Gov. Egan Here May 5 Wood Center Pub on Campus from April 28 to May 5, and Will Be Open Daily from 10 A.M

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Nanook News, Vol. 16, No. 28 (April 27, 1973)

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Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/4024 Michener to speak at commencement James A. Michener, author of 21 books Kerr will be awarded an honorary doctor Next he took a job editing textbooks for a and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, will be the of laws degree at that time for his New York publisher, then, although a speaker and ree eive an honorary Doctor of "exem plary scholarship, and for astute and Quaker, joined the U.S. N avy which Laws degree at the 51st Commencement inspiring leadership in the development of introduced him to the Pacific, which was to May 20 on the University of Alaska’s American higher education." be central to much of his subsequent Fairbanks campus. Kerr has written six books, and has been a writing. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 Honorary degrees will also be conferred contributor to many others as well as to for his first novel, "Tales of the South on U.S. Senator Warren G. Magnuson of professional journals and national Pacific." He went on to write such books as Washington, longtime Alaska legislator magazines. "The Bridges at Toko-Ri," "Sayonara," and native leader Frank Peratrovich of Michener was born in New York City but "Hawaii," "The Source," "Iberia," and Klawock, and Dr. Paul Maurer, for many grew up in Bucks County, PA, near where "The Drifters." years chaplain for the Distant Early he and his Japanese-American wife Mari Magnuson graduated from the University Warning Line in the Arctic. now make their home. He graduated with of Washington law school in 1929 and Dr. Terris Moore, president of the honors from Swarthmore College, went on entered the practice of law. He University of Alaska from 1949-53, is to to St. Andrew's University in Scotland, then subsequently served in the Washington become president emeritus at the returned to Bucks County to teach school. legislature and was a county prosecutor commencement. Following additional study at Colorado and assistant U.S. district attorney before Some 470 students, a record number, will State Teachers College, he was appointed being elected to the U.S. House of receive degrees on the Fairbanks campus an assistant visiting professor of history at Representatives. Following war service in this year. Harvard. (cont. on P a g e 2) Dr. Clark Kerr, chairman of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and Volume XVI, No. 28 former president of the University of California, will be the keynote speaker at the University of Alaska, Anchorage commencement Friday, May 11 at 8 p.m. at the West High Auditorium. Machetanz exhibit opens here Saturday April 27, 1973 An exhibit of oil paintings by Alaskan artist Fred Machetanz will open Saturday at the university, as the third and final part of the Festival of the Arts. The exhibit of 14 paintings is to hang in the Gov. Egan here May 5 Wood Center Pub on campus from April 28 to May 5, and will be open daily from 10 a.m. Gov. William A. Egan will be at the evening to honor 11 cadets who will receive to 6 p.m. university here Saturday, May 5, to join in awards. Guest speaker will be Dr. Sarkis Machetanz, a distinguished associate in Governor’s Day activities on campus. Atamian, associate professor of sociology. art at the university, is to arrive here Governor’s Day is an annual event which A concert by "Windflower" is scheduled Friday to supervise the hanging of the includes special ceremonies nonoring ior 8 p.m. in the Patty Gym. Tickets are $2 exhibit. outstanding athletes, students and Reserve for students and m ilitary and $3 for others, A public reception is planned for Sunday, Officer Training Corps cadets. Social events and may be purchased at the door. The April 29, from 2 to 6 p.m. in the pub. The and entertainment complete the program. concert is sponsored by the university artist will be on hand to talk with viewers, Special events planned for the day Baha'i Club. and light refreshments will be served. include an awards luncheon honoring Other events during the day include a The paintings included in the exhibit are outstanding athletes and students. Gov. reception for award recipients, guests, "Heritage of Alaska," "The Tender Arctic," Egan will deliver the keynote address, parents, deans and department heads at "Tending the Lamp," "Heading Out," speaking on "Alaska's Youth: 10:30 a.m. in the Wood Center Pub; live "Rock Hound," "Mama’s Boy," ' Land of Opportunities and Challenges," and he will music in the Wood Center mall at 11:30 a.m. the Totems," "Trail Through the Spruce," award the Governor's ROTC Medal to an and again at 2 p.m.; and special exhibits "Back on the Ice Field," "Sunny Day," outstanding ROTC cadet. and demonstrations in Wood Center all day. "Summer Comes to Southeastern," "Under Other awards to be presented will