DIALOGUES FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

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Award-Winning Art Ellen Dare Safrit

Ellen Safrit discusses her award-winning art with Director Charles Eilber, University of North Carolina President CD. Spongier and Mrs. Spongier at exhibit's opening.

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Safrit Combines Art and Science Ellen Dare Safrit entered the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

determined to meld her aptitude and interest in science with her special creative talents in art. Her aim was to dispel the stereotype of NCSSM students as computer jocks and bookworms.

By all accounts she succeeded brilliantly. Not only did she graduate last spring with a full-tuition Deans' Honor Scholarship at TUlane University, but she also was selected as a winner in fhe national Art of Science art competition sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences.

Safrit's award-winning work, Botanist's Cathedral, is a three-panel, photographic silk-screen described by the artist as a unique set of "stained glass windows." It is currently part of a national touring show that opened at NCSSM September 28 with a reception honor­ing the artist

Using a microscope, Safrit photographed the cellular structure of monocot and dicot stems, and used a combination of manual cutting and silkscreen processes to create three prints of lavendar, purple and pink.

At the opening reception, held in the school's Philip Morris Art Studio, Safrit expressed her gratitude for having been given the opportunity to attend NCSSM and for the tutelage of art instructor Joe Liles. She also presented Director Charles Eilber with a set of prints for permanent display at the School.

NCSSM was the only school on a roster of exhibition sites dominated by museums and galleries. Its showing continued through November 6.

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Campus construction and renovation projects totaling more than $5 million are set to get underway this winter as develop­ment of the School's 27-acre campus continues.

Included are construction of a physical activity center and maintenance building, and renovation of Hill House residence hall.

The long-awaited physical activity cen­ter, a 32,000-square-foot facility to be situ­ated on west campus near Maryland Ave­nue, will house a 600-seat arena for basket­ball and volleyball, courts for handball and racquetball, gymnastics equipment, a training room and dance studio, and class­rooms and offices. Long-range plans in­clude the addition of a swimming pool adjacent to the center.

An existing building on the site, once used as the laundry for Watts Hospital and later as the School's Multipurpose Center, will be fully utilized as part of the new facil­ity. Total cost for the project is $2.6 million.

Hill House, which closed last December, will receive a $2.3 million face-lift. When completed, it will provide living space for 75 boys, apartments for residen­tial advisors, lounges and study areas, and offices for the foreign language department, complete with a state-of-the-art foreign language lab.

The construction signals the start of a new stage in the transformation of the Watts Hospital and School of Nursing complex.

During the past year, the School reopened historic Watts Hall, the oldest building on campus, which now houses the mathematics and computer science department, humanities and administra­tive offices.

The doors also were opened to a new 200-bed boys' dormitory, and a newly reno­vated and fully equipped art department complex.

Completion of the physical activity cen­ter and Hill House projects is expected in mid-1989.

Construction begins this winter on NCSSM's new $2.5 million Physical Activity Center.

National Merit, Achievement Lists NCSSM Students

The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics has placed 77 students on the list of 15,000 National Merit Schol­arship semifinalists—more than any other school in the nation for fhe fourth consec­utive year.

More than one million students in 19,000 U.S. secondary schools entered the merit program competition by taking a qualifying test last fall. The top scorers in every state, representing about half of one percent of the state's high school graduat­ing class, were named as semifinalists.

Some 6,000 National Merit Scholarships totaling $23 million will be awarded next spring by businesses, colleges and the Na­tional Merit Corporation. NCSSM students remaining in competition are:

Arshad N. Ahsanuddin, Colin B. Bald­win, James E. Bates, Nike T Beaubier, Lorin Benedict, David S. Bigham, Chris­topher A. Bizon, Joshua L. Bliss, William R. Bressette, Georg F Buehler, David E. Byrd, Catherine E. Caldwell, Christy Can­non, Catherine M. Cheves, Stewart L. Coulter.

Jonathan P. Davis, Dianne C. Eddinger, Peter D. Eisenhauer, Jessica M. Flowers, Warren G. Fryar, Paul W Fullbright, Anne George, Barbara M. Gilbert, Stephanie R. Glaser, Rebecca A. Gorton, Jessica P. Green, Jeffrey M. Hoffman, David L. Howard, Shane M. Hutson.

Ronald S. Jackson, Elizabeth K. Judge, Aimee E. Kandl, Pamela K. Keel, Huisun Kim, Katherine L. Kirby, Bert J. Klein, Tom E. Kraines, Wendy S. Kuo, Roger A. Ladd, Katherine A. Lea, Nathan S. Lefler,

Sharon R. Letchworth, Lawrence Liao, Charles A. Lockwood, Charles A. Lyons.

Deborah M. MacEntee, Christopher S. Marks, Jonathan C. Mattingly, Alice E. Mauskopf, Tina M. McSwain, Harvey R. Miranda, Cathleen D Nicholson, Leigh L. Noble, Sean D. O'Brien, Mark D. Ollis, John W. O'Tbel, Duncan S. Parks, Wendy J. Podgaysky, Nicole D. Prysby, Steven J. Reissner.

Scott D. Rhodes, Mark A. Rishavy, Noralea E. Rose, Eric S. Sessoms, Asit Sharma, Eric R. Sharpe, Linda Sherif, Tyler M. Smith, David K. Steinmiller, Bryan D Stensvad, Jason M. Sullivan, Harold C. Sun, Lawrence E. Theden, Julie C. Wad­dle, Tracy L. Webster, Stephanie M. Wit-brodt and Donald L. Wright.

