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Freimuth Named Outstanding Woman
of the Year by Women's Commission

Vicki Freimuth

May History Conference
Will Honor Louis Harlan

■ mF F hen Louis Harlan heard

■ M / ili.ii In-- colleagues were
W/wS planning .in event in his
W V honor, the Distinguished

Professor of History had some specific
requests for the menu. Not the part deal-
ing with such trivialities as cuisine and
cocktails, hut rather the section that
Harlan saw as the real substance of the
affair -the scholarship.

A two-Jay conference. "The Age of
Booker T. Washington." will be held in
Harlan's honor May i-.s. at Center of
Adult Education. Many distinguished
historians, including such eminent figures
as (!. Yann Woodward. John Hope
franklin and August Meier will join in
honoring one of the nation's most
distinguished historians. Harlan, a 25-year
veteran of the College Park faculty and
1982 Pulitzer Prize winner, this spring is
finishing a period of professional service
aciiviiv in which he has held (for a few-

months simultaneously) the presidencies
of three major historical associations —
the Organization of American Historians,
the American Historical Association and
the Southern Historical Association.

In planning the conference, organizers
Alfred Moss, associate professor of
history, Leslie Rowland, an editor with
the department's Freedmen uud
Southern Society project, and Emory
Evans, professor of history, found that
I heir honorec had some particular tastes.

Harlan is best known for his two-pan
biography of Booker T. Washington (the
first volume of which won the Bancroft
Award and the second vol Lime, the
Pulitzer Prize in Biography), hence
Hooker T. Washington seemed a good
subject lor the conference's main theme.

continued on page 8

Sumida Awarded Gug-
genheim Fellowship

Will research British navy buildup
ISSK 10] j ,

Ficki Freimuth, an associate
professor in the Department
of Speech Communication, is
always working to make a
difference.

That's why she has been chosen
Outstanding Woman of the Year by the
President's Commission on Women's
Affairs— the highest honor for women on
the university's campus.

As a noted researcher in Health Com-
munication, she has helped people
around the world become better in-
formed about such health issues as
cancer and, more recently, AIDS
prevention.

And as a member of the College Park
faculty, she has worked with such cam-
pus organizations as the Women's Com-
mission, where she served as chair from
I9HJ-S-t. to better the quality of life for
women at the university.

Making a contribution to society-
local I y or globally— has always been im-
portant to Freimuth, who will he
honored as the Outstanding Woman dur-
ing a ceremony early next fall

"When I first began. I was looking for
a way in which my research could make
some social contribution, and Health
Communication seemed to be the
perfect area," says Freimuth. who came
to the university in 1976 as an assistant
professor in the then- Depart men t of

Speech and Dramatic Art. "It had the
potential to make a real difference on
some important issues."

Freimuth says that 50 percent of the
lives lost to such diseases as cancer
could be spared through the availability
of up-to-thc-date health information.

"There is no miracle drug," says
Freimuth, who recently co-authored a
new book entitled, "Searching for Health
Information" (University of Pennsylvania
Press). "But wc can make a difference
with changing lifestyles or early
detention— just the dissemination of in-
formation we already know."

There are no instant successes, she ad-
mits. But society's attitude can change.

"Smoking, for example, has really
decreased in this country," she says. "It
is no longer acceptable to smoke, and
we now have smoke-free areas. Attitudes
have changed, and the health communi-
ty has definitely made an impact,"

But. she adds, "changing lifestyle
behavior is not easy. As a matter of fact,
it's quite a challenge."

Freimuth's recent work has been with
AIDS prevention. Her paper on AIDS
public service announcements was judged
one of the top three presented at the
prestigious international Communication
Association.

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School of Public Affairs Wins $2.9
Million Grant for Sri Lankan Project

The School of Public Affairs has been
awarded a 52,896,000 grant from the
United States Agency for International
Development to help strengthen private
sector organizations in Sri Lanka.

It is the largest grant in the history of
the school.

The three -and-a-half- year project is
designed to improve the working rela-
tions of such private sector organizations
as Chambers of Commerce and Exporters
Associations with the Sri Lmkan
government

According to Dean Michael Nacht. who
is also its director, the project will be
carried out with the assistance of a
Washington. DC-based consulting firm,
international Science and Technology
Institute.

