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Cover Note: Cherished mementos of an AU romance introduce our cover story. See page 3.

Love, American University

Vol. 37 No.2

Style ........ ............ . ... .. .. . .. . .. . .... 3 Travel down memory lane with AU alumni who met here and married.

Tailoring Education to Corporate Needs ....... . .................. ........... 8 Programs for adult learners expand to address growing market.

Celebrating Scholarship: AU's Well-Published Faculty . ......... ... 11 A prolific faculty is honored for its many publications.

President's Message... . .... .... ..... . 2

Campus News ......................... 14 Clendenen comes down , Madame Sadat speaks at commencement, Co­op ed forms centerpiece of national advertising campaign, law student wins commendation, Harold Durfee is teacher/scholar of the year, and Helen Kettler receives President's Award.

Students ................ . . . ......... . ... . . 17 American students travel to Russia, a special performance in the dorm, student leaders Glenn Buggv, Denise DiStefano, David Aldridge, and Donna Murphy are profiled .

Alumni .......... .... ...... . . . .. .. ..... .. . 22 News-AU is on the road, alumni gather in New York and D.C. , Robert Beckman and Jane Good teach at the naval academy and Rosemary Trump works for service employees union. Class Notes.

Sports ......... . .. . ... .... . ....... . ... .... . 30 Women's basketball team has a great year; the men are disappointed. More honors for the soccer team.

Letters ........ . . . ......... . .............. . 32

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President's Message

As we scan the sky this year for our periodic visitor, Halley's comet, we're reminded of the wonderful-and sometimes fear­

some-cycles of nature and the inexorable sweep of time.

This visitor from space has enthralled us throughout all of history. But this time, for the first time, humankind will have a special oppor­tunity. We will send probes from our planet; we will photograph the comet up close; we even will

fly through it. And what will we find? We'll find debris from the formation of our solar system. In the early

days of the solar system, the earth was impacted so much by comets that half or more of all the water on this planet may have come from comets.

Consider that all of us are basically composed of water. So 40 percent or more of our very bodies may have come from the comets. When we study Halley's comet, we're not so much seeing a visitor from the past as we're seeing our own ancestry. It may be that a part of our yearning to look out and study these objects is a quest to know ourselves.

In 1910, when the comet last came our way, the world was a simpler place, The American University was still a dream, a plan in the process of becoming. Today, the university is an exciting reality, yet it still is in the process of becoming.

This year is special for us at The American University. Several years ago, students and faculty members, administrators, staff members, alumni, and trustees worked together to develop a plan, chart a course, fix a destiny for our university.

We're proud of the achievements of AUSS, but these are not so much the end as they are the beginning. They are prologue, prologue to our centennial in 1993 and then to the next century and beyond. Even now, we are developing AU100, a plan for the university through its centennial year. Think for a moment about the future planners-looking at AU in 2060, when Halley's comet returns.

Where will we be then? If you are of my generation, we can hope to have left the world a better place. There is much in nature beyond our control, but there is much we can do to influence the world of 2060. We can educate leaders for the coming century. We can make sure the world is in the hands of rational, reasonable men and women, who will take on the legacy of civilization and preserve and advance it.

I twas the winter of 1939. A handsome young ma11, injured in a football game and confined to the infir­mary, persuaded a lovely young woman from one of his classes to bring over his assignment. When she

arrived, he admitted it was just an excuse to see her.

This may sound like a Ha rlequ in romance, but it is one of the very real ways romance blossoms at AU. T hroughout the years, students have met, courted, and fa llen in love on the AU campus. Here are some of their stories .

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Beatrice Wyman, BA'41, was the young woman called to the infirmary. She vividly remembers that day and her first "date" with john Trowbridge: "He was lying flat on his back, and he laughed when I realized he didn't care about the class assignment at all. It was a ruse to see me." And it worked; they married in January 1942.

Beatrice says AU had "an intimate campus in those days, and we had a lot of fun. We all knew each other, ate to­gether, had classes together. It was like a big family." john studied political sci­ence but was drafted before graduation.

John's college roommate, Charles Corddry, BA'41, also met his wife ~!ar­ion, BA'43, at AU. It was the fall of 1939 when Charles was editor of the Eagle and Marion Mattes was a staff writer.

"We worked together on stories and were involved in campus politics. He became student body president, and I became Eagle editor," Marion remi ­nisces. "It was a great time to be in Washington and at AU-there was so much going on. They were very happy vears for us. The entire student bodv knew each other, and the faculty kne~ us all bv name. When the war came, the school 'was even smaller, and when I graduated in '43, AU was almost a girls school."

~larried in July 1943, the Cord drys didn't sever their connection to AU then. Marion worked for AU publications and received her master's in public relations in 1981. Charles, long-time correspon­dent for UPI and now with the Baltimore Sun and "Washington Week in Re­view," received the Distinguished Alumni Recognition Award in 1980.

e first caught her eye in Sep­tember 1934. He m•as presi­dent of the Studmt Christian Association and was pa11 of

the group wekomingfreshmen. She m•as smit­ten and changed classes to be near him. It took more than a year, but she final~)' got a date with him and eventually became his bride.

Lucille Maris Wheatley, BA'38, read­ily admits that she was interested in her husband l\1elvin, BA'36, before they were actually introduced. She liked him and, although it was a long time before they started dating, she didn't give up. They married in june 1939 after he fin­ished seminary. They spent thirty-one years serving churches in California. He became a Methodist bishop in July 1972, and they moved to Denver for twelve years. Retired now and living in Cali-

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fornia, Lucille says they feel a strong sense of pride in having gone to Al".

The year 1934 was a good one for AU couples. Alice Thompson, BA'36, and Wade Hansborough, BA'36, met at a formal reception for new students that September. Alice remembers having a lot of fun as well as working hard at school. She particularly remembers the time she got a black eye in a field hockey game but insisted on going to a dance with Wade that night. He must have been impressed by her tenacity; they married in September 1937.

Mary Lesta Wakeman, BA'36, and jo­seph Carlo, BA'38, also met on campus in 1934. Mary recalls that they met near Hurst Hall and had their first date after a boxing match, where he was both coach and heavyweight contender. An exceptional athlete throughout college, Joe was captain of the football team, manager of the basketball team, and a member of the track team.

They married at the Metropolitan l\1ethodist Church across from campus in 1939 and now have four children and seven grand­children. The Carlos have remained closelv linked to AU. joe received the All H~ll of Fame Award and the Cassell Award for his sports activities, as well as the Distinguished Alumni Recogni­tion Award in 1969. He is now a member of the Board of Trustees and 1\lary is on the steering committee of her class, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year.

e m•as a speaker at f reshman orientation m·he11 she tratls­f erred to the school. She m·as impressed the moment she sam'

him. Immediately, she thought to herself, '~\'0'"«>'

here's someone I'd like to get to know."

That's how Jane Rice , BA'30, re­members meeting her husband Roland, BA'29, in the fall of 1927. They began dating then and were married in 1932. They have three children and five grandchildren. Roland became a prom­inent attorney and is a trustee emeritus of A . Jane reflects fondly upon their years together at AU.

~!arrha Skidmore, BA'34, and Daniel Terrell, BA'32, also met at orientation. He likes to say that she picked him up

Mary a11d Joe Carlo 11ext to H spri11g 1936.

on the steps of l\lary Graydon, but she explains the circumstances this way.

"Thev called this part of orientation a warm-up session," she says. "He was a cheerleader for it, and when r passed him on the steps afterwards, he looked a bit sweaty. [ said , 'You are warmed up, aren't you?' He laughed and asked me out on a date."

Daniel reminds her that he also made

It flail in

dates with two of her friends, but "they weren't as charming as ~[arrha, so I kept on seeing her and not them. Besides," he teases, "she was a 'town' girl with a car."

Thev married in October 1935. Dan­iel did public relations work for the uni­versity in 19-J.O, received the Distin­guished Alumni Recognition Award in 1956, and served as an AU trustee from 1957 to 1969.

he)• lli'OJlted to get married, but th~ir parents said not until he finds a good job. He found o11e, but it meant missi11g his

gmduatio11. He hod to choose bef"uJ'een miss-

AC in those days. The faculty were our friends as well as our teachers."

Hamilton's mother was disappointed he missed his graduation to work at his new job with the Civil Service Com­mission, says Frances. They married in August 1941.

Frances remembers how much they enjoyed their years at AC. "He was on the basketball team, so I went to all the games," she says. "I took some of the classes that he wanted, then he took some that I wanted. It gave us more time together, which was especiallv impor­tant since he was sent to the South Pa­cific a few months after we were mar­ried. He was away for three years. It was so nice to have been together all through

(jewehr, . d JlallliJtollJ .,. senior yea'·

all ~ t tel f'rallces 9-lO. beJore

Joe and Susmme Lustig, spring 1982 graduation.

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ing gmd11atio11 and getti11g married.

Frances Cruikshank, BA'.fl, met Hamilton Gewehr, BA'.fl, when they were students at \\'ashington's \\'estern High School, but they didn' t start datin.g until 1937 ,,·hen thev both attended Al. I lamilton;s father ,,.;sa professor in the historv department. Frances recalls the "frien.dly, farnilv-type em·ironment at

college." Frances worked at the Librarv of Con­

gress' music di,·ision for twenty-three vears; Hamilton ,,·orked at the Library of Congress as well for nine years but joined the Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill and stayed until retire­ment. The couple has two sons, three granddaughters, and twin grandchildren on the way.

f he hod11 't gotten lost while sailing, they might 1wuer hove met. He saw her for the first time when-lost again-he

stopped her to as/: for dirertio11s. That same eDeningthe)' met at a mixer, lli'eJlton to many and today they mingle ffi•ith celebrities.

Brenda Fritz, BA'62, admits it was a fluke that her husband Ken, BA'62, ended up at AU. He got lost on a sum­mer sailing trip and returned too late to get to his intended college. So, in Sep­tember 1958, he came to AU, got lost on his way to registration , and asked Brenda for directions. They met again that evening, and the rest, she says, is historv.

Brenda notes that they were both in-

volved in campus acti\'ities and studies, so thev had little time together during the week. But she is grateful that "A gave us a common ground, something we could share." They were married in August 1963; she was a teacher and he was an independent concert promoter. Now living in California with their two daughters, he's a manager of perform­ers, and she is a fundraiser. Frequent

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travels take them far afield, from Brazil to Japan. crhey lived across the hall from

each other. With little else in common, they became friends slowly, eventually becoming

best friends. Then suddenly, after two years of friendship, they started dating and fell in love.

When Linda Levin, BA'80, met Rich­ard Hyson, BA'80, she never imagined

Bea and John Trowbridge and Marion and Charles Corddry at a recent get-together.

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they'd be more than friends. "We were rwo very different people ," she ex­plains. "If we hadn't been in the dorm [Hughes], we probably wouldn't have become friends, and if we hadn 't be­come friends, we wouldn't have gotten to know each other."

After graduation, they moved to Col­orado for five years. They married last September and now live in Charlottes­ville, where Richard is studying at the University of Virginia Medical School.

Hughes Hall was also the meeting place for Bill , BS'68, and Renay Re­gardie, BS'64, founders of the well­known magazine bearing their name. Introduced by a mutual friend on Hughes' main floor, the Regardies mar­ried in 1966. " We were good stimuli for one another," Renay says, adding she is glad they met at AU at that early stage in their lives.

Like the Regardies , George, BS'59, and Karen Diamond , BA'61, mer in Hughes Hall. They remember Novem­ber 1959 as the time when men were first allowed upstairs at Hughes. Mar­ried a year later, right before her senior year, Karen remembers "being very nauseous at graduation." And no won­der-she was expecting their first child.

was a teaching assistant jOT-an AU photography lab, and he was a student hz the lab. He was very outspoken; in fact, I

thought he was a real creep. "This guy thinks he knows everything, " I said. I was deter­mined to show him that he didn't.

That's how Jean Crawford, BA'73, describes her first impressions of her husband Mark, BA'73. "He likes to tell people we met in a darkroom," says Jean.

After more classes together, Jean's at­titude changed. They began studying with each other, and one thing led to another. They were married in New York on Groundhog Day in 1974. Today, Mark is a senior writer for Science magazine in Washington, and Jean is a researcher at Time/Life Books and is working on a series of books about parenting. The Crawfords have a 21/z-year-old daughter.

A good friend of Mark Crawford, Jim Dawson, BA'73/MA'78, met his wife, Susan Perry, BA'73, in a magazine writ­ing class after they both transferred to AU. They dated throughout college and got married in Washington in 1977, when he returned for his master's degree.

"Since we were transfer students and working our way through school, neither one of us lived on campus," says Susan. "So it was especially nice to have each other."

Jim is a reporter for the Minneapolis Star & Tribune, and Susan is a freelance writer. They have two children.

Law school brought Joe, JD'82, and Susanne Lustig, JD'82, together in Feb­ruary 1981. They started dating during finals and became engaged during finals the following year. "I guess we found something romantic about finals," Sus­anne laughs. They didn't take many classes together, she recalls, but they

studied together and worked closely in the law clinic. They married in April 1983 and have a one-year-old son.

"We're glad we met at school; it gave us more time to get to know each other," Susanne says. "Now, Joe commutes to the city, and I stay home with the baby. We don't spend nearly as much time together. We miss the time at AU."

Nancy Reuben, BA'83, and Richard Greenfield, a KCBA graduate student then, met at Hillel (a professionally-run, Jewish student organization) in March 1983 when she tried to fix him up with someone else. Two months later, he asked Nancy out and they had their first date the night of her last AU class. They've been together ever since. He proposed in the French Alps, and they'll be married in the Kay Chapel this Sep­tember.

hey were together all the time, only they didn't know it. They parked their cars in the same parking lot and taught on the

same campus for years. But they had never been introduced; they had never even seen each other before.

Meeting and falling in love at AU isn't reserved for students, by any means. Annabelle Motz, professor of sociology, and Joseph Blum, professor of math and computer science, were finally intro­duced at Hillel during the winter of 1983. They actually started going together after a faculty colloquium on orientalism the following May, and married a year later.

