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Torchbearer: Blacks, Whites Give Views on Life at UT Knoxville

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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WDR� DEAN'S OFFICE

BANKING CHAIR RUNYAN PRAISED RESEARCH GRANTS HONORS BUTCHER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE TOP $16 MILLION

The United American Bank has given UT Dr. john William Runyan, Jr., chairman of Research grants and contracts awarded to $500,000 to support a chair of banking in the the Department of Community Medicine and UT Knoxville totaled more than $16 million in UT Knoxville College of Business Admin­ director of the Division of Health Care Sci­ the year ending September 30, 1977, reports istration. ences in the UT College of Medicine, has won UTK Dean for Research Carl Thomas. The contribution is the single largest cor­ a 1977 Rockefeller Public Service Award. The total was $767,021 higher than the porate gift in the University's history. The His award is in the area of promotion of amount received in the preceding October chair will be named in honor of C. H. Butcher, health, improved delivery of health services, through September, which corresponds to Sr., a director of UA B and president of the and control of health costs. the federal government's fiscal year. City and County Bank of Union County. The awards are sponsored by John D. The figure is well above the national aver­ Butcher's son, Jake, who is chairman and Rockefeller, Ill, and are administered by the age for universities and "is a tribute to the chief executive officer of UAB, is a former stu­ Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Inter­ quality of the UTK faculty," said Dr. Thomas. dent of banking and finance in the UTK Col­ national Affairs at Princeton University. Dr. The average size of research grants, lege of Business Administration. UAB has Runyan received the award in ceremonies at which come from business and industry, operations in Knoxville, Nashville, and Washington, D.C., on December 8. agencies of federal and state governments, Memphis. Dr. Runyan was honored for the devel­ and foundations, is about $30,000. Some The gift is part of the University's $35 mil­ opment and expansion of a low-cost health eighty percent of the total is from federal lion Tennessee Tomorrow private gifts cam­ care delivery system which uses non­ agencies. paign. Area cochairmen have been appoint­ physician health care professionals to care for Research grants and contracts provide the ed for the campaign: Knoxville, Robert A. a significant portion of the Memphis popula­ largest source of support for graduate stu­ Culver and James A. Haslam; Chattanooga, tion. The program is jointly operated by the dents at the Knoxville campus. About 400 Scott L. Probasco, Jr., and Hugh 0. Maclellan, Memphis and Shelby County Health De­ graduate students received stipends from re­ Sr.; Memphis, Dr. Bland W. Cannon and partments. search projects last year, Dr. Thomas said. Frank M. Norfleet; Martin, King W. Rogers, A grant of $840,000 in 1974 from the Jr., james M. Glasgow, and Ray Smith; and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation enabled Nashville, Robert M. Condra. Dr. Runyan to expand his low-cost clinics. The awards citation described Dr. Run­ yan's achievement as "the culmination of a professional lifetime of leadership and dedi­ cation."

WINS ROCKEFELLER AWARD-Or. John William Runyan, Jr., of UTCHS has won a na­ tional Rockefeller Public Service Award for developing a low-cost health care program. STUDENTS WORK WITH ASSEMBLY