Nacht says the project will promote
private sector development by
strengthening the capacity of private sec-
tor organizations to communicate effec-
tively with public sector decision makers.

A Policy Support Unit will be estab-
lished in the Sri Lankan capital of Colom-
bo to solicit, revise and review grant pro-
posals from local private sector organiza-
tions to fund studies on tariff reform and
tax policy, workshops with private and
public sector managers on industrial
policy, and technical assistance from
abroad.

The Policy Support Unit will assist the
private sector organizations in carrying
out the activities funded under their
stibgrant. The final goal of the project.
Nacht says, will be to provide these
organizations with the technical and
financial resources to identify and repre-
sent their public sector interests.

Nacht will he assisted by jane Thcry,
project manager, and Lee Harper, project
administrator. ■

—limi uttn-tt

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New Ways to Study Non-
Western Cultures

Froseh- Schroder and Robertson use
dance and music

5

Clerical/Secretarial Honors
Announced

Smith, Stevens and Waiiiscoti ia lv
recognized • .....

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April 30, 1990

International Travel Funds Available

Funds arc currently available to I'MCP faculty to cover interna-
tional travel costs For collaboration, such as joint research pro-
grams, with professional colleagues at overseas institutions. Applica-
tions can be obtained from the Office of International Affairs. The
deadline for submitting the applications is May IS. For more infor-
mation, call 454-3BG8.

Women's Commission to Host Personnel
Practices Conference May 17

The President's Commission on Women's Affairs will present its
ninth annual Personnel Practices Conference, "Meeting the
Challenge of the 90s," on Thursday. May 17 in the Stamp Union.
The all day conference features workshops on such topics as asser-
tiveness. eldercare, nutrition, stress management , and women's
health. Registration for the full day is S.sO. fur luncheon and
keynote address only, 115. Call Brenda Salas at 4 ! i-i-4 7 -tH or Debbie
Snyder at 454-5078 for information.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT.

Sumida Wins Guggenheim Fellowship For
Study of World War I Era British Navy

Jon Sumida. associate professor of
history, is among l-t.^ scholars in the I. s
and Canada to receive Guggenheim
Fellowships for 1990.

Presented by the John Simon dug
genheim Foundation, the fellowships arc-
awarded on the basis of unusually
distinguished past achievement and ex-
ceptional promise for future
accomplishment

Sumida will use his fellowship to con-
duct research on the administration and
logistics of tile British navy 1888-1914.
In one part of his study, sumida will
examine the British navy as an economic
entity, Given its size, and the fact that
thousands of civilians were employed in
navy-related businesses, ihe navy Was
one of Britain's largest industrial organ iza-
tii 'ii-. lie says.

In another pan of the project. Sumida
will .study the naval bureaucracy's
response to rapid technological growth
during tile period.

Sumida "s current project is an
outgrowth of his earlier work on the
5 World War I -era British navy The scholar
u received acclaim in his field for his 1988
z hook. In Defense oj \<tti<t Supremacy.
q Finance* Technology, and British Naval

< Policy. !SS')-!')li

Jon Sumida

Electrical Engineer Develops Novel
Dtra High Speed Logic Device

Ailis lliadis. assistant professor of elec-
trical engineering, and his team, have
developed a novel ultra high speed field
effect transistor (FET)

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lliadis is a specialist in semiconductor
materials and devices.

"The device, which can reach high
multiple transconductance peak-, is
suitable for multiple logic applications
the university researcher says. One
device can do more than one logic func-
tion as opposed to what we have so tar
which is one device per function. The
device has the potential for applications
in ultra-high speed multiple logic devices.
The new ITT can be used to perform
two. three, even four logic functions

From concept to design to fabrication
of the device in the clean room in the
College of Engineering. lliadis says he
has been working on the project for the
better part of a year

The clean room Is used for the fabrica-
tion of new microelectronic and opto-
electronic devices These tiny transistors
and chips hold great promise for applica-
tions in future generations of high speed
optical and electronic computers, lliadis*
PET is a two micron device and was
fabricated completely in die campus
clean room in collaboration with ATST's
Bell Libs ■

In his book, Sumida examined British
naval defense strategy of the period. Dur-
ing the early ibth century, the British
developed a naval defense strategy based
on maintaining a technical advantage
over its rivals. However, in Sumida "s view,
the country's bureaucratic and political
system could not execute the plan as en-
visioned.

