Washington University School of Medicine Digital Commons@Becker Washington University Record Washington University Publications 4-29-1982 Washington University Record, April 29, 1982 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record Recommended Citation "Washington University Record, April 29, 1982" (1982). Washington University Record. Book 234. http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record/234 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Washington University Publications at Digital Commons@Becker. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Record by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Becker. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Craig T. Basson, an honors student at WU, has won a Marshall Scholarship providing two and possibly three years of all-expenses-paid study at a British uni- versity of his choice. Following graduation from WU this May, he will study for a master's degree in physiology at Lincoln Collge, Oxford. As an expression of British apprecia- tion for the help Europe has received under the U.S. Marshall Plan, 30 scholarships are given each year to American students who have dis- tinguished themselves by scholastic achievement and other activities, and who ' 'display potential to make signifi- cant contributions to their society." Approximately 1000 college stu- dents apply for the scholarships each year. The awards are made initially for two years, but in some instances are ex- tended to three. They meet all the costs of tuition and maintenance in Britain, with "a little left over" to encourage Junior Lisa Jennings provides the power as senior Julie Florence, in the stern, pilots WU's 226-pound concrete craft in civil engineering students' annual wider travel during vacations. concrete canoe race at Forest Park April 18, sponsored by the American Concrete Institute and the St. Louis secton of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Basson, valedictorian at Roslyn High women's team won its race, beating teams from the University of Missouri-Rolla and the Concrete Masons of St. Louis (background, above). Other WU contestants did not fare as well. Story on page 3. School, Roslyn Heights, N.Y., spent summer vacations during high school studying anatomy on a research fellow- ship at the University of Iowa; taking a preceptorship in surgery with Dr. PAA presents sophisticated Sondheim Michael F. DeBakey at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.; studying in- hit, "Company," April 30-May 2 at Edison organic chemistry at Harvard; and aiding in oncology research with Garth Nicolson Company, Stephen Sondheim's Gardner, Andy Langton, Scott Scudder Suzanne Grace as choreographer, David at M.D. Anderson Hospital at the Uni- four-time Tony Award-winning musical, and Keith Slobodien play the husbands. Kruger as set designer, and Nancy Kay versity of Texas. with book by George Furth, will be pre- Lisa Goldberg, Suzanne Grace and Janet Webb as costumer. Lighting is designed He enrolled at WU in the Scholars sented by the Performing Arts Area at 8 Metz portray the girlfriends. by David Stevens, a senior drama major. Program in Medicine (SPIM), where in- p.m. April 30-May 2 in Edison Theatre. From the University faculty, Jack Tickets are $5. The Edison Theatre coming students are guaranteed admis- C. J. Zander, visiting assistant pro- Brown serves as musical director, box office number is 889-6543. sion to the WU School of Medicine, as fessor of drama, will direct the largely long as a certain level of undergraduate student-cast show, which is a satirical work is maintained. Free to diversify his guide to the joys and pains of con- WU biologist Johnson wins Guggenheim; premedical studies, Basson will graduate temporary married life. with a major in French as well as in The show revolves around Robert, a will study genetic factors in mutation biology. He is completing his undergra- bachelor with three girlfriends, and his duate studies in three years instead of George B. Johnson, professor of bi- relationships with five married couples. four, having won class honors every year. Worried about his remaining single and ology and professor of genetics at the Elected last year to associate mem- "lonely," each couple tries to expose WU School of Medicine, has been bership in Sigma Xi, the national science Robert to the joys of being married. The granted a Guggenheim Fellowship for honorary, Basson was promoted to full antics of the matchmakers, however, 1982. The fellowships are awarded by membership this spring. prove that not all marriages are made in the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial While studying at Oxford, he plans heaven. Foundation to individuals on the basis of to complete work on a master's degree in "Stephen Sondheim has never writ- their demonstrated accomplishments in biology from WU. Upon his return he ten