Six UT students are working with mem­ bers of the General Assembly in Nashville as legislative interns sponsored by the UT Na­ RECORD CORPORATE GIFT-Shown at the tional Alumni Association. recent press conference announcing the Interns receiving the $1,000 NAA sti­ largest single corporate gift to UT -$500,000 pends are: Lee Abernathy of Memphis, a from the United American Bank-are UT and junior in political science at UT Martin; bank officials C. H. Butcher, jr., youngest Steven A. Goodman of Athens and Teresa A. member of the banking family; UTK Chan­ Leadford of Nashville, both junior journa­ cellor jack Reese; jake Butcher, UAB chair­ lism majors at UT Knoxville; julia A. McMinn man and chief executive officer; C. H. Butcher, Sr., a director of UAB; and UT Presi­ of Franklin, a graduate student in the School of Social Work in Nashville; john M. Stein, dent Edward J. Boling. Knoxville, a UTK senior in political science; and Gregg L. Sullivan of Oak Ridge, a politi­ cal science junior at UTK. STRICT LAWS Funding for the internships comes from STIFLE TRADE gifts of UT alumni and other friends to the UTC, UTM Computers � University's annual giving program. Strict occupational licensing laws restrict Win Top Award the availability of labor services to consum­ ilflli ers and therefore lower overall quality of ser­ The academic computing programs of the A TENNESSEE TOMORROW vice, a study by UT Knoxville economists UT campuses at Chattanooga and Martin �� RECEIVES GIFT shows. have been selected as outstanding examples The Zeta Chi chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi at Drs. Sidney Carroll and Robert Gaston say of the use of computers for teaching and UT Martin has donated $400 to the Univer­ the level of competence of licensed practi­ learning. sity's Tennessee Tomorrowfund-raising cam­ tioners is irrelevant if consumers cannot find The selections were made as part of a re­ paign. or afford someone to perform needed serv­ search project sponsored by the National Sci­ The gift will be used to help upgrade the ices. ence Foundation and conducted by the Hu­ UTM School of Business Administration. "Our study is based on the assumption man Resources Research Organization. The Alpha Kappa Psi is a national professional See* page 2 See • page 2 business fraternity. .. .

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that if a service is not available, the quality can't be lower," they say. The National Sci­ ence Foundation funded the analysis of thirty-one licensed occupations in all fifty states. The researchers say services in states with strict licensing regulations may be good, but the laws often produce a "Cadillac ef­ fect"-limited, high-quality services avail­ able only only to high-income consumers. • Continued from page 1 UTC and UTM programs were designated "exemplars" which will serve as resources to institutions seeking guidance on academic computing. Some 7,000 institutions were surveyed and 106 exemplars were selected.

A Administrative � ... Changes CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL- The sixth annual Madrigal Christmas Dinner, held in December at UT Martin, featured the colorful costumes and music of the Collegium Musicum. The event is spon­ sored by the UTM Department of Music and the University Center. Among recent administrative changes are the following: Knoxville and the master's degree in person­ nel management from Memphis State Uni­ Hesler Memorialized SYSTEM versity. She taught at Middle Tennessee State Former students and friends of Dr. L. R. University before joining the UTN staff last Hesler, dean of the UT Knoxville College of Moneymaker Heads Motor Pool june. Liberal Arts from 1934 to 1958 who died No­ Michael Moneymaker, formerly with vember 20, may make contributions for li­ Colonial Refrigerated Transporation in Knox­ MARTIN brary books in his memory. ville, has been appointed director of Contributions should be made payable to transportation services. He will superviseper­ Neilson Heads Recreat,onal Sports the University of Tennessee, earmarked for sonnel and the operation and maintenance of Robert Neilson, formerly of the Austin the Hesler MemorialFund, and sent to the UT UT's fleet vehicles. John Rutledge, who Peay State University staff, has been named Knoxville Development Office, 414 Student served for a short time as director, requested director of recreational sports at UT Martin. Services Building, Knoxville, Tennessee to return to his previous position as assistant He is responsible for organizing, scheduling, 37916. director because of health reasons. and superv1smg competitive intramural Moneymaker is a 1971 graduate of the UT sports and scheduling leisure-time activities Knoxville College of Business Administration in the new physical education complex and with a major in transportation. other campus recreational areas. Neilson holds bachelor's and master's degrees from UTCHS Austin Peay and is working toward a doctor­ DAM SAFETY ate at Middle Tennessee State University. IN DOUBT �� Linton Heads Department Dr. Eugene Bell Linton, formerly on the faculty of Bowman Gray School of Medicine Dam failures like the one in Toccoa Falls, at Wake Forest University, has joined the UT Georgia, will continue to claim lives until a Center for the Health Sciences Knoxville Unit nationwide dam safety and inspection pro­ as professor and chairman of the De­ gram is completed, aUT engineer and White partment of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. House consultant says. Linton holds the bachelor's degree from Dr. Bruce Tschantz, the only nonfederal Davidson College and the M.D. degree from engineer working on President Carter's dam the Medical College of Virginia. safety program, said little has been done since Congress passed a dam safety bill in 1972 to Judkins in Development Post protect lives and property. Roger B. Judkins, former director of alum­ Dr. Tschantz, a civil engineering profes­ ni development at the University of Okla­ sor at Knoxville, went to northeastern homa Health Sciences Center, has been ap­ Georgia to inspect the Toccoa dam on the day pointed assistant director for development after it collapsed in November, killing thirty­ and public affairs at the UT Center for the nine persons. Health Sciences. Judkins earned the B.S. in The UTK professor said there are about journalism from Northwestern University and 47,000 private dams in the United States, of has done graduate work at Boston U niver­ TRACK REUNION which about 20,000 pose some threat to sity. people living downstream. About 10,000 A reunion for former Volunteer track ath­ dams are listed in the "high hazard" cate­ NASHVILLE letes will be held at Knoxville on May 13. gory. Track alumni wishing to attend the banquet­ In 1972 Dr. Tschantz did a thorough study Koban Named Personnel Director dance reunion should contact Coach Stan of 19 private dams in one East Tennessee Pam Koban, former director of registra­ Huntsman, Track Office, Box 46, University of county. He found most potentially hazard­ tion services, has been appointed director of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37901. ous, and he reported that conditions similar personnel, succeeding Robert Craighead. to those at the 19 dams probably existed at all She holds the bachelor's degree from UT 716 private dams in Tennessee. 3 .

