minnESOTA I . Volume 78 No.4 Contents January 1979 4 Update 6 Books 8 Award 10 On Becoming Someone by Dan Cohen 75th Hubert Humphrey, who was Anniversary graduated magna cum laude from mlnnesoT'A the University of Minnesota in 1939, once said: "I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did from all my years in college," 16 First a Dream, Soon a Reality by Barbara Crosby Muncie More than $14 million has been Edltur raised, a prize-winning architect Rh: ha rcl D. Ha ine s '761\tA J){,~I~n Oll'('ctor has been selected, and the goal for l;o"don E. Wilkmson '658FA ~1inn e ., o t9 Alumni A sso cia tion the Hubert H, Humphrey School of Exccuti, e Committee Public Affairs at the University of Pr(,~lden t Ian K. Ru\ elso n r. '3 6BBA Minnesota is being defined, FI r"it Vice Pr('sident Rob. r. ,) , S he ran '39LL8 Scc(lnd VICt' Prt'~ldcnl 20 From Freshman to Dean Ronald L , Simon '5-IB8A '571.1.8 &,o(,:rela r v n"na E, Murphy :518 '74,)0 by Paul Froiland Treasurer Rert 0 , Lune! Jr. ' 12BBA \ tembers In 1940 Fred Lukermann was a Ile .ty B. (,h,pp '6:lBA Willi;)", J . lI ic ke) Jr. '.17BRA freshman at the University of Min­ ne\' el"i y A . Kees '638A O .. ",d Mona '65BA nesota, Now he is dean of the nearly ,John W. Moo.y ' 138'\ ' 14LLB 17,000-student College of Liberal GH) Ie ,J, Whi.ese li '551lA '56M Pu~t PI' ':-; I d~ n t Arts, a college large enough in most ~1. EI""beth Cra ig ' 13BS ·15M [) places where they'd call him presi­ E,cclIu\'c Dm.:! clur Vin('t;'nt ,J, I3tlott.a '571:18 dent, 24 Brief 26 M·People 30 Vince Bilotta Cover: While he was a tudent at the University of Minnesota, Hubert H , Humphrey once lived at 945 Southeast Fourteenth Avenue, near the Min­ MlrllH·.otO. January 1979, Number 4 . is publibhed rnunt hly rr om Seplemb er I hrough June. ex ept De· neapolis campus, Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Tribune, Inside ccmb, (, by the Minn sola Alumni A ssoci ation Alumni Front Cover: Dmitri Sarabia nov, a professor of art at the Univer it of Cent. 26 10 Uni vcl's llv ve nu e, Sa int Pnul . Minn solo 5511 '6 1 ~137 3 - 2466 , Second-cl oss poslnge pa id at S81111 Moscow, lectured at the University of Minne ota La t fall during the Rus­ Paul \1 l1) n e~o ta . The M'nfleSo lo publica ti on number IS sian Art Festival and one unday went on a fi hing trip - a 20-mile 6517{ I M,nn esota is ticnl lo dues·pa lng members onJ Memh r of the ouncil rol' dvanccmcnl and Support of stretch on the Missis ippi River betw en Clearwater and Monticello - ;du(' tlo n. P ~ tm8 s lcr ; end rorm 3579 to M",'h'SQ ta, where he caught bass and walle es, Photo b Roger Ny trom of the Min­ ~IO nlvel'slty Ave nue , Su int Paul, Minncs to 55 11 (1. - l!1 ' by Minnesota A lumni Association. neapoli Star, JANUARY 1979/MINNESOTA 3 Update Minnesota Wants Chinese Students Academic courses, strong international emphasis expected to attract n the next two years the People's Washington, and Freeh has appoi nted I Republic of China will send 10,000 Liu to a working group which will poll students to study in universities abroad the faculty for suggestions for the pro­ and it is hoped some will attend the gram and an assessment of how th e) University of Minnesota. could contribute to an exchange if the)" About 1,000 students from China desired. may visit the United States this year, In 1977, Huai-chang Chiang, pr ofe~ said Wang Jen-ch'uan, deputy chief of sor of entomology, fisheries an ~ the Office of Foreign Affairs for the wildlife, met with three graduate ci Chinese Academy of Sciences, who was his department who head institute' interviewed while visiting the Univer­ that study entomology in China. "The) sity recently with a delegation of were very much intere ted in gettinglfi Chinese geographers. contact with U.S. scholars and asked Negotiations for exchange programs whether the University could accom· are taking place at both the gov­ teres ted in and because of its strong in­ modate their entomologists. ernmental level and between specific ternational focus is a likely place for Chine e students were invited to the institutions that want to exchange stu­ some of the students to study." University by Wenda Moore, chairwlT dents, Wang said. The Chinese Chun-jo Liu, University professor of man of the Board of Regents, who vi · Academy of Sciences, for example, is East Asian languages, said that the ited China for two weeks in October free to negotiate an exchange