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University of Massachusetts Boston ScholarWorks at UMass Boston 1978-1979, Spectator University Publications and Campus Newsletters 5-25-1978 The pS ectator - Vol. 01, No. 06 - May 25, 1978 University of Massachusetts Boston Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/university_spectator Part of the Higher Education Administration Commons, and the Organizational Communication Commons Recommended Citation University of Massachusetts Boston, "The peS ctator - Vol. 01, No. 06 - May 25, 1978" (1978). 1978-1979, Spectator. Paper 6. http://scholarworks.umb.edu/university_spectator/6 This University Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications and Campus Newsletters at ScholarWorks at UMass Boston. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1978-1979, Spectator by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at UMass Boston. For more information, please contact [email protected]. the University of Ma achusetts at Boston Spectator Vol. 1 No . 6 8 NEW UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT NAMED PROF. ALVAN S. RYAN RETIRES David C. Knapp, the 50- year- old provost Prof. Alvan S. Ryan , one of the founding of Cornell University, is the new president fathers of UMass - Boston , was honored by his of the University of Massachusetts . His colleagues at a retirement par ty in the selection by the Board of Trustees at a Faculty Club, Library, on May 19. special meeting in Boston on May 15 ended an Members of the English Dept. have re eight- month search to find a successor to commended that Prof. Ryan be promoted to the Dr . Robert C. Wood who had resigned last rank of professor emeritus for his outstanding December . service to the university. Additionally, the Prof. Franklin Patterson, a member of "Alvan S. Ryan Award" for distinguished work the Political Science Dept . at UMass - Boston, in English graduate studies also is to be has been serving as interim president . awarded annually hereout. A native of Syracuse, NY , Dr. Knapp is A native of Needham, MA , Prof. Ryan also a political scientist who graduated earned a BS at the University of Massachusetts , from Syracuse University and earned master ' s MA at Harvard and Ph .D. at the University of and doctorate degrees at the University of Iowa . He began his teaching career as an Chicago. He has been a Fulbright Research English instructor at Iowa, and served for Scholar at the University of Helsinki and a three years as English Dept . chairman and Bullard Fellow at the Graduate School of professor at Notre Dame . He came to UMB in Public Administration at Harvard. 1965 as chairman of the Humanities Division He is a former dean of the College of and professor of English. Liberal Arts at the University of New Ham shire and dean of the New York State College COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS SET of Human Ecology at Cornell . He also has served as director of the American Council President Franklin Patterson will deliver on Education's Institute of College and the greetings of the university during University Administrators . commencement exercises of UMB on the Harbor lie is expected to assume his new post Campus, Thursday, June 1 at 2 p .m. Chancellor Sept . 1. Claire Van Ummersen will be the principal speaker, and former student trustee ~ ENGLISH PROF ' S ARTICLE IN NEW YORKER Baker, a graduating senior , will speak on behalf of the Class of 1978 . Prof. Igor Webb, winner of a Writing Some 1,156 degrees will be conferred by Fellowship in the 1978 National Endowment UMB at its 10th annual commencement . for the Arts competition, will have a lengthy poem published in an upcoming issue DISTRICT OLYMPICS ON HARBOR CAMPUS of New Yorker. The current Modern Fiction Studies includes his essay, "Marriage and The District VI Olympics, a combination Sex in the Novels of Ford Maddox Ford." athletic and multi- cultural event involving some The forthcoming Minnesota Review contains 500 Boston public elementary and middle pupils, his assessment of Nobel Prize winner Vin was to be held on the Harbor Campus on Thursday, cente Aleixandre ' s poetry, as well as that May 25 , from 9 a . m. - 2 p .m. A sponsor is the of Nicauraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal and Institute for Learning & Teaching at UMB . that of Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet. -2- LIBRARY CONSORTIUM GUIDELINES SUMMER SCHOOL REGISTRATION EXTENDED Ms. Janet Stewart, head reference The late registration period for UMB ' s librarian at UMB, will be in charge of Summer School has been exteLded until June issuing cards to those who wish to borrow 2, according to Director Malissa Roberts. books and other materials from member The starting dates for summer classes institutions in the Boston Library are June 5 and 12. Tuition is $25 per credit Consortium. for undergraduate courses and $40 per credit Public Service Librarian Molly Matson, for graduate