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This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Grand Valley Forum, 1976- at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1994-1995, Volume 19 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Monday, November 14, 1994 Volume 19, Number 16

1994 Faculty Staff Campaign Underway

The 1994 Campaign is underway. This year's Campaign includes the • All donors will receive a "Don's Forms were mailed to all faculty and fo llowing features: Doughnut Dollar" redeemable for staff during the week of November 1. • Payroll deduction. A $4 per pay "thank you" coffee and doughnuts Dean Mary Seeger and Professor period contribution results in a with President Lubbers at specified Bill Baum are co-chairs this year. $104.00 annual contribution. sites in Janua1y. They are leading the effort of over 60 • President Lubbers has again agreed • Contributions are eligible for a State cabinet members who will be contact­ to use undistributed interest income of Michigan tax credit and a federal ing colleagues over the next six from the general endowment to tax deduction. weeks. match employee contributions to To make a contribution, use the In 1993 employees contributed designated endowments. A $104 yellow form that was recently mailed over $100,000-a 56 percent participa­ payroll deduction gift is now worth to all staff or call the Development tion rate. $208. Office at 771-6530. The goal for 1994 is to increase the dollars and raise the participation rate to 60 percent of all employees. Jellema Wins State Representative-elect and Associate Professor of English Jon Across Campus Jellema at the Friends of Grand Valley Luncheon after his easy win in last Tuesday's election. Jellema will rep­ resent Michigan's 89th District, which is mostly in northern Ottawa County.

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Salary Information Available

Tower Dedication Tuesday The 1994-95 Faculty and Staff and 1992, and other demographic The GVSU community comes Salary Information book is now on information. together Tuesday to dedicate the reserve in the library. The information The information is available for new campus landmark, the Cook includes employee names, titles, review in the Human Resources Carillon Tower. Details on departments, 1994-94 and 1993-94 Office, or you may purchase a copy page 2. salaries, gross salaries paid in 1993 for $5 .

@GRANDVALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY Page 2 fORlM Coming Events

Get Cracking for Broken Eggs of . Awards will be pre­ and foundation relations assistants. A wedding reception provides a sented to faculty and staff with 10, 20, They are responsible for securing darkly comic view of the problems 25 and 30 years of GVSU service. All retail, corporate, and foundation faced by a formerly wealthy Cuban faculty and staff are invited. underwriting for WGVU-AM 1480, WGVU-FM 88.5, WGVU-TV 35, and family adjusting to life in the United Vacation Days Reminder States in the play, Broken Eggs. WGVK-TV 52. GVSU will be closed Thursday Cisler, a graduate of Central Michi­ The English translation of Eduardo November 24, and Friday, November Machado's award-winning work will gan University, has held marketing 25, for Thanksgiving. The university positions with the West Michigan Envi­ be produced by GVSU's Communica­ will also be closed Friday, December tions Department and Theatre Grand ronmental Action Council and On­ 23 through Monday, January 2. the The-Town magazine. Valley. The play will be directed by regular schedule will resume on Tues­ Tom Hamilton. day, January 3. Wharton was employed by WCUZ Radio as director of new business Auditions for Broken Eggs will be The last faculty/ staff payroll checks held November 21 and 22 from 7 - 9 development. She was also a sales for 1994 will be distributed on Decem­ representative for Alcon Laboratories, p.m. in Room 105, Calder Fine Arts ber 22. They would normally have Center. The play opens January 26, Inc., Planters/ Lifesavers Co.; and come on December 27. Direct deposits Campbell 's Sales Co. 1995, and runs through February 4. will be available the night of 22nd, Two men and three women, ages after your bank has posted GVSU's Also at WMPB, Melissa K. Conklin 35 or older, with the ability to learn transaction. and Phil Lane have been named to Spanish/Cuban dialect are needed. producer/ director posts for WGVU-TV Also due to Thanksgiving, Novem­ 35 and WGVK-TV 52. Also needed are two women and one ber 18 is the timecard deadline for the man, ages teens to early 20s. pay period ending November 19. Conklin had held a temporary posi­ Auditions and volunteer technical tion in the production department. The holiday and break schedule She is a GVSU graduate. jobs are open to the GVSU communi­ wi ll published in the November 28 ty. For more information or to pick up Forum. Lane was a producer/ d irector at a script, contact the Communications WYIN-TV in Merrillville, Indiana. He Department in 121 LSH, or call x3668. New Grand Valley Associates also held production jobs with WYIN­ Diane M. Cisler and Steffi Wharton TV and WTIU-TV in Bloomington, FRS Review Session Planned have joined West Michigan Public Indiana. An FRS Basic/On Line Purchasing Broadcasting (WMPB) as corporate Review Session will be held Friday, November 18, from 2-4 p.m. in Room 212 Manitou. This session is open to those users who are presently access­ ing the mainframe for FRS and On-Line Requisitioning only. This is not an ini­ Campus Landmark Completed, tial training session. Users who would Dedication Tuesday like to brush up on their skills are The Cook Carillon Tower will be dedicated Tuesday encouraged to attend. To sign up, with a special concert and reception, each beginning please cc:Mail or call Jeanne Crowe at at 11:30 a.m. The guest carillonist will be Margo Halst­ x2253. ed of the University of Michigan. The reception will be University Club Events held in Kirkhof Center. November 18, TGIF at The Meadows, Special guests during the festivities include former 5p.m. Prime Minister of the Netherlands Ruud Lubbers, Adn­ aan Jacobovits de Szeged, Ambassador of the Nether­ November 23, Toastmasters, at lands, Joost Eijsbouts, head of the Dutch bell found1y The Meadows, 7:30 a.m. that cast the Cook Carillon's 48 bells, and Peter and Pat November 30, Toastmasters, at Cook, whose gift made the tower possible. The Meadows, 7:30 a.m. Ambassador Adriaan Jacobovits deSzeged Faculty and Staff Holiday Party Set This year's faculty and staff party will be held Thursday, December 1, from 3 - 5 p.m. in the Promenade Deck fORlM Page 3 Faculty and Staff Sketches