National Achievement Semifinalists

Ten North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics students have been se­lected as semifinalists in the 1988 National Achievement Scholarship Program for Outstanding Negro Students.

NCSSM's semifinalists, selected on the basis of their performance on the PSAT/ National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test last fall, are among 1,500 high school seniors nationwide who remain in compe­tition for about 700 National Achievement Scholarships worth more than $2 million. They are:

Danielle E. Bernard, Mykeko Bryant, Zerrick A. Bynum, Corey L. Daniels, Audra E. Davis, Warren G. Fryar, Hugh M. Howard, Shannon A. Levister, Tonyu A. Marshall and Tina L. Smith.

NCSSM Welcomes Class of 1989 From Manteo High in the East to Mur­

phy High in the West, 205 of the state's best students entered the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics this fall as the Class of 1989.

Selection of the class followed a state­wide recruiting campaign and rigorous screening process. The juniors represent 67 counties, 127 schools and 82 school systems, and raise the level of representa­tion in the student body as a whole to 87 counties, 209 schools and 123 school systems.

According to NCSSM Director Charles Eilber, members of the new class arrived on campus with excellent preparation to meet the NCSSM challenges.

"Our selection committee had the diffi­cult task of choosing from among so many exceptional nominees," Eilber said. "The home schools of these students should be proud of the fine preparation they have given them."

Listed by county, these are the students in the class of 1989:

ALAMANCE: Mark A. Wagoner and Eric L. Short; ALEXANDER: Robert J. Steele; BEAU­FORT: Samuel P. Brauer; BERTIE: William G. Pitt­man, III, Victor T. Skinner and Tawana A. Walker; BLADEN: Sonya L. Singletary; BRUNSWICK: John P. Hunt, Kristen C. Boyles and Christine E. Brown; BUNCOMBE: Scott W. Foster, Thomas J. Snee, Steven Winder, Eric E. Rainey, Benjamin W Trotter III, Sally J. Austin, and Kimberly S. Mantooth.

BURKE: Jennifer Rourke, Matthew Becker, Eric

D. Ervin and Joseph D. Whisnant, Jr.; CABARRUS: Kenneth E. Hinson and Marc A. Sloop; CALD­WELL: William G. Adderholdt; CARTERET: Justin W. Thomas; CASWELL: Kenyatta Upchurch; CATAWBA: Kevin A. Beatty and Bradley J. Byrd; CHATHAM: Shannon R. Turlington; CHEROKEE: Dinesh S. Rao; CHOWAN: George M. Kaupp; CLEVELAND: Kevin D. Cash and Mary S. Fabian.

CUMBERLAND: John C. Pace, Rhonda K. Hyden, Cassandra D. Caldwell, Donna J. Zavesky, Kimberly E. Williams, Gregory M. Winstead and Gregory T. Kang; DARE: Brett H. Cannon; DAVIDSON: Jeffrey T. Skinner and Jacqueline M. Jackson; DAVIE: Ken­neth L. Ferguson, Christopher D. Krause and Brian B. Barbour; DUPLIN: Bryant A. Murphy, Evelyn L. Jones and Jason A. Smith.

DURHAM: Agnes J. Acedo, Jonathan F. Kuni-holm, Elvis Lewis, III, Sherri L. Rankin, Theresa M. McCoy, Leslie K. Gaddis, Torraine A. Williams, Jacqueline T. Wigfall and Lok H. Wong; EDGE­COMBE: Kenneth E. Spruill, Jr.; FORSYTH: Willie R. Matthewson and Edwin B. Anderson, Jr.; GAS­TON: Melinda J. Brown, Michael E. Waldinger, Kirsten R. Williams and Virginia M. Rowland; GRAHAM: Crystal D. Buchanan.

GREENE: Beth C. Krodel and Charlene L. War­ren; GUILFORD: Marlene Gibson, Aaron M. Nauman, Howard K. Thompson, Kristen A. Mitchell, Lydia E. Craft, Geoffrey A. Guzynski, Joel D. Holt, Mark Ingle and Richa Chandra; HALIFAX: Robert L. Draper, Arthur D. Fu and Julia W Whitaker; HARNETT: Steven H. Everhart, Jr., Sherry L. Smith and Patrick Strader; HENDERSON: Meredith MacKenzie and Christopher M. Moore.

HERTFORD: Julie E. Ferguson and Monte L. Earley; HOKE: Gregory K. McLeod; IREDELL: Melanie R. Nilsson, Andrea L. Harris, Virginia Lindenberger, Susan T. Oates and Rhonda M. Over-cash; JACKSON: Mahalia B. Nicholas; JOHNSTON: Cynthia A. Johnson and Caroline Y. Dobson; LEE: Rebecca M. Haynes; LENOIR: Hyun H. Min; MACON: Carol J. McCollum; MCDOWELL: Bret J. Boyer and Lynette T. Hardy.

MECKLENBURG: Janine E. Bullard, Eliza K. Johnson, Mark A. Slater, Milton L. Artis, Kristen W Culler, Lawson A. Jackson, Jr., Howard R. Weeks, III, Christopher W. Myers, Dickson W. Slater, Danene A. Groenke, Shyu Siegfried, Melissa S. Stewart, Gregory J. Sutton, Jane E. Wang, Michele T. Quinn and Christopher R. Heinze; MOORE: Christopher W Knouff, Kirk W Schmidt and Jeffrey S. Boros; NASH: John M. Tatum and Bruce M. Lee.

