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This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in WKU Archives Records by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. i Vol. 6 No.6. Publication For Faculty, Staff and Friends of WKU • August 1996 ... iii WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY The accessible professor 0 By Chris Abrell, junior print journalism major from Columbia, Ky. Dr. Lester Pesterfield's summer attire is blue jean shorts and a tee shirt, not a bow tie and jacket. His youth and excitement give him an appearance and personal ity more closely resembling the students he teaches than that of the stereotypical chemistry professor. Pesterfield, in his fifth year at Western Kentucky University, may be relatively new to the Hilt but he has already made an impact upon his shtdents. The winner of the 1996 Univer sity Award for Excellence in Teaching says that he was very surprised to receive the award. ''I'm honored," he said. "I really didn't think, being an assistant professor, I had enough time or material to stack up with some of the people who had been here 15 to 20 years."

Pesterfield says he judges his success by the way students relate to him outside class.

Dr. Lester Pesterfield, 1996 winner, WKU Faculty Award for Excel/ellce in Teaching ·Photo by lenn Wilfinger Though he said he sees the award as a recognition of his if they can't meet me then, call set class pattern are elements of research projects. He thinks teaching ability, Pesterfield says and we will set a time. If they his teaching style. independent research is a major he judges his success by the way need to be here at eight in the "I do a lot of demonstrations to component of becoming a good students relate to him outside morning, I'll be here. If they try and generate interest," he said. chemist. class. need to be here a t four in the "If we are going to do gas laws or "(Research) is the greatest " If the students are willing to afternoon, I'll be here." something like that, we blow up a opportunity that students have to come back and see me the next Accessibility is something balloon, or we explode a gas. If grow," he says. "It was a tremen semester when they don't have Pesterfield says he learned while we are doing thermal chemistry, dous learning experience for me. me in class anymore, or if they he was in school. I'll come in and do a torch or an Students learn more about your have a problem in another chem "It's something I picked up explosion. self and gain confidence in their istry class and they want to come from my graduate adviser at UT "I feel you need to break mo abilities to deal with subject back to me, that's one of the ways Knoxville. If you needed help, he notony. You can't come in and materiaL" that 1 use to measure my effective was more than willing to meet chalk talk all of the time. You've Not only college students ness," he said. with you outside of class or got to mix it up. Sometimes you benefit from Pesterfield's fervor According to Pesterfield, his beyond regular office hours to do use overheads. Sometimes you for science. Local grade school relationship with the students lies anything he could for you. use handouts. Sometimes you'll pupils love his chemistry magic in his open nature. "I try to get to know everyone's do a demonstration. Just try shows. "I don't know that 1 do anything name, high school or what his/ different things. The whole idea is "I got into the magiC shows differently than my colleagues in her major is. I try to make stu not to get into some repetitive because of Earl Pearson," he said, the chemistry department," he dents persons instead of num routine." referring to his colleague, a WKU said. "I just try to be very ap bers." Pesterfield works with students chemistry professor. proachable. I have set office Pesterfield also says spicing up in the summer too. He currently hours, but I tell everyone in class lectures and staying away from a has four students working on Continued on page two On Campus Western Kentucky University August 1996

