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7 MSU Clip Sheet A sampUnc of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 ullte IDailu ]11t1cµenbent MSU ARCH\VES Saturday, March 31, 1990 Retired Morehead State professor gets Founders Day honor By KENNETH A. HART Organizers of the ceremony pre nications, said the company con Independent News Writer sented a brief videotaped message sidered the cha!Jenge grant to be MOREHEAD - A retired More from Exelbirt, in which he said he money well spent. head State University history pro accepted the award "with great "The kind of impact you're mak fessor was honored Friday for his hwnility .'' ing here at the university is some contributions during the school's 1~ presentin~ the award, Seaton thing that just can't be measured," annual Founders Day observance. praised Exelb1rt for "his great in he said. Wilhelm Exelbirt, a native of tellectual and teaching skills that Ten new Morehead State Uni Austria, became the 13th recipient challenged two generations of stu versity Fellows were recognized at of the Founders Day Award for dents on th.is campus." the luncheon. To become a Fellow, University Service during cere E~elbirt, a reknown expert on an individual or couple must pro monies marking the school's 68th Slavic European history, began h.is vide the school with a $10,000 cash year as a state-supported in career at Morehead State in 1948 gift, a property gift valued at stitution of higher education. ~fter coming to the U.S. as a polit $12,500 or a deferred gift of $25,000. Presentation of the award was t~al refugee. He retired from fu!J The new Fellows are: Homer C. one of the highlights of the daylong time teaching in 1971. Cablish of Bradenton, Fla.; Ted observance. Others were recog A luncheon that followed the Crosthwait of Frankfort; Noveal · nition of major donors and vol- awards ceremony was highlighted Crosthwait of Fairfield Glade, unteers, acceptance of a financial gift from Ashland Oil Inc. and the by the presentation of a $50,000 Tenn. ; Shirley L. Fannin of Studio induction of three new members check to the university by Ashland City, Calif.; Dr. and Mrs. Adron into the school's Alwnni Hall of Oil. Doran of Lexington; Chester A. Fame. The check was the third and final Nava Jr. of Louisville; James E. Former NBC News journalist installment of a $150,000 challenge Rose of Houston, Texas; Robert A. Slon_e of Lexington; and James s. Edwin Newman was the keynote grant presented by the company in Davis of Pikeville. speaker at the convocation and 1987. Morehead State's receiving • awards ceremony. th~ !11oney was conditional upon it Th.is year's inductees into the Exelbirt, 88, of Morehead, was raising an equal or greater amount Al~ Hall of Fame were retired unable to attend the ceremony be in private donations. Manne Col. William L. Barber of cause of ill health. Bill Seaton, University President C. Nelson West Liberty, mining executive chainnan of U1e university's board Grote said the grant has served as Robert Addington of Catlettsburg of regents, presented the award to a stimulus for private giving and and Kentucky Court of Appeals Exelbirt's wife, Regina. "d_emonstrated to us how corporate Judge Janet Stwnbo of Van Lear. · "Thank you very much for your philanthropy can change an in The three were recognized Fri great kindness," she said. "What stitution. 11 day evening at an awards banquet sponsored by the school's Alwnni else ean I say?" Dan Lacy, ·Ashland Oil vice pres Association. id ent for corporate commu- -The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., Saturday, March 31, 1990 Ex-network newsman speaks up for communications skills By KENNETH A. HART Independent News Writer However, he became serious ~ccord(n~ to one study, Newman MOREHEAD - The United when he spoke of the long-term ~aid, the illiteracy and semiliteracy effects that poor speech and writ in the work force costs American States could lose prominence in the industries more than $20 billion world if its people do not improve ing habits could have on American annually. their communicative skills, former society. NBC newsman Edwin Newman "If the level at which we speak "More and more people are be- said Friday at Morehead State and write declines, we decline right University. along with it,·• he said. ginning to understand that in Newman, an outspoken advocate cor:1petence and inefficiency have for the use of proper English, cited their costs, 11 he said. · a nwnber of hwnorous examples of the language being misused during his keynote speech at the univer -A service of th e Office of Media Relations- sity's annual Founders Day obser vance. -- -~.,.. ,,. •.. .,...i'.