BULLETIN OF BRYANT COLLEGE SMITHFIELD· RHODE ISLAND ALUMNI ISSUE WINTER 76 PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE REPORTS The Bryant College Presiden- according to Dr. Gulski. Candi­ fial Search Committee has dates are scheduled to be invited fifteen finalists to the interviewed each Monday, campus for day-long inter- Wednesday and Friday through views beginning February 2. March 5. The Committee is headed by Dr. Nelson J. Gulski, Acting President. Since last fall the 11- Members of the Search Com­ member Committee has been mittee include: Philip R. Graf, carefully screening app/ica- Roy A. Nelson, Administra­ tions from 167 candidates. tors; Nelson J. Gulski, George Finalists will begin arriving on J. Kelley, William P. Robinson, campus at the beginning of Trustees; Mary P. Lyons, Albert the spring semester, ilwhen J. McAloon, Faculty; Lynne everyone is back so as to pro- Anderson, Lynnda Pollen, Stu­ vide the largest possible in- dents; and Karl F. Ericson, volvement in the process", Donald A. Lopes, Alumni. BULLETIN OF BRYANT COLLEGE ALUMNI ISSUE WINTER 76 Cover: Acting-President Nelson J. Gulski Gertrude Meth Hochberg, Vice President Publ ic Affairs shows Fraser Lang , new Director of Alumni Fraser A. Lang , Director of Alumni Relations and Development Relations and Development, and Shirley C. Shirley C. Barden, Assistant Director of Alumni Re lations and Development Barden, his assistant, the Alumni House. Staff: Features: Lawrence A. Clancy, Editor 5 Bryant's Work-Study Program at the Marriott Patricia Fogarty, Associate Editor 7 Mismanagement Takes Time ... Your Time Rose V. Ovoian, Class News 15 MBA Graduate Flys High Magazine Advisory Council: Diana M. Marro '58, Chairperson Articles: Louise R. Scott '65 Joseph Duffy '69 3 New Faces in Public Affairs 4 Enrollment Increasing/Academic Standards Up Alumni Association Officers: 11 SAT - Barrier or Blessing Donald A. Lopes '58, President Charles E. Bradley '69, Vice President Departments: Claudia A. McElroy, '73, Secretary Louise R. Scott '65, Treasurer 2 Campus News Roundup 6 Alumni Update Alumni Association Executive Board: 9 Sports Artacky Berberian '09 10 Recommended Reading Charles E. Bradley '69 Lawrence E. Brown '69 12 Class News Karen Carley '68 Brian D. Drought '66 Karl F. Ericson '58 Roger A. Francoeur '59 Donald A. Lopes '58 Diana P. Marro '59 Claudia A. McElroy '73 James V. Rosati '72 Louise R. Scott '65 Walter C. Tillinghast '53 Arthur A. Zompa '66 Lisa Brown, President Student Senate Ann Marie Vigneau, Senior Senator Past Presidents: Peter G. Barilla '58 Philip H. Hayden '54 Gary G. Remley '58 BULLETIN OF BRYANT COLLEGE, January, 1976, Volume 76, NO.1. Second Class Post­ age paid at Providence, RI. Published Bryant College admits students of any race to all the rights, privileges, pro­ monthly by Bryant College of Business grams, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the Administration, Smithfield, R102917. school. The school does not discriminate on the basis of race in administra­ Alumni Office: The Unistructure, Public tion of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan Affairs Office. Tel. (401) 231-1200. programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs. 1 Campus News Roundup HOSPITAL INTERNSHIP BRYANT COUNSELING FOR MEDICAL SERVICE SPONSORS SECRETARIES - A NEW CONFERENCE FOR DIMENSION FOR BRYANT AREA DIRECTORS Karen Carley, Bryant '68, Assistant William R. Bryan, Director of Coun­ Professor for Secretarial and Office seling for Bryant College, has extend­ Education, can once again take ed an invitation to Directors of Coun­ credit for a successful three-week seling Services at nine colleges and program for medical secretaries in universities in Rhode Island to take cooperation with Woonsocket Hos­ part in a day-long Conference to dis­ pital. Initiated in 1975, the course cuss some of the programs and mu­ taught by Mrs. Carley provides an tual problems affecting college coun­ introduction to medical assisting seling services. procedures through an internship at Mary Jane Pelkey The Conference will take place at the hospital. Bryant College on Friday, February 13 Some of the techniques include from 8:30 to 4:00 p.m. According to instrument naming and care, sterili­ DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN Bill Bryan, this Conference is a "first" zation, patient preparation, supply in Rhode Island. A wide range of inventory and forms, diagnostic lab­ ADDRESSES topics will be discussed. oratory and X-ray procedures, medi­ SECRETARIES Some of the topics include: What cal records, as well as other clinical Mary Jane Pelkey, Chairman of Differentiates Counseling and Ther­ duties. Secretarial and Office Education, apy?; The Legal and Ethical Limits of spoke before the National Secre­ Services Rendered; The Relationship taries Association, Pawtucket Chap­ Between Counseling and Other Stu­ ter recently. Her topic: "An Academic dent Services. Assessment and Evaluation of the Universities and Colleges invited Certified Professional Secretary". to attend include: Brown University, Miss Pelkey discussed the back­ Barrington College, Johnson and ground of