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This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Grand Valley Forum, 1976- at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1991-1992, Volume 16 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. @= re,orB)n n~ 1.1 UNMRSITY lr\VlJ7JYLI\1U Monday, April 27, 1992 Volume 16 Number-36- C; ,c._. 1'?] Grand Valley State University Loss of Founding President James Zumberge Saddens GVSU

The founding president of GVSU , until 1972 when he accepted a post as James H. Zumberge, died in Pasadena, chancellor of the University of Nebraska California, on Wednesday, April 15, at campus in Llncoln, remaining there until age 68. 1975. Zumberge served as the first president From 1975-1980, Zumberge served as of the (then) Grand Valley State College, president of Southern Methodist Univer­ from February 1962 through August sity. 1968. Prior to coming to Grand Valley, Zumberge was a geology professor at the In 1980 he became the president of University of Michigan and had also the University of Southern California taught at Duke University. (USC). He retired from USC in March 1991. "Jim Zumberge helped build a strong academic foundation for the college, put­ Paul A. Johnson, Board of Control ting it on a firm footing to meet future chairman who served on the board during the Zumberge presidency, represented challenges," said President Arend D. Lub­ James H. Zumberge, GVSU's first president, bers. GVSU at a memorial service in Pasadena, died April 15 In Ca/1/omla. He Is pictured here California. in 1985, when he seroed as Commencement Arthur C. Hills, former professor and speaker for the university's Sliver Anniversary. dean during Zumberge's administration, said "Jim Zumberge had the very difficult task of starting from the beginning, but we welcomed the opportunities this Fridsma Receives AP Award posed. "He provided an excellent style of Ken Fridsma, Director of Rnancial dent personnel at Wisconsin State Univer­ leadership, a strong leadership that with­ Aid, received the 1992 Administrative/ sity at River Falls and as a Resident Coun­ stood the risks of starting a new college. It Professional Award from President Lub­ selor at Kent State. was this foundation that was so impor­ bers at the Annual AP Awards Luncheon on Monday, April 20. Fridsma received the award before tant." some 140 GVSU colleagues and his wife, Hills added, "It is tragic that his death Kenneth Fridsma joined GVSU on Irene Fridsma, who attended the lun­ coincides with the 25th anniversary of our March 18, 1968, as the director of Finan­ cheon. Grand Rapids Mayor John Logie first graduating class." cial Aid . He came to GVSU from Kent served as keynote speaker, discussing the State University where he served as As­ future of Grand Rapids and similar size Zumberge's most noted accomplish­ sistant Director of Student Rnancial Aids . cities which have been studied to help ments included obtaining the accreditation Previously, Fridsma held a position in stu- plot a course for Grand Rapids. of GVSU by the North Central Associa­ tion, and the matriculation of the first graduates. After leaving Grand Valley, Zumberge Across Campus accepted a post as the Dean of the Col­ lege of Earth Sciences at the University of Preparing for Fiscal Year End As you review yaur account please Arizona at Tucson. He remained there The Accounting Office wishes to re­ note that certain charges, including those mind all faculty and staff that the fiscal for Mini-Print, photostatic copying, and year ends on June 30. Bids must be sub­ the motor pool, are only debited against mitted to the Purchasing Office by Friday, your account monthly, while postage May 29, and final requisitions must be charges are posted weekly. submitted to that office by Friday, June Rscal year 1991-92 entries will cease 19. July 15. On-line access to accounts through For questions regarding the Rnancial Records System (FRS) can encumbrances, call Jan Vorenkamp at make year-end budget review and plan­ extension 2202, or Bob Daniels at ning easier. The Accounting Office sug­ extension 220 l. For questions regarding gests that outstanding travel advances be outstanding travel advances, call Maurine resolved as soon as possible, and that VanHuis at extension 2203; for