Association of Life Underwriters (N ALU) . The designation marks an agent's long-term commitment to professionalism on behalf of clients, establishes the agent's competence and business experience, marks a commitment to NALU's Code of Ethics, and frequently leads to addi- tional professional development. Stasios will be honored September 23 in Atlanta during the 1992 annual convention of N ALU. In the profes- sion for 13 years, Stasios is a member
of the Wilmington Life Underwriters Association.
Billy G. Dover Jr. '79 is a lieutenant with the Reedy Creek Fire Depart- ment at Walt Disney World. In this capacity he serves as a fire fighter/paramedic, ACLS, BCLS, fire inspector and instructor. Dover also serves as fire inspector for the Winter Park Fire Department and teaches at the Orlando-Orange Fire Training Bureau and Seminole Community College. He, wife Tina and their three children Lillian 13, Ida Marie 10, and William 5 reside in Winter Park, FL.
Terrell L. Evans '79 has been promoted to retail banker at First Citizens Bank in Richland, N.C He will be responsible for assisting retail customers with loans and other bank- ing services. Evans serves on the board of directors of the Richlands Chamber of Commerce and is fonner president and current advisory board member for the Onslow/Camp Leje- une Developmental Center. He and wife Shirley '78 live in Jacksonville.
John Haskins '80 has succeeded Dan Kenney as head basketball coach at Pembroke State University. Kenney
resigned this spring to become head basketball coach at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S.C. Haskins, who played four years for the UNCW Seahawks in the early 1980s, served as assistant coach at Pembroke State for three seasons. Pembroke State, one of UNCW's sister institutions, will leave the National Association for Intercollegiate Athletics and the Carolinas Conferences for the National Collegiate Athletic Associa- tion, where they will compete in Divi- sion II. This season, Haskins and the Pembroke Braves will open their new affiliation as a member of the Peach Belt Athletic Conference.
Markus T. Jucker '82 recently received his Ph.D. in microbiology from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. Jucker is employed by Research Asso- ciation, College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech where he is working in the area of vaccine devel- opment. While at Virginia Tech, he received the Sigma Xi research grant and has had research published in American Review of Respiratory Disease and in Plasmid. Jucker is a member of Phi Sigma, American Society for Microbiology, and the American Association for Advance- ment of Science.
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ALENDAR
JULY
18 Say Amen Gospel Jubilee (ArtsFest '92) Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
23-26 Oliver! the Musical (ArtsFest '92) Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
AUGUST
8 UNCW Alumni Board of Director's meeting
1 5 The Kingsmen
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
20 Fall Semester 1992 begins
22 UNCW Alumni Triangle Chapter cook-out
and Durham Bulls baseball game
SEPTEMBER
5 Seahawk Soccer
THE CITADEL
5-6 Piney Woods Festival
Hugh MacRae Park, Wilmington
8 Seahawk Volleyball
COASTAL CAROLINA
1 2 N.C. Symphony
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
1 9 MBA Chapter dinner, UNCW campus
25-26 Historic architecture tour with Ed Turberg New Bern, Bath and Washington, N.C. Divison for Public Service (DPS)*
25 Friends of David Walker Trinidad Steel Band Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
26 Cape Fear Alumni Chapter golf tournament The Cape golf course
OCTOBER
1 UNCW Jazz Ensemble
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
2-4 FAMILY WEEKEND
3 Wilmington Symphony
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
3-4 Riverfest
5 Travel and Adventure Series:
New England, DPS, Kenan Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
8-11 Historic architecture tour with Ed Turberg Asheville, Biltmore Estates, DPS*
1 6 N.C. Symphony
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
1 7 Seahawk Soccer OLD DOMINION
2 1 Glasnost Ballet
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
23 Seahawk Volleyball
COASTAL ROUND ROBIN
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THE MAKING OF GLOBE WATCH
UNCW's chancellor hosts a far-reaching television series
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MAKING A PERSONAL INVESTMENT
Giving a scholarship 'is like giving a new life'
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Falling in line at UNCW's new Leadership Center
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Distinguished Teaching Professorships Awarded
Chancellor James R. Leutze pre- sented three distinguished teaching professorships during the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's first convocation ceremony in recent histo- ry, held Sept. 9.
They were awarded to Grace Burton, professor of curricular studies in the School of Education; Lee Johnston, professor of political science; and Gerald Shinn, professor of philos- ophy and religion. All three are previ- ous recipients of the UNCW Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award.
The professorships, designed to foster UNCWs commitment to excel- lence in undergraduate teaching, include a $5,000 per year stipend for three years.
Teaching Award Recipient
Timothy Ballard, assistant profes- sor of biological sciences, has been granted the Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award, which includes a cash prize of $1,500. The board based its choice on the recommendation of an anonymous committee made up of UNCW faculty members.
Best known for his rigorous, two- semester anatomy and physiology class, Ballard was nominated by more than 70 students.
Ballard, who joined UNCW in 1988, received a bachelor's degree from Appalachian State University and a doctorate from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University. He has also worked in col- laboration with Cape Fear Community College to provide the first joint class for students at UNCW and CFCC, a laboratory cadaver course.
Grant for Education
The Odyssey Project, created by UNCWs School of Education and Gaston County Schools, was one of 1 1 school reform plans chosen from a pool of 686 applicants nationwide to
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receive funding by the New American School Development Corporation.
Bob Tyndall, interim dean of the School of Education, was instrumental in writing the grant application and developing the proposal. Under the plan, one elementary, one middle and one high school in Gaston County will be restructured into five age groups. Students will advance once they possess the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to progress to the next level.
N.C. Living Treasure
Master Gunsmith John Braxton has been chosen as the 1992 North Carolina Living Treasure by the UNCW Institute for Human Potential.
Braxton, who is from Snow Camp in Alamance County, is a self-taught machinist and ritlesmith who is con- sidered a leading authority on North Carolina Long Rifles. His restorations and replicas of early firearms can be found in many museums and state and federal parks across the United States.
USAir Tournament
USAir will be the top corporate sponsor for the USAir East Coast Basketball Classic, an NCAA Division I basketball tournament to be held Dec. 18-19 at UNCWs Trask Coliseum.
Auburn will tip oft against Louisiana Tech at 6 p.m. Friday Dec.
18, followed by UNCW vs. Alabama State at 8 p.m. The championship game will be decided at 8 p.m. Saturday Dec. 19, preceded by a consolation match at 6 p.m. Tournament tickets are $20.
Greek Life Coordinator
Robert Smith has been named new Greek life coordinator. Smith came to UNCW from DePauw University, where he was the assistant dean of students.
UNCWs First Patent
A streamlined bacteria test creat- ed by UNCWs biology department was awarded the university's first patent in August, No. 5,137,810.
Dr. Ronald Sizemore and Jerra Caldwell, '86, invented the test while Caldwell was working on a marine biology project as an undergraduate. Ann Kendrick, assistant professor of biology, spent a year independently verifying their results.
The new process could replace the conventional gram stain for bacteria, a test used routinely by hospitals to diagnose and treat bac- terial infections.
The test, which uses a product of wheat germ, is easier to perform than the traditional gram test and produces results that are easier to read, giving it a high market potential.
Schiveitzer Prizes
The 1993 Albert Schweitzer International Prizes will be awarded the week of March 14 at UNCW. Every four years, the Schweitzer prizes are granted to individuals worldwide who reflect Schweitzer's philosophy of "reverence for life." Prizes are awarded in the areas of medicine, humanities and music, die three areas in which Schweitzer excelled.
Winners are chosen by a secret committee from the nominations of an international nominating council.
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THE MAKING OF GLOBE WATCH
Globe Watch host Chancellor ]ames Leutze in the square of Madrid's royal palac
It's a job we'd all like to have. You get to meet exciting and influen- tial people and visit places most peo- ple only dream of seeing.
Besides being the chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Jim Leutze is the host and co-producer of Globe Watch, a television series produced for the past nine years by the UNC Center for Public Television. In roughly eight half-hour episodes each year, Leutze and Globe Watch travel to countries all over the world, uncov- ering their histories firsthand and taking a close look at the issues they face in today's world.
Globe Watch started as a studio- based show. In its fourth season, Globe Watch ventured out of the country to our closest neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Since then,
Leutze and producer Maurice Talbot have journeyed as far as the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and to our neighbors close by in the Caribbean. In the series set to air next spring, Globe Watch visits the Asian Pacific Rim to study Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.
For Leutze, putting together a series of Globe Watch episodes involves much more than standing in front of historic buildings and reading a script. Leutze is involved in every step of the process, starting with the most important decision: where to go.
Choosing locations for Globe Watch is a full-time job. "I'm always looking for ideas, things that I might be able to apply to Globe Watch," said Leutze. "It's always a bit ot a chal- lenge to guess, when we start produc- ing a series in one summer, what peo-
ple will be thinking about when the show airs nine months later."
Leutze and Globe Watch's execu- tive director, Richard Hatch, use brainstorming sessions to choose the countries they will visit and the sub- jects they want to cover. They turn their work over to the show's writer, who fleshes out their ideas.
Meanwhile, Talbot makes arrangements for travel, lodging and funding. Because the show is on a tight budget (most of its financial support comes from N.C. Public TV viewer contributions) Globe Watch relies on in-kind support to make its trips possible. Airlines, hotels and other travel services provide free accommodations to Globe Watch in exchange for acknowledgment at the end of the program.
Talbot sets up interviews and
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sites to visit before leaving the United States, and everyone hopes things go according to plan once they arrive. Unfortu- nately, that doesn't always happen.
Combine a tight shooting schedule, a tight budget and the cultural differ- ences encoun- tered in other countries, and Globe Watch becomes quite an undertaking.
When the team traveled to Trinidad several
years ago, the government allowed them come into the country, but once they were there, refused to let them film.
Cultural differences can also throw a monkey wrench into sched- ules. "When we got to Greece, we found that because of their polite- ness, they told us everything would be fine," Leutze said. "But when we arrived, we found out that none of the interviews we had been counting on had been set up."
But in other countries, perhaps the ones the producers don't expect to be problem free, things go surpris- ingly well. For example, Globe Watch had no problems filming in Soviet- controlled Estonia in 1991.
"Some countries, even if they are trying to help, aren't very efficient, and some are," Leutze said. Despite the obstacles, somehow the team always gets what it needs to put shows together.
Although the subject matter for each show is laid out before the Globe Watch team arrives in a country,
]im Leutze prepares to narrate a segment of his Globe Watch series.
Leutze frequently rewrites much or all of his scripts on location.
Several times the team has had to almost start over on the produc- tion of a series when an important news event outdated the subject mat- ter of a show or series of shows before they were aired.
In recent years, Globe Watch has been on hand for some of the world's biggest stories. When the crew visited Estonia in May 1991, "we thought we were going to do the program on the independence movement in Estonia," Leutze said. "Then the Soviet coup happened on the 19th of August." The pace of events meant the Globe Watch crew had to pack up and go back to Estonia, this time to cover the coup's effects on the country.
When the crew traveled to Berlin in 1989, there was little talk of German unity. "We had barely gotten off the plane in the U.S. and the Berlin wall had fallen," Leutze said. "We went back and chipped out a chunk of the wall for ourselves."
Weeks spent filming the show are tilled with 12- to 14-hour work days, usually with no days off. "We have filmed in front of many historic build- ings and have never been inside them," Leutze said.
In total, Leutze
spends about two weeks in each country Globe Watch spotlights. The crew stays a few weeks longer to film the background scenes shown during Leutze's narration. When the near-finished versions of the series have been put together, Leutze records his background narra- tion and then sits in on the show's final editing. All together, it takes nearly a year from the time the film- ing begins tintil the show actually airs.
Globe Watch is available by satel- lite feed to all public television sta- tions in the United States, about halt ot which air it. Tapes of the show, accompanied by teaching guides, are also distributed to public schools in North Carolina and are available to out-of-state teachers.
A recent agreement will allow viewers from all over the world to see Globe Watch. TVOntario, one ot the world's largest television distribu- tors, began distributing copies of Globe Watch (in English and French dubbed versions) last spring.
"So no matter where you are in the world next spring," Leutze said, "you just might be able to tune in to Globe Watch" Carolyn Busse
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Considering the accomplish- ments of Katherine Bell Moore, it's not surprising that the '73 UNCW grad was a non-traditional student.
Very non-traditional.
Honored as one ot five Women of Enterprise in the nation in 1990 by the Small Business Administration and Avon, Moore's story has been told in Good Housekeeping. She's appeared on Good Morning America and Sally ]essy Raphael. Most recently, she was one of 50 business success stories fea- tured in the June issue of Entrepreneur.
But when Moore graduated from Wilmington's Williston High School in 1959, Wilmington College had not yet been integrated. So she com- pleted a two-year teaching degree at Norfolk State College in Norfolk, Va., where she married and had a son, Ira, now 30.
She longed to return home, though. "When I saw an opportunity to come back to Wilmington and fin- ish college, that's what I did," she said. "I've never wanted to live any- where else."
Wilmington College had estab- lished an open-door policy toward black students in the fall of 1962, but when Moore entered UNCW as a part-time student in the late 1960s, she was virtually alone. "I don't
remember a single black student on that campus," she said. "I was there in a sea of white faces, really, trying to find my way."
Luckily, she ran into little overt hostility. Mary Davis, who worked in the office of Dean of Students J. Marshall Crews, helped smooth the way for her. Moore, who majored in English with an emphasis on drama and speech, counts drama professor Terry Rogers, English professor James Collier and the late speech communi- cation professor Betty Jo Welch among her favorite teachers.
At UNCW, Moore learned important lessons in both written and spoken communication — crucial skills in teaching, business and civic leadership. She had been teaching full time for a dozen years when her second husband asked her to help him with a combined moving and delivery service in the late 1970s.
It soon became apparent that Moore's husband wasn't practical. He charged only $500, for instance, to move an entire hardware store on short notice. When the marriage broke up, what is now Eastern Delivery Service was $80,000 in debt and Moore had an 18-month-old baby and 15 -year-old son to care for.
Moore likes to say she solved
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several problems at once by plunging into the business head first. She solved her child care problem by bringing Leelee, now 15, to work with her, and her debt problem by making the business turn a profit.
She decided to drop the moving end of the business and specialize in courier deliveries. And she got lucky: a similar business in the area closed down just when she was starting up. "They were so generous," she said. "They called me and gave me their customer list. So I had a real shot in the arm as to where to look for business."
The service fills a niche in the delivery market not met by overnight couriers. Using her service "is like hiring a taxicab to carry a parcel door to door," Moore said.
Understandably, costs reflect that. A delivery run to Raleigh from Wilmington, for instance, will cost more than $ 1 00. Even when people hear her price tor a delivery, "you'd be surprised at how often we get the job," she said. "They'll scream bloody murder, but they'll take it."
In an emergency, costs can be relative. "When a whole shift will be standing idle for want of a part, they'll say, 'I didn't ask you how much it cost, just go get it,' " she said. "No two days are ever alike in here. There are times when you wish you knew what to expect when you come to work. But it's never boring."
It has been years since Moore has made a delivery personally. Now 16 years old, the business is well established; annual sales were $800,000 in 1991.
Moore was appointed to the Wilmington City Council in June 1991, elected later the same year and named Mayor pro tern in July. Even so, she considers her selection as one ot five Women of Enterprise as her most significant honor. "These are women who are successful entrepreneurs and who have succeeded against tar greater odds," said Moore, who counts herself the least of the five. "Those women were unbelievable."
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Making a Personal Investment
Eddie Godwin HI Scholarship recipient Clinton Rex Hardy, jr. says there's never a dull moment in coaching and teaching.
Giving a scholarship "is like giving someone a new life"
story and photos by Mary Ellen Poison
As a senior at New Hanover High School, Clinton Rex Hardy, Jr. thought he had so little chance of winning a scholarship that his par- ents had to cajol him out of wearing an old sweatshirt to the school's year- end awards ceremony.
Now a first-year football coach and health teacher at Laney High School, Hardy was astonished when he received the Eddie Godwin III Scholarship, which paid his tuition and fees to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
"1 was an average student," said Hardy, a December '91 UNCW grad- uate. "I thought I'd get a football scholarship before I got something like that."
At UNCW, scholarships come in all shapes and sizes. Some are designed to attract exceptional schol- ars who might not otherwise come to UNCW; others focus on future pro- fessional specialties, like teaching or
business. While about a third of all scholarships come from corporate donors, the majority come from indi- viduals or groups of individuals.
"By far and away, most of our scholarships are need based," said Ty Rowell, associate vice chancellor for University Advancement. "A critical need is for more merit scholarships. We need to be able to seek out and recruit the best academic students we can convince to come here and study."
Rowell reasons that good students enhance the university experience for everyone. "You reach out and influence people if you're a strong person. If you're a positive role model, you influ- ence in a positive way."
About 740 scholarships were awarded to UNCW students during the 1990-91 academic year — most to students who merited a scholarship based on a combination of academic excellence and financial need, said Joe Capell, director of financial aid.
But there are merit-based pro- grams as well. Since 1986, UNCW's Office of Admissions has awarded 25 scholarships annually to minority students from North Carolina through its Minority Achievements Awards. Every minority applicant who applies to UNCW is considered for the award.
For some students, it means the difference between choosing UNCW and another school. "Many of our award winners tell us that the award was the deciding factor," said Diane Zeeman, director of admissions.
The award recipients have also provided an unexpected fringe bene- fit for the university: "They go back to their hometowns and talk it up to their friends, and so they become sort of a walking advertisement for UNCW and the scholarship," Zeeman said.
That ripple effect has not gone unnoticed by university officials, who
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want to beef up the institution's merit scholarship base. As the only public university in Southeastern North Carolina, UNCW has a spe- cial mission to serve the surrounding region, said Margaret Robison, direc- tor of development for University Advancement. Without the incen- tive of scholarships, the best and brightest students may leave the area for college — perhaps never to return.
Additional scholarships would give more students an incentive to remain. "If you can educate people here at home, they're more likely to stay here," Robison said.
It costs about $15,000 to endow a basic scholarship, enough for an academic year's tuition and fees year after year. It's a substantial gift for a significant purpose. "If there's some- one you want to honor in your fami- ly, that's something that will be here â– forever," Robison said.
When Eddie Godwin III died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1986, more than 100 individuals, businesses and organizations helped create an endowment in memory of the man who had given so much to the Wilmington community. Godwin managed the Babe Ruth youth base- ball program for years, carrying on the tradition of his father, Eddie Godwin, Jr., for whom Wilmington's Godwin Field is named.
The Godwin endowment is unusual in that it doesn't fall into any of the typical scholarship cate- gories. The ideal recipient has decent grades, has been active in extracurricular activities and has par- ticipated in high school athletics — but not necessarily as a star athlete. The award is earmarked for graduates ot New Hanover High School, Eddie's alma mater.
Hardy, whose scholarship was renewed for each of the four years he attended UNCW, fit the bill. Hardy played baseball, basketball and foot- ball in middle school and football in high school, but he says teaching and coaching are more fun. "There's never a dull moment," he said. "That's what people should look tor
in a career — something new every day. And education is definitely that."
For some, a scholarship can mean the difference between com- pleting an education and dropping out of school. Lavonne Adams, who graduated from UNCW in May, was in the middle of a divorce that would leave her without the money she needed to complete her master's degree in creative writing when she learned she had won the B.D. and Sylvia Schwartz Graduate Fellowship. Chosen by a committee of three nominators, the fellowship paid tuition and fees for her last year of school. "For me, it meant the differ-
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ence between staying in school and not staying in school," said the mother of three, who plans to teach and write.
The Schwartz fellowship was the first scholarship specifically ear- marked for graduate students. "We looked around and UNCW didn't have one," said B.D. Schwartz, a former state senator and a member of the boards of trustees of both Wilmington College and UNCW, where he served as chairman. "We just thought if we started a precedent, people would follow."
Winning the fellowship certainly caught the attention of Adams, who hopes someday to have the money to endow a scholarship herself. "It's like giving someone a new life," she said.
Occasionally a scholarship goes begging for lack of a candidate. The R&.E Electronics Scholarship was cre- ated about 10 years ago to award $1,000 annually to a local minority candidate majoring in pre-engineering.
Even with the incentive the R&E Scholarship afforded, candi-
dates were hard to find. Broadening the choice of majors to include other technical fields has helped some, but potential recipients unaware of the R&E scholarship may have been lost to other schools — or to a university education in general.
"I think awareness probably was one of the areas that wasn't addressed in the past," said Ed Mayorga, president of RckE Electronics. "Since Dr. Leutze came on board, I sense a new focus."
That focus includes making the best use of the scholarship resources available. "I think it's important for UNCW to concentrate on attracting qualified minority students," said Mayorga. "And the scholarship is giv- ing those individuals the opportunity to succeed."
The contributions of a small group of former teachers is proof that you don't have to be rich or famous to endow a scholarship — just persis- tent. In 1981, members of the Beta Phi chapter ot Delta Kappa Gamma, an honorary society for women edu- cators, made an initial gift of $3,000 toward a scholarship that would be given annually to a financially needy woman in her junior or senior year who planned to become a teacher.
Each year since, the chapter has kicked several hundred more dollars into the kitty, working toward an even- tual goal of $10,000 — enough to endow an annual scholarship indefinitely.
The scholarship fund represents "a lot of $30-a-month-type investments from the whole group," said Beta Phi chapter treasurer Jan Cagle. "We're really excited about it from the stand- point that we're almost ready to give someone the (first scholarship)."
The decline in interest rates in recent years means the Beta Phi chap- ter's scholarship won't cover the full cost of a year's tuition and fees — but it will probably be enough to fund a $500 award annually. "Hopefully, we could use the scholarship to encourage some- one who really wants to teach, but tor whom the financial part of it is difficult," Cagle said. "People shouldn't think they can't go to college because of money. The money is there."
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Challenges in line at UNCW's new Leadership Center
Story by Carolyn Busse Photos by Lee Pridgen
Cathy Bryson stood backwards on the edge of the platform with her eyes closed. "Just do it," she told her- self. After all, she was only falling a few feet.
Sixteen of her co-workers stood below her, facing each other in two rows of outstretched arms, looking something like a human zipper.
Did she trust those people enough to believe they would catch her, keep her from falling all the way to the floor of the pine for- est? She did.
It was a moment Bryson probably won't soon forget.
"It feels like you're tailing forever," she said. "It's exciting and scary at the same time."
Bryson had just com- pleted the "trust fall," one of 16 elements of UNCW's new jungle gym, the chal- lenge course. Nestled on five acres of tall pine forest on the north side of cam- pus, the course challenges its users to work through progressively difficult obstacles, similar to those you might encounter while hiking or mountain climbing.
Completed just this spring, the course is just
one element of the UNCW Leadership Center, whose programs, as its name suggests, are designed to turn UNCW students into tomor- row's leaders. "When universities were first created, the idea was to educate leaders," said Cathy
UNCW student Cathy Bryson swings from one low platform the Leadership Center's Challenge course.
to another on
Birmingham, the center's director. "Over the years they have become so specialized that they can no longer focus on that goal."
The only one of its kind at a North Carolina university, the center is a pioneer in leadership develop- ment for students of all majors.
The center's "outdoor" branch focuses on hands-on experience in an outdoor setting, which has the potential to have a greater impact on students than a classroom lecture. "People learn leadership by doing," said Birmingham. "The con- sequences of poor leadership are immediate if you're cold, wet and hungry."
Besides offering rentals of outdoor equipment to students who want to ven- ture out on their own, the center offers hiking, canoe- ing, rock climbing trips and day excursions to the chal- lenge course.
The course is made up of a series of "high" and "low" elements and is loose- ly modeled after a military obstacle course. Unlike the physical demand of military courses, challenge courses, first built in the 1960s, focus on the mind.
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Steven Getzeoman, left and Benjamin Sperling, right, on the high challenge course.
"Most of the challenge is up in your head," said Brock Snyder, '90, program coordinator for the Leadership Center. "The goal is to help people become better problem solvers, develop leadership skills and be better team members."
Today's courses, like the one at UNCW, are designed to be used by groups ranging in size from 10 to 18 people. Groups spend a day moving through 16 elements, beginning with simple, low-to-the-ground obstacles and then working up to the tougher, high-altitude elements. When not participating directly, group members watch and spot each other.
Birmingham, Snyder and a num- ber of trained students have guided numerous groups through the course's challenges since its completion. A typical day on the course begins with low elements and simple warmup games such as "All Aboard," which challenges everyone to stand on a platform that measures no more than 2 1/2 feet square.
Other low elements are built into the trees. There is a series of low-to-the-ground wires strung between the trees for teams of two to
walk across. They stand facing each other holding hands and walk side- ways. The further they walk, the far- ther apart the wires become. The challenge is to see how far they can go without falling flat on their faces. And there's a 10- by 6-foot "spider" web to climb through before its openings close.
The high course is centered around a platform users get to by maneuvering their way up a steep climbing wall. Extending out in all directions from the platform is a series of cables, ropes and wooden beams that reach out into the sur- rounding pines. Because the high course is 35 feet off the ground, safety is a top priority. Everyone is securely harnessed to the course with a belay system, a series of ropes and pulleys.
High elements include a rappel station to maneuver down and a high balance beam. For the bravest mem- bers of the group, there's the "Burma Bridge," a high wire to walk across with only two loosely strung ropes to hold on to. The "heebie-jeebie," another high wire, challenges group members to walk sideways with just
one loose rope in front of them.
When the team members finish all the obstacles, they are each har- nessed to a huge pulley and leave the course by gliding through the trees on the "zip line."
Off the course, the Leadership Center's original two-semester class, Emerge, helps students develop their self confidence and gives them a sup- port network that lets them branch out into other parts of the university and the community. During the group's weekly meetings, students study personal development and group and leadership skills with guest speakers from various areas of the university.
UNCW Volunteers!, another outreach of the center, places UNCW students in volunteer posi- tions in a variety of agencies through- out New Hanover County.
Last year, student volunteers tutored more than 300 children in a local dropout prevention program, and it is estimated that the dropout rate in the county decreased by 1 per- cent due to their efforts.
"We try to give students a good volunteer experience now, so they'll continue to volunteer when they leave UNCW," said Birmingham.
Whether inside or out, the Leadership Center is turning out suc- cessful students: this year's Student Government Association president, Joe Mitchell, and vice president, Ziggy Nix, are both graduates of the center's Emerge program.
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Wise House
REVEALS HER PAST
Owned by the University of North Carolina at
Wilmington for more than 20 years , the Jessie Kenan
Wise House has a storied history.
by Mary Ellen Poison
Lawrence Lewis, Jr. remem- bers the Christmas Day the Kenan clan gathered to watch him fire his brand-new .410 shotgun off Miss Jessie's front porch.
"Actually, my Uncle William Kenan, Jr. wanted to see me shoot it," said Lewis, then a boy of about 1 1. It was a family tradition to gather at the Market Street homes of Jessie Kenan Wise and her sis- ter, Sarah Graham Kenan, for the holidays. "I was beside myself wanting to shoot my new gun and my grandmother was beside herself trying to get us to the Christmas dinner table," Lewis recalled. "She finally said, 'Oh William, take him out on the porch and let him shoot it.'"
While his Uncle William smiled and his Grandmother Wise covered her ears, Lewis fired the gun off the porch of Wise House at 1713 Market Street.
The volley stopped traffic.
More than 50 years later, UNCW's Wise House, with its soar- ing Ionic columns and Neoclassical Revival flare, is still capable of stop- ping traffic.
Designed by renowned architect Burett H. Stephens, the house was built by Delgado Cotton Mills
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President Edwin C. Holt and his wife, Delores, in 1908-09. A 1911 photo- graph of the mansion shows only a few spindly trees in the front yard; the massive brick wall enclosing the property had not yet been built. When Jessie Hargrave Kenan
Wise House as it appears today.
Wise bought the house from the Holts in 1916, she was in her mid- forties. Although she had other homes in Wrightsville Beach and | Blowing Rock and frequently trav- J eled, Wise House would be her pri- y mary residence for more than 50 JL years.
Small in stature — she had to = stand on tiptoe to reach the f kitchen wall telephone — but °:. indomitable in character, "Miss g Jessie," as she was called, was one of -S four children of William Rand | Kenan of Kenansville and Mary | Hargrave of Chapel Hill. The oth- 8 ers were William, Jr., who discov- e ered the commercial process for ^ making carbide and acetylene gas I that led to the founding of Union | Carbide; Sarah, who married her
cousin, Graham Kenan; and Mary Lily, who married Henry M. Flagler and died when she was only 5 1 .
Mrs. Wise loved to entertain and was the most outgoing of the three surviving Kenan siblings, said Thomas Kenan III, whose grandfa- ther was Mrs. Wise's first cousin. "She was a wonderful hostess," Kenan said.
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"I can remember having lunch with her. She loved shad roe and
bacon on toast."
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"I can remember having lunch with her, and she loved to have shad roe and bacon on toast."
Even though she was an heiress, Mrs. Wise was not above mending her own table linen and bed sheets. "She would darn my socks," Lewis said. "And she did exquisite petit point."
For many years, Mrs. Wise lived two doors down from Kenan House, Sarah Graham Kenan's home at 1 705 Market Street, now the UNCW chancellor's residence. Thomas W. Davis, general solicitor for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, lived in the house between the two sisters.
The house has since been torn down, but at the time poor Mr. Davis was the butt of a standing joke. "Each of the sisters had a brick wall around their homes," Lewis said. "And they called the neighbor between them 'Walled Off Davis."
While Mrs. Wise's house was not as large as Kenan House, it was built
Louise Wise Lewis and young Lawrence Lewis , Jr.
in the same era and on a grand scale. Such a huge house required a sub- stantial staff. The chauffeur, Levi Daniels, had been a stable boy when Mrs. Wise ordered a Pierce Arrow from the factory in Buffalo, N.Y. Daniels, then about 17, "was sent to
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the factory to learn how to drive," Lewis said. "And he brought the car back to Wilmington."
But it was the cook, Anna Borden, who ruled the roost at Wise House. Borden's parents had been slaves and later house servants at Liberty Hall, the Kenan family home in Kenansville. For years, she was the only servant to live on the Wise House property, in the carriage house behind the mansion.
"She made beaten biscuits every single morning," Lewis said. Using a baseball bat to pound the dough, "she'd roll it up into a ball and pound it till it was flat. Then she'd roll it up into a ball and beat it again."
Along with the beaten biscuits, grits were served at breakfast each day. "Sunday morning, it was grits and lamb chops," he said. "No variation." Lewis remembers his grand- mother's dining room as dark, shadowed by the porte cochere on the east side ot the house and a wall covering of a hunting scene taken from a French tapestry. "The furni- ture of her day was heavy Jacobean oak that almost looked black," he said. "Even when she was alone, she ate all three meals in the dining room."
Crisscrossed with dark wooden ceiling beams, the dining room is paneled in dark mahogany. The black marble fireplace on the east wall is unusual in that the top board is wood, grained to match the marble in the rest of the man- tle. The floor is trimmed with the most elaborate of several inlaid bor- der patterns in the house. The hunt- ing-scene wall covering is intact under layers ot wallboard and wallpa- per installed when the house was used for filming in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series. Although no piano was kept there, the east front parlor was called the music room. Mr. Lewis and his sister, Mary Lily Flagler Lewis Wiley, donated its Adams-style furniture to
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the Cornwallis House after Mrs. Wise's death in 1968.
Even stripped of its rich furnish- ings, the east front parlor is a beautiful room. A white marble mantlepiece is visible through the French double doors; on the ceiling is a rose medal- lion molding. The walls are trimmed with picture and chair-rail moldings, and the floor is bordered with inlaid cherry.
On the other side of the house is a long living room with two fireplaces, one on the west wall and the other on the north. It had originally been two smaller rooms, but Mrs. Wise remod- eled it because she liked large rooms, Lewis said.
One of her favorite seats was a hard, uncomfortable Victorian sofa, he said. A favorite hobby in later years was to "work from one Sunday
to the next on the New York Times crossword puzzle."
Mrs. Wise was also "crazy about clocks," Lewis said. "She had as many as four striking clocks in one room. At midnight, you'd practically jump out of bed because every clock would go off at once."
Just behind the living room was a tiny room with a fireplace, where his grandmother would go to nap. "Mrs. Wise had this wonderful capacity of being able to put her head down on the sofa and go to sleep for about 20 minutes and wake up and be as bright as a penny," Lewis said. "Once she did that, she was spry for the rest of the evening."
Lewis believes that his grand- mother's ability to nap kept her young — plus the fact that she walked every day. Mrs. Wise also liked a
The wedding party of Lewis' mother, Louise, on the front steps of Wise House.
drink in the evening — never more than two, though.
Not one to let an immovable object stand in the way of a breath of fresh air, Mrs. Wise unstuck the window herself.
"During Prohibition, she had a wonderful bootlegger, and she was always terrified that someone would steal her liquor," Lewis said. So she had George Kidder of Wilmington Ironworks equip a small room off the pantry with steel plates for the floor, walls and ceiling, bars on the win- dow and an iron door. The room was kept locked and opened only when Mrs. Wise wanted a drink — and then only long enough for the liquor to be poured, Lewis said.
Her bedroom upstairs was on the front west side. In a delightful touch, the wooden mantles in both front bedrooms are supported by columns that match the Ionic columns on the front of the house.
Two handsome watdrobes are built into the hall, which leads through double doors with arch- paned glass to a small foyer — once Mrs. Wise's sewing room — over- looking the narrow, decorative balustrade over the front entry below.
Up a narrow staircase is the attic. With its down-scaled stage, sloping walls, gabled windows and window seats, it's a child's paradise. Completely finished in unpainted pine beadboard, it looks much as it must have when Lewis played there as a child. "My grandmother was very thoughtful," he said. "She didn't know what to do with my sister and me, but she thought we would probably enjoy playing on a stage."
In their prime, the grounds were
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Wise House as it appeared before World War U .
a wonderland, too. Old photographs show banks of azaleas framing a beau- tifully manicured lawn decorated with elaborate statuary. On the side of the house was a circular sunken garden, graced by a centuries-old Roman well with a wrought-iron top and iron bucket, Kenan said. The rim of the garden is still visible through a tangle of morning glories.
Before World War II, Mrs. Wise frequently accompanied her brother and sister on Randleigh, the custom rail car William, Jr. had built to his specifications in 1926. Lined with American walnut, the all-steel car was 85 feet long, Mr. Kenan, Jr. wrote in his memoir, Recollections by the Way. Inside were two large and two small bedrooms, large dining and observation rooms, bathrooms, a kitchen, a butler's pantry and "crew quarters sufficient for three men."
The furnishings included Czech- oslovakian glassware, Bavarian china, carpets and blankets color matched for each room and Irish bed and table linens.
Among the pleasure trips the threesome took were a 1927 excursion to the West Coast and Yellowstone Park, a 1929 trip to the Canadian Northwest, a 1931 journey to New Orleans, trips in 1933 and 1940 to Havana, via Miami, and a 1933 jour-
ney to the World's Fair in Chicago.
Mrs. Wise kept her good health until almost the end of her life. One day when she was quite elderly, she decided she wanted a certain window open. It had long since been painted shut, Lewis said. Not one to let an immovable object stand in the way of a breath of fresh air, Mrs. Wise unstuck the window herself.
"She was the most self- disciplined lady that I ever saw in my life, with an absolutely ferocious tem- per that she only lost once in a year or so," Lewis said.
If Mrs. Wise had a fierce temper, she could also be very generous. One day when she was in the mountains, she was walking into town from her Blowing Rock cottage when a storm blew up. A farmer in a broken-down truck gave her a lift. "The next day she bought that farmer a brand new truck," Lewis said.
After Mrs. Wise died in 1968, her grandchildren deeded the house to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The donation was intended to further the charitable and educational programs of the school, but in the years since, the university has had all it can do to maintain the property in its current state.
The exterior of the house was painted in 1987 and there is fresh evidence of repair work in one of the back bedrooms, but a full re- novation will be costly. Plans to renovate the house for meetings and seminars, temporary office space and housing for university guests will go forward as soon as UNCW raises the roughly $717,000 needed to complete the project. That money must come almost entirely from pri- vate sources.
For years, Jessie Kenan Wise's beloved home has slumbered in the shadow of its sister and contemporary, Kenan House. The time has come to give Miss Jessie's house its due.
The Wise House foyer.
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UNCW HONORS BILL AND IDA FRIDAY AT SEPT. 9 CONVOCATION
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington conferred the honorary doctor of letters to Ida Howell Friday and the honorary doc- tor of laws to William C. Friday for their long and distinguished service to the people of North Carolina at formal convocation ceremonies Sept. 9 in Trask Coliseum.
Chancellor James R. Leutze also presented distinguished teaching medallions to 1 5 past Trustee Teaching Excellence Award recipi- ents and to 10 previous Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award recipi- ents. A picnic lunch followed on the grounds beside Trask Coliseum.
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Left to right: Cyndi Moore, Bill Clark, Debbie Permenter, Grady Richardson, Janelle Ross, Jennifer Wasson, Maria Bnrdette.
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Seven UNCW undergraduates and one graduate student are the recip- ients of UNCW Alumni Association scholarships tor the 1992-93 academic year. The awards will cover in-state tuition and tees and have an approxi- mate value of $1,302 each.
The scholars are: Jesse Lafayette Bunch III of Enfield, a graduate stu- dent working on an MBA; Maria Kent Burdette of Jacksonville, a junior majoring in elementary educa- tion; William M. Clark of Coshocton, Ohio, a senior majoring
in history with teacher certification; Cyndi L. Moore of Wilmington, a sophomore majoring in accounting; Debbie Leigh Permenter, a sopho- more majoring in elementary educa- tion from Wilmington; Janelle Beth Ross of Burgaw, a sophomore major- ing in elementary education; George Grady Richardson, Jr., a sophomore majoring in political science from Wilmington; and Jennifer Leah Louise Wasson, a freshman majoring in business administration with a minor in art from Wilmington.
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1992-1993
John "Jack" Gross Ashby of Wilmington was an executive account representative for 38 years with GTE Corp. and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ashby has also served as chair- man of the New Hanover County Airport Commission and is currently chairman of the New Hanover International Airport Authority .
George B. Autry of Chapel Hill is president of MDC Inc. Born in Wilmington , Autry received undergradu- ate and juris Doctor degrees from Duke University and attended the George Washington University Graduate School of Public Law. Autry was named a Richardson Foundation Congressional Fellow and later became chief counsel and staff director of Sam Emits U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rig/us.
Thomas B. Rabon, Jr. of Leland is state director of government affairs for AT&T in Wilmington . Rabon received a B.A. in political science from UNC Chapel Hill in 1976. A former member of the N.C. House of Representa- tives , Rabon has served on the Steering Committee of the Tar Heel Circle in Washington , D.C. , and has served on a number of boards, including the Z. Smith Reynold's Foundation and UNC Alumni.
Triangle Alumni Chapter President Barry Bottling {left) and Robert and Lydia Walton at the Aug. 22 Durham Bulls cookout.
ALUMNI CHAPTERS
HAPPENINGS AND EVENTS
About 60 UNCW alumni, friends and spouses attended the second annual Durham Bulls Cookout for the Triangle Alumni chapter Aug. 22 in Durham. Other recent alumni events include the Cape Fear Alumni Chapter Golf Tournament Sept. 26. About 80 enthusiastic golfers turned out at The Cape Golf and Raquet Club for the all-day affair.
Hold space on your calendar for the USAir Basketball Classic Dec. 1849. Events include a black- tie dance from 8 p.m. to midnight Dec. 16 in Wagoner Hall and a casual banquet from 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 17 on the Battleship North Carolina Memorial.
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UNCW Alumni Chapter
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Tickets tor the dance are $50 per person or $100 per couple. Banquet tickets are $15. For more information or tickets, please call (919) 395-3571.
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ALUMNOTES
The '60s
Bobby R. Whaley '63 was recently elected vice president of Wachovia Bank of North Carolina in Wilmington.
George M. Crouch '69 is a sales manager with Communication Man- agement Services living in Columbia.
Sheldon Wayne Johnson '69 is vice president or Willis Corroon Corp. of North Carolina in Charlotte.
W. Sandy Dew '69 is the president of Dew Oil Co. in Delco.
The 70s
Edward E. Maready 70 is senior vice president and chief financial officer for Cooperative Savings and Loan in Wilmington.
Patricia Anne Neuwirth '72 6k '90 is the manager of New Hanover Regional Medical Center's traffic injury prevention program and lives in Wilmington.
Norman Melton 77 is the marketing teacher-coordinator at North Brunswick High School. He was recently selected as the 1991 Marketing Education Teacher of the Year by the N.C. Marketing Educators Association. Melton lives in Wilmington.
William Fred Taylor 76 is an audit partner with Coopers and Lybrand living in Raleigh. He is married to Connie Sue Taylor 78, a contract negotiator with Northern Telecom. They have two children, Karen, 5, and William, 2.
Gene N. Borowski 77 is a pharma- cist at North Lake Pharmacy and lives in Gaithersburg, Md.
Deborah Hunter 77 is a field execu- tive for the Catawba Valley Area Girl Scouts based in Hickory.
The '80s
Hugh Heaton '80 is a planner with American Airlines living in Knightdale.
J. Denny Pugh '80 is a project man- ager with ProCon Inc. and lives in Greensboro.
Pamela J. Whitlock '80 is a contracts and grant officer for UNCW and lives in Wilmington.
Jeff W. Gri:;le '81 is the vice president of operations for South Atlantic Services and lives in Castle Hayne.
David Jan Storey '81 & '90 is the director of Pitt Regional Juvenile Services.
Fax Rector, Jr. '81 is the director ot information systems for the Wilmington Star-News, Inc. and lives in Chadbourn.
Margaret O'Leary Amsler '83
recently returned from her 12th research season in Antarctica. She is a staff research associate at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her husband, Charles Dunkle Amsler '83, is pursuing post doctorate work at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
R. Craig Stevens '84 is a branch manager with Anixter Brothers, Inc. in Morrisville.
Thomas Strong Fanjoy '84 is a sales agent with Fonville Morisey Realtors living in Raleigh. He is married to Jennifer Mason Fanjoy '84, a sales associate/flight attendant with USAir.
John R. Barber '85 has been promot- ed to senior manager at KPMG Peat Marwick in Richmond, Va.
Peter W. Leahy '85 graduated from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, with an MBA in Finance and International Business in May.
Morris R. Marshburn '85 is the man- ager of general services for McGladrey &. Pullen's New Bern office.
Todd Jones '85 is a consultant man- ager for the N.C. Department of Transportation living in Garner.
Marcia Mann Kelly '85 is an internal manager with Old Northwest Agents living in Raleigh.
TRUSTEES
Raleigh resident Edward G. Lilly, Jr. was formerly executive vice pres- ident and chief financial officer for CPS'L. Lilly received a B.A. in economics from Davidson College and an MBA from the Wharton School. University of Pennsylvania. A Davidson College Trustee from 1979 to 1 988 , Mr. Lilly has also served on the UNC Chapel Hill Board of Visitors and as a Peace College Trustee.
Eunice T. MacRae of Wilmington is a graduate of UNCW. Mrs. MacRae has worked as an ele- mentary school teacher and as a stewardess for Pan American Airlines. She has served on the Board of Trustees for Bellamy
Mansion Inc. and as a board member of the N.C. Education & Historical Foundation .
Julia T. Morton of Lmville received a B.A. front L'NC Greensboro, where she was Phi Beta Kappa. She was awarded an hon- orary Doctor of Hitman Letters from Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk. Ahomemafi- er, Morton served on the UNC Board of Governors from 1973 to 1989, four of those years
as vice cliainrtan. She has also served on the boards of trustees for Lees- McRae College and UNCG .
Garland B. Garrett, Jr., vice presi- dent of Cape Fear Music Co. in Wilmington , received an associ- ate degree from Wilmington College (now UNCW) in 1963 and a B.A. in business adminis- tration from Virginia Tech in 1965. He has served as board chairman of First Hanover Bank and is a former member of the board for the state Department of Transportation .
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George Rountree III
received B.A. and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Arizona in 1 955 and I960, respectively. A Wilmington attorney, Rountree ivas the charter president of the Sertcnna Club and has served as president of a number of organiza- tions , including the New Hanover County Bar Association, the UNCW Student Aid Association and Cape Fear Country Club.
C. Heide Trask.
who attended UNCW when it was Wilmington College , has spent his career in farm- ing and real estate development. He has served on the Board of Deacons of First Presbyterian Church, the boards of the YM CA, Oakdale Cemetery and the N .C. Soybean Association; and as a trustee for New Hanover County Arboretum- Chairman of the UNCW Board of Trustees. Robert F. Warwick is a managing farmer with McGladrey & Pullen CPAs in Wilmington. A J 955 .graduate of Wilmington College , Warwick received aB. A. from UNC Chapel Hill in J 958. He is a past president of the
Greater Wilmington Chamber of Cumn\erce and the Committee of 1 00 and past chairman of the UNCW Foundation.
Eugene E. Wright, Jr., a Fayetteville physician, gradu- ated from Princeton in 1973 and received an M.D. from Duke University in 1978. Dr. Wright has served on the Fayetteville State University Foundation
Board and was a charter member o/
the Fayetteville Technical Institute
Foundation Board.
Keith A. Lankford '85 & '86 is a zoning/development specialist with the Carrboro Planning Department living in Chapel Hill.
Linda McKinney Williams '85 is a
sales representative tor Ortho Pharma- ceutical living in Charlottesville, Va.
V.W. Blalock '86 is a branch opera- tions manager of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. living in Wilmington.
Navy Lt. David Earl Simmons '86 served a six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Gridley, whose home port is San Diego, Calif.
David Whightman '86 is a senior claims representative with Aetna Life and Casualty Co. living in Charlotte.
Sarah Elizabeth Marks '86 is director of Patient Relations for UNC Hospitals living in Durham.
Steve Allnutt '87 is a Realtor with Long & Foster living in Columbia, Md. He is married to Holly Sides Alnutt '88, a marketing coordinator for Law Engineering, Inc.
Jeffrey N. Rogers '87 is the assistant managet of merchandising with Big Lots living in Siler City.
Marine Cpl. Robert L. Tugwell '87 was recently deployed for six months to Okinawa, Japan with the Sth Marines 2nd Marine Division from Camp Lejeune.
Elizabeth Jean Schedler '87 is an account manager with Catolina Freight Carriers living in Leland.
Marine 1st Lt. Kenneth W. Cobb '87 recently returned from a six-month deployment with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Mediter- ranean. He is stationed at Camp Lejeune.
Chris Conway '88 is vice president of sales for MarPat Co. living in Spinnerstown, Pa.
Allyson Michelle Creech Foltz '88 is a clinical research associate with Pharmaceutical Product Develop- ment, Inc. in Wilmington. She is mar- ried to William Gavin Foltz '87.
Donald E. Gamble '88 is the Southeastern U.S. director for Elgin
Industries in Longwood, Fla.
Sharon Kay Blackburn '88 is a senior accountant with Murray, Thomson 6k Co. living in Wilmington.
Angela Ruth Johnson 'S8 is a personal banker with Wachovia Bank and Trust Company living in Wilmington.
Lynn L. Mclver '88 is a senior accountant with Murray, Thomson 6k Co. living in Wilmington.
Lora Brown Pierce '89 is a teacher at Dixon Middle School living in Maple Hill.
Laurie F. Warner '89 is the supervi- sor in the general accounting services department of Murray, Thomson 6k Co., living in Wrightsville Beach.
The '90s
Randy Gerald Hill '90 is a wildlife enforcement officer with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission liv- ing in Durham.
Robert J. Hollis '90 is a staff accoun- tant in the audit department of McGladrey and Pullen living in Wilmington.
Kevin Smith '90 is a computer opera- tor with GTE Data Services living in Durham.
Carl Blake Willis '90 is a pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. He and his wife, Rachel Butters Willis '86, have two children, Daniel Shelton, 4, and Alexandria Blake, six months.
Vonda Nelson '90 has been promot- ed to export sales coordinator for Sun International in Wilmington.
W. Benjamin (Ben) Burrows '90
has been named city executive of United Carolina Bank in Wallace.
Francis A. Slater '90 is a market research manager with Glickman Research Associates living in Newfoundland, N.J.
Wendy L. Ahrens '91 is a research assistant with Coastal Area Health Education Center living in Wilmington.
Jennifer Laskey '91 is a first-grade teacher in the Durham County
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School System. She is engaged to W.D. 'Trey' Jones '91, who works in contract sales tor Triangle Office Equip- ment. They both live in Chapel Hill.
Jill Marie Lasky '91 is a third-grade teacher at Moore School in Forsythe County.
Victoria Pfeiffer '91 is in the MBA
program at the University of Georgia. She was an account executive at WGNI-FM radio in Wilmington prior to enrolling. She is married to Eric Pfeiffer, a nuclear health physics technician.
Scott Hagan '91 is a police officer for the city of Wilmington.
Cynthia J. Rosich '91 is an environ- mental scientist with Douglass Environmental Services, Inc. living in Raleigh.
Stephanie Ballengee Wagner '91 is a
staff nurse in the Card io -Thoracic Surgical Unit at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh.
Robin L. Walker Tomlinson '91 is a
sixth-grade communication skills teacher at Tabor City Middle School. She lives in Whiteville with her hus- band, Jon.
Nancy Balkema Alexander '90 is the director of the dental program at Cape Fear Community College living in Wilmington.
Michael Thomas '92 is the registrar in the curatorial department of the Battleship North Carolina living in Wilmington.
MARRIAGES
Jeffrey Scott Wooten '85 to Lisa Ann Barefoot living in Wilmington.
George Herman Smith III, '89 to
Donna Abernathy living in Appomattox, Va.
Kerry "Allan" Daniel '89 to Sarah Elizabeth Camlin living in Georgetown, S.C.
Trina Oretha Davis '91 to Clarence Lazelle Smith living in Castle Hayne.
Victoria A. Jones '91 to Eric Pfeiffer living in Athens, Ga.
Christine Marie Ward '91 to
William Ellis Rivenbark living in Wilmington.
BIRTHS
To Erin Laughter, '86 and husband Brooke Philpy, a son, Lawson Brooke, May 3, 1992.
To Teresa Kay Allen Harper, '88
and husband Randall R. Harper, a son, Allen Randall Harper.
IN MEMORIAM
Lillian Parker Cherry Moore '91
died Aug. 12, 1992. Prior to her death she was a computer operator at the UNC School for Public Health.
CAPSULES
Two UNCW graduates scored second and third in the state on the November 1991 Uniform CPA Examination and were honored at the N.C. Association of Certified Public Accountants' spring banquet in March. Robert Joseph Hollis '90 of Wilmington received the Silver Katharine Guthrie Memorial Award for the second highest grade on the exam. Hollis, who earned a bachelor's degree in education from UNCW, also earned the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Certif- icate of Performance with High Dis- tinction for his performance. He is staff accountant in the audit depart- ment for McGladrey and Pullen in Wilmington. Garland Atkinson Boyd '92 of Wilmington was awarded the Bronze Guthrie award for his third-place score on the CPA exam. Boyd is project manager/cost accoun- tant with Interactive Control Tech- nology in Wallace. He received a B.S. from the University of New Mexico and an M.S. in systems technology from the Naval Post Graduate School and a B.S. in accounting from UNCW.
Janet Toedt 77 &. '90 has been named one of the Great 100 Registered Nurses in North Carolina for 1992. Toedt is director of special care ser- vices at Cape Fear Memorial Hospital in Wilmington. She is responsible tor
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Connie S. Yow, owner-partner of Interior Collecnoivs m Topsail Beach and Yow
Enterprises , a real estate and develop- ment company, is a Wilmington resi- dent and a gradu- ate of Wilmington College. Yow has served as board member and president of UNCW Friends and as an officer and board member of the Junior League of Wilmington.
Joseph P. Mitchell III of
Greensboro is a senior at UNCW and student body president. An ex- officio member of the Board of Trustees , Mitchell has been active in Student Government and has served as a UNCW Ambassador. Active in his church, Mitchell is a Dean's List stu- dent and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity .
the post-anesthesia care unit, the ambulatory surgery department, the intensive care unit and the endoscopy department.
Stephen M. Reilly '89 works with the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture and lives in Rockville, Md. He received a Juris Doctor with Honors from the UNC School of Law in May '92. Reilly's article, "What Employers can do to Correct Imbalance in Employment Contracts," was pub- lished in the July 1992 issue ot the Defense Council journal.
Eric Brandt '88 is an account repre- sentative with Metropolitan Lite's Wilmington office. He was recently honored for sales achievement that placed him in the top 10 percent ot all sales personnel at Met Lite. Brandt lives in Lake Waccamaw with his wife, Ruth, and their two children.
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NOVEMBER
I UNCW Band Concert Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Seahawk Soccer AMERICAN, 1 p.m.
I I Seahawk Volleyball CAMPBELL, 7 p.m.
13-15 Lady Seahawk Fall Invitational Golf Tournament Topsail Greens Country Club
14-15 Christmas Fantasia Arts and Crafts Show Trask Coliseum
19-22 UNCW Theatre Performance Rumors by Neil Simon Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
21 Minority Visitation Day, 12-5 p.m.
Seahawk Swimming DUKE, 2 p.m.
23 UNCW Music Percussion Concert Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
26-27 Campus closed for Thanksgiving holiday
28-29 Nutcracker Ballet Kenan Auditorium
30 Aspen Wind Quintet, Wilmington Concert Association, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
DECEMBER
1 Seahawk Women's Basketball DUKE, 7:30 p.m.
3 UNCW Jazz Ensemble Concert Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
4 UNCW Honors Recital Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Seahawk Swimming CHARLESTON, 7 p.m.
5 Commencement
7 Wilmington Symphony Orchestra: Walk In
Messiah and Christmas Carol singalong Kenan Auditorium, 3 p.m.
11-12 Wilmington Merchant's Assoc. Children's Play Kenan Auditorium, 7 p.m.
16 USAIR East Coast Classic Black Tie Dance Wagoner Hall, 8 p.m.
American Theatre Arts for Youth Tom Thumb Kenan Auditorium, performances at 10 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.
1 7 USAIR East Coast Basketball Classic Banquet Battleship North Carolina Memorial, 6 p.m.
18-19 USAIR East Coast Basketball Classic* Auburn vs. Louisiana Tech UNCW vs. Alabama State
24-3 1 Campus closed for Christmas holidays
30 Seahawk Women's Basketball
COASTAL CAROLINA, 3 p.m.
