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"\ 'JO\.· "\1, CR "\97\l, �\N1'" ' � . _, .RECEIVED] MAR 1 5 1978 _) SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WDR� DEAN'S OFFICE BANKING CHAIR RUNYAN PRAISED RESEARCH GRANTS HONORS BUTCHER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE TOP $16 MILLION The United American Bank has given UT Dr. john William Runyan, Jr., chairman of Research grants and contracts awarded to $500,000 to support a chair of banking in the the Department of Community Medicine and UT Knoxville totaled more than $16 million in UT Knoxville College of Business Admin­ director of the Division of Health Care Sci­ the year ending September 30, 1977, reports istration. ences in the UT College of Medicine, has won UTK Dean for Research Carl Thomas. The contribution is the single largest cor­ a 1977 Rockefeller Public Service Award. The total was $767,021 higher than the porate gift in the University's history. The His award is in the area of promotion of amount received in the preceding October chair will be named in honor of C. H. Butcher, health, improved delivery of health services, through September, which corresponds to Sr., a director of UA B and president of the and control of health costs. the federal government's fiscal year. City and County Bank of Union County. The awards are sponsored by John D. The figure is well above the national aver­ Butcher's son, Jake, who is chairman and Rockefeller, Ill, and are administered by the age for universities and "is a tribute to the chief executive officer of UAB, is a former stu­ Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Inter­ quality of the UTK faculty," said Dr. Thomas. dent of banking and finance in the UTK Col­ national Affairs at Princeton University. Dr. The average size of research grants, lege of Business Administration. UAB has Runyan received the award in ceremonies at which come from business and industry, operations in Knoxville, Nashville, and Washington, D.C., on December 8. agencies of federal and state governments, Memphis. Dr. Runyan was honored for the devel­ and foundations, is about $30,000. Some The gift is part of the University's $35 mil­ opment and expansion of a low-cost health eighty percent of the total is from federal lion Tennessee Tomorrow private gifts cam­ care delivery system which uses non­ agencies. paign. Area cochairmen have been appoint­ physician health care professionals to care for Research grants and contracts provide the ed for the campaign: Knoxville, Robert A. a significant portion of the Memphis popula­ largest source of support for graduate stu­ Culver and James A. Haslam; Chattanooga, tion. The program is jointly operated by the dents at the Knoxville campus. About 400 Scott L. Probasco, Jr., and Hugh 0. Maclellan, Memphis and Shelby County Health De­ graduate students received stipends from re­ Sr.; Memphis, Dr. Bland W. Cannon and partments. search projects last year, Dr. Thomas said. Frank M. Norfleet; Martin, King W. Rogers, A grant of $840,000 in 1974 from the Jr., james M. Glasgow, and Ray Smith; and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation enabled Nashville, Robert M. Condra. Dr. Runyan to expand his low-cost clinics. The awards citation described Dr. Run­ yan's achievement as "the culmination of a professional lifetime of leadership and dedi­ cation." WINS ROCKEFELLER AWARD-Or. John William Runyan, Jr., of UTCHS has won a na­ tional Rockefeller Public Service Award for developing a low-cost health care program. STUDENTS WORK WITH ASSEMBLY Six UT students are working with mem­ bers of the General Assembly in Nashville as legislative interns sponsored by the UT Na­ RECORD CORPORATE GIFT-Shown at the tional Alumni Association. recent press conference announcing the Interns receiving the $1,000 NAA sti­ largest single corporate gift to UT -$500,000 pends are: Lee Abernathy of Memphis, a from the United American Bank-are UT and junior in political science at UT Martin; bank officials C. H. Butcher, jr., youngest Steven A. Goodman of Athens and Teresa A. member of the banking family; UTK Chan­ Leadford of Nashville, both junior journa­ cellor jack Reese; jake Butcher, UAB chair­ lism majors at UT Knoxville; julia A. McMinn man and chief executive officer; C. H. Butcher, Sr., a director of UAB; and UT Presi­ of Franklin, a graduate student in the School of Social Work in Nashville; john M. Stein, dent Edward J. Boling. Knoxville, a UTK senior in political science; and Gregg L. Sullivan of Oak Ridge, a politi­ cal science junior at UTK. STRICT LAWS Funding for the internships comes from STIFLE TRADE gifts of UT alumni and other friends to the UTC, UTM Computers � University's