In one critical instance naval leaders
rejected an advanced system for plotting
long- range gun targets. Instead, the

British became involved in a costly arms
race and ultimately found themselves ill
equipped for success in the key naval
h.ittle of the war.

1 SLimicla's controversial study offered
new interpretation on two benchmarks
in the naval history of the period — the
development of the British dreadnought
and the Battle of Jutland. ■

—Hritin Husck

Educators to Visit Japan As Part
of Theater Research Project

As the culmination of an unusual year-
long study of Shakespearean drama. SO
secondary school educators and their
I ail lege Bark nun tors will trawl overseas
in June to visii a replica of the Globe
Theater— the one in tokyo.

Ihe educators, from schools in
Maryland, Virginia and the District of
Columbia, have been working Gillette
Park scholars in 'Theatre East and west."
a parallel study of Shakespearean and
Kabuki theater The program, funded
with a S.S.sO.OUO National Endowment
for the Humanities grant, is designed to
bring enhanced study of Japanese and
I rtglish culture and literature into
regional high school classes

"If you want to take a look at bask
Japanese values, social relationships and
attitudes about life. Kabuki is a wonder-
ful vehicle." says Thomas Rimer; chair ol
the Department of Hebrew and East
Asian Languages and Literatures and a
project organizer "You can draw upon
I Kabuki I the same way we draw upon
Shakespeare to study Western values.
Theater is always a good way to look in-
to the heart of a culture.'

The project was organized the Depart-
ment ol English, the Department of
Hebrew anil East Asian Languages and
Literatures, ihe Center for Renaissance
and Baroque Studies and the Center for

the Study of Education Policy and
Human Values. The project's co-dircetors
are Allele Seeff. executive director of the
Center for Renaissance and Baroque
Studies, ami Barbara Einkclstein. Pro-
fessor of Education and Director of the
International Center for the Study of
Education Policy and Human Values.

Hie trip to Japan June 20-July 1 to
observe first hand the many facets of
Japanese theater will serve as the
capstone of a project that began last
summer at the university.

Working under the tutelage of
academic co-direciors Rimer and Howard
Dobin, associate pro lessor of English, the
educators attended it three-week residen
ual sim unci- institute on Shakespeare and
Kabuki During the fall semester, the
educators attended an intensive
weekend college" to fun her explore the
subject

(in the weekend of May 19-20, the
educators will return to College Park for
orientation session on the trip to Japan.
Topics covered during the session will
range from the trip itinerary to a short
preparatory course on Japanese manners
anil customs.

During the trip, the educators will visil
a Japanese puppet theater in Osaka an
IHth century Kabuki theater in the
Japanese countryside and a training in-
stituie for Mob theater actors. The
itinerary also includes private meetings
with actors in Japanese Kabuki, Xoh and
avatu garde theater anil Japanese
Shakespeare experts.

When the group returns home, the
process begins all over again for the Col-
lege Bark faculty members involved with
the project. A second group of area
educators will visit the university July
X-2~ for a second three-week institute on
Shakespeare and Kabuki. That group of
educators will travel to iapatl next spring.
■

— Brian Hiist'k

Five Piano Competition Winners to Play at
20th Anniversary Gala

Laureates Enrique Graf (1978), Marioara Trifan (1979), Angela

Cheng 11984). Jeffrey Blegel (1985) and HacSUfl Paik (1 989) will
perform works by Balakircv, Cui, Chopin, Schumann and Liszt at a
gala concert Tuesday, May 8, in Tawes Theatre. The concert and
the $ 100-a-plate dinner that follows is a celebration of the 20th an-
niversary of the University of Maryland International William Kapcll
Piano Competition. Tickets for the concert are Silt, Call -n-r-t2-tl
or 454-5910 for information,

April 30, 1990

President's Commission Honors
Outstanding Minority Achievements

m ^ Bring 3 ceremony at the

m I Rosshorough Inn on
M M Thursday, May 3, from 3
* ^ to 4:30 p.m., five people
and two units will receive minority
achievement awards for their outstanding
contributions to equity efforts at the
I ni vcrsity of Maryland at College Park.