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FUNDS FOR UTK's AVERY NURSING RETIRES SPEAKERS COLLEGE TAKE FLOOR Dr. Robert S. Avery, UT Knoxville politi­ The College of Nursing at Knoxville has A number of prominent speakers ap­ cal science professor for thirty years and for­ received a $265,933 federal grant to train peared on UT campuses in recent months. mer UT assistant vice president for academic nurse practitioners. Among them are the following: affairs, retired on December 31. The three-year grant is from the U.S. De­ Dr. Avery, assistant vice president from partment of Health, Education and Welfare. Newman Lectures on language 1963 to 1967, served as director of the Peace Dr. Sylvia Hart, dean of the college, said prac­ Edwin H. Newman, NBC news commen­ Corps in Brazil while on leave from UT from titioners can be a valuable aid to physicians tator and author of two books on the use and 1967 to 1971. He also has served as a consult­ and can help improve the quality of health misuse of language, spoke at a conference on ant to governments in Latin America and has care in the nation. "Writing in Tennessee" at the Knoxville cam­ headed UT missions to Bolivia and Panama. "Nurse practitioners are prepared to pus last fall. With Dr. Lee Greene of UTK, Dr. Avery assume more responsibility for health coauthored Government in Tennessee, a screening, health counseling, and health Nobel laureate lectures textbook for university political science maintenance," Dr. Hart said. "They can be an Dr. George E. Palade, Nobel laureate from courses. He also is the author of Experiment invaluable aid to doctors by giving them more Yale University Medical School, delivered the in Management. time to diagnose and solve medical prob­ keynote address at a symposium on bio­ The Pittsfield, Ohio, native came to UT lems." membrane research at UT Knoxville in No­ from the Tennessee Valley Authority. He Graduates of the practitioner program will vember. Dr. Palade won Nobel honors in 1974 holds degrees from Baldwin-Wallace College be awarded a Master of Science in Nursing for his contributions in cell biology and elec­ and Northwestern University. From 1954 to degree. tron microscopy. 1956 Dr. Avery was editor of The journal of Politics. Kubler-Ross Speaks at Nashville Dr. Avery and his wife will make their re­ Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, interna­ tirement home in Florida. tionally known authority on death and dying, was guest speaker at a syrr.posium on that KANG TAKES subject at UT's Nashville campus last fall. HENCH AWARD Lieber Keynotes Seminar IGLEHART Leonard Lieber, cofounder and national TO LEAVE, KELLY administrator of Parents Anonymous of Re­ Dr. Andrew H. Kang, UTCHS professor of dondo Beach, California, and Dr. David PROMOTED medicine and biochemistry and associate Tepper of Tepper Clinic, Chattanooga, were chief of staff and chief of the rheumatology keynote speakers for a child abuse seminar IGLEHART KELLY section at the Veterans' Hospital at Mem­ sponsored by UT's Center for Government Louis T. Iglehart, first director of the UT phis, received the 1977 Philip Hench Award at Training at Chattanooga last fall. Press and the Publications Service Bureau at a special awards program in Washington last the Knoxville campus and their chief admini­ fall. British Writer Speaks at UTK strator for more than twenty years, will retire The honor is given annually in memory of Robert Conquest, British writer and May 31. Dr. Philip S. Hench, who first used cortisone authority on Soviet affairs, initiated an "Eve­ The UT Press, the University's book­ in the treatment of arthritis. Dr. Kang re­ ning with the Authors" program at UT publishing arm, and the Publications Service ceived a $1,000 honorarium and a plaque for Knoxville in November. A Fellow of the Bureau became separate administrative "outstanding contributions in the field of Hoover Institute at Stanford University, Con­ and budgetary units on january 1 after being rheumatology and arthritis." quest lectured on the Soviet poet Alexander jointly operated since 1957, when Iglehart Solzhenitsyn and his works. was placed in charge of the combined oper­ ation. Bailey Gives Talk James F. Kelly, associate director since Charles-james N. Bailey, professor of lin­ 1975, became director of the Publications Ser­ 'SPRING SING' vice Bureau at the time of the separation. A � guistics at the Technical University of Berlin, TOUR SET lectured on "New Views of Dialects" at UT search committee is seeking a successor to Knoxville last fall. He has taught at the Uni­ Iglehart as director of the UT Press. versity of Hawaii, Georgetown University, A native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and the University of the Witwartersrand in Iglehart came to UT in 1949 as editor of the johannesburg. News Bureau. He is a 1940 journalism gradu­ The UT Singers' spring tour in March will ' ate of the University of Kentucky and worked highlight the twenty-fifth anniversary of the on Kentucky newspapers before coming to internationally known group. Gayle Studies UT. Theme of the Singers' silver anniversary When Iglehart became director in 1957, show is romance, and their tour perform­ Heart Disease the Press was publishing an average of one ances at schools and alumni meetings will AUT Knoxville graduate student is study­ book a year. Today the annual production is include such favorites as "Let Me Call You ing the relationship between physical activi­ about twenty books. A number of the al­ Sweetheart," "The Look of Love," and "You ty and heart disease under a Fulbright-Hays most 200 titles now bearing the UT Press im­ Are My Sunshine." grant. print have won national awards for both de­ Dolly Hough, a former UT Singer and an Richard Gayle, a doctoral student in phys­ sign and content. instructor in the UTK music department, di­ ical education, used the Fulbright award to Kelly was born at Niagara Falls, New York, rects the forty-member group. In the past study heart disease in Finland, which has the and earned the bachelor's degree in English twenty-five years, the Singers have given world's highest heart-related death rate. The at St. Bonaventure University. He did grad­ more than 1800 concerts and now average United States is second. uate work before joining the Publications about 75 performances yearly. Gayle recently returned from a nine­ Service Bureau staff in 1972. Members of the group are selected on the month stay at the University of ]yvaskyla and The Bureau provides editorial and art de­ basis of talent and scholarship, and the Sing­ the province of Karelia where he studied the sign services to all departments and agencies ers come from all colleges within the Uni­ Finnish government's methods of research­ of the University for publications ranging versity. They spend about ten hours a week ing heart problems. from one-page fliers to magazines. rehearsing, traveling and performing. 4 .