Fred Hensley named Institutional Advancement VP Western Kentucky University president during this past year and hiring the remainder of his staff President Thomas C. Meredith has everyone has confidence in him," to move Western ahead even named Fred W. Hensley to the Dr. Meredith said. farther than we are now," said post of University Vice President Working closely with Vice Presi- WKU's President. for Institutional Advancement. dent Rutledge during his Staff to be hired will In addition to being Director of brief 20-month tenure at include two develop- University Relations, Hensley has Western, Hensley ment officers for the been serving as interim vice developed and wrote university's academic president since Robert M. the Communications colleges to assist in the Rutledge ill resigned in June 1995 Plan for WKU's university's fund- to become President of the Mose & first ever Major raising efforts. Garrison Siskin Memorial Founda Gifts Campaign, "An assessment of tion in Chattanooga, Tenn. and he also all current posi- As Western's Institutional authored the ,--_q tions in lnstitu- Advancement Vice President, Marketing Plan which tional Advance- Hensley will oversee the offices of began implementation ment will be under- Alumni Affairs, Development and last spring. taken to determine the University Relations. Fred W. Hensley The Communications most efficient and productive He will also serve as Executive Plan is aimed at keeping all staffing levels," Hensley said, Director of the WKU Foundation university constituencies, faculty, adding: and will provide leadership for Planning efforts for the cam staff, students and friends of the 'This is an exciting time at Western's first Major Gifts Cam paign have continued during the university, informed throughout Western. "We will be doing a lot paign. past year, and should be com every step of the Major Gifts of things we've never attempted The University's Board of pleted by the end of the fall Campaign. before. Our expectations are high Regents in January 1995 approved .semester. Efforts will be taken to enhance and I am confident that we will a strategic plan and a budget for a "Mr. Hensley has done an communication efforts with all be able to meet those expecta- Major Gifts Campaign. outstanding job as interim vice WKU constituencies. tions." The Major Gifts Campaign Hensley, a native of Kenova, ~;Stt;1~"ildr--~~;~;:~::--~~;~~:~i~:g ·I'I.n:l.. s. thr'''mlaj(:>r'--~.va.;camelowes(em1nT980L as-- Dr. Lester 1 priorities: Director of Public Information, ~o enhance the institution's which later became University Continued from page one image; Relations. "To communicate the needs of He was Director of Public "The first year I was here he he's asked me to help him do one. I fascinated the university to support the Major Information at Delta State Univer- had never done one before. You by rocks, Gifts Campaign issues; and sity in Cleveland, Miss. (1977-80); get a lot of feedback, more than bugs and otTo assist with student and Director of News Services at you would in a typical lecture lizards," he said. "We'll make faculty recruitment. Morehead State University in setting. It was a tremendous silly putty or slime at home and "It is a university-wide, compre- Morehead, Ky. (1976-77), and experience." he'll ask how it works. I don't hensive plan which will lead to Sports Information Director at Pesterfield is active in the gifted understand where people lose Western's self-awareness in all Morehead State (1973-76). studies program for Verbally and that curiosity." three areas of interest," Hensley He holds master and bachelor Mathematically Precocious Youth Love for his work and concern explains. degrees from Morehead State (VAMPY). for his students fuel Pesterfield. "Mr. Hensley has the knowledge University. "We have gifted eighth, ninth He says he thinks as long as he base to provide the leadership to Hensley is married to the and tenth graders," he says. "We remembers what it is like to be a cause a Major Gifts Campaing to former Mary Jane Reed of Russell, come in and talk about protons, student, he will continue to reach happen and he's in the process of Ky. They have two children, electrons and neutrons the first them. Drew and Anne-Walker. day of class - the fundamentals "Every other year I go to of chemistry. By the end of the faculty enhancement work second week, we are making shops," he says. "That allows CORRECTIONS Plexiglas, polystyrene and aspirin. me to sit in a classroom ... and By the end of the third week we sort of experience what it is like Last issue we left out Allen Murrell's are doing experiments that I do in to be a student again. I think name in the identification of retirees at their my junior-level organic class. that's very important for profes recognition banquet in May. We are truly "I'm amazed at how these sors to do. sorry, Allen, and deeply regret the error. young students pick up the mate "You need to remember what An apology to Jerry Barnaby, who is rial. They just soak it up like little it is like for those students sitting Assistant Director of Public Broadcasting for sponges. out there trying to take notes or television, not radio. "It's incredible." studying for that exam. If I can Also, we apologize for the printer's error of not noting crop Pesterfield has a little sponge remember what it is like to be marks on any of our photographs in the last issue. This is why you saw himself, giving him his own out there instead of up her:e some people unidentified and some names of people in the cullines who weren't in the pictures. This type of mistake is out of our contrpl, reasons to be concerned with iecturin& I think I can help more but we do apologize anyway. education. students." "I have a seven-year-old and Next: Public Servia winner