JANUARY
1 UNCW campus closed for New Year's holiday
2-3 Holiday Inn Women's Basketball Beach Blast Kansas State vs. New Hampshire UNCW vs. Davidson
1 2 Seahawk Women's Basketball
CAMPBELL, 7:30 p.m.
19 Alexei Sultanov, pianist, Wilmington Concert Association, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
22 Seahawk Women's Basketball GEORGE MASON, 7:30 p.m.
23 Seahawk Swimming
DAVIDSON, PFEIFFER (women), GEORGIA TECH (men), 2 p.m.
24 Seahawk Women's Basketball AMERICAN 3 p.m.
26 North Carolina Symphony Concert Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
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*Complete men's basketball schedule is listed on page 14. For ticket information to USAIR East Coast Classic events, call 395-3571.
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All rates are per person and include airfare to Miami plus roundtrip transfers, 7 nights' double occupancy on ship, eight meals and snacks daily including two bountiful late-night buffets. Gala Captain's Dinner, entertainment, full gambling casino, nautica spa program, swimming pools, duty-free shopping on board, and many other extras are included. A portion of each cruise fare will benefit the UNCW Alumni Association.
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PRELUDE
Ura 74, a color lithograph by Handoku Ito
Japanese printmaker Handoku ho produced this lithograph during a week in
residence on the UNCW campus in the fall of 1992. The print, which makes use of
local elements, notably long-leaf pine needles, is part of the artist's Uta series. Loosely
translated, Uta means "dream" in Japanese. A limited number of original prints of
Uta 74 are available for sale from the Department of Fine Arts .
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ARTICLES
A LIVING TREASURE
World renowned glass sculptor receives award at UNCW
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SHARING A FEW OLD TRICKS
Japan's Handoku I to visits campus 6
Q & A WITH MARVIN MOSS
UNCW's new provost shares some thoughts
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HEADING FOR THE HILLS
Alumnus Ray Buchanan's mountaintop experience
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Volume 3, Number 2/3
UNCW Magazine is published quarterly by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Division ot University Advancement
Editor I Mary Ellen Poison Contributing Editors / Karen Spears, Carolyn Busse, Mimi Cunningham
Editorial Advisers / William G. Anlyan, Jr., M. Tyrone Rowell, Carol King Choplin, Mimi Cunningham
Contributing Writers / Joe Browning, Rhonda EzzelL, Laura Keeter, Jim Clark, Jeff Holeman
Design / Modular Graphics Printing / Edwards & Broughton Co.
On the cover: Macchia Forest, from the show, "Dale Chihuly: Installations 1964-1992" Seattle Art Museum, June-August 1992
Printed on recycled paper
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CAMPUS DIGEST
HOW ABOUT THOSE SEAHAWKS!
The 1992-93 UNCW men's bas- ketball team posted its best start in school history, claiming early victories over N. C. State, Auburn and Miami and picking up votes in the CNN-USA Today Top 25 poll tor the first time.
The Seahawks kicked off the season with a 96-84 win over N.C. State at Reynolds Coliseum in Ra- leigh, marking UNCW's first-ever triumph over an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent. After drop- ping an 89-76 count to host Fairfield in the title game of the Independent Mortgage Classic in Fairfield, G inn., the Seahawks returned home to cap- ture the championship of the inau- gural USAir East Coast Basketball Classic at Trask Coliseum (more, Happenings and Events, p. 19).
The Seahawks, featuring only three seniors, continued to roll after the holidays with an impressive 88- 73 verdict in late December over Miami, which upset No. 10 Georgetown in their very next game. UNCW began its Colonial Athletic Association slate by splitting a pair of games in Virginia.
The Seahawks snapped a seven- game losing streak to conference power Richmond with an 83-80 overtime victory, then dropped a 99-83 decision to James Madison two nights later.
But perhaps the sweetest vic- tory came late in the season, when the 'Hawks topped conference pow- erhouse James Madison 89-85 be- fore a hometown crowd.
— Joe Broirnin?
UNCW's Tim Shaw is double- teamed during the Auburn game.
Schweitzer Winners Announced
A Benedictine monk, a United Nations peace advo- cate and a world leader in the effort to prevent blindness have been cho- sen as the recipients of the 1993 Albert Sch- weitzer International Prizes. The prizes, pre- sented once every tour years, will be awarded during a week of celebratory activities March 14-18 (Calendar, p. 24).
The winner tor music is Brother Dominque Catta, a Benedictine monk who has been instrumental
in creating a new form of reli- gious music in West Africa that blends African melo- dies with the traditional Gregorian chant.
Robert Muller, "the philosopher of the United Nations," is winner of the prize tor humanities. The life- long advocate of a world without borders served 38 years with the UN and became the first chancellor of the UN-es- tablished University tor Peace in Costa Rica.
Winner ot the prize tor medi-
cine, Sir John Wilson turned handicap into opportunity when he was blinded in an accident at the age ot 12. Wilson traveled ex- tensively throughout the develop- ing world in the 1950s and 1960s, documenting causes ot prevent- able blindness. His work led to the founding of several worldwide agen- cies to prevent disabilities.
The three prize recipients will each receive bronze medals and a cash award ot $7,500 in ceremonies March 18. The awards ceremony and reception following will cap a week ot free events in honor ot the Schweitzer Prizes.
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Trustees Seek
Nominees for Teaching Excellence
The UNCW Board of Trust- ees is seeking nominations for its 1993 Teaching Excellence Award, which carries a $1,500 cash prize.
Current taculty members who have been teaching at least halt time for five semesters or more are eligible. The nominee must have demonstrated a mastery of and en- thusiasm for the subject taught, reso- luteness in maintaining high aca- demic standards, a genuine interest in each student's intellectual and creative development, an ability to foster respect for diverse points ot view and an openness to learning.
Nominations may be submit- ted by faculty members, enrolled students, alumni or others in the larger community served by the uni- versity.
All letters of recommendation should be limited to one page and must be received no later than Wednesday, March 31, 1993, by the Chancellor's Nomination Com- mittee, Alderman Hall, UNCW, Wilmington, NC 28403-3297.
The committee, designated by the chancellor after consultation with the Faculty Senate, will re- view the nominations and make a recommendation to the chancel- lor. He will present the recipient ot the Teaching Excellence Award to the Board of Trustees in July.
Top 25
UNCW was named one ot the top 25 regional universities in the South in U.S. News & WorldReport s guide, America' s BestColleges , released in October. The ranking placed the University ot North Carolina at Wilmington in the same academic league as such respected institutions as Wake Forest University, the University ot Richmond and George Mason University. UNCW tied for 23rd place with Meredith College and East Carolina University in a pool ot 147 colleges and universities from across the South. Its top-quarter ranking dovetails nicely with UNCW's formal goal to become the best teaching university in the Southeast by the year 2000.
alumni association Supports Wise house
It looks as though Miss Jessie's house will finally get its due. The UNCW Alumni Asso- ciation Board of Directors has se- cured a $350,000 loan commit- ment from United Carolina Bank to cover renovations to the long- time home of Jessie Kenan Wise. The Neoclassical Revival man- sion was donated to UNCW by Mrs. Wise's heirs in 1969.
The renovation will cover general construction work, repairs to walls, ceilings and floors, the installation of a new kitchen, cornice repairs and access for the handicapped. Wise House will be used for alumni-re- lated functions while additional work to restore its former glory ensues over a
period of several years.
Wise House was profiled in the Fall 1992 issue of UNCW Magazine. The story, written by Magazine Editor Mary Ellen Poison, won a 1993 Award of Ex- cellence from the Southeastern District of the Council for Ad- vancement and Support of Edu- cation, the world's largest non- profit education association.
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World Renowned Qlass Sculptor Receives Award at UNCW
Dale Chihuly creates his designs in glass of artisans at his Seattle studio.
ith the help of a skilled team
BY RHONDA EZZELL
A patch covered his let: eye and his curly brown hair hung in an un- manageable array around his head. But when world-renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly walked toward the podium at a black-tie gathering in University Center Ballroom, it was his shoes that really stood out.
Red, blue, orange and every color in between, they were com- pletely covered with paint: the tall- out from his artistic work. Chihuly 's paint-splattered shoes bore witness to just how demanding designing glass sculpture can be.
"Creating art with glass is a very physical thing," Chihuly said. "It's like a workout — the bigger the project, the more physical it is."
A Washington state artist whose works have been displayed in more than SO museums world- wide, Chihuly was named the first National Living Treasure in rec- ognition ot his achievements. The award, which will be given every two years, is an outgrowth of the North Carolina Living Treasure Award founded by Dr. Jerry Shinn, professor of philoso- phy and religion at UNCW. Chihuly was chosen through a
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think that it was' the glass that was so mysterious, and then I dis- covered that it was the air that went into it that was so miracu- lous," he said.The crafts of various cultures and shapes found in na- ture inform his artwork. Among his major series are Navajo Cylin- ders, inspired by Native American textiles; The Pilchnck Baskets, in- spired by Northwest Coast Indian
respond very quickly," Chihuly said. "I like working fast and the team allows me to do that."
Among the most difficult challenges Chihuly and his team have faced was the creation of a series called the Niijima Floats. Inspired by fishing net floats once used by Japanese fishermen, Chihuly first encountered these glass objects as a child, when they
drifted onto beaches near his home in Tacoma. He saw them again on Niijima, a Japanese is- land where a glass school similar to his own was established by a former student.
The finished art works are huge: some reach up to 40 inches in diameter. The floats are also the heaviest pieces Chihuly has made. A finished float can weigh about 60 pounds. The first of his works that can be shown out- doors, pieces from the series were recently displayed in the court- yards of the Honolulu Academy.
"I don't like to work quite this big, although I like the fin- ished piece," Chihuly said. He said it was almost scary to watch the production of the floats be- cause it pushed the natural limits of the medium — and the team - "a little too far."
What fascinates Chihuly about the process ot working with
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Dole Chihuly creates his designs in glass with the help of a skilled team of artisans at his Seattle studio.
in more than 80 museums world- wide, Chihuly was named the first National Living Treasure in rec- ognition of his achievements. The award, which will be given every two years, is an outgrowth of the North Carolina Living Treasure Award founded by Dr. Jerry Shinn, professor of philoso- phy and religion at UNCW. Chihuly was chosen through a
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Chihuly's Macchia Forest, from the show "Dale Chihuly: Installations 1964-1992," on display at the Seattle Art Museum.
national nomination process ini- tiated by Gov. Jim Martin, who presented the award to Chihuly Nov. lOatUNCW.
Introduced to glass in the early 1960s while a student in in- terior design at the University of Washington, Chihuly later ex- perimented with glass blowing in his basement studio. By melting sheets of stained glass in a rudi- mentary kiln and using a piece ot plumbing pipe, Chihuly managed to blow a bubble, a feat that amazes him to this day. "I used to think that it was the glass that was so mysterious, and then I dis- covered that it was the air that went into it that was so miracu- lous," he said. The crafts of various cultures and shapes found in na- ture inform his artwork. Among his major series are Navajo Cylin- ders, inspired by Native American textiles; The Pilchuck Baskets, in- spired by Northwest Coast Indian
baskets; the naturally inspired Sea Forms and Flower Forms; and the Macchia series depicted here and on the front cover.
In 1 976, Chihuly lost his depth perception when his left eye was blinded as a result of an auto accident. He creates his art at the Boathouse studio on Seattle's Lake Union with the help of a team ot glass artisans. Some ot his assistants have been with him for about 20 years. "Glass blowing is a very spontane- ous, fast medium, and you have to respond very quickly," Chihuly said. "I like working fast and the team allows me to do that."
Among the most difficult challenges Chihuly and his team have faced was the creation ot a series called the Niijima Floats. Inspired by fishing net floats once used by Japanese fishermen, Chihuly first encountered these glass objects as a child, when they
drifted onto beaches near his home in Tacoma. He saw them again on Niijima, a Japanese is- land where a glass school similar to his own was established by a former student.
The finished art works are huge: some reach up to 40 inches in diameter. The tloats are also the heaviest pieces Chihuly has made. A finished float can weigh about 60 pounds. The tirst ot his works that can be shown out- doors, pieces from the series were recently displayed in the court- yards of the Honolulu Academy.
"I don't like to work quite this big, although I like the fin- ished piece," Chihuly said. He said it was almost scary to watch the production ot the tloats be- cause it pushed the natural limits ot the medium — and the team — "a little too tar."
What tascinates Chihuly about the process ot working with
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glass is its capacity to evoke an in- tense emotional response. When asked why he chooses to work with the medium, he said, "Isn't it obvi- ous, this is no ordinary material. The list of qualities that are peculiar to glass is endless."
At the banquet, where the artist received a bronze medal de- signed by UNCW tine arts associ- ate professor Steven LeQuire, Chihuly presented a video of his work set to the music ot the popu- lar B-52's song, Roam. Its words seemed to suit his nomadic style: "Walking through the wilderness, roam it you want to, roam around the world."
Chihuly has in etfect made his own pilgrimage through the wilderness by helping to establish the studio glass movement. In 1L)71 he began the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Wash., with a $2,000 grant from the Union ot Independent Colleges and a land donation from John and Anne Gould Hauberg. Each summer the school, which Chihuly calls "an international glass communications center," attracts teachers and hundreds ot students from around the world. Its annual budget is more than $1 million.
Chihuly enjoyed his North Carolina visit so much he lingered in Wilmington an extra day. "I've been such a nomad all my life," he said. "I don't think I'll ever lose the desire to travel to a beautiful place - one more archipelago, an- other ring ot standing stones, another glass-blowing session in some exotic spot, or just one more trip to Venice to see the full moon over Grand Canal."
Rhonda Ezzell is a December 1992 UNCW graduate.
SHARING A FEW OLD TRICKS
Japan's Handoku Ito Visits Campus
BY LAURA KEETER
Japan may have carved a name for itselt in the world of automobiles, camera equipment and Nintendo, but when Handokti Ito visited UNCW last tall, he wielded a much earlier form of Japanese technology.
Ito is best known tor Ukiyo-E, a form of Japanese woodcut. An a ward- winning, internationally recognized printmaker, the artist also works in lithography and silk-screen.
Woodcut is the oldest tech- nique in printmaking, older than etching or engraving. To make a woodcut print, Ito cuts the design he wants onto a cheap type ot plywood, then cuts away what is to be left white in the print, leav- ing the image surface in relief.
Ito's style is particularly unique in that it is a mixture ot old and modern printmaking techniques. "Even though he uses traditional tools, he uses a per- spective that's more Western, more modern: a linear perspec- tive," said Donald Furst, an asso- ciate professor ot art who helped bring Ito to UNCW.
Ito led workshops on campus and lectured at St. John's Muse- um ot Art during his Aug. 30- Sept. 5 residency. Apparently, Japanese students are no more im- pressed with the strengths ot time-honored technology than American students. "Our gene- ration's attitude: Woodblock is old; old is not good," Ito told the St. John's audience.
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were exposed to some of the ad- vantages of "old technology" when the artist demonstrated how he used a hand-held press in- stead of a mechanical one in print studio workshops. The hand-held press is more difficult to use, but it frees the artist from the size limitations of the mechanical press. "I tried it on a print I was working on, and boy, it takes some strength," said Millie R. Dodgens, a senior.
Students who saw Ito at work in the print studio praise his art as well as his gentle manner and personable attitude. Those quali- ties stand him in good stead in printmaking, a demanding and time-consuming process. "It's one of those jobs that just doesn't end," said Gerald R. Shinn, a pro- fessor of philosophy and religion
who helped bring both Ito and glass designer Dale Chihuly to UNCW last fall. "It just seems to me the only reason someone would want to do that is because
Part of the money from the sale of the nine lithographs will go to bring more artists like Ito to UNCW.
they love it. And (Ito) obviously does."
During his week in Wilming- ton, Ito created a four-color litho- graph measuring 15 by 20 inches, shown inside the front cover of this issue of UNCW Magazine. To produce the lithograph, the artist
drew on thin sheets of aluminum with grease crayons. Each of the tour plates was then put through a series of chemical processes and printed.
Nine of the 10 originals Ito produced will be sold for $250 each by the Department of Fine Arts. The department, which will receive a portion of the money from each print sold, plans to use the funds to bring more artists like Ito to UNCW.
Ito has exhibited his work in Japan, Italy, Germany, South America and the United States. His work will he on display during the Oceanside Arts Fest in June and July as one of nine artists fea- tured in the William M. Randall Library exhibit.
Laura Keeter is a senior at UNCW.
Handoku Ito demonstrates some of his printmaking techniques to UNCW faculty and students during his Aug. 30-Sept. 5 residency.
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BY JIM CLARK
Marvin K. Moss joined UNCW as its new pro- vost and vice chancellor for academic affairs Sept. I, 1992. Dr. Moss leas the associate vice chancellor for marine sciences at the University of California at San Di- ego and deputy director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at Lajollafrom 1987 to 1992. Before joining UC-San Diego and Scripps , Dr. Moss served as director of the Office of Naval Research from 1982-1987 . His many awards in- clude the U.S. Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award in 1 987 (the highest civilian award given by the Navy), the Presidential Rank Meritorious Governmental Execu- tive Award in 1 985 and the Eh m
College Distinguished Alumni Award in 1979. Dr. Moss is a Burlington, N.C., native but calls Raleigh home. He earned a B.S. in math and physics from Elan Col- lege, a master's degree in nuclear 'engineering and a doctorate in phys- ics from N. C. State University.
QYour role here is as pro- ♦ vost, and you also have the title of vice chancellor of academic affairs. Is that a dual position, or does one encompass the other?
A At most every university ♦ that has a provost, the function of the position is differ- ent. At UNC campuses, the pro-
vost stands just below the chan- cellor. The provost is the acting chancellor when the chancellor is absent — he serves a role some- what similar to a vice president to a president. But at the same time, I have the title of vice chancellor for academic affairs. There are also vice chancellors for student affairs, business affairs, advance- ment and public service and ex- tended education. So as vice chancellor, I have sort of an equal role with them, except the provost is, in a sense, the unequal among equals. He's of the mayor of the university.
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have any say in the direction they are moving academically?
A I have a close relation to ♦ the faculty, and I have been trying to meet with all 400 or so of them. Any fundamental changes in the curriculum are normally initiated by the faculty . . . they sort of bubble up through the faculty committees, then to the deans, then to the provost/ vice chancellor for academic af- fairs for approval. For all hirings of new faculty, this office is the last sign-off before going to the chancellor and board of trustees,
if required. The chancellor and I confer on all decisions. We both take them very seriously.
There are two basic ways to enhance quality at a university. One is the faculty you hire. So you have to be extremely careful there and rigorous in your review procedures. The other is through promotions and tenure. If we ten- ure faculty members, they're here. So one has to be extremely care- ful in this process. We take that very seriously and spend a lot ot time and energy in the process.
In addition, we have nine or 10 directors who report to the vice chancellor for academic af- fairs — for example, admissions, registrar, financial aid, computers, the Science and Math Education
Center and a host of others. In essence, anything that deals with academic affairs, the buck stops here, subject to the approval or disapproval of the chancellor.
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Does that include the financing of the different
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A Yes, this office is respon- ♦ sible for distribution of all budgets to the deans, depart- ments and directories.
QYou take your ♦ slice and divvy it up among the different depart- ments?
A That's the ultimate ♦ disposition. A majority, by far, of the university's budget comes to academic affairs, some 70 percent.
QAs the Cameron ♦ School ot Busi- ness grows, the School of Education kicks off the Odyssey program and the students from the School of Nursing continue to pass the state licensing exam at near the 100 percent mark, how do you plan to deal with the distribution of funds as funds tighten? Will the outside money be taken into consideration in the department budgets? Will some departments receive less university money and others more, based on outside income?
A^ That's a very ♦ good question. The Odyssey program: Even though it is on the
order of $ 1 5 to 20 million, most of those resources go to Gaston County. There's some $450,000, plus or minus, that will come here. There will be significant benefits to our faculty, who will be able to go to Gaston County during the demonstration period. It's a nice program in that it will help us help North Carolina's schools.
Not enough Odyssey program resources coming back here to re- ally impact our budget signifi- cantly. So the answer there is no. I recently met with the chancel- lor and the vice chancellor for ad- vancement (Bill Anlyan) over lunch to talk about approaching foundations and other granting agencies to bring in more funds to allow us to really excel.
We will need the help of the faculty, the department chairs, the deans, my office, Bill Anlyan and the chancellor. Hopefully, we
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will be doing more and more of that.
QGov. Hunt recently said ♦ children will be- a main priority in his term. Do you see him getting involved by allocat- ing more state funds?
A Being back in North ♦ Carolina for just a few months after being away for some 14 years, I can't predict, but I cer- tainly hope so. I think we have an opportunity here with our out- standing School of Education to come in and help significantly.
Ot course, one of our former vice chancellors, Jane Patterson, has left to be one ot Hunt's prin- cipal assistants. Hopefully, we can get some help from Jane and the governor in some crucial ways.
QWhat do you see as the ♦ future of the marine biol- ogy program ? We have the Aquarius getting its final shake- downs off the Florida coast. Will it be an integral part of the department's future.7
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♦ rine biology program is the largest program on cam- pus. We've expanded so much — double, triple what it was five or six years ago. And that's because of the excellence of the program and the students, who are concerned with the ocean, the environment, the estuaries and coastlines, as I am myself. I expect great things and I expect (the program) to grow. What we in the adminis- tration want to do is to see the UNC campuses all pull to- gether to make ourselves much greater than the sum of the parrs, and influence and drive
national policy in marine sci- ence. That's one of my heavy agenda items. We're already working on it. Give us a little time and I think you are going to see some things that are really positive happen in this area.
It we can do it, then we can help the state and even the in- dustrial base of the state. Once you get basic marine science re- searchers from universities, the next step is to develop the tech- nology that goes with (the re- search). This state needs to come on strong in that area. I think we can help in a number of ways which will boost us economi- cally, scientifically, technologi- cally.
defeat of NCSU, I told the stu- dents that I came to the stage very humbly and meekly because I was an N. C. State graduate and former faculty member. I will pull for UNCW always, even when the are playing State.
QSome people see space as ♦ the next frontier, but the sea remains a realm uncon- quered. Do you see UNCW and United States working toward tapping into the tesources and power of the sea?
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Any sweet and sour feel ing over UNCW defeat- ing N.C. State in the first basket- ball game of the year?
A Actually, in my com- ♦ ments at our graduation in December, just after UNCW's
Absolutely. Not only just .♦ into the resources and powet of the sea, but the role of the ocean in the environment. We know less about the ocean than we do about space. We know more about distant planets, stars and solar systems in a lot of cases than we do about the ocean. We can't model even a small ocean basin today to pre- dict the flow of the water. And this is extremely important. For example, in global warming, the
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world pumps some 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmo- sphere annually. And half of that is absorbed by the ocean. We don't know what happens to at least several billion tons of it. It you don't understand the ocean, the CO, uptake, the turnover and the way the absorbent capacity works from a chemical oceanog- raphy point of view, (then how can you predict) how much more and how much longer the ocean will be able to absorb these atmo- spheric pollutants . . . These are the questions that must be an- swered.
I used to be the head of the Office of Naval Research, which is the entire research arm of the U.S. Navy. The Navy used to do a lot of deep water oceanography — because it you were going to detect Soviet submarines and know where they were in case of war and that sort of thing, you've got to know something about the ocean, its characteristics. ONR's program has gone from deep wa- ter to coastal oceanography be- cause the coast is so important to the Navy and the population. One reason is that the threat in the future will probably be from small two- or three-man diesel submarines — rather than big nuclear-powered submarines — in terrorist-type activity.
But understanding the coastal ocean and the way sediment is transported, the way beaches erode, is extremely important. The ocean is going to be a more important factor than anything else in the future.
I was out on a ship for 10 days less than a year ago in four mile- deep water, and we were drilling over halt a mile into the earth's crust — drilling a pipeline four and a half miles long through tour
miles of water. We were seeing sediments that were hundreds of millions of years old. We could really trace the history of the Earth. Research like that is very important to understanding glo- bal change, the natural evolution of the earth and what's changing today with the environment.
9^ With the oil spill in the ♦ Shetland Islands right on eels of the one off the Span- ish coast, do you see mandatory double-hulled ships in the future?
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1 would like to see them .
Maybe to start, the United States should require that all petroleum/oil products deliv- ered to the U.S. be delivered in double-hulled ships. It would in- crease our price a little bit, but protecting the environment is going to be costly.
Q You've been on the job ♦ just a tew months. What are your impressions of UNCW as an institution, a community and a future.7
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As an institution, I'm ex- tremely impressed by it. I've been around to 95 percent of the departments and met with the faculty and chairs for about two hours apiece, and still have a couple to go. There's really excel- lent faculty here, and there are good courses and curriculums, and the faculty takes teaching se- riously. There's also a lot of re- search that goes on all the time. What impresses me is that at Chapel Hill, N.C. State, UC-San Diego, undergraduates hardly see their major professors because (the professors) are in the labs. Here, many students are co-au- thors on research papers. You
won't find that at N. C. State. It's a wonderful opportunity for the students; our faculty deserves great praise for this.
The community is very beau- tiful here. There is a lot of art and culture, and I think there will be more. Our Fine Arts Department will see to that. I look forward to being a part the leadership of UNCW. And what do I think oi the future? I received a two-line letter from an assistant professor before I came. I got quite a tew letters, but this was one ot the most impressive. It said, "Dear Dr. Moss: UNCW has a tremen- dous potential in its faculty, its students and its facilities. All we need is tor you and Chancellor Leutze to give us the leadership to achieve it."
I totally agree with that and look forward to it.
Jim Clark is a .senior and editor-in- chief of The Seahawk, the .student newspaper of UNCW.
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HEADING FOR THE HILLS
Ever since Ray Buchanan retreated to a spiritual oasis in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge, his Society of St. Andrew has been piling up mountains of potatoes.
BY MARY ELLEN POLSON
Ray Buchanan has been to the mountaintop more than once.
A 1972 graduate of UNCW, the Rev. Buchanan was in such a hurry to pursue his call to the ministry that he dropped out of seminary three times and headed literally for the hills.
On each occasion, Rev. Buchanan found himself within a mountain ridge or two of the place where he, the Rev. Kenneth C. Home and their families would later gather to form the Society of St. Andrew, a Christian ministry built around the intention of living a simpler, biblically inspired lifestyle.
Two families living in an age-ravaged farm- house in Big Island, Va., might never have been heard from again. But when a parishioner sug- gested collecting one truckload of potatoes and distributing it to the poor 10 years ago, the So- ciety of St. Andrew suddenly found itself on a sort of hunger-relief fast track.
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"When we started the Society of St. Andrew, our very existence as a community and the way we lived was as much the message as what we were saying," said Rev. Buchanan as he sipped potato- garlic soup in a Durham restau- rant. But Rev. Buchanan and his colleagues found themselves caught between living a respon- sible lifestyle and sharing their message with others. "Right away from day one, that tension was built in between doing it and talking about it."
Soon after he arrived in the Blue Ridge foothills in 1979, Rev. Buchanan began serving as pastor for four small churches in the area (one had a congregation of seven). When he and his partner, Rev. Home, conducted educa- tional programs on hunger, the two United Methodist ministers found themselves learning from their parishioners.
Someone came up with the idea for a small hunger-relief project: collecting the perfectly edible potatoes, peas and cabbage that are harvested but not sold because the fruit is too large or too small, or simply isn't pretty enough. Gleaning such unwanted produce dates back to biblical times.
field near Benson.
From that first 2,000-pound truckload, the project sprawled into a collection program that spread across the entire state of Virginia and the District of Co- lumbia. In two months, the group salvaged almost 1 million pounds of potatoes farmers couldn't sell, all of them donated free.
Today, the Society of St. An- drew either distributes or harvests food from 48 states, working with hundreds of anti-hunger agencies, and is slowly branching out internationally, with programs in Jamaica, Kenya and Russia. "Since we started in 1983, we've distributed over 140 mil- lion pounds of food through our programs," Rev. Buchanan said. In 1992, more than 24 mil- lion pounds of produce were distributed. "We're not even scratching the surface of what's available. We're getting less than a tenth of 1 percent."
Studies show an esti- mated 32 million Ameri- cans go without sufficient food at least two to three days per month. Most of the hungry are children or the elderly.
Rev. Buchanan and his part- ners firmly believe hunger can be eliminated in the United States in the next decade. "I'll be more precise," Buchanan said. "The United Methodist Church, by it- self, could feed every hungry per- son in this country in the next decade if it decided to do it."
Through its Gleaning Net- work, the Society organizes small groups of volunteers to pick over fields already harvested by com- mercial methods. In 1992, about 6,000 people participated in the gleaning network, which is active in half a dozen states, including North Carolina.
The yield can be substantial. When a group from Pine Valley United Methodist Church in Wilmington harvested beans at a farm near Rose Hill last year, "ev- eryone there was just amazed that every plant had something on it," said Buck Norton, coordinator of the effort. "We went out to a field
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Teacher David Foote and Durham Academy senior Mary Leigh Cherry help glean a field near Benson.
picking corn our second time, and it was just a matter of going down the rows and pulling the ears off."
While more people are in- volved in the gleaning programs than in the Potato Project, they harvest far less — lots of 500 and 1,000 pounds rather than 50,000 pounds, Buchanan said. But the Gleaning Network may he a richer ministry, fueling contact between people from different walks of life.
Suburban churchgoers or per- haps even a congressman or two may find themselves working alongside kids from poor inner city neighborhoods. Or a group of church men will take 500 pounds of cabbages to battered women at a shelter. Then they notice the porch is leaking and decide to come back the next Saturday to fix it.
"All of a sudden you have groups relating to one another that never knew they existed," Rev. Buchanan said. "And so you have all kinds of spin-off minis-
tries that with the Potato Project, never happen."
Rev. Buchanan's work has not gone without notice. He re- ceived the Distinguished Alumni Award from UNCW in 1985 and was awarded an honorary doctor- ate by Shenandoah University. Most recently, Rev. Buchanan and his partner were chosen as winners in Maxwell House Coffee's "Search for 100 Real Heros." The coffee company con- ducted a year-and-a- half-long search for unsung heros, then ran a full-page color advertisement in USA Today to honor the winners.
Originally from Corpus Christi, Texas, Rev. Buchanan came to Southeastern North Carolina during a four-year stint in the Marine Corps. He met and married his wife, the former Marian Kelly of Rocky Point, and enrolled at UNCW in 1970.
Juggling part-time jobs that had him working more than 40 hours a week, Rev. Buchanan carried a course load averaging 18 to 20 credit hours per semester.
After a 12-hour shift stocking groceries overnight at the Winn- Dixie, he'd often fall asleep in his 8 a.m. class. "It really was a blur," he said.
Despite his hectic schedule, Rev. Buchanan developed close relationships with UNCW's only two religion and philosophy pro- fessors at the time, B. Frank Hall and Gerald Shinn. "I immediately fell in love with Jerry — just his style, coming in, turning over desks and stuff like that to get people's attention," Rev. Buchanan said. "His non-tradi- tional teaching approach really caught my eye."
Part of Dr. Shinn's teaching style is to challenge students to move beyond their personal com- fort zones — the realm of experi- ence people build around them- selves where they feel comfort- able, Rev. Buchanan said. "The bigger your comfort zone, the big- ger your possibilities are. The one
Tom Nunalee harvests sweet potatoes during a gleaning by members of Pine Valley United Methodist Church.
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thing I learned from Jerry is, you ought to he expanding that com- fort :one every day of your life."
Like Dr. Shinn, Rev. Buchanan thrives on a peripa- tetic existence. "Someone once described me as a butterfly who wants to taste every flower in the field before I die," he said, then added, laughing, "and it wasn't complimentary at the time."
James Collier, associate pro- fessor of English, also influenced Rev. Buchanan's philosophy. "He pushed me to write. I think he was learning at the same time because I don't think he'd ever taught creative writing," said Rev. Buchanan, who wrote short story after short story under Dr. Collier's direction as part of a di- rected study course. He has since written thousands of words on behalf of the Society of St. An- drew. "The quality of my educa- tion at UNCW — I would not have traded that for any univer- sity in the United States because of the personal involvement of the professors there."
Ironically, the success of the Society's most visible programs has made an indelible change in Rev. Buchanan's lifestyle, which he describes as no longer simple. "You can't stay on the road 200 days a year and live that back-to- the-earth lifestyle," he said.
That will change in 1993, when Rev. Buchanan and Rev. Home — at the prompting of their wives — have pledged to spend at least 75 to 80 percent of their time in the office — at least for the first three months.
The Buchanans still live in the old farmhouse, not far from the Society's office, headquar- tered in a tin building. The house, parts of which date to 1809, took 40 truckloads of wood
to heat the first winter the Buchanans and Homes lived there. Deer, opossum, fox, rabbits and skunks are likely to appear in the yard in any given week — all part of the appeal for Rev. Buchanan, whose love of wildlife runs to mean-tempered snakes. With his partner, he has been known to go on week- long hunt- ing trips in the dead of winter with nothing that he couldn't have taken with him in 1840. He dreams of pursuing a doctorate in Native American spirituality — in part because the religion of the Plains Indians, for instance, was
inseparable from their relation- ship to the land.
With all his multi-faceted in- terests, this man driven to retreat to the mountains has become a full-time fund-raiser and promoter for his cause.
"Our overall vision has al- ways been a world without hun- ger," Rev. Buchanan said. "And we want that because we know it's possible . . . that's what we're after."
Mary Ellen Poison is editor of UNCW Magazine.
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HUMANITIES
A New Journal Opens Its Doors
Academic journals tend to be thin, stuffy vol- umes written in arcane language by professors for other professors.
Not so North Carolina Hu- manities. Two years in the mak- ing and the first of its kind in North Carolina, this is one jour- nal where you won't have to fight your way through thick academic prose.
Tucked into the first issue is Normal Fishing, a short work of fiction by Raney author Clyde Edgerton. There's a look at the use of the American flag as a re- ligious symbol by UNC history professor John Semonche, and a glimpse into the Utopian world of North Carolina's Love Valley by Conrad Ostwalt, assistant professor of religion, culture and American religious traditions at Appalachian State University.
"If you have an interest in a wide variety of subjects, you'll find a piece in each issue, maybe two or three pieces, that you'll be very interested in," said the journal's managing editor, UNCW Professor of History Melton McLaurin.
The author of Celia: A Slave, a historical work reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, knows good writing when he sees it.
In the inaugural issue is
Wendy Gwathney's essay on how- typical academic jargon works to exclude a broader audience. The Duke graduate student in English holds a master's degree from UNCW.
Polythera, a color lithograph by Donald Furst
The second issue, due in May, will feature short fiction, poetry and essays such as Cassie Premo's exploration of themes of re-creation in Alice Walker's novels.
Even the journal's cover in- vites readers inside. The color lithograph Polythera by UNCW associate professor of art Donald Furst details an open door, re-
vealing doors within doors.
The inspiration for North Carolina Humanities came from several sources. The first was an awareness of the sheer numbers of excellent humanities scholars in North Carolina. "Many of them are teaching at small schools like Pembroke or Campbell or Elon — they're not just at the major universities," Dr. McLaurin said. "Many of these scholars have something to say to a larger audi- ence, to the educated public, but they have no place in which to say it. We felt it was important to establish such a medium."
The last realization was an instinctive one. "We really do be- lieve that there are large numbers of people in North Carolina who are interested in humanities is- sues and who would read what these writers have to say," Dr. McLaurin said.
Subscribers who enroll this spring will receive the Fall 1992 and Spring 1993 editions of North Carolina Humanities. Subscrip- tions to the twice-a-year journal are $15. Write to North Carolina Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, UNCW, 601 S. College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403- 3297, or use the subscription re- ply form in this issue of UNCW
Magazine.
â– Mary Ellen Poison
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Giving
CHARTING the CURRENTS of CHANGE
UNCW is in the midst of a five-year , $15 milium capital campaign to help fund important academic and scholarship programs .The university thankfidly acknowledges the following generous gifts.
AT&T, $135,000 grant in computer equipment to UNCW. Announced at the UNCW Board oi Trustees meeting Dec. 16, this grant paved the way for a new "technology classroom" in Bear Hall.
The technology classroom, equipped with 20 interconnected microcomputers, makes it possible for students to apply computer applications as they are taught. Instead of simply taking notes in a calculus class, for instance, stu- dents can watch as a professor charts an equation graphically, then use the computer to get the same results themselves.
"In a free global economy, the success of U.S. business will de- pend more than ever on innova- tion and creative application of technology," said David Brick, senior marketing representative for AT&T in Raleigh, who repre- sented the company at the trustee meeting. "AT&T views this sup- port as our share of the invest- ment needed to keep America competitive."
The gift was part of $19.5 million AT&T granted to 90 col- leges and universities in 1992. UNCW was one of four higher education institutions to receive a share of $1.22 million awarded in North Carolina.
Guilford Mills, $50,000 to endow a Guilford Mills Scholarship. The scholarship will be offered to UNCW students majoring in economics and computer science, with priority going to qualified students from the families of Guilford Mills employees. Guilford Mills, based in Greens- boro, has a plant in Kenansville in Duplin County. The first awards for the Guilford Mills Scholarship can be made in the fall of 1994.
Charles F. Green III, $50,000 to endow the Anne Green Saus Scholarship at UNCW. The scholarship, established by the nephew of Anne Green Saus in her honor, will be awarded annu- ally to a student majoring in En- glish with a concentration in lit-
Board of Trustees Chairman Robert Warwick and Chancellor James Leutze thank David Brick of AT&T for AT&T's $135,000 gift.
erature and language, primarily based on merit. A former teacher, copywriter and the author of three books for youths, Mrs. Saus has an avid interest in literature and language. Mr. Green was rec- ognized as UNCW's Distin- guished Alumnus in 1989.
B.D. and Sylvia Schwartz, $25,000 to create the Schwartz Endowment Fellowship Fund. The money will endow a scholarship for a UNCW graduate student, se- lected by a committee appointed by the dean of the graduate school. The Schwartzes, who have been involved in the devel- opment of the UNCW campus virtually since its beginnings, pre- viously endowed the first gradu- ate scholarship offered at UNCW.
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OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
Chair
John W. Baldwin Jr. (John) 72
762-5152
Vice Chair
Marvin Robison (Marvin) '83
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Secretary
Dru Farrar (Dru) 73
392-4324
Treasurer
Randy Gore (Randy) 70
677-2400
Immediate Past Chair
Don A. Evans (Dim) '66
872-2338
BOARD MEMBERS
Cape Fear Area
Tommy Bancroft '58/69 ... 799-3924 Rebecca Blackmore 75 .... 762-5033
Brad Bruestle '85 251-3365
Frank Bua '68 799-0164
Jessiebeth Geddie '63 350-0205
Mary Beth Harris '81 270-3000
Norm Melton 74 799-6105
Patricia Neuwirth, 72, '90 392-9121
W. Robert Page 73 763-1604
John Pollard 70 395-2418
Jim Stasias 70 392-0458
Mary Thomson '81 763-0493
Avery Tuten'86 799-1564
Triangle Area
Glen Downs '80 859-0396
Don Evans '66 872-2338
DanLockamy '63 467-2735
Jim Spears '87 677-8000
CHAPTER REPS
Cape Fear Chapter
Charles Wall 77
MBA Chapter
Cheryl Hunter '89 392-1803
Onslow County Chapter vacant
Triangle Chapter
Barry Bowling '85 846-5911
Triad Chapter Debbie Barnes '87 722-7889
ALTERNATES
Mike Bass '82 791-7704
Gayle Harvey 78 343-0481
Gary Shipman 77 762-1990
Kim Tuten'86 799-1564
Deborah Hunter 78 395-3578
(Area axle is 919 unless otherwise indicated)
Robert F. and Catherine Warwick, $25,000 to create the Robert F. and Catherine Warwick Scholarship. The scholarship is open to gradu- ates of any New Hanover County high school and will be awarded on the basis of involvement in the Fellowship of Christian Ath- letes, leadership potential, char- acter, scholastic ability and finan- cial need. Mr. Warwick, a gradu- ate of Wilmington College, serves as chairman of the UNCW Board of Trustees.
Family and friends of F.P. Fensel, $25,000 to endow the Francis Peter Fensel Memorial Scholarship. Estab- lished by memorial gifts from the family and friends of Francis Pe- ter Fensel, the fund is intended to to provide a graduate scholarship in marine biology at UNCW. The scholarship will first be awarded in the fall of 1993.
Menzette and Matthew Donahue, $15,700 for the Matthew Dale Donahue Endowed Scholarship. Established in loving memory of Dale Donahue by his parents, the scholarship is open to an under- graduate in any academic field of study at UNCW. The fund was established through the gift of 300 shares of CP&L stock. The first scholarship award will be possible in the fall of 1993.
Interroll Corp., $15,000 to endow the Interroll Schol- arship Fund at UNCW. The scholarship will be offered to un- dergraduates, with priority going to students from the families of Interroll Corp. employees. If no students who are children of Interroll employees apply, the scholarship may be awarded to a student from Southeastern North Carolina.
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HAPPENINGS & EVENTS
Scholarship Established to Honor Hubert Eaton
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A. Eaton.
Dr. Eaton, a Wilmington physician and civil rights leader, served eight years on the UNCW Board of Trustees, two as chair.
For many years, Dr. Eaton was a controversial figure. His au- tobiography, Even' Man Should Try, detailed his role in the de- segregation of schools in New Hanover County.
A task force made up of com- munity leaders, including repre- sentatives from Cape Fear Com- munity College and UNCW, es- tablished the scholarships in honor of Eaton for his contribu- tions to education.
The $500 scholarships will be awarded annually beginning in Fall 1993. Incoming students who graduated from an accredited high school in New Hanover County are eligible for the schol- arships.
Race will not be a factor in determining recipients. Where candidates are substantially equal, choice will be determined by need.
First USAir Classic Judged a Success
There was no shortage of ex- citement when the Univer- sity of North Carolina at Wilm- ington played host to the first USAir East Coast Classic Dec. 18-19.
The fun began early in the week, when about 200 guests ap- peared in their tinery at a glitter- ing black-tie event in Wagoner Hall Dec. 16. University guests and hungry players dined aboard the Battleship North Carolina memorial at a casual supper held Dec. 17, the night before play got under way.
But nothing could top the ex- citement of the games themselves — culminating in the Seahawk's victory over Auburn for the championship.
In the title game, senior for- ward Tim Shaw of Fayetteville exploded for 33 points as the Seahawks ripped Auburn, 91-80.
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Chancellor Leutze and his wife, Kathy, cut a rug at the black-tie dance.
"Once you get past Tim Shaw, there's no difference in the other eight," Auburn's Tommy Joe Eagles told reporters in the press room. "People in other areas of the country would kill to have a team like this to watch."
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ALUMNOTES
The 70s
James Stasios '70 was recently awarded the Charles C. Chadhourn Award for service to the commu- nity by the Wilmington Kiwanis Club. He is a sales manager with Jefferson-Pilot Life Insurance Co. and lives in Wilmington.
Madeline Dunn Bowers 72 re- cently received a master's degree in education from the University of Georgia at Augusta. She is a fifth- grade teacher with the Thompson, Ga., public school system. She and her husband, Michael, have two sons, William and Jackson.
Robert Beeland Rehder 72 is the
president of William H. Swan and Sons, Inc. He lives in Wilmington with his wife, Amaryallis Lee Rehder 72, a homemaker.
Carolyn Foss Townsend 72 is an RN supervisor at Riverwood Health Care Center and lives in Biddeford, Maine.
Benjamin Williams 72 is a man- agement analyst with NADEP Cherry Point and lives in New Bern. He and his wife, Joanie, have two daughters: Morgan and Jordan, and two sons: Taylor and Zachary.
Michael Glancy 75 is a disability advocate/paralegal with the Glancy & Armstrong law firm who lives in Wilmington.
Robert J. Williams IV 77 is an agent with New York Life Insur- ance Co. who lives in Fayetteville. He and his wife, Sharlene, have two children: R.J. V and Palmer. They are expecting a third child.
Clay Fairley 78 is a broker with A.G. Edwards 6k Sons in Wilming- ton. He lives in Southport with his wife, Jan 78, and their three children.
Harry Charles Craft III 79 is a
principal in the Wilmington firm of Lanier, Whaley 6k Co. CPAs and lives in Wilmington.
Patricia Lewis Carroll 71 and '90 received her real estate sales li- cense in February 1992 and her broker's license in October. She lives in Leland and will be affili- ated with Tom Rabon Realty in Winnabow.
Tom Buffington 77 is a com- mander in the U.S. Navy who lives in Norfolk, Va. He has three chil- dren: Cristina and twins Jackson and Elizabeth.
Kay Diane Abeyounis 73 is a
Spanish teacher at North Bruns- wick High School in Leland and lives in Wilmington.
Earl W. Williams Jr. 74 is a mas- ter sergeant on active duty with the U.S. Army Reserve and lives in St. Peters, Mo. He has two chil- dren: Ashley and Justin.
The '80s
B. Garrett Thompson '80 is mar- ried to the former C. Lynne Jack- son and lives in Cary. They have two children, Rebecca and David.
Charles Farrar '83 is pursuing an M.B.A. at Southern Illinois Uni- versity while working as a senior human resource consultant for Anheuser-Busch. He and his wife, Marcia '83, have two children.
Carol King '83 has resigned as UNCW's Director of Alumni Rela- tions and is now Director of Devel- opment at Peace College in Ra- leigh. She married Steve Choplin Dec. 12, 1992.
Kelly Crawford '85 graduated from Macon College in June with an associate's degree in nursing. A resident of Macon, Ga., she passed her nursing boards in September and works on an as-needed basis at Charter Lake Psychiatric Hospital.
Shelley Ray Hambalek '85 is a
programmer analyst with The Na-
Monica and Alden. They live in Baldwin, Mo.
John Marmorato '81 is a territory manager with Smith Turf 6k Irriga- tion living in Graham.
Paul Felsher '83 is an engineer with EG6kG Rocky Flats living in Boul- der, Col. He is married to Nena War- ren and received his master's and doctoral degrees in nuclear physics from Duke University.
Thomas Hyde '83 is a disabled combat veteran of the U.S. Army. He is the director of East Coast and European sales for Dragon/ Raven Inc. and is married to Gilli Chamberlain Hyde '85. They live in Jacksonville, Fla.
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ture Conservancy. Her husband, Stephen Hamhalek '84, is an envi- ronmental scientist with Dewberry and Davis. They live in Burke, Va.
J. Stanley Hill '85, a CPA, has been named manager with Watts & Scobie CPAs in Raleigh. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the N.C. Association of Public Accountants. He and his wife, the former Sherry L. Port of Apex, live in Knightdale with their two daughters, Kristen and Kathleen.
Karen Fulkerson Mahn '85 is a
medical technologist at New Han- over Regional Medical Center and
chairman of the Boys Scouts yearly golf tournament.
John Griffin '88 is completing his doctoral degree in neurophysiology at Ohio State University and will be taking a fellowship position at Harvard Medical School.
Jeffrey Rogers '88 is assistant man- ager of merchandising for Big Lots and lives in Siler City.
Aldine Mark Guthrie '88 is a per- sonnel manager for a General Elec- tric appliances facility in Decatur, Ala. He and his wife, Nancy Lees Guthrie '82, have three children.
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social work from East Carolina University in 1990 and previously worked at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro.
Archie S. Raynor Jr. '87 has been promoted to assistant vice presi- dent at Centura Bank in Hampstead, where he is branch manager. He serves as treasurer of the Cape Fear Chapter of the UNCW Alumni Association and
Wilmington.
Glen Batten '84 is a branch man- ager for BB&T in Wallace. He was recently promoted to assistant vice president.
Dan Dunlop '84 has been named general manager of WCHL radio station in Chapel Hill. He is mar- ried to the former Alyson McKenzie of Winston-Salem.
Neil Thomas Phillips '83 is busi- ness banker for the Shallotte area with United Carolina Bank. Phillips and his wife, the former Fonda Formyduval '84, live in Shallotte with their son, Andrew Timothy.
• Currie '86 is an assistant per- inel officer at Southern National ik who Lives in Lumberton.
nela S. DeHaas Thompson '86
he director of Health and Safety vice for the American Red iss, Cape Fear Chapter. She re- ved master's degrees in Recre- >n Resources Administration 1 public administration from Z. State University in Decem- . She lives in Wilmington with husband, Harold E. Thomp- i, Jr. '85, and their son, Oliver J. ompson, who was born April 22, >2.
ricia Martine; Stott 'S6 is an â– erse drug effects case manager h Burroughs Wellcome Co. who lives in Wake Forest. She has two children, Kirsten Erin and Zachary Dale.
Amy Tharrington '86 is the man- ager of Higgins Offset and Ther- mography and is married to Tho- mas Tharrington '86. They live in Wilmington.
Brett A. Barnes '87 is a business services officer and assistant vice
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The 70s
James Stasios 70 was recently awarded the Charles C. Chadbourn Award for service to the commu- nity by the Wilmington Kiwanis Club. He is a sales manager with Jefferson-Pilot Life Insurance Co. and lives in Wilmington.
Madeline Dunn Bowers 72 re- cently received a master's degree in education from the University of Georgia at Augusta. She is a fifth- grade teacher with the Thompson, Ga., public school system. She and her husband, Michael, have two sons, William and Jackson.
Robert Beeland Rehder 72 is thi president of William H. Swan am Sons, Inc. He lives in Wilmingto with his wife, Amaryallis Lee Rehder 72, a homemaker.
Carolyn Foss Townsend 72 is ai RN supervisor at Riverwood Health Care Center and lives in Biddeford, Maine.
Clay Fairley 78 is a broker with A.G. Edwards & Sons in Wilming- ton. He lives in Southport with his wife, Jan 78, and their three children.
Harry Charles Craft III 79 is a
principal in the Wilmington firm of Lanier, Whaley & Co. CPAs and lives in Wilmington.
Patricia Lewis Carroll 71 and '90 received her real estate sales li- cense in February 1992 and her broker's license in October. She lives in Leland and will be affili-
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Monica and Alden. They live in Baldwin, Mo.
John Marmorato '81 is a territory manager with Smith Turf 6k Irriga- tion living in Graham.
Paul Felsher '83 is an engineer with EG&.G Rocky Flats living in Boul- der, Col. He is married to Nena War- ren and received his master's and doctoral degrees in nuclear physics from Duke University.
Thomas Hyde '83 is a disabled combat veteran of the U.S. Army.
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Benjamin Williams 72 is a man- agement analyst with NADEP Cherry Point and lives in New Bern. He and his wife, Joanie, ha' two daughters: Morgan and Jorda and two sons: Taylor and Zachar^
Michael Clancy 75 is a disability advocate/paralegal with the Glancy &. Armstrong law firm who lives in Wilmington.
Robert J. Williams IV 77 is an
agent with New York Life Insur- ance Co. who lives in Fayetteville. He and his wife, Sharlene, have two children: R.J. V and Palmer. They are expecting a third child.
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B. Garrett Thompson '80 is mar- ried to the former C. Lynne Jack- son and lives in Cary. They have two children, Rebecca and David.
Charles Farrar '83 is pursuing an M.B.A. at Southern Illinois Uni- versity while working as a senior human resource consultant for Anheuser-Busch. He and his wife, Marcia '83, have two children.
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Dec. 12, 1992.
Kelly Crawford '85 graduated from Macon College in June with an associate's degree in nursing. A resident of Macon, Ga., she passed her nursing boards in September and works on an as-needed basis at Charter Lake Psychiatric Hospital.
Shelley Ray Hambalek '85 is a
programmer analyst with The Na-
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ture Conservancy. Her husband, Stephen Hambalek '84, is an envi- ronmental scientist with Dewberry and Davis. They live in Burke, Va.
J. Stanley Hill '85, a CPA, has been named manager with Watts & Scobie CPAs in Raleigh. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the N.C. Association ot Public Accountants. He and his wite, the former Sherry L. Port of Apex, live in Knightdale with their two daughters, Kristen and Kathleen.
Karen Fulkerson Mahn '85 is a medical technologist at New Han- over Regional Medical Center and lives in Wilmington. She is mar- ried to Joseph Mahn '85, a CPA.
Lynwood Ward '85 is an English instructor at Piedmont Community College. He received a master's de- gree in English from East Carolina University in 1988 and is pursuing a master's degree in history from N.C. State University.
Ingrid Dawn Rochelle '87 is em- ployed by the N.C. Division of So- cial Services in Raleigh as a pro- gram consultant in the adoption unit.
A. Denise Wicker '87 is a clinical social worker at Culpeper Memo- rial Hospital in Fredericksburg, Va. She received a master's degree in social work from East Carolina University in 1990 and previously worked at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro.
Archie S. Raynor Jr. '87 has been promoted to assistant vice presi- dent at Centura Bank in Hampstead, where he is branch manager. He serves as treasurer of the Cape Fear Chapter of the UNCW Alumni Association and
chairman of the Boys Scouts yearly golf tournament.
John Griffin '88 is completing his doctoral degree in neurophysiology at Ohio State University and will be taking a fellowship position at Harvard Medical School.
Jeffrey Rogers '88 is assistant man- ager of merchandising for Big Lots and lives in Siler City.
Aldine Mark Guthrie '88 is a per- sonnel manager for a General Elec- tric appliances facility in Decatur, Ala. He and his wife, Nancy Lees Guthrie '82, have three children.
Kym Mcintosh Smith '88 is a spe- cial account assistant with Stan- dard Register who lives in Greens- boro.
Vivian Bowden '89 is an account- ing technician at UNCW who lives in Burgaw. She married Norwood Harold Futrell Sept. 26, 1992.
James Merritt '89 is a fourth-year doctoral candidate at Duke Uni- versity and presented research at the National American Chemical Society meeting in August. He married Sandra Welfare in 1990.
James Donald Wells Jr. '86 is a
sales representative with Cal-Tone Paints and Interiors who lives in Wilmington.
Glen Batten '84 is a branch man- ager tor BB&.T in Wallace. He was recently promoted to assistant vice president.
Dan Dunlop '84 has been named general manager of WCHL radio station in Chapel Hill. He is mar- ried to the former Alyson McKenrie ot Winston-Salem.