NEW HANOVER: John C. Boney, Sheri L. Car­roll, Ashley G. Merritt, Malia S. Horak, Matthew A. Levy and Hiram D. Settle, III; ONSLOW: Matthew C.

Anderson, Jeffrey S. Stephens, V William N. Young, Roberto A. Gonzalez and Mark A. Jones; ORANGE: Linie Y. Chang, Daniel P. Cory, Peter T Haughton, Regan A. Huff, Kimberly J. Silk, Adam S. Trotter and Christopher B. Sheila; PASQUOTANK: Andria Lee, Frank P. Scott, III and James M. Ward.

PENDER: Kelly A. Phillips; PERSON: Kirkland L. Hicks; PITT: Kathryn E. Day, Leticia McCotter, Anthony M. Simmons, Jonathan P. Carson, Julie L. Garrison, Samara I. Hamze, Won Kim and Robert MacKenna; ROBESON: Scheherazade Pittman and Angelo M. Lowry; ROCKINGHAM: Craig D. Trauschke and Ronald L. Hundley, Jr.; ROWAN: Tina M. Burleson and Julia K. Roos; RUTHER­FORD: Darla F Pruette; SAMPSON: Tonya R. Smith.

STANLY: Mark W Morgan; SURRY: Julie D. Hamlin, Brendan F. Good and Tracy D. Jennings: TRANSYLVANIA: Terra G. McKinnish; TYRRELL: Dean M. Roughton and Sonya C. Simpson; UNION

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BOG Appoints New Trustees

Susanne M. Gatchell, Freda Nicholson and Theodore E. Haigler Jr. were ap­pointed in July to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Board of Thistees.

Gatchell, concept vehicle chief engineer with the Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada Group of General Motors Corporation, and Nicholson, Director of Charlotte Muse­ums, were installed at the Board's Septem­ber meeting.

Haigler, president and chief executive officer of Burroughs Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park and director of The Wellcome Foundation Ltd. in Lon­

don, England, will join the board at its December meeting.

All three were appointed by the Univer­sity of North Carolina Board of Governors and will serve until 1991.

They replace Dean W. Colvard, first board chairman, Norton F. Tennille, a charter member of the board, and George Watts Hill, a valued member of several committees vital to the establishment and development of NCSSM. Resolutions honoring the retiring board members for their service to the School were read aloud and entered into the official board minutes at the June meeting.

New trustees Freda Nicholson (center) and Susanne Gatchell (right) take oath at September meeting.

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Summer Programs Enroll Hundreds Students from across North Carolina

and teachers from across the state and nation participated last summer in pro­grams administered by the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

More than 650 high school students attended Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics—a five-week, residential pro­gram for students with special interest and talent in science and mathematics—held this year on six campuses of the University of North Carolina. It was the largest enroll­ment yet in the program's three years of operation.

But students weren't the only ones who benefitted from public service programs

The N.C. Biotechnology Center sponsored a week-long workshop in the concepts of recombinant DNA for 29 teachers from across North Carolina.

offered through NCSSM's Division of Spe­cial Programs and Research. Some 366 teachers from North Carolina and seven other states participated in workshops held at the School and coordinated through the NCSSM Mathematics and Science Educa­tion Center.

Among the offerings were two Mathe­matics Leadership TVaining Institutes, and workshops in the Chemistry of Consumer Chemicals, Neurosciences, Science as a Verb and Contemporary Topics in Pre­calculus. The Precalculus workshop was offered once for North Carolina teachers and again, with National Science Founda­tion funding, for teachers representing nine urban mathematics collaboratives nationwide.

The workshops and institutes were made possible through the combined resources of the School, the State Department of Public Instruction, the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the General Electric Foundation, Xerox Corporation and the Carolina Power and Light Company.

NCSSM also provided classroom and dormitory space for two other workshops— Recombinant DNA for Beginners, spon­sored by the N.C. Biotechnology Center, and a microcomputer camp for librarians, offered by the School of Library and In­formation Science at North Carolina Cen­tral University.

Since its opening in the fall of 1980, NCSSM has served more than 4,000 North Carolina teachers. Already recruiting and planning are underway for summer '88 programs.

Five Join Faculty Five new instructors joined the NCSSM

faculty this fall in the areas of mathematics, chemistry, English and foreign languages.

John G. Parker, a Babcock Instructor at NCSSM during the 1983-84 academic year, and James S. Bostick, a former West-inghouse manufacturing engineering spe­cialist and teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, joined the mathematics faculty.

Parker has taught at UNC-Greensboro, Northampton County High School-East and Bayside High School in Virginia Beach. He earned the B.S. in mathematics from Guilford College and the M.Ed, in mathe­matics education from UNC-Greensboro. Bostick holds the B.S.I.E. from Auburn University and the M.S. in biomedical engi­neering education from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Michael J. Cipolla, a former teacher in the Chicago Public Schools who also has taught at Holy Cross and Loyola, was ap­pointed chemistry instructor. He holds both the Ph.D in aquatic ecology and the M.S. in biology from Northwestern Univer­sity, and the A.B. in biology from Holy Cross.

Two part-time instructors were added to the humanities faculty. Yung-Lai Michelle Hsiang will teach Chinese And Soon-Heng Lim will teach English. Both have teaching experience at the college level.