They agree that AU is a common ground for "very different types of peo­ple," Motz says. "Joe is a computer type, and I'm a sociologist. Once we actually met, we began learning about each oth­er's interests. He's learning about so­ciology, and I'm learning his hobbies, like skiing and tennis."

It isn't at all surprising that these cou­ples have a lasting affection for AU. But their feelings go deeper than that. Like many others, they found AU was a place to grow, learn, and discover a career di­rection. By also finding each other, they formed a special foundation for the lives they now lead .

The times may change and the cam­pus may grow, but one thing will always remain the same: People meet-In dorms, in classes, at parties, on the Quad. Many will fall in love and get married. And some of them will live happily ever after. Now that' s love, American style.

Jill Bernstein and Betty Lynn Sprinkle

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Since so many couples met at AL', it's impossible to include everyone. Below is a list of those not mentioned in the story that we spoke to, or were told about, while preparing this story. If you and your spouse met at AU, and you're not listed, we'd like to hear from you.

Dorothv Genth, BA'31, and Richard Jarvis. Bt\'31 Helen Hope, BA'31. and George Sixbv, BA'30 Mary Livingston, BA'31, and Calvin Brown, Bt\'31 Lois Spencer, BA'33, and Warren Colison, BA'31 Meta Dean Scantlin, Bi\'35, and Kenneth Hoover, BA'35 Elizabeth Wilkins, BA'36, and \\'alter Dick, BA'38 Bettv Ann Pearce, BA'37, and \\'illiam Leith, BA'37 l\lartha "Peggy" Walker, BA'37, and Frank Iloadley, BA'36 Marjorie Davis, BA'37, and Samuel l\laize, BA'39 Lansing Hall, BA'37, and Roger Washburn, BA'36 Ruth Ward, BA'37, and Sherman Lee, BA'38 Helen Cowles, Bi\'38, and William Thompson, BA'38 Elizabeth Craig, BA'38, and Leonard Harris, BA'38 l\lary Elizabeth Morse, BA'39, and George Brown, BA'40 Carol Sorenson, BA'39, and \\'alter Bastian. BA'39 Doris Miller, BA'40, and Robert Hall, BA'40 l\lartha Jane Esterline, BA'41, and Bruce Etchison, BA'41 Francis Hill, BA'41, and Addison Clay, Bt\'41 L. Virginia Hozier, BA'41, and Gerald l\1acKeller, BA'40 Edith Mitchell, BA'41, and Ernest Webb, BA'41 Margaret Noel, BA'4l, and Howard Hudson, BA'39 Eloise Swick, BA'41, and Latimer Evans. BA'41 Helen Lundegaard, BA'42, and Phil Fellows, BA'42 Jane Mosburg, BA'53, and Edward Carlough, BA'SS Judith Carr. BA'62, and David Evans, BA'63 Jane Lewis, BA'64/l\1A'67/PhD'72, and David Ross, BA'611JD'64 Marjorie Round, BA'71, and David Leslie, BA'71 Marilyn l\feier, BA'72, and Thomas Shea hen, Jr., BS'72 Jane \Veitzman, BA'72, and Alan Lubs, BA'71 Linda Williams, BA'72, and Dan O'Connell, BA'72 Jacqueline Rood, BS'73, and !\lark Leopold, BA'72 Christine Halbig, BA'74, and Charles Dexter, BA'72 Meri Rogers, BA'75, and ,\lark l\lasin, BA'74 Amy Weissman, BA'75, and Calvin 1-lackeman, BSBA'75 Amy Friedman, BS'79/l\IA'81, and Clifford Feldman, BS'77 Mary Douglas, BSBA'80, and Brian Geary, BSBA'79 Carole Girod, BA'Sl , and Stuart ,\Iiller, BS'Sl Julie Markowitz, BSBA'82, and \lichael Mendler, BS'81 Mad c.:l yn l\loore, BA'82/l\IS'84, and joseph Dan ie ls, BA'82/l\IA'84 Susanne Klein, BA'83, and Sander Davidson, JD'83 Robvn Lefton, BA'83, and Randy Fisher, BA'83 Kimberly Rawicz, BA'83. and Jim Carroll, BA'83 Kathy Troy, BS'83, and Pat Santillo, BA'81 Rise Vilmes, BSBA'83, and Richard Guber, BSBA'83 Maria Solaun, BA'84, and Saied Nassir Daftari, BA'81/l\IA'85

Thomas Sheahen, BS' 72 , and Marilyn l\1eier, BA'72, were one of the more than 650 couples who have gotten married in Kay Spiritual Life Chapel in the past fifteen years. Then vice provost for student life Bruce Poynter performed the ceremony for them in June of 1972.

"People who get married in the chapel are usually interfaith cou-

pies," says Dick McCollough, direc­tor of Campus Ministries.

Any alumnus, student, faculty, or staff member may use the chapel for a wedding, says McCullough. The center provides some support ser­\' ices such as locating an organist and printing programs. To schedule a wedding in the chapel, call Campus Ministries, (202) 885-3320.

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puses.

tatistically, this may be so, even though the typical 18-to-21-year-old undergraduate will certainly continue to be highly visible at AU and other cam-

Adult learners- those 25 years of age and older- already make up 43 percent of AU's student body, says Robert Nor­ris, vice provost for university programs, who oversees the university's continu­ing education programs.

Nationwide, the College Board pro­jects that between 1972 and 1992 there will be a 20 percent decrease in credit enrollments of traditional-24-years-and­under-students and a 19 percent gain in the 25-years-and-over category. By 1990, about half the students at colleges and universities will be 21 years or older.

The decrease in traditional students is predicated on the sharp dip in the birth rate following the post-World War II baby boom. "The point of inflection is 1988," says Norris, "when we begin a more serious decline in the size of the

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-year-old essio I

ice memos din jeans and e v rage stud ?

18-year-old pool of potential freshmen." Meanwhile, over the past decade mid­

career professionals and other adults have increasingly sought more education to cope with changing technology, to begin second or third careers, to do better in their current jobs, or simply to enrich their lives.

AU is currently engaged in an inten­sive study of its programs for adult learn­ers, and some important new directions are emerging. "Our primary niche," says Norris, "will be in professional contin­uing education-professional programs at the graduate level.

"We'll focus our efforts," adds Nor­ris, "on quality programs that will reflect AU's academic strengths.

This fall, for example, the universi­ty's noncredit programs will concentrate on professional and liberal arts offerings. "These workshops and seminars," says Ellen Long, director of continuing ed­ucation and conferences, "often begin as campus offerings and then expand as contract programs offered off campus."

As part of its off-campus strategy, the university will expand its contract pro­grams, an innovative partnership with businesses, corporations, and gov­ernment agencies in the Washington, D. C., area, which is described in the accompanying article.

The continuing education and con­ferences office will continue to operate programs at select public community and corporate sites convenient for adult stu­dents. One such program is the Assess­ment of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) which enables adults to earn up to 30 undergraduate credits through careful documentation and faculty eval­uation of significant work and volunteer experience. APEL is held at several cor­porate sites, including GTE. That com­pany encourages its employees to enroll and welcomes other adult students in the Reston area.

Another growing program, the Insti­tute for Learning and Retirement (ILR) offers retired area residents a learning community in which to study a host of

subjects ranging from existentialism to the stock market. ILR members include several AU professors emeriti, retired government officials, artists, and other experts who lead studv groups.

AU's continuing education programs also include special institutes and con­ferences, many of which are funded by grants. These conferences range from two annual summer orientations for Ful­bright students and teachers to the Na­tional Institute on the Investigation of Money Laundering and Illicit Asset Conversion.

Traditionally, AU has allowed adults to enroll in regular credit courses as non­degree students "to test the waters" be­fore applying for acceptance into a de­gree program. Many adults take an occasional course to gain a career skill, establish credentials, or update their knowledge.

In addition, each semester some 140 AU graduates take advantage of their alumni benefit and audit classes for a nominal registration fee.

The university has recognized that adult students need special services. Steps have been taken, says Norris, from renovating classrooms to improving campus security to strengthening links for this group with the AU Career Cen­ter. Also being considered are an adult lounge and ways to offer child care fa­cilities and improve financial aid for adults.

One major service to adult learners is provided by the University Programs Advisement Center (UPAC). UPAC helps these students with registration and other academic procedures. In ad­dition, UPAC gives counseling and gen­eral moral support to the adult student, filling an "ombudsman" role, according to UPAC director Dorothy Bares.

UPAC also coordinates AU's market­ing efforts for part-time area students. "The D. C. area," says Norris, "is one of the hottest markers for adult educa­tion because the more education indi­viduals have the more likely they will continue schooling." Statistics show 80 percent of the area population finished high school, 50 percent had some col­lege, and 32 percent are college grad­uates, Norris explains.

The direct marketing effort has been honed to appeal to those interes~ed in professional, graduate level study. The effort is paying off with 14 percent of new inquiries being converted into en­rollments-almost three times higher than the results of previous campaigns.

t's new for universities to be reaching out to corporations and saving, '\Vhat do you need? What

can we provide for you? How can our strengths work to your advantage?'," savs Kathy 1\hnnes, AU's director of contract programs.

That's exactlv what AU has done, and a blue-chip bevy of corporations, such as Xerox, AT&T, Advanced Technol­ogy, IBM, NBC and Hazleton Labs, have responded.

Working closely with academic de­partments and the corporations them­selves, Mannes's office has developed credit and noncredit programs tailored to corporate needs. The offerings, taught at the corporate sites by All faculty, range from single workshops in stress man­agement or telecommunications to full graduate degree programs in business administration, immunology, and the technology of management. Over 80 noncredit, market-based workshops which highlight AU faculty expertise now sit "on the shelf," ready to be marketed by contract program representatives.

AU's partnership approach to contract programs is recognized as a model by other colleges and universities, Mannes notes. This approach ' ' is as innovative as any university's in the country in terms of quality, diversity, and the depth of the partnership," she says. "\:Ve're not just in and out of a company."

Program representatives do market research, make direct calls, and conduct surveys and orientations to help identify training priorities. Mannes recalls a typ­ical scene. She and representatives from AU's Center for Technology and Ad­ministra tion sat at a round table at Xe­rox's international training center, ask­ing each employee what he or she most needed to learn.

When the corporation's needs are clear, Mannes and her staff work with the ap­propriate academic department, which decides whether a contract program is feasible . After a satisfactory program is launched, a program representative con­tinues to act as a liaison between the client and the university. Continuing education staff maintain administrative support, making registration, book-buy­ing, and other processes easier for the students. Other campus offices and staffs

contribute by accommodating to the special needs of contract programs.

Successful programs bring requests for more, savs 1\fannes. A case in point is Xerox. Despite having its own extensive training operation, when Xerox wanted to train executives to manage the de­velopment of irs expanded office sys­tems effort, it turned to AU, which pre­viously had provided an on-site graduate certificate program and a writing work­shop.

AU gave the company what it needed, a program at Xerox's International Training and Development Center in Leesburg, Va. The three-month "As­tronaut School" was so named because it "launches" selected Xerox managers into a challenging curriculum focused on learning customers' information systems needs, the company's product capabil­ities, and the realities of the market­place.

"What makes it special to the cor­poration," says Nanette Levinson, an AU assistant professor of tech no logy and administration who teaches in the Xerox program, ''is that it is education and not a training program. \\'e bring them re­search-based knowledge. We have the leading-edge knowledge that a training department does not ha,·e."

Another highly successful effort is a management information systems pro­gram tailored to the needs of Advanced Technology, Inc., a dynamic growth company headquartered in RestOn, Va. Taught by AU faculty at two of the com­pany's Washington, D. C., area sites, the program won an award in 1985 for innovative program development from the National University Continuing Ed­ucation Association's Region II.

Advanced Technology professionals can complete the entire program for an M. S. in technology of management or complete the first 15 credit hours and receive a graduate certificate in man­agement information systems.

Like a number of AU's contract pro­grams, the Advanced Technology of­ferings not only help train and develop the company's staff but also serve as recruiting tools. "The immediate ob­jective of the program," says Advanced Technology group vice president Don Fitzpatrick, who helped organize the

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program, "is to attract bright, eager computer professionals to Advanced Technology. The long-range goal is the training of the technical and managerial leaders of tomorrow."

Since the courses are directly appli­cable to their work, program participants can begin to use their expanded knowl­edge immediately, adds Jerry Kinnane, who directs the training program for Ad­vanced Technology.

AU is able to use its strength in areas of the arts and sciences in two master's degree programs offered at Hazleton Labs. The programs in immunology and toxicology "meet our needs perfectly," says Hazleton liaison Valerie Howard. "We consider AU one of the best grad­uate schools around."

Many Hazleton employees are in technical areas and want an advanced degree, says Howard. They particularly appreciate having the courses offered at their workplace with tuition directly

handled by their employer, eliminating reimbursement red tape. As an added bonus, AC faculty, such as biology pro­fessor Stephen Grebe, have "gone the second mile in accommodating the needs of Hazleton students," says Howard.

Grebe is equally complimentary about Hazleton and its employees. ''I'm really impressed with the studems in both pro­grams. They work full time and have family responsibilities and yet they are very enthusiastic."

He praises the company, too, for pro­viding mentOrs and allowing studentS to conduct their thesis research in Hazle­ton's labs.

Another partnership expanded this spring as AU began a new MBA program at AT&T Communications in Oakton, Va.

This partnership was established as a result of a very careful planning process involving AT&T management and par­ticipants, AU's Office of Contract Pro-

AT&T's Diane Quinn, standing, discusses arrangements for AU MBA offerings with, seated from left, Kathy Mannes, AU contract programs director; Philip Jacoby. KC 8.4. associate dean; and Tamara Nash and Bonnie Muir, AU program representatives.

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grams, and the Kogod College of Busi­ness Administration (KCBA) which offers the MBA degree.

"The most striking aspect of the pro­gram," says Philip Jacoby, KCBA as­sociate dean, "is the fact that the uni­versity is being responsive to AT&T's particular management development needs while, at the same time, main­taining the rigorous academic standards of KCBA's extensive twenrv-course MBA." .

"AT&T, with its new direction to­ward information technology manage­ment, recognizes that academic training is important for employees if AT&T is going to be competitive in the market­place," says AT&T's Diane Quinn. She praises AU for recognizing the needs of the adult learner. "AU has addressed those needs and made it comfortable for businesses to work with them."