Neil Thomas Phillips '83 is busi- ness banker for the Shallotte area with United Carolina Bank. Phillips and his wite, the former Fonda Formyduval '84, live in Shallotte with their son, Andrew Timothy.
Joy Currie '86 is an assistant per- sonnel officer at Southern National Bank who lives in Lumberton.
Pamela S. DeHaas Thompson '86
is the director ot Health and Safety Service for the American Red Cross, Cape Fear Chapter. She re- ceived master's degrees in Recre- ation Resources Administration and public administration from N.C. State University in Decem- ber. She lives in Wilmington with her husband, Harold E. Thomp- son, Jr. '85, and their son, Oliver J. Thompson, who was born April 22, 1992.
Patricia Martine; Stott '86 is an adverse drug effects case manager with Burroughs Wellcome Co. who lives in Wake Forest. She has two children, Kirsten Erin and Zachary Dale.
Amy Tharrington '86 is the man- ager of Higgins Offset and Ther- mography and is married to Tho- mas Tharrington '86. They live in Wilmington.
Brett A. Barnes '87 is a business services officer and assistant vice
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president with BB&T in Wilmington.
Margaret McLaurin McGill '87 is
employed by the Richmond County school system and lives in Pinehurst.
Millicent Paige Churchill '87 is acting director of the research de- partment at the Coastal Area Health Education Center and lives in Wilmington.
Kevin Gray '88 is the manager of Rose Brothers Furniture in Wilm- ington.
John Anthony Gaeto is a manager with Sherwin Williams Co. who lives in North Charleston, S.C. His wife, Jennifer Williams Gaeto '89, works for Enterprise Leasing.
2nd Lt. Jeffrey B. Mims '88 is a
supply officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and lives in Carlsbad, Calif.
Deedee Michele Phillippe Jarman
'89 is a physical education teacher with the Craven County Schools who lives in New Bern.
Bob Lancaster Jr. '89 is a contrac- tor with Lancaster Electric Co. who lives in Wilmington.
Kenneth Lasnier '89 is a major in the U.S. Marine Corps. His wife, Luanne '89, is a program analyst at NASA headquarters in Washing- ton, D.C. They live in Arlington, Va.
The '90s
Eddy W. Akers '90 graduated from the physician assistant program o\ the Bowman Gray School of Medi- cine at Wake Forest University in August.
Rob Sappenfield '90 is an account executive with Continental Indus- trial Chemicals, Inc. who lives in Charlotte.
Karen Yvonne Owen-Bogan '90 is
an instructor at Central Carolina Community College who lives in Sanford.
Mary "Taylor" Harris '91 is an
account representative with State of the Art who lives in Durham.
Jennifer Lee Hobbs '91 is an ac- count executive with Dey Air- freight, Inc. who lives in Raleigh.
Hal Turnage '91 works in the CADD division of McGee CADD Reprographics directing support for hardware and software. He lives in Wilmington.
Jean Marie Styron '91 is a kinder- garten teacher for the Mecklenburg County Schools in Charlotte. She is working on a master's degree in education ad- ministration and supervision and is engaged to Mike Grumbles.
Judith Wright '92 is a teacher at St. Mary's School who lives in Wilmington.
Kevin W. DeBruhl '90 is a bank- ing officer and the financial center manager at the Biltmore office of BB&T. He lives in Asheville.
Jodi Ann Montgomery Davis '90
i- ,i teacher tor the C '.imp Lejeune Dependents Schools who lives in Wilmington. Her first child, Kaitlin Rebecca, was born Sept. 13, 1992.
David F. Kesler '90 is a branch manager and assistant vice presi- dent with First Citizens Bank who lives in Wilmington.
Lt. JG Shawn Patrick Murphy '90
is a contracting officer with the U.S. Naval Hospital in Groton, Conn, who lives in North Stonington. He recently estab- lished a dental equipment sales and service company.
Gerald Bain Williams, Jr. '90 is a
manager with Sherwin-Williams Co. who lives in Laurinburg.
Margaret Eaddy Taylor '90 is a second-grade teacher with Duplin County Schools who lives in Wallace. She married Don W. Taylor April 12, 1992.
James Laney '91 is a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who lives in San Francisco.
Vicki Lynn Brown Thacker '91 is a teacher in Yuma, Ari:. She is married to Darrell Lee Thacker,
Jr. '83, a U.S. Marine Corps in- structor. The Thackers were ex- pecting their first child in late 1992.
Pamela Dee Brock '92 is a second- grade teacher in the developmen- tally appropriate program at War- saw Elementary School who lives in Turkey, N.C.
Flossie Dossenbach '92 has joined the staff of Secretary of State Rutus Edmisten as an information spe- cialist with the N.C. Securities and Commodities Division. She lives in Raleigh.
Anne N. Johnson '92 is a staff ac- countant in the audit department in the Wilmington office of McGladrey & Pullen. She recently passed the uniform examination for certified public accountants.
Sally Keith Met: '92 is attending law school at UNC-Chapel Hill and lives in Durham.
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Michele M. Smith '92 is a math teacher at Union High School in Sampson County who lives in Clinton.
Eddie Parrish '92 is a research ana- lyst with the Coastal Area Health Education Center who lives in Wilmington with his wife, Teresa Springle Parrish, '92.
Jacqueline McClain '92 is a special education teacher at D'Iberville High School in Harrison County, Miss. She is a graduate student at the University of Southern Ala- bama pursuing a master's degree in education.
MARRIAGES
James Odell Pierce 73 to Mary Ann Hedden, living in Wilmington.
Christine Marie Ward '91 to Wil- liam Ellis Rivenbark, living in Wilmington.
Pinckney Hugo Heaton III '80 & '84 to Susan C. Gerry '87, living in Knightdale. He is a budget ana- lyst for American Airlines. She is programmer-analyst for Computer Services Corp.
Paul "Buddy" Kelly '84 to Eliza- beth Grimes Thomas, living in Chapel Hill. He is vice president of operations of Construction Equip- ment Parts Co. of Goldston.
Michael Dix '89 to Tracy L. Furguson, living in Greensboro.
James Finley Jr. '85 to Sharon Moore, living in Wilmington. He is a sales engineer with Snyder Gen- eral Corp.
Angela Ruth Faulk '89 to Everette Brown Towles, living in Wilming- ton. She is a registered nurse with Comprehensive Home Health Care.
BIRTHS
To Deborah Venters Murphy '77 and husband Stuart Neil Murphy '80, a son, Joseph Troy, Nov. 4, 1992. The Murphys have an older son, Stuart Patrick.
To Nan Fish Caison '83 and hus- band Hugh Caison '85, a daughter, Margaret {Catherine, June 8, 1992.
To Marguerite McGillan Krause '87 and husband Jeffrey Krause, a son, Bradley John Krause, Oct. 18, 1992.
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To Mit:i Winstead Daughtry '88 and husband Chris Daughtry, a daughter, Caitlin Francis, Oct. 9, 1992.
To Karen Strong Allen '89 and husband Michael (Meto) Joe Allen
'87, a son, Michael Seth, Nov. 27, 1992.
To Robin Smith Kinney '79 and husband Michael R. Kinney '77, a
daughter, Galen Taylor, June 30, 1992. They have a son, Evan, and a daughter, Kristen.
To Julie Roseman Goodnight '83, and husband Henry Goodnight, a daughter, Savannah Marlene, Sept. 10, 1992.
IN MEMORIAM
Julian F. Williams '57 died Sept. 23, 1992. Formerly employed as an office administrator/manager, Wil- liams served as student body presi- dent for Wilmington College.
Carlton Dale Dowless '77 died Sept. 28, 1992. Prior to his death, Dowless was a psychiatric nurse at Mt. Vernon Hospital, where he was named Nurse of the Year in 1991.
Tess Elliot '91 died Sept. 20, 1992. She was the reigning Miss North Carolina USA and was a top- 10 fi- nalist in the Miss USA pageant held in February 1992.
CAPSULES
A room at Cape Fear Memorial Hospital has been named tor Estell Lee '55. A former member of the hospital's board, Lee was secretary of the N.C. Department of Eco- nomics and Community Develop- ment during the Martin adminis- tration. The room, named the Estell Lee Leadership Center, is used for hospital-sponsored com- munity events and board meetings.
John Barber '85 and his wife, Cheryl Rothenbuescher Barber
'85, moved to Tokyo in November tor a two-year international assign- ment with the accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick. Mr. Barber will work as part of the interna- tional tax group as a liaison be- tween U.S. and Japanese entities, and Mrs. Barber will work with the international audit group.
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MARCH
14-18 ALBERT SCHWEITZER INTERNATIONAL PRIZES. All events free and open to the public.
14 Reception to open Schweitzer Memorabilia
Exhibit, Randall Library, 3:30 p.m.
14 Schweitzer Prizes, Organ Concert with John Jordan, First Presbyterian Church, 5 p.m.
15 Schweitzer Prizes, lecture with Dr. James Leutze and presentation of Essay Award Winners, Cameron Hall Auditorium, S p.m.
16 Schweitzer Prizes, One-act play about Mrs. Schweitzer, I Am His Wife with Lilly Lessing, Kenan Auditorium, S p.m.
1 7 Schweitzer Prizes, Pianist Roya Weyerhaeuser and the Wilmington Symphony, Dr. Steven Errante, conducting, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
1 s Schweitzer International Prizes Ceremony,
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m., Reception following, Wagoner Hall
20 Seahawk Baseball, EAST CAROLINA, 1 p.m.
24 UNCW Business Week, Keynote Address
Michael Donahue of Saatchi ck Saatchi Advertising, Kenan Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
APRIL
1 I larolyn Black well, soprano,
Wilmington Concert Association, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
8-12 Easter vacation; classes suspended
9- 1 I Seahawk Women's Coif, AZALEA-
SEAHAWK INVITATIONAL, Hampstead
14 North Carolina Symphony Concert Soloist
Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
19 Chancellor Leutze appears on North Carolina
People, 7:30 p.m. WUNC-TV 1 3. Repeats April 25, 5:30 p.m.
28 Last day of classes for Spring Semester
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Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
North Carolina Symphony Pops Concert Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Commencement, Trask Coliseum
19-22 Seahawk Baseball hosts COLONIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIPS, Brooks Field, UNCW
23-30 UNCW Alumni Association 7-Day Caribbean Cruise aboard the Ecstasy
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JUNE
6-27 OCEANSIDE ARTS FESTIVAL
6 North Carolina Symphony Concert
Kenan Auditorium, 7 p.m.
12 Big Band Dance with Ftank Bongiorno and
The 7 O'Clock Jazz Ensemble University Center Ballroom, 7 p.m.
19 Say Amen Gospel Jubilee Kenan Auditorium, 7 p.m.
20 Ensemble Courant Chamber Musicians Thalian Hall, Wilmington, 7 p.m.
24 Ensemble Courant Chamber with Guests
Thalian Hall, Wilmington, 7 p.m.
24-27 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum, Kenan Auditorium, 7 p.m.
22 Last day of classes for Summer Session I
27 Classes begin tor Summer Session II
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FEATURES
WE'RE IN BUSINESS 4
UNCW's Cameron School of Business Administration earns top-notch accreditation, thanks in part to its graduates
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A different kind of learning on the Wellness Cruise, a UNCW tradition for more than a dozen years
SCHWEITZER '93
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Bill Brooks Inducted into State Sports Hall of Fame
f ithout BUI Brooks, UNC Wilmington's thriving athlet- ics program simply wouldn't he where it is today.
UNCW's Long-time athletic director was one of 15 sports figures in- ducted into the state Sports Hall of Fame in Raleigh May 6. "I consider it probably the most im- portant recognition I've ever had," Brooks told the Wilmington Morning Star.
A star high school and college athlete, the Wil- son native played minor league profes- sional baseball for the New York Gi- ants, then came to Wilmington in 195 1 to teach and coach at New Han- over High School and the fledgling Wilmington College.
In 1956, Brooks became athletic director; within two years, he had signed his first scholarship player.
As an administrator, Brooks was the architect of UNCW's sports pro-
grams, notably in baseball. Over a 27- season coaching career, he held a .663 record, with 574 wins and 292 losses. Wilmington College won na- tional junior college cham- pionships in 1961 and 1963. Named a National Coach of the Year in 1975, Brooks oversaw the construc- tion of several major sports facilities and helped raise funds for others, including Trask Coliseum. Many con- sider his crowning achieve- ment to be the orchestration of NCAA conference affili- ation for the Seahawks, who joined the Colonial Athletic Association in 1985.
Brooks, who retired in 1991 , is the fifth Wilmington sports figure to be inducted into the state Hall of Fame, joining former New Hanover High School coach Leon Brodgen, pro foot- ball legends Sonny Jurgensen and Ro- man Gabriel and Harlem Globetrotters star Meadowlark Lemon.
BIOLOGY STUDENT WINS NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
Katharine "Katie" Laing '93 is this year's sole recipient of the presti- gious Our World-Underwater Schol- arship. The award carries a $10,000 cash prize which can be used for travel and research around the world.
Laing, a May cum laude graduate .in biology with an emphasis on marine science and a minor in chemistry, has conducted research ranging from ma- rine algal genetics to ecological studies of estuaries and other coastal environ- ments. As an OW-U scholar, she will also receive diving gear, wet and dry
suits, underwater photography training and equipment, and a Rolex diving watch.
Laing has been accepted by the Florida Insti- tute of Techno- logy's biological oceanography, pro- gram, but will delay enrolling in gradu- ate school until she completes her year as an OW-U scholar.
$191,186 Grant Awarded to Study How Children Learn
It doesn't take an expert to know there are differences between men and women. However, it does take an expert to know why the differences exist. InJune,UNCW psychology pro- fessor William H. Overman was awarded $191,186 by the National Institute of Mental Health to fund three years of research to determine whether learning differences between boys and girls are biological or learned.
Overman, a specialist in the brain and behavior, has developed two game tasks which are designed to show learn- ing differences. The games, targeted for children 18 months to 4 years old, teach learning through reward.
While similar studies have been done with adult humans and monkeys, Overman's research is the first of its kind to be done with children. Similar studies done with monkeys have shown conclusively that learning differences are biologically determined and can be reversed with hormones.
As adults, men tend to be stronger than females at mental rotation tasks, such as map reading, while women are verbally stronger than men. It Overman finds that these differences are learned, the next step would be to determine whether it is possible to teach children to be equally good at either task. If the study indicates the differences are bio- logical, there could be significant medi- cal implications, particularly where hormones administered during preg- nancy are concerned.
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Master's Degree in Psychology Coming in Fall '94
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington will offer a master of arts degree in psychology beginning in fall semester 1994-
The course of study approved by the UNC Board of Governors will of- fer two concentrations: pre-doctoral and substance abuse counseling. The pre-doctoral concentration will be a general one, with a goal of preparing students for entry into Ph.D. programs in applied or experimental psychol-
ogy. The second curriculum is an ap- plied concentration with a specific fo- cus on therapy for substance abuse problems.
The state Department of Human Resources has identified graduate train- ing of substance abuse counselors as one of the state's most critical mental health needs. Students completing a degree in the applied concentration will have completed all academic re- quirements necessary to be certified as
a substance abuse counselor in North Carolina and would be prepared to apply for a state Psychological Associ- ate License.
For more information on the M. A. program in psychology, call Dr. Kate Bruce, graduate coodinator, or Dr. Andy Jackson, psychology department chair, at 395-3370. Applications for the program will be accepted begin- ning this fall.
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Neuwirth Named Alumni Relations Director
Pat Neuwirth '72 has been named director of alumni relations for the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She will serve as executive director of the UNCW Alumni Association and represent the university in alumni relations and fund raising.
Neuwirth holds a bachelor of arts degree in health and physical education from UNCW and an M.Ed, in health curriculum and A instruction from UNC Charlotte. | S She previously was traffic injury prevention program manager for 'â– New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington.
A school teacher for 12 years in the New Hanover County and â– ". Norfolk, Va., public schools, "â– Neuwirth is married and has four children. She assumed the position vacated by Carol King Choplin on May 10. Choplin resigned in January to become director of development for Peace College in Raleigh.
Pat Neuwirth as a Wilmington College cheerleader.
A Message From Your New Alumni Director
As a 1972 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, I am honored to have been selected as the director of alumni relations. Having been an advocate for UNCW for many years, I am eager to direct my professional energy towards serving our alumni base. With approximately 19,000 alumni, we are primed for progress!
Since my graduation, I have enjoyed many of the benefits of being an active alumnus. My five years of experience on the Alumni Association Board of Directors has also afforded me opportunities to continue to feel grounded with
UNCW. The pride I feel for the university and its potential is sublime! { j I welcome your comments, concerns, "wish lists" and visions for future
S alumni activities and events. Your input will enable all of our alumni to benefit. The challenges ahead are greeted with spirit and energy. I value your support and your active involvement.
Our No. 1 task for the next four years is to adopt the Jessie Kenan Wise
House, our future alumni home, as a priority for our giving to ensure its
successful completion. As sister to the Kenan House, she deserves our
attention and respect. Join me in helping to ensure the repayment of the
$400,000 loan to United Carolina Bank. We will reap the benefits for many
years to come.
If you have been inactive, I invite you warmly to join the ranks of your former classmates, friends, and co-workers and become involved in a soaring Seahawk adventure! The Alumni Association needs all of us to be successful. Please don't hesitate to call if I can be of assistance to you.
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BUSINESS
UNC Wilmington's Cameron School of Business Administration earns top-notch accreditation, thanks in part to its graduates
By Mary Ellen Polson
As the owner of a small business that computerizes inventory management and accounting systems for industrial and construction supply companies, Jay Stokley, Jr. '73 sees the inner work- ings of literally hundreds of small busi- nesses.
What he learns surprises him. "I'm amazed at how little some managers know about how their business is gener- ated, how it's accounted for, or how it grows, because those managers never got any formal training," said Stokley, who founded Atlantic Computer Corp. in Wilmington 1 1 years ago. "I've gone in to very successful companies whose managers couldn't read a balance sheet or an income statement and thought, 'what could these fellows accomplish if they'd had the training?' "
Stokley parlayed experience gained while a business administration major at UNC Wilmington into a job that eventually led him to found his own company. His education "not only helped me to build a business, but has helped me to manage one also," Stokley said.
Stokley is just one of hundreds of successful graduates of UNCW's business school, since 1983 the Cameron School of Business Administration. The program has made a pro-
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"Within two years of graduating I was chief financial officer for a large medical center. The busi- ness school prepared me so that from a knowledge standpoint 1 was able to handle that job." - Michael W. Barton '68
found difference not only in the lives of its alumni, but in greater Southeastern North Carolina as well.
"The Cape Fear region has always had sort of a propri- etary interest in the university," said Dr. Norman Kaylor, a professor of ac- countancy who served as the Cameron School's dean from 1979to 1992. "They felt like it was theirs — not from a dictatorial point of view, but as apride- of-ownership kind of thing. 'This is ours; we started it.' Especially the busi- ness community."
This year, the accomplishments of the Cameron School were formally ac- knowledged when the American As- sembly of Collegiate Schools of Busi- ness accredited the school's undergradu- ate and graduate programs. The desig- nation places the Cameron School in elite company such as the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke Uni- versity. Only 20 percent of the country's undergraduate business programs and less than half of all M.B.A. programs have earned accredita- tion by the AACSB.
There is other good news. On July 1, Dr. Howard O Rockness, formerly associate dean for the M.B.A. program at
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Business courses were among the first classes offered at the tiny community college first known as Wilmington College and later the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. "When I came here in the early '70s, the university was about the size our business school is now," Kaylor said. Of the 50 or 60 business majors that graduated every year, the vast majority were local. "Of course, that's not true now. They're coming from all over the state, and we've got out-of-state and international students here."
Because so many of the school's alumni are recent gradu- ates, you won't find the names of many UNCW business school alumni on the mastheads of national corporations — yet.
But you will routinely find the names of UNCW graduates among the top three scorers on the state
Certified Public Accountants' exam, among them Rachel Vance Dodge '87 (gold medalist), Robert Jo- seph Hollis '90, and Garland Atkinson Boyd '92. Oth- ers are forging careers in banking institutions and in- dustry throughout the Southeast. And, like Stokley, many business school graduates have gone on to create their own businesses.
Among the school's most successful entrepreneurs is Michael W. Barton '68, the president and CEO of Health Horizons Inc. in Nashville, Tenn. Barton, who co-founded the company in January 1992 , expects the health care firm to own and operate nine outpatient surgery centers from San Francisco to Greenville, S.C., by the close of the year. Health Horizons' annualized revenues are expected to reach $30 million this year.
Barton speaks fondly of UNCW's business program, where he majored in accounting. Even in its early years, when its complement of faculty was small, the school still provided its students with a firm foundation. "Within two years of graduating, I was chief financial officer for a large medical center," Barton said. "The school prepared me so that from a knowledge standpoint I was able to handle that job."
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Barton attributes part of his readi- ness to the fact that several of his instructors either had work experience in industry or were actively engaged as business consultants — something that continues to be a tradition at the Cameron School of Business. "Part of the flavor of the classes was in relating real-life situations in the classrooms," Barton said.
Almost universally, business school alumni praise the practical teaching they received as crucial to their later success. "In particular in Dr. (Claude) Farrell's classes, he had us thinking in terms of real-life situations rather than just text- book situations," said Brad Donnell 76, who owns a small Wilmington printing company, Linprint.
Farrell's tests could accurately be described as true or false, but they were in reality essay tests, Donnell said. A typical test might have two true or false questions, and it was up to the student to defend his or her choice. "He didn't care which side of the coin you took, provided you backed it up with economic thought," Donnell said.
Donnell finds he relies on eco- nomic theories he learned in school in making real-life business decisions. "Es- pecially in a small business, you have a tendency tor the business to chase you, rather than you getting a handle on the business," he said. "I think the background in the business school gives you an opportunity to make the busi- ness work better."
"One thing the UNCW program really focused on is team building," said Peggy Baddour, '82, '88, whose two sisters also hold or are working on advanced degrees at UNCW. "That helps you work with people when you get out in the real world."
As manager of all personal and networked computer systems, Baddour works with every department at New Hanover Regional Medical Center. Having an understanding of how all departments work together is crucial to the successful management of her job, she said.
Business school was an easy choice for Malcomb Coley '86, '89, who de- cided to major in accounting when he aced the first accounting course he took at UNCW. "I thought this was going to be an easy major," he said. "Boy, did I get fooled."
Coley, who graduated as the only minority accounting ma- jor in his class, was impressed enough with UNCW's un- dergraduate business pro- gram to enroll in the school's M.B.A. pro- gram, which he raced through in a year and a half. After teaching full time at N.C. Central Univer- sity in Durham and St. Augus- tine's College in
Raleigh tor two years, he sensed he still needed further education. "The only thing I knew in accounting was the theoretical," he said. "1 had no practi- cal experience in accounting."
In search of "the best real-world experience," he joined the Raleigh of- fice of one of the six largest interna-
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tional accounting firms, Ernst &. Young. Rather than crunching num- bers, Coley spends most of his time interacting with people — "from presi- dents of large companies all the way to staff accountants," he said.
Clients tend to view CPAs as ex- perts. "You being the expert, you bet- ter know the answer or where you can find the answer," Coley said. "UNCW gave me a good foundation in account- ing and accounting principles."
If he regrets anything about his education at UNCW, it's that it didn't cover specialization tor different in- dustries, such as health care or in- surance. Coley spends about 70 percent of his time auditing the books of insurance com- panies.
Mike Clewis '73, a partner with the Wilmington office of McGlad- rey & Pullen, the ninth largest inter- national account- ing firm, used to think the same way about special- ization. After years in the profession, he's changed his mind. "I teel like the job ot the university is to give the future business or accounting major basic skills of learning," Clewis said. "Then let the accounting firm, the Du Ponts, or the GEs, teach the specifics that need to be learned tor that industry."
As might be expected, local ac- counting firms tend to be chock-full of
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UNCW accountancy graduates. Of 10 certified public accountants on the staff of Murray, Thomson &. Co. CPAs, seven have degrees from UNCW, including both partners, said Mary Thomson '8 1 . Three of the six partners in the Wilmington office of McGladrey &. Pullen have ties to UNCW, said Clewis. Among them is UNCW Board of Trust- ees Chairman Robert F. Warwick '55, a Wilmington College alum.
Over the years, there's been an unusually close relationship between the business school and the regional business community. The families of area businessmen Bruce B. and Dan D. Cameron have been major benefactors of the school, named in their honor in 1983. Other benefactors have included United Carolina Bank, which en- dowed a professorship in banking and finance; NationsBank, which established the NCNB Scholars Program; and Wachovia, which endowed the Wachovia Fund for Excellence.
Kaylor credits local business lead- ers as the driving force behind the establishment of a Master of Business Administration program at UNCW. Discouraged from submitting a pro- posal by the University of North Caro- lina system, business school leaders initiated a survey of area businesses to bolster their case.
"Instead of answering the survey, people from a lot of our major firms started writing letters to General Ad- ministration," Kaylor said. "GA thought we were asking them to do that. We weren't."
UNCW got its M.B. A. program in 1 982. Courses are offered only at night; students tend to be employees of large area corporations like DuPont, GE and Corning.
Peggy Baddour, who completed her M.B. A. in three years of night classes, found she became closer to the faculty as a graduate student. "The classes were a lot smaller and it was more intimate; more of a peer-to-peer relationship rather than faculty to stu- dent," she said.
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Once Baddour graduated, "I no- ticed a significant difference in myself on the job," she said. "I had more confidence and therefore I could be more of a mentor to others."
Kaylor believes the Cameron School should have received its AACSB accreditation in 1992. But two things happened to delay that: A new chancellor, Dr. James R. Leutze, had just come on board, and Kaylor — after 22 years as either department chair or dean — had resigned to return to teaching. When Kaylor went to Washington, D.C., to collect what he expected to be the crowning achieve- ment of his career, AACSB officials told him, " 'We want you to take one more year,' " he said. " 'We just want to see that there are no major changes in having a new chancellor and a new dean.' "
So another year passed. Associate Professor of Management Science John M. Anderson served as interim dean while the search for a new dean pro- gressed. Shortly after it was announced that Howard Rockness had been tapped for the job, the school received word of the accreditation. "It didn't hurt that we got someone of Dr. Rockness's stature to come in and replace me," Kaylor said. "He'll do an excellent job."
Kaylor foresees a continuing relationship between the busi- ness school and the region under the new dean. "We've always looked at our constituents as the people of Southeastern North Carolina," he said. "Our job is simply to prepare people to enter the job market and be productive."
Clearly, the school serves its constituency well. "I think a solid business program gives our community an asset to sell to potential businesses and other institutions we might be trying to recruit to our area," said Clewis. "I'm just tickled to death at the progress they've made and the path they've taken." W
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Stories by Jeff Holeman
It was 2 a.m., and I had just com- pleted my first watch aboard the sttipped-down sailboat that would be my home for a week. Dianne King and Trey Hamlin steered the 65-foot yacht into the deep waters of the Gulf Stream be- tween Miami and the Bahamas.
It had already been an event- ful night. We'd set sail about midnight. My partner on watch was partially deaf and it was a struggle to make myself heard above the sound of the wind and waves. We'd sailed in circles for half an hour — at one point we were even headed back to Miami.
I was too wound up to sleep, so I stayed up top. Dianne was at the wheel, and Trey went to the galley to fix the three of us some hot chocolate. I went below to use the head, leaving Dianne alone on deck. Suddenly, the boat began to sway heavily in the roar- ing surf. Down be- low, I was thrown to the floor as the boat was broadsided by a wave. I scrambled to get buck on deck. As 1 ran up the steps, all i covld see was a ter- rified Dianne and the wheel spin- ning like the one in the opening credits of Gilligan's Island.
Together, Dianne and 1 man- aged to regain control of the boat. We breathed a sigh of relief — only to erupt with laughter as Trey walked up, covered from head to toe with hot chocolate.
We had survived our first night on the Wellness Cruise.
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The Wellness Cruise is a tradi- tion that bonds dozens of alumni who've patticipated over the last 13 years. Every year, about 16 UNCW students join the Rev. Bob Haywood, an interdenominational campus min- ister at UNCW, and his wife Deborah, director of the LivWELL Center tor Health Promotion, on the annual spring break event.
While a week aboard a bareboat in the Bahamas might sound like pute fun, part of the purpose ot the ctuise is to challenge students to think and explore. We had met as a
group a couple ot times before we embarked on our cruise, but most ot us were more or less strangers as we left the dock at Miami. That quickly changed as we coped with living at close quarters and came to depend on one another tor fellowship and personal safety.
Once we arrived and cleared customs at Bimini Harbor, we were given work assignments tor the week. After all, we were the boat's crew. There were anchor, trash, deck, din- ghy, ladder, and canopy crews. All ot
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A different kind of learning on the Wellness Cruise
For many college students, spring break means beaches and booze. A week-long bareboat cruise to the Bahamas would prove no different for many. But the UNCW Wellness Cruise, now in its 14th year, takes a different approach. There's no beer on board, and the 16 or so students that participate each year find they don't miss it.
"At the end of the week, they say, 'you really can have fun without alcohol,' " said Deborah Haywood, who coordinates the trip with her husband, Bob.
Any student at the University of North Carolina Wilmington may go on the cruise, co-sponsored by United Christian Campus Ministry and LivWELL Center for Health Promo- tion. Applications are taken after fall break each year, and the cruise fills quickly. Students meet at least three times in advance of the trip to get to know one another and discuss expec- tations and guidelines.
The cruise is centered around ex- periential learning and personal chal- lenges, emphasizing the six dimen- sions of wellness: physical, occupa- tional, spiritual, intellectual, emo- tional and environmental. Students help plan the trip and serve as crew while on board. They're discouraged from bringing radios and even watches, so there are few distractions to inhibit students from getting the most out of the challenging natural environment that surrounds them.
While the trip is supervised, the Haywoods aren't guardians. "I always tell them, 'We're not your parents,' " said Deborah Haywood, who directs UNCW's LivWELL Center. "We shift gears and we're Bob and Deborah."
"A lot of people wouldn't think of sailing with the minister and his
wife," said Bob Haywood. "This and the fact that there is no al- cohol causes people to self select. In turn, this often makes for a good crew."
The challenges start as soon as the boat de- parts for the Bahamas. "One of the things that surprises them is we sail from Miami at mid- night," said Bob Haywood. After a dis- cussion of safety precau- tions, "the captain as- signs duties and the stu- dents take over as crew. They have to face all this unknown stuff, which scares them. When they get there the next day, they're proud."
Rough crossings aren't unusual. "I've always been touched by how stu- dents care for one another if someone's not feeling well," said Deborah
Interdenominational campus minister Bob Haywood at the helm on the 1 993 Wellness Cruise.
Haywood. "Just signing up was a risk for him. He spent the whole week out of the water, or he would stand on the ladder and dabble his feet. The next year he came back Haywood. "It's rare that we cross the and had taken swimming lessons so Gulf Stream without someone getting he could jump off the back of the seasick. It's nice to see them bond at boat and swim." these times by caring for one another." But personal growth isn't the only
This year's crossing was fairly typi- reason the cruise has been offered for so cal, said Anna-Maria Williams, a jun- many years. "A lot of students have ior who went on the trip in February, limited life experiences," said Bob "It was so rough that it sounded like we Haywood. "One of the things I believe were hitting whales." is that students just deserve some won-
The personal challenges contin- derful memories. Wonderful, unclut- ued into the week. Williams snorkeled tered memories." for the first time and overcame her fear Perhaps the biggest challenge
of water. By the end of the week, she comes at the end of the week when the had made such an adjustment that she students return to the mainland. "Al- was disappointed she had missed seeing most inevitably, when we come back a six-foot barracuda spotted by others, and the Miami horizon looms, someone Such personal growth experi- will say, 'Back to the real world,' " said ences are common. "I remember one Bob Haywood. "Then somebody else student who went on the trip who will say, 'No, that's not the real world, could not swim," said Deborah This week has been real.' " JH
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us had to work together; each job was important to our safety and well being. In addition, we were also as- signed cooking and cleaning duties. If we wanted to eat, we had to cook. Once the work details were as- signed, we set sail for Turtle Rocks, rock formations and reefs near Bimini that stick out of the water like basking turtles. This was our first chance to snorkel and swim. The un- derwater world was breathtaking, tilled with colorful fish and barracu- das that followed our every move. A 10-foot-long nurse shark circled us as we explored this strange world.
and even drank some of the milk. It was a welcome end to a tiring day. After dinner and clean up, we headed for the Berry Islands, about eight hours across the Tongue of the Ocean, a mysterious stretch of deep, navy blue water that parallels the shallow, azure water of the Bahama Flats.
On day two, we visited Whale Cay. Most of us took advantage of the opportunity to snorkel in and around a submerged barge that had sunk offshore. We had to hurry be- cause the tide was rising, making the underwater currents swift and dan-
realized I may have saved her life. Although we never talk about it, I feel that we still share a special bond because of this encounter.
By day three, time had become irrelevant. There was a time to swim, a time to sleep, a time to eat, and a time to do whatever you chose, but never time to ask "What time is it?"
One of the cruise's regular stops was at Frozen and Alder cays, two beautiful, formerly untouched islands that were side by side. When we ar- rived, we discovered that a marina had been carved into the coral and docks were being
Pictures from the '92 and '93 Wellness cruises.
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We sailed on to Gunn Cay for more snorkeling and beach explor- ing. Watching a giant manta ray swim grace- fully through the water gave me a peaceful feeling. We ""* A,
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a walk on the beach, and were sur- prised by several nude sun bathets. We set sail to the south end of the Bimini islands for the Jokers, a chain of islands with a beautiful reef.
Swimming through the reef was like exploring a maze. We collected conchs to cook later as conch fritters — too many, in tact. We ate leftover conch fritters all week. We hiked on the beach and collected coconuts
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Arinn Williams, a sophomore, had made it safely to the barge, but started to tire and struggle on the way back. I took off to help her al- most instinctively. She was about to go under when I reached her and helped her get back to shore. Later I
constructed for wealthy pleasure seekers to park their yachts. The de- velopers were even filling in a stretch of natural quicksand. It seemed a shame that such a beautiful place, once open to all comers, had been turned into a private playground.
We climbed to the top of Fro- zen Cay and found a cairn, a struc- ture made ot piled rocks, where pre- vious visitors had left messages for
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others. It was a tradition tor Wellness Cruise members to leave messages for the students who would sail on the next year's cruise. Sure enough, we saw messages from other Seahawks. Later, we fished and sailed a little farther north.
for me. 1 decided to jump in once again and enjoyed every minute of it.
After exploring the serene re- mains of an old English settlement that had failed due to a lack of fresh water, I went for a spontaneous snor- keling session on the other side of
schools of fish that would let you swim in the midst of them. After lunch, we traveled to Bimini to take a freshwater shower with real soap and shampoo — our first of the week. (Our daily bathing ritual on board had been to use ocean water
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On day four, we went ashore on Holmes , Cay and faced a testing hike through thick foli- age in the blistering af- ternoon heat. We finally reached Big Blue Hole, a giant sinkhole filled with clear water, in the middle of the island. In no time, Bob Haywood had jumped off a 20-foot cliff into the water.
I've always been afraid of heights and I had to muster all my courage just to throw myself over the edge. I fell like a rock into the deep pit be- low and hit the water with a splash. This was just one more challenge in what had been a week of challenges
6y day three, time had become irrelevant. There was a time to swim, a time to sleep, a time to eat, and a time to do whatever you chose, but never time to ask "What time is it?"
and Joy, a biodegradable dishwashing liquid, for soap.)
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braided, and partied at the Compleat Angler, where Hemingway once lived. After dinner at the Big Game Club, we hit the Angler for a night of dancing. I danced until I dropped. Then we set sail for home. It was strange to get back to the "real world." The experiences that I'd had throughout the week were much more real to me. The world I came back to seemed about as unsteady as my wobbly sea legs.W
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the island.
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was partially what made it so special.
Day five brought an encounter with a school of sharks at Market Fish Cay. I swam with what at first was just one hammerhead and shortly turned into a school swirling beneath me, attacking a fish. I was alone, so 1 returned to the boat in case the sharks decided to try to eat me for lunch.
Day six brought us back to Bimini for an offshore snorkeling ses- sion in and around a big concrete ship, the Sapona. It was filled with
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SCHWEITZER '93
Id Class Individuals at a World Class Event
By Mary Ellen Polson and Carolyn Busse
he awards ceremony came off with pomp and panoply, and all three winners of the 1993 Albert Schweitzer International Prizes gave speeches that revealed their exceptional accomplishments. But it was the intimate gather- ings that took place during Schweitzer Week (Match 14-18) that revealed the exceptional natures of Brother Dominique Catta, Sir John Wilson and Robert Muller.
There were more than a dozen opportunities for students, faculty, staff and members of the community to meet and talk with the prize win-
ners, beginning with a student-ar- ranged reception for the French-born Catta, winner of the Schweitzer Prize for Music, on Monday March 14- Dressed in a simple white cassock se- cured by a long black belt, Catta said little, apologizing for his lack of En- glish through Robert Fessler, a col- league who served as an interpreter.
Despite the language barrier, Catta charmed students and digni- taries alike with his warmth and wills, ingness to listen. Even though he spoke only French, "you understood what he was saying," said Jeff Holeman, a senior who helped orga-
nize several Schweitzer Week events. "He made you laugh. He gave you a feeling of ease."
And when he wanted to reach several people at once, Catta played his kora. The stringed, drum- like instrument is the medium tor a new West African musical liturgy Catta helped create in his 30-year tenure at the Benedictine monastery of Keur Moussa, Senegal. Whenever "more than a handful of people ap- peared, Catta staged impromptu con- certs on the instrument, which pro- duced a surprisingly light, harp-like
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Looking something like an over- sized guitar with a long neck and a fat, bulbous base (a dried gourd cov- ered with cow or goat skin), the kora rests on a stand in front of the per- former, who kneels to play. The player may choose to perform on sev- eral koras arranged in front of him at once (there are soprano, alto and tenor koras), usually with other play- ers. At Keur Moussa, there are whole choirs of koras.
"It is very hard to give an im- pression of what it is like at the mon- astery, because there are 35 broth- ers," Catta told a group of about 30 in an upstairs room at the University Union, through Robert Fessler. "It's much more dynamic."
While Albert Schweitzer was moved by the organ music of Bach, Catta's great love is for Gregorian chant. In his early years at Keur Moussa, he discovered chant had musical similarities to traditional music played on the kora by griots, the storytellers of West Africa. "For Brother Catta, music is the universal language that goes beyond words, provided that the music comes from the heart," said Fessler, interpreting for Catta, "provided that it springs from our spirituality, our inner being, as a gift for other people."
Catta performed on a series of koras in Kenan Auditorium at the Thursday, March 18 awards cer- emony, then closed out Schweitzer Week on Friday, March 19 with a spur-of-the-moment concert ar- ranged by WHQR Public Radio, held at St. John's Museum of Art. The museum's Hughes Gallery filled so quickly that museum staffers were turning people away almost as soon as the doors opened.
The Schweitzer Week schedule included an organ concert, a lecture on Schweitzer, a performance by the Wilmington Symphony and a one- act play on the life of Schweitzer's wife, as well as the awards ceremony. Despite the busy schedule, all three
Sir John Wilson (left) and Brother Dominique Carta.
prize winners were available for in- formal daytime sessions in the Uni- versity Union.
Robert Muller, winner ot the Schweitzer Prize for Humanities, told a room full of students that he en- tered the French resistance during World War II after the Germans told him he would be fined if he spoke Alsatian. "I do not like to be fined for speaking the language of my two grandfathers," he said.
Raised in Alsace-Lorraine, (which, coincidentally, was Albert Schweitzer's homeland), Muller and his family lived on a border that con- stantly shifted, placing them at times in France and at times in Germany. But life straddling a border has its re- wards. Muller told the group that it was great to be from Alsace-Lorraine because "we eat delicious French food on big German plates."
After the war, Muller decided to devote his life to peace. He returned to Alsace-Lorraine to complete his education. While riding on a train, he saw an advertisement for an essay contest sponsored by the French U.N. Association. There wasn't any- thing to read on the train, so he wrote an essay. It was chosen as the contest winner, and Muller joined the U.N. Secre tariat the fol- lowing year. He rose to the rank of assis- tant secretary- general during his 38 years with the
United Nations and worked directly with U Thant, Kurt Waldheim and Javier Perez de Cuellar.
During his stay, Muller visited with members of Wilmington's U.N. Association, which sponsors a local celebration of U.N. Day each Octo- ber. "He has a real concern tor the people of the world and is full of en- thusiasm about the future," said Vir- ginia Sherman, president of the local association. "He is able to pass that enthusiasm on to other people."
That enthusiasm helped the or- ganization attract several new mem- bers. Muller challenged several young people, one ot the authors in- cluded, to learn more about the United Nations by joining the local U.N. association.
A few days before he retired from the United Nations in 1986, Muller accepted the job of first chan- cellor ot the University ot Peace in Costa Rica tor $1 a year. The univer- sity sits on 5,000 acres of virgin Costa Rican rain forest.
Many ot its students come to study international relations. "It's a new university which has the advan- tage of concentrating on one sub- ject," said Muller, who
teaches a class on planetary law. The uni- versity offers courses cov- ering the
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role of non-governmental organi- zations and the emergence ot world law.
Although its courses of study are far-reaching, the university is tiny, with only 60 students. "I tell them Jesus had only 12 apostles, so we are five times as numerous and we can change the world," Muller said.
The Schweitzer committee clearly got two for the price of one when they selected Sir John Wilson, the winner of the Schweitzer Prize for Medicine. Together with his wife, Lady Jean, Wilson pioneered re- search in the causes of preventative blindness in much of the developing world. The Wilsons, who began their research after the close of World War II, have logged more than 1.8 million miles together, traveling to more than 100 countries.
The Wilsons, who live in Sur- rey, England, were instrumental in recognizing the causes of river blind- ness, a preventable disease that dis- abled millions in Africa. In the 1950s, the Wilsons found whole vil- lages in northern Ghana that had been blinded by insects that swarmed out of the river at night.
The villagers thought nothing was unusual about John Wilson, who has been blind since he was 12, but found his wife quite odd. "I was in my 20s and still able to see," she said. In such villages, "you just expected blindness like you expected old age, it was as matter-of-fact as that."
The Wilsons enlisted the help of the World Bank to isolate the cause of the disease and successfully con- trol it. They also helped set up more than 50 schools and more than two dozen farm training centers for the blind, mainly in Africa. "And then we attended to Asia," John Wilson said. "Then we extended it on a glo- bal scale. And now we're doing it on a much bigger scale with the United Nations, doing something about avoidable disability. People always think the United Nations simply looks after wars, which it doesn't do very well. But it's magnificent at do- ing the social job."
Robert Muller has worked for the United Nations for most of its history and is the first chancellor of the University for Peace in Costa Rica.
The Wilsons founded the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind in 1950 in a tiny slum office with one telephone.
"When it tang, they'd say, 'can we speak to your legal department,' and I'd say, 'yes, just a moment,' and pass it to John," Jean Wilson said. "And then somebody would ring up the Caribbean section, thinking we were like the Colonial office, and he'd pass it to me. It was great fun."
In their travels, the Wilsons have encountered both danger and surprising kindness. John Wilson found himself in Kenya at the time of the Mau Mau uprising. Because of the strife between Europeans and Af- ricans, his African driver refused to drop him at his destination, a school for the blind. "He left me at the edge of the compound and said 'just walk straight down this path and you can't miss it.' Well, I did miss it," Wilson said. "I got into the middle of a field, and I was suddenly conscious of somebody walking behind me. And he'd got a clinking sort of noise when he walked. I thought, oh God, this is going to be a man who will hit me on the head with a machete."
Wilson turned toward the man and greeted him. He told the man he
was blind and asked tor help to get to the school. "He transferred to the other hand something that was obvi- ously very heavy, and he took my hand and led me to the gate. And he said, 'just you wait here until I get gone and I'll whistle.' And he ran right across the field, whistling. There was a tremendous hubbub go- ing on inside the compound, because there had just been a murder. And they reckoned the man who'd helped me was the murderer."
Wilson advocated a mixture of optimism and irreverence as the for- mula for accomplishment in his ses- sions. "Schweitzer, who we are cel- ebrating this week, was particularly irreverent," Wilson told a audience of mostly students. "It the world has any future, I think it rests with you people in the United States. I truly believe the next decade is going to be your decade . . . You have the fu- ture in your hands, if you've got hands big enough to take it." W
Mary Ellen Poison is editor o/UNCW Magazine. Carolyn Busse is a public relations assistant in the Division of University Advancement and editor of Campus Communique.
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Giving
CHARTING the CURRENTS of CHANGE
UNCW is in the midst of a five-year , $15 million capital campaign to help fund important academic and scholarship programs .The university thankfully acknowledges the following generous gifts .
Donald R. Watson and Carl Brown, $1.2 million in real property. The dona- tion of real estate by former Wilmington Pepsi-Cola partners Watson and Brown was announced at the April 14 meeting of the UNCW Board of Trustees by Trustee Chair Robert F. Warwick and Chan- cellor James R. Leutze.
The land will be sold to help es- tablish two endowed chairs of $500,000 each. The university will pursue matching funding from the UNC Board of Governors Distin- guished Professors Endowment Trust Fund. The program matches $167,000 in state monies with $333,000 in private funds.
Watson, who is a member of UNCW's Leadership Gifts Commit- tee, will endow a chair in the School of Education. Carl and Janice Brown will endow a chair in marine science. Carl Brown, who is also on the Lead- ership Gifts Committee, has served as a member of the UNCW Founda- tion since 1989.
Wachovia Bank, $250,000 to establish the Wachovia Initiatives in Excellence Fund. The unrestricted endowment will enable UNCW to develop new programs to support the school's commitment to excellence in teaching, research, artistic achievement and local, regional and world service.
Wachovia Wilmington Area Ex- ecutive James Cherry and Wachovia Regional Executive Will B. Spence presented an initial check for
$50,000 to Chan- cellor James R. Leutze March 24 on the lawn in front of Hoggard Hall, where the UNCW Ambas- sadors and Uni- versity Advance- ment staff had spelled out "UNCW" and "Wachovia" in giant letters, us- ing an estimated 25,000 pine cones. The pine cones, which fell on campus during the March 1 3 nor'easter that swept the Eastern Seaboard, were intended to reflect the size of Wachovia's gift — each one representing a $10 bill. Both bank executives were presented with large, gold-painted pine cones to commemorate the event.
Wachovia has given generously to UNCW in the past, endowing the Wachovia Fund tor Excellence at the university's Cameron School of Business Administration in 1983. "We feel a responsibility on our part to take a leadership role in this campaign at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington," Cherry said. The Wachovia gift brought the Capital Campaign to- tal to $5.9 million.
United Carolina Bank, $100,000 to fund two endowed scholarships. One scholarship will be awarded
Wachovia executive Jim Cherry holds a painted pine cone aloft at a press conference announcing Wachovia's gift to fund the Wachovia Iniatives in Excellence Fund at UNCW.
to a minority undergraduate who is pursuing a career in business. The other will be awarded to an in- coming North Carolina freshman who has demonstrated excellence in his or her high school career. The gift came in concert with a $400,000 loan commitment from UCB for the renovation of Wise House, the future home of the UNCW Alumni Association (more, inside back cover).
UCB officials were impressed with the potential of the property at 1713 Market St. "After visiting Wise House, Wilmington City Executive Jerry Wilkins told me, 'the question is not whether we can afford to fi- nance the renovation, the question is, can we afford not to?' " said Rhone Sasser, UCB chairman and CEO. "I agreed with him." In acknowledging the major gift from UCB, Chancellor James R. Leutze said, "The university has rec-
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agnized the critical need to build its endowment before we enter the next century. United Carolina Bank continues to play a leadership role in meeting that critical need, and we are extremely thankful for their generosity."
The Forty and Eight of the American Legion, $42,500 to endow a scholarship program at the School of Nursing.
The money, raised through 25 years at annual fish fries and barbecues,
Left to right: UNC System President CD. Spangler, Jr., Carl Brown, Chancellor James R. Leutze, Donald R. Watson and Trustee Chair Robert F. Warwick at a reception held in honor of Brown and Watson April J 3 at Kenan House.
will fund two scholarships each year.
The name "Forty and Eight" comes from the number of men (40) or horses (eight) that could tit into French rail cars used to transport troops during World War I.
The scholarships are established in joint memory of John H. Mclnnis (former director ot the honor chapter's Nurses Training Committee), Dorothy Dixon (former director of the UNCW Nursing Department) and Harold Sternberger. The scholarships are open to students from Columbus, Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties.
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UNCW ALUMNI BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
Chair
Marvin Robison '83
762-2489
Vice Chair
Jessiebeth Geddie '63
350-0205
Secretary
Norman H. Melton 74
799-6105
Treasurer
Frank S. Bua '68
799-0164
Immediate Past Chair
John W. Baldwin, Jr. '72
762-5152
BOARD MEMBERS
Cape Fear Area
Tommy Bancroft '58,'69 ... 799-3924
Rebecca Blackmore '75 762-5033
Dru Farrar '73 392-4324
Mary Beth Harris '81 270-3000
Richard Pratt 71 350-0282
Jim Stasios 70 392-0458
Mary Thomson '81 763-0493
Avery Tuten'86 799-1564
Charlie Wall 77 392-1370
Shonda Williams '92 799-4715
Triangle Area
Johannes Bron 78 251-9665
Don Evans '66 872-2338
Randy Gore 70 677-2400
Dan Lockamy '63 467-2735
Jim Spears '87 677-8000
Western North Carolina Deborah Hunter 78 (704)322-5594 CHAPTER REPS Cape Fear Chapter
Amy Tharrington '87 799-0178
MBA Chapter
Cheryl Hunter '89 392-1803
Onslow County Chapter vacant
Triangle Chapter
Barry Bowling '85 846-5931
Triad Chapter vacant
ALTERNATES
Sonia Brooks '80 362-7539
EricKeefe'88 762-7517
Tim Rudisill '92 (704) 735-9716
Kimberly Best-Tuten '86 ... 799-1564
Executive Director
Patricia Neuwirth, 72
395-3616
(Area code is 919 unless otherwise indicated)
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ALUMNI EVENTS
Alumni Association Awards Scholarships
The UNCW Alumni Association has awarded scholarships for the 1993-94 academic year to nine UNCW undergraduate students and one UNCW graduate student. The awards will cover in-state tuition and fees and have an approximate value of $1,400 each.
The winners are Jesse Lafayette Bunch III, a graduate student in the M.B.A. program from Enfield; Kim- berly Ann Aspenleiterof Wilmington, a junior majoring in chemistry; David Christopher Heller, a freshman from Wilmington; Stephen L. Lee of Wilmington, a junior majoring in En- glish; Cyndi L. Moore of Wilmington, a senior majoring in accounting; Debbie Leigh Permenter, ase~ ior from Wilmington majoring in elementary education; Martin Lee Price of Wilmington, a junior majoring in ac- counting; George Grady Richardson, Jr., a junior from Wilmington major- ing in political science; Janelle Beth Ross of Burgaw, a junior majoring in elementary education with a concen- tration in mathematics; and Jennifer Leah Louise Wasson of Wilmington, a sophomore majoring in art.
The scholarships, which are given annually, are based on academic achievement and demonstrated finan- cial need. Students may re-apply for the scholarship each year. Six of this year's winners, Jesse Bunch III, Cyndi Moore, Debbie Permenter, George Richardson Jr. Janelle Ross, and Jennifer Wasson, also received the scholarship during the 1992-93 academic year. This is the third year in a row that Cyndi Moore and Grady Richardson have received the scholarship.
— Amy Brennan
The TRIANGLE Chapter
Triangle area alumni will gather tor the annual Durham Bulls game and cookout Saturday, Aug. 14 at Durham Athletic Park. The cookout begins at 5:30 p.m.; game time is 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Barry Bowling, (919) 846-5931 or Allen Guy (919) 380-9246.
The M.B.A. Chapter
M.B.A. alumni will sponsor the first Cameron School of Business Lifelong Learning Weekend Sept. 18-19. The weekend will be packed with Saturday workshops, a Saturday night chapter banquet and a Sunday morning golf tour- nament. For more information, call M.B.A. Chapter President Eric Brandt, (919) 251-0090, or Cheryl Fetterman, project coordinator, (919) 392-1578.
Calling JACKSONVILLE Area Al
urns
A get-together for all Jacksonville area alums will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17 at the Days Inn in Jacksonville. For more information, call Karen Abbott, (919) 455-0212.
FAMILY WEEKEND
You won't want to miss Family Weekend Oct. 1-3 on the UNCW campus. Highlights include a jazz band reception, sessions with faculty and staff and a chance to tour the future home of the UNCW Alumni Association, Wise House. It's also Riverfest Weekend in Wilmington, so come prepared for fun!
• Alumni • Parents • Faculty • Staff • Students • Friends •
LOYALTY FUND UPDATE
First and foremost, THANK YOU for your overwhelming support of our Loyalty Fund giving campaign tor 1992-1993. We successfully reached our goal of $350,000 this year, which was an incredible leap above the previous year's goal of $150,000. For the new 1993-94 giving year which began July 1 , we have set the ambitious goal of $500,000 — a goal which will enable us to support the restoration of our new alumni facility, Wise House. Your previous support gives us the resolve to know that we can reach this goal.
The Loyalty Fund contributions you make each year enable the university to provide for scholarships and other programs that cannot be tunded in any othet way. It is critically important to the university that we provide these programs. It is only through your generosity that we can continue our mission to make UNCW the best teaching university in the Southeast.
Although we will be gearing up for '93-94 Loyalty Fund contributions beginning September 1, please think about your giving now. Look for information by mail and expect to hear from us by phone. Your individual support is what helps make UNCW an outstanding academic environ- ment for our students!
For more information about the 1993-1994 Loyalty Fund, please contact Loyalty Fund Coordinator Barbie Cowan, University Advance- ment, (919) 395-3751.
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ALUMNOTES
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Jerry W. Hartgrove '69 has been named Dunn district manager for Caro- lina Power & Light Co. He and his wife, Barbara, have two sons, Lyle and Alan.
The 70s
Sheryl B. Brown '71 has been promoted to executive professional representative tor Merck, a position which less than 5 percent of Merck personnel achieve nationwide. A re- cipient of the Merck Vice President's Club Award in 1992, she lives in Wilmington. Her son, Scott, is a stu- dent at Hoggard High School.
