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UNI Alumni Association University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614 (319) 273-2355 The Alumnus University of Northern Iowa

Volume 70, Number 1 April 1985

Iowa, the Midwest and the future I 10 A willingness to change, and the courage invest in education, may help the state and region through its crisis. He yanks uppity music off its high horse / 13 KUNI/KHKE's Peter Hamlin is profiled in an article reprinted from the Des Moines Register. Drinking age a campus concern again I 15 Raising the state's legal age to 21 presents Northern Iowa with a new set of Page 10 residence system problems. Reclaiming a legacy: the humanities / 17 An important national report has ca lled for a renewed emphasis on teaching and learning the neglected humanities. "A miracle arrives" / 20 Photographer Bi ll Witt presents a glimpse of spring on the University of Northern Iowa campus. China and glass means "first class" / 22 Dining centers have built a reputation for banquets with flair, service and Page 17 good food. Partners in the promotion of science / 24 The prestigious Iowa Academy of Science has made the University of Northern Iowa its home since 1967. Alumni Profile: Roger and Jo Cowley Bedard / 26

Departments Alumni-Foundation News / 4 Campus News / 6 Class Notes / 27 Page 24 UNI Alumni Association Board of Directors, 1984-85 Editor / Kevin Boatright, M.A. '84 James Heinz, B.A., '63, President Jo Moeller Arbuckle, B.A. '76 Designer / Elizabeth Conrad LaVelle Sam Scheidler, B.A., '69, Vice President Faith Engelkes, B.A. '42, M.A. '69 Photographer/ Bill Witt, B.A. '72 Lee Miller, B.A. '52, Secretary Shirley Hagemann, B.A. '29 University Publications Gary Shontz, M.A.Ed. '74, Ed.S. '81, Noreen Hermansen, M.A. '7,. Administrator / Susan M. Chilcott Treasurer Thomas Paulsen, B.A. '71 James Robinson, B.A. '53, Past President David Pike, B.A. '73 Harold Strever, B.A. '68 Nick Teig, B.A. '63, M.A. '66

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3 Federal tax proposals would threaten charitable giving

Th e federal government is consideri ng An estimated half of all contributions to making substantial changes in the way higher education are made in th e form of ind ividual charitable contributions are property, including appreciated stocks, treated at tax time. Currently, all such bonds and real estate. El iminating the tax Calhoun M i/fer contributions are tax-deductible up to a benefits of thi s strategy would cripple generous annual limit, and gifts above th at many foundations, espec ially those Miller, Calhoun limit may be ca rri ed over and deducted in conducting ca mpaigns for building assume new jobs in subsequent years. co nstruction or endowment expansion. Th e new proposa l only perm its the Other provisions of th e proposed law alum n if development dedu cti on of contributions that exceed cal l for lower individual tax rates and the 2 per ce nt of the adjusted gross income. A elimination of charitable deductions for Effective March 15, Ri ck Stinchfie ld, donor with an income of $"30,000, for ind ividuals who do not itemize th eir director of planning and policy exa mple, could not lega lly deduct th e first income tax returns. Both proposa ls would management, was given temporary $600 of charitable contributions. reduce the tax ad vantages of charitable responsibi lity for th ree related departments This change would adversely affect all contributions, th ough at different ends of of the University: Alumni Services and donors, but es pecially youn g alumni, who the economic spectrum . Deve lopment, Public Inform ation Se rvices, tend to make smaller contributions. Th ere Th e proposed law would also tax most and Admissions. would be less incentive for them to give an employee tuition rem iss ion benefits and Th e move is part of a pl an to develop a annual gift of $25, since it would not be would limit the use of tax-exempt bonds to long- range advance ment program for deductible unti l th e donor reac hed the fin ance student loan funds or the Northern Iowa, according to President 2 per ce nt leve l of givi ng. construction of educational fac il ities . Curris, who an nounced t~e change. " Th is Th e most damaging aspect of th e tax Corporate tax ince ntives for th e support of organ izational reali gnment wi ll be for a proposa l, however, concerns the ca pita l university research would also be limited. limited, yet unspecified ti me period ," he ga ins deduction for gifts of property. Under It is unclear wheth er an y or all of th ese sa id . the present law, property purchased for proposed changes, entitled " Tax Reform In making the announcement, Curri s $10,000 and va lued in today's market at for Fairness, Simplicity and Economic referred to last year's report of the Select $50,000 is worth $50,000 as a tax Growth," wil l be enacted into law. Alumni Committee on Univers ity Plan ning (SCUP), dedu ction if given outright. Th e ca pital and friends of th e University who sh are the w hich stated that " a forma l public ga in of $40,000 is not taxed . UNI Foundation's concern about the relations effort to inform the public of The proposed law would limit th e adverse effects of th ese proposa ls are UNl's presence and mission is needed ded ucti on in this example to th e original encouraged to contact their se nator or now." Previously, the Office of $10,000, plus a small additional member of Congress to express their Admissions reported to one vi ce president adjustment for annual rates of inflation. opinion. D and Pub lic Information Serv ices and Alumn i Serv ices and Development reported to another. Also on March 15, Bi ll Calhoun became acting director of alumni services and development, succeed ing Lee M iller, who had held th at position since 1977. Ca lhoun had been ass istant director of development since joining the staff in 198 1. Under th e new alignment, Mill er was given spec ial responsibility fo r expanding th e UNI Foundati on's planned giving program. The planned giving program of th e UNI Foundation w as introduced in 1979. Sin ce th en, more th an $4 million in future gifts have been identified through wil ls, insurance policies, trusts and other mean s. " No area of development is more important to th e future growth and quality of the University th an th at of pl anned giving," sa id Curris in announcing th e staff changes. " Th e UNI Foundation is IT WOULD BE EASY TO OVERLOOK THIS PLAQUE, located at th e east entrance to the UN/­ embarking on an ambitious deve lopment Dome, but don't. It commemorates President O. R. Latham (1928-40) and was origina//y placed program , and Lee Mill er was th e between th e Wes t (Men's) Gym and Latham Field. Th rough ca relessness in later yea rs, the marker unquestioned choice of th e Foundati on's was buffdozed away during construction, only to be fo und in a pile of rubbish by Raymond directors to spearhead this effort." Lath am, the pres ident's son, in 1982. Ray Schlicher, dea n emeritus of continuing educa tion and One res ult of th e above changes in extension, brought the situation to th e attention of th en-vice pres ident Robert Stansbury. Th e personnel and responsibi lities has been a plaque and stone were give n their new home in December of that yea r, overlooking Hudson delay in alumni services' move to Alumni Road and the site of Latham Field. House. D 4 Foundation supports proposal to fund James Hearst film

The UNI Fou ndation recently provided avai lable in each area education agency preli minary financial support for the and at each of the three Rege nts completion of a film about the poetry of universities. D James Hearst, an emeri tus professor of creative w riting at Northern Iowa w ho died in 1983. The focus of the fi lm, most of w hich Paul Egger receives was shot in 1980, is on the re lationshi p between Hea rst's poetry and th e Jensen Scholarship environment. Featured is an inte rview Th e UNI Foundation has award ed the between Hearst and Robert W ard , a fi rst Denn is Jensen Memorial Scholarship Meyer Northern Iowa professo r of English w ho to Paul Egger, a se nior political science has written extensively on Hea rst and his major from M uscati ne. work. Th e $500 scholarship is named in Meyer tells women Foundation fund s were pooled w ith honor of Northern Iowa's late director of contributions from the Cedar Fa lls financial aid s, an alumnus (B .A. '57, M .A. politics a privilege Historica l Soc iety and Ceda r Fa lls Arts '61) w ho died in an automobile acc ident Alive to pay for fi lm storage and the in 1982. Natalie Clayton M eyer, B.A. '51, copying of the sound track. M ajor funding In add iti on to his work at th e secretary of state of Colorado, w as on for th e film, a study guide and Hea rst Un iversity, Jensen served as a member of ca mpus Febru ary 14 as th e featured symposium is being sought in a University­ the Ceda r Falls City Cou ncil from 1972 spea ker for the second annual sponsored grant proposal to th e Iowa unti l his death. " Enli ghte nment Luncheon" for local-a rea Humanities Board . " Th e Scholarship is set up to remember women alumni. Project director for " Landscape Iowa: Dennis in the two areas he loved the Approximately 75 women attended the Th e Poetry of James Hea rst" is Robert most/' sa id Jense n's w idow , Eileen, a luncheon, which w as held at the Hardman, director of the Edu cational member of the se lection committee . "The Commons ballroom under th e sponsorship Media Center at North ern Iowa. If the city and th e Univers ity were his life. W e of the UNI Alumni Association. project is funded, says Hardman, the fi lm are pleased to award the Sc holarship to Meyer is the highest ranking woman in could have its premiere in the fa ll of 1986. someone w ho has so many of Dennis' politics in Colorado. She was active as a Pl ans ca ll for copies of th e fi lm to be interests. " D ca mpaign worker and manager for 20 yea rs in th e state before running for office herse lf, and winning, in 1982. The title of her talk, aptly enough, was " A New UNI-Life insurance program Pl ace at th e Head Table - Why Not a Woman?" Meyer's message was th at everyone, makes planned giving affordable es pec ially women, ought to be involved in politics at some level. If you aren't, she The UNI Foundati on recently approximately $1 00 now as its percentage said, "you're not at th e hub of influence in introduced a planned giving opportunity of th e first-year premium. your life." Politics is an honorable th at should appeal to both large and small Such a gift would qualify th e donor for profess ion, she said, a ca reer th at provides contributors. membership in the Foundation's opportunity and responsibility for women. " UNI-Life" is a life insurance program Pres ident's Club. As with all contributions Involvement in politics is " not a sac ri fice, with a vanishing premium feature. Alumni to the Foundation, proceeds from a UNI­ but a privilege," and women need not and friends who buy a policy des ignate the Life policy may be des ignated by the donor compromise th eir ethica l standards by Foundation as th e irrevocable owner and for any Unive rsity program. holding public office. benefi ciary . Tax-deductible prem iums are UNI-Life premiums, understandab ly, Being secretary of state, sa id Meyer, is then paid directly to the Foundation for a are cheaper for non-s mokers, women and " the biggest challenge of my life, beyond period of five or six years, at w hich time youn ger persons th an for smokers, men marriage and children." Two things she the policy is fu lly paid off. and older persons. If th e sa mple donor, for has learned about po litics is th at Th e Foundation rece ives all premiums example, has a non-s moking, 31-year-old "emotions don't influence others" and and pays th e in surer (predominantly w ife, th e UNI-Life policy could be w ritten " popularity is not your goal , good Executive Life Insuran ce Company) on on her at a savings of about 37 percent, government is." your behalf. The Foundation also retains a pre-tax . The gift would still qualify th e A special problem that women percentage of each premium for its couple for joint Pres ident's Club candidates have encountered, sa id Meyer, immediate use. UNI-Life thus benefits the membership. is acceptance by women voters. " Women Foundation now and in the future. A brochure introducing UNI-Life has expect a hi gher level of perfection from Here's an example of how UNI-Li fe been produced by the Foundati on. It women candidates than from men," she work s. A 32-year-old, non-smoking male contains a description of th e program and said . purchases a $50,000 policy. Th e premium a set of age/premium tables for men, Meyer, who w as profi led in the Ju ly is $498 a year, payable for five years. If he women, smokers and non-s mokers. To 1983 Alumnus, summed up her is in the 50 percent tax bracket, the total receive a copy or for more inform ation, philosophy in a quotation : " Not to be gift of $2,490 costs him only $1 ,245, after ca ll the Foundation collect at happy but to matter, to have it make some taxes. In this example, Foundation would (3 19)273-2355. D difference that you lived at all." D receive $50,000 in the future and

5 Campus News IOWA GOVERNOR ELECTION 1982 Local atlas a useful project

" If a picture is worth a thousand words," says James Fryman, " then so are maps." Fryman, an assistant professor of geography, was referring to a new 80-page Waterloo-Cedar Falls Atlas published by the Northern Iowa Department of Geography and its student honor society, Gamma Theta Upsilon. The maps in the atlas were prepared by students under Fryman's direction as a final course project in cartography. Topi cs covered include crime patterns, voting patterns, population characteristics, and economic and housing patterns for the 1980-84 period. " In addition to contributing to a better understanding of the local community, " says Fryman, "this atlas is useful to governmental agenc ies and area businesses." Copies are available by mail ~ Terry Bronstad for $5 .00 from the Department of D Roxanne Conlin Geography, 1 Sabin Hall. D

~ Greater Thon 70 Percent ot Vote

An example of the maps contained in the new Waterloo-Cedar Fall s Atlas. Elderhostel scheduled July 7-13

