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SCIEITIFIC llllTEIICY CLOUDS NATION'S FUTURE! Appreciation

These May graduates, applauding their families at the close of commencement, were also thanking another important group of people: UNl's alumni and friends.

Support from the UNI Alumni Association and the UNI Foundation provided many of the scholarships and special programs these students enjoyed at UNI. Without such support, the academic procession would have been a little shorter, the years of work a little longer.

Less than a month later, the 1982 crop of UNI freshmen started arriving on campus for summer orientation, the vanguard of the Class of 1986. Education never ends, nor does education's needs. Support the UNI Alumni Association and the UNI Foundation. Keep the applause coming.

UNI Alumni Association University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614 (319) 273-2355 The Alumnus University of Northern Iowa

Volume,.66, Number 3 September 1982 01 Homecoming/Reunion: October 7-10 / 4 "Famous Firsts" is the theme for this annual celebration for alumni and students.

Panthers' toughest foe? / 11 Declining private support of UNI athletics has resulted in an expanded fund raising effort.

Science and math illiteracy / 14 A shortage of students and teachers in math and the sciences poses serious Page 4 economic and political questions.

Getting into UNI today / 18 New admissions requirements, scheduled for 1984, will add some teeth to existing admissions "recommendations."

UNl's first lady / 20 During just two years of teaching, Frances Webster left her mark on the early history of UNI.

Fox still challenges / 24 Page 14 A recently published selection of the writings of Josef Fox is not a memorial but "a continuation of his life."

Departments

Director's Medlee / 7 Campus News / 8 Alumni Happenings / 7 Class Notes / 26

Page 20 UNI Alumni Association Board of Directors Nick Teig, B.A. '63, President Harold B. "Duke" Strever, B.A. '68, Vice President Lee Miller, B.A. '52, Secretary James L. Bailey, Treasurer Editor / Kevin Boatright Donald Eichelberger, B.A. '63 Alumni Director / Lee Miller Shirl ey Hagemann, B.A. '29 Designer / Elizabeth A. Conrad Noreen Hermansen, M.A. ' 71 Photographer / Bill W itt Joan Mccann, B.A. '55 University Publications David Oman, B.A. '74 Francis S. "Jack" O rr, B.A. ' 26 Administrator / Susan M. Chilcott David E. Pike, B.A. '73 Michael Sheehan, B.A. '65 Margaret Willoughby, B.A. '47, Immediate Past President

The Alumnus is publised quarterly by the University of Northern Iowa, 1222 W. 27th St., Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614. Postal number USPS 016-080. Second class postage paid at Cedar Fal Is, Iowa 50614. UNI Alumni Association membership dues, including The Alumnus subscription, are $16 annually. Signed letters to the editor are welcome and will be printed provided space is available. Send letters to: The Alumnus, Office of Public Information Services, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614. UNI is a member of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The University of Northern Iowa is a nondiscriminatory educational institution and employer. For information, contact Dr. James Martin, vice president for academic affairs and provost. 3 Football and much more! Homecoming/Reunion: October 7-10

UNl's 1982 Homecoming/Reunion is coming up October 11:30to 12:30 Carillon recital, Campanile 7-10, and a very full weekend is scheduled for returning alumni 1 to 4 p.m. Gallery of Art open, Communication Arts and friends. Center The classes of 1932, 1942 and 1957 will receive special 1 :30 Homecoming football game with the recognition, but homecomers of any age will find this weekend University of Idaho, UNI-Dome a delightful time to visit the campus and join in its activities. 4 p.m. All-Greek Alumni Reunion for Greek The June UNI Century contained a complete schedule of alumni of UNI and other colleges, Homecoming/Reunion events, some of which have been UNI-Dome parking lot or Maucker changed or added to. Here is a more recent schedule, correct Union (in case of bad weather) as of August 1 : 6 to 9 p.m. Alumni Invitational art exhibition opening reception (free and open to the public), Thursday, October 7 Gallery of Art, Communication Arts 7 and 9 p.m. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Variety Show, Center [Inaugural event of the 75th Russell Hall anniversary celebration of the UNI 7:30 p.m. Richard Harrow, chair of an American Bar Department of Art] Association task force on violence in 7 p.m. Tau Kappa Epsilon dinner and dance for sports, will speak on that topic and alumni, members and famil ies, location show a film, University Auditorium to be announced 8:lSp.m. Theatre UNI/UNI Lyric Theatre presents 7 p.m. Sigma Alpha Epsilon dinner and dance for Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, alumni, members and families, Ramada Strayer-Wood Theatre Inn Penthouse, Waterloo 8 to midnight Homecoming Dance, featuring Friday, October 8 "Tennyson," University Hall, Maucker 4 to 6 p.m. Registration and social gathering, Union (alumni, students, faculty and Commons friends invited) 6 p.m. President's Reunion/Awards Gala, plus 8:15 p.m. The Mikado, Strayer-Wood Theatre dinner, Commons 7 p.m. Awards presentation for Alumni Sunday, October 10 Achievement, Alumni Service and 1 to 4 p.m. Gallery of Art open, Alumni Invitational SO-Year Club, Commons through November 4, Communication 8 p.m. Photographs of special reunion classes, Arts Center Commons 8:lSp.m. The Mikado, Strayer-Wood Theatre 7 and 9 p.m. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Variety Show, Russell Hall 11 :15 p.m. Bonfire and pep rally at Latham Field, with snake dance to Campanile Midnight " Campaniling," with cider and a sing-along, Campanile

Saturday, October 9 9 a.m. to noon Registration and coffee, Commons 9 a.m. Stacy Miller Scholarship Run (in honor of a UNI woman athlete killed in an accident in 1981)* 10 a.m. 1982 Homecoming Parade, starting at 18th and College (Grand Marshal: "Micki" Dirks Lounsberry, '42) 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Homecoming "Pignic" pig roast, Campanile 11 a.m. Alpha Delta Pi reception for alumnae,

families, members and parents, 2222 Gary Kelley 01 ive Street

4 This Homecoming/Reunion schedule could till have some Strayer-Wood Thea tre: (319) 273-6381 furth r additions and changes. A fi nal schedule will b Gallery of Art: (3 19) 273-6114 avai lable at registration. Greek Adviser: (3 19) 273-2683 The regi stration deadline for ti kets to the Friday night Gala Football ticket : (319) 273-6131 and th e Saturday afternoon ga me i Thursday, September 30. Phi Mu Variety Show: (319) 273-2024 Gala ticket are $10 per per on ( 9 for Alumni Association members), while game tickets are $7 per per on ($6.30 for As o iation m mber ). If you have mislaid the regi !rati on form from the June U Cenlury, on ta t the U I Alumni Services Office, Cedar Fa ll , *The run is open to women only. It will probably b about five mile long, but the exact route ha not yet been chosen. Proce ds from entry Iowa 50614 or all (3 19) 273-2355. For more information about fees and ponsor hips will be u ed to e tabli h a women' ro s particular event , such as thea tre, art or Greek activities, conta country holarsh ip fund at U I. For information, conta t Mike the e offices directly: Froehle or Stacy Roberts at Sport Afoot, (319) 277-3124, Cedar Fall .

Afraid of Homecoming? How I faced my 'infamous first' by Kevin Boatright

I had to admit the word was apt. stay longer, glad that I had come. What Driving up to the tree-lined campus on a happened in just 24 hour to rid me of my cri p fall morning did feel I ike a fears, fear that anyone might have at the " homecoming," my first since graduating thought of a college homecoming? even years before. Yet all my good feelings about being back were mixed A revival meeting with fears . Homecoming was a day I The smartest thing I did was to take my dreaded. wife, a non-alumnus, with me. She knew There were no reasons to fear about my fears and she helped me forget homecoming, but fear don't always need them. I could tour the campus with her, reasons. I wa still very positive about the explaining what everything was, and recall college. I kept in tou h, sent money, cared my memories through her without being and all that. Homecoming is really just a no ta lgic and sad. I originally thought she harmles tribal custom, I thought, but the wouldn't want to go to homecoming, but fears were there all the same. I'm glad she wa there. These weren' t garden variety vague and The college never once asked for a namele s fears, either. These were fear I contribution, though they need money just had rehearsed carefully ever since like everyone else. I was surprised by how deciding to come. I could recite them by many people I remembered, and how heart: many people remembered me. Consulting • Fear of being asked to give more my enior yearbook in advance was a money; good idea. So these fears were groundless. • Fear of forgetting someone's We went to the football game and, name; indeed, the fight song choked me up. Our • Fear of being forgotten by team scored a touchdown on a fluke play everyone else; and that choked me up. I visited with my • Fear of choking up when the fight faculty adviser, and the man who got me song was played; interested in journalism, and that choked Old Main: inviting and menacing • Fear of feeling old; me up. The other team killed us. That did • Fear of feeling like a failure in not choke me up. I smiled and shrugged life; my shoulders. Emotions are an important • Fear of feeling ad afterward. part of homecoming, so why be afraid of them? I was carrying quite a load as I parked the I think it's impossible not to fee l young car and walked across campus to the at a homecoming. When you talk with a registration desk. current student who tells you how great The next day, with homecoming the school is, or take a tour of a brand behind me, I left campus wondering new building, the clock stop . " Old where the time had gone, wishing I could Main" i aging, your friends are aging and

5 Reunion participants, front row, left to right : Betty Hatch Foster, Henrietta Jungk Daykin, Mabel Anderson Rhoads, Lora Stark But/er, Marjorie Kutzner Hill, Elsie Hoyt Frandson, Ethyl Wilson Beneke, Emma Kathryn Scott, Alice Butler Howe, Mary Rund/es Grupp, Ida Cramer Smith, Neva Henrietta Radell, Dorothy Winter Mast, He/en Granger Isley and Hazel Frederickson. Back row, left to right : Mary Lucille Creighton, Clara Marie Foss Korslund, Frank Butler, Margaret Wolff Carland, M ayme Ferguson Robb, Lillian Petersen Nie/sen, Lauretta M cCavick Rice, Margaret Porter Akers, Th eresa Reed Haines, Priscilla Harman Kezar, Martha Johnson Bonacker, Vincent Hall and Iva n Mast. June reunion for Class of '22

" ... And it came to pass that several The reun ion was hosted by Bill (2 yr., primary) score of the best and fairest young men Calhoun, assistant director for • Martha Johnson Bonacker, and maidens of the land, having many development, at the Communication Arts Reinbeck (B.A., ph ys ical education) and divers majors, received their degrees Center. Lee Thomson, facilities planning, • Mary Rundles Grupp, Cedar Falls and the Godspeed of the facu lty; while space assignment anJ safety directory, (B.A., French) the sound of wailing and gnashing of teeth gave a slide presentation and talk entitled • Vincent Hall, Stamford, was great in the land, as the under-class " Campus Scenes, Then and Now." A Connecticut (B.A., mathematics) men mourned at their departure and guided bus tour of the campus fol lowed, • Emma Olsen Scott, Cedar Falls uttered exceed ing great lamentations even • after wh ich luncheon was served in the (2 yr., primary) unto the going down of the sun ...." UNI Gallery of Art. President Kamerick • Ida Cramer Smith, Brandon (B.A., The 1922 edition of the Old Cold spoke bri efly. Latin) yearbook went on, in ever swelling Amidst all these formalities, there was cadences, to extol the Class of 1922. Six plenty of opportunity for the informalities If you' re an alumnus of the Class of representatives of that class returned to of talking and reminiscing that make 1923, or an alumnus from 1933 or prior UNI June 19 to celebrate the 60th 60-year reunions so special. years, plan now to take part in next year's anniversary of their graduation. They were The six Class of 1922 members who 60-year reunion. The reunion is usually joined by 22 other alumni from 1932 and attended this year's reunion were: scheduled for the second or third Saturday prior years, all members of UNl' s SO-Year in June. You' ll receive more information Club of graduates. • Ethyl Wilson Beneke, Cedar Falls as the time approaches. D

Fear, cont. you're aging (probably), but feeling as practical joke. We also sha red the tree- lined ca mpus aga in on a crisp fa ll though you're part of something that's unhappy experiences, and were sudden ly morning, but it won't be fear th at keeps growing lets you laugh at time. This only closer than we'd been in years. me away. (It is a long way from Cedar works, however, if you're as interested in Of all my fears, only the last one was Falls to Lincoln, after all.) No, I have faced the future of your col lege as you are in its realized . I did feel sad afterward, but not my first homecoming and survived. I' ll past. Homecoming can be a rev ival for the obvious reasons. I was sad for the never be afraid of homecoming aga in . 0 meeting for alumni of any age. friends I hadn't seen (perhaps they were I did meet many friends who are more afraid, too); sad for the old theatre, torn The editor is a 1974 graduate of Nebraska successful than I am. That was less down to make way for the new one; sad Wesleyan University (which means his important than our recollections of the for the footbal l tea m that only scored 10-year reunion is just around the fraternity, that production of Death of a once; sad to think how fears intrude in life corner!). Salesman, or the time someone parked my and keep us from following our hea rts. Volkswagen in the dorm lobby as a It may be awhile before I see that