Sculptor Nicholas Emanuel Batounis '72 is an art teacher tor Gaston County Schools and lives in Lincolnton.
Madeleine Dunn Bowers '72 recently received a master's degree in education in administration and supervision from the University of Georgia at Augusta. She teaches fifth grade in the Thompson County, Ga., public schools. She and her husband, Michael, hav- two sons, William and Jackson.
Thomas F. Montgomery '73 is a su- pervisory special agent for the FBI who
lives in Gulfport, Miss. He is married with two children.
Atlantic Computer President Jay Stokley '73 served as president of the 1993 North Carolina Azalea Festival. He lives in Wilmington.
Gov. James B. Hunt has appointed Frederick Aikens '75 as deputy secretary for general administration, personnel, and motor vehicles for the N.C. Depart- ment of Transportation. Aikens, also a senior fiscal analyst for the N.C. General Assembly, lives in Raleigh. He and his wife, Lucy, have two daughters, Natasha and Cindy.
George D. Murray Jr. '75 has been named controller and finance manager at Dewey Brothers in Goldsboro. He and his wife, Phyllis, live in Goldsboro. A daughter, Misty Dawn, attends UNCW.
Forrest W. Frazier '76 is manager of environmental affairs for Amerada Hess Corp. He lives in Katy, Texas.
Brenda Tava Moss Esselman '77 is the owner of The Farmer's Wife in Mooresville, where she lives with her husband Dennis William Esselman '77, a computer salesman.
David Wallace '77 is a desktop marketing manager for Digital Equip- ment Corp. in Winston-Salem. He lives in Greensboro with his wife, Nancy, and their two children,
On the May 1993 Alumni Cruise aboard the Ecstasy are (clockwise from lower left): Margaret Robison, Kevin and Wendy Eastman; Dorothy Marshall; Richard and Carolyn Cook, Ecstasy waiters (in UNCW caps); Robert and Becky Chilcote, Diane Zeeman, Mimi Cunningham. Frances Wilkinson and Makenzie Taylor.
Michael and Elizabeth.
Mary Best Blanton '77 is a librarian at James Sprunt Community College in Kenansville.
Sharon Mozingo Humphries '78, who lives in Fayetteville, is a medical technologist for Cape Fear Valley Medi- cal Center. She and her husband, Paul, have two children, Joseph and Elizabeth.
Terrell "Terry" L. Evans '79 has been named a vice president at First Citizens Bank in Richlands. He serves as a retail city manager and lives in Jacksonville.
Mark L. Stone '79 of Asheville has been named manager of business bank- ing at First Citizens Bank in Asheville.
The '80s
Stephen Wright '80 of Winston-Sa- lem was recently promoted to senior contracting officer for the U.S. Postal Service Regional Purchasing Center.
Patricia J. Aselton '81 of Coventry, Conn, has been promoted to telecom- munications officer with Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Stacy Dell Webb '82, who lives in High Point, is an estimator/project man- ager for Bob E. Ridge Plumbing and Heating Co.
Lynn Barbara Jones '83 is a Social Worker II in the adult services unit of the Orange County Department of So- cial Services. She lives in Hillsborough.
Ken Morgan '83 has been promoted to general accounting supervisor in the accounting department at Federal Paperboard's Riegelwood plant. He is a Certified Public Accountant and lives in Wilmington.
Auditor Todd Sammons '83 has been promoted to vice president of Coopera- tive Bank for Savings. Sammons is a CPA and lives in Wilmington.
Michael D. Prudhoe '83 is business manager for Cape Fear Ford. He lives in Wilmington with his wife, Barbara.
Helen Ward Stevens '84, '91, has been promoted to vice president at Southern National Bank. She lives in Wilmington and is a commercial lender at Southern National's main Wilmington office.
Dan Dunlop '84 has been named general manager of WCHL radio in Chapel Hill.
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James E. Caison '85
owns and manages ADIA Personnel Ser- vice in Fayetteville. His wife, Dawn Dawkins Caison '85, works in computer sales for Inacomp Computer Center. They live in Fayetteville.
Lisa A. Galvin '85 and her husband, Kent, recently re- turned from Okinawa, Japan, where they were stationed for 2 1/2 years. They live in Knoxville, Tenn., with their daughter, Alii.
James L. Meyer, Jr. '85, a First Citizens Bank vice president, has been elected to the local board of directors for First Citizens Bank in Salisbury.
Karen Emerich Duvernay '86 is a re- search and test analyst for PennCorp Finan- cial, Inc. She is mar- ried to Denis M. Duvernay '86, a fleet service clerk for American Airlines. They live and work in Raleigh.
Joye Joyner Keith '86, who lives in Ra- leigh, is a computer operator for N.C. Farm Bureau Insurance
Brenda Johnson Gandy Brown '86 of Wilmington is director of employee relations for New Hanover Re- gional Medical Center.
Paul McCombie '86 has been elected assistant vice president at Wachovia Bank in Wilmington. He is branch manager.
Ann Rotchford '86, who earned a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1992, will direct the 1993 Summer Research Pro- grams for Undergraduate Studies at SUNY-Stony Brook.
Jerry Dean Boyette '87 has joined Barnett Securities, a division of Barnett Bank, as a securities invest- ment officer. He and his wife, Debbie, live in Tampa, Fla.
SHORT TAKES
ncle Jim is just one of a cast of colorful characters in Dawn Evans Radford's novel-in-progress, but he's already brought the '92 summa cum laude graduate the $3,000 Sherwood Anderson Literary Scholarship. Radford won the prestigious national award on the strength of her short story, "Uncle Jim, "based on her childhood in a tiny North Florida fishing village. "Uncle Jim" is part of a series of interrelated stories about a little girl named Allie, who's the subject of a custody battle . The custody battle "was the first thing I had to deal with before I could get into the story, because all these are drawn from life," Radford said. "And it seems that those things I have to deal with most in my life are the ones I have to write about first."
Radford finds writing fiction affords her a measure of control over the jumble of the past. "I can take all this chaos that's in my life, these things I don't understand, and I can play God with them," said Radford, who's now halfway through a master's program in English at UNCW. "I can take them and make them start and end just like I want them to."
The Sherwood Anderson prize, open to all graduate writing students in the United States, is a real feather in Radford's cap, said Philip Gerard, director of professional and creative writing at UNCW. "In the three years I've been directing the writing program here, we've nominated students every year and never
Dawn Radford
even come close," Gerard said. "The fact that she won indicates the quality of her work."
Radford, who has a college-age daughter, was at first reluctant to pursue a formal uni- versity education. "I was afraid that the institution would take my voice away, and I knew I had something," she said. "I had seen so much of what was coming out of universities, especially in the way of poetry , and it was non- sense to me. I was afraid if I came to school and tried to write the way I wanted to, the way I felt that I had to write, I wouldn't do well."
She needn't have wor- ried. Her professors have en- couraged her to write in her natural voice. "I think because I've been here that my writing is richer," she said.
"I feel that writing — any writing — is sort of an exposure. Anybody who writes is exposing him or herself. I'm doing that in my own writing. I'm exposing some very tender parts of myself. If somebody comes along who has to act as my judge in that circumstance, I'm going to be vulnerable to a lot of hurt. And I've never experienced any kind of an attack here from any of my teachers."
Radford, a graduate teaching assistant in The Writing Place, will use the prize money to pay for two workshops this summer — one on using computers in the classroom, and the other to attend a writer's conference and workshop in Kentucky.
— Mar\ Ellen Poison
Robert O. Walton III '87 is the owner of East Coast Environmental, P. A., of Wilmington and Raleigh. He and his wife, Lydia Whitley Walton '87, live in Wilmington.
Terry Dean Pope '87 has been named county editor for the State Port Pilot in Southport.
Louis M. Dicello '88 is a sales repre- sentative for Knoll Pharmaceutical- BASF who lives in Raleigh.
Eric C. Hickman '88 has been elected banking officer at Wachovia Bank in Fayetteville. He is an agri-busi-
ness banker at the main office.
Michelle "Suzy" Moser '88 is en- rolled in the master's accountancy pro- gram at East Carolina University and lives in Greenville.
James H. Strickland, Jr. '88 has been promoted to assistant vice president at Southern National Bank. He lives in Fayetteville with his wife, Gwendolyn.
Daniel E. Schvveikert '89 has been promoted to senior associate program- mer for IBM. He lives in Raleigh.
Alan Kocsi '89, a lead analyst with General Electric, was recently elected to
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board of directors for GE's trucking subsid- iary. He lives in Louisville, Ky. Eric A.
Cfc' ^^ Brandt '88 has
qualified for the W Million Dollar
Round Table. He is the ac- count represen- tative for Metlife's Wilm- ington branch office.
Denise Crook Hawse '89 of Charlotte is a merchandising editor for Bride's Magazine.
Amy Pflug McMonagle '89 received her M.S. in library science from Wayne State University. She lives in New York City, where she is a librarian for the Queens Public Library.
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C. Robert "Bob" Clopper '90 is a retail manager for Toys R Us in Waldorf, Md. He and his wife, Charlotte, have two sons, Charles Bryant, 3, and Richard Michael, 2.
Robin Reynolds Pasquarello '90 is an administrative officer in the controller's office of the N.C. Department of Correc- tion and lives in Raleigh. She is working towards her M.B.A. at Meredith College.
David VV. Noell '90 has been promoted to banking officer by BB&T. He is a busi- ness services officer in Plymouth, N.C.
Angela M. McLamb '91 has been named manager of The Money Center in Fayetteville.
David Allen Cook '91 is a graduate stu- dent and teaching assistant at the Florida Institute of Technology, researching the feeding habits of stingrays. He lives in Indialantic, Fla.
While living in Wiesbaden, Germany, Paula M. Edwards '91 recently completed a master's degree in public administration. She worked at American Hospital in Germany.
Sally Hoke '^1 is a wildlife keeper/ aquarist for the New York Aquarium for Wildlife Conservation in Brooklyn, N.Y. She lives in Staten Island.
Tracy Y. Honeycutt '92 is a program supervisor for the Dunn Parks and Recre- ation Department. She recently passed the Certified Leisure Professional exam and lives in Dunn.
Jon P. Joyner '92 of Burlington is a mort- gage lender- for United Federal.
Denise Marie Paliwoda '92 is director of advertising/marketing for Innovative Network Solutions and lives in Bayonne, N.J. In March, she helped coach the Bayonne High School Cheerleaders to win the East Coast National Championship in Virginia. She expects to enter graduate school in communications this fall.
Charlotte Pearson '92 of Cary is a clas- sified advertising sales representative for The News and Observer in Raleigh.
Michael A. Pruner '92 of Charlotte has developed and marketed Expense Man- ager, a travel expense software package.
Leigh Elirabeth Woolard '92 of Chapel Hill is an assistant manager for TEIF Outlets.
MARRIAGES
Sophia Lora Jeffries '86 to Walter Stone, May 2, 1993. She is a systems ana- lyst for Computer Sciences Corp. They live in Cary.
Beverly Southerland Fennell '86 to Tracy Fennell in March 1990. They live in Hampstead.
David Blair King '88 to Deborah Lynn Houser, Feb. 27, 1993. He works for the family business, King Tire Service, in Roanoke Rapids, Va.
LeAnne Preslar '88 to Joseph Ballard, March 6, 1993. She is a marketing repre- sentative for National Health Laborato- ries. They live in Wrightsville Beach.
Lisa Michelle Mills '89 to Kurt Harrison Ihly, Feb. 20, 1993. She works tor the City of Greenville.
Elizabeth Ashley Harding '89 to Corbin Ivars Sapp '90, June 26, 1993.
Herbert Marcus Lunsford '89 to Laura Ann Griffin, Dec. 5, 1992.
Robert W. Sappenfield, Jr. '90 to Kristie Carole Robinson '89, July 31, 1993. They live in Charlotte.
Kenny Jack Kidd '90 to Yvonne Denise Wilson Kidd '91, June 25, 1992. She is a teacher for Randolph County Schools; he is a sales representative for Morrisette Paper. They live in Asheboro.
Edward Louis Davis '91 to Donna Butler Davis '91, Feb. 20, 1993. Edward has been promoted to assistant manager with Harris Teeter Supermarkets in Flo- rence, S.C. Donna is a teacher with the Columbus County School System. They live in Florence.
Shannon Lewin Holland '91 to Bobby Lane Holland, Jan. 2, 1993. They live in Virginia Beach, Va.
Amy Laura Parker-Tyndall '91 to Clifford Collier Tyndall. She works in a physician's office and they live in Greenville.
Lauren R. Coccia Clemmer '92 to M. Eugene Clemmer '91 in May 1993. Lauren worked as an art department assistant on The Hudsucker Proxy, made at Carolco Studios in Wilmington.
ENGAGEMENTS
Julie Ann McKean '91 of Charlotte is engaged to William G. Davis '92. They will marry on Nov. 6, 1993. She received a master's degree in human resources devel- opment from Webster University in March and is a human resource manager tor Lida, Inc.
William Jason Waldrop '91 is engaged to Katherine Anne Newing. They will marry on Sept. 18, 1993 and live in Char- lotte. William is a business analyst for Moody's Investors Service.
BIRTHS
To Deborah Schmidt Barnes '87 and Haywood Barnes '87, a son, Benjamin Haywood, Sept. 21, 1992. She is a claims examiner for Integon Corp. They live in Winston-Salem.
To Felecia Cox Hayes '88 and Sam Hayes, fraternal twin sons, Lucas Bryant and Dillon Earnest, Dec. 4, 1992. They live in Cary.
To Ramona Jean Hilton Oakley '90 and Robert Rexford Oakley '89, a daugh- ter, Elizabeth Jean, Nov. 29, 1992. Ramona is business manager for PIP Printer No. 275 in Durham. She received the Distinguished Service Award from the Sales and Marketing Executives of Durham. The Oakleys live in Durham.
To Joy Lynn Owens Usher '8L' and Charlie Juston Usher, a daughter, Allison Paige, Jan. 10, 1993. Joy teaches fourth grade at Penderlea Elementary School in Penderlea. The Ushers live in Watha.
IN M EMORI AM
James Allen Poteat, Jr. '74- Prior to his death he was a Wilmington wetlands con- sultant.
Angela M. Jackson '88 died Jan. 15, 1993. Prior to her death she was a man- ager with Shoney's Restaurant.
Dr. Harold G. Hulon, UNCW professor of educational design and management, June 21, 1993. Hulon came to Wilmington in 1963 to otganize and develop the Depart- ment ot Education. The World War II Army veteran had formerly taught school in Durham County and served as principal in Richmond and Robeson counties.
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Wise House
The first phase of renovations to the Jessie Kenan Wise House
is nearing completion
and the Neoclassical Revival mansion
is well on its way to becoming
a home away from home for all UNCW alumni.
It will take help from UNCWs alumni, friends of the university
and the greater Wilmington community to repay the generous loan of $400,000 made
by United Carolina Bank
to fund the renovation .
Watch your mailbox for upcoming events featuring
Wise House.
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(CALENDAR
AUGUST
14 Annual Triangle Chapter Event, Durham Bulls cookout (5:30 p.m.) and game (7:30 p.m.), Durham
UNCW Athletics Alumni Basketball Game, Trask
Coliseum, 6 p.m.
Freshman Pizza Party, Trask Coliseum, 10 p.m.
15 Parent Orientation, Suite Services Building 15-16 Freshman Orientation, University Center
16 Transfer Orientation, Cameron Auditorium, 1-6:30 p.m.
1 7 Comedian Jamie Fox, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
18 Be A Sport day, Gazebo, noon-6 p.m. Barbecue 6k Bluegrass, Gazebo, 6-8 p.m.
19 Classes begin, tall semester
SEPTEMBER
6 Labor Day holiday, classes suspended
8 Convocation, Trask Coliseum
14 Cape Fear Alumni Chapter meeting, University Center, 5:30 p.m.
M.B.A. Alumni Chapter meeting, Cameron Hall, 7:15 p.m.
1 7 Seahawk Soccer, JAMES MADISON, 1 p.m.
1 7 Jacksonville alumni event, Day's Inn, Jacksonville, 6 p.m.
TBA Senior Picnic
17-18 SEAHAWK COMFORT INN VOLLEYBALL
CLASSIC, round robin play with UNCW, UNC Charlotte, Xavier and Coastal Carolina
18-19 M.B.A. Alumni Chapter Lifetime Learning Weekend, Annual Meeting Banquet and Golf Tournament
19 Seahawk Soccer, GEORGE MASON, 1 p.m.
2 3 North Carolina Symphony Concert, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
23 Charlotte alumni event, Charlotte
25 Seahawk Soccer, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH, 1 p.m.
29 Seahawk Soccer, N.C. STATE, 4 p.m.
30 UNCW Jazz Ensemble, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
OCTOBER
1 -3 Family Weekend, UNCW campus
2 Wilmington Symphony Orchestra concert, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m.
8 Elizabethtown/Whiteville/Lumberton alumni event 9-12 Fall vacation, classes suspended
10 Seahawk Soccer, EAST CAROLINA, 1 p.m.
12 Cape Fear Alumni Chapter meeting, University Center,
5:30 p.m.
M.B.A. Alumni Chapter meeting, Cameron Hall, 7:15 p.m.
1 5 Charleston alumni event, Charleston, S.C.
16 Myrtle Beach alumni event, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
1 9 Seahawk Soccer, PEMBROKE STATE, 4 p.m.
20 Ballet Nacional De Caracas, Kenan Auditorium, 8 p.m. 21-24 AIDS NAMES Quilt Display, Trask Coliseum
27 Seahawk Soccer, METHODIST, 3 p.m.
29 North Carolina Living Treasure announcement
TBA ECU Bond Rally and alumni event, Greenville
iO Cape Fear Alumni Chapter Halloween Haunting Dance
NOVEMBER
5 Triad Alumni Chapter Event, Greensboro
6 Hickory Alumni Chapter Event, Hickory
9 Cape Fear Alumni Chapter meeting, University Center, 5:30 p.m. M.B.A. Alumni chapter meeting, Cameron Hall, 7:15 p.m.
13-14 Alumni Board Retreat, Fort Fisher Training Center
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Fall /Winter 1993
Volume 4, Number 1
On the cover: North America and Pelican Nebulae, an opaque watercolor by Sam Bissette
FEATURES
A PLACE IN HISTORY
UNCW approaches its 50th anniversary
ROCK '1ST ROLL IS HERE TO STAY
Wayne Rogers '73 makes memorabilia pay
THE UNIVERSE
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Nobel Laureate Arias Speaks at UNCW
r. Oscar Arias, former presi- dent of Costa Rica and the â– '' 1987 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, says that those with college edu- cations have a special responsibility to fight for justice.
Arias addressed a capacity crowd, includ- ing many college stu- dents, in UNCW's Kenan Auditorium on Oct. 4- The Nobel win- ner served as Costa Rican president from 1986 to 1990. A demili- tarized country, Costa Rica is often viewed as an island of peace in the midst of war-torn Central America.
Arias expressed the hope that with the conclusion of the Cold War, the world's energies would be refo- cused on a new definition of security.
"Today, security must mean more than the avoidance of nuclear war; it
must mean the absence of want," he said. "It is time for security to mean food for the hungry, books for the ignorant, medicine tor the sick, freedom for the oppressed and work for the unemployed. In es- sence, the search for se- curity begins with the search for human dig- nity."
He went on to warn that "no strategy for peace and security can ignore the fact that the world's poor, if left out of the world economy, > JH will seek alternative
means of subsistence that could jeopardize global security." Arias' lecture was the first in a series intended to increase awareness of the Albert Schweitzer Interna- tional Prizes, awarded every four years at UNCW.
— Mary Ellen Poison
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Here's your chance to sport the Seahawk logo and support the UNCW Alumni Association. For the same cost as a personalized plate, you can own an official Seahawk license plate.
In addition to the regular motor vehicle registration fee, you'll pay only $25 annually for the UNCW license plate. $15 of that money comes back to the uni- versity for scholarships. The De- partment of Motor Vehicles must receive orders from 300 people be- fore it will strike the first plate.
If you are interested in buying a Seahawk license plate, call Pat Corcoran, director of alumni rela- tions, 395-3616.
Professors Honored at Convocation
hree faculty members were awarded distinguished teach- ing professorships at convo- cation ceremonies, held Sept. 8 in Trask Coliseum.
Recognized were Dr. John Garris, associate professor of production and decision sciences in the Cameron School of Business Administration; Dr. Diane Levy, professor of sociol- ogy; and Dr. William Overman, pro- fessor of psychology.
The professorships are designed
to foster UNCW's commitment to excellence in undergraduate teach- ing. Dr. Robert Toplin, professor of history, received the UNCW Faculty Award for Scholarship.
Each distinguished teaching pro- fessor receives a $5,000 per year sti- pend for three years. Toplin received $1,500 for the faculty scholarship award.
Among those recognized was Dr. Fara Elikai, professor in accountancy and business law, who was presented
with the 1993 Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award.
Elikai also received a 1993 Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award, along with: Dr. Larry E. Cable, professor of history; Philip Gerard, director of professional and creative writing; Dr. Richard A. Huber, professor of curricular stud- ies; and Dr. Yousry A. Sayed, profes- sor of chemistry.
— Lynn Benson
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University Bond Issue Passes
UNCW students can expect some relief for overcrowded science labs and classrooms. OnNov. 2, North Carolinians passed a $310 million bond issue to build improvements to North Carolina's state universities. Within the pack- age was a $ 1 8.5 million science build- ing for UNCW and $992,000 to en- large and renovate UNCW's Bear Hall. The measure passed statewide with 53 percent of the vote — 63 percent in New Hanover County.
"The bond issue result shows the confidence the greater community has in the university," said Chancel- lor James R. Leutze. "North Carolin- ians have always been visionary thinkers when it comes to the value of higher education."
UNCW, in partnership with the other universities in the UNC sys- tem, mounted an intensive effort to inform the public about the need for the university improvements on the Nov. 2 ballot.
The chancellor thanked all those in the university community who worked hard on behalf of the bond issue, and expressed appreciation to the media for its fair coverage.
The new science building and improvements to Bear Hall will help to house rapidly growing programs in chemistry, physics, biology and earth sciences.
UNCW is among the fastest growing campuses in the University of North Carolina system. In recent years, classroom and laboratory space has not kept pace with enrollments, which have swelled by 25 percent in the last five years.
— Mary Ellen Poison
UNCW Plans Documentary on the Cape Fear River
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6,189 miles of stream and passes W through nearly a third of North Carolina's counties. From its beginnings in Moncure, N.C., to its mouth near Bald Head Island, the Cape Fear River i shapes the cities and towns that line its banks.
Wilmington relies on the Cape Fear for drinking water. Industries and municipalities dispose waste into it. Pleasure boaters use it for recre- ation. As important as the river is to the livelihood of North Carolina, what do we really know about its condition? Not much, say research- ers at UNCW.
That's why the university wants to develop a program to study the river's water quality and issues that will affect its future.
"Right now, there's no statewide monitoring system tor the river," said Project Director Elaine Penn. "We want to serve as an information source so that future decisions about the Cape Fear can be made based on scientific fact." The university will serve as a valuable resource to state and local governments and the in- dustries that line the river.
The university's first step is the upcoming production of an hour-long documentary that will air on public television stations across the state, and possibly nationwide, next spring.
Frank Chapman (foreground! observes as Mary Moser and Chancellor James Leutze wrestle some white water
along the Cape Fear.
Written by Philip Gerard, di- rector of professional and creative writing at UNCW, the program will explore the river's history, with vis- its to historic sites like Brunswick Town and Moore's Creek, and take a look at efforts now under way to preserve the river and the things that can be done to maintain it for generations to come.
Chancellor Jim Leutze and a hearty crew of university staff mem- bers, researchers, videographers and several reporters spent three days last spring traveling down the river by canoe and then power boat. The group completed initial filming of the documentary, collected water samples, and studied areas of dis- charge along the river's banks.
"The documentary isn't an ex- pose'," said Penn. "Instead, we hope to educate people about the river so that we can all take responsibility for its future."
— Carolyn Busse
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A Place
in History
Commencement was held on the lawn in front of Hoggard Hall in the late 1 970s.
UNCW appcoacaes its 50ta amiiyemry
by Mary Ellen Polson
It began as a night school, meet- ing in high school classrooms. Five decades later, the little college that began teaching practi- cal skills and junior college courses to returning World War II veterans is a comprehensive university teaching aspiring physicians, law- yers, biologists and teachers.
In less than tour years, UNCW will be 50 years old. Hard to be- lieve, isn't it?
In 1947, a four-year university in Southeastern North Carolina was a dream. Today, the 8,150-stu- dent UNCW campus covers 640 wooded acres, with more than 60
classroom, administrative and sup- port buildings along busy South College Road.
The idea for a college in Wilmington germinated with the New Hanover County Board of Education in the 1930s, according to From these Beginnings, written by UNCW Professor Emeritus J. Marshall Crews.
The dream began to take shape at the close of World War II, when returning veterans were flooding the state's colleges and universities. Wilmington was cho- sen as the site of a temporary col- lege center under the supervision of the state's education depart- ment on June 22, 1946.
In actuality, the state created two centers: one tor white students at New Hanover High School on Market Street, and one for black students, at Williston High School on 10th Street, Crews writes. The Williston campus, which trom 1946 to 1955 was an extension of Fayetteville State University, would serve as the campus home for African-American students tor nearly 20 years.
In the mid-50s, the main branch of campus moved into Isaac Bear Hall, a former elementary school across the street from New Hanover High School.
Most ot the college's first in- structors worked tor the New
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David E. Warner speaks to the first gathering of Wilmington College alumni, in October I 965.
Hanover County Board of Educa- tion, which footed the bill for the new college. The one exception was Adrian Hurst, then an exten- sion instructor in Wilmington for N.C. State University. A math- ematics teacher, he was the first teacher hired at Wilmington Col- lege.
Officials expected about 160 students to show up for classes at the two campuses the first quarter; 238 ac- tually registered, Crews writes. Taught from 4 to 9 p.m., courses were offered in aircraft en- gine repair, brick lay- ing and typing as well as the general junior college curriculum.
Even though the school occupied a bor- rowed campus, the be- ginnings of college life stirred almost immedi- ately. The Seahawk, the student newspaper, de- buted in 1948 — in a
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four-page mimeographed edi- tion, Crews writes. The Fledg- ling, the college yearbook, first appeared in 1950.
The campus store has its origins in a closet in the base- ment of the Bear building. No books were stocked there — they were sold through the bursar's office — but there was a "snack bar." Crews re- called spending 85 cents to buy a box of 5-cent Milky Way candy bars, which were kept in the unlocked closet and sold on the honor system. The college athletic pro- gram was up and running quickly, too. William J. "Bill" Brooks arrived in 1951 and coached a number of sports at both New Hanover High and Wilmington College. In a ca- reer encompassing 40 years, Brooks established a standout junior col- lege baseball program — the team won national junior college cham- pionships in 1961 and 1963 — helped raise funds for sports facili- ties and brought Seahawk basket- ball into the NCAA arena in 1985.
Until 1958, Wilmington Col- lege was essentially a locally funded extension of the New Hanover County Board of Education. In 1957, the state legislature added Wilmington College to North Carolina's community college sys- tem and appropriated money for its operating expenses.
Thomas Hamilton was the first president of Wilmington College. He was followed in 1951 by John T. I loggard, former chairman ot the New Hanover County Board ot Education. When Hoggard retired in 1958, William M. Randall, for whom Randall Library is named, became college president.
The search for a permanent campus began early in Randall's ten- ure, when the state offered matching funds if local voters would tax them- selves to pay halt the tab to construct the first buildings.
A move to make Wilmington's municipal golf course the campus home was swiftly quashed due to public opposition. The college's board ot trustees, including B.D. Schwartz, Frederick B. Graham and L. Bradford Tillery, eventually
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chose a wooded area off the then- two lane N.C. 132 tor the campus.
"The land was basically sand and pine trees and ponds. A family farm had occupied one section, and a pear tree in front of Trask Coli- seum is all that remains of that farm," said Schwartz in his autobi- ography, The Joy of Politics, co- written with Mimi Cunningham. "It was an ideal site — not far from the beach, not in the huh of town."
By 1961, the first three campus buildings — Edwin A. Alderman, John T. Hoggard and Hinton James halls — opened for the fall semes- ter. Aerial photos show the modi- fied Georgian-style buildings in a U
facing College Road, completely surrounded by woods on three sides. Two parking lots accommo- dated cars for both staff and fac- ulty. President Randall was fond of declaring that the campus was "twice the size of Monaco and three times the size of Vatican city," Crews writes.
The move to the new site en- abled the new college to open its doors to both black and white stu- dents. The integration of Wilmington College was accom- plished painlessly in 1962 through the combined efforts of former president Hoggard (then chairman of the college's board of trustees)
and Wilmington civil rights leader Dr. Hubert Eaton, according to Eaton's biography, Every Man Should Try.
As the '60s progressed, changes unfolded quickly. In 1963, the col- lege became a four-year institution, graduating its first seniors in 1965. The James Walker School of Nurs- ing was transferred to the college in '65, and the first overseas extension program (a summer institute in ar- chaeology and Palestinian history, taught by the peripatetic Dr. Gerald H. Shinn) was offered in 1967.
Fund raising by the Friends of Wilmington College, organized in 1963, was largely responsible for bringing the library up to minimum standards for accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (50,000 volumes) by 1968.
In 1968, President Randall re- tired. His successor, Dr. William H. Wagoner, would stand at the helm for more than 20 years, overseeing the most dramatic period of growth in the university's history.
Wagoner became president of Wilmington College on June 1, 1968. Just six months later, in De- cember, the UNC Board of Trust- ees approved Wilmington College's entrance into the university sys- tem. On July 1, 1969, Wilmington College became the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Wagoner its first chancellor.
(Apparently parking was already at a premium on the rapidly growing campus: Wagoner told Wilmington Morning Star reporter Alison Feldman in 1990 that he got a park- ing ticket his first day at school. Wagoner bought a parking sticker, paid the fine and praised the em- ployee, the Morning Star reported.)
The 1970s saw a period of rapid growth, both in the number of students who flocked to campus and in physical improvements. En-
Groovin' in the spirit of the '60s at an Alpha Delta Upsilon party.
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Who says UNCW never had a football team? Here's a scrimmage from spring practice, circa 1951.
rollment nearly tripled, from 1,425 in 1969 to 4,258 in 1979. UNCW added its first residence halls in the early '70s, and built several new classroom buildings. Trask Coli- seum, which dwarfed the school's original gymnasium, Hanover Hall, was completed in time for the 1977-78 school year.
In 1975, in a move intended to enhance the university's prestige, the Albert Schweitzer Interna- tional Prizes in music, medicine and the humanities were estab- lished. Every four years since, cer- emonies at UNCW have honored international figures who epitomize the philosophy of the humanist physician. Among the first recipi- ents was Mother Teresa, who later won the Nobel Peace Prize.
The phenomenal growth at UNCW continued throughout the 1980s, a decade which saw rapid proliferation of degree programs of- fered and the application of in- creasingly higher standards for ad- mission — in part due to lack of classroom space, as noted in a se- ries of stories in the Wilmington Morning Star.
The percentage of entering freshmen who graduated in the top 20 percent of their high school class steadily climbed, and the busi- ness school — scattered in several buildings across campus — consid- ered capping the number of majors
it accepted because of lack of classroom space. In 1984, theUNC Board of Governors promoted UNCW to the status of Compre- hensive Level I Univer- sity. The designation allowed the school to add more master's level programs, pay higher faculty salaries and ex- pand its research capa- bilities — in general, permitting it to operate and compete as a top- level university. Only three other institutions in the UNC system — research universities UNC and N.C. State University and doctoral-granting university UNC Greensboro — hold higher designations.
Several master's programs had already been established at UNCW
— notably its highly regarded pro- gram in marine biology in 1980. By 1987, UNCW offered master's pro- grams in geology, biology, chemis- try, math, English, history, and el- ementary, secondary and high school education. Another jne bes/ seven master's programs were added the following year (19 are now offered). UNCW also offers a Ph.D. program in marine biology jointly with N.C. State.
The building boom con- tinued in the 1980s. Univer- sity Union, a focal point for campus activities, opened in
1983, and the first privately built, student-oriented off- campus housing complex, Campus Edge, went up in
1984. Late in the decade, UNCW doubled the size of Randall Library and added two important new buildings
— the Cameron School of Business Administration and the Social and Behavioral Sciences building.
In 1990, James R. Leutze became chancellor of
a university poised on the brink of additional growth and a new matu- rity. The top priority: to make UNCW the best teaching univer- sity in the Southeast.
When Chancellor Leutze took office, UNCW's endowment stood at an estimated $5 to 6 million — a fraction of the endowment held by other schools in the UNC system. In 1992, the chancellor and his ad- ministrative team embarked on the university's first capital campaign, designed to raise Si 5 million for scholarships and endowed profes- sorships within five years. More than $9 million has already been raised toward this goal.
With the recent accreditation ot the Cameron School of Business by the American Assembly of Col- legiate Schools of Business and UNCW's recent ranking among the 25 top regional universities in the South, UNCW is well on its way toward its goal of teaching ex- cellence.
Mary Ellen Poison is editor o/UNCW Magazine.
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Wayne Rogers '73 makes memorabilia pay
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Like most adolescents in the early '60s, Wayne Rogers '73 vividly recalls the cold Feb- ruary weekend in 1964 when the Beatles first hit the United States.
The screaming girls at the air- port. The din of the Ed Sullivan Show audience. The unique musical sound that mesmerized an entire generation.
"We were glued to the tube the whole weekend," said Rogers, then a 13-year-old seventh-grader living in upstate New York. "I remember it like it was yesterday, it was such a big turning point for me."
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reer, one that reflects his love tor all kinds of music, not just rock. Before he graduated from UNCW in 1973, he had made buying and selling records and, increasingly, rock memorabilia, into a profitable business. Rogers has never even ap- plied for a job. "The day I gradu- ated, my wite quit her job and that was it," he said.
Rogers started out selling any- thing related to rock — old and rare records, music magazines, post- ers, T-shirts, tour books. He sold at record shows and Beatles conven- tions and advertised in Rolling Stone, Creem and Crawdaddy to build up a good client list. As a
member of the concert committee at UNCW, he helped bring popular and emerging bands to Wilming- ton, booking them into Hanover Hall on the UNCW campus or Brogden Hall at New Hanover High School.
Even though the houses could seat no more than 2,500, the com- mittee pulled in some name groups. "We specialized in grabbing acts before they got big," said Wes Knape '73, a drama teacher at Laney High School in Wilmington, who was then chair of the concert committee. "If we could pick stocks like we were picking bands, we'd be rich now."
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On the list were the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Steely Dan (booked for a mere $500) and Yes — the night their best-selling al- bum Fragile went gold. "We were very lucky because we got them cheap," recalls Rogers, who kept the books. "Fleetwood Mac was a cancel, unfortunately, but I still have the poster."
Rogers, who has sold memorabilia exclusively for the last 10 years now, buys and sells merchandise asso- ciated with country, shag, and rhythm and blues as well as rock. Rogers says his business "is pretty unique. There's no one else doing specifically what I do full time in the whole world that I know of."
He's a heavy consignor to major auction houses like Sotheby's and Chris- tie's, and buys high-ticket items on speculation, knowing he'll eventually sell them. Much of the memorabilia that decks Hard Rock cafes from New York to Tokyo to Orlando has passed through Rogers' hands at one point or an- other. Hard Rock "has re- ally put the memorabilia market on the map," Rogers said.
Of all rock stars past and present, the Beatles by far lead the memorabilia hit parade, Rogers says. Megastars like Sting and Michael Jackson owe their financial success to the Beatles, who paved the way to riches for them.
"They were the first group to fill stadiums," said Rogers, who owns the contract for their 1965 Atlanta Stadium concert. "If they played today, they could be the first group to command 95 percent of the gate. They just revolution- ized the whole entertainment in- dustry."
"I spend a lot of time in En- gland. To go back to Liverpool and see their roots, where they came from, is quite an amazing thing. Liverpool hasn't changed much. They were working-class kids. How they came so far, it's unfathomable."
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rs has sold rock memorabilia to Hard Rock cafes New York (above) to Tokyo.
Rogers believes the Beatles be- came such a phenomenon in part because their musical roots were es- sentially American. John Lennon and Paul McCartney patterned their singing styles after black rhythm and blues artists like Chuck Berry and Little Richard. George Harrison learned guitar licks from rockabilly pickers like Carl Perkins. "They all took a little from America," said Rogers.
Today's rock phenoms just don't measure up when it comes to memorabilia. "The only other rock personality that even approaches the Beatles in collectibility is Jimi Hendrix," Rogers said. "The cur- rent personalities are oversaturated; there's no mystique about them." Surprisingly, Elvis is way down the list. "The problem with Elvis is, he was prostituted after his death," Rogers said. Even so, Rogers has in his collec- tion a Winchester gun cus- tom-made for Elvis, priced in the five-figure range. Some of the hottest items are associated with artists who were never big rock stars. "What's very collectible are concert posters — for James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino — the pioneers of rock 'n' roll," Rogers said. "That's highly desirable stuff."
Rogers has handled several sets of clothing that sold for more than $10,000, including an outfit worn by rhythm and blues great Otis Redding. "Those items from the early days just hold a special mystique, and necessarily so. They should go for more than something Madonna wore last week."
Rogers is often asked to estimate the value of rare items. Apple, the Lon- don-based company founded by the Beatles, asked Rogers to estimate the auction price ot an acetate film and record- ing of the Beatles. Considered the earliest known footage of the Fab Four, the film from 1962 contains performances of two songs, one ot them unknown in the Beatles' rep- ertoire.
"I think you'll get it tor 5 or 6,000 pounds, " Rogers told an Apple representative. "It went for
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15,000 pounds ... With the pre- mium, they paid almost $30,000 for it. Trice is an arbitrary thing."
While his buyers are a diverse lot, many are baby boomers. "The hobby has really come of age in the last 10 years for various rea- sons," Rogers said. "People want to collect the nostalgia of their youth, and now they've got the money to do so."
Higher quality — and higher priced — items often sell in the European market. The Japanese also are heavy buyers. Several of Rogers' Japanese clients collect vintage guitars, but not to play. "Vintage guitars from the '50s, '60s and 70s are now considered tine art," Rogers said.
There's a big market for American collectibles in general in Japan. Rogers recently saw an entire store in Tokyo that sold only things related to Felix the Cat, a pre-World War II cartoon character. "Felix the Cat is a cul- tural hero in Japan," Rogers said.
While Rogers is the only em- ployee of his company, Retro/Ac- tive, he has a network of silent partners who help find things for him — and he's always on the lookout for leads.
Historical, sports and cartoon memorabilia also comes his way, often as a result of buying or trad- ing for rock 'n' roll merchandise he wants. "I get bizarre things, like Bonnie and Clyde signatures," he said. "Those types of things aren't things I go after."
Rogers says he could run his business from anywhere — pro- vided it has a telephone and a fax machine. Auctions keep him busi- est from March to October, and Rogers is often on the road throughout the United States and Europe. He spent two months in England this year.
Until a couple of years ago, Rogers lived in Wilmington. When he's home, he works out of his house in Montgomery, Ala. He moved to Montgomery to stay close to his ex-wife, with whom he shares a child. It's an amicable re- lationship; the two live on the same street.
At any one time, Rogers might have thousands of items in inven- tory, many of them jam-packed into hi s Montgomery
home.
Others rest in ware- houses.
"A lot of stuff doesn't take up much space because it's paper — contracts, autograph books, stuff like that," he said.
One of the most unique items he's handled was a 12-page affida- vit filed by Paul McCartney in 1970 to dissolve the Beatles. One of only five originals, the copy was John Lennon's and contained many of Lennon's handwritten, personal notes in the margins. The affidavit came to Rogers in 1989; he sold it two years later for about $26,000. The current owner is asking a reported $100,000 for it, Rogers says.
There are some items he re- fuses to traffic in, however. Rogers recently turned down an offer from Sotheby's to sell a tooth John Lennon lost in 1966.
"I couldn't believe they had the guts to put that out on their letterhead," Rogers said. "To get a tooth and try to market it, that's kind of pushing the envelope."
"They contacted the right per- son, though," he said. "If any one could sell it, I could."
Man- Ellen Poison edits UNCW Magazine. Rogers can be reached at Retro/ Active at (205) 244-9597.
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A COMPOSITE PICTURE
i© define the University of North Carolina at Wilmington:
Yes, it's the buildings, the laboratories and library. But it's much more. It's the stu- dents and faculty. And it's the bicycles they ride, backpacks they carry, books they study and beaches they frequent. Simply, UNCW is the sum of its parts — a composite picture.
Integral to that picture is the university's growing repu- tation for teaching excellence that's grounded in quality research. Teaching that turns out well-prepared graduates and successful alumni.
Those alumni, their employ- ers and the communities where they live provide the necessary resources to keep the university thriving. And as the university thrives, so too does North Carolina and its citizenry.
So, it's the alumni and the faculty and the students— and the environments in which they flourish— that we salute with this annual report. For they all truly define UNCW.
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The University of North Carolina at Wilmington is a young university. And, yet, it exhibits a maturity. A maturity gained from meeting its educational mission and a maturity obtained by support from alumni and friends. In fact, more than 2,500 of them contributed to the 1 992-93 Loyalty Fund. Throughout the following pages, you will see how their gifts have enriched — and defined — this university.
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Contributors who supported the university at the level of $1,000 or more during the 1992-93 Loyalty Fund year earn this distinction.
lo get a scholarship — that was my goal all through high school, so my parents wouldn't have to take care of anything. Needless to say, they were happy," says UNCW freshman Tim Ellis. What made Tim's parents happy and proud is his being named a Champion McDowell Davis Scholar and receiving a four-year, $3,500 annual scholar- ship.
Tim, a premedical major, was a leader in his Hoke County High School. In addition to maintaining high academic standards, as evi- denced by his salutatorian rank- ing, he was co-captain of the tennis team, a starter on the wrestling squad, played baseball, was vice president of Key Club and served on student council.
The scholarship is made pos- sible through an endowment given by the Davis Foundation as a result of a bequest of Champion McDowell Davis. Davis was a former president of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and a trustee for Wilmington College.
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Doctors in the UNCW area are working to encourage more students like Tim Ellis (left) to enter the University's pre- medical program.
Physicians in the New Hanover-Pender Counties Medical Society have started a scholarship endowment to provide tuition and fees for UNCW premedical students. The doctors are building the endoivment by having fellow physicians pay for services that are usually offered as medical courtesies and then diverting those payments to the endoiv- ment. In addition, the doctors are designating part of their medical society dues to be given to the scholarship fund and making memorial gifts to the fund in the name of a colleague who has died.
Medical society members say their fund-raising efforts are well worth the effort. The UNCW student acceptance rate into medical programs nation- wide is one of the best among member institutions in the University of North Carolina system.
CAPTAINS CLUB
Members are those who contributed SSOO to S999 during the 1992-93 Loyalty Fund year.
lou're the first teacher to tell me I can pass the CPA exam," says a senior in Dr. Joanne Rockness' accounting class. The student is one among a dozen seniors in the class who are ner- vous at the prospect of entering the business world. Rockness feels it's her job to calm their nerves by making sure they're well educated.
"I want you guys to be real accountants, to get jobs, to be leaders out there. Believe in yourselves a little more," says Rockness, UNCW Cameron Professor of Accountancy. As UNCW's first endowed professor, she's serious about her role in preparing students to enter that real world.
Although her credentials as a faculty member at Michigan State University and as associate dean for academic affairs at N.C. State University bespeak her research expertise, it's the students that now motivate Rockness. "I think the primary mission of UNCW is teaching, and I think it ought to be. There's not much difference in students anywhere, and teaching's what I like to do."
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Robert Galphin
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Thomas Evans Jr. Raymond Fraley Jr. Jessiebeth Geddie
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Michael Glancy Martha Rector
1980s
Fax Rector Jr. George Spirakis James Weibley
Friends
Kenneth Beasley
Grace Burton
Jean & Gordon Coleman
John Geddie
Louise Sc Charles Green
Nancy & Spencer Hall
Robert Hines
Henry Holleman
Parviz Kambin
Kathy & James Leutze
Doris & Jack Levy
Nancy & Edward] illy Jr.
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Martin Meyerson Norman Mills Neil Mussehvhite Bobby Pate James Pomerantz Pearl & Tyrone Rowell Linda & Yousry Saved Mary & C. Shigley Carolyn & Roger Simmons Lillian iv Percy Smith Jr. John Turpin John Woodv |r.
Cotporatiotts, Foundations & Associations
Benjamin Graham and ( Burroughs Wellcome Delaney Radiologists Gi Delta Kappa Gamma
Beta Phi Chapter ENC-American Chemie
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Division General Electric Hollv Ridge Foods 1\( O
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Group Merit Consultants Philip Morris
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Alena Baker Earl Bakers Carl Parker Jr.
1960s
Johannah English Michael English Don Evans Elizabeth Fales Gene Fales Ronald Lipsius Gregory Peterson Boyce Stanton Robert Way Jr. Percy Wood
1970s
William Chadwick Jr. Donald Diamond Elizabeth Godwin Deborah Hunter Ronald Lipsius Wendy Mclver J. Samuel Roady James Rouse James Stasios Beverly Wait Terrence Wait
1980s
John Mclver Dawn Perlotto Mark Perlotto Daniel Schweikert Thomas Swatzel III Allen Thomas Jr. Mary Thomson Marjorie Way
1990s
William Waldrop
Friends
Reuben Allen Jr. Gloria & R. Durwood
Almkuist II {Catherine Bruce Marian & William Bryan Warren Chadwick Jr. Becky & Bobby Chilcote Samuel Connally
Carolyn &c Richard Cook
Mimi & Tom Cunningham
Raymond Dawson
William Drane
Daniel Erwin
Matthew Farina
Charlotte & James Fox Jr.
Kay & Max Fryar
Clarence Hill Jr.
I. Paul Ingle Jr.
George Lamb
Robert Lamb
Skip Lyles
James Megivern
Nancy & John Monroe
Alice & Robert Ochs
William Reilly
Dorothy & John Scalf Jr.
Drew Steever
Rhoda & Charles Steiner
Charles Swenson
Makenzie Taylor
Robert Taylor
Kirk Wagenseller Jr.
A. H. Walters
Marty & Robert Walton Jr.
Dick Winters
Mae Zullo
Victor Zullo (D)
Corporations, Foundations & Associations
Aquatic Safaris and
Divers Emporium Calgon Vestal Laboratories City of Wilmington Dow Chemical USA Dun and Bradstreet
Corp. Foundation Durham Corp. Ethyl Corp. Gamma Zeta
Foundation Glaxo Hoechst Celanese
Foundation IN TRAVEL Agency Jefferson Pilot Corp. Light Motive Marsh and McLennan National Data
Processing Corp. NC Hospital
Reciprocal Ins. New York Times
Co. Foundation NHHS Class of "39 R J Reynolds Industries The Traveling Tree Co. Wilmington Art
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Navigators are those whose annual gifts were $250 to $499 during the 1992-93 Loyalty Fund Year.
Soon, Dr. Joanne Rockness (left) will be joined by two other endowed professors. Last spring, Donald R. Watson and Carl Brown, long-time Wilmington residents and partners during their ownership of the Wihnington Pepsi Bottling operation, donated to UNCW a gift of real property with an estimated value of $1.2 million. Using the proceeds from the sale of the property, UNCW will seek matching funding from the UNC Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Endowment Trust Fund to establish tivo endowed chairs of $500,000 each. Donald Watson will endow a chair in the School of Educa- tion, and Carl and Janice Brown will endow a chair in marine sciences.
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MARINERS CLUB
Manners supported the university last year with gifts of $100 to S249.
Since its establish- ment five years ago, more than 45 students have participated in the two-semester Hmerge header- ship Program. It has also placed 600 students as tutors in some 70 agencies in New Hanover County.
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Kenneth Bishop Roland Blackburn Jr. William Blossom Eugene Bogash Charles Hollis Estell Lee Robert Munroe Elsie Peterson Jeremiah Rivenbark Jr. Shirley Spears Eugene Zeznock
1960s
Judy Adams George Allen Michael Barton Christine Baxter Frank Bua Madeline Budihas Jean Bullock Carolyn Brumit Myra Burtt James Carr Gary Chadwick Curtis Dale Bonnie Daniel James Davis Jack Dunn John Godwin Ronald Hearn Beverly Hill Herbert Houston Sammie King L. Murrie Lee Dan Lockamy Jr. (D) John Loftus Martha Loughlin Rayford Marett Jr. Thomas Millard Cary Peterson Daniel Pittman Jr. Peggy Pittman Eleanor Poole Edward Rivenbark Charles Schoonmaker William Sibbett William Stanfield J. David Stillman Elizabeth Talley Wilbur Taylor Eugene Zeznock
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Robert Barbee Graham Batson Arlee Belch Zona Blackburn Kann Brown lames Burns
Stephen Burtt Anthony Cabeza Robert Carter Sidney Champion Walter Clewis Mickey Corcoran Patricia Corcoran Harry Craft III Virginia Craft Kathy Crumpler Bonnie Daniel Thomas Eason Jr. Zoe Elmore Stephen Everett Jr. Clay Fairley Jan Fairley Roger Fipps Paul Fulton III Ray Funderburk Catherine Garner Paul Harrington Jr. Terry Harris David Harvey Gayle Harvey Dolores Harvey David Haskett Robert Hayes Grace Hobbs Roy Hobbs Ernest Holcomb Edgar Horton Jr. Cherry Horn Jerry Hudson Suzanne Hufham Bruce Jackson Jr. Milhcent Jackson Joel Johnson Robert Joos David Kilpatrick Janice Kingoff Michael La Bazzo Charles Livingston William Loughlin George Matthis Jr. Joseph Mayberry Jr. David McBroom Norman Melton Jr. Braxton Melvin Jr. Deborah Murphy John Murphy Jr. Robert Murray Linda Nance Edward Padrick James Poteat Jr. (D) Richard Powell Jr. Peggy Pratt Richard Pratt Nancy Pugh Philip Rackley Peggy Rooks Gail Russ Jackie Shanklin David Small
Curtis Smith Edward Sundy Page Sundy Connie Taylor William Taylor Joseph Temple Wayne Tharp Judy Tharp Catherine Thompson Antoinette Tucker Sharon Walker Charlie Wall Glenn Wells Alexander Wessell Donna White Robert Williams IV Gregory Willett Francis Wootton Michael Zipser
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Cheryl Adams Raul Aizcorbe Jr. Cheryl Barber John Barber Margaret Barclay Stephen Barnette Robert Baxter III Allen Beasley Gregory Bender Frederick Benton Zona Blackburn Vivian Bowden Allison Brendle Thomas Brendle Sybil Brookshire Cynthia Brown Margaret Brown Michael Brown Blayne Burmahl Jr. Lisa Champion Carol King Choplin Adele Cohn Gary Combs Jamie Combs Stephen Cone Matthew Crossman Phillip Davis Jane Digh Michael Dix Diana Drakeford Herbert Fisher Julie Fisher James Frazier Jr. Charles Gates Gary Griffith Raymond Groseclose Terry Groseclose Arthur Hall Denise Hall Margaret Hall James Hankins
Shirlev Hankins Helen Harrell Michael Harrell Robert Harris Mary Beth Hartis Robert Hause Sayvilene Hawkins Jeffery Hayes Elena Hiett John Hiett Steven Hill Nancy Hoggard David Johnson Joel Johnson Robert Joos Tracy Kane Beje Keefer James Keffer Sandra Keffer Melinda Kellum Paul Kelly Jr. Arthur Kennedy [ana Lynn Kesler Gladys Lewis Barbara Long Richard Loren Kay Lynch Nelson MacRae Ruthe Markworth Linda Martin David McBroom John McGraw Beverly McKim Herbert McKim Jr. Linda McKinney Kimberly Mee Diane Melvin Gloria Millard Ward Miller Victoria Mix Paula Mobley Christopher Mock Ashley Murchison Stuart Murphy Madeline Myers Ellen Newton Janis Norris Valerie Oldfield Paul Owens Delton Oxendine Linda Oxford Ralph Pandure Jr. Croix Paquin Anthonv Parker William Parker David Price Anna Reece Jamie Richter Jeffrey Richter Athy Robinson Christopher Roof Mitchell Russell Jr. Ralph Ruth
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vome UNCW students are being driven up the wall — a rock wall that is. Hitting that wall is just part of a leadership training center that's unique to the university.
The Leadership Development Center — the only one of its kind at a North Carolina university — challenges students of all majors both physically and mentally. Part of the two-semester Emerge Leadership Program is a session at UNCW's Challenge Course, where team-building skills are devel- oped through exercises such as climbing the rock board.
Giving leadership training a leg up is the Branch Banking & Trust Leadership Challenge gift. Income from BB&T's $150,000 endow- ment will go toward leadership research and program initiatives to provide for the development of better student leaders.
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By participating in a tutoring program for children in public schools, students in the UNCW School of Education gain valuable teaching experience while their pupils get the extra help they need.