Alumni and friends age 60 and older library and other campus facilities. Thi s fee should make plans to attend the 1985 also includes admission to two plays to be edition of UNI Elderhostel, schedu led for presented during the week. For persons July 7-13 in Cedar Falls . who commute to and from Elderhostel , the Elderhostel is a non-credit educational cost is just $90. Scholarships are available program conducted on campus by for those who need financial assistance. Continuing Education and Special For more information or to regi ster, call Programs . The three courses taught during or write the Elderhostel coordinator, Ray the 1985 session will be: Schlicher, dean emeritus of extension and continuing education, at 59 Baker Hall, " Sharing Ancient Hebrew (319) 273-2504. D Elderhostel scholarships are Experiences via the Psalms" available for those who need Ed Amend, Associate Professor of assistance. Religion and Humanities Bowlsby, Schmidt " Five Music Masters of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries" on Citizen panel Emil Bock, Professor Emeritus of The Cedar Falls Citizen, a weekly Music History newspaper established in December by "Contemporary Soviet Society" Oster Communications of Cedar Falls, has Tim O'Connor, Assistant Professor named a Community Advisory Committee of History to provide input on local news coverage. The 18-member Committee includes These are interesting and informative Northern Iowa staff members Bob classes that require no homework, no Bowlsby, director of athletics, and papers and no examinations. Persons 0. R. Schmidt, assistant professor of under age 60 may attend if accompanied English. by a spouse or friend who is 60 or older. According to Larry Graham, executive The cost of the fu ll program is $195, editor, the Committee will meet quarterly which covers the classes, room and board to provide a forum for discussion of th e in a residence hall, parking, and use of the newspaper's performance. D

6 New committee formed to oversee athletics; alumni represented President Curris, acting on recommendations from the Faculty Senate, the Department of Athletics and the Athletic Policy Advisory Committee, has approved creation of a new Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Council. The Council is charged with overseeing the University's ath letic program "as it relates to the academic quality and Council will oversee and integrity of the institution." It is also promote athletics. charged with promoting the development of competitive programs and formulating Fuentes new policies regarding ath letics for consideration by the administration. Carlos Fuentes discusses The 16-member group reports to John Conner, vice president for administration literature, U.S. diplomacy and finance. Membership includes six during campus lectures faculty members, two professional and scientific staff members, two students, two Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading community representatives and an novelist and literary critic, was on campus administrative representative appointed by January 30-31 to present two addresses, the president. The athletic director, the one on the diplomatic crisis in Central director of HPER and the NCAA faculty America diplomacy and the other on representative serve as non-voting "Cervantes, Diderot and the Potential members. Novel." The community representatives on the In his major address, "War or Council are Bruce Anderson, B.A. '72, Diplomacy in Central America?," Fuentes chosen to represent the UNI Alumni argued against U.S. intervention in the Association, and Junean Witham, B.A. region, stating that "these nations must be '66, chosen by the president. Faculty left alone to define their problems, to members of the Council are Richard Strub, exhaust their family quarrels and achieve Carlin Hageman, Jack Wilkinson, David the minimal self-respect that has been Whitsett, Albert Kagan and Patrick historically denied them ." He spoke in Wilkinson. The staff members are Norbert favor of diplomatic rather than military Dunkel and Judy Thielen, with Robert solutions to problems in El Salvador, Leahy representing the administration. '85 summer festival Nicaragua and Central America as a The Council will meet monthly in open whole. session and will issue an annual report. It dates to remember Fuentes has held diplomatic and replaces the existing eight-member Athletic Alumni who need a good excuse to academic posts in Mexico and abroad, as Policy Advisory Committee. D return to Cedar Falls-Waterloo(!) should ambassador to France and as a member of take note of the following events the facu lty at the University of scheduled during the summer of 1985: Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Barnard College and Washington Wiederanders cited June 1-9 " My Waterloo" Days, Waterloo University. He is currently a visiting professor of comparative literature and by math teachers June 28-30 Sturgis Falls Festival, Cedar romance languages and literature at Falls Harvard University. Don Wiederanders, professor of July 19-20 College Hill Arts Festival , Cedar Fuentes is best known as the author of teaching: mathematics at Price Lab School Falls 10 novels, as well as three collections of and director of the Microcomputer Sept. 13-22 National Cattle Congress Fair, short stories and three plays. He also Curriculum Project, received the Waterloo founded and edited two journals, La H. Vernon Price Distinguished lovva Revista Mexicana de Literature and El Mathematics Educator Award of the Iowa Alumni are welcome on campus any time, Espectador. Council of Teachers of Mathematics at a but tying a visit in with one of these events He received Spain 's Bibloteca Breve ceremony in Cedar Rapids February 14. may provide an extra inducement. D Prize in 1967 for his novel A Change of It was only the second time that the Skin. He received Venezuela' s Rumulo award has been presented since its Gallego prize in 1977 and Mexico's Javier inception in 1967. Villaurrutia Prize in 1975 for his novel In addition to his teaching and software Terra Nostra. Fuentes has also received development work, Wiederar:iders serves Mexico's Alfonso Reyes Prize and the as head of the mathematics department at National Award for Literature in Price Lab School. He joined the Northern recognition of the body of his work, which Iowa faculty in 1958. D has been published in 25 languages . D 7 Non-traditional student group formed; part-time, older students welcomed

An organization has been formed on campus to help non-traditional age students get the most out of college. The Northern Iowa Non-Traditional Students Association (NINTSA) was established in February under the auspices of the Counseling Center. It is open to students who are attending part time or at night, or who are in an age group older than the traditional 18-to-21 years. NINTSA plans to provide social and academic support to students who may sometimes feel left out of the mainstream of campus life. Currently, about 20 percent of undergraduate students attend part time, while almost 70 percent of graduate students attend part time. An estimated one-third of all Northern Iowa students also fall into the non-traditional age category. NINTSA sponsors noon lunches three days a week at Maucker Union, where non-traditional students can meet each other and hear presentations about campus services, student experiences and academic concerns. The University's interest in non­ traditional students was reflected in a letter to the editor written by a faculty member and published in the Waterloo Courier in January. Responding to a network television program that showed an insensitive college professor's treatment of WHEN THE DUST SETTLES LATER THIS YEAR, this will be the new home of Northern Iowa's non-traditional students, Martha Reineke Department of Art. A formal dedication cermony and open house are planned for Saturday, wrote "I have yet to meet a colleague who October 26 in conjunction with Parents' Weekend. Among those scheduled to attend the has an attitude toward adult students ... ceremony are Governor Terry Branstad and former department head Joe Ruffo, who is now even vaguely comparable" to the one chairman of the Department of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. depicted on the program . "Professors at UNI look forward to having non-traditional students in our Jo Curris teaches classes, " she wrote. Such students "seem to do so well because they truly want to be two law courses in in college. They care about their classes and they make an effort to ask questions School of Business and to clarify points," she added. "These attitudes delight professors." Jo Curris, wife of the president of the Reineke, an assistant professor of University, joined the faculty this spring as religion, went on to write that " when an Dedication of art building a temporary instructor in the Department adult student enters a class at UNI she or of Management, teaching two sections he may be well assured that she or he is scheduled for October 26. each of Business Law I and II. most welcome. My colleagues and I wish Mrs. Curris was chosen as one of three there were more of you in our finalists for the vacancy by a departmental c.lasses." D search committee. She was then named to the position by Dean Robert Waller of the School of Business, with her appointment confirmed in December by the Board of Regents. Mrs. Curris' background includes a bachelor's degree in political science, a law degree, and a master's degree in tax law. She has taught economics and political science at the college level and has practiced law for five years. D

8 Duane Johnson serves second stint as Newbery Medal judge

What was the best children's book served as a Newbery judge. He was published in 1984? According to Duane appointed to the panel in 1980. This year John son donated books to Johnson, an ass istant professor of library he was one of eight elected judges, chosen University Library. science, it was Robin McKinley's The Hero by members of the American Association and the Crown, a fantasy-adventure story for Library Services to Children . published by Greenwillow. The judges met in Dallas last summer to Johnson's opinion carries some weight. establish procedures for the January He was one of 1 5 persons nationwide who meeting in Washington. The University served as judges for the prestigious John paid for Johnson's transportation to and Newbery Meda l, awarded annually to the from both meetings. At the conclusion of finest work of children's literature. More the competition, he donated the books he than 150 books were considered in th e had purchased or received from publishers competition, which was held in January in to the University Library. Washington, D.C. (McKinley's book, Johnson has been a member of the Johnson's choice, was named the winner.) library science faculty since 1979, where This was the second time Johnson has he teaches children's Iiterature . D

PEN/NEA project cites Gay Talese addresses three English faculty; 'Critic Conference' stories to be published Gay Talese, the best-selling author of such books as Honor Thy Father, Thy Three faculty members in the Neighbor's Wife and The Kingdom and the Department of English Language and Power, delivered the 13th annual H. W. Literature have been named winners in the Reninger Lecture April 12 in conjunction 1985 PEN/National Endowment for the with the Iowa Student as Critic Conference Arts (NEA) Syndicated Fiction Project, an at Northern Iowa. The title of his lecture annual competition that selects quality was " Intimacy from Without." short fi ction for publication in such The Conference is associated with a regional newspapers as the Chicago statewide essay competition for high Tribune, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, school and college students. A record Kansas City Sta r and San Francisco number of essays were submitted this year, Chronicle. and more than 400 persons attended the Stories by professors Jerry Klinkowitz day-long Conference at the Education ("Ball Two"), Nancy Price Thompson Center. The Conference was established in ("Cover Girl") and Robley Wilson ("The 198 1 and is presented by the Department Deel i ne of the West") were chosen from of English Language and Literature in Ta Iese among 3,000 entries. Only writers who are conjunction with Continuing Education members of PEN (an international writers and Special Programs. organization), have published two books Talese spoke at the awards banquet, previously or who have received a where certificates and cash prizes were fellowship from the National Endowment presented to the writers of the best essays for the Arts were eligible for selection. as judged by members of the Northern There were 62 winners chosen Iowa English faculty. Winning essays will nationally. This was the first time that all be published this fall in an annual volume th ree entries from a single university have entitled Critical Thinking/Critical Writing. won in the same year. Talese is currently a Poynter Fellow in Two stori es by Thompson, " The Journalism at Yale University. He is co­ Trucker and the Mermaid" and "They editing an anthology of " new journalism" Don't Li sten," were se lected for with Barbara Lounsberry, an associate publication in the 1983 PEN/NEA professor of English and a co-director of competition. A story by Klinkowitz, " Fi ve the Conference. Their book, The Literature Bad Hands, and the Wild Mouse Folds," of Reality, will be published by Harper and was a winner in 1984. (An excerpt from Row later this year. D Klinkowitz's story was reprinted in the July 1984 Alumnus). D

9 A personal view Iowa, the Midwest and the Future

by Kevin Boatright With spring planting now under way in the Midwest, it is well to remember that If we could first know where we are, and there will be a future, and that swords can whither we are tending, we could then be hammered into plowshares. better judge what to do, and how to do Visions of that future vary widely, it. however. The pessimist sees tumbleweeds blowing across Interstate 80. The optimist These words of Lincoln's, spoken on sees silver linings in every cloud. The the eve of civil war, describe the dilemma realist sees a Midwest that's fundamentally faced by Midwesterners today. We sense a sound, with many strengths, but a region crisis in agriculture. We sense a change in undergoing drastic change that will create economic and social values. We, like both hardship and opportunity for those Economic growth is Lincoln, might prefer to calmly think it who can weather the storm. "number one issue." through, but the future, long deferred, is now upon us with a terrible swift sword. Investing in growth That sword has taken the form of farm One such realist is David Swanson, foreclosures, plant closings, and blue­ director of the Center for Industrial collar and white-collar lay-offs. It has Research and Service at Iowa State taken the form of family violence, University and a member of the state's migration to the "Sun Belt," and High Technology Council. Speaking in widespread feelings of despair and Cedar Falls on February 12, he provided helplessness. an update on issues he touched on in a July 1983 Alumnus article. According to Swanson, Iowa has taken steps to solve some of the problems identified in the 1983 report of the High Technology Task Force, which he chaired. There is now a statewide commitment .to economic growth , he said. "It is the number one issue in the state of Iowa." He cited the creation of the permanent High Technology Council as another positive step, along with the formation of a semi­ public venture capital fund to support business start-ups in Iowa. Some efforts have been made, said Swanson, in and out of the General Assembly to boost the four key areas of growth identified by the Task Force: biotechnology, microelectronics, productivity enhancement and the development of alternative energy sources. The legislature has also made changes in laws that will help develop and encourage industry and investment. It's ironic, said Swanson, that before 1984 in Iowa "you could bet on a horse but not on a [new] company." Less restrictive laws now make it easier for companies to register and sell their stock in the state. " Iowa has to invest in growth," said Swanson, and " high tech is the only future Rust or high tech? Iowa faces a severe challenge to its future. we've got." Cold weather, high taxes and

