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• Karst, teaching, public service--a winning 'package-deal'

By Chris AbreU Dr. Nicholas Crawford, the 1996 winner of Western Kentucky University's Faculty Excellence Award for Public Service, says he came to Western because of his professional interest in the area's geology and its problems. "I was a professor at Vanderbilt University in 1976," Crawford said. "I came here that spring to what was the first meeting held anywhere in the world on hydro­ logic problems of karst regions. "As luck would have it, I was on the faculty of this department by the fall," Crawford said. "We've tried to emphasize karst problems ever since." Crawford, a geography profes­ sor, specializes in karst studies, a field that deals with areas with fast moving underground water flows. The work often takes him into the subterranean landscapes of this region. One of his favorite community projects is Lost River Cave. Dr. Nicholas Crawford, 1996 winner, University Award for Excellence in Public Seroice -Plwto by lenn Wilfinger 'I guess I've enjoyed working with Lost River he says he has always paid special Department's emergency response "It may contaminate someone's Cave as much as any public attention to. team that will help to direct action service project: water well, or the vapors may "Public service is something in the event of a hazardous mate­ come back up through the lime­ -Dr. Nicholas Crawford that 1 have been involved in a lot rial spill. stone into people's houses miles in my last 20 years at Western," "In the event of an accident, a away," Crawford said. "In other Crawford said. "It is very impor­ "I guess I've enjoyed working spill is going to go straight into a parts of the world it doesn't work with Lost River Cave as much as tant to our department and really, hole in the ground like everything that way." any public service project," I like it." does in Bowling Green," Crawford In all of the work Crawford has Crawford said. "It was an area in The enjoyment Crawford de­ said. "We need to know where it done, he said that one local project Bowling Green that had fallen rives from Western and his work is going to go and what route it is has been his most rewarding. apart and was very important in shows. He doesn't loose touch going to take. So, we are starting Crawford doesn't mind that terms of the history of this com­ with the university when he dye traces along the interstate, many college students never think munity. heads into the field. Instead, he bypass, and railroad tracks so we about what he does for the com­ "I helped when the area was uses the experience to benefit know where to evacuate." munity. It is just part of the job. donated to Western and then WKU by sharing it with his Groundwater contamination is a "Students just don't realize," informed the Friends of Lost River students. serious threat in areas like Bowling Crawford said. "They think that in 1990 to help clean it up and "I've tried to put together Green, and the community relies college professors are just sup­ make it accessible to the public research, public service and on Crawford's knowledge and that posed to be teachers because that once again," Crawford said. "That teaching all into one package," of others like him to handle these is the end of it they receive most Crawford said. "I get my stu­ project has been very important to difficulties. often. We are expected to spread me and 1 continue to work with dents involved in the research we "Karst areas like we have around our expertise around the commu­ it." dq, and often it is an applied here are the most vulnerable in the nity and help others." Crawford doesn't spend all of public service activity, dealing world for groundwater contamina­ his time underground. He fre­ with Some kind of groundwater tion," Crawford said. "If you have There will be a reception for WKU quently works to solve groundwa­ problem." a spill, it just goes down into the employees who have received ter contamination problems in Currently Crawford is involved ground and can travel along degrees over the past year Warren County and throughout in a project with two WKU stu­ underground streams for several Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 3:30 p.m. the state. That work is something dents for the Warren County Fire miles in less than 24 hours. at the DUe Mezzanine. • On Campus Western Kentucky University September 1996

