October 1988

Bridgewater College BC Digital Commons Bridgewater Magazine Journals and Campus Publications 10-1988 Vol. 65, No. 1 | October 1988 Bridgewater College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/bridgewater_magazine I • I I BRIDGEWATER Volume 65 Number 1 October, 1988 New Greenhouse Aids Biological Research I Mr. Horace Cox, '33, offers birthday greetings to Mrs. Flora Bowman, '09. Story on page 2. Flora Hoover Bowman Celebrates 100th Birthday 2-3 Bridgewater-Penn State Join Academic Programs 3 Where Eagles Dare... The Story of the Wildlife Center 4 NEH Challenge Grant Completed 5 Nininger Hall Addition is Begun 5 Dr. Karl Flora Pursues Life-Saving Research 6-7 Darla Kay Bowman Receives Regional Award 7 Rhonda Pittman is Awarded V ACTE Scholarship 7 Faculty and Staff News 8-9 Sports Update 10-13 Ramsey Yeatts Coaches in Saudi Arabia 13 In Memory-Donna Wilson and Naomi Mills 14 Art Department Gallery Schedule 14 Class Notes 15 Ed Clark. 73, with Hotwire, a permenently dis abled eagle, is an educator at wildlife conserva Bookstore Surprises 20-21 tion. Story on page 4. Cover: Dr. L. Michael Hill works in the new greenhouse. Bridgewater College seeks to enroll qualified students regardless of sex, race, creed, handicap, or national or ethnic origin; and further, it does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, handicap, or national origin in the administration of its educational policies, employment practices, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other college administered programs and activities. Neva A. Rybicki, '73, Editor Director of Public Information Juniors Tammy Severson and Greg McCormick Rob Washburn pitch in on the Nininger Hall project. Story on Sports Information Director page 5. This is a newsletter of the Bridgewater publication series (064-960) published four times a year: October, December, March and June, by Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia 22812. Bridgewater College is a member of the Council for Advancement and Support for Education. Second class postage paid at Bridgewater, Va. Volume 65, Number I, October, 1988. Change of Address: Notice of a change of address should be sent to: Bridgewater Alumni Magazine, Box 33, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Va. 22812. Please note that the Post Office charges 30 cents for every address it must correct. Dr. Hill prepares a plant for life in the new greenhouse. New Greenhouse Aids Biological Research at Bridgewater An exciting building project of this will provide opportunities for students Steering Committee, and subsequently, past year was the construction of a to engage in independent research, most as President for the first term of the greenhouse for biology research and often within the context of Dr. Hill's recently formed chapter of the Virginia instruction. Dr. L. Michael Hill, Profes larger, continuing research. Wildflower Preservation Society. Dr. sor of Biology at Bridgewater, is using Dr. Hill was awarded a Mednick Grant Hill has also written about the Bermuda the facility to study rare plant specimens through the Virginia Foundation oflnde Blue-eyed Grass, the national flower of which he collected while on sabbatical pendent Colleges which he used to assist Bermuda, in the monthly bulletin pub leave during the interterm and spring him with his travel expenses. His re lished by the Bermuda Department of term. The greenhouse, a 52' x 20' struc search was a continuation of his ongo Agriculture. His research at the Ber ture, has a self-contained climate con ing study of the chromosome numbers muda Biological Station for Research trol, water and sewer facilities, and is of vascular plants which occur within was funded by the National Science constructed from glass panels on a the borders of the Commonwealth of Foundation. He has extended his re masonry foundation. Virginia. search to varieties of blue-eyed grass Funding for the greenhouse was sup Chromosome counting is often a found throughout the southeastern plimented with a grant of $25,000 from "trial-and-error" method insofar as find United States. the Richard Gwathmey and Caroline T. ing cells in mitos or meiosis are con Dr. Hill also wrote a paper entitled Gwathmey Memorial Trust. Dr. Hill cerned. Samples are usually taken in the "An analysis of morphological variation was instrumental in preparing the pro form of preserved parts. If counts are of Aster acuminatus Michx. in Virginia posal, describing the utilization of the not forthcoming from that material, and and the Southeast" as a result of research greenhouse in research and classroom if no remaining living material is avail done during the spring and summer of study. A greenhouse is essential in the able, the opportunity to study the mater 1973. The Virginia Academy of Science study of perennial