The School also welcomed six new resi­dent advisors—Kenneth Jones, W Scott Jones, Michael Walters, Mike Gunzen-hauser, Catherine Maday and Elizabeth Harbin—and named Paula Barnes as new computer center operations manager. Barnes brings 10 years of experience with computers and information processing and a degree in mathematics from Guilford College to her new position at NCSSM.

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Mark W Vilas, Sean R Fahey and Daphne L. Moore; VANCE: Justin W Harris and Annice F Hood.

WAKE: Marianne S. Johnston, Jennifer L. James, Patrick M. Neeley, Howard B. Wallace, III, Eugene K. Yen, Gregory S. Thacker, Alexander R. Abbas, Gregory B. Abbas, Theresa W Cannon, Chin Hu, Jack S. Kao, Rebecca E. McCallum, Sharon C. Posey, Nghia N. Iran, Sasha K. Wood and Izy-ying Wu.

WATAUGA: Melissa P. Bonner; WAYNE: Alan M. Jones, Venkata R. Jonnalagadda, Dennis F. Daly, III and Carl A. Ryden; WILKES: Brian C. Barlow, Marty R Combs, Leticia S. Myers and Kimberly R. Reid; WILSON: Chandra N. Murrain, Jayashri V. Ghate and Kenneth T. Walsh.

Donations, Pledges Support School Corporations, foundations, and indivi­

dual donors, recognizing the vital role they play in the continued growth and develop­ment of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, contributed $791,485 to the School and its constituent programs during the 1986-87 fiscal year.

"The 1986-87 fiscal year was an excep­tional one for development at NCSSM," said head of development Jane Rabon.

"The gift total is due in large measure to the active commitment to NCSSM's devel­opment efforts by parents, friends, cor­porations and foundations. Their wide­spread generosity continues to impact significantly on NCSSM's ongoing needs."

In addition to the year's cash receipts, new pledge commitments totaling more than $560,000 were recorded. The largest single grant, $143,652, was made by the National Science Foundation to train mas­ter teachers in a new mathematics course being developed by the School's mathe­matics department

Other restricted gifts included $60,000 from Xerox Corp. for support of the school's public service programs; $50,000 from Glaxo for the establishment of the Glaxo Student Research Laboratory; $60,000 from the Ford Foundation for the con­tinued support of the Durham Mathematics Council—one of a dozen mathematics

Parents Fund Tops $100,000 When support to the North Carolina

School of Science and Mathematics is at issue, state legislators, corporate donors, and foundations large and small are inter­ested in the role of NCSSM parents. Spe­cifically, they ask if parents are committed to the School and doing their part to meet the annual institutional needs of $500,000 not met by state appropriations.

The answer during the 1986-87 fiscal year was a resounding Yesl

When the books closed on the annual Parents Fund Campaign June 30, 83 per­cent of the parents had contributed $122,142—a record for the eight-year-old school.

"The excellent record our parents have established is of vital importance to the continued success of NCSSM," said Devel­opment Head Jane Rabon.

"Their generosity and commitment to the School go beyond the support of es­sential student programs and activities and send an important signal to the General Assembly and private foundations and cor­porations that our parents are full partners in the School."

The Parents Fund supports all recrea­tional, cultural and athletic activities at the School. Goals for the 1987-88 Campaign, which opened September 8, are $150,000 and 100 percent parent participation.

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Pete Peterson was one of the many parent volunteers who manned telephones in NCSSM's second annual phonathon last spring. The phonathon was an important part of the record-breaking 1986-87 Parents Fund Campaign.

collaboratives in the nation; $30,000 from Carolina Power and Light Company for workshops in secondary physics instruc­tion; and $10,000 from the Joseph M. and Kathleen Price Bryan Family Foundation, Inc. for faculty development.

Tvo endowed funds were established. The Broyhill Family Foundation, Inc. con­tributed $75,000 for the creation of the Broyhill Leadership Program in Science and Technology, and Mrs. Nicholas Fagan, in memory of her late husband, contri­buted $10,000 to establish the Nicholas B. Fagan Endowed Fund for Faculty Excellence.

Pledges for general support included $30,000 from Pfizer, Inc.; $20,000 each from du Pont de Nemours and Company and Southern Bell; $15,000 from Blue Bell, Inc.; $10,000 from CIBA-GEIGY Cor­poration; $5,000 each from First Citizens Bank and Trust Company and the Broyhill Family Foundation, Inc.; $3,000 from Carolina Freight Carriers; $2,500 plus from the Lutravil Company; $2,000 each from Lance, Inc. and Belk-Leggett Com­pany; $1,500 each from Martin Marietta Aggregates and the Irion Charitable Foundation; $1,000 each from the Herald-Sun Newspapers, LaFayette Knitting Mills, Russell Corporation and Robert W Carr, Inc. of Durham; and $500 from the Fay­etteville Publishing Company.

"These new pledges have come in re­sponse to NCSSM's annual need of $500,000 beyond state allocations, funds necessary to maintain and enhance our operations, programs and facilities."

Since its opening in 1980, the School has raised $9.6 million in private support.

Grads Establish Special Fund

A unique class gift that will benefit NCSSM for many years to come was an­nounced June 13 at the school's sixth com­mencement ceremony.

Graduates established the Quarter Cen­tury Fund, the most ambitious fund-raising effort ever by an NCSSM class, pledging an initial contribution of $25 each and agree­ing to make additional annual payments of $10 for the next 24 years.