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Emergency phones: two minutes to safety! By Nikcole Payne, a senior public ment Association and the WKU on campus did not have accessible Downing University Center south relations major from Easley, S,c. Police are responsible for imple telephones during the summer lawn near the Preston Center, and Western Kentucky University's menting the project to improve months and at night. Representa the service drive behind Ivan campus is becoming safer with campus safety. They reviewed tives from WKU Police, the SGA Wilson Fine Arts Center. The WKU Police only a few steps and emergency phones at other uni the telephone company se- remaining seven phones are call a phone call away. versities such as Vanderbilt lected the boxes on each floor of the parking The campus is now equipped University and the Univer other loca structure. with several emergency phones sity of Louisville, and then tions. New phones will be located on that provide a direct link to they devised a plan for Currently, 13 Big Red Way between the tennis campus police. The units also Western. emergency courts and Preston Center, next to meet requirements of the Ameri "The phones are an asset phones Jones Jaggers, in front of L.T. can Disabilities Act by providing a to campus, and they are Smith Stadium, behind the Aca ~:::: __ on flashing light when activated. The make parents feel _..::==:;~ demic Complex, behind McLean system also offers braille, and a more secure about cam Hall, behind the Kentucky Mu call button low enough to satisfy safety on campus," pus, and seum, behind the Hardin Plan persons in wheelchairs. said Donald Smith, nine more etarium and next to Weatherby When calls are received, the Alumni Affairs coordina will be Administrative building near communications officer sends an tor and 1993-94 SGA installed this Florence Schneider Hall. officer to the activated phone. president. Smith also said year. The The University bought the first Then the dispatcher talks with the that the emergency phones make emergency phones from Gai person who needs assistance to students feel safer. loca- of the Tronies Corporation for $18,433 identify the problem. Campus WKU Police Lt. Mike Wallace phones are: the walkway in front each. Capital Construction in police can arrive at all emergency said he chose the sites for the first of McCormack Hall, Egypt parking stalled the units for about $5,000 sites within two minutes. six campus phones based on lot on the south end of campus, each. SGA, WKU Police and the WKU President Thomas locations with the most crime Pearce Ford Tower parking lot, University provided funding. Meredith, the Student Govern- reports, adding tha t several areas behind Garrett Conference Center, Although Western has not awarded a bid to a specific com pany, Warren Whitfield, purchas Brown Printing gives engineering tech $30,000 ing senior buyer, estimates that the new phones will cost about J'he Engineering Technology people oLthis region," he said. Dr. Russell said this donation $23,000 each. Department at Western Kentucky "This is the third gift we have shows the MET program at WKU Police have arrested two University will receive an endow received this year for this pro Western is fOCUSing on fields that people for false reports and ment of $30,000 from the Brown gram." have direct applications to indus- responded to III calls since the Printing Company. The new MET program is try. first phone was installed in July Dr. John Russell, Engineering predictive maintenance, a field "External support for your 1994. The most frequently acti Technology Department Head, that uses a variety of sensors to program ~omes because you exist vated spot is the location behind says the endowment, given in detect the warning signs of a and have a relevance to the field," Garrett Conference Center. How three annual installments of malfunction before it happens. he said. "We are trying to de ever, students have already made $10,000, will provide funding for a "It is a very important way for velop the resources and ability to nine calls from the parking struc new project in Western's mechani industry to can make itself more assist the local industries in ture call boxes, which were in cal engineering technology (MET) competitive by predicting the establishing predictive mainte stalled in the spring. According to program. need to replace or repair rather nance programs. We think as we WKU Police Lt. Paul Joiner, the "We are in the process of devel than reacting to a breakdown," develop this and make it more number of calls from the parking oping a focus in the orientation of Dr. Russell said. "It can reduce known, more industries will want structure will probably surpass our program recognized as being breakdowns and improve effi to be a part of it." the number from any other loca benificial to the industries and Ciency." tion. Wallace said tha t even though it is too soon to determine if the campus crime rate has Grants for Economic Development Institute total $34,500 decreased due to the emergency phone stations, Western students, The Western Kentucky Univer The first grant for $9,500 is for can succeed in areas that may faculty and staff feel better know sity Institute for Economic Devel development. It will be used to otherwise be too large or too ing that safety is only a phone call opment has been awarded two encourage companies to investi complex for individual firms," she away. grants totaling $34,500 by the gate joint market or contract said. "They can also meet new Kentucky Cabinet for Economic opportunities and to help com suppliers, find new buyers and cut Development. munities bring local companies buying costs." WKU will administer the grants together to explore possible The second grant is a matching for the Kentucky Cabinet's Net collaborative ventures. grant for $25,000 and will be used work Initiatives program, which Lynn Minton, a staff assistant at to expand the Plexus Group, a seeks to help Kentucky companies the Institute for Economic Devel newly formed network of local become more competitve by opment, said that there are many businesses. combining their resources into benefits for businesses that cooperative groups of three or choose to pool their resources. more. "Businesses working in groups