be for From 9 p.m. to midnight Wood Center will Towering Peaks," "Lady in Gold," and "Sea outstanding participation and leadership of oiler recreation specials. Visitors to of Jade." the Associated Students of the University of campus may also want to visit the The exhibition is being sponsored jointly Alaska; outstanding athletes, and university museum, which will be open by the university’s College of Arts and outstanding students in each department. lrom 1 to 5 p.m., and an exhibit of oil Letters and Division of Statewide Services. The no-host luncheon will be helo in Wood paintings by Alaskan Artist Fred It is the third part of the Festival of the Arts, Center on campus at noon. Tickets are Machetanz in the Wood Center Pub from 10 which earlier this spring featured poets available from Student Activities ior $3.25 a.m. to 6 p.m. William Stafford and John Haines in part and must be purchased by May 2. Governor's Day has been a tradition at one, and poet Peter Wild in part two. An ROTC awards dinner will be held that the university since 1961. NANOOK NEWS April 27. 1973 PAGE 2 Scholarshipconcert set ...Michener

The university’s Music Department will extremely high cost of college-level study, present a Music Scholarship Concert the large geographical size of the state and (cont. from Page 1) Sunday, May 6 in the Fine Arts Theater on the high cost of living in the Fairbanks area, the U.S. Navy, he was appointed to a campus, with an afternoon and evening find it difficult to obtain higher-level music vacancy in the U.S. Senate where he performance. study on the Fairbanks campus. continues to serve his state. Magnuson was The concert, which is to become an The department hopes to be able to an ardent supporter of statehood for annual event, will consist of solo actively encourage higher-level music Alaska. performances by Music Department study in Fairbanks by providing financial Peratrovich was a commitercial faculty members performing with the support to as many promising young fisherman and fish tender captain before University-Fairbanks Symphony musicians as possible. he established a mercantile business in Orchestra, and a performance of the Many of the soloists to appear on the Klawock, the village where he was bom. Mozart "Requiem" by the combined Music Scholarship Concert are already His career in public service began with his University Chorus, Choir of the North, familiar to Alaskans. Paul Rosenthal, election to the Territorial House of orchestra, and faculty and guest soloists. lecturer in violin, will perform as soloist in Representatives in 1945. He served in the Assistant Professor Gordon Wright will the Suite for Violin and Orchestra,Op. 10 by Territorial Senate in 1947, was elected a conduct the symphony orchestra, and Prof. Christian Sinding, the contemporary delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Charles Davis will direct the combined Norwegian pianist and composer who died Convention of 1955-56 and chosen by that groups. in 1941. body as its first vice president, and The Music Department is offering the Larry Farr, instructor of brass and returned to the Senate for the 1957 session, scholarship concert in order to assist conductor of bands, will perform the the last session of the Territorial talented young musicians who, due to the Concerto No. 3 for Trombone and String Legislature before Alaska was admitted to O rh estra by Alan Hovhaness, a the Union as the 49th state. contemporary American composer of Armenian descent. Kurt Pasch, instructor Peratrovich was a member of the Senate Consumer of Woodwinds, will perform the Concertino in the First State Legislature and served in for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 11 by the the upper chamber for eight years. For four early nineteenth-century German of those years he presided over the Senate. composer Carl Maria von Weber. Pianist He returned to the legislature again in 1969, business Jean-Paul Billaud, professor of music, will this time to the House of Representatives in perform the last two movements of the which he sered two terms. He has been state Concerto No. 1 in E minor for Piano and chairman of the Democratic party and Orchestra by Frederic Chopin. Dr. Greeta grand president of the Alaska Native conference set Brown, associate professor of music Brotherhood, the first organization devoted education and voice, will perform as to bettering the lives of Alaska’s native The Cooperative Extension Service is contralto soloist in the Mozart Requiem. people. sponsoring consumer business conferences In addition to the faculty soloists, the The Rev. Mr. Maurer, who continues to in Fairbanks and Anchorage today and concert will feature some prominent guest serve the spiritual needs of Dew Line tomorrow, and the public is invited to soloists. They are OraLee Kapp and Henry personnel, is now stationed at Barter attend. Noldan, both of Anchorage, and Henry Cole Island. He has been Dew Line chaplain The conferences are being held in of Fairbanks. These performers will sing since^Sy^md