6 Director's Medlee John Latta Jr. dies; civic leader, alumnus by Lee Miller, Director Alumni Services and Development John S. Latta Jr., a 1929 alumnus and a The staff and I Wright Scholarships for UNI students who logged many miles thi s pl an to tea ch fine arts, Joseph S. Wright longtime friend of th e U niversity, died Jul y summer visiting alumni Scholarships for men who plan to teach 28 at hi s home in Cherokee Vi ll age, chapters, attending physical education, and M abel M . Wright Arkansas. He was 74. conferences and Scholarships for women who plan to teach Latta was pres ident and chairman of contacting potential physical education. th e boa rd of J.S. Latta Compa ny from contributors. Such This trust is another example of th e 1938 until his retirement in 197 1. He also acti vities pay off in the power of a planned gift. For more se rved as mayor of Cedar Falls fro m 1947 form of new ideas, new information about planned giving, see th e to 1949 and was ac ti ve in community article on the back cover. contacts and , often, new affairs throughout his li fe. funds. We also congratulate the even UNI In 1975 , Latta made a contribution of Bill Calhoun attended an annual fund alumni w ho received Merchant workshop in Orlando, Florida and visited Scholarships thi s year. Carol Blaisdell $100,000 to th e UNI-Dome building fund loca l alumni, while Elly Leslie took part in Allbaugh, ' 71 ; Curti s Deberg, '79; M ark in honor of hi s fa th er, John S. Latta Sr., a the CASE International Conference in Goodman, ' 80; Gregory Harter, ' 82 ; 1903 graduate of th e Iow a State Normal Toronto. I went to Ca lifornia in June for a Jeffrey Hell mer, '81 ; David Klein, '81 ; and School. Th e northwest entrance of th e series of meetings with alumni groups and Marilyn Harbaugh Lies, ' 80, will begin or UNI-Dome is named th e John S. Latta individuals. A hi ghlight of th at trip was the continue their graduate education with Entrance. fi rst meeting of a new San Diego Area this financial support. All UNI bachelor's John Latta Jr.'s li fe of se rvice to hi s alumni chapter. I attended alumni picnics degree recipients are eligible to apply for community, his company and hi s in Jul y in Milwaukee and Madison, a Merchant Scholarship. If you plan to university is an inspiring exa mple. Th e W isconsin . attend graduate or professional school in University of Northern Iowa has lost a One of the summer's most memorable 1983, contact Dr. Donald Whitnah, events was the announcement that the late chairman of the 1983 se lection great friend with his passing. Joseph S. Wright, B.A. ' 06, left $161 ,748 committee, at th e UNI Department of to UNI in th e form of a trust. We learned History. of the trust in Jul y, fo ll owing the death of These scholarships were created Wright's widow, Mabe l McNally Wright, th rough a fund established by Dr. Frank B.A. '10, in January. Merchant and his sister, Kate. Merchant Alumni, staff Wright was the son of David Sands was a professor of Greek and Latin at UNI Wright, a member of the ori gi nal ISNS from 1907 until his retirement in 1934. support local faculty and th e man for whom UNl's The Merchant Scholarships program is Wright Hall is named. The income from anoth er good example of th e impact a library project th e trust will be used to fund David Sa nds planned gift can have on future generations of students. Th e Cedar Falls Publi c Library received a $184,000 renovation thi s spring, th anks in part to th e support of UNI staff and 'Met My Mate' Club for alumni couples alumni. The project provided a 25 percent If you kn ew it was love because the increa se in co ll ection space, new sea ti ng Campanile chimed th e moment you met, and study areas, handicapped access ibility and if you planned your wedding around and oth er improvements. Homecoming/Reunion weekend, and if More th an half of th e money for the you named your first son " Homer Seerley proj ect wa s raised through a public fund ...," th en chances are you qualify for membership in the new Met My Mate at dri ve, co-chaired by James Hea rst, UNI Club. professor emeritus of crea ti ve writing. UNI Met My Mate is easy to join. You' re fac ulty and staff contributed $6,645 already a member if you' re a UNI toward th e project, surpass ing th ei r $5 ,000 alumnus who is married to a UNI goal. alumnus. Membership is also hi gh ly Alumnus Neva Henrietta Radell , ' 17, affordable. Th ere are no dues. put th e drive over its $96,000 goal with a Met My Mate is a way of recogni zing contribution of $12,000. In recogniti on of UNl' s many alumni couples, whether or her support, the new children's area was not they actually met while attending UNI. des ignated th e " Radell Family Youth We hope to get th ese couples more Merrill and Nancy Peterson Library. " involved in th e University through social gatherings and other activities at sent soon to all 4,500 eligible couples, Th e fund drive also rece ived a $15,000 Homecoming/Reunion and alumni chapter along with membership cards. contribution from Dee re and Company. A meetings nationwide. So if you and your spouse are both somewhat small er contribution was th e Merrill and Nancy Padavich Peterson UNI alumni, welcome to the Club! (If $854 raised through th e raffl e and aucti on of Lincoln, Nebraska are helping the Club you' re eligible but don't receive th e letter of ti ckets to last November's Ro lling get organized. A letter from them will be please let us know.) Stones concert at th e UNI-Dome. D

7 Campus News

" Tuba Wars" collaborators Fritz Kaen zig, left, and Peter Hamlin.

KUNI' s 'Tuba Wars' cited

Even the name "tuba" e ms award for an original production. Hamlin undramatic. That didn' t stop U l's station thanks the people in Broadcasting Services KUNI-FM from creating an award-winning and the School of Music who were " very • radio program based on the tubby receptive to a pretty unusual project." D instrument' s hidden qualitie . "Tuba Wars," aired by KUNI-FM on June 3, 1981, was the national winner in the Spoken Arts category of the Arts and Mindpower Humanitie Division of the Corporation for . Public Broadcasting' s 1982 Public Radio campaign to focus Program Award competition. The award was presented April 20 at a ceremony in on business Washington, D.C. Peter Hamlin, senior producer, fine " America's Energy is Mindpower" was arts, for U l's Broadcasting Services, the slogan of a yearlong campaign by the accepted the award for KUNI-FM. Along Council for Advancement and Support of with Fritz Kaenzig, assistant professor of Education (CASE). The program called tuba and euphonium, Hamlin produced attention to the needs and contributions of "Tuba Wars" as a spoof of " Star Wars" education in the United States, and was and other science fiction epics. About a the theme for a series of U I-related dozen actors were also involved in the articles in The Alumnus and the UNI project, along with the U I Tuba­ Century. Euphonium Ensemble and other Mindpower was been recharged for musicians. another year, thanks in part to a $50,000 Characters in "Tuba Wars" included grant from the Exxon Foundation. The Fluke Wingwalker and Okie-Won-Kaboji, second phase of Mindpower will focus on and a Darth Vader whose tuba was a low the important relationship between higher 3CPO examines Darth Vader's " death frequency death ray. " Tuba Wars" was education and private business. ray." Illustration by Donna LaBrecque. rebroadcast May 3 by popular demand in National Higher Education Week will recognition of the program' s national be celebrated October 2-9 in recognition award. of America's colleges and universities, KUNI-FM has received national honors their faculties, alumni and students. in the past for its development efforts and oincidentally, that's the week of UNl's program guide, but this was the first such Homecoming/Reunion. D

8 Trio itinerary includes London, Brussels recitals

UNl's International Trio will live up to its name this fall when it makes a two-week concert tour to England and Belgium. The Trio, composed of pianist Howard Aibel (United States), cellist Stefan Reuss (West Germany) and violinist Vasile Beluska (Rumania) of the School of Music faculty, will perform in Brussels October 6 for the public and for a gathering of Belgian concert managers. They will perform October 14 at the Art Gallery in Leicester, England and October 15 at St. The International Trio is made up of School of Music faculty Vasile Beluska, left, James Church in London. The Trio will Howard Aibel, center, and Stefan Reuss. also perform for the British Broadcasting Company October 1 5. The program for the Trio's tour to England and Belgium includes chamber Legislative action pieces by Beethoven, Arensky, Potter and Haydn. delays art building The Trio spent the summer as the resident ensemble at the California Music The 1982 session of the Iowa General Center on the campus of the College of Assembly ended on a sour note for the Notre Dame in Belmont. They taught at Regents universities. On the final day of the College for six weeks and performed the session, the Assembly rej cted a recitals throughout the Bay area. A proposed increase in Regents bonding number of UNI music students went to authority. Such an increase would have " .. . a continued delay in the Belmont to study with the Trio during the enabled the University of Iowa to funding of Phase II ..." summer residency. construct a new building for its College of An individual honor for Stefan Reuss Law. came last spring, when he performed for The effect of this decision on UNI is a the first time at ew York's Carnegie Hall. continued delay in the funding of Phase II He was accompanied by the Youth of the Speech-Art Complex. Phase II is a Symphony of New York in a performance new, unified building for the Department of the Saint-Saens cello concerto on of Art. o bonding authority for that May 8. project is now possible until the spring of Reuss performed as one of 18 winners 1983. At that time it is likely that Phase II from last year's Concert Artists Guild will still be behind the Iowa law project as competition in New York. Of the 18, 10 an Assembly priority, as was the ase this were invited to perform at Carnegie Hall. year. The competition was open to singers and Even if the law project is authorized instrumentalists from many countries, and next year, it is possible that Phase II will more than 2,000 applications were then fall behind an Iowa State University submitted. project. ISU wants to build a new The tour, the res idency and the agronomy building, and this may b come Carnegie Hall debut all reflect the a higher capital priority for the Assembly individual and collective talent of U l's than UNl's Phase II. International Trio, and its growing Phase I of the Speech-Art Complex was reputation as a chamber ensemble. 0 completed in 1977, and was the last major campus construction project. Phase I consists of the Strayer-Wood Theatre and the Communication Arts Center. 0

9 Special graduates UNI sponsoring highlight May December trip commencement to Israel, Egypt

While all of thi spring's 958 U I University Continuing Education and graduates are "special," there are four Sp cial Programs has announced plans for who deserve pecial recognition: a December 22-January international study tour of the Holy Land and Egypt. The tour • Carole Kann Mackey of Guttenberg will be led by Dr. Jonathan Lu, U I graduated with a perfect 4.0 grade point professor of geography, in conjunction average, the first U I student to with his optional non-credit course, a complish this in several years. She Geography of the Bible. received a B.A. degree in speech with an "One sees geographic elements in the emphasis in interpretation, and will start Bible," says Lu. " One sees also the effects tea ching this fall in the Blairsburg (la.) of the Bible on the land. The study tour School Distri t. will provide an opportunity to acquire, first hand, personal knowledge and • Jon McNamee of Cedar Falls worked at Johnson's Dictionary is a new addition to Special Collections, of which Gerald experience in the land [where] Biblical one time for a company that was Peterson is 1-i-b-r-a-r-i-a-n. events took place, and create a better involved in the construction of the understanding of the current Arab/Israeli U I-Dome, site of the May 8 relations." commencement festivities. Mc amee Stageberg donates The cost of the tour is $2,025 per received a B.A. degree in geography, and person from Chicago, based on a delivered the tudent address. rare dictionary minimum of 15 participants. This includes • Francisca Ungi uba Undiandeye's round trip air fare to Tel Aviv via Rome mother and brother came from Obudu, to UNI Library and Cairo, as well as all hotels, most igeria to attend commencement, and meals, ground transportation and baggage were recognized for this by President If you ever need to look up the word handling. Kamerick. Undiandeye received a B.A. " lexicographer," ask for the first-edition The tour itinerary includes Christmas degree in social work with an emphasis in copy of John on's Dictionary in the U I Eve in Bethlehem, six nights in Jerusalem crim inal justice. She plans to continue Library's Sp cial Collections area. and two in Cairo, and extensive site visits work at U I toward a master's degree in This rare, two volume book, published in Galilee, Judea and the egev. Qumran, counseling while her husband, Lihu, in England in 1755, was donated to the Masada, azareth, Jericho and completes doctoral work in industrial Library last spring by Dr. orman Capernaum are among the many places technology. Stageberg, emeritus professor of English. that will be visited. The dictionary was produced under the Alumni and other interested persons • Joseph Martelli of orth Canton, Ohio guidance of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), should contact University Continuing received U l's third doctor of industrial the celebrated critic and lexicographer.• Education and Special Programs at technology degree. He received a B.S. in The book is in excellent condition, 1-800-772-1746, toll-free in Iowa, or at Ed. degree from Kent State University in according to Gerald Peterson, special (319) 273-2121 . You may also contact Lu 1975 and an M.Ed. degree from Bowling collections librarian, and features a red at (319) 273-6158. Green State Univer ity in 1977. His leather binding with gold tooling. Special A $200 advance deposit is required, dissertation is entitled " The Relationship Colle tions houses more than 1,000 rare and is refundable up to four weeks prior Between Management Training and or unusual volumes, including a second­ to departure. Payment in full is required Managerial Performance Among Selected edition copy of Johnson's Dictionary. by November 24 . D lndu trial Managers." Special Collections is open from 8 a.m . Three hundred Iowa communities, from to noon and 1 to 4 p.m., Monday through Ackley to Zwingle, were represented in Friday. Alumni are welcome to examine spring commencement, along with 15 and use the materials, which include the other states and five countries. D substantial University Archives.

• Author or editor of a dictionary

10 Financial support sought Panthers' toughest foe isn't on the schedule

You wouldn't throw a pass with a flat private support may eventually mean the football, or play basketball with a 20-foot elimination of some road trips or, as a last hoop. While U l's intercollegiate athletic resort, the cutting of an entire program. programs don't play with those kinds of Men's and women's gymnastics were obstacles, they do face one that's almost dropped as varsity sports in 1981 for as crippling: declining private support. financial reasons. Twelve of U l' s 20 Funding for U I athletics comes from men's and women' s sports produce no many sources, including state revenue but cost about $150,000 to appropriations, gate receipts and maintain. These would be the first concessions. An additional our e of programs to go, possibly jeopardizing private funds is the UNI Athletic Club. U l's Division I CAA standing. Only Tax-deductible contributions to the Club football and wrestling are currently go directly to athletic grants-in-aid for U self-supporting. students. Virtually all univer ities have a The number of grants can' t be cut similar fund-raising organization, whose much further. U I is eligible to give 75 members include local companies and grants in football, for example, but is "Only football and wrestling individual alumni or friends. currently only giving 60 due to a lack of Contributions to the Athletic Club funds. UNI urrently gives 95 grants in all are self-supporting." increased from a mere $6,500 in 1964-65 men's sports, 42 in women' s sports. Such to a peak of $182,000 in 1978-79. Since grants provide tuition, room and board, then, this private support has flattened out. and books, and cost about $2,600 for Contributions during the past three years resident students and $3 ,650 for have been $159,000, $138,000 and non-resident students. on-resident grants $160,000, respectively. cost more, but intense in-state competition At the same time, th cost of running a for athletes often makes them necessary. competitive program has risen (Fifty-three members of last year' s dramatically. For example, grants-in-aid 97-member football team were which cost $183,300 in 1978-79 will cost non-residents, for example.) about $341,000 this year. The Club' s Costs are increasing for all universities, 1982-83 goal is $200,000, well short of of ourse, not just U I. But private the amount needed even if the goal is support at other universities is also met. increasing. During 1980-81, for example, private athletic support at the University of Costs are increasing· Iowa totalled $1.9 million. Private support at Iowa State University totalled $.9 A shortage of private support means million. During that same year, private that money for grants must be wrung from support at these other universities, al I of other areas of the $1.5 million athletic which are smaller than U I in terms of budget. This means fewer events, older enrollment, was as follows: equipment and a leaner staff than UN l's in-state and regional rivals. A shortage of

11 When Joseph Wright, left, plaY.,ed at /SNS in 1904, tuition was $15 per semester. 1981 UNI quarterback Steve Sandon, right, played under a full scholarship, now costing $2,600 for resident students and $3,650 for nonresidents. What a difference 78 years make, in styles as well as costs! (Sandon was an 11th round draft pick of the New England Patriots.) Alumni, admissions affected Clemson $3.14 million Southern Methodist $1.90 million So what if UNI is less competitive in Wake Forest $1.50 million athletics? What difference does it make to Vanderbilt $1.50 million the rest of the University? Jerm ier has a Duke $1.00 million ready answer for that admittedly tough Georgia Tech $ .95 million question. Tulsa $ .63 million " Alumni, students and friends should Rice $ .58 million want UNI to be good in anything it's Tulane $ .53 million involved in," he says. " A competitive Wyoming $ .45 million athletic program can have a very positive impact on admissions, and it's an Figures are not available for such local important part of alumni relations. UNI rivals at Eastern Illinois and Western Athletics contributes to a well-rounded Illinois, but indications are that their university, and it's a pretty visible private support is also greater than UNl's. showcase in terms of public awareness." That's the picture. No one is suggesting Jermier points out that the late Roy that UNI needs $3 million in private Carver was a major athletics booster at the athletic support. No one is suggesting that University of Iowa before he became a UNI should pretend to be a national benefactor in other areas. Noreen athletic power, great seasons in wrestling Hermansen, an associate director of and women's softball notwithstanding. A admissions at UNI and a member of the continued decline in private support will Athletic Club, adds that " while it would likely mean a loss of competitiveness in be unfair to say that a student selects a all sports, however. As an associate university strictly because of athletics, a athletics director at UNI, it's one of John large number do view an athletic program "Jersey" Jermier's jobs to try to reverse as a major extra-curricular activity. A the downward trend in private support. strong athletic program contributes greatly

12 to the total app al of a university." How an Jermier "sell" the Athletic Club to people who may be indifferent or hostile to sport ? " If I see that a good choir or or hestra is performing at U I," he says, " I'm proud because that's where I work. I can appre iate and upport those groups even though I don' t sing or play an instrument." Another thing to remember, says Jermier, i that every Athletic Club contribution helps pay a student's tuition, room and board. " It doesn't pay my sa lary or pay off the Dome or buy football helmet or anything else," he say .

