That Combined Sigh of Relief You Heard This Week Came from the Office of Summer Sessions, the Cafeteria Staff at the Commons and the Office of Summer Housing
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Summer News, Vol. 02, no. 09 (August 11, 1966) Item Type Journal Publisher University of Alaska Download date 30/09/2021 09:40:08 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/4326 UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA Bulletin for Summer Faculty, Staff and Students Vol. II No. 9___________________________ August 11, 1966 CAMPUS NOTES That combined sigh of relief you heard this week came from the office of Summer Sessions, the cafeteria staff at the Commons and the office of summer housing. With the departure of several hundred per sons who had been attending institutes, workshops and other summer programs, the campus for the first time this summer took on a slight resemblance of vacation time. Still in residence this week, however, were the Workshop on Alaska, scheduled to wind up Friday, August 12, and the Rural Teachers Institute, which will end August 29. Due to arrive Monday, August 22, is an educational television workshop for teachers in the North Star Borough School District. The workshop will continue until August 26. Next weekend, Thursday through Sunday the combined Tanana Valley Fair and the Alaska State Fair will be staged at the fairgrounds off College Road. The university will have an exhibit and KUAC, the University's FM radio station, plans to beam some of its programming direct from the exhibit. SUMMER TOURS CHARTER INFORMATION" Bus transportation to Pikes Landing for the Friday, August 12, Riverboat Discovery cruise will leave Con stitution Hall at 6 p.m. Bus transportation to the Alaska Railroad Depot for the Saturday, August 13, Mt. McKinley National Park trip will leave Constitution Hall at 8:15 a.m. ************ SPECIAL POINT BARROW TRIP A charter trip to Pt. Barrow Saturday, August 13, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. has been planned in connection with the Workshop on Alaska. The cost will be $60 per person if at least 15 more people sign up. The charter is open to the public— students, Fairbanks area residents and tourists. Persons desiring to take the trip should immediately contact the Summer Recreation Office in room 118 Patty Building or phone extension 205. ************ SUMMER NEWS PAGE TWO AUGUST 11, 196~6~ LIBRARIANS EMBARK ON RIVER EXPEDITION As this edition of Summer News went to press, Director of.... Libraries H. Theodore Ryberg and Archivist Paul McCarthy were reported somewhere on the Yukon River, northwest of Eagle. The pair left Eagle Sunday afternoon by canoe on a 650-mile "history-gathering" expedition down the Yukon to the Tanana River and up the Tanana to Manley Hot Springs. They will gather old news papers, diaries and letters from abandoned sites along their route. The items will be added to the University archives. The expedition had been scheduled to leave Eagle last Saturday evening but was delayed until Sunday because of a forest fire that closed the Taylor Highway. The canoeists were transported to their embarkation point by station wagon, accompanied by William Smith, head of the Library Acquisitions Department and Don Miller, head of News Service & Publications. * . • ; *. ' t , t ■ •., % ************ JAPANESE TO BE OFFERED A course in elementary Japanese will be taught for the first time at the University this year1. The course is part of a new program inaugurating studies of the language, culture, literature and civili zation of Japan. Professor Akira Ikari of Niigata University in Japan has been appointed a visiting associate professor of Japanese under a Carnegie Foundation grant. He will teach the course. Dr- William R. Wood, university president, noted: "This is part of the University's effort to identify the area of instruction and research and service that is most meaningful to most people living in this environment." ; Observed Dr. Bruce Gordon, head of the Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages: "This program recognizes the growing economic and cultural relations between Japan and Alaska. Japan is primarily a highly industrialized nation and Alaska is the opposite, having great natural resources. In lumbering, fishing and mining, the two economies comple ment each other." - ************ SUMMER NEWS PAGE THREE AUGUST 11, 1966 STAFF AND FACULTY APPOINTMENTS DONALD W. MILLER, a newspaper reporter and editor for the past nine years, has been appointed head of the Department of News Service and Publications according to an announcement by B. G. Olson, director of University Relations. Miller comes to Alaska from the San Mateo (Calif.) Times where he served successively as a reporter, sports writer, columnist and editor. FRANCIS V. O'LEARY, a retired Navy Lieutenant who attended Big Three Conferences at Quebec, Yalta, Cairo and Potsdam during World War II, has been named to a new position as head of Central Personnel and Institutional Studies. He will serve as an assistant to the president. After his Naval career, he obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in education and counseling. DR. EVELYN S. COOPE, author and dramatist, will serve as a visiting lecturer in speech, according to Dean Charles J. Keim of the College of Arts and Letters and Prof. Lee Salisbury, head of the Speech, Radio and Drama Department. Dr. Coope has been on the faculty at Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage as a visiting professor for the past two years. DR. WALTER J . BENESCH has been appointed assistant professor of philosophy, according to Dean Keim and Dr. Rudolph Krejci, head of the Philosophy Department. He has taught history at the University for the past three years. • EUGENE M. DONNER, a journalist with 15 years experience in the newspaper field, has been appointed assistant professor of journalism, according to an announcement by Dean Keim and Professor Jimmy Bedford, head of the Journalism Department. He comes to the University from the staff of the San Francisco Examiner. PIETER WESSELING has been appointed assistant professor of Spanish. A native of the Netherlands, he has been a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin. His appointment was announced by Dean Keim. 2 RICHARD D. STONES has joined the Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages as instructor in German, according to Dean Keim. He received his master's degree from Portland State College and has studied at the University of Munich and Goethe Institute in Germany. ************ LIBRARY TO BE FOREST HISTORY REPOSITORY The University Library has officially become a repository for the collection and preservation of materials concerned with forest history of the North American continent. Continued. SUMMER NEWS PAGE FOUR AUGUST 11, 1966 FOREST HISTORY REPOSITORY (Cont.) Recognition of the library as an approved repository was announced jointly by Elwood R. Maunder, executive director of the Forest History Society of New Haven, Conn. and H. Theodore Ryberg, director of libraries. The society's purpose is to help college and university libraries build up their collections of published and unpublished sources of forest history and to encourage research into these materials by faculty and graduate students. ‘ ************ WEEKEND FILM FARE Schaible Auditorium— 7:30 p.m. Sunday only Adults, 75 cents; children 12 years old and younger, 50 cents. The Pink Panther With David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine and Claudia Cardinale. An international jewel thief sets out to steal a fabulous gem, owned by a Far Eastern princess. Sellers plays the part of a bumbling French police inspector who tries to trap him. The showing of The Pink Panther concludes the movie program for this summer..