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Washington University Record, November 1, 1979 Washington University School of Medicine Digital Commons@Becker Washington University Record Washington University Publications 11-1-1979 Washington University Record, November 1, 1979 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record Recommended Citation "Washington University Record, November 1, 1979" (1979). Washington University Record. Book 150. http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record/150 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Washington University Publications at Digital Commons@Becker. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Record by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Becker. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WASHINGTON Published for the Washington University Community UNIVERSITY i IN ST LOUIS November 1, 1979 W.U CBS Newsman Ragtimer Eubie Blake Highlights Ed Bradley "Ragtime '79" Festival at Edison Will Speak Nov. 7 Ragtime pianist-composer musician-composer and pro- Eubie Blake, still :\ power- ducer of "Ragtime '79," has Ed Bradley, the first black house performer at age 96, reason to feel upbeat about network news anchorman, will play his own composi- the festival. will be the speaker at the Nov. tions at a sold-out perform- "With the possible excep- 7 Assembly Series lecture, ance during the final evening tion of Toronto, there's never sponsored by the WU Black of "Ragtime '79," a festival been a ragtime show put Studies Program, Special Nov. 1-4 at Edison Theatre. together like this one," said Education Services, Assembly Other internationally Radecke, who will perform a Series and the Association of known musicians and per- special tribute to Eubie Blake Black Students. Bradley cur- formers who will appear dur- on Saturday, Nov. 3. Rag- rently anchors the "CBS Sun- ing the festival include Max time is "a transportable art day Night News with Ed Morath, "Ragtime" Bob form with universal appeal," Bradley,'1 a post he has held Ed Bradley Darch, Terry Waldo, Trebor he said. "It can go anywhere since November 1976 when he cratic and Republican na- J. Tichenor (WU instructor of in the world—Ireland, the was also named a CBS News tional conventions. music) and the St. Louis Rag- Cayman Islands, Africa, or White House correspondent. Bradley joined CBS News timers, Don Burns, Kjell Nebraska. All you need is a In addition to these duties, as a stringer in the Paris Waltman, the St. Louis Rag- piano. That's the magic of it." Bradley recently served as Bureau in September 1971. time Ensemble, the Amherst "Ragtime '79" will also anchorman and reporter of In March of 1975, Bradley Saxophone Quartet, Steve mark the release of Eubie, a the CBS news special, was among the CBS news cor- Sprachlen, and festival head biography published by "What's Happened to Cam- respondents who volunteered Steven Radecke, artist-in-resi- Schirmer Books, Macmillan bodia." During CBS News to return to Indochina to dence and musical director of Publishing Co., NYC, written coverage of the 1976 presiden- cover what became the fall of the WU dance division. by Al Rose. Rose is the author tial campaign, Bradley Cambodia and Vietnam. He Radecke, a noted ragtime continued on p. i covered the activities of was among the last to be Jimmy Carter. He also served evacuated from both Phnom as a floor associate/relief cor- Penh and Saigon prior to the respondent for CBS News Communist takeover of those coverage of the 1976 Demo- capitals. Bussman Chandeliers Add Sparkle To Arts School 100th Anniversary As a birthday gift to the tegral part of the Royal WU School of Fine Arts, now British Pavilion at the Fair, marking its 100th anniver- was transformed into a multi- sary, Bussmann Manu- cubicled painting studio. This facturing Division, McGraw- landmark, transferred to Edison, has contributed Bixby Hall when it was com- $10,000 to brighten Bixby pleted in 1927 from the Gallery, a newly renovated ex- Pavilion, now destroyed, was hibition hall. The gift will be recently restored to its pristine used to purchase four custom- beauty as a gallery after made chandeliers for the Gal- decades of use as a rather non- lery, a heritage of the St. descript, dilapidated, over- Louis World's Fair of 1904. sized teaching facility. These magnificent lighting The Bussmann gift is par- fixtures will replace originals ticularly appropriate because which were removed years ago the firm is itself an integral when the Gallery, a replica of part of the electrical industry, Eubie Blake (left), a living legend of ragtime music, will highlight the WU "Rag- the main hall of the Orangery also celebrating its centen- time '79" festival this week. Trebor J. Tichenor (right), WU instructor of music of the Royal Palace at Ken- nial. The St. Louis-based and pianist with the St. Louis Ragtimers, will also perform in the four-day