People idediD l Vol. IX, No. 1 Fall, 1988 38 18 MEETING OF MINDS 40 ON THE MEND Scholars discuss prospects DEPARTMENTS The marriage is gone, but for peace at the Frank 5 Campus News this family survives. Church Public Affairs 21 Long-range Plan Conference. 25 Foundation News 44 CRYING INSIDE 26 People Dealing with the agony of 30 TO THE RESCUE 49 KBSU Listeners' Guide Alzheimer's. Mediators and counselors 57 Alumni News have become lifeguards for 63 President's Comments 62 ICY LEGACY families in troubled waters. BSU fullback Bart Hull moves beyond his famous 38 SUDDEN SON COVER father's shadow. And then there were three The traditional family, reflected in . . . adoption creates photos and memorabilia, may parents overnight. become a relic in a society replete with divorces, blended families and working mothers. Chuck Scheer photo FOCUS is published quarterly by the Boise State University Office of News Services, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725. Offices are located in Room 724 of the Education Building, phone (208) 385-1577. PLEASE SEND ADDRESS CHANGES (WITH THE ADDRESS LABEL, IF POSSIBLE) TO THE BSU ALUMNI OFFICE, 1910 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, BOISE, ID 83725. If you receive duplicate copies of the magazine, please notify the Alumni Office at the above address. Friends of the university who wish to receive FOCUS can do so by sending their names and addresses to the Alumni Office. Correspondence regarding editorial matter should be sent to the editor. Unless otherwise noted, all articles can be reprinted as long as appropriate credit is given to Boise State University and FOCUS. The staff of FOCUS includes Larry Burke, editor: Marie Russell, Bob Evancho and Glenn Oakley, writers: Chuck Scheer and Glenn Oakley. photos and graphics: Lana Holden, alumni news; Brenda Haight, editorial assistant: Dana Robinson, typographer: and Melinda Ellis and Cindy Hartley, student assistants. The FOCUS advertising representative is Point of View Advertising, 411 South 5th Street, Boise, ID 83702, phone (208) 385-0338. 4 Tech building A gift unveiled on fast track Just 10 months after the idea first sur faced, Boise State University will break ground for a new technology education center billed as a key element in the state's economic development efforts. The building was put on a fast-track schedule last winter as part of ~he plan developed to encourage Micron Tech nology to expand in Boise. When complete next fall, the 50-60,000- square-foot, three-story building will house several of BSU's professional pro grams, such as electronics, construction management, pre-engineering and manu facturing technology. It also will include space for the Univer sity of Idaho's engineering courses in Boise. The accelerated construction schedule was made possible through a unique lease/purchase arrangement between Boise State and the BSU Foundation. Under the agreement, the foundation Forrest and Chase Church unveiled a bust of their father, the late Senator Frank wi ll finance, construct and own the Church, at a Sept. 30 ceremony. The bust was a gift from the Republic of China to Boise State. It will be located at the entrance to the Frank Church Collection on building on land acquired through a trade the third floor of the BSU Library. The piece, which was also unveiled in the U.S. with the state. The university will pay a Capitol in September, was created by Washington, D.C. , artist Gretta Bader. $500,000 annual lease for approximately Chuck Scheer photo 25 years, after which BSU will become the owner. The building and its furnishings will cost $5 million, which will be available after the foundation sells certificates of BSU sets enrollment record participation to investors. This fall's official enrollment figures University of Idaho, and 12 percent at Once the financial package is in place, reinforce what crowded classrooms and Lewis-Clark State College. ground will be broken this fall, with com jammed parking lots already indicate - Boise State also leads Idaho in "full pletion scheduled for a year later. The con that students are attending Boise State in time equivalent" students. (Fifteen credits tractor is Jordan-Wilcomb of Boise. record numbers. equal one FTE undergraduate student.) The building will be located across from BSU's "head count" total is the state's BSU has 8,363 FTE students, an increase the present School of Vocational Techni largest at 11,760, up 3 percent from last of 2.4 percent from last year, but still short cal Education. A three-story glass atrium fall. Of those, 6,479 are full time, an in of the 8,434 all-time high set in 1982. with open stairs and glass-enclosed crease of 8.4 percent. Another 4,640 are FTE figures are especially important (Continued on page 6) enrolled part time. because they are part of the calculation Student numbers were down, however, used to determine how the state budget in vocational technical programs. This fall will be divided among the institutions. About this issue 641 signed up, compared to last year's Graduate school enrollment grew only record-breaking 719. Despite its conservative, pro-family slightly, from 288 FTE students last fall BSU Executive Vice President Larry image, Idaho exceeds the national to 300 this year. Selland says the drop in vocational average in divorces per capita. Con Statewide, 3 I ,095 students are enrolled technical enrollment was probably caused versely, the state's day-care services and at the four institutions. That figure, an all by the booming economy in the Boise child custody dispute resolution ser ti me high, is I, 168 students more than last region. Because so many jobs are vices are lagging far behind the rest of year. available, especially in construction, many the nation. This issue of FOCUS ex potential vocational students are entering Fall, 1988 Enrollment amines the changing American family the work force rather than attending through stories that address these sub school, he explains. Head Count FTE jects as well as personal accounts of Overall, Boise State's enrollment has in BSU 8,363 adoption, the care of elderly parents 11 '760 creased by 7 percent over the last four fall U of I 9,444 7,697 and one woman's separation and semesters. That compares to 8 percent at ISU 7,616 5,895 divorce. C Idaho State University, 5 percent at the LCSC 2,276 1,680 5 RIDE THE TROLLEY CITY TOURS SHUTTLE SERVICE WEDDINGS Boise State's new three story Technology Building will be located on University Drive, PARTIES across from the current vocational technical complex. SPECIAL EVENTS CUSTOMIZED TOURS Building plans put on fast track (Continued from page 5) ''The intent is to create a very flexible and functional state-of-the-art audiovisual CALL ele,·ator ''ill mark the main entrance fac presentation capability that can be used by ing Uni,ersit} Drive. the uni,ersity a\ well as oubide groups," 342-4796 The first floor will feature two lecture !.ays design architect Neil Hosford. halls and three classrooms, all serviced by The second floor will be devoted mostly a common audiovisual corridor. to engineering offices and laboratories that will be ~hared by BSU and the U of I. That floor ''ill include labs for computer,-aided design, electronics and construcuon management. Boise's Own ... I The third floor will house BSU's pro grams in manufacturing technology and electronics. \\ hile the facility will meet the im mediate educational needs of the region, C)wphee Pla-3a 13SU Director of Planning Brian Chase ------HOTEL------~ays another building will be needed in two to four years. The Gamekeeper Only the best ingredients go into the preparation "If the construction management, of the finest food available in Idaho. engineering and pre-engineering programs continue to grow, then this building will be too crowded within the next three or The Plaza Grill Enjoy delicious breakfast, lunch, dinner or Sunday four years," Chase tOld the BSU Founda brunch in an informal setting that retains the tion in September. " That's why we are Owyhee Plaza's classic historical charm. \eriousl) looking at designing a second building just about when this one is The Gamekeeper Lounge Relax with your favorite beverage in the finished." comfortable atmosphere of the Chase added that this is the first of four Gamekeeper lounge. technology education buildings planned for the future. • Banquet facilities to accommodate up to 300 people In the meantime, it has not been deter • Comfortable guest rooms with Cable TV mined how BSU will pay the $500,000 • Free airport limo service annual lease. The State Board of Educa tion will submit a $42 million plan to the • Free local phone call s Legislature to finance higher education • Private meeting rooms buildings, including the BSU building. If that plan is not approved, then BSU could be required to take the lease pay 1109 Main St. • Boise, Idaho 83702 • (208) 34 3-4611 ment from its operating budget, the board cautioned. 6 PREMIUM QUALITY Arts Journal ~ - moves to BSU Idaho's only statewide arts magazine ~ SwissUUia~ has relocated its offices to the Boise State campus. - CHEESE FACTORY The ldaho Arts Journal, founded in Sun Valley and located in Sandpoint for Gift Shop and Deli the past two years, moved to Boise in search of a more solid financial base that will support a quarterly publication, ex Complete your Holiday Shopping the easy way. Order hibits and other special projects. gifts by phone and charge them to your bank card. Boise State will provide office space and Take Exit 38, off 1-84 production assistance to editor Jane Fritz, who moved to campus in September. Try our new Linguica, Chorizo, The magazine previously was published Co-Baby Swiss, Gourmet Garden Vegetable and distributed statewide six times a year. and select line of low fat It printed a calendar of events as well as and low sodium cheeses. feature stories from each region of the state. Under the reorganization, the 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. magazine will retain its regional approach, Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday but each issue will focus on a theme. The issue currently under way features Idaho P.O. Box 280 artists at work. Others on arts education Nampa, 10 83653-0280 and art therapy are in the planning stages. BOISE- (208) 345-0210 Because the magazine has lost money in NAMPA- (208) 467-4426 the past, funding for each issue must be in place prior to publication, says Fritz. Premium Quality The Old Fashioned Way Money will be raised through corporate sponsorship, grants and individual dona tions. The Journal relied on advertising and grants in the past. BSU Arts and Sciences Dean Daryl Jones says the new partnership will be IDAHO BAIER'S DOZEN® beneficial to both the university and the magazine. University affiliation will BAKE a lasting impression reduce operating costs and should enhance on your friends and family. the Journal's fund-raising efforts. BSU Give the gift that's will assume a more statewide presence in the arts through its connection with the GENUINE IDAHO magazine, Jones says. D I! Groff teaches in Brazil BSU English professor Keith Groff has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach and study in Brazil. Groff is teaching graduate students and conducting research in psycholinguistics at For only $15.95 we will send an approximately 10 lb. the Pontifica Universidade Catolica do gift box of 13 hand-selected Genuine Idaho potatoes Rio de Janeiro. Psycholinguistics is the study of the acquisition of language. anywhere in the Continental United States. Groff is one of approximately 1 ,000 MAIL ORDERS: Checks, Visa or Mastercard. American Express Americans selected for the 1988-89 PHONE ORDERS: Credit Cards Only academic year under the Fulbright Ex change Program. ROLLAND JONES POTAtOES, INC. m Groff is the second member of BSU's P.O. Box 475 • Rupert, Idaho 83350 English department to be awarded a Ph. (208) 436-9606 Fulbright, following Carol Rinnert who OR Toll Free 1-800-BAKERS-D (1-800-225·3773) IDAHO ONLY won an award for 1982-83 and ADD 75c for Sales Tax if mailed in Idaho 1983-84. D 7 WE FOCUS invites readers to submit letlers north of Grand jean. In addition, a White WANT to the editor. Letters may be edited to fit Cloud-Boulder Wilderness of some available space. Please mail corres 450,000 acres should be designated by pondence to FOCUS Editor, 1910 Univer Congress and the Pioneers, near Ketchum, TO sity Drive, Boise, ID 83725. should also be so designated. Wilderness designation under Forest Dear Editor: Service management presents several at tractive features compared to both current Congratulations on the fine article in management and a national park. the summer issue of FOCUS on the Wilderness designation will attract more possibility of making the Sawtooths aNa tourists than now, but far Jess than ana tional Park! It was well-researched, infor tional park, and the people attracted will mative, and thought-provoking. I would be here to enjoy Idaho's natural beauty; like to take this opportunity to add a few they will be far less disruptive than the points to the debate. crowds seen at Grand Teton, Yellowstone, There is, I believe, a middle ground be or Great Smokies national parks. tween current management of the greater Nonetheless, they will spend their money Sawtooth area and a national park which here to purchase food, gasoline, camping ought to be seriously considered by readers equipment, guide services, etc. of FOCUS. That is wilderness designation On the other hand, wilderness designa under Forest Service management. In par tion will prevent some of the negative ticular, the current Sawtooth Wilderness aspects of current Forest Service manage Area ought to be extended to include the ment; no new roads could be built in the Smoky Mountains near Galena Summit, wilderness, thus keeping the country ex the Yuba River country near Atlanta, the actly as it now is and allowing the Forest TEMPORARY SERVICES important wildlife habitat between the cur Service to concentrate its scarce dollars on rent western boundary of the Wilderness maintaining currently existing roads. No 345-3051 and highway 21 between Lowman and below-cost timber sales would be per Grandjean, and the Hansen Lakes area mitted in wilderness, thus saving the taxpayers money, and in a small way, reducing federal deficits. Grazing at cur rent levels, hunting, fishing, hiking and camping would continue exactly as today. Under either national park or Forest Service wilderness designation, it would eventually be necessary for the federal government to extinguish mining claims in the White Clouds to preserve the area as it now is. However, there are portions of Idaho which do deserve to be preserved as na tional parks. If we think of national parks as preserving significant and unique land forms and biotic communities, then at least three potential parks come to mind. One of these is mentioned in' the com- With BSU imprinted Gifts and 0 Oothing "A Specialty Gift Shop" Send away for our free mail-order catalogue. The Bookstore Featuring Unique Boise State University Idaho Gifts lFIE BOOKSI'ORE 1910 University Drive Fairview & 5 Mile 1Jb Boise State University Boise, Idaho 83725 The Village Shopping Center STORE""""' _,,.. , ....., ooo ... -Too ,,._ _...... ,_,,.. ,oooom~ooo~ "'"'""'''"""'m~-ooo~ 1·208-385-3811 376-3303 8 '"' panion article in FOCUS: Craters of the Moon National Monument. Craters con tains a unique landscape and, when enlarged to include the Great Rift, would make an excellent park. In my opinion, a second candidate which ought to be con sidered is the Hell's Canyon National Recreation Area. As the deepest gorge on the continent, it deserves more protection than as a National Recreation Area (Na tional Playground?). After all, Grand Canyon, which is not even the deepest, is a national park. The current N.R.A. with some enlarging on both the Oregon and Idaho sides, in particular the Rapid River drainage in Idaho, would make a spec tacular addition to the national park system. Finally, I believe that Idahoans ought to give serious attention to proposals to create an Owyhee Canyonlands National Park in the southwest corner of the state together with adjoining lands in Oregon and Nevada. The area is spectacular wildlife habitat, presents outstanding scenery, and suffers under its current management by the Bureau of Land Management. It ought, in fact, to be the number one candidate for park designa tion in this state. We all agree, I think, that Idaho's Over the years, Volvos have natural beauty is the major reason why developed a well-deserved native Idahoans want to stay here and why DRIVE reputation for durability. So it "Idahoans by choice" choose to move should come as no surprise to there. We should debate publicly and TIE EUROPEAN discover that the value of a choose carefully how we are going to hand Volvo also holds up well over our national heritage down to our children I.UXIIW SEDAN the years. In fact, compared to and grandchildren. I hope that this letter every other line of European luxury imports, Volvo retains will contribute positively to that debate THAT COMES WITH the highest overall projected and that the ideas presented here will be resale value afler five years seriously considered by readers of THE BEST according to The Complete FOCUS. --EXCHANGE.. RATE. Alan R. Hausrath, Professor Car Cost Guide.* An accom BSU Math Department "1 plishment not even Mercedes " Benz could match. So if you want the European luxury sedan with the best exchange rate, exchange your car for a Volvo. VOLVO ' ""'"' '"Source· lntelloOtoo"' In<. Son JO><. C• A"ual "' "' ,.,.1< ••lue moy "'Y based on aJndltiOO. moleage, "" mo 9 Dear Editor: this way in their regular schedule. I would like to attend such an event (especially Congratulations on having received the when it's right here in San Diego) but the prestigious silver medal from the Council only way I find out about these games is for the Advancement and Support of afterward in the newspaper. Is there any Education (CASE). I am not surprised. I way the schedules could be listed in read each issue of FOCUS with great in FOCUS? I just received the summer terest. It is truly one of the most in volume a few weeks ago and it seems like teresting publications to cross my desk. it would be an ideal spot for this informa I was also interested to read about the tion. I'm sure I'm not the only alumnus numerous honors awarded to your fine in Southern California. College of Business. Thank you for your time, and keep up I find that most people east of the the good work. Mississippi do indeed think of Boise State University as the University of Idaho. Christine (Peterson) Vaz Keep up the good work. BSU class of 1969 Stewart L. Tubbs Dean, College of Business Museum aided Eastern Michigan University When Idahoans begin creating • Former B.S.U. Graduate sculptures of magnetic sand and making • Former Bronco Althlete Dear Editor: wavelength phenomena with Slinkies at The Discovery Center in Boise, they can Future State I am now receiving FOCUS, which I thank several BSU faculty and students. Representative really enjoy, but I have one suggestion The hands-on science museum, set to for District 19 which I hope someone will consider. Since open Dec. 17 at 131 Myrtle St., has been Southern California is really not all that developed with the help of physics faculty VOTE NOV. 8, 1988 far from Boise, the Bronco football or members Dewey Dykstra and William basketball team occasionally comes down Smith, chemistry professor Loren Carter, geology professor Monte Wilson and students Stephanie Blyler and Pam Loop. Dykstra began working on the project in 1982 when the Junior League of Boise ENJOY 1HE .. TCBY" WAFFLE CONE. came to BSU seeking technical help. Dykstra had been a consultant for a similar museum in Oklahoma City, the WHERE CREAMY MEETS CRUNCHY. Omniplex. He became secretary of the board of directors for the Discovery Center. Other faculty and students have Say goodbye to ice cream with a deUcious also helped in the creation of the exhibits. , "TCBY." Waffle Cone lilled with "TCIY." A bit of interdisciplinary teamwork sur frozen yogurt. Our delicious waffle cones faced when geologist Wilson directed now come in many flavors, including chemist Carter to an Idaho source for chocolate and cinnamon. Most of all, magnetic sand. The only other commercial they are filled with the '1'C8Y," frozen source for the sand, from a California yogurt that gives you the great taste of beach, had become unavailable, according to Dykstra. 0 premium ice cream with only about half the calories. Add your favorite topping and you have a 96% fat-free treat. Center tops in region The BSU Adult Learning Center has AIL mE PUASURE. NONE OF mE GUII:r.. received the U.S. Department of Educa "TCBY" tion Secretary's Award for the outstanding ~~lkstlbgurl~ adult education program in Region X - an area that comprises Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. 7103 Overland Rd. 323·1904 Curriculum and instructional methods, Ill Broach"y 336·9337 coordination with other agencies, and © l"'lS TCBY s...-.lnt evaluation and student feedback pro I 517 N. Milwaukee 376.4600 cedures were among the criteria used to select the award recipient, according 41\ ParkCenter Blvd. 331H317 to Elaine Simmons, director of the center. 