Quinn initiated the development of an MBA program after the success of AU's Assessment of Prior Experiential Learning program offered at AT&T during 1985.

In addition to on-site credit programs, successful noncredit professional devel­opment workshops have been offered in, for example, business writing (at Na­tional Bank of Washington), stress and time management (Bell Atlantic), and the art of negotiating (Gil bane Building Co.). In fact, AU currently offers a full sequence of training work.shops to Gil­bane employees, a partnership now in its third contract year.

Being in a world capital has opened doors to international opportunities. Re­cent noncredit contract programs have been offered in cooperation with the Or­ganization of American States, the Agency for International Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, and groups from Taiwan and Kuwait.

The success of contract programs is evidenced in manv wavs. For example, much of a program· repr~sentative's time, says l\fannes, now is devoted to re­sponding to requests for training and de­veloping repeat business.

As AU builds on this success, it reaps benefits which go beyond the obvious gains in income, Mannes notes, achiev­ing higher visibility in the business world.

As contract programs continue to grow they will create new opportunities to showcase facultv and the universitv within the corporate community, sh~ adds. The quality and diversity of these programs strengthen AU's outreach ef­forts and help the university make val­uable friends.

Marion Martin

CELEBRATING SCHOlARSHIP: AU's Well-Published Faculty

''Designing and teaching a lively, memorable, lasting, and liberal education for our

students is the teaching profession's first priority," says Jim Weaver, economics professor and chair of the University Senate. "Research plays a vital role in that effort."

In the last three years, more than one hundred AU faculty members have met this challenge by researching and writ­ing more than 160 books.

"AU traditionally has had a commit­ment to faculty research through its sab­batical program, its internally funded research system, and the Office of Re­search, Grants, and Contract Pro­grams," says Dean of Faculties Fred Jacobs.

Thirty-seven faculty members are on sabbatical this year, and more than thirty others will receive summer support or course release in the 1986-87 academic year under AU's program of internally funded research.

Also, the Office of Research, Grants, and Contract Programs, under the lead­ership of its new director, Sophia Fo­topoulos, is reviewing the research sit­uation inside and outside the university. Her goal is to increase the number of research opportunities in government and business for faculty members.

"Research is fundamental to remain­ing at the frontier of knowledge," she says, "and research funding makes the university much more visible.

"It also helps increase the quality of the faculty, which in turn helps increase the quality of the graduate student, which in turn increases the quality of the un­dergraduate."

While there are obvious institutional benefits to research, Weaver says, the ultimate beneficiaries are the students.

Dianne Chambless, psychology, an expert in agoraphobia, says "research is a way of answering questions students have."

For Louise Shelley, SO], "Research

makes my [classroom] critiques of the­ories in the field [the Soviet legal sys­tem] much more alive."

How do faculty members make use of the classroom for research?

For Anthony Caprio, LFS, whose textbook En Francais: French for Com­munication is considered to be a pace­setter in foreign language instruction, the classroom was the place where he tested his ideas.

"Classroom testing is very impor­tant," he says. "You can't work in the abstract when you are teaching a foreign language; everything needs to be tried out."

If faculty members research and pub­lish as a way of staying current and re­sponsive to students, for university ad­ministrators, research and writing can provide a welcome change of pace or a new vehicle for reaching a broader au­dience.

For Provost Milton Greenberg, the opportunity to update successive edi­tions of his book The American Political Dictionary provides the "pleasure of add­ing a new thought to a sentence un­changed through several editions or of improving upon a phrase or passage thought adequate ... over the years."

For President Richard Berendzen, writing his book, Is My Armor Straight? A Year in the Life of a University President, was a way of telling AU's story to a broad audience outside the university as well as presenting some of his thoughts on education and on the role of a university president in a readable form. Writing in a more personal style than he had used with his scholarly works was a challenge, Berendzen says.

University authors and their varied works comprise tangible evidence of what senate chair Weaver suggests is the ma­jor purpose for the faculty members at AU.

"We are here not merely to teach peo­ple how to make a living, but how to live wisely and fully and well."

Mary Jo Casciato

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This list contains the books pub­lished by faculty members since 1982.

Anthropology

john]. Bod me, Taos Pueblo: A Walk 'llirou[<h Time Louana :VI. Lackev, 'llie Potten' of Amtlcm: A ChanginK Mexican 'l!vdition - -

William L. Leap (and Robert St. Clair), l.a/1-KUage Rene-o~xt! Amo11g American Indian 'll-ibes

Art

Norma Braude and \l arv D. Garrard , eds., Feminism and Art History: Question ill[< the Litany.

Chemistry

H assan S. El Khadem, Anthmrydine Antibiotirs Doris E . 1-l adarv (with i\latilda Vincentini), 1.' Fdumzione Srientifim 11ella Smola eli Base and Proreedillf<S of { '-S. -ltalv Joi11t Seminar 011 Srimre l<:dumtion

Communication

Lew Wolfson, 'll!e Untapped Powrrof the Press

CTA

Nanette Levinson , ed . , Ntcd!.' Federal Poliries for R&D: Imparts on Govemmellt, lndusttl' and Arodeme -

William Rowe, Corporate Risk Assessment and, with others, Frxt!uation ,l1ethodsfor r:nviron­ment Standards

Economics Thomas F. D ernburg, Marroeronomirs Brent Kroetch , Solar Home HeatinK and Con­servation Options: An Fronomir Analysis Larrv Sawers, ed., ,l1arxism and the ,l1etrop­olis: Ne-&J Persperlives on the Urban Politirol Fronomy and Sunbelt!Snowbe/t: { 'rban De-uel­opment and Rer<ional RestrutlurinK Howard Wachtel, l .abor and the Fronomy James \l..'eaver (with Kenneth Jameson), I•:Conomir Development: CompetinK Parodi[<ms John Weeks , Cf:rpital and Fxploitation and Dictionary of .l101xist 'lliouf<ht

Education

Leon Clark, '1/irou[<h .11iddle Eastern r~·yes Fred Jacobs (wi th Richard Allen), ExpandinK the Mission of Graduate and Professional r:durotion L vnette Long (with Tom Long), 'llie Hand­book for IJrtthkev Children and 'llieir Parents D avid Sadker and i\1vra Sadker, Sex liquif)' Handbook for Srhools

English Language Institute

Martin L. Arnaudet and Mary Ellen Barrett, Approaches to Arademic Reading and W1-iting

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judith-Anne Adams Cook (with i\largaret Dwyer), English for Academic Uses: A Writing Workbook

History

Robert L. Beisner, Tm•elve Against Empire: The American Anti-Imperialists, /898-1900

Alan M. Kraut, Huddled .11asses: The Immi­grant in American Sociery, 1880-1921 and Cru­saders and Compromisers: Essays on the Rela­tionship of the Antislavery Struggle to the Antebellum Parry System Michael Kazin , Doing Communi!)' Histoty: The San Francisco Communiry HisfOIJ' Project Charles C. McLaughlin (and Charles Bev­eridge), Tne Papers of Frederick Law• Olmsted, Vol 3, Creating Central Park, 1857-1861

Janet Oppenheim, 7/ie Other World: Spirit­ualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-/9/4

KCBA H. Kent Baker and Steven R. Holmberg, Stepping Up to Supervision; H . Kent Baker (with others), Financial 111arkers, Instruments and Concepts George E . Biles, Impact of NtcoiJ Withholding Requirements for Pensions, Annuities and Other Deferred Income under TEFRA of 1982

Dara Khambata and Riad Ajami, lnterna­rional Lmding: Structure and Policy Response, Dara Khambata (with Philip Grum and Far­iborz Ghadar), Readings in lllfemational Business john Kokus, Guide to Real Estate and Mortgage Banking Sofr&~are Herbert Striner, Regaining rhe Lead: Policies for Economic Growth Donald T Williamson (with David Pijor), Income Tax Credits: The Investment Credit

Library

james R. 1-leintze, American .11usic Studies: A Classified Bibliography of .Waster's 7/ieses and Scholar's Guide to Washington, D.C.,jor Audio Resources

Literature

Betty Bennett, 7/ie Letters of Mary Wollstone­craft Shelley, Vol II "Treading in Unknown Paths" Evan Butterfield (with others), Computers and Applications: An Introduction to Data Processing Barbara Goldberg, Finding the Right Name Edward Kessler, Images of Wallace Stevens

Arnost Lustig, '/lie Unloved Kav i\l ussell, Fcmrasy and Reconciliation: Con­tempomry Formulas of Women's Romance Fic­tion and (with Linda Brown Keller) , Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: 'llie Perfonnanre of Group ldentif)' i\lvra Sklarew, 'll!e Science of Goodbyes, 'llie 'l'ravels of the ltinemnt Freda Maron, Son[<s from l 'nsung Worlds, and 'll!e Available Press/ -Pen Short StOI)' Collertion

1-lenrv TaYlor, 'll!e FlvinK Chan[<e and Land­smpe fl!.'ith 1/vrtor

Philosophy and R eligion

D. Dutton and \I. Krauz, llieConreptofCrea­tiz:if)• in Srienre and At! Roger T. Simonds, Ber<inninK Philosophic Logir Charles \\'hite, 'llie Relir<ious Quest

Physics

Richard Berendzen, Is .lly .\nnor Straight/

SGPA

Robert E. Clear\', ?lie Role of Goz;emment in the l 'nited States: Prartire and 1/ieoty \Iaureen Conners, 'llie .1/atl{l[<er as C:ommu­nimtor, Coarh, and Counselor: A Communim­tions Shlls Dece/opment Program jeff Fishel, Presidents and Promises: From Campai[<n Pledge to Presidential Petfonncmre \lil ton Greenberg (with jack C. Plano), 'll!e , \merimn Politiml Dirrion01y Howard ;\lcCurdv, Public Administration: :\ BiblioKraphir Guicie to the Litemture Amos Perlmutter, Israel: '/lie Pa11itioned State: 1900-/980; (with john Gooch) , .11ilital)' De­ception and Strategir Surpt-ise; and (with \l i­chael Handel ), '/w·o .lfinutes over BaKhdad Jeffrev T. Richelson , Sw•ord and Shield: 71ie Soviet-lntelli[<enre and Sena-if)• Appamtus; 'llie l'nited States Intelligence Communi!)'; and (with Desmond Ball), Ties that Bind: lntelli[<mre Co­operation Amon[< Australia, Canada, .\'tea!' 'lea­land, 'llie l 'nited 1\inr<dom, and the l 'nited States

Bernard Rosen, Ho/dinK Govemment Bureau­cracies rlam111table Bernard H. Ross, l'rbcm Politirs Brad lev R. Schi ller, 'llie Economics of Poverf)' and Diso-imination and 71ie Economy Today 1\lorlev Segal (with Carl Dalvelagc and Al­bert i\ !clone), Brid[<es to Know•ledge in Politiral Sril'llre: A Handbook for Research and Reader in , ~/anagement 'l l-ctining

SIS

Steve Arnold, Implementing Development As­sistance: European Approaches to Basic Needs and A Comparative Stuc(v of Five European Development Assistance Prow·ams

i\lathew Bonham, Collaborative Reseca-ch on Collective Derision-Making

Coralie Bryant (with Louise G. White), Man­ar<inK Rural Drvelopment with Small Farmer Pa11iripation and jl1{{1taKi11K Development in the '/liird World

Fantu Cheru, !lie Fincmcial lmplirations of Divesting from South Afrira: A Revie-&J of the Evidence, What the Bank Says on South Aft-ica, and (with others), From Debt to Development: Altematives to the International Debt Crisis Duncan Clarke, ed., Publir Poliry and Polit­ical Institutions. United States Defense and For­eign Polity: Polity Coordination and Integration and DerisionmakinK for Arms Limitation: As-

Jl J WE. FER: Schu.a • Ttachc , ,euder

L member of the :\ U faculty since 1969, Pro fe ssor jim Weaver is completing his sec-

ond consecutive term as chair of the Uni\·ersity Senate. He also headed the group in 1967-68 and again in 1972-73. [n 19RS he received the Ac­ademic Excellence Award fo r Out­standing Service.

An economist interested in the economies of developing nations, Weaver has written one book, co-au­thored three others. and edited two more. He has published many papers and given a variety of lectures and presentations. C urrent research in­terests include projects involving the impact of the International Monetary Fund on less developed countries as well as a manuscript on faith and eco­nomics.