" Return of Contribution" program Jermier is joined in the fund-raising effort by other taff members and coaches. Together they are seeking to broaden the Athletic Club's base of support. Instead of just approaching potential $500 or $1,000 contributors, they're also now seeking those who will contribute at the $25 or $50 level. Staff members are speaking to more local group and service clubs than in the past. A half-price membership program for U I faculty and staff has also been introduced in an effort to build membership. Still, the competition for private support is intense. "We understand that contributors in Black Hawk County gave about $750,000 to help build Iowa's new arena," says Jermier. "We don' t begrudge Iowa this. We just want local people to support the local program, too. The community benefits from U I athletics, and we want people to know about it." An especially attractive part of the For the first time this yea r, contributions to the Athletic Club can be earmarked for 1982 Athletic Club drive is the new women's athletics, too. "Return of Contribution" program. Starting this year, persons who contribute a minimum of $100 will be eligible for a contributions are still tax deductible. In Jermier i hopeful that the $200,000 refund of contributions at the time of their addition to the parking, seating and ticket Athletic Club goal can be reached or death. You must donate at least $100 advantage of Athletic Club members, we surpassed, and that the athletic program's every year, with a maximum refund of think the Return of Contributions program private funding problems can be solved. A $3,000 for each consecutive year of is the 'ultimate benefit.' " broadened base of support, more local participation. Contributions made past age Another way of supporting U I participation and membership 70 keep the program in force but are not athletics, of course, is by buying tickets inducements such as the Return of refunded. Matching gifts are still welcome, and attending events. All U I ticket prices Contributions program may do just that. but are not included in the refunded for 1982-83 are the same as last year's, " There's an excellent future for amount. The only beneficiaries permitted says Jermier. Football highlights include athletic at U I," says Jermier. "There's a are spouse, children, parents and UNI six home games plus road dates at Drake large segment of people who are sincerely Athletic Club, in that order. (September 4) and Nevada-Reno interested in the program. We hope to This new program costs Club members (October 30). The basketball schedule reach them, explain our needs, and get nothing. It is administered by D&D includes 13 games at the UNI-Dome them to join the Athletic Club." Without Associates of Phoenix through Fidelity (where the Panthers were tough to beat such a solid response, a flat football and a Security Life Insurance Company, and is a last season) plus road dates at Wiscon in, 20-foot hoop may be child's play nationwide program that has been Drake, Iowa State, Missouri, Kansas State, compared to the obstacle of inadequate endorsed by the National Association of Notre Dame and the Chaminade Holiday private athletic support. O College Directors of Athletics. Classic (January 3-4) in Hawaii. The home "We think this program will encourage wrestling schedule includes a both contributions and a continuity of December 12 meet with Iowa in the contributing," says Jermier. "All UNI-Dome. 13 Needed: another Sputnik

Nation's future is clouded by growing 'scientific illiteracy'

In the cartoon cliche, the class dunce These shortages wi 11 have enormous tel Is his math teacher that "pi aren't long-term consequences in industry, squared, pie are round." In America's education and government. The technical scientific community, no one is laughing. specialists needed in the future won't They' re not laughing because exist. The voters of tomorrow, faced at the ignorance of science and math is now a polls with critical choices related to major national problem, one that affects technology, will be ignorant. " We' ve the economy, national defense and the developed a generation of people in this educational system. It poses a cha I lenge country who are scientifically illiterate," unlike anything since Sputnik, a challenge says Bill Aldridge, executive director of Extensive use by students of this to which a response has been slow, the National Science Teachers computing center in Wright Hall testifies to the need for greater science and math perhaps too late, in coming. Association. For those who are competent literacy. The problem at the high school level in science and math, this problem is a isn 't facilities. Most high school labs are tremendous opportunity. For the rest of the well equipped and stocked. Textbooks are country, it has the potential for a scientific usually adequate and as current as texts in " dark age. " other subjects. What's lacking are two Problem may be "elementary" critical things: students and teachers. First, the students. In U.S. high schools, Most people are surprised to learn that only about a third of all graduates take so little science and math is required for three years of math, and less than a fifth high school graduation. " You can't take three years of science. Among those provide any meaningful science who don't plan to attend col lege, a fifth experience for a student in one semester have taken three years of math and a tenth of their four years or three years in have taken three years of science. Since secondary school," says Aldridge, but in most U.S. high schools only require one many schools that's all that's required. In year of math and one year of science for some systems even that minimal graduation, a large number of graduates requirement can be met with a course can get by with very little exposure to such as " Botany and Gardening." "Botany and Gardening" math and science. Science is often seen by students as an fulfills science requirement. Second, the teachers. During the past elitist subject, something for only the year, half of all science and math teachers smartest students or potential science in U.S. high schools were teaching with majors. Science isn 't seen as part of basic emergency certificates. Of the science education but as something optional. This teachers, a third did not major in a wasn't always the attitude. science in college. In 1980, 28 states In 1960, for example, 60 percent of all reported a shortage of mathematics U.S. high school students were enrolled in teachers, with the situation listed as a science course. The figure was 48 critical in 16 of them. In the fi;}ce of this percent in 1977. This trend is paralleled shortage, there was a 77 percent drop in by a downward curve in Scholastic the number of students preparing to teach Aptitude Test (SAT) scores. The math math during the 1970s. The decline was mean score was 502 nationwide in 1963, 65 percent in science. 466 in 1980.

14 Partly as a result, a fourth of all math learning more about science and courses taught at four-year public technology, the reverse has been true. The universities are remedial in nature, up 70 reaction has been, as Leon Botstein, percent in the past five years. president of Bard ollege puts it, "to close This indifference or hostility to science our ears. We want to put America back in and math may be traced to elementary the 19th century. We don' t want to look school. During a typical week of 25 hours, into the future. And we are frightened. students at this level get an average of one And therefore we want to stop progres ." hour of science and four hours of This resistance to change leads to a " ... resistance to change arithmetic. They are taught by teachers passive response to change. We assume leads to a passive response who often have very little science and that only the scientific experts can know ,, math training. the answers or make th d i ions that As a result, students grow up with less affect us. We know less and less about the and less interest in science and math. If medicines we take, the car we drive, the they leave school feeling this way, it's machines we operate and, eventually, the likely they' ll never have any interest in the lives we lead. We blame everything on subjects later on. This attitude is part of " the computer." the reason there is so little public concern The advances of the past 20 years have over the problem of science and math contributed to the science and math illiteracy. illiteracy problem in another way. The best teachers of these subjects are Fear plus competition increasingly being lured away from the While science and technology have schools by busine s and industry. made great advances during the past 20 Teaching is now a very poor second to years, public fear of these forces has also private sector employment in terms of increased. Instead o{ reacting to change by salary, advancement and prestige. This has

15 made it harder to graduate teaching While General Education ex poses tuden ts major and harder till to keep th em in th to these cours s, it is possible to avoid s hool . Jim Mowbray is a good exampl , math and ome science cour es altog th r. a profil d in a recent ational Publi Stud nt s who ome to U I with a poor Radio program," cience Tea hing." i nee and math ba kground ca n Mowbray was a phy i s tea h r at graduate from U I w ith relatively little en t nnial High Sc hool in Howard ad ditional work in ei th er subject. ounty, Maryland. To upplement hi Considerably fewer U I tudent are incom h took on add itional jobs as enrolled in cience tea hing programs department chairman, coordinator of the th an in the pa st. Of th e 129 tudent who gift d program, ummer hool princi pal , r ce ived B.A. degree in th e Coll ege of junior var ity coa h and part-time college atural ciences in 1982, only 10 were teacher. He left Cen ten nial wh n he certified to teach a cien e w hile six were "Cutting that program was di overed he ou ld make $7 ,000 more certified to teach math. A cording to Roy by working for a computer ompany. He Unruh, a ociate prof or of phy i s and ludicrous ..." now earns $32,000 a y ar. sc ience edu at ion, there are currently 10 The average starting alary for or 11 ph ys ics t a hing major at U I. Five petroleum engine rs with a bachelor' of th em, however, are from Mala ys ia and degree was $30,432 in 1981-82, will return there after graduation. according to the College Pia ement oun ii. By comparison, a tarting high " Eating the seedcorn" sc hool sc ience teacher with many of th e ame skill could ex p t to start at about Unruh says that th re i urrently little $12,000 in Iowa. Fa ed w ith the e fi gures, difficulty in find ing a physics tea hing job, you'd have to be very idea li tic or very though the low starting alary is " rath r bad w ith numb rs to want a ca reer as a di scouragi ng for some people. M any high s hool cience teacher. teaching graduates figure they' ll go ahead and teach for a coup! of ,yea rs and then General Ed ucation no solution get into something else." The science and math problems of That impression is borne out by a 1980 America's hi gh school are al o showing U I Placement Center survey. Of the 109 up in America' o ll eges and univer itie , sc ience and math teac hing graduates including U I. Bob Hanson, profe or of surveyed from 1969, 1974 and 1978, only chemistry and sc ience ed uca tion, says th at 53 started out as tea her and are st ill studen t in U I' c ience program s are as teaching. Another 5 beca me teachers after good as th ey've ever been. Th e one who doing something else. Th remaining 51 are in troubl are those with little high graduates either never taught or else school background and no pl ans for a moved into a non-teaching job after ome ien e-related major. lass room ex peri ence. (The e figure Many of the student who enroll in exclude industrial te hnology grad uates.) ch mistry at U I, ays Hanson, haven' t Unruh describe this failure to retain taken a science or math ourse ince 9th tea cher a "eating the eedcorn." It grad e. Th elimination of high sc hool presents a spec ial dilemma to college req uirement s, plus th simplifica tion of faculty, he ays, since " the better you s ien e ourses to k ep tudents in prepare th em [students] to teach the more s hool, has had di a trou re ults, in marketable they are outside of teaching." Hanson's opinion. Darrel Hoff, professo r of a tronomy and (Hanson is executive dir ctor of th e cience ed uca tion, recal ls a recent survey Iowa Academy of Science, an organization of Iowa sc ience teachers that indicated which is very oncern d about th e sc i n e most are now in th ei r mid-50s. " Th ere's and math illit ra y problem.) going to be a real cri sis when they all UNI currently recommend that retire," he predicts. incoming freshmen have at least two years Hoff says there are currently about 1 5 of hi gh chool science and two-and-a-half ea rth cience teaching majors at UNI, yea rs of math. Starting in 1984, three " more th an th e whole late of Iowa has yea rs of math or its equivalent will b an graduated in the past three yea rs." Th e ad missions requirement. For a bachelor' size of the program may be due to Hoff's degree, U I students must take at least attempt at recruiting. He recommends two hour of work under th e e General ea rth science as a second major for Education ca tegorie s: Prin ciple of the students in other disciplines, or as a first Phy ical Universe; Life and its major for students whose initial choice Interrelationship ; Environment, provides poor em ployment prosp cts. Technology and the Future; and Hoff gained first-hand ex perience with M ath ematica l and cientific Processe . the problem of inadequate tea cher

