The Westerner Vol. 1 No. 7

Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU The Westerner (1980-1997) Western Michigan University 6-1-1981 The Westerner Vol. 1 No. 7 Western Michigan University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wmu_westerner Part of the Higher Education Commons WMU ScholarWorks Citation Western Michigan University, "The Westerner Vol. 1 No. 7" (1981). The Westerner (1980-1997). 7. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wmu_westerner/7 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Western Michigan University at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Westerner (1980-1997) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. e If you rtceive more than one copy of the We sterner, please Western Michigan University • Kalamazoo,erner Michigan give one to a friend. We use several mailing lists, and duplication is possible. June, 1981 • Volume 1, Number 7 $271,650 grant from Kellogg Foundation received for 'Partners in Progress_' ___ Western has been awarded a grant of Dr. John T. Bernhard, president of $271,650 from theW. K. Kellogg Foun- the University, said, "We are deeply dation of Battle Creek, Mich., to grateful for this extraordinary gift from develop and equip a unique computer the Kellogg Foundation. Western simulation laboratory in the soon-to- Michigan University must-and be-constructed University Business will-play a key role in this state's Development Center. comeback from its current economic The center is part of Western's ills. The computer simulation " Partners in Progress" capital cam- laboratory will be an extremely useful paign, an effort between the University instrument for executive training and and local business to have the campus in solving some of the pressing provide services and facilities that can management problems that face many bolster the region's economic growth. business leaders today." James H. Duncan, chairman and ''This laboratory will open educa- chief executive officer of the First tional programming that Western only American Bank Corp. of Kalamazoo, is dreamed about up to this time,'' general chairman of the "Partners in observed Dr. Darrell G. Jones, dean of Progress" campaign. He called the Western's College of Business. "Com- computer simulation laboratory "the puter simulation management games heart of the total campaign.'' have been common educational tools The Kellogg Foundation grant is in- for years. Certainly, small business, cluded in the total of $4.2 million which is a significant force in the already achieved in gifts and pledges American economy, will benefit from for the "Partners in Progress" capital News conference-A grant of $271,650 from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation was announced the availability of the computer as a campaign. The campaign goal is $6.8 at a news conference in early May. Participants included (from left) Dr. William F. Mor- tool." rison, chairman of the Department of General Business, representing the College of In 1930 breakfast cereal pioneer W. million for programs in all of the Business; Dr. Peter R. Ellis, program associate with the Kellogg Foundation; Dr. fohn T. University's academic colleges. Bernhard, president of the University; and Wm. fohn Upjohn, honorary chairman of the K. Kellogg contributed $45 million in ''This project provides an unusual University's "Partners in Progress" capital campaign. personal wealth to establish the opportunity to assist a highly reputable Kellogg Foundation. Using income public institution strengthen and ex- from that bequest, the foundation has pand its regional public service pro- Ellis said, "Considering Michigan's Students, faculty members, local made grants over the past five decades gram," said Dr. Peter R. Ellis, program current economic struggles, it is a businesses and conferees will use the of more than $530 million in the areas associate at the Kellogg Foundation, timely effort that promises to play a laboratory for exercises that simulate of health, education and agriculture. who participated in a news conference catalytic role in the region's economic business problems and for teaching and The foundation today is among the announcing the grant. development and to pay very visible learning new computer applications. largest private philanthropic organiza- ''The computer simulation dividends to the citizens of the The laboratory also will be used to tions in the nation and supports pro- laboratory program," Ellis continued, region." develop a data base for community grams on four continents, including ' 'has the potential to benefit students, The simulation laboratory will house human services information and to the United States and Canada, Europe, faculty members and leaders in the freestanding microcomputers with ac- establish a patient-tracking system for Latin America and Australia. region's business, industrial, human cess to the University's educational the region's medical