On teaching: would you do it again? Continued from cover page than the entire faculty,' he said. cultural backgrounds are enrich­ Today at many public compre~ Another reason is that ' Most ing our classrooms, and technol­ -hensive universities only 66 organizations develop habits to ogy is giving us the capacity to percent of the faculty say they'd remedy problems, not prevent teach and to learn in ways that become professors once again: them,' he explained, citing the were unimaginable even a decade Walker said, adding: medical profession as an example ago. "It's not the paradise we used to of one which has moved empha­ 'Sut in all this change, I hope the think it was. sis from remedy to prevention. simple needs of faculty are not ' Older faculty are retiring earlier 'We need to keep our faculty overlooked. I hope the well-being and in greater numbers than strong and vital, and a lot of their of faculty will be brought into expected; new faculty are show­ problems will go away,' he said. harmony with the well-being of the ing signs of stress not seen in Some suggestions on how students they serve and the well­ previous studies; burn Qut, a faculty well-being can be main­ being of the colleges in which they phenomenon rarely seen with Dr. Charles Walker tained, Walker said, can be work. through offering merit pay, bud­ "More importantly, I hope I've professors, is being seen more major reason for these 'troubles in geting for teaching excellence, presented the problems and and more; restructuring and paradise" is that the .well-being of such as grant programs, and challenges of faculty well-being in downsizing have changed defini­ faculty has been benignly over­ complex award programs. such a way that all of you--stu­ 'ions of faculty work; the new looked. "Pay excellent teachers as well dents, staff, and administrators ::!mphasis on the student and 'Why they are being over­ as excellent researchers,' he said. particularly, can begin to do learning, while a good change, looked,' he said, in addition to the "Faculty have a very high things that will renew and revital­ has also redefined faculty work, assumption that faculty are rug­ generativity level. They really do ize those who teach your students yet expectations to do excellent ged and independent, "is be­ want to pass on to others, to be at Western Kentucky University.' work in .teaching, research and Cause faculty are difficult to take role models. Letters back from Walker also presented a work­ service has remained the same at care of. students are good, but faculty shop on campus Aug. 16 for many colleges and universities,' "There's a reason why the most want to know they are daily faculty through Western's Center Walker said. dilapidated building on campus giving. for Teaching and Learning, a Western's guest speaker said a . gets more money for maintenance 'The changes that are occuring facility devoted to faculty profes­ in higher education today are sional development. indeed exciting," Walker said, The subject of his workshop was Kentucky Museum News adQi ~g: Ways of Using Assessment and Quilts from many states across the nation, including Kentucky, "Facu!ty and students from a Research as a Tool in Teaching. . Illinois, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee will be greater variety of social and in an exhibit titled "Gatherings: America's " opening at The Kentucky Museum, .3 and through Nov. 3, 1996 . . was originally developed by the Museum of the American Quilter's Society (Paducah) with Mrs. Sarah Thompson, wife of Western's "''------"'''' funding from the Lila Wallace-Reade(s Digest Fund and featured 77 quilts. The Kentucky Museum's exhibi­ third president, Dr. Kelly Thompson,dies tion of about 30 quilts, which traveled to several sites around the country, is sponsored by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, with Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Pearce additional support from Delta De;ntal of Kentucky. Thompson, wife of WKU's third President, the late Dr. Kelly Th­ Museum Calendar ompson, died Aug. 16 at her home in Bowling Green. She was 87. On Campus Mrs. Thompson was a Bowling 1996 Blue Pencil Award of Merit, September Green native and was a former Kentucky Association educator for the Shelby County of Government Communicators 10-24 School System, teaching English, "The Civil War in Kentucky" Latin and French. Mrs. Thompson was valedicto­ rian of her 1927 cl.ass at Bowling On Campus is published monthly by 15 Green High School, and she gradu­ the Office of University Relations, "A True and Honorable Wife: The ated from Western Kentucky containing information of interest to Mary Todd Lincoln Story" University in 1930. faculty and staff and friends of Western, Mrs. Sarah Thompson dramatic performance by In 1931, she married Kelly Sheila Eison, Editor. Nancy Sherburne, 2 p.m. Thompson, who was President of On Campus does not represent any Thompson Jr. of Bowling Green; a Western from 1955 to 1969. She special interest group. If opinions are da'1ghter, Patty Thompson and Dr. Thompson served Western stated in any cqpy, material is attributed. 16 Gilligan of Ocala, Fla; five grand­ for 64 years. We reserve the right to accept or reject any children and seven great-grand­ "Lincoln and Lee as Civil War Funeral services were held for . material. Heroes" 7:30 p.m. children. Mrs. Thompson Monday, Aug. 19 Send correspondence to On Campus, Expressions of sympathy may at St. Joseph ~atholic Church, Office of University Relations, Western take the form of contributions to ' 28 where she was a member, with Kentucky University, 1 Big Red Way, the College Heights Foundation, 9 a.m. -Noon burial in St. Joseph Cemetery in Bow/ing Green, Ky. 42101 ·3576. Sarah, Kelly, Hardin Thompson "The Civil War: A Workshop for Bowling Green. Scholarship Fund at Western Teachers"9 a.m.-Noon. Survivors include a son, Kelly D. Kentucky University.

