Nanook News, Vol. 14, No. 16 (January 22, 1971) Item Type Journal Publisher Office of University Relations, Department of News Service, University of Alaska Download date 08/10/2021 02:03:57 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/3883 Dafoe is New Public Seruice veep Dr. Don M. Dafoe, one of Alaska’s best T h e University’s vice commissionership, Dr. Dafoe turned out a known educators, is returning to thepresident-designate obtained his master’s series of publications, including a 1958 University of Alaska as Vice President for degree at the University of Idaho and manual for school boards and two Public Service, President William R. Wood won his doctorate in education ateditions of a com pilation of school laws. announced this week. Stanford University. He holds He also wrote “A Background Sketch of memberships in a number of national Alaskan Educators” and developed On July 1 he will succeed Vice associations in the field of education andpolicy, regulatory and administrative President Arthur S. Buswell, who recently manuals. is a former honorary vice president of the resigned to become president, on that Dr. Dafoe is married to the former Lois National Education Association. date, of the University of Maine at S. Smith. They have a daughter, Mrs. Machias. During his Territorial W.W. Hopkins of Juneau. Dr. Dafoe, after three years as provost of the University’s Southcentral Regional Center at Anchorage and dean of Anchorage Community College, went to Washington in April, 1969 to take the post of executive secretary of the Council of State School Officers. He wrote Dr. Wood the other day: “It is good to look forward to coming home and rejoining the University team.” President Wood predicted that the appointment would meet general satisfaction all over Alaska, which Dr. Dafoe adopted as his home 20 years ago upon assuming the assistant superintendency of the Anchorage School District. Besides being a vice president of Volume XIV, No. 16 January 22, 1971 th e U n iv e rs ity , he will hold a professorship of education. His predecessor, Dr. Buswell, is a professor of agriculture and director of the Cooperative Extension Service. Mothers marching Soon An Alaskan who likes hunting and fishing, Dr. Dafoe became familiar with The annual Mothers’ March for the education could eliminate these disorders. even the remotest areas as commissioner March of Dimes will have some unusual Since that time, researchers have found of education for six years while Alaska participants on campus next week —the means to prevent two major causes of was still a Territory. members of the Vets Club and Alpha birth defects: rubella (German measles) He was born at Sheyenne, North Kappa Psi, business fraternity, who will and Rh incompatibility disease. Dakota 56 years ago and entered the assist in the fund-raising effort. Marchers in the Fairbanks-College educational field upon graduating from Wearing tags which say “Tonight I am district will, in addition to seeking State Teachers College at Valley City in a Mother,” the young men will join other contributions, survey residents as to the North Dakota in 1937. volunteers on campus and in Fairbanks numberin of children under 12 who have After two years as a teacher and this door-to-door effort, which annually been vaccinated with the new rubella athletic coach as Bliss, Idaho, high school, benefits the National Foundation’s fight vaccine. The disease is a major cause of he stepped in as superintendent ofagainst birth defects. birth defects (especially blindness) when schools. By 1944 he was school it infects expectant mothers. superintendent at Rupert, Idaho, which Across the nation on January 28, other Business administration department he left after seven years to test life in the Marchers will ring doorbells in their head Thomas Schaefer is coordinating the Far North as assistant superintendent in neighborhoods for the same cause. March of Dimes campaign on the Anchorage. Contributions will be used for University campus this year. Anyone His stint as Alaska’s commissioner of educational and research projects, with willing to join Mothers’ March on January education interrupted his connectionthe aim of eliminating the genetic and 28, 6-9 p.m., should contact him at Ext. with the Anchorage School District but organic birth defects which cripple 7123. he was back in 1961, this time as thousands of children each year. Other events planned by the local superintendent. He had sneaked in two The March of Dimes was founded more March of Dimes campaign committee are years before 1961 as consultant for state than 30 years ago by President Franklinth e annual March of Dimes Ball, school systems in the U.S. Office of D. Roosevelt to combat infantilesponsored by the Fairbanks Business and Education in Washington, D.C. paralysis, at that time the scourge of