16 A fatal trend What are the long-term effects of science and math illiteracy? Economically, such comp titors as Japan, China, the Soviet Union and East Germany all have national education policies that emphasize the importance of science and math for economic and cultural progress. All of these countries require much more science and math in the schools than is true in this country. The United States has no such education policy and seems unlikely to adopt one. While studies are conducted, guidelines reduced and funding cut, the problem deepens and the competition grows stronger. The results of a shortsighted policy toward science and math education are balance of payment deficits, obsolete products, lagging productivity and rising unemployment. It can also mean a weakened national defense. The highly sophisticated weapons employed by the U.S. military throughout the world, for Some science teaching benefits don't show up in a pay check. Frank Vi/main, example, are largely in the hands of high associate professor of physics, smiles as he watches his students conduct an experiment. school graduates with little science and math ba kground. preparation while conducting ational Convocation.] How can this cycle of poor S ience Foundation short courses for K-12 The federal government recently students/poor teachers, few students/few teachers in Iowa. For four years, he and appointed a new commission, under teachers be broken? The answer is as Tim Cooney, assistant profes or of ational Science Foundation auspices, to complex as the 16,000 autonomous teaching: science, conducted the study the problem and make a report by school systems nationwide, each of which one-credit hour programs under an annual the fall of 1983. The fact that the establi shes its own guidelines. Frank $50,000 Foundation grant. The 18 short "problem" has b en very Brown, chairman of the Florida courses reached about 600 teachers each well-documented since the late '70s has Governor's Commission on Secondary year. Nationwide, the program cost about led critics to question the value of yet Schools, recently offered these solutions $7.5 million per year, but was dropped another study. for action at the state level: last fall as a budget cutting move by the The current upsurge in interest in federal government. Hoff says the program science fiction and video games is a • Appropriate special funds to may be continued as a course or summer negative factor, says Hanson. "Science attract and train teachers; school program, with participants paying fiction is a refuge from the real problems • Provide intensive inservice the costs instead of attending for free. that science creates," he says. "Science training for existing tea chers; fiction emphasiz s the fantastic power of Science fiction no help science, with all questions answered and • Increase budgets for laboratories, "Cutting that program was ludicrous," everything falling into place." When real textbooks, materials and says Hoff, "in light of all we've heard science can't measure up to its film and equipment; about science programs in competing comic book counterparts the public • Ease certification requirements so countries, both friendly and unfriendly." becomes disillusioned. The current that qualified business persons Unless the situation changes, he says, "I enthusiasm for such "pseudo-sciences" as and retired people could teach can't honestly believe that a society that's astrology, miracle cancer cures and diet math and science; as science and technology oriented as gimmicks also reflect the problem of ours has a future." science and math illiteracy. • Cooperate with industry through What is being done to improve the "The public doesn't understand the dual contracts that permit situation in the face of this problem? nature of science," says Hanson. "There's teachers to work 10 months as Relatively little. Bob Hanson says there no way they can vote or make choices teachers and the other two has been no formal effort at UNI, beyond intelligently on sc ience-related matters.r, months in the private sector. such personal efforts as Darrel Hoff's, to Such issues as nuclear energy, the MX attract teaching majors in science and missile, the oil crisis and space Such proposals are reminiscent of those math. The National Academy of Sciences exploration are all matters where decisions made in the wake of Sputnik during the held a Convocation on Precollege rest in the hands of less and less 1950s. There is no such dramatic spur to Education in Mathematics and Science in knowledgeable voters. Equally frightening, action now. Yet the present situa tion is May to publicize the problem, and a such decisions may end up being made doubtless more serious than it was then, parade of-speakers outlined the situation only by a technocratic elite, with the rest and the failure to respond ~ould prove in grim detail. [Much of the information in of the population just passive observers of fatal to a society that depends so much on this article, for example, came from that processes they don't understand. science, technology and innovation. D

17 Recommendations stiffened fo r 1984 NevV adnussions requiren1ents will stress English and n1ath

Is it too easy to ge t into college? Are • Students must have three or more students enteri ng co ll ege w ithout th e yea rs of ma th ematics , w ith at background to do college-level work? Ca n least one yea r of algebra in w hich colleges afford to be more se lective in the a grade of " C" or better must be face of fl at or declining enrollments? ea rn ed. Nea rl y every U.S . college and university is w restling w ith th ese Students w ho don' t mee t th ese questions, and UNI is no exception. For requirements may still be ad mitted, but both competitive and phi lo ophi ca l aca demic restri ctions (s uch as load or reasons, UNI does not appl y " Ivy League" subject matter li mitati ons) may be se lection stand ard s to its incoming imposed . Th ese limitati ons ca n be waived fre hmen. Admi ss ion is open to nea rl y on the basis of specific ACT scores or UNI Admissions Trends: anyone w ith a diploma from an approved levels of perform ance on College Level 1968-1981 high school. Exa mination Program (C LEP) tests. In practice, however, such diplomas Students who do not have th e sometimes mea n less th an th ey used to. background or the ACT/CLEP scores may % of freshmen graduating in upper UNI and many other uni versi ti es are now stil l be admitted. They wi ll, however, be half of their high school class accepting students w hose high school req uired to take non-c redit courses at UN I backgrounds are often inadequate in or another institution in En gli sh and/or '68 '70 '72 '74 '76 '78 '80 '81 En glish, math emati cs, soc ial studi es and mathematics. Academic restri ctions may other basic subjects. Th eir lack of also be imposed, and the completi on of 95 preparation handica ps th em in college. the non-credit courses is required during Th eir chances of graduating are reduced the first term or first yea r of UNI unless th ey rece ive spec ial help, help enrol Im ent. which financiall y strapped universities are The 1984 deadline w ill permit current less abl e to provid e. hi gh sc hool students to take al I th e classes O ne UNI response to thi s probl em was th ey' ll need fo r uncondi tional admiss ion the naming of a Fac ulty Senate committee to UN I. Th ese requirements are published to study th e leve l of academic preparation in all UNI ca talogs and have bee n of freshmen enterin g UNI. Thi s committee, announ ced to all Iowa school chaired by James M acmillan, an assoc iate superintendents, guidance coun se lors, and professor of chemistry, worked during th e En glis h and math ematics teachers. 1980- 81 yea r. Its recommend ations were According to Jack Wielenga, director of accepted by th e Senate in May 198 1 for admiss ions at UNI, th e high school % of freshmen scoring 21.0 or implementation in the fa ll of 1984. res ponse to these requirements has been better on ACT examination pos itive. (composite standard score) Requirements, not recommendations Students w ho grad uate from high sc hool before 1984 are exempt from the '68 '70 '72 '74 '76 '78 '80 '81 For a number of yea rs, UNI has requirements, even if th ey do not start 81 82 encouraged prospective students to have a work at UNI until 1984. Transfer students minimum hi gh sc hool background in w ho have taken college- leve l En gli sh and-­ certain basic subjects. Beginning with the math ematics courses are also exempt. fa ll 1984 se mester, two of th ese recommend ati ons will become requirements for unconditional admiss ion. Today's admiss ions standards Th ese requirements are: " A graduate of an approved hi gh school who meets th e requirements of hea lth, personality, character, potential leadership qualities and purpose will be • Students must have three or more admitted if it appea rs from hi s certifica te yea rs of En gli sh, w ith grades of of hi gh school credits, scores on stand ard Source: Office of Student Resea rch, 1981 "C" or better required. One yea r tests and other pertinent information th at Student Profile must be identified as composition. he is abl e to do college work."

18 Noreen H ermansen of Admi ion v, ,ts with Kim Cline and her mother. Cline recently re eived a four-year UNI cholar hip in a College of Education competition for future tea cher . Other colleges and departments have similar programs for attracting good students to UNI.

student who might have been reje ted in informal " elf-sele tion" pro ss. Below­ the past be ause of b low average av rage students who never bothered to background have gained admission to apply to college are now applying and U I through th Edu ational Opportunity being accepted. Students who might not Program (EOP) . The e students now at have onsidered attending college in the lea t have a hance to succe d in college, pa t (based on A T scores or cla s and a cess to the special help that will ranking) now make up about a fourth of make succe s possible. U l' s freshman cla s. At UNI, the tran ition from teachers "Self-selection" process? college to univ rsity may have had a hand in this change, too. Until recently, the About 77 p rcent of the 1981 U I majority of U l' s tudent were future freshman class graduated in the top half of teachers. A a teachers ollege, a their high hool class. Anoth r 17 profe ional school, the academic percent were in the 30 to 50 per ent rank, exp elations were probably higher, both while the remaining 6 percent were in the among fa ulty and tudents. Students who Such an admi sions statement, taken bottom fifth of their class. didn't like chool and were below-average from U l's 1955 General Information U I doesn't guarani e that in their class weren't likely to want to Bulletin, reflected ideal , not requirements. " admission" wi II equal " graduation," or b ome teacher . Students were rarely turned down for that admission will equal su cess in U l' s 1984 admissions requirements in admission on the basis of " p rsonality" or college. This is especially true for students English and mathemati s may help rever e " purpo e." Such a statem nt al o refl cts who graduated in the lower half of their this trend . They won't cause dramatic a time when on ly 3,000 tudent attended high chool lass. According to the U I improvements overnight, nor will they the University, a time when admissions Office of Student Re earch, only about 42 suddenly make U I less accessible. decision were easier to make be au e p rcent of freshmen from the lower half of Students who haven't met the there were fewer of them to be made. their lass earned a grade point average of requirem nts may be det rred from Today, when the U I Office of 2.0 (" C") or better during their first applying in the first place. Students who Admissions processes more than 6,000 semester at U I. More than 75 percent of have met the requirements may feel more applications ea h year, attempting to us the freshmen from the upper half of their committed to college as a result, and more " character" as an admissions crit rion class earned a 2.0 or b tter during their likely to succeed because of their would take too much time. A student fir t seme ter. Failure to maintain a 2.0 ba kground. wou Id be a sophomore before she was a average results in academic warning, Either way, U l' s deci ion to impose freshman! Such riteria, if applied, would probation or su p n ion. the e requirements will probably benefit also invite harges of illegal Applicants are also required to submit everyone. D discrimination. the results of their ACT examination, but The current application for admissions no minimum score is required. The 1981 contains no questions from which freshman class, for example, included 183 "potential I adership qualities" could be students with the highest range of scores discerned. Question one asks for a So ial (27 to 36) and 125 student with the Security number. Essays, interviews and lowest range (1 to 13). About 52 percent letters of recommendation are not of these 1981 fre hm n had ACT scor s of required, though U I is permitted to 21.0 or better. contact the stud nt's school for academi , Here's a final note for those who want disciplinary and medical information. to make comparisons. As recently as Virtually anyone who graduates from 1968, about 95 percent of new UNI an approved high school in the upper half freshmen had graduated in the upper half of the class can be admitted to UNI. of their high s hool class. In that same Students from the lower half of their class year, 81 p rcent of the e students received are considered individually on the basis of ACT scores of 21.0 or better. What does grades, ACT scores and other information. that indicate, when compared to th 1981 Such students may be admitted figures of 77 percent of fre hmen in the unconditionally or they may have certain upper half and 52 percent with ACT academic limitations imposed during a scores of 21 .0 or b tter? " tryout" period. Good student are still good, and UNI Some undergraduate applicants, about is getting its share of them. What these 4.5 percent each year, are rejected. Many figure may indicate is the failure of an

19 Frances Lillian Webster UNI's first lady

James Gilchrist, M o es Bartl ett and th e American norm al sc hool movement, Thus began her two-year assoc iation with David Wright are fa mous figures in the and was th e model for sini il ar schools in the School. hi story of th e University of Northern Iowa. oth er parts of the country. A new sta te " I well remember our first meeting in Th ei r importance as ea rl y administrators normal sc hool was founded at the President's tiny office several days and teachers is reflected in the geography Leavenworth, Kansas in 1875, and before the open ing when we met for the of tod ay's ca mpus: Gilchrist Hall Webster was recommended fo r a teaching fi rst time, " wrote W ebster. " Prof. Gilchrist (adm inist ration), Bartl ett Hall (residence) position by Potsdam's president, Malcom apporti oned among us th e subjects which and Wright Hall (home economics, M cVica r. His recommend ati on helped must be taught from th e begi nning and math emati cs and computer science) . Webster get the job, and she taught asked us to ubmit sc hed ul es for th e Such honors are probabl y deserved by Engli sh and history at Leaven worth for one courses. " Webster was to teach geography the men who, as ori ginal faculty members yea r. and history. of the Iowa State Normal School, were " A large number of the pupils," she The first day of classes at the new instrumental in th e School's ea rl y reca lled in 191 7, " were teachers of rural School is described in the novel Miss deve lopment and later success. Especially sc hools, all eager for knowledge and for Bishop, written by 1901 alumnus Bess important were Gilchrist (the first better methods of instruction." In 1876, Streeter Aldrich. " Th e building rose like a "principal" of the School) and Wright however, th e Kansas leg islature decided to sq uatty li ghthouse on a fres hwater lake, " (whose 52-year tenure ca n never be close th e sc hool in favor of the coll ege she wrote, " for it stood in th e center of surpassed). which is now Emporia State University. forty acres of coa rse prairie grass bent to There was, however, a fourth faculty " Thus my work th ere ca me to an end ," th e ea rth with the moisture of a three-day member when th e School opened in wrote Webster, " and I was free to accept drenching rain ." This fi ctional account 1876, a " founding father" of whom little the position in th e Iowa State Normal may also include a portrait of Webster: is known and for whom no buildings are School to which I was elected." named. Yet she w as th e first woman to The faculty consisted of four teach at what is now UNI, and was also a instructors besides Pres ident " A solid appearing woman" pioneer at th e School during its first two Corcoran ... - Miss Emm aline yea rs of life . Her name was Frances Lillian The state of Iowa had just authorized Patton, geography and hi story, a Webster. the formation of its own normal school in solid appearing woman, both as to Webster was born in St. Lawrence Cedar Fall s, and the new board of physique and mental ity, - as County, New York, probably in th e ea rly directors was sea rching for a faculty. though an opinion once formed 1 850s. She was descended through her According to David Wright's 50 Yea rs at became a necessa ry amendment to mother from an Allerton family that came the Teachers College, it had bee n decided th e laws of th e Medes and th e to Ameri ca on the " M ayflower." Through that one of th e teachers should be a Persian s. her father she was desce nded from an Potsdam graduate and a woman. With the Nonetheless , as Wright describes it " she ea rl y pioneer and colonial judge in closing of th e Leavenworth sc hool, and ca me, she saw , she conquered. She wa s a Connecticut. Symbolic of the westward another recommendation from President lady of fine presence and winning expansion of the nation, however, she McVica r, Webster see med to be th e most manner. Though younger in yea rs than spent mo t of her ca reer in the Midwest eligible ca ndidate. many of her pupils, she soon establi shed and finally settled in Ca lifornia. The minutes of the Iowa State Normal herse lf in their hearts as a favorite Webster attended public schools and School Board for July 12, 1876 contain instructor." private academies in St. Lawrence County, the following entry: after which she taught briefly in New York " We were pioneers" state. When her father moved to On motion the Board proceeded to Minnesota after the Civil War she se lect a lady teacher. The ballots If W ebster had any illusions about her followed him and taught school for two being collected Miss Frances L. work at Cedar Fal ls they w ere soon years at Red Wing. She returned to New Webster was duly elected. On dispelled. " I look back upon the work of York to attend Potsdam State Normal motion her salary was fixed at $800 the following two years as much the School, and graduated in June 1875. per annum with privilege of hardest part of my ten years of teaching," Potsdam at th at time was a leader in occupying a room in the building. she wrote. " We were pioneers breaking

20 Frances Webster, c. 1877 (UNI Archives)

men and women who were students at that time of whom I have ca rried bright memories through all th e succeed ing yea rs." Webster brought the fa mous " Potsdam Methods" to th e School. Through her they became, in Wright' s words, " a permanent inheritance of th e new Iowa institution." According to Wright:

In faculty consultations when policies were considered, she was eagerl y encouraged to tell how things were done at Potsdam. By priva te interviews, by th e study of the blackboard work of her classes, by noting the " before taking" and " after taking" effects upon her pupils, her associates in the faculty, consciously or unconsciously wove her methods into th e work of th eir own theory and practice of teac hing. Webster even rece ived praise from th e Cedar Falls Gazette in an article published M arch 23 , 1877:

W e next hea rd a class in word analysis, taught by Miss Webster, an instru ctive exercise and abl y handled by a compete nt instructor ... . Th e School then divided and engaged in drawing during th e last half hour, under th e supervision of Prof. Gilchrist and the trail and that is always more difficult Central Hal I along with the students. Miss Webster. than following an open road." Webster felt thi s was a poor arrangement: The difficulties of those ea rl y yea rs are In recognition of her abilities as a teac her, Th en th e afternoon dismissal fa iled hard to imagine tod ay . Ea ch facu lty W ebster was " employed and retained in to bring freedom or quiet. We lived member taught five or six c lasses a day. her present position in the school" for with the pupils and in the school " Th ere was no opportunity for us to another year, with her sa lary continued at atmosphere in all except our spec ialize in congenial subjects," she $800. sleeping hours and I am inclined to wrote. " Ea ch taught a wide variety of think that I at least did some " Mother" of the Alpha Society subjects and no teacher can teach all teaching in my dreams. equally well or with equal ease. " On top During th e summer of 1877, W ebster of thi s, " there was no time during th e day Such a life had its compensations, taught working teachers in what was for preparation or rest. " however, in the close ties that developed known as th e " Normal Institute," a Because the School was so far from between teachers and students. " I ca n at forerunner of today's summer sess ion. She town, the faculty boarded in the old this day [191 7)," she wrote, " name young wrote:

2 1 A comparison with her earlier d ript1on one article in the September 4, 1923 of the Iowa school perhap solves the Cedar Falls Daily Record. Quoting from question of why W bster left Cedar Falls. an Oakland newspaper, it said: Webster taughrat San Jo e for thre years. She resigned in 1881 after her Mrs. Francis Webster Fish , widow of marriage to Lafayette Irving Fish , a banker the late Lafayette Fish and one of in Martinez, California. Writing about her the best known Berkeley charity, marriage, Webster recalled: club and church workers, passed away Saturday [August 25) at her Until my marriage I had never been home, 6215 Chabot Road, Oakland. out of school for an entire year She had been in failing health for since I was four year old, and now ome time. began a life of widely different duties and pleasures. My husband The paper al o reported that " she was was a man of wide business very acti ve in a quiet way in philanthropic interests, a bank president and a and charity work," esp cia l ly the Berkeley large land owner. He was a man of disp n ary and the Berkeley Charity broad views and sympathies, of organization. She was a member of the strict integrity and withal gentle and First Congregational· Church and the local affectionate. Our nineteen years Town and Gown Club. together were happy ones, darkened Webster was survived by her daughter, only by the long illness that born in 1886, and by a gra ndson and two preceded his death. granddaughters. Her son , Irving, was born /SNS was till an orphanage when this commercial photograph wa taken around in 1882 and apparently preceded her in 1870. This is the campus as Webster knew Webster lived in Berkeley, alifornia death. Whether any of her grandchildren it. This picture was donated to UNI in for 13 years. She witnessed the San are sti ll living i unknown. She was buried 1941 by Web ter's daughter, and is the Franci co Earthquake in 1906, an event in Oakland, fa r from Potsdam and far from earliest view of Central Hall preserved in which induced her to embark on an Cedar Falls. the UNI Archives. (UNI Archives) around-the-world trip. She was gone for a What i Webster's place in U year, and toured Europe and Asia. Among history? While Gilchrist, Bartlett and Last Monday evening Prof. Gilchrist Cedar Falls. Another reason for going to The fo ll owing day, the steward was her stops were Athens, Constantinople, Wright were clearly more important gave a lecture on chemistry, and San Jose was no doubt the fact that the directed by the Board to refund to Egypt, the Suez Canal , India, Ceylon, figures, Webster was also "active in a illu trated it with a large number of preceptress was a former Potsdam teacher, Webster the sum of $14.00 for room, heat China and Japan. She al o toured Europe quiet way" during the formative years of The teachers who gathered for a experiments, which were quite and other ew Yorkers were al o on the and lights. By leaving a month before the in 1910-11, and made frequent visits to the University. In contrast to the sterner sess ion of five weeks in midsummer interesting .... Some potassium staff there. completion of her second year she was her native East. faces of the other faculty members, were so earnest and attentive, o dropped in a dish of water, ignited A cording to Wright, " She wa young, apparently entitled to such a refund. At least one of those trips brought her Webster's " fine presence and winning eager for improvement, that they at once and burned with a mixed ambitiou , and too pretty to continue long According to Wright, " The school and back to Cedar Fall , according to a 1941 manner" no doubt helped both students inspired me to do my very best, and blue and white flame, throwing out at the teacher's desk." He wrote: town were on the qui vive [a lert].a to letter by her daughter, Anne Fish Burgess. and faculty cope with those first difficult I doubt whether I have ever done sparks of great brilliancy, to the whom should be chosen as her She wrote: years of poverty, overcrowding and mud. It was not to be expected that o any teaching that gave me greater consternation of al l the ladie near. succe or." The position went to Susan L. As th e first woman tea cher at what is now attractive and accomplished a satisfaction than did the lectures I Ensign, a tea cher and principal at Cedar In th e spring of 1904 mother took U I, as a member of the original faculty Perhaps Web ter was one of the ladies woman as Mi s Webster should gave before the Glenwood [Iowa] Fa ll High School. me to edar Falls on our way east and as th e introducer of " Potsdam thus consternated! remain forever ... Cupid forbade. County Teacher' s Institute. [and] I sha ll always remember the Methods," Frances Webster deserves to be Even in the two brief years of her "With pleasant remembrances" very interesting and happy visit we remembered by a grateful University. D On to California stay at Cedar Fal Is, the gossips were Another of Webster's legacies to the had at your col lege. It had quite wont to aver that certain susceptible School was her work with the Alpha " At the close of the second year at The State ormal School at San Jo e grown up [and was] not at all like hearts were in imminent danger was in Webster's mind an improvement Literary Society, a campus inst itution until Cedar Falls I severed my connection with th e early picture I am enclosing. from the random shots of the saucy over the Iowa State ormal School. As she its passing in 1935. She wrote: the school and accepted a position in the little god. de cribed it: State ormal School at San Jose, Her daughter added that " Moth r always I have always fe lt that, in a manner, California." Thus does Webster describe looked back with so many happy This implie that Webster may have left It would be difficult to find more I am the mother of the Alpha her resignation, giving no rea ons for the the School for different reasons. Whether memories of Cedar Falls," a sentiment she Acknowledgments: pleasant su rroundings than those in decision. ex pressed in her letter to Wright, Society. It was at my suggestion that Wright, who was single at the time, was 1917 Gerald Peterson, U I Archives It's not difficult to understand why he which I worked at San Jo e. We it was formed. I as isled th e girls in one of the " susceptible hearts" is which closes " With pleasant Judy Dietrichs, UNI history major were hou ed in a beautiful and the organization which was a new may have wanted to leave the School. The unknown. remembrances of the olden times." ancy Davidson, San Jose State University conveni ent building well placed in William Hiles, State University College of Arts venture for them. I christened it work was very hard and the living The Board met on June 26, 1878 and Webster apparently kept in touch with an exten ive campus local d in the and Sciences, Potsdam Alpha, not only becau e it was the conditions were poor. All during 1878 the Wright, who visited her in Ca liforn ia with reported as fol lows: very heart of thi s pleasant ity .... Leland Sage, U I professor emeritus of history first Society of the first ormal Iowa General Assembly debated the his wife and daughter at least once. Here I found th e work much less Ed Rutkowski, U I professor of education School of Iowa, but because it was wisdom of having and supporting the On motion the resignation of Miss Ch ri stie Dailey, editor, The Annals of Iowa hard th an it had been at Cedar Falls . the name of my Society at Potsdam. School, and Webster may have fore een a Frances L. Webster as teacher in the "Active in a quiet way" Patricia Larsen , Peru ( ebr.) State Co llege repeat of her experience in Kansas . Iowa State ormal School was The hours were shorter and I At the same time, the San Jose school accepted, and she was tendered the specialized in congenial subjects. Webster was all but forgotten in Cedar There may be anoth er glimpse of Webster was well equipped and housed, and thanks of the Board for faithful and The cla sses were large and Falls after 1878, except by her friends and in a story recounted in the April 19, 1878 offered opportunities for professional efficient discharge of duties as a interesting and I thoroughly enjoyed former students. Even so, the my work. Cedar Fall Gazette: advancement that she couldn't expect at teacher in this institution. an nouncement of her death was a page

22 23 Selected writings published Fox still challenges friends and critics

W ord ca n outlive th e mind and hand th at made th em. Even th e late Josef Fox might have accepted th at noti on without argument. Nea rl y eve ry oth er facet of life ca me under his judgment during his long ca reer at UNI, however, a ca ree r th at is vividly reca lled in a recently publi hed collec ti on of his se lected essays and addresses. Josef Fox: a Fa ith in Rea so n contai ns 28 of Fox's " Obiter Sc ript" new spaper columns, as well as such larger pi eces as " Four Articles of a Simple Faith," " Th e Present Predicament of M ankind" and " Th e Ro le of General Educa tion in the College Curriculum." Th e collection was published in M ay by The North American Review. Fox taught at the University from 1947 unti I his retirement as professor of phi lo oph y and humanities in 1979. He reac hed thousa nds of students w ith hi s often controversial views on politics, morality and civil liberti es. Through thi s book he will reac h th ousa nd more. Th at, at leas t, is th e hope of Dr. Thomas Th ompson, dea n of th e U I College of Humanities and Fine Arts and editor of Josef Fox: a Fa ith in Reason . According to Th ompso n, th e book grew out of a desire to refresh the memory of Fox for those who kn ew him. Th e book also attempts to inspire oth ers w ho, " innocent of the sound and "Someone must take the role of the Socratic gadfly. Someone sight of Joe Fox' voice and prese nce, will discove r a fa ith in must sound the alarm. Someone must point to the remedy ... reaso n th at spea ks to th em here and now ." Joe elected himself to be that someone. He elected himself because he loved his fellow human beings. He elected himself No Mr. Chips because he saw the dream of America, absent the sharp " Joe made a lot of people rath er nervous," recalls rhetoric of nuisances like himself, lapsing into nightmare." Th ompson, a longtime colleague and fri end . " He was certainly no Mr. Chips. His w as a free and unres trained spirit. He was Thomas Thompson not a scho lar cut in the traditional mode. He w as seen as " Josef Fox Memorial" dogmati c, opinionated, loud and even bl as phemous, yet he August 27, 1980 wrote in a way th at got people's attention in matters of principle w here principles were often obsc ured." " Fox left a very deep impress ion," says Thompson . " He was a rati onal optimist in th e style of such 19th century I iberals as Bentham, Mill, Emerso n and Thorea u. Those people were very upsetting in their time, too. Ironica lly, Fox w as a staun ch proponent of such bas ic Ameri ca n va lues as truth, fa ith and morality. He was no communist sympathizer, as some charged. He trumpeted hi s ath eism, but he w as full of optimism about th e ability of humans to ri e superior to th eir unrefl ective se lves. He w as a man of sentiment, reverence for life, and moral va lue." Though he admired Fox, Thompson rea lizes that others were critica l of him. "To some hi s optimism felt like arroga nce. To oth ers it sounded like dogma. It was hard to doubt his since rity, even if you didn't always agree with him."

24 "A continuation of his life" Selections from Josef Fox: a Faith in Reason* Since Fox's death in 1980, there have been severa l proposals " If we gave up trying to make educated men and women, we for the creation of a campus memorial. With the exception of a sma ll scholarship fund, however, none of the proposals have could then concentrate on trying to crea te students. If we made materialized. genuine students of the young peopl e who ca me to us, they Josef Fox: a Faith in Rea son is neither a memorial nor a could, after graduation, get their own ed uca tion by th emse lves tribute, says Thompson, but "a continuation of his life." ... The chief part of education is - or should be - adult Thompson is not critica l of those who have proposed various educa tion after college. We ought to recogni ze this and make memorials, though he has been officially neutral. " Personally," college a preparation for it. If we did thi s, we could stop he says, " I think the book is a better indication of who he [Fox] chasi ng a will-o'-the-wisp with our etern al curriculum­ was than any kind of plaque or building. To the extent that the juggling." University celebrates the life of the mind, to me that's what Joe stood for." The book project was originall y undertaken with the aim of " I' m against coddling college students. Somewhere along the collecting and publishing the "Obiter Scripta" columns. The road in life, people must grow up and become wholly cope of the work was broadened to include oth er writings. responsi ble for themselves. Only thu s can they obtain the full Loree Rac kstraw, Robert Ward, Evelyn Wood, Scott Cawelti and moral dignity of being men and women. We do not help this Robley Wilson of the Department of English Language and process along by trea ting students as if th ey were children." Literatu re contributed assistance and encouragement to Thompson. About $4,5 00 was raised to finance the project, with help from former UNI president James Maucker and emeritus professors H. Willard Reninger and James Hearst. " In nine cases out of ten , I believe, resea rch, for a humanities Fox is survived by his widow, Priscilla, and by thousands of teacher, is a misd irection of energy and waste of time. If I were respectful , critica l, admiring, questioning students, alumni and a college or a philanthropic foundation, I would divert some of facu lty. All ca n rekindle their feelings for the man by read ing the money currently earmarked for research into a fund for Josef Fox: a Faith in Reason. providing humanities teachers with unharrassed leisure for study Th e book is available from The North American Review, 114 and contemplation. And the only stipulation I would attach to Baker Hall, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa my grants is that th e rec ipients of th e grants should not do any 50614 or through local bookstores. jackass research."

" ... I find nothing so helpful as this simple conviction that all men are brothers. If it were universally accepted in a way that would not leave too great a gap between profession and performance, this belief could redeem the world. We must believe this, and we must act on this belief. In the age of the cobalt bomb, it is our only hope of salvation ." ·

" Democra cy, individuality, and freedom are realities only to the extent th at they are exercised. If our society is sick, it is because you and I are lazy, sheep-like, and cowardly."

" Whenever your instructor cites an unknown fact, demand a fuller account; whenever he adduces an obscure analogy, demand a completer explanation; whenever he introduces an unfamiliar word, demand a simple definition; whenever he conjures with mysterious concepts, demand a detailed analysis. If you do this you will learn twice as much in half the time. And it won't cost the taxpayers a nickel."