2 Oil-Campus Western Kentucky University September f 996

SUMMER ~DIGS' TURNED ARCHEOLOGICAL GOLD-MINE

By Chris Abrell brought back were teeth because Western Kentucky University of the incredible amount of time it Anthropology Assistant Professor takes to analyze them. Once the Valerie Haskins knew she would teeth have been studied, similari­ be teaching this past summer. She ties and patterns can help link just didn't know it would be in one family members buried in the cave. of the most archeologicaly active But the data they have already sites in South America. collected shows several significant Haskins had been scheduled to discoveries, the most important the teach a summer course on cam­ apparent difference in diet of these pus, but when she was asked to Maya precursors and their descen­ go to South America, she couldn't dants. resist taking her students. They "Our biggest surprise was the have just returned from the 20-day size of the bones," Haskins said. field study in Catacamas, a small "Most Mayas and their descen· town on the fringe of civilization dants are small people compared deep in the hills of Honduras. to us. The bones we were finding ~ It is a frontier town," Haskins were as easily as tall as the aver­ said. "Very much like being in the age American. n west here in the 18005. There The difference in size supports was a mixture of horses and cars. Dr. Va/erie Haskins, Assistant ProfesSDr,Anthropology ·Photo by Jenn Wilfinger earlier isotope tests on the bones People carry guns and machetes." indicating the lack of corn from this people's diet. The area has turned Haskins' cave teams studied treasure. They thought they would out to be an bones, trying to establish the never return if they entered them, 'The archeology was number of people interred in the so it was natural for rumors to archeological cave, any diseases they might spread about the strangers work­ pristine.. .!t had never gold mine have had and their general states ing in the area. The problem was been looted; nothing of health. that Haskins couldn't stop the bad had ever been The area has turned out to be an The new cave had three levels publicity. archeological gold mine, rich in of bone-filled alcoves to study and "The Institute had made a con­ touched.' artifacts, bones and ruins, dating was difficult to navigate. tract with us that kept us from -Or. Valerie Haskins back 3,000 years to the early The teams of students and talking to the media," Haskins said. an.cestors of the Mayas. Haskins professors sometimes found "We were the only gringos in a "You can eat all of the corn in the and her team of 21 students themselves in knee-deep water little town, working in environments world and starve to death," worked on surface mounds and only to climb to drier, higher levels the people don't normally go Haskins said. "There are proteins cave sites with a George WaSh­ lugging lights and equipment. themselves." missing. That is why people eat ington University team and various "In the top two levels the Hondu­ The teams cataloging the bones beans wit!1 tortillas. If these specialists from all over the world. ran Institute of Anthropology had in the caves would take bundles people were not eating corn, it "The part of Honduras we were built huge ladders to help us," back to the hotel with them to would be expected that they would working in is virtually unexplored Haskins said. "For prehistoric study. When the locals saw them, be much more healthy." archeologically, to Haskins said. people to have free-climbed these rumors started that the archeolo­ Haskins' trip to Catacamas has "Our students made a great flowstone-covered slopes with gists were stealing gold from the lead Western Kentucky University contribution, working on a site that bags of bones is a pretty amazing caves. into the spotlight. The department had never been looked at in an feat." "There was an increasing aura of will be issuing a complete report of area that had never been looked The early people of this area tension," Haskins said. "We were its findings to the Honduran gov­ at." prepared the bones by dusting told to travel in groups of five or ernment once the teeth are ana­ Haskins' work centered on a them with red ochre and then left more and not to be out after dark. lyzed, and interest in the Site drew burial cave stumbled' upon in 1994 them in piles. Over many years, That gave us an uncomfortable a TV crew to film a documentary by local Peace Corps volunteers. the fluctuating water levels left feeling. We immediately contacted for possible release on the Discov­ Archeological experts flock there crystalline deposits of the mineral the institute and asked to be ery Channel. Haskins said that for in ever-increasing numbers be­ calcite on the bones, sealing many released from that part of the her students the field study was an cause of its rarity. of the remains in unmovable contract." unparalleled opportunity. A new cave was discovered heaps. The first burial cave was The institute agreed and in­ "We have an archeological field shortly before Haskins' arrival, named for its crystal-encrusted formed the local media. The school at Western and normally giving her and her students the bones. The locals call it call it teams were interviewed and work on sites close to home," opportunity to study in an undis­ "The Cave of the Glowing Skulls." shown in an hour-long TV special, Haskins said. "They were fortu­ turbed environment. "The deposits give everything in transforming them from intruding nate to work on a project that had "The archeology was pristine," the cave a shimmering effect thieves to famous scientists in a so many different components that Haskins said. "'t had never been under artificial lights," Haskins matter of days. The townspeople we can't normally offer." looted; nothing had ever been said. "It is like looking at piles of cooperated from that point on. touched. The information we diamonds." Since most of the artifacts had to retrieved was important because Superstitions surround the be left in Honduras, much of the Send items for the area would've been disturbed caves. Many of the townspeople work had to be done on the site. consideration in if we had waited any longer." believed the caves held cursed The only thing Haskins' team On Campus by the 15th of the month.