staff begin to review and, if appropriate, cancel, outstanding encumbrances. continued on page 2 page 2 Across Campus continued from page 1 soccer and softball fields . The current the Edith I. Blodgett Music Scholarship. purchasing, contact Ester Bums at softball and soccer fields are in the golf This new endowed scholarship will be extension 2282; for budget, contact Star course area. awarded to a student for the upcoming Hine at extension 2234; for General • Pathways and additional trees will be fall semester and will provide scholarships Fund and/or Agency Fund, contact Terri added to the Recycling Forest/Arbore­ for music students for years to come. Suess at extension 2231; for ~ignated tum. and/or Restricted Fund, contact Tim • Llghting and four pedestrian crossings Research and Development Sullivan at extension 2205; for Auxiliary will be added, and sidewalk and light­ and/or Piant Fund, contact Llsa Summer Hours Luckenbaugh at extension 2204. Suess, ing will be completed up to the Grand The Research and Development Valley Apartment complex. Sullivan and Luckenbaugh may be Office, 201 Lake Michigan Hall, will be contacted regarding an error or question Repairs will also take place in the resi­ open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, concerning your account(s). dence halls, dining rooms, and the Com­ from 8 a.m. to 1 p .m. beginning May 4. mons. Summer Projects to Include "Some of the projects, especially the Psychology Department Closing of Little Mac Bridge bridge and those in Lake Superior Hall, Hosts Successful Conference Several summer-projects are planned may result in temporary inconveniences Forty-two authors from eight institu­ to upgrade university buildings and struc­ to faculty and staff members, but these re­ tions presented 28 papers during the tures, including a renovation of Llttle Mac pairs are needed to maintain the build­ 1992 West Michigan Undergraduate Stu­ Bridge that will necessitate its closing, ac­ ings," Sack said. "I hope the campus dents' Psychology Conference held at cording to Terry Sack, assistant vice community will be patient as we complete Grand Valley on April 11. the repairs." president for Campus Operations and The keynote address was delivered by Planning. Questions regarding the projects Donald Jarvis, professor of psychology at Sack said the bridge will be closed for should be directed to Sack at extension the State University of New York, four to six weeks following Commence­ 3845. Binghamton. ment. The bridgeway will be removed and The conference was sponsored by the renovated and the tresses will be re­ Computer Science Honorary GVSU Psychology Department and the placed. "It has been 25 years since the Society Chartered at GVSU Grand Valley Chapter of Psi Chi, the bridge was built, and it is time for some Paul Jorgensen, associate professor of national undergraduate honorary society major upgrades," said Sack. computer science, announced that a char­ in psychology, with support from the Lake Superior Hall will also benefit ter has been granted by the national Upsi­ Social Sciences Division. from major maintenance repairs, includ­ lon Pi Epsilon Society, a computer sci­ ing renovating two lecture halls, replacing ence honorary society, creating the Directors for International Summer tile, painting and ceiling work, heating, GVSU chapter. ventilation, and air conditioning repairs in Programs Sought GVSU is the third Michigan university Faculty who are interested in Grand the photo labs, replacement of carpeting, to become a site for the organization. Instructional Technology upgrades, and Valley's international programs are invited Upsilon Pi Epsilon promotes computer to inquire about becoming directors of the installation of an English Computer science education through national Lab. summer study abroad programs. Program scholarships awarded to selected directors recruit and prepare students for The following is a list of other projects members and through computer their study abroad and accompany the slated for summer completion. programming contests. group. Once there, the director either teaches or supervises students' course • Whiteboards and corridor benches will work. be installed in Mackinac Hall. Former Laker Athlete • Heating, ventilation, and air condition­ Supports Laker Baseball This summer GVSU will conduct pro­ ing studies will be completed in the Former GVSU baseball player Greg grams in Belize, Austria, England, France, anatomy labs and Cedar Studios. Cadaret recently donated $20,000 for an Mexico, Poland, and Russia. For informa­ endowment to support the Laker baseball tion on next summer's programs, call Al • Carpeting will be replaced in the program. Cadaret currently plays with the Walczak in the Office of International Manitou Hall lecture halls and in Au Yankees and made the presentation at Studies at extension 3898, or stop in Sable Hall. Tiger Stadium following a recent game. Room 250, Makinac Hall. • Tile will be replaced on the first floor of Lake Michigan Hall. Successful 'Evening in Vienna' • Tables and chairs will be replaced and Date of Fall Convocation ongoing maintenance repairs will con­ Supports GVSU Music Scholars Fall convocation will be held Tuesday, tinue in the Field House. The recent Evening in Vienna event August 25, 1992. Please note that this was attended by 350 people and raised is one week prior to the start of • The practice football field north of some $20,000 for the establishment of classes. Kleiner Commons will be converted to pages

Coming Events

WGVU/WGVK-TV Auction Begins p.m. to watch engineering students apply The WGVU//WGVK-TV auction will certain principles of engineering in a After players in the first 18-hole begin Wednesday, April 29, and continue unique contest devised by Ron Garrett, round complete the first nine holes, they through May 3 . It will be broadcast from associate professor of engineering. may join the second-round players for 5:30 p.m. to midnight. A special Kids lunch before playing the last nine holes. To help students learn about electrical (fhe second round players will have lunch Auction will be held on Saturday, May 2, devices, Garrett's students will form small from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. before they begin.) Dinner Is scheduled teams, competing to design a time-delay for 5 p.m. The goal of the 18th annual auction is fuse which carries an electrical current $140,000. Items range from meals at lo­ and which will go off at a pre-determined Tickets for an 18-hole round are $45 cal restaurants to a Virgin Islands vaca­ time. In the contest, the device will lift a and include a cart, golf, lunch, dinner, tion, to a polo party, and a sailboat. Last door to allow "Indiana Jones" to escape and a raffle ticket. Tickets for playing nine year's fall auction raised $105,050 in rev­ the "Temple of Doom." If the device holes include the same items and are enue. works properly, the door will close behind $35. Those who wish to attend, but not "him," making it impossible for his assail­ play golf, can purchase a dinner and raffle For more information, call Chuck ants to reach him. ticket for $25. Furman, Kevin Frazier, or Judy Palmer at WGVU/WGVK-TV at extension 6666. Faculty/Staff Golf Outing Last year this event drew some 150 participants and raised more than $5,000 To Be Held June 5 for the Irwin Fund. Among last year's Commencement Honors DeVos, The Faculty/Staff golf outing will be raffle prizes were a color television and a Distinguished Alumni held Friday, June 5, at the Alpine Golf VCR . Club. Grand Valley's 25th annual com­ To purchase tickets, receive more in­ mencement will take place Saturday May There will be two shot-gun starts. The formation, or lend your assistance for the 2, at 10:30 a.m. in the Field House. Ap­ first start is at 10:50 a.m. for those play­ event, call John Zolikoff at extension proximately 1,600 students-I, 250 un­ ing 18 holes. The second 18-hole round 3777. More information will be mailed dergraduate and 350 graduate students­ and those playing nine holes will start at shortly. are eligible to participate. 1:30 p.m. Honors will be bestowed upon those students placing in the top 10 percent of the graduating class. Students with perfect GVU Foundation Enrichment Dinner 4.0 averages will be designated summa cum laude, those with averages from To Be Held May 18 3.807 - 3. 