0 10 More Than Copies • Collating & Binding • FAX Servire • Resumes • Offire Supplies • Specialty Papers • Instant P~rt Phot J. kinko·s· John and Donna de Groot, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., donated their Hemingway collection to Boise State. the copy center 615 S. Capttol Blvd. Playwright donates collection 342-7995 FAX# 208-336-2537 Ernest Hemingway is a more familiar from Hemingway novels. face in the Boise State University Library De Groot gathered the books during the OPEN 24 HOURS these days. rive year~ he worJ...ed on the script for That is because Florida playvvright John Papa. Together, they give BSU one of the de Groot has donated the 130-book col best re~earch collections in the country, de lection he used to research the life of the Groot says. famous author for the one-man sho" Students and other researchers will be Papa, which began its national tour at able to usc the collection in the Library, Boise State in ~1ay. but the booJ...s cannot be checked out. The de Groot collection contains every The books arc the first donation to the biography written about Hemingway as Idaho Writers' Archive, which was started well as books by his wives and friends. by BSU to preserve the works of writers Several titles are now out of print, and who have lived in Idaho. others are first editions or signed by the De Groot first became acquainted with authors. Boise in May during the opening run of The collection also includes copies of Papa, which featured actor George the FBI files on Hemingway, tapes of per Peppard as Hemingway. Since its Boise sonal interviews conducted by de Groot, premiere, the show has run in Cleveland, and directors' scripts of movies made Atlanta and Chicago. I Does Your Business Need ... ~ Forms, Accessories, 's'•···.,,o "hPJiill ) ~ Clean1ng Supplies Fum1ture. Computer Oust & Sound Covers. 81nders r~ Computer Paper, Checks. Supplies 1nvo1ces. Statements. Med1ca1 Forms. Guest Checks, Tags ... 344-7997 FACSCorp. LOCALLY WAREHOUSED FOR SPEEDY DELIVERY 518 S. 9th Street • Boise II Publications catalog available Boise State University's "Western Catalog, Series II 1" is now available, -:r featuring a collection of books, posters, videos, cassettes and curiosities. The catalog provides a complete listing and ordering information for BSU's Ahsahta Press, cold-drill magazine, the Hemingway Western Studies book series, Poetry in Public Places and the Western Writers Series. Among the new publications featured in this year's catalog is Preserving the Game: Gambling, Mining, Hunting & Conserva tion in the Vanishing West by J .R. Jones. Jones was a Western hunter, guide and miner who underwent a conversion to con servation in the earl y 1900s. He spear headed a campaign to establish Grand Teton National Park and save many of its indigenous animals. His hilarious tall tales and environmental essays were originally with a blue-eyed grizzly bear, symbolic of published in Saturday Evening Post, the unorthodoxly Western nature of the Sunset and Izaak Walton Outdoor publications enclosed. America. The book, complete with The catalog can be ordered free by photographs and maps, will be available writing to Tom Trusky, English Depart April 1989. ment, Boise State University, 1910 Univer The 1988-89 catalog cover is illustrated sity Drive, Boise, ID 83725. Have You Seen Us Lately? Over 70 stores to serve you, including The Bon and Woolworth's Please enter my name on the continuing education mailing list. Name ______ Add~ ------City ______Follow Nampa/Caldwell Boulevard to Karcher Mall State ______Zip ___ or take Nampa Exit 35 and follow the signs to Karcher Mall I am particularly interested in programs in: Nampa/ Caldwell Ontario _ Mall Hours: Mtn. Home Fruitland_ Mon.-Fri. 10 to 9, Sat. 10-6, Sun. 12-5 LG~n Field _ __::vening~ BSU) =-J 12 IDAHO HERITAGE Guidebook targets non-trads INN Who is Dr. Staff1 Which is better, a they're more likely to stick with it. Most new book or a used book? How do I don't have any idea how to get involved juggle family, friends and 16 credits? or where to go for help." Four years ago, Boise State University "It's written from a student's perspec non-traditional student Kellie Branson tive. It's very informal and easy to read," Culley asked those questions. Today, a she says. "It includes just about 93-page booklet, Starting Over, written by everything they need to know from buy Branson-Culley, answers them for ing an umbrella to how to park." A Traditional students, like herself, who choose to Branson-Culley lives in Boise and is return to school after a long absence. married with two children. 0 BED and The book, free to non-traditional students and published with funds pro BREAKFAST vided by the Associated Students of Boise BSU makes grade with all the history and hospitality State University, addresses the intricacies Boise State University is one of 100 state that Idaho's capital city has to offer. of campus life including registration, colleges and universities featured in the • Former Governor's Mansion financial aid, housing, admissions, day book, How to Get an Ivy League Educa care and services available for students. tion at a State University, released last • Comfortably decorated with "The needs are so different for non month by Avon Books. Period furniture traditional students,'' Branson-Culley, 31, The book, written by Martin Nemko, • Free Airport Limo Service says. "If they are given the opportunity profiles public colleges and universities to know support services are available, • Convenient Downtown nationwide that offer educational ex Location ... Close to BSU periences comparable with expensive Meistersingers private institutions. He credits BSU with (208) 342-8066 particularly strong programs in account 109 W. Idaho ing, art, biology, communication, English Boise. Idaho 83702 tour England and music. Nemko suggests Boise State is There were as many sights as sounds for an ideal educational center because of job Statewide Bed & Breakfast Boise State University's performance and internship opportunities available. c reservations also available choir, the Meistersingers, while on tour in England this summer as participants of Cambridge, England's, first British American choral festival. YOUR UNIVERSITY RING BSU was one of two American colleges that attended the festival, which featured by the opportunity to rehearse and perform JOSTE~S with acclaimed choral conductor John Boise. Idaho Alldis in a special concert in the Ely Cathedral. The choir also toured and per Something's missing from your college days, formed in other Cambridge-area churches but you can't put your finger on Now you can. and cathedrals. it? The Meistersingers raised approximate ly $20,000, one-third of the trip's total Order Early for Christmas cost. The general community and BSU You graduated v.ithout a college ring and never thought you'd miss it. donated the remaining funds needed for But things are different now. Pride. success. achievement - the trip. 0 everything symbolized by a college ring is more important to you than ever before. Especially the memories. 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Student~ who take correspondence cour~c\ work under the supervision of a regular professor, who grades te~t~ and help~ with assignmems. Adminhtercd by the University of Idaho, correspondence study is offered through a cooperative program where credits arc ea~ily transferred bet ween campuse~. Jensen says about 200 students enrolled Cornerstones mark BSU's origins last year. Many of them were picking up Boise State took time to honor its heritage in early September when two cornerstones from single course~ that they needed to graduate the demolished St. Margaret's School were dedicated and placed in a garden area near the or be certified as teachers. Business Building. St. Margaret's, located near St. Luke's Hospital, served as the first cam Jensen said about 60 percent of those pus for Boise Junior College when the school was founded. The college moved across the river to its present site in 1940. Nearly 100 alumni, many of them from the St. Margaret's who took correspondence courses were era, attended the Sept. 6 ceremonies. Also in attendance were former BSU presidents Eugene regular BSU students. The other 40 per Chaffee and John Barnes. Chaffee lives in a Boise care center, and Barnes is retired and cent were students from the community. resides in Boise. The cornerstones came from St. Margaret's School and Its annex. The school More than 135 courses arc offered was built in 1892 and administered by the Episcopal Church as a private school for girls until through correspondence, Jensen says. its conversion to a junior college in 1932. 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Treasure Valley. Nationwide Hewlett-Packard and Micron Tech The $200,000 donation, says BSU Ex~ nology, companies that have urged more ecutive Vice President Larry Selland, is an educational support for their technically important step toward the implementation "Let Us Help You Prosper oriented businesses, have each donated of that goal. This fall the U of I plans to $100,000 toward the expansion of hire a full-time director of engineering In A Changing Economy" engineering programs in the Boise area. education. Several upper division U of 1 Full Service Operation Engineering is offered in Boise through courses are already being offered utilizing a combination of Boise State and Univer BSU facilities, and enrollment is projected Ca1137~ sity of Idaho courses. BSU is authorized to reach 200 within the next five or467-2221 by the State Board of Education to offer years. D only pre-engineering, while the U of I has the franchise for upper division and graduate courses. 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""'"" oo "'~ d"' ~ t>y oh< AABITRON RATINGS COMPANY fot the '"""" penod mtlluood, ,..,. qu.trtOt Oow- "'''""' ..,,,._ adult• ,_..,_ 6 AM-I> MID, M"" 17 Scholars debate Prospects for Peace Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Chuck Scheer photos By Jocelyn Fannin Eastern Europe. JoAnn Ruckma n. Chairman of history "The time of change is now on us. " In a nuclear age to department, Idaho State University, What we do with it will depend on our preserve our families and specializing in Russia, women and modern leaders and on ourselves." their people, we must Europe. With this forceful challenge, world Allan Wells: Bowdoin College l\lcx renowned historian Arthur M. Schlesinger preserve our enemies and icanist, specialist on the Yucatan. Jr. brought Prospects for Peace, BSU's their people. " Known as one of the leading religious sixth annual Frank Church Conference philosophy teachers in the modern world, on Public Affairs, to a resounding Forrester Church recalled, "My father conclusion. Rev. F. Forrester Church preached the gospel of the founders of this Conference ideas had come full circle, country, who didn't have to wave the flag beginning with the opening address from ne'' ly released and highly publicized to pro\e their patriotism. It is in our lives F. Forrester Church, son of the late E~·eryday ,\-liracles. and not in our words that our religion senator, who keynoted the discussions to Schlesinger. Twice winner of the Pulit must be read." follow. zer Prize with The Age of Jackson and A Church also emphasized the cultivation ''There are always two sides to every Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the of relationships. "Rarely in our history story. There are no impartial observers. White House, Albert Schweitzer professor has the political rhetoric been more out of Even though sometimes the enemy is as of the humanities at the City University sync. Each time the means we usc are evil as our representatives make them out of New York, and special assistant to wrong, the strength that makes us free is to be, we must avoid the reasoning which Kennedy. lessened. tells us, 'We arc against them; therefore, Joel S. Bcinin. Stanford Uni .. ersity ex "I 1 is a new truth. All of us are part of we are good,'" Church said. pert on Middle Eastern affairs, and on the one body. Today what threatens the sur Those themes echoed throughout the board of directors of the Middle East vival of an individual endangers us all. day's panel discussions on peace prospects Research and Information Project. Every war is a civil war. in Central America, the Middle East and Herbert L. Bodman, Jr. Director of the "In a nuclear age to preserve our between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Islamic Teaching Material!. Project, families and their people, we must Conference speakers' credentials were American Council of Learned Societies, somehow presene our enemies and their impressive. professor, Islamic history, University of people. What is called for is a new spiritual Church. Senior minister of ew York North Carolina, Chapel Hill. consciousness of our interdependence," City's Unitarian Church of All Souls, J eff Boyer. Appalachian State Univer Church said. author of the syndicated Chicago Tribune sity anthropologist and specialist on Boyer agreed, citing the virtues and column "Fundamentals,'' subject of are Honduras. failures of last year's Arias peace plan, cent CBS documentary, author of Father Basil Dmytrysbyn. Portland State which produced, he said, a Pan-Latin and Son: A Personal Biography of University professor of history, specializ American effect among the five Central Senator Frank Church of Idaho and of the ing in Western civilization, Russia and American countries El Salvador, 18 F. Forrester Church Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala and to end. Then and only then will the Arias "This war, of considerable unequals, Honduras who all "have a lot at stake in peace plan succeed," Boyer said. has been disastrous and was miscalculated bringing about peace." "The Middle East, highly complex and by both sides," he said, explaining that In all five countries, there are some fun volatile, could easily become more so," even though Iran has three times the damental problems that must be solved if said Bodman, who noted the area's diver population and four times the area of the Central American economy is to go sity of cultures and religions and a history Iraq, it was plagued during the war by the forward with a sense of human dignity, of conflicts have made an even more flam scism between the revolutionary guard and said Boyer. mable mix, and modern nationalist ideol the army. Among those problems are displaced ogies have resulted in major conflicts such Peacemaking in the area will be " long persons (in Guatemala alone, a country of as the Iran-Iraq war. and arduous," Bodman believes, even 7 million, about I million have been though there is considerable pressure displaced), polarization of classes and toward moderation. militarization of the economy. Church exhibit Those problems are extremely evident The U.S. Department of Defense found the war an "opportunity to maintain in Nicaragua, a pluralistic society where " The Public Image of Frank visibility" in this highly strategic region, contradictions abound, Wells said. Church," a free exhibit at BSU's Hem after giving up its state of neutrality in the From 1980-87,43,176 on both sides of ingway Western Studies Center, runs early I980s, Bodman said. the Nicaraguan revolution have been through Dec. 2. The center is open ki lled. Monday-Wednesday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., By contrast, the U.S. has never been• and Sunday, 1-4 p.m. neutral in its relations with Israel, said The war has also ruined the Nicaraguan Beinin, who noted that current U.S. policy economy, and the government has been The exhibit covers the breadth of the late Idaho senator's public life, begin stems from the Nixon-Kissinger era when forced to abandon long-range strategies the Middle East was viewed as a "hot" with bare bones measures, as damages are ning with the 1941 speech that won the American Legion National Oratorical region in the Cold War. estimated to be over $3 .6 billion. The San Critical of both U.S. and Israeli dinistas are making serious mistakes and Contest. Church's 24 years in the U.S. Senate are reflected in autographed policies, Beinin was accused by one atten have overlooked the basic laws of supply dee of being anti-Semitic, but retorted that and demand, Wells said. photographs of his Senate colleagues, original political cartoons and awards, he is a Jew who has lived three years in It is difficult for Nicaragua to believe including the Boise Peace Quilt Israel. that the U.S. is willing to let bygones be presented to the senator. One case in He pointed out that even though the 11 bygones. If they (the Nicaraguan govern the exhibit deals with Church's image U.S. has "steadfastly" supported Israel, ment) overreact, they do so because they as an outdoorsman. Videos of Church more countries now recognize the remember the overthrow (U.S. backed) of on television news programs are also in Palestine Liberation Organization than Allende in Chile," Wells said. cluded in the exhibit. L recognize the Jewish state. "Change is inevitable. The U.S. Palestinian nationalism is not a figment pathological obsession with Nicaragua has of imagination or a product of terrorism, 19 Bcinin 11aid, noting that there is an inter national con~ensus for general rc~olution of the Israeli-Palestinian ~ituation. T he U.S. support for Israel is primar ily rooted in the concept~ of ih role of con tainment, and u.S. polic}, he said, has 'ie,,ed the formation of a Palestinian state as a pro-So' iet threat. Beyond the No,ember election~ in the U.S., Beinin ~a1d, "\\'hocvcr is president rna~ be forced to sec things different!)." Amcricam' 'ie'' of Ru~sia should also be ~cen differently, accor ding to Omyt rysh) n. "What troubles me is that the media and sometimes politicians - expect too much of such event~ as last June's sum mit meeting between Reagan and Gor bachcv,'' he said. Gaps of understanding between the two powers cannot be eliminated through ad ministrations, resolutions or praying, Omytryshyn ~aid, but by establishing ways to influence each other, by modi f) ing cur rent perception~. He expects that Sino-Soviet and So' let Bethine Church accepts the Award for Western Life and Letters from BSU President John Japanese relations will impro\e, and that Keiser. the So' ict Union ''ill continue its economic inroads in the Pacilic Basin, will Church receives BSU award continue to ha'e good rclatiom ''ith India, and "ill establish relations "ith The late Senator Frank Church and his "As long as the relationship bet\\ een Saudi Arabia. And without the coopera wife, Bethine, ha\e received the Presi man and nature is an important theme in dent's Award for Western Life and Letters American life, Senator Frank Church and tion of the Soviet Union, he said, no ~1id from Boise State Univer~ity. Bcthine \\ill be recognized as major con dle East solution is po~sible. The award was established b) BSU tributors to it." "We must ''or\.. out a ne'' \\ay of look ing at the Soviet Union; othcmisc, the President John Keiser to honor individuals The couple was married in I 947 while initiative will be on the other side," '"ho ha>e preserved Western 'alues he was auending Stanford University. He Omytryshyn said. through their writing, research or public was only 32 years old when elected to the Ruckman is in full accord: service. U.S. Senate in 1956, and served until 1980. "Somehow, we sec the world as poten " What Frank and Bethine contributed lie died of cancer in I 984. tia lly AmcricaniLablc. We need to under together is inseparable from their indi vidual achievements," said Keiser. "This Bethine Church lives in the Washington, stand how they sec the world. Americans D.C., area, where she is active in the a re notorious in thei r difficulties in award is made in recognition of the com pelli ng e lo quence with which they Democratic National Committee and understand ing other countries. It 's a mat several other o rganizations. ter of understanding cultural differences,'' represented the natural beauty a nd wealt h she said. "If we arc going to have peace of Idaho, and the need to perpetuate T he President's Award for Western Life to avoid war, the horrors of nuclear war, that." and Letters has been presemed to writers we must work against anti-communist " T heir appreciation and advocacy of Ted Keith, Salmon, and Ted Trueblood , feeling in this country. We must be this precious resource during a remarkable Nampa; rap10r expert Morlan Nelson, developing attitudes of optimism, rathe·r partnership in public service created a Boise; Senator Len and Grace Jordan, than pessimbm." wellspring of inspiration and real value Boise; and singer Rosalie Sorrels, Speaking, as did Church, to a full Stu that can flo'" fore,cr. Boise. dent Union Ballroom, Schlesinger criti cized the Reagan adminimation's aucmpt action should be carefully controlled, to exclude Congrc~s from matters of should understand the bitterness bred of foreign policy in all three areas of the reserved for on!\. the most acute and oppression and poveny." world. demonstrable em~rgencie~." he said. Schlesinger said, "the U.S. faces new "Congressional criticism alerts a presi Schlesinger drew from Kennedy's ~ituations, ne'' opportunities, including "incredible changes" in the Soviet Union. dent to flaws in his policy," he said. philosophy "that enmities between nation~ "Secrecy is the bane of democracy because do not last forever," and warned the au The Gorbachev revolution of econom ic it is the enemy of accountability." dience not to sec conflict as inevitable. and political reforms is a truly historic op portunity to \\ind down the nuclear arms H e cited the Iran-Contra affair as a And citing the late Senator Church'~ race. scheme "made possible by the work of a well-known opposition to the Vietnam reckless and duplicitous administration." War, Schlesinger said , " The falling "Democracy, I believe, has won the Cold War." 0 Such covert acts, he said, arc at best a domino theory is not more vali d in Cen ma rginal instrument of policy easily tral America than in Vietnam. It's time to Jocelyn Fannin is a Boise free-lance detected and hard to control. "Covert live with Third World revolution. We writer and former FOCUS staff member. 