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University Letter / October 1, 1999 / Page 1 University Letter is also available electronically in the Events and News section of UNDInfo on the Web, http://www.und.edu/dept/ our/uletter.htm 1. 3. 2. 4. Volume 37, Number 6: October 1, 1999 Finance, Operations VP Search Committee Named Finance, Operations VP Search Committee Named ............................. 1 President Charles Kupchella has announced the formation of a 19- Steam Heat Line Construction Updated ............................................... 2 person search committee to conduct a national search for a permanent Please Return Inauguration Response Cards ....................................... 2 Vice President for Finance and Operations. Oct. 15 Inauguration Ceremonies Planned For President Kupchella . 2 The committee will be chaired by Robert Boyd, Vice President for Student and Outreach Services. Kupchella has asked the group, which EVENTS TO NOTE includes individuals from on and off the campus, to search for and James McKenzie To Speak On Vietnam In English Lecture Series ...... 2 screen potential candidates both internally and nationally, and to Regional Sports Medicine Meeting Will Be Held Here ........................ 3 provide him with the names of three to five unranked, acceptable International Centre Lists Events ......................................................... 3 candidates. He said he expects the committee to complete its work in Speaker Will Discuss Medicinal Relevance Of Peroxide Products ...... 3 time for him to select an individual for the job no later than July 1, Graduate Committee Meets Monday .................................................... 3 2000. Anatomy And Cell Biology Will Hold Seminar .................................... 3 Named to the committee besides Boyd were: Ralph Koprince, Counseling Plans Topics Seminar ........................................................ 3 Associate Professor of Languages; Dee Ann Ellingson, Assistant “Dealing With Controversial Topics” Will Be Faculty Lunch Professor of Accounting and Finance; John Vitton, Associate Professor Discussion ..................................................................................... 3 of Management; Alice Brekke, Director of Budget and Grants German America Day Program Set For Oct. 6 .................................... 3 Administration and Assistant to the President; Gerald Groenewold, University Senate Meets Oct. 7............................................................. 4 Director, Energy and Environmental Research Center; Patricia Reduced Rate Available For Stephen Gower Symposium .................... 4 Hanson, Director of Payroll and Risk Management; Odella Fuqua, Biomedical Science Seminar Open To All ............................................ 4 Director of Financial Management, Division of Continuing Education; Chilean Mathematician To Visit Campus ............................................. 4 James Uhlir, Director of Auxiliary Services; Judy Sargent, Interim Workshop Will Discuss Helping Rural Families In Crisis ................... 4 Director of Residence Services; Wanda Sporbert, Business Office Postgraduate Review Course Is Open To All Health Professionals .... 4 Manger; Terri Clark, Fiscal Affairs Director, Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences; Randy Eken, Associate Dean for Finance and Newman Center Will Dedicate New Chapel Oct. 17 ............................ 5 Administration, School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Patrick Hurley, Student, Student Body Treasurer; Truman Bratteli, Comptrol- OF ACADEMIC INTEREST ler, UND Alumni Association and Foundation; Merlin Dewing, Tom Wiggen Elected To Graduate Committee ...................................... 5 Excelsior, Minn., alumnus; Randy Newman, Grand Forks, President, Technology Fee Proposals Due Oct. 28 ................................................ 5 First National Bank; Cathy McDonald, Bismarck, Finance Director, Unsatisfactory Progress Forms Due Oct. 15 ....................................... 5 University System Office; and Celeste Kubasta, Bismarck, Budget Program Available To Help Faculty Improve Teaching ....................... 6 Analyst, Office of Management and Budget. The vice president is the chief fiscal and administrative officer of the ANNOUNCEMENTS University. Other responsibilities include oversight of the planning, Nominations Sought For Harvard Management Program .................. 6 maintenance and construction related to the physical plant and the Counseling Center Offers Free Depression Screening ......................... 6 management of a variety of service units and auxiliary enterprises, Studio One Produces 200th Live Show ................................................. 