clinical service service and governmental sectors." computer located in Rood Hall. programs. Graduate business programs accredited The graduate programs of the College "Needless to say, we are extremely of Business have been awarded full ac- proud of this achievement and the creditation by the American Assembly recognition it represents for Western of Collegiate Schools of Business and its College of Business," Bernhard (AACSB), making Western only the said. ''This action by the AACSB third university in the state with reflects most favorably on the quality AACSB recognition of both its graduate of our students, our faculty and the and undergraduate business programs. curriculum of the College of Business. The undergraduate programs of the Dr. Darrell G. Jones, dean of the College of Business were accredited for College of Business, said, ''The ac- the first time in 1970. The accredita- creditation of our graduate programs, tion of programs is reviewed by AACSB for which we have worked long and every five years. hard, is both an honor and an The reaccreditation of the acknowledgement of the excellence undergraduate programs and the ac- achieved by the faculty and students of creditation of the graduate programs the College of Business. were announced by Dr. John T . Bern- ''It also reflects extremely well on hard, president of the University, at a the University as a whole," Jones con- meeting of the Board of Trustees. tinued, ''recognizing such academic Action on both programs came at the support services as the University annual meeting of the AACSB in Libraries, the Academic Computer Philadelphia. With it, Western joins a Center and the University Placement Orchids-Dr. Richard W. Pippen (right) , chairperson of _the Department of Biology, and select group of only 157 collegiate Service, among many others." Michelle Parpart, biology greenhouse technician, are shown checking over one of the 160 schools of business among more than The AACSB applies rigorous stan- orchid plants valued at more than $5,400 that were recently donated to the University by 1,400 such schools in the nation to dards to the evaluation of students, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur E. Slater of Vicksburg. The plants raised the total of orchids here to 300, valued at about $10,000, that have been received since last September, when Al Till of have both graduate and undergraduate faculty and curriculum of business pro- Saugatuck gave the department 140 plants. The orchids are being used as a teaching tool programs accredited by AACSB. grams across the country; it is not un- and for future research, according to Pippen. (Continued on page 12) Progress-The Fine Arts Building, scheduled for completion fuly 1, 1982, "is slightly ahead of schedule," according to William F. Hamill, [r., director of campus planning and extension, who noted that it is about 50 percent finished. He said 90 percent of the three-story building's masonry and parti- twns are completed. The building's 157,340 square feet of floor space will house the School of Music, the Department of Dance and the offices of Robert H. Luscombe, dean of the College of Fine Arts. It also will have a music library and a large.recital hall. 2 Feldpausch: a retrospective of an Alaskan canoe trip. ___________ By Jodee Shaw Once they even "dined out" at a Feldpausch, a health education and local inn. "If you went to the local inn physical education major here, is an ''Our lifestyle became a matter of get- to eat you went at a specific time,'' exercise leader at the Cardiac ting from one place to the next," said Feldpausch explained. ''If you got there Rehabilitation Institute at Kalamazoo's Beverly Feldpausch, a Kalamazoo early, you had to wait until 5 p.m. Borgess Medical Center. senior, in describing a 1,400-mile Everyone ate together and everyone ate She became interested in canoeing canoe trip with Pamela G. Torbico, the same thing, and it wasn't ham- while watching canoe races, so she graduate student from Howell, made burgers and fries either," she said started training in 1975 and currently down Alaska's Yukon River to the Ber- laughing. "The day we ate out it was paddles between one and five hours a ing Sea last summer. meatloaf, and our bill came to $13 day. She has been a very successful They were the first women to paddle apiece!" racer, taking a first place in the 1979 the length of the Yukon River in a Survival became an important factor Great National Canoe Race, a 15-day canoe. The first leg of their journey for the women because there was no trip from Kansas to New Orleans. began when they left Kalamazoo in a one to check up on them. They were The Alaska trip came about because van on June 16 of last year. After 10 completely reliant on each other. Both Feldpausch wanted to prove that two days and 3,000 miles of rough driving had been taught how to shoot a gun women could accomplish such a feat.

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