20 1Uward tfie ~ar A PLAN FOR BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY A plan to guide Boise State University's growth into the next century was released at the beginning of the fall semester by President John Keiser. Titled ''Toward the Ycar 2000,'' the 36-page docu ment is a detailed blueprint for BSU's academic pro grams, support services, facilities and finances. Compiled after a year of study by several campus committees, the plan focuses on BSU's strength as an urban university in the state's capital city. Much of the university's growth will come in the five areas designated for primary emphasis by the State Board of Education: business and economics, social sciences and public affairs, applied technology, performing arts and inter disciplinary studies. The plan lists general university goals, as well as de tailed plans for each of BSU's six colleges and three schools. Strategies to increase support for research, graduate studies, library services, continuing education and economic development activities are also included. The document explains BSU's building plan for the next decade, and proposes establishment of a variety of partnerships with private and public agencies to improve programs and facilities. FOCUS readers who wish to obtain a fuJI copy of the plan can do so by contacting the Office of Universit)' Relations, 1910 Universit} Drh•e, Boise, 10 83725. 21 Excerpts from Toward the Year 2000 A Plan for Boise State University sion Statements for higher education in Idaho, Boise State Univer Welcoming the Future sity will give "primary emphasis" to developing these program areas; business and economics, public affairs, social sciences, per The 1987-88 academic year was designated as "The Year of forming arts, interdisciplinary studies, and applied technology. Planning." The goal was to produce a plan that consolidated, The University will give "continuing emphasis" to health clarified, and extended already established directions. related professions, physical and biological sciences, and educa Planners recognized basic public interest issues and considered tion. Central to its purpose, the University will "maintain basic them in their proposals. These included the quality of present strengths'' in the liberal arts and sciences, which provide the core and proposed academic offerings, the price and cost of educa curriculum for all students and are the foundation for the em tion at Boise State University, the need for opportunity and phasized program areas. Undergraduate and master's programs educational choice for all qualified citizens, the relationship of will follow where demand is demonstrated. Doctorates may be the University to the workplace, and the public understanding offered in selected curricular areas. of our purposes. Through sponsorship and support of a broad spectrum of arts, As we move to a new century, Boise State University is entertainment, and athletic events at the highest level of quality dedicated to establishing excellence within its mission and man date, to build on the natural strengths of the city and the region and attendance, Boise State intends to improve its educational within which it exists, and to establish a model urban university. programs and to advance the arts in the community, to enhance Its purpose is to provide teaching, training, research, and ser the cultural and athletic opportunities available to students and vice appropriate to a modern university. It intends to continue the region, to use media and information extension technologies to bring these opportunities to a wide audience, and to promote and to increase its emphasis on partnerships with external agen economic development in the state and region. cies, both public and private, in order to reach goals that are im possible to effectively implement alone. The University intends Boise State will fulfill its mission through three interconnected and mutually dependent roles: teaching, research and public ser to expand its efforts in economic development and in all ways vice. Excellent teaching is the heart of the University and is complement the city, region and state in which it exists. It re affirms its belief that there has never been a great city without enhanced by ongoing research and extended through its applica tion in professional service to the public. In service, the Univer a great university. Given its capacities and potential in the cultural sity is committed to a variety of activities, but feels a particular service arenas, its goal to become the New Haven of the Inter obligation to establish leadership in the area of the prevention mountain West is realistic and attainable. and treatment of drug and alcohol abuse. However, its single, most overriding goal is to produce educated persons. All elements of the plan, in some way, are directed toward that end. Purpose John H. Keiser President, Boise State University The overriding purpose of Boise State University is to foster within its students and faculty a love of truth, an interest in the attainment of wisdom, a habit of critically investigating ideas, Role and Mission and a commitment to the development of excellence and virtue. To educate according to these high ideas, Boise State commits Boise State University is Idaho's urban university, located in itself to the value of scholarship and of free inquiry for its the state's population center and capital, the hub of government students and its faculty. The University produces educated in and law, business and finance, the arts, health and recreation, dividuals as an end in itself, as well as prepares people for a pro industry, and technology. Its vigorous growth since achieving ductive place in society. Within that framework, Boise State university status in 1974 reflects the educational need of the region strives to impart to its students four characteristics of an educated and attests to the University's viability as an institution of higher person. education. • Literacy, an ability to use language and mind to comprehend The University admits and educates a diverse population, in the world and to communicate in it, based on an under cluding young adults, working professionals, and senior citizens. standing of the liberal arts. This traditional and non-traditional student body creates the • An appreciation for public affairs, including the love of strength and defines the character of the University and, in turn, citizenship and the willingness to participate actively as a requires a wide range of courses, programs and services, some citizen. leading to degrees, others providing customized training and con • The capacity to continue learning throughout life, motivated tinuing education, still others serving to enrich individual lives. by a love of knowledge and scholarship. Consistent with the University's urban location and character • The ability to solve problems from the perspective of an and according to the State Board of Education's Role and Mis- academic discipline. 22 The excerpted goals and strategies for the academic units General Academic Goals include: and Strategies Arts and Sciences The academic and vocational programs of Boise State Univer • Develop bachelor's degrees in musical theatre and computer sity function within a dynamic environment, meeting the emerg science, and master's degrees in art, biology and music ing needs of a diverse and growing student body, community and performance/pedagogy. region while sustaining a commitment to the best of traditional • Accredit programs in theatre arts and chemistry. scholarship. This academic plan attempts to satisfy the needs of • Seek international recognition for programs in raptor biology the present, while anticipating the demands of the future in a and geology/geophysics. visionary way. Achieving excellence in any one branch of the • Establish a University Writing Committee to enhance writing University will depend on excellence existing in all parts, even skills. in seemingly unconnected branches. Social Sciences and Public Affairs • Achieve accreditation for the Master of Public Affairs program. Goals • Establish a Mediation and Conflict Management Center and an Institute of Legal Studies. • Educate students to be productive and balanced members of • Establish graduate programs in communication and social society by offering a strong core curriculum, evaluating the work. success of degree programs, recruiting and retaining students • Establish a Public Affairs Research Center to link university who reflect cultural diversity, and providing excellent academic research with the needs of government and business. advising. • Attract and retain, support and develop excellent faculty by Business increasing financial support, facilities and equipment, pro viding more support services, and refining the tenure and pro • Create new programs in management of systems technology. motion system. • Strengthen accounting by offering a graduate emphasis in tax • Sustain and enhance the quality of undergraduate programs ation, achieving accounting accreditation and establishing a by providing support needed for additional faculty, equipment, School of Accountancy. facilities, library materials and resources, recruiting top • Develop interdisciplinary degrees in international business, students in all fields, and developing an assessment system for management of technology, arts/entertainment management academic programs. and health care management. - • Strengthen and develop graduate programs by adding programs • Develop an executive MBA program. based on demonstrated needs, achieving accreditation for all • Strengthen the college to support development of a doctoral programs, increasing public awareness of graduate services, program. and increasing graduate assistantships. • Provide library materials and facilities to keep pace with the Education emerging mission of the University by acquiring new materials and space to house them, making collections more accessible, • Attain national leadership in preparation of bilingual/English and increasing support for library programs. as a second language teachers. • Enhance and expand research, scholarship and creative activity • Create a Bureau of Research and Services. within the University by providing faculty with support and • Develop a cooperative graduate program with Idaho State in opportunities for research, expanding the role of the Research athletic administration and a major with health science in com Center, developing an external funding strategy, and estab mercial/industrial fitness. lishing research professor positions. • Gain approval for a doctoral program in education, a master's • Develop and expand programs and services responsive to com in counseling and a bachelor's in athletic training. munity and student needs by seeking funds for programs that • Work toward reinstatement of majors in foreign language and arise from changing economic and social needs, expanding move them to Arts and Sciences. internship programs, and increasing participation in athletics. • Implement a Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase III program. • Develop and expand programs in continuing education by in • Provide new programs to help teachers address minority, creasing the number of regular faculty who teach in continu limited English proficiency, marginally literate and handi ing education, expanding programs based on market research, capped students. and expanding offerings by electronic delivery systems. • Assist in Idaho's e<:onomic revitalization by supporting basic Health Science and applied research, and assisting private enterprise through training programs and technology transfer. • Develop cooperative programs in health data management, • Provide comprehensive university infrastructures which sup nursing, environmental health, health care management and port academic programs by developing an outstanding public health administration. administrative staff, reducing the reliance on part-time help, • Increase biomedical research. improving responsiveness to student needs, and increasing sup • Expand the statewide hazardous materials consultation port services. program. 23 • Reorganize the college into the School of Nursing and School of Allied Health. Facilities Technology Currently Boise State has over 1.2 million square feet of space. Altowing for program expansion and enrollment increases, there • Expand technological education and applied research to sup wilt be a need for at least 500,000 additional square feet of space port needs of business and industry. by the year 2000. Construction of new facilities represents the • Cooperate with the University of Idaho in providing engineer only long-term solution if Boise State is to meet its commitment ing education to southwest Idaho. to the state and region. • Become a center for excellence in flexible manufacturing. Among the new, expanded or renovated facilities needed are: Applied Technology • Coltege of Technology complex • Library and Business buildings • Expand the pre-engineering program. • Social Sciences and Public Affairs facility • Modify the construction management curriculum to meet ac • College of Health Science facility creditation standards. • Fine Arts building and gallery • Develop a master's in construction management and bachelor's • Student Union in manufacturing and electronics. • Administrative support services • Develop customized training packages for local industry and • Enclosure of Bronco Stadium expand applied research. • Research facilities In the short-term, until funds are committed and construction Vocational Technical Education completed, the University will meet its needs by leasing off • Develop new associate of applied science degrees as needs arise. campus space, compromising some dedicated program space, • Develop non-credit training programs. converting substandard classrooms to faculty and lab spaces, in • Seek funding support for new programs in physical therapy creasing use of classrooms on weekends and evenings and using aid and elderly care. modular classrooms. Graduate • Centralize operations within a graduate college center. Campus Master Plan • Establish additional graduate assistantships. • Establish a Graduate Faculty Research Council. In the campus plan for the future. the most important feature is that the traditional core of the campus is preserved. Univer sity Drive will be converted to a boulevard with reduced traffic Information Technology and safe pedestarian walkways. Parking is provided on the periphery of campus. The goals of the master plan are to: and Extension • Maintain existing facilities, including renovation of substan dard space. • Assist and educate faculty and staff on appropriate uses of • Provide adequate facilities, which includes a capital program information technology to improve the quality of education, to identify short- and long-range needs. which includes training in applications from video disks, ex • Provide adequate parking and transportation alternatives. pert systems and computer-based training, and networking the campus for video and computers. • Deliver educational programs to groups and individuals, regardless of location, by installing a second interactive televi Financing the Future sion channel and developing the statewide Idaho Rural Educa tion Delivery network. Boise State is financed through a combination of public and • Support research and development in educational technology private sources. In the future, the University will seek to improve and foster technological experimentation and diversity. its financial base through two goals: • Achieve increased state appropriated funding. • Seek additional private support to supplement state support. University Support Services • Provide responsive services to students, including services in the area of admissions, financial aid, child care. student leader ship, health care. career planning, and drug/alcohol treatment. • Enhance the student information system, by integrating ad missions, financial aid, billing, housing and student records, automating class scheduling, automating financial aid, and streamlining career planning. 24 Foundation News Giving Notes • The H.J. Heinz Foundtllion has donated $5,000 to its Ore Ida Business Collection. • Micron Technology has donated $ 15,000 and Fin.~ Security Bank $12,000 to the Idaho Rural Education Delivery System. • The\\'. Averell and Pamela C. Harriman Foundation has donated $10.000 and the Harry\\'. \1orrison Foundation Pam Bengson Bill Bridenbaugh $25,000 to the hank Church Chair of Public Affairs. • BSU has received $2,000 from the Canteen Compan~ for the general scholarship fund. • The Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation ha~ donated $30,000 to the Cunningham Scholars program. • The BSU Library has received S I 0,000 from an anonymous donor. • Jody DeMeyer ha~ contributed $9,000 in suppon of BSU's nursing program. • An endowed scholar~hip for the College of Health Science has been established in the name of Eldon Edmundson Sr. Brent Brocksome Karl Brooks Chaffee Associate Drive Under the leadership of Resource Commiucc chair Adelia New Trustees Elected Garro Simplot, the BSU l·oundation is conducting a drive to add 100 new Chaffee Associates. The Chaffee Associates, The Boise State University Foundation elected five new named after BSU pre~ident emeritus Eugene Chaffee, is the trustees to serve three-year terms. They are Pam Bengson, foundation's premier giving society. Primary focus of the Idaho state representative, and director of activities for the Chaffee Associate~ i~ twofold: to recognize a leadership group Idaho Hospital Association; William Bridenbaugh, senior vice of individuals, corporatiom, foundations and other!> \vho pro president, Boise Cascade; Brent Brocksome, Idaho \tate " ide major financial ~upporl to the universit): and to draw representative and president, Health Care ~tanagemcnt; Karl auention to the univer~it) \ need for major support for pro Brool..s, Idaho state senator and counsel, Boise Cascade; and grams and identify those intcrc\lcd in making a significant con Ron Slocum, president and chief executive officer, ;\fountain tribution to these programs. State Savings Bank in Ketchum. Annual membership in the Chaffee Associates is extended Elected by the board to serve as officers during 1988-89 arc to those who contribute S I ,000 or more per year. Lifetime rom L. MacGregor, president; Peter L. Hirschburg, vice presi membership is given to those who contribute $10,000 or more dent; J. Charles Blanton, secretary; and Asa M. Ruyle, outright or pledge $15,000 or more to be paid over a period treasurer. not to exceed 10 years. While unrestricted gifts are encouraged, The BSU Foundation presently has 50 trustees and II donations to any program qualify for Chaffee membership. directors. Employer matching gith can be included in qualifying an l"'-7c' ' ·l'J. ; "'·""' individual for Chaffee A~~ociate membership. Also, certain planned gifts may qualify an individual for membership. t':' ~~~ Fi,·f'·Ytdr Comparison Record Year of Contributions Phonathon '88 The Boise State University Foundation recorded its most suc Phonathon '88 is now under way. Students are calling more cessful year ever, receiving $3,590,090 from private contribu than 21,000 alumni across the country to raise $25,000 for the tions, an increase of $2,008,062 over 1986. Contributions came Greater University Fund. The fund is the foundation's annual from 2,381 donors- an increase of 642 from the previous year. giving program for alumni and friends. Contributions will be Finally, the foundation's permanent assets grew to a record $8 used to fund the library, scholarships, research, faculty develop million compared to $6.2 million at the end of 1986. ment, curriculum and other university programs needing ad· The foundation's 1987-88 fiscal year totaled 18 months due ditional support. Phonathon '88 will conclude its seven-week to switching its year end from December 31 to June 30. run November 17. .J 25 ------ NURSING direct a summer seminar for Tom Trusky was awarded Present," in its Outreach secondary teachers on serial the BSU Library annual fac- series and has invited him to Carol E. Fountain has sue- reading of Victorian fiction. ulty award, has had poems be a guest lecturer on Cana- cessfully completed the Ortho- Driek Zirinsky has been published in Boise Magazine dian literature. He moderated paedic Nurses Certification appointed a member of the and Redneck Review, and the panel, "Scenes of the Examination and achieved the National Council of Teachers edited the Ahsahta Press Crime; Mystery with a Feeling designation of Orthopaedic of English (NCTE) Commis- publication of George Per- of Place," at the Bouchercon Nurse Certified (ONC). This sion on Supervision and Cur- reault's Curved Like an Eye. XIX Mystery Writers of credential attests to profi- riculum Development in the He also recently published America convention in San ciency in the specialty prac- English Language Arts. She is two articles on Idaho film- Diego during October. lice of orthopaedic nursing. also serving a three-year term maker Nell Shipman and just Keith Groff has been as editor of the Idaho English completed editing her awarded a Fulbright scholar- PHYSICS Journal. autobiography (revised, 2nd. ship to teach and study in Norm Weinstein's article, ed.). Trusky served as a na- Brazil during the 1988-89 Richard Reimann has "The African Motif in Jazz tiona! judge in the Columbia academic year. Groff will be received a National Science History," will be published in University (CSPA) competition teaching graduate students Foundation equipment grant The Absolute Sound and and is now a national judge and doing research in psycho- to support his research on Jazziz. for literary magazines in the linguistics at the Pontifica radon gas. Rena Sanderson attended College Media Advisers an- Universidade Catolica do Rio the Third International Hem- nual competition. de Janeiro. ENGLISH ingway Conference in Deborah Dawson, Helen Schruns, Austria, during June Lojek and James Maguire ADMINISTRATION English faculty members and participated in its will deliver papers at the 23rd Rena Sanderson, Helen biography seminar. annual