served across the Arctic at Fairbanks at the Salvation Army Hall, 10th the soprano, tenor, and bass solos in the sites from Alaska to Canada, Greenland and Stewart streets, and in Anchorage at Mozart Requiem. A ll have had and Iceland. the Regional Materials Library on the considerable experience singing in both University of Alaska campus. am ateu r and professional music An ordained pastor of the United Church Highlighting the Fairbanks session will productions both in Alaska and in other of Christ, he served as a U.S. Arm y chaplain be Ms. Joanne Emrick, consumer specialist states. for more than 30 years before retiring in from the federal Food and Drug The Music Scholarship Concert will be 1957 with the rank of colonel. He went Administration’s Seattle regional office. presented Sunday May 6 in an afternoon through five European campaigns in World She is to speak on "Your Food—Safe and performance at 2 p.m., and then again in an War II and five during the Korean Conflict. Healthful" at 2:30 p.m. today. evening performance at 8:15 p.m. Tickets He was awarded the Purple Heart for Saturday, the Fairbanks program will be are priced at $5 for general admission and wounds suffered while serving in combat on auto repair and servicing at 9:15 a.m.; $2.50 for students and military personnel zones. successful homes for Alaska and safe water and may be obtained at the Wood Center and sewage disposal, at 10:45 a.m.; Information Desk, the Music Department consumer strategies, including a Office, the Borealis Book Store, and at the THE NANOOK NEWS, the faculty- demonstration of methods used to research door. staff newsletter of the University of consumer problems and organize for In addition to these tickets, there will be a Alaska, is published weekly by the solutions, at 1:45 p.m.; ways to be an limited number of Music Scholarship University Relations Office, News informed consumer, at 2:15 p.m.; Patron Seats available for the evening Service Department. Gerald perspectives on landlord-tenant relations at performance only, for those who desire to Bowkett, News Service Manager; 2:45 p.m.; and consumer-business contribute $50 or more to the Scholarship Sue Lewis, editor; Don Carter and interaction at 3:15 p.m. Fund. Gladys Reckley, Anchorage The Music Department hopes that the Both the Fairbanks and Anchorage contributors. Deadline Wednesday community will respond and participate in consumer business conferences are open to noon for Friday publication. the public. A $1 registration fee will be this opportunity to bring new music talent charged. to Fairbanks. T NANOOK NEWS April 27, 1973 ® ^ * PotpourriJ+ ©

Robert E. McFarland, interim president of the Steven M. Wiese, a junior majoring in mechanical University of Alaska’s Board of Regents, has called a engineering, has been awarded a $500 scholarship, made special meeting of the board at his Anchorage home on possible by a grant from the Union Oil Company of M ay 4. M cFarland resides at 727 N Street. The m eeting is California Foundation Scholarship Plan. The object of scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. The Board of Regents will hold Union’s scholarship plan is to encourage student interest a regular meeting on the Fairbanks campus May 17-19 and in disciplines that are vital to the petroleum industry. take part in the 1973 commencement exercises on M ay 20. Wiese, a graduate of Kenai Central High School, is interested in work in the petroleum industry and has held A noncredit short course on "Beginning Japanese summer employment in that field. The grant from Union Writing" is being offered by the Division of Statewide Oil Company also funded a $500 scholarship awarded last Services. The course is designed for those who have a fall to John Lambe, a civil engineering student. basic knowledge of conversational Japanese, and want to learn beginning writing. The class will meet on Tuesdays, Dr. James Morrow, professor of zoology, and John from 7 to 10 p.m., May 15 to June 19. Interested persons Burns, marine mammalogist with the Fairbanks office of may sign up in Room 105 of the Eielson Building at the the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, will leave Office of Short Courses. For further information, phone Monday morning for Le Havre, France. Morrow and 479-7221. Burns have been invited by the Fondation Francaise d’Etudes Nordiques to present a paper, "The Alaskan No, there was no disaster at the Fine Arts Complex Marine Mammals and Fisheries," to the fifth last Monday. All who saw the entire university firefighting International Congress, Arctic Oil and Gas. team and all its equipment, including the new ladder truck, in action at the building, are advised it was just a The 1973 annual Certified Professional Secretary drill. For three hours every Monday, residents of the examination will be administered at the University of university community can expect to see the firemen in Alaska, Fairbanks, Friday and Saturday, May 4 and 5, simulated combat somewhere on the campus, says Chief Melba Faye Pelosi, head of