-~'.f'f''"•"' ,:•_; Speaking in the same measured Members of the media also came has hosted twice, and of hlli role' as ' --tones that made him a fixture with Wider Newman's scrutiny. He took moderator in the 1976 and 1984 ', television audiences during his 35- ABC News anchor Peter Jennings presidential debates. - ~ear tenure at NBC, Newman de to task for a story on the Academy When he was on "Saturday Night livered a stinging attack on what , , Awards, in which Jennings "told us Live," Newman said he was re - •he sees as negative influences on about an actress who had been quired to change costumes a num , the_ language. awarded for the pleasure she gave. ber of times for his roles· in the "To whom, he did not say," various skits. · , Some of _the culprits cited by "I can remember rWJning aroWJd Newman are major corporations Newman said. Newman also took a shot at CBS behind the sets, having clotpes tom whom_ h_e said ;;promote sloppiness off of me and others put on," he and ~!literacy by intentionally News for "reporting that.a plot had been successfully thwarted ... said. "At one point, I heard some mis~smg English in their ad one yell, 'Never mind the shoes, vertisements to obtain a particular which put to rest fears that it had effect. been WJSUccessfully thwarted." ~ just get him on the sci."' Examples, he said, are television· At a news conference that fol lowed his speech, Newman also Although he retired from NBC in comniercials in , which the word 1984 Newman said he would wel- , "I!le" is often incorrectly sub singled out popular music as a destructive influence on the Ian- - com'e the chance to again moderate 'stituted for "I.'.' - a presidential debate. • l "Ad - ' ·; ·guage. · ,vertis~rs must believe that if "It's very exciting to -be iii on. you use I correctly instead of "Most of today's popular music You can even get the idea that does not even deserve the name of you're important,'' he joked. music," he said. "If yQu can even In addition to his work with NBC, _ 'me,' you will go bankrupt imme pick out the words, they're not ~ewman has written three books - diately," he said. "Who writes this worth hearing. on the state of the English Ian ,_ stuff? Who passes it?" "To say what passes for popular , guage. He currently works . as a , Newman also took humorous aim music is anti-intellectual is a gross syndicated newspaper columnist, , at a cologne advertisement that Wlderstatement," he said. ; claims the product "calms, yet ar Newman said he had fond mem . - ouses, your animal desires." ories of his appearances on NBC's "This leaves unanswered one • "Saturday Night. Live," which he question - why put it on in the first i1 place?" he said, drawing laughter -. - from the capacity crowd at Button Auditorium. Newman railed against LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. !<Y., SAHJ_RDAY, MARCH 31, 1990 -- "bloated" and euphemistic phrases - ____, ____ ;;_-, ~<•'• -\ I that have come into vogue in recent - ' , year~, saying they create confusion wher~ none existed previously. "At one hospital, when a person Slavic histor.iq.n given· di~, _it is s~id that they 'are not -,·-: fulf1\~g the1_r wellness potential,'" ' he said. "This seems to imply that Morehead.State award., he 'died and it was rather his Northeastern Kentucky bureau fault." J ' MOREHEAD - An Austrian native who fled his country at the height of the Nazi regime was given Morehead State University's 1990 ._ ij:k\'j\/, -/~it~, • -~~""; ,\.,-•.• •:·· i ~·.. ~:_-~>9~~h Founders Day Award for Universi ·, '--~•;: ' . "'i,:~ . , . 'fif'V~i·.: ty Service. Wilhelm Exelbirt, 88, an MSU I professor emeritus of history, has been described by Roots author Alex Haley as "a national treasure" and is an internationally known Slavic historian. He came to the United States from Austria in 1940. He joined the MSU faculty in 1948 and retired in . 1971. Exelbirt said ·in• a videotaped message that he could not attend the awards ceremony because of "advanced old age." Wilhelm Exelbirt, Founders "The single classroom teacher can make only modest contribu Day Award winner tions," he said. "l tried my best:" versity's Alumni Hall of Fame. In other awards, retired Marine MSU associate professor of Col. William E. Barber, Addington speech Harlen Hamm, assistant Re!Sources Inc. co-founder and vice sports director Larry Wii son and president Robert R Addington and Pi1<eville lawyer John H. Baird were slate Court of Appeals Judge Janet recognized by the1MSU Foundation Stumbo were inducted into the uni- for their fund-riiL~ing activities. THE COURIER-JOURNAL. SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1990 · Ex-newscaster berates use of bad grammar during Morehead visit By JAY BLANTON Newman, whose lessons on The overly technical and com• years with the network and was in charge confusing Jargon used in education.