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Safer To Give WU Experiment Scans Heavens Main Address Aboard NASA Scientific Satellite At Founders Day New knowledge about some of the most basic mysteries of the universe—exploding stars, the formation of elements and Morley Safer, CBS tele- the structure of our galaxy—is expected from data which scien- vision news correspondent tists hope to collect from the third and last High Energy and co-editor of the news Astronomy Observatory (HEAO-3), which was launched into magazine program 60 Min- Earth orbit Sept. 20 by the National Aeronautics and Space utes for the past eight years, Administration (NASA). will be the principal speaker at The satellite, carried aloft by an Atlas Centaur rocket from the WU Founders Day Ban- Cape Canaveral, Fla., contains a major experiment developed quet, Sat., Oct. 13, at Stouf- by a scientific team including physicists from the McDonnell fer's Riverfront Towers. Center for the Space Sciences at WU. Its purpose is to scan the The banquet, sponsored by continued on p. 3 the WU Alumni Board of Morley Safer Governors, will begin with cocktails at 6:30 p.m., fol- and "Marixa," which focused lowed by dinner at 7:30 p.m. on a unique approach to the There will be dancing after treatment of cancer in chil- Safer's speech and presenta- dren, earned the American tions of citations to outstand- Cancer Society's Second ing alumni and faculty. Annual Media Award. Last season two of Safer's Before joining 60 Minutes, reports won major awards: Safer was chief of the CBS "Heart Attack," a segment on News London bureau from emergency heart attack care, 1967 to 1970. won a 1977 Howard W. Safer was head of the CBS Blakeslee Award of the News Saigon Bureau in 1965. American Heart Association, continued on p. 3

School of Fine Arts Marks 100th With Special Shows, Festive Galas Last year, WU commemorated the 125th anniversary of its founding; this year, its School of Fine Arts is celebrating its Centennial. In honor of its 100th birthday, the School has planned a festive program which will include three special exhibitions, a trio of lectures by visiting artists and a pair of costume balls. This varied program of commemorative events will focus national attention on the WU School of Fine Arts, which was the first in the nation established as a part of a university. "It is also," as Sally Bixby Defty points out in a publication com- missioned especially for the centenary, "the only university art school to have fathered a major metropolitan art museum"— known today as the Saint Louis Art Museum. Defty's narra- tive, Washington University School of Fine Arts: The First Hundred Years, 1879-1979, includes a foreword by Roger I. DesRosiers, dean of the School. The two-month observance during October and November will begin at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 10, in Steinberg Audi- torium, when Lee Chesney, WU Distinguished Visiting Louis D. Beaumont Professor of Art, presents the Beaumont continued on p. 2 The HEAO-3 before launching. Wl"s experiment sits in the upper middle section. Nobel Winner Impressions of Greece Expressed To Give First in Boccia Exhibit at Bixby Gallery Feenberg Talk Edward E. Boccia, WU professor of art, will be featured in A two-time winner of the a one-man show entitled "Paintings and Drawings" which Nobel Prize in Physics, John opens with a reception from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30 and Bardeen, will deliver the first runs through Oct. 12 in the WU School of Fine Arts, Bixby annual Eugene Feenberg Gallery, Bixby Hall. Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. Some 23 oils and 50 to 60 drawings, all of them done this Wednesday, Oct. 3 in Crow year, are included in the solo show. Much of the art reflects Hall, Room 201. Bardeen, Boccia's impressions of imagery in Greece. Boccia was also in- professor of physics at the fluenced by portions of the Greek Parthenon, which he viewed University of Illinois Cham- at the British Museum in London. paign-Urbana, will discuss Another segment of the exhibition presents mythological "Quantum Fluids and the representations of Boccia's daughter Alice's wedding and Structure of Matter." He is Eugene Feenberg reception at the Old Cathedral on St. Louis's riverfront. recognized as a co-inventor of Currently, Boccia's works are also on exhibit at the Gon- the transistor and as a funda- theory, approximation nelli Gallery in Florence, Italy. mental