999 will be designated magna cum laude, and those with averages be­ The GVU Foundation will hold the tured entertainer. Russell has appeared tween 3.701 - 3.806 will graduate cum 1992 Enrichment Dinner on Monday, numerous times in Grand Rapids and has laude. May 18, at the Ambassador Ballroom of proved to be a popular speaker. the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel at 6:30 Richard M. DeVos, President of the p.m. The Enrichment Dinner is held as a Amway Corporation, will present the key­ special membership benefit for Founda­ note address and will be awarded an hon­ This year's honorees are: Judith S. tion contributors who donate at an annual orary Doctor of Humane Letters from Hooker, GVSU Board of Control member level of $200 and above. GVSU . DeVos served on the GVSU and chair of the Council of Michigan Foundations; and Robert L. Hooker, Vice Anyone interested in attending the Board of Control from 197 5 to 1982 and Enrichment Dinner should call Joyce is the current president of the GVU Foun­ President of the GVU Foundation and President of Mazda Great Lakes. Hecht, Foundation executive director, at dation Board of trustees, and chairman of extension 6530. major university fund raising campaigns. Noted political humorist and public Alumni to be recognized as television star Mark Russell will be the fea- Distinguished Alumni include: Charlotte and James Davidson, who both graduated in 1974: David K. Hufford, who Oak Room Menu graduated in 1967; and Maria Marino Monday: Chili , broccoli cheese soup, Orange chicken, wild rice, winter blend, hard roll, ldsinga, who graduated from GVSU in tuna salad plate. 1980. Tuesday: Vegetable soup, potato chowder, port chops, shredded hash browns, baked apples, hard rolls, dilled seafood in a pita. Wednesday; Vegetable beef soup, chicken with wild rice, spinach lasagna, garlic toast, car­ Creativity Helps Engineering rots, corned beef and Swiss on rye. Students Learn Principles Thursday: Chicken vegetable soup, cheese bacon soup, beef Stroganoff, noodles, peas and Faculty and staff are invited to Room mushrooms, hard rolls, turkey croissant. 123 Manitou Hall, on Friday, May 1, at 4 Friday: Com chowder, chicken gumbo, shrimp stlrfry, rice, oriental blend, hard rolls, honey Dijon chicken. page4 Calendar of Events Faculty and Staff

Monday. April 27 Sketches 6 p.m.: Final Examinations begin . Tuesday, April 28 Kelly Conrad, a director in the Spe­ 4 p.m.: Baseball. Aquinas at GVSU . cial Services Program, conducted a work­ Wednesday, April 29-Sunday, May 3 shop titled "College Services for People 5:30 p.m.-Midnight: WGVU/WGVK-lV Auction. Channel 35. with Special Needs," at a conference called "Preparing for Llfe After School," Wednesday, April 29 9 a.m.-4 p.m.: West Michigan Teacher Search. Kirkhof Center. which was sponsored by the Muskegon Area Intermediate School District and the Thursday, April 30 Regional Inter-Agency Coordinating 2 p.m.: Baseball. Madonna at GVSU. Council. The workshop was held at Friday, May 1 Muskegon Community College on April Winter semester ends. 15. 11 a.m.: Men's and women's track. GVSU at GLIAC outdoor championships, Hillsdale. 4 p.m.: Engineering demonstration by Ron Garrett. Room 123, Manitou Hall. Terry Fisk, director of Criminal Jus­ Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2 tice Training, conducted a workshop titled 10 a.m.: Softball. GLIAC tournament at GVSU. "Managing Criminal Investigations" dur­ Saturday. May 2 ing an executive development series pre­ 8:30 a.m.: Rehearsal for Commencement. Field House Main Arena. sented for the Traffic Institute at North­ 10:30 a.m.: Commencement. Field House. western University. The April 9 workshop 12:30 p.m. Refreshments for graduates and their guests. was attended by executives and managers 1 p.m.: Baseball. GVSU at Oakland University. from police agencies across the country 4-6 p.m.: WGVU/WGVK-lV Kids' Auction. Channel 35. and from New Zealand. Sunday, May 3 1 p.m. : Baseball. GVSU at Oakland University. Curt Jones, associate professor of an­ thropology and sociology, conducted a Monday, May 4, Wednesday, May 6, and Thursday, May 7 workshop for the South Haven Police De­ 8 a.m.-1 p.m.: Research and Development hours. 201 LMH. partment and the City Police Community Tuesday, May 5 Relations Board. The focus of the March 1 p.m.: Baseball. Siena Heights College at GVSU. 18 workshop, supported by a grant from 12 noon: Grades due from faculty. 