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BACK~SCHOOL Don't forget!

Monday. August 12 Annual meeting fo r Facilities Management. 9 a.m. Downing University Center Theatre. Contact: Office of the President, 745-4493.

Annual meeting for members of the clerical support staff. 3 p.m. Downing University Center Theatre. Contact: Office of the President, 745-4493.

ThUISday. August 15 Annual meeting for Faculty and Professional Non Faculty. 2 p.m. Van Meter Auditorium. Contact; Office of the President, 745-4493.

Monday. August 19 Day and evening classes begin. Augustus Prymnrs afLouisville, Ky. takes a math placement Jest during a recenltrip to campus for Oriel1tation- Advisement-Regis/ration for the Fall 1996 semrster. -Photo. by !enn WiIfinger All for international exchange The Consortium for Belize COBEC has grown to include 12 in Belize and organize several Educational Cooperation held its American universities and all of small grant programs to assist the annual meeting this summer at the secondary institutions in-- institutions in feasibility studies." Western Kentucky University. Belize. Harrington said that the pro Western Kentucky and Murray According to Tracy Harrington, grams give everyone in- State Universities founded COBEC the U. S. co volved a in 1988 to organize their efforts in chairperson, faculty and student exchange COBEC's size Public radio wins programs with the South Ameri may have Jesse Stuart award can country of Belize. Since then, changed,but its goals have WKU Public Radio has won the held fi rm. 1996 Jessie Stuart Memorial "Our aim Media Award. is to work The presentation, made by the On Campus Kentucky affiliate of the Ameri together to can Heart Associa tion, recognizes promote educational outstanding coverage of issues 1996 Blue Pencil Award of Merit, development in Belize and also to related to cardiovascular disease. Kentucky Association enhance the U. S. members' " tremendous enhancement," and of Government Communicators "Deadly Impact," an in-depth international activities and in that U. S. participants can learn an examination of the impact smok volvements," Harrington said. important lesson from interacting ing has On cardiovascular disease "We originally came together to with Belize. in the Commonwealth, aired' talk about how we could cooper "One of the things we learn is March 20. ate to enhance what everyone was that color doesn't' have to matter," News Director Dan Modlin, On Campus is published monthly by doing. That is still our goaL" Harrington said. "Through this Assistant News Director Jeanine the Office of University ~Iations, COBEC's representatives meet program our students can find out Howard Gibbs and News Pro containing informatioll of ill/erest to twice yearly (once in Belize and Belize is a diverse country with ducer Kevin Ingram produced the foculty and staff and frie'lds of Western. once in the U. S.) to review and many ethnic groups that get program. On Campus does 110/ represellt any evaluate programs and to launch along." Castillo said the exchange Western's Public Radio has special interest group. If opinions are new ones. Carlos Castillo, the program develops international been selected as the winner of stated in any copy, material is attributed. Belize co-chairperson, said relations. statewide competition for three of We reserve the right to accept or reject any COBEC has started many univer "It creates a bond," Castillo said. the past four years. material. sity exchange programs. "We were strangers at the begin Stations are WKYU-FM Bowling Send, call or e-mail items or story ideas "Some of the projects are faculty ning, but now we are very close. I Green; WKPB-FM Hend ~on/ to Sheila Eiscn, Editor, at 502-745-5380; exchange programs," Castillo said. think we are more tolerant of Owensboro; WDCL-FM Somerset sheila [email protected]. "However, we also have books other cultures because of this and WKUE-FMElizabethtown. donated to the various institutions program."