Professional Women’s Club, to be held on Dr. Dafoe was the operating head of America’s children, a campaign which January 20 at the Elks Hall; a spring the Anchorage school system for five resulted in refinement of the Salk and fashion show of New York designers’ Sabin polio vaccines. Then attention was years before the University of Alaska fashions, scheduled for noon on February turned to birth defects, with the enticed him with a double job of provost 24 at the Elks Hall; and teenage activities and dean. optimistic hope that research and at various schools. NANOOK NEWS PAGE 2 January 22, 1971 On the campus Beat KUAC WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS HONOR ROLL ANNOUNCED FILMS PLANNED SUNDAY, 1:50 p.m., HOCKEY. UA The academic honor roll for the fall The spring schedule of ASUA movies, Nanooks play Alaska Methodist semester, made public as students were released this week, includes a number of University. registering for their second semester excellent films. Shown each Friday, SUNDAY, 6 p.m., THE GOON SHOW. courses, bears a total of 182 names out ofSaturday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in I Was M onty’s Treble. a student body that exceeded 2,600. Schaible Hall, the movies are free to SUNDAY, 6:30 p.m., BBC WORLD Each of the honor roll students, who students and cost $1 for non-students. THEATRE. Lucius Junius Brutus: Father attained grade point averages of 3.5 or The schedule for the spring semester is of His Country, by Nathaniel Lee. better, is receiving a letter of as follows: Jan. 15-17Hawaii and MONDAY, 5 p.m., ROD AND congratulations from Dr. Donald R.Daddy's Gone A-Hunting; Jan. 22-24, CHARLES SHOW. All About Mirrors. Theophilus, Vice President for Academic The Big Thumb, Bridge on the River MONDAY, 7 p.m., FROM SORCERY Affairs. Kwai, and Dark of the Sun; Jan. 29-31, TO SCIENCE. The World of the Midnight The honor roll members are distributed Casino Royale, Requiem For a Wind. among 23 states and Canada. Heavyweight, and Laughing Feb.Gas; TUESDAY, 7 p.m. KLONDIKE. The Twenty-eight of the 125 Alaskan cities, 5-7, Battle of the Bulge and Water Hole #­ Saga of Swiftwater Bill. towns and villages represented in the 3; Feb. 12-14, In Cold Blood and 100 WEDNESDAY, 7 p.m., ONE PLUS student body have representation on theRifles; Feb. 19-21, The Dentist, North of ONE. The results of overcrowding on ratshonor roll. Of the 182 students on the Nome, and 2001: A Space Odyssey Feb. and men. roll 36 scored a grade point average of 4.26-28, Hurry, Hurry, Becket and THURSDAY, 7 p.m., THE Blow-Up; March 5-7, The Reivers and A Man Called Horse; March 12-14, The Wild APPRENTICESHIP: CANADA. Racial TUITION BILL Conflict — the aftermath of the Bunch. Northwestern Rebellion of 1885. A bill to eliminate tuition for resident THURSDAY, 7:30 p.m., FROM THE freshmen and sophomores attending the MIDWAY. The Role of Intellectual University, introduced in the State Inquiry in Education. House, has been referred to the Finance ANCHORAGE NEWS THURSDAY, 9 p.m., LIBRARY OF and Health, Welfare and Education CONGRESS CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES. committees. In Anchorage, preliminary approval has Juilliard String Quartet. Reps.Jalmar Kerttula of Palmer and been given for a program leading to a SATURDAY, 1 p.m., Mike Miller of Juneau introduced thedoctoral degree in clinical and METROPOLITAN OPERA. Beethoven’s measure, which provides that the state community psychology, the first Fidelio. would reimburse the University for doctorate program offered by the SATURDAY, 5 p.m., RADIO tuition of freshmen and sophomoreUniversity outside the College campus . SMITHSONIAN. Wort with Prehistoric students. Remains. Also in Anchorage, a new NEW MAIL SYSTEM BEGINS cross-registration policy will allow WAMI TEAM HERE A new mail delivery system went into undergraduate students at Alaska effect this month on the University Methodist University, the University of A team of faculty members from the campus. Alaska and Anchorage Community University of Washington Medical School Randy Super, who as a business College to register for classes at any of was on campus this week to interest student last year conducted a study as toth e three institutions through a Alaskan students in a new program called the feasibility of initiating door-to-doorconsortium plan. Under this plan, WAMI (Washington, Alaska, Montana, daily mail delivery, is now setting up suchstudents may take courses on another Idaho) aimed at providing more a service. campus provided that it differs physicians in Western States. Super, who received his Bachelor of sufficiently from that offered on his own Dr. M. Roy Schwarz, coordinator of Business Administration degree here last campus or is offered at a more convenient the WAMI project, said students would be spring, feels that “The new system will time.