contributor to the methods and the theory of "Prints," by Werner Drewes, will be on display Nov. 18 theory of superconductivity. quantum fluids. He died Nov. through Dec. 14. Born in Canig, Germany, in 1899, Drewes The lecture is given in 7, 1977. was one of the first artists trained at the Bauhaus to settle in the memory of Feenberg, who be- The April 1979 issue of U.S. Now living in Reston, Va., he was a member of the WU came Wayman Crow Profes- "Nuclear Physics" was desig- faculty from 1946-1965. sor Emeritus of Physics upon nated the "Feenberg Com- Bixby Gallery, on the second-level of Bixby Hall, is open his retirement in 1975 after memorative Issue" and a weekdays from 10 to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. nearly 30 years as a WU UNESCO-sponsored Inter- faculty member. A pioneer in national Conference in Phys- the application of quantum ics, at which Feenberg was to SGnOOl"^- continued from p. I mechanics to complex sys- have been the key speaker, Lecture. His exhibition, "Lee Chesney—25 Years of Print- tems, Feenberg was noted for was also dedicated to his his contributions to nuclear making," which opens at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7 in WU's print memory in October 1978. gallery (lower level), WU Gallery of Art, Steinberg Hall, runs through Nov. 4. Professionals Discuss Jobs at Career Expo The School will preview its Centennial Alumni Exhibition WU students interested in business careers are invited to with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, in Bixby attend an all-day School of Business Career Expo '79 on Satur- Gallery, Bixby Hall. The work of over 70 distinguished alumni day, Oct. 6. Check-in is at 8:30 a.m. and welcoming remarks will be on view at this show, which will run 10 a.m. to noon and from Robert L. Virgil, Dean of the School of Business and Pub- 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays through Nov. 2. The Women's Society of lic Administration, will be at 9 a.m. in Umrath Hall Lounge; all WU (WSWU) and a School of Fine Arts Alumni Committee programs will take place in Prince Hall beginning at 9:15 a.m. are in charge of the gala first-night opening. A social hour from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Umrath Hall Lounge On Sunday, Nov. 11, the Centennial Faculty Exhibition will will conclude the agenda. open with another reception sponsored by WSWU from 7 to 9 Career Expo '79, the third annual program of its type, is p.m. in the WU Gallery of Art, Steinberg Hall. This show, intended to enable students learn more about specific com- which runs through Jan. 6, will feature work by contemporary panies, industries and career fields. Students must register in teachers and more than 45 former faculty members. Among the advance by paying a $2 fee at the Business School Placement illustrious painters whose oeuvres will be on view in the "his- Office, Umrath Hall, Room 150. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to torical segment" of this exhibition are Philip Guston and the noon and 1-5 p.m. weekdays. All registrants will receive an late Max Beckmann, both of whom taught at WU during the official program listing times and places of the panel discus- 1940's. sions. A catalogue of the historical phase of this Centennial Representatives from some 25 companies, banks and invest- Faculty Exhibition will be included in the Defty commemora- ment concerns will discuss job opportunities in over 20 occu- tive publication. It will be illustrated with rare photographs and pations including: accounting and industrial financing; adver- other memorabilia. Author Defty is the granddaughter of the tising; commercial banking, computers and systems; consult- late William K. Bixby (1857-1930), former president of the ing; consumer product marketing; corporate planning; corpo- Board of Control of the School who gave the University rate finance and control; entrepreneurship; financial services; $250,000 in 1921 for the erection of Bixby Hall. international business; investment banking; lawyers in busi- The two other prominent visiting artists invited to lecture ness; management and administration; and others. during the Centennial celebration are Nancy Stevenson Graves, Leo A. Eason, director of the Business School Placement painter and sculptor, and Patricia D. Duncan, noted Office, said that most of the program participants will be WU photographer and a WU School of Fine Arts alumna. Graves Business School alumni with