meeting of the Western Executive Vice President Lojek, and Glenn Selander Daryl Jones will chair the Literature Association at the Larry Selland recently viewed participated in the series poetry session at the Rocky University of Oregon in training facilities at Fort "What America Reads: Myth Mountain Modern Language Eugene during October. Lewis, Wash., home of the Making in Popular Fiction" at Association (AMMLA) Con- Maguire's paper, "The U.S. Army Reserve Officers' the Nampa Public Library dur- terence in Las Cruces, N.M., Canon and the 'Diminished Training Corps (ROTC) Cadet ing September. during October. Thing,"' will also be pub- Command Fourth Region and For a spring sabbatical Glenn Selander was fished in the December issue Advanced Camp. Seiland was project, Richard Leahy in- selected as Outstanding of American Literature. one of 65 educators who vestigated writing centers and Faculty Adviser for the Lojek's article, "Myth and received a firsthand look at writing-across-the-curricu fum Utah/Idaho District of Circle K Bonding in Frank McGuin- the demanding training (WAC) programs throughout International. ness's Observe the Sons of procedures. the Pacific Northwest. The Orv Burmaster edited the Ulster Marching Toward the material he Collected has led Ahsahta Press publication ol Somma," has been published FINANCIAL AID to several improvements in Donald Schenker's Up Here. in the spring 1988 issue of the BSU Writing Center and Lonnie Willis conducted a The Canadian Journal of Irish Rita Shelley's article may aid in future planning for research project on Henry Studies. "Credentialirlg: What is There a WAC program at BSU. David Thoreau in the British Robert Papinchak's article to Lose," will appear in the Leahy's article, "Writing Library and in the Dr. on the leaching of poetry fall issue of Transcript, a na- Centers and Writing-for- Williams Library of Non- writing, "The Exercist: tiona! financial aid magazine. Learning," was accepted for Conformism during a spring Atavistic Rhymes and The article provided historical the spring 1989 issue of The semester sabbatical in Lon- Rhythms," was published in a background for a National Writing Center Journal. don. His article on the effects recent issue of Journal of Ad- Association of Financial Aid Roy Fox is presenting a of living in a "Soft City" ap- vanced Composition. He was Administrators' committee paper, "Toward a New Defini- peared in the July issue of awarded a resident fellowship considering certification. lion of Visual Literacy," at the Boise Magazine. Willis also at the Newberry Library in Shelley delivered a synop- Modern Language Association served as evaluator tor the Chicago for research studies sis of a research project, conference in New Orleans in 1987-88 NEH-sponsored lee- in the Sherwood Anderson "Technological Innovation in January. The presentation is a lure theory, "Promethean collection in order to provide Financial Aid Offices in Public follow-up to a paper Fox Fire," one of a series of lee- materials for his book on Colleges and Universities," at delivered last year at the Con- lures at the College of Idaho Anderson. AS a result of his the National Association of terence on College Composi- addressing the meaning of "consistent success" as tac- Student Financial Aid Ad- tion and Communication in St. computers in contemporary ulty adviser for cold-drill, Col- ministrators (NASFAA) annual Louis, "R9cent Research in society. umbia University has selected meeting in Denver. Imagery and Its Implications In addition to attending a him as a judge on the Colum- for the Teaching of Writing." weeklong workshop on bia Scholastic Association TEACHER EDUCATION His article, "Sensationspeak medieval music this summer, Board of Judges. in America," published last Linda Marie Zaerr produced American College Testing Karen Ritchie developed spring in English Journal, will a tape, "The Harper in the Services has asked Papin- the curriculum and taught a appear slightly altered in an Hall: Medieval Tales Retold," chak to design the ACT's new class during July aimed anthology containing essays with her sister, Laura. The English writing skills tests. at training senior citizens to devoted to the work of tape is due to be released Duke University, Durham, become instructional aides. George Orwell and shortly. N.C., will publish a mono- Funding for the class came doublespeak. Charles Davis will deliver a graph of his overview of from a Job Training Partner- Carol Martin has received paper on Henry Fielding at English Canadian literature, ship Act grant. an Endowment for the the AMMLA Conference in "Canadian Literature Since Cheryl Korn, state director Humanities (NEH) grant to Las Cruces, N.M., in October. the Watershed: 1960 to the of the Idaho Future Problem 26 Solving Bowl, was elected laboratory in biotechnology much of the music she col- been elected to serve as vice moderator for the national over the past three years. lected in her studies in the chairperson/chairperson elect state director's meeting for Douglas participated in a first lecture and recital of of Idaho's American College 1988-89. Korn represented the U.S. Forest Service workshop Canadian music in Idaho dur- Testing Program (ACT) Coun- Idaho program at the national on vegetation typing in ing October. In January, Hsu cil for a one-year term. meeting, held at the Univer- Garden Valley as well as con- will take sabbatical leave and sity of Michigan, in conjunc- dueled Salix research with travel to Arizona to study HISTORY lion with the International Jones in Denali National Park, South American music with Future Problem Solving Bowl. Alaska. Caio Pagano. Michael Zirinsky par- Phyllis Edmundson at- Marc Bechard traveled to Duo-pianists Hsu and Del ticipated in the series "What tended a training session for Churchill, Manitoba, during Parkinson presented an even- America Reads: Myth Making members of the National June for continuation of his ing of music by French com- in Popular Fiction" at the Council for the Accreditation research on raptors in posers during October. Nampa Public Library during of Teacher Education Canada. Bechard worked with Lynn Berg presented an September. (NCATE). For the next three the American rough-legged evening of German songs dur- years, she will be a member hawk on the Colville River, ing September and performed SOCIOLOGY, of a cadre of evaluators who Alaska, with Ted Swam during in Boise Opera Company's ANTHROPOLOGY & will visit colleges and univer- July. production of "Tasca" during CRIMINAL JUSTICE sities applying tor accredita- Russ Centanni was a October. tion by NCATE. delegate to the National AIDS catherine Elliott received Michael Blain presented his In August, she participated Information and Education Boise Little Theatre's Beulah paper "Group Defamation and in a work party on teacher Program in San Francisco award for best supporting ac- the Holocaust" at the Group education sponsored by the during May; presented two tress of the 1987-88 season. Defamation & Freedom of Center for Educational lectures on "Concerns of She is currently preparing for Speech conference held at Renewal at the University of AIDS" to the annual meeting the title role in Gian Carlo Hofstra University, Hemp- Washington. She presented of the Idaho School Food Ser- Menotti's opera "The stead, N.Y. "Research and School Ad- vice Association in Boise dur- Medium" to be performed in In addition, Blain co- ministrators" to the Idaho ing June; and was a faculty November. authored the papers "Basic School Administrators' annual member at the fourth annual Training: Discipline and the meeting in Sun Valley. Idaho Conference on Alcohol ART Soldier," with student Paul Edmundson serves as a and Drug Dependency, held Wegner and "Empowerment: member of the Consultant in Boise during June, where Louis Peck presented a A Study in the Rhetoric of Review Panel for the institu- he presented "AIDS and its one-man art exhibition at Peace Movement Motives," tional self-evaluation of the Impact on Substance Ricks College in Rexburg dur- with student Christine Griffin. Northwest Regional Education Abusers." ing September. The exhibit in- The students presented the. Laboratory in Portland, Ore. Centanni also attended eluded 40 paintings that were papers at the 59th annual As a member of this panel, meetings of the Rocky Moun- created this summer based on meeting of the Pacific Social- she reviews plans for evalua- tain Pus Club, an organization Spanish and Basque Province ogy Association in Las Vegas, lions and results of for infectious disease physi- landscapes. Nev. evaluations. cians and medical microbiolo- Two ceramic works by John gists, and the International Takehara are featured in I HEALTH, PHYSICAL BIOLOGY 1 Northwest Conference on British author Peter Lane's EDUCATION & RECREATION Diseases in Nature Com- book, Ceramic Form, pub- Richard McCloskey was in- municable to Man. lished by Aizzoli International Terry Ann Spitzer attended dueled in May into Phi Delta Rob Rychert attended the Publications, Inc., N.Y. the National Intramural Kappa, National Education American Society of Micro- John Killmaster presented Recreation Sports Association Honorary and Professional biology Regional Workshop on a workshop on architectural (NIRSA) meeting in New Recombinant DNA held in Fraternity. scale enameling processes at Orleans; presented "Intra- Marcia Wicklow-Howard, Seattle during June. the International Enamelist murals- Something for Dotty Douglas, graduate stu- Society Convention. Everyone" at the Idaho dent Michael Jones and MUSIC Killmaster's work has been Association of Health, undergraduate student Jeri exhibited at the Enamelist Physical Education, Recrea- Williams attended the Wil Elliott served on a Society First Biennial Juried lion & Dance (IAHPERD) con- American Institute of panel at the National Associa- International Exhibition, Sarah terence, and "Aerobic Fitness Biological Sciences (AIBS) an- tion of Schools of Music an- Squeri Gallery, Cincinnati; Instructors Training Program" nual meeting in August at the nual meeting held in Chicago. First Massana-Soldevila Prize at the April meeting of NIRSA; University of California-Davis. Material discussed dealt with for Enamels Exhibition, and was elected chair of the Wicklow-Howard attended the "Criteria and their Application Gallery oau-al-set, Barcelona, fitness committee for NIRSA. affiliated meetings of the to the Promotion and Tenure Spain; and Art and Articraft Ron Pfeiffer competed in Mycological Association of Process" for music faculty. International, sponsored by the National Off-Road Bicycle America and Douglas and Jim Madeleine Hsu spent two Creativkreis International, w'1th Championships in Sun Valley Munger the affiliated months in Canada during the exhibitions in Hambach Cas- during September, where he meetings of the Ecological summer where she re- tie, Bad Kreuznach and placed fifth in the timed hill Society of America. searched modern Canadian Karlsruhe, West Germany and climb division. Wicklow-Howard partici- composers, funded by an also in Jerusalem. paled in a visitation by BSU enrichment grant from the PSYCHOLOGY faculty to the INEL Research Canadian government in con- COUNSELING & TESTING Center in Idaho Falls, which nection with BSU's Canadian Garvin Chastain has had has developed a major Studies program. She used Darlene Townsend has two articles accepted for 27 publication: "The SQ3R Study appointed project director of sidad de Malaga. dueled in the summers. Technique Enhances Com Idaho WAMI, Rural Health John Freemuth gave a prehension of an Introductory Education Centers AIDS prese.,tation at the "Wilder MASTER IN PUBLIC Psychology Textbook" by Education and Training Pro ness in Northwest National AFFAIRS PROGRAM Reading Improvement, and gram. The program's goals in· Parks" conference in October. "Does Order of Letter elude identification and train Willard Overgaard at Becky Meyer is the new Analysis Contribute to the ing of primary health care tended the Western Regional secretary for the MPA pro Parafoveal Identification givers at the University of Assembly of the American Bar gram. She joins the program Asymmetry?" by Journal of Washington and through this Association, held in Portland, after serving in similar General Psychology. He will means the eventual develop· Ore., during October. capacities with the Moscow present "Abruptly Appearing ment of regional centers of Gary Moncrief has been in City Police Department and Clutter and Peripherally competence in treating AIDS/ vited to join the editorial Idaho Fish & Game. Precued Covert Attention AIDS-related syndromes. board of the Legislative John Freemuth has been Shifts" at the annual meeting David Johnson has been Studies Quarterly, the primary elected to the national council of the Psychonomic Society in selected chairman of the journal in the field of legisla of the Environmental and Chicago during November. social work department. He tive studies. Moncrief chaired Resource Administration Sec· succeeds Yunker, who a panel on "Recruitment. tion of the American Society PHILOSOPHY chaired the department for 12 Elections and State Legisla of Public Administration. Alan Brinton participated in years. tive Careers" at the 1988 a National Endowment for the American Political Science TEACHER EDUCATION Humanities (NEH) summer POLITICAL SCIENCE Association conference, held seminar in london on "18th in Washington, D.C., in Associate Dean lamont Century British Sources of Tricia Trofast has joined SeptemOer. He also presented Lyons made a presentation Early American Rhetoric," the department as the new his co-authored paper on on secular humanism at the directed by Lloyd F. Bitzer. secretary/office coordinator. "Geographic Mobility Patterns Sunstone Symposium in Salt Brinton's paper "On Not She previously worked with of State Legislators" at the Lake City, a four-day lecture Cutting Oneself While Shav Idaho Fish & Game. conference. series on topics related to ing" (on agnosticism) has Gregory Raymond has Moncrief spoke before the Mormonism. been accepted for publication been invited to write a chapter Idaho City Clerks and Finan Norma Sadler was one of ·In the philosophy journal on international legal theory cial Officers Association in 100 winners in a national SOPHIA. for an edited book titled, McCall during September. He poetry contest sponsored by Papers in Public Law and discussed the International In Writer's Digest. Her poem "A SOCIAL WORK Comparative Political Science, stitute of Municipal Clerks cer Sense of Place" appeared in Doug Yunker in June was to be published by the Univer- tification program being con- the October i,ssue. Available at these fine galleries. \\"il/01dn!f! c~allery 579 First St. Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401 (208) 524-4464 I nlenwlioua/ f lrb J:jullery 315 West Center Pocatello, Idaho 83204 (208) 232-2925 Larson flrls 132 Main Ave. North Twin Falls, Idaho 83301 (208) 733-0813 Bvuu·n 's Sallenes 1115 W. Boise Ave. Boise, Idaho 83706 rrWe the People of Idaho" (208)342-6661 This fine arts print by Idaho Falls artist [}Ioria 1niller .Allen commemorates the 2001h anniversary of the, U.S. Constitution and the 1DOth birthday of Idaho's Statehood. With the Sawlooth Mountains and the grass-roots of agriculture unfolding with the Stars and Stripes across the center of the page, this paintlng celebrates the history, spirit, and beauty of Idaho, her people and her nation. $30.00 plus shipping Phone orders accepted V1sa & Mastercard 28 6Z suorre1nq1l:l puB spU;)l:l 'SUO!:lJpBl~ :Auun~d d;t::I ~!'!t.~- Dangerous Waters Counselors to the rescue of American families By Glenn O he currents of American society arc sweeping families under. fhc wife's career and the hus T. band\ career can collide like riptides, tearing marriages apart. Children get caught in the undertow. Today, there is more freedom to ~wim alone, or to swim with several partners. But the freedom to swim is also the freedom to drown. 30 A neu professional group known as mediators, a sort of cross be tween attorneys and therapists, has arisen to more amicablv resolve divorce and child custod~· con fl. icts. . Marriage may be making a comeback program coordinator for the psychiatric Divorce, separation and remarnage are from the anti-establishment I960s and center at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical forcing a reconsideration of the very '70s, but it is not necessarily safe to go Center and Idaho president of the definition of family. back into the water. At least not without American Association for Marriage and a lifeguard on duty. Where once everyone Family Therapy. "I look at it as losing our Even in conservative, pro-family Idaho, ~warn into marriage at their own risk, a roots, our connectedness, our sense of more people can relate to television's whole industry of professionals trained to family. Right now we're in a readjustment divorcees Kate and Allie than Ozzie and rescue families and marriages has sur period. Our old social institutions that Harriet. Idaho exceeds the national faced. These new family lifeguards are held society together are different. The average in divorces per capita. In Idaho counselors, psychologists, therapists and things that used to provide the glue that in 1987, 5,892 couples were divorced, writh mediators. held society together are changing. We're 5,477 children going through the trauma Their goal is not to reverse the trend of just kind of floundering." The breakup of of seeing their moms and dads split up. the traditional nuclear family, says Engel, American society - anymore than a All this has led to a proliferation of lifeguard's goal is to stop the tides of the is well under way and probably irreversible. family specialists - people who fill roles ocean. They exist to help families and in once handled by members of the extended dividuals deal with the reality of modern family or by the family pastor. Books and American society, to teach people how to ost family professionals agree. "The seminars on parenting (a word that first swim in these new and dangerous waters. M old family norm of mom and dad appeared in 1959) abound. Lawyers ''A lot of what we treasure in America and two kids is gone," says Boise media specialize in the booming business of fam is contributing to the breakup of the tion therapist Victoria Hawley. "You can ily law: divorce, separation, child custody, American family - upward mobility, grieve over it if you want, but it's support and property settlements. A new freedom, education," says Wes Engel, history." professional group known as mediators, 32 a sort of cross between attorneys and Dutcher often encounters the same prob for six months, and put him back and e' therapists, has arisen to more amicably lem. "I think there is a general misconcep peel anything to change," !>he 5ays. "You resolve divorce and child custody con tion that parenting is something that just look at the person in terms of the entire flicts. Counseling centers, clinics and comes naturally," he says. "We've had family. You look at the family as a psychologists provide advice on everything some parents think that the child should system." from anxiety to orgasm. "The family has be potty trained at 6 months." ust as child abuse can be a behavior in changed so there's this new market," says Engel comments, "We don't have a J herited from one's parents, so too is Engel. gene that teaches us how to be a good step spousal abuse. "Only crazies used to see us - null}, parent. We don't C\Cn have a gene that weird psychotics," says Boise psychologist teaches us how to be a parent. We may Judges, attorneys and ~ocial worker~ Christine Isaacs. Yet the clients filling her have maternal and paternal instincts. I alike were stunned by the number of busy professional schedule are typically think we used to get taught it informally women seeking protective orders against quite normal. But in the modern world a through our parents. But it's changed their husbands after the Protective Order normal relationship is fraught with strife because the pot has gotten stirred up with for Domestic Violence legislation went and connict. "Poor relationships arc the divorce and remarriage." into effect last July. main things that I deal with," she C'- As Vallivue school psychologist and "Nobody knew that much need was out plains. The big three stresses on relation mediator Don Prosek says, "Most people there," says Idaho Legal Aid attorney ships, she says, arc money, sex and kids, parent exactly the way they were parented, Jane Newby. "It took everybody by sur with kids being perhaps the major unless they have some formal training." prise." Judge Patricia Young, who heard problem. Most of the time, that formula works. But 20 protective order cases in one afternoon requently, she explains, "There's if the parents were abused as children, they alone, says the volume of applications b} Fsomething the kid is doing which in are frighteningly likely to abuse their abused wives "indicates women weren't terferes with peaceful home life." The children in turn. overstating the problem." Until the Legislature approved the measure in the child's acting up may be a symptom of a Pocatello family therapist Crete Brown last session, Idaho was one of four state~ stressful marriage or it may simply add to treats children and families ordered into in the nation without such a law. stress \vithin the marriage. Because counseling by the courts through the Child children present conflict after conflict Protection Act. "They're disrupted after conflict, Isaacs says, they challenge families, almost all of them," says Brown. a couple's ability to stay together. The parents in these families have tended "It's a very unusual couple that will sit to raise their children as they were raised down and say, 'How do we want to raise - which is to say poorly. "You start look our I-. ids?'" says Isaacs. Often, the parents ing at these families," says Bro,,n, "and were raised under different styles and cir their families were drint...ing families and cumstances and will consequently have dysfunctional." different and conflicting ideas on In almost all of the cases Brown discipline and raising of their children. handles, ~he says "the ovcrarching prob Frequently, parents seek professional lem is addiction - drugs and alcohol." help to teach them how to be parents. "A She aucmpts to treat the \~hole family in lot of what I do is teach parents what is these cases, hoping to get the parents normal for child development," says weaned from their addictions and to Isaacs. ''A lot of parents don't know that. understand that their own childhood abuse Dads will cor.1e in and ask, 'Well, when is being passed on to their children. will this J...id start to talk?'" "You can't take a kid who's been Ada County Juvenile Court Judge John beaten or emotionally abused, treat him J!ej /.5o;j .!Jnleriorj, efJJ.