The fund will be given to NCSSM at the class's twenty-fifth reunion in the year 2012. Its value then is expected to exceed $100,000.

Cash receipts in the fund stood at $1,025 at the close of the fiscal year June 30. Total pledges amounted to $11,345.

Dedication Ceremonies NCSSM recognized corporate generosity

with the dedication last spring of three new campus facilities.

Nelson Strawbridge (top photo, third from left), founder of Colorcraft Corp., cut the rib­bon on the Colorcraft Photographic Dark­rooms in March. The facility contains profes­sional quality darkrooms for graphic arts and color and black and white processing. With Strawbridge are art instructor Joe Liles, Direc­tor Charles Eilber and Mrs. Strawbridge

William E Glavin (middle photo, right), vice chairman of Xerox Corp., dedicated the Xerox Corp. Classroom in April. The classroom accommodates science and mathematics seminars of approximately 15 students and bears a plaque acknowledging the company's association with NCSSM. Xerox has contri­buted $135,000 to the School, including a re­cent gift of $60,000 to support NCSSM's public service programs.

And Hugh Cullman (bottom photo, far right), vice chairman of Philip Morris Companies, Inc., officially opened the Philip Morris Art Studio in May. The complex, converted from a tum-of-the-century hospital surgery, contains separ­ate facilities for painting and drawing, print-making, ceramics, photography, graphic arts, woodworking, mechanical drawing and computer-aided design. With Cullman is Prin­cipal William Youngblood, Eilber, Duke Power Company President Douglas Booth and Liles.

Alpha Class Reunion

Seven years ago, in the midst of a mount­ing national crisis in science and mathe­matics education, 150 of North Carolina's brightest young scholars traveled to Dur­ham to be a part of a unique educational experiment—the nation's first residential public high school for students with special interest and talent in science and mathe­matics.

In the months that followed, they, as members of the Alpha Class, not only breathed life into the new school, giving the concept shape and form, but set a stan­dard of commitment and excellence for future classes. And their efforts, chronicled by most major newspapers and magazines, captured the imagination of a country searching for promising developments in public education.

The NCSSM of today owes much to the members of the Class of 1982 and to the foundation they laid. It, therefore, was no surprise that their return for a fifth-year reunion last spring generated a great deal of excitment and interest among friends, faculty and, yes, even the media. As this in­augural installment of Class Notes reveals, the members of the Class of 1982 have done the School and themselves proud.

1982

Romulus Adams received the B.A. in economics and political science from the University of North Carolina. He is employed as director of marketing and client service at Applied Business Systems, Inc., in Chapel Hill.

Jassim Abbass Al-Saadi earned the M.S. in aero­space engineering from N.C. State last spring and the B.S. in 1985.

Susan Campbell Anderson is employed by Sucor Business Services in Chapel Hill. She holds the B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina.

Karen Angell is serving as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force. Karen majored in computer science and history at Duke University and received the B.S. in 1986.

Douglas Appleyard received the B.S. in computer science graphics from N.C. State University last spring.

John Armitage is enrolled in the Duke Medical School with plans to receive his degree in 1991. John earned the B.A. in history from Yale University in 1986.

Willie Arnold is employed as a programmer by Sysgen, Inc. at Research Triangle Park. He earned the B.S. in business and accounting from the Univer­sity of North Carolina last spring. Richard was mar­ried last June to Deirdre Harshaw, NCSSM '83.

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Keisha DeGraffenreidt Ashton earned the B.S. in mathematics from Howard University earlier this year.

Ravisankar Rao Awa is pursuing a Ph.D. in medicine at Duke Medical School. He earned the B.S. in biology in 1985 from the University of North Carolina

Sarah Bailey is completing a degree in mathematics at Clayton State College

Robin Bass is enrolled in Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She holds the B.S. in pre-medicine from N.C. State University.

Kirsten Beitz is employed by the Morgan Bank in New York City. She graduated cum laude with a B.A. in sociology and economics at Harvard University in 1986.

Charlaine Blanton is serving as an intern at the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors in Washington, D.C. Her work there is part of a public policy study program sponsored by Cornell. Charlaine earned the B.A. in biology from Cornell in 1986.

Nicole Brown is pursuing the M.S. in chemical engi­neering at N.C. State University. She also earned the B.S. in chemical engineering in 1986.

Teri Bufmeyer will complete B.S. and B.A. degrees in early childhood education and psychology in December at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Lee Bulwinkle is engaged in graduate study at the University of North Carolina.

Kris Carswell earned the B.S. in business administra­tion from Wake Forest University in 1986 and plans to pursue an M.B.A.

Charlotte Chiu graduated from Harvard last spring with a B.A. in history and science

Robert Cline is enrolled in the graduate physics pro­gram at N.C. State University. He holds the B.S. in physics also from State.

Tonya Crawford is an electrical engineer with TRW in Redondo Beach, California. She earned the B.S. in electrical engineering at N.C. A&T State Univer­sity last spring.

Julie Danek graduated with a B.S. in premedicine from Davidson College in 1986 and anticipates re­ceiving her M.D. from the University of North Caro­lina School of Medicine in 1990.

Lisa Dixon completed her B.S./B.C.E. in mathe­matics and civil engineering at Georgia Tech last spring.

Miles Duke is a graduate programmer/analyst with NCR Corporation in West Columbia, S.C. He gradu­ated summa cum laude from N.C. State University in 1986 with a B.S. in computer science.