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Teaching the ancient art ofpuppetry By Chris AbreU, a print journalism students to the untold ways in forms of performance and art Kesler said. "There are also some major from Columbia, Ky. which puppets can be used - not known to man, has many values. strictly puppet thea tres in the Western Kentucky University only in the classroom but for other "We explore how puppets are country today." students are learning to apply the educational used in in hospitals for therapy," The class is usually offered on an ancient art of puppetry in new Dr. Kesler said. "Psycholo alternating year sequence and, ways. use puppets to help according to Dr. Kesler, fi lls The experience is coming from children out of their quickly thanks to its flexible Puppet Theatre, a class taught by sn,ells. Children talk to nature. WKU theatre and dance professor the puppet as a third "It is a fun class," he said. Dr. William Jackson Kesler II. person or friend because "There is no one correct way to do "We teach the class on a gradu puppets aren't judge it. I had much rather have a ate and ~n undergraduate level," mental." student try a new technique, Dr. Kesler said. "This is the first Jackie Bonadio, a material or process and fai l, rather time I have taught it in the sum fourth grade teacher at than just play it safe. mer and the first time that we William A. Natcher "That has been my philosophy have put this much emphasis on Elementary School, said with this course and most students the mechanics of puppetry in the would use puppets to look upon it as a rather refreshing classroom." help children to express approach to learning. It is a hands Dr. Kesler said the course is themselves. on experience." driven by the Kentucky Education "I was looking for Dr. Kesler said that working with Reform Act and the influence that experiences and purposes." something different to use in class students from a different discipline is being placed on the arts, "so Sue Ellston, a second grade - a different way to adapt tradi has been just as rewarding for him that children start seeing' the teacher at Ft. Knox Elementary tional curriculum into a new as the experience he hopes they possiblility of how the arts can be School, who is taking the class format," Bonadio said. "Children have gained from being students. applied and develop a sense of art now, agrees that using puppets in can express themselves behind a "J'm always challenged to keep appreciation." class can help teachers to better puppet and sometimes give a Jot abreast of these wonderfully Dr. Kesler said his current class relate to students. more voice and true feeling." talented people who are coming consisted primarly of education "I think puppetry is a perfect Dr. Kesler said that prior to this along," Dr. Kesler said. "I am majors looking to acquire a new medium to connect literature and summer most of his puppeteering totally amazed at how adept these skill for the classroom. language in a fun way into the students had been theatre majors, teachers are. I feel really positive " It has been truly amazing to £lle curriculum," Ellston said. "It will taking the class for en ir ly differ these teachers represent the.level just to explore the idea of puppets be something 1 can take and use ent reasons than those of the of professionalism in our primary and the many different ways they right away in the classroom." group he has now. education teachers today." can be used in the elementary Dr. Kesler tries to show students "There are occasional plays that classroom," he said. "The pur that puppetry, one of the oldest require the use of puppets," Dr. pose of the class is to introduce the Ky. Library and Museum: off to the Olympics! C'o{9 The Kentucky Library and a part of the Cultural Olympiad copies of All the King's Men, an In addition, the Robert Penn Museum will be represented at Committee's 1996 Olympic Arts original in English, and a Bengali Warren Library displays his desk Atlanta's Summer Olympics Festival. translation; a signed quotation and chair, a cabinet in w hich he not in athletic competition, but as A major part of the festival, six hand-written lines from the kept his first editi ons, a number of organizers say, is an exhibit on poem, "The Necessity for Belief"; a photographs and various medals southern history and culture, photograph of Warren and his and awards, all of which were which opened in late June and wife, Eleanor Clark; a medal from donated to the University by the runs hrough Sept. 1997 at the the Fellowship of Southern Writ family in 1994. Atlanta History Center. ers; and a National Medal of Arts A Center for Robert Penn Titled "The American South: in a walnut presentation box. Warren Studies has existed at the Past, Present and Future," the Warren, a native of Guthrie university since 1987 and a room exhibit was developed to intro (Todd County), Ky., was the in Cherry Hall bears his name. duce Olympic visitors to the nation's first Poet Laureate, a The Center sponsors an annual region and to give them insight three-time winner of the Pulitzer sympOSium, awards scholarships, into the area's history and culture. prize, and the only writer to and this past year gave the first Exhibit themes are the region's receive a Pulitzer for both fiction Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth music, literature, politics, food, and poetry Brooks Award for outstanding religion, economy, population .Warren will be featured along literary criticism; the Robert Penn groups and race relations. with James Dickey, William Warren Room is used for semi The Kentucky Library and Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, nars, lectures and other activities Museum loaned items related to Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, related to the highly acclaimed Robert Penn Warren, who, along Alice Walker, Eudora Welty and writer. with eight other southern writers, Richard Wright. For more information, contact are featured in the literature The Kenmcky Library at West Earlene Chelf (502) 745-5263. section. ern houses Warren's private book Warren items on exhibit are two collection of nearly 2,500 volumes.