" I refuse to believe that people are so incurably stupid that they will forever prefer ["I Love Lucy"] to Plato. Likes and dislikes of this sort, I am convinced, are not innate, they are acquired. I think the present prevailing tastes are the product of bad education, and I take Lucy's Nielsen rating to be absolute proof that the American educational system is as rotten as a year-old egg."

•copyright 1982, the University of Northern Iowa Photo by Dan Grevas 25 )A ICE LASA K, 2 yr., retired from the School. el on is alscr an accompli hed ports Oxford Junction Elementary School this year, cartoonist whose work ha appeared in Class Notes ending a 27-year teaching career spent in Miles programs for the Minnesota Viking , University and Oxford Junction. She and her husband, of Minnesota and University of Iowa. Otto, live in Oxford. LOIS MOESS ER LEO ARD, B.A., became '50 the first per on in the history of the ational Federation of State Poetry So ieties, Inc. GEORGE E. K ACK, B.A., has joined the ( FSPS) to win two awards in one year in the inve tment firm of hile , Heider & Co. a a '26 grand prize category of the annual national regi tered repre entative at its Omaha LAURETTA McCAVICK RICE, B.A., was contest. Her poems, "El Monstruo, Paricutin" headquarters. He has been in busine in Lake featured in an article published in the Cedar and "Vignettes of Mexico," won second place Okoboji for the past seven years, prior to which Valley Time of Vinton in observance of and third place, re pectively. Her total prize he spent 15 year in the investment busines in money was $600, and both poems were ational Women's History Week. Rice taught Omaha and Lincoln, ebraska. He and his publi hed in the FSPS Book of the Year. Over mathematics at the Iowa Braille and Sight­ wife, Beverly, live at 4509 Anchor Mill Rd ., 11 ,200 poems were entered in the overall Saving School from 1926 until her retirement in Omaha. 1972. During her 46 years at the School she competition. She and her hu band, Welda, live JOA DERY KE, 2 yr., wa named the 1982 developed innovative teaching methods for at 804 Garfield, Ft. Collins, CO. blind students. She taught herself the basics of Distinguished Alumnus of the Year by the Braille and Braille math, and created program '42 faculty of the College of Business at orthern Illinois University. She received an M.B.A. materials of her own for such courses as MO A VA DUY THURSTON, B.A., trigonometry. The boy's dormitory at the School recently received the Carl Sandburg Poetry degree from orthern Illinois in 1971 , the first was renamed in her honor in 1972. Rice Prize from Cornell College. She is a woman to graduate from the program. Since continues to serve as a member of the Iowa distinguished America n poet, winner of many 1974, DeRycke has been with the Federal Coun ii for the Blind and is a tive in other literary prizes and a 1977 recipient of a U I Reserve Bank of Chicago, where he is loca l organizations. Alumni Achievement Award. She and her currently manager of compensation, b nefit husband, Jarvis, live at 7505 Teasdale, St. Louis. and medical services. She taught in Garrison, '33 ewton and Marshalltown before completing a CLAY SEATO , B.A., has retired as a labor '44 B.A. degree at the University of Iowa. She lives economist with the Iowa Department of Job MILDRED GRIMES, B.A., has been elected at 202 Prospe t, Clarendon Hills, IL. Service after 36 years. He and his wife, Myrna, president of the Central Iowa Art Association in now live at 10607 Berthound Dr., Austin, TX . Marshalltown. She and her husband, '51 Leonard, live on Route 6, Marshalltown. '36 ROBERT L. BEACH, ' 51 , has been appointed to th nominating committee of the ational RUSSELL CLARKE, B.A., an educator in the '47 Association of College Stores. He is president of Mason City school system from 1946 until his KATHERI E HUGHES SHORT, B.A., has University Book and Supply in Cedar Falls. He retirement in 1978, received the local Sertoma retired after 29 years of teaching. She now lives and his wife, Rosemary, live at 1525 River Bluff Club's Service to Mankind Award in February. Dr., Cedar Falls. His school positions included teacher, coach, at 802 . 8th St., # 8, Clear Lake. assistant principal, principal, assistant MARJORY BELT GRO EMEYER, B.A., superintendent and superintendent. He and his retired this spring after 22 years with the Lake '54 wife, LOIS BRAGONIER, B.A. '37, live at 736 View-Auburn School. She taught 4th grade. JAMES HANDORF, B.A., was named U 17th .E., Mason City. While at Lake View-Auburn, she led school Administrator/Educator of the Year May 11 by FRANCES drives to collect Campbell Soup labels for the U I Association of Office Personnel. He is BARTLETT KIN E, 2 redemption for many items of school an asso iate professor of bu iness education and administrative management at U I. yr., delivered the equipment. During her nine years with this commencement address Handorf was also named the 1981 Outstanding project the School redeemed 174,000 labels. and received an Business Educator by the Iowa Business honorary doctor of She and her husband, Dale, live at 401 W. Education Association. He has taught at U humane letters degree Highway, Odebolt. since 1966. from Wagner College FE TO THOMAS C. on May 30. Kinne is ISAACSO has been GIBNEY, B.A., was a president of Jacksonvi I le named national director recipient of an Out­ University. of pensions for standing Teacher award Milliman & Robertson, from the University of '37 Inc., one of the nation's Toledo, where he is a leading actuarial and professor of elementary )A E M. EBY, B.S., retired in June as employee benefit and early childhood professor of music education at Mankato State consulting firms. He education and director University. She taught music for 43 years, the joined the firm in 1967 of the Division of Cur­ last 28 at Mankato. Eby received an M .M . and had been manager riculum and In !ruction degree from orthwestern University in 1943 of the Omaha branch for the past 15 years. in the College of Education and Allied Profes­ and a D.M.E. degree from Indiana University in [Isaacson attended UNI during 1946-47 .] sions. Two awards were given with funds pro­ 1969. She is the co-author of Minne ota vided by the Toledo Alumni Foundation and Elementary Music Guide and Music for Students '48 University endowment funds. Gibney was a with Special Needs. [Her mother, Blanche Eby, mathematics teacher and principal at Belle was housemother of Lawther Hall when it JAMES NELSO JR., B.A., was one of 12 men inducted into the Minnesota Wrestling Plaine while completing a Ph .D. degree at the opened in 1939.] University of Iowa. He joined the Toledo Hall of Fame in January. He retired this year after 24 seasons as wrestling coach at Carleton faculty in 1964 after teaching in the Highland '40 College, where he is also an associate professor Park, IL public schools. He is a former PALMA BORLAUG BEHRE S, B.A., has of physical education and an assistant football chairman of the Toledo Fa ulty Senate. He and retired.from the Cedar Falls school system, coach. elson received an M.A. degree from his wife, ELLE DU LEAVY GIB EV, B.A., '54, where she taught for 29 years. She taught the University of Iowa .. During his career he live at 2349 Drummond Rd ., Toledo. kindergarten for 35 years, with her final also coached at Washburn High School in assignment at Cedar Heights Elementary School. Minneapolis, Wayzata (Minn.) High School, Behrens lives at 1509 W. 4th St., Cedar Falls. Lake Forest (Ill.) High School and Oelwein High

26 '57 '62 '69 DONALD L. FRUEHLING, B.A., has been GARY L. FLOYD, B.A., received a junior LY N H. Kl G, B.A. '69, M.A. ' 72, was the named president of McGraw-Hill Book faculty Distinguished Research Award from guest speaker at the Lions Club's annual athletic Company. He was previously president of Ohio State University, where he is an associate banquet in Cedar Falls. He has been U l's McGraw-Hill International Book Company. He professor of botany and director of the men's head track coach since 1976. He and his joined the company in 1958 as a sa les Transmis ion Electron Microscope facility. Floyd wife, Jan, live at 1406 Rainbow Dr., Cedar representative and has held successively more has been on the facul ty since 1975, and Falls. responsible positions. He and his wife, received a Distinguished Teaching Award in JAMES W. VICARS, B.A., has joined United Rosema ry, live at 4334 Chimo, E., Wayzata, 1980. He becomes the first Ohio State faculty Central Bank and Trust Co. in Mason City as an M. member to receive both the teaching and junior assistant vi e president for commercial loans faculty research awards. He and his wife, and compliance officer for government banking '58 MYR A SPURLING FLOYD, B.A. '63, live at regulations. He had previously been a bank 936 Kendale Rd ., S., Columbus, OH. examiner with the Federal Depo it Insurance ROSEMARY BERKA STOELZEL, 2 yr., was Corporation. His address is 8 S. Regency Ct., honored recently as the Teacher of the Year in '63 Mason City. the El Pa o (Tex.) Independent School District. She tea hes fifth- and sixth-grade social studies LAURA CE " LARRY" J. WARFORD, B.A. '70 and fifth-grade math and art at Johnson '63, M.A. '68, recently became assistant to the Elementary School. Stoelzel lived in Saudi president of Lane Community College in LEE R. McCLURG, B.A., has been promoted Arabia for eight years while her husband, Eugene, OR. He is currently president of the to senior claims repre entative in the Claims Wally, worked for ARAMCO. Slides taken Oregon Community Ed ucation Asso iation and Department of Monarch Life lnsuran e during trips to India, Australia, Kenya, Egypt, northwe t representative to the ational Company. He joined Monarch in 1971 , and Greece and Turkey supplement her social Council for Community Services and lives at 9407 Knox Dr., Overland Park, KS. studies teaching. The Stoelzels live at 320 Continuing Education. Warford and his wife, ORMA R. AZBELL, B.A., has qualified Sundown Pl., El Pa o, TX . Ann, live at 1326 Piper Ln., Eug ne. for status as a Guild Gemologist by successfully DORIS HOFER VA SICKLE, B.A., was DO ALO A. EICHELBERGER, B.A., completing the Diamond Council of America's honored as the 1982 Friend of Education by the addres ed the Million Dollar Round Table in gemology course. He is a supervisor for the Ogden Educational Association. She has served Atlanta in June in recognition of his work as an centra l Ohio region of Rogers Jewelry Co. on the Ogden School Board for nine years, agent for Equitable Insurance Co. Eichelberger Azbell and his wife, KATHRY MOORE including two years as chairman, and has been is an agent in Waterloo. He and his wife, AZBELL, B.A. '74, live at 745 4th St., Marion, widely active in local educational and political Nancy, live at 5127 Poplar Ln., Cedar Falls. OH. concerns. DE IS H. GALLAGHER, B.A. ' 70, M .A. SA ORA LADEHOFF OSBORN, B.A., '63-'64 '71, has been named junior-senior high competed in the 1982 Boston Marathon, principal of the Southern Public School District finishing with a time of 3 hours, 50 minutes. LARRY G. ROWEDDER, B.A., ' 63, M.A. ' 65, in ebraska. He had been an administrative This was only the second full marathon for has been named superintendent of the Green intern at Bettendorf High School. Gallagher i Osborn, who is the 1958 UNI class River (WY) school system. He had been working toward a Ph.D. degree in educational representative. She lives at 104 Shiloh Dr., superintendent in Denison, where his successor administration at the University of ebraska­ Madison, WI. is JOHN Fl ESSY, B.A. '64, M .A. ' 66. Lincoln. He and his wife, Lynda, will live at Finnessy had been principal at Marshalltown 101 . 8th St., Wymore, NE. High School. Rowedder is living at 180 '61 THOMAS W . LOECK, B.A., has joined the Clearview Dr., Green River. staff of the Commercial Savings Bank of Carroll. MICHAEL J. O'BRIE , B.A., has taught art at He and his wife, ancy, live at 124 Orchard Seou l American High School in South Korea for '65 Ln., Carroll. the past 19 years. The 1961 Old Cold editor recently published his first book, a collection of KIM KREINBRI G, B.A. '65, M.A. '78, has photographs entitled Far-Reaching Fragrance: been named superintendent of the Preston '71 Photographs of Korea . He presented copies to school system. He spent the past five years as A BECHTEL BAKKE, B.A., was recently the U I Department of Art and University principal and athletic director at Midland (WY) selected as Iowa Young Mother of the Year. She Library during a June visit to Cedar Falls. High School. Kim is married to SA ORA and her husband, STEVE R., B.A. ' 70, live at RICHARD L. MAZE, JOHNSON KREINBRI G, B.A. '66. 110 Sweetgrass Ln ., Forest City. B.A., has been named a ROGER B. THOMAS E. MEYER, B.A., has been named senior biologist with HOSTETLER, B.A., has treasurer of the Mutual Federal Savings and Dames & Moore, been named assistant Loan Association in Mason City. He has been consu ltants in the treasurer for General with the firm for the past six years in the environmental and Foods Corporation, as­ accounting and savi ngs areas. He and his wife, applied earth sciences. signed to corporate Catherine, live at 402 11th St., N., orthwood. Maze joined Dames & headquarters at White DOUGLAS K. BRAGG, B.A., is a sales Moore in 1974, and is Plains, NY. He was associate for the Better Living Rea lty in Council located at the firm's previously vice Bluffs. He taught in the Council Bluff school Phoenix office. During president and treasurer system for 11 years and was president of the his career he has participated in a variety of of O car Mayer Foods Council Bluffs Education Association. He and biological studies in the United States, Africa Corporation in Madison, WI, a subsidiary of his wife, MARY GREE BRAGG, B.A. '67, live and the central Pacific. His work chiefly General Foods. Hostetler worked as a certified at 118 5th Ave., Council Bluffs. involves the preparation of planning and impact public accountant in Fort Dodge and Chicago CAROL BLAISDELL ALLBAUGH, B.A., is the studies for industrial sites. before joining Oscar Mayer in 1970. recipient of a U I Merchant Scholarship. She NORMA MUNSON, B.A., retired this spring WILLIAM D. LESCHE SKY, M.A., is the plans to complete an M.A. degree program in after 40 years of teaching. Her career spanned co-author of a pre-algebra textbook recently special education at U I, and is preparing for rural school teaching in Bl ack Hawk and published by Charles E. Merrill Publishing. The work as a multi-categorical resource teacher. Chickasaw counties, concluding with 12 years book is entitled Merrill Pre-Algebra: A Problem MARY A. SCHLICHER, B.A., is working as a at Grant Elementary School in Waterloo. She Solving Approach. Leschensky teaches at law clerk for the First Iowa Judicial District. Her and her husband, Henry, live at 1432 Vine St., Glenbard South High School in Glen Ellyn, IL address is 3329 Cobblestone Circle, # 6, Waterloo. and at a local junior college. He and his wife, Waterloo. Sandra, live at 830 Pick St., Wheaton, IL.