____, E\:j:J.oz.E.Hi.oru o{ §aod 9ailE. in :be.1i912. RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL DESIGN 1746 West State • Boise, Idaho 83702 345-9085 (LOCATED IN ALBERTSON'S MARKETPLACE) 33 Newby says applications for legal help is affected by their personal life. of another option, one that in most cases by abused wives to her office is over But for Idahoans seeking family and will be less e'\pensive, less painful, less '"helming. "We are so booked I've got ap marriage counseling, says Engel, "right damaging to the children and more pointments for the next month, and now it's potluck." There is no licensing amenable to both sides. there's a waiting list," she says, adding, law for family therapists in the state, he Mediation is new, available in the "We can meet only 10 percent of the need explains. "If you go in specifically for United States only within the last decade, out there." family and marriage counseling it's hard and available in parts of Idaho only within "The thing I keep thinking about," says to know if you'll get the product you the last few years. Young, "is the adage that the best way tO need." Engel and others advise those seek Judge Robert Newhouse, speaking at a handle a crisis is tO not have one arise." ing help to ask a lot of questions of their recent mediation orientation session, said, She would like to see more low-cost prospective counselors. "Almost e\eryone who goes through counseling available through the court When families do split up, each spouse litigation goes out wishing there was some ~ystem for couples who are in crisis, as usually hires an attorney, and any connicts other way .... The very worst seulement well as more parenting education. over property or child custody or support you can come to with your spouse through arc battled out in the courts. Each attorney mediation may be better than the best ounseling for couples or families attempts to portray the other parent in a solution I can come up with. You love Cunder stress is rarely covered by in sordid and dim light, leaving the judge your children. I don't even know your surance companies, notes Engel. And he with two negati\ e portraits of the parents, children." says, counseling "is an unknown quantity from which tO make a decision. Mediators and judges alike repeat one for most people. It's real hard getting Increasingly, however, judges are try theme: T he adversarial courtroom is not teenagers and men in. There's a stigma ing to steer parents away from the advcr the best place to settle disputes involving au ached." sarial courtroom and into the negotiating children. Says mediator Victoria Hawley, Nevertheless, says Isaacs, there is in room of a hired mediator. In Boise, all "Mediation b for people who can own the creasing pressure on insurance companies parents filing for child custody litigation problem." If both parents are willing to to underwrite mental health counseling. are ordered by their judge to first attend work tOgether tO\\ard a solution, then the fhi~ is due in large part, she believes, to a mediation orientation session. Theses neutral mediator can help them develop a business people '' ho realiL.e productivity makc the parents aware child custody plan which is more detailed and more human than what a judge can ~------provide. As Hawley explains, media1ion agreements arc "written in I and me, 1 mother and father, instead of plaintiff and defendant." udge Young, who helped bring media J tion into the mainstream of the Idaho judicial:.ystem, sa) s, "What continues to sustain me is it works. It's so exciting for me because you see lights turn on." About 50 Ada County couples have used mediators each year since May I986 when the program began, according to Young. Usually, divorced parents become in volved in new relationships, and many 1 amc remarry. Often, the new spouse is a lso Address ______divorced with children of his or her own. One new book, Changing Families, A Guide for Kid~ and Grown-ups, attempts to explain these new relationships to Arl·as oi lntcrl'SI children involved in such "binuclear" families. "There arc many different kinds of families," write the authors. "Some kids are part of more than one fami ly .... Sometimes it is even hard to know who is in your family." While books of this kind arc meant to be reassuring to children, their message can sound frightening to those who hold traditional families as sacred. Indeed, the whole range of changes in the American family is typically met with alarm and 34 dismay. pushing them into too many activities, But some people call to question the !> uch as da nce, gym nastics, soccer a nd ideal Norman Rockwell-style famil y so music. Seminar set often mourned as a victim of modern And while the di\Orce rate is far higher Judge Patricia Young will teach society. today than in decades past, it may have a graduate student seminar on " I'm not sure if that ideal has ever been more a lack of opportunity than an divorce, mediation and Idaho courts really existed," comment~ Dave Johnson, abundance of love that kept wives and through BSU's School of Social a profes~or of social work at BSU who husbands together. "We never made Sciences and Public Affairs this al~o runs a private counseling practice. d ivorce easy for people," comments spring semester. " Kids used to be considered property of J ohnson. In addition to being socia ll y The course will be used to develop their parents. Child labor wa~ essentially unacceptable, most states would not ac a model for expanding court media slave labor." He recalls that at the turn cept mutual consent as a reason for tion services in Idaho. Each student of the century, New York cititcns who divorce. will conduct an independent were outraged at a girl named Mary Ellen In addition, fe,., '' ivc~ were working research project on one of several being chained to the front stoop of her out~ide the home. Today it is far more topics: join! custody in Idaho; house could only have her unlocked likely that the \\ife ha~ a job o r a skill and methods of conflict resolution for through the C ruelty to Animals s t atu t e~. can be financiall y independent. She can divorcing parents; funding options No legislation existed to prevent parents walk away from a poor marriage without for Idaho mediation; and possible from so abusing their chi ldren. " You start becoming instantly destitute. A career legislation for mediation. Students looking at that kind of ~tuff and you have away from the home also opens ne\\ will present their findings to the to a1.k: What kind of a family were we horiLOns for women. seminar during the last five weeks of talking about?" "I don't think we'll ever bring the fam the course. Appropriate citizens and Johnson says he believes "physical ily back to what it used to be," says Engel. public officials will be invited to the abuse existed at a higher level than it docs " I don't know if that'~ good or bad. It's student presentations for discussion. now." Newby notes that many of her part of the development of society. We're The class will meet Wednesdays abused wife clients were t.exually abused in a development process tha t's never from 4:30-6:15 p.m. and Thursdays as chi ldren 30 and 40 years ago, with the ending." from 7:45-9 p.m. perpetrators rarely, if ever, punished. "l think for child and spou~e abuse we're just more aware of it." she says. any states had legislation referred to as the " thumb rule," which allowed f_.:<.(_D -M_[1 .o·~ - -.· ~ '\ M ..__ H - 1"- . - ·~ ~ ~ ' . - . - l a husband to beat his wife with a stick no \ • W'J [, " \I thicker than his thumb. Ironically, the \_A ~~s ) laws were designed to protect the wife I from being beaten '' ith heavier clubs, THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS notes Newby. "Wives," she points out, GIFT FOR BUSINESS, FAMILY "were property and you could do what OR FRIENDS! you wanted with your property." O ur special holiday package Even when the legal system no lo nger contains 2 layers (22 lbs.) of condoned wife beating, few were in beautiful Northwest Symms Fruit terested in ferreting out cases of spouse Ranch Extra-Fancy Red Delicious and child abuse. J udge Dutcher poses the Apples.w We ill ship anywhere in question, " If you have more police the continental U.S. - Order by officers making arrests, is it because you December 10 to insure Christmas have more cases, or more enforcemen t?" delivery. When it comes to spouse and chil d a buse, most agree that public attenti on has simply $}200 + UPS Shipping Charges ill uminated an ongoing problem that was Call us with your li st and charge previously kept in the dark. your VISA or MASTERCARD. And when it comes to parenting, says Johnson, " In a lot of ways we're doing a better job than we were in the past. When mom was at home, she may never have interacted that much with the kids, 0 but told them to 'go play."' SYMMS FRUIT RANCH Parents today are frequently so con Rt. 4, Box 775, Caldwell, Idaho 83605 cerned with the development of their (208) 459-4821 children that they are often criticized for 35 By Bob Evancho Day Care: Not hey call it the child-care "tri lemma." And the tripartite problem T facing both working parents and child-care providers seems especially acute in Idaho. Situation 1. Children need safe, high Child's Play qualiry day care. Children are our future, the argument goes, and with the massive influx of women into the labor force, working Low pay and prestige plague moms are the norm. Why, then, do many in Boise's day-care community consider the state's child-care vital force rn today's family laws ineffective, inadequate and "not worth the paper they're written on," as one observer puts it? An example is Idaho's law requiring a minimum ratio of one day-care worker to every 12 children. "Idaho is by far the worst in that category," says Sharon Bix by, director of Child Care Connections, a Boise child-care referral and training agency. " I have charts for the ratios in all / 36 the states in the country and there is a tiny of all preschool children (1.5 million) will for child care," she adds. "So somebody handful up in the 1-to-5, 1-to-6 area. But have mothers in the work force as will needs to be making $22,000-$27,000 a year Idaho is 1-to-12 and with no age stipula about 60 percent (17.2 million) of all to afford day care for one child·" tions for the children." school-age children. With numbers like Says Janet McEvoy, director of Boise Situation 2. Working parents need that, it's no wonder child care is one of State's Child Care Center, "A large por affordable child care. the major issues facing American families tion of the population can't afford qual Why, then, is Idaho one of three states today. With both George Bush and ity child care. You need an income of with no subsidies for low-income working Michael Dukakis seeking the support of $20,000-plus to even be able to afford our parents? And federal aid, some observers working women, the child-care debate has facility, and I don't think too many contend, doesn't necessarily help the even entered the presidential campaign. students make that kind of money.'' neediest families either. For example, Although the two presidential can The situation seems to have both day Newsweek's Robert J. Samuelson points didates' child-care rhetoric focuses on care providers and working parents in a out that about half of the $4 billion in federal funding, much of the Idaho child Catch-22: Child care is costly to most benefits of a proposed federal tax credit care community's concern stems from the parents, yet most care givers are under for child-care expenses would go to the state Legislature, which, some contend, paid. The going day-care rate for an older wealthiest third of eligible families; the has failed to adequately deal with the child is $8.50 per day; for infants it's $10 poorest third would receive only about 3 issue. or $11 a day. That works out to about a percent. dollar an hour per child -and sometimes "Parents are strapped," says Bixby. egislation passed in 1987 established less. "[Child care] is the fourth-highest expense L a statewide system for the protection "A large amount of people who work that families have, and people who are of children while still leaving primary in child care, especially home-based making less than $20,000 [annually] are responsibility for the evaluation and selec facilities, are actually earning below the paying more for child care than they can tion of a day-care facility to the parents. poverty level," Frankie says. technicaHy afford." The law also states cities and counties may Situation 3. Child-care providers need enact stricter day-care ordinances if they Frankie adds that the low prices some and deserve better working conditions and wish. Currently, only four cities- Boise, child.:Care providers charge "perpetuates" salaries. Coeur d'Alene, Pocatello and Chubbuck the baby-sitter stereotype. Child-care providers are expected to - have taken or are considering such "I've seen day care advertised for $5 a look after and nurture our children in our steps. day. There is no way you can provide absence. When a parent takes a child to The current law calls for a fire and quality day care for $5 a day, it's virtually a day-care facility, the parent is saying, "I health inspection of child-care facilities impossible .... If a parent expects the pro trust you with my kid. His/her well-being and a criminal history check of day-care per environment from a care giver, you is in your hands." workers. According to Perry Ackerman, have to pay them more than $5 for a state child-care licensing coordinator for 10-hour day." hy, then, when you consider the im the Idaho Department of Health and W mense responsibility placed on Welfare, the law purposely maintains a ecause they are state employees, BSU them, are most child-care providers often hands-off posture, in part, because of BChild Care Center staff members earn overworked, dreadfully underpaid and some voters' opposition to government in a better wage and receive better benefits largely unappreciated, ask leaders of the tervention. "So the Legislature tried to at than most child-care providers. Despite Boise child-care community. least build in basic issues," Ackerman that, McEvoy says she and her staff are "Child-care people are unfortunately says. "There are things like the 1-to-12 still largely unappreciated. "It can be real still stuck in that old stereotype of what ratio that need to be looked at, but [the discouraging to be a child-care worker," a baby-sitter does. We're not looking at child-care law] can be looked at as a be she comments. "Our staff here is made up baby-sitters," says Pat Frankie, a child ginning." of teachers in early childhood or care consultant for Mountain States In Bixby's opinion, the dearth of ade childhood development, and all of them Health Corp. in Boise. "Care givers are quate day-care legislation in Idaho can be have more than five years' experience. not getting their due respect. . . If you traced, in part, to the ideological leanings Still, parents are surprised that they have don't think what somebody does is very of many legislators. "There is a hard-core, college degrees. They think anybody can important then you're not going to pay conservative element there that feels that work with children. That attitude coupled them very much." child care is a threat to the family and that with low wages can be pretty demoraliz According to the U.S. Department of the woman ought to be at home with the ing. You really have to love what you're Labor, day-care workers are in the bottom children," she states. "They don't doing." 5-10 percent of wage earners in the coun recognize the fact that three-quarters of But it will take a concerted effort to try. "They're paid less than parking lot at the women who are working are [doing so] overcome the problems that have beset the tendants and animal caretakers," Bixby because they don't have husbands or their day-care profession and its customers. says. ''And these are the people caring for husbands are making less than $15,000 a "Dr. Spock said we can pass all kinds our children. It's appalling what our year." of laws and put all kinds of money out priorities are." According to Bixby, the average yearly there to be used," Frankie says. "But until Statistics provided by a Child Care Con cost of child care in Idaho is $2,200- parents start demanding that they get nections report and the Department of $2,700. "Formulas indicate that you can more and are willing to pay more, then Labor indicate that by 1990, at least half afford 10 percent of your gross earnings those changes aren't going to happen. D 37 all her vacation time and a few additional days off without pay. Second, the in surance coverage for Joe's birth, both ours Instant Dad and the natural mother's, was negligible. Our out-of-pocket costs to adopt Joe - lost wages, medical expenses and agency fees - were more than $5,000. Joe seemed to like his new mom just As if he fell from the sky, fine; I think he had reservations about me at first. Maybe he could tell that children and I have never been what you would call adoptive son changes couple's lives chummy. And as if the initial shock of it all wasn't enough, another traumatic episode awaited me during my first hours of fatherhood. Let me set the stage. My sister and her family, who live back Editor's note: Earlier this year, FOCUS to make those final emotional and men east, had planned for a year to visit us. By staff writer Bob Evancho and his wife tal adjustments. Somehow the word coincidence, they picked the week after we. adopted their first child, a 4-day-old boy. "tomorrow" precluded such a rational, got Joe. Being the gracious host I am, I Ironically, after a lengthy wait on their sober approach. had arranged to take some time off from adoption agency's list, the Evanchos were "Holy cow!" I gasped (a slight change work during their stay. When Joe arrived, given slightly more than 24 hours' notice in phrasing; this is a special edition on the I simply started my vacation a few days before they brought their new son home. family, after all). "Just like that? Tomor early. Sue, being a levelheaded and thrifty row? As in the day after today? You mean sort, had planned to work during our com By Bob Evancho like ... tomorrow!?" pany's visit, confident I would do my Indeed it was just like that: a one-day darnedest to show them a good time. ver have one of those mornings? gestation period. My mind was awash with When we got the call to pick up Joe, I just You know ... when your lifestyle, both excitement and fear. I suppose I assumed my dear wife, flushed with hap E your priorities, your entire existence should not have been so unnerved, but 24 piness over our new son, would drop change at the drop of a hat? When your hours isn't much time to get your act everything at work (I did, after all) and sensibilities suddenly take on new, un together. I mean, aren't you supposed to immediately begin her leave of absence. charted depths? When all at once you ex ease into these things? Don't most new perience emotions of which you thought parents, even adoptive ones, get a little ad realized I was wrong- and in trouble yourself incapable? vance notice? Hey look! I had never - during our first weekend with the I had a morning like that recently. In changed a diaper in my life .... Besides, I baby when I asked Sue when she stant parenthood will do that to you. I hadn't told the dog yet. planned to go back to work. As if he had dropped from the clouds, "Look, bub (another paraphrase)," she a fat, fascinating, wondrous man-child on't get me wrong. I was prepared said. "I'm going back to work Monday. named Joe joined me and my wife, Sue, to deal with the responsibilities of You're the one who's off next week and and infinitely changed our lives. D parenthood. It was just that I don't get maternity leave. Remember? Having initiated adoption proceedings everything was so, so . . so fast. That means we need to stagger our days two and a half years earlier, we were con Actually, there was a reason behind our off to have somebody with the baby. We fident that our "blessed event" was Just caseworker's little surprise. Five months don't have any family nearby. a matter of time. But Joe's arrival came earlier, an adoption for which we were Remember?'' as a surprise nonetheless when Sue called prepared fell through .at the last minute. "But that means I'll be all alone with me at work that morning. She had just Knowing we had readied a room and the the baby. I don't know how to take care spoken to our adoption agency other furnishings for an infant and not of a baby," I whined. "We're talking caseworker. wanting to see our hopes dashed a second three and a half days here. My sister won't "She has a baby for us," Sue an time, our caseworker opted tO keep silent be here until Thursday afternoon. Think nounced. "We're supposed to pick him up until the last minute in case this adoption of the baby - pulleeeze." tomorrow." also proved unsuccessful. "We have no choice," Sue said calmly. Up until that moment, this child had But it went without a hitch, and the next "You'll have to learn quickly. When you been an incorporeal being, a creature of day at the adoption agency our caseworker go back to work, then I'll stay home. my imagination floating out there handed us a bundle of blankets that con Besides, I'll be home by 4:30 every day.'' somewhere. Suddenly, he was real and he tained our newborn son. He looked like For 35 years I had managed to avoid the was here. I honestly thought I had Cubs manager Don Zimmer. unpleasant task of changing a diaper; prepared myself for the moment that I Joe didn't come cheap; we knew that somehow I had a feeling my time would would really, actually, seriously have to before we started. First of all, because she be up during those three and a half days. make the transition from leisurely, fun did not give birth, Sue did not qualify for Actually, Joe and I both survived my loving guy to responsible parent. But I had any leave of absence from her job. As a parental baptism of fire without any also planned on having more than one day result, her "maternity leave" consisted of major problems. On Thursday my sister 38 :_'""" ,)·\ arrived, and when she left, Sue took her leave of absence. I thankfully returned to work. My traumatic initiation into parenthood was a few months ago. What are my thoughts on the subject now? Well, people who brag about their kids bug me. So, as not to appear duplicitous, I'll address that question to the person this story is about: . Someday, Joe, you're probably going to· have plenty of questions about why and how you were adopted. I'm told it's tough on some children when they begin to com prehend the entire picture. The attempt of this story was to humorously recall our first few days together. But in reality, your adoption was serious stuff to your mom and me. If this story does one thing, I hope it makes you realize this: I'm glad we adopted you. I thank God you're my son. I love you, Joe. D 39 Minus a By Melinda EJJis November 1984 My husband drove away today. We are separating; he is going to Utah and our Marriage three children and I will stay temporarily at my parents' home in Boise. Diary of a mending We are separating because we've been separate emotionally and mentally for a long time. We only make our separation (not broken) family physical now. It is difficult to accept defeat. I was married according to the mandates of a conservative, family-centered religion. I found a mate that possessed all the "right" qualifications: a dedication to our religion and a desire for family life. We followed all the "right" premarital pro cedures. We received engagement counsel ing, we took compatibility tests. We carefully discussed our needs and desires for our married life. Unfortunately, soon after the wedding serious problems in our relationship began to surface. I felt trapped. But I had made a firm commitment, there would be no divorce for me! Convinced the power of love would eventually change our relation ship, I stayed with my husband for six years. Over time, I saw that we were all paying a huge cost for my "loving" deter mination; we were developing more and more problems and we had less and less ability to pretend that everything would be OK. My husband is an angry man who has abused the children and me mentally, emotionally and physically. It is our big secret, one we never discuss, even with ourselves. We have maintained a fragile facade of being the happy, nuclear family. Last month, I briefly left my husband at home with the children and returned to find bruise marks on my new baby daughter's abdomen. Something snapped in me. The reality of how anger and fear had shaped my children's lives could no longer be ignored. No, I cannot, will not, allow another child to live in this environ ment of pretense and pain. I must take responsibility for myself and them. I can not look into their eyes and see the pain and walk away denying what I see. Perhaps the greatest act of love I will do in this life is to take the steps I am taking now. 40 December 1984 He has asked me to file for divorce, since the legalities are easier and quicker in Idaho than in Utah. Il seems rather soon, but in the month he has beeR gone it has been so restful and calm. I know .· !. :~ •. divorce is our only choice and cannot ima "I t!'ill not allou· another ,_· gine living with him again. He caJls and child w lit·e in this e1wiron his voice is that cold one that has always menr of pretense and pain." frightened me so much. "Please fi le for \o~ ~ divorce immediately." In a brave act of ,,~ defiance, I wait to file until after ~~ -\ Christmas. ~~ .' !; ::. l(~.i ~: ~: ..._.:.:-_ The baby was up crying all night, I : ~ could not soothe her. She kept my parents ~- - -- <' - :~ awake, too. They have been amazingly pa tient, supportive and loving despite great baby's distress and I expect to be excused. tive audience! costs to them in time, money and privacy. Instead, the instructor says something This job challenges my doom and I cannot imagine surviving without them about facing the reality that I cannot meet gloom projections for my own life. My right now. my children's needs during the day in troubles don't seem so grim compared to This separation is not easy. I have no deference to my employer. I get the those in the wide circle around me. I am job, no car, and three young children to message; I cannot leave to go comfort my young and strong. There is time and provide for. I feel acute sadness as I nurse child. strength to grow. I love working in a job my baby daughter, knowing that the My eyes start to tear. I feel a strong where I can give and do things for people weaning time comes soon for us. This maternal response to run and comfort her. that bring cheer to them, even for a few winter feels especially harsh and cold as My baby refuses to be placated by the moments. I give up the warm external comforts I nursery workers. For several hours she Another giant step forward? My knew in my previous life as wife and and I cry together, loudly and silently. At parents arc going to assist me in purchas homemaker. lunch, when I break away to be with her, ing a car! I can't believe how good it feels she is sleeping from the exhaustion of her to make these advances toward indepen ]anuar)' 1985 crying. dence. I am becoming less incapable and I must work, however. I have been on dependent. It's the new year of our new lives. welfare the past few months and cannot I'm enrolled in a job search course. I live on this aid- welfare officials tell you haven't worked in a paid position for that up front. They give you 40 percent of April 1985 many years and am not sure I have any the essential needs (rent, food, utilities) We have moved to a place of our own! marketable skills. I do have a college and will subtract from that 40 percent any It is a luxury to have our own space. Some degree, but in my premarriage dream additional income you receive that would nights after the children are asleep, l dance world I never saw myself working in a help you meet the other 60 percent of your by myself in my own celebration of the career. I was going to be one really super needs. It is a Catch-22 that I cannot wait physical and emotional spaciousness of and creative stay-at-home mom with the to get out of. our home. The kids seem exultant as well. traditional husband who would provide It is amazing to see them laugh and play. for me. Someday, I thought, I would be March 1985 And the wonder in the emergence of their a volunteer in the arts. personalities! They are children I have Now, facing the requirements of the real Our family became one of the divorce never known. Our deep-frozen feelings are world and to provide for my children, I statistics this month. Ir was surprisingly thawing like the warming weather. A re enter the career world that I shunned as quick and easy; the court experience was juvenating and joyful spring is upon us all. "beneath" me. not too painful. The children and I pay a There are other painful lessons to learn. cost for the ease of the divorce, however The first day of class I had to confront the - the child support assigned is incredibly August 1985 full emotional costs of leaving my low. We arc now a poverty statistic as children. As I sat listening to the instruc well. My ex-husband came to visit the tor talk about taking risks and leaving the Some great and astonishing news: I got children. He and I spoke carefuJly around protection of home and family, I heard a a job! I am an activity coordinator for each other and minimized contact as much baby begin to scream in the nursery down about 100 elderly individuals in a nursing as possibie. I limited the visits with the the hall. It is my daughter. The instructor home. I have the opportunity to usc all my kids because I wasn't sure how he would catches my eye, acknowledges my and the creative and dramatic energies with a cap- treat them. Would he hurt them to punish 41 quently sends the kids cassette tapes ana letters. They kno'' "ho their dad is and that he cares for them. I am no longer afraid of him or intimidated by his behavior. "Somettmes I tmnr co make I am taking a couple of courses at Boise a bi~ sign that ~a_\S, 'Look, it State, as I have chosen to direct myself to tw.s reall.\ a miserabll.' mar a new career that will provide for my fami riage. 1 don 'c need \Oitr ly better. I plan to quit my job and go to dt~dain, btu I could u~e school full time nc\t semester if it all 'I:OHr under,candin1! and "orks out financially. friendship.'" Sometimes when I encounter the disap proving silence of acquaintances, I "ant to make a big sign and hang it around my neck that says, "Look, it was really a miserable marriage. I'm not a failure for getting a divorce. My husband and I had to leave a very harmful and hurtful me? lie appeared very controlled and challenge me to be the best I can be as they relationship that was killing each of us. I careful, and no angry incidents occurred. depend so much on me. don't need your disdain (or approval) The children were happy to sec him but but I could use your understanding and friendship." seemed relieved when he left. I was, too. November 1985 We've moved. We are living now in a September 1988 Occober 1985 subsidized apartment that will provide help with rent and utilities. It was hard to I am in my second semester as a full I have been thinking about the stigmas leave our other apartment, but I could not time student! School, work and family attached to being a "divorcee" and afford to remain there. I earn a decent responsibilities are trying and messful, but "single parent." Some people seem so salary, but I remain way below the poveny I feel proud of my independence and ac unable to accept me as a divorced person. line. How do other single parents with less complishments. I am very happy. My It makes me angry, except when I income manage? Economically, single children are grO\\ ing like all children do remember myself, as a smug wife, look parents are in such a squeeze - day-care today- too fast - but the) are general ing down on divorced women. and other child-related costs are huge. I ly well-behaved and '"'ell-adjusted. We talk Divorced people, especially divorced never realized how much staying home easily, laugh, and have great times. My women, threaten some people's rigid con with the kids contributed to the financial oldest wrote recently in an essay for school cepts of family. I used to think women well-being of my marriage. that he knows that no matter what hap who divorced their husbands had some pens, his mom, brother and sister will deep character weakness that would not always love him. I felt so happy when I allow them tO preserve their marriages or September 1986 read this because this is the truth that I their families. This stereotype of the weak have most wanted to communicate. and dangerous divorcee destroying II has been another great year. I re I was at the Laundromat the other day America is wrong. And the sad part is that ceived advanced training at work and was and I spoke with a couple of women who people punish children and single parents promoted to director of the activity are also single parents. We discussed how with these flawed and prejudicial beliefs. department. I have also sought counsel hard it is to manage finances and a From governmental decisions right down ing and now understand much more about household alone, to see that the children to the neighbor next door, the policy seems myself and my problems. I now have make it to school, Scout meetings, dance to be, "You made your bed, now lie in it." greater confidence and assertiveness in my or piano lessons. I asked them if the) But the truth is simple - most women relationships, even in my interactions with thought it would be easier if they were still divorce because they want to improve the my former husband. Our home remains married. quality of their and their children's lives. a peaceful place. Then with a look, an understanding These are often acts of courage, sacrifice passed between us; we knO\\ that our and love. struggles have been worth it. C I am not comfortable with the labels September 1987 "single" or "divorcee." Mostly, I am a Melinda Ellis is an intern for BSU News mother. I work hard for my family, love The children and I continue to make Services. A graduate of child drama from my children, and have a strong sense of strides. I'm less surprised by that now. My Brigham Young Uni1 ·ersity, she is attend values that I want to teach them. My ex-husband, in Los Angeles now, also ing Boise State to earn an elementary children inspire and motivate me, they seems to be growing, maturing. He fre- education ccrti fica/e. 42 l{l.letl PUV u~w u~~M:J~g S~!~ p~.IOUOH ~UI!~ By Larry Burke Each visit reminds me of better days - days of noisy family gatherings, of quiet late-night talks, of delicious home-cooked meals. But each visit also means a fresh con frontation with reality: Those golden days are gone forever, lost in the haze of Alzheimer's disease. Once the glue that firmly bonded a family of four boys and their father, to day my mother sits silently in a Boise nur sing center, waiting by the hours, weeks, months, years. Hers was a happy home in a small Idaho mountain town. She was a nurturer, a nest-builder, a perfect mother with endless patience and devotion. She re mained essentially a private person, con tent with the comforts of a few close friends, her church and her family. She created a home that was a warm and lov ing place, a sanctuary where we would rest from the workaday world. Now that has disappeared, changed almost instantly on a cold, windy Immobile, she lives in a world where she come to grips with the future. December morning when we tore her from knows no names. My brother and I see her Each of us must deal with the results of the roots of her own home and moved her infrequently enough to make us both feel Alzheimer's in our own way. to the safer, more comfortable environ guilty. V1sits are a bittersweet experience We feel guilt for pulling our loved ones ment of a care center. for us. They are a temporary pleasure for from their homes. We often bear heavy Today, the life that was once so rich and her, at best. She knows we are family, but financial burdens as nursing home and full is condensed into a single room doesn't remember our names, or that we medical bills pile up. Many of us, like my decorated only by a few photOs to connect came the day before. We reach out to her brother, are sandwiched between caring her with a past that she has totally forgot in love, but ours is far out of proportion for an elderly parent and our own ten. While she still longs for "home," it to what she has given us in the past. children. We all feel a strong sense of loss is now reduced to an abstract concept, a Her story - our story - is not unique as we see our loved one deteriorate before feeling deep inside rather than a specific by any means. It is played out every day our eyes. place. in thousands of households that must And how must our mother feel as she 44 !li!Y''::::;: ' I l:d .i ·~ . t!\f~ L. lj q1I' ;nn~ \l;f \ j! ,j/',, I \ senses her own mortality? What must it She reminds us that we must continually journey. She still has lessons to teach me be like to move from a state of fierce in reinvent our lives. To me, that means lear -and I can try to make her laugh, even dependence to utter helplessness? How ning to adjust to a more lonely life, one if only for an instant. does she cope with the loneliness? without her ballast. To her, that means And when she smiles, so do I. I smile Looking at her today, it seems like her making do with a life confined to one at all the memories her face represents. I life serves no purpose, that its useful span room and regulated by schedules not of smile at her goodness. But most of all, I is over. her choosing. smile at her daily triumph over death. And But that isn't true. She is there tore Each visit proves to me what a very, then, walking out the door and into the mind us of the struggle that is life itself. very powerful force life can be. She dark night, I cry inside. D She reminds us that you carry on with teaches me that we cannot control its final dignity, patience and courage, regardless destination, but we can have a great deal of the circumstances. She reminds us that to say about the journey itself. Larry Burke is a Hailey native. He is those characteristics are important, even Both of us, my mother and I, choose to editor of FOCUS and director of Univer after all else is gone. make the best of this final stage in the sity Relations at BSU. 45 Forecasts for the Family Leaders say morals, money figure rn future Why do you think the family has declined, and will we see 'IIJ1lat i\ the state of roday's American family? A psychologist, a leader in the a resurgence? t't' M on11on church and a conservative Chriscian homemaker share !heir chougiJIS. Q• CARMODY: I don't think it's Can you define the state of ficult thing to define the modern family. an accident. I believe there are today's family? PONO: There i~ a longing for people to forces, and by that I mean Q become committed again. Butt he statistics A e group~ and organitations out • somewhat belie that. We nO\\ know that there that are committed to getting people CAR\100\': I see the family nine out of 10 of us will get married; four ro thin" that the traditional family that in two ways. You have the of those nine will divorce and all 10 of us believes in the Judea-Christian morals and family that depends on moral will die. We know those things for sure. values is ~inful and evil. And groups like A e values and imtills those values I thin" that one of the reasons that people the NOW organiLation ( ational Organi in their children, that i!> committed to each will stay locked into dead-end jobs or zation of Women), Planned Parenthood, other. And then I thin" you have the fam locked into barren, froLen, destructive the ACI U, the People for the American ily that is falling apart, that is lost, that relationships is because certainty of misery Way. You have the movie industry, the i~ being hit from every angle with destruc tends to be preferred over the misery of media, you have many, many people that tion from our societ}-. This same family uncertainty. arc so intolerant of Christian .,alucs that i'> weak and has fallen victim to our \Ociety's morality. On the other hand, I believe the family in general b not only staying together, but you arc c;ecing a resurgence of commit ment. I think a lot of people realize that the ideals of our secular humanistic society arc failing. BASTIA 'I: I hadn't thought in terms of Elizahcth Carmody the definition of the state of the family CarmoJv rcpn.:,cnt, rhe the traditional famil) that we all seem LO Pro-hn11h Coalitit)ll of honor at Thanksgiving time: the father Ada Counry. She ~l·ncs on who is a breadwinner, and the mother who rhe ho National Public Radio reporter Hear her Anne reports Garrels throughout brings a the week on wealth of Morning expenence Edition and to her :...... -,• All Things stories. Considered. 49 Stay Thned! '''''''''''''l,!