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Michael English Donna &;
Terrence Evans Gladys & William Faris Elizabeth &
William Feezor Bunnie Finch Walter Forbis Floyd Fowler Jr. Richard Frederick Jerome Friedlander II Mary & Robert Fry Joan iv Roger Fry James Gaetz Williams Gaines Philip Gerard Judith cv Donald Getz Corinne &
H. William Gillen Moronna Gonsalves Nancy Griesmer Frances Gullyes Larry Gunter Katherine Guthmiller Edward Hagan Jr. B. B. Halterman R. W. Hamlett Sandra Hardin Phyllis Harke Barbara &
Charles Harlow Pamela & S. Hawes III Roger Hemion Richard Hemmer E. B. Henson Theodore Herman Margaret &
Ted Heyward L. G. Hieronymus Mary & Cyrus Hogue Janet Holcombe James Holt
Harriett & Joseph Hull Marylil Humphreys Rebecca &
John Huntsman Charles Hutcheson Winthrop Irwin Richard Jackson Shirley &
L. Clyde Jett Jr. Dwight Jones Rebecca 6v Robert Jones Samuel Jones H.D.Jordan Daniel Joseph George Joyce William Keadey Jr. David Keifer Wilson Key
Deborah & Bruce Kinzer W. Arthur Kovach Jack Kraemer Margaret Lair Dennis Lajeunesse Patsy & Jim Larrick
Peter Lascell G. Martin Lassiter Rudolph Lassiter Jr. Luther Lawson Emory Lee David Leeper Patricia Leonard Blaise Leonardi George Lewis J. Elmo Lilley Jr. Heidi Lindsay Don Lizon Jr. Virginia Lockamy Jean cv John Lovett Robert Magnus Lois & Doug Malone Nancy & John Manock Curtis Marshall Dorothy Marshall James Martin Lynda & Ned Martin Robert Mashburn Minda Massengale Karen cv
Harlan McCulloch John McCulloch Fred McCurry Jr. John McDuff Sr. Reeves McGlohon Elisabeth &
James McNab James McPadden E. M. Mendrick Benjamin Miller Dorris Miller Marshall Milton III &
Janelle Rhyne Carol Minis John Minard Floyd Mitchell W. F. Moody Jean & Radford Moore Samuel Moore Susan Moore Jessie Moseley Robert Muller David Murdock Marcia Murphey Betty Murrell Wayne Neeley Dennis Nicks Linda Nicks Richard Nubel Russell Offredo Judith Ortiz Doug Overcash Joan cV Roy Page Richard Palmer William Patterson Bryan Perry C. J. Petroff Herbert Pippin Robert Pittman Robert Pleasants Harris Plyler Mary Ellen &c
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Dianne Poteat Aubrey Price Robert Pnvette Sam Puglia Alice Pujari W. E. Ragan Jr. Nick Rahall Richard Rains Kenneth Ray Duane Reaugh Sam Redell David Reese Vanessa Robertson Jerry Rogers William Ronemus Marlene &
John Rosenkoetter Dalton Rouse Lloyd Rud Donald Rudisill Elizabeth & Corbin Sapp Pamela Sasser Kathy Schiele Sharon Walker Frieda & Walter Schmid Enid Schmitt Richard Schoonover William Schwab Donna Scott Pamela Seaton Marylou Serene Stephen Shaffer Rudy Shaw Paul' Shelby
Lucy &: Robert Sherman W. Ferrell Shuford Judy Siguaw William Silkstone Linda Smith Roger Smith Norman Sneeden Jr. Joe Solomon Thomas Stack Nancy Stephenson Phil Stump Charles Sublett John Swain Charles Taylor Wilbur Taylor Bobby Tew Betty & Ellis Tinsley Allan Toomer Elbert Townsend Susan Traywick Martha Twiddy James Ungerleider Remedios Valera M. H. Vaughan Shirley Vititoe Frances 6V: Elmer Walker Nancy & David Wallace Bernard Walter Bert Warren Albert Warshauer Edward Watkins Gregory White William Whittaker
Charles Wilburn James Wilburn III Frances Wilkinson Eddie Williams Joyce Williams Virginia Wilmoth Charles Wood Peter Wood Edward Yackey Gloria Yarbrough George Yeager Esther & Thurman Yoppj Jeannie Young Ruth Zech Dianne Zeeman
Corporations, Foundations & j Associations
Abbott Laboratories Aetna Foundation Alderman School Alpha Xi Delta Foundati' Black and Decker Corp. Bristol Myers Squibb
Foundation Carter Wallace Caterpillar Foundation Children's Clinic Corning Glass Works
Foundation Delta Air Lines Foundati Digital Equipment Corp. Doxey's Market and Cat Hillhaven Rehabilitation Hudsucker Pictures Jackson Beverage Johnson and Johnson Johnson Controls Found] K & J Sportswear Lower Cape Fear Bird C National Medical Enterp • Nationwide Insurance
Foundation NC Assoc, of Parliameni-Ji NC Biotechnology Cent! NC State Firemen's Asso NCNB New Hanover Commiss'
for Women Northern Telecom Peat Marwick Foundatic Physical Therapy Clinic Propeller Club of the U.! Resthaven Memorial
Gardens Sara Lee Foundation SRI Gallup
State Farm Cos. Founda. UNCW Assoc, of Retirei
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Ensigns supported the UNCW Loyalty Fund with gifts of $25 to S99.
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Mary Gaddy James Hall James Harris Hugh Highsmith II Larry Honeycutt Jane Hubis Jon Hughes Winston Hurst Diane Hyatt Sheldon Johnson Linda Keifer Lenwood King Jr. Michael Kushman Jr. Joyce Lemon Margaret Locke Shirley MacKay Catherine Martin Daniel Martin Margaret McDuffie Mary McKeithan Betty McMillan Mary Ann McNair Jenny Merritt Betty Padrick Sarah Page Brenda Parker James Parker Marion Piner Barbara Pitts Felix Pitts
t's a meeting of the minds for the express purpose of improving minds — those of school children in Southeastern North Carolina. Through the Consortium for the Advancement of Public Education (CAPE), government agencies, educators, private businesses, industries and foundations join forces to pursue nontraditional approaches to public education.
Serving as host to CAPE, UNCW is working to improve public schools in its region of the state by taking part in a number of initiatives: the Reading Recov- ery Project to combat illiteracy; a fiber optic network to link educa- tional programs between local schools and hospitals; and techni- cal assistance for schools seeking to become America 2000 "break the mold schools."
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Special Gifts
In Memory Of
Audrey Abbott T. Earl Allen Glenn Avery Martha Batson Sarah Benton Janet Blnethenthal Antonius Bombeld John Rupert Bryan Sr. Daniel A. Clark Sr. Hubert Eaton Sr., M.D. F. P. Fensel Sr. Marcus Goldstein Frank Hall Grace Hollar Bernice Hanchey J. Hankins J. S. Holman Michal Allen Howe Mrs. Vestus
Murrell Hudson Mary Blanche Jessup Pauline Mahl
Robert A. Moore Jr., M.D. J. H. Perten Lewis Clayton Porter James A. Poteat Jr. Elizabeth M. Poivell J. P. Reynolds Autie E. Shinn David Bryan
Sloan III, M.D. Anthony Surratt Pamela Thurston-Hayes Julian F. Williams
In Honor Of
Alpha Xi Delta
Foundation Michael R. Pendergraft PEO Sisterhood:
Chapter AA James L. Pomerantz E. Thomas
Marshburn Jr., M.D.
Edwin Piver Luther Pressley Linwood Rogers Judirh Russell Beatrice Schomp Gene Seay Lynda Shell Jennifer Smith Sherrill Strickland Jr. Lester Sullivan Robert Tenmlle III Donna Thigpen Thomas Turtle Ritchie Watson Jr. Margaret Wells Doyle Whitfield Judith Wilson Carrie Worthington Ellen Wychel
1970s
Jana Albntton Michael Albrirton Jeannie Ambrose Wallace Ambrose John Ambrosiano James Anderson Caroline Austell Vance Barbee John Barrera Cathey Beard Kevin Beard Harvey Bedsole Jr. Carroll Bickers Caryl Bland Lyn Blizzard Anne Bogen Urel Boney Harry Borneman Jr. James Bowen Jr. Madeline Bowers Phyllis Brenner Reginald Brew Cathy Brewington Graydon Brewington George Bridger Nancy Bright Gayle Brown Horace Brown Sheryl Brown Zorie Brown Robert Browning Jr. William Buckley Charles Bullard Thomas Butler Alan Camp Pamela Camp Katherine Canaday James Carr Jr. Joseph Carter III Sherry Carter Calvin Casey Jr. Elizabeth Chestnutt Ron Choate Michael Church Haddon Clark III
Charles Coleman Jr. David Congdon Gerald Cooney Brenda Cox Gay Crabtree Sara Crawford John Crawley Martha Crawley John Dalton Janice Dalton Billy Dalton Dora Daunais John Davenport Steven Davis Dorothy Dempsey Paul Dempsey Woody Deyton Thomas Dickson Frances Dineen Charles Donahue Daniel Dougherty Billy Dover Jr. Cynthia Ducharme John Easterling Dorothy Epstein William Everett Jefferson Evers Rebecca Fancher Drusilla Farrar Janet Fay James Ferger Kevin Ferguson Robert Finch Steven Fisher Janice Fladd Elizabeth Fowler Gregory Fredericks James French Nancy Gates Daniel Geddie Stanley Gelbhaar Paula Getz Marc Gnau Jean Godwin Stanley Godwin Robin Goldstein Sharon Goodman Ronald Gray Mary Griffith Kirk Grumbine James Hankins Jr. Carol Hardee William Hardee Randy Harrell Rita Harrell Frank Harrington James Harris Harriss Haskert Jr. Cay Haun Jr. Gwendolyn Hawley David Heath Catharine Hedrick Catherine Heglar Robert Heinisch Lloyd Hekhuis Kenneth Hemenway II Peggy Hemenway
Charles Henson Paul Herring Richard Higgins Robert High David Hilliard Herbert Hoffman Nancy Hoffman Gwynn Honeycutt Brenda Home John Home Hubert Hufham Jr. Gary Huggins James Hunter Holly Hutchins John Hurton Nancy Hutton David James Joan James Edith Kaplan Robert Keith James Kimley Terri Kirby James Knapp Richard Kubb Michael Kushman Jr. Eleanor Lane Robert Lanier Ellen LeBlanc Lynda Lennon Constance Lewis Margaret Locke Juddye Long Patricia Luther William Lyman James Maides Sandra Malpass Darlene Marlowe William Marlowe Judy Matthis Suzanne McCarley Charles McCarthy Suzanne McCarthy Sherry McCulloch Kenneth McKeithan Eugene McKinney Jack McMurtrey Henry Merntt Jr. James Metts Jr. Sharon Miggans Susan Milholland Karen Miller Mark Miller Susan Miller Guy Milliken Susan Mitchell David Monaghan Terry Moore Jeannie Moreland John Morgan Georgia Munroe John Munroe III Susan Muse Cynthia Newton Gregory Nelson Evelyn Nicholson Sandra Nunalee James Nunn Jr.
Frederick Ourt Etta Pace Rachel Pace Betty Page W. R. Page III Louis Paulter Sharon Paulter Cheryl Perone Allen Perry Cynthia Perry John Pfaff Nancy Philips Bradford Piner Henry Powell Robert Prevart Faye Price Ralph Price Jr. Dennis Redmond Janice Reynolds Haskell Rhert III Forbson Rhodes Kathy Riggs Robert Ritter Henry Rivenbark Timothy Roelofs William Ruefle Frank Russ Jr. Joseph Safadi Nancy Saucier Kathryn Sebian Eugene Simmons Lynn Simmons Gorda Singletary Clark Sizemore Donna Smith Barbara Smith Joette Smith Robert Smith III Hial Spencer Marion Spencer Keith Spivey Stephen Stein William Stenger Jr. Peggy Stoltz Mark Stone Mary Stone Stuart Stout Denise Strong Francine Sumpter Susan Sutton James Thames Robert Thomas Steven Toomes Carolyn Townsend Randy Utsey Marion Verzaal Jr. Edward Vosnock Kevin Walker Deborah Warner Mark Wax Eric White Floyd White Brenda Wiard Robert Wiard Laura Wicker William Wicker Gerald Wiggins
rry Wilkerson njamin Williams th Williams uce Williams Jr. leryle Williams )nna Williamson ibert Williamson rbara Wilson larles Wilson rl Wilson Jr. ra Winslow nest Woodard III ;phen Wright lomas Wright larles Youngblood
980s
ma Adams illiam Adams ;a Affrunti ura Alexander mes Alexander iren Allen ichael Allen larles Alio icey Almond lomas Ames eryll Anderson miel Antonelli san Apke idolph Arn ick Arnold Jr. ;nry Arthur larles Ashby III allace Ashley III nis Axton oel Baber mes Bailey even Baker arney Baldwin III bri Baldwin •Anne Ballard immie Bangert lerry Banner ance Barbee uth Barber-Rich anna Barger uth Barlow eborah Barnes aywood Barnes net Barnes enneth Barnes lary Barnhill ammy Basnight lyron Bass sa Bateman ffrey Batton athleen Batton :ian Beam rady Beck 'anda Bell :onard Beller 3uis Belo
'alter Bengtson Jr. inda Bennie laine Benson
Judith Benson Gregory Berry Janine Bilodeau Daniel Black Jr. Koling Blake Jesse Blanton Tammy Blizzard Frances Bolton Tammy Bond Samuel Boone Charles Bordeaux Julie Bordo Meredith Bourne Sophie Bowen Eric Brandt Graydon Brewington Elizabeth Bridges Jerry Bron Celeste Brooks Kathryn Brooks Scott Brooks Sonia Brooks Teresa Brooks Amy Brown Duane Brown Philip Brown Robert Browning Jr. Bradley Bruestle Nancy Bruestle Wallace Bryant Jr. Karen Bullard Ramona Burns Lorna Butler Suzanne Butterfield Allison Byrd Robert Cagle III Cynthia Caison Earl Caison II Nan Caison Robin Caison Mark Cammarene Lora Canter Mary Cantwell Kevin Carr Arden Carter Keith Carter Terry Cascaddan Kenneth Catlett Jr. John Causey Allison Cavenaugh Marion Cheek Timothy Christmas John Christy Theresa Clapper Michael Clark Charles Clayton Jr. Carolyn Clemmer Karen Cochran Terry Cole Samuel Collins Bethany Connor Cyndi Cooper John Cowand III Brenda Cox Kelly Crawford Julia Dameron Elizabeth Daniels
Linton Daniels Jr. Robert Dash Mitzi Daughtry Therese Davenport Charles Davies Jeanne Davies Debra Davis John Davis Jr. Robin Davis Linda Del Pizzo Kemp Deville David Dickson III Brenda Dineen Mary Doll Linda Donoghue Matthew Donoghue Jo Dove Bradley Driver Frankie Driver Julie Dutcher Carol Eakins Avis Edmundson Susan Edwards Sonya Edwards Abercrombie Mary Ellison Marion Eppler Amy Evans Terry Evans JoAnn Everette David Fair Thomas Fanjoy Andrew Farmer Charles Farrar Marcia Farrar Gregory Farrell Debra Farrow Roger Farver Ruth Ferguson Tammie Ferguson William Ferguson Jr. Jason Fewell Benjamin Fields James Fields Robert Finch Donna Firnberg Joseph Fish John Fitzgerald II Michael Fitzpatrick Stephen Foster Joel Fox
James Francesconi Cynthia Frederick James French John Freshwater III Gordon Frieze Jr. Max Fryar Lorraine Fullmer Dewey Furr Joy Futrelle Maria Gaddy Sheridan Garrison Charles Gavins Jr. Elizabeth Genshaw Dean Gilliam Victor Glenn III Joseph Gniadek
Mary Godowitch Aubra Goldston Eddie Gooding Julie Goodnight Brenda Devereux
Graminski Charles Gray Melvin Green Hilda Gregory John Griffin Jeffery Grizzle Andrew Gross Mary Gross Aldine Guthrie Nancy Guthrie Allison Haffey Richard Hahn Jr. Lawrence Halm Shelley Hambalek Stephen Hambalek Jr. Hilda Hand Wendi Hanson Diane Hardison Rita Harrell Herbert Harris III David Haskell John Haughton Gwendolyn Hawley Pinckney Heaton III Susan Heaton Jennifer Hedrick Sylvia Heinisch Terry Hernn Brian Herring Pamela Herring Gregory Hewett Leland Hicks Edward Higgins Jr. Aileen Hill James Hill Michael Hill Rebecca Hines Roberta Hobson Arthur Hohnsbehn Peggy Holbrook Denise Holden John Holden Clyde Holley Karen Home David Hosier Lynn Houser Beth Howard Nikki Howard Robbin Huffman Patricia Hughey Carole Hunter Kimberly Hutchinson Timothy Hutto Thomas Hyde IV Allen Isenhour Marianne John Cornelia Johnson Jill Johnson Kathleen Johnson Sharon Johnson Andrew Jones James Jones
Sherry Jones Lynn Jones Patricia Jones Orea Jones-Wells Michael Jordan Kay Joyner Heidi Judd Michele Justice Joseph Kapherr Jr. Sharon Kauffman Donald Keating Jr. Joseph Keffer Dan Kempton Lisa Kempton Jane Kenan Anne Kennedy Virginia Kennedy Michael Kenney Kelly Kenny William Ketcham Jr. Perry Key Rosemary Kibler Debra King John Koger Janice Konier Marguerite Krause Marjorie Kunnemann Suzanne Lail Robert Lambert Lucille Lamberto Thomas Lamont Jr. Rodney Lancaster Calvin Lane Jr. Kenneth Lasnier Luanne Lasnier Brian LaSure Dawn LaSure Regina Lawson Dale Lewis Debora Lewis Jeffrey Lewis Danny Linebaugh Enola Lineberger Laurie Link David Little Josephine Little Marvin Long Mary Long Thomas Long Jr. Stephen Lucas William Lyman Lorraine Lynch Pamela Macior Daniel Mahn Joseph Mahn Karen Mahn Anne Manning Charles Manning Jr. Karen Maraldo Nancy Maready John Marmorato Edwin Martin Robert E. Martin Frances Massey Shirley Mayfield Kathleen McDonnell Edna McEachern
Jack McGee Penelope McGowan Constance McGuinness Lynn Mclver EJlen McMillan Janet McPherson Donna Meaeham Alison Merritt James Merritt John Messick John Michaux John Middleton FV Junius Millard Jr. Shelly Millard Jane Mills Jeffrey Minis Lisa Monk Marsha Monteith Nelson Montieth Melissa Moore Bronwyn Morgan Allison Morton Leslie Murray Cynthia Mustin Terri Nelsen-Marks Oswald Newman II Lester Newton Doris Nichols Jeffrey Nicklaw Ricky Niec Maribeth Nobles Dolan Norris Marcus Norton Jr. Katherine Nubel Joan Obernesser Susan Oldham Brian Oleary Adrienne Osborne Marisa Owens Robert Pace Rodney Pace Philip Padgett Debra Pagliughi Alexander Paternotte Glynda Paternotte Janet Petri Charlotte Piepmeier Bradford Piner Jerry Polk Marian Polk Bert Ponsock Patricia Poole-Baker 1 c.ih l'[>|v Pamela Prevatte Donald Price Tanya Puckett Frances Railey Glenn Ray Star Reimer Ruth Revelle Bruce Rhoades Betty Richardson William Roach Derek Robbins Heidi Roberts Anthony Robinson Jeffrey Rogers
Richard Rogers III Joseph Roney Sandra Ross Betty Rouse Charles Rouse Jr. Randy Rousseau Romy Rowe-Bayuga Thomas Ryan Kathleen Sabella Pamela Sammons Todd Sammons Kristie Sappen field Stephania Sarvis Michael Saunders Elizabeth Schedler Meredith Schneider John Scholz Beatrice Schomp Tricia Schriver Karen Scioscia Laura Scott Scott Semke Nancy Shannon Stephen Sharkey Gregory Shaw David Shehdan Beverly Shelton Wesley Shoemaker Chervil Shuford Patricia Sibley Scott Sibley Jeffrey Siggins Eugene Simmons Angela Simpson Eric Singer Kimberly Skipper Jason Smart Donna Smith Granville Smith Pauline Smith Robert Smith Gillian Smook Gladys Southers Denise Spanos June-Marie Spencer Cameron Sperry Laura Spivey David Storey James Strong Jr. Gregory Stutts Charles Sullivan Jr. Sherry Sutton Stephanie Sutton Douglas Swartz Lewis Swindell IV Annette Taylor I >arrell 1 Ii.k ker |r. Amy Tharrington Thomas Tharrington Stephen Thompson Robert Thornton Elizabeth Thorpe June Tilden Dan Tricarico Michael Turbeville Aver\' Tuten Kimberly Best-Tuten
George Ubing Jennifer Umbaugh Hannah Ungaro Scott Urban Scott Wahlquist Charles Wakild Jimmie Waldrop John Walker Teresa Wallace Steven Walser Lynette Ward Franklin Warf Patricia Warrick Kimberly Warwick William Warwick Billy Waters Rita Watts Becky Webb Fred Webb Elizabeth Weil Lynda Wells Thomas Weslake Lena White |oni Wiggins Julie Wright Larry Wilkerson Jeffery Willett Ruth Willett Mei Yiu Williams Michael |. Williams Michael S. Williams Adela Williamson Larry Williamson James Wilson Jennifer Wilson John Wilson III Lisa Wilson Mary Wilson William Wilson James Winegar Denise Wood Thelma Wood Thomas Woodard Clyde Wright Stephen Wright Lee Ann Wrisley George Zedlitz Kimberly Zuehlke
1990s
William Adams Eddy Akers Edward Alala Denise Albrecht Jonathan Amirato Pamela Atkinson James Bailey Diane Bak Armanda Ball Donald Barham Jessica Barnes Nancy Barnes Burritt Benson III Sharon Blackwell Kimberly Blair Chris Blanton
ffrey Bodenheimer
ara Bolick
lilip Brady
londa Brady
ina Bridges
izabeth Bridges
lomas Brookins
illiam Browder
ian Bullard
illiam Burd
ivid Burgess Jr.
mes Buskirk
urolyn Busse
awna Butler
?borah Cain
el Cain
:ven Calhoun
yson Canter
Iward Carmack Jr.
mes Carroll
eith Casha
hn Caskey
aron Castleberry
;tha Cazel j mberly Charles
ffrey Christenbury â– urie Christensen
endy Clark
larles Clopper
in Combs
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Ida Costin
iura Covington
ark Cregan
illiam Cunningham Jr.
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hn DeAntonio
iristopher Dejong
san Dohrmann
mes Drew ^na Drew eborah Duniec Jseph Dunmire jura Dunmire liphne Dunn wbert Dunn III (.'lie Dutcher ffrey Dyar Park Easly ■Ties Evans Imes Faircloth III ffrey Felton rnthia Fischer Livid Fletcher fan Flynn Icardo Fortson iiilliam Foster ..•len Franklin ' hgela Frazelle [ctoria Freeman Bary Fry lark Fulcher tiristie Fuller |>mmy Glover II Itricia Gniadek-Floyd I istie Godwin
atthew Green
Carol Griffin William Griffin Robert Hall Jr. Elizabeth Hamilton Sheila Hanby David Hare Mary Harris Susan Hart Patrick Hartman Koreen Hays Dennis Hebbard James Helms Jacqueline Henderson John Henry Mechele Heroy Sally Hoke Randy Hollifield Tracy Honeycutt Elizabeth Hosier Pamela Hntz Joyce Huguelet Kevin Hunter Aaron Jackson III Pamela Jenkins Karen John Kenneth Johnson Lanell Johnson Timothy Johnson Willie Jones III Jonathan Joyner Michele Kammeyer Mary Karriker Robert Kauffman Betty Keane Vickie Keeling Sally Keith John Kilpatrick III Champion King Dallas Kinlaw II Matthew Kirkby Angela Kliewer Kellie Knox Debra Koch Candace Kramer Wendy Lanier Jill Laskey Joely Latta Judith Laughlin Kathleen Leahy Robert Leavitt Jr. Jeffrey Leech Robert Lejarre Laura LeMay Morton Levee William Lewis Keith Lintz Bobbi Long David Lowry Eric Luckner Robert Mack Merle Mackie Jr. Anthony Marsicano Marsena Maschino Donna Mason Richard Mason Debra Matthews Diane Mattlin
Jamie McBeth Richard McGuinness Eddena McLean Rebecca Meshaw Diane Meyer David Miller Terri Mitchell Cristina Mittelstadt Thomas Mittelstadt Lora Mobley William Monroe Jr. Shawn Murphy Christopher Murray Linda Nelms Thomas Nelson John Norton Jenny Ourso Karen Owen Bogan Robin Pasquarello Debra Pearsall Tracy Penny Debra Perkovich Amy Perry Guy Pizzuti Jennifer Ploszaj Lucy Poisson Linda Pomerantz Mary Poole Richard Porter Jr. Mary Pragel Donald Pressley Glen Pugh Eric Reisinger Elizabeth Rivers Andrew Roane Angela Robbins Daniel Roberts IV Richard Rogers III Marc Rose Sherry Ross Harold Russell Jr. Jennifer Sanders Corbin Sapp Elizabeth Sapp Robert Sappenfield Jr. Paula Schmidt Lynda Schreiner Michael Schulte Jr. Aurethia Scott David Scott Elaine Shappell Philip Sharpe Robert Sherry Barbara Sich Jeffrey Silverman Sean Simpson David Smith Heather Smith Kevin Smith Rebecca Smith Gina Spainhour Jill Sprink Amy Starling Scott Stavrou David Storey Cecil Sutton Kendall Swain
Angela Sypnier Michael Taulbert Timothy Teel Vicki Thacker Tracy Thomas Elizabeth Thompson Ginger Tomlinson Tiffany Tucker Sharon Turlington Lisa Tysinger Clifton Tyson Charles Umstead Jr. Sharon Umstead Cynthia Waller Julie Walters Julie Ward Kay Ward Melissa Ward Karen Warr Richard Warr Lisa Wayne Courtney Wedemann Daniel Wertheimer Michael Wessell Donna West Wendy Wheeler Toby White Robert Whitley Kimberly Wiggs Carole Williams Carol Wilson Polly Wiser-Blake Bessie Yarborough
Friends
Martha Adams
Judy Adcock
Patricia & Louis Adcock
Nancy &
Kenneth Ahlstrom Charles Alba Judith Alford Julian Allred III Lucy fie Robert Andersen Charles Angelini Agnes fie Lyndon Anthony Pauline fie
James Applefield Jerry Arnold William Atwill Penelope Augustine David Bachman Julius Baggett Johnnie Baker Burke Barbee Joanna Barger Pamela fie Walter Barnes Kathie fie James Barrow Marshall Beane Margaret Beatty Charles Beck Martha &
William Beery III Edith fie Loyd Bell Mary fie
Heyward Bellamy
Golden Anchor
Contributors at this level have given a lifetime gift of $100,000 or wore.
Mellie Barlow (D) Lumberton
Ralph Brauer Wilmington
Janice & Carl Brown Wilmington
Betty & Dan Cameron Wilmington
Louise & Bruce Cameron Wilmington
Hynda Dalton Washington
Will DeLoach Orange City, Fla.
Jean & Harold Greene Wilmington
Troy Henry Leland
James Kenan Atlanta, Ga.
Estell Lee Wilmington
Mrs. Ray Lytton (D) Jacksonville, Fla.
Raiford Trask Sr. Wilmington
James Wade (D)
Monica & Don Watson Wilmington
Silver Anchor
Contributors at this level have given a lifetime gift of $50,000 or more.
George Diab Wilmington
Charles F. Green III Wilmington
Rosa Humphrey (D)
Tabitha McEachern Wilmington
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Shannon &
Christopher Benedict George Benedict IV Charles Bennett Kenneth Benton Jacqueline &
Thomas Berry Billy Best Frances &
Hugh Betzner Jr. Nicole Biancamano H. M. Biddle Dolly & Ghazi Bidwan Harold Blakeman Garry Bleeker Justin Blickensderfer Charles Boney Luetta Booe Betty &
Samuel Bookhart Jr. Jimmie Borum Barbara Boyce Kenneth Bradshaw Jean & Herbert Bndger Mary & William Bridges L. M. Brinkley Mary &
William Broadfoot Jr. J. Hurley Brown Laura Brown Sumaleigh Brown Ulysses Brown Dean Browner Pat & Ben Burdette Sybil Burgess Ramona & Edwin Burns Lisa & Thomas Butler Randall Bye John Cahill William Cahill John Cameron Charles Campbell Dorothea cv David Card Burton Carlson Rick Carlson Robert Carlson James Carney Jennifer & Eugene Casey Diane & John Cashman Roseanna &C
John Cashwell Rick Cates John Caveny Jr. Rita X
William Chambers Alfred Cheney Jr. Arthur Chesson Jr. Tae Choi Gordon Clarke William Clarke III John Clifford David Closson Sr. George Codwise Leslie & James Coggins Janice Cokas Diane Sc John Collins Dale Combs Phyllis Comer
Danny Cone Ernestine Copeland Wanda &
Ronald Copley Joanne &C
Wilbur Corbett Billy Corey
Judith & Curtis Cowan John Cowand III Don Cox Don Creed Roger Crozier Robert Culp Yvonne & David Culp Richard Daab Frank Darazsdi Jeanne Darling Steve Davenport Audrey Davis Cathy & William Davis Donna & Edward Davis George Davis Rhonda & Cecil Davis Robert Davis Malcus Day John T. Dees John Derbyshire Nancy Dew Kenneth Digby Lucille Dixon Ray Dixon Jr. Brenda cv Richard Dixon Rena Doran Rita Dozier Paul Drzewiecki Ronald Duffey Farris Duncan Wayne Durham Karen &
Denis Duvernay Rebecca Eaddy Deborah Easterhng Betty Ellis Kenneth Elmer Maurice Emmart Jr. Billy Emory Willard Ennis Brenda &
Dennis Esselman Bob Ethendge Helen Faller Carole cv
P. W. Fastnacht Diane Levy &
Gary Faulkner Eileen & Donny Felts John Finnerty Herbert Fisher Matthew Fisher Eda Fitzpatrick Robert Fleming Robert Foard Lynda Fowler Douglas Fox Mary Francisco Dail Frye Harold Fussell Mary & Robert Gaddy
Karen Gainey
Joseph Galizio
Dario Galoppo
David Garard
Lisa Garrett
Cindy Giandenoto
John Gibbens
Ilva & Donald Gibson
Joanne & Melvin Gibson
Russell Gibson
Carolyn &
James Gillespie Jr. Vickie & James Gilliam Michael Glick Harry Goodwin Karen cv Daniel Gottovi Robert Grace Elizabeth Grapentien Richard Gray Mary Greene Richard Greene James Grisham Lloyd Guffey Robert Guglielmo William Guide Richard Haislip Barbara Hajek John Hall LaRue Hall William Hall Yvonne Hall Jon Halsall
Jean & Robert Harless Ellis Harrell J. \\ . Harrington Joan Harris Ronald Harrison John Hartwell Carolyn Hathcock Frank Hauser John Hawken Larry Hedgecock Joseph Heffernan Steve Helms Darrell Henderson Ila & William Hendley Joyce & Leonard Henry David Herring William Hevener IV Charles Hicks Elena & John Hiett Jodv & Joseph Hill William Hill Peter Hillyer Joey Hines Jr. Richard Hinson Jill & Harold Hobbs Paul Holland David Holmberg Lawrence Holmes Sandra Holt
Laura & Earl Honeycutt Sally Hoover Mary cv
Fredrick Hornack Donna & Michael Hosev Vicki &
Norman Hoskins
Louis & Johnnie Howard
Marilyn & Lee Howe Jr.
Carlyle Hughes
David Hume
Laura Humphries
Oliver Hunt Jr.
Mary & Winston Hurst
Shirley & Buford Hutchin:
Francis Ivan Jr.
Judy & Jesse Jackson
Louise Jackson
B. J. & Van Jackson
Fred Jaeger Jr.
Robert Jernigan
Sharon & Douglas Johnso|
Chris Jones
Louis Jones
Peggy & S. Bart Jones
Timothy Jordan
John Justice
Sandra Kalom
Cary Karoy
Carol Keith
Elsie Kelly
Penelope Kilpatrick
Wayne King
Jim Kirkland
Wolfgang Klahr
James Klein
Max Kloster
Rub\' Knox
Eugenie fie Detlev Lancastl
Joyce & Edward Lance
Francis Lane
Valeria Lane
Ronald Lashley
Judith & Ben Lassiter
Clinton Lawrence
Delores Leavitt
Terry Leese
Dawn Sc Brandon Lewis III
Donna & David Lindquisfl
Charles Littlewood
Russell Livetmore in
Ann Lockledge
Sharon Loftis
W. R. Logan
George Long Jr.
Malcolm Lowe Jr.
Debbie Ludas
Louise Lyons
Linda MacRae
Richard Maczka
Oliver Maddux
Fred Maliga
Anna Martin
Mary 6c Lockert Mason I
Joseph Massey
Allen Masterson
Michael Mastrangelo
Lee Matthews
Peter McBrair
Susan McCaffrey
Martin McCann
Jane cv Robert McCorklt
James McDonald Jr.
Odile &: James McGowa II
Sandra & Melton McLai (
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lomas McNally uce Medlin avid H. Miller avid J. Miller avid P. Miller izabeth Miller ck Miller seph Mitchell Jr. izabeth Mittelstadt nda Moore illiam Moore elanie & John Morgan H. Moss Jr.
ne & Richard Mullendore san &
Wallace Murchison hn Myers
nn & Lewis Nance >bby Nelson m Nelson ndra Nichols ara Noel anna Norton imona & Robert Oakley hn O'Connor Sr. /nthia & Laurence O'Grady try & David Oliver iny Panzarella and Parker avid Parker arold Parker cki & John Parkinson hn Passantino :orge Paylor Jr. ary&
Michael Pendergraft hnny Pennell ivid Petroff
?orgia & Dennis Phillips )bert Plage
ngard & Daniel Plyler issell Pollack
ary Ellen &: James Poison arshall Potter ggy & Richard Pratt oria Probeck ilia & Max Pruzan o Quarles ibert Ramey
lison & Jonathon Rankin ada & James Reeves ane Rehman J. Rentel maid Ritchie ndra & Tom Roark niel Roberts III Rodgers an Roebuck argaret Rorison nes Rouse Mercer Rowe Jr. tty & Elvyn Royster ly & Burton Rudow aron San Diego >an Sawvel d Seagroves eph Sewell
Robert Shafer Melvin Sharpless Mary Boney Sheats Michelle &C
Kenneth Shepard Joann & Jacob Shepherd Matthew Shortell Tsai - En & David Sieren Judith &
Donald Simpson Emily & David Sloan Jr. Patricia & George Sloan Douglas Smith Everard Smith III H. L. Smith Mary & Harry Smith Warren Smith Joseph Spencer Kenneth Sprunt Candace Squires Charles Stanley Mary Beth &
Frank Stanley David Steegar Ella Steinberg Karl Steinmetz Mary &
William Stenger Jr. Martha Stevens William Stewart Inge Stites Lawrence Stockett Donald Street Bonnie Strickland Robert Stroud Gordon Suhre Carlene Sutliff L. C. Swain Charles Swing Richard Swing Sr. Marvin Swinson Sharon Swirat Stan Symborsky Michael Symons Catherine Tamisiea Jean Taylor Mary Taylor William Taylor Edward Tester Edward Thomas Richard Thomas Jr. Virginia Thomas Alvin Thompson George Thompson Byron Thorpe Paul Tokar Kyra Toler Joy Tressler A. W. Tucker Linda Umstead Annabelle Underwood Donald Ursich Ronald Van Den Bosch Frances Van Gorder Catherine Vaughan William Wagoner Joe Walker Jr. Patricia Walker
Roy Walker William Wallace Jr. Hilda Wallerstein Royie Waltman Leonard Ward Mary & John Warlick Jr. Miriam Warshauer Gary Warwick John Wasson Jr. Harold Watson Jr. Barbara &
Robert Waxman Lee & Bettielou Weddle Keith Weikel Frederick Welch Ellen & Harold Wells III Kenneth Werner Betty Westbrook Shirley Mayfield &
Sam White Sammy Whitt Don Whittemore Clyde Wight Susan 8c Jerry Willetts Joan Willey James Williams Martha &
Julian Williams Rebecca Williams Robert Williams Walter Willis George Wilson Judy Wilson Louise Winstead Keith Wolfenbarger Jasper Woolard Jane Worthington Eleanor &: G. P. Wright Jack Wright Thomas Wright Carl Yarborough Joseph Yates III Michelle & Wesley Yates Jean & Ira Yelverton Christine York Loretta Young Walter Yount Peter Zack Harold Zenick Ronna &
Herbert Zimmer Joseph Zunchich Barbara Zupko
Corporations, Foundations & Associations
5 South NHRMC ACM Club
American Nat'l Can Co. AMR/ American Airlines
Foundation Arcadian Fertilizer Atlantic Distributors Brown and Williamson
I obacco
Crockers Marine Duke Power Co.
Foundation Federal Paper Board Golden Corral Family
Steakhouse Green Memorial
Methodist Church Hartford Group Hooters
Intel Foundation J C Penney Knight Ridder Larrick, James K.,
Attorney at Law Lauren Film
Productions Luwa Bahnson McGladrey and Pullen Merck Company
Foundation Murray, Thompson
&Co. National Federation of
Music Clubs National Starch and
Chemical Foundation NC Sorosis Pine Valley
Elementary School PPG Industries
Foundation Prudential Foundation PT's Grill
Real Estate Services Redix of
Wrightsville Beach SCANA
Signet Bank Corp. Sonoco Products Southeastern Nephrology
Assoc. Square D
Summit Savings Bank Sunshine Fund for
Nursing Topsail State Bank Town of Kill Devil Hills UNCW Registrar's Office UNCW University
Advancement Wheat First Securities Wilmington Surgcare
OTHER GIFTS
The following people and groups supported UNCWwitb a Loyalty Fund gift.
lomputers and cameras, tables and lamps, CDs and dictionaries — these are the taken-for-granted items that are no less crucial to the inner workings of a university than laboratories and classrooms.
Recognizing that little things add up, a group of women formed the Friends of Wilmington College almost 30 years ago. At that time, the college needed to boost its library holdings from I 1,000 volumes to 50,000 volumes in order to be accredited as a four- year college. The obvious indica- tion of the group's success and the college's expansion was the necessary name change to Friends of UNCW.
Although the size and scope of UNCW has changed, the purpose of Friends of UNCW remains the same: providing the resources to help the university. This past year, the friends gave 1 1 gifts to UNCW, such as computer cables and glass display cases, ranging in price from $ 1 06 to $ 1 ,058. As one UNCW official puts it, "Friends of UNCW always comes to the university's rescue."
1950s
James Rourk
1960s
Barbara Boswell Barbara Dannaher Judy Freeman Richard Gerrish Candace Halecki Jane Moore William McKinnon
1970s
Nicholas Batoums Hollace Blakeman Caroline Bordeaux Nancy Brice Phillip Brice John Broome Judith Brown Virginia Brown Jane Bullard Johnny Bullard Doris Carlton Maryann Chapman William Chapman Jack Craig III Betty Crouch James dishing III Barbara Dannaher Herbert Epperly William Gay Jr. Richard Gerrish Cynthia James Terry Johnson Richard Kernodle Donna Lanier Page Life Georgia Macris Janet Manuel Aaron McCrae Sr. Daniel McKeown Patricia Medlin Melanie Murphy Breck Newber Betsy Norris Linda O'Donnell Roi Penton Marie Preston Shirley Prince John Quinn John Richardson Mary Sauer Deidre Stevens Mary Taylor Susan Taylor Donna Terrence Barbara Vosburg Harvey Waite Jane Watkins Deborah Whitley Swannie Wright
1980s
John Albright Rachele Alvirez Jacqueline Andel Matthew Apke Gary Baldwin Natalie Beck Joy Bendure Bridget Bryant Mary Burch Peggy Butler Stella Carter Cynthia Cavenaugh Maryann Chapman William Chapman Carol Collier Samuel Cooper Leslie Cram Kenneth Dahlin Carlos Davis Jr. Scott Dean Douglas Denning Charlie Dunn Jr. Diane Evers Paul Felsher Mark Gatlin Deborah Hage Katherine Hallen Teresa Harper Sheree Harrell Robert Horky Jr. William Howell Terry Johnson Irma Johnston Kimberly Jones Richard Kernodle Steven Kiousis Jim Kleoudis Christi Knight Dave Leonard Yvette Leonard Robert Love Jr. Whitney Lupton Crystal Martin Carol McAuley Patricia Medlin Gwendolyn Mercer Anne Murray Christopher Palmer Sharon Penny Herbert Perry Barbara Primiano Michael Primiano Shirley Prince Sherry Rich-Newton Wendy Saltsman Michael Savage Juanita Slaughter Joseph Sproul Karen Stanley Janet Stevens Susan Taylor Amy Tiller Michael Townsend Paul Verzaal Lynwood Ward
1990s
Holly & J. Bailey Jonathan Beyle Kimberly Brady Mary Brinkley Jeffrey Britt Tina Butler Scott Cartwright Ann Cottle Rachel Coyle Dennis Creech Lorie Czaniecki Sandra Curtis Lauren Durham Carolyn Ellis Steven Ervin Tracy Hall Amy Harrell Sarah 1 larris Nancy Hawes Kristine Herkomer Kimberly Jones Charles Lampasso Misti Lee Traci Leonard Caroline Lewis Barbara Lupton Jennifer Marcussen Iona McCormick Elizabeth McDougald Kelli McKenzie Kristie Melvin Leslie Moore Shawn Mullins Barbara Page Carol Pentz Stacy Pittman Dawn Radford Donna Ray Christopher Raynor Keith Scheltinga Christine Svegel Tonya Wallace Lynda Webb Judith Wright Andy Zima
Friends
John Adzema Ann Aldrich Joanne cv
Walser Allen Jr. Joan Altman Rachel Bame Charles Barnes Terry & Al Barry Nicholas Batounis Nancy cv
James R. Beeler Hollace Blakeman Deborah Blanchard Lillian cv Leslie Boney J. & J. Boone Caroline Bordeaux
rbara & Morris Boswell incy & Phillip Brice erry 6c John Broome lith & Ronald Brown 'ginia &: Brandon Brown ianne &
Eugene Budzinski le & William Bullard dly & Johnny Bullard lton Bustle al Butler n Cagle iris Carlton /an Carpenter in Casha Jr. lliam Casper ldra Collins liter Conser
Coward mela & Jack Craig III Crawford ty Crouch
ly & Phillip Cummings bra &ÂŁ James Cushing III rbara Dannaher lson Davis rry Dean nnie Dean irgaret De Melis in DeVito Jr. pja &; Richard Dillaman ne Doar nes Dolan :eph Dorato borah Draughn rolyn Dunn ve Dupree nne Eaton
rbara & Herbert Epperly /erly &: James Evangelista If Fisscher
therine & Jere Freeman ly & Mark Freeman Donna &: William Gay Jr. ary Lou & Richard Gerrish bara Gomez an Goodrum Gowan Jr. omas Grainger ;an Gustafson bert Hale
ndace & Joseph Halecki nneth Hanser iidy & Jack Harrison an Haugland lert Herring n 6v Robert Herrmann irgaret &: Miles Higgins let Hinson irsha Hinson rothy & Thomas Holmes ne Inman rl Ivey nthia James ;sy Justice irie & Max Kahn
Dolly & Bob Kern Lillian &: Ira Kersh William Kihler Robert Kieber Ruth & Francis Klimek Patricia Kube Donna Lanier Elizabeth Leach Azlie Lemons Ellen Levin Page & Allan Life Dale Lockwood Georgia Macris Alice Maile C. Malley Janet Manuel Elizabeth &
Aaron McCrae Sr. Barbara McDowell Nora &
Daniel McKeown Patricia iv
William McKinnon Willina Mitchell Bobbie Moore Jane cv Robert Moore Bruce Moskowitz Robert Muraro Melanie Murphy Stephany Nelson Mary & Breck Newber Betsy tv Dan Norris Dorothy 6c
Howard Norris Linda O'Donnell Frank Oppenheimer Carol Parrish Merry Peck Roi 6v Howard Penton H. M. Pickard Marie 6c
Thomas Preston Donna & John Quinn Marcee & Les Raab Justin Raphael Betty 6c Paul Reed Jane Rehder Fred Retchin Mary Louise 6c
Edward Rhodes Mary &
John Richardson Charles Rivenbark Jr. Linda & Ned Robinson Maryann 5c
William Robison Ann & John Rothrock Edna & James Rourk Mary & Stephen Sauer George Schell Eileen Sebuck Frances & Lee Sherman Phyllis 6c W. L. Slawter Anna Smith Suzanne & Carl Smith David Sneeden Mildred Solomon Patty Spencer
Paula Starling Leon Stein
Deidre & Russell Stevens Stanley Stewart Malou & John Stokes Linda Stout Elizabeth Tate Mary 6c Steven Taylor Allyson & David Teem Donna Terrence Edward Tighe Terry Turner Barbara Vosburg Ann 6c Harvey Waite Jane Watkins Barbara &
Robert Waxman Kathryn &
George Weant Audrey Wellspeak Deborah 6c
Harper Whitley Ronald Wickham Braxton Williams James Williams Barry Wray Marjorie Wright Swannie Wright Wilma Wright John Zimmer
Corporations, Foundations & Associations
Apple Annie's Caffe Phoenix Candlelight Cafe Charlie Rivenbark's
Restaurant Four Seasons Trophy
Shop Hot Wax Surf Shop Katy's Great Eats Neuse Sports Shop Patels
Pedalpushers PEO Sisterhood:
Chapter AA Pro Golf UNCW Randall Library
Staff Southeastern Dialysis
Center Swensen's Tidal Creek Foods Two Wheeler Dealer
Endowments & Scholarships UNCW Loyalty Fund Campaign
Guilford Mills Endowed Scholarship Guilford Mills
Interroll Corp. Endowed Scholarship Interroll
UCB Endowment
United Carolina Bank
Wachovia Initiatives in Excellence Endowment Wachovia Bank
Robert F. & Catherine Warwick Endowment Robert & Catherine Warwick
Matthew Dale Donahue Endowed Scholarship Matthew & Menzette Donahue
Anne G. Saus Endowment Charles Green III
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THE UNIVERSE
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by Mary Anne Browder Brock
C V I was a'waYs interested in science, particularly the 1 sky." Watercolorist Samuel D. Bissette's words
JL flow evenly into the room, his tone friendly and exact as he explains why eight years ago, he delved into astronomy — a move which expanded his artistic reper- toire and taught him much about the phenomena of the heavens.
Perhaps the largest tangible result of Bissette's turn skyward is the 60-piece collection of watercolors and sculptures, "The Universe According to Earth," which he donated to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in February. The paintings have been on display in the university's Randall Library since May.
Even though Bissette approached astronomy as a means to expand his art, he found himself intrigued with the science. Finding it necessary to see and under- stand the objects and phenomena of the sky before he could paint them, Bissette bought a tracking telescope and learned to take pictures through it with his Nikon camera.
Before tak- ing pictures, an astrophotographer must set up his tele- scope and align it with the celestial north pole Once properly aligned, Bissette explains, the telescope can be pro- grammed to "lock in" on a desig- nated object (such as a galaxy or nebula) and track, or follow, it across the sky, compensat- ing for the earth's rotation.
To get a good picture, "you must have a perfectly clear sky," Bissette said. Another requirement for suc- cessful astrophotography is very fast film. People typi- cally use film speeds of 100-1000 ASA when taking family snapshots or photographs of children in a recital.
The Milky Way Galaxy, as seen in infrared
The astrophotographer often makes time exposures be- tween 15 minutes and one hour in duration, using film with speeds up to 6400 ASA.
For instance, before he painted Whirlpool Galaxy, a bright, face-on spiral galaxy located near the Big Dipper in the northern sky, Bissette took a 20-minute exposure of the galaxy on 3200-speed film.
Bissette spent many nights alone with his tele- scope, his camera and the stars, and he got most of the material for "The Universe According to Earth" him- self. When he could not obtain the material himself, Bissette turned to other sources, including NASA and various observatories around the country, traveling a total of 10,000 miles to gather the data he needed for his art collection. "When I go into anything," he explains, "I go all the way."
The scope of this collection is vast, including realistic representa- tions of commonly known constellations, silhou- ettes of various spacecraft, repro- ductions of radio- astronomy im- ages, interesting objects on the planets and moons in our own solar sys- tem, and several inter- estingly shaped nebulae. A nebula is a tremendous cloud of space gas. This cloud may be composed of various types of dust. A nebula that is near a star will light up, and if the nebula has fluorescent material, it will glow on its own.
Bissette depicts several well-known nebulae in the collection, and one need look at only a few portraits of these clouds of space gas to believe that the astronomers who named them probably spent hours as children iden- tifying shapes in the clouds of the daytime sky.
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Located near the star Alnitak in the constellation Orion, the Horsehead Nebula has captured the fancy of astronomers for centuries. Unlike most nebulae, which are visible as glowing masses against a dark sky, the Horsehead Nebula ap- pears as a dark horsehead-shaped cloud of gas and dust. Silhouetted against a bright reddish-colored emission nebula, it looks something like a seahorse.
Bissette captured two other dis- tinctively shaped and appropriately named nebulae in his North America and Pelican Nebulae, de- picted on the cover. Hydrogen pro- vides the red glow evident in pho- tographs of these faint nebulae, which are located in the constella- tion Cygnus.
While most nebulae can be seen only with the aid of a tele- scope, the caption for Bissette's Great Nebula in Constellation Orion explains that this nebula, the brightest in our sky, may be seen with the naked eye. The observer may locate it as "a hazy patch in the sword of Orion, just below the belt of three bright stars."
Bissette speaks familiarly of
each object or phenomenon in the collection, as if talking of old friends. When asked which is his favorite, he names the Trifid, a nebula shaped like a flower. "And the other," he adds quickly, "is the Horsehead."
That he has enjoyed his meet- ings with the stars is evident when Bissette talks about his nights at the telescope at 2, 3, 4, or 5 o'clock in the morning.
"The feeling you have when you're by yourself in a remote area and you can see for millions of light years is unexplainable," Bissette declares. To be able to get pictures of objects so far away seems even more awe-inspiring and fills him with a sense of wonder. For instance, to record a pictute of the Whirlpool Galaxy — a galaxy 15 million light years from Earth — in a mete 20 minutes is amazing to him. "1 think that's a miracle," Bissette said.
Bissette appreciates the feel- ings, both psychological and aes- thetic, that have accompanied his sky watching. He watches and guides his equipment, punches in the right numbers, and captures on
A Spiral Galaxy, an opaque water color by Sam Bissette. Massive aggregates of millions of stars, dust, gas and other particles, galaxies are scattered in countless number throughout the universe.
film wonders of the universe other- wise unavailable to human eyes. When asked if he would call this "mind-boggling," Bissette tesponds quickly: "Mind-boggling is an un- derstatement."
When Bissette speaks, he de- scribes for the listener what his art portrays to the viewer: what we can see of the universe is too vast to comprehend. Perhaps even more significant is the fact that we can see only a small portion of what is there.
"About 90 to 95 percent of what is in the sky can't be seen," Bissette explains. Physicists call this material "dark matter," and several theories about the natute of time and the origins of the universe hinge on exactly how much datk matter is present in the universe. Bissette is quick to point out, how- ever, that such theories are merely that: theoretical.
"Everything is no more than a conjecture," Bissette said. "It's a guessing game. The more the scien- tists put together, the more of a framework they have for their theories."
But theories can't begin to ex- plain the immense grandeur of the universe, a reality that Bissette finds humbling. One can readily believe that this is a man who un- derstands the meaning of humility: he worked for a year just to learn the techniques needed to do this kind of painting.
A resident of Wilmington since 1936, Bissette began paint- ing about 1970, after his wife and daughter gave him art materials. They "said I had talked about painting and drawing enough," Bissette says with a chuckle. He took drawing classes at UNCW, then studied with Edwin Voorhees at St. John's Museum of Art in Wilmington. He also spent week- long sessions with renowned wa- tercolor artist John Pike in 1972 and 1975.
Before beginning "The Uni- verse According to Earth," Bissette,
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a Wilson, N.C., native, specialized, in traditional transparent water- color. Wilmington residents have long been familiar with his work: one of his projects, "North Caro- lina Circa 1900," an exhibition of 35 transparent watercolors, began its tour of North Carolina museums and galleries at St. John's Museum of Art. Bissette also created the concept and original art for the nine mosaic murals adorning the three entrances of Belk Beery at Wilmington's Independence Mall.
Some of the new techniques Bissette employed in "The Uni- verse According to Earth" include using opaque watercolors, painting on black acid-free mat board, using an air brush, and using special techniques for creating a third di- mension. In addition to the many opaque watercolors and several mat board sculptures, Bissette also in- cluded an opaque watercolor sculp- ture in the collection.
In this sculpture, Horsehead and Teardrop, Bissette conveys the three-dimensional nature of two unusual formations on the surface of Mars. Reminiscent of a topo- graphical map, this sculpture was based on a photograph from NASA's Viking spacecraft. To achieve the three-dimensional ef- fect, Bissette used opaque watercol- ors and pushed them through a medicine dropper, using a cotton swab as a plunger. He then used a knife to sculpt the shapes he wanted.
As he worked, Bissette had to remind himself that "art begins with good composition." He is not sure, though, when he realized he had a collection in the making.
"I kept working and throwing away," he said. The collection "just evolved." Bissette selected pieces for the collection only if they were both scientifically accurate and ar- tistically satisfying. They also had to be complementary to the other pieces in terms of color and form.
Bissette donated the collection to UNCW partly because the uni-
Centaurus Galaxy, an airbrusbed and hand-brushed opaque watercolor by Sam Bissette. At the center of Centaurus is a jet of gas, a strong radio source and the suspected location of a giant black hole.
versity had already shown an inter- est in it. After Bissette completed his collection, a national review committee of scientists, artists and educators approved it for exhibi- tion in planetariums and science museums. With the sponsorship ot UNCW and the Motehead Plan- etarium in Chapel Hill, Bissette planned a traveling exhibition tot the United States and Canada. Af- ter difficulties prohibited that tour — specifically the size of the col- lection, scheduling problems and the difficulty of obtaining corpo- rate grants during a recession — Bissette donated the collection to UNCW.
University officials are quite pleased by Bissette's gift, and while "The Universe According to Earth" is certainly not the only art collec- tion ever donated to UNCW, it is not a typical donation.
"It is not unusual for the uni- versity to receive quality collec- tions," said Tyrone Rowell, associ- ate vice chancellor tor University- Advancement. "What is unusual about this gift is that the art is unique in its scope and originality." The combination ot art and as- tronomy in this collection is one
Rowell believes will spark people's interest in science.
A second, more eclectic collec- tion of Bissette's work is also on display at UNCW, in University Center through Dec. 17. "The Uni- verse According to Earth" will find its permanent home in the next major building to be constructed at UNCW. In the interim, the uni- versity will make the collection available on loan to educational in- stitutions, planetariums, and muse- ums interested in showing it.