five to 10 years of management will give the Dorothy Dubinsky Lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday, experience. Oct. 23, in Steinberg Hall; Duncan, BFA '54, will discuss her The speakers will represent St. Louis-based organizations as work at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7, in the auditorium of well as firms in Chicago, Houston, Winston-Salem (N.C.), Wil- Steinberg Hall. mington (Del.), and Detroit. They will lead panel discussions To add a touch of levity and conviviality to the Centennial which will cover career opportunities in various fields, entry celebration, the School has scheduled its traditional costume level positions and career progression. Beaux Arts Ball for WU students, faculty and staff from 9 p.m. An official WU Homecoming event, Career Expo '79 is to 1 a.m. Friday evening, Nov. 9, in Bixby Gallery. The follow- sponsored by the Business Placement Office and the WU ing evening, School of Fine Arts alumni will revive the Bohe- School of Business and Public Administration. mian Brawl from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Bixby Gallery. "Weeb" Ewbank Safer continued from p. 1 Returns to WU He won a number of major body award, and the George broadcasting honors for his Polk Memorial award. for Homecoming reporting from Vietnam, in- Safer was a correspondent Wilbur "Weeb" Ewbank, cluding three Overseas Press and producer with the Cana- head football coach of the Club awards, the Paul White dian Broadcasting Corpora- WU Battling Bears in 1948 award, George Foster Pea- tion before joining CBS News. and 1949, and later profes- sional football coach for over E X P e r i m e n t continued from p. I 20 years, will be a special guest at WU homecoming heavens for superheavy cosmic rays. activities Oct. 4-6. The high- Composed of rare nuclear particles, these rays shoot light of Homecoming will be through space at velocities approaching the speed of light. They Oct. 6 with a game between are the Earth's only continual material contact with the vast the Bears and Wheaton Col- reaches of the universe outside the solar system. According to lege at 7 p.m. at Francis Field. Weeb Ewbank as coach of the WU WU physicist and principal investigator for the experiment Ewbank will serve as Battling Bears football team in the Martin H. Israel, it is likely their source is supernovae, ex- grand marshal to the Home- late 1940Y tremely powerful star explosions. coming Parade, which begins at 3 p.m., Oct. 6. He will pre- Co-investigators are Joseph Klarmann, WU physicist; W. side at float awards ceremonies during halftime that evening. Robert Binns, a scientist at McDonnell-Douglas Research Lab- Ewbank, who was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame oratories; and WU engineer John W. Epstein. in 1978, coached the Baltimore Colts to two National Football Other members of the research team are physics professors League championships in 1958 and 1959 and the New York Edward C. Stone and Rochus E. Vogt of the California Insti- Jets to the Super Bowl III title in 1968. He is often credited with tute of Technology (CIT) and C. J. Waddington of the Univer- the development of two great quarterbacks, Johnny Unitas and sity of Minnesota. Joe Namath. The launching of the cosmic ray detector aboard the NASA Homecoming spirit will get a boost with a bonfire and pep satellite concludes several years of research at WU by Israel rally, sponsored by the WU Cheerleaders, at 9:30 p.m. Thurs- and Klarmann using huge, high-altitude balloons to carry day, Oct. 4, on the field north of Prince Hall. instruments nearly two dozen miles into the atmosphere. The gala Red Rose Cotillion, with music by the Wally At a 300-mile-high orbit, HEAO-3 offers the investigating Masters Orchestra, will be at 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5 in team the first opportunity to collect data from a cosmic ray Holmes Lounge. Costumes, which are optional, will be judged detector with an unobstructed view of the sky over a long by Linda Salamon, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. period of time. Tickets are $1 at the door or in advance at the Edison Box For at least six months, the detector will trace the impact of Office. The Cotillion is sponsored by the Panhellenic Society cosmic rays in large ionization chambers, enabling scientists to and the Interfraternity Council. measure the composition and energy spectra of these bombard- Student-made floats, antique cars