10 THE CAUFORNIAS HAVE THE BEST EDUCATED WORKFORCE IN THE COUNTRY

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An example of how other states tout education as an asset for economic development. few natural resources need not pose a mere 0.2 percent, ranked the state 45th [Among those from Northern Iowa who obstacles to that growth. Massachusetts in the country. When Swanson asks high participated were President Curris; Rick and Minnesota, high tech leaders, have school students where they want to live, Stinchfield, director of planning and policy equa lly cold winters, he said. California most of them say "Iowa." When he asks management; Roy Chung, associate has higher taxes and Japan has fewer them where they expect to live, most say professor of geography; Doug Vernier, resources, but that hasn't held them back. " somewhere else." Their perception, director of broadcasting; and Ben Clausen, already, is that the best opportunities exist associate professor of biology.] Biggest export: people outside of the state. That's a perception The two-day conference focused on a that has to change. variety of subjects, including technological What Iowa and the Midwest have change, international economics, land learned, sa id Swanson, albeit the hard Iowa at a "crossroads" use, the arts and quality of life, the future way, is that they are not recession proof, of education, and population trends. The nor are they isolated from increasingly One attempt at finding out "where we conference was held to identify and fierce international competition. What are, and whither we are going" in the discuss these issues rather than to solve industries we have are concentrated in too Midwest was held last November at Drake them, according to Lieutenant Governor few areas, usually tied to an uncertain farm University in Des Moines. The University Robert Anderson. In his introduction, he economy. By expanding into high of Northern Iowa was a co-sponsor of a said: technology industries, and by applying conference entitled "Iowa and the Future: high technology to existing, mature Creating New Directions for Public Policy industries, Swanson believes the region and Private Action." ca n recover, but not without scars. " Iowa's going to be a different state, " said Swanson, with fewer family farms and Iowa's future depends a more urban orientation. While Iowa has on good tea chers and a so lid industrial and agricultural base, good students . At left, there has to be a dramatic change in the Nile Vernon of Modern way we and others see ourselves. Languages. We have to be perceived as an area with opportunities, rather than a " dust

11 bowl" or "frost bel,1 a place to move to rather than a place to leave. " People and capital go toward opportunity," said Swanson , and right now that means states such as California, Texas, Colorado, Florida, and North Carolina, states that have invested heavily in a long-term push for economic development. The economy of the future will emphasize " people- and skill-oriented industries," said Swanson, with companies seeking an educated workforce in locations relatively free from overcrowding, crime and pollution. That's an opportunity for Iowa, if it can only keep the educated people it already has . In recent years, said Swanson, " our biggest export has not been corn but people." A high percentage of new Iowa State graduates in engineering and other technical fields, for example, leave the state . Population growth in Iowa last year, The state of Iowa is at a "crossroads" faith in the harvest. It's the belief that a with the future. Our most precious seed stuck in the April mud will amount to resources, our people and our land, face something of value, the belief that an social and economic changes of such investment made today will enrich us and magnitude that they are affecting the our children tomorrow. Education, at all survival of our state as a viable place to live. levels, is one such seed. In addition, there are outstanding Such conferences help focus attention colleges and unversities here that are on central issues that affect everyone in working on the research that will fuel a agriculture, small business, industry and resurgence, and teaching the men and education. Unfortunately, the voices women who will lead that resu rgence, if speaking there were not as loud nor as they can only be persuaded to stay. widely heard as the voices of auctioneers, Simple-minded optimism, or desperate gaveling down debt-burdened farms. Nor compromise, won't solve the problems of were they as loud as the slamming of a the Midwest, nor will interstate warfare. factory's front gate. There is power in Dakotans, Kansans and Iowans working together rather than Best investment: education against each other in the area of economic development. The communal spirit Is it "too late" for Iowa ·and the engrained in the Midwest should have a Midwest? Let's hope not, but beyond chance to exert itself within and across simply hoping, what can we as alumni, we artificial state boundaries. as a university and we as a people do to The statement of Lincoln's quoted ensure the future of our state and region? earlier was made when he was an Illinois Some good advice came recently from attorney running for office. Four yea rs Nebraska Governor Robert Kerrey. later, as president, both holding the power Speaking in Des Moines on Iowa Public and bearing the responsibil ity, he said: Te levision's "Iowa Press" program he said, "As you look to the future, you can't be The dogmas of the quiet past, are timid . . .. You've got to believe that inadequate to the stormy present. The future is going to exist." occasion is piled high with difficulty, and He was answering a question we must rise with the occasion. As our concerning his state's efforts at economic case is new, so we must think anew, and growth, undertaken in the face of problems act anew. We must disenthrall our selves, The future is on campus right now, but will sim ilar to Iowa's. An area of particular and then we sha ll save our country. students such as these choose to stay in the emphasis, he said, is the state's obligation Midwest? to provide "as good an education as There may be no better prescription than possible." Toward that end, he said: that for the future of Iowa and the Midwest. It's a prescription, however, that We've got to counter these people who places the future where it belongs: in the Oral history project say that's too expense. . .. It wasn't courage and will of an educated and expense to my parents who invested in farsighted people. D gives farmers a chance my education. They did it because they recognized it was an investment in the to tell their stories future, and we've got to do the same thing. Phyllis Scott Carlin, an associate professor of interpretation in the Kerrey noted that Nebraska built its Department of Communication and Theatre Arts, is talking about the farm state capitol in the midst of the Great crisis with the persons most directly Depression . "We didn't build that involved: failing farmers. structure," he said, "because we thought She is conducting a series of oral we were going to go out of business in the history interviews with farmers who are 1930s. We believed there was going to be Courage, cooperation and the facing the prospect of foreclosure or a future. " bankruptcy. The interviews will Before we can do anything else, we planter's stubborn faith. eventually be compiled into a book must first believe there's going to be a "documenting the history of farm losses future for the Midwest. Then we must be in the words of the farmers themselves," says Carlin. willing to invest in that future, and the best Participants in the project are being place to invest is in education. asked to provide background about their farms, how they acquired them, why they "Think anew ... act anew" think they're having difficulties, what This is a region, after al l, with many solutions they see to the problem and demonstrated, marketable virtues. Its what future they see in agriculture for their own children. people are hard-working. Its farms are " I see the project as a study in productive. Its location is central. Its communication," says Carlin. " I'm attitude toward non-agricultural industry is giving farmers a chance to communicate changing, out of necessity, but its their stories so that people will later have commitment to conservation of the the historical documentation to environment remains strong. understand what happened." 0 Another virtue, less easily demonstrated, is the planter's stubborn 12 Cedar Fal ls, IA. - The thing about serious music, figures Peter Hamlin, is that ypu shouldn't take it too seriously. In fact, if all the stuffed shirts in the world would just gargle to Grieg or Beethoven once in a while, it might change their whole outlook on life. Anyway, it did Hamlin's. " I remember in seventh grade I was listening to songs about cars and didn't know anything about classical music - except that it was serious," recalls Hamlin while spinning discs during his popular program "Concert Classics" (weekdays 9 a.m.-1 p.m.) at public radio station KUNI here. " Then one day I was watching Soupy Sales on television and he started gargling to the William Tell Overture. I thought that was just great!" And a not-quite-so-serious serious music lover was born. Which is how Peter Hamlin, 33, became the pied piper of classics in these parts. By adding a bit of slapstick to Strauss and some humor to Handel, he has yanked uppity music off its high horse and brought it down to earth where it can be the fanfare for the common man. " Having fu n with music just adds listeners, " says Hamlin. " Why not mellow out so people don't feel like they have to wear a tux to turn on the radio? I try to do theme shows every now and then - some of them are funny and some of them are not. Quite frankly, I do them to bring attention to the show." And attention he gets. His most offbeat special to date, a program entitled " Classical Hate Mail," drew newspaper coverage from as far away as Grinnell in addition to a flood of letters from listeners who had been waiting for years to castigate composers of concertos that make their skin crawl. In this 1982 photo, Hamlin shows how he and tubist Fritz Kaenzig recorded the award-winning They bad-mouthed Copland, Gershwin, "Tuba Wars. " Smetana and Pachelbel. They lampooned Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Ravel and Pachelbel some more. They ripped Debussy, Wagner, Mussorgsky and, you guessed it, Pachelbel again . Oh, did they KUNI's Peter Hamlin do a number on old Pachelbel. The poor man was treated with less respect than Tiny Tim. " Pachelbel's canon was the grand champion most-hated piece," says Hamlin. " Actually, I don't think it's the He yanks uppity music music itself that people hate. It's the fact that they've heard it so much, over and over again, that it drives them crazy." Hamlin tries to keep repeat off its high horse performances from happening much on his show. After all, this is not Top 40 stuff. A little bit of Berlioz goes a long way. " The funny part about the 'classical By Va lerie Monson hate mail' show was that I would read their letter on the air - and then I played the Reprinted with permission from the December 2, 1984 Des Moines Sunday Register selection they had just sounded off © Copyright 1985, Des Moines Register and Tribune Company against," says Hamlin with a wink. " A few days later I heard from some people who said they didn't write in because they

13 creative and the listeners are unbelievable in their support." That's the flip side of the job Hamlin left in California. "In San Diego, radio is considered a frill, there's so much else to do out there," he says. " Here, radio is vital. We have farmers who listen to us in the cabs of their tractors or in the dairy barn. We give weather bulletins when needed because here it's a life and death matter." So, you see, Peter Hamlin can be completely serious about his work. Indeed, his show is not all goofing around. And Hamlin knows his classics. He shares little tidbits about the composers, the music, the inspiration behind it, with his audience so "they know what the composer was trying to say." His selection of records is serious, too. "Play it again, Ham?" Former announcer Jennifer Alt "swoons" in this 1983 KUNI publicity He tries to fit the music with the current photo. day. "On my way to work in the morning I couldn't bear the thought that I would play talk with people to see how they are the music they hated." feeling," says Hamlin, who bicycles to the Hamlin has been clowning around with UNI campus every day - through ice, the classics in Iowa for just four years now. muck and snow. "The mood of the day His own musical tastes defy categorizing. creates a desire for certain types of music. His personal record collection includes a That's why I do my shows live." "concerto" of tuned bricks, African folk He seems to be at his best, though, music, some Fats Waller and early Beatles. when he's off gargling to some concerto. " I buy records that are so weird you'll And that attitude has helped him pull in 11 / like working with people who never see them again," he admits. two national awards for local programming see the possibilities of things. " If you think his music is off-the-wall, among public radio stations. In 1982 he wait until you hear what he thinks about won for " Tuba Wars," a delightful spoof Iowa weather. on Star Wars in which tubas from the "I love the weather here! I even love Oompire are eventually conquered by The the winters," cries this man who was Force, a band of renegade flutes and a rai sed in New Jersey, schooled in Vermont piano. Last year he captured the prize for and left a job in balmy San Diego for the " Christmas with Mr. Grump," which is wind chills of the Midwest. " People here almost a blend of Dr. Seuss' Grinch with go crazy about the weather, they don't Peter and the Wolf. seem to appreciate it. The weather in San " I had always dreamed of making a B­ Diego is a big bore." grade science fiction movie," says Hamlin. You can have your sunny Californias " I had no idea I'd get to do it with 'Tuba and arid Arizonas, says Hamlin. Give him Wars."' a good ole Iowa blizzard any day. The music was provided by the "There's something about Iowa, maybe Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, and it's a sense of roots here that you don't several friends were all too happy to play have in San Diego," he says. "I just didn't the parts of R-Tuba, D-Tuba, Fluke feel I belonged there. You know, Wingwalker and Okie-Wan-Koboji. sometimes you have an old couch in the "It's great that the administration treats rec room that you always sit on even this as an art form," says Hamlin. " I like though it doesn't look good. Well, San working with people who see the Diego has all the glitter, but it's not as possibilities of things rather than worrying comfortable as Iowa." about the practical things." Besides, Hamlin says that in the world Because, too much practical stuff, like of public radio stations, KUNI is the cream San Diego weather, can get to be a drag. of the crop. And, as Peter Hamlin knows, everybody " This has got to be one of the top ought to gargle to the classics at least once public stations in the country," admits in their lives. Hamlin, sitting behind the panel of lights, Or maybe even boogie to a concerto of switches and controls in his white-glove tuned bricks. D clean studio at the KUNI office that still smells new. "This place is beautifully designed, we can do live shows, plug into different studios and we've got a remote van. The University of Northern Iowa has really been committed to the station, the KUNl's Peter Hamlin in a more serious moment. administration encourages you to be