Weaver's teaching ability is rec­ognized by both his peers and his students. I le has twice rece ived the Academic Excellence Award for Out­standing Teacher (1967, 1978) as well as several awards from student groups. He was the first recipient of Al' ' s Scholar/T eacher of the Year Award.

sessments and Prosperts Stephen Co hen, l'neosy Pa1111ership: Com­petition and Conflirr in l'.S.-Japanese Trade Relations, and coauthor, l'.S . lntemationa/ Erollomir Po/iry in Arrion: 7'/;e Dynamirs and Diversity of the. Derision-making Proress john Finan, A Bibliography of Larin Ameriran International Relations Llewellvn Howell, '/'he Washington Essays, l'olume 5<1, with William C . Olson, lntema­riona/ t•:dumtion: r\11 rlgendaforrhe Future; and

(with Susana Howell), 7'!te Washington Essavs. \'olume .\'// ·

~larian Irish, '/'he .1/emoirs of/lrli/ Arslan, '/'he Shi'a Domine of the Imamate, and '/'he Sultanate Hamid .\lowlana, International Flow• of In­formation: A Global Report and Analvsis and l ntemationa/ Flow· of .\'ew·s: An ,\,;notated Bibliow'{lphy \\'ill iam C. O lson, co-editor, lntemariona/ l~'dumtion: /'he l'njinished .lgmda, and ed., /'he /'!teo;y and Pmrtire of lntemationa/ Relations Nicholas Onuf, ed., Law•-making in the C/obtt! COIIII//UIIity John Richardson, Ending Hunger: An Idea \\'hose ?'ime Has Co111e, .1/akinf( It Happen: A Positi;,:e Guide to the Future. and (with Doneila I\ leadows and Gerhart Bruchmann), Groping in the Dad:: / 'he Fim Demrle ofC/oba/.1/ode/ing Alan Taylor, 7'!te Arab Bolanre of Power 1\! illidge Walker, Women's Roles on North Amerimn Fanns and Currimlum ondMotetiols Development for ,Jfanogement Troillillg ill indonesia Gary Weaver, Reader in Cross-Cultural Communimrion Larman Wilson, Ten'Oiism, Polirim/ Violenre alld World Order

Justice

Sandra Baxter, Women and Polirirs: T'!te Visible Majotiry Richard R. Bennett, Polire or Work: Polin• Issues for the Eighties · James J . Fyfe, ed., Po lire Management Today: Issues and Cases and ed., Readings 011 Po lire Use of Deadly Forre Robert Johnson (with H ans Toch), Pains of lmprisomnen! Jeffrev H. Reiman, The Rirh Get Richer and the Poor Get Priso11 David J . Saari, American Court ,Jfonogement: Theory and Practice Lou ise Shelley, Lawyers in Soviet Work Life Rita J. Simon, Public Opinion and the Immi­grant: Print Media Coverage, /880-1980, New Lives: l'!te Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immi­grants in the U.S. and israel, and (with Ste­phen Spitzer), Reseorrh in Low, Devianres and Soria/ Control Arnold Trebach, l'!te Heroin Solution

Language and F oreign Studies

Grace Burkhart, Policymaker's Guide to Special Language Servires for Language Mi11oriry Students An thony Caprio, En Francois: French for Commzmirotioll Jack C hild, Quarrels Among Neighbors: Ceo­politics 011d Co11j/irt in South America and ed., t11ointena11ce of Peace and Security in the Ca­ribbeall and Ce11tral Ame;ico Paul Cote, Lews Techniques Picruroles Chez Malraux: interrogation et metamorphose Vad im 1\ledish, The Soviet Union Josette Wisman, Christine de Pisan's "Epistle 011 the Prison of Human Life"

Psychology

Dianne Chambless (with Alan Goldstein), Agoraphobia: J!ultiple Persperrives Oil The01y and Treatment Barry McCarrhv (with E. !\lcCatthy), Sexual Awareness: Sh{//ing Sexual Pleasure Brian T. Yates, Doing the Dissenarion: The Nuts and Bolts of Psyrho/ogiml Researrh, Se!f­J1anogement: 7'!te Scienre and Art of Helping Yourself, and Applirotions of Se!f-.11anagement

Sociology

!\ Iurie! G. Cantor (with Suzanne Pingree), The Soap Opera and Programmi televisivi di "ptima sertlla" Samih Farsoun, ed., Amb Soriery J urg K. Siegenthaler, Konjlikre der lndustti­alisienmg: lndusflie, Raum tmd Cese/lsrhoft in Clams tmd Srmnton 184ll-/9J.I

WCL

David Aaronson (and others), Deoiminali­zorion of Publir Dnmkenness: Tmring the lm­plemell/ation of o Publir Polity and Public Polin• and Polire Disrretion · Frederick R. Anderson, Negotiation and ln­fonna/ Agenry Arrion and (with others), En­virolllllental Prorerrion: Law• and Po!iry Thomas Burgcnthal, ed., Contempom;y Issues in lntemoriona/ Low•: Essays in Honor of l.ouis B. Sohn, and (with H arold !\.Ieier), Publir lntemariono/ Low in o Nutshell Barlow D. Burke, Low of Reo/ Estate Brokers and Personal Property in a Nutshell C laudio Grossman, Her beginse/ van non-in­tervenrie ill de Orgmlisorie van Anwi/.,amtse Sta­ten vanut"r een Lorijns-Amerikoons gezirhrspzmt Egon Guttman (with Carlos lsraels), lsme/s' and Cullman's ,lfodem Seaairies Tmnsfers joseph D . Harbaugh (with Barbara Britzke), Primer 011 Negotiation: A Video Handbook Patrick E. Kehoe (with Heinz Peter 1\ lue l­ler), Low Librr11ianship: A Holldbook Gary L . 1\lcCann (with others), Fulldamen­tols of Legal Researrh, and Legal Researrh Il­lustrated: Assignments Pau l R. Rice (with others), J!anagingComplex Litigation: A Prarriml Guide to the Use of Speria/ ,Wasters Bruno R istau, lllfemationol Judirial Assis­tanre: Civil and Commerrial Ira P. Robbins, 7'!te Law and Proresses of Post­Com;iaioll Remedies: Cases and .11aterials Seymour J. Rubin (with Gary C. Hufbauer), Emerging Standards of ftttemotiollol Trade and lnvestmellt: Multinational Codes and Corpomte Conducr and (with T homas R. Graham), Managi11g Trade Relations ill the 1980's: Issues Involved in the CA 7T Ministerial ,J1eering of 1982 0' eal Smalls, Manhood Tminillg: An Intro­duction to Adulthood: A Program for ln11er-City Boys Ages 11-/J Robert G. Vaughn, .lfetit Systems Protertion Board: Rights and Remedies

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Campus News Clendenen Razing Marks End of Era

The wrecking ball that demolished Clendenen

Hall to make way for the Ad­nan Khashoggi Sports and Convocation Center marks the end of an era in AU's history.

For almost sixty years, Clendenen's walls heard hundreds of curtain calls, felt the bouncing of many a bas­ketball, and, as the first stop in general registration, watched thousands of students begin their college careers at AU.

Construction of the drama and athletic facility during 1926 was the result of strong sup­port from the board of trus­tees. The board raised funds from among its members, had plans drawn up, and com­pleted the building by the end of that year.

Board member Col. Peter M. Anderson served as engi­neer, and Charles H. Tomp­kins, a university benefactor, was the builder. Both were enthusiastic about the build­ing and provided some of their services at a reduced rate in an effort to speed its comple­tion.

The building was named for Patrick Clendenen, the father of Mary Eliza Graydon, for whom Mary Graydon Center is named.

Clendenen's theatrical his­tory began and ended with Shakespeare. The first show, performed on May 20, 1927, was "As You Like It." Last spring, "The Taming of the Shrew" was the final show. Over the years, Clendenen also was home for a variety of ath­letic events.

As a building, Clendenen is gone, but it remains a memory for those who acted on its stage, played basketball on its court, and registered for classes in its halls . D

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On December 23 Clendenen's walls came tumbling down.

Jihan el-Sadat Speaks at Commencement

''Those of us here to-day-you and I-have

a responsibility which cannot be avoided or given to some­one else. We must use the ed­ucation we have received to help solve the problems [that exist in the world today]," Ji­han el-Sadat told the 450 grad­uates at AU's eighty-second commencement in January.

Sadat, former distinguished professor in residence at the university and widow of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, quoted the late John F. Kennedy. "'One man can make a difference,'" she said, and added that education "enables the individual to make that difference."

Her late husband, Madame Sadat said, "believed passion­ately ... that communication between individuals as well as peoples is the key to world peace, enlightenment, and progress.

"When I was teaching here ... I could not help but think how thrilled my husband would have been to have seen

\ Jihan el-Sadat

for himself the true spirit of international friendship and brotherhood which exists here [at AU]."

She urged her audience to "question and search, to lis­ten and learn, to reason and think. You must understand and not prejudge, empathize and not reject. Then ... you will have made a difference."

Following her speech, AU President Richard Berendzen conferred on Madame Sadat the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters. D

National Campaign Promotes Co-op Ed

Fade in: The bright young job applicants are dressed

for success. Then they make a fatal error-they open their mouths and answer the off­screen announcer's question, "When you graduate from col­lege, what will you be able to offer an employer?"

"I really like people," says one. "Eager. I think I'm ea­ger," stammers another. Sev­eral equally vague responses follow.

"Offer an employer some­thing meaningful: practical work experience," advises the announcer. "A nationwide college program called co-op education can give you that competitive edge."

You may have seen this or a similar television spot re­cently-say, on an episode of "Cheers." Or you may see a co-op ed ad in a magazine or newspaper. They're part of a new multimedia advertising campaign produced by The Advertising Council for the National Commission for Co­operative Education. The ads

are aimed at drawing the na­tion's attention to the nature and value of cooperative ed­ucation, says Tobie van der Vorm, executive director of AU's Career Center. Van der Vorm is a member of the steering committee that worked on the campaign with the Ad Council's volunteer advertising agency, Della Femina, Travisano & Part­ners of California, Inc., and is president of the national Co­operative Education Associa­tion, Inc.

Cooperative education at AU is one of several major Career Center programs. It is nation­allv and internationallY known as~ model for field experience in a liberal arts institution.

Cooperative education is often either totallv unknown or misconstrued a; a financial aid program by the general public, says van der Vorm. "Students do get paid for their work, but the real importance

of the program lies in its en­hancement of the student's overall academic career."

Placement of the public service announcements on television and radio and in lo­cal newspapers was the re­sponsibility of AU's and other local cooperative education centers, says Barbara Tavlor, AU's director of cooperative education, Career Center.

"We've been excited about this campaign since they first announced co-op ed as the topic," says Taylor. "In the long term, this could mean a great deal to AU because of the exposure it will give the program."

Students earn elective credit toward their degree, and the work assignments are closely aligned to the student's career goals. Last year, 495 students were placed in co-op ed po­sitions with 262 different em­ployers in both the public and private sectors . 0

Kettler Receives President's Award

Helen Palmer Kettler, CAS'39, a Long-time supporter of the university, received the President's 1wa:d. Th~s awar~, is presented each year at the Presidents Ctrcle dmner _to the donor who, by his or het· continued relationship and extenswe involvement in the progress of the university, sets an example Jot· all of us."

Law Clinic Staff Commended for Brief

An amicus brief prepared by Rabindranath Ra ­

mana, WCL '86, was cited in a concurring judge's opinion in a U.S. Court of Appeals veteran's right-to-privacy case, Doe v. DiGenova.

The brief was researched and written by Ramana as part of his work in the Washington College of Law Appellate Ad­vocacy Clinic of the Practicing Law Center.

In an unusual action, Judge Kenneth Starr cited the brief in his opinion, "It was only with the arrival of a very help­ful amicus brief ... that the light suddenly dawned, and the parties found themselves within an altogether different legal framework."

In a letter of commenda­tion, Arthur B. Spitzer, legal director of the National Cap­ital Area American Civil Lib­erties Union (ACLU), told Ramana and clinic director Nancy Cook, "It was your re­search that discovered the statutory amendment every­one else had missed, and turned the case around ."

An amicus [curiae] brief is evidence presented by a per­son or organization that is not directly involved in the case but is permitted by the court to advise it in respect to some matter of law that directly af­fects the case in question.

"The court's point," said Cook, "was that no one had really grasped the issues until the brief was submitted."

The clinic became under­counsel on the case at the re­quest of the ACLU, says Cook.

The Practicing Law Center consists of five separate clin­ics, including the Appellate Advocacy Clinic. The other four are the Criminal Justice

Clinic, the D.C. Civil Liti­gation Clinic, the Public In­terest Law Clinic, and the Women and the Law Clinic. Second- and third-vear law student clinic participants re­ceive classroom instruction and courtroom experience under the supervision of a practicing attorney. 0

Durfee Named AU Scholar/Teacher of the Year

Harold A. Durfee, philos­ophy and religion, re­

ceived the 1985 University Scholar/Teacher of the Year award at winter commence­ment.

"Dr. Durfee truly exem­plifies the highest standards of the scholar/teacher. We prize his contributions to The American University and to his field," said President Richard Berendzen in jointly an­nouncing the award with Provost Milton Greenberg.

Durfee's special fields are contemporary philosophy, particularly European thought; metaphysics; and the philos­ophy of religion. He joined the AU faculty in 1955 and has been William Frazer Mc­Dowell Professor of Philoso­phy since 1957.

"From my earliest days on this campus," said Provost Greenberg, "I was made aware and personally became aware of Harold Durfee as a very special teacher and scholar. His positive feelings for his craft, for his students, and for his university are patently clear to all who know him ."

Established in 1981 by the Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Meth­odist Church, the $2,000 scholar/teacher award honors

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Harold A. Durfee

distinguished faculty at AU and seven other Methodist-re­lated institutions.

The award is given an­nually to a faculty member who has demonstrated exceptional teaching, concern for students and colleagues, sensitivity to

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the university's mission, sig­nificant contributions to the university's scholarly life, and commitment to high stan ­dards of professional and per­sonal life.

In his letter nominating Durfee to CAS Dean Betty

Bennett, Charles White, phi ­losophy and religion chair, noted , "He is universallv es­teemed for his humane atti­tude toward students and the intellectual excitement he en­genders." Durfee , who has taught honors and general ed­ucation courses in addition to the regular curricula, received a Distinguished Achievement Award for Senior Faculty from CAS this year in recognition of his teaching and scholar­ship throughout his career at AU. In 1984, the Graduate Student Council gave him its faculty service award.

"I can't praise him highly enough ," says Pat Dixon, a doctoral student whose dis­sertation committee Durfee chairs. "You have the feeling that he is looking out for you every step along the way . He remembers you when you are not sitting in front of him , al­ways on the lookout for leads for scholarships, fellowships , or people to see."

"Dr. Durfee always brings me back to fundamental phil­osophical problems ," says Wade Davenport, another doctoral candidate. "These problems require a lot of thought. I suspect Dr. Durfee has a similar effect on other students and this is why he is rightly regarded as having achieved excellence as an ed­ucator."

Durfee, who has contrib­uted numerous articles to leading philosophical jour­nals, frequently publishes re­views of the literature in his field and is creator and editor of American University Publi­cations in Philosophy, pub­lished by Nijhoff at The Hague. Active in a number of professional and scholarly or­ganizations, Durfee is on the board of the "Forum on Psy­chiatry and the Humanities" of the Washington School of

Psychiatrv. He has long been active in AU's Phi Kappa Phi chapter, serving several terms as its president.

An ordained minister, Dur­fee received a Ph.D. from Co­lumbia University, a B.D. from Yale University, and a Ph.B. from the University of Vermont. 0

More and More Listeners for 88.5 FM

The American University's public radio station,

WAMU 88.5 FM's audience is growing to record new highs, according to recent data from Arbitron, the service which measures radio stations audi ­ence levels.