For I WO. the President's Commission
on Ethnic Minority Issues will recognize
sherita Hill, pre-med biology major:
Gladys Jefferson, housekeeping super-
visor for the Department of Resident
Life; Frank W. Johnson, 111. American
Studies graduate student; Noel Myricks,
associate professor in the Department of
Family and Community Development;
and James Otis Williams, director of the
Nyumburu Cultural Center ['nit awards
will go to the Office of Human Relations,
Gladys Brown, director, ami the College
of Journalism. Reese ("leghorn, dean.

The individual awards are given to
those who have distinguished themselves
through professional and academic
achievements and who have made signifi-
cant contributions to equity in the cam-
pus community. The unit awards are
presented to those groups who have
demonstrated outstanding achievements
in promoting campus equity

In addition to the demands of being a
senior pre-med biology major with a

Sherita Hill

perfect 4.0 grade point average. Sherita
Hill, the undergraduate student award
winner, has acquired more than 20 in-
dividual awards for academic excellence
.imi service to the community.

She was listed in Who's Who Among
American College Students (19KK) and
has won awards from Procter & Gamble
for minority student leadership and from
Alpha Fpsilon Delta, the national pre-
med honor society, She was inducted in-
to Mortarboard in W88 and into
Omicron Delta Kappa, the national
honor society, in 198"

As a physician, she hopes to serve the
community "by implementing health
care and educational programs designed.
primarily, to address problems faced by
the black community."

The minority achievement award for a
classified employee will he given to

Gladys Jefferson

Gladys Jefferson, housekeeping super-
visor at Denton hall and an employee
with 25 years experience at College Park,

Knnwn for her soft-spoken but effi-
cient supervisory style. Jefferson has
earned the respect of her coworkers for
her ability to work well with many peo
pie. including the occasionally impatient
parent, student, or guest who has arrived
on campus at the last minute.

She was president of the campus
chapter of AFSCME from 1968- ~K. and
has been a university representative to
the Association of College and University
Housing Officers- International.

Frank W. Johnson

American studies master's student

Frank W. Johnson III is the outstanding

minority achievement graduate student
Since coming to (ail lege Park in 198".
Johnson has involved hi nisei f in many
activities designed to enhance the quality
of minority undergraduate students.

In addition to his duties as an
undergraduate advisor in the Office of
Minority Student Education, Johnson
currently mentors ten black
undergraduates as part of the
OMSE/BFSA mentoring program.

He was a teaching assistant in the Afro-
American Studies Program in I'JH"*). He
devised a resource packet for incoming
black freshmen which lists black facul-
ty/staff, support services, and black cam-
pus organizations. In 1989, he im-
plemented a summer phon-a-thon in
OMSE using black juniors and seniors to
contact first year students about con-
cerns that were not addressed in
orientation.

Noel Myricks, associate professor in
the Department of Family and Communi-

Noel Myricks

ty Development will be honored for his
outstanding equity efforts as a faculty
member.

His advocacy for more minority
representation on the College Park facul-
ty and student body has led him to serve
on faculty search and student admissions
committees. He has been particularly ac-
tive as a mentor to black males, en-
couraging them to pursue graduate
studies.

A lawyer as well as an educator,
Myricks' research interests have focused
on law and the social sciences. He also
helped bring intercollegiate debate back
to the College Park campus, when I -\
students from his Domestic Relations
class recently won the "Outstanding New
School'' trophy at a Mock Trial Competi-
tion at Drake University Law School in
Des Moines, Iowa. Five of these students
were African-American.

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J. Otis Williams

Director of the Nyumhuru Cultural
Center, J. Otis Williams will receive the
outstanding minority achievement award
for an associate staff member.