14 New law forces change

Drinking age is a campus concern again

After more than a decade as a non­ At Northern Iowa, an "Age 21 issue, the legal drinking age is once again Committee," composed of students and haunting administrators at Northern Iowa staff, was formed last fall to recommend and other campuses. program and policy changes in response to Iowa and most other states are raising the new laws. Its report is due in May. their lega l drinking age to 21 this year, in While no specific responses have been response to national legislation that ties announced, a change in thinking is already compliance to the granting of federal under way. Here and elsewhere, efforts to highway funds. control excessive drinking and educate The legislation was designed to help students about alcohol will be diluted by red uce the toll of alcohol-related highway an added consideration: the need to deaths, but its impact will be felt first at enforce the law among a mixed lega l/ colleges and universities, most of whose illegal student body. One result of changes in state law will be a modified "Wine and Dine" program, below. students are 21 or younger. Residence hall problems With the state's drinking age now 19, about 80 percent of Northern Iowa students can legally drink. Anyone old enough to drink now will still be able to dri nk after the law takes effect June 30, but by 1987 about 80 percent of Northern Iowa students w ill not be able to drink. The Age 21 Committee was set up to help deal with that reversed situation. According to Drake Martin, chairman of the Committee, there are no plans to make Northern Iowa a total ly "dry" campus, with alcohol prohibited everywhere. Beer is now sold on campus at Maucker Union. Alcohol is also sold at Strayer-Wood Theatre and in the Athletic Club area of the UNI-Dome. Wine and cash-bar service is available during catered banquets in the dining centers (see article on page 22). These locations will probably continue to serve alcohol. The biggest change will come in the residence halls themselves, where parties serving both alcohol and soft drinks are now permitted under stri ct guidelines and where of-age individuals may drink in their rooms. Given the difficulty of enforcing age limits at such parties, they would probably be limited in the future to serving non-alcoholic beverages only. Under-age students drinking in their own rooms w ill present a special problem. How should a student res ident ass istant (RA) react when she sees students drinking illegally? If she upholds the law, she may limit her effectiveness as a peer counselor. If she reports some students and not others,

15 she risks being charged w ith favoritism. position is necessary, regardless of the One successful residence program, legal drinking age. " Wine and Dine," w ill have to undergo some changes, too. Wine and Dine gives Alternatives to drinking students an opportunity to enjoy a fine There will be other side effects of the mea l with w ine in the dining center, w ith change in drinki ng age at Northern Iowa. faculty members serving as table hosts. Part of the advertising that supports the The wine aspect of the program w ill Northern Iowan student newspaper, for eventually be dropped, says Martin, example, is alcohol-related. With a though the program itself w ill continue in a sh ri nking lega l market of college students, modified form . this advertisi ng may shrink in volume, and Martin fea rs that the new law may the newspaper along w ith it. cause what it was intended to prevent. On campus, the University w ill be Students w ho cannot legally drink at an challenged to provide non-alcohol-related A challenge to provide non­ on-campus party may drive off campus to activities and programs. This may include alcohol-related activities attend unsupervised parties. The problem maki ng athleti c faci lities more ava ilable for of excessive drinking w ill have been longer periods of time. It may also mean and programs. transferred by automobile from a extending library hours or doing more controlled setti ng to an uncontrolled social programming in the residence halls. setting, says Martin. · The Age 21 Committee is developing Another hitch is the possibility that recommendations in this area. Wisconsin, along with Florida, might defy While the goa l of reducing Alcohol­ the federal govern ment by refusing to ra ise related traffic accidents has merit, the its drinking age. Under-age students in move to raise the lega l drinking age carries Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, an element of hypocrisy. Citizens who can Decorah, Dubuque or the Quad Cities vote, marry, die in combat or give birth would be able to get around Iowa's law by will not be able to legally drink a beer. The driving two hours or less to W isconsin. problem of alcoholism and alcohol-related The sa me would hold true for students driving deaths is severe in the United from Minnesota and Illinois. States, and growing, but raising the drinking age alone may have little effect on Alcohol educator on " hold" solving that problem. Martin and the Committee recognize This is especially true so long as there that students are still going to drink, are so few restrictions on the advertising of regard less of the legal age li mit. The alcohol over television and radio. University's abi lity to deal with alcohol According to Washington Post columnist consumption directly and in an Colman McCarthy, "the advertising educational way w ill be less open, budgets of alcohol companies swelled by however, since drinking w il l be less open. 203 percent" between 1970 and 1980. " There will be a little less pressu re to " What [companies are] selling is a drink," says Martin, "and a little less lifestyle," he says. " No one is ever so crass drinking. Those who wouldn't drink as to refer to alcohol as a drug .. . The Students at Marion High School did some anyway still won't, but those who do w ill message is unceasingly drummed into research and found that an arrest for be more secretive about it. " Americans that drinking is not only normal drunken driving would cost them a Students age 18 to 21 want to but downright necessary for relief from a minimum of $3,200. Among the 19 experiment, says Martin, and alcohol use hard day or to inspire a night of fun . The things you could buy with $3,200, they is a form of experimentation. For many, product is ra rely described as a drug or its reported, are one year of college, 914 drinking represents a "rite of passage" into abusers described as addicts." Ra ising the movie tickets, 11 9 pairs of jeans, 80 pairs of shoes, 6, 400 soft drinks, 2,660 gallons adulthood. Alcohol and drug abuse often drinking age, by itse lf, is a puny response of gasoline and 324.9 pizzas. stems from deeper personal problems, says to a more pervasive problem of media Martin, problems that w il l still exist after accountabi lity. Among the dozens of free or cheap things June 30. Fa ir or unfair, the burden of you can do at Iowa State for the price of a To help students deal with those enforcement and education is being six-pack of beer ($2.50-$3.00) are the problems and the resulting abuse, an effort handed back to America's universities. following: is under way at Northern Iowa to hire a Northern Iowa's Age 21 Committee is just staff member for alcohol/drug education one response to changing conditions, • Go to the English Department and referral. A survey conducted in 1983 which may change again, according to movies • Have three malts by the Office of Student Research Martin. • Buy and mail three birthday cards documented the extent of the drinking " If the federal government were to ever • Surprise someone with a flower problem among students (see The UNI repeal its age limitation," he says, " The • Make a 15-minute long-distance Century, March 1984), and it was hoped states would probably do likewise." Then phone call after 11 p.m. the results would justify adding the Northern Iowa would be back where it • Buy some goldfish position. began, except, perhaps, with an " Age 19 • Tour the ISU Greenhouses Th at proposal has lain dormant for the Committee." 0 past year, both for financial reasons and (Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette and ISU Alcohol Education Coordinator) because of the transition in vice presidents for educati onal and student services. The Department of Residence and other departments remain convinced th at such a

16 Report urges action Neglected humanities an 'unclaimed legacy'

today in col leges and universities. What Bennett. " Most of our col lege graduates If you criticize hi gher education, some peo ple will react like you have invaded Bennett and the group found was not remain shortchanged in the the sanctuary, that you 're breaking encouraging. human ities ... The fault lies principally windows in church, that you've attacked To Reclaim a Legacy: A Report on the with those of us whose bu siness it is to the high priests of our culture.• Humanities in Higher Education was educate these students." Statistics indicate written by Bennett in the aggress ive style the extent if not the nature of the problem. Before b~coming the outspoken U.S. that has become his trademark . It is a Between 1970 and 1982, the number of secretary of education in February, disarmingly frank appraisal of what bachelor's degrees received in humanities William Bennett was director of the "curriculum tinkering" (in the word s of the subjects dropped sharply. While the National Endowment for the Humanities. late Josef Fox) and institutional confusion number of degrees in all subjects rose 11 In that capacity, he and a nationwide study have done to the core of higher education. perce nt during thi s period, the number of group broke some symbolic church " A co llege education worthy of the degrees rece ived fell dramati ca lly in windows last year with a critical 32-page name must be constructed upon a Engli sh (57%), philosophy (41 %), history report examining th e state of the foundation of the humanities," says (62%) and modern languages (5 0%). humanities as th ey are taught and learned

*Th e Chronicle of Higher Education, February 27, 1985, p. 24 .

These students of Spanish are in the minority in college today. Most study no foreign language at all.

I those who share a common culture ca n recognize themselves as "shareholders in our civilization ." For all their importance, " the humanities are being taught and learned with uneven success" on college campuses. Uninspired teaching and ill­ conceived curricula are resulting in a wholesale rejection of the humanities by students. "We in the academy have fai led to bring the humanities to life," says Bennett, "and to insist on their value. " For many students, introductory courses are the on ly exposure th ey will ever have to th e humanities. Most of these courses are taken during the first two yea rs of college, often in oversize classes taught by graduate ass istants or inexperienced, part-time in stru ctors. The best facu lty are " spared" for upper-level and graduate courses offered to majors in the department. Some sen ior faculty members are themselves ill-prepared to teach The humanities dea l w ith " life 's enduring, What's more, between 1975 and 1983 introductory courses, says Bennett, fundamenta l questions." Above, Donna Maier of there was a 42 percent drop in the number because "our graduate schools produce History. of high school se niors planning to major in too many narrow specialists whose a humanities subject. teaching is often lifeless, stilted, and Equally troubling is the fact that many pedestrian ... [and who are] oriented colleges now require little or no more toward resea rch , publication, and humanities exposure as part of a core or teaching graduate students than toward "general education" requirement for ed ucating nonmajors and generalists." graduation. It is possible, for example, to graduate from nea rly three out of four U .S. Curriculum "erosion" colleges without having taken any courses Of equal concern to Bennett and the in America n literature, European history or study group was th e humanities curriculum ancient civilizations. itself. While stating that "each institution " What we have on many of our must decide for itself what it considers an campuses is an unclaimed legacy," says educated person to be," Bennett went on Bennett, "a course of studies in which the to distinguish between successful and humanities have been siphoned off, un successful programs. diluted, or so adu lterated that students " In successful institutions," says graduate knowing little of their heritage." Bennett, "an awareness of what the college or university is trying to do acts as Life's key issues a unifying principle, a thread that runs The importance of knowing one's through and ties together the faculty, the heritage is a recurring theme in the report. curriculum, the students, and the What is special about the humanities? administration." The curriculum, in other What ca n courses in history, literature or words, reflects th e mi ss ion of the the arts do for a student that courses in institution. It relates to and fits in with science, education or business can not? everyth in g else . Th e humanities, says Bennett, deal with " If an institution has no clearly life's key issues, issues that confront conceived and articulated se nse of itself," everyone regardless of their future he adds, " its efforts to design a curriculum occupation. " Th e humanities tell us how will result in little more than an men and women of our own and other educational garage sa le, possibly sati sfy ing civilizations have grappled with life's most campus factions but serving no real " We in the academy have failed enduring, fundamental questions. What is purpose and adding up to nothing of significance." to bring the humanities to life. 11 justice? What shou ld be loved? What deserves to be defended? What is courage? The study group identified five featu res What is noble? What is base? Why do common to any good humanities civilizations flourish? Why do they cu rri cu lum : decline?" Studying such questions enriches rather than detracts from a st udent's career 1) Balance between breadth and depth interests. There should be both concentration and genera lization . "These questions are not simply 2) Original texts as sources of study diversions for intellectuals or playthings of Use of seco ndary works and textbooks the idle," he says . Knowledge of the should be discouraged. humanities imparts to students "an 3) Continuity of study informed sense of community, " where The humanities should be studied

18 throughout a student's college life, not perceived as something to " get out of the way" during the first two years. 4) Faculty strength The curriculum should reflect the strengths of the faculty. 5) Conviction about the centrality of the humanities Faculty must be advocates for the humanities as a rigorous body of knowledge and means of inquiry.

According to Bennett, " the past twenty years have seen a steady erosion in the place of the humanities in the undergraduate curriculum and in the coherence of the curriculum generally." He places the blame for this erosion on "a collective loss of nerve and faith on the past of both faculty and academic administrators during the late 1960s and early 1970s." Because of pressure from students, "the curriculum was no longer a statement about what knowledge mattered; instead, it became the product of a political compromise among competing schools and departments, overlaid by marketing considerations" related to student recruitment. One result, says Bennett, has been a The humanities enrich rather than detract from a student's career interests. decline in the quality and quantity of humanities study in high schools. Because colleges have de-emphasized these opposition to one another or to protect conception of what a graduate of their subjects as admissions requirements, high departmental turf." institution ought to know or be. " schools have de-emphasized them as To Reclaim a Legacy is finally a The reason for this, concludes Bennett, graduation requirements. "When high manifesto for stronger leadership in higher is that " the humanities ... have lost their school graduates enter college," he says, education. " Many academic leaders," he central place in the undergraduate " they are poorly prepared in basic says, "lack the confidence to assert that curriculum." When the humanities are knowledge of the humanities as well as in the curriculum should stand for something restored to central importance, America's such essential skills as reading and more than salesmanship, compromise, or colleges and universities will have done writing." special interest politics. Too many colleges much to provide their students with " an (Bennett does cite three examples of and universities have no clear sense of education worthy of our heritage." D "bright spots" in the return to a core their educational mission and no humanities curriculum, one of them Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids. Their experience, he says, " proves that the drift toward curricular disintegration can be reversed" without a decline in enrollment.) General Education Program under