Says program director Craig Oliver: "88.5 FM's weekly cume audience (the number of different people who report listening at least once during an average week) is the high­est ever-199,200 listeners a week, for the total survey area, Monday through Sunday, 6:00 A.M. to 12:00 midnight. If you count overnight listening, our cume broke 200,000 for the first time."

Oliver also reports that the average time spent listening is higher than ever. "This is sig­nificant for a station with two formats-news and blue­grass-and little audience sharing between the two. "

Morning Edition is the sta­tion's most listened-to pro­gram and its audience is still growing. "Morning Edition broke the 100,000 mark for the first time with a new cume au ­dience of 11,600," says Oliver. "First Edition, our overnight program on Monday through Saturday, continues to do well and is clearly continuing to help our listenership of Morning Edition grow." 0

Students Get a First-Hand Look

at Life in the USSR

What are Ru ss ian people really like ? What kinds of clothes do they wear, and what foods do they eat? And what do they think about us? To find the answers to these questions, you could read books or see movies-or yo u could go to Russia vourself and find out first-hand.

From December 28 to Jan­uary 13, thirty-two people, mostly AU students, did just that. Thanks to a studv tour sponsored by AU, they had the opportunity to take a personal look at the people and cul ­tures of Russia and the Baltic.

Directed by Professor Va­dim Medish , coordinator of Ru ss ian studies, the program is getting rave reviews from those who participated.

"It was excellent," says Craig Berkowitch, SIS'89. Marshall Medoff, CAS'86, agrees, "It even exceeded mv expectations." ·

The tour began in 1\Ioscow, where the group celebrated New Year's Eve Russian-style at a gala banquet. "Some peo­ple in our group went to Red Square to listen to the bells go off in the Kremlin Tower at midnight ," Medoff says. "New Year's is such a uni­versal holiday that being in Russia at that time made me feel as if there's really no dif­ference between us. Only our politics are different."

The visit to Moscow in­cluded a walking tour of the Kremlin, a visit to the Lenin Mausoleum, a tour of a Rus­sian art collection, and per­formances at the Bolshoi Theater and the circus.

They continued their rour in Riga , which was once a

Among the sights in Moscow was St. Basil's Church on the south side of Red Square.

stronghold of the Teutonic knights.

"The most emotional part of the trip for me," Medoff savs, "was a visit to the Nazi co.ncen tration camp outside Riga, called Salaspils. I ex­pected to see ruins of build­ings and fences, but it was actually a memorial-four dramatic statues depicting those who suffered there. You could just feel that something awful had happened."

In Tallinn , the next stop, the group visited an art school and met students ages nine tO

sixteen. "It was a wonderful part of the trip for me," says

Beth Landau, a graduate stu­dent in CAS, "because I study art, and because we got a chance tO talk to them. They asked many questions, and we exchanged information about our lives and hobbies. It was fun."

Leningrad, a beautiful city with baroque palaces and winding canals, was next on the tour. The group saw the sights, including the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Her­mitage Museum.

"A unique experience I had in Leningrad was being in a hospital," says Mary Barnes, SIS'88, who recovered and re-

Students joined the group. "Unfortu­natelv, I missed a lot of the sights, but it gave me the op­portunitv to see a part of Rus­sia that few Americans get to see. Their hospital technol­ogy looked as if it would date back to the 1940s in the United States. But the medical care was free, and I got to speak to doctors and see how dif­ferently thev do things."

Berkowitch was glad to be able to talk to Russian stu­dents and professors. "We got to mingle with the Russians and walk around freelv," he says. "I don't think they have as many preconceived notions about Americans as we have about them. Thev were verv friendlv and talked a lot abou.t peace."

Medoff savs the Russians have manv o.f the same con­cerns Americans have. "They may not have as many worries because, for example, edu­cation is free and there is a job 'E surplus," he says, "but they "E are worried about things like :2

AIDS and, of course, the threat ~ of war." :<

_f· Barnes savs the Russian ~

people don ' t always believe c:: what they' re told: "Thev know the truth is out there'; they don't fall for all the propa­ganda."

The group concluded its tour with an overnight stay in Fin­land's cap ital, Helsinki, be­fore returning to the United States.

"I recommend this program to everyone," Landau says. "It's important to educate people on foreign countries, and the Soviet Un ion in par­ticular. There's no wav to ana­lvze it and really kno:.V about it until you've been there."

Professor Medish, Russian by birth , has offered this tour for six years, but this was the first time he offered it as part of a course for credit. Upon

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completion of the tour, se­lected readings, and a term paper, students receive 2-3 credit hours.

"It's very educational, and students who participate de­serve class credit," Medish says. "The Soviet Union is America's chief rival. Only by traveling there can you see how it really is and begin to un­derstand it."

"Dr. Medish was a terrific leader; he arranged every­thing to make our trip more interesting," Barnes says. Berkowitch adds that the trip "confirmed many of the things Dr. Medish teaches in class. Being there brought a lot of it together. It was a terrific mix of places to see; I learned a lot."

Medoff concludes, "This program is a must for anyone studying Russian or interna-tional studies." D Students enjoy a "troika" (three-horse carriage) ride outside Moscow.

CARE package reminder

Attention, parents! You recently received instruc­tions in the mail about or­dering special "CARE package" kits for your son or daughter. Be sure to place your orders by April 28. No orders will be ac­cepted after that date. The packages are distributed to students on campus during finals . The CARE packages are a project of the Student Alumni As­sociation, with proceeds going to scholarships.

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Dorm Residents Display Talents

Students from McDowell Hall present the grand finale of Afterwords, a musical comedy revue. An original production performed every summer at the Vineyard Playhouse on Martha's Vineyard, the revue was directed by Adam Wilson, resident director for McDowell. Sponsored by the Dorm Council, this first -of-its-kind event was staged before full houses in McDowell-Hughes informallounge]anuary 30-February J.

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KPUHead Strives for

Variety of Speakers, Viewpoints

Whether liberal or conser­vative or somewhere in the middle, well known or ob­scure, paid or unpaid, contro­versial or emotional, the pur­pose of Kennedv Political Union (KPU) spe-ake rs is to prod the intellect of students. So says Glenn Buggy, SIS'87, director of the student-funded, student-operated KPU, a forum of the Student Confed­eration.

"I try to have a program every ten days, which is more than we've had in any pre­vious semester," says twenty­two-year-old Buggy. "I try to keep things balanced, seek­ing a wide range of viewpoints J and political ideologies."

Buggy puts in lots of hours and says he gets lots of head­aches, but he is proud that KPU is instrumental in "bringing a great deal of na­tional attention to the univer­sitv." There's also consider­able personal satisfaction from the effort.

"The American Universitv has offered me much mor~ than a classroom degree," he says. "While grades and classes are important, I feel that a complete education is re­ceived by experiencing and taking advantage of the re­sources offered to students."

Among the speakers Buggy invited to campus in the fall were: Black Panther co-foun­der Bobby Seale and Stuart Pringle, a white South Afri ­can; Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women; Jody Powell, Carter administration press secretary; political activist Ab­bie Hoffman, founder of the Yi ppie movement of the 1960s;

Glenn Buggy

former New York Congress­woman Shirley Chisholm; David Gergen, editor of U.S. News and World Report; and Geoffrey Smith, political col­umnist for the Times of Lon­don.

The spring series kicked off January 30 with TV moderator and Washington executive editor of the National Revier&! John McLaughlin . Howard Cosell spoke on February 13.

Buggy transferred to AU from the University of Hart­ford in 1984. He was elected to the Student Confedera­tion's General Assembly for two terms, has been a Dean's List student for three consec­utive semesters, and is em­ployed by the university as a dormirory resident advisor. He sings tenor in the University Singers vocal ensemble and

Profiles

has been active in the Rugby Football Club.

KPU was founded in 1968 as a nonpartisan organization in honor of Kennedy family contributions to American politics, society, and interna­tional relations, says Buggy. President Kennedy's speech­writer, Ted Sorenson, was the first speaker. Over the years, KPU has hosted scores of na­tional and international fig­ures.

Guests in the past three years have included Sir Har­old Wilson, former prime minister of Britain; Gerald Ford and Walter Mondale; Senators Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, and George McGovern; columnist and commentator George F. Will; the Reverend Jerry Falwell, leader of the Liberty Federation (formerly

known as the Moral Majority); Anne Burford, former director of the Environmental Protec­tion Agency; and media rep­resentatives David Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and Carl Bernstein. D

Camp us Editors: Working Hard

for Quality

"Every waking moment I think about the Eagle-in class, at home, at dinner, always. It's total immersion."

This is how Eagle editor David Aldridge describes his commitment to the campus paper. Denise DiStefano, ed­itor of the 1986 Talon, echoes this sentiment. Like Aid­ridge, she understands that being an effective student ed­itor means investing an enor­mous amount of time and dedication.

Aldridge, CAS'87, began working for the Eagle when he came ro AU in 1983. He took over as ediror in March 1985. "There was a big turnover last year when most of the staff graduated," he explains. "We had to rebuild by training new editors and reporters. It was tough, but we have a lot of talented people and good writing now."

DiStefano, a senior with a joint major in foreign lan­guage and communications media, is also proud of her staff. "We have several freshmen in kev positions, and they're very enthusiastic. Evervone on the staff gets along well, and they really care about the year­book," she says.

According ro DiStefano, her staff is emphasizing quality . "The Talon had a reputation for being over budget and coming out late," she says, "but last year's editor, John Quale [SIS'86], made big im -

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provements. We want to con­tinue where he left off, stress­ing quality in copy and photos."

Quality and professional­ism are what Aldridge strives for with the Eagle. "I demand professional behavior from my staff," Aldridge says. "We try to objectively cover every­thing that happens on cam­pus, but we sometimes make editorial comments that are critical. People have to re­member not to take them per­sonally. I don't have any ene­mies here; I'm just doing my job."

The Eagle's role, says Ald­ridge, is to serve as the stu­dents' voice to the adminis-

tration, board of trustees, faculty , and staff. "Of course , it can't be everv student's voice ," he adds, "but we trv to get as many different voices heard as possible."

Aldridge's changes in the Eagle include increased cov­erage of groups that had not really been written about be­fore, and more international and minority reporters . Al­though he is proud of these changes, he admits that the paper still has a long way to go.

Aldridge views the Eagle as more than a student-run, for­student paper, since coverage includes the faculty , staff, and community. Aldridge is proud

Denise DiStefano and David Aldridge

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of the fact that the Eagle can reach evervone.

Whereas other campus me­dia get feedback on a regular basis , the Talon does not. DiStefano points out, " We don't see our finished product until after school is over and the students have all gone home."

Both editors regard their work as good experience . For DiStefano , "A lot of it is man­aging-managing people and schedules. That kind of ex­perience will be applicable in whatever I do later on."

Aldridge says he has ben­efitted from his job primarily by learning how to deal with people.

A junior with a double ma­jor of print journalism and his­tory, he will not return to the paper as editor next year but will contribute an occasional story. He explains that he spent the last year juggling a full class load, a part-time job, and his Eagle responsibilities . Next year, he'll have to de­vote more time to completing his majors and looking for job prospects in the writing field.

DiStefano, who has done a juggling act with her schedule as well, graduates this May. "The only thing I know for sure after that," she says, "is that I'll be spending a good part of the summer getting the yearbook finished." D

An SGPA Star

!\lost graduating seniors, when reflecting on their col­lege years, remember chal­lenging coursework and the special relationships that spring from a shared academic en­vironment. Donna l\lurphy, SGPA'86, has these typical memories as well as many, many others- including being managing editor of the Eagle, working on Capitol Hill and for a member of the British Parliament, and being consid­ered for a Rhodes scholarship.

"Donna is an excellent stu­dent," says Athena Smith , l\turphy's academic advisor. l\lurphy, in turn, attributes much of her accomplishments to the unique opportunities AU offers its students.

"I have had a diversity of experiences at AU that I could not have had anywhere else," l\1 urphy says.

When l\lurphy was decid­ing which college to attend, her interest in government motivated her to consider schools in the Washington metro area. A factor that

S' "" weighed heavily in Murphy's ~ decision to come to AU was ~ the School of Government and ~ Public Affairs' CLEG pro­~ gram, an interdisciplinary ma-

jor including the study of communications, legal insti­tutions, economics, and gov­ernment.

"Few schools that I looked at had established interdisci­plinary majors," says Mur­phy. "It's a good prelaw ma­jor. The courses complement each other- which is the ma­jor's purpose."

After arriving on campus, Murphy lost no time becom­ing involved in extracurricular as well as academic pur uits.

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Donna Murphy

Several Eagle staff members lived on l\lurphy's hall, and, with their encouragement, she joined the Eagle two weeks into her first semester.

"I love to write, and I love to keep busy. It was perfect for me," Murphy says.

Murphy also was elected to the Student Confederation's General Assembly her fresh­man year.

During her sophomore year,

Murphy decided to double major by adding another SGPA major- political science. She has benefited from both SGPA's regular course re­quirements and its special programs.

Last year, Murphy was one of six participants in the Par­liamentary Internship Pro­gram sponsored by SGPA in conjunction with Leeds Uni­versity in England. She spent

the first semester attending classes at AU, working for a congressional su bcomm i nee, and, having quickly moved up the ranks, serving as manag­ing editor of the Eagle. During spring semester, Murphy went to London and worked for a member of Parliament while attending classes taught by faculty from Leeds.

Of her work in London, Murphv says, "I got to do ab­solutely everything." She re­searched health and social ser­vice issues, worked with constituents, and helped pre­pare statements for the mem­ber.

Murphy says the experi­ence she gained writing in a journalistic style and under deadlines for the Eagle was good preparation for her work in London.

At SGPA dean Dorothy James' suggestion, Murphy applied for a Rhodes schol­arship last fall. Murphy was one of twelve finalists in her home state of Pennsylvania and, as such, participated in a day-and-a-half long inter­VIewing process.

Although not one of the two selected to compete on there­gional level, receiving honors is not foreign to Murphy; she is a member of the Mortar Board, Pi Sigma Alpha, and Phi Kappa Phi honor socie­ties, Who's Who Among Stu­dents in American Universi­ties and Colleges, the political science honorary society, and the prelaw honor society.