specimens, as they ial is lost, and a return trip to the site of and the Society of Sigma Xi granted Dr. can be sorted and cultivated for further the specimen is necessary. Having a Hill funding to assist in his research. study over several growing seasons. greenhouse on campus enables Dr. Hill A graduate of Alabama College, Dr. Bridgewater College encourages its to have the specimens at hand and avoid Hill earned his M.S. degree at Tennessee students to participate in independent costly and time-consuming trips to Technological University and his Ph.D. studies and honors projects-in fact acquire replacement plants. degree from the University of New requires such of candidates for gradua Dr. Hill's interest in wild flowers has Hampshire. Dr. Hill has been a member tion with top honors. The greenhouse led him to serve as Chairman of the of the Bridgewater faculty since 1972. October, 1988 Mrs. Flora Hoover Bowman CelebratesH er 100th Birthday The graduating class of 1909-Flora Hoover Bowman is in the 2nd row, 2nd from the right. Mrs. Flora Hoover Bowman, '09, The only daughter of John H. and women being required to use coal oil celebrated her I 00th birthday on August Anna Rebecca Flory Hoover, Flora was lamps in their rooms. Mrs. Bowman 30, 1988, amid more than 250 family the second of nine children. Her father recalled that the lamps could be refilled members, friends and admirers. At her had attended the College for one year in on the front porch twice a week. There birthday dinner at Bridgewater College, 1881 and 1882, setting an example of was one bathtub per hall, with 16 women Dr. Wayne F. Geisert presented Mrs. seeking higher education for his child to share the hot water they received once Bowman. with a Presidential Citation ren. Miss Hoover's connections to the or twice a week. for her many years of service and dedi College also include her Church of the Although the country fare was not cation to the field of education. She was Brethren background. With Brethren exactly gourmet, the women from the also cited for her role as the First Lady heritage on both sides of her family, community prepared good, wholesome of the late President Paul H. Bowman stretching back several generations, she food which caused Mrs. Bowman, then who served Bridgewater College as Pres was pleased to attend this church-affili Miss Hoover, to gain weight her fresh ident from 1919 to 1946. ated college. man year. The dining hall had tables Among the many guests who came to Another close connection with the with seating for ten; nine students and honor Mrs. Bowman were long-time College was the involvement of her one faculty member sat at each. friend Dr. Garland F. Miller, '33, and grandfather, Emmanual Hoover, on The young Miss Hoover attended her brother, Mr. Lawrence H. Hoover, whose porch a group of about 40 men coeducational classes which focused on '27. Both gentlemen shared reminiscen met in 1881 in a confidential gathering a general academic program. She took ces of the gentle lady who has touched prior to a Church of the Brethren Dis such courses as English, German, mathe the lives of so many. trict meeting. The meeting considered matics, history and organ lessons. When Flora Etta Hoover first arrived the possible creation of a Board of Trus Chapel was a daily requirement for the at Bridgewater College in the fall of tees to assist Professor D. C. Flory in the students. 1906, she little dreamed how closely her further development of the school which Apart from the academics on campus, life would be connected to the College. he had started a year earlier. The result Miss Hoover participated in extracur She had traveled all day from Timber was the school's first Board of Trustees ricular events such as ice skating and ville where her parents had a farm. A of 30 men ranging in age from 21 to 66 canoeing on the river. She was a member train carried her from Timberville to years. of one of the two literary societies on Harrisonburg, where she had to cross Life at the College in 1906 was some campus which met weekly on Friday town to catch the afternoon train to the what different than the Bridgewater of evenings to hold orations, declamations, station in Bridgewater. A man with a I 988. There were five buildings on cam quartets and duets, and other such enter hack met the incoming students and pus then, and the dormitory for women tainment. The societies used the mem took them to the College. had electricity only in the corridors; the bers from within their groups to provide 2 Bridgewater the evening programs which helped to round out growing personalities. It was during her freshman year that Miss Hoover met a young man from Johnson City, Tennessee, Paul Haynes Bowman, who was to become President of Bridgewater College in 19 I9.

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