festival, sington, London and an in- continued an p. 3 Nov. 1-4. See Calendar, p. 4, for performance times. WU Annual Report Details 1978-79 Faculty and Student Achievements The WU Annual Report for 1978-79 reviews the achieve- ments and progress of the year. University Chancellor William H. Danforth said the year was "in many ways the best since I have been Chancellor." Research and scholarly achievements of both faculty and students have brought national recognition to WU, Danforth said. An entering freshman class with a higher SAT average than the year before, running counter to the national trend, and a growth in funding for research projects were among the highlights of the Annual Report, submitted to the University's Board of Trustees on Oct. 12. Of the 1116 entering freshmen in 1978, one in seven was a National Merit Scholar and over 60 per cent ranked in the top 10 per cent of their high school class. Funding for faculty research and educational projects reached $58.3 million. The University ranks 18th in the nation Three young scholars (left to right), Marcela Pizzi, Janelle Forgette (both in federal awards for academic science, according to the most graduate students in WU's School of Architecture), and Larry Linkul, a graduate recent statistics available (fiscal 1977). student at I MSI., are recipients of $10,000 Graduate Fellowships for study Daniel Nathans, MD, who graduated from the WU School of abroad awarded by the Rotary Foundation. They were congratulated recently on Medicine in 1954, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. their awards by Alan J. Hoener, former District Governor of Missouri District 605. Pizzi was selected for the Rotary Foundation Award via the Rotary Club in Nathans shared the prize with two other scientists, one of Santiago, Chile; Forgette and Linkul received Fellowships from the Northeast whom, Hamilton O. Smith, MD, served as an intern at the WU Missouri District. Forgette will continue her studies at Heriot-Watt University in Medical Center. Edinburg; Linkul will enroll at the University of Bath in England. (Photo by Peter To help mark the University's 125th Anniversary, many H. Zimmerman) internationally renowned scholars and scientists, including four Nobel Laureates, participated in a series of special programs and events throughout the academic year. * Faculty News * The University received $16.5 million in gifts and grants Robert G. Dixon, Jr., WU will deliver the keynote from private sources during the year. Alumni giving reached a Daniel Noyes Kirby Profes- address on "The Feminine new high of $2.4 million and corporate support totaled $3.5 sor of Law, has been ap- Perspective in Educational million, of which $2.3 million came from St. Louis-based pointed to a two-year term on Research" at a meeting of the companies. the grants evaluation council American Educational Re- Revenues from all sources totaled $175.5 million compared of the National Science search Association sponsored with $155.4 million for the previous year. Operating expendi- Foundation. by the Fifth Annual Confer- tures ranged from $145.2 million in 1977-78 to $163.8 million in * * ence on Research on Women 1978-79. and Education at Cleveland Norris K. Smith, WU pro- Chancellor Danforth also noted that while the previous State University in Cleve- fessor of art and archaeology year saw many significant accomplishments, WU "is not im- land, Ohio, Nov. 3. and department chairman, mune" to the problems which confront higher education discussed "Monuments for nationally. A major continuing worry is the effect of inflation Living: Wright and the Re- on the salaries of faculty and staff. "The income of faculty has John Chirgwin, assistant formation of the House," as not only fallen behind the cost of living but has not kept pace professor of anatomy at WU's an invited speaker at the In- with that of the average American," Danforth said. School of Medicine, has been stitute for Architecture and Because the University's main service to society "depends awarded a $10,800 grant from Urban Studies in New York on attracting and holding some of the most gifted individuals in the American Diabetes Asso- City on Oct. 23. Smith is the the nation and, indeed, in the world," improving salaries for ciation to continue his re- author of Frank Lloyd faculty and staff "remains the number one priority for search into the insulin genes Wright: A Study in Architec- Washington University," Danforth said. of rats and guinea pigs to de- tural Content. termine those parts of the * * Union Leader Cesar Chavez to Speak Nov. 4 gene which regulate the On Boycotts and Migrant Worker Organization A. Peter Mutharika, WU amount of insulin synthe- professor of law, participated Cesar Chavez, president of general director of that sized in the cell. in the Ninth Conference on the United Farm Workers of organization from 1958-1962.
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