After graduation, l\lurphy plans to attend law school.

Murphy looks back on her experiences during the past four years and views AU as a special place. Those who have taught her, worked with her, and learned with her view Donna Murphy as a very spe­cial student. 0

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Alumni Join AU Officials in Recruiting

U alumni welcomed President Richard Berendzen, Provost Milton

Greenberg and a group of deans and other university representatives this spring as the annual admissions recruit­ing trips got under way. Alumni greeted AU friends and prospective students and their parents at receptions in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massa­chusetts, as well as in Cleveland, De­troit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, and, for the first time, SanJuan, Puerto Rico.

According to Maurice O'Connell, di­rector of admissions, response to AU has been "exciting."

"Attendance was double what we ex­pected for two luncheons with guidance counselors in New York and New Jer­sey," says O'Connell. "We saw a good number of students and parents at re­ceptions in those areas."

As for the Midwest, O'Connell says, "Chicago has been a particularly good area for us. Not only has there been a great deal of interest in AU, but past applicants have come from some of the best high schools."

But, O'Connell says, San Juan was the recruiting highlight of February. "Even though we never before hosted parent or counselor receptions there," he says, "Puerto Rico has sent us many fine students."

The success of these early winter trips is just one indicator of the continued strength of AU's recruiting effort. O'Connell says that inquiries have nearly doubled- from 15,000 last year at this time to 30,000 this year.

Current applicant.s, says O'Connell, exhibit the strong academic potential of the past two years. The average SAT score of students admitted this year un­der AU's early decision program is 1,100. The average SAT score for the entire entering freshman class, says O'Con­nell, should be very close to that figure. 0

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New York Media Alumni Meet

Lesley Halpern, CAS'76, left, and Jane O'Donaghue, CAS'78, attended a reception in New York for alumni who work in the media, sponsored by the New York alumni chapter. Halpern, wlzo is with ABC Washington, traveled to New York for the event. O'Donaghue is public relations coordinator, Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.

Alumni Gather For Scholarships

Peter Scher, CPIA'83, left, chats with Becky Millett, SIS'84, and Bill Giuliano, KCBA'83, at a wine tasting reception for Washington, D.C., area alumni. Organized by Scher, chait·man of the alumni association Board of Governors development committee, the reception benefitted the alumni scholarship fund. "Especially now with government cutbacks, these [alumni] scholarships are eve11 more important to help attract qualified students to AU," says Scher. The F ebruaty 6 event raised $3,000 for the fund.

Teaching Decision Making to Life-and-Death Decision Makers

o Robert Beckman, SIS/PhD'84, there is a certain urgency about

teaching political science to the mid­shipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.

In a year or two, he says, some will be in positions where they could die in Central America or perhaps the Middle East. "Others will have their fingers on the [nuclear] button. I want them to be able to think before they do anything."

Beckman, who describes himself as a faculty "utility infielder," has, during his two years at Annapolis, taught courses in American government, contemporary European politics, international rela­tions, arms control and international se­curity, and Vietnam. The subject he finds "philosophically current and demand­ing," however, is nuclear power.

His Ph.D. dissertation on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 has been published under the title of NudearNon­Prolijeration Congress a11d the Peaceful Con­trol of Nuclear Activity. Beckman first be­came interested in the political issues surrounding nuclear power in the early 1970s while serving as an air force officer in southeast Asia, where he flew KC 135 stratotankers. Influenced bv School of International Service (SIS). professors AI bert Mort, Duncan Clarke, and Ste­ven Levine, he pursued that interest at AU after he left the service.

" !ott's grasp of intellectual history and Clarke's legal approach, coupled with Levine's background in Russian and Chinese perspectives on foreign pol­icy," says Beckman, "made for a very stimulating atmosphere."

After receiving his Ph.D. in 1984, Beckman went to the naval academy. where he says his views on the politics of nuclear power challenged some ac­cepted naval norms.

"Nuclear energy has captivated the Navv as a source of power to dri\·e boats," he s~ys. "It has its adherents and its own subculture within the service. In my classes, I take a histOrical approach, trying to show students that certain facrors in the fifties and sixties made using nuclear power an attractive way to fulfill our de­sires for more and cheaper energy and

a truly secure means of defense." Ac~ording tO Beckman, "Today, we've

scaled back our assumptions about nu­clear power. Domestically, we're doing away with breeder reactors, and, on the defense front, nuclear power is just one more weapon in our arsenal."

That his views (and the opinions of others whom Beckman characterizes as unconventional) are tolerated demon­strates that the naval academy is "a sur­prisingly liberal environment in which to reach. There's complete academic freedom here. Nobody checks the syl­labi. There's good inte;play between the uniformed [faculty members] and the civilian staff. We have great respect for them and vice versa."

l-Ie also gives the academy and the armed services in general high marks for their encouragement of the liberal arts education for tOmorrow's military offi­cers. His students are hard working and hard charging.

"It's very competitive," he says.

Robert Beckman

rofiles "Everyone has his or her nose to the grindstone. People have tO be more ag­gressive to get here in the first place and more self-confident to stay."

As a civilian faculty member, Beck­man believes he has an edge over his military colleagues when it comes to get­ting to know his students.

"Because I am a civilian, students can let their hair down more easily with me than they might with a military faculty member," he says. "Yet, when we talk about making a decision that might cost people their lives, I can speak from per­sonal [military] experience," he says.

His students' potential to make life­and-death choices is the reason Beck­man feels a special sense of urgency in the classroom.

"You hope that if[the students] don't remember your name, they will remem­ber what you taught and that what thev\·e learned will help them make better decisions." D

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Jane Good

Opening Minds to the Soviet View

hey call her "The Red Queen" at the U.S . Naval Academy, but it

doesn't really bother Jane Good, CAS/ PhD '79. "When you teach Russian his­tory to midshipmen," she philoso­phizes, "you have ro expect some con­troversy."

Despite the nickname, Good, who in 1979 became one of the first women to teach at the naval academy, strives to teach the subject objectively.

"On the whole, my students are con­servative and automatically prone to see the Soviet Union as the enemy," Good says. "It's difficult to get them to look at Russian history without this bias. Things wou ld be a lot easier if I simply sa id the Russians are evil people. But I wouldn't be do ing my job."

Instead, she tells her students that the Soviets have different views and ex­plains what they are and how they came about.

" I often push the Soviet view in class because I want my students ro see things from the ocher side," Good explains.

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Good first became interested in Rus­sia during her sophomore year in college after reading several Russian novels, in­cluding Crime and Punishment. She wanted to learn more about the culture and his­tory behind the stories. The following vear she visited the Soviet Union and, fasci,nated bv what she saw, decided to focus her st~dies on Russian history.

"Shattering things were happening in the United States at that time because of the Vietnam War," she recalls, "and there was a great interest in revolution­ary movements and ideologies on col­lege campuses."

After receiving her B.A. from Wit­tenberg College, Good joined the Peace Corps and went to Morocco for nearly two years. "I was caught between what we ~anted to do and what the l\-1oroccan government wanted us to do," Good says. ''It was traumatic in many ways but a worthwhile experience."

Following her M.A. at Brown, Good taught at an inner-city high school that was having serious problems with bus­ing and violence.

She relocated to attend AC. Anxious to pursue her Ph. D. in Washington be­cause of its resources, Good says, "AU impressed me. Among ocher things, the history programs were personalized."

Good reflects on her vears at AU fondly. "Beyond the classroom, the pro­fessors were my friends, interested in mv views and my career plans. Thev w~re all wonderful and supportive and helped prepare me for what I'm doing now. AU was very special to me," she says.

One Au professor particularly special to Good is history professor James ~lal­lov, who became her husband in 1976. (fhey now have two sons, Alexander, age seven, and Nicholas, three).

After receiving her Ph. D., Good was in Finland with Malloy when she re­ceived a call about a job opening at the U.S. Naval Academy.

"The position was to teach naval his­tOry, which wasn't mv area of exper­tise," Good recalls, "but I decided to give it a try. The professors at AC wrote such strong letters of recommendation that I got the job." A year later, Good's job was changed to teaching Russian his­wry.

As a civilian in a military em·iron­ment, and a woman in a male em·iron­ment, Good calls this her "double iden­tity." She is proud of the fact that the naval academy is the only service acad­emv to hire civilian facultY.

1~he academy's faculty .is about half civilian, half military, and, Good says, this leads tO some frustrations about how things should be done. "In many >vays, the academy is like any other under­graduate institution; in many ways, it's very different," she adds.

Admittedly unfamiliar with the mili­tary when she started the job, Good says she's learned a great deal. "I don't see the military in a 'lump' anymore," she explains, "but rather as made up of in­dividuals. I have a better understanding of why people go into the military, and I've come to admire and respect a lot of what I've seen. i\lany of my stereotypes proved to be wrong."

Good has "a strong institutional com­mitment" ro the academy. "My stu­dents are inquisitive and very proud and see themselves as our future military leaders," she says. "If they are ever to deal with the Soviets, they need to un­derstand them. That's what I'm here for." D

Defining the Conscience of A merica

he labor movement has been and still is the conscience of Amer­

ica," says Rosemary Trump, SGPA'66. "Most major social legislation in the past has come about because of the advocacy of labor unions."

Trump is one of nine international vice presidents for the Service Employ­ees International Union (SEIU) and the first woman to be a vice president.

The SEIU represents 850,000 mem­bers in the service industry, including health care workers, public employees, building service workers, recreation workers, and secretaries and clerical workers. It is one of the fastest growing unions in the trade union movement. The board of international vice presi­dents serves as a policy-making body of the group.

"This union represents members of

the largest gro\\ ing sectors in emplov­ment- the service industries , " savs Trump. " We work to organize ne.w groups and also ha,·e an aggressi,·e cam­paig n to affiliate with groups already formed . . , The California and Connect­icut stare employees associations ha\·e recently affiliated with SEll' .

''About 50 percent of the union is women," says Trump. "I want to sern~ as an example to all ,,·omen in unions to become active on the local level and to knO\\ they can go on to become a leader of a local union or even a national officer.' '

Rosemary TrumfJ

The service industry includes manv jobs held by women. "\\'omen are ex­ploited because they often receive only minimum wage , few benefits, or parr­time work. I feel we have made great strides in elevating the quality of life for these women. Women provide a major source of income for their families. We are working to relieve economic pres­sures so theY can function in their fam­ilies better ~nd also to help them have input into company decisions that have an impact on their daily lives."

After graduation from Al', Trump took a job as a social worker in Bosron. She

became acti,·e in the local union. She eventually became the SEIC's first full­time organizer expanding her organizing activities statewide.

After the stint in Boston, she moved "home" to Pennsyh·ania with her hus­band, who was working on his master's degree at Carnegie :\lellon. The state had just passed public emplovee legi ·­lation , and Trump became an organizer for the SEll'. As Pennsvlvania's first woman organizer, she hel.ped form the statewide union of human serv ices workers.

Trump says her education at All pro­vided practical experience for the po­sitions she has held. For example, she says, ''Dean [Charles] Goodman got me in a Washington Semester program where I received useful hands-on dealings in governmem . .\fy exposure to each branch of go,·ernment and all the inner work­ings really prepared me for this posi­tion," she says.

Trump says AL1 provided the back­ground needed ''for the many kinds of demands placed on a leader of workers today. You need to know how to com­municate with people to gain support for your goals and objectives.''

In addition, Trump savs, courses like public relations and art have been use­ful. ''Dr. [Andrew] Keck's art appreci­ation course helped make me much more sensitive to the value of art in everyone's life. Many of the educational programs the union conducts include art, theater, and music. The union tries to present an educational forum that enriches the lives of our members in cultural as well as economic ways.''

Trump's goals for the future include promoting public acceptance and un­derstanding of the role of unions in a democratic society. "The labor moYe­ment contributed a signiticant part of the social and economic fabric of this nation, and it will continue to do so."

The union challenge today, says Trump, goes far beyond pocketbook is­sues. It is, she savs, to educate the pub­lic that labor unions act as an advocacv network for all people, as they have i~ the past, for free public education. child labor laws, workers compensation, health care for all , and social sccurit~ for the elderly. D

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lass Notes ARTS & SCIENCES

oAnn Jenkins, BA'54, is news ed­itor of the Catoctin Rnterprise, Fred­

erick County, \Id. She lives in Thur­mont, Md., with her husband and fifteen­year-old son John.

Leonard B. Dworsky, MS'SS, is professor emeritus of environmental en­gineering in the College of Engineering at Cornell University.

Martha Dorf Peiperl, BS'58, is re­search chemist at the Uniformed Ser­vices University. She participated in the Women in Science Program, NSF, 1981.

Francis M. Vaughn, BA'63, was named director of consumer affairs at the National Association for Hearing and Speech Action (NAHSA), to develop new and updated materials in communica­tive disorders, hearing loss, and speech language disorders for NAI I SA's pub­lications.

Marjorie Caplan, BA'68, lives with her husband and two sons in Pennsyl­vania, where she is in residential real estate sales.

Ora Abel-Russell, BA'69, is a film producer in New York City, currently working on two major films as co-writer.

Boyd A. Levet, MA'70, is manager of KG\V-TV's Editorial Voice, docu­mentary and public affairs program­ming, Portland, Oreg.

Mark G . Auerbach, BA'72, is di­rector of marketing for the Greater :\liami Operation Association. A specialist in audience development and arts rourism packaging, he held marketing positions with the Wolf Trap Foundation, the I fousron Ticket Center, Houston Bal­let, the Connecticut Ballet, and the Springfield, [\{ass., Orchestra Associa­tion before joining the Miami associa­uon.

Pamela J. Anderson, BA'74, with the USIA, is seeking an MA in psy­chology at the University of the District of Columbia.

Richard Huhn, BS'76, is a research fellow in cell biology·and pharmacology at Brown University. He studied in Cleveland and Baltimore before moving to Providence, R.I., in 1983.

Jeffrey Mantelman, BA'78, is pres­ident and chief executive officer of Chadwick Inc., a footwear importing

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firm. Rose Mary Byrne, BA'79, is pres­

ident of i'\EXCS, a management and training consulting firm in Washington, D.C.