and the Beaumont High ing particles. School Marching Band, cheerleaders and color guard will par- "Both cosmic rays and the elements on Earth—the gold on ticipate in Saturday's parade. The parade will assemble in the the market today, for example—originally must have come Bixby Hall parking lot, go north on Skinker, west on Delmar, from a supernova explosion. That's the most likely source," south on Big Bend, and east on Forsyth into the stadium. The said Klarmann. "Our purpose is to look directly at the forma- theme of the parade is "A Good Score: 1959-1979." tion process of heavy elements from iron to uranium thought to A full barbeque dinner will be served from 4 to 6:30 p.m. on be manufactured in supernovae 'factories.' " Saturday, Oct. 6, adjacent to Francis Field. The dinner is $3.25 Instruments also will be able to detect new elements much for adults, $1.60 for children. Students may use meal cards. heavier than uranium whose existence has been predicted by Regardless of the game's outcome, a free "victory" dance theoreticians. will begin after the game at 10 p.m. in Bowles Plaza. Incoming data first will be channeled to the Space Radia- A nostalgic alumni "sock hop" will be held concurrently in tion Lab at CIT, where Israel is currently taking a sabbatical Holmes Lounge featuring the comic deejays "Phillips and leave. Later, some of the findings will be analyzed at the WU Wall" of KSLQ-FM who will serve as emcees and play rec- McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences. Klarmann, who will ords. Admission is $2 at the door. remain at the WU campus throughout most of the flight, is in Alumni will be admitted free to the football game and at a charge of mission operations for the experiment while in orbit. reduced rate to the "sock hop" by presenting the special cou- Officially titled "Large Area Cosmic Ray Detector for Ex- pon in the current issue of the Alumni News. tremely Heavy Nuclei," WU's detector was one of three experiments selected for the satellite by NASA from a total of 55 Candidates Sought for Honorary Degrees international proposals. The other experiments chosen were designed by the Danish The campus community is candidates for honorary de- Space Research Institute and the French Center for Nuclear invited to submit names of grees to the Honorary Degree Studies, and by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at CIT. Committee. Candidates should be individuals who are Sports Facilities IDs Available for Families The WU Record is pub- famous or outstanding in their Spouses and children (12 ID must come to the admin- lished weekly during the fields or have made signifi- years of age or older) of istrative office of Francis academic year by the Infor- cant contributions to WU and faculty, staff and students can Gymnasium and present his mation Office. Editor: Ruth the surrounding community. receive athletic facility per- or her WU ID card, one piece E. Thaler; calendar editor: Recommendations should be mits from the Sports and Rec- of identification for their Charlotte Boman. Address all sent to Richard H. Palmer at reation Department. spouse, and a birth certificate communications to Box 1142. Box 1060 by Oct. 1. For more To receive permits, those or similar piece of ID for each information, call Ext. 5882. holding a currently validated child. "Selections from the WU Calendar Permanent Collection." WU September 28- Gallery of Art, Steinberg Hall. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Mon.- October 4 Fri.; 1-5 p.m., Sat., Sun. FRI., SEPTEMBER 28 Q *k &ter. Through Oct. 28. 4 p.m. WU Department of "Paintings and Drawings," an Surgery Lecture, "Biological exhibit of works by Edward E. Response to Injury," George Boccia, WU professor of art. Thomas Shires, MD, chair- An opening reception will be man, department of surgery, held from 1 to 4 p.m., Sun., Cornell U. Medical College, Sept. 30. Bixby Gallery, Bixby and Second Annual Carl A. Hall. 10 a.m.-12 noon, 1-4 Moyer Visiting Professor of p.m., weekdays. Sept. 30-Oct. Surgery, WU. Scarpellino 12. Aud., 510 S. Kingshighway. Sports SAT., SEPTEMBER 29 SAT., SEPTEMBER 29 9 a.m. WU Department of 1 p.m. Women's Volleyball, Surgery Lecture, The improvisational comedy troupe "Second City," will perform in Edison Theatre Saturday, Sept. 29 to a full house. No tickets remain for the performance. WU vs. Stephens and "Management of Severe Southwest Baptist Colleges. Abdominal Injuries," George Women's Building Gym. Thomas Shires, MD, East Filmboard Series, "The Music 7 p.m. Football. WU vs. Pavilion Aud., 4949 Barnes Candidate." Brown Hall University of Rochester. Hospital Plaza. SAT., SEPTEMBER 29 Theatre. Admission $1.75. 