Donna Larson, assistant dean of Grand Rapids the location for the "Recoup Art Exhibit" in downtown Science and Mathematics and a Nurs­ Affirmative Action Region V Confer­ Grand Rapids. ing professor, conducted a day-long ence. The exhibit raised funds for UICA workshop titled "Technology at Your Jim Jerkatis, studio supervisor for and The Recuperation Center, an eight­ Fingertips; Using Computer Technolo­ West Michigan Public Broadcasting bed downtown shelter for people with­ gy in Nursing Education and Staff was awarded first place in the "Peo­ out adequate housing, where they can Development," at a meeting of the ple's Choice" category for his sculp­ recuperate from illness or injury. Michigan League for Nursing and the ture "Its About Time," at the recent Nursing Education Network in Battle Urban Institute for Contemporary Art Creek. Margarita Krakusin, assistant pro­ fessor of Spanish, conducted a work­ shop titled "El Subjuntivo Espanol y La Calendar of Events Funcionalidad Del Lenguaje," at a meeting of the Michigan Foreign Lan­ Cultural Events guage Association in Dearborn. Arts Hotline: (616) 895-ARTS Doris Perry, associate professor, *Ga ll ery Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday. and Professor Ram Singh, of the All activities are in facilities on the Allendale Campus unless otherwise noted. School of Social Work, presented a Monday, November 14-Wednesday, November 23 paper titled "Black Student Retention: Gallery Hours•: Alt Exhibit. Faculty Exhibit Show. Calder Gallery, Calder Fine Arts Center. An Auto-hypnotic Approach, at the Tuesday, November 15 National Black Student Retention 11:30 a.m.: Dedicatory Cook Carillon Concert and Reception. Outside (weather permit­ Annual Confe rence in Detroit. ting), and Mainsail Lounge, Kirkhof Center. Philosophy Chairman and Profes­ Friday, November IS-Saturday, November 19 sor Stephen C. Rowe's latest book has 8 p.m.: New Plays Project. Sponsored by the Theatre Depaltment and highlighting the been published and is available in the work of student playwrights, directors, designers, and actors who produce new sholt campus bookstore. It's titled "Redis­ plays in widely different styles. Admission $4. Louis Armstrong Theatre, Calder Fine covering the West: An Inquiry into Arts Center. Nothingness and Relatedness." Sunday, November 20 Kevin Cole, assistant professor of 2 p.m.: New Plays Project. Sponsored by the Theatre Department and highlighting the Geology, and Patricia Videtich, associ­ work of student playwrights, directors, designers, and actors who produce new sholt ate professor of Geology, attended the plays in widely different styles. Admission $4. Louis Armstrong Theatre, Calder Fine Arts Center. Geological Society of America meet­ ing in Seattle. Videtich presented a General Events paper titled "Living with the Great Tuesday, November 15 Lakes: A General Education Course 3 p.m.: Resume workshop sponsored by Career Services. Free. Room 224, Commons. For That Centers Around Students more information contact extension 3311 . Research on Local Water Resources." The paper was co-authored by Geolo­ Thursday, November 17 3 p.m.: Presidentia l Address. Cook-DeWitt Center. gy Professor William J. Neal and Instructor Greg Wilson. Sports Affirmative Action Director L. Sports Hotline: 895-3800 Michael Woods was presented the *Game times subject to change. "Hometown Hero" award by the Friday, November 18 Grand Rapids/ Kent County Conven­ 6 p.m. or 8 p.m.: Women's Basketball. Laker Tip-Off Tournament at GVSU. tion and Visitors Bureau for making 6:30 p.m.: Men's & Women's Swimming/Diving. GVSU at Wa yne State University, Hills- dale, Michigan. Saturday, November 19 Job Openings TBA: Men 's & Women's Swimming/Diving. GVSU at Findlay University, Findlay, Ohio. 2 p.m.: Men's & Women's Swimming/Diving. Kalamazoo College at GVSU. 1 p.m. or 3 p.m.: Women's Basketball. Laker Tip-Off Tournament at GVSU. Clerical, Office and Technical 7:30 p.m.: Men's Basketball . GVSU at Lewis Un ivers ity, Romeoville, Illinois. Secretary, Dean's Office, Seidman School of Business, $9.86 - $11.11 Page 4 fORlM Information for Faculty and Staff Sketches

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