27 SUSAN A. BRUNKA , B.A., has been '76 PAMELA SUE CO D , B.A. , i working named assistant controller of the Regi ter and MARK A. SEVERSON, B.A., ha join d the as a private tutor. Her addre is 14 Sunswyck Tribune Company, publishers of the Des Dubuque Savings and Loan Association as Rd ., Darien, CT. Moines Regi ter. She was previously an treasurer. He was previou ly with Peoples MARK RAPHAEL GOODMA , B.A., is the assistant division controller at Mid-Continent Savings and Loan Association in Ottumwa. recipient of a U I Merchant Scholarship. He is Bottlers, where she had worked since 1973. She After graduation he worked for the PA firm of beginning hi final yea r of law school at the lives at 8230 Harbach Blvd., A-2A, Des Peat, Marwick, M itchell & o. ver on and his University of otre Dame, where h i on the Moines. wife, M ariam, live at 4740 Terrill Ridge, staff of the law review. TOM FERGUSO , B.A., is a co-recipient of Dubuque. JE NIFER BER AT, B.A., ha been elected the Educator of the Year award in Iowa City. JOH T. A DERSON, B.A., is employed as pre ident of the Student ational Education He teaches art in the elementary schools. He an historian with the Tactical Air ommand of Association (S EA), a national organization and his wife, LI DA RUMMER FERGUSO , the U.S. Air Force, headquartered at Langley Air with 30,000 member . She i working toward B.A. '71, live at 2933 Washington, Iowa City. Force Ba e near Hampton, VA. He re eived an an M.A. degree in education at U I, and is on M .A. degree from the College of William and leave from this program to erve in her '72 Mary in 1979 and a Ph .D. degree from the full-time, pa id po ition at S EA headquarter in University of Virginia in 1982. Ander on liv Washington, D.C. RA DY MCMAHO , B.A., has been at 900 E. Little Black Ri ver Rd ., Hampton. elected vice pre ident of Clay Equipment Corp. of Cedar Falls. He joined the company in 1972 '81 and had been Cedar Falls bran h manager. 'n LY E PRI E BEYKIR H, B.A., i the Randy and his wife, MARGRETTIA SLOA BRAD C. EDDY, B.A., has been promoted to recipient of th Letitia Walsh Scholar hip from MCMAHON, B.A. '73, live at 1221 Oak Park branch manager of Clear Lake Skelgas. He the U I Department of Home Economic . She Blvd., Cedar Falls. joined the firm in 1978 and w as previously is a graduate teaching assistant in the foods and ORVILLE MOREHOUSE, B.A., wa named a si tant branch manag r. He and his wife, nutrition program, working toward an M.A. Empire Conference Coach of the Year for his JEA LA SI G EDDY, B.A. '79, live in degree. Sh and her hu band, Hugo (a o iate work at What Cheer-Thornburg (Tri-County). Swaledale. professor of audiology at U I) , live at 131 5 His teaching experience includes two years at College St. , Cedar Falls. Ida Grove, two years at Lewis Central and one DAVID J. KLEI , B.A., is the r cipient of a year at the American School in Iran. He '78 U I Merchant Scholar hip. He is a graduate coaches girl's track and basketball, and has JOA MAYER HOHL, B.A., is program tudent in the School of Labor and Industrial been at Tri-County for the past six years. He coordinator for Volunteers in Vital Action Relations at Michigan State University. and his wife, Judy, live on RFD 1, Box 89, (VIVA) in Creston. VIVA is a project of the JEFF SHULL, B.A., is ports anchor for What Cheer. Reorgani zed Church of Je u Chri t of KOSA-TV, Channel 7 (CBS) in Odessa, TX . His RUDOLPH E. BLOEMKER, M.A., was Latter-day Saints (RLDS). Hohl recruits, trains address is 3835 Penbrook St. , Winwood Apts. , ordained in June as a minister of the Lutheran and places volunteers in the community, A72, Odessa. Church-Missouri Synod. He is erving St. John's serving the elderly, handicapped and needy in JEFFREY L. HELMER, B.A., is the recipient of Lutheran Church in Hastings. He taught in Adair, Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Ringgold, a U I Merchant Scholarship. H is studying Lutheran schools in Fort Dodge, Clarinda and Taylor and Union counties. She and her jazz at the Eastman S hool of Music. Westmont, IL and received a master of arts in husband, Lonnie, live at 515 W . Mills, Creston. MICHAEL R. HA EMA , B.A., became religion degree from Concordia Theologica l adverti ing manager of the Eldora Herald-Ledger Seminary, in Fort Wayne, I . He has served as '79 and Hardin County Index in May 1982. He was an intern pastor at St. John's for the past year. previously a marketing con ultant for United He and his wife, Joyce, live in Hastings. CLARK KOOB, B.A., is managing Radio Hydraulics in Hampton and an advertising sa les Shack's new computer center in Fort Dodge. person for the newspaper in Hampton. He and He previou ly taught school in Bancroft. Kobb '74 his wife, Valerie, live at 1604 3rd St. Pl. , Eldora. lives at 2718 4th Ave., W ., # 2, Fort Dodge. TAMARA LEIGH OLSO , B.A. , was elected RA DALL C. PRUISNER, B.A., ha joined A. JA DAVIS, M.A., has published her to the Student Council at the University of Manufacturers Bank and Trust Co. in Forest City first book, Please See M y Need. It is a Dubuque Theologica l Seminary. She is working as data processing officer. He had previously collection of articles and poems by herself and toward a master of divinity degree and been a mathematics and computer instructor at others on how to deal with illness, aging and ordination in the United Methodist Ch urch. Forest City High School. He and his wife, Lorie, death. She lives in Charles City, where she is live at 118 Woodland Dr., Forest City. director and owner of Satellite Continuing Education, Inc. She is working on a second '82 '75 book and continue to lecture and con ult on GREGORY K. HARTER, B.A., is the re ipient medically related topics. of a U I Merchant S holarship. He is tarting PATRICIA GORMAN, M .A., was named the CURTIS L. DEBERG, B.A., is the recipient of his first year of study at the University of Iowa Outstanding Faculty for 1982 at Cl inion a U I Merchant Scholarship. He is a certified College of Medicine. Community College. Th is was the first year for public accountant, and is working toward a the award, which was established by the doctoral degree in busines administration at College's alumni association. Gorman has Oklahoma State University. taught biological sciences at Clinton since STEPHEN J. ANDERSON, B.A., has joined 1965. She lives at 420 9th St., Camanche. the Dallas accounting firm of Cooper and JAMES . MILLER, B.A., has worked for the Lybrand as a tax attorney. Iowa Department of Job Service since 1976. He was recently transferred to Mason City as a '80 Advanced Degrees fraud investigator for a 13-county area of northern Iowa. He and his wife, Lana, live at MARIL Y HARBAUGH LIES, B.A. , is the 108 Sunny Circle, Mason City. re ipient of a UNI Merchant Scholarship. She i HOWARD M . E GSTROM, B.A., has been a junior in the Univer ity of Iowa College of MARIKAY KLOCKE SCHWALLER, B.A. '74, appointed deputy assessor in Ames. He has Medicine. received an M.S. degree in special worked in the assessor's office since 1979 as an PAUL K. McKEE, B.A., is the recipient of the edu ation-reading from the Univer ity of appraiser. He and his wife, DOROTHY International Trombone Association's Frank ebraska at Omaha in May 1982. KESSLER E GSTROM, B.A. '67, M .A. '74, live Rosolino Memorial Scholar hip in Jazz. He was JON E. AHLQUIST, B.A. '74, received a at 1011 Lincoln Way, Ames. selected from among trombonists from throughout the United States and several foreign Ph.D. degree in meteorology from the countries. As the winner of this prestigious University of Wiscon on-Madison in 1981. award, he was invited· to perform at the 1982 CHRISTI E BRI KMAN CARPENTER, B.A. International Trombone Workshop at a hville, '70, received an M.A. degree in psychology TN. from Bradl y University in May 1982. 28 GAREN K. MILTON, M.A. ' 74, re eived a BRE DA JEAN PETER E , B.A. , and A ETTE LE ARSO , B.A. ' 81 , and doctor of mu ic edu ation degree from hio Gordon Hutton, 7630 Woodhollow Dr., #108, T DD R. NEDVED, B.A. '80, 909 Bluff St., State University in June 1982. Round Rock, TX. Webster ity. Mary Kopecky and TODD S. HUMMEL, STEPHE J. A DERSO , B.A. '79, received B.A., 3665 Cottage Grove S.E. , Cedar Rapid s. a J.D. degr e from Drake Univer ity in May '80 1982. SA ORA SW YER, B.A., and Scott '75-'76 Bred nsteiner, 2024 64th Hi kman, Des The following U I graduates received DIA A LY HEATH, B.A. '76, M.A. ' 78, Moines. degree from Drake University in May 1982: and DO ALO B. BRIGGS, B.A. ' 75, 2729 AMY UE BLO K, B.A., and Bill BESSIE L CHE RY STARK, B.A. '69, mater Acorn, edar Fall . Glassmaker, 903 ½ State, C dar Fal ls. of art edu ation; CO IE JO GRAUERH LZ, Vicki George and KYLE D. CORDE , B.A., B.A. '74, ma ter of arts; A E. [JOAN E.] '75 225 Geneva St. , Williams Bay, WI. HAW RO BERTS, B.A. '62, do tor of Karla McKibben and DAVID FEGLEY, B.A., TERESA JEA KEEFE, B.A., and Ronald edu ation. 4236 Sooline Drive, Waterloo. 'Meara, 201 " G" St. , Cedar Falls. JOH T. A DERSO , B.A. '76, re eived a u an K. Gericke and STEVE R. ROGERS, Ph.D. degree from the Univer ity of Virginia in '76 B.A., 511 19th St. , Mason ity. June 1982. Sarah Burt and MURRAY R. BARRI K, B.A., Meredith Lyon and ARLTO REW , 215 ½ S. Pine St. , Davenport. The following U I graduates received M.A. B.A., 89 Warren St. , harleston, SC. degrees from the Univer ity of Iowa in December 1981 : BARBARA E. EG ER, B.A. '81 '77-'80 KIM JEA GR E , B.A. , and DOUGLA R. '78, GARY H. G ADE, B.A. ' 70, JAMES A. PATRI IA E. KELLE HER, B.A. '80, and NICHO LS, B.A. '78, LI DA S. SWALLEY, B.A. D RN , B.A., 115 9th Ave. E. , ka loosa. JAMES D. JESSE , B.A. ' 77, 1032 W. DE I E L. B HY, B.A. , and JEFFR EY A. '79, JUDY ANN VILMA! , B.A. '77, and Wiscon in, Portage, WI. CATHER! EE. Y U G, B.A. '71 , GREGORY ELMORE, B.A., 2263 E. Jefferson Av ., P. LAUTERBA H, B.A. ' 77, received an M.F.A. Evan ville, I . degree. '77-'81 KIMBERLY A N ELLIS, B.A., and Denni JEAN BEATTY, B.A. '81, and ROY FISH, Ginken , Argyle, TX. The following U I graduate received Ph.D. B.A. '77, 103 ottage St., Shell burg. JA IS CHAPMA , B.A., and STEVE degrees from Iowa State Univer ity in May KAMPMAN, B.A., 7910 Tree House Ln A-2138, 1982: GARY G. BARD, B.A. '75, M.A. '76, JI '77 Dallas, TX . WO K CHO I, B.A. '76, and DOROTHY Terry Taylor and RI K ANDER , B.A., Michelle Seamen and MARK P. KRUG, KESSLER E GSTROM, B.A. '67, M.A. ' 74. 1027 Franklyn St., K okuk. B.A., 3605 Casa Verde # 237, Dalla , TX. Receiving M .S. degrees were Ml HAEL E. BARBARA PARKER, B.A., and Bill Griffith, SARAH A LILLY, B.A. , and James Myers, GRAY, B.A. '77, THOMAS B. GRIFF! , B.A. 27653 Hwy. 6, #302, Rifl e, 0. 614 W. Randolph, Enid, OK. '71, MARK A. MIL ER, B.A. '73, and WAY E MERRY J STUHR, B.A., and Jay Kahn , 324 ARA HARTZ, B.A., and KERRY J. S. QUIRK, B.A. '80. THOMAS J. ATE, B.A. S. Prospect, Maquoketa. B.A., 709 Wa shington St., edar Fa ll . '80, received a ma ter of public administration DA A RAE MIE DERS, B.A., and Jon Kathryn Tripp and STEVE L. !ELSE , B.A. , degree. Laughner, 6111 Townsend, Urbandale. 2211 Staborn Dr., Beloit, WI. LOIS E. !SEMI GER, B.A. '71, received an PA TTY DEMRO, B.A., and Matt Schloemer, M .B.A. degree from the Univer ity of Chicago '78-'80 8802 Ilona # 6, Houston, TX . in March 1982. LAURIE RIPPE TROP, B.A., and Allen MARY BU H, B.A. '80, and BRIA J. Rollefson, RFD 3 Box 205H, Coon Rapid . PATRICIA COOK! HAM RUS H, B.A. '62, HUMKE, B.A. '78, 2701 Ferndale, Ame . Kathy Michels and ROBERT E. SIMMO S, received a Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology B.A., 1501 48th St., Boulder, from the Universi ty of Southern alifornia in '78 R XA E JO THOMAS, B.A. , and Jame Decemb r 198 1. KIMBERLY DUFFE, B.A., and Michael Vaughan, 1107 69th, De Moines. Andre en, 3249 Kinsey, Des Moine . DE ISE WIEMA , B.A., and JOH M . PAMELA ROH ER, B.A., and Darrell Jansa, WAG ER, B.A., 1928 College St. , edar Falls. RFD 2, Cedar Rapids. DIA E M. BRIES, B.A., and Lester Wright, Kathleen Hesse and RI HARD MILLER, 11 03 ½ 66th St., De Moines. B.A., 65320 Hillandale Dr., Norcross, GA. ue Behnke and MARK P. HARTU G, B.A., Janice Runge and KIM T. TRYTTE , B.A., 1317 Oakland Rd. .E., Apt. 6, edar Rapid . 508 E. Warren St., Lebanon, OH. J A M. UDDIGA , B.A., and Ken Marriages Kennedy, 620 Park Ave., #4, Webster Ci ty. '79-'80 Dorothy Pannkuk and DUA E R. LEMKE, LORE E KAY WI KE RSHAM, B.A. '80, and M.A., 1137 Ravenwood # 302, Waterloo. '66 KURT A. PRO TOR, B.A. ' 79, 514 E. Garfield REBECCA A ME TINK, B.A., and Paul MARJORIE ELAI E BE K, B.A. , and Richard St., Davenport. Let che, RFD 2, Rem en. Gib on, RFD 1, Box 127, Danville. helley Bardole and RA DY F. PRATI, B.A., 5413 Aurora, Apt. 236, D s Moines. '79 KATHRY L. EDE , B.A., and James Reed, '68-'75 A ITA DELORIS D EHRMA , B.A., and 108 Forsythe, Longmont, 0 . HAROLD STREVER, B.A. '68, and Christopher H. Hansen, 4821 Tama St., #4, CHERYL L. GRAFF, B.A., and Jeff Westlund, Marion. SUZA E L. DIERS, B.A. '75, 2735 Acorn Ln., 923 E. College, Iowa ity. Cedar Falls. Tl A LU DEE , B.A., and Bradley Smith, DEA NA JO FU K, B.A., and KEITH 1015½ S. 8th, Burlington. RAYMO D WEBER, B.A., 2210 Thunder Ridge '70 arol Pardo and OLA MEGGERS, B.A. , Bl vd., Apt. 12A, Cedar Fall . 2202 Oxofrd Ln ., Cedar Falls. SHARON KAY ARTER, B.A., and Henry KATHLEE A KOPER IK, B.A., and )EA I EL UISE SAUER, B.A., and DAVID Lengfellner, 6938 14th St. ., Oakdale, M . BLAKE W. MOHR, B.A. , 6427 amden Ave., R. HU TOO , B.A., 1004 Bia khawk Rd ., Apt. 302, Brooklyn Cent r, M . Waterloo. '74 MARY GERIL Y SPAETH, B.A., and Mark Schneider, 1634 W . George Washington Blvd., JA ET KAY O LSO , B.A., and David '80-'81 Bremm, 1008 York Ct. , Brandon, FL. Davenport. PATRICIA PART, B.A. ' 81 , and ROBERT F. CHERYL ROSE WAG ER, B.A., and R. GEHRIG LAVE LLE, B.A., and Elizabeth Brian Bruner, 65 Greenbrier Estates, Cumming. LA UGALIS, B.A. '80, Mayflower Mobile Home Conrad, 803 ½ State St., Cedar Falls. Park, #43, Kalona. Janice Sa lmon and STEVEN L. FETTER, B.A., 1920 . Tucker Dr., Tucson, AZ.