For nearly 20 years, Williams has
served

the campus community as a mentor to
minority students and advisor to many
student groups, including the Black Stu-
dent Association and the campus chapter
of the NAACR He has also been an active
member of the Black Faculty and Staff
Association

Williams has also added to the cultural
diversity of College Park as a teacher and
artist of blues and jazz music, and as a
liaison between the campus and several
artists including Quincy Troupe. Eugene
Redmond, Gwendolyn Brooks. "Bowling
Green" John Cephas and "Harmonica"
Phil Wiggins.

The Office of Human Relations Pro-
grams will receive the non-academic unit
award for outstanding minority achieve-
ment, Director Gladys Brown and her
staff (UM) percent minorities) have won
campus-wide respect for special pro-
grams designed to improve cultural diver-
sity, awareness and support on campus.

The College of Journalism received the
academic unit award for outstanding
minority achievement. Dean Reese
Clcghom has long supported recruitment
of minority faculty and students, with
two recent faculty openings being filled
by minorities.

In addition, several programs such as
The Sun minority scholarship and the re-
cent establishment of a student chapter
of the National Association of Black Jour-
nalists have helped provide a positive en-
vironment for minorities in the College
of Journalism. ■

—Jolm Ftilz

Photographs by Al Danegger

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April 30. 1990

Calendar

^^ April 30 to Hay 9

Human Ecology Holds Awards Night

The College of Human Ecology will hold its annual Awards Night
on May I at ~-Mi p.m. in Marie Mount Hall. The Outstanding Alum-
na Of the Year and the recipient of the Alumni Award for Service
will he announced at the ceremony. Awards for outstanding
teacher and outstanding advisor of the year also will he presented.
For the ninth year, the Marie Mount Scholarship will he awarded to
an outstanding Human Ecology student in honor of M. Marie
Mount who served as dean of the college from 1925 to 1957.
Awards also will be presented to outstanding students in each of
the college's three departments. The public is invited to attend the
free ceremony and reception that follows. Call 454-8757 for more
information.

Architecture Exhibit, featuring
Mark Simon, Centerbrook Ar-
chitects, today through May 4, Ar-
chitecture Gallery. Call x3427 for
info.

AAUW Senior Reception, time
and place TBA. Call x3022 for info.

Meteorology Workshop: "The
1988 U.S. Drought, "featuring
presentations on how and why the
drought began, persisted and
diminished, today-May 2, 9 a.m. -5
p.m.. 0105 Center of Adult Educa-
tion. Call x7371 for info.

International Agriculture Collo-
quium: "Agriculture Extension in
Asia: Strategic Issues," Charles H.
Antholt, The World Bank, noon,
0115 Symons Hall. Call x4933 tor
info.

Computer Science Colloquium:

"Memory Requirements tor Agree-
ment Among Unreliable Asyn-
chronous Processes," Michael C.
Loui. U. of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, 4 p.m., 011 Classroom
Bldg Call x4244 tor info.

Horticulture Seminar:" Sweet
Potato Tuberization in-vitro," M.
Hossam Aboul-Nasr. 4 p.m., 0128B
Holzapfet Hall Call x3606 for info.

Space Science Seminar: "Solar
Wind Composition." Thomas
Holzer. 4:30 p.m., 1113 Com-
puter/Space Science Seminar. Call
X0359 for info.

Aviv Quartet Concert, featuring
Brahms' Piano Quartet Op. 60, No
3 in C minor, Andre Hajdu's Five
Sketches in Sentimental Mood
Written in 1976, and Dvorak's
Piano Quartet Op. 87 in E-flat Ma-
jor, 8 p.m.. Tawes Recital Hall Call
x6669 for info.

T U E

Employee Development Seminar,
"Career Counseling," 9 a.m. -4
p.m., Maryland Room, Marie Mount
Hall, fee TBA. Call x4811 for info."

Zoology Lecture: "Spatio-
Temporal Patterns of Meiobenthic
Invertebrates: Does a
Hydrodynamic Null Model Apply to
Both Marine and Freshwater
Assemblages?" Margaret A.
Palmer, noon. 1 208 Zoo/Psych,
Bldg. Call x3201 for info.

College of Human Ecology
Awards Banquet, 730 p.m., Marie
Mount Hall. Call x8757 for info.