program Chinese want more information about "The principal purpose of my trip \Va. independent of the governments. the U ni versi ty of Mi nnesota before to explore the possibility of having Both formal participation through they decide to send students here. hine e tudents come to the Uni ver· the government and informal contacts Liu recently met with a Chinese de­ sity of Minnesota," she said. thai University of Minnesota faculty or legation in Washington at a dinner Earlier, the board passed wi thoul departments can make on their own honoring the President of Peking Uni­ dissent a proposal that her invitation! are being encouraged, according to versity, Chou Pei-yuan, whom she had b come official actions of the board LaVern Freeh, the University's direc­ known during World War II. She said This motion was made by Reg nt D av i~ tor of international programs. the Chinese seem most interested in Lebedoff, a Minn apolis author and at· The heads of several American uni­ chemical engineering, agriculture, en­ torney who has been to hi na and who versities and other educational organi­ tomology, wildlife, plant genetics, said, "I don't think that there's a pfIT zations met recently in .Washington to medicine, pharmacy, and English as a gram anywh re in our for ign policy a. work out the details and discuss the second language. important as th advent of hlOese problems that will have to be solved in "My suggestions about attending the students coming here.' a government-sponsored exchange. University were very well received and Talk of th exchange wa the cea· Henry Koffler, vice president for Minnesota is' now on their mind. It sion for signals to be sent both wa)~ academic affairs at the University of would be good if they received more through speeches and toa ts whe I the Minnesota, said that Minnesota's specific information about our strong hines Geographical Delegatipn of chances of attracting Chinese students programs." the Chinese Acad my of Science: vi, are good, and added: "The University of The University administration is it d th Twin Ci ti r cently a lesti Minnesota because of its strengths in compi ling general information to send of the Univ rsity's g ography d ·)arl· the areas that the Chinese are in- to th . Chinese liaison office in ment. 4 JANUARY 1979/MINNESOTA Ve welcome our present visitors and to apply cla ses from both the Col­ values, goals of their organizations, aT we hope that there are thousands lege of Liberal Arts (CLA) and other and groups of people involved in their m' e coming to the United States," University colleges toward a degree. organizations. The managers were sa Fred Lukermann, dean of the Col­ According to CLA dean Fred Luker­ classified as either predominantly le!, of Liberal Arts. "We don't see this mann, the BIS degree is de igned "for pragmatic, moralistic, or oriented to­ as 1st a technical visit; we see this as a members of the community who would wards feelings, England said. bo ., of friendship. We obviously think be better_served by an alternative de­ In all five countries, the pragmatic of "ore Chinese coming to the United gree that allows a little more flexibil­ managers tend to be more dynamic, St. les and of our faculty and our stu­ ity. The traditional degrees continue to more willing to take risks, and more der going to the People's Republic." be the best choice for the vast majority oriented towards achievement. They he .;aid. of students, but for some the BIS degree a1 0 earn the most money at various No part of the United States," will be a stimulating option." career stages. Lebedoff aid, "is as similar in spirit BIS students will be required to com­ The morali tic manager , who see and attitude to China as is Minnesota. plete 1 0 credits - the number re­ value choices more in terms of right Like our friends in China, we pay re- quired for all other degree program at and wrong, tend to be more pa sive and pect to what I would call the rural vir­ the Univer ity - but about half of well-entrenched in their organizations. tues: hard work, self-respect and re­ those credits will be in areas deter­ The least succe sful managers in term SPEct for the family. Nothing would be mined by the student and advisers and of both money and job satisfaction are more pleasing to the students and fac­ may be drawn from other colleg~s at those oriented towards feeling , Eng­ ulty of the University of Minnesota the University.