3 @Z;Cilmpus Western Kentucky University September 1996

Nine to be inducted into Alumni Hall of Fame

Clem Haskins Dr. Thomas Cook DIe Hilltoppers Clulrles W. Kleiderer Patricia Garriscn-Corbin

The 1996 inductees into WKU's Hall of 1968. Bureau of Ordnance Naval Ordnance Develop­ Distinguished alumni will include Dr. Thomas Corbin, who lives in Philadelphia, was ment Award. He was awarded the U. S. Navy Cook Jr.; Patricia Garrison-Corbin; Clem appOinted by President Clinton to the Envi­ Ordnance Award OSRD Certificate of Merit ffilskins; Charles Kleiderer and the Hilltoppers ronmental Protection Agency in 1994. Presi­ Award. He also received the War Manpower Quartet: Billy Vaughn, Jimmy Sacca, Seymore dent Reagan appointed Corbin to the advisory Commission Committee on Scientific Research Spiegelman and Don McGuire. panel to the secretary of Housing and Urban Personnel Diploma. They will be honored at an induction lun­ Development in 1986. She served on Kleiderer is a member of the Society of cheon at Noon Oct. 25 at the Bowling Green­ Pennsylvania'S Tax Reform Commission in Plastic Engineers and has been president of the Warren County Convention Center. 1985. Plastic Pioneers Association. The nine will join 25 others in the Hall of Corbin is a charter board member of the The Hilltoppers was a 1950's popular musi­ Distinguished Alumni, which was established Pennsylvania Coalition of 100 Black Women cal quartet that achieved status as the number in 1992. and a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of one musical group during 1953-54. The group Dr. Thomas Cook Jr. is known as one of Links Inc. was the number one vocal combination by America's most decorated nuclear weapons Clem Haskins, a native of Cambellsville, Billboard and Cash Box magazines in 1953 and physicists. Ky., was head coach of the WKU men's conSistently remained one of America's Top The native of Richpond, Ky., earned a basketball team from 1980-86. Haskins earned Ten through 1960. bachelor's degree in physics from Western in a bachelor's degree from Western in 1967 and The quartet originated when three Western 1947 and his master's degree and doctorate a master's degree at WKU in 1971. students, Don McGuire ('54), Jimmy Sacca ('53) from Vanderbilt University. He served in the Currently, he serves as the head coach of the and Seymoure Spiegelman ('53), joined a United States Navy during World War II. University of Minnesota and was appointed former. Westerner Billy Vaughn. Their first hit Dr. Cook retired as executive vice president assistant coach of the 1996 Men's Olympic was "Trying." of Sandia Laboratories in 1986. He joined the Basketball team. He coached the North Squad Twenty-one Hilltopper recordings made research organization at Sandia National to a gold medal in the 1991 U.s. Olympic Billboard magazine's Top 40 Hit List. The laboratories in 1951 and worked most of his Festival. He was inducted into the WKU group had record sales in excess of 8 million career in the physics of nuclear weapons Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991, the Kentucky copies. They appeared on Ed Sullivan's Toast outputs and the effects produced by weapons Athletic Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Ken­ of the Town and also on American Band Stand. bursts. He is best known for a classified refer­ tucky High School Athletic Association Hall of The Hall of Distinguished Alumni ence document, "The Cook Book," which for Fame in 1988. The Hall of Distinguished Alumni was years was the major source on high altitude Haskins' team won the NIT Tournament established by the WKU Alumni Association in effects of nuclear weapons. Championship in 1993. As a player, he holds 1992 to honor WKU alumni who have made Patricia Garrison-Corbin, a 1969 WKU the WKU and conference records for most significant contributions to Western, their state graduate, earned a bachelor's degree in sociol­ pOints scored in a game (55 pts. vs. Middle and country. A special committee accepts ogy. She also holds a master's degree in urban Tennessee State University in 1965). Haskins nominations and then makes recommenda­ studies from the University of Louisville and a played in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls, tions to the Alumni Association Board of master's degree in finance from Massachusetts Phoenix Suns and Washington Bullets. Directors. lnstitute of Technology, where she was the Charles W. KI~iderer, a 1937 graduate, is Other members of the Hall include: (1995 flrst African-American female Sloan Fellow. responSible for the development of the Vari­ class) Dr. Alva Matherly Clutts, Dr. C. Ray Corbin is the founder, chairman and chief able Time (VT) Fuse, a secret weapon of the Franklin, Dr. Harry B. Gray, Dr. Garry executive officer of P.G. Corbin & Co., inde­ U.S. which affected the course of WW II. The Lacefield and Lt. Col. Terry W. Wilcutt; (1994 pendent financial advisors. It is the first black fuse helped the government to create artillery class) Donald M. Kendall, Sarah Margaret female-owned Wall Street financial services shells that would explode on target every Claypool Willoughby, Dr. Leon Woosley, corporation. The company ranked number time. The Henderson, Ky., native graduated Raymond B. Preston and William H. Natcher; three nationally in 1993. in 1937 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. (1993 class) Frank T. Etscorn HI, Cordell Hull, She has received numerous awards, includ­ After the war, Kleiderer became the vice­ Dr. Dero Downing, Judge John Palmore and ing the 1995 Revlon Business Woman of the president of Brilhart Plastics Corporation and Lamelle Harris, and (1992 inaugural class) Tim Year. She was the first black female officer in president of Penn Plastics Corporation. Prior Lee Carter, Henry Hardin Cherry, Ed Diddle, public finance at Drexel Burnham Lambert in to retirement, he was the executive vice Gen. Russell E. Dougherty, Julian Goodman, 1982. At WKU, she chartered and was presi­ president of Shaw Plastics Corporation. Dr. Martin A. Massengale, Dr. William dffitof Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first He was inducted in the Plastics Hall of Fame Meacham, Frances Richards, Billy Vaughn, and clack Greek-letter organization on campus, in in 1994, one of 87 who have received the Kelly Thompson. . honor so far. He has received the U.S. Navy