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BLACKS, WHITES 000 GIVE VIEWS ON LIFE AT 000 UT KNOXVILLE o•• Black students surveyed at UT Knoxville believe their biggest problem is achieving minority representation and visibility on a predominantly white campus. Both black and white students, however, are generally satisfied with the quality of ed­ ucation they receive at UTK, a report from the UT Communications Research Center says. The report is based on interviews with 205 black and 200 white students on topics rang­ ing from academic programs to the use of University services and facilities. The survey was conducted for the UTK Commission for Blacks to identify problems and dissatisfac­ tions of black students in order to solve problems and improve communication be­ tween blacks and whites on campus. A majority of both black and white stu­ dents, sixty-one and fifty-six percent respect­ ively, said they noted positive changes in the campus racial atmosphere. Seventy-five per­ A GIFT FOR UTC-Chancellor james E. Drinnon, )r., of the UT Chattanooga campus examines cent of the black students said they would en­ audio-visual materials purchased with part of a $7,000 gift to the UTC chemistry department from courage other people in their community to Drew E. Haskins, )r., Chattanooga businessman and pharmacist. Shown with Chancellor Drin­ attend UTK and sixty percent would give to their alma mater. non are, left to right, Thomas 0. Duff, Sr. , chairman, University of Chattanooga Foundation; Drew E. Haskins, )r.; and Dr. Benjamin H. Gross, head, UTC chemistry department. Both groups are generally satisfied with their lives, according to the report, and a high percentage of both are optimistic about the future. ALEWINE NAMED RARE PRINTS TO COMMITTEE DONATED . , \ . Jimmy R. Alewine, associate professor of . , , sociology and director of the criminal justice ' ' ,. program at UT Martin, has been appointed to The UT Knoxville library has obtained • • • •