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William P. Bintz, Reading Ed ucation, has had two articles published in the Kentucky Reading Journal. Spring Issue, 1996: Educational Reform as Wo rldmaking: A Reaction to 'Reflections on Reform in Kentucky," and HIST!. a review of an award-winning children's picture book from Australia.

Dr. Jan Colbert, Acco untin g, published SAS 75--Using the Work of a Specialist in the June 1996 issue of National Public Accountant. Five of the seven Board members of the Kentucky Association of Educational Opportunity Program Person nel (KA EOPP) are WKU staff members of the University's TRIO Programs, Dr. Aaron W. Hughey, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, installed as officers of the organization at its June meeting at Lake Cumberland State Resort Park. was a keynote speaker at the 1996 national conference of the Baptist Left to right are: Teresa Ward, Vice President, Educational Talent Search; Nancy Carwell, Association of Student Affairs in June at Belmont University in Nash President, (in her second year of a two-year term), Educational Talent Search; Michael Kenney, vi lle, Tenn. His address focused upon application of team management Junior Member-At-Large, Educational Talent Search; and Michael Johnson, Treasurer, Studeut concepts to higher education administration. Support Seroices . Not pictured was Michelle Jones, Senior Member-At-wrge, Upward Bound. The KAEOPP is Kentucky's professional association for individuals working in the Trio An article by Dr. H.Y. Kim, Economics, Inverse Demand Sys tems and Programs, which at WKU include Educational Talent Search, Student Support Seroices, Fede ral Welfare Measurement in Quantity Space, has been accepted for future TRIO Training, Upward Bound and Veterans Upward Bo und. The programs are 98 percent publication by the Southern Economic TournaI. funded by the U.S. Depa rtment of Education and two percent is WKU funded.

