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St. Cloud State University theRepository at St. Cloud State Alumni Magazines Alumni Publications Fall 1999 Outlook Magazine [Fall 1999] St. Cloud State University Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/magazines Recommended Citation St. Cloud State University, "Outlook Magazine [Fall 1999]" (1999). Alumni Magazines. 73. https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/magazines/73 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Alumni Publications at theRepository at St. Cloud State. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of theRepository at St. Cloud State. For more information, please contact [email protected]. EVENTSCALEN DAR Thursday 11: Faculty Emeriti Thursday Luncheon, October 1999 Va lh alla An nex, St. Cloud State University Friday 1: First Friday Luncheon, Centra l M innesota Friends of SCS U, Radisson Suite Hotel, 12 noon - l :00 p.m. December 1999 Tuesday 5: SCS and You, Tuesdays at Th e Classics, First Friday Luncheon, Central Minn esota Excelsior Blvd ., 5-9 p.m. Friday 3: Friends of SCS U, Rad isson Suite Hotel, 12 noon - l :00 p.m. Thursday 14: Faculty Emeriti Thursday Luncheon, Faculty Emeriti Thursday Luncheon, Va lhalla Annex, St. Cloud State University Thursday 9: Va lh alla Ann ex, St. Cloud State University Friday 29: Alumni Association Annual Meeting, Atwood Memori al Center, 12 p.m. January 2000 Friday 29: Alumni Association Awards Ceremony, Atwood Memorial Center, 5 p.m. Saturday 15: Husky Huddle and Alumni Board Meeting, Duluth Friday 29: Homecoming - Harvest Moon Banquet, Atwood M emorial Cen ter, 6 p.m. February 2000 Saturday 30: 0-Year Reunion, Tuesday 1: SCS and You, Tuesdays at The Classics, Rotary Pa rk East (Se lke Field), Excelsior Bl vd., 5-9 p.m. 10 a.m . Friday 4: Career Connection Mentor Day and First Friday Luncheon, Ce ntra l M innesota Friends of SCS U, November 1999 Radi sson Suite Hotel, 12 noon - l :30 p.m. Tuesday 2: SCS and You, Tu esdays at Th e Classics, Thursday 10: Faculty Emeriti Thursday Luncheon, Excelsior Blvd., 5-9 p.m. Valhalla A nnex, St. Cloud State Un iversity Friday 5: First Friday Luncheon, Centra l M in nesota Thursday 17: Twin Cities President' s Luncheon, Friends of SCS U, Radisson Suite Hotel, 12 noon - l :00 p.m. Th e Rega l Hotel, Nicollet M all, 11 :30 a.m . - l p.m. Friday 5: Mentorship Program Kick-off, Twin Cities Alumni Chapter, Carlson Towers, 5-8 p.m. COVER STORY Would you like to suggest What's in a name? 8 a story for Outlook? The SCSU College of \Ve welcome your comments and Business has changed its suggestions. 1l cres how to get in touch name to the G.R. Herberger with the Oui/00/1 ednorial staff: College of Business. But, it's really just one of many new things Lisa l!clmin Foss happening at the college. 207 Administrative SerY1ces llldg. 72Ll Fourth A,'C. S. St. Clc)ud. M:\ 56101-4498 Phone (120i 255-1151 Fa;; 1120) 65+-5167 1lnss@St Cloud State .edu L,)nkmg flff ml()rmatilm ah,nn SC.SL. prngrJms? \'1:-.ll our \\"ch -.;11c http://www. StCloudState.edu \lanag1ng l:d1tor· Lisa Hel111111 Foss Photographer: :\eil Andersen SC:SL Information: \larsha Shllemakcr. E. Barry Wegener, Marge Procll Alumni and F,>Lmdauon lnlormation: Shawn Teal. Orin Dahl. Jim S11g111an Sports lnlormat1,m: Anne Ab1cht. T,1111 :-Jelson, Te!T) Ts,·h1da Oui/0,,/1 is produced three limes a year by the Office ol Lrmnsll) Communirnu,,ns at St. Cloud State Lm,·crsny and rs distributed \\llhout charge t,1 SCSL alumni. larnlty. Merit finalists pick SCSU 7 Husky gridders new leader 14 lnends and parents ol currently SCSU becomes the only school in Like any year, the new football season cnrulkd students. Oui/,,0/1 articks may MnSCU and one of 200 in the country brings new laces to the field, including he reproduced \\rthout pcrm1ss1<m ii to achieve national merit status. that of the new Husky head coach. apprnpriatc credit is gi,·cn The business connection 10 Please n,1tily the ,\lumrn ( lffice ,d1en Businesses are finding an increasing you ch~mgc your address. write to: number of reasons to collaborate DEPARTMENTS .\lumni and Foundation Center with the G.R. Herberger College SCSU News ... .. ..... 2 'ol. Cloud ':itatc Lrmnsit) of Business . Alumni Report ....... 19 72ll Fourth Aw S. St. Cloud. \I:\ 56ll11 -++LJ8 Foundation Report ....... 