a more sophisticated, more perti- the past and strong promise for the fu- will enter the School of Medicine. nent, or more melodious score," wrote ture in science, scholarship and the arts. Basson's undergraduate honors Walter Kerr in The New York Times, This year, a total of $5,070,000 was thesis is on attitudes toward science and "and the lyrics are every bit as good." awarded to 277 scholars, scientists and medicine in 18th-century French drama. Sondheim's keen wit can be found in artists from 3,200 applicants in the foun- He is editor of Subject to Change, a WU such memorable songs as "Another dation's 58th annual competition. student quarterly magazine. Hundred People," "The Ladies Who Johnson will use his Guggenheim Lunch" and "Side by Side by Fellowship to study genetic factors in- Side."Company is a New York show and fluencing mutation rates in fruit flies. displays all the excitement and electricity An evolutionary biologist, he is inter- of living in midtown Manhattan. Zander ested in the relationship between ecology describes it as one of the first "concept" and population genetics. musicals because it deals with its subject Johnson received his PhD in biology in an adult, realistic manner. trom Stanford University in 1972 and The cast features Daniel Gipple in joined the WU faculty shortly thereafter. the role of Robert. The wives are played \XM ill ' A by Debbie Berman, Valerie Sandberg, George B. Johnson Amy Silverberg, Rebecca Stark and Les- ley Tucker. Richard Dandrea, Allen Seed library helps to reveal mysteries of ancient cultures The smallest things from nature can number of seeds in the collection is the GhislainO CrOZaZ, WU associate professor of earth and planetary sciences, at the Allan Hills campsite, tell the story of a civilization that job of Leonard Blake. Blake, an amateur Antarctica, during a U.S. expedition to collect meteorites last January. flourished centuries ago. Objects, such as archaeologist who retired as a security seeds, can reveal the mysteries of the analyst from the St. Louis Union Trust past and give some direction for the Co. 17 years ago, works part-time in the future, says David L. Browman, associate laboratory measuring seeds and corncobs professor of anthropology and director of to determine their race and origin. Blake Researchers net record catch the Archaeo-Botanical Laboratory in has worked with archaeologists on over of meteorites at earth's pole McMillan Hall. 400 sites in the Midwest. The laboratory, founded in 1974, Blake began his avocation over 20 To see a shooting star is supposed to these bodies, bonded by the gravita- houses a collection of over 500 varieties years ago, measuring corn under the be lucky. To find one is even luckier. tional pull of the sun, formed the of seeds that are used to help identify direction of Hugh Cutler at the Missouri Most of the millions of meteorites that planets. Inside the asteroid belt, though, seeds found at archaeological digs. Dur- Botanical Garden. Now, he divides his fall to earth either disintegrate, sink the immense gravity of Jupiter kept the able because they are carbonized, the time between WU's archaeo-botanical forever beneath the sea, or become heavenly bodies churning separately in seeds are the most common tools for laboratory and the Museum of Science buried by the earth's geology. orbit. Occasionally they collide, slinging identifying the diet, economy and level and Natural History on Big Bend Blvd., Antarctica is one place where meteorites across the earth's path. of domesticity of early peoples. where he is a volunteer cataloger. meteorites abound. WU geologist This year's expedition collected four Most of the seeds on file in the Two other laboratories are used by Ghislaine Crozaz was a member of the kinds of meteorites. The vast majority laboratory are common to North, South WU anthropologists and archaeologists. five-person team that executed America's were "ordinary stony chondrites," and Middle America. Many WU anthro- The Laboratory of Primate Biology, latest and most successful trip to pros- Crozaz said, believed to be pieces of pology students, however, have been directed by Robert W. Sussman, asso- pect meteorites in Antarctica. During a asteroids. Stony chondrites were formed bringing seeds from other areas of the ciate professor of anthropology, is used 33-day bivouac last December and Janu- about 4.5 billion years ago and are con- world, such as Egypt, to expand the to study bones and tissues of primates. ary, the group combed the pristine wil- sidered the most primitive rocks available collection. At the Laboratory of Dental Anthro- derness on the New Zealand side of Ant- for study. Seeds can say many things about a pology, directed by Steven Molnar, arctica and bagged 314 new specimens The other specimens found include culture that other artifacts cannot. For professor of anthropology, dental devel- — a U.S.