Faculty support needed review at Northern Iowa Bennett concludes with a challenge to The 1984 report of the Select Committee on literature or a second language. All students are academic leaders and their faculties. University Planning (SCU P) made its highest required to take a one-semester course "Curricular reform must begin with the priority the need to strengthen and focus the (Humanities I or Humanities II) that surveys [college] president," he says, citing as General Education Program at Northern Iowa. literature, philosophy, religion, fine arts and the "alarming" the finding that only 2 percent As a result, a nine-member General history of Western civilization during half of the of those presidents interviewed for the Education Committee was formed last fall by the period from ancient times to the present. No deeper study of the humanities is required. study said they play a major role in Faculty Senate, charged with recommending a A faculty survey conducted by the General academic affairs. There are many steps a new or modified general education curriculum for the University. Education Committee showed wide support for president can take in this connection, says The current curriculum, adopted in the early redesigning the existing General Education Bennett, among them "rewarding good 1970s, requires all undergraduate students to Program . Nearly three quarters of those teaching in hiring, promotion, and tenure take a minimum of 40 hours spread over 12 responding favored requiring a core of decisions." categories, with some exposure in each prescribed courses that everyone would have to He goes on to say that "curriculum category. Under this program, a wide variety of take regardless of their academic major, with cannot be reformed without the options is possible; a student can receive a solid fewer options in a smaller number of categories. enthusiastic support of the faculty." Where background in the humanities or a highly The final shape of any new General superficial one. Education proposal is far from complete. The such reform has taken place it was because committee will meet through May 7 and then "administrators and faculty worked To graduate from Northern Iowa, for example, you need not study U.S. literature or submit its report to the Faculty Senate for further together toward a common goal, not in history, nor do you need to study world action. D

19 Northern Exposures .. Photos by Bill Witt

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sing) for it's Spring

21 by Kevin Boatright

Remember those dining hall meals of beige spuds and beige meat, floating in ladlefuls of gravy on a beige Melmac™ plate? Forget it. Commons food is "common" no more. Prepare yourself, instead, for a glazed chicken breast delicately fanned out on a porcelain plate in the shape of a peacock, garnished with parsley and a fresh shrimp for its head . Imagine succulent prime rib, twice-baked potatoes with cheese topping, and a glass of spirited yet unassuming wine. A waiter serves from the left, removes from the right. Harp music fills the air. Instead of food, imagine cuisine. That's today's Commons. Well, not a// the time, and not for everyone. But for special occasions and for special guests, the staff and faci I ities at Commons, Towers and Redeker dining centers can prepare and serve some of the finest banquet meals anywhere. The University's ability to host large dinners in high style is a relatively new service. "We've always done some catered meals," says Clark Elmer, director of residence, a department that includes Alumnus T. Wayne Davis, center, was among those who attended a dinner last fall for visiting Dining Services. "But the emphasis now is Chinese guests. on quality. It's the difference between swiss steak and succotash and, well, the Chinese dinners."

A service to the University Ah, yes, the "Chinese dinners." Every Deluxe campus catering discussion of special food services inevitably includes them. They are the standard for all other dinners served on campus, and their opulence has attained the status of legend. The dinners, held on March 24 and September 5 of last year, honored visiting delegations of dignitaries from two universities in the People's Republic of China: Guangxi University and Shaanxi China and glass Normal University. The multiple-course meals featured such delicacies as Consomme Bellevue, Chicken Marsala and fresh salmon in tomato aspic. There was champagne, wine, fresh fruit and mousse. means 'first class' There was sculptured ice, floral decorations, music by faculty and students, and a dinner program printed in Mandarin Chinese. In addition to the guests from China, banquet dining invited alumni and friends of the University also attended the dinners (sponsored and paid for by the UNI Foundation), which were arguably the most lavish and elegant affairs ever held at Northern Iowa. Those impertinent enough to ask what ice swans and salmon have to do with higher education get a straightforward answer from Elmer. " We provide a service to the University," he says. "We also help develop Northern Iowa's public image as

22 an institution. You do form a good banquet and catering operations. As host impression of the University when you and hostess for the Chinese dinners and attend a catered meal, and that's one way other events, they have encouraged Elmer of working with people, of doing and his staff to develop more sophisticated business." services. One result has been the return to campus of class reunion dinners and Meals for campus meetings dinners for " friends" groups. Many catered "Business" can include the entertaining meals are connected with on-campus of visiting lecturers or the entertaining of meetings, such as the Iowa Student as alumni from Coon Rapids . During the past Critic Conference Banquet on April 12, but few months, for example, dinners have Greek chapters and residence hall houses been served on campus for the Midwest can also arrange a catered dinner as a Overseas Recruiting Fair, the student holiday or year-end event. American Marketing Association, the Cedar Falls Rotary Club and a group of Creator of lasting impressions home economics alumni . The list of The glitter of dinners honoring Coretta engagements has grown right along with Scott King, the UNI Foundation President's Dining Services' reputation for flair and Club or the State Board of Regents rubs off, good food . says Elmer. "We as a staff have learned " This is normally a money-making about food presentation, the dining operation," says Elmer. Generating environment, and the relationship between revenue for the University is certainly one people and food." Students who use benefit of group catering, though student Commons Dining Center every day still room and board fees still account for more may not dine like royalty. They do benefit than 95 percent of the department's as consumers from culinary skills honed budget. under the pressure of banquets held Local hotels and restaurants have raised upstairs in the Ballroom. no objections to the University's growth as The University is hoping that the a caterer, says Elmer, especially since the impression of quality made by such Commons Ballroom is the largest facility of dinners will stay with the participants, and its type in Cedar Falls. For large meetings, that it will extend to more than just food. groups that want fine cooking with all the "Our goal is to do the best we possibly amenities, or groups that prefer a campus can ," says Elmer, "to have our catering location, Dining Services provides an known for its excellence." That's a attractive solution that few private philosophy reflected by similar efforts A Commons dinner menu, hand-lettered in businesses can match. being made throughout the University, in Chinese by Jonathan Lu of Geography. Groups as small as 25 or as large as 300 and out of the classroom . in number can be accommodated. Events " There was a time," says Elmer, "when can be simple luncheons or informal no one objected to paper plates and plastic receptions, as well as formal sit-down cups at receptions. Now we use china and dinners. Costs are comparable to those glass." As the University's host, and the charged at a good restaurant. creator of lasting impressions, Dining President and Mrs. Curris have been Services is helping give Northern Iowa an especially supportive of the University's image that's as classy as its menu. D

Catered meals "help develop Northern Iowa's public image."

Commons staff members put the fin is hing touches on ta ble settings for last spring's dinner for Chinese dignitaries .

23 18-year association

UNI/ Academy partnership promotes science in Iowa

Iowa's most prestigious scientific body The work of the Academy takes many is also one of the most respected forms. Its publications include the organizations of its kind in the country, scholarly Proceedings as well as the Iowa and its home is the University of Northern Science Teachers Journal, which is edited Iowa. by Carl Bol lwinkel, an associate professor In a sense, the Iowa Academy of of teach ing: science at Price Lab School. Science is a scholarly society as well as a Through the Governor's Science Advisory booster club for the advancement of Council, established in 1978, the science and science education. Through its Academy provides guidance to the state on publications, conferences and position science-related policy issues such as Scholarly society a.nd papers, it represents the state's best nitrates in pork, water quality and science collection of knowledge and opinion on education. "Many Academy booster club for science, topics ranging from "scientific recommendations have found their way science education . creationism" to conservation to changes in into legislation," says Macmillan. the Iowa Weed Law. In 1932, an Iowa Junior Academy of Through its recognition program, Science was established for high school student research grants and sponsorship of students, with major funding in recent the new Iowa Science Foundation, the years provided by Pioneer Hi-Bred Academy also provides a catalyst for the International. The Junior Academy promotion of science and technology in publishes a newsletter, funds research the state. projects and supports science fairs. The 11 The Academy's 1,500 members include grants approved for 1984-85 totalled college professors, industrial scientists, $1,200, including $125 to study the effects high school biology teachers, students and of microwaves on corn growth and $64 to conservationists. Seventeen different study the effect of colored light on the disciplines are formally represented by American chameleon. sections, a diversity that flourishes within The Academy supports high school an organization whose members agree on science students in other ways. Each year at least one point: the importance of it pays all expenses for two students to science and science education in Iowa. attend the American Junior Academy of Science conference. It also selects and "Academy serves as a forum" partially funds participation by two The connection between Northern Iowa students in the annual National Youth and the Academy began in 1967, when Science Camp in West Virginia. Robert Hanson, professor of chemistry, The presentation of annual awards is beca me the Academy's first executive another visible Academy program. In director. The University originally addition to awards for outstanding provided little support. Eventual ly, Hanson scientists and science educators in Iowa, received some released time from teaching the Academy also recognizes outstanding and the University allocated office space. high school science students. This latter This subsidy now amounts to about program was begun in 1984 with major $10,000 a year. funding from the Rol screen Company of James Macmillan, an associate Pella. The top science student in each professor of chemistry, succeeded Hanson Iowa high school is eligible to receive an as executive director in 1983. " The engraved medallion. Academy serves as a forum for the The annual Iowa Science Teachers scientific community to meet and act as a Conference is another Academy program group," says Macmillan. As such, it is that directly benefits science students and recognized as " one of the most active state their teachers. The Academy also serves as Carl Bollwinkel is editor of the Iowa academies of science in the country," the administrator for Northern Iowa Science Teachers Journal, co-sponsored something he attributes to Hanson's 16 professor Roy Unruh's PRISMS physics by the Academy and the University. years of service. education program, a two-year, $200,000 24 project funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Importance of Parish Farm Something the Academy doesn't do, says Macmillan, is lobby in Des Moines on behalf of the scientific community. He can't, since he teaches full time during the fall and half time during the spring. "There's enough work to justify a full-time director, as is the case in some states," says Macmillan, " but I've argued against it. It strengthens the Academy being tied to a university, and I think there's value in my still being a practicing scientist." An Academy program that could use some lobbying, says Macmillan, is the Iowa Science Foundation. It was established in 1984 with a state appropriation of $50,000. The Foundation is designed to function like the Iowa Arts Council and Iowa Humanities Board, promoting science and providing grant funding. Eleven different proposals were funded this year, says Macmillan. The Academy has requested substantial increases in state support for the Foundation, but Macmillan acknowledges the votes may be lacking, given Iowa's current financial situation. "We're not trying to compete with the National Science Foundation and its James Macmillan has served as executive director of the Academy since 1983, succeeding Robert Hanson. $50,000 or $100,000 projects," says Macmillan. "They're not interested in Willard Poppy (1976-77) and Clifford this year on ethical concerns related to small, $5,000 grants such as those Mccollum (1979-80). biotechnology. provided by the Iowa Science (Other Northern Iowa faculty who are As Macmillan begins his third year as Foundation." The Academy hopes to currently serving as Academy committee executive director of the Academy, he expand the scope of the Foundation members include Wayne Anderson, earth looks forward to emphasizing such through private support from Iowa-based science; Nixon Wilson, biology; Wanda concerns as soil conservation and water industrial companies. Wehner, chemistry; and Daryl Smith, quality. He also hopes to expand the The other most significant source of biology.) Academy's membership, especially among Academy funding, in addition to $20 Also at the conference, approximately elementary school teachers who teach annual memberships and a $10,000 state 200 scholarly papers will be presented on science. appropriation, is the 240-acre Parish Farm topics of interest to each section of the " People are going to notice the near Reinbeck. The farm was donated to Academy. The business meeting will University of Northern Iowa because of the the Academy in 1960 by the estate of include voting on resolutions relating to Iowa Academy of Science," says Jessie Augusta Parish, M .Did. '05. It is science. At the 1984 conference, for Macmillan. The same thing could be said rented out for farming, with the income example, resolutions were passed on such in reverse. Northern Iowa's 18 years as (about $25,000 annually) used for topics as prairie preservation, the use of host of the Academy has paid off Academy programs. The farm is also used abandoned railroad right-of-ways, the handsomely for both institutions and for to demonstrate conservation farming protection of the Loess Hills and the listing the cause of science and science education methods, and 20 acres are set aside for a of Dubuque's " Mines of Spain" area as a in Iowa. D re-planted native prairie, woodlot and National Natural Landmark. wildlife area. From time to time, the Academy also The Academy's deep interest in the develops position papers on controversial Iowa environment is reflected in the book issues. In 1981, a statement in opposition Iowa's Natural Heritage, a joint project of to the teaching of "scientific creationism" the Academy and the Iowa Natural History in public schools was approved, calling it Iowa Science Foundation Association. The attractive, full-color book "a religious doctrine posed as science" funded 11 proposals during is now in its second printing. and urging the discrimination between "what is science and what is not science." its first year. Creationism a major issue "Creationism is still a major issue," At the 1985 annual conference of the says Macmillan, "and will be for many Academy, scheduled for April 26-27 at years. The Academy's position is that it Central College, John Downey, dean of the should not be taught as science or as a Graduate College, will become the replacement for science." The Academy Academy's fifth president from Northern does not shy away from philosophic Iowa. His predecessors have been C.W. matters, however. Under the auspices of Lantz (1942-43) and emeritus faculty Iowa's High Technology Council, for members J.W. Kercheval (1963-64), example, it plans to sponsor a symposium