Randy Kinnersley, Accounting, presented a seminar, CA SB State ments, at the Southwest School of Governmental Finance in Lubbock, Texas in May. New retirement options

Judy Owen, Director of the Career Services Center, received the Outstanding Member Award from the Kentucky College Placement Association at its conference in Lexington, Ky. in June. Owen was recognized for her long-time involvement in and leadership of the association. She is a past president of KCPA, is a member of the board of directors, and has chaired or served on numerous committees during Western Kentucky Uni her years as a member. versity and four other re gional Kentucky universities Richard Patterson, Consumer and Family Sciences, is recipient of the are now offering optional 1996 Outstanding Faculty Coordinator Award from the Cooperative retirement plans for new Education Association of Kentucky. He was nominated by WKU's • faculty and professional staff. Career Services Center. This reward recognizes faculty members who '-' ______...1 O On July 1, Western, Ken- have made notable contributions to the field of cooperative education tucky State, Murray State, and internships and who have been highly effective in working with Morehead State and Eastern Kentucky Universities began offering students involved in these work-learn experiences. Under Dr. retirement options that allow new faculty and professional staff to Patterson's leadership, the Hotel, Restaurant Tourism major has nearly have a retirement plan with one of three vendors as an alternative to tripled in student enrollment, with all of these students participating in the Kentucky Teachers Retirement System. two internships as part of their major course work. Strong relationships Tony Glisson, WKU's human resources director, said the change will have been built with many companies in the hospitality field who allow a new fa culty or professional staff member to bring a retirement provide co-op and internship opportunities for these students. plan from another state to Kentucky. "This will make retirement plans more portable." Glisson said, Dr. Joyce Rasdall, Professor of Consumer and Family Sciences, partici adding that the change will help the universities as they recruit faculty pated in the June board meeting of the National Electrical Safety Foun and professional staff. dation at the Sears Roebuck Corp. headquarters at Hoffman Estates, Ill. The change was authorized by the Kentucky General Assembly in Dr. Rasdall is the only educator on the board whose mission is to reduce 1994 and clarified in 1996. Western's Board of Regents approved the injuries and deaths from electricity use in the home, school, and work concept earlier this year. place. She chairs the educational (unctions and nominating committee of Western took the lead in putting the retirement plan together, aC M the board. . cording to Rick Shreve, employee benefits manager at Western. Work ing with the other universities, Western prepared the request for An article by Dr. Rick Shannon, Marketing, The Components of Cus proposals, collected the proposals and coordinated the vendor selec tomer Service: A New Taxon omy, was published in the TournaI of Cus tion process. When the schools met to review the results, Glisson said tomer Service in Marketing & Management, Vol. 2(1), 1996, pp. 5-17. the decision on the three venders was unanimous. The three venders are: TIAA-CREF, V AUC and Aetna.

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Annual meeting for members of Barbara Bailey Hutcheson / Orientation-Advisement COMING UP the clerical support staff. 3 p .m. Master Plan segment. 8 p.m. Registration. Contact: Sharon Downing University Center Downing University Center, Dyrsen, 745-4242. Theatre. Contact: Office of the Fourth Floor. Contact: Bennie August President, 745-4493. Beach, 745-2459. Last day to apply for Decem ber graduation. Contact: Office 5 Master Plan Convocation for of the Registrar, 745-3351. Louisville Alumni Club meets at new students. Ivan Wilson Center 15 12:30 p.m. at the Quail Chase Golf for Fine Arts Outdoor Theatre. Annual meeting for Faculty and Wrap-up registration begins. 3 Course. Contact: Office of Alumni 8:30 a.m. President's reception, 7 Professional Non-Faculty. 2 p.m. p.m. For all registration and Affairs, 745-4395. p.m. Garrett Conference Center Van Meter Auditorium. Contact: graduation information, contact Ballroom. Office of the President, 745-4493. the Office of the Registrar, 745- 11 3351. Master J;lan Events begin. 13 Check-in, Noon to 6 p.m. Importance _------...----16 President's reception, 5 p.m. a/Support - t\. 0. ~ I ~ .A - Residence Halls open at 8 a.m. Downing University Center. For Sys tems all Master Plan activities, unless When Deal I otherwise designated, contact: ing with :: ~:; 't:·< ::~ ~:~ l~! ~). 19 ay Dave Parrott, Residence Life, 745- Alzheimer's ~ ~ " l-. ~~ ~~ 2: and evening classes begin. 2037. Disease. 3:30 p.m. Jones 12 Jaggers, A ~ Last day to add a full semester Annual meeting for Facilities Room 151. Jl II course. Management. 9 a.m. Downing Contact: Juhe o University Center Theatre. Con Wade,745- -=::::::======::==== tact: Office of the President, 745- 4493. 6457. '\:}.Ll 'r:J "Q