the Committee on Corrections and the Com­ nine rare imprints from the Knoxville press of ·�·-·.a:..,.. - .... SELLIN STUDIES 11 �£•�··.-- munity by Commissioner C. Murray George Roulstone, Tennessee's first printer. •·. ION COLLISIONS ,o" ��� 1 Henderson of the State Department of Cor­ The imprints were given by d�l'lors who ,II ,• I rection. wish to remain anonymous. The gift brings , 1 the number of Roulstone pieces in the UTK Dr. Ivan Sellin, physics professor at the collection to twenty-two, comprising the Knoxville campus, has received a 1977-78 Fulbright-Hays Award to further his studies of GOODYEAR, most complete Roulstone collection to be heavy ion collisions. UTM found. In 1971, UT purchased nine Southwest Unlike most recipients, who use their Ful­ COOPERATE Territory and early Tennessee legislative bright grants for extended study in one or two journals, printed in 1794-96, from descen­ locations, Dr. Sellin is using his award for UT Martin and the Goodyear Tire and dants of Roulstone. travel to several research facilities in this Rubber Company Radial Tire Plant in nearby The recently acquired works are the acts country and in Europe. He spent most of last Union City have developed an exemplary of the Southwest Territory for 1794-95, the summer at the new German Heavy ion Ac­ pattern of cooperation for business and acts of the State of Tennessee for 1796-1801, celerator near Darmstadt after receiving the higher education. and the U.S. Constitution, to which is pre­ prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Senior More than half of the plant's summer em­ fixed the Constitution of the State of Tennes­ U.S. Scientist Award from the West German ' ployees are UTM students, and about twenty­ see, printed in 1799. government. six percent of the college graduates in the Dr. Sellin, a UTK Chancellor's Research company's managerial staff are from the Mar­ Scholar in 1976, is one of two UT research tin campus. KEMP IS scientists to receive the von Humboldt Of the cooperative education students FACULTY FELLOW Award. Dr. B.H. Goethert, dean emeritus at who work annually at Goodyear, at least the UT Space Institute, is the other Tennes­ eighty percent are UTM students. Dr. B. Wayne Kemp of UT Martin will work see recipient. Goodyear generates about $100,000 in an­ for the Social Security Administration this Dr. Sellin's research, funded by the Of­ nual earnings for Martin students, much of summer under the 1977 Federal Faculty Fel­ fice of Naval Research and the National Sci­ which is used to help finance their studies at lowship Program. Sixteen faculty members ence Foundation, involves the study of colli­ the University. In return, says Union City received fellowships. sions of high-speed atoms. These collisions plant manager Dick Davies, Goodyear re­ The grants enable the Fellows to work are similar to what occurs on the sun, other ceives "good employees for the summer" with federal agencies for periods ranging stars, and in thermonuclear plasmas. and a steady source of managerial prospects. from three months to a year. Dr. Kemp, an as­ Information from similar research is used Goodyear supports University fund­ sociate professor in the UTM School of Busi­ by scientists studying astrophysics and re­ raising efforts and also donates surplus ma­ ness Administration, will work in Washing­ searchers trying to develop nuclear fusion as terials for student projects. UT Martin ton, D.C., as a consultant to the office of data a source of energy. Much of Dr. Sellin's re­ provides speakers and courses relating to in­ development of the Social Security Adminis­ search is conducted at Oak Ridge National dustry for the plant's personnel. tration. Laboratory. 5 .