courses. The charges are the says UMB is permitted "to set up our own same for in-state and out- of-state students . criteria for issuing cards, but we are determined to keep them as simple as poss FINAL DISTINGUISHED LECTURE ible." She notes that cards may be issued to faculty, graduate students and, in Author James Carroll drew a big audience special cases, to undergraduates working on to his lecture on "The Irish Novel in Boston" honors papers . The first criteria will be in the Faculty Lounge last Thursday afternoon. the need of the prospective card holder to Carroll's latest work is the novel, use another institution, i . e ., he/she must "Mortal Friends," which was published by Little , check the resources of the home institution Brown & Co., and set to be a Book-of-the-Month before trying another's resources. Club selection shortly. An earlier book, The second criterion will be the per "Madonna Red," is to ·be produced as a film by son's borrowing record at UMB . Since the actor Robert Redford. UMB Library will be responsible for paying Carroll's talk was the last Distinguished bills run up by its faculty at the lending Lecture for this academic year . It was spon libraries , it will seek to determine how re sored by the Office of Graduate Studies here sponsible the borrower has been in dealings at UMB. with the UMB Library. Mrs . Matson says the Library staff 1978 FERGUSON LITERARY PRIZE WINNER hope that many scholars will take advantage of the opportunity to use other collections Ms. Lorrie Smith, an English major and that rn~ does not possess or cannot acquire . graduating senior, has been awarded the 1978 And she adds that the Library shortly will Ferguson Prize for distinguished work in circulate a paper describing the consortium American Literature. Her paper was entitled, and its regulations, along with UMB's regu "Image Formed Keeps the Vision : An Analysis lations vis-a-vis the consortium. of 'Peter Quince at the Clavier ' by Wallace The current membership of the consorti Stevens. " um is comprised of the following: liMB, Bo~ton Ms . Smith has been awarded a graduate College, Boston University , Boston Public fellowship in English at the University of Library , Brandeis, MIT, Northeastern, State Toronto . Library of Massachusetts, Tufts, UMA and Wellesley College. SCULPTOR ' S PLAQUE UNVEILED MIKE WALLACE UMA COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER In a brief ceremony May 9, Chancellor Claire Van Ummersen unveiled a plaque to CBS news correspondent Mike Wallace is commemorate a bronze work by sculptor Frank scheduled to deliver the commencement ad P. Tock (1897-1976) . dress at UMA's 108th exercises on Saturday The plaque is on the wall below the morning, May 27, on the Amherst campus. work entitled "Head and Long Arm" in the Additionally, Wallace and five other second floor lobby of the Library. distinguished men and women will receive Director of Libraries and Prof. Walter honorary degrees. The others are: author Grossman hosted a reception following the James Baldwin, British astonomer ~ unveiling. Margaret Burbidge, Singer Co . chief execu tive Joseph B. Flavin , U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity and Latin American scholar Lewis Hanke. - 3- ARTS FESTIVAL DRAWS NEARLY 7 , 000 VISITORS PROF CHAIRS JOINT CONCLAVE PANEL Spring was welcomed to the Harbor Cam Early this month Prof. John C. pus through a merry mix of cultural events Papageorgiou of CPS chaired a panel session billed as the "Sprinnng Arts Festival" dur at the Joint National Meeting of the Oper ing the weekend of May 6 - 7. The program, ations Research Society of America and the another "first" for the university, drew Institute of Management Sciences in New nearly 7 , 000 warm- weather revelers who York City. thoroughly enjoyed the numerous music , The panel was entitled "Management theatre , art, music, dance , film, video and Science in Developing Countries : Applications children' s events . and Attitudes . " Among the panelists we r e : The idea for the festival originated Ardy Stoutjesdijk, World Bank , Washington , with CAS Dean Michael P. Riccards and the DC ; David M. Boodman , Arthur D. Little Inc . , outstanding program was put together by Mrs . Cambridge; Profs. Arnold C. Hax and Zenon S. Joan Hobson who had so much success in Zannetos of MIT; Prof. Burton Dean, Western coordinating Boston's "First Night" programs Reserve University, Cleveland; and Prof. the past two New Year ' s Eves . Leon Lasdon , University of Texas , Austin. On the lighter side, the weekend fes tivities featured face- decorating by festival CAMPUS OIL STRIKE clowns, folk dancing, food vendors and an edible food sculpture . Additionally, the Operators on the heavy equipment used campus was festooned with pennants , "float to drive the pilings for the new gymnasium ing fish," a forest of green balloons, and foundation thought for a time they had an oil an exhibit of kites. strike . But their hopes didn ' t come true .