6 including extensive student residence hall and family housing Native Media Center Welcomes All ...................................................... 6 facilities. Current, Former PBK Members Sought ............................................... 6 Discover The You In YouND Seminar Planned .................................... 7 (next page) PERC Lists Classes ............................................................................... 7 Benefits Fair Door Prize Winners Listed.............................................. 7 Oktoberfest Scheduled For October 9th At The Empire ...................... 7 Did You Know? The first three presidents of the University — William GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Blackburn, Homer Sprague and Webster Merrifield — were Proposals Sought For New Faculty Start-Up Program ....................... 8 all graduates of Yale University. Science, Math, Engineering Proposals Sought .................................... 8 Research, Grant Opportunities Listed .................................................. 8 University Letter / October 1, 1999 / Page 2 Finance, Operations VP Search Committee Named, continued plan to march in the Inauguration processional, please return your response cards now. Please call Sherri Korynta at 777-2725 if you In early 1998, the University eliminated a separate vice president for have any questions. -- Robert Boyd (Student and Outreach Services), the operations area. Peggy Lucke, formerly the University’s comptrol- Co-Chair, Inauguration Committee. ler and Associate Vice President for Finance and Operations, became interim vice president of the merged divisions when Al Hoffarth retired later that year. Oct. 15 Inauguration Ceremonies Departments reporting to the vice president include Budget (shared Planned For President Kupchella with the President), Controller (Accounting Services, Purchasing and Inauguration ceremonies will be conducted Friday, Oct. 15, to Central Receiving), Payroll and Risk Management, Personnel officially install Charles E. Kupchella as the tenth president of the Services, Facilities, Auxiliary Services (Chester Fritz Auditorium, University of North Dakota. They will highlight this year’s UND Golf Course, Transportation, University Police, Parking & Traffic) Homecoming weekend. Events are being planned by a committee of Residence Services (Residence Halls, Apartment Housing, Dining campus and community members co-chaired by Robert Boyd, vice Services, University Children’s Center), Telecommunications, president of student and outreach services, and Earl Strinden, Environmental and Health Safety, Radiation Safety, University executive vice president of the UND Alumni Association and Bookstore, Printing Center, and Mailing and Duplicating Services. Foundation. -- Charles Kupchella, President. The main ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. in the Chester Fritz Auditorium. Official participants representing various constituencies of the University and other invited guests will march to the site from Steam Heat Line Construction Updated Wilkerson Hall, across the street, in a processional beginning at 1:30 At about 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, Facilities personnel will p.m. The inauguration and a reception following it in Wilkerson Hall connect five buildings which have been without steam heat, according are open to the public. The inaugural events highlight Homecoming to Facilities Director Larry Zitzow. The buildings to be connected festivities as a welcome to the new president and his wife, Adele. include: Also among events will be the President’s Luncheon at noon Saturday, * Education Building Oct. 16, in the Memorial Union Ballroom, and the UND Homecoming * Gillette Hall and Inaugural Party at 8 p.m. Oct. 16 in the Grand Forks Civic * Harrington Hall Auditorium. * Montgomery Hall President Kupchella assumed the highest office of the largest * O’Kelly Hall educational institution in the region July 1, being named in a search Zitzow said it would “take a few days (for the buildings) to heat up,” that began last fall. President Kupchella had been provost at but said all five buildings should be comfortably heated by Friday. Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau. Once the new pipe is in place, the new line will be tied into the Hundreds of representatives from campuses, communities, the state, existing systems in each building. Zitzow said there will be little if region, and across the nation will receive invitations to the inaugural any interruption in providing steam heat during the tie-in process. ceremony in the next few weeks. On the UND campus, various faculty, staff, and student groups are also being invited to send The contractor, Lunseth, is currently laying pipe behind the Greek participants and representatives for the official inauguration ceremony houses east of Columbia Road. Next on the agenda are the