4 On Campus Western Kentucky University September 1996

Remembering Jim Wayne Miller

By Sheila Conway Eison "I love to teach," he said. "I've always [live in the country, and I have perfected the -thought the luckiest thing that ever hapl?e~ed art of front porch sitting. to me was not to find much of a contradICtion The day Jim Wayne Miller died" after a work between teaching and wri ting." day of distractions and too many mterrup· . He'could have taught English, but he chose tions, I hurried home to my refuge. Iced tea ill German. Sometimes I think that, too, had to do hand, I sat on my front steps, and I began to with his heritage. . remember. The typical Appalachian heritag~ is a combi­ Just because I had told him it was on~ of my nation of English, Welsh, Scotch-IrIsh, and favorites, Dr. Miller (it was a respect thrng German stock, he'd explain. with me) had given me a copy of his po~~, "In the Appalachian region they don't use Between times. It was in his own handwntmg, the word German," he said. "They use 'Dutch,' and he had signed it. . a corruption of 'Deutsch,' and my grandfather I'd interviewed him several tunes and on my mother's side used to say, 'Our people helped publicize his many achievements, and was Black Dutch'," an informal tenn to de­ apparently I had let my admiration for his scribe his dark-complected, dark-haired ances- work really show. It was incredible, I thought try. . then, even now, to think that a guy of his "Jim was an easy writer, a natural wnt~r. literary stature would do that for me. He's conversational, intimate, free-wheelmg, That was more than twenty years ago. 1 was forthright" Steele describes him. to learn that sharing was Jim Wayne Miller's " 1 could write anywhere," Miller once said. It way. . just happened that he had an Appalachian In all. he has eight poetry collectIons and a background. novel. His First. Best Country. which he "And that's a gift," Steele said,"the gift that adapted at the request of Horse Cave.Theatre we're all going to be missing." into a play that was performed there 10 1992. In 1986, the Kentucky General Assembly named him a Kentucky Poet Laureate. Dr. Jim Wayne Miller, author, poet, and "Like mist in the riverbottoms of their Dr. Jim Wayne Miller retired Western Kentucky University German youth" the poem Dr. Miller gave me goes, "a professor, died Aug. 18 at his home in Bowling member most about Wayne Miller is the haze hangs over the subdivision/ Jim Green, Ky., after a three-month battle with charc~al way he transferred his love of the l?nguage to where men sowed between two times,/pacing Lung Cancer. He was 59. the page, and his ability to convey Its beauty dark comers of their deep back yards,/yeam Funeral was Aug. 21 at I.e. Kirby Funeral through his writings. beyond the interstate's drone and whine/ to Chapel in Bowling Green, and he was buried 'Tve always loved words-to hang around farms and open country." in Bowling Green Gardens. them," he'd say." I could identify. I joined countless others Some of his collections include Copperllead "It's very rarely that I'll get a vivid concrete internationally who have heard his voice, and Cane; The More Tllings Clumge tile More Tiley image. Sometimes it'll just lie there like a who will miss it. Stay tlte Same, Dialogue With a Dead Man, TIle possum curled on the ground, and I'll start Jim Wayne Miller came from Buncombe Figure of Fulfillment, The Mountains HaVt.' Come poking it to see if it'll mov.e. I ~ it does, I'~l County, North Carolina, of what he called Closer, Vein of Words , Nostalgia for 70 and work it over and over aga1O, like butter 10 my "typical Appalachian people," and he made Newfoulld. He authored a novel. His First, Best hands, until it becomes something." the Southern Appalachian region and the Country. and adapted it for a play in 1992. He He used to tell me he carried ideas for simple precepts of its people his metaphor for also has edited numerous works. poems scribbled on bits of paper, stashed in a rich storehouse of poems, short stones, a He has given numefOus readings and his pockets, and sometimes he'd pull on~ out, workshops on writing all across the country. novel and a play. and if it would give him a cold chill or hit the His wife, Mary Ellen, is a published poet He is recipient of numerous honors, includ­ pit of his stomach, he'd be off to work. also, and she teaches in the WKU EnglIsh ing the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award, the Zoe And he did hundreds of workshops for department. Kinkaid Brockman Memorial Award for young writers across the country. . But far beyond the front porche~ of Appala­ Poetry, the Appalachian Writers Association Western Kentucky University could claim chia, his writings represent a tension he told Book of the Year Award and its Award for him because he chose to come here and to me once that he liked to work with between Outstanding Contributions to Appalachian teach German. the traditional values and the way of life that Literature, and the Appalachian Consortium he called middle class urban America. Laurel Leaves Award. He has been a fellow of It was a major theme in Jim Wayne Miller's the prestigious Yaddo Corporation.He is a poetry. LIGHT LEAVING · native of Leicester, N.e. and graduated from His colleague, Dr. Frank Steele, a noted poet Berea College and Vanderbilt University. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary Ellen and veteran teacher of creative writing and His mother was sixteen when he was born. Miller, his mother, Mrs. Edith Smith Miller of American Literature at WKU, said Miller was They grew up together. Leicester, N.e. three children, James Yates and among writers he called "place writers." Now he was older than she was. Fred Smith Miller, and a daughter, Ruth "He's a poet who's transplanted," Steele But one thi ng never changed: Ratcliff Miller, two sisters, two brothers, two said. He lives in Kentucky, in a suburb on night always fell, drifting over the fields, grandchildren and several nieces and neph­ Eastland Drive, and yet what he's w riting settling softly on the tops of trees, ews. about is Appalachia." like his mother's black hair falling over her neck Memorial gifts may be made to the Jim The fact that most of us can relate to what he and down her back Wayne Miller Scholarship Fund, College is saying is what puts Jim Wayne Miller in the when she loosened her combs in the evening. easy company of names like Faulkner, James Heights Foundation, Western Kentucky Still, his old friend, Robert Penn War~en. University,l Big Red Way, Bowling Green, Ky. 421 01-3576. Beyond subject, however, what I will re- .Jim Wayne Miller