University Theatre: "Baby," 8
p.m., Rudolph E. Pugtiese Theatre.
$8.50 standard admission, $7
seniors and students, production
runs today-May 6 and 8-13, Call
x2201 forinfo."

Hoff Theater Movie: "Johhny
Handsome" and "Tootsie." Call
x4987 for info *

WED

Employee Development Seminar,

"Effective Writing." 9 a.m.-4 p.m.,
1143 Stamp Union, lee TBA. Call
x481 1 for info. *

Human Relations Skills Develop-
ment Seminar, "Managing Diversi-
ty: Strategies for Responding to the
Challenges of the '90s." 9 a.m.-
noon, Prince George's Room,
Stamp Union. Call x4707 for info.'

CRS Predicted Time Walk, 11:45
a.m., Reckord Armory. Call x3124
for info.

Counseling Center Research &
Development Meeting: titles TBA,
Jonathan Kandell. Marie Sergent,
noon, 0106 Shoemaker Bldg. Call
x2937 for info.

Campus Senate Open Forum
with Legislative Delegation from
District 21, featuring Senator Ar-
thur Dorman. Delegates Pauline H
Menes, Tim Maloney, and Jim
Rosapepe. 12:15-1:30 p.m., 010O
Marie Mount Hall, Call x4549 for
more into.

Computer Science Center Lec-
ture: "Applying Engineering Prin-
ciples to Biological Systems,"
Richard Feldmann, NIH, 2:30-4
p.m.. 1400 Marie Mount Hall. Call
x2946 for info.

STS Film; "Blade Runner.'with
Myron Lounsbury, discussion
leader. 3 p.m., 0220 Jimenez Hall.
Call X5893 for info.

International Coffee Hour, 34:30
p.m., 0205 Jimenez Hall. Call
x4925 for into.

University Theatre: "Baby." 8
p.m., see May 1 for details.

Hoff Theater Movie: "Johhny
Handsome" and "Tootsie." Call
x4987 tor info.*

T H U

Systems Research Center Annual
Research Review Conference:

"Automation and Information
Engineering." today, 8 a.m. -7:30
p.m., tomorrow, 8 a.m. -4
p.m. .Center of Adult Education,
S200. Call x7986 for info."

Writers Here and Now Student

Reading, featuring winners of the
Academy of American Poets Col-
lege Prize and the Katherine Anne
Porter Student Fiction Prize. 3:30
p.m., Katherine Anne Porter Room,
McKeldin Library. Call x2511 for
info.

Meteorology Seminar; Title TBA,
M. Suarez, Goddard Space Flight
Center, 3:30 p.m., 2114 Computer
& Space Sciences Bldg. Call
X2708 for info.

Urban Studies and Community
Planning LeFrak Lecture: "Plan-
ners and Protestors: A Case of Air-
port Protest in Japan." Lisa Peat-
tie, M.I.T.. 3:30-5 p.m., Art/Soc.
Auditorium, Call x5718 for info.

CHPS Lecture: "The Bering
Cross-over Controversy: A Study
on Scientific Rhetoric," Jeanne
Fahnestock, 4 p.m., 1117 F. S.
Key Hall. Call x2850 for info.

Reliability Engineering Seminar:
"Error Detection and Control in

Gervase de Peyer, clarinet and music faculty member Santiago Rodriguez, piano, will perform
Saturday, May 5. 8 p.m., Center of Adult Education

Random Access Memories."
Thomas Fuja, 5:15-6:15 p.m., 2115
Chemical & Nuclear Engineering
Bldg. Call x1941 tor into.

Urban Studies and Community
Planning LeFrak Lecture: "Plan-
ners and Protestors: Airport Protest
in Europe and the United States."
Lisa Peattie. MUX, 7:30-9 p.m..
reception to follow, Art/Soc.
Auditorium Call x5718 lor info.

University Theatre: "Baby," B
p.m., see May 1 for details.

Early American History Collo-
quium: 'Was the Shot Heard
'Round the World.' an Errant
Blast?" David O Percy, 8 p.m.,
1 101 Stamp Union. Call x2843 tor
into.

F R I

Linguistics Colloquium: "Resump-
tive Logophoric Pronouns in
Greek," Spyridoula Varlokosta.
noon, 0109 Horn bake Library. Call
x7002 tor info.