§,iJ•I~·''Iilil!fii '''''''''''''' Strong Hands for a Delicate Lady Jazz Pianist Marian McPartland brings good times to Radio Stay Tuned! is KBSU radio's quarterly one of public radio's most popular programs program guide. has joined the KBSU weekend lineup: KBSU is a member Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz now airs supported public Saturdays at 9 p.m., right after A Prairie radio station broad Home Companion. casting at 90.3 FM in Piano Jazz is intentionally unstruc stereo with 19,100 tured. There arc no rehearsals; there is no watts of power from script. This "jam session" approach ensures atop Deer Point that performances and dialogue are sponta Mountain. KBSU neous, authentic, revealing- and always studios and offices exciting. "Jazz is unique in that it's a totally are located on the creative, very free form of music," McPart campus of Boise land observes. "Il's extremely pcr~on31, State University. too; 10 people can play an arrangement and Become a KBSU it will sound different each time." member and receive McPartland and her gucstc; team up for an monthly updates on hour of solos and collaboration, reminis programming and cences, and talk about innuences and style. station develop Just as no two arrangements are ever alike, ments. Call for your no two Piano Jazz programs arc the same, membership applica Brown once remarked to thanks to McPartland's range of guests. tion today! Marian McPartland, "You sure got strong Piano Jazz always offers listeners estab (208) 385-3663 hands for such a delicate lady." Svelte and lished greats, the freshest new talent, and polished, she has always had the clement samplings of jazz performances by artists Toll free in Idaho of surprise on her side. Who would guess and Oregon: who may be better known for their work in that the refmed Englishwoman could play other areas, like Dudley Moore, and two of 1-800-248-KBSU jazz with such intuition, skill and sheer this season's guests, Paul Shaffer and Judy heart - or, as well-meaning audiences CoUins. have often told her, "just like a man?" McPartland draws on her wide range of Such "compliments" arc familiar to musical experiences for each program. McPartland. When an intrigued listener at After a short stint with Carroll Levi's New York's Embers Club teased, "You Discoverers, she joined the USO, where she know, you can't be a respectable woman, met and married American cornetist Jimmy the way you play piano," the confident McPartland. They arc no longer married, McPartland took it in stride. "Somehow but as McPartland wryly observes, "The this seemed like an accolade! It made me 90.3 fm divorce was a failur~we're very good I realize that was doing something unusual friends." and special." Working with his Dixieland bands and "Unusual and special" is a fitting later with her own trio at the Embers, she Mcrtln McPartland's description for an artist who has gone her began to establish her professional identity. own way her entire life. A prize-winning But it was at 52nd Strcel's Hickory House student at London's Guildhall School of that McPartland made her breakthrough, PIANO Music, she one day cut classes and, under catching the interest of Oscar Peterson, an assumed name, auditioned for a place Benny Goodman, with whom she later with "Billy Mayer! and his Clavier," a JAZZSeason Ten worked, and her "very first and main four-piano troupe. Jazz would never be the inOuence," Duke Ellington. There should same. In STEREO each be no question of her popularity: the trio's Saturday evenings will never be quite Saturday at 9 p.m. first six-week gig turned into a 10-year the same, either, throughout southwest on KBSU, 90.3 FM. engagement Idaho and eastern Oregon. That's because (continued on page 53) 50 I< i .IJR aql JJO 0~ flaM SR lQ~!UI aM WJ £•06 ••• DOA lDOQl! You're the Difference You're the difference between If you're a listener- but not yet a Thank you so much for your mem excellence and mediocrity. In fact, member- now would be an excel bership. With your help, our partner you could cast the deciding vote on lent time to join with your friends and ship will continue to thrive through which programs you hear on KBSU. neighbors who help keep public radio out the year to come. That's because KBSU is member strong throughout southwest Idaho supported radio. That means that we and eastern Oregon. KBSU is there when you need us depend on our listeners to provide the -for the news and music you need programming dollars that keep If you are already a KBSU in your life. We need you, too! programs like Sunday Concert Hall, member-and your membership is Morning Edition, and All Things due to expire this fall, please consider Considered on the air throughout renewing your membership right now. Mail to: southwest Idaho and eastern Oregon. Whether you're a new member KBSU Radio Your membership not only gives or an old friend renewing your us the guidance we need to keep membership- you have the chance Membership Dept. broadcasting great music, news, and to cast three votes for the program 1910 University Dr. information programming- your ming you would most like to us con Boise, ID 83725 membership also gives us there tinue at KBSU. Your vote matters; it sources 10 carry out your best really makes the difference as to intentions. whether a program stays on our schedule. 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Live Broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion to air on KBSU Garrison Keillor- the man who loves to sing "Hello, Love" so much he just can't bring himself to say "Good-bye" forever- has an nounced two upcoming live A Prairie Home Companion specials. On Nov. 26, the Saturday follow ing Thanksgiving, Garrison and friends will perform a live show from Nashville, Tenn. on the campus of Vanderbilt University. The show will be broadcast live over KRSU. <>tarting at6p.m. APRAIRIE HOM£ COMPANION. Billed as "A Prairie Home Folk Song Show," the show will feature songs from the Department of Folk Song, along with comic bits and skits. Guests who have been booked as of press time include Chet Atkins and Composer-band leader Paul Shaffer reminisces about his rock Johnny Gimble. Other guests will be roots and displays his versatile talents on the 1Oth season of announced in KBSU's monthly For Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. The critically acclaimed jazz Members Only newsletter as soon as series airs Saturdays at 9 p.m. on KBSU Radio. they are confirmed. A second "PHC" special is in the Strong Hands (continued from p. 50) final planning stages, but is not yet Performing is McPartland's first netted her the National Association of definite. The December show will be love, but from the start she has found Jazz Educators' "Educator of the a holiday special and will feature time to immerse herself in composing, Year" award. In addition to lecture Garrison in Copenhagen, Denmark. recording, teaching, and writing about engagements, she makes time for the Again, watch your For Members Only jazz from an insider's perspective. tremendous influx of letters and for details. What, you say? You're She founded her own recording cassettes from young performers not a member of KBSU? Don't company, Halcyon Records, on which seeking advice. worry, a membership form is included she has recorded "at least 100" Having completed a much-awaited in this edition of Tune In! albums; Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, collection of jazz profiles, All in Good Join KBSU today, and become and Dave McKenna are among the Time (Oxford University Press), partner in one of the greatest Treas greats to record on her label. She also McPartland is gathering material for a ures to be found in southwest Idaho records for Concord Jazz. book on women in jazz. One book of and eastern Oregon. Teaching is a vital form of out transcriptions, The Artistry of Marian reach for McPartland; her commit McPartland, is available through ment to perpetuating understanding Columbia Pictures Publications, while and appreciation of the most distinc another, Willow Creek, is in the tively American art form recently offing. 53 II I I I Morning Edition: News you can use, Business Update: Business news for featuring local, national, and interna everyone. If you invest your money in tional news and infonnation. Produced the stock market, or spend it in the in cooperation with National Public supennarket, tune in for the latest news Radio,KBSU's/dahoMomingEdition about business and consumer issues. brings you local and regional news, Listen each afternoon for closing broadcast live from KBSU's studios. quotes on stocks of regiona1 interest (5-9 a.m., Mon.-Fri.) (5:50-6 a.m., 5:30-6 p.m., Mon.-Fri.) Morning Passages: Classical music Cameo Concert: Dinnertime cla.«:sics for the weekday lifestyle. Listen at hostedbyRichKleinfelt. Everyday, a home, in the office or on the road. Karl different artist or ensemble is featured Haas begins with his "Adventures in in a cameo performance. Good Music" at 9 a.m. Torey Malatia rroarsqueeal (6:30-7:30 p.m., Mon-Fri.) continues with the Treasure Valley's only morning classical program. clickclack Evening Pas.'iages: Our program fea (9 a.m.-noon, Mon.-Fri.) tures both progressive and traditional tappatappa jazz. What's more, it'.~ broadrast live! Classics with Kate Remington: Each (7:30-10 p.m., Mon-Fri.) weekday, Kate brings you music that is ticktick sure to provide a pleasant accompani Blue Monday: Blues you can use as menttoyouraftemoonactivities. Write ee-ee-eee you finish off that first day of the her with your classical music requests. workweek. (10 p.m.-2 a.m., Mon.) 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Now with re gional news updates! 4-5:30 & 6-6:30 90.3 fm Jazz with Laz: Jazz plus a suhllc hlcnd p.m., Mon.-Fri; 6-7 p.m., Sat. & Sun.) of blues and soft rock. A great way to NAnONAL PUBLIC RADIO NEWS start your weekend. (6-10 a.m., Sat) 54 t:ft';al&v~to/. Castaway's- Choice: If stranded on a desert island, with nothing more than food, water, and a stereo system. what 10 records must you have with you? Join hostJohn McNally as he poses this weighty question to celebrities from all walks of life. (1-2 a.m., Sun.) Tbe Left Hand of Dawn: Music to ac company your dawning thoughts. (2-6 a.m., Sun.) Weekend Edition: News, interviews, and features hosted by Susan S tam burg. Listen while you're making breakfast or reading the paper. (7-9 a.m., Sun.) The New York Philharmoni<· Or chestra: Just the right prelude to KBSU's Sunday Concert Hall. Great performances by a great orchestra. (9-11 a.m., Sun.) Veteran commentator Daniel Schorr. Listen for his thoughts The KBSU Sunday Concert Hall: on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Seven hours of your favorite classical music. Another Treasure Valley tradi Private Idaho: Ifvariety is the spice of A Prairie Home Companion: Family tion on KBSU. (11 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun.) life, then this is one spicy meatball! radio at its best Join Garrison Keillor Join Victor Pacania for a spontaneous for music and "the news from Lake Car Talk: The wackiest, most infor blend of musical styles, from folk to Wobegon, Minn." (7-9 p.m., Sat.) mative call-in show for car repair in the fusion, rock to reggae, new age to new country! Hosted by Tom and Ray wave. It's music you want to hear, now Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz: Magliozzi, otherwise known as "Click" in its 11th year. (10 a.m.-2 p.m., Sat.) Hear Marian and her guests perform the and "Clack." (7-8 p.m., Sun.) standards, along with newerjazz works, Mountain Stage: Join host Larry on one of National Public Radio's most Quirks and Quarks: From black holes Groce for live performances of folk, popular music programs. (9-10 p.m., to acid rain, from the physics of hair bluegrass, jazz, and blues mixed with Sat.) spray to a new laser for birthmark re storytelling, poetry, and a bit of creative moval, from cancer to AIDS, host Jay lightning. (2-4 p.m., Sat.) American Jazz Radio Festival: Jazz Ingram goes to great lengths to make lives in America's jazz clubs and on technical topics fun to listen to. (8-9 Good Evening: Noah Adams and America's stages-which is precisely p.m., Sun.) guests perform live from the World where the Festival goes to bring fans Theatre in downtown St Paul, Minn. live and live-on-tape performances by New Dimensions: Intriguing inter Live radio so good, you've just got to premier jazz musicians. (10 p.m.-mid views with a focus on self-actualiza hear it to believe it (4-5:30 p.m., Sat.) night, Sat) tion. (9-10 p.m., Sun.) Sound Print: Timely documentaries Jazz Night from Las Vegas: J azz Blues Deluxe: A closer look at the hesr on significant issues - produced by recorded live at the French Quarter in traditional and contemporary blues. America's leading independent pro Lounge of the Four Queens Hotel and including an entire album every week. ducers. (5:30-6 p.m., Sat) I Casino. (midnight-I a.m .. , Sun) I (10 p.m.-2 a.m., Sun.) 55 Let your ears open your eyes. Morning Edition More than just the headlines, we start the day with intelligence and insight. That's why every morning, millions of people open their eyes to the world with Morning Edition. 90.3 fm NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO NEWS 56 Game to honor Poore ·::; .:::..• : ·· ·:: 3 The Boise State Nov. 19 football game vs. University of Idaho will give _. fans an opportunity to witness more than a great nvalry. It will give them a chance to help the hungry and honor former Idaho Statesman sports ed1tor 1970s position as assistant professor Jim Poore. of educaliOnal psychology in The game, which begins at 2:30p.m., Lynn Bathe (BBA, finance, the School of Education, ~ has been dedicated to Poore, who '71) was named vice presi Univers1ty of Colorado, ~ • covered BSU sports and has been com dent and senior commercial Boulder. atose since suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in December 1987. loan off1cer at Idaho First Rick Vycital (BBA, business, '77) was promoted BSU officials will make a presentation to Poore's parents at National Bank in Bo1se. Steven M. Davis (BA, to vice president and manager halftime. A book compiling the best of Poore's sports columns, education. '71) was promoted of Idaho First National Bank's Pure Poore. will be for sale at home football games for $9.95. to vice president of Idaho Trust Investment Department The book can also be purchased at the BSU Bookstore and First National Bank's loan ser 1n BOISe through the BSU Alumni Association, phone 385-1959. vicing administration in Boise. Mary K. Mcintyre ('78) Nov. 19 has also been designated as Food Day and football J. Irene Murphy (BS, math joined the firm of Weiss, spectators have been asked to bring a canned or boxed food education, '72) received the Descamp & Bottari in Portland item to the game. Proceeds will go to feed Boise's needy. 1988 Christa McAuliffe as an associate lawyer. Organized by "Working Partners," a community group help fellowship. She spent two Jerrold B. Smith (BBA, Ing to fight hunger, co-sponsors include KBOI, BSU professional weeks at Stanford University busmess management, '79) staff, athletic department and ASBSU, and the Salvation studymg technology and has been promoted to vice Army. education. Murphy is currently president and assistant a math teacher in the North branch manager of Idaho First Slope Borough School District National Bank's Caldwell BSU Career Network started in Alaska. office. Jack J. Blankenburg (BS, The Boise State University Alumni Association is seeking BSU biology, '73) was promoted to 1980s graduates who are interested in becoming active in the BSU assistant vice president and Career Network. The BSU Career Network program affords manager of installment con Marsha Hood (BA, elemen students the opportunity to meet with BSU alumni to discuss sumer 1oan admmistrat1on at tary education , '80) was hired their prospective fields and answer any questions pertinent to Idaho First Nat1onal Bank in by the Kuna School D1stnct to that f1eld . Boise teach physical education at As a member of the BSU Career Network, your name, pro Terry Amos (BBA, Hubbard Elementary School fession, employer and other information will be listed in the BSU marketing. '73) was named Rob Blaine (BA, education, Career Network brochure. The brochures will be distributed at vice president and branch '80) is the head basketball various student functions and available at departmental offices manager of Idaho First coach at Snake River High throughout the campus. Students may then contact you to National Bank in Boise. School in Blackfoot. arrange an appointment to meet. Chris Anton H·ABA. Robin Winslow (BA, By becoming a member of the program, a minimal amount busmess administration, '74) elementary education, '81) of your time can help students by offering them valuable insight was named president and has been appointed as a prin chief executive officer of St. Cipal m the Gooding School and direction in choosing a career field. To become a member Alphonsus Regional Medical District. of the BSU Career Network, complete the form below and return Center in Boise. Kip Bryson (BBA, market it to the Alumni Office, 1910 University Dr., Boise, ID, 83725, Donald Broughton (BA, ing, '82) was promoted to {208) 385-1959, or call toll-free (in Idaho) 1-800-632-6586, ext. criminal justice. '74) has been loan officer at Idaho First Na 1959 or toll-free (nationwide) 1-800-824-7017, ext. 1959. appointed investigator for the tional Bank's Pocatello office. Pocatello area with the Linda Lake (BA, elementary Alcohol Beverage Control Divi education, '82) was selected BSU Career Network sion of the Idaho Bureau of as Teacher of the Year m the Alcohol, Tobacco and New Plymouth School District. NAME Firearms. She is a second grade First Middle Last (Maiden) Kelly Murphey (BA, teacher at New Plymouth English '74) is the principal Elementary School and has ADDRESS of Castleford High School. taught for six years. Steve Creswell (BBA, pro CITY __ STATE ZIP __ Cary Foster (elementary education. '75) is teaching duction management, '82) OCCUPATION sixth grade in the Kamiah was promoted to loan officer School District. at Idaho First National Bank's EMPLOYER David R. Skinner (BA, Pocatello office. h1story/educat•on, '76) has Jim D. Combs (AAS, '83) EMPLOYER ADDRESS been elected president of the completed Army basic tratning Bishop Kelly High School at Fort Jackson. S.C . BUSINESS PHONE Alumni Association in Boise Paulie Wilson (BA, special Michael S. Meloth (BA, education, '83) IS teaching CLASS YEAR MAJOR DEGREE psychology, '76) accepted a th1rd grade in Lacey, Wash. 57 Minter trades football for Middleton classroom Little Broncos By Allison Westfall rounded up Watching Middleton's newest special-education teacher help students read, it's hard to believe that just six weeks ago he was looking forward to what was to have been the best year of his professional football career. The World's Largest Tailgate Party, sponsored by the Boise Bidding farewell to the "fantasy world" of pro football for State University Alumni Association, heralded the first activity for members of the newly formed BSU " Little Broncos Club." "normal life," former Boise State University football star The Alumni Association implemented the new program to ac Cedric Minter accepted a teaching job at Middleton's Mid quaint and involve children and grandchildren of BSU alumni, dle School after being cut from the Canadian Football boosters, students and friends of BSU with the university. League's Ottawa Roughriders. No membership fee is assessed and each Little Broncos Club "The transition from being a professional athlete to member will receive a membership card which must be teaching in a classroom was ideal," the 29-year-old Minter presented to gain admission to all club activities. Little Broncos says. " For most athletes the transition takes two to three Club T-shirts, at $8 each, will be available for sale at all club years. This happened so quickly and unexpectedly, I didn't activities and at the alumni office. have time to think of what could have or should have been." Tentative activities include a Popcorn and Movies series, Zoo What "should have been" was perhaps the best year of Day, special discount coupons and many other events. his professional career, Minter says. For more information on the program, contact Karin Wood " It could have been the year to cap off all the years," worth at the alumni office at (208) 385-1959. = Minter says with some disappointment. Last year, he was the CFL's fourth-leading rusher. He also was the leading rusher in the CFL all-star game. Join MasterCard program During spring training this year, Minter got a disappointing surprise. He was told the team would be trying out a new BSU alumni, boosters, students and friends of the university Canadian running back and Minter would be sidelined. Two are urged to apply for the BSU Alumni Award MasterCard. This weeks before the season opened, Minter was released. program benefits the university by returning a portion of the an " Every football player's biggest fear is that you'll be cut," nual fee to the Alumni Association. Additionally, the association also receives a percentage of all retail sales. he says. "In my case, it just happened so unexpectedly." The Award program is offered through Idaho Rrst National Minter decided not to try for another team and left football Bank. Alumni interested in obtaining an Alumni Award card who to tackle teaching and living a normal life full time. currently have an existing MasterCard or VISA card through In what may have been a rushing record, he and his fam Idaho First National Bank (or another banking institution) may, ily drove 2,300 miles from Ottawa, Canada, to Boise in four upon credit approval, transfer their balance to the Alumni Award days to be back in time for the first day of school. card at no additional charge. "Teaching gives me a chance to give something back to For an application or information, contact the Alumni Office, the school system which supported me while I was playing (208) 385-1959. I I football," he says. I Dave Johnson ('83) is of science degree in ortho (BBA, marketing, '86) has specialist course at Fort Dix, manager of the Pocatello dontics from Marquette opened Pacific Coast Property N.J. office of CrediThrift of University, Milwaukee, Wis. Management in San Diego. Stephanie Westermeier America, Inc. He has opened an orthodontic Patricia Metcalf (BA, social (BA, political science, '87) is a Krlstl Nuttall ('83) is practice in Boise. sciences, '86) is attending the law student at the University teaching fifth grade at Hanna Brian J. Bennett (MBA, University of Wash1ngton of Utah College of Law in Salt Elementary School business. '84) was selected Graduate School of Library & Lake City in Emmett. by the United States Team Information Science in David Barron (BA. com Therese Sievers (BS. Handball Federation to com Seattle. munication. '87) is teaching psychology, '84) is a pete in the XXIV Olympiad in Maxine Garr (elementary Spanish through the BSU psychology technician at Seoul, South Korea. education, '86) IS employed continuing education Northwest Passages Adoles Russell J. Pharris (BBA, as a first grade teacher at Jef department. cent Hospital in Bo1se. '84) reported for duty with the ferson Elementary School . Alpha Frank (BA, elemen Paula L. McDaniel (BS, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marc Scheibe (BA, ele tary education. '88) 1s a mus1c chemistry, '84) received a Marine Corps Air Station, mentary education, '87) is teacher for Hubbard and In Ph.D. in