5 On Campus Western Kentucky University 'September 1996

Or. Rick Aldridge, Accounting, Scientific Research to conduct a was awarded a Certificate of Merit, project with Visiting Professor and Dr. Jan Colbert, Accounting, from China, Dr. Charles Lee, was awarded a Certificate of Processing Chemistry and Sta bility of Appreciation from the Institute of High Tempera tu re Polymides Using Management Accoun ts for their Infrared Spectroscopy and Mass article, Bu.siness Reporting: A Spectroscopy, Broader Model, appearing in a The study forthcoming issue of Management could lead to NJ\SI\ AccQunting. better polymer designs for Drs. Mel Borland and Roy aircraft engines and space applica­ Howsen, Econom ics, have had tions. Competition, Expenditures and Stu.dent Performance in Mathematics: Dr. Earl Pearson, Professor of A ~om ment on Couch et aI, pub­ Chemistry, spent the summer at lished in the Journa l of Public NASA's Marshall Space Flight Choice, 87: pgs. eastern section meeting of the Short on Time, Dr. Lyn Miller. She Center in Huntsville, Ala, in the 395-400, 1996. Geological Society of America in also led a panel discussion on Summ er Faculty Fellowship Knoxvil1e, TelUl, Groves presented Project NExT, Program working on non-linear Dr. Charles Hydrology of tile Cen tral Kentucky On the Order of ab, Dr. Bettina optics with a NASA colleague, Bussey, History, Karst at the Green River Basin Richmond, Over the summer, each played the had a chapter, Watershed Management Confer­ role of researcher, teacher Jimmy Ca rter: ence in Bowling Green, Ky, Dr. Elizabeth McClellan pre­ and student. The Fellow­ Hope and sented Folding and Foliatioll Devel­ ship program is designed Memory versus Dr. Michael Kallstrom, Music, opment in the Stei-LAngsaetra Bhear to further participating Optimism and had his composition, AROUND Zone, South-Central Norwegian professors' science and Nos talgia, THE CLOCK, performed on five Caledonides at the Southeastern engineering knowledge as published in a separate concerts in Kenya this section meeting of the Geological well as enrich and refresh book, The Lost summer by Dr. Paul Basler of the Society of America in Knoxville, their teaching activities. Decade: America in the University of Florida. The concerts Tenn. NASA established the Seventies, edited by Elsebeth took place at Kenyatta University, Summer Faculty Fellow­ Hurup, published in June by Alliance High School, Imani Dr. Ruby Meador, Allied Health ship Program in cooperation with Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, School in Thika, Lenana High and Human Services, was honored the American Society for Engi­ Denmark. School, Precious Blood School and with a lifetime membership from neering Education in 1966, Since Moi Girls High SchooL An esti­ the Kentucky Dental Hygienists' its inception, approximately 7,000 Dr. Nick Crawford and Dr. mated 3,000 people heard these Association. faculty members have taken part Chris Groves, Geography and concerts, • in the program. Geology, had Sinkhole Collapse and Gary Meszaros, Director of Ground Water Contamination Result­ Dr. Felicia Lassk, Marketing, Business Services, made two Dr. Albert Petersen, Geography ingfrom Storm Wat er Drainage Wells along with Professor Gred presentations at the CBord (10 and Geology, presented Menn onite on Karst Terrain published in Karst Marshall, University of South Card System) in Ithaca, N.Y. this Migration in Allen County, Kentucky Geohazards: Engineering and Florida, has Illteagrating summer, Online Vending at the national meeting of the Enyironmental Problems in Karst Quality Improvement witll OmniACCESS, and Popular Culture/ American Cul­ Terrains, Rotterdam: A,A Tellets In to the Market· Establishing a One-Card ture