Mental Health Lunch 'N Learn
Conference: "New Approaches to
the Treatment of Borderline Per-
sonality Disorder," Rex Cowdry, St.
Elizabeth's Hospital, 1-2 p.m.,
3100E Health Center. Call x4925
for info.

Artist Scholarship Benefit Con-
cert: Dominic Cossa, baritone and
the University of Maryland Sym-
phonic Orchestra with William Hud-
son, conductor, performing works
by Verdi, Goidano. Tchaikovsky,
Prokofieff, Massenet, Mozart,
Ravel, Korngold and Cardillo, and
show tunes by Lemer and Porter.
8 p.m., Tawes Theatre, $10 stan-
dard admission, $7 seniors and
students. Call x6669 far into.*

University Theatre: "Baby," 8
p.m., see May 1 for details.

UM Band Annual Pops Concert,

John E. Wakefield and L Rich-
mond Sparks, conductors, 8:30
p.m., Grand Ballroom, Stamp Union,
Call X6669 for info.

SAT

University Theatre: "Baby," 8
p.m.. see May 1 for details.

University Community Concerts:
Gervase de Peyer, clarinet and
Santiago Rodriguez, piano, pro-
gram TBA. 8 p.m.. Center of Adult
Education, $15 standard admission,
$12.50 seniors and students. Call
x6534 for info,"

6

University Theatre; "Baby," 2 & 8
p.m., see May 1 for details.

Spring Koto Recital, featuring the
Washington Toho Koto Society, 3
p.m., Tawes Recital Hall Call
434-4487 for info.

Campus Senate Meeting,
3:30-6:30 p.m., 0126 Reckord Ar-
mory. Call X4549 for info.

Horticulture Seminar: "In-vitro and
in-vivo Selection for Resistance to
myrothicum roridum," Wayne A.
Mackay, 4 p.m., 0128B Holzapfel
Hall Call x3606 for info.

Space Science Seminar: "Deter-
mination of Electron Density Near
the Plasmapause." Vladimir
Osherovich. NASA. 4:30 p.m., 1113
Computer/Space Sciences Bldg.
Call x3136 tor info.

Comparative Literature Lecture:
"Et ce fut tout': La question du
sens chez Flaubert," Ralph
Heyndels, 6 p.m., Multipurpose
Room, St. Mary's Hall. Call x2685
for info.

8

T U E

Employee Benefits Orientation,
10 a.m., Multi Media Room, Horn-
bake Library. Call x6312 for into.

Zoology Lecture: "The Effect of
Testosterone on the Behavior and
Condition of the Satin Bowerbird."
Ken Co II is, noon, 1208 Zoo/Psych.
Bldg. Call x3201 for info.

Economics & National Security
Lecture: "Rational Government
Choices When War Might Occur,"
David Lalman, 3:30-5 p.m., Student
Lounge, Morrill Hall. Call x3457 for
info

Spring MFA Thesis Exhibition,

through May 18, reception today,
5-7 p.m., The Art Gallery.
Art/Sociology Bldg Call x2763 for
info.

University Theatre: "Baby." 8
p.m., Rudolph E. Pugliese Theatre.
$8.50 standard admission, $7
seniors and students, production
runs today-May 13. Call X2201 tor
info."

Benefit Concert Dinner,
celebrating the 20th edition of the
UM International Piano Festival and
William Kapell Competition, featur-
ing six past winners of the com-
petition and the Hon. William
Donald Schaefer. honorary chair-
man, time TBA, Grand Ballroom,
Stamp Union. Call x4212 for info.

Hoff Theater Movie; "The
Navigator " Call x4987 for info.*

Counseling Center Research &
Development Meeting: "Job
Satisfaction Revisited: Moderators
of the Strength of the Congruence-
Satisfaction Relationship Among
UMCP Graduates," Andrew Car-
son, noon, 0106 Shoemaker Bldg.
Call x2937 for info.

International Education Services
Brown Bag Lecture: "Update on
Sri Lanka," Cyril Ponnamperuma,
12:30-2 p.m., 3114 Chemistry Bldg.
Callx3043 for info.