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TOURISM AIDED IN NASHVILLE

UT Nashville and the Metropolitan Tour­ ist Commission are cooperating in a new pro­ ject to help promote tourism in Nashville. Ed Lejeune, program director, said con­ ferences, printed information, audio-visual aids and training classes are planned to help people in the tourism industry become more knowledgeable about Nashville and more helpful to visitors. The program is funded from Metro Nash­ ville's hotel and motel tax receipts.

VILLAFLOR TO CHAIR TAHPER ROUNDTABLE OFFICERS-Officers of the Chancellor's Roundtable at UT Chattanooga are, left Chris Villaflor of Paris, Tennessee, a to right, Whitney Durand, Ill, secretary; William Pettway, )r., chairman; and Mrs. Bernard sophomore in physical education and health Hurley, vice chairman. at UT Martin, has been named chairman­ elect of the student section of the Tennessee ROUNDTABLE ADDS MEMBERS Association for Health, Physical Education Dr. ]ames E. Drinnon, Jr., chancellor of UT Fischer-Evans Jewelers. and Recreation. Chattanooga, has named fifteen new mem­ Dr. ]ames Henry, superintendent of He was elected at the annual state con­ bers to the UTC Chancellor's Roundtable, Chattanooga public schools; ]ames Lail, exec­ vention of TAHPER in December. The Asso­ established in 1975 to provide citizen advice utive vice president and treasurer, Raines ciation's members are drawn from public and on University operations and to keep the in­ Brothers, Inc., General Contractors; Mrs. Nell private schools, colleges and universities, and stitution abreast of community needs. Mohney, director of membership develop­ professional organizations in the state. New members are Donald Blevins, chair­ ment, First Centenary United Methodist man of the board and president of the Red Church. Food Stores and director ofF irstFederal Sav­ Z. Cartter Patten, Ill, principal member of POLYMER RESEARCH ings and Loan Association; A. Vincent Blunt, Patten and Patten, Inc., and corporate di­ 'GOES GULF' assistant secretary and personnel director of rector of the Chattanooga Choo Choo; A. The Gulf Oil Foundation has given UT Volunteer State Life Insurance Company; Ward Peacock, senior vice president for fi­ Knoxville a $6,000 grant for polymer research James Davis, president of James A. Davis and nance and administration, Dixie Yarns, Inc. in the Department of Chemical and Metal· Associates, Inc., and president of the Estate Sam Powell, TVA engineer; Gilbert Stein, lurgical Engineering. Planning Council of Chattanooga. partner, Stein Construction Company; W.O. Bybee, manager of Gulf's Poly­ Alan Derthick, a partner in the architec­ Robert Sudderth, vice president, American propylene Development Group in Baytown, tural firm of Derthick and Henley; H. Don National Bank; and Ira Trivers, president of Texas, presented the grant to Dr. Joseph Gilbreath, president of H. Don Gilbreath and Ira Trivers, Inc. Spruiell, UTK engineering professor. Associates; Howard Glover, Ill, president of Polymers are complex chains of mole­ cules used in items ranging from plastics to fi­ ROBINSON GIFT TO UTM SPECTROSCOPY STUDIED bers in radial tires. UT at Martin has received a $15,000 gift to Dr. Laszlo Adler, associate professor of endow a scholarship from Thomas L. physics at UT Knoxville, has received a $25,000 Robinson of Daytona Beach, Florida. grant from the Battelle Memorial Institute at Walker in The gift honors Robinson's half-brother, Columbus, Ohio, to study the feasibility of us­ UTC Program Matthew W. Robinson, a former top official ing ultrasonic spectroscopy in industry. of Hall-Moody Institute, the predecessor of Dr. Adler says spectroscopy could be use­ UT Martin. ful in identifying defects in industrial com­ Thomas Robinson earned bachelor's and ponents and materials. Patricia Walker, assistant professor at UT master's degrees at UT Knoxville and worked UTK is one of six educational institutions Chattanooga, has been appointed to the fa­ in the University extension service in the early in the nation to receive Battelle grants. culty of the UT Graduate School of Social 1920s. Work's off-campus program in Chatta­ nooga. Nine New To UTN Group Ms. Walker, who will serve as "resident UT Nashville Chancellor Charles Smith UTK" faculty member for the Chattanooga has added nine members to the UTN Asso­ program, will continue her position in the ciates, a group of community leaders who undergraduate social work program at UTC. The City of Knoxville and UT Knoxville's advise and aid the campus. Her new duties include advising students, Transportation Center have won a national New members are: ]ames Webb, presi­ consulting with field agencies, and teaching award for implementing a "transportation dent, Nashville City Bank and Trust Com­ in the graduate social work program. broker" system. pany, and president, Greater Nashville The UT School of Social Work has Knoxville Mayor Randy Tyree and UTK Chamber of Commerce; Erskine Lytle, direc­ branches in Nashville and Memphis in addi­ Chancellor Jack Reese went to Atlanta to ac­ tor, Affirmative Action Division, Metropoli­ tion to the Knoxville Branch and its off-cam­ cept the Administrator's Award for Out­ tan Government; Mrs. Jo Welch, a director of pus program in Chattanooga. There are cur­ standing Public Service from Richard Page, the Middle Tennessee Heart Association; Lee rently eighteen students in the Chattanooga head of the Urban Mass Transportation Ad­ Beaman, vice president, Beaman Pontiac; program, and the first class of eight grad­ ministration. UMTA is an agency of the U.S. Mrs. Tish Hooker, associate, Jay Turman In­ uated last June. Department of Transportation. teriors; John Sloan, president, First Tennes­ Ms. Walker has been assistant professor at The UTK Transportation Center adminis­ see Bank; Batey Gresham, partner, Gresham UTC since 1974. She formerly was field di­ tered a $1 million grant from UMTA to the and Smith, Architects; John Sorey, presi­ rector of the UTC human services program. City of Knoxville to develop a community dent, Aladdin Electronics; and Frank Woods, She holds the bachelor's degree from Butler transportation system, with an emphasis on president, United American Bank of Nash­ University and the master's from the School van pooling. ville. of Social Work at Indiana University. 6 •