Roommates, friends forever, with honors! By Nikcole Payne, a senior public Eva, from Williamsburg, Ky., science library. Mutual friends relations major from Easley, S.c. was named scholar of Ogden introduced them in February1994. Mary Eva Farrar Dye and Jenni College of Science, Technology and Eva did not know of the scholar fer Lewis had something in com Health. Jennifer, from Scottsburg, award until Billy received it in mon when they met their freshman Ind., was named scholar of Bowl 1995. After he won, she year through Western Kentucky ing Green College of Business knew that she would be eligible University's Honors Program. Administration. the following year, and she set a The high school valedictorians "Rooming together helped us to goal to earn the honor. ABOUT were assigned to be roommates on stay on track," Lewis said. "We Eva said that she and Billy the honors floor of Hugh Poland encouraged each other to do well contributed to one another's STUDENTS Hall. They remained roommates on tests." She also said that they academic success because they until they both graduated in May motivated one another to study by had similar academic goals. Eva with honors. staying focused. She explained will begin at Vanderbilt School of Biology honorary that if Eva were studying, then she NurSing in the fall. She will would be more likely to study than pursue a master's of science in Six Western Kentucky Univer officers for the 1996-97 academic to watch television or go out. nursing degree and plans to sity students have been inducted yea r. They are: Tony Freeman of "I think being roommates helped eventually work in neonatal care. into Beta Beta Beta, the national Wahiawa, Hawaii, president; a lot because we both had the same Billy is a molecular biology honor society in biology. Whetstine, vice president; Julie academic standards," Eva said. graduate student a t Vanderbilt. They include: Sandra D. Hodgkins of Owensboro, secre "Jennifer influenced me to do well, Dr. Sam McFarland, director of Batsel, a sophomore from tary; Heath Sutton of and I influenced her." WKU's Honors Program, said Madisonville; Joy E. Greer, a Madisonville, environmental Graduating with honors is not first-year honors students are sophomore from Louisville; chair; Steve Smith of the only thing these young women encouraged, but not required to Brooke Heher, a junior from Lawrenceburg, activities chair; have to celebrate. Jennifer has live on the honors floors. Dr. Somerset; Jeremy D. Jones, a Jones, membership chair, and accepted a scholarship to a ttend McFarland explained that the sophomore from Greenbriar, Lori Haycraft of Clarkson, histo Indiana University Law School. atmosphere creates an arrange Tenn.; Jessica L. Popplewell, a rian. Eva married Billy Dye of Nash ment where students can support junior from Russell Springs, and The Western chapter, one of 380 ville May 18. Billy was the 1995 one another and also reinforce Johnathan R. Whetstine, a in the United States, Canada and scholar of Ogden College of Sci working hard together. junior from Brighton, Tenn. Puerto Rico, was founded in 1972. ence, Technology and Health. "We think it's good for the In addition, the Mu Gamma Co-advisers are Larry Elliott and Jennifer was a bridesmaid in their students," Dr. McFarland said. "It chapter at Western elected Joe Winstead. wedding. encourages students' school work Billy and Eva met in WKU's and grades."

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