Linda Ellis earned the B.S. in chemistry from N.C. State University in 1986.

Steven Gallup received the B.S. in premedicine from N.C. State University in 1986.

Karl Garrison is pursuing a Ph.D. in physics at Rutgers University. He received B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and physics from N.C. State University in 1985.

Amy Gilbert graduated from Duke University in 1986 with the B.S. in chemistry.

Thomas Gilchrist is serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army and is based in Maryland. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1986 with the B.S. in chemistry.

Thomas Glesne earned the B.S. in physics and mathematics from Guilford College last May. While in school he worked as a software engineer consul­tant with Gilbarco, Inc. of Greensboro.

Herman Goins is a staff accountant with Price Waterhouse in Charlotte. He earned the B.S. in accounting from Wake Forest University in 1986.

Walter Gordon is a project engineer with the Na­tional Security Agency in Fort George G. Mead, Maryland. He earned the B.S. in electrical engineer­ing from N.C. State University in 1986.

Elizabeth Grainger graduated from N.C. State Uni­versity in 1986 with a B.S. in chemical engineering.

Paul Brian Habit received the B.A. degree in inter­national studies and Spanish from the University of North Carolina in 1986.

Joseph Hall is a business consultant with ESC Group, Inc., of Brentwood, Tennessee.

Grace Han is employed as an associate trader by Bankers Trust Company of New York City. She earned the B.A. in economics from Cornell Univer­sity in 1986.

Saralyn Reid Hawkins is pursuing an M.D. from Duke Medical School. She graduated summa cum laude from Erskine College in 1986.

Anthony Hefner is an engineer with General Elec­tric at Research Triangle Park. Tony received the B.S. in electrical engineering from N.C. State Univer­sity in 1986.

Darryll Hendricks is pursuing a graduate degree in public policy at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University. He received the B.A. in philo­sophy from the University of North Carolina in 1986.

Ronald Houck is an engineering support analyst with FAI in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Bart earned the B.S.E. in electrical engineering and CPS from Duke University in 1986.

Suellen Howell is pursuing a D.D.S. at the School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina. She received a B.S. in biology from the University in 1986.

John G. Humphrey received the B.A. in public policy studies from Duke University last May.

Anson Bradley Ives is pursuing a law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law. Brad graduated from UNC in 1986 with the B.A. in politi­cal science. He attended the university as a more-head scholar.

Sara Krigman is pursuing the M.D. at the Univer­sity of North Carolina School of Medicine. She earned the B.A. in molecular biology from Princeton in 1986.

Roger Cromer received the B.S. in chemistry from Davidson in 1986.

Henry Kuo is a design evaluation engineer with NCR in West Columbia, S.C. Henry earned the B.S. in electrical engineering from N.C. State University in 1986. He is married to the former Irene Reynolds, NCSSM '82, who is a development engineer for Celanese Corp. in Charlotte. Irene graduated summa cum laude from N.C. State University in 1986 with the B.S. in chemical engineering.

Ellen Dixon Law is pursuing the J.D. from Harvard Law School. Ellen earned the B.S. in chemistry from M.I.T. in 1986.

Janet Leatherwood has undertaken graduate study in biochemistry at Harvard University. She holds the B.S. degree in molecular biology from Duke University.

Robert Lee will receive the B.S. in chemistry from Davidson College this year.

Sarah Lewis expects to complete work on an M.A. in physical therapy at the University of Alabama Medical Center. She earned the B.A. in political sci­ence from Wake Forest University in 1984.

Shelley Lineberger is a corporate associate with First Union National Bank in Charlotte. She earned the B.A. in political science from Davidson College in 1986.

Elizabeth Kennedy Lisk is working as an audit assistant with Peat Marwick Mitchell in Greenville, S.C. Beth graduated cum laude from Furman Uni­versity with a B.A. in accounting in 1986. Last May, she married James Lisk '82, who, after having earned the B.S. in chemical engineering at Virginia Tech, expects to complete the M.S. in chemical engi­neering at the University of South Carolina later this year.

Tonya Weathersbee Little is enrolled in the fine arts/design program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is married and has one child.

Holly Holzinger Marks is employed by North Carolina National Bank in Asheville. She is married and has one child.

Kenneth Murphy is a Revco pharmacist/manager in Franklin. He received the B.S. in pharmacy from the University of North Carolina in 1986.

Beverly Robinson Murray is majoring in visual design at the N.C. State University School of Design. She married Eugene Murray, '82, who is a produc­tion coordinator with the North Carolina Department of Administration. Eugene earned the B.A. degree in mass communications from the University of North Carolina in 1985.

Amy Mustian expects to complete the M.S. degree in chemistry at East Carolina University this year. Amy earned the B.S.B. in biochemistry at ECU in 1985.

Timothy Norville is pursuing the M.A. in teaching history at the University of North Carolina. Tim graduated from Davidson College in 1986 with a B.A. in history.

Janice Parker graduated from N.C. State University last May with a B.S. in electrical engineering.

Jamie Pate is a credit trainee at Chemical Bank in New York City. She earned the B.A. in history from Princeton University in 1986.

Clovis Peres expects to complete a degree in me­chanical engineering at the University of Sao Paula this year.

Andrew Philpot is a software design engineer with Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas. Andrew received the B.S.E. in mechanical engineering and computer science from Duke University in 1986.