Associations alUlual meeting Balkema, pgs, 257-264, ing Curriculum pub­ Office. in Philadelphia, Pa, lished in the Summer Dr. James L. Davis, Geography 1996 issue of the Dr. Carl Myers, Dr. James Ramsey, Economics, and Geology, and Dr, Nancy H, Journal of Marketing Psychology, S.L. McBride, was principal investigator for Davis, English, presented Geo­ Education. and CA. Peterson, have had Funding Our Future: A Report on graphic Elements in a Regional Novel Transdisciplillary, play-based assess­ Kentucky City Structure, recently at the national meeting of the Mathematics faculty gave the ment in early childhood special published by the Kentucky League Popular Culture/ American Cul­ following presentations at the educatioll: An examillation of social of Cities. The report analyzes and ture Associations, held in Philadel­ Kentucky section of the Math· validity, published in Topics in compares the tax structure of phia, Pa, ematical Association of America Early Childhood Special Educa­ Kentucky cities with those in 14 Meeting at Murray State Univer­ fum. VoL 16, 1996, pgs. 608-632. competitor states, and it makes Connie Foster, Library automa­ sity: recommendations for changing tion, Technical Services, has had Dr. David Neal, Mathematics, as the financing options of Damaged Periodicals: A Wet Trail Normalized ZerolFlex Polynomials, received a $6,020 grant from the Kentucky'S cities, Yields Dry Results, published in Dr, James B, Barksdale Jr. Kentucky PRISM-Undergraduate Serials Reyiew, VoL 22, No, 1 An Interactive Approach to College Curriculum Development Grant (Spring 1996) pgs. 33-38. Algebra and Trigon ometry, Dr. Extension program to expand Barry Brunson and Dr, Claus technology in general statistics Dr. Chris Groves, Geography Ernst. classes, and Geology, and J. Meiman Global Behavior in Functional Dr. Wei-Ping Pan, Associate presented The Hawkins River Iteration Problems, Dr. Mark Professor of Chemistry, has been Groundwater Monitoring Site, Robinson. awarded $298,700 in grant funds Mammoth Cave, Ky, at the South- Triptychs: Group Activities for the from the Air Force Office of See next page

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6 Meter Auditorium. Serial Killers. 7 p.m. COMING UP For tickets, call 1- D9wning Univer­ Faculty research grant applica­ 800-5-BIGRED. sity Center Theatre. tions due in Deans' offices. September 10 18 26 2 Academic 3:30 p.m. Creative approaches to Working Labor Day. Offices closed. Council agenda Academic Council. with the Alzheimer's Disease C. Classes dismissed. items due, 3:30 p.m. Jones Jaggers Room 151. Academic Affairs. Bowling Green Western Sym­ Julie Wade. 745-6457. phony Chamber Orchestra Con­ cert. Mozart, Vanhal and Schubert 13 19 selections. 8 p .m. Eastwood Baptist Hilltopper Days for Volleyball. Young­ Church. Dr. John Duff, Depart­ Science, Technol­ ment of Music, 502-745-3751. stown. Diddle Arena. ogy & Health. 745-4298. Through 3 Downlinking Conference. Com­ p.m. tomor­ mission for Children w ith Special Athletic Hall row. Dr. of Fame. 7 p.m. eeds. Noon. Academic Complex. , Volleyball. Ten­ Frank Garrett Center Studio 1 and South Lawn, Down­ nessee State. 7 p.m. Conley, 502- Ballroom. Butch ing Center. Joe Fulmer, 745-3809. E.A.Diddle Arena. Sports lnior· 745-4448. Gilbert. 781-2944. mation.745-4298. 3 p.m . 27 5 14 Graduate Faculty Development app. due, Football. Eastern Council. Academic Affairs. Board of Regents meets. 9:30 a.m. Wetherby Administration Kentucky. 7 p.m . L.T. Smith Stadium. 7454298. Building. Elizabeth Esters. 745- 23 28 4346. Lecture. 10K Classic. Smith Stadium. Rick 16 Robert Ressler, Kelley. 502-782-3600. Curriculum Committee. George Winston-A Solo former FBI agent. Piano Concert. 7:30 p.m. Van