8 p.m. WU Collegium (Also Tues., Oct. 2, same Francis Field. Admission TUES., OCTOBER 2 Musicum Concert. The times, Brown.) $3.50 for reserved seats; $2.50 12 noon. Biomedical Collegium, directed by Steven for general admission; $1.25 WED., OCTOBER 3 Engineering Seminar, Plank, WU graduate assistant with any high school or 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. WU "Ultrasonic Tomography," in music, is composed of college ID. Filmboard Series, "Pandora's Gary Brandenburger, members of the graduate level WED., OCTOBER 3 Box." Brown Hall Theatre. research assistant, WU Historical Performance 4 p.m. Women's Tennis, WU Admission $1.75. (Also Biomedical Computer Practices Program. The vs. Maryville College. WU Thurs., Oct. 4, same times, Laboratory. 215 Cupples II. program will include "Mass Tennis Courts. Brown.) of Tournai," (anon.), works WED., OCTOBER 3 7 p.m. Soccer. WU vs. Parks for recorders by Hindemith 11 a.m. Academic Committee Performing Arts College. Francis Field. and Britten, and dance suites Lecture "Social Priorities for Rudner Tribute Today by Mainerio and Susato. SAT., SEPTEMBER 29 the 1980's," Michael The WU Department of Graham Chapel. 8 p.m. Gargoyle Coffee House Harrington, author of The Philosophy will hold a tribute Performance with "Second Other America. Graham to the late Richard S. Rud- Films City," an improvisational Chapel. ner, WU professor of philos- FRI., SEPTEMBER 28 comedy troupe. Edison 4 p.m. First Eugene Feenberg ophy, at 4:30 p.m. today, 8 p.m. WU Filmboard Series, Theatre. Sold out. Memorial Lecture in Physics, Sept. 27, in Steinberg Audi- "Gone With the Wind." "Quantum Fluids and the torium. Brown Hall Theatre. Exhibitions Structure of Matter," John Rudner, who died July 27, Admission $1.75. (Also Sat., Bardeen, prof, of physics, U. "Celebration of Architecture was a member of the WU Sept. 29, same time, Brown.) of Illinois, Champaign- by St. Louis Architects," an faculty for 30 years. He was a Urbana. 201 Crow. 8 p.m. Office of Student exhibit of photographs, former department chairman Activities American Film architectural drawings and and an editor of the journal THURS., OCTOBER 4 Series, "One Hour With renderings by some 50 Philosophy of Science. 4 p.m. Department of You," and "Holiday." member firms of the St. Louis Chemistry Lecture, Art Classes Begin Rebstock Auditorium. Chapter of the American The traditional WU School "Stereoelectronic Effects in Admission $1.50. Institute of Architects (AIA). Chemistry and Biology: "P- of Fine Arts Saturday morn- 12 midnight. WU Filmboard WU Gallery of Art, Steinberg NMR and the Reactions of ing drawing classes for high Series. "Lenny." Brown Hall Hall. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Mon.- Phosphates," David school students will begin Theatre. Admission $1.00. Fri.; 1-5 p.m., Sat., Sun. Oct. Gorenstein, prof, of Sept. 29. The course will be (Also Sat., Sept. 29, same 2-30. Sponsored by the St. chemistry, U. of Illinois- held from 9:15 a.m. to noon time, Brown; and Sun., Sept. Louis Chapter, AIA. Chicago Circle. 311 McMillen on successive Saturdays 30, 8 p.m., Wohl Center.) Lab. "The Arts of Japan," an through Dec. 8 (excluding eclectic exhibit from the WU Nov. 24) in the University's 4 p.m. Center for the Study of SAT., SEPTEMBER 29 8 p.m. Office of Student collection including Japanese School of Fine Arts, Bixby Public Affairs Program, woodblock prints, ceramics, Hall. The program, taught by "ERA and the Missouri State Activities American Film Series, "You Can't Take It instruments and netsuke WU professor of art Stanley Legislature," Mo. State Sen. (small carved ivory figures), D.S. Tasker, is partially Harriet Woods, Dem.-13th With You," and "Father of the Bride." Rebstock organized around themes of funded by the Missouri Coun- District. Women's Building everyday life. WU Gallery of cil on the Arts. Lounge. Auditorium. Admission $1.50. Art, Steinberg Hall, lower Tuition for the semester is 9:30 p.m. WU Cheerleaders level. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Mon.- $65 and includes all supplies. Bonfire and Pep Rally. Field MON., OCTOBER 1 Fri.; 1-5 p.m., Sat., Sun. For information, call Ext. north of Prince Hall. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. WU Through Oct. 1. 6581.