29 left by her husband, JOSEPH S. WRIGHT, B.A. '21 Births '06, at the time of hi death in 1969. Mrs. PAULI E P. SC HWART Z, B.A., Bridgeport , Wright's fath r-i n-law was David Sands Wright, T, M ay 14, 1982. '68 an ori ginal fa ulty member of the Iowa Sta te RUTH N LTE WOLF, 2 yr. , heffield, April RI HARD E. & JEAN E BE ETT Normal School. 22, 1982. he taught in a one-room sc hool at SE TMA , both B.A., 2723 14th Ave., S.E., West Fork and in hool at Sheffield and Rock Cedar Rapid s. Th ad is their fir t child, born Rapids. She is urvived by a son , R.G . Williams, April 3, 1982. '13 M innetonka, M . GEORGE B., B.A. '68, M .A. '70, & JOYCE HLOE MEIER DAILY, B.A. , Boulder, 0, A GELi E G DE OW WORSWI K, 2 yr. , ew Port Ri chey, FL , M arch 19, 1982. MILLER MAXWEL L, B.A. ' 68, M.A. '72, rural Dec. 1981. Central ity. Morga n M ari e i their fi rst JU LIA LA GE WHARAM, 2 yr. , M a on ity, daughter, born M arch 1, 1982. Feb. 16, 1982. '22 ALBERT F. BRO KMA , B.A., Cedar '69-'71 '14 Rapids, M arch 28, 1982 . He was a teacher and superintend ent for everal yea r and later DALE W., M .A. '71, & KRI ST I LUCAS COYLA BRUCE KE T, 2 yr., Scott dale, AZ, owned and operated a gro ery tore. He moved HIBBS, B.A. ' 69, 605 M eadow St. , Iowa City. M arch 28, 1982. She is survived by a son , J.O. to W aterl oo in 1947 and was employed as a Jon athan Lucas is their first child, born April 8, Kent, 66 10 E. Camel back, Scott dale. 1982. meat utter until hi s retirement in 1963. He is M . I A SA LYER$ SLOTHOWER, 2 yr., survived by hi s w ife, Maurine, and two M alvern , Feb. 15, 1982. daughters. '70 JOH & CLA U DIA GOODYEAR MARTI , '15 both B.A. , 3103 Abraham Dr., Cedar Fall s. Bet h L. A NA JANSSE GAUGER, 2 yr., '23 Ann was born June 8, 1982. Wheaton, IL, March 1981. She was a re ident MARGARET 0. DARRIS, 2 yr., Clinton, Jan. DE IS B., B.A. ' 70, M .A. ' 77, & Janet of Seal Beach, CA for many years and 7, 1982. REIMER , 7803 University Ave., Ced ar Falls. grad uated from Seaside M emori al Hospital as Kristy Lee is their first child, born Jun e 4, 1982. an LV in 1946. he is urvived by two sons. '25 ELLA M . JAN SSE , 2 yr. , Whittier, CA, Feb . ELSIE P. KIR H ER, 2 yr. , Iowa City, M ay '72-'73 27, 1982. She grad uated from Wesley Memorial 1981. JAMES E., B.A. ' 72 , & BETH DUNKEL Hos pital in Chi cago in 192 1 with a nursing EVA M . OL EY , B.A., Cedar Falls, M ay 22, WESTPFAHL, B.A. '73, 2020 Roundtable Rd. , degree. She retired a uperintendent of nurse 1982. She taught in the Cooper sc hool system Sergea nt Bluff. Trisha Lynn is their second at East Los Angele Hea lth Clinic. She i before becoming the night hostess at U l's daughter, born M arch 8, 1982. survived by a nephew, John Gauger, Wheaton, Lawth r Hall. She is survived by a sister. IL. '72-'74 SYBIL WALTHERS SMITH, 2 yr., Phoenix, AZ, April 20, 1982. '26 WILLIARD H., B.A. '74, & DARLE E FAYETTE C. DORSEY, 2 yr. '26, B.A. '34, GUILLAUME ASMUS, B.A. ' 72, M.A. '73 203 W eb ter, Feb. 28, 1982. He taught and W . 14th St. , Cedar Fall s. Kod y is their first '16 coached for more than 39 yea rs, and wa a child, a son, born May 13, 1982. M ABEL HELLER HINDS, B.A. , Waterloo, school uperintendent from 1938 until hi s April 24, 1982. She taught at West Waterloo retirement. He is survived by hi s wife, Ruth, a '74 High School for many yea rs. She is su rvived by daughter, orm a Elaine Allen, and two so ns, Roger & JOYCE HORTO N HERGOTT, B.A. , several nieces and nephews. Herbert and Terran ce. 404 W. 29th Ave., Milan, IL. Ken t is thei r LORE A LUMRY WALKER, 2 yr. , Sea l DELIA WY EGAR MUELLER, 2 yr., June 28, second so n, born M arch 13, 1982. Beach, CA, May 22, 1982. She taught in the 1981. W aterl oo sc hool system before moving to Ca lifornia in 1964. She is survived by her '75 husband, Ralph, 13550 M edinac Lane, and by '28 Crai g & GAIL CARLSO EICHSTA DT, B.A., two sons. SADIE WEILER MAWOSLEY, 2 yr. , Algona, Plankinton, SO . Neil is th ei r second child, born M ay 5, 1982. She was a longtime Algona December 22, 1981 . re ident and a former teacher in the chool Scott & CATHERI E MURPHY FUTRELL, '18 system. She is survived by a on, Ri chard, and a MARION GRATIA ASHER, 2 yr., Osage, B.A. , 11802 99th Pl., N ., M aple Grove, M . daughter, Mary. Matthew Scott is their first child, born April M ay 8, 1982. She taught in Iowa and orth F. EUGE E MUELLER, 2 yr., Dec. 25 , 1981. 10,1982. Dakota, and was teaching at Lincoln He wa s the hu sband of DELIA WY EGAR Elementary S hoo l in W enatchee, W ashington MUELLER, ' 26. at the time of her retirement. '77 ALMA KEES OE, 2 yr. '28, B.A. ' 38, GLADYS MADELINE SECHLER, 2 yr., Bu ena M emphi s, TN, Apri l 28, 1982. JOH C. , B.A. , & Joan RAVER, 3140 Park , CA, Jan. 16, 1982. Stoneybrook Ci rcle, Antioch, TN. Jill Denise is their first child, born April 2, 1982. '29 '19 EVA HER DO N LADD, B.A., Whittier, CA, ALICE PEEK BORDE , B.A., Waterl oo, April Feb. 27, 1982. She i survived by a niece and a 3, 1982. She taught home economics at O range nephew. Township. She is survived by her daughter, DARREL 0 . SLO UM, B.A. , Atlantic, Feb. WILMA BORDEN CLARK, B.A. ' 48, 2734 22 , 1982. He taught sc hool for everal yea rs M eadowbrook Drive, S.E., Cedar Rapid s. and was a coach, administrator and MYRNA ROSS DEMPSTER, 2 yr. ' 19, B.A. superintendent. He is survived by hi wife, '2 1, Tulsa, OK, April 14, 1982. She received an Ruth , 1202 E. 12th St. , and by a daughter, Deaths M .A. degree from the University of Iowa and Roberta Brown. taught for many yea rs in the Waterl oo chool system. Th eir Ced ar Falls home is now the '30 '10 headquarters of the Cedar Falls Historica l MABEL M C ALLY WRIGHT, B.A., Jan . 22, ALFRED 0 . SABI , B.A., Rockford , IL, May Society and Museum. She is survived by a on 1982. She also received ph ysica l training 1982. He taught industrial art s and coached for and a daughter. degrees (1906) at U I, and was a director of 41 yea rs in Ro kford, M aywood and Bedford, physica l education at the Francis Parker School Illinois. He is survived by hi s wife, Chrystel, in hicago. Mabel M . Wright Scholarships for 37 14 Flambea u Dr., and by three daughters, women who plan to teach physical education Shirley Grooters, Virginia Hane and Jea nnine will be established under provisions of a tru st Sa bin.

30 '35 '59 Deaths of Former Faculty LESTER E. PETERSE , B.A., outh Bend, I , LUCILE M C OY HA SO , B.A. ' 59, M.A. Feb. 18, 1982. He taught science and coa hed ' 65, Hubbard, M arch 20, 1982. She taught for at edar Falls High S hool from 1939 to 1943, 31 year in the Rad liffe junior high Katherine S. Humphrey after which he went into the avy as a departm nt, including 15 years as principal. Katherine S. Humphrey, emeritus professor lieutenant commander. At the tim of hi death She w as 69 at the time of her dea th. of business edu ation and office administration, he w as president and chairman of the board of d ied M ay 6 as the re ult of an automobile Petersen Printing Company. He is survived by '65 accident near Tu on, Arizona. She was 72 . his wife, VIOLET FRA KU PETERSE , B.A. JO H W. KO RTEM EYER, B.A. '65, M.A. Humphrey taught at U I from 1947 until ' 37, 53 118 . Ironwood Dr., and by two on , ' 73, ot h Grove, March 1982. her ret irem nt in 1976. She earlier taught at Eric and M arc. W averly High chool, Eastern lllinoi University '68 and the Katherine Gibbs hool in hicago. '36 YVO N E K APP A DER , B.A., Eldora, She received B.S.C. and M.A. degree from HELE RE KLER LEME TS, 2 yr., M arch 1982. the Universi ty of Iowa in 1932 and 1942, respectively, and d id additional work at Indiana Grinnell, M arch 3, 1982. She taught in Kellogg GARY A. M AST, B.A., Independence, Feb. University in 1961. before moving to Grinnell in 1939. She w as 1982. He taught busine education at Humphrey was living with her si t r, Julie a tive in community affairs, esp cially 4-H and lndependen e ommunity High School and Saxton, at 351 La Hama a , Green Valley, P.T.A. She is survived by h r hu band, James, was a i tant wrestling coach from 1968 to Arizona 85614 at the time of her death. Burial Box 398, and by two daughters, Mary Hal tead 1979. He had been head coach si nce that time. wa in L Roy, Illinois. and Harriet, and two sons, James and Frank. He is urvived by hi wife, JEA E GART ER MA T, B.A. '70, 100 5th t. , N.E., a daughter, '39 Gretchen, and two sons, John and M ark. VER O W . KRU SE, B.A., M ar halltown, July 17, 1981. '69 CAR L JEA DEG ER, B.A., Belle Plaine, Alumnus to shift '48 May 5, 1982. She taught in the Belle Plaine CLAYTON M . EVERMA , B.A., Phoenix, s hoo ls for 23 years until fa iling health for ed production dates AZ, Feb. 14, 1982. He received a master' s her retirement. She is survived by her mother, The next edition of Th e Alumnus degree in industrial arts and school Bertha Degner, Dysart. will be published in January rather administration from the Univer ity of orthern than in December. Beginning with Colorado in 1950. He taught drafting in the '76 tha t issue, The Alumnus will be M ilwaukee Trade and Techni al High S hool RONALD LEE STEPHENSO , B.A., Cedar published quarterl y, in January, until his disability retirement in 1975. He i Falls, April 29, 1982. He was killed in an urvived by hi wife, Delores, 3307 W . Loma accident on his parents' farm nea r Adair. He April, Ju ly and tober. Th e Ln ., #1 . wa truss manager for Robert & Dybdahl Alumnus ha been publi hed in Who lesa le Lumber at the time of his death. He February, May, ptember and '50 is urvived by his parents, Mr. and M rs. Rex December. JAMES A. MCDO ALD, B.A., Torrance, CA, Stephenson. Th is ha nge w ill put Th e M ay 1981. Alumnus on a more regu lar chedule for reader , liminating the '51 present four-month gap during the G RDO S. BR OKHART, B.A. , Fa irfield, ummer. Alumni A ociation April 22, 1982. He taught in Boone for 10 years member who would have received b fore moving to Fairfield in 1961, and was th December i ue w ill receive the a i tant prin ipal at Fairfield High School January issue. before becoming principal in 1966. He w a The U I Century will go on a serving as principal at the time of hi s death, similar production chedule in and recently completed a 10-year term a a director of the Iowa High School Boy Athletic December. It will also be published A sociation. He is urvived by his wife, quarterl y, in M arch, June, S ptember Marjorie, 1001 S. 2nd St. , a son, Randy, and a and December. daughter, aroline Adam.

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