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Washington University Record, September 27, 1979 Washington University School of Medicine Digital Commons@Becker Washington University Record Washington University Publications 9-27-1979 Washington University Record, September 27, 1979 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record Recommended Citation "Washington University Record, September 27, 1979" (1979). Washington University Record. Book 145. http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record/145 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Washington University Publications at Digital Commons@Becker. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Record by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Becker. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WASHINGTON Published for the Washington University Community UNIVERSITY PfBperty of Washington University nor -, EM IN ST LOUIS Medical Library uu •»■ 79 ARCHIVES September 27,1979 W.U 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 exhi- bitions, a trio of lectures by visiting artists and a pair of cos- tume 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.
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