Leigh Anne Proctor is employed by Combustion Engineering in Windsor, Conn., as a field test engi­neer. She graduated cum laude from N.C. State Uni­versity with the B.S. in chemical engineering. She was nominated Outstanding Female Engineering Student for three years.

Carolyn Knowlton Pugh earned the B.A. in Russian from Duke University in 1985.

Alexander Rimberg is pursuing a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University. Alex holds the B.A. in physics from Harvard.

Eric Roush earned the B.A. in biochemistry from Northwestern University in 1985. He is pursuing the Ph.D. in biochemistry at Duke University.

Richard Saccoccia graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986 with a BS in Electrical Engineering.

Ishan Sehgal is Japan Product Specialist with Northern Telecom, Inc., in the Research Triangle Park. He earned the B.S. in electrical engineering from N.C. State University in 1986.

Ami Jayant Shah is enrolled in the University of North Carolina Medical School. She holds the B.A. in biology also from UNC.

Gerald Sherman is stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas, as an ensign/aviator with the U.S. Navy. Gerry earned the B.S. in systems engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1986. He married Tiffany Davis, '83.

Tonya Smith will complete the M.S. in ergonomics at N.C. State University this year. She received the B.A. in psychology from the University of North Carolina in 1986.

Gary Steele is freelancing for Stackig, Sanderson and White in market research and advertising in the Washington, D.C, area. He earned the B.A. in Eng­lish from Duke University in 1986.

Lisa Sykes is a medical student at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Lisa, who holds the B.A. in chemistry also from UNC, expects to re­ceive the M.D. in 1989.

Karen Ellsworth Takahata is an English teacher at the Minerva English Academy in Yubarishi, Japan. She is married and has one child.

Mary Tatum is pursuing a degree in dentistry at the Medical University of South Carolina. She graduated summa cum laude from Wofford College in 1986 with the B.S. in mathematics.

Lois Thornburg graduated with highest honors and highest distinctions from the University of North Carolina in 1986 with a B.A. in French.

Kimberly Thrower received the B.E.D.A. in archi­tecture from N.C. State University in 1986. She graduated as the highest ranking student in the School of Design.

Otis E. "Chip" Tillman is enrolled in the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, planning to complete the M.D. in 1990. He earned the B.S. in biology from the University of North Carolina in 1986.

Shauna Tilly graduated from Duke University in 1986 with the B.S. in biology. She expects to com­plete the M.D. at Duke in 1990.

Tricia Lynn Townes is pursuing a law degree from the Yale University Law School. She graduated from Emory University in 1986 with the B.A. in English and philosophy.

Ward TVavis received the B.S. in applied mathe­matics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1986.

Andrea Wisner Tsang is a student at Benjamin N. Cordozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. She is married and has two children.

Karen Uzzell is executive support officer with the U.S. Air Force, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. She earned the B.S. in biology from the University of North Carolina.

Janeen LaVay Vanhooke graduated from the Uni­versity of North Carolina last May with a B.S. in pharmacy. She is working as a Revco pharmacist while pursuing the Ph.D. in biochemistry.

Amy Vasu graduated from N.C. State University last May with the B.S. in biochemistry.

Sherri Vesalga is a Proctor and Gamble chemical engineer in Cincinnati, Ohio. She completed her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at N.C. State University in 1986.

Anita Warner completed the M.S. in materials science and engineering last May at Stanford Univer­sity. She received the B.S. in metallurgical engineer­ing from Michigan Technological University in 1985.

Percil Watkins is a development process and product engineer with Corning Glass Works in Canton, N.Y. He earned the B.A. in materials engi­neering from N.C. State University in 1986.

Thomas Yadon is an engineer assistant with Duke Power Company in Charlotte. He received the B.S. in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1986.

Melanie Smith Young is pursuing a degree in phar­macy at the Medical University of South Carolina. Melanie holds the B.A. degree in biology from Liberty University.

Continued on page 8

Notebook NCSSM Director Charles Eilber was one of 10 American educators chosen to visit China last sum­mer as part of a program sponsored by the Council on International Educational Exchange in the U.S. and the Education Association on International Exchanges in China. The group spent several days in each of six Chinese cities, and Eilber reported great interest about NCSSM among the Chinese.

Dr. William Youngblood, principal, and Marilyn Link, biology instructor, have been named by the N.C. Biotechnology Center to the directory board of a three-year secondary education project designed to help thousands of North Carolina high school stu­dents gain practical knowledge about biotechnology through their biology classes. Twenty-four teachers, who will be trained and equipped with special teach­ing materials, will initiate the project during the 1987-88 school year.

Dr. Joan Barber, assistant principal, attended the Ninth International Congress of Nephrology in London last summer.

Head of Science Steve Warshaw presented a paper, Field Accounts for Teaching About Lakes and Ponds, at the National Science Teachers Association meeting in Washington, D.C, last spring.

Physics instructor Hugh Haskell attended a Nation­al Science Foundation training institute for resource teachers in physics at Montana State University last summer. He, along with NCSSM colleagues Chuck Britton and John Kolena, also attended the Ameri­can Association of Physics Teachers Conference.

Mathematics instructor Dan Teague served as aca­demic director of the Woodrow Wilson Institute on High School Mathematics in Princeton, N.J. He was joined by NCSSM colleagues Gloria Barrett, who participated in the math institute as a master teacher, and John Kolena, a master teacher in the physics institute.