"If the collection is going to do any good, it needs to be exposed in an academic setting and a public setting," Bissette said. People in today's society place so much em- phasis on the material and the im- mediate that most do not take the time to consider aesthetics, reli- gion, philosophy, or science; in- stead, we tend to leave these ques- tions to the academics. Bissette be- lieves there is a need tor more edu- cation in these fields, and he hopes "The Universe According to Eatth" will help.
Mary Anne Browder Brock '93 holds a master's degree in English from UNCW.
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City Executive John R. Lancaster and Chancellor Leutze prepare to tackle the high ropes on UNCW's Challenge Course.
about 35 feet up the course's rock board, attached the check, and challenged Leutze to retrieve it. The chancellor scaled the rock board and suc- cessfully retrieved the check. Both men exited using the course's zip line.
Programs likely to be sup- ported under BB&T's $150,000 initiative include an interdisciplinary minor in leadership studies, leadership scholarships to help attract high school leaders, and sup- port for the service-learning program for UNCW's student volunteers.
irst Union National
ranch Banking & Trust, $185,000 primarily to sup- port excellence in leader- ship. The bulk of the gift is $150,000, to be designated the Branch Banking & Trust Leader- ship Challenge. Additionally, BB&.T committed $10,000 as title sponsor of the BB&T/Landfall Leg- ends of Tennis tournament to fund scholarships for UNCW student athletes. The bank will also make an annual corporate gift of $5,000 for the next five years toward the Chancellor's Club.
The gift was announced Aug. 30 at UNCW's Challenge Course by BB&.T Senior Vice President and City Executive John R. Lancaster and UNCW Chancellor James R. Leutze. Lancaster climbed
Bank, $100,000 to cre- ate the First Union Foundation Cameron School En- dowment. Intended to support ex- cellence in teaching, interest on the permanent endowment will fund a faculty fellowship in the Cameron School of Business. An announcement recognizing First Union for the gift, which will be given over a 10-year period, was to be made in late November.
ifts to Wise Alumni House already total $155,000 (see related story , page 1 6) . The following institutions and individu- als have given substantial gifts to- ward the renovation of the Neo- classical Revival mansion, the fu- ture UNCW alumni house.
Lawrence Lewis, Jr., a gift of $25,000.
Mary Lily Flagler Lewis Wiley, a gift of $25,000.
ARA Services, a gift of $15,000.
Mr. and Mrs. John Baldwin, $10,000 to renovate Mrs. Wise's balcony sewing room.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob King, $10,000 for the porte cochere.
The Friends of UNCW, $5,000 to renovate the main stair- case.
Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Corcoran, $5,000 for the secure storage area.
Tabitha McEachern, a gift of $5,000.
ore than $90,000 has been raised to fund the Cape Fear River Project (see related story, page 3).
The following substantial gifts will underwrite a significant por- tion of the costs to film a docu- mentary about the river, which flows through one third of North Carolina's counties and is the pri- mary water source in the South- eastern North Carolina region.
Applied Analytical, $35,000.
Grace Jones Trust, $15,000.
Cape Industries, $10,000.
Takeda, $10,000.
DuPont- Wilmington, $10,000.
Florence Rogers Trust, $6,000.
DuPont-Fayetteville, $5,000.
Carolina Food Processors, $5,000.
Occidental Chemical, $5,000.
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To become an active member of the UNCW Alumni Association, contribute $25 or more to the UNCW Loyalty Fund. While you're making out your check, consider adding an additional designated gift for Wise House. You'll be glad you did.
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"Hard Hat" Events Raise $155,000 for Wise House
Left to right: Jane Baldwin, past UNCW Alumni Association Chair John Baldwin '72 and John's mother, Virginia Baldwin, at the August Hard Hot party at Wise House.
Gershon Alalerf is the recipient of the UNCW Alumni Associa- tion Athletic Scholarship for 1993-94. A sophomore, Gershon is a swimmer for UNCW.
Hundreds of UNCW alumni, staff, faculty, students and friends picked up their hard hats at the door and toured Wise Alumni House at "Hard Hat" parties held Aug. 6 and Oct. 2 and 3. In- tended as fund-raisers to help retire the 5400,000 debt for renovation of UNCWs future alumni home, the parties helped bring in $155,000.
The first phase of the renovations — which covered refurbishing all ma- jor household systems, but not cosmetic items like floor refinishing, interior painting and landscaping — will be completed by December.
Donors can "buy" a piece of Wise House for gifts ranging from $2,000 to $35,000 or more. All of the house's nine mantels — available for a donation of $2,000 — have been snatched up, as have four of the columns on the front portico, Mrs. Wise's sewing room, the porte cochere, the main staircase, and the iron- plated storage cabinet where Jessie KenanWise kept her liquor under lock and key.
Still available as we go to press are four por- tico columns, the main lobby, conference rooms and bedrooms, the kitchen, the side porch and the circular garden.
Sold! Alumni Association board member Jim Stasios '70 with a Wise House column.
HOMECOMING
"A Whole iTevy W&'ilil"
February 9-12, 1994
UNCW vs. William & Mary 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Homecoming Dance : Cream of 8 o u i & 9:30 p.m.-l a.m.
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More than 30 alumni and their spouses, friends and children gathered for the annual Durham Bulls game and cookout Aug. 14 at Durham Athletic Park, including at left (left to right): Jill Laskey '91 , Christy Grimsley, Trey Jones and Jenny Laskey '9 1 .
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Director's Message
Our alumni are geared up for an other great year. Already, the UNCW Alumni Association has welcomed the freshman and senior classes, our alumni-in-residence, with first-of-the- year picnics. We've also supported our bas- ketball and soccer alumni with funding to assist in their recent Homecoming events.
Thanks to your support, we've already raised more than $150,000 in gifts and pledges for Wise Alumni House. We ask that you strongly consider designating your Loyalty Fund gift this year to Wise Alumni House. Our loan repayment will be made easier with your help!
Be sure to mark your calendar for up- coming pre-game socials, especially Home- coming on Feb. 12. The Alumni Associa- tion will also sponsor a raffle for a 17 -foot Boston Whaler Montauk. Tickets will be on sale during home basketball games.
Be on the lookout tor a questionnaire from Harris Publishing Co., which will pub- lish our first alumni directory in late 1994, the year of our 25th anniversary. Your timely response will help make the direc- tory a success.
"Hats off to our M.B.A. Alumni Chapter for a successful Lifelong Learning Conference in September, their first. The Triangle Chapter hit a home run with its annual Durham Bulls game cookout in Au- gust. Fayetteville area alumni got together for a picnic and a Generals game in early August. Cape Fear area alumni had a great time at their Halloween bash. Thanks to all alumni who attended and supported these events. If you're interested in assisting with or hosting an alumni event in your area, please give me a call. We want to serve our alumni and look forward to your participa- tion in your alumni program.
Remember, the alumni association needs you and your voice to move forward. Renew your affiliation if you have been in- active and take pride in your UNCW heri- tage. Our Seahawks are soaring; come soar along!
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Make your res- ervations now for this
season's basketball pre-game socials.
UNCWiis. Qeorge Mason,
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Social: 5:30-7 p.m. Tipoff: 7:30 p.m.
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Social: 5:30-7 p.m. Tipoff: 7:30 p.m. UNCW vs. ECU Saturday, Feb. 26
Social: 5:30-7 p.m. Tipoff: 7:30 p.m.
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a guest may be eligible for free or reduced admission to these excit- ing social events.
Active alumni who contribute $150 or more annually are admit- ted free with a guest. All other active alumni (those who pay $25 or more each year) and their guests are admitted at half price.
Look for your reservations form in Seahawk Club season ticket packages and in alumni association mailings. Reservations are re- quired, so reserve your space early.
Alumni Directory Will Help You Find Old Friends
inding a former classmate can be just like looking for the pro-
J verbial "needle in a haystack." But not much longer. Soon an JL impressive directory of all our alumni will be available to help you locate your old friends.
The new University of North Carolina at Wilmington Alumni Directory, scheduled for release in October/November 1994, will be the most up-to-date and complete reference on more than 14,000 UNCW alumni ever compiled. This comprehensive volume will include current name, address and phone number, academic data, plus business information (if applicable), bound into a classic, library-quality edition.
The alumni association has contracted with Bernard C. Harris Publishing Co. to produce our directory. Harris will shortly be- gin researching and compiling information to be printed in the directory by mailing a ques- tionnaire to each alumnus.
The first edition of the UNCW Alumni Di- rectory will soon make finding a UNCW alumnus as easy as opening a book. Look for more details on the project in upcoming issues.
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Susan Dail Walters 71 is a Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow in Educational Leadership for 1993-94- The award carries a $15,000 stipend and Walters is in residence at UNC Chapel Hill for the academic year. Walters holds an M.Ed, in guidance and counseling from N.C. State Uni- versity and began her teaching career in North Carolina. She has taught pre- school age children in a child develop- ment center, served as a language arts and English teacher and as a high school guidance counselor. She was most recently a counselor for the Fort Bragg Schools.
Evelyn Klimek Nicholson '73 is an English teacher in Virginia Beach, Va.
Debra Lyerly Vincent '74 is a chemist with Puget Sound Naval Ship- yard and lives in Beltair, Wash., with her husband, Carl E. Vincent.
Margaret Brooks '75 made her New York re- cital debut at Weill Re- cital Hall, Carnegie Hall, on Oct. 23. A so- prano, Brooks has ap- peared as soloist with the New York Philhar-
\monic in performances of Mendelssohn's Elijah, conducted by Kurt Masur. She was soloist in the nationally televised live perfor- mance of Beethoven's Choral Fantasia in C minor at Carnegie Hall for its Centennial Gala, directed by James Levine. She has performed with opera companies in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and Florida. Brooks, the daughter ot long-time UNCW Athletic Director Bill Brooks, is mar- ried to Glen Angermeier.
Rev. Frank D. Russ, Jr. '76 has served as rector at St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown since July 1991. He holds a master of divinity from Southeastern Seminary. After completing a year of Anglican studies at Virginia Theological Semi- nary in Alexandria, Va., he was or- dained to the priesthood in 1991.
Lt. Cmdr. Deborah Ann Dubach Headrick '76 recently completed a three-year tour of Japan and is attend- ing Naval War College in Newport, R.I., through June 1994.
Patricio A. Morillo '78 has been elected vice president at Wachovia Corporate Services in Winston-Salem. He is a senior corporate foreign ex- change trader in the Foreign Exchange Group.
Nancy Lee Dubach Gower '79 is an analytical chemist for A.H. Robbins Co. in Virginia. She and her husband, Perrin W. Gower III '78, recently started their own business, Turtle Run Geological Associates. They live in Aylett, Va.
Art Paschal '79 was named assis- tant principal at Southern Pines Middle School in February. Named Educator of the Year for the New Bern schools, Paschal completed a master's degree in education administration at East Carolina University in 1992.
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Mary Godowitch '80 works as a medical technologist at Duke Medical Center and lives in Durham with her husband, Jim, and daughter, Julie.
Baxter "Bucky" H. Miller III '81 of Lumberton is president of Carolina Corners Stores, Inc. and Grayson Mountain Water Co. in Lumberton.
Kitty Nubel '82 has joined the in- surance and employee benefits agency of Mann & Watters in Wilmington. Ms. Nubel was previously a mortgage loan originator and branch manager with People's Federal Savings Bank.
Janet E. Aquino '82 has been pro- moted to manager of finance and ad- ministration, London and Europe with ABC News. She will be based in Lon- don. She and her sister, Adele A. Cohn, co-own The Write Stuff, which markets the "Wilmington Has It All" logo.
Ginger Swaim '83 has been pro- moted to assistant cashier/branch man- ager at High Point Bank and Trust Co. in Jamestown. She is married to Will- iam H. Swaim III '81, a purchasing manager for High Point Bank and Trust.
Capt. Darrell L. Thacker '83 re- cently received the Navy Commenda- tion Medal for his service as a weapons and tactical instructor. He was recently assigned with Marine Air Wing Train- ing Squadron 1, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Ariz.
Helen Ward Stevens '84, '90 is vice president and a commercial lender at Southern National Bank in Wilmington. She is married to Kelly L. Stevens '85, a mortgage lender for United Companies Lending Corp.
R. Alan Sewell '84 is a teacher and coach at Laney High School in Wilmington. He and his wife, Vicki Floyd Sewell '85, live in Wilmington with their two children, Tanner Hous- ton and Victoria Day. Vicki is the manager of AAA Travel.
John Wilson Causey '85 was re- cently named manager of Roses Stores in Jacksonville and also serves as dis- trict manager trainer. He and his wife, Ginger Morton Causey, live in Richlands.
Jennifer Wilson McGuire '85 has been promoted from supervisor to man- ager of quality control in the pharma- ceutical division of Survival Technol- ogy Inc. in St. Louis. She lives in Fenton, Mo.
Mark McNairy '85 and his wife, Antoinette Linn, design a line of women's clothing called "finis." The line is sold to about 50 upscale depart- ment stores across the country and in Japan. The couple live and work in New York City.
Robin Swart Caison '85 is fiscal officer of Head Start of New Hanover County. She lives in Wilmington.
Sayvilene Hawkins '85 teaches first grade at Malpass Corner Elemen- tary School in Pender County. She lives in Burgaw.
Susan Pope Oldham '85 is presi- dent and owner of HealthTemps Inc. in Smithfield. She has a 2-year-old son, James Matthew.
W.J. "Pete" Peterson, Jr. '86 has been elected assistant vice president at Wachovia Bank of North Carolina in Raleigh. He is a relation loan adminis- tration officer.
Patricia Martinez Stott '86 is an adverse drug effects case manager for Burroughs Wellcome. She and her hus- band, Ronnie Dale Stott, have a daughter, Kirsten Erinson, and a son, Dale. The Stotts live in Wake Forest.
Donald Jones '86 is a quality man- ager with Con Agra in Turlock, Calif.
Brett C. Knowles '86 has joined United Companies Lending Corp. as a loan originator.
Jessica Moore '86 works for the hu- man resources department at UNC
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Chapel Hill. She lives in Burlington.
Terri Cousins '86 is the manager of Wine and Cheese Emporium in Kinston.
David Teem '87 and Allyson Teem '87 recently bought their first home in Clayton. David is a teaching professional at Devil's Ridge Golf Club in Holly Springs. Allyson is a commu- nity development specialist with the Governor's Highway Safety Program.
A. Denise Wicker '87 works as ex- ceptional family member program co- ordinator and early intervention pro- gram coordinator at the Naval Medical Clinic in Quantico, Va.
David Keith Clack '87 is a staff ac- countant with Black and Bass, P. A., CPAs. He lives in Clinton.
Mark A. Gray '87 has been pro- moted to banking officer tor Wachovia Bank of North Carolina in Salisbury.
Nancy Dare O'Conner '87 is an accountant for Precision Walls Inc. in Raleigh.
Cameron M. Sperry '88, '91 was recently named president of the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Writers' Network. She is a part-time lecturer in the UNCW English depart- ment and lives in Wrightsville Beach.
Patricia M. Collins '88 was re- cently promoted to training instructor for Dunkin' Donuts Inc. She lives in Holbrook, Mass.
Mary Karen Singletary Sands '88 is a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at Forsyth Memorial Hospi- tal. She lives in Clemmons.
Michelle Susan Daniels Moser '88 is an instructor at Pitt Community College and is enrolled in the masters of accounting program at East Carolina University.
Rachel Knight McKnight '89 has been promoted to assistant financial services officer at Centura Bank in Rocky Mount. Her husband, Vince McKnight '90, is a CPA with Bunch, Daughtridge, Green and Hortman CPAs of Rocky Mount.
Scott Howard Urban '89 is a teacher for the Columbus County Schools and lives in Wilmington.
Brooks R. Pierce '89 has been promoted to assis- tant vice president of BB&T in Wilson. He has worked as a financial ana- lyst with business loan ad- ministration and as a man- agement associate.
As America prepares to watch the 1996 Olympics in At- lanta, one UNCW alum plans to compete. Curt Browder '92, men's varsity crew coach at University North Carolina Chapel Hill, is preparing to qualify for the U.S. crew team next summer.
Browder competes na- tionally with the Penn Ath- letic Club, a group he quali- fied for with a "resume" of swift times on both water and an ergometer (rowing machine ) . This summer, Browder and his Penn teammates won the Inter- mediate 8 event (eight rowers to a shell with coxswain) and placed third in the Intermediate 4 (four rowers without coxswain) at the American Rowing Championships in Topeka, Kansas.
Browder is hard at work on his winter training regimen, which con- sists of two hours' rowing on water five or six days a week, 90 minutes on an ergometer four or five times a week, and two hours of weight train-
ing three times a week.
"I need to be stronger because of the people I'm competing against," Browder said. "The aver- age rower is 6 foot four inches and 200 pounds, and I'm only 6 foot one, 185. I need to be 15 sec- onds faster when I go back this summer."
Every competitive rower begins at the inter- mediate level and works his way up. After a vic- tory, the rower moves to the senior level; two wins at the senior level promotes a rower to the elite class. Only members of the elite class make it to the national team. Browder is now at the senior level.
Browder will return to the Penn team in May to begin preparing for the Elite Nationals in June in India- napolis, when his senior team will compete against top-notch crews. Then in July, it's back to Topeka for the American Rowing Champion- ships.
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W. Chad Adams '90 is a graphic systems and support specialist for Fam- ily Health International. He lives in Sanford.
Lisa Williamson Wayne '90 was married May 23, 1992 and obtained her real estate license in March 1993. She is a Realtor for PRES Realty in Wilmington.
John H. Hackney '90 is a biologist for CZR Inc. in Wilmington. Hackney received a master's degree in public health from UNC Chapel Hill in 1992.
Janice L. Hunt '90 has met the requirements to receive the state CPA certificate. She is the management ad- visory services consultant for Murray, Thomson & Co. CPAs in Wilmington. She is a member ot the Cape Fear
Chapter of the N.C. Association of CPAs, the American Institute of CPAs, and the Institute of Manage- ment Accountants.
Erin L. King '91 has joined the Bladen Community College faculty. She will teach nutse assistant and geri- atric care assisting courses. She for- merly worked as a nurse and clinical training instructor at Bladen County Hospital. She is engaged to Malcolm Davis of Bladenboro.
Thomas F. Nelson '91 is a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines working on an artificial reet project.
Seth D. Nettles '91 is an assistant manager at Southern National Bank in Raleigh.
Terence E. Ray '91 is an army pla- toon leader at Fort Sill, Okla. He was married to Carole E. Burkie on April 21, 1992. The couple have a son, Wesley T. Ray, born Dec. 16, 1992.
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Melissa Stanley '91 is a staff biolo- gist with CZR inc. in Wilmington. She previously worked for CZR part time while working toward a master's degree.
John A. Crumpton '91 is the town manager in Morrisville. He was most re- cently Lee County finance director and has served as town administrator for Eli:abethtown and Emerald Isle.
Terri Lynne Craft '91 is manager of The Mad Monk in Wilmington and lives in Wrightsville Beach.
Soccer player Paul Cairney '93 has been named second-team Academic All- American in balloting for the 1993 GTE University Division at-large team. He received UNCW's highest academic honor for student athletes, the Chan- cellor's Cup Award. He was also named to the Colonial Athletic Association second team.
Robin Lee Wood Jones '93 recently married Sgt. Michael A. Jones of Minne- sota. They live in Havelock and are ex- pecting their first child.
Tony Klein '93 has joined Federal Paperboard's Riegelwood Operations as a junior programmer in the MIS depart- ment. He previously worked at Riegelwood on a work-study program through UNCW.
Pam Gallagher '93 has joined Deborah Jamieson and Associates Inc. full time after working for the company for 2 1/2 years while completing her un- dergraduate degree. She will work as head of administration.
Kenneth Earl Riggs, Jr. '93 is a fourth-grade teacher at Erwin Elemen- tary School in Jacksonville. Married for one year, he is working toward a master's degree at UNCW.
Steve Pence '93 is a management trainee with Lerner Shoes Inc. He lives in Huntersville.
To Cathey Barber Beard '76 and Kevin Stanford Beard '77, their second daughter, Knsten Lynn, Jan. 13, 1993. They have anothet daughter, Lauren, age 5. Kevin is a senior nuclear engi- neer at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. The Beards live in Aiken.
To Tracy Nicklaw Kane '82 and John Kane, a daughter, Meghan Anna, on July 24, 1992. Tracy is a senior finan- cial analyst for Abbott Laboratories in Abbott Park, 111.
To Margaret Smith Yaeger '82 and Robert L. Yaeger '82, their second son,
Jack. The Yaegers also have a 4-year-old son, Matt. They live in Raleigh. She is a project financial analyst for CP&.L and he is CADD systems manager for N.C. State University.
To Barry Bowling '85 and Julie Harvey Bowling, a son, Hunter Joseph Bowling, April 30, 1993. The Bowlings live in Raleigh.
To Penny Green Cobb '86 and Jef- frey Langdon Cobb, a son, Jeffrey Langdon Cobb, Jr., March 3, 1993. The Cobbs live in Raleigh.
Mary Christina Grimsley '91 to Jonathan Scott Waller '92. Both work for First Union Mortgage Corp. in Ra- leigh. She is a staffing specialist and he is a set-up specialist.
Jerry Aaron '93 to Tracy Renee Clodtelter. He is a sales representative for Old Dominion Freight Lines in High Point.
Grady V. Shue, Jr. '87 to Selina I. Baggett '90, May 22, 1993. He attends East Carolina University School of Medicine and will graduate in 1997. The couple live in Greenville.
Jansen Joelle Lee '89 to Harold Lassiter, Aug. 1, 1993. She is an adult probation and parole officer with the state Department of Corrections.
Marisa Clair Altman Owens '89 to Scott Allen Owens of Canton, Ohio, May 2, 1992. She is an account represen- tative for Olympia USA. The Owens live in Atlanta.
Jeffrey C. Kafer '91 to Jennifer Koont:, July 17, 1993. He is a fourth- year medical student at the East Carolina School ot Medicine.
Perry Daniel "Dan" Lockamy '65,
died suddenly Oct. 16, 1993. Dan, who formerly lived in Cary, had been a claims adjuster with the N.C. Attorney General's office. He had served on the UNCW Alumni Association Board of Directors since 1984- Survivors include his wife, Virginia, and two children, Shelly and Troy. On Nov. 13, the UNCW Alumni Association voted to name its annual graduate scholarship in honor of Lockamy, as a memorial to him and his family.
UNCW ALUMNI BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
Chair
Marvin Robison '83
762-2489
Vice Chair
Jessiebeth Geddie '63
350-0205
Secretary
Norman H. Melton '74
799-6105
Treasurer
Frank S. Bua '68
799-0164
Immediate Past Chair
John W. Baldwin, Jr. '72
762-5152
BOARD MEMBERS
CaÂŁ>e Fear Area
Tommy Bancroft '58,'69 799-3924
Rebecca Blackmore '75 762-5033
Sonia Brooks '80 (919) 362-7539
DruFarrar'73 392-4324
Mary Beth Harris '81 270-3000
Eric Keefe '88 762-7517
Richard Pratt '71 350-0282
Jim Stasios '70 392-0458
Mary Thomson '81 763-0493
Avery Tuten'86 799-1564
Charlie Wall 77 392-1370
Shanda Williams '92 392-4660
Johannes Bron '78 251-9665
Tria7igle Area
Don Evans '66 (919) 872-2338
Randy Gore '70 (919)677-4121
Western North Carolina Deborah Hunter '78 .. (704)322-5594
CHAPTER REPS
Cape Fear Chapter
Amy Tharrington '87 799-0178
MBA Chapter
Cheryl Hunter '89 392-1803
Triad Chapter
Jeff Holeman '93 885-5927
Triangle Chapter
Carolyn Busse '92 (919) 967-445S
Onslou' County Chapter SamO'Leary 'S3 .". 451-1879
ALTERNATES
TimRudisill'92 (704)735-9716
Kimberly Best-Tuten '86 .... 799-1564
Executive Director
Patricia A. Corcoran, '72 395-3616
(Area code is 910 unless otherwise indicated)
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10 Travel & Adventure Series: New Zealand, 7:30 p.m., Kenan Auditorium
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On the cover. Portrait of Donald R. Watson, painted by Pete Turner and photographed by Melva Colder.
Spring/Summer 1994
Volume 4, Number 2/3
FEATURES
HISTORIC DONATION
In memory of Donald R. Watson
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UNCW administrators receive state, national appointments
The reputation of UNCW grows with the appointment of two top administrators to state and national programs.
In February, Chancellor James R. Leutze was named to Gov. Jim Hunt's Commission for a Competi- tive North Carolina, and Dr. Marvin K. Moss, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, was named chair- man of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Strategic Environmental Re-
search and Development Program (SERDP).
The Commission for a Competi- tive North Carolina is a centerpiece of Gov. Hunt's drive to create a well- based, long-term vision for North Carolina. It is comprised of 40 ap- pointees, including leaders in bank- ing, education, journalism, law, real estate, manufacturing and service sectors and non-profit foundations.
The commission will focus on
Coach Eastman leaves for Washington
After tour seasons coaching the UNCW Seahawks, Kevin Eastman has headed to Washington State University and the Pacific- 10 Con- ference.
In May, he signed a contract with the Cougars for a base salary of $110,000, plus incentives, totaling more than $ 1 million over five years.
During his tenure at UNCW, he led the Seahawks to a 59-53 record and their second highest victory to- tal after an 18-10 season, equaling the second-most victories in school history.
He was the Seahawks' fourth coach and has been credited with resurrecting the basketball program.
improving education, economic growth, public safety, environmen- tal protection and overall quality of life in the state. It will set goals for achievement levels, establish perfor- mance standards for evaluations and recommend an organizational struc- ture for monitoring performance.
The SERDP Scientific Advisory Board, chaired by Dr. Moss, is com- posed ot nine members who are emi- nent in the fields of basic science, social science, energy, ocean and en- vironmental sciences, education and national security.
SERDP funds research, devel- opment and system engineering di- rected toward the development of technologies for the cleanup and miti- gation ot nuclear sites, atmospheric pollution, surface and ground water toxicity. Each proposal that exceeds Si million is reviewed and approved by the Scientific Advisory Board.
Chancellor leutze congratulates Dan Cameron at homecoming.
Cameron, Blackmore honored at Homecoming festivities
UNCW honored two promi- nent local residents during homecoming festivities, February 9-12.
Wilmington native Daniel Cameron was recognized as Distin- guished Citizen tor Service to the University. Rebecca W. Blackmore, a district court judge tor New Hanover and Pender counties, re- ceived the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Currently a partner in the Cameron Company, Cameron has
been involved in a wide range of community activities including serv- ing as chairman ot both the Com- mittee ot 100 and New Hanover Memorial Hospital as well as mayor ot Wilmington. He is a member of the UNCW Foundation Board.
A 1975 graduate of UNCW, Blackmore earned her juris doctor- ate from the UNC Chapel Hill School ot Law. She is a trustee tor Wesley United Methodist Church and a member of the UNCW Alumni Association Board ot Directors.
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Shinn gets state award
For his many contributions to the "welfare of the human race," UNCW Professor Gerald H. Shinn was awarded the 1994 O. Max Gardner Award.
Established by the will of the late Gov. Gardner, the award is the only statewide honor given to faculty members by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. It was presented on May 13 at the Friday Continuing Education Center in Chapel Hill, and Dr. Shinn was rec- ognized during UNCW's commence- ment ceremony.
"What pleased me was not my getting it," Shinn said. "It's that this is the first for UNCW. It's nice we got one."
Although Shinn's contributions are numerous, he is quick to point out that the award does not recog- nize his work alone but rather the efforts of many individuals at the university.
"I don't look at this as a single person's accomplishments. It's truly a group effort," he said. "I don't take credit for all these things."
The professor of philosophy and religion was nominated for the award by Chancellor James Leutze and Dr. Carolyn Simmons, dean of UNCW's Col- lege of Arts and Sciences, and many individuals wrote in support of the nomination.
Among Shinn's accomplish- ments are Parnassus on Wheels, a one-on-one effort to combat illit-
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To honor his request, UNCW Magazine is asking those "young'uns" who felt Shinn's influence during his 27-year career to write down some of their favorite stories and memories and send them to us for inclusion in a future edition.
Send your stories to UNCW Magazine, University of North Caro- lina at Wilmington, Division of Uni- versity Advancement, 601 S. College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-3297.
eracy in North Carolina; the Albert Schweitzer International Prizes, pre- sented every four years; the North Carolina and National Living Trea- sure Awards programs, which recog- nize the creative efforts of individu- als; and the UNCW Museum of World Cultures, which enlivens buildings around campus with arti-
facts from around the world.
Shinn explained there is one common thread that runs among these different programs.
"I want my young'uns here at UNCW to rub shoulders and have contact with the great men and women of the world, and these things do that," he said.
Achievements are recognized
Three graduating seniors were honored at commencement May 14 for their achievements while attend- ing UNCW.
Heather Jean Petroff of Wilm- ington was given the Senior Leader- ship Award, co-sponsored by the UNCW Alumni Association and the Leadership Center. She received a $200 cash award, a plaque and an official UNCW lamp engraved with her name.
Mamie Lynn Strickland of Ta-
bor City was given the Alumni Achievement Award for achieving the highest grade point average dur- ing four years at UNCW. Her aver- age was 3.956.
The Hoggard Medal for most improvement went to Kelly Marie Brooks of Raleigh.
A total of 946 degrees were awarded during the commencement ceremony which featured Dr. Alice M. Rivlin, one of the country's top economists, as speaker.
UNCW Magazine
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Dedicated to the memory of
^Donald 1?. Watson
By Marybeth Bianchi
During his lifetime
Donald R. Watson was characterized as a caregiver who loved his family and his com- munity.
"He just liked to help people," said his widow, Monica.
"The more you give away, the more you get. He believed that. The more he helped other people and the more money he would give, he believed it would come back, so it was always there to do it again."
He was a successful businessman and one who will be long remem- bered for his generosity to UNCW and the School of Education.
In March, just before his death, Watson made a donation which brought his lifetime giving to the uni- versity to more than $2 million. It established a distinguished professor- ship and an endowment for the School of Education plus a major merit schol- arship program for the university. In return, UNCW named the School of Education in his honor.
"Don Watson has done some- thing of significance that will have an important impact tor years to come. He was a man ot vision. Not only was he thinking of what would help the school in 1994, but he looked ahead to 2094," Chancellor James Leut:e said when the gift was announced.
"Don Watson was a real leader who was extremely generous with his
wealth and assets. He believed edu- cation .was very important to the people of Wilmington and New Ha- nover County and that the univer- sity was a major factor in the eco- nomic development of the county," said Robert Warwick, co-chairman of UNCW's capital campaign. "He wanted to return something to the university which had a major impact on his business. He was willing to share what he had with the university." Robert Tyndall, dean ot the school ot education, said it's a great honor to have been selected from all the pos- sible high quality programs available as the recipient of such a legacy.
"One of the goals of the School
of Education is to build a broad source
of support in the community. The
primary goal is for enrichment and
resources for faculty and students,"
Tyndall said.
Watson's gift "makes a sig- nificant impact on the kinds of experiences we can give to stu- dents," Dr. Brad Walker, direc- tor of student studies in the School of Education, said. It will help the School of Education bring state-of-the art equipment and ma- terials needed for the preparation ot quality teachers.
The establishment ot an en- dowed professorship is significant for a school of this si:e, which is training approximately 850 students tor teach- ing careers, Walker said. It will allow UNCW to draw top national educa- tors to enhance the program, which he believes is already respected across the state.
"To have someone like Mr. Wat- son recognize and feel good about our accomplishments gives us a vote of confidence," Walker said.
Before Watson's death, the School of Education presented him with a resolution which recognized the dedication in his "personal, pub- lic and business life to advancing the quality of life for the citizens oi Wilmington."
The resolution also pointed out that Watson "expressed his belief in the mission of the School of Educa-
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about it. That's just how he was," Mrs. Watson said of her late husband's donation. "1 was delighted when he started the scholarship be- cause it's something I wanted to do for a long time."
Watson was born in 1926 in Kenly, one of eight children raised by their mother after their father was killed in a car accident. When he graduated from high school, he got a job at the Norfolk, Va. shipyards, "until he ran away and went in the Marines," Mrs. Watson said.
He proved himself early on.
His unit was pinned down by en- emy gunfire during a siege on Okinawa. Instead of waiting for the tide to turn, Watson took matters
destroy the en- emy. For his effort he was awarded the Bronze Star.
"He was always up for a chal- lenge. That probably was just the beginning of it," Mrs. Watson said. "If there was something he wanted to do or needed to do, he did it. I guess it just changed to different things as he got older."
After World War II, Watson studied accounting at Elon College and was a partner in an accounting firm in Richmond. In 1966, while advising a client about an invest- ment, he became involved in a part- nership that led him to Wilmington and the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant from which his wealth was to grow.
In 1969, the partnership pur- chased an interest in die 7-UPplant,and that's when he became business part- ners wirhCarl Brown.
"We really did become good friends. Not only were we busi- ness associates, we were good friends," Brown said. The two remained partners until Pepsi- Cola Bottling Co. was sold to the parent company in 1988 when they realized "it wasn't tun to be in business any more," Mrs. Watson com- mented.
Watson's business in- terests were diverse. In addition to the Pepsi- Cola Bottling Co., he
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dio station, later merging it with WHSL in the 1980s. y He also had an in- terest in Carolina Pipe Company. While mak- ing money was important, Wat- son wasn't one to keep it all to himself. He was heavily involved in the Wilmington area community and supported nu- merous causes.
"He always felt if you have the ability to do things, you ought to take advantage of it and be giv- ing," Brown said. "He really did have a giving way about him. He was very generous. When some- thing was shown to him and there was need and it would benefit a large number of people, he was will- ing to go out and work for it."
Watson served as chairman of the United Way's capital campaign which raised funds to build facili- ties for the Salvation Army, YMCA and Brigade Boys Club. As past president of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, he was in- volved in the drive to construct a new building, and in recognition of his efforts the board room was named after him.
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Although he was very success- ful, Watson was not the staid busi- nessman some might imagine.
"He was a character. You never knew what kind of trouble he was go- ing to get into. It wasn't really trouble, it was mischief," his wife noted.
One such incident revolves around a business trip to Anaheim, Calif., in 1976.
Watson and Brown took time out from the bottlers' convention they were attending for a little sightseeing drive along the coast heading for Mexico. Along the way, they saw a sign for San Clemente.
"We know somebody who lives here, don't we?" Watson is reported to have asked his friend. They pulled into a service station and easily got directions to the home of former Presi- dent Richard Nixon. After a 30- minute wait while a security check was run by the Secret Service, Watson and Brown got in to see Nixon and chatted for about 30 minutes.
"He was extremely cordial and very glad to see us," Brown said of the former president. He noted th.n
"It was just a very memorable time."
Watson particularly liked to get away to the family's property in Bruns- wick County, where he and his father-in- law, Hulet Croom, would blaze trails in the woodlands.
"He'd get his cowboy hat, put on his snake boots, strap his pistol to his side and head for the woods," Mrs. Watson recalled. "That's what he en- joyed doing every Saturday and other days when the weather was nice."
Sometimes he'd get crates of old veg- etables from the gro- cery store and take them to the woods to feed the bears that roamed there. Other days the whole family would go out for a big picnic.
The family was important to Watson, his wife said.
"We always had family get togethers at Thanksgiving. We had
an enormous cookout on the Fourth of July. I patted the burgers and he cooked them, then we made home- made ice cream," she said.
There was a sentimental side to Watson. He liked playing the grand piano that takes up a corner of the family home. He wrote poetry at the birth of each grandchild.
He enjoyed watching the young- sters march in parades and hold races on the driveway. Because he worried about them falling and skinning theit knees on the rough pavement, he put in an expansive, smooth concrete drive that Mrs. Watson likened to an airport runway.
"He was always thinking about the kids," she said.
And in return, the kids will be thinking about him this summer when the entire family, 14 children and grandchildren, takes a trip to Disney World, where Watson al- ways got into the spirit of things
"We're all going to Disney and march in the parade, just for him. We're doing it in his honor, and he'll he with us 100
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and ended up marching in the pa- rade and having his photo taken with Mickey Mouse.
"We're all going to Disney and march in the parade, just for him," Mrs. Watson said. "We're doing it in his honor, and he'll be with us 100 percent of the time."
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A step away from heaven
Moore finds success as artist
By Mary beth Bianchi
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elievingihat everyone has .the ability to create his owir heaven, artist Terry Moot e thinks he may have come closato achieving that in the sec- ond-Jloor studio of his Wilming- ton ome.
'You've got my job, and the next step is heaven," he says with h.
e thinks he may have just abot the best job in the world. He is own schedule, works at with classic*! music playing hse kground and spends the day loing what he loves most, painting. He tfavels'tp scenic coasjal locations ancHr^ee'ts people 11 walks of life which he says enriching."
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"All things are possible. There are no limitations, add we can lit- erally create our own heaven. That doesn't mean we don't get glimpses of hell,, but that'^how you grow.
"I don't think this is the final " reason I'm here, but it's part of the journey. Once you deliver yourself, it will unfold."
What has been unfolding for the past five years is the Waterways Collection. It all started when MoQje took three months to create a colorful, artistically rendered map of the Cape Fear coast which proved to be popular with local shoppers.
"It was very successful," he said, and reasoned, "If there's a niche for this here, there's a niche
for it in other places."
His next map was of the Sa- vannah River basin.
The problem he ran into wi his second attempt was finding people interested in buying it. With maps in hand, he traveled
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Georgia and, in his words, "had a hellacious time."
He said "the whole dream al- most unraveled" when he found there was little interest in his work at the art galleries he visited.
His mistake, he realized after his first day marketing his maps, was that he was looking for custom- ers in the wrong place. The people he wanted to reach were those who wanted reasonably priced art which held a meaning for them. Moore re- alized that his maps were popular not only with tourists hut also coastal residents.
"Whether you vacation in a place and love it, or live in it, it's the same thing," he said. So he turned to gift shops and similar outlets ot which there are now 400 nationwide selling his maps.
The maps ot coastal areas which Moore creates are no ordinary maps; they are works ot art which are very accurate in their detail.
His design is borrowed from a concept more than 300 years old.
"It's a new twist on something very old," he said. The maps used by early explorers were often lush
illustrations of the coastal areas they traversed.
Moore works from several dif- ferent references including NOAA charts, geological survey maps, sat- ellite images and aerial photos. He visits each site, taking in the sur- roundings to get a feel for the place, to see what it is people love about the area. In addition, he does historical research on each area, which he uses for the poems which make his works more than just maps.
In the past five years since the tirst Cape Fear map was sold, Moore has been busy creating more than 30 other maps of coastal areas along the East Coast and Gulf Coast. He has done the Great Lakes and has moved on to the West Coast and even Alaska.
Last year he trekked 2,300 miles from Seattle to San Diego.
"I literally saw every inch of the West Coast," he said.
During his trip, he kept a log which outlined what he saw and experienced along the way. Back home, he is using that information to jog his memory and provide in-
spiration when creating his maps.
"It all comes back just as clear as if you're there," he said.
A visit to each location is an important part of the creative pro- cess for Moore.
"To be in Cape Cod for five minutes is more valuable than reading about it for a month," he said. "To see those trees, to see those shadows, to breathe the air is such a wonderful feeling."
It is that feeling which Moore tries to convey in each and every map he creates, from the vignettes of historic places and other things which endear the area to people, to the words of the poems which ac- company the maps.
Moore also hides a rabbit somewhere in each painting. He said he started putting the animal there "to remind me of how lucky I was to do what I love," but now it has become an interesting angle for marketing as customers search each work for the rabbit, which Moore admitted he sometimes has a hard time finding in his older works.
The business started with just $1,200 and was a "very enlighten-
Visiting each coastal area before sitting down to paint is an important part of the creative process for artist Terry Moore. Each painting includes a poem and corner vignettes of historic and important coastal features.
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ing journey," Moore remembers. Both he and partner Chip Hopkins, who handles the business and mar- keting end of things, worked a long time with little money coming in, but they eventually built up a very successful business.
The Waterways Collection has grown to include a line of note cards, T-shirts and sweatshirts all bearing the colorful maps. The company has four full-time employ- ees and two part-timers. Last Christmas, they opened a sea- sonal retail store in Virginia Beach and are considering opening a store in Norfolk full-time to market an ex- panded product line of the Waterways Collection.
While he enjoys a com- fortable income doing some- thing he enjoys, Moore doesn't keep all the money he makes to himself.
"We obviously want to be successful. We want to make a living, but the dreams beyond that are what get you out ot bed in the morning," he said. "We have always hoped our success would be the world's success.
"We love children's pro- grams and ecological programs that are not far left. Our total, absolute dream is that we'll be able to take a percentage of what we do and donate to those causes."
Moore said he hopes one day to donate the originals of each work he has created to various charities for fund-raising purposes.
"That's our goal for them. That's why we won't let any of the originals go," he said.
Moore feels he is fortunate to be one of the few artists able to make a living with their work.
"It's what it does to your soul, your heart, you can't measure. If it all unravels tomorrow, it would all have been worth it," he said.
Moore gives much credit to
UNCW for his successes in life and said he was "profoundly influenced" by several professors including Dr. James McGowan, Dr. Henry Crowgey and the late Dr. Thomas Mosely.
"There's no school on earth I could have attended that would have given me more foundation for what I've become than they did," he said. "They really made it a total education. They gave me a good
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foundation in what reality was. They helped me have the ability to really maximize what my perception was, that is, the glass being halt full." Moore, who majored in philoso- phy and history, said both have been instrumental in shaping his lite.
"I think they've given me a quality ot lite I could not have ex- perienced it I had taken another major," he said. "They gave me the foundation to experience life to its fullest.
"People think you go (to col-
lege) to get the degree and that's all. It's all the other things you get that are so valuable," he said. Fur him, it was his involvement in the UNCW Concert Committee that in the early 1970s brought the rock group Yes to campus and resulted in a friendship with band members that continues to this day.
"That's been a really enriching part of my life," he said.
Even though Moore said "the very core and being ot what I am is involved in art," he set it aside during high school and college to pursue inter- ests in music. He devoted a lot of time to the guitar, composed music and per- formed with several groups.
In fact, he didn't take a single art class while en- rolled at UNCW.
"That's how far away I was from it at the time. I almost thought the art had led me to the music," he said. But in time he realized that he preferred an artist's lifestyle to that of a musi- cian's and picked up his paint brushes once again. Leaving a secure job as manager of a paint store, Moore embarked on his current career path with the full support ot his wife, Jane.
"Her belief in knowing what I could do as an artist meant everything in the world to me," he said.
Looking back down the path that led him to where he is now, Moore said, "This journey we char- acterize as life is so much, much more than birth and death. There are certain lessons to learn. I keep chasing the dream in one form or another."
As to the future he says, "1 in- tend to do England and Ireland. From there and the way I feel the universe is the limit. Mars hasn't been done yet!"
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Visiting Russian ambassador comments on education
By Christy Prevatt and marybeth blanchi
This spring, UNCW has been privileged to have on its staff Russian Ambassador Gennadi Gerasimov as a distinguished visiting professor serving both the po- litical science and communication studies departments .
Although Ambassador Gerasimov studied international laiv at Moscow University , he chose journalism as a career starting as a contributor to New Times Weekly and then moving on to World Marxist Review in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
He served as an advisor in the Central Committee of the Communist party for three years, but returned to journalism as a syndicated columnist with Novosti Press Agency, spending almost six years in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s as editor- in-chief of Moscow News Weekly.
When perestroika began, he was invited to join the USSR diplomatic service as the spokesman for the Min-
istry of Foreign Affairs and was a guest speaker on many American and European television programs regard- ing Russia and its changing climate.
After President Yeltsin took office m 1991 , Gerasimov was appointed USSR and later Russian Federation ambassador to Portugal. During that time he became known as a promoter of small- and medium-size business enterprise development for Russia.
During his semester at UNCW he taught a seminar titled "Develop- ments in Politics and Communication in Russia and the Soviet Union."
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Can you describe the Rus- sian educational system?
A The main difference is that it is free. We adopted a new constitution by referendum on De- cember 12 last year. The constitu- tion has articles on human rights.
Article 43: "Each person shall have the right to education: preschool, basic general and secondary voca- tional education." Secondary voca- tional education is just like your community colleges.
"In-state or municipal educa- tion institutions shall be guaran- teed to be accessible to all citizens free of charge. Each person shall be entitled, on a competitive basis and free of charge, to receive a higher education in state or municipal educational institutions."
So it's a tree education in the universities.
Even mote, when you get to the university you get an allow- ance. We call it a stipend.
Basic general education shall be compulsory up to seven years (about age 15), and then you can continue at the university or you can go to a secondary vocational institution.
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For instance, it is not necessary for you to be in school for 1 1 years and then go to school for barbertry or beauty salon business. You can study beauty salon business after seven years, or something else.
So it's free. It was always free, and it's still free. But when I men- tion this 1 always add my own com- ment. My own comment is, it's very good but where is the money?
In the old system, we had all the money with the state because the state was the owner of every- thing. And the state gave money to the universities. Today, the money they are getting is only tax money, and that's simply not enough money for this free education. So to continue with this free educa- tion I guess we are going to have private schools, private universi- ties. It's going to happen. It's inevi- table.
In our system you must pass an entrance exam on a competitive basis. So it means that you want to be a journalist you apply, you till in application. But there may be ten people who want to be there, so you compete at the exams and only the best and the brightest get in.
But when they get in, they have a place in the dormitory, tree, and they have stipends, in theory. In practice sometimes the dormi- tory is difficult to get. And if they have good marks, all A's, then their stipend is raised 25 percent. But if they have C's, bad marks, they are taken off the stipend. Pun- ishment. The carrot and stick.
QDo Russians have different programs for students of dif- ferent levels, like our gifted pro- grams?
A No. They have special schools in Moscow, but in general they are not for gifted, they are specialized emphasis.
For instance, I have a daughter of 15. In Moscow she attended a school with emphasis on the lan- guages. She studied English from the very beginning.
But there are schools with em- phasis on mathematics, so you choose. You ask your child, "What do you want to know more about - mathematics or literature or tech- nology?"
But in small cities there is no choice. It's just one school maybe, and they have a program which is a unified program for everybody. And the same is true for the university.
Here, as I understand, the stu- dent is on his own. He can choose this particular subject, that particu- lar professor. Not so in Russia. In Russia you must get a certain vol- ume of knowledge. When you graduate as a lawyer or as a journal- ist or a physician, you have a cer- tain amount of information in you, and we know this amount.
For instance, I noticed here in this country one subject which in my view is important is ignored in school and university which is ge- ogtaphy. No geography. I don't know why. Maybe it's out of fash- ion. Even though you have Na-
tional Geographic Society, Na- tional Geographic Magazine, the best photos, and still they don't know geography.
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I don't think there is any illit- eracy today. I think it was abol- ished after the war.
QDo you have to go on to a university to be assured of getting a good job?
A The paradox is you can get good education, but it does not automatically mean better money. Because, for instance, bus driver or garbage collector today gets more than the professor. So if you are for the money maybe just drop out of school after the seven classes, forget about your universi- ties, and study garbage collection tor a week or two.
QAre all Russians assured of a good education regardless of social or political status?
A All students are equal. It's up to students to be excellent or average students. In the university,
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peasant children can meet children of VI IV ; or example, Gorbachev, his family is peasant family, very poor. He remembers he was going to school barefoot because they had no money for shoes. But he went to
ent story because we are moving to a market economy and, then they must go to the market and sell themselves.
You see, the phrase "to sell yourself is very strange for Rus-
we must talk in terms of competi- tion. Let us talk in terms of coop- eration.
"I noticed here in this country one subject which in my view is important is ignored in school and university which is geography. No geography. I don't know why. Maybe it's out of fashion/'
Moscow University. Upward mobil- ity is there.
QDo the men and women in Russia have equal opportuni- ties for education and careers in Russia?
A Yes, indeed. We have very strange things happening in Russia. For instance, almost all our teachers are women. Almost all our doctors are women. That's a big surprise for you. This is women's profession. In surgery, we have men, maybe 50-50.
Some people criticize this situ- ation because from the very begin- ning our boys are surrounded by women. Some argue that our boys are losing their macho.
When our students graduated in the old days they had jobs wait- ing for them. We had no unem- ployment. Today it may be a differ-
sians. It sounds very negative for Russians, but we must change our attitudes.
There is something that we lost which is job security. Now everyone is on his own to find it, a job, so there may be adjustments.
QCan you make a comparison between Russian and Ameri- can students and how they can compete in a global marketplace? Do you think the Russians have an edge over the Americans? Or vice
A I don't think you can general- ize on this. It depends on the students. Some Russian students are very good and some American students are very good. Of course, you have an advantage of the lan- guage because the world market is speaking English. Rut 1 don't think
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She is losing :ertam things. There are differences in programs for in- stance. She certainly loses in geography and history. The emphasis is on American his- tory. American history is, of course, very ex- citing, but it's only 400, 500 years. Rut in mathematics I guess it's okay, the same thing. She misses the classes. For instance, in our schools the em- phasis is on Russian literature which is very good as you know. Tolstoy, Dostoyevski all those names are well known. Here, there's no em- phasis on literature. You don't read fiction these days.
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How does your daughter like her school here?
A She likes it. She compares our system with your system and she has three big differences, and she likes those three differences. These differences are: here you have less homework, less discipline and more fun. I do not necessarily agree with her analysis.
In Russia, it they are poor stu- dents they come back home and af- ter lunch they just sit and two hours, three hours, four hours, homework, homework but the end result is they know their geography.
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Giving
CHARTING the CURRENTS of CHANGE
UNCW is in the midst of a five-year, $15 million capital campaign to help fund important academic and scholarship programs. The university thankfully acknowledges the following generous gifts .
NationsBank, $200,000 to es- tablish the NationsBank Growing Scholars Program. The gift is set up as an endowment whose earnings will he used to sup- port merit scholarships in the university's new honors program for academically gifted students.
To symbolize the concept of the program, a grove of live oak trees was planted adjacent to Wagoner Hall, the campus dining facility.
Chancellor James Leutze said it is his hope "that as these trees grow to become strong and outreaching,
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Chancellor James leutze, trustee chair Bambi MacRae and Sid Warner of NationsBank ceremonially plant the first of several oak trees at Wagoner Hall symbolizing the Growing Scholars Program, which NationsBank is supporting.
the same will be said of the NationsBank Growing Scholars program as it brings academically gifted students to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington."
He acknowledged NationsBank's "distinguished effort to guarantee the growth of the students who at- tend UNCW and to help us recruit the nation's top students."
Sid Warner, North Carolina Community Banking executive for NationsBank, said the gift is "a di- rect investment in the students who are the future of this community and this state."
Landmark Homes Inc., $50,000 to es- tablish the Landmark Homes Merit Endowment Scholarship. The scholar- ship fund is intended to provide undergraduate academic scholarships for students attending UNCW. The first prefer- ence for the scholarship will he given to qualified high school students from southeastern North Caro- lina and Horry County, South Carolina. Students will be selected on the ba- sis of strong academic standing and solid moral character. Their course of study must also lead them to a career in one of the following areas: account- ing, marine biology, phys-
ics, mathematics, chemistry, mar- keting, economics, English, el- ementary or middle school educa- tion, computer science or business management.
Bobby Harrelson and Rex Stevens of Landmark Homes envi- sion that "the scholarship will grow over the years and promote the means for many of the best students in our area to further their education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington."
Donald R. Watson, total life- time giving more than $2 million (see related story, page 4). The largest gift to the university to date was made in March, following the death of Mr. Watson, and was announced at the quarterly UNCW Board of Trustees meeting.
The donation will be used to establish a distinguished professor- ship and an endowment for the School of Education plus a major merit scholarship program for the university.
UNCW named the Donald R. Watson School of Education in recognition of the donor.
Lowe's Company, $15,000 tor the renovation of Wise Alumni House. The contribution will be spread over a three-year period.
Jefferies and Faris Associates Architects and Planners, 15,000, tor merit scholarships in the honors program.
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Loyalty is, by definition, a state of allegiance, faithfulness, dedication and commitment to a putpose.
At UNCW that purpose is education - a continually improv- ing higher quality of education. The loyalty of alumni, friends, stu- dents, parents, faculty and staff, through their annual gifts to UNCW, is what enables us to reach for and attain lofty goals for our students and faculty.
Being ranked among the top 25 regional universities in the Southeast for the second year in a row was a wonderful accolade. It is proof that our institution is con- tinuing to provide innovative and outstanding academic and re- search opportunities for students and faculty. Your loyalty this past year is proof that you, our alumni and friends, have a vested interest in supporting our mission to make the education received at UNCW comparable to none.
As we strive to provide ad- vanced academic opportunities, your loyal support continues to be vitally important.
Your gifts were, in part, re- sponsible for our being able to award more scholarships than ever before. The students that money helped to educate are the future of our institution and, more broadly, our communities. We hope you feel a great sense of pride in your participation.
Our new giving year begins on July 1. Look for information in the mail and expect to hear from us by phone. We thank you for your past support and ask for your continued efforts to keep UNCW the outstanding academic institu- tion you helped build.
For more information about the 1994-95 Loyalty Fund, please contact Loyalty Fund Coordinator Barbie Cowan, University Ad- vancement, (910) 395-3004.
Reception is hosted by alumni
The UNCW Alumni Association hosted its first recep- tion for graduating se- niors, their parents and faculty on May 1 3 as part of commencement weekend festivities.
The weather was perfect and the setting picturesque as nearly 250 people gathered at Wise Alumni House for the outdoor reception. Tours were given of the Neoclassical Revival mansion which is being restored by the alumni as- sociation. Refreshments were served on the newly landscaped front lawn.
Association President Marvin Robison welcomed the guests and gave a brief history of the house and the association's fund-raising efforts. Chancellor James Leutze unveiled a walnut plaque listing the names of approximately 120 December 1993 and May 1994 graduates whose parents made donations in their honor to Wise Alumni House. The project was coordinated by Jessiebeth Geddie, chairman of the alumni association's student development committee.
Alumni can join the fund-raising effort to pay off the $400,000 renova- tion loan by designating a portion of their Loyalty Fund Contribution to the Wise Alumni House. The next alumni event is a barbecue on October 22.
