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Veggie Van: the Power of Invention NEW COLLEGE A publication of the New College Alurnnae/i Association Volume 38, Summer 1997 Veggie Van: The Power of Invention Fast-food fuel powers graduates' cross-country tour By Carol Ann Wilkinson '64 Drivers caught in traffic behind Joshua and Kaia Tickell's "Veggie Van" this summer may find themselves thinking of french fries. The biodiesel these 1997 New College graduates use to power their Winnebago is cre­ ated from used cooking oil from res­ taurants and occasionally emits the familiar smell when burned. Their area of concentration at New College was "Sustainable Living." As part of their senior project on alter­ native energy, they created a portable machine that cleans and processes used vegetable oil from restaurants into biodiesel fuel. Their three-toh Josh and Koio Roman Tickell pose with their "Veggie Von" before be­ Winnebago gets 25 miles per gallon ginning a cross-country tour in June. The von gets "1,300 miles per using the vegetable oil fuel in its acre" with its biodiesel fuel and was featured on the Today show and Dateline NBC in July. unmodified diesel engine. In addition, biodiesel bums up to 75 percent cleaner than petroleum diesel. Josh In This Issue and Kaia envision biodiesel fuel as a low-cost way for large transport vehi­ Acton Interview 5 Class Notes - 90's 1 6 Radio New College 15 Alumnae/ i Fellow 11 ESP Seminars 17 cles, such as buses, to meet new Reunion Report 19 Archie Awards 10 Graduation 18 Student Grants 6 clean air standards. Boat Donations 13 Interim Dean 3 Taking the Cure 3 Josh and Kaia will take two months ClassNotes - 60's 9 NC Chronicled! 14 to travel from Sarasota to the Real Class Notes - 70's 10 NCM Web Site 12 NCM Annual Report Continued on next page Class Notes - 80's 12 President's Letter 2 (see blue insert) NCAA President's Letter A liHie bit of everything for you This issue of Nimbus has a little bit or volunteer to write one! We also Don't miss the great feature of everything we like to include in have an update on Alum Chapters about the invention by 1997 each issue: We have news about you. (we need more). And don't forget to graduates joshua and Kaia We have news from the New College scan the dass Notes, which seem to Tickell of the Veggie Van, campus. And we have lots of informa­ go on and on with each new issue. I which runs on used cooking tion about the New College Alum­ love to hear about new jobs, new oil! We also have a report on nae/i Association in the annual report businesses, burgeoning families, independent recommenda­ that appears as an insert. If you college-bound children of NC grads tions for the Nat Sci Division, don't fmd something to hold your (amazing!), and academic pursuits which the NCAA funded. interest while you're sipping your beyond Sarasota. You really get the And finally, pat yourselves coffee or flipping the channels, you flavor of New College just by reading on the back for supporting a haven't cracked the covers. the Class Notes. do-good, activist Alumnae/i In the news-about-you category, Campus news in this issue includes Association. Check out the we're inaugurating a new interview the naming of a new interim dean 1996-1997 Annual Report, and feature in Nimbus in which we'll talk and warden, Doug Langston, profes­ you'll see that you're making a with alums from various walks of life sor of philosphy and religion, who real difference in campus life. to see what they're up to. Those news takes over for a year while a national We hope you have a great clippings you send us about the search is conducted for a permanent transition from summer to fall, doings of your former classmates, appointment. As you may remember wherever you are! and even those Class Notes you send from the last Nimbus, Dean and War­ us, made us realize that New College den Mike Michalson is returning to grads are doing things we all want to teaching and writing on campus. know more about. This is our version Mike and his wife also just celebrated of 15 minutes of fame, so send us the birth of their first child, Elliott, Alexis Simendinger '75 your suggestions for future profiles, who will keep them busy. Ve gg i e Va nCootioued /com pce,;ou• poge Goods Solar Living Center in Ukiah, generation novocollegian; her father Ca., stopping along the way to give is Andy Bernay-Roman '68. Long john filming and editing for the feature demonstrations, inform people about Silver's, Inc., a corporate sponsor of which was aired by the Today show biodiesel, and inspire others to the tour thanks to the interest of its and Dateline in july. undertake eco-friendly projects of president and CEO, john Cranor '64, is More details about the project are their own. providing used vegetable