the university’s Department of Buck Whitaker. After putting down the "disaster" at the Office Administration, has announced. The university will Fine Arts Complex Monday, they were given a briefing by be one of 141 centers for the two-day, six-part examination, federal Bureau of Land Management experts on how to which approximately 3,000 secretaries will take fight brush fires that might break out on the university throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. perim eter. To date, 6,188 have earned the right to use the CPS designation by passing the six parts of the examination; The university has recently received authorization environmental relationships in business, business and from the Immigration Service to approve summer public policy; economics of management; financial employment for UA foreign students who plan to return to analysis and mathematics of business; communications the university next fall. Aplications for summer and decision making; and office procedures. The employment may be obtained from Jo Ann Yamada, examination is open to all secretaries who meet specific foreign student secretary or Chuck Fields, foreign student educational requirements in combination with specified advisor, in Room 110 Bunnell Building. Foreign students years of verified secretarial experience. Applications for are reminded that they may not seek summer the 1974 examination are now being accepted by the employment without approval of the Immigration Service. Institute for Certifying Secretaries, 616 East 63 Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64110. The Fairbanks Faculty Association will meet Are you tense or nervous and need a way to relax? Tuesday, May 1 at 4 p.m. in Duckering 318. On the agenda Then plan to attend the relaxation seminars sponsored by are a discussion of the university budget, led by Dr. the O ffice of Student A ffa irs and the Ananda M arga Yoga Richard Solie of the Economics Department, and a Society. The seminars began this week, and will be held on discussion of parking policy. Members, potential Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12: 05 and 2 p.m. Each 20- members and other interested persons are welcome to minute session will begin with mild physical exercises for attend the meeting, according to FFA board chairman five minutes, followed by a period of music, and mental Tom Morehouse. relaxation exercises. Students, faculty and staff are A second hot-air balloon has come to Alaska, owned by welcome to attend. Pamphlets describing the program Frank Knapp of Palmer. Knapp’s instructor, Stan this week were distributed on campus. The sessions are held in the Wood Center Pub. Zielinski of the Art Department here, formerly was the only FAA licensed balloonist in the state. There are about The Office of University Relations now has copies of 250 licensed balloonists in the nation, and about 200 the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner’s Progress Edition, balloons. Knapp was licensed about eight months ago and which are available for use by departments, institutes and just last month became a balloon owner. Only about eight other units for recruiting and special purposes. They may hours of instruction are needed for a commercial balloon be picked up at 108 Bunnell. There is no charge for the pilot’s license. papers, but units must pay the postage fee themselves. NANOOK NEWS April 27. 1973 PAGE 4 Assembly asks budgeting changesUAA play

The University Assembly Friday adopted Resolution sponsor Wolf Hollerbach said guidelines for computing instructional he believes the reduction in size will to honor faculty workloads, approved a by-law decrease the cost of the assembly, and will change reducing assembly size by 25 per not seriously decrease the efficiency of the cent, and adopted four resolutions aimed at assembly or its committees. improving budgetary procedures. The assembly passed four resolutions Dr. Wood The guidelines for computing offered by Richard Solie, chairman of its instructional faculty workloads were budget committee. Dr. William R. Wood, retiring president adopted after considerable discussion. The resolutions make the following of the University of Alaska, will be honored Controversy developed from a clause in the points: Wednesday, May 9, at a premiere guidelines defining the normal workload as —Deficits incurred at any cost center of performance of Noel Coward’s play, "Hay a 43-hour week, plus or minus three hours, the university shall be carried forward to be Fever," followed by a champagne and from the preamble which states the covered by that center within the ensuing reception. guidelines "could and should be used as a year. . The play, presented by the GUILD of the tool for general planning and allocation of —A study should be made by the Anchorage Community College Theatre faculty time, and for drawing up individual university to identify the true costs of each Department, as a tribute by the University workloads..." of its three major functions—instruction, of Alaska, Anchorage, will be