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ALUMNI NEWS
Wise House comes to life
Once vacant and neglected, the Wise Alumni House is coming to life. Phase one of the renovation project, which began in March 1993, has been completed, and some land- scaping around the house was done in time for the Azalea Festival. Although not part of the plan, the floors were cover the cost of ba-
gether to buy the side porch, a $5 ,000 value. So far, close to $200,000 has been raised to help repay the $400,000, four- year loan from United Carolina Bank to
refinished thanks to Carolco Studios which used the house for the filming ot "Road to Wellville" starring Anthony Hopkins. The film company also put in a new front door.
There are still several pieces of the Wise Alumni House available to do-
sic renovations to the house.
The alumni as- sociation and the Friends of UNCW have been busy pre- paring Wise Alumni House for the De- signers Showcase, which is planned for
nors. They range in price from $2,500 April 22 through May 14, 1995. More
to $30,000. Only two columns, at $2,500 each, are still available. The UNCW Alumni Association Board of Directors put their pocketbooks to-
than 125 interior designers were invited to view the neoclassical revival man- sion in May, and about 20 responded to the opportunity to show off their deco-
Come visit us at our new location
Wise House at 1713 Market Street
is now officially the home of the
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UNCW Alumni Assoc iation^__ You can reach Pat Corcoran, alumni director, at 251-2681; Linda Brazell, office assistant, at 251-2682; and Pat Hawkins, Wise House coordi- nator, at 251-2683.
The front door is always open to alumni and friends. Parking is avail- able at the rear of the house and along 18th Street. Summer hours, through August 12, are 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday and 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Fridays.
In April the UNCW Alumni Association hosted a shrimparoo for the Council of UNC Alumni Presidents at the Wise Alumni House.
rating skills.
A gala is being planned to kick- off the Designers Showcase at Wise Alumni House which will be open to the public for a small admission fee. Special events are planned through- out the showcase run.
During commencement weekend in May, a plaque was unveiled at the Wise House recognizing the Decem- ber 1993 and May 1994 graduates for contributions made in support of the Wise Alumni House.
Boat winner
Jerry Rouse 73 won the 17-foot Boston Whaler Montauk raffled by the UNCW Alumni Association on May 13.
The Alumni Association netted nearly $12,000 from the event.
MBA Alumni Chapter small but active
One of UNCW's smallest alumni chapters is becoming its most active. Organized in 1990, the MBA Alumni Chapter started off by intro- ducing quarterly roundtable business luncheons. The events featured presidents and CEOs ot area companies who discussed topics ranging from recreational boat manu- facturing and sales to foreign business environments and opportunities.
The chapter has also assisted MBA candidates pre- paring for the final rite of passage before becoming MBA alumni. Veterans of the oral boards try to answer as many questions as possible to help the candidates know what to expect.
The MBA Alumni Chapter also sponsored a resume project which sent participating alums' resumes to more than 200 prospective employers. Also, every May, the chapter sponsors a dinner honoring graduating MBA candidates.
The chapter conducted its first lifelong learning conference last fall, and members helped with orienta- tion sessions for incoming MBA students just prior to the beginning of the fall semester.
Factors which account for the liveliness of the MBA Alumni Chapter at UNCW include very strong support from the university and willingness on the part of the 220 chapter members to try new ideas and help others.
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ALUMNI EVENTS
Director's
Message
UNCW alumni and friends are to be commended on their generous support of the Wise Alumni House, as renovation progresses and fund- raising efforts continue to be successful.
We have moved in and are officially operating from the "classiest" alumni house in the South! I invite you to drop by and view our extraordinary progress.
Pre-game socials this year were high- lighted by informative briefings from assis- tant basketball coach Byron Samuels. It was great to get the inside game scoop be- fore the tip-off.
"A Whole New World" was the theme for homecoming in February, and it was appropriate as we celebrated with young and old alumni. Next year's plans are be- ing made to highlight our Wilmington College alumni at homecoming or during the spring with a special reunion event.
Our alumni chapters, MBA, Cape Fear, Triangle, Triad and Onslow, are young but eager to obtain your involve- ment and support. Mark your calendars for August 14 and join us for a Durham Bulls baseball game that the Triangle Chapter is sponsoring. It is a great opportunity for family and alumni fun on a Sunday!
Please note our newest project, the UNCW flag that you can fly proudly at your home or business. The association re- ceives a small profit from all sales.
The alumni association invites your active involvement in your university and alumni programs. An annual $25 contribu- tion to the Loyalty Fund assures you the opportunity to receive this fine magazine and other benefits.
My door is always open to you for a visit and my phone line (251-2681) is available for communication related to all aspects of alumni or parents' programming. Be sure to let me hear from you at my new home, Wise Alumni House, 1713 Market Street.
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UNCW Tennis alumni Joan Jordan, Chris Cagle, Steve Walters, Lance Thompson, Charlie Ponton, Peo Bedoya, German Alvarez and Kenny House participated in the first Currie Cup Tournament,
Tennis alums meet their match
Nine UNCW tennis alumni showed they still have what it takes when they tied the varsity team for the Currie Cup in the first re- union tournament held February 26. The score was 8-8.
The Currie Cup is named in honor of Danny Currie '77, a former tennis team member who died in December 1993 of a brain tumor.
The tennis alumni also presented Coach Larry Honeycutt '66 with a UNCW alumni signet ring in recognition of his 23 years of dedicated service.
Participants were Joan Jordan, Chris Cagle, Steve Watters, Lance Thompson, Charlie Ponton, Peo Bedoya and German Alvarez. Kenny House was honorary team captain. Paul Gemborys coordi- nated the event.
Alumni Directory Will Help You Find Old Friends
Something jogs your memory, and you suddenly get nostalgic for those care- free college days. You want to remi- nisce with your old roommate but you have no idea where to call. You've lost touch completely.
Have nti fear, because soon you'll have the means to locate all your college buddies right at your fingertips.
The new University of North Carolina at Wilmington Alumni Directory, scheduled tor release in May 1995, will be the most up-to- date and complete reference on more than 14,000 UNCW alumni ever compiled. This com- prehensive volume will include current name, address and telephone number, academic data, plus business information (if applicable), bound into a classic, library-quality edition.
The alumni association has contracted with Bernard C. Harris Publishing Co. to produce the directory. In mid-July, Harris will be mailing all alumni c]uestionnaires. We urge you to complete the questionnaires and return them quickly so Harris can complete the task of compiling directory information.
With your UNCW Alumni Directory in hand, reliving those college days will be just a phone call away.
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ALUMNOTES
The '60s
James L. Hall '66 was appointed president of the North Carolina Child Day Commission by Gov. James Hunt.
Memory Farrar Brogden '66 is an English instructor at Cape Fear Com- munity College and is completing her master's thesis in English at UNCW. She lives in Wilmington with her hus- band, Leon, and their two children, Eric and Scarlet.
The '70s
Connie Jordan Lewis '71 is a
teacher at Higgins Montessori School. She and her husband, Jerry, have two children, John and Libby, and live in Wilmington.
David B. Hilliard '72 is a partner in Adam and Hilliard Realty, Wilmington.
Emily Susan Dail Walters '72 has taken a leave of absence from her job as a school counselor to complete a doc- torate in educational leadership at UNC Chapel Hill.
Haddon M. Clark III '74 is vice president of operations for United En- ergy in Cary. He is married to Irma Sorrell Clark, and they have two sons, Manly and Philip, and a daughter, Sydney.
Benjamin R. Clayton '74 has joined the James E. Moore Insurance Agency as a personal and commercial insurance agent. He lives in Wilmington.
John M. Tyson '74 is a candidate for judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. He resides in Fayetteville with his wife, Kirby, and four children.
Brenda Bostic Jones '75 works with Applied Analytical Industries in Wilm- ington as a laboratory scheduler.
James M. Jones '75 is second vice president and account executive for Smith, Barney & Shearson in New Or- leans, La., where he lives with his wife and daughter.
Kathy Teer Crumpler '76 is health and safety supervisor for Onslow County Schools. She is a contributing author for a high school health text and served on a Centers for Disease Control review panel tor HIV/AIDS prevention curricula in 1993.
Deborah A. Headrick '76 was re-
cently promoted to lieutenant com- mander in the Navy while serving with Commander Submarine Group Seven, Yokosuka, Japan. She lives in Newport, R.I.
Jackie W. Barile '77 and her hus- band, Maj. David J. Barile, have moved to Quantico, Va., with their two sons, David and Frank.
Gerald S. Clapp '77 is vice presi- dent for Justice Insurance Agency in Greensboro where he lives with his wife, Betsy, and two children, Jonathan and Katie.
Deborah A. Hunter '77 has been promoted to assistant director of mem- bership services with the Catawba Val- ley Girl Scouts.
Eugene S. Simmons '77 is a pharmacist and manager for Mast Drug Company in Siler City. He re- cently received the Lion's Club President's Award.
David O. Lewis '78 has joined the Durham law firm of Bryant, Patterson, Covington & Idol. Previously, he was with Wishart, Norris, Henninger &. Pittman in Burlington. He also served as an assistant professor at the Cameron School of Business at UNCW from 1981-87.
Douglas L. White '78 is working tor the federal government as program director for the Yujo Community at Yokota Air Base, Japan. He and his wife, Lucienne Cassinera, and their in- fant son, Dylan, live in Tokyo.
William R. Ruefle '78 is opera- tions manager with the State Ports Au- thority in Wilmington.
Harry C. Craft III '79 has been named a principal with the accounting firm Lanier, Whaley 6k Co. CPAs in Wilmington.
Theresa L. Clapper '79 is pre- school director for Sacred Heart Church in Covington, Va. She and her husband, Mike, have three sons.
The '80s
Baxter H. Miller III '81 has been named president of Carolina Corner Stores in Lumberton.
Wayne D. Moody '8 1 is a forester with Corbett Lumber Corp. and lives in Whiteville.
Wanda E. Bell '82 completed her
master's degree at East Carolina University's School of Social Work in 1992 and works for the New Hanover County Department of Social Services as a social work supervisor.
Sherrie Newton Cates '82 is a qualified mental retardation profes- sional with the Murdoch Center in Butner. She is married and lives in Creedmoor.
Joseph D. Fish '82 is a captain with the Army in military intelligence. A Fayetteville resident, he is an instructor at the JFK Special Warfare Center.
Rvnn Wooten Hennings '82 of Charlotte has opened her own com- pany, Hennings Communications, offer- ing writing and training services to businesses. She is married to Kevin Hennings, and they live in Charlotte.
Arthur E. Hohnsbehn '83 of Gar- ner is an analyst programmer with the Department of Community Colleges in Raleigh. He is working toward a master's degree in management science at N. C. State University.
Lynn B. Jones '83 is a social worker 11 in the adult unit of the Orange County Department of Social Services. She completed 10 years of service with that agency in August.
Thierolf T. Lloyd '83 is quality co- ordinator for Dana Corporation. He and his wife, Brenda Lloyd '85, live in Morganton with their son, Lawson.
Delton Oxendine '83 recently marked his 25th anniversary with Gen- eral Electric as an accountant. He re- sides in Wilmington.
Stan C. Andrews '83, '91 is a clini- cal research associate with Pharmaceuti- cal Product Development Inc. in Wilm- ington. Previously he was employed by Duke University Medical Center.
Dan Dunlop '84 received the $500 Village Pride Award for excellence in duties as a sales as- sociate for Mall Advocate. Dunlop, who joined Chapel Hill radio station WCHL in 1990 as an account man- ager, was sales manager and gen- eral manager before being named marketing manager of Mall Advocate.
Wayne Johnson '8i has joined
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Lydall Wescex Division in Hamptonville. He and his wife, Emilie, and two children, {Catherine and Rob- ert, live in Winston-Salem.
Edgar T. Duke, Jr. '84 is an envi- ronmental health specialist with Wake County Department of Health. He and his wife, Beth, live in Raleigh with theit daughter, Samantha, and were expecting their second child in November.
Bill Estep '84 has joined Pres Re- alty in Wilmington as a full-time sales associate.
G. Monte McCourt '84 received a doctor of dental science degree from UNC Chapel Hill and has opened a family dentistry practice in Statesville. He and his wife, Lisa, live in Mooresville with their son, Alexander.
Neil T. Phillips '84 is city execu- tive for United Carolina Bank's St. Pauls and Parkton offices. He is also treasurer of St. Pauls Crimestoppers and is a member of the St. Pauls Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He and his wife, Fonda, reside in St. Pauls.
Joseph M. Mahn '85 is a certified public accountant who owns his own business in Wilmington.
Donna Y. Meacham '85 of Wrightsville Beach has been promoted to consulting manager with McGladrey & Pullen in Wilmington. She has been with the firm for four years and works primarily with medical groups. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
James L. Meyer, Jr. '85 has been named manager of retail banking at First Citizens Bank in Goldsboro. He is a past president of the Salisbury Lions Club and was membership chairman of the International Sales and Marketing Executives Association.
Jeffrey D. Clark '85 has been named assistant vice president at First Citizens Bank in Whiteville. He serves as a retail banking manager at the main office. Transferred from the Camp Lejeune office, he and his family now reside in Whiteville.
Michael Reber Drummond '86 is a sales manager for Preferred Packaging. He and his wife, Mary Herring Drummond '86, live in High Point and were expecting their first child in June.
Douglas S. Gray '86, a lieutenant pilot in the Navy, is on joint assign- ment with the Air Force at Barksdale AFB. He is completing a master's in aeronautical science with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Bunnell,
Fla. He has completed two Mediterra- nean and one South American deploy- ments, including serving in the Persian Gulf War, and resides in Shreveport, La.
Sandra A. Grainger '86 has joined United Carolina Bank as assistant au- ' ditor, based in Whiteville. Before joining UCB in January, she was op- erations manager with Cape Fear Em- ployees Credit Union in Wilmington.
Paul W. Jones '86 is a commercial pilot for ISO Aero Service and is a pilot and captain in the Marine Corps Re- serves. He lives in Hubert.
Stuart C. Sioussat '86 has been promoted to assistant vice president at Wachovia Bank of North Carolina in Wilmington. He joined Wachovia in 1987 as a sales fi- nance trainee in Wilmington and moved on to the re- tail banking depart- ^L 3jgÂŁr'; ment in 1989 as a
^k -j'1''^^^. retail management ^^^^ ™ ^^™ trainee. Most re- cently he was branch manager of the Glen Meade office.
Christopher K. Beaver '87 opened the 1 lth annual "Music tor the Lunch Bunch" series with a vocal performance at Smith- field Presbyterian Church in Smithfield, where he serves as music director. He is a regular performer for the series.
Steven R. Neher '87 is a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investi- gative Service and works out of the Camp Lejeune field office. He is mar- ried to Allysha Edwards Neher of Hurri- cane, W.Va., and resides in Fayetteville.
Joshua B. Taylor '87 is chief chem- ist for Ashley Laboratories Ltd. in Balti- more and is the president of the Balti- more Boars RFC, a rugby team.
Paul H. Williams '87 is working on a medical technology degree at Sandhills Community College and works for Pinehurst Resort & Country Club.
Michael C. Willetts '87 is a pilot for United Parcel Service in Atlanta.
Kevin W. Gray '88 has been named general manager for Rose Brothers Fur- niture in Wilmington.
Dana Adams '88 has been named branch manager for Enterprise Leasing in Charlotte.
J. Blair Denton '88 is plant man-
ager of Chem-Free Inc. He and his wife, Karen Sue Castelloe Denton '89 live in Dallas, N.C. They have one son, Zade Scott, and are expecting a second child in September.
John J. Hammer III '89 graduated from the University of Bridgeport School of Law and is currently engaged in real estate law and civil litigation with the firm of Cohan and Kulawitz Attorneys-at-law in Ridgefield, Conn. He resides in Danbury, Conn.
Carol A. Robertson '89 has been named youth program director for the YWCA in Wilmington. She is respon- sible for the summer day camp, after- school and year-round programs.
Julia C. Boseman '89 has opened a law office in Wilmington. A recent graduate of the N. C. Central Univer- sity School of Law, she is a member of the local bar, the N. C. Academy of Trial Attorneys.
Robert L. Norris, Jr. '89 has been named assistant vice president and re- tail branch manager of First Citizens Bank in New Bern. He is a member of the Lillington Masonic Lodge and the New Bern Chamber of Commerce Am- bassadors Club.
The '90s
E. Marc Biddison III '90 is the owner of Source One in Wilmington. He and his wife, Beth Biddison '88, who is a mortgage loan officer with Wachovia Mortgage, reside in Wilmington.
John M. Gulley '90 is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
Andrew S. Houston '90 recently passed the Certified Public Accoun- tants' examination. He wotks with Willitord, High & Co. in Wilmington.
Kirsten "Kirki" Moore '90 is a cor- porate bank officer tor NationsBank in Charlotte.
Shawn M. Dennis '91 is a systems reviewer for Prudential Insurance in Roseland, N.J. She lives in Pompton Plains.
Jeffrey W. Felton '91 is senior ac- countant at Nucletron Corp. in Co- lumbia, Md. He is working on a master of business administration degtee in finance at Loyola College of Baltimore.
Jennifer L. Kniolek '91 is a staff ac- countant with Apple Computet in Aus- tin, Texas. She lives in Cedat Park.
Meredith L. Moore '91 will com- plete a master's degree in counseling in
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July 1994 from Marymount University in Arlington, Va.
Victoria Jones Pfeiffer '91 has been named district manager for Campbell Foods Taco Bell Division in Wilmington. She received her master of business administration degree from the University of Georgia and lives in Yaupon Beach.
Jennifer M. Ploszaj '91 is a man- agement desk consultant for Holiday Inn Worldwide in Atlanta. She lives in Rosvvell, Ga.
Angela L. Robbins '91 graduated from the University of Georgia in June 1993 with a master of education in stu- dent personnel in higher education. She is assistant registrar at East Carolina University and resides in Greenville.
Meredith Serling '91 is an instruc- tor at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington.
Charles Parker Umstead, Jr. '91 is restaurant manager for Hanover Sea- food Partners Fish House Grill in Wrightsville Beach.
Jennifer A. Balkan '91 is a third grade teacher at Greenbelt Elementary School. She lives in Lanham, Md., and is working on a master of education de- gree at the University of Maryland.
Charles C. Highsmith Jr. '91 was named president and chief executive of- ficer of St. Luke's Hospital in Columbus.
Andrea L. Piner '91 is residence hall director and assistant director of student activities at Brevard College. She also holds a master's in education from Southern Illinois University.
Dawn Marie Zohlmann '91 is a credit analyst for National Auto Credit in Dallas, Texas. She resides in Carrollton, Texas.
Brian M. Bullard '92 is a chapter consultant for Kappa Sigma Fraternity in Charlottesville, Va., and works with Kappa Sigma chapters through- out the South.
Ensign John T. Caskey '92 is a commissioned officer for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Ad- ministration corps assigned to the Malcolm BaldYige, a research vessel based in Miami.
Marsha Casteen '92 is assistant project manager for Pharmaceutical Product Development in Wilmington.
Carlton G. Hall, Jr. '92 is the branch manager for Southern National Bank in Winston-Salem.
Crystal L. Hoel '92 is a sixth grade language teacher at Brewster Middle
SHORT TAKES
As the Class of '94 begins to embark into the working world, Gene Warren has bowed his way out.
Warren, who earned an Associ- ates of Arts degree in 1950 from then Wilmington College, retired from Pem- broke State University on March 1 after serving 25'/- years as public infor- mation director.
Listed among his credits, Warren served on the first student council at Wilmington College, helping to choose the "Seahawk" name and school colors. He said the nickname came from a World War II service team named the Iowa Seahawks.
"They were coached by the famous Bernie Berman from the Univer- sity of Minnesota," Warren remem- bered. The colors, he said, came from the blue-green of the ocean water which was related to the idea of a Seahawk.
After leaving his impression at Wilmington College, he moved on to UNC Chapel Hill, where he received an English degree.
"I received a better education at Wilmington, though, because of a small
student/teacher ratio and lots of per- sonal attention," he reflected.
Using his acquired degrees, War- ren was hired at the Greensboro Daily News as a sports editor and columnist. He worked there for 1 31/- years. He then moved on to Pembroke in 1968. His many years there brought him fulfill- ment and respect. The PSU Alumni Association honored him with the "Distinguished Service Award," one of the two highest awards given by the association.
Warren recalls an- other honor bestowed on him in 1990. He was asked to represent Pembroke at James R. Leutze's chancel- lorship inauguration. Even though he does not hold a doctorate, Warren still donned the robes and re- galia and sat between the chancellors of N.C. State and Chapel Hill, "the big boys."
"I've been working for 53 years — since I was 12 years old," Warren said. During those long years he left his mark on UNCW, the journalism world and Pembroke State. He said he knew it would be hard to retire, but felt it was the right time to do it.
— Christy Prevatt
School at Camp Lejeune. She is the mother of four.
Sally M. Keith '92 is a second-year law student at UNC Chapel Hill and is president of Durham County Women's Commission.
Richard B. Porter, Jr. '92 is general manager for Entertainment Group Inc./ Reddogs in Wrightsville Beach.
Anne N. Johnson '92 has been pro- moted to in-charge accountant in the audit department of McGladrey & Pullen. She has been with the firm for 1 1/2 years.
Joseph Brent Stacks '92 is a re- cruiter/salesman for Thomas Nelson Inc. /Varsity Co. in Denton.
Matthew A. Trudeau '92, a Navy seaman recruit, recently completed ba- sic training at Recruit Training Com- mand in Great Lakes, 111.
Jennifer Massey-Dale '93 is the Southern Wake Services Coordinator for the Garner Senior Center, an agency of the Council on Aging of Wake County.
Timothy K. Otto '93 has been named a retail banker at First Citizens Bank in Sneads Ferry. The Durham na- tive is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Topsail Island.
Ann Hudson Putnam '93 is house director for Alpha Chi Omega at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Harry Edward Lemon '66 Co Deborah Bowman 78, Nov. 17, 1990. She is an academically gifted teacher at Shallotte Middle School, and he is princi- pal of West Brunswick High School.
Laurie Kim Myers '81 to Carl James Hawk, Jr., in August 1993. She is a DNA analyst with Genetic Design of Greensboro.
Robert T. Abbotts '85 to Brenda Zachary, Oct. 23, 1993. He is a Medicaid investigator for Mecklenburg County So- cial Services. They live in Charlotte.
Howell S. Graham '85 to Debra Hensley, D.D.S., Nov. 20, 1993. He is a state certified residential appraiser with Joseph S. Robh & Associates in Wilmington.
Douglas Keith Rickard, Jr. '85 to Julia Renee Gallimore, Aug. 21, 1993. He is a sales representative for Atlanta Napp- Deady in Jacksonville, Fla.
William Scott Warwick '87 to Kim- berly Crowder '88, May 27, 1989. He is with AT&T in member service engineer- ing in Maitland, Fla. They live in Apopka.
Laura Lynn Story '88 to Bruce Clifford Hutchinson, July 24, 1993. She is a dance and drama teacher at Happy Val- ley School in the Caldwell County School System. They live in Lenoir.
Paul Christian Breden, Jr. '88 to Isabelle Rachel Exposito, Aug. 7, 1993, in Taylorsville.
Karla F. Alston '89 to Kevin Brown, Aug. 14, 1993. She is assistant personnel manager with National Health Laborato- ries in Winston-Salem.
Deborah Simmons '89 to James Tho- mas Bryant in November 1992. She is program coordinator for Farr Associates in Greensboro and is pursuing a graduate degree in public affairs. The Bryants live in 1 [igh Point.
Matthew Stopford Kirkby '90 to Mel- issa Victor Melts, Sept. 4, 1993. They live in Wilmington, where he is an accountant.
Kenneth Louis Hoover '90 to Tracy Ann Koontz. He is employed by the Greensboro Fire Department. They live in Greensboro.
Christine Janette Slemenda '90 to Michael S. Sylvester, Dec. 18, 1993. She has been practicing law since August 1993 with Hunter Law Offices in Durham and working on a master of business administra- tion degree at the Fuqua Sehi >< >\ < >t Business.
Jacqueline Anne Vink '90 to Thomas Dale Wiseman, Jr., July 31, 1993. She is a fifth-grade teacher at Rock Ridge Elemen- tary School in Wilson.
Robert K. Mack '91 to Mary C.
Collins, Sept. 25, 1993. He is a claims rep- resentative for Netherlands First of Geor- gia Insurance Co. in Charlotte.
Penny Elizabeth Arrant '92 to Steven Scott Perry '91, Aug. 28, 1993. She is a computer operator with the New Hanover County School System; he is a computer consultant at UNCW. They live in Wilmington.
Amy Michelle Peele '92 to Jeffery Wayne Sloop '89, Oct. 9, 1993. She is a third-grade teacher in the Scotland County Schools. They live in Laurinburg.
Gary Wayne Thrift II '92 to Wendy Michelle Burkhart, Sept. 18, 1993. He is employed by Jackson Electric in Thomasville.
Miriam Hope Clark '92 to Brian Dixon Campbell, Aug. 21, 1993. She is employed with Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc. in Wilmington. They live in White Lake.
Dianna Denise Banks '92 to Craig Boone Wheeler, Oct. 9, 1993. The Wheel- ers live in Wilmington, where Craig at- tends UNCW.
BIRTHS
To Lynne Wells Williams '81 and Samuel Lee Williams III '77, a daughter, Sherry Jeanelle, Jan. 15, 1994. Mr. Will- iams is vice-president of H. W. Williams Lumber Company of Burgaw, and Mrs. Williams is the media coordinator at Burgaw Elementary School.
To Alison Albritton Merritt '82 a son, Jeremy Britton Merritt, Feb. 12, 1993.
To Brian D. Garvis '86 and Patricia Garvis, a son, Dylan Mathew Garvis, Sept. 19, 1993. He was recently named president of Mascomm Systems in McLean, Va.
To Mary Margaret Heath Swain 'S9 and Douglas M. Swain '88, a son, Joshua Douglas Swain, on Jan. 20, 1994. Swain was promoted recently to store manager of Sherwin Williams in Savannah, Ga.
To Robin Walker Tomlinson '91 and Jon Tomlinson, a son, Jonathan "David" Tomlinson, Dec. 16, 1993.
IN MEMORIAM
William Lionel Haste '68 died Feb. 21, 1994. He resided in Wilmington and taught at Dixon Middle School for 29 years.
Troy Douglas Carr '92 was killed May 14, 1944, in the line of duty as a N.C. Al- cohol Law Enforcement officer. The 24- year-old Fayetteville resident began work- ing with the ALE in December, 1993.
UNCW ALUMNI BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
Chair
Marvin Robison '83
762-2489
Vice Chair
Jessiebeth Geddie '63
350-0205
Secretary
Norman H. Melton '74
799-6105
Treasurer
Frank S. Bua '68
799-0164
Immediate Past Chair
John W. Baldwin, Jr. '72
762-5152
BOARD MEMBERS
Cape Fear Area
Tommy Bancroft '58, '69 799-3924
Rebecca Blackmore '75 762-5033
Dru Farrar '73 392-4324
Mary Beth Harris '81 270-3000
Eric Keefe '88 762-7517
Richard Pratt '71 350-0282
Jim Stasios '70 392-0458
Mary Thomson 'SI 763-0493
Avery Tuten '86 799-1564
Charlie Wall 77 392-1370
Shanda Williams '92 392-4660
Johannes Bron 78 251-9665
Triangle Area
Sonia Brooks '80 (919) 362-7539
Don Evans '66 (919) 872-2338
Randy Gore 70 (919) 677-4121
Western North Carolina Deborah Hunter 78 ... (704) 322-5594
CHAPTER REPS
Cape Fear Chapter
Amy Tharrington '87 799-0178
MBA Chapter
Cheryl Hunter '89 392-1803
Triad Chapter
Jeff Holeman '93 885-5927
Triangle Chapter
Carolyn Busse '92 (919)967-4458
Onsloie County Chapter Sam O'Leary '83 451-1879
ALTERNATES
Tim Rudisill '92 (704)735-9716
Kimberly Best-Tuten '86 799-1564
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Patricia A. Corcoran, 72
251-2681
Area code is 910
unless otherwise indicated
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7 Seahawk volleyball, EAST CAROLINA
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1 7 MBA Chaptet Lifelong Learning conference
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8 Women's soccer, OLD DOMINION, 1 p.m.
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Volume 5, Number 1
On the cover: Divers leave Aquarius, their underwater home, behind as they swim away to a nearby coral reef to conduct research.
FEATURES
DIVING INTO SCIENCE 6
10 days underwater in Aquarius
ACHIEVING THE AMERICAN DREAM 1 0
Alumni offer ways to relieve stress
THE VIOLENCE OF RAP
UNCW study draws national attention 1 2
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UNCW selected to host NCAA Women's Golf Championships
As an indication of its grow- ing academic status nation- wide, UNCW has been se- lected to host the 1995 NCAA Women's Golf Championships May 24-27, 1995, at Landfall.
The National Collegiate Ath- letic Association selects only out- standing universities which have met certain levels of achievement in specified areas to host this event. Among these criteria are the gradua- tion rate of athletes in an NCAA program and high academic eligibil- ity standards for athletes. UNCW athletes who entered college in the
1987-88 school year led North Carolina's state-supported universi- ties with a 79-percent graduation rate, according to a recent report released by the NCAA.
Dating back to 1941, the NCAA Women's Golf Championship is the oldest collegiate as well as the pre- miere and most elite women's tour-
nament in which 102 of the nation's top collegiate women golfers will compete. The championship will bring UNCW and Wilmington na- tionwide television coverage on Prime Sports Channel Network.
Twenty of the top women's golf teams are playing in the National Collegiate Women's Golf Invita- tional Tournament November 10- 1 3 . The LPGA is conducting a clinic in conj unction with the preview tour- nament, which will draw collegiate teams from as far away as Washing- ton and Oregon, including the num- ber one team from Arizona State.
Wentworth is honored for teaching excellence
Dr. Michael D. Wentworth, as- sociate professor of English, is the 1994 recipient of the UNCW Board of Trustees Excellence Award.
Among Wentworth's accomplishments is a long history of exceptional stu- dent evaluations of his teaching, his leadership as a mentor to numerous col- leagues and new faculty and his philosophy and ap- proach to teaching, provid- ing more than 20 different cross-disciplinary courses during his service to UNCW.
Wentworth has been recognized in the past for his teaching including a Chancellor's Teaching Excellence
Award for the College of Arts and Sciences, the English Department Teaching Excellence Award and the Phi Eta Sigma Outstanding Educator Award.
Wentworth joined UNCW in 1963. Prior to that he taught at the University of Kansas and Northland College in Ashland, WI.
He holds a doctor- ate in English from Bowling Green State University, a master of arts degree in English from Eastern Michigan University and a bachelor of arts degree in English from the Uni- versity of Kansas.
Dr. Wright takes place as chairman
Dr. Eugene E. Wright, Jr., was named chairman of the Uni- versity of North Carolina at Wilmington Board of Trustees in August. He succeeds Eunice "Bambi" MacRae.
Dr. Wright is a physician spe- cializing in internal medicine in Fay- etteville. He graduated from Princeton University in 1973 and received an M.D. from Duke Univer- sity Medical Center in 1978.
He has served on the Fayetteville State University Foundation Board and was a charter member of the Fayetteville Technical Institute Foundation Board.
A Wilmington native, Dr. Wright was first appointed to the UNCW Board of Trustees in 1985.
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Faculty honors presented at convocation
UNCW's unique motto Discere Aude was the focus of Dr. Gerald Shinn's speech at Fall Convocation in Kenan Auditorium
"Discere, an infinitive, comes from a Latin verb meaning to learn by discovering firsthand. Aude, an imperative, comes from the verb audeo and means be courageous. Consequently, the essential mean- ing of Discere Aude is in order to discover truth firsthand, be coura- geous!," Dr. Shinn said. "Don't be afraid of anything or anybody. What a splendid motto for a university which has as its task the discovery of truth wherever she leads, no matter the risks encountered."
Convocation included the pre- sentation of awards to faculty mem- bers for outstanding achievements.
The Distinguished Teaching Professorships recognize and reward faculty who have made outstanding contributions to the instructional program at UNCW. Recipients re- ceive a $5,000 annual stipend for each of three years and a medallion. This year's recipients were Dr. Ken- neth Spackman, an associate profes- sor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences; Dr. Carol Pilgrim, associate professor of psy- chology; and Dr. Luther Lawson, an associate professor of economics.
Dr. Joan D. Willey was the re- cipient of the 1994 Award for Fac- ulty Scholarship which is given to a faculty standout who has made sig- nificant contributions to scholar- ship, research and creativity. Dr. Willey, who received a $1,500 award and a medallion, is a professor of
Distinguished Teaching Professorships were awarded to (left to right) Dr. Luther Lawson, Dr. Carol Pilgrim and Dr. Kenneth Spackman.
chemistry, graduate coordinator for the chemistry department, oceanog- raphy program coordinator and was appointed interim dean of UNCW's Graduate School in July 1994.
The Chancellor's Teaching Ex- cellence Awards were presented to Dr. Hathia Hayes, associate profes- sor of curricular studies; Dr. Luther D. Lawson, associate professor of eco- nomics and finance; Dr. Melton McLaurin, professor of history; Dr. Patricia A. Turrisi, associate profes- sor of philosophy and religion; and Dr. James Johnson, associate profes- sor of psychology.
'94 freshmen are praised by chancellor
The 1994 freshman class was characterized as the "best freshman class we have ever had," by Chancellor James Leutze at Fall Convocation.
According to the chancellor:
• 84 percent of freshmen listed UNCW as their first choice, up from 69 percent in 1991.
• 40 percent chose UNCW based on its academic reputation, up from 20 percent in 1991 .
• 78 percent said they plan to gtaduate in four years, versus 66 percent in 1991.
• The number of freshmen who planned to transfer dropped 50 per- cent from 1993.
• The average freshman SAT score rose to 967, up from 935 in 1993. UNCW currently ranks fifth in the UNC system for SAT averages.
$18.5 million science building groundbreaking is 'earth-shaking
UNCW held an "Earth-shaking Groundbreaking" celebration for its new science building Septembet 30 during Family Weekend.
This 100,000-square-foot facility will include such amenities as a clean room with specially filtered air and surfaces made from contamination-free materials, a vibration-free room for sensitive equipment such as an electron microscope and a cold room with walk-in teftigetatots and freezers.
At a cost of $18,522,900, the science building should be completed in apptoximately 24 months. This new construction is a result of the statewide bond issue that was passed last November.
For several years UNCW has operated with sevete space constraints thtoughout the campus. In 1991, the university ranked first in having the most crowded academic facilities in the UNC system. In fact, since the fall of 1988, UNCW's student body has increased 25 percent with no increase in square footage of academic facilities. Space is at a premium for classrooms, faculty offices, work areas for graduate students and science laboratories.
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New coach, dean share philosophies
A sense of humor and concern about students are just a couple of the many things two of UNCW's newest fac- ulty members share.
Despite their totally different specialties, Seahawk basketball coach Jerry Wainwright said both he and School of Nursing dean Virginia Adams are "more in the reality business rather than the conceptualization and abstract business. Dean Adams has to try and get young people trained so they can get other young people healthy, and 1 mean mentally and physically. I am dealing with kids at the high end ot mental and physical health.
"I need to keep them there, and I need to channel it into long- term results rather than the short- term rewards athletics is all about. If you are a so-called top-of-the- line athlete, you also then have the responsibility of becoming a top-of-the-line citizen. You're go- ing to be a citizen long after you've been an athlete."
Coach Wainwright and Dr. Adams both agree they won't let the high standards set by their pre- decessors get in the way of doing their jobs.
"I don't think we're interested in past standards," Wainwright said. "We're interested in daily im- provement.
"I'm not about winning or los- ing. I'm about progress. We have clientele we must be sensitive to. It's not the media. It's not the fans. It's the young people we work with on a day-to-day basis. No young person in this program, whether it's nursing or basketball, is a finished product. All we are is part of their development."
Maintaining the high passing rate School of Nursing graduates have achieved in the past on the N.C. Licensing Examination is not a goal for Dr. Adams because she
said the focus of that test lags behind what health care is evolving into.
"What's suggested to me is that a lot of the students were good test takers, and that doesn't have a lot to do with how well these graduates will practice. So I'm real careful about that. It's a test. I am con- cerned that students are able to practice in communities when they graduate," Adams said.
"We'll have to be careful when people say, 'We expect the school of nursing to maintain a success rate.' I think it's important because that's one of those national param- eters we have to look at, but we're also in the process of making them change some of that.
"The whole notion of health care reform affects the discipline of nursing which translates into how we educate our students, and that will have to be different," Dr. Adams said.
"Everything now is more com- munity-based, community-focused. So in this baccalaureate program we are preparing students to go into communities. One project we have agreed on is the whole notion of comprehensive school health," she said explaining that nursing students and faculty will be "work- ing in partnership with area public
"I don't think we're interested in past standards. We're interested in daily improvement."
— Jerry Wainwright
schools setting up school health centers that provide care not only for students, but the adults around them as well."
With their first year at UNCW underway, Coach Wainwright and Dean Adams are looking forward to working together on many projects.
Coach Wainwright said he hopes Dr. Adams "never loses her smile or her sense of humor because no job is more important than the ability to have fun at it."
"I know I'm going to have fun with him in the next few years be- cause we share philosophies. I think we can do some projects to- gether," Dr. Adams said.
She comes to UNCW from the College ot Nursing at East Tennes- see State University where she served as interim dean. She holds a bachelor's degree in nursing, a master's in maternal child nursing and a doctorate in child develop- ment and family relations.
Coach Wainwright was assis- tant coach for nine seasons at Wake Forest University, helping to rebuild the Demon Deacon pro- gram into an upper level team in the Atlantic Coast Conference. He is a graduate ot Colorado Col- lege and holds a graduate degree in exercise physiology.
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ALUMNI PROFILE
Sports draw Donovan back to alma mater
It was sports that brought Kevin Donovan to UNCW in 1980, and sports that brought him back again, 14 years later.
A New Jersey native, Donovan said it was his love of surfing that lured him to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington when he was looking for a place to further his education. Now with a law degree from Wake Forest Uni- versity under his belt and several years of legal experience in the Northeast, he's returned to the Cape Fear coast to head up fund- raising for the UNCW athletics program. This time he's brought his wife, Karla, (also a lawyer) and their two sons.
The 31 -year-old practiced cor- porate and sports law for about six years with the New Jersey firms of Purcell, Ries, Shannon, Mulcahy and O'Neill, and Ribis Graham and Curtin before deciding the legal profession was not for him.
"Trial work was frustrating be- cause you felt you weren't doing anything of social value," he said. "You couldn't get results right away." Plus, he said the profession required "too much paperwork" and resulted in "a lot of wasted time."
However, his work represent- ing the New York Giants and Yan- kees did prove fruitful. He became friends with Bart Oates, all-pro center for the Giants and a law school graduate.
"He encouraged me to get into sports athletics administration," said Donovan. He tried to find out as much as possible about this new profession, volunteering with Seton Hall University's fund-raising pro- gram to gain some experience.
He found out he liked it so much that he decided to leave the legal profession where adversarial relationships were commonplace.
"I think I'm more of a team guy
so this is more suited to my na- ture," Donovan said of his new job. "This is more team-oriented. People work together for the good of the university."
Donovan is happy to be back at his alma mater.
"I got a great education here. The attention I got from the fac- ulty here I probably would not have gotten at other schools," he said.
Kevin Donovan '84 has returned to UNCW to head up fundraising for the university's athletic department.
And he's pleased with UNCW's growth and prominence.
"The big change for me is to see changes in the athletics depart- ment ... just to see the way the dif- ferent sports have grown, especially basketball," he said. "A lot of that has to do with the chancellor. He's brought in good people.
"Guys like Paul (Miller, ath- letic director) and Bill (Anlyan, vice chancellor for advancement) have brought more national atten- tion to chis school. People know who UNCW is in different circles around the country. I think it's
only going to get better."
Donovan's official title is assis- tant director of athletics for devel- opment.
As such he'll be trying to come up with new and innovative ways to raise money for athletic scholar- ships and other student aid. One of his first ideas is to develop special interest groups within the Seahawk Club, which last year raised $200,000 for student scholarships. For example, a Rebounders Club could be targeted at people with a special interest in the Seahawk basketball program. In return for their gifts to the university, they would get special treatment at games and other perks such as din- ner with Coach Jerry Wainwright.
His ties to Wake Forest Uni- versity give Donovan a special kinship to Jerry Wainwright who left that school to become UNCW's head basketball coach in place of Kevin Eastman.
Eastman "laid the foundation to get the program to this level," Donovan said, and Wainwright "is going to bring a lot of experience to the table. He's going to be able to bring excitement to the program just from his personality."
Donovan said his priorities in his new job include obtaining major gifts for UNCW's athletics program and endowments for athletic scholarships.
"I think that's an area we can work on," he said.
Donovan realizes he's got a tough job ahead, but he's looking forward to getting out into the business community, meeting people and making them aware of the university's key role in the future of southeastern North Carolina.
"I don't think I'll miss law. To work in athletics has always been a dream for me, and to come back to my alma mater is better," Donovan said.
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This summer UNCW research technician Greg McFall, UNCW graduate students Dave Swearingen, Brian Chanas, UNC-CH graduate student Robin Bolser and UNCW graduate and University of New Hampshire graduate student Katherine Laing spent 1 0 days doing research, under the direction of UNCW biology professor Joe Pawlik and UNC-CH professor Niels Lindquist, aboard the underwater habitat Aquarius.
Aquarius is owned by the Na- tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- ministration and managed by the National Undersea Research Center at UNCW. It is the centerpiece of a comprehensive environmental research program in the Florida Keys aimed at better understanding and preserving the health of the continental United States' only coral reef ecosystem.
By Greg mcfall
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We jumped off the Mobile Support Base (MSB) into the lucid blue water of Conch Reef, Key Largo, Fla., on an adventure none of us was fully prepared for. The first site we saw was the undersea laboratory Aquarius. The yellow be- hemoth loomed 60 feet below the surface, its structure providing shel- ter to thousands of fish, inverte- brates and six acquiescent aquanauts. We went to work set- ting up sites where our experiments would run for the next 10 days.
To complete the tasks assigned by our surface support crew, we split into two teams. Katherine La- ing (K.T.) and Robin Bolser se- lected a site near the habitat where they set up an experiment to dis- cern the importance of micro-ref- uges to the survival of newly settled sponge larvae (eggs). David Swearingen, Brian Chanas and I constructed a sponge "smorgas- bord." By tying eight species of sponge to the smorgasbord and re- placing them regularly, we at- tempted to determine why some
species occur on the reef, while others are found only in mangrove habitats. After five hours in the water, we swam back to Aquarius for the evening.
Holding our breath, we entered Aquarius one by one
through a rect- angular open- ing on the bottom of the undersea labo- ratory called the "moon pool."
Chris Borne, our National Un- dersea Research Center habitat technician, greeted us as we en- tered the "wet porch" so named be- cause it separates the dry living area from the "moon pool." After showering with an antiseptic soap to remove bacteria from our skin, we entered the main living quar- ters. We were ravenously hungry and slightly dehydrated from our excursion.
Day
We were up at six o'clock, ate breakfast and were dressing in the wet porch by seven. Team one went to a new site called the "Pin- nacle" and placed larval traps on several sponge species. Dave, Brian and I replaced sponges that had been rent from the smorgasbord by angeltish, filefish and parrotfish. We later joined K. T. and Robin at the "Pinnacle."
I'm always astounded at the materials used to construct scien- tific experiments. The women used plastic bottles with pantyhose at- tached at the opening. Pantyhose worked remarkably well because K. T. and Robin could stretch them over many sizes of sponge. When
Divers rest on the gazebo deck outside Aquarius as they prepare for their next underwater mission off Key Largo, Fla.
deployed properly, the "traps" floated above the sponge and col- lected larvae as they were released.
We had lunchtime visitors from the surface "otherworld." Joe Pawlik (UNCW) and Niels Lindquist (UNC-CH), the princi- pal investigators for this mission, came down to see how things were going and advise us on upcoming tasks. After seeing only the same five faces for two days, it was nice to have company.
Since there is a higher partial pressure of oxygen in the habitat than at the surface, there is a greater risk of fire and explosion; consequently, open flames are pro- hibited. Our meals are prepared at a local restaurant and brought down in a large metal pressure ves- sel, a process termed "potting." All of our supplies and dry goods are delivered in the same manner.
Day 3
What a strange feeling not to return to the surface! I have to make .i consi ious ettoi i no I to as- cend when our dives are over. The type ot diving we are doing is termed "saturation diving" because our body tissues are saturated with
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Obviously perturbed by the presence of author Greg McFall fin the background], this pufferfish tries to make a quick getaway as it's captured on film.
the inert gas nitrogen. If we were to return to the surface after 36 hours, nitrogen would begin to come out of solution and our blood would be- gin to fizz like a soda within 1 5 minutes. If for some reason we had to surface unexpectedly, there is a recompression chamber on the MSB used to treat decompression- related maladies.
Day 4
Another day, another dive. I'm finding that comfort measures are very important down here. Spend- ing seven hours a day in the water takes its toll on your skin. Once you get an abrasion or cut on your skin, it never has the opportunity to heal properly. When a wound begins to heal, it gets wet and opens again. It has become neces- sary to take precautions to ensure that we remain injury free.
Even when you think things are going well, you still have to be concerned about nitrogen narcosis. Narcosis is a physiological malady that impairs a diver's ability to think clearly. One Aquarius techni- cian likened it to drinking a mar- tini, but never losing the "buzz." It sometimes makes you do things you might not ordinarily do.
Case in point: Brian, Dave and I went out this morning to adjust the angle of view on the smorgas- bord video camera, a relatively
simple task that we'd done often before. To move the camera, we had to unplug the video lights. This time, however, there was an ad- ditional factor we hadn't counted on - the video lights were still on. When Brian unplugged the lights, he got the shock of his life! It just happened that Brian had his finger between the cord and its receptacle af- ter he unplugged it. The power should have shut off as soon the cord was un- plugged, but there was a faulty ground fault inter- rupter. On land we probably would have checked to see if the lights were still on before unplugging them, but here, narcosis may have detracted from that mental edge.
Day 5
We're halfway through our mission, and things are going great. I've noticed that we're all getting pretty tired. Robin and K. T. have been leaving Aquarius at 5:30 a.m. for the last two days. They have narrowed down the time of sponge larval release to the morning hours. Dave, Brian and I have been get- ting up around 7 a.m., but stay out until 9 p.m. to conduct coral feed- ing assays. Niels is using the data to learn if sponge larvae are palatable to coral. We started a new experi- ment today to see if sponges can prevent coral overgrowth by releas- ing chemicals that kill the invading species.
Day 6
We had an unwelcome guest at the smorgasbord! We looked at the video monitor of the sponge array and right in the middle was a Hawksbill turtle. It obviously thought this was an "all you can eat" buffet with horrible service. At first it appeared to ptefet one spe- cies of sponge, and then, much to our horror, it went on to demolish several others. Several times when
fish approached the sponges the tuttle used its flippers to scare them away. It was hard enough keeping up with the demand from fish, this new twist would make it more difficult.
As we approached, the turtle came out to greet us. When it turned to make a second approach, I saw that it only had one eye. Af- ter videoing the turtle for about five minutes, we decided to replace the sponges on the smorgasbord and let it have its fill.
(Day 7
Today I had a close encounter of the marine kind. We were all out at the "Pinnacle." I turned around to find Dave and Brian upside down, looking under a coral head; they had found a pufferfish. I went ovet to video the odd creature.
To anyone who has never seen pufferfish, they resemble balloons with hundreds of spikes coming out of the skin. When perturbed, they can regulate the amount of water in their tissue and "puff up. In the natural environment, they use this ability to escape predation; in our case they made interesting video subjects.
Because I am the mission videographer, I rarely get to be on the video. I asked Brian if he would video me with a pufferfish. As I held the puffer and smiled for the camera, I inadvertently placed my finger in the fish's mouth; it was all the excuse it needed to make a hasty retreat. It bit the tip of my finger and went on a five-second toilet coaster ride as I tried unsuc- cessfully to shake it from my finger. When it finally let go, it swam away, confident in the fact that I wouldn't molest marine life any- more!
Day 8
Brian, Dave, Chris and I went on a deep excursion at the "Pin- nacle" this morning to collect sponges. There must have been a thunderstorm in the terrestrial world because our aqueous environ-
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ment was cast in darkness. The water itself appeared paradoxical in nature, to be clear and yet so dark. We were not the only ones perplexed by the darkness; there were nocturnal creatures out at noon. When lightning struck the ocean's surface, it looked like a thousand synchronous camera flashes.
When we entered the habitat for lunch, Robin was sitting at the table with a big smile on her face. Out of all the aquanauts, I'd say Robin has narcosis the worst. It seems that she laughs at any- thing, so I've nicknamed her "Bubbles Bolser." She brings lev- ity to strenuous situations and is a joy to be around.
All in all I'd have to say the panoply of personalities we have in saturation couldn't be better. Having the right combination of people in the habitat can make or break a mission. We have the distinct honor of being the first all-student (and one technician) team ever to complete an Aquarius mission.
Day 9
Well, this was the last day of diving and there was much work to do. We had to clean up all the sites we'd used for the last eight days and be back in the habitat by noon to begin decompression.
Since our bodies are satu- rated with nitrogen, it will take about 19 hours to decompress back to surface pressure. We have been maintained at a "stor- age" depth of 47 feet, which is equivalent to a pressure of 35.6 pounds per square inch (psi). It doesn't sound like much until you consider that the ambient pressure at sea level is only 14-7 psi. The Aquarius is essentially a large pressure vessel that is de- pressurized very slowly. The sur- face crew opens a series of valves that slowly bleed air from the habitat, bringing it back to the pressure at sea level.
Shortly after 1 p.m., two habi- tat technicians from the MSB came down to administer oxygen. Oxy- gen acts to displace the nitrogen in our tissues and speeds the process of decompression. We stayed on oxygen for 70 minutes and then continued our progression toward the surface. It's a slow creep that won't be complete until noon to- morrow.
Day 10
The surface crew woke us up at four o'clock this morning to use the restroom for the last time. Since the toilet operates on a pressure differential, there won't be enough pressure for it to function properly when we reach sea level. We went back to bed, but I don't think any- body really slept. At 8 a.m. we were all up again. It was a bittersweet time; we were ready to leave, but sad to be going.
Chris gave us a safety lecture on the proper way to exit Aquarius and return to the MSB. At noon Chris, K. T. and I were the first three to leave. Two members of the surface support crew came down to escort Brian, Robin and Dave to the sur- face. The pressure in Aquarius at that point was equivalent to a depth of four feet.
As the first aqua- naut to exit the wa- ter, I was greeted by several safety person- nel and a happy sup- port staff. The long mission was over for them, too. The mis- sion was a complete success, but it wouldn't have been possible if not for ex- cellent support from the NURC staff. At
first glance, it appears that few staff personnel were involved, but suc- cess of a saturation mission truly is an entire staff effort.
After living in a cold, unfor- giving environment for 10 days, feeling the sun on my back was a welcome sensation. I watched as Robin, Dave and Brian surfaced, each one climbing the ladder out of the ocean and on to the MSB. We had shared an ordeal in Aquarius that fewer than 300 people in the world have experienced. It was fun while it lasted, but none of us are ready to go back down for another 10 days.
Greg McFall, a research techni- cian with (JNC W professor Joe Paw- lik, has a master's degree in biology from UNCW.
A diver swims by a volcanic-looking coral as he collects sponges for the smorgasbord which the researchers created to study different sponge species.
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Alums give tips to reduce stress of achieving 'American dream*
by Sue Cause
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But on a psychologist's list of leading stress inducers, the home buying process ranks high. It is the biggest purchase most people make in a lifetime, and it forces potentia buyers to examine their goals, com- mitment and lifestyle.
Buying a home can be down- right daunting for first-time home buyers. It raises a host ot questions with the most obvious being — "Where do I start.'"
Real estate sales professionals suggest buyers start with them. Working with a real estate agent is the most efficient way of knowing what is on the housing market, since brokers list properties for sale on the local MLS (Multiple Listing Service), and an agent may show any house that is listed. A good real estate agent can make the A-to- Z of home buying a friendly, informa- tive event, rather than a process riddled with fear and loathing.
"Ask for a counseling session with a realtor so you can know what to expect, in what sequence, so that there are no surprises," says Dave Hilliard '72 of Adams and Hilliard Realty in Wilmington. "The realtor can hold your hand the whole way. You don't want it to be a frightening experience."
Real estate agent Lisa Williamson Wayne '90 of Pres
in Wilmington" agrees.
"You need to focus on the area in which you want to live and then coordinate with a realtor so that you can narrow the search down," says Wayne.
Prequalifying for a home loan is another early step, one that should be taken before a first- time buyer begins looking at a home. It involves gathering the financial information a lender needs to determine how much money a buyer can afford for a down payment and how much of a monthly loan payment the buyer can carry. Both lenders and real es- tate agents can prequalify buyers.
Lenders encourage first-time home buyers to establish a monthly payment comfort zone when deter- mining what they can afford.
"Allow yourself a cushion ei- ther in savings or in your cash flow, so that if the heat pump goes out or
if you need a new roof a year later you can handle it," says Stuart Sioussat '86, '93, branch man- ager and assistant vice president with Wachovia Bank in Wilming- ton. "You don't want to cut yourself real close, because there are so many other things that homeowners face beyond just what your (mortgage) commit- ments will be every month." Hilliard suggests first-timers consider buying less house than they are qualified to purchase in order to have money for leisure activities. "You want what you live in to be a home, not a house. If it is just a house, it is either one that is not affordable or one that creates problems. And don't think that the house you buy the first time is the home you will live in for 20 years," he says.
Knowing what you can afford before you start visiting houses also reduces the chance of lingering dis- satisfaction in the home you even- tually purchase.
"We don't want to show a house that people cannot afford, because that sets them up for disap- pointment," notes Wayne. "Even when they finally get the home that they can afford, and it really is a good home for them, they may not be as excited as they would be, it they had not first seen the home they could not afford."
Knowing exactly what you want in a home helps smooth the bumps in the house-hunting road. Realtors recommend making a pri-
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of North Carolina at Wilmington, this
annual report applauds the university's accomplishments and celebrates the support of you, its donors, who have made those accomplishments possible. The loyal supporters, alumni and friends of the university make the dif- ference— and so, in essence, make the history. Your stewardship of the univer-
sity ensures that its tradition of achieve-
ment and growth will accelerate well into
the next century as more promises are
fulfilled and ideals are realized.