25 Roger and Jo Bedard, '68

Mutual support gives strength to dual-career alumni couple

By Melia Tatman, B.A. '80

A "firm sense of partnership" - the homemaker. Like many women in similar going to the beach. They enjoy travelling, willingness to share a complete positions, she had always been and vacationed last summer in California. commitment to their professions and to "something for someone else, never The Bedards also return to Iowa often each other - has helped Roger and Jo somebody by myself. " and mai ntain close ties with their Northern Cowley Bedard, B.A. '68, establish She credits time spent establishing a Iowa classmates. They are part of a group successful dual careers as well as a family. home and being a mother, plus of seven members of the Class of '68 who Along with 12-year-old daughter Sarah, encouragement from Roger, with have affectionately dubbed themselves the Bedards live in Blacksburg, Virginia, "inspiring me to become my own person." "The Mooses" (owing to their fondness for where Roger is coordinator of the M .F.A. She worked at the Women's Resource food and drink and their lack of program in child drama at Virginia Center in Christiansburg, a depressed coordination). Polytechnic Institute and State University. farming community near Blacksburg. Her Jo works in Richmond as an aide to Joan job was to help women, most of whom "Open to new possibilities" Munford, a delegate in the state were victims of domestic violence, come The Mooses often gave each other legislature. to terms with their personal lives. Her emotional support while in college, says Roger and Jo formed their " partnership" work at the Center, says Jo, was "the Jo. " I think we all kept each other alive." during the mid-1960s, when both majored greatest challenge of my own life." One of their annual traditions was to in speech at Northern Iowa. He was active She gained a great deal of self­ watch the Academy Awards presentation in University Players and Theta Alpha Phi confidence working at the Center. Her and try to guess the winners. Today, they theatre honor society. She was chair of the work there helped her see the vote by phone for their personal film Controversial Speakers Committee. improvement of community relations as a favorites, an activity that allows the group After graduation and marriage, both central theme to her career. She now to keep in touch at least once a year. Last taught in Cedar Rapids before moving to describes herself as a " troubleshooter," year, children of the "Mooses" [mice?] Eugene, Oregon, where Roger received an someone who " looks for action and tries to were allowed to vote for the first time. The M.F.A. degree in scene design from the create change" where problems exist. 1984 winner, much to everyone's chagrin, University of Oregon in 1971 . They then was Sarah Bedard. moved to Peoria, Illinois, where he taught Mutual support Roger and Jo haven't decided on their theatre at Illinois Central College. They Her talents got her the job of political next direction. She is happy with her later moved to Boise, Idaho, where he speech writer and liason between Munford present job, while he enjoys his teaching taught at Boise State University. and her constituents. Jo lives in Richmond and research at Virginia Tech. Roger is In the late 1970s, Roger and Jo both Monday through Friday during the six­ especially proud of the pre-professional attended the University of Kansas, where week legislative session, with weekends graduate program he teaches, because " it she received a master's degree in spent in Blacksburg. This means the fami ly bridges the gap between the academic communication and he received a must share household responsibilities, womb and the real world." doctorate in children's theatre. While at such as cooking and cleaning, and In addition to being active in national Kansas, Roger was named the first maintain flexible, accommodating and regional children's theatre activities Winifred Ward Scholar by the Children's schedules in order to keep life running and associations, he is the editor of Theatre Association of America. A short smoothly. This isn't always easy. " I make Dramatic Literature for Children: A time later, he was appointed to the faculty about a million long-distance phone cal ls Century in Review, a book published by at Virginia Tech. to check up on how things are going at Anchorage Press in 1984. home," says Jo. The key, they say, is Mutual support and a commitment to "Greatest challenge" tremendous mutual support. dual careers has made this partnership While Roger was becoming familiar This mutual support also serves the family between classmates an interesting one w ith his new position, Jo became well during moments of cri sis. "We just that's "always open to new possibilities." interested in applying her interpersonal stop, deal with the problem, and go on," D communication skills in education. She says Roger. In their tightly scheduled taught courses in communication, speech, world, says Jo, it's often the little things and communication and public policy in that prove most frustrating, " like the car the Communications Department at door not opening and the bank eating my Virginia Tech. Visa card. " Her retu rn to education marked a Despite their hectic schedules, the Note: Jo Cowley Bedard is the daughter of personal turning point for Jo. Before Bedards do find "family time" together. John Cowley, an emeritus professor of attending graduate school, she says, she They enjoy shopping, dining out, being English who taught at Northern Iowa from had been satisfied as a full-time with Tess, their Shetland sheep dog, and 1945 until his retirement in 1973.

26 written two books about the Civil War. He '68 • Class Notes received the State University of New York GARY GUSTAFSON, B.A., was installed in Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teach ing February as pastor of Immanuel Lutheran in 1978. Church in Osceola. He had been serving two parishes in Shelton and Lowell, Nebraska. He '34 '56 graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary RANDALL BEBB, 2-yr., B.A. '42, received SALLY MASKE McKEEVER, B.A., a first grade in 1980 and was ordained in 1981. the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) teacher in Richardson, Texas, was named ROBERT TVRDIK, B.A., M .A. ' 71 , has Distinguished Merit Award in February at the "Terrific Teacher of the Year" for 1984 by the joined the Center for Industrial Research and group's annual meeting in Las Vegas. Bebb, Texas Parent Teacher Association's state board Service (CIRAS) at Iowa State University as field who taught at the University of Northern Iowa of directors. representative for southwest Iowa. Since 1982, from 1947 until his retirement as a professor of he had been director of personnel and office teaching in 1981 , is a past state and national '61 services for Stanley Consultants in Muscatine. president of ATE . LARRY KESTER, B.A., M .A. '68, is treasurer He previously taught in Cedar Falls and of the Alpha Tau Chapter of Delta Pi Epsilon, a Waterloo. '40 graduate honor society for business educators. JOHN CRAWFORD, M .A., is manager of WALTER RODBY, B.A., has received the He teaches in the busi ness education Cargill's new fertilizer facility in Onawa. Arts Associate Award of Sigma Alpha Iota department of Marshalltown High School. women's music fraternity in recognition of his ALLAN JOHNSON, B.A., is vice president of '69 work in choral music for women. He was made business development for Duncan Aviation in JAMES ARNESON, B.A., M .A. '71 , is a life member of the fraternity at a ceremony Lincoln, Nebraska. director of the Peosta Campus of Northeast Iowa that featured a performance of his " Song Technical Institute. He had been learning Triumphant" for choir and brass. '62 resources coordinator at the school since 1980. DONALD WALTON, M .A., is assistant vice '47 president for human resources at Wayne State '70 DAVID JONES, B.A., retired in 1982 as area University. He had been director of personnel SUE McCURDY, B.A., M.A. '83, is chief (West), field operations branch, of the U.S. and assistant vice president for personnel employed by Business Alternatives of Department of Education's Impact Aid Program. relations at Northern Iowa from 1966 to 1984. Marshalltown. She is the 1984 recipient of the He is also a retired lieutenant colonel in the OPE Award for excellence in research, given by U.S. Air Force Reserve. He currently perfoms '63 the Alpha Tau Chapter of Delta Pi Epsi lon, an volunteer work for his local school district, F.A. FARIDA, B.A., M .A. '68, teaches honor society for business educators. church and other organizations. He and his secondary mathematics in Olin. DANNY GILLASPIE, B.A., has received the wife, BETTY SWINBANK JONES, 1941-43, live Meritorious Service Medal for outstanding non­ in Monument, Colorado, where she works in the '64 combat achievement or service. He is a major in Department of Economics at the U.S. Air Force WARD MARKLEY, B.A., M .A. '67, vice the U.S. Air Force and a flight training instructor Academy. president of Bruner News Network in Dallas, with the 25th Flying Training Squadron stationed was recently honored with the naming of an at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma. award . The Markley Award at Lamar University '50 was presented for the first time last October, and MARTIN DITTMER, B.A., M .A. '65, was recognizes students and staff members who have '71 inducted into the American Baseball Coaches made outstanding contributions to student JUDY GISH, B.A., M .A. ' 77, will appear in a Association Hall of Fame in January, the first activities programs at Lamar. Markley was a feature film, " Desert Bloom," to be released this community college coach to be so honored. founder of the National Association for Campus fall by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Jon Dittmer has coached at Ellsworth Community Activities' South Central Region while serving as Voight and co-stars Annabeth Gish, the teen-age College for the past 30 years and is currently director of the student center at Lamar from daughter of Judy and her husband, Robert Gish, baseball coach and athletic director. He was 1974 to 1982. a professor of English at Northern Iowa. Both already a member of the Iowa High School parents have bit parts in the film, which deals Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame and the National '65 with the psychological effects of atomic bomb Junior College Athletic Assoc iation Baseba ll GORDON KELLENBERGER, B.A., has been testing on a family in the Southwest in 19 51 . Coaches Hall of Fame. His 35-year career a member of the Iowa Arts Council since 1981. Gish plays a teacher in the film. In rea l life, she coaching record is 703-329. He teaches art in the Amana Community teaches in the Waverly-Shell Rock schools. Schools and creates pottery, watercolors and ink During the filming in Arizona and Nevada, she '53 drawings. He was a founding member of the also tutored Voight's 11 -year-old son. RONALD ROSKENS, B.A. , M.A. '55, Amana Arts Guild and is currently serving on a DEANNA DEN HARTOG, B.A., is a president of the University of Nebraska system, board that is developing a master plan for department manager for Woodward and became chair of the American Council on preservation of the Amanas culture. Lathrop, a department store headquartered in Education (ACE) at its general meeting in Denver Washington, D.C. She also works as a docent in last November. Roskens also recently received '66 the Naturalist Center of the Smithsonian the Commanders Cross, Order of Merit, from the PHYLLIS SOMERVILLE, B.A., recently co­ Museum of Natural History. government of West Germany in recognition of starred with Mercedes M ccambridge in a LYNN LAMB, B.A., has joined Chief his " unstinting dedication" to increasi ng touring production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Industries in Grand Island, Nebraska as eastern international understanding" through exchange~ play 'night, Mother. Among the stops on the tour regional sales manager for the bu ilding division. of faculty and students. was Iowa City's Hancher Auditorium on PAM PITLIK BYERSDORFER, B.A., is a part­ TOM PETTIT, B.A., was a featured speaker February 5. Somerville trained at the Hilberry time pre-school teacher at Kidsville in Independence. in November at the convention of Sigma Delta Theatre in Detroit and performed with the Arena Chi, a professional journalism honor society. In Stage Theatre in Washington, D.C. for two years MARILYN SCHUMACHER, B.A., played the discussing a wide range of current issues, such before moving to New York, where she part of Mrs. Gardiner in a recent Waterloo as exit polling and alleged media distortion of understudied her touring role in the original Community Playhouse production of Little election issues, he observed that " the First production. Women. She is a self-employed kitchen designer Amendment does not require that you be right. RON HARTEMA, B.A., has been promoted in Janesville and a member of the board of It only requires that you be free." to assistant director-teleprocessing in the data directors of Janesville Elderly Housing and the REX MILLER, B.A., recently published his processing department at State Farm Mutual Ri verview Park Boa~d of Control. 64th book, Electronics the Easy Way. He is a Automobile Insu rance Company's home office ELLEN THORVILSON LOWRY, B.A., is an professor and acting chairman of the in Bloomington, Illinois. He joined State Farm in organizational development specialist with the Technology Department at the State University 1969 and has been data processing manager in city of San Diego. She taught in Sheldon and College at Buffalo (New York), where he has Bloomington since 1980. Bad Kissingen, West Germany before receiving taught since 1957. Most of Miller's books have an M.Ed. degree from Boston State College and dealt w ith technical subjects, but he has also a Ph.D. degree from Wayne State University.

