Wright State University CORE Scholar The Wright Stater Alumni Relations 5-1-1981 The Wright Stater, May/June 1981 Wright State University Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/wright_stater Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University (1981). The Wright Stater, May/June 1981. This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Alumni Relations at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Wright Stater by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. lhe· MayI June 1981 Vol. XIII, No. 3 Fusion: the new..,_ ·_ atomic technology · ·::' ·In this issue: Pioneers give hope to paralyzed WRIGHr SIATE Twain transformation Wright State UniverSity in Oajton, Ohio 45435 Polesitter housed archives ~· . Wright State review Contents Acres for Benson nets Wright State review 2 research All-American Fusion: the new atomic technology 4 Wright tat Univ r ity b k tball Pioneers give new hope forward Rodn y B n on w named a to paralyzed 6 fir t t am all-Ameri a I ti n. Twain transformation 8 B n on broke a Wright Stat record for Hospice-an alternative 9 mo t point during thi year' Alumnotes 10 basketbal I season. Polesitter' s fifty-foot feat 12 " Rodney was a great team player in his two years with us," commented Raider A bill was introduced in the Ohio coach Ralph Underhill. " He is very legislature to authorize transferring a deserving of his all-America selection. 670-acre state farm tract in Kettering to I've seen plenty of Division II all­ Editor: Linda Smith the four institutions, incorporated as the Americans, and he is one of the best." Associate editor: Harry Battson Miami Valley Research In titute, for Two are first Staff writers: John Alexander, Rhonda He finished his career by scoring in development as a research park. figures 42 straight times and Peoples, Carol Siyahi Philip and Paul McNiel were named double The park wi 11 attempt to attract research breaking six season records. Design: Emily Krehbiel the first recipients of the Wright State divisions of major corpora~ions, using Photography: Harry Heaton University Gray Memorial Scholarship Dayton's established reputation as a Illustration: James Harlan, Cynthia at a recent meeting of the Dayton scientific center and the cooperation of Poe, Emily Krehbiel, Cheryl Stauffer Chapter of the Financial Executives the educational institution . Institute (FEI). The WrightStater is mailed free of The twin brothers, juniors majoring in finance and accounting at Wright State, charge to alumni, parents, faculty, staff, will receive scholarship award equal and friends of Wright State University. to one quarter's fees for the 1980-81 Free campus distribution makes copies academic year. The students were avai I able to students. presented with medallion noting their © 1981 by The WrightStater. All rights achievement. reserved. No part of this publication The Gray Memorial Scholarship was may be reproduced without proper established la t year to pay tribute to attribution. Rust and Cheri Gray, who died in an The WrightStater (USPS 437-730) is automobile accident in May, 1980. published six times a year, Rust Gray served at Wright State since January/February, March/Apri I, 1969, and was acting controller of the May/June, July/August, university and president of the Dayton September/October, and FEI at the time of his death. Mullins November/December. Published by Wright State University, .Dayton, Ohio 45435, Office of University Future Communications, Larry Kinneer, VII Mullins director. Second class postage paid at scientists Dayton, Ohio. engineers recognized prize POSTMASTER: Send address changes Eighty-three area junior and senior high to The WrightStater, Office of Alumni school students received superior Wright State senior William Mullins Affairs, Dayton, Ohio 45435. ratings for their science projects at the won a nationaL prize for an engineering annual West District Science Day held paper from the Metallurgical Society recently at Wright State University. of the American Institute of Mining, Sponsored by the Ohio Junior Academy LE CHAJUOT Metallurgical, and Petroleum of Science and hosted by Wright State, Engineers, Inc. the event included 300 science exhibits Mullins entered the paper, "Vibration from schools in Champaign, Clark, Deck study Analysis of Weathered Glass/Epoxy Darke, Fayette, Greene, Miami, Composites," in the TMS-AIME contest Montgomery, and Shelby counties. _ "The Devil's Picture Book: A History of and it was selected best among Exhibit topics included volcanoes, solar the Ta rot Deck" w as the title of a undergraduate engineering students in energy, plant I ife, hea lth, and Liberal Arts lecture given recently by North America. physiology. The exhibits were judged honors student Eileen Ribbler. Mullins will be graduated in June from professional by science teachers and Ribbler designed her own major in Wright