the CPS rating, its invalu­ Wales, Providence College, Rhode able merits to the secretary and its Island College, Roger Williams Col­ place in the Bryant program. Bryant lege, Rhode Island School of Design, is now approved as an examination and the University of Rhode Island. center by members of the Institute for Certifying Secretaries to admini­ ster the CPS examination. A proud ach ievement! BRYANT VICE PRESIDENT TO ADDRESS BRYANT FACULTY CHURCH LEADERS REPRESENT COLLEGE Karen Carley Dr. Lowell Smith, Vice President for OUT OF STATE Academic Affairs, Bryant College, Dr. Virginia Floyd, Assistant Profes­ has been invited to address In allowing students to take part in sor of English, spoke as a panelist at members of the North Providence actual on-the-job training at Woon­ the 1975 Convention of the Modern Deanery at their monthly meeting on socket Hospital, Bryant College is Language Association of America February 10th. Dr. Sm ith will speak to providing background for better job which met in San Francisco Decem­ the group about fiscal administration opportunities. According to Mrs. ber 27 and 28. Dr. Floyd, an expert on during troubled economic times. His Carley, this was the case with the the subject of Eugene O'Neill plays, address is entitled, "The Price Is first such class last year. Karen en­ was a member of the central group Wrong". The meeting will be held at visions an expansion of this program which lead discussion on the sub­ Bryant College with the College to other interested hospitals in the ject: "The Enduring O'Neill: Which chaplain, Rev. Donat A. Barrette, act­ state. Plays Will Survive?" ing as host. 2 New Faces in Public Affairs The following appointments were announced by Gertrude Meth Hochberg, Vice President for Public Affairs. ALUMNI DEVELOP· DIRECTOR OF MENT DIRECTOR PUBLICATIONS AND Fraser A. Lang of Providence has ADVERTISING NAMED been named Director of Alumni Rela­ Lawrence A. Clancy of Riverside has tions and Development at Bryant Col­ been named Director of Publications lege. and Advertising for Bryant College. Mr. Lang comes to. Bryant from Mr. Clancy, a native of Rhode Brown University where he was Island, recently returned from Califor­ Assistant Director of Development. nia where he was a special editor for Previous to that, Mr. Lang was Asso­ Sunset Books. While there, he trav­ ciate Director of the Education Fund­ eled extensively throughout South­ ing Research Council for Public east Asia and the Orient as a re­ Affairs Consultants of America in search writer and photographer. His Washington, DC. From 1970 to 1972 previous experience was in the he served as Domestic Coordinator health field as a consultant in public for the Peace Corps School Partner­ relations, and as the Creative Direc­ ship Program ACTION in Los Ange­ ALUMNI·DEVELOPMENT tor of a local advertising agency in les and Washington, and taught at DUTIES FOR BRYANT Rhode Island. This past summer, Mr. the Universities of Isfahan and Teh­ Clancy won the Pacific Area Travel ran. Fraser Lang was also Director of ADMINISTRATOR Association Media Award for the the Iran American Society of Isfahan. Shirley C. Barden, Assistant Develop­ Sunset publication, Travel Guide to A graduate of Brown University, ment Director at Bryant since 1974, Southeast Asia. Mr. Lang received his M.A. from Rut­ has been named Assistant Director A journalism graduate of Suffolk gers University under a fellowship at of Alumni Relations and Develop­ University, Boston, Mr. Clancy has the Eagleton Institute of Politics. He ment. also completed special courses in art is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the Mrs. Barden will assist the newly­ and photography. At Bryant, Mr. National Political Science Honor appointed Director of Alumni Rela­ Clancy will be creating and super­ Society. tions and Development, Fraser A. vising College publications. He will Lang, and will have responsibility for also act as the coordinator for all ad­ cooperating with the alumni and the vertising, and has been named the Bryant community in major fund­ official photographer for the College. raising programs for the College. He is married to the former Wendy Prior to her position at Bryant, Mrs. Bates of San Francisco. Barden was Executive Director of the Rhode Island Society for the Preven­ tion of Blindness. Her previous ex­ perience includes an associate direc­ torship with Will, Folsom & Smith, Inc. of New York, counsel for capital fundraising programs for hospitals and health centers. She was also executive secretary to Chief of Staff, Sven M. Gundersen, M.D., of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Cen­ Fraser Lang is married to the for­ ter, Hanover, New Hampshire. mer Betty Randolph Rawls of Virginia Mrs. Barden resides in Warwick. Beach, Virginia. They reside in Provi­ She is the mother of a son and dence. daughter, both married. 3 DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC the addition of a management pro­ gram at Rhode Island College. It's our INFORMATION - opinion that, fortunately, enough stu­ COLLEGE NEWS BUREAU dents will focus on high quality pro­ grams which are Bryant's hallmark.