16 SCSU's economic impact 13 Classnotes . ...22 Ph,mc D2l1) 255-42+ I, SCSU brings a lot to the St. Cloud community, not the least E-mail alurnn1(DStCloudState.,·du. of which is a significant amount of or \\Tile to revenue. SCSI ' is llll lll/irnw111'<' c1cti,111/ L'l{Util tippnrtu11i1y l'lluul/or und cmp/(1ytT scsu Events and faculty news from the campus of St. Cloud State University KVSC heard round the world Sports, news and music programming on St. Cloud State University's campus radio station, KVSC 88. l FM, now can be heard by interested listeners around the world, thanks to Internet technology and a new relationship with SCSU alumnus Jim Muggli. Th rough St. Cloud Internet supplier Cloudnet, owned and operated by Muggli, 15 streams are now available through the Internet. That means 15 li steners at a time can be accessing KVSC through their computers. Alumni, parents and friends of KVSC in such remote sites as New York or Phoenix or Kua la Lumpur all can keep up w ith what's going on at SCSU through this new service. More streams will be added to accommodate more listeners as the demand warrants, said Jo McMullen, sta ti on manager of KVSC. "Anyone interested in checking out KVSC's signal can simply go to our Web site (www.kvsc.org) to find step-by-step instructions on how to download the software free to a home or work computer," McMullen said. " We're using RealAudio, a vendor who's been doing this for several years." KVSC is the first station in the St. Cloud market to broadcast on the Internet. Teaching about the Holocaust ··· ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·· When Scott and Lynn Bryce, the directors of the Center inmates and resistance fighters who documented mid for Holocaust Education, fi rst approached art historian century atrocities that were often beyond belief - the course Nancy Weston about creating a course on the "Holocaust also covers Gentile German artists, the Nazi use of the arts and the Visual Arts," Weston thought there would never be and the memorialization and legacy of the Holocaust. enough material for a full semester course. Weston says that, "Difficul t as the subject is, the students Now after teaching the subject Sp ring semester, she have been wonderfully involved and sensitive to the course struggles to complete all of the topic areas she has been material." researching for the last several years. Weston beli eves that "The Holocaust and the Visual ln additi on to investigating the images of the Holocaust Arts" is the only academic course on the topic in the country itself - the art of ghetto dwellers, concentration camp 2 SCSU NEWS Partnership with German university SCSU chemistry student's offers business, engineering students research draws national attention international st'!~Y opportunities As an undergraduate student, Carrie Johnson, SCSU chemistry student has In May, SCSU for tlfaft.E a teach1ngli~arn1ng exchange already made a name for herself in program with Fachhoc,!:sch,ule, ,a unjye,?/tf 'l'i'iti'r!golstadt, organometallic compounds. GerIT].;/.ny · - • / ..__ / \ Johnson presented her research at the 217th National Meeting of the 1ihe prograll1-will allow up to-59 SCSU students to American Chemical Society in March study' business or engineering in ..,Germany each year, wi~ 1999, in Anaheim, Calif. Her paper, classes in Englisli'hlfigH't"5y Gern;ian and America'\, \ "Synthesis and Characterization of a professors. The first gmup of students will & gin st"'udy in Dinuclear (Biphenyl) February 2000. \ """':-"" > 8,.,_ Chromium Complex with a _..... In exchange, Fac];ihochscliule wmks~ad,11p tCl38 Diphenyltin Linkage ," has Nr..,1m,,,.,i,.wesl! 1 ,,. \. I attracted the interest of stuaents and a teacher annu lly to smdy and teach on 1the "' r~ ' ~- \ chemists in the field of St..,l::l,.Qud campus. ~ • - Sa<ooy , fa 1 organometallic mixed . 'This is exactly the kind o(,prograrn_forwud-th'tnking $"' j) 1 valent compounds. sw,qents elf to'day need ," said DP'"51'l!anne Willia~ Based on Johnson's ) president at SCSW,,,ifhoserwho participa(e will h;ive a head preliminary research start on b7co111}ng, global citizens of the 2 century." results, tentative Stude,1;1:s, it! the' new lngolstadt program ~ill live in collaborations have been established tbfeommotleled Villa Kunterbunt, which will ~ leased by with faculty from the University of Idaho and Ohio . •S~. • loud State.'-i, {. \ ·•· • State University · 'sc;:su has had a German-language, liberal ans study "Carrie's performance in her research project has been outstanding," said Johnson's facu lty advisor, abroad arrrgement with lngolstadt s· nc 197'+. 'More than 71 Dr. Alison Johnson. "She has synthesized and 400 students have·bem to GAmany through that program characterized an extremely significant organometallic SCSU a>so conducts 15 othci- study abroad programs..,in eight compound, (biphenyl) [Cr(CO)2]2(µ-SnPh2), with an countries, irl'NffdY\'fg'"c:: n'ina\ Japan, Cost!!' Rica an!England. unprecedented bonding model. " In o1sfad_;;.,a city of 115,000 people, is 50 mi Cs north of The SCSU Foundati on program for undergraduate Munic,h on the Danube ~ver.