State University with a degree in scientists and engineers. Awards were WRIGHT Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Materials Engineering. presented to students who had order to study the historical outs ta nd i ng projects. STATE development of tarot cards, a deck of Wright State University 22 cards popularly known for its use in Dayton, Ohio 45435 fortune-tel Ii ng. 2 D WSU involved in water studies Th und r round w V II yr id nt u b ing studied in as ri of pollution experiments by re ar hers from the Wright State University College of Faculty, staff Science and Engineering. The goal of the study is to test for specific pollutants in the underground donate for water supply, or aquifer, which upplies approximately 98 percent of scholars the Miami Va lley with drinking water, and then develop management The fourth annual Campus Scholarship strategies for the 5 7 " problem" ol id Campaign is underway with a goal of waste disposal sites in the area. raising $55,000 for scholarships for Dr. Ronald Schmidt, chairman of continuing Wright State students. Last Geological Sciences and professor of year over $53,000 was contributed by Environmental Studies and Geological the faculty, staff, and student, aiding Sciences, is directing the project. more than 140 scholars. Schmidt's research team plan to All the money collected goes for produce a report for the Miami Valley Melko, left, an d Cargan discuss their appearance in People magazine. scholarships. Donations can be Regional Planning Commission, w hich 11 earmarked for a particular school or will be responsible for management college within the University.' Gifts are strategie to protect drinking water People" highlights research al o tax deductible. For more supplie . The Wright State research information, conta t the WSU team is working lo ly with th on singles and marrieds Foundation and Development office, re ently-formed Miami Valley 873-2251. Groundwater Quality Conference. by Harry Battson People, the Time, Inc. magazine that dotes on the famous and nearly o, may never gain a big following in academic circles, but research performed by two Pitt appointed Task Force Wright State University sociologists made it March 23, 1981 i ue. " This is not no rmally the kind of thing we go for in the worl d of a ademia," Gavin A. Pitt has been appointed plans future admitted Dr. Leonard Cargan, associate professor of Sociology, who, with associate director of the Wright State Dr. Matthew Melko, professor of Sociology and hairman of the Department oi University Foundation and A Wright State Ta k Force, a igned to Sociology and Anthropology, researched life tyle differences between ingl / Development Office. develop a Univer ity Mission Statement and marrieds. He will be responsible for developing and Comprehensive Plan for the future, Cargan, a 51-year-old bachelor, and Melko, a 25-year married, teamed efforts for fund-raising programs for the Office of conducted a special two-day se ion in a survey of Dayton, Ohio residents that indicated many stereotyped image of Health Affairs, including the School of the Kettering Center. married and single I ifestyles are false. Sexual attitudes, happiness, and i line s were Medicine, the School of Nursing, the The task force has undertaken the most a few of the issues explored in the survey, which included never married, School of Professional Psychology, and ambitious planning project in Wright divorced, remarried, and married persons. the Allied Health Professions Program. State hi story, attempting to construct a Last July, he received a message from People stating their interest. " I think People comprehensive blueprint for Wright was interested becau e they saw two profs, one single and one married, doing a State's future development against comparative study of singles and marrieds," Melko said. " They figured we must which programs will be considered be insane." and funded. Far from it, the civil status of the two professor added a needed balance to their The 159 goal statements presented at survey, since each could eliminate any bias in the survey. · the meeting are undergoing computer People sent a stringer from the Cincinnati Enquirer and a photographer to Wright analysis and ranking, according to their State to write the story. " The photographer took beaucoup pi cture ," Melko priorities. noted, " many more than they would ever need. " Later, he returned to take more ph otos. " He took pictures everywhere you can think of-at home, in the office, at a church group sessi on. I'd never see n .;; uch an operation." Event The two then spent four months wai ting to see the resu lts. Orig inally to ld the article would appear around Th anksgiving, it finally surfaced March 23. canceled The two hope the attention from People and el sewhere will help market their book, Singles: Myths and Realities, based on the Dayton re search.