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The great struggles of World War II had ended and hundreds of thousands of Americans were return- ing home. Intent on picking up the pieces of their lives, many of these veterans decided to take advantage of the G.I. Bill and attend college.
But education and government plan- ners were quick to see a major prob- lem developing — existing college spaces could not accommodate all the would-be students. So, it was against the background of national and state con- cerns and local pride that the citizens of South- eastern North Carolina began to focus on creating a college in Wilmington.
Established in 1946 as an extension of the Uni- versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Wilmington College Center was operated by the New Hanover public school system. An initial class of 186 freshmen shared space in two area high schools.
In 1947, the center officially be- came Wilmington College, with T.T. Hamilton serving as both college president and principal of New Hanover High School. One year later, the college moved across the street from New Hanover High into the Isaac Bear Building — its home for the next 13 years.
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Contributors who supported the university at the level of $1,000 or more during the 1993-94 Loyalty Fund year earn this distinction.
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Tommy Bancroft Estell Lee Robert Warwick
Gary Chadwick Thomas Evans Jr. Jessiebeth Geddie Ann Hutaff Robert King Lionel Yow
Jane Baldwin John Baldwin Jr. Lyn Blizzard Beth Chadwick George Chadwick III
Mickey Corcoran Michael Glancy Randy Gore Charles Green III Janice Kingoff Norman Melton Jr. John Phillips
Margaret Barclay Tammy Blizzard Joseph Brewer III Virginia Brewer Riley Crawford Jr. Cheryl Hunter Matthew Hunter Eric Keefe Victoria Mix Marvin Robison David Ruth Gilbert Smith Allen Thomas Jr.
Bill Green
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Mary Bellamy Hannah Block Carl & Janice Brown Russell Burney Jr. Martha &
John Clayton Samuel Connally B. J. Copeland Fred Davenport Jr. Will DeLoach F. P. Fensel Jr. J. B. Fuqua John Geddie Jr. Donald &
Judith Getz Thomas Green Nancy &
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Andrew &
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Kathy Leutze George Lewis Lawrence &
Janet Lewis Jr. Edward &
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Dorothy Norris Edward Olszewski Sharon Oxendine Frances Prevost Thomas &
Susan Rabon Jr. Margaret Robison
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In 1957, Wilmington College passed from county to state control when the first Community College Act was passed and three schools at Wilmington, Charlotte and Asheville became state schools with separate boards of trustees. Dr. William Randall, who had served as dean since 1953. was named president of Wilmington College.
"One purpose of education is the at- tainment of a mature mind. A mature
mind is able to recognize responsibilities to indi- viduals, to society and to God, and is equipped to fulfill these responsibilities in a manner which gives the greatest satisfaction of accom- plishment, and realizes the utmost of the potentialities of the truly educated man." Each new accomplishment and each step forward spurred more community sup- port and pride. ..and more students.
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Victor &
Jane Venters Robert &
Marty Walton Jr. Don (D) &
Monica Watson Mary Lily Flagler
Lewis Wiley Guy Willey R. Bertram &c
Ellen Williams Jr. John&
Judy Woody Jr. Connie Yow
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Community Fdn Cape Fear Garden
Club Cape Industries Carolina Power &
Light Carolina Telephone &
Telegraph Co. Central Carolina Bank
Fdn Centura Bank Coldwell Banker/
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Health & Nat. Res.
DuPont - Fayetteville
Works DuPont- Cape Fear Plant Exxon Education Fdn Federal Paper Board First Citizens Bank First Union National
Bank Florence Rogers
Charitable Trust Forty & Eight Society Friends of UNCW GE Nuclear Fuel St
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Glaxo Fdn Grace Jones Richardson
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IBM
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Kiwanis Club Special
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Lucile M Marvin Fdn Matlock Company McAndersons Inc. Monsanto Agricultural Murphy Family Farms NationsBank NC Hospital
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Lynne Black Steve Watters
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Wendy Block Tom Bovender Robert Brown &
Sue Lamb Grace Burton William &
Jean Credle Vivian Grace
Thomas &
Alice Grainger Charles (D) &
Louise Green Harold &
Jean Greene James &
Patricia Hawkins Robert &C Jo Jarrett Parviz Kambin Blaise &
Juanita Leonardi Jack & Doris Levy Martin &
Kathleen Meyerson Rebecca Porterfield Edward &
Kathryn Robinson Tyrone &
Pearl Rowell Roger &C
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Church Gamma Zeta
Fdn Hillhaven
Rehabilitation Home Furniture
Company of
Wilmington INCO
Jackson Beverage Co. Jefferson Pilot Corp.
Lower Cape Fear
Personnel Assoc. Maola Milk & Ice
Cream Company New Hanover Co
Firemen's Assoc. New Hanover
Medical Group New York Times
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Contributors at this level have given a lifteimegift of $100,000 or more.
Mellie Barlow (D)
Lumberton Ralph Brauer
Wilmington Carl & Janice Brown
Wilmington
Bruce &
Louise Cameron
Wilmington Dan&
Betty Cameron
Wilmington Hynda Dalton
Washington Champion McDowell
Davis (D)
Wilmington Will Deloach
Orange City, Fla. Charles Green III
Wilmington
Harold &
Jean Greene
Wilmington Troy Henry
Leland James Kenan
Atlanta, Ga. Estell Lee
Wilmington Mrs. Ray Lytton (D)
Jacksonville, Fla. Tabitha McEachern
Wilmington
William P. &
Sandra Nixon Jr.
Wilmington Raiford Trask Sr. (D)
Wilmington James Wade (D)
Wilmington Don (D) &
Monica Watson
Wilmington
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Contributors at this level have given a lifteime gift of S50,000 or more.
George Diab Wilmington
Gerald &
Patricia Hardison Wrightsville Beach
Rosa Humphrey (D) Lawrence &
Janet Lewis Jr.
Richmond, Va. Stephen &
Victoria Mix
Beaufort, SC Mary Lily Lewis
Flagler Wiley
Middleburg, Va.
A view from Alderman Hall
In the summer of 1961, Wilmington College officially moved into its new home on what was to become College Road.
Under the leadership of Buildings and Grounds Chairman Fred Graham, the Wilmington College trustees visited and studied the architecture of other colleges throughout the state before
avigators club
Navigators are those whose annual gifts were $250 to $499 during the 1993-94 Loyalty Fund year.
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Alena Baker Earl Baker Carl Parker Jr.
Shearon Appleton Frank Bua Ronald Lipsius Gregory Peterson
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Connie Ruble Thomas Setzer
Robert C. Hayes
deciding the campus would be designed in a modified
Georgian architecture.
The three original buildings were so impressive that future chancellors and boards of trustees have continued this architectural style, resulting in one of the most attractive campuses in the state.
Robert Appleton Steve & Suzanne
Blievernicht Ralph Brauer Herbert &
Darlene Casanova Tom &
Mimi Cunningham Raymond Dawson McKinley &
Victoria Dull Daniel &
Jackie Erwin Matthew &
Nancy Farina Richard &
Patricia Frederick Philip Gerard H. William &
Corinne Gillen Cyrus &
Mary Hogue Linda Home Wiley &
Donna Lewis Jr. Doug & Lois Malone
John &
Nancy Manock James &
Elisabeth McNab James McPadden Kenny &
Carolyn Morris Robert & Alice Ochs Carl & Polly Rust II C. Monroe &
Mary Shigley Tom & Judy Siguaw Norman &
Alicia Sneeden Jr. Charles &
Virginia Swenson Sigmund Tannenbaum Makenzie Taylor Kurt &C
Sue Thompson James Wade (D)
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BMS Architects, PC Boseman's Sporting
Goods Cape Fear Chapter of
CPAS Clark Environmental
Services Johnson & Johnson Kat Sportswear Lauren Film
Productions National Data
Processing Corp Nationwide
Insurance Fdn NCSNA District
No. 22 Petroleum Fuel
Terminal Co. Planned Parenthood State Farm
Companies Fdn Wilmington Art
Association
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Mariners supported the university last year with gifts of $100 to $249.
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Reba Avery Dumay Gorham Jr. Louise Gorham Charles Hollis Daniel Parham Elsie Peterson Jeremiah Rivenbark Jr. Eugene Zeznock
George Allen Michael Barton Carolyn Brumit Jean Bullock James Carr William Collins Curtis Dale Bonnie Daniel James Davis Jacquelyn Dempsey James Dempsey Dorothy Dempsey Carl Dempsey Vivian Donnell Jack Dunn Ernest Fullwood James L. Hall Gwynn Honeycutt Herbert Houston Carole Jackson Tim Jordan Joseph King III
David K. Miller Cary Peterson Eleanor Poole Edward Rivenbark Ron Staton Tricia Staton David Stillman Elizabeth Talley
Steven Adams Graham Batson Ray Blackburn Jackie Blackmore Jr. Rebecca Blackmore Florence Bolton Lyndin Bolton Phyllis Brenner Jerry Britt Jason Brow Charles Bruton Robert Carter Sidney Champion Michael Church Harry Craft III Virginia Craft Kathy Crumpler John Dalton Cynthia Ducharme Thomas Eason Jr. Johannah English Michael English William Farrar Roger Fipps Jane Freeman Ray Funderburk Elizabeth Godwin Henry Greene Jr. Agatha Hagepanos James Harris Terry Harris
Dolores Harvey Robert High Barbara Hodges Tom Hodges Jr. Emily Hudson Jerry Hudson Bruce Jackson Jr. Millicent Jackson Joel Johnson Deborah Jones Joseph Jones II Elsie Killoran Donald Knotts Martha Loughhn William Loughlin Patricia Luther Janice Manyak Mary Masich George Matthis Jr. Braxton Melvin Jr. Diane Melvin June Millard Thomas Millard Jr. Patricio Morillo John Murphy Jr. Robert Murray Linda Nance Nancy Philips Richard Powell Jr. Forbson Rhodes Kenneth Rogers Gail Russ Jacqualin Shanklin Ronald Speck Carl Stang Frank Steele Jay Stokley Jr. Stuart Stout Eleanor Swinson Antoinette Tucker Sharon Walker Eric White Earl Wilson Jr. Judith Wilson Francis Wootton
Fredrick Airman Julie Arnold Wallace Ashley III Bobbi Bannerman Mary Barnhill Christine Baxter Robert Baxter III Gregory Bender Frederick Benton Gregory Berry Barbara Blevins Raymond Brandi Allison Brendle Gregory Brooks Teresa Brooks Sybil Brookshire Cynthia Brown Karla Brown Michael Brown Jo Ann Bruce Carol Choplin Adele Cohn Donna Coleman William Coleman Stephen Cone Phillip Davis Jane Digh Diana Drakeford Darren England Charles Gates Gary Griffith Raymond Groseclose Terry Groseclose Demse Hall Sayvilene Hawkins Jeffery Hayes Michael Henderson Parti Henderson Michael Hill Nancy Hoggard Ellen Holloway Jean Jacobs Kenneth Jones Bob Joos Tracy Kane
In 1963, the Carlyle Commission completed its review of the educational needs of North Carolina and recommended that a statewide community college system be developed and that the cam- pus at Wilmington be elevated to four- year, senior college status.
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Gregory Shaw Andrea Simmons Christian Smith Joel Smith Stephen Smith James Spliedt II Vicky Spliedt George Strawn Carole Sutton Lewis Swindell IV Benjamin Thompson Neil Thompson Dennis Tobin Denise Tobin Donna Tomkins Mary Turner Craig Wade Stacie Wade Stephen Wallace Dorothy Watkins James Weibley Michael Wesnofske Michael Williams Thomas Woodard Jackie Zurbruegg
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Edward Alala Denise Alercia William Andrews Karen Bartlett William Bartlett Douglas Bonney Deborah Britt Patrick Caporale Sarah Cook Susan Dohrmann James Drew Trudy Ellett Martin Foerster Eric Franz Dana Freer Mary Fry Eric Fulcher Jodi Haire Todd Hinson Pamela Hyatt Horace Johnson Bradley Kinkema Jennifer Le Page Towana Moore
Cary Peterson Cecil Sutton Ginger Tomlinson William Waldrop
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Glen & Sally Adams George Alper Leon &
Doris Andrews Jerry &c
Deanna Arnold Kenneth &
Catherine Ashley C. Will &
Faye Atkinson Ernest &
Katherine Avent Ravija Badarinathi Mrs. John Baldwin Sr. Richard &
Linda Barber
Ron Barber Robert &
Patricia Barker Germana &
Victor Biele-
Carballo William & Sue Blair Jr. Eric & Elizabeth
Bolen Joseph 8c
Amy Bracewell Jean Bradford Kenneth &
Catheleen Braitling Matthew Burstein Charles &
Dorothea Cahill John & Jerri
Campbell Michael &
Catherine Canepa Jr. Burton &
Elaine Carlson Ricky & Polly Cates Martin &
Barbara
Chamberlin
Bobby &
Becky Chilcote Anthony &
Phyllis Chiorazzi Gordon Clarke Gordon &c
Jeannie Coleman Dale &
Rebecca Combs Phyllis Comer William &
Evelyn Cooper Jr. Ronald &:
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Ruth Creighton Jr. J. Marshall &
Margaret Crews Thomas &
Shirley Dail Jesse & Audrey Davis Robert &
Rebecca Davis John & Jeny Dees Michael &
Lynn DeLacy John 8c
Irene Derbyshire Jack Dermid Daniel Desmond Joseph & Joanne
Deveaugh-Geiss Beverly Dickinson George &c Judy Dilts William &
Gail Drane Paul 8c
Donna Drzewiecki Claude 8c
Gwen Duppstadt J. William &
Shelby Eakins
Jay &
Eleanor Ebersole Maurice 8c
Patsy Emmart Jr. Terrence 8c
Donna Evans Bunnie &
Carolyn Finch J. David &
Nancy Fortenbery Floyd &
Rebecca Fowler Jr. James &
Charlotte Fox Jr. Robert Fry Max & Kay Fryar David &
Betty Garard Rossell &
Donna Glasgow Jr. James Godwin II William &
Jeanette Golder Jr. William & Moronna
Gonsalves Jeffrey &
Susan Green Robert &
Linda Grew Robert & Christina
Guglielmo Dennis &C
Phyllis Harke
Frank &
Harriet Hauser Samuel &
Pamela Hawes III John &
Mari Hawken Frank & Mary Head Larry 8c
Linda Hedgecock William &
Caroline Heeks Jr. James Helms Jr. Richard &
Geri Hemmer
James & Rhea Henne E. B. &
Betty Henson Theodore 8c
Paula Herman B. Scott Hewett Peter &
Virginia Hillyer Fred &
Janet Holcombe James &c Alice Holt Michael &
Donna Hosey Lee & Marilyn Howe Jr.
Robert &
Brenda Hunt John Huntsman Henry Hutaff Charles &
Margaret
Hutcheson Gary & Jane Hyman Winthrop &
Christine Irwin Robert &
Debra Johnson Robert &
Rebecca Jones John & Linda Justice Frederick &
Katharine Keenan David &
Donna Keifer Mina Kempton Hayden &
Mary Kepley Lawrence King Wolfgang &
Theresa Klahr W. Arthur &
JoAnn Kovach Clifton &
Juanita Kreps George &
Margie Lamb Carter &
Jane Lambeth Valeria Lane James &
Patricia Larrick Ronald Lashley Rudolph &
Loretta Lassiter Jr. Maurice LeBauer Patricia Leonard
J. Elmo &
Rebecca Lilley Jr. Richard Loftus John & Jean Lovett Skip & Mary Lyles James &C
Janet Marable III Ned & Lynda Martin John & Jane Marts Robert &
Alice Mashburn Minda Massengale William &
Lee McBride John &
Sandy McCulloch Reeves McGlohon James &
Odile McGowan James Megivern Robert &
Mary Miller Jr. Norman Mills Marshall &
Janelle Milton III Carol Mims John &
Christina Minard Floyd & Pat Mitchell Eugene &
Gladys Monahan W. F. Moody Joseph &
Geryl Moore Richard &c
Jane Mullendore Robert 8c Sue Muller Douglas 8c
Marcia Murphey John Myers Nora Noel Fletcher Norris Raymond 8c
Cathy Oakes Russell 8c
Patricia Offredo Roberto &
Judith Ortiz
ndowments & scholarships
Jefferies and Faris Endowed Scholarship Jefferies and Faris, Associates Architects and Planners
Spangler Distinguished Professorship The Spangler Foundation
First Union CSBA Faculty Fellowship First Union National Bank
Landmark Homes Endowed Scholarship Landmark Homes
NationsBank Merit Fund NationsBank
The George Henry Hutaff Scholarship Tabitha McEachern
The Donald R. Watson Foundation Donald (D) and Monica Watson
The Eunice T. and
Marguerite B. MacRae Scholarship
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R. Leutze. The mace's design and materials reflect the school's ties to the sea and the region. It proudly dis- plays the four seals that have governed the college: New Hanover County, Wilmington College, the University of North Carolina and. finally, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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ority list of needs, wants and even, don't wants. Needs start with the obvious — your price range and ap- proximate location — and then get more specific, such as the neigh- borhood, age and type of home. Don't wants might be heavy traffic or proximity to a commercial zone.
Realtors often caution against pursuing an exact price or a par- ticular feature. Focus on location and general quality of the property, they say, because the final choice almost always involves some com- promise. One of the big- gest pitfalls first-time home buyers face, notes Hilliard, is that their ex- pectations too high.
"They come in with the idea that they can own a home like mom and dad," he says. "Homebuying is a step process in life. You start with a small home and you gradually grow with family needs."
Is there a best time to buy a home? Realtors Wayne and Hilliard agree the best time is when the home buyers have some funds for a down payment and are ready to as- sume the responsibility of homeownership.
"Don't wait, do it," Wayne insists. "With the interest write- off, it really is to your advantage not to wait, especially with all the programs out there now for first-time home buyers. Some can even get 100 percent fi- nancing and all they need is enough money for the closing."
Hilliard echoes that point. "I think the best time is when the buyer is ready for the responsibility. But most first-time home buyers don't realize there are more ben- efits to owning than renting, be- cause one of the only tax deductions that we have today is home mortgage interest."
Real estate appraiser Howell Graham '85, a partner in the firm Joseph S. Robb & Associates in Wilmington, offers another tip re-
garding the best-time-to-buy equa- tion. He suggests first-timers try buying in growing areas in the early stage of development.
"My wife and I bought in a neighborhood last year at one step up from the ground level. With building costs going up, it has al- ready appreciated quite a bit," Graham says.
When financing a home, mort- gage lenders want buyers to put down as much as possible. While a 10 to 20 percent down was once be
"Naturally, everyone is going to feel uneasy when they make a large purchase;.. I learned thi&at UNCW. It's called cognitive dissonance. You always wonder, should I have really done that? Even if you feel good about what you've done, you still wonder if you should have."
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a common practice, many mortgage plans now require as little as three or five percent down and some of- fer 100 percent financing. Loan programs geared to moderate and lower incomes come on and off the market periodically, as such loan money is available.
"Banks are becoming increas- ingly conscious of being able to of- fer credit to people of moderate means income-wise," says banker Sioussat. Consequently many have developed their own loan programs targeted at specific buyers includ- ing first-timers.
Buyers should shop for a loan since different mortgage plans may significantly affect the monthly payment. Fees (credit report, ap- praisal, "points," inspections, legal costs, etc.) associated with a loan vary from lender to lender.
First-time home buyers look- ing for the best deals on the home market might consider working with a buyer's agent, suggests Wayne. A buyer's agent has a legal obligation to represent the inter-
est of the buyer. The sales agent can show the buyer comparable sales and help him determine the value of a home. The agent's com- mission may be paid by either the buyer or the seller. A seller's agent — who typically helps buyers ana- lyze their housing needs and guides the buyer through to settle- ment — is legally required to rep- resent the seller, who pays the agent's commission. A seller's agent cannot help the buyer de- cide what offer to make or what counter offer to accept.
After the home buyer finds a home, signs a sales contract, has it accepted and secures a loan, the final step is the settlement. The key to reducing the shock of settle- ment costs is knowing what the costs will be ahead of time. Real estate agents and lenders can provide home buyers with an estimate.
After recording all signed documents at the settlement, the buyer pays the seller and the seller turns over the title or deed, and the American dream of homeownership becomes a reality.
But, there may be one final pit- fall, especially for first-timers. Real estate agents call it "buyer's remorse."
"Naturally, everyone is going to feel uneasy when they make a large purchase, and I learned this at UNCW. It's called cognitive disso- nance," says Wayne. "You always wonder, should 1 have really done that? Even if you feel good about what you've done, you still wonder if you should have.
"For first-time home buyers, they can be so afraid it can inter- fere with the decision that they are going to make, which is actually a good decision. They should try to remember that it is natural to feel nervous or to feel anxiety. In fact, I'd be concerned if someone didn't feel that way."
Freelance writer Sue Cause is a former newspaper reporter and editor of a business monthly.
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UNCW Magazine
Violence of rappers' music concerns UNCW researcher
BY marybeth bianchi
The booming stereo in the car that pulls alongside yours may make you cringe, but it's the words to the song that you should really be concerned about.
Rap music, in particular the more violent "gangster rap," has been found to incite violence and affect its lis- teners' attitudes about education.
UNCW psychology professor James Johnson is re- ceiving national recognition for his study on the affects of rap music, which has been accepted for publication in Basic and Applied Social Psychology. This fall he was asked to testify before the Pennsylvania House of Repre- sentatives Judiciary Committee concerning a bill to limit minors' access to certain types of music, including violence rap. The measure goes beyond the warning la- bels that already appear on some CDs, to actually pro- hibiting teens from buying the products.
While he is personally against censorship, Johnson said, "I have a problem with young kids being able to purchase this kind of music. They can't go out and pur- chase pornography, and some of this music certainly comes close to being verbal pornography. A lot of times, kids don't realize what's bad for them."
To reach this conclusion, Johnson studied the reac- tions of 45 African- American boys ages 11 to 16 from Wilmington's inner city. He randomly assigned them to three groups. One group viewed a half-hour of violent rap videos while another viewed a half-hour of nonvio- lent rap videos. The third group did not watch any vid-
eos. Johnson then asked the teenagers questions which looked at their attitudes toward academics and their propensity for violence.
Johnson learned that the boys who viewed the violent rap videos had a greater acceptance of the use of violence, had a higher probability of engaging in violence and ex- pressed greater acceptance of the use of violence toward women. And unexpectedly, the teenagers who viewed both violent and nonviolent videos indicated that if given a choice they would rather be like a young man with fancy clothes and an expensive car rather than one who was studying to be a lawyer, and, furthermore, they didn't think the student had a chance of meeting his goal.
Johnson said he wasn't really surprised at the results of his study, which in fact reinforce many commonly held beliefs about the controversial gangster rap music.
"I want parents to know it's possible the kind of mu- sic kids listen to might have some harmful effects," he said. "In many cases, the rappers have more influence than parents do."
For generations parents have worried about the det- rimental effects of popular music on their children, but Johnson doesn't think Elvis with his gyrating pelvis had the same effect as today's rappers who degrade women and promote violence.
"There's a real difference between Elvis and this music," Johnson said. "This is not just music. The things they're advocating and glorifying may have some harm-
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ful affects on your children."
Not all rap music is bad, Johnson said, "In fact, some rap is very good," but in talking to teenagers, he learned that many find the "non-gangster rap is boring. The real rappers (like Snoop Doggie Dog, Ice Cube and Public Enemy) are hard core guys."
Johnson's study of rap music and violence was the first of its kind, but like earlier studies that pointed out the harmful effects of television violence, the researcher wonders if his work will make a difference.
The study has not been without its critics. In an As- sociated Press story, New York veteran rap publicist Bill Adler said he'd never be convinced that watching rap videos increases violent behavior, and Jeff Chang, who edits a Los Angeles-based magazine which focuses on the hip-hop culture, said much of the controversy surrounding violent rap is racially based.
Johnson doesn't believe that, and he pointed out that some of the most vocal critics of rap music are members of the black community and civil rights groups including the NAACP and the National Black Women's Political Caucus.
"It's not a racial thing," he said. "No real good can come from young black kids listening to this stuff. I'm concerned about the long-term effects. Given that ho- micide is a leading cause of death among young black males, I am certainly concerned about the potential ef- fects of exposure to music which condones and, indeed, glorifies violence. There is certainly extensive empirical evidence that we are affected by what we're exposed to."
Johnson's concern about black youth doesn't end with his scientific research. The Jacksonville native vol- unteers his time to help motivate young blacks and build up their self-esteem and self-worth. One of his successes, documented in the Wilmington Morning Star, is Fred Walker, who was a leader of a loosely organized youth gang in Creekwood Apartments. With Johnson's help, Walker was inspired to go to law school at UNC Chapel Hill and recently passed his bar exam.
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Johnson believes parents can take steps to reduce the influence of violent rap music on their children.
"We as parents have to take away the 'cool' status for these gangster rappers," Johnson said. "Parents have to convince kids it's not cool to deride someone, to go out and shoot someone. They have to make kids not want to listen to it."
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Where do your loyalties lie?
As an institution of higher education, UNCW is a partner with each student at every stage of their academic and professional careers. While you were a student at UNCW, the challenge of the university was to meet your academic and social needs to ensure you received the very best education possible. Your challenge was to take advantage of the opportunities pre- sented to you. Hopefully, you did just that and in return were prepared to face the challenges of your professional career.
Out of that ongoing partnership, we also hope you feel a bond with UNCW and a sense of loyalty to its missions and goals. Your loyalty in the past has enabled us to attract the best students, faculty and researchers, supplement the vital academic scholarships that allow us to offer more to our students and enhance academic programs by providing much-needed equip- ment, space and resources.
You have probably already received your 1994-95 Loyalty Fund brochure entitled simply LOYALTY. UNCW students are currently calling alumni, parents and friends as a follow-up to this mailing to ask for your support. Please respond generously and show your LOYALTY to UNCW by helping us provide each student with the best opportunities, resources and guidance. Today's students are tomorrow's alumni. Invest in them. Their success will, like yours, contribute to the greatness of UNCW!
ATTENTION:
All Wilmington College and UNCW Graduates
The UNCW Alumni Association would like to honor you by having your
name inscribed on a wall plaque to be displayed in Wise Alumni House. The
house is presently being renovated for our use, and a plaque bearing names of the
Class of 1 994 is already in place. We want all graduates
~^ 1 « 1 to snare m tn's alumni tradition.
YfQUd lO DC Your name or that of your favorite UNCW
fitt .Stluttt till Si LUumnus wu' ^e inscribed on the plaque tor a " minimum $50 donation to the UNCW Alumni
Association. Complete the form below and mail to: Wise Alumni House, 1713 Market Street, Wilm- ington, NC 28403. Your tax deductible gift should be received by February 15, 1995. Proceeds will be used to pay off the $400,000 Wise House reno- vation loan.
Graduate's name, year
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ALUMNI NEWS
Trustees approve seat for alumni at board meetings
The UNCW Alumni Associa- tion achieved another milestone this summer when the university's Board of Trustees voted to allow association representation at its quarterly meetings.
In August, Marvin Rohison, immediate past chairman, presented a request to the trustees' advance- ment committee for an informal, non-official seat on the hoard.
He said the association can provide valuable input and services to the trustees to help the board in its mission to make UNCW the best it can be.
The Council of UNC Alumni Association Presidents is support- ing legislation that would allow all
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alumni associations to have an ex- otficio seat on state university boards of trustees. Currently, trustees are ap- pointed by the UNC Board of Gover- nors and governor.
Chairman Jessiebeth Geddie was selected to represent the association at this year's meetings.
Nominations sought
Nominations for the UNCW Alumni Association's 1995 Alum- nus and Distinguished Citizen of the Year awards are due November 10.
For more information call Wise Alumni House at (910) 251-2682.
Association awards 10 scholarships
Ten UNCW students have one less thing to worry about this school year, and that's how to pay their tuition.
They are the recipients of the UNCW Alumni Association's scholarships which cover in-state tuition and fees, worth approximately $1,400 each.
The scholarships are given annually to students based on their academic achievement (a minimum 3.0 grade point average is required) and financial need.
Frank Tascone of Madison, Ohio, is this year's graduate student scholarship recipient. He is studying English and creative writing.
Undergraduates awarded scholarships for a second year are senior chemistry major Gershon L. Alaluf of Wilmington, sophomore general studies major David Heller of Wilmington, junior art major Jennifer L. Wasson of Wilmington and junior English major Steve L. Lee of Wilmington.
New scholarship recipients are senior Becky J. Mussat of Kinston, a psychology major; sophomore Kathy L. Kerns ot Wilmington, a double major in chemistry and biology; freshmen Laura Styron of Wilmington, honors program participant and account- ing major, Nicholas Allen of Thomasville, honors pro- gram participant and pre-law major; and Tommie E. Ellis of Bladenboro, pre-medicine major.
The alumni association recognized its scholarship recipients at a luncheon in August.
Update records via E-Mail
Now you don't have to lift a pencil to update your UNCW records.
All you need is access to a computer, and you can send us your alumni news, change of address, marriage or birth announcements through Internet.
Make sure to include your name, home address, home and work telephone numbers, graduating class, degree and major, employer, job title, social security number and any news for Alumnotes. If you're married to an alumnus, let us know about your spouse, too.
The E-mail address is ALUMNEWS@vxc.uncwil.edu.
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Association welcomes new board members
Lee R. Pearson '70 of Wilmington is corporate sales manager for Bellamy Drug Company in Wilmington , where he is in charge of sales and marketing for the multi- million dollar ': J pharmaceutical
I company. He is a <H member of the UNCW i ^B Seahawk Club , Shelter Care, Civitans and ^^^ Habitat for Humanity .
He is a graduate of New Hanover High School and holds a bachelor of arts degree in biology from UNCW.
Tammy Blizzard '83 of Wilmington is director of accounting for UNCW where she has been employed since 1976. She is treasurer and member of the finance committee at Wrightsville Beach Baptist Church, past president of the Wilmington Chapter of Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) and a member of the National Board of Regionalization for IMA. She holds a bachelor's degree in accounting.
Veronica McLaurin '72 of
Wilmington is principal of Mary C. Williams Elementary School. She chairs the Cultural Arts Committee and served as a delegate to Dandong, China, and Doncaster, England. She is also involved in after- school tutoring programs at her school and at Grace United Methodist Church. She holds a bachelor's degree in social studies and a master's in education, both from UNCW, and is working on a doctorate in leadership from Nova University .
Designers to transform Wise Alumni House
Wise Alumni House will be transformed this spring when more than 20 interior designers put their talents on public display as part of the UNCW Wise House Designers' Showcase.
The three-week event, spon- sored by the UNCW Alumni As- sociation and Friends of the University, is the biggest ever un- dertaken in conjunction with other organizations in the com- munity. More than 500 volun- teers will be participating.
The showcase will be open to the public from April 22 through May 14 and will feature a variety of
special events. The headliner will be national designer, entertain- ment expert and author Martha Stewart, who will lecture and do a book signing April 27.
Advance tickets for the design- ers' showcase are $8 a person and can be purchased at Kenan Auditorium box office. Admission will be $10 at the door. Run-of-show tickets are $12. Proceeds from the showcase will be used to pay off the debt for resto- ration of Wise House.
Ticket information and details on the showcase can be obtained by calling Wise Alumni House at 251-2682 or 251-2683.
Homecoming February 17-18
Mark your calendars now, and plan to return to UNCW the weekend of February 17 and 18 for Homecoming 1995. A full schedule of events is planned beginning Friday night with the annual alumni awards banquet when the Alumnus and Citizen of the Year awards will be presented in the University Center Ballroom.
On Saturday morning the UNCW Alumni Association Board of Direc- tors will welcome all alumni to their annual meeting in Madeline Suite, Wagoner Hall. Everyone will gather at the Hawk's Nest at 12:30 p.m. for a pre-game social as the UNCW Seahawks prepare to take on Old Dominion University at 2 p.m. in Trask Coliseum.
That evening, alumni will gather in Wagoner Hall for a homecoming dance featuring music by The Entertainers. Don't miss this fun-filled event! For ticket information call 251-2682.
Directory available this spring
Just a few more months and your fingertips will be doing the walking through the pages of the 1995 UNCW Alumni Directory right to all your long-lost college friends.
The directory, scheduled for release in May 1995, will be the most up-to-date and complete ref- erence ever compiled on more than 14,000 UNCW alumni. This com- prehensive volume will include
current name, address and tele- phone number, academic data, plus business information bound into a classic, library-quality edition.
This summer Bernard C. Harris Publishing Co., which is producing the directory, mailed all alumni in our data base informational ques- tionnaires.
Deluxe editions of the direc- tory will be available for $59.99; the regular edition will be $56.99.
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director's Message
I enthusiastically challenge our 20,000 alumni to become active in the UNCW Alumni Association. I guarantee you that you will gain far more than you expect. To place a value on lifelong relationships is futile. From my personal association with UNCW, I have found these relation- ships to be the most rewarding and profound. I invite you to get involved and become active in your alumni as- sociation and experience the warmth, fun and fellowship it offers. Top 1 0 reasons why you should be an active member of the UNCW Alumni Association:
10. You will realize that the value of your degree today is greater than it was at your graduation.
9. You will be a part of 20,000 alumni who should annually support UNCW.
8. You will be kept informed about alumni happenings at Wise Alumni House and on campus.
7. You will be greeted at least three times a year at your mailbox by UNCW Magazine, our official alumni publica- tion.
6. William Madison Randall Library will fling open its doors and invite you to check out its books.
5. Alumni socials, receptions and events are almost as fun as all those par- ties were in your college days.
4. The opportunity to volunteer and serve UNCW will bring out your per- sonal value of altruism.
3. Investing your time and talents with current UNCW students is invest- ing in our leaders of tomorrow.
2. The bonds that tie you to UNCW will strengthen from greater commit- ment and involvement.
1. You, UNCW and the alumni as- sociation will enjoy this relationship for many years to come.
Where do your loyalties lie?
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Alumni Lecture Series begins
Gene Warren '50 will be the featured speaker at the fall Alumni Lecture Series program.
This year's series kicks off at 7 p.m. November 8 in Cameron Hall Auditorium. Warren's lecture is titled "The Joy of a Life in Journalism." The Wilmington College graduate worked as sports editor and colum- nist for the Greensboro Daily News before moving on to Pembroke State University where he spent more than 25 years as public information di- rector. He retired in March.
The Alumni Lecture series was begun in 1992 by Dr. Gerald Shinn as a way of bringing successful alumni back to the university each se- mester to demonstrate to the campus community that a degree from UNCW is a key to a happy and prosperous life. This year as Dr. Shinn prepares to retire, he has passed the responsibility of the lecture series to Alumni Relations where he said "it naturally belongs."
The next lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. February 9 in Cameron Hall Auditorium.
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Cape Fear Chapter
The Cape Fear Chapter sponsored two fund-raising events this fall. The first was a golf tournament at Echo Farms Golf and Country Club in conjunction with UNCW's Family Weekend. The second was selling raffle tickets for two USAir tickets.
Onslow Chapter
The Jacksonville Daily News ho.sr agreed to help Sam O'Leary '83 bring alumni together. He's also working on a reunion of former vY.'i UNCW Swimmers.
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Nearly 50 alumni, their families and friends turned out to see the Durham Bulls play on August 14. Seahawk basketball coach Jerry Wainwright was a special guest.
The chapter also sponsored a din- ner in conjunction with the summer alumni board meeting.
MBA Chapter
The MBA Chapter hosted its second annual Cameron School of Business Lifelong Learning Conference on September 17. The goal of the conference was to provide alumni with an opportunity to update their knowledge of current business and economic trends and to create an environment that maintains a network among Cameron graduates and regional businesses. The theme of this year's event was "Re-sizing American Business: Evolution of a New Era." Sessions featured panel discussions on investing trends, the proposed health care plan package, the challenges of managing growth and the information superhighway.
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ALUMNOTES
The '60s
Genie Lancaster '62 of Coldwell Banker Hanover Realty was one of seven realtors across the state to make a perfect score on the Graduate Realtor Institute's 100 series exam. She re- ceived the 1993 E. J. "Peg" Owens Me- morial Scholarship, awarded to the student obtaining the highest average.
Superior Court Judge Ernest Fullwood '66 was appointed to chair the continuing legal judicial education committee of the N.C. Joint Confer- ence between Superior Court and Dis- trict Court judges. He was also a speaker at the National Judicial Col- lege at the University of Nevada.
G. Eric Staton '68 is a pilot for USAir, father of two and resides in Greensboro.
Michael B. McCall '69 is the executive director of the S. C. State Board for Techni- cal and Compre- hensive Education. He and his wife, Carolyn, have three children.
The '70s
The Rev. Frank D. Russ, Jr., '76
was appointed assistant for program and ministry with the Episcopal Dio- cese of East Carolina in Kinston.
Teresa Anne Home '76 received a master's degree in rehabilitation coun- seling and vocational evaluation from East Carolina University and is em- ployed as a rehabilitation counselor for Intracorp. She and her husband, Will- iam Everett Bell, reside in Raleigh.
John M. Tyson '75 is an attorney in private practice and an adjunct pro- fessor of law at Campbell University. He recently ran for the N. C. Court of Appeals. He and his wife, Kirby Thomason Tyson '77, have four chil- dren and reside in Fayetteville.
Judy R. Tharp '78 received the 1994 Credit Union Career Person of the Year Award in June at Pinehurst. She has managed Cape Fear Employees Credit Union in Wilmington since it
was formed in 1979. A member of the N. C. Credit Union League Board of Directors since 1988, Tharp is the board's treasurer.
Dr. Steven H. Everhart '76 was elected to the executive board of the N. C. Chapter of the Wildlife Society. He is biology department chairman at Campbell University, and his wife, Barbara Everhart '75, teaches fourth grade at Buies Creek School.
Lt. Cmdr. Deborah Ann Dubach Headrick '76 graduated in June from the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., with a master's degree with dis- tinction in national security and stra- tegic studies. She also participated in Phase II of Joint Military Professional Training at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. She and her husband Alan, also a lieutenant com- mander, have been assigned to duty in Hawaii for three years.
The '80s
Baxter Miller III '81 was named vice president of Williams Pet Products Inc. and president of the Vision Secu- rity Product Company in Lumberton.
Alisa Frances Smith Sofield '82 is an office assistant in UNCW's Cam- eron School of Business Administra- tion and is pursuing her MBA degree. She and her husband, John, have one son and reside in Wilmington.
Capt. Darrel Thacker '83, a USMC pilot, is on the promotion list to major and will be attending post graduate school in Rhode Island. Vicki Brown Thacker '91 is an eighth grade teacher in Yuma (Ariz.) District One and was named "Teacher of the Year" and "Mother of the Year." She recently earned a master's in administration from North Arizona University. The Thackers have three children and re- side in Yuma.
Andrew Stephen Jones '86 is a sales consultant with American Bank- ers and resides in Scottsdale, Ariz.
James R. Merritt '89 of Durham was awarded a doctor of philosophy de- gree in chemistry from Duke Univer- sity in May 1994.
Victor Alan Blackburn '89 is em- ployed as an in-charge accountant with McGladry and Pullen and resides in
Wilmington.
John Colucci IV '89 is an invest- ment broker with Morgan Keegan and Co. Inc.
Rodrigo Hernado Lopez '84 owns a fishing company on San Andres Island, Colombia, South America.
Paul J. Seifert Jr., '84 was awarded a master of business administration de- gree from Duke University in Septem- ber 1993. He resides in Fayetteville.
Judith Hann Jones '85 and Buddy- Lee Jones '84 are teachers with Guilford County Schools and are the parents of two. They reside in Greens- boro.
Paul McCombie '86 was elected vice presi- dent for Wachovia Bank of North Carolina in Wilm- ington He is mar- ried to the former Brenda Baker and has one son.
Andrea L. Arenovski '88 recently completed requirements for her Ph.D. in the MIT/Woods Hole Oceano- graphic Joint Program in biological oceanography.
David T. Osgood '88 is working on a doctoral degree in coastal marsh ecology at the University of Virginia.
Navy Lt. David E. Woolston '89 is serving with the 2nd Dental Battalion, 2nd Force Sevice Support Group, Ma- rine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune.
The '90s
Karen C. Derrick '90 is a sales ad- ministrator for Hendrick Imports Inc. in Charlotte.
Jan Neerincx '90 is program coor- dinator for Queens College continuing education department in Charlotte.
Brenda Pate '90 is an audit officer with United Carolina Bank in Whiteville. She is treasurer of the Co- lumbus County Chapter of the Ameri- can Red Cross and vice president of the southeastern chapter of Financial Women International.
Janey L. Sturtz '90 is in her third year of a doctoral program in special education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is work-
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ing as project coordinator for Project ECCO at Frank Porter Graham Center.
Timothy W. Ivey '91 is an eco- nomic developer with Bertie County. He resides in Windsor and is engaged to Martha Rascoe Gillman '92.
Traci Lavengood '91 is sales and catering manager with Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club. She resides in Wilson.
B. Scott Hawkins '92 is employed by the Durham Herald Sun newspaper as circulation manager for the Chapel Hill Herald. He and his wife, Gina Cureo Hawkins '92, reside in Durham.
James E. Lee '92 was promoted from special project technician to pro- cess chemist with Wright Corp. He is working on a master's degree in chem- istry at N. C. State University.
David J. Miller '92 was honored as "Rookie Employee of the Year - Fed- eral Division" by Oracle Corporation, Herndon, Va.
Kimberly K. Askew '93 is a junior accountant/auditor with McGladrey and Pullen in New Bern and is work- ing on her CPA license.
Adrienne V. Boyle '93 is employed as concierge with Destination Wild Dunes on Isle of Palms. She resides in Charleston.
Katherine A. Bush '94 is a general services staff accountant in the audit department of McGladrey & Pullen.
Shana R. Dalton '94 of Raleigh is a teaching assistant/graduate student at N. C. State University.
John W. Dennehy '94 is a claims representative with Safeco Insurance Co. He and his wife, Melinda Chase Dennehy '94, reside in Greensboro.
Tina LeKay Inman '94 is a super- visor with the USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial in Wilmington.
Terry W. Jones '94 is a first-year law student at Campbell University.
George H. Sperry '94 is a general services staff accountant in the audit department of McGladrey 6k Pullen.
Amy Sharon Gray '94 is a Medic- aid processor at Comprehensive Home Health Care's corporate headquarters in Wilmington.
Ron Olsen '94 is a special projects operator with Wright Corp.
James Dale Winters '94 is an assis- tant controller with Belk Group Of- fice. He resides in Rocky Mount.
Jamie Lee Allen '90 was awarded a master of arts degree in philosophy from Duke University in September
SHORT TAKES
Harry Warren '78 some times wonders what life would be like if he had taken the job offered to him at the Smithsonian Institution, but he says doesn't regret staying in Wilmington.
After military service in Ger- many, the Wilmington native used his Veterans Administration benefits to enroll at UNCW. That he chose history as his major was no surprise. It was something he said he had wanted to study from the time he was eight years old.
Looking back on his education, Warren said he was among "an elite corp of historians" at UNCW and cited the two greatest influences in his life as advisor Alan J Watson and Tom I Loftfield. Watson "got me off on the right foot doing history the way it should be done," Warren recalls.
Recovering quickly from a poor start his first semester, Warren went on to graduate with a 3.6 grade point average. His first job was through the federal CETA program at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher where he worked as an education assistant. When that job ended, Warren decided to use the remainder of his VA benefits by enrolling in graduate school at East Carolina University.
One summer he had an opportu- nity to work at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. In an office in the historic castle, overlooking the mall, Warren sorted through the papers of Joseph Henry, the first secretary of
the Smithsonian and renowned 1 8th- century scientist.
A temporary job at the Smithsonian was offered to Watten when he completed his master's the- sis. His other option was a perma- nent job with benefits at his hometown museum.
He opted for the latter, thinking he would stay for a couple of years before moving on. "It's 12 years later and here I am," he says with a wry laugh. War- ren, who has been Cape Fear Museum's historian and publicist, was pro- moted to assistant direc- tor in March.
"It's one of those things when you look back, you say if I'd taken that path my life would have been to- tally different. I can't help but wonder a little bit, but I don't have any regrets," he said. "This job has opened up many doors. It's made me a seasoned mu- seum professional and given me a real strong foundation to go for- ward from here." This fall, he be- gins his tenure as president of the North Carolina Museum Council.
Warren said he continues to value his historical resources at UNCW and works closely with many departments, including busi- ness and fine arts. Last year, the university and museum worked to- gether to bring one of nation's di- nosaur authorities to Wilmington.
"I was supposed to have left (Wilmington) nine years ago by my plan. Something went right, that's why I'm here," Warren said.
1993. She resides in Jacksonville, Fla.
Sonya Patterson-Baker '90 is a certified medical technologist at Rex Hospital in Raleigh.
Sam C. Hudson '90 is a scuba diver for Atlantis Submarines at Wakiki on
the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
James E. Mott '90 is accounting manager tor Interroll Corp.
Charles Wells '90 has been elected banking officer tor Wachovia Bank in Lumberton.
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James E. Hickmon '92 is enrolled in
MBA program at East Carolina Uni- versity and is a candidate for the certi- fied financial planner license issued by the National Endowment for Financial Education in Denver, Colo., and the In- ternational Board of CPA's. He is em- ployed as a trust officer with Wachovia Bank in Greenville.
Molly Messer '92 is aquatic preserve manager for Biscayne Bay, Fla., for the Department of Environmental Protec- tion.
Staci S. Cummings '93 was promoted to editor-in-chief of Golf and Beach Publications Inc.
Melissa B. Goet; '92 is a mortgage loan officer for Triangle East Bank in Wilmington.
Trey Wyatt '92, a personal trainer, is a master member of the International Association of Fitness Professionals. He works at Arnold's Gym.
Marine 2nd Lt. Darren S. Boyd '93 graduated in August from the Ba- sic School at the Marine Corps Com- bat Development Command in Quantico, Va.
MARRIAGES
Daniel D. Mahn '82 to Cynthia Mane Colucci on August 27, 1994- Mahn practices law in Wilmington, and his wife is a nursing student at Cape Fear Community College.
Eric Richard White 76 to Elsa K. Mazullo on July 16, 1994, in Houston, Texas. They reside in Spring, Texas.
Daniel E. Schweikert '89 to Sarah Barrett on October 15, 1994. He is a se- nior associate programmer for IBM and resides in Raleigh.
Celeste E. Bulley '90 to Michael W. Broome on October 15, 1994. She is a senior secretary with Tascor Inc. in Re- search Triangle Park and resides with her husband in Durham.
James M. Barnhill, Jr., '94 to Carol Mcintosh on April 16, 1994. He is a kin- dergarten teacher at Bethesda Elemen- tary School in Durham.
Richelle Rae Bragg '85 to Ronald Edward Dombroski on July 2, 1994. She is a social studies teacher and depart- ment head at Laney High School and re- ceived the State Farm Good Neighbor Award for excellence in teaching.
Matthew Wayne Green '91 to Daphne L. Pridgen on May 28, 1994- The Greens reside in Clinton where Green is a state certified general real estate appraiser.
Mari-Frances Keane '93 to Daniel B. Kline on April 16, 1994. He is pursu- ing a master's degree in geology at UNCW.
Oliver Lamon Spainhour III '92 to Lisa Renee Lewis '93 on April 30, 1994- She is a teacher of severely and profoundly retarded students, and he manages Triangle Materials in Morrisville.
Levrah Ann Horrell '93 to Larry Lewis Hall on August 6, 1994- They re- side in Wilmington.
Cheryl Victoria Newton '88 to Carl Eric Ray '88 on April 23, 1994. She is an area sales manager with Belk, and he is a right-of-way agent with the N. C. Department of Transportation, Division of Highways. They reside in Wilmington.
BIRTHS
To Jayson (Mark) Canter '90 and Lora Smith Canter '85, '89 of Wilming- ton, a daughter, Cathleen Loraine, on August 1, 1994.
To Karen Bogart Bartlett '92 and William Bartlett '92 ot Cincinnati, Ohio, a daughter, Amanda Reed, on April 11, 1994. Mrs. Bartlett is finance manager for General Electric.
To Jeffrey S. Niles '86 and Kristina Niles of Wilmington, Del., a daughter, Alexandra Tatem, on December 13,
1992. Mr. Niles is a compliance control analyst with MBNA America Bank in Newark, Del.
To Nancy Lee Dubach Gower '79 and Perrin W. Gower '77, a daughter, Cassandra (Casey) Michelle, on Decem- ber 15, 1993. Mrs. Gower was an ana- lytical chemist with A.H. Robins Co. in Richmond and her husband is a licensed geologist who owns and operates Profes- sional Geological Services in Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky.
To Pamela Brock Melton '92 and Michael Brock of Warsaw, a daughter, Katherine Leigh, on December 25,
1993. Mrs. Melton is an educator with Duplin County Schools.
IN MEMORIAM
Antoinette Marie Cromartie '88
died in July from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. She was a case- worker with the New Hanover County Department of Social Services.
Jane LeAnne Mitchell '92 passed away on August 23, 1994.
UNCW ALUMNI BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OFFICERS
Chair
Jessiebeth Geddie '63
350-0205
Vice Chair
Jim Stasios '70
392-0458
Secretary
Shanda Williams '92
392-4660
Treasurer
Cheryl Hunter '89
392-1803
Immediate Past Chair
Marvin Robison '83
762-2489
BOARD MEMBERS
Cape Fear Area
John Baldwin 72 762-5152
Tommy Bancroft '58, '69 799-3924
Rebecca Blackmore 75 791-9110
Tammy Bliziard '83 256-6006
Frank S. Bua '68 799-0164
Dru Farrar 73 392-4324
Deborah Hunter 78 762-0365
Veronica McLaurin 72 762-1247
Norman Melton 74 799-6105
Mary Beth Morgan '81 270-3300
Lee Pearson 70 799-7978
Richard Pratt 71 350-0282
Charlie Wall 77 392-1370
Triangle Area
Sonia Brooks '80 (919) 362-7539
Don Evans '66 (919) 872-2338
Kentucky
Randy Gore 70 (502) 228-9386
CHAPTER REPS Cape Fear Chapter
Amy Tharrington '87 799-0178
MBA Chapter
Cheryl Fetterman '92 392-1578
Triad Chapter
Jeff Holeman '93 885-5927
Triangle Chapter
Carolyn Busse '92 (919)967-4458
Onslmi' County Chapter
Sam O'Leary '84 451-1879
ALTERNATES
Scott Blue '85 (803)577-9755
Bob Eakins '66 791-2369
Tom Hodges 73 799-4102
Eric Keefe '88 762-75 1 7
Steve Moore '92 350-0934
Gia Todd '91 763-3165
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Patricia A. Corcoran, 72
251-2681
Area code is 910
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NOVEMBER
5 Wilmington Symphony Orchestra
8 p.m. Kenan Auditorium
7 Alumni Reception
5:30 p.m. Grove Park Inn, Asheville
8 Alumni Lecture Series with Gene Warren '50 7:30 p.m. Cameron Hall Auditorium
10-13 NCAA Women's National Collegiate
Golf Preview, Landfall Club 12-13 Alumni Association Boatd Retreat, Fort Fisher 15 MBA/Cape Fear Alumni Chapter Meetings
17 Alumni Reception
5:30 p.m. Holiday Inn Four Seasons, Greensboro
19 Seahawk Swimmers, DUKE, 2 p.m.
20 Seahawk Swimmers, CHARLESTON, 1 p.m.
2 1 UNCW Band, 8 p.m. Kenan Auditorium 23-27 Thanksgiving Vacation
29 Women's Basketball, CHARLESTON, 7:30 p.m.
JANUARY
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Parents Advisory Council, 1 p.m.
Post-Game Social, 6:30 p.m. Hawk's Nest
Women's Basketball, W. CAROLINA, 2 p.m.
Classes Begin
UNCW Board of Trustees Meeting
MBA/Cape Fear Alumni Chapter Meetings
Seahawk Swimmers, BUFFALO, 2 p.m.
Pre-Game Social, 5:30 p.m. Hawk's Nest
Martin Luther King Holiday
Women's Basketball, G. MASON, 7:30 p.m.
Seahawk Swimmers, DAVIDSON, 2 p.m.
Women's Basketball, AMERICAN, 2 p.m.
Pre-Game Social, 5:30 p.m. Hawk's Nest
DECEMBER
2-3 USAir East Coast Classic, 6 p.m. Trask Coliseum
5 Wilmington Symphony Orchestra
8 p.m. Kenan Auditorium 8 UNCW Jazz Concert, 8 p.m. Kenan Auditorium
8 Women's Basketball, C CAROLINA, 7:30 p.m.
9 Senior Reception, 6:30 p.m. Wise Alumni House
9 Last Day of Classes
10 Commencement, Trask Coliseum
10 North Carolina Symphony Holiday Pops Concert
8 p.m., Kenan Auditorium
20 Fall Semester Ends
2 1 Women's Basketball, CAMPBELL, 7:30 p.m.
FEBRUARY
4 Seahawk Swimmers, N.C. STATE, 1 p.m.
4 Pre-Game Social, 5:30 p.m. Hawk's Nest
5 Seahawk Women's Basketball, ECU, 2 p.m.
9 Alumni Lecture Series
7:30 p.m. Cameron Hall Auditorium
10 Women's Basketball, J. MADISON, 7:30 p.m. 10 UNCW Jazz Concert, 8 p.m. Kenan Auditorium 1 2 Women's Basketball, RICHMOND, 7:30 p.m. 14 MBA/Cape Fear Alumni Chapter Meetings 15-18 CAA Swimming Championships
16 N. C. Symphony, 8 p.m. Kenan Auditorium
17 Alumni Association Awards Banquet 6:30 p.m. University Center Ballroom
18 Alumni Association Annual Meeting 8 a.m. Madeline Suite, Wagoner Hall
18 Pre-Game Social, 12:30 p.m. Hawk's Nest
18 Homecoming Dance, 8 p.m. Wagoner Hall
20 Dr. Cornell West, 7 p.m. Kenan Auditorium
23 Women's Basketball, OLD DOMINION, 7:30 p.m.
26 Women's Basketball, WILLIAM &MARY, 2 p.m.
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