chemistry from the Camp Pendleton, Calif. teaching third grade 10 the dian Creek elementary University of Illinois at Randal Hardy (BBA, Cambridge School District. schools in Kuna. Urbana-Champaign. She has finance, '85) has become a Paul Corrick (criminal Mary Ostyn (AS, nurs1ng, accepted a position as a certified management accoun justice, '87) is a probation and '88) is employed in the senior research chemist for tant. He is the accounting and parole officer in Bonner and Pediatrics Ward at Mercy Air Products and Chemicals, financial development educa Boundary counties. Medical Center in Nampa. Inc. in Allentown, Pa. tion manager for Electronic Alan Beckett (AAS, food Kenny Wroten (BBA, John Kalange (BS, pre Data Systems in Plano, Tex. service technology, '87) com business/finance, '88) has dental, '84) received a master Christopher Coleman pleted an Army food service joined Financial Resources, 58 hurt when I go to work." Minter, a Boise native, was a superstar during his years at BSU from 1976 to 1980. He broke school records in scor ing and rushing and was a member of the 1980 national championship team. Minter, who holds 11 school rushing, four school scoring and several Big Sky Conference records, was named to BSU's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987. While breaking records at BSU and dreaming of playing professional football, Minter kept his feet on the ground pur suing a college degree. "You have to prepare for life after football. If you're lucky, you may play eight to 10 years but it doesn't last forever," he says. ''A lot of guys try for the pros and never come back for their degrees." As a small child, Minter set his sights on pro ball, but for a while it seemed his success at BSU would be as far as he would go. "'""" "As a first grader, I wanted to play professional football. I wanted to be Joe Namath," he says. After his final year with BSU, Minter believed his football career was over, when one rainy day a call came for him to play in the East-West Shrine Game where he played with Lawrence Taylor, now of the New York Giants. Minter: "Teaching gives me a chance to give something back." "I had a lot of fun at that game. But I didn't think anything Chuck Scheer photo would happen for me in football," he says. But Minter was noticed and later drafted in the first round Minter became a substitute teacher in the Boise School during 1981 by the Toronto Argonauts. While with Toronto District in the off seasons after completing his bachelor's in 1983, the team won the Canadian version of the Super degree in education at BSU during 1985. Bowl, the Grey Cup. During his eight-year career, he also "The best thing (about changing careers) was being able played for Ottawa and the N.Y. Jets of the National Football to get into a school right away," he says, adding that the first League. week was a challenge. "Playing professional football is like living in a fantasy Dealing with children and other tea~;hers instead of world. There's nothing like it. You are playing a child's game linebackers and quarterbacks required some adjustments. at such a high level and getting paid for it," he says. "In football you are isolated away from people. Basically Now all the sport holds for Minter is helping youngsters you talk about football with your friends." learn the fundamentals of football as an assistant coach at Being hired in the small school district of Middleton was Middleton Middle School. an ideal way to begin a second career, he says. "I like work On a personal level, Minter has set sights on becoming ing in a smaller city and school district where I am not well a school administrator. But first, he has to return to BSU for known. I don't get a lot of questions about football," he says. a master's degree. 0 "It is a relief to be out of professional football and its stress and tension," he says. "And it's nice not to have my knees Reprinted with permission from the Idaho Press-Tribune. Inc., of Boise as a lease ac ing, '88) is working at St. the Learning Development (CC, dental assistant, '88) is count representative. Alphonsus. Center at Parker-Egin Elemen working for Dr. Earl D. Nash, Steven J. Hippler (BA, Carl Lindblom (BA. tary School in St. Anthony. D.D.S. in Klamath Falls, Ore. political science, '88) is a stu economics, '88) is employed Mike Forbes (BBA, Victoria M. Farris (BSN, dent at the University of Utah as an economist with the U.S. management, '88) is a finan nursing, '88) is working in the College of Law in Salt Lake Department of Labor, Bureau cial services officer with First emergency section at St. City. of Labor Statistics in Los Security Bank of Idaho in Alphonsus. Pamela Archuleta (AAS, Angeles. Twin Falls. Robert W. Lane (BME, nursing, '88) is working at St. Alison Bear (MA, music Cindy McKay (BS, elemen music education, '88) is Alphonsus. education. '88) is the music tary education '88) is teaching teaching band and choir in Scarlett McNett (elemen specialist at Meridian Elemen second grade at Mary Elgin, Ore. tary education, '88) is tary School for kindergarten McPherson Elementary Robert Woodbury (BS, pre teaching fourth grade at through fifth grades. School in Meridian. med, '88) is attending the Westside Elementary School Robert W. Hopkins (BBA, Julie McConnell (BBA, ad Uniformed Services University in Payette. finance/economics, '88) is ministrative services, '88) is Medical School in Maryland. Kirk Spelman (communica employed with First Security employed in the data center Leslie Haas (BBA, tion, '88) joined the Peace Bank of Idaho in Boise as a at St. Luke's Regional business, '88) is enrolled in Corps and is working in the junior operations officer. Medical Center in Boise. the library science graduate Philippines. Kim Pennie (surgical tech., Jill Brittain (BA, elementary program at the University of Joe Konkol (BA, manage '88) is employed with St. education, '88) is teaching Arizona in Tucson. ment, '88) is working toward Alphonsus as a surgery second grade at Lake Louise Paula Nordstrom (BA. an MBA at the University of technologist. Elementary School in Bremer psychology, '88) is in the Oregon. Susan Poole (BA, special ton, Wash. clinical psychology Ph.D. pro Maryanne Sims (AAS, nurs- education, '88) is teaching in April Beickel VandenBos gram at Washington State 59 Hawkinson (Nampa) May 28 Amy LaMere and Roger B. James (St. Louis, Mo.) Dues campaign begins May 28 G. Dean Oswald and Jen Many new benefits and an incentive program to pay early are Un1versity, Pullman . She is a mfer Whelan (Murray. Utah) two new features of the 1989 annual dues fund-drive by the BSU teaching assistant lor an May 28 Alumni Association. Alumni will receive a dues mailing in undergraduate course and Norm Folger and Lora mid-November. also serves as the clinical Mays (Chicago) May 28 Dues received by Dec. 31, 1988 allow alumni to be entered psychology coordmator lor her Robert Chisum and Denise into a drawing for NCAA basketball tournament tickets: dinners class. P. Washington (Bo1se) at Murphy's Seafood Restaurant. Milford's Fish House, Garc1a's Carol Crothers (BS, math! June 3 and the Red Robin: and BSU neckties and pens. Those dues educat1on, '88) IS teaching Ronald Humbird and payers will alsO be listed in an upcoming issue of FOCUS. mathematiCS and computers DeAnna Kreps (Bo1se) June 4 at New Plymouth Jr.-Sr. H1gh Alumni dues, based on the calendar year, are $15 per per John Wardhaugh and Julie School son, and $25 for an alumni couple. Members of the new LifeTime A. Hughes (Boise) June 4 Lena Lim (BBA, account Gregory Hagood and Tina membership category. designed for donations of $1,000 or more, Ing. '88) is work1ng lor Peat. Gray (Boise) June 4 will receive a handsome oak clock bearing an engraved brass Marwick, Ma1n & Co. in Dana Ho and Jonna Barrett plaque. Beaverton. Ore. (Moscow. ld.) June 4 Since the mceptron of the dues program in 1980, the annual Bruce Browning (BA, an Randell Mayo and Korene dues amount has not increased. thropology, '88) is attending Easton (Boise) June 11 New benefits available this year include: A discount on all Mor the American Graduate Debra Galvan and Doyle rison Center, BSU music department and BSU theatre arts School of International Bull (Caldwell) June 11 department-sponsored events; eligibility for membership in the Management in Glendale, Michael Fantaski and Quest travel program, which offers a 50-percent discount on Ariz Susan T. Shawver (Boise) room rates at all partiCipating hotels and resorts for an additional Karen Kline (BBA, account June 11 annual membership fee of $19.95; and a Hertz car rental dis ing. '88) is working as an Richard W. Brede and count card featunng a free car class upgrade coupon. Alumn1 auditor for Ernst & Whinney m Sonya Irish (Boise) June 11 are also urged to sign up their children (or grandchildren) in the Anchorage, Alaska Cecile Logue and Michael little Broncos Club. This new program, free of charge. involves Jana W. Blaylock (CC. Anderson (Meridian) June 17 dental assisting, '88) IS work children in actrv1t1es at BSU. Mark E. Vickrey and Lyla ing for Dr John Matunas, a Cobbs (Boise) June 17 Other benefits mclude use of the BSU swimming pool weight Bo1se orthodontist Terrence McEntee and rooms, gymnas1um. running track and racquetball courts: use Eric Phillips (BA, polit1cal Jenn·ler Burroughs (Boise) of the BSU library; discount on Mann movie theater tickets: in science '88) 1s attend1ng the June 18 vitations to all alumn1 social functions; group term life insurance Umvers1ty of Denver Law Mary K. Elvin and Dwayne program; alumni vacation tours at affordable rates; discount on School 1n Aurora. Colo. Cripps (Boise) June 18 the Student Union Building bowling lanes; eligibility for member Kimberly Eastman (CC, Marci Cromer and Jeffrey shrp in the Capital Educators Federal Credit Un1on; and reduced dental assisting, '88) IS F. Becker (Genesee) June 18 rates at the BSU Human Performance Laboratory. employed as a certified dental Linda Grim and Kevin A minimum of 16 credit hours is required for membership in ass1stant lor Dr. Jarl Gibson Roberts (Nampa) June 18 the Alumni Assoc1at1on For more information or an application 1n Bo1se Ryan Holt and Beth Brady to join. contact the Alumnr Office. (208) 385-1959. l Mark Wibbels (BS. (Boise) June 18 physrcslmath, '88) JOined the Christy Llona and Kevin Peace Corps and is working Murray (Boise) June 18 Alum writes about near-death in Fiji. John Tackitt and JoAnne Freeland (Boise) June 24 After having three different near-death experiences in 1977, Weddings Ada Hatke and Brian R. former Boise State student and Idaho resident Phyllis Huffman Loper (Los Angeles) June 25 Atwater is shanng the ensuing spiritual transformation those ex Jeffrey L1ston and Janet James J. Foltz and Claudia periences caused with her book Coming Back to Life: The After Ballantyne (MISSIOn. Kan ) Bither (Boise) June 26 Effects of the Near-Death Experience. April 23 Charles VanDerhoff and Atwater's quest for understanding and self-acceptance took Ronald D Groves Jr. and Lorianne Brazil June 26 her through 10 states where she talked w1th several thousand Pamela S. Beem (Bo1se) Jenny Snodgrass and people and met 200 other near-death survivors. Coming Back May 7 Alexander Zrolka Ill (Concord, to Life is the result of that research. Jenmler L. Harris and John Calif.) July 2 Her first near-death experience came during a miscarriage. Bauman (Spokane, Wash.) Douglas Gramer and Several days later, phlebitis caused another brush w1th death. May 14 Tamara Braker (Washington) The third episode was a ··complete emotional and physical col Jana Wangsgard and Ken July 2 lapse," a few months later. neth Blaylock (Boise) May 19 Maiera Sutton and Brad Now a resident of Williamsburg. Va .. Atwater has appeared M1chael E. O'Hara and Pattan, July 2 on several national and regional radio and television talks show. Jeanne Deaver (Kuna) Timothy Racette and Ann mcluding Larry King Live. May 20 Severance (Illinois) July 2 Brenda Schmidt and Vonnita Ringen and Brent Richard Fulkerson (Payette) Barton (Boise) July 2 Former professor dies May 21 Kathleen Sedik and William WilliamS. Bronson, 83, of Boise, died Aug. 18. Bronson was F. Kim Smith and Deborah J. Scott (Minneapolis, Minn.) a professor at Northeastern University in Massachusetts before Bla1r (Bo1se) May 21 July 3 coming to Boise Junior College in 1954 as a psychology Terol Rasmussen and Laron Lind and Joan M. professor. He retired in 1969. Following retirement, he did Cheryl Ernest (Boise) May 21 Thompson (Salt Lake City) volunteer work at Bishop Kelly High School and for several Timothy Green and Sandra July 8 organizations. He was a member of the National Retired Griffith (Boise) May 21 Brenda A. Vance and Ran Teachers Association. 1 l Susan Cornell and Kevin dy Trujillo (Boise) July 9 t J 60 1988-89 Basketball Schedule '*"'· 22 7:30 MST Nov 26 7:30 EST ~' 6:30 MST 8:30 MST ~· ~W Nuo"'ne &:lll MST ·~~ ~--- 8:30 MST "~' 7:30 PST ~" 7:30 MST Dec 17 7:30 PST De<:. 21 7:30 MST De<;_ 29 Oee. 30 "" .Jan 5 "" Jon. 7 "' Jan. n "" Jon. 13 "" .Jon. 19 "" Jon. 21 "" Jan 26 "" NoPhog~. Jan 28 "" Feb 2 "' Feb.4 "" Feb. 9 "" Feb 11 "" Pel>. 16 "" NoKi~. Fob 17 "" Fob. 23 "" FM>. 25 "" Mar 2 "" Mar 4 "' No Pressure. Mar 9-11 "' • B,g Homo Games on Bold'"' 11(2{)81 385-1285 No Problem The$49 Couple Caper: Does a relaxing fresh flowers. weekend getaway free cable TV and sound pretty good movies. plus a right now1 Then comP-!tmentary call Holiday Inn Orea.kfast for two. and reserve your It's a great way very own Couple to escape the Caper weekend thtngs that a!ways DONLOJEK You II get a luxun seem to get m the District 17 Representative ous King Leisure way of romance room. a bottle of 1') "BoisE' St.1te University has champagne' bubble come of ilge .1r1d is an absolute barh. chocolates 1\ot&•\ asset to our community. It must ~~- receive its fair share of the state's Holiday Inn Boise higher education budget and not 3300 Vista Avenue be looked upon as inferior to any Boise, Idaho 83705 other university in this stc1te. As 344-8365 Boise State University grows, Boise becomes better, for us and our children, and I will support that growth." Come On In, The Weekend's Fme. • ll'hr>r pn->f 61 The Son Also Rises By Bob Evancho Blond and muscular like his famous Of the Hull brothers, only Brett, who father, Bart H ull quit playing organized now plays for the NHL's St. Louis Blues, an Hull hasn't seen his father in two hockey in the eighth grade. "My last years reached the professional hockey ranks. years. There is no bitterness in his of hockey weren't too much fun," Bart Bart Hull, 19 and a redshirt freshman, B voice when he talks about his dad, Hall recalls. "One coach said I was too has no regrets about his decision to con former hockey great Bobby Hull, but the nonchalant, that I didn't take it serious centrate on football. disappointment is evident just the same. enough." Having earned 12 varsity letters a nd " I don't know," Hull says with a shrug Even though Hull was always among several all-star honors for his football ex when asked if his father has followed his the biggest, fastest and most explosive ploits for Vancouver College High, it's no football career at Boise State. "He's in players on the ice, it seemed he was ex wonder he received contact~ from schools Chicago . . . got some farming pected to do more. He was Bobby Hull's such as Washington, Hawaii, Wisconsin, businesses." ~on, after all. "It was never actuall y said Pitt and Oregon. As a running back he ran With this issue of FOCUS devoted to [by the coaches], but it was implied a lot," for 1,342 yards and 14 touchdowns his the family, Hull - BSU's starting Bart Hull sa)'S. " But the players were my senior year, accumulating more than 5,000 fullback, son of a hockey Hall of Farner, friends, they didn't care." yard~ rushing during his high school and brother of two professional athletes His three older brothers, all of whom career. And although he's 5-foot-11, 215 - seemed like a natural to profile in the played hockey, weren't as fortunate. pounds, Hull can also execute an im sports section. "They pretty much went through hell," pressive dunk with a basketball. With his But for all intents and purposes, Harr:, Bart Hull says. "Especially Bob Jr., who leaping ability and 10.9 speed in the Robinson, a Vancouver, British Colum also had to live with the name. Blake also 100-meter dash, he also once considered bia, insurance executive has been Hull's had it tough, I think that's why he decided training for the decathlon. father for the past several years. Hull's to become a golf pro." The son also rises. parents divorced when he was 9, and Robinson is married to Hull's mother, Joanne. "He was there throughout my for mative years," says Hull of Robinson. "He and my mom have supported me in whatever I've done .... Harry is a great guy and we do everything together so I don't feel too much resentment." Yes ... but. While Bart Hull excelled in high school football, basketball and track, Bobby Hull was 2,000 miles away. It's the same story now with the younger Hull in college. Any anger felt? Any disap pointment harbored? "Actually, during certain periods I do," he says. "He could have been in touch a lot more. Really, the only times he would see us in Vancouver was when the com pany would pay [for his trip]. It bothers me every once in a while." After the divorce, Bobby Hull would occasionally travel to Vancouver and see his children. "He would take us to dinner and I'd go visit him at his hotel," Bart Hull recalls. "But [the visits] have tailed off since .... I've talked to him on the phone a little bit." As opposed to his hockey-playing father, Hull has tackled football. Chuck Scheer photos 62 Death Styles of Prominent Men By John H . Keiser Pre~ idem, Boise State Uni~t•nity proposltton that the only way to live it is by taking great chances." His election to the U.S. Senate and career as a public ecent events on the campus of Boise State University man speaks for itself. He is listed among the nation's outstand have highlighted the lives of Ernest Hemingway, per ing senators. R manently commemorated in the Hemingway Western Thirty-five years later, when cancer reappeared, and two Wl..'Cks Studies Center, and Frank Church, memorialized in the Frank before he died, he asked his son, Forrest, " Do you know why Church Room in the Library. The Boise premiere of John de great men die well? Recause it is expected of them." Forever as Groot's play, Papa, featuring George Peppard, focused atten· tounding his friends, Frank Church smiled and storied his way tion on Hemingway. while the unveiling of the bust of Frank to his death, at home in his own bl..'d, without life supports. Church, financed by the government of the Republic of China, Everyone who had contact with him in the last days found the followed by the annual Frank Church Public Affairs Conference, encounter totally memorable due to his courage, his unquench recalled his contributions. able good humor, and his love for family and friends. His death For now, the busts of the two men are on display, facing one was a truly triumphant finale of a public man, a work of art another in the Hemingway Center. Through creative lives, both in itself, and so remarkably gracio us that those who admired men carved places in world history. In many contrasting ways, him for so many other things never failed to comment on his their lives were their greatest works of a~t. Their continuing death style. presence here ennobles the university, and will continue to It is not easy to explain the difference in the final days of Hem stimulate students to contemplate timeless issues. ingway and of Church. It is enough to be impacted by !'t and One comparison that strikes me in the biographical detail of for serious students to contemplate it. Since this issue of FOCUS both men is the dramatic difference in their death styles. To Hem is devoted to the family, it could be observed that the personal, ingway, courage was survival with grace under pressure. The family support systems for the two men in times of crisis were situations he sought often included death as a possible result. quite different. Forrest Church describes the relationship between His life became an open contest with death, including combat, his father and mother as a great love affair, constant and sup airplane crashes. car wrecks, accidental gunshot wounds, portive. Hemingway's relationships with his wives were anything bullfights, horses and alcohol. Dodging death helped pass the but stable, and there was a history of suicide in his family. Could time, activated his creative juices, and became a preoccupation. there be a generic difference in personality types between the In the process, he may well have become America's greatest artist and the public man which dictated dramatically contrasting novelist. Eventually depressed, dulled by alcohol, no longer able closing scenes? What about the influence of religion? Both men to write and in failing health, "He'd reached the end of his had brushes with Catholicism, which has something to say about story," Kurt Vonnegut Jr. stated. "So he ended it!" He took this. his own life at 61, essentially alone, using his favorite shotgun, The final answer is that the reason for the differences is not on a Sunday morning in July. really important. Perhaps the point is that these strong and in Frank Church faced death in a ~tartlingly contrasting fashion. genious men drive others, by recalling their lives and works, to At age 23, as a student at Stanford, he was diagnosed as having think about and to experience critical issues. Even their last acts. terminal cancer. Megadoses of radium extended his life. He Certainly their death styles are food for thought for everyone feared a recurrence, and, in this way, was as familiar with the who must face the inevitable. Both would be pleased with what presence of death as Hemingway. 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