27 STEVE N TERWILLI GER , B.A. , has been concentrates on the activities of the Iowa and computer systems. He was previously a headmaster of Berkeley High School in Los legislature. Oman was a key staff member for busi ness consu lta nt for United Suppliers in Angeles for the past fo ur years. H e_ recently governors Robert Ray and Terry Branstad before Eldora and a senior accounta nt for Mosebach rece ived a master's degree in ad min1 strat1on, res igning last yea r to become vice pres ident of Griffith & Company. supervision and higher education from Heritage's telecommunicati ons group. JEFF KLU VER, B.A. , is assistant manager of Ca lifo rni a State University, Northridge. He is BARBARA OLK, B.A. , is the new the Spenco Credit Union in Spencer. He had marri ed to VERLEE GREER TE RWILLIGER , B.A. , superintendent of the Iowa Correctional been with the Crawford County Trust and '72. Institution for Women at Mitchellville, a Sav ings Bank since 1980. JON BULLERS, B.A. , has joined the staff of minimum-security faci lity with about 100 th e University of Iowa as an engineer w ith radio inmates. O lk had been deputy superintendent of '80 stations WSU I/KSU I. He had been a media the state prison fac ility for men at Clarinda since KENT HILL, B.A. , is ass igned to the 69 10th technician for Cedar Fa lls High School si nce 1982. Electro nic Sec urity Wing of the U.S. Air Force, 1967. MARK HO DGES, B.A. , works at the O wens stationed at Lindsey Air Stati on in W est Valley Radio Observatory of the Ca lifornia Germany. He holds the rank of sergeant. '72 Institute of Technology, where he is responsible JILL HAY, B.A., M.A. '84, is an elementary GEORGE STI GLER, B.A., has been for the 130-inch telescope. school counse lor in Belle Pl ai ne and secondary appointed by Govern or Branstad as an Iowa coun se lor for grades 7- 12 at B-G-M . district court judge, presiding over Bl ac k Hawk, '75 MARK APPLEBY , B.A. , is art des igner fo r the Buchanan, Grundy, Fayette, Chickasaw and SCOTT RO GERS, B.A., has been promoted Fort Myers (Florida) Historica l Museum. He w as Howard counties. He had been an assoc iate to district sa les manager at th e Chicago sa les featured in Janu ary in an arti cle in the Fort district court judge in that jurisdiction since center of Osca r Mayer Foods. . He joined the M yers News-Press . 1978. Stigler received a law degree from the company in 1975 and had been an account DANIEL FINN, B.A., has joined a joint University of Iowa in 1975 and served for the manager in Chicago. dental practice in Iowa Falls. He received a next three yea rs as an assistant in the Bl ac k RICK NIELSEN , B.A. , is Iowa director of the D.D .S . degree from the University of Iowa in Hawk county attorney's office . He has taught Fellowship of Christian Athletes. 1984. criminal law courses at Hawkeye Institute of Technology in W aterl oo and is an officer in the '76 '81 Judge Advocate Division of the U.S. Army JEFF SWARTZENDRUBER, B.A., is manager KAY WERTHMAN, B.A., ha s joined Empi , National Guard . of the Fairfield Hy-Vee Store. He had been Inc. , a manu fac turer of presc ription therapeutic DAVID CARLSON, B.A., has graduated from manager of a Hy-Vee store in Des Moines since devices, as controller. She had been an audit a nine-week course at the U.S. Army's 1983, and has worked for Hy-Vee since 1973 at supervisor with Coopers and Lybrand Combined Arms and Se rvices Staff Sc hool at Fort stores in Cedar Falls and Waterloo. accounting fi rm . Leavenworth , Kansas . He holds the rank of GAELA WILSON KAMERER, B.A. , is MIKE SHILHANEK, B.A. , recently donated ca ptain . marketi ng director of the Municipal Empl oyees more th an $7 ,000 worth of electronic, DYANNE LO NGSETH , B.A., is Credit Union in Baltimore, the 56th largest photographic and optica l equipment to Northern administrative vice pres ident of Glori a Al eff and credit union in the country. She was previously Iowa for use by the Department of Physics and Assoc iates, an adverti sing agency located in regional sa les manager for the Chicago office of Department of Earth Sc ience . An additional Waverl y. She joined the firm in 1981 as America n Newspaper Representatives, Inc. , an $1 ,875 worth of electronic integrated circuits executive secretary and offi ce manager. advertising representative firm. was donated by Shilhanek's fo rmer employer, Fis her Controls Company of Marshalltown. '73 '77 BRENT SANDY, B.A., performed with Blues RU SS JACOBSON, B.A., works for the JANET AHREN S, B.A. , is a co-owner of O ther Brother' s Band January 21 at the Young Illinois State Geologica l Survey in the area of Corner Stone, an art store and gallery in Republica ns Ball in W ashington, D.C. He has coa l resources and Pennsy lva nia strati graphy. Grinnell. She is a graduate of the Chicago been a member of the group since last June. He expects to receive a master's degree in School of Interi or Design and has worked as a DIANE EICHMAN, B.A. , recently returned geology th is spring at the University of Illinois. free-lance interi or decorator. from a yea r of graduate work at the University of RICHARD BAILEY, B.A. , has been named Bras ilia. Her study of Portu gese and vice pres ident of production, W estern and '78 internati onal relations was sponsored by a Midwestern pl ants, for the Operati ons & ROBERT TH OMPSON, B.A., is studying for Rotary Foundation Educati onal Award . Tec hnology Group of Kraft, Inc., a subsidiary of a second bachelor's degree at Arizona State STEVE WILGENBUSCH, B.A., is an Dart & Kraft. He joined Kraft in 1973 as a University under the U.S. Air Force's Airman industrial systems engineer with Winnebago production supervisor at Wausa u, Wisconsin, Educati on and Commiss ioning Program. Upon Industri es in Forest City. He is the charter w here he became plant superintendent in 1974. completi on of his studies, he will enter the chairman of the North Iowa Chapter of the He has subsequently held plant and producti on offi cer training school at Lackl and Air Force Soc iety of M anufacturing En gineers. management pos itions at Kraft sites in Ca lifornia Base in Texas and receive a commission. He and Illinois. currently holds the rank of ai rman. '82 FRANK CORDARO, B.A., was ordained to ANITA ELLINGSO N, M .A., is president of the diaconate in Janu ary, the fi nal step before '79 the Alpha Tau Chapter of Delta Pi Epsilon, a ordinati on to the Roman Catholic priesthood. WILHELMINE KUENNEN, M .A., an grad uate honor soc iety for bu sin ess educators. He received a M .Div. degree from the Aquinas instructor of German at North Fayette High She teaches in the business education School of Theology in 1976 and is undertaking Sc hool since 1965, has received a Certificate of department of Marshalltown High School. further study at St. John's University in Merit from the American Assoc iation of DAVID HANSEN , B.A., is the new director M innesota. Cordaro is serving his deacon Teachers of Germ an and the Goethe Institute. of the Algona Chamber of Commerce . He had intern ship at St. Patrick's Church in Corning. She is a native of Germany who emigrated to the been executive manager of the Eagle Grove United States in 1948. She received a B.A. Chamber of Commerce for the past two yea rs. '73-'74 degree from Upper Iowa University before He is marri ed to JO YCE HEGGEN HANSEN, RANDY BO DEEN , B.A., ' 73, and NELLY attending Northern Iowa for graduate work. B.A. '82. KELLY BO DE EN, B.A. '74, have joined the Kuennen was instrumental in establishing a SUSAN CZABALA, B.A., is teaching 8th Mason City office of Edward D. Jones and student exchange program between North grade math and computer literacy in Atlanta. Company, a brokerage and investment firm. Fayette and the Gymnnas ium Uberlingen sc hool She rece ived an M.A. degree from Georgia State They had previously represented the company in in W est Germany. University in June 1984. Cedar Rapids. WILLIAM EWAN, B.A. , has joined First Federal Savings and Loan of Moline as '74 consumer loa n officer. DAVID OMAN, B.A., is the host of a new KEVIN SWALLEY, B.A. , has joined the weekl y pu blic affairs program produced by Grundy National Bank of Grundy Center as an Heritage Communicati ons fo r its Iowa Cable ass istant vice pres ident in charge of financial Network . The program, " Iow a Agenda, " and tax planning, accounting and bookkeeping, 28 '83 '75 '82 JULIE POWERS, 8.A., has graduated from Carlyn A . Bohland & EDWARD A . LESCH , Kimberly J. Anderson & BRUCE A. HANSEN, the intelligence analyst course at the U .S. Army 8.A. 8.A. Intelligence Center and School at Fort Kathy Leonard & JOHN DAVID RAINES, SARAH L. ANDERSON, M .A. & Russell W . Huachuca, Arizona. She holds the rank of M .A. Dirks specialist 4 and is scheduled for assignment with Barbara J. Gildersleeve & THOMAS J. SUSAN BILLMYER, B.A. & Douglas Murphy the 101 st Military Intelligence Battalion at Fort MAHAN, 8.A. KATHLEEN M. CONZETT, B.A. & Patrick Riley, Kansas. Ross KEVIN SMITH, 8.A., has completed basic '76 LAURA COURTRIGHT, B.A. & Jeff Dawson training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina and is Cindy Peppler & BRUCE D. SKERIK, 8.A. Susan D. Ohrt & RANDY HELLING, 8.A. serving as a private in the U .S. Army. J. Deborah Meskimen & GARY KATHRYNE. STUVE, 8.A. & Kevin Zhorne MARY HUNZINGER, B.A., has completed DANGELSER, B.A. ELIZABETH A. TYRRELL, B.A. & Dennis basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey and in JOYCE A. STEPHENSON, 8.A. & Dennis R. Strempke service as a private in the U.S. Army. Lenz SANDRA L. ZECH, 8.A. & Harry Dell ZONA H. BOLDT, 8.A. & Thomas E. Huss JODY A. JOHNSON, 8.A. & Rex Cousins '84 JENEANE M. WETHINGTON, 8.A. & Russ GARY HOFFMAN, 8.A., has joined the staff Flipp '83 of R. Michael McCoy, CPA, in Mason City as an REBECCA K. MATTKE, B.A. & Mark Dillin accountant. '77 Kimberlee A . Boeding & ROBERT W. MARGARET A . MORRISON, 8.A. & Gary MANSHEIM JR. , B.A. Albrecht KATHY M . MCLAUGHLIN, 8.A. & Blake Connie D. Sugg & JOHN R. CLAEYS, 8.A. Love LORRIE LAMBERT & JAMES ETHEREDGE Advanced Degrees Robyn Rogers & NEIL D. MALM, 8.A. both B.A.'s KELLY A. KOLBECK, 8.A. & Kenneth M . GWENDA MUIR, 8.A. & Walter Urbigkit The following Alumni received master's Meeks degrees from Iowa State University in December SHARON A. LENNON, 8.A. & David '78 1984: JO LYNN MOELLER ARBUCKLE, 8.A. Mitchell REBECCA R. RAATZ, B.A. & Thomas '76; MARIA FABLO METGE, 8.A. '75; and Angie Theordore & DANIEL J. GALLOGLY, Vaassen W ILLIAM 8. SUTTON, 8.A. '80. 8.A. MARY 8. ANGLIN, B.A. & William DOUGLAS ALLAN LAPLANTE, 8.A. '75, JULIE Y. KLOPPENBORG, 8.A. & Robert E. Rissmann M .A. '78, received a Ph.D. degree. Gorman LORRAINE CUDWORTH, 8.A. & Donald CHERRILL OXEN FORD & THOMAS Wolf DAYTON, both 8.A.'s KIMBERLEE A . STEIN, 8.A. & Richard MARCHELL CUPPETT, M.A. & W illiam Springer Austin Births MARTHA J. COUGHLON, 8.A. & James TERESA A. BOWMAN, 8.A & David Groves Shoning JEANNE A. BUELTEL , 8.A. & Ra y Ecklund '67 '79 Mary M. Noonan & KENNETH E. ROSE, JERRY, 8.A. & Nancy SMALLEY. Kyle is their MARSHA L. THOMPSON, 8.A. & Keith 8.A. second child, born July 25, 1984. Miller KATHLEEN A. SCHALLAU, 8.A. & Timothy THERESE M . LEINENKUGEL & TIMOTHY Fanning '81 ROLFES, both B.A.'s Martin & REBECCA MENTINK LETSCHE, MARY K. FRITCHER, 8.A. & Bill Wessling '84 8.A. Jason is their second son, born Dec. 30, DEANNE L. DOWNS, 8.A. & Kurt Bachman LAURA J. WALLACE, 8.A. & Daniel L. Klatt 1984. MARY J. BEVINS, 8.A. & Stephen Leroux NANCY STREIT, 8.A. & Scott Tyclisen Fawn E. Murray & KYLER. SHATEK, 8.A. '82 & '84 '80 JUDY SANDERMAN, 8.A. & Alan Wandling KEN, 8.A. '84 & LYNN MILLER LAVONNE J. VANDEKROL, 8.A. & Jon MARY ROEDER, 8.A. & Aron Thielen TRAUTMAN, B.A. '82. Christy Lynn, is their Mendenhall LINDA K. ROSAUER, 8.A. & James T. Pratt first child, born Jan . 12, 1985. Berdell Akkerman & MARK K. SCHAULS, KRISTI R. MOATS & ROBERT ROTE, JR. 8.A. both 8.A.'s '71 Carole A. Lukavsky & CRAIG A. MARTINS, KOLLEEN F. REINERT & THEODORE C. Dale and JANE JORGENSEN VANDRE, 8.A. 8.A. MILLER, both 8.A.'s Nissa Jane is their first child, born October 16, KRISTY K. HENDERSON, B.A. & David J. JACQUELINE K. PITZ & JOSEPH A . 1984. Morford SCHREDER, both 8.A.'s JILL M . GROW, 8.A. & Loren Runde JULIE A. OTTO, 8.A. & Joseph T. Dvorak AUDREY J. DREES, B.A. & John C. Fleming Jennifer Spiller & SCOTT A. NELSON, 8.A. Susan Rosenberger & JOSEPH JACQUELYN 5. NORTH, 8.A. & David P. Marriages CUNNINGHAM, 8.A. Hyatt Kristi Wormhoudt & RANDY J. PLOOG, THERESA M. NEVILLE, 8.A. & Raymond '66 M .A. Palczynski KAREN ESSEX, 8.A. & Mark Mueller Marsha Jaquette & ROBERT J. SILHACEK, BETH A. METH FESSEL, 8.A. & John Heise 8.A. THERESA MEINECKE, 8.A. & David Alberts '68 JOLENE M . M IHM, 8.A. & William P. KAREN MYERS, 8.A. & Gary Urban '81 Galligan TAMARA 5. WILSON, B.A. & M artin ANNETTE 5. JENSEN, 8.A. & Jeff 5. Clark '69 Kenworthy ELAINE 5. JOHNSON, B.A. & Randall J. SHARON LYNN MAIDA FULLER, 8.A. & Patricia 5. Tursi & THOMAS J. RILEY, 8.A. Johnson Patrick Gogerty MARY J. SMITH, 8.A. & Vernon R. Sumwalt Cynthia 8. Kadich & MARK HUNTRODS, Darla J. Hahn & EDWARD C. STRATTON, 8.A. '73 8.A. Li sa A. Hall & ROWDY L. BINDERT, 8.A. Holly Bernasek & ROBERT L. CREEL, 8.A. DIANE L. COPPAGE, 8.A. & Rick Anderegg Shari L. Carlson & GUY M . FORTIER, 8.A. JODIE HENSING & KARL EHLERS, both SHARON K. FAHEY, 8.A. & Michael L. '74 B.A.'s Brown Melissa J. Stryker & DONALD J. CLAUSEN, Abby A. Havener & GARY J. OTTING, 8.A. BRENDA GREENLEE & JEFFREY 8.A. AMY E. HOHMAN, B.A. & Marlin Andresen ADAMOVICZ, both 8.A.'s Teresa J. Jackson & LARRY ROHRET, 8.A. BARBARA E. BILIDT, 8.A. & James D . LOISE. KNUTSON, 8.A. & Ross D . Holstrom Whitlock 29 Jackie J. Navara & PAULE. LOOS, B.A. '20 '32 BRENDA BOCK & CRAIG HUTTON, both ELEANOR SWEENEY FLINDERS, B.A. ' 20, DANIEL JOHNS, B.A., Alamo, TX, Sept. 9, B.A.'s Sutherland, Oct. 23, 1984. 1984. SUSAN L. PERRY, B.A. & Michael M ann '32-'38 '21 '79-'80 M A RI AN EGGLESTON SCHILDER, 1 yr. '32, VERA GRIMES MANTZ, 1 yr. ' 21, 2 yr. ' 23, SUSAN M. DELAGARDELLE, B.A. '79 & B.A. '38, Cedar Falls, March 8, 1984. Galva, Nov. 13, 1984. KEVIN C. DAVIS, B.A. '80