Tommye J. Tinkham, BA'79, is a partner in the law firm of Solomon, Tinkham & Robinson, \Yashington, D.C.

Peter Twill, BA'81, is vice president of Twill Business Svstems, a printing and office products fi~m in Summit, N.J. He married in 1983 and lives in Chatham, N.j.

M. Walker Pearce, MA'82, is di­rectOr, film, video, and audio programs, for Inver Hills Community College, Minn.

Elizabeth A. Snyder, BA'82, is the assistant art director of 'll' Guide maga­zine.

Lawrence M. Gordon, BA'83, is budget director of the White House Conference on Small Business. He held a number of elected and appointed po­sitions at AU, including directOr of the Kennedy Political Cnion.

Nancy Reuben, BA'83, is working roward a master's degree in communi­cation and public address at North Texas State Universitv.

James T. Johnson, BA'31, was ap­pointed Colorado state coordinatOr of the American Association of Retired Per­sons' tax aid program.

Gordon E. Jowers, BA'40, retired . as pastOr of the Presbyterian Church of Lakeland, Fla., where he is now living.

V. Rebecca Finkelstein, BS'47, received a Superior Senior Award from Iona House for advocacy work with the Washington, D.C., Gray Panthers and other organizations.

Dr. Harold T. Pinkett, Ph0'53, was awarded a bibliographical entry in National Leaders of American Conserva­tiort, compiled by the Natural Resources Council of America, 1985. He is a his­torical and archival consultant.

Bowen Hosford, MA'56, wrote Bioethirs Committees: The Health Cart Provider's Guide. The book, Hosford's third, describes the committees that ad­vise on ethical aspects of medical de­cisions in hospitals, hospices, and nurs­ing homes. He is a branch chief at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,

f\ld. Audrey Ricketts Schinkel, BA'SS,

MA'59, was recently promoted to case­worker I\' in crisis intervention at the Trumbull Countv Children Services Board, Warren, Ohio.

R. Fredrick Taylor, BA'64, MA'67, is president and chief executive officer of First Atlanta Mortgage Corporation, Atlanta, Ga.

Lillian C. Liburdi, BA'68, was elected in 1984 to the National Academv of Public Administration. ·

Stan Shapiro, BS'68, receiYed the 1985 Nichols Award from the American Chemical Society as outstanding high school chemist!'\' teacher of the year.

James Gilbe~t, MA'69, vice. presi­dent for academic affairs at Pittsburg State UniversitY, has been asked tO sef\·e on the l':ati;nal Commission on the Role and Future of State Colleges and Uni­versities.

Joy Spalding, BA'69, completed a research project for the National Citi­zens Coalition for Nursing Home Re­form: Nursing Home ResideNts' Vie-<Ws on Quality Care.

Susan S. Grady, BA'69, is a para­legal for her husband, attOrney William Grady. They have three children and live in Connecticut.

Ellen Stoll Isaly, BA'70, is a resi­dent advocate at a women's shelter run by the HoustOn Area \\'oman's Center.

David J. Edwards, Ph0'73, moved to ?'-Jew Mexico last year, where he works for the Aerospace Corporation.

Jane Estreicher, BA'73, has formed the partnership of Kornreicher and Es­treicher in Miami, Fla.

Catherine M. (Kate) Perrin, BA'73, married Richard G. jones on October 12, 1985. She is director of public re­lations, Trinity College, Washington, D.C.

Steven Rosenbaum, M.D., BA'73, and his wife Ilene announce the birth of their third daughter, Sheri Melissa, on August 27, 1985. Steven is a staff physician in the department of emer­gency medicine at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, N.j.

Cecil David Bradfield, PhD'75, has been promoted ro professor of sociology at James Madison University. He has also been awarded a faculty educational

lea\e for spring 19t{6 to pursue research ~m liberation theology in Central Amer­ICa.

BUSINESS itchell Henry Gordon, BS'63, is seniOr assistant postmaster gen­

eral. lie was vice president in the gen­eral services di\ is ion of ~lerrill Lvnch Pierce, Fenner & Smith, :\ew ):ork: previously.

John Armentrout, BS'64, is vice presidentofE.A. BakerCompan~, Inc., a general contracting firm in Takoma Park, \fd. lie leads the comm~.:rcial di­vision.

J. Michael Bt·adley, BA'65, MBA'73, is executi\ e vice president and general manager of ~lax E. Spann, Inc., Realtors, :'\e\\ Jersev.

Gerald S. Bartfieid, BS'67, is pres­idem and chief executive officer of Se­curity Properties, Inc., Seattle, \\"ash .

Ed Rochford, Jr., BS'69, is presi­dent of "Capital Placements''-Bond Im·estments and Real Estate Parcner­ships, \\'est Orange, N.J.

Charles R. Sterrett, Ph0'75, is pro­fessor and head, department of business administration, Frostburg State Col­lege, \ld.

William C. Gehron, BA'76, is di­rector of sales for the Omni Shoreham Hotel, \\'ashington, D.C.

Anat Yalif, MBA'79, directs the de­velopment and marketing of new and existing products for l\Iarinc 1\lidland's investment banking diYision, :\'e'' York. She and her husband Jonathan have rwo sons, Guv and Asi. and live in ~larlboro. :\' .] . '

Daniel M. Caplan, BSBA'82, has joined Clark Financial Services, Inc., ~lortgage Bankers. Lanham, 1\ld., as a loan officer.

DavidJ. Smith, BA'82, is practicing law in association with the firm of Ig­lehart and .\IcLaughlin in Towson, \I d.

Frank T. Dainese Ill, BS'78, is re­gional sales manager of Independent Explosives Co. of Pennsylvania, co,·­ering :\'ew England, l\'e'' York, New Jersey, ~laryland, Northern Virginia, and Eastern Pennsvh·ania.

Robert H. Kessler, BS'61, is em­ployed by the .\ lartin Marietta Corpo-ration as program engineering manager

in the air traffic control division. He re­tired from the l".S .. \ir Force after 20 \Cars of se1Yice.

James L. Eichberg, BS'62, presi­dent <tnd direcwr of Smith\ Braedon Com pan~, was recently nm~ed "D.C. Realtor of the Year'' by the \\"ashington, D.C .. Association of Realtors.

C. L. Roberts, Jr., MBA'62, has been elected treasurerofLeYer Brothers Com pam, :\ew York.

Brian A. Goldman, BS'68, is a di­rector of the law offices of Fedder and Garten. He was also elected executive \ice president of the firm.

Charles C. Shinn, MBA'68, Ph0'81, president of Shinn Enter­prises, Inc., was named ''Home Builder of the Year" b' the Home Builders As­sociation of ~letropolitan Demer.

Charles C. Shim1

Stephen YankiO\vitz, MBA'68, is ,·ice president and general manager of the Crayola Products Division of Binney & Smith Inc.

J. Carrington, PhD'70, is ch<lirman of the National Ath isory CounciL Small Business Administration.

Bernard Canarick, BS'71, and his wife, Susan Canarick, CAS/BS'72, are living in Plantation, Fla., with their two children. Bernard is practicing law, and Susan is a cooking instructor.

Donald M. Craddock, BS'71, is ,·icc president of sales and marketing for The Product Works, a company in Ohio.

CTA

ee B. Thackerly, MSTM'75, ''ill retire from the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration in :\lav and join the Long & Foster Realtors: An­napolis, .\I d., office sales staff.

Michael Orosz, MS'79, was re­cent!-:-· promoted to head the budgeting group for major corporations and sccu­ritv activities for the l'.S. Department of Energv.

COMMUNICATIONS

arry Cullis, BS'S3, is program co­ordinator of the :\lunicipal Access

Cable T\' Channel, Dcm·cr, Colo. Salwa Khan, BA'72, is a videotape

editor for the \lc:'\eil-Lehrer News Hour.

Barry D. Kluger, BA'75, is director, press relations, .\lTV 0:etworks, Inc.

Rob Stoddard, BA'76, is \\"ashing­ton bureau chief for Cardiff Publish ing Co .. publishers of CaNe Telrcision R11si-11ess. Satdlite ConllnLmiratiolls, Global Com m 1111 ira tio liS. and Com m llll ira tio ns .llagazi11e.

Robert L. Stuckey, BA'80, is a re­porter for ABC affiliate \\'OLO-T\' in Columbia, \ld.

Tanya C. Dovel, BS'81, has joined Glen Construction Company. Inc., as sales marketing coordinator, Gaithers­burg, \!d. She mms two small construc­tion businesses, and scrves on the board of directors of the .\rnerican Institute of ConstructOrs and the .\mcrican Council of Construction Education.

R. Jill Sieminski, BA'84, has com­pleted a national media commission project, is working at the (;rand I h·au HoteL New York Citv, and does f;ee-lance \Hiring. ·

John Metelsky, MA'67, received a certificate of appreciation from the :\a­tiona! Press Club for his "meritorious service'' as editor of the .\'PC Rcrord, the club's weekly ne\\slctter. ~letclskv has served on the Rerorrl as photogra~;her, \Vfiter, or editor for twentv vears. He is director of press rclations ;t-the .\gcncv for International De,·elopment. ·

Susan Perry, BA'73, and .Jim Dawson, BA'73/MA'78, arc authors of Six!ttmtlre: Womm and the /)a Ikon Shield

SPRIJ\'G 1986 2 7

published by Macmillan in September 1985. Winner of an American Health Book Award for 1985, Nightmare was se­lected as one of the ten best health books by American Health magazine; it was also awarded a 1985 "Editor's Choice" des­ignation by the American Library As­sociation.

Michae!J. Volpe, BA'74, is directOr of public affairs for Gannett newspa­pers. He is married to Mary Beth Franklin, BA'75, who covers taxes and budget on Capitol Bill for l"nited Press International.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

dward Neill, BS'71, is retired and living in Northern California.

arbara H. Gray (Burke), BS'63, is in her fourth year as librarian at

St. Phillip's Elementary School, Falls Church, Va. Her husband is with TRW; thev have three children.

Gary Virkus, BA'67, has been pro­moted to assistant vice president, field operations, at Argonaut 1 nsurance Com­pany's home office in l\Ienlo Park, Calif.

Donna Galterio Brown, BA'69, is social studies coordinatOr for grades S-8 at Rye Country Day School in Rve, ~.Y. She and her husband are also pan-time caterers.

Robert Xides, Jr., BA'72, was elected president of the McKeesport, Pa., Rotarv Club for 1986-87.

Steven ·A. Silverman, BA'75, re­ceived a JD in 1980 at George Wash­ington University. He is a partner in the law firm of Silverman & Schild, which represents numerous condominium as­sociations in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

Deborah K. Hughes, MPA'81, is director of development for the Stetson l lniversity College of Law in Florida. She oversees programs pf the law school in conjunction with the university's long­range plans.

Gregory C. McCaffery, BS'82, is editor of Colle[[e Jfarketing Alert. pub­lished in Arlington, Va . .He worked on the AU Fag/e as an undergraduate.

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Susan Zecchin, BA'84, is a copy­writer/junior account executive vvith the Alirnick Company in midtown l\Ianhat­tan and lives in Kings Park. N.Y.

Edwin J. Kirschner, BS'SO, MA'Sl, PhD'79, is president of Florida Space Coast Writers Conference, Inc.

John W. Hemstead, MA'54, re­cently published his book Pay, in which he recounts the experiences of a junior supply officer during World War II.

David Theall, MA'58, has recently joined the F al mouth Fntnprise news­paper, Falmouth, Mass., as a reporter.

Harry Kranz, JD'62, was elected president, :\'ational Association of Re­tired Federal Employees- Chevy Chase chapter, 1985. He is also a panel chair­man for the Maryland Health Claims Arbitration office.

Kenneth M. Duberstein, MA'66, has been elected a trustee of Franklin and l\Iarshall College, Lancaster, Pa. He is a principal of the Washington, D.C., consulting firm of Timmons and Com­pany, Inc.

John Vorperian, BS'80, was elected ro the local chapter council of the Amer­ican Society for Public Administration, a national organization dedicated to the advancement of government and study of the public sector.

John Vm·perian

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

'lliam L. Campbell, BA'62, with a JD from Hastings College of Law,

is with the Christy and Campbell law firm in Santa Clara, Calif.

Evelyn Knight, MA'70, is assistant professor in the department of com­munity health at East Carolina l 'niver­sirv School of Allied Health and Social \\"ork, Greenville, :'\.C.

Neale Godfrey, BA'72, is president and CEO of the First \\'omen's Bank. She was vice president at Chase Na­tional Bank.

Lt. Col. Tom Sander, MA'72, is military attache at the American Em­bassy in London. He was earlier a Pen­tagon exchange officer at the l ' nited States Information Agencv.

Douglas B. Wilson, BA'78, is with Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Es­tate Services, Bakersfield, Calif., as an office leasing specialist.

Katherine Baisden, BS'80, re­ceived her l\IA from the llni\·ersitv of l\1ichigan in political science. Sh~ is seeking her doctorate there.

Michele Casper, BA'83, is studying public health and epidemiology at the Cniversitv of North Carolina.

Adrienne R. Mindel, MA'66, pro­fessor of history at Hood College, served as the commentator on papers that were presented in the Nineteenth Annual Duquesne University Hisrory Forum in Pittsburgh. She headed the session en­titled "Women, the Gender Issue and the French Revolution."

Gary Harris, BA'67, and his wife l\lary announce the birth of their son, Brett, August 7, 1985, in Annercy, France.

Sanford R. Silverburg, MA'68, Ph0'73, professor of political science at Catawba College, Salisbury, N.C., has completed the bibliographv for the book Israel Fares the Future. Silverburg is the author of numerous bibliographies and articles on Israel and the !\Iiddle East.

Brian McNamara, BA'70, is the deputy director of narcotics assistance unit at the American Embassy in Lima, Peru.

Suzanne Smith Strauss, BA'70, and her hu~band Harvey are expecting their second child. Their first child, Lisa Javne Strauss, was born Fcbruarv ZO, 19H4.