oil to power available on the Veggie Van web site: Other alums are associated with the Veggie Van. john Klein '69, presi­ http:ffwww.veggievan.org. the project. Kaia is a second- dent of jK Productions, did the Doug Langston Interim Dean and Warden USF Provost Thomas Tighe has Conscience and Other Langston encour­ appointed Douglas Langston as Virtues, is due out in ages continued Interim Dean and Warden of New 1998. alumnaeji involve­ College, effective Aug. 7. Langston Langston is a regular ment with the col­ succeeds Mike Michalson, who player on the Bones, lege and the search resigned his position to return to NC's softball team. He's for a permanent teaching at New College this fall. married to Connie dean and warden, Langston, professor of philosophy Whitesell '81and has a " I want to thank and religion, came to New College in son, Nat. Their house­ the alums for the 1977 from the University of Califor­ hold also includes two growing support nia, where he earned master's and dogs, Max and Gilly, two they have offered doctoral degrees in philosophy, hav­ cats, Felix and Oddjob, over the years, and ing previously completed master's and a rat named I hope to work as and doctoral degrees in religion at Sunstripe. well with the Princeton University. He was a Mel­ Asked about his imme­ Douglas Langston, In­ alums as Mike did. lon Faculty Fellow at Harvard Univer­ diate plans as dean and terim Dean and Warden I encourage alums sity in 1980-81 and a Fulbright Fellow warden. Langston of New College. to look for and at the University of Helsinki in 1989. replied, "I hope to keep nominate good In 1994, Dr. Langston was a visiting up the momentum that Mike created people for the permanent post, since fellow at New College, Oxford. He has as Dean and Warden. I want to play a alums have an insight into the nature published articles in a number of hand in restructuring the Dean and of New College and who will succeed religious studies journals and is the Warden's office in terms of personnel here that is unique and valuable." author of God's Willing Knowledge: The and authority to make the position a As a parting note, Langston Influence ofScotus' Analysis of more attractive one to a permanent reminds us that he and the outgoing Omniscience (Pennsylvania University appointment. I am, by the way, not dean and warden were graduate stu­ Press, 1986). His latest book, interested in the permanent position dents together. Of Michals on, he says, and hope to serve for only a year." "I taught him everything he knows!" Taking the Cure Visiting committee helps assess needs of Natural Sciences Division By Alexis Simendinger '75 When you ask a doctor to diagnose professors are doing a great job, but the college's desire to prepare stu­ your ailments, you have to be pre­ doing too much with too little. The dents in the sciences for the best pared to take the cure. In january, candid review - involving faculty, graduate programs in the country. four science professors from four dis­ students and staff at New College - But the four visiting professors said tinguished liberal arts colleges was made possible through a $4,000 they were taken aback to see the banded together for three days to gift from the New College Alumnaefi crowded and inadequate work space evaluate New College's Natural Sci­ Association using its special faculty and antiquated lab and computer ences Division and suggest improve­ development funds. equipment. And they said the 13 full­ ments to Dean and Warden Mike The committee was full of high time faculty members and one full- Michalson. What they had to say was praise for New College's exceptional both heartening and sobering: Nat Sci faculty, its motivated students, and Continued on next page Review c0 mm itte eContinued from previous page time assistant were overworked to Oberlin College, and a physics profes­ students, the curriculum needs, the the detriment of the students and sor from Middlebury College, said size of the faculty, and the space themselves. they hoped the new natural sciences restrictions, the reviewers said, "[W]e The reviewers, invited to the cam­ building at New College (ground also believe a strong case can be pus by Michalson to help assess both breaking planned for made for additional immediate and long-range needs of this fall), and the resources from the the Nat Sci Division, suggested two planned marine biol­ The committee was fufl University [of South additional faculty positions, one in ogy facility would of high praise for New Florida] to support biochemistry and another in experi· give students and College's exceptional the division's activi­ mental physics, and said a support faculty more space faculty, its motivated ties.
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