'80-'82 '22 '34 KRISTINE BENTZINGER, B.A. '82 & BRIAN THELMA VINCENT MCCOLM, B.A., West HARO LD W . BENDA, B.A., West Chester, DONNELLY, B.A. '80 Liberty, Oct. 30, 1984. PA, Nov. 10, 1984. CL YOE C. BROO KS, B.A., Iowa Falls, Jan. TRUMAN HARRY MANSHIP, B.A., Charles '81-'82 18, 1984. City, Jan . 26, 1985. JANET ROYS, B.A. '82 & H. ERIC EMERY, DORIS MILLER CUMMINGS, 2 yr. , Cedar DOROTHY BRECKENRIDGE MOHR, B.A., B.A. '81 Falls, Jan. 1984. W aterloo, Jan. 31, 1984. GRACE COOK BURKE, 2 yr., '22, Oelwein, '81-'82 Oct. 11 , 1984. DEBBIE SCHMELING, B.A. '81 & JOHN A. '36 LARSEN , B.A. '83 '23 FAITH I. SCHLENSIG, 2 yr., Ro lfe, May 16, 1984. MILDRED 0. MERWIN, 1 yr., Denver, CO, Nov. 11 , 1984. LEER. BADER, B.A., Iowa City, Jan. 19, '82-'83 1985. KATHERINE E. ABBOTT, B.A. '82 & PAUL !SABEL RYAN BUSCHING, 1 yr. '23, B.A. LYNCH, B.A. '83 '29, Stanwood, April 17, 1984. CAROL J. ROGERS, B.A. '83 & STEVEN W . DOROTHY CORNING TAYLO R, B.A., O jai, '37 SHANNON, B.A. '82 CA, August 14, 1984. MYRTLE APPLEGATE YOUNG, 2 yr., B.A. '51, Cedar Falls, Jan. 1985. ROBERT C. HILL, B.A., Sun City, AZ, Jan. '82-'84 '24 30, 1985. LAURIE SHEARER, B.A. '84 & KIM GEORGE C. WHITE, 1 yr. ' 24, B.A. 25, ALFRED J. COMITO, B.A., Las Vegas, NV, MESENBRINK, B.A. '82 Davenport, Jan. 12, 1985. Oct. 1984. FRANCES CAMPBELL GRIMM, 2 yr., MAXINE SEMPLE HELWIG, 2 yr., O ttumwa, Reinbeck, Nov. 19, 1984. '83-'84 M ay 20, 1984. MARY M . TODD, B.A. '83 & ANDREW F. MELVA MILLER HOLLIS, 2 yr., Waterloo, BILLER, B.A. '84 '26 Nov. 28, 1984. DIANE BARRER, B.A. '84 & TRENT PAUL R. BROWN, B.A., Clarksville, Jan. 7, LUCILE MCDONALD JOHNSON, 2 yr., RHOADS, B.A. '83 1985. Modesto, CA, Jan. 18, 1985. BETH A. DIERCKS, B.A. '84 & JAMES C. BESSIE LUNDGREN MCLAUGHLIN, 2 yr., AL COMITO, B.A., Las Vegas, N V, O ct. 8, HALL, B.A. '83 Marathon, Nov. 12, 1984. 1984. CASSANDRA M . HANSON, B.A. ' 83 & JOHN W . REYNOLDS, B.A. '84 '27 '40 ANN K. HACKENMILLER, B.A. '84 & LEONARD I. CASHEL, B.A., Devon, PA, THOMAS N . SCHUELLER, B.A. '83 Oct. 14, 1984. ERN EST E. WALK, B.A., Vinton, Dec. 22, 1984. SARAH J. WESTENDORF, B.A. '83 & KEITH IVA CHILDS HANSEN, 2 yr., Cedar Falls, OTIS A. CROZIER, B.A., Knoxville, Dec. A. BROWN, B.A. '84 Oct. 14, 1984. 1984. ALDINE RAINBOW NANKE, 2 yr., Cedar Falls, Sept. 29, 1984. '47 VIRGINIA ANNE RIDDLE, 2 yr., Dow City, Deaths '28 Sept. 24, 1984. RUTH SCHWARZENBACH MILLER, 2 yr., ESTHER BERGMAN DE GROOT, 2 yr., Storm Lake, Oct. 26, 1984. Cedar Falls, Nov. 5, 1984. '08 OPAL CRONAN CRONIN, 2 yr., 28, B.A. ALLE M . ROBINSON, 1 yr. '08, B.A. ' 11 , '38, Austin TX, Jan . 1, 1984. Covina, CA, Nov. 22, 1984. '51 BLANCHE AGNES WIREMAN, B.A., '15 '29 Waterloo, O ct. 18, 1984. M. AGNES BOHAN, 1 yr. '15, B.A. '27, GWYNETHE JOHNSON ANAMA, 2 yr., WILBER H . YEUTTER, B.A., Hampton, Sept. Waterloo, Dec. 12, 1984. Sioux City, Nov. 17, 1984. 14, 1984. BESS MACKOY TRUEBLOOD, 2 yr., ' 15, EDNA SNOW MULLANE, 2 yr., Vinton, Sioux Fall s, SD, August 8, 1984. Nov. 28, 1984. '55 KAY SHULTZ NORDMEYER, 2 yr., '55, B.A. '17 '30 '80, Greene, Sept. 29, 1984. JOHN M . BRIDEN, B.A., Weslaco, TX, Jan. BEEDIE W . KREISS, 2 yr., W aterloo, Feb. 23, 15, 1985. 1984. '62 DAVID H . MCCUSKEY, B.A., Iowa City, NORMA E. WOLFE, M .A., Waterloo, Jan. '18 Jan. 31 , 1985. 10, 1984. ICEL SNIDER LAKIN, 2 yr., ' 18, Sacramento, MABEL ALDINGER MEINEKE, 2 yr., Clarion, BEVERLY FOX M cDOWELL, B.A., CA, August 5, 1984. Nov. 9, 1984. Marshalltown, Dec. 12, 1984. ADDIE ULSTAD STAVELY, 2 yr., Traer, Oct. '19 19, 1984. '66 HELEN KNAPP M ILLER, B.A., M cCall, ID, RO NALD E. GERARD, B.A., Mason City, Nov. 1984. Sept. 28, 1984. '31 OLIVE COOLEDGE TOSTLEBE, B.A., Fort MADELEINE REEVES CHERNY, 2 yr., Dodge, Nov. 19, 1984. Independence, Sept. 13, 1984. VERNA BROWN REHDER, 2 yr., ' 19, Surf LEONA PERRIER RIEBE, 2 yr., ' 31, B.A. '62, City, NC, formerly Hampton, IA, Sept., 1984. Cedar Falls, O ct. 4, 1984.

30 '71 Hull's background included a B.Ed. degree David McCuskey JACK E. PORTER, B.A., Eagle Grove, Nov. from the University of Wisconsin-Superior and David McCuskey, head wrestling coach at 10, 1984. M.Ph. and Ph .D. degrees from the University of Northern Iowa from 1931 to 1952, died January Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to coming to Cedar 31 in Iowa City. He was 77. '72 Falls she taught for a period of 17 years in three McCuskey's 200 teams compiled a career KATHY L. PETERSEN, B.A., Ottumwa, Oct. schools in Wisconsin. dual meet record of 102-37-7 as he led the 30, 1984. Memorials in Hu It's name may be made to Panthers to a national championship in 1950 the UNI Foundation. and four second-place finishes. He then '78 coached the University of Iowa wrestling team PAUL R. GRELL, B.A., Des Moines, Aug. from 1953 until his retirement in 1972, 26, 1984. Paul Kelso compiling a dual meet record of 158-69-7 in 19 Paul Kelso, director of institutional research seasons. His career coaching record was '79 at Northern Iowa, died February 23 in Iowa 260-106-14 over 39 seasons. GLENN N. BIERE, B.A., Melabourne, Dec. City. He was 65. McCuskey coached the U.S. Olympic 11 , 1984. Kelso joined the faculty in 1948 as an freestyle wrestling team at the 1956 games in extension instructor of elementary mathematics. Melbourne, Australia. During his career he '80 He was director of student counseling services coached 17 NCAA title holders and the winners DOLORES NABOR GARBES, B.A. , New from 1949 to 1978, when he became of eight Olympic medals in wrestling. His teams Hartford, Feb. 1985. coordinator of student research (now at Iowa won two Big Ten titles and finished institutional research). second 10 times. His 1962 Hawkeye squad '81 He was serving as president of the UNI finished third in the NCAA Championships. KATHIE L. HAWKINS, B.A., Cedar Rapids, Faculty Club at the time of his death . He was a McCuskey was captain of the football team Sept. 18, 1984. past president of the Student Personnel and a pitcher on the baseball team at Northern Association for Teacher Education and the Iowa Iowa, where he received a bachelor's degree in Personnel and Guidance Association, as well as 1930. Esther Hult a charter member of the Iowa Educational " I think he was one of the outstanding Esther Hult, an emeritus professor of Research and Evaluation Association. He was coaches in wrestling," said Gary Kurdelmeier, a education at Northern Iowa, died January 21 in actively involved in the Cedar Falls community pupil of McCuskey's who is now an assistant Superior, Wisconsin. She was 81 . as a volunteer and counseling consultant, and athletic director at Iowa. "What I most Hult taught at the University from 1943 until was a member of the Cedar Falls Civil Service remember him for is the impact he had on her retirement in 1972. She was a past state Commission for 15 years. people. He was much better than just a coach." president of the Iowa Association for Childhood Kelso's background included a 8.5. degree Memorials in McCuskey's name may be Education and the Iowa Council for Better from Northeast Missouri State University and made to Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Iowa Education. In addition, she was an active M .Ed. and Ed .D. degrees from the University of City or to the University of Iowa Foundation member of a variety of other state and national Missouri-Columbia. He taught in the Missouri (athletics). education groups. public schools and served in the U.S. Army She acquired a national reputation for her during World War II. work in elementary education. During the Memorials in Kelso's name may be made to 1960s, she coordinated Northern Iowa's the UNI Foundation. undergraduate and graduate programs in elementary education.

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