Biology instructors Anita McCoy, Ross Baker and Marilyn Link were involved last summer in special programs and outreach activities. McCoy and Link conducted workshops for local high school teachers through the NCSSM Mathematics and Science Edu­cation Center; Baker was a biology instructor in the Talent Identification Program at Duke University. Link, Baker and biology instructor Colleen McNamara also attended the Science Education 1987 Conference.

Jo Ann Lutz, executive director of the Durham Mathematics Council and NCSSM mathematics

Citizenship Citation Honors Bland Worley

Bland W. Worley, chairman of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathe­matics Board ofTrustees, was awarded the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry Citation for Distinguished Citi­zenship in ceremonies last spring.

The Citation was presented by former Governor James B. Hunt, who noted Wor-ley's success first as president and vice chairman of Wachovia Corporation and then as chairman and CEO of Barclays-AmericanCorporation. But more than that, Hunt added, the Citation honored Worley for his service to the people of North Carolina.

Worley has been involved in education at many levels. In addition to heading the campaign to raise funds for the creation of NCSSM and serving as chairman of the School's Board of Trustees, Worley has served on boards of trustees at Greensboro College and the University of North Caro­lina at Charlotte.

He chaired the Governor's Commission on Education for Economic Growth, which issued a report on ways to improve the teaching of North Carolina's children that contained the Career Ladder advancement program and the Basic Education Program.

He also has headed the Business Foun­dation of North Carolina, is the current chairman of the Independent College Fund for North Carolina, and for four years was

Former Governor Jim Hunt (left) presents NCCBI's Citation for Distinguished Citizenship to Bland W. Worley. Photo by K.D. Zotter. Courtesy of N.C. Citizens for Business and Industry.

chairman of the state's Business Commit­tee for Mathematics and Science Educa­tion. And the list goes on and on.

The Citation declares that "His col­leagues have always found in him a cher­ished store of sound judgement and knowl­edge, quiet wisdom, unflagging industry and unquenchable optimism."

It continues: "In the world of service to his fellow North Carolinians, Bland Worley has few peers. Throughout his life, his work on behalf of youth, of education, of the underpriviledged, and in behalf of the people of North Carolina has been ever-constant and ever-productive."

instructor, represented the Woodrow Wilson Found­ation last summer as a member of its training team. Lutz conducted a series of one-week institutes in algebra throughout the country.

Interim Head of Math John Goebel, accompanied by Mark Snesrud '87 and Steven Craig '87, pre­sented aspects of the School's Carnegie-funded cur­riculum at the Mu Alpha Theta National High School and Junior College Mathematics Organization con­ference in Seattle, Washington, in August. Also at­tending were Burt Hackney '87 and Cindy Dy '87.

Mathematics instructors Helen Compton, Dot Doyle, Dan Teague and Kevin Bartovich were guest presenters at the Exeter Academy mathematics workshops in June. Compton, Doyle, Laurence Gould and John Goebel also conducted sessions in a National Science Foundation workshop held at NCSSM in July. Julie Graves taught in a similar pro­gram for North Carolina teachers sponsored by the Mathematics and Science Education Center.

Mathematics Instructor Dotte Williams was on the Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics faculty at N.C. Central University.

Humanities Head Virginia Wilson served as a co­ordinator of the Duke University Talent Identifica­tion Program last summer. NCSSM instructors on the TIP faculty were Liz McCachren, French; Kevin Bartkovich, math; Ross Baker, Biology; and Jim Litle, history.

Class Notes Continued from page 7

1983 Lisa Shouse graduated from Presbyterian College in May. Among her achievements, Lisa was named to Who's Who Among students in Universities and Col­leges, and was recognized for outstanding academic performance and service in the modern foreign lan­guages department. She is pursuing a graduate degree in comparative literature at Vanderbilt University.

Four '83 graduates were among 505 National Sci­ence Foundation Fellowship winners last spring. They were Adam F. Falk, a graduate of the Univer­sity of North Carolina; Timothy Brian Koonce, a graduate of N.C. State University; David E. Long, a graduate of the California Institute of Technology; and Timothy A. Porter, a graduate of Princeton University. Each has received a stipend of $12,300 per year for full-time graduate study.

1984 Ralph Craig graduated from Presbyterian College in May and was recognized for outstanding academic performance and service in the mathematics department.

Christopher Stanard, a senior at Morehouse Col­lege this year, was named last spring as a finalist in the Time Magazine College Achievement Awards competition, a program that recognizes 100 of the most outstanding rising seniors in America.

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Trent Defends Title, Adds 1600 Meter Crown

Maria TVent, '87, ended her brilliant high school track career by scoring an impressive double victory in the N.C. High School Athletic Association 1A/2A State Championships last spring. A native of Hertford, TVent not only defended her 800-meter state title of a year ago, but she also won at 1,600 meters.

"We decided to add the 1,600 as a goal this season," said Coach Mark Adams. "We wanted a difficult goal to offset some of the pressure as defending champion."

TVent, undefeated in all of her 1987 starts, dropped 11 seconds off of her previous best 1,600-meter time and four seconds off her 1986 state championship time at 800 meters.

Her success on the track earned her a Metro Area High School Athlete of the Year honor. But what really counted was her performance in the classroom.

TVent entered Yale University this fall on an academic scholarship. And while she claims that her plans to undertake study in the demanding pre-medicine program won't leave enough time for intercollegiate competition, odds are she will dig those well-worn running shoes out of her closet with the first signs of spring. Watch out, New Haven, Connecticut!

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