in the Sydney research and public service—and a budget Laurence Auditorium. Dean Charles Behlke said that if using the system be established to allocate costs The champagne reception following the guidelines to compute the workload of accordingly. performance will be held in the Anchorage faculty members in his college, a 50 percent —Separate actuarial calculations should Historical and Fine Arts Museum. The increase in staff would be necessary to meet be made for sick leave for insti-uctional university’s students, faculty and staff the 43-hour per week normal load. faculty and these sick leave funds kept in a from the three regions as well as Other assembly members said the special account. community leaders and the general public guidelines were flexible and could be —the chairman of the assembly’s budget are invited to join in the tribute. adjusted in cases where the multipliers review committee should be designated as However, reservations for the premiere were not accurate, and that the proposed official delegate on the university’s budget will be limited to 640 (the seating capacity two-year trial period would allow such committee. of the auditorium) and reservations should problems to be worked out. A motion to be considered at the be made by May 2 by calling 272-5522 ext. The assembly adopted a change to its by assembly’s May meeting will make the 129 in Anchorage or University News laws which will reduce assembly size from reduction effective for the spring elections Service, 479-7581, in Fairbanks. Tickets for 38 to 24. The representation will be reduced of 1974. the event will be $7.50 per person. as follows: administration from 8 to 6; In other action, assembly vice chairman The play, under the direction of F. instructional research and other Waiter Benesch announced that President Kenneth Freedman, will open at 8 p.m. for professional personnel, from 32 to 24; Wood concurred in the rank criteria for the premiere and will run each night colleges, institutes, units or divisions, career education instructional personnel through Saturday at the same time. library and museum from 32 to 24; students passed by the assembly, but vetoed the rank "It’s a delightful play," said Freedman, from 9 to 7, and alumni remains at 1. titles. "and it seemed to us to be a different way to Under the resolution, membership on The assembly had proposed that titles be honor Dr. Wood for the dedication he has standing committee s is reduced to identical to those held by academic faculty, shown not only the university system, but five members, and members may serve on but Wood substituted instead the titles also the world community’s educational only one committee, in addition to the instructor, assistant in..., associate in..., development." administrative committee. and master teacher in.... Wood is in South Vietnam on an educational consulting assignment for the U.S. Agency for International Development. It is his third trip to South Vietnam in the past year and a half to assist in upgrading its institutions of higher ALL CAMPUS DAY today. GEOSCIENCES SEMINAR will meet learning. Monday, April 30 at 4 p.m. in Brooks 201. He is vice president of the International NURSERY SCHOOL ART SHOW today in Graduate student Paul Clark will speak. Association of University Presidents which the Plaza from 1 to 4 p.m. met in Liberia in 1971 to lend assistance to ALASKA MINERS’ ASSOCIATION will ARCTIC BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM will developing nations of mid-Africa. hold its monthly business meeting Monday, meet today at 3:45 p.m. in the Irving In South Vietnam, Wood was expected to April 30 at 8 p.m. in Brooks 201. Building Conference Room. Dr. Olivier consult with the minister of education and Heroux of the National Research Council of RELAXATION SEMINARS Tuesday, his staff and educators. He is to return to Canada will discuss "Dietary Influences on May 1 and Thursday, May 3 at noon and 2 Alaska tomorrow. Cold Adaptations." p.m. in the Wood Center Pub. Wood, who took the helm of the University of Alaska in 1960, has announced he will ASUA MOVIES have been cancelled for CHEMISTRY SEMINAR will meet retire June 30. the remainder of the semester due to lack of Tuesday, May 1 at 1 p.m. in 305 Bunnell. Freedman said that "Hay Fever ends by funds. Michael Faverty will speak. beginning...it’s not as if a conclusion has UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S MARINE SCIENCE SEMINAR will meet been reached, rather there is a continuation ASSOCIATION spring luncheon honoring Wednesday, May 2 at 4 p.m. in Duckering of life — the fam ily goes on." Mrs. Dorothy Jane Wood tomorrow at noon 318. Scott Burkhardt will discuss biology of He said that "while it isn’t a message in the Wood Center Ballroom. heavy metals. play, we might well take our cue and apply CHESS CLUB will meet Sunday at 2 p.m. STUDENT RECITAL Thursday, May 3 at ttje analogy...we hope to continue a long in the Wood Center South Dining Room. 7:30 p.m. in the Regents Great Hall. and fruitful relationship with Dr. Wood."