4-6 p.m.: Grand River Workshop. WRI environmental education program. the Municipal Consultants Task Force GVSU Eberhard Center Lobby. T earn of Midland, was improving police and community relations. Wednesday, May 6 2 p.m.: Baseball. Oakland University at GVSU. Sandra Portko, associate professor of 2-6 p.m.: Registration for summer classes. Eberhard Center. psychology, is the author of the article, Thursday, May 7 "Notes on Child Care," published in the Winter grades mailed to students. March issue of Grand Rapids Magazine. Friday, May 8 The article focused on Portko's visits to 9 a.m.-3 p.m.: Registration for summer classes. Field House. child-care facilities in Poland in June Saturday, May 9 1991. 1 p.m.: Baseball. GVSU at Ferris. Elizabeth Storey, visiting instructor of Sunday, May 10 education, presented a paper titled "Using 1 p.m.: Baseball. GVSU at Ferris. Llterature to Llnk Subject Areas in an Ef­ Ravine Apartments open for summer occupancy. fort to Create Global-Minded Classrooms" Monday, May 11 at the Michigan Reading Association An­ Summer classes begin. nual Conference on March 16 in Grand 12 noon-6 p.m.: Financial Aid checks available. Lake Michigan Hall. Rapids. Storey also presented the paper Monday, May 11, through Thursday, May 14 for student and beginning teachers attend­ Late registration for beginning summer classes. ing the annual spring conference of the Thursday, May 14 Inter-Institutional Teacher Education 6 p.m.: Deadline for 100% tuition refund. Council of West Michigan at Aquinas Col­ Monday, May 18 lege on March 9. 6:30 p.m.: 1992 Enrichment Dinner. Amway Grand Plaza. Michael Yuhas, associate professor of Thursday, May 21 accounting and taxation, is the author of 6 p.m.: Deadline for 75% tuition refund. the article, "The Maze of Cases On Busi­ Monday, May 25 ness Bad Debts: A Guided Tour," pub­ Memorial Day Recess. lished in April issue of The Practical Ac­ Thursday, May 21-Saturday, May 23 countant. 11 a.m.: Men's and women's track. NCAA Division II championships, San Angelo, Texas. page5

Severe Weather Event Notification Form

Procedures Name/contact person ______The Department of Public Safety Title and department ______Services wishes to remind the campus community of the following informa­ tion and procedures concerning se­ Telephone ______vere weather. Type of event or nature of announcement (e.g.: music/theatre program, A tornado or severe thunderstorm curriculum initiative, grant/scholarship received or awarded, etc.) watch means that the storms may produce large hail and/or damaging winds. All severe thunderstorms are potential tornado producers, but a se­ Hosted/sponsored by ______vere thunderstorm watch does not mean a tornado is imminent. Individual coordinating the event (if different from above) to be contacted for more information ______A tornado or severe thunderstorm warning means that a tornado or Telephone ______thunderstorm is imminent or has actu­ ally been sighted. The campus com­ munity will be notified of a warning by To whom this may be of interest (e.g. alumni, faculty/staff, art audiences, a Public Safety Services officer who music lovers, etc.) ______will drive through the campus advising those who are walking or driving to seek cover. A designated person in each build­ Who are the participants in this event, what are their credentials, and ing will be notified in the event of a where are they from? ______warning. That person will and direct all those within the building to move to an assigned safe area. Building oc­ cupants should move away from all Date of event ______Time ______windows or glass-enclosed areas im­ mediately. Place event will be held ______The safest area is the center of the building as close to the basement or Complete schedule of event ______ground floor as possible. When the warning is terminated, everyone on campus will be notified and normal university activities will resume. Has the media been informed? ______The important thing to remember is not to panic. A calm, orderly course If yes, which ones? ______of events is the best way to ensure the safety of all. How were the media informed? Special notification (e.g.: departmental release, letter) public service announcement (for radio and TV) through a calendar of events phone call other:

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