Phoenix, Ariz. in June. ABOUT YOU Continue d Linda Todd of the Community Masters work under the maple leaf Saundra Starks, Social Work College presented two seminars, Ten Western Kentucky University graduate stu· Program, has been selected by the Creating Visuals and Handouts dents journeyed to Canada during the summer months Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet Usi,rg WordPerfect Ja r Windows, a t to observe the structure and strategies of seven pros· for Human Resources to serve on the Kentucky Business Education pering Canada organizations. the Kentucky Adult Protection Summer Conference in August in Dr. Randy Capps, Professor Emeritus of Commu· Services and Child Protection Louisville, Ky. nication at WKU, conducted the Seminar in Organi­ Services Policy Review AB 0 U T zational Communication. Workgroup. Dr. Carroll Wells, Mathematics, STUDENTS The class was designed to add new dimensions to received a $41,000 grant from the the students' world views, and to give students also Henry Steen, a member of the Kentucky Council on Higher a broader understanding of the similarities and contrasts betvveen the Education, Eisenhower funds, to Canadian and the American culture. • Engineering Technology faculty, The students visited Montreal for three days, then ventured to Quebec is the Professional Disk Golf conduct three professional devel­ for a five-day stay. Louvenia Peavy, a doctoral candidate from Association's amateur world opment institutes in mathematics Clarksville, Tenn., said the trip gave her an opportunity to better synthe­ champion. He won the champion­ for K-12 teachers. size textbook and classroom instruction by observing and talking with ship in a fie ld of nearly 200 play­ Dr. George VOUJVopoulos, leaders of successful Canadian businesses. ers, and he was 30 under par fo r Suzanne Cohron of Bowling Green, said she gather several new ideas the tournament, sealing his vic­ Physics and Astronomy, will head a team at the Applied Physics from the visit, and as a result, she is trying to implement those ideas in tory by two strokes. her workplace. Winners in the amateur division Institute collaborating with the don't receive cash prizes, but the Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Top Debator professional disk golfers can win a year-long project to study radic:r $3,500 in the world championship active waste categorization. WKU WKU Debator Doug Mory took oustanding debating and speaking and can earn as much as $10,000 was awarded a contract worth honors at the Cross Examination and Debating Association's National in other tournaments. $498,000 from Lockheed Martin Workshop. Energy Systems to find a method Mory, a junior from Pewee Valley, Ky., won the awards in a field of 42 Becky Tabor, Associate Profes­ of classifying the nuclear waste debators from six states. sor, Allied Health and Human generated by medicine, agriculture Services, received the American and industry. Have an Idea Ihal can make Weslern more efflclenl? Send ilia Dental HygieniSts' Association's Garth Whicker, Chair, Committee on Ideas for Efficiency, Distinguished Service Award at Office of Institutional Researehj e-mail to whlckerOwku.edu. the ADHA annual session in

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Statile of Dr. Henry Hardin Cherry. Founder, First President, Western Kenwclry Unil1ersity - Photo by Jen" Uf;ljinger On the ollaculty By Sheila Conway Eison .­ Faculty well-being is a subject too often AlSO an affiliate scholar of the National I[ overlooked , but one that needs top consid­ Center on Postsecondary Teaching, :t n eration, according to a national expert on Learning and Assessment, Walker has the subject who spoke to WKU faculty at conducted extensive research and has " their annual meeting on campus Aug.15. published on the subjects of teaching and ""INe often treat faculty like cacti; We spritz classroom research, motivation, optimism a little water on them occasionally, and we and teaching vitality. expect them to fl ower. "Something is changing in the professori· "We tend to believe faculty are indepen­ ate: he said. "II g iven the chance, how dent, rugged types, that don't need to be many of you would become professors taken care of --the attitude that they've got again?" he asked WKU's some 600 audi· it easy; they'll survive- but it's just not so ence members. anymore: said Dr. Charles J. Walker, a "Before 1970, about 97 percent said professor of psychology at St. Bonaventu re they'd do it allover again. by 1986, the University in New York. His profession is typical number was 90 percent. devoted to the subject of faculty well·being. Story is continued on page two