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_, BAR LAUDS DOUGHERTY n MILLER SPECIAL PAPERS GIVEN JACKSON IS � POETRY EDITOR

UT has received a 1977 citation from the American Bar Association for its half-hour Dr. Richard jackson of the UT Chatta­ television special about the late judge The family of Nathan W. Dougherty has nooga English Department will edit this year's William E. Miller of the U.S. Sixth Circuit donated the late engineer's papers to the UT Poetry Miscellany magazine, which has re­ Court of Appeals. archives. ceived its fifth successive yearly grant from The program traced the history and im­ Dean Dougherty headed the UT Knox­ the Coordinating Council of Literary Maga­ pact of the landmark Baker v. Carr reap­ ville College of Engineering for sixteen years zines. portionment case, which originated in judge and, except for a six-year interval, was asso­ Founded in 1971, the magazine concen­ Miller's U.S. District Court at Nashville in ciated with the University from the time he trates on publishing new and unknown po­ 1959. entered as a student in 1905 until his death on ets, but it also includes works of several well­ The film was produced by the UT central May 18. He also was a widely known sports known poets. Among contributors to this administration's Office of Public Relations. figure, a founder of the Southeastern Con­ year's magazine is Richard Eberhart, Pulitzer UT was the only university recognized in the ference, and a member of the nationalFoot­ Prize and National Book Award winner. ABA's annual awards competition. ball Hall of Fame. Dr. jackson, whose own poems have ap­ judge Miller was a UT alumnus and a peared in several leading poetry journals, is member of the UT Board of Trustees. beginning his second year at UTC.

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Philip Kerr as Hamlet and Robertson Carri­ cart as the gravedigger exchange pleasan­ tries in the cemetery scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet, a production of the Clarence Brown Company at UT Knoxville last fall. (Photo by jonathan Daniel)

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