Norman W. Powell, BA'71, MEd'72, EdD'S3, of Nova l ' niYersitv and the Center for the ,\dvanccment o.f Education, Fort Lauderdale. Fla. , was appointed associate director of the mas­ter's program for child care administra­tor~. I Ie is sen ing his second term as president of the :\ational Organization of Child Care Worker Associations.

Ilene Solomon, l\1A'75, is listed in 1\'ho's Who of .lmniran Women. She is a teacher with the \lontgomcry County (\ld.) Public Schools.

Robert Ransom, MA'73, was ap­pointed Africa regional advisor in vo­cational rehabilitation with the Inter­national Labor Organization, stationed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, effecti,·e Jan­uarv 19H6.

iames A. Schear, BA'75, has reached an agreement with I\lad.Iillan Press (London) on his book manuscript, entitled 1lrms Conrrol and Compliance Di plomary.

Brad J. Botwin, BA'79, has been named program manager for industrial capabilities, strategic analysis di,·ision. Industrial Trade Admininisrration, Washington, D.C.

Mary Catherine Malin, BA'81, graduated from the l ' ni,·ersitv of Cali­fornia. Hastings College of Law, with honors, \lay 1984. She passed the Cal­ifornia Bar, the Pennsvlvania Bar and has been admitted to t-he D. C. Bar.

Wendy Strip Sittsamer, BA'83, is assistant director of alumni relations, l lniversity of Detroir.

LAW illiam Payne Heath, JD'62, is assistant chief counsel for Ea t­

man Chemical Products, Inc., of Kings­port. Tenn., and heads the patent law staff.

Richard Jones, LLB'64, a veteran pilot and attorney, is deputy adminis­trator of the Federal A,·iation Admin­istration.

Donald J. Drees, Jr., JD'70, for­merly assistant director, interpretive di­vision, office of chief counsel. Internal

Patrick J. Hagan

Revenue Sen·ice, has joined Touche Ross & Co. in Washington. D.C., where he will specialize in federal insurance tax matters.

Fred Drasner, JD'71, formerly vice chairman of the C.S .• \'elJJ'S a11d World Report, is now president and chief ex­ecutive officer of the company.

The Honorable Reggie B. Walton, JD'74, is associate judge for the Su­perior Court of the District of Columbia. In 19tH, he was chosen bv the l 1.S. Jav­cees for Outs!tmding Young.lfen ofA.metiat and is listed in Who's Who in Jmetimn Laru· for 1985.

Jonathan E. Kaufmann, JD'75, and Alan W. Brick, JD'75, have formed a law partnership in Annandale, \'a.

Sarah R. Dickinson, JD'76, opened the Ia" office of Pontzer and Dickinson in Ridgewav, Pa.

Susan Gilbert,JD'77, works part time with Richard J. Hirn.

Alexis Iszard, BS'69, JD'78, is au­thor with B. George Ballman of an ar­ticle, "Can an Owner Withdraw His Agreement to Sell Prior tO the Listing Expiration?" He is senior associate with Conroy, Fitzgerald & Ballman, Rock­ville, I\ld., and was with the oftice of the general counsel, L'.S. Department of Agriculture.

Richard Mark Gittleman, JD'82, married Lauren Claire Greenberger in July l<J85. The couple li\ e in Kinshasa, Zaire. He is an attorney for Duncan, Allen & l\litchell, Washington. D.C.

Andrew Janquitto, JD'83, married Elizabeth Albert in july. The couple li\'es in Baltimore, \ld .

Peter C. Gordon, J D'85, is law clerk to Superior Court Judge Karen Russell, \[orris Count,·, :'\.J.

David Steinmetz, JD'85, joined the law firm of Kaye, Scholer. Fierman, I Iavs and Handler, :\ew York, in Juh l<J8.~.

PatrickJ. Hagan.JD'75, ha~joined the tirm of Dann, Dorfman, Herrell and Skillman, P.C .. practicing patent, trademark and copyright law in Phila­delphia. He lives in Ardmore , Pa., "ith his wife and four children.

NURSING

ane P. Sutermeister, BS'77, is in the master's program in counseling

at George \lason l'niversitv. Alan G. Wright, BSN'82, has been

working as a nurse-medical instructor at the Ban \'andi Refugee Camp in :\orth Thailand since October 1 <JS4.

Erica G. King, BSN'75, ga,·c birth to her second daughter, Charlotte Em­ilv, on December 10, 19H4.

DEATHS

imber L. Shoop, CAS BA'39, on \larch 26, 19S5, :'\ew Castle. Del.

Douglas T. Johnston, KCBA BS'Sl, on October-+, 1985, Springfield. \ 'a.

Donald A. Poliquin, CAS BA'52, on November 27, 1985, WashingtOn. D.C.

Robert W. Hughes, KCBA BS'61, on April 21, 1985, Richmond, \'a.

Sandra Lazarus, CAS BA'63, on January 25. 1985, Philadelphia, Pa.

Fred Nagy, SIS BA'65, September 1985, San Dieguito, Calif.

Phyllis Diness, CAS MEd'74, on September 17, 19S5, Bethesda, \1d. \lemorial services were held September 1985, at Kav Spiritual Center, The American Cni,·crsit\.

John F. Edwa~ds, CAS BS'SO, Januarv 16. 1986, in I Ltrrisonburg, Va.

SPRING 1986 29

Women's Team Going After the Best in Basketball

---blend of veteran experience and A young talent has produced the most successful season of wom­

.=- ..;:;;;o.ee n's basketball in American University history. The Eagles, under head coach Linda Ziemke, were con­tenders for the Colonial Athletic Asso­ciation crown but lost by one point in the final seconds of a semifinal match with East Carolina in the league's tour­nament at North Carolina-Wilmington, February 27 through March 1.

Behind the steady play of co-captains Jody Thornton, CAS'87, and Kathy Hughes, KCBA'87, the Eagles won more games this season (20-7) than any other women cagers in the school's history. AU's all-time assists leader, Thornton led the CAA in assists and set school and conference records for most assists in a season. She was chosen first team aii-CAA.

Hughes was steady as both a starter and a reserve. "Kathy may be our 'un­sung hero,"' Ziemke says. "She didn't score in double figures every night, but she grabbed the key rebound or made the clutch basket."

Sophomore Beth Shearer, CAS'88, made a strong contribution in the later games, coming back from injuries early in the season. Her aggressive style of play was admired by teammates and op­ponents alike. "She plays every game like it was the championship," said Courtney Mclnness of Richmond after the Eagles defeated the Spiders in a CAA contest.

Guards Janine Lorimer, SOJ'88, Dana Diller, KCBA'87, and Lisa Rosenthal, SOJ'87, each contributed to the Eagles' success. And front-line players like Kia Cooper, KCBA'88 (the team's second­leading rebounder), Hilary Hershey, CAS'86 (the team's only senior), Shauna Walden, undeclared'89, and Alison Sut­ton, CAS'89, played important roles in AU's climb to basketball prominence.

Perhaps the most significant perform­ance of the season was by freshman for­ward Kelly Lane, undeclared'89. Lane, a high school all-American from Roch­ester, N.Y., was named CAA Player of

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Beth Shearer contests a jump ball against George Mason. Teammate Kathy Hughes awaits the tip. AU won the contest 75-62.

the Week twice this season and is the league's leading scorer. Averaging nearly 18 points per game, the Eagles' leading scorer and rebounder (7. 5 rebounds per game) was the CAA Rookie of the Year and first team aii-CAA.

With their first 20-win season, the Ea­gles captured the attention of local and national media. At one point, AU re-

ceived votes for the USA Today national top 25 poll.

As coach Ziemke, in her eighth sea­son, says, "This is a glimpse of what we'll be able to achieve in seasons to come."

That's good news for AU fans and perhaps fair warning for some of the best teams in women's basketball. D

Where Assistance Counts

-ody Thornton, CAS'87, was the J Colonial Athletic Association's (CAA) leading returning scorer at the start of this season with 14.3

points per game. And she is AU's all­time leader in assists-in every cate­gory. This year, Thornton's 193 assists surpassed her 1984-85 record of 163, which beat her freshman record of 149.

A member of the state championship team her senior year in high school, Thornton turned down offers from Penn State and Syracuse to attend AU. "I knew I would be able to contribute right away here," says Thornton. "The team was mostly seniors, and I knew the program would be rebuilding and give me a good chance to play as a freshman."

Thornton saw plenty of playing time her freshman year, setting the school record for assists and being chosen CAA rookie of the week.

AU's location in Washington and ac­ademic reputation also figured in her choice. "AU has offered me even more than I expected, in both academics and athletics," says the junior communica­tions major with a specialty in public relations and a minor in psychology.

Thornton plays with many of the teammates who started out with her three years ago. "People always talk about the value of experience, but you don't really know the difference it makes until you see it first hand."

Thornton feels her career options are many. One is to attend a graduate school and work as an assistant coach. Another option is to play professional basketball overseas. "That would be an opportu­nity for me to travel in Europe," says Thornton.

Another possibility is to teach in a high school and coach a women's basketball team. "My high school coach has at ready asked me to come back," she says.

Thornton has a year and another bas­ketball season to decide about her ca­reer. Whatever she does, she says she will be involved with a women's bas­ketball team. "I won't just hang up my shoes altogether."

Frank Ross: AU's Master of Offense

.' most Division I physical stan-B dards, Frank Ross, CAS'87, doesn't appear to be an "impact player." The lanky guard stands

6'2" and is still slim enough to make mothers cluck in nutritional admoni­tion.

However, Ross is American Univer­sity's biggest player in a lot of ways. He led the Eagles in scoring over the last two years, and at his present pace, is destined to become one of AU's most prolific scorers.

The former Potomac High (Temple Hills, Md.) standout provided some sta­bility to AU's offense in a season that had more downs than ups for the Eagles (10-18 in a season that started S-0). He led the Eagles in scoring twenty-four rimes in twenty-eight games and has scored 30 points or more five rimes this season. His 33-point performance against William & l\Iary enabled him to pass the 1 ,000-point mark and overtake Richmond's John Newman in the Co­lonial Athletic Association (CAA) scor­ing race.

The all-America candidate acknowl-edges recognition as a top scorer has irs drawbacks. "The first two seasons, peo­ple didn't know that much about me; but this year, every time I touch the ball, you can hear the defense screaming 'shooter, shooter!' It's definitely harder to get the good shots now," the Eagles' leading scorer says.

For the last rwo seasons, Ross has played the shooting guard position, thanks to the quick development of sophomore point guard Mike Sampson, KCBA'88. Bur Ross was recruited as a point guard. "We saw him as a very g.ood point guard who could contnbute nghr away," AU assistant coach Chris Knoche says. "However, Frank has worked hard to develop into a more complete offen­sive player. And with his scoring capa­bilities, you want to free him ofrhe b~ll­handling responsibilities to let h1m concentrate on scoring," Knoche adds.

Scoring has been Ross' responsibility this season. After a frustrating sopho­more season in which a thigh injury

caused him to miss nine games, Ross has blossomed as a junior. Besides lead­ing the CAA in scoring (23 points per game), he was among the league leaders in field goal and free throw percentages. He was elected to the second team aii­CAA. And, as befits a player who has been ranked nationally (as high as ninth) in scoring, Ross has been consistent. He was held to under 20 points only four times this season.

Not limited to one dimension, Ross rakes pride in his defensive work as well. He leads the Eagles in steals with 64. He has 138 career thefts and says that coming up with a steal that leads to an easy bucket "is the ultimate two [points]."

Behind Ross, a young team is coming into irs own. Sophomores Sampson, Chuck West, KCBA'88, and Eric White, CAS'88, have been developing into im­portant players . Sampson has assumed his role as playmaker, leading the ream in assists for the second straight year. West and White have continued their team leadership in field goal percentage and rebounding, respectively.

Reserve players like Pat Witting, CAS'87, Rod Brown, CAS'87, and Tom Scherer, SGPA'88, have come into their

Frank Ross, left, iu the game against Gem·ge Washington.

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own for the Eagles as well. The Eagles and Frank Ross hope that their persist­ence and patience wi ll develop into the competitive consistency needed to mas­ter an offense and a determined defense fo r the 1986-87 season. D

Honors Cap Record Soccer Year

-op nationa l coaching honors went T to Coach Pete Mehlert, who was named 1985 NCAA National Coach

_ of the Year by the National Soccer Coac h es Assoc ia ti on of America (NSCAA).

Me hl ert, w ho was honored at the NSCAA convention in St. Louis in Jan-

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uary, was surprised to receive the award, since the coach of the national champion (in this case, UCLA's Sigi Schmid) is usually named.

"It's an honor that I'll always remem­ber and an honor that is a tribute to the effort our team made this past season," said Mehlert.

The 1985 AU soccer team sported a 19-2-3 record and was the first AU team of any sport to play for an NCAA cham­pionship.

Mehlert was also named coach of the year for the NSCAA Mid-Atlantic Re­gion and the Colonial Athletic Associ­ation (CAA). His career coaching record is 135-68-25.

Eagles Michael Brady, CAS'86, and Keith Trehy, CAS'87, were honored by

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Alum in This Photo?" with great in ­terest and enjoyment. As an AU alum (MPA, Urban Affairs, '73), I, too, have gravitated to the sports business. In fact, in my capacity as president of Silverman, Warren/Kremer, Inc., pub­lic relations here in New York, I have been involved with three of the AU alums mentioned in the storv.

Michael Menchel was a client of mine when he was vice president of marketing for the New York Arrows of the Major Indoor Soccer League. Henry Brehm remains a client at ProServ insofa r as we both work on the Volvo Tennis program. And Andy Dolich (with whom I also went to ele­mentary school and high school) and I have both been involved with Base­ball Fantasies Fulfi ll ed Camps.

the NSCAA as All-America players, Brady for the third time and Trehy for the first.

Brady also captured two of the three top individual awards given collegiate soccer players. He was named Out­standing Offensive Player in the NCAA Championship and Player of the Year by Soccer America, a national soccer newsweekly. Brady was runner-up for the third top award, the Hermann Tro­phy, an annual award voted by collegiate coaches to the top college player.

Brady was also named CAA Player of the Year and Adidas College Player of the Year.

In addition, USA Today named the AU soccer team the D. C. Team of the Year in the newspaper's listing of 1985 sports achievers. D

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