annual giving program. Strict occupational licensing laws restrict Win Top Award the availability of labor services to consum­ ilflli ers and therefore lower overall quality of ser­ The academic computing programs of the A TENNESSEE TOMORROW vice, a study by UT Knoxville economists UT campuses at Chattanooga and Martin �� RECEIVES GIFT shows. have been selected as outstanding examples The Zeta Chi chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi at Drs. Sidney Carroll and Robert Gaston say of the use of computers for teaching and UT Martin has donated $400 to the Univer­ the level of competence of licensed practi­ learning. sity's Tennessee Tomorrowfund-raising cam­ tioners is irrelevant if consumers cannot find The selections were made as part of a re­ paign. or afford someone to perform needed serv­ search project sponsored by the National Sci­ The gift will be used to help upgrade the ices. ence Foundation and conducted by the Hu­ UTM School of Business Administration. "Our study is based on the assumption man Resources Research Organization. The Alpha Kappa Psi is a national professional See* page 2 See • page 2 business fraternity. .. _, * Continued from page 1 that if a service is not available, the quality can't be lower," they say. The National Sci­ ence Foundation funded the analysis of thirty-one licensed occupations in all fifty states. The researchers say services in states with strict licensing regulations may be good, but the laws often produce a "Cadillac ef­ fect"-limited, high-quality services avail­ able only only to high-income consumers. • Continued from page 1 UTC and UTM programs were designated "exemplars" which will serve as resources to institutions seeking guidance on academic computing. Some 7,000 institutions were surveyed and 106 exemplars were selected. A Administrative � ... Changes CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL- The sixth annual Madrigal Christmas Dinner, held in December at UT Martin, featured the colorful costumes and music of the Collegium Musicum. The event is spon­ sored by the UTM Department of Music and the University Center. Among recent administrative changes are the following: Knoxville and the master's degree in person­ nel management from Memphis State Uni­ Hesler Memorialized SYSTEM versity. She taught at Middle Tennessee State Former students and friends of Dr. L. R. University before joining the UTN staff last Hesler, dean of the UT Knoxville College of Moneymaker Heads Motor Pool june. Liberal Arts from 1934 to 1958 who died No­ Michael Moneymaker, formerly with vember 20, may make contributions for li­ Colonial Refrigerated Transporation in Knox­ MARTIN brary books in his memory. ville, has been appointed director of Contributions should be made payable to transportation services. He will superviseper­ Neilson Heads Recreat,onal Sports the University of Tennessee, earmarked for sonnel and the operation and maintenance of Robert Neilson, formerly of the Austin the Hesler MemorialFund, and sent to the UT UT's fleet vehicles. John Rutledge, who Peay State University staff, has been named Knoxville Development Office, 414 Student served for a short time as director, requested director of recreational sports at UT Martin. Services Building, Knoxville, Tennessee to return to his previous position as assistant He is responsible for organizing, scheduling, 37916. director because of health reasons. and superv1smg competitive intramural Moneymaker is a 1971 graduate of the UT sports and scheduling leisure-time activities Knoxville College of Business Administration in the new physical education complex and with a major in transportation. other campus recreational areas. Neilson holds bachelor's and master's degrees from UTCHS Austin Peay and is working toward a doctor­ DAM SAFETY ate at Middle Tennessee State University. IN DOUBT �� Linton Heads Department Dr. Eugene Bell Linton, formerly on the faculty of Bowman Gray School of Medicine Dam failures like the one in Toccoa Falls, at Wake Forest University, has joined the UT Georgia, will continue to claim lives until a Center for the Health Sciences Knoxville Unit nationwide dam safety and inspection pro­ as professor and chairman of the De­ gram is completed, aUT engineer and White partment of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. House consultant says. Linton holds the bachelor's degree from Dr. Bruce Tschantz, the only nonfederal Davidson College and the M.D. degree from engineer working on President Carter's dam the Medical College of Virginia. safety program, said little has been done since Congress passed a dam safety bill in 1972 to Judkins in Development Post protect lives and property.