International Coffee Hour, 3-4:30
p.m., 0205 Jimenez Hatl. Call
x4925 for info.

University Theatre: Baby," 8
p.m., see May 8 for details.

Hoff Theater Movie: "The
Navigator." Call x4987 for info."

' Admission charge for this event.

All others atv free.

Calendar information may be
sent to John Fritz, 2101 Turner
Laboratory or (via electronic
mail) to jlfritz@pres.umd.edu.

Outdoor

April 30, 1990

Annual Pops Concert will be
"A Night at the Circus"

The University of Maryland Bands will present "A Night at the
Circus" as the theme of their 14th annual pops concert on Friday.
May 4 at 8:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of Stamp Union. The
Symphonic Wind Ensemble, directed by John Wakefield, and the
Concert Band, conducted by L Richmond Sparks, will be perform-
ing. The cabaret setting will include cotton candy, popcorn, beer,
wine, and soda for sale, as well as surprise entertainment— fun for
all ages. Tickets are SU) (S8 for students and seniors). For tickets
and table selection call the band office at 4i-t-68()i,

ARTS AT MARYLAND

"Dance Makes Us Children of One
Family"— Ashanti Proverb

Focus on

Undergraduate

Education

Cultural contrast clarifies
what's familiar to us," says
dance assistant professor
loan Frosch -Schroder of her
le dance of Africa and Asia.

research in

"Nun- western cultures hold great

treasures of our common human

heritage."

Determined to share those treasures
witli College Park undergraduates,
Frosch -Schroder had been developing a
course on dance in different world
cultures, and longing for the extra time

needed to put it all together. Then, as
she says, "On a while cloud came the
announcement of the Lilly fellowship."

Frosch-Schroder is one of the first
group of seven junior faculty selected
last spring for the prestigious national
award. For a year, each fellow is freed
from some other academic respon-
sibilities to work on an individual pro-
ject focused op an aspect of
undergraduate teaching, and each
receives guidance and support from a
senior mentor in the same or related

Guest Director Is Proof that Students
Can Have Theatrical Career

Susan Rosenstock

Even be lb re she had said a word,
Susan Rosenstock. guest director for
University Theatre's production of Baby,
was setting a positive example for her
Student actors.

The silent subtext that Rosenstock
presents to students during rehearsals for
the play, which opens May 1 in the
Puglicsc Theatre, is this: you can make it
in the business too.

Rosenstock is an alumna of University
Theatre, a former speech and drama
education major who received her
degree in 1975. Since then she has work-
ed successfully in New York as a director
and actor.

When she left College Park and moved
to New York after graduation, she spent
several lean years auditioning for acting
roles and developing contacts in direc-
ting. Now, her work (mostly as director
and choreographer) is seen regularly in
Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway
theaters in Manhattan. Her credits in-
clude productions at Playwrights

Horizons. Actors and Directors Theatre,
the Manhattan Theatre Club and Double
Image Theatre.

"It's difficult, of course. There aren't
many jobs" Rosenstock says. "Many of
the people I worked with in college
didn't pursue theater as a career at all.
Others found quickly that they didn't
like New York, But if you survive the
first year or two in New York, you can
be successful."

Having successfully navigated the New
\uik theater scene. Rosenstock considers
her return to College Park one of the
fruits of survival.

■"Coming back to the university is im-
portant to me. To receive the approval of
people who knew you when you were
young means a lot— it is an
acknowledgement of your achievements
as a professional."

Rosenstock compliments some current
members of the theatre faculty with
making strong impression on her while
she was a student.

"I worked with Ron O'Leary (associate
professor of theatre] both at school and
in my first paying job [with the Jenny
Wiley Summer Theatre|. He set a good
example for me. He is a person who is
both creative and organized. In theater
you find a lot of people w-ho are creative
and a lot of people who are organized,
but you don't find the combination
together very often," she says.

With Baby, Rosenstock will be work-
ing with her specialty— musical theater.

The Tony Award -winning play explores
the effect that having a baby has on the
relationships of three couples. One cou-
ple is an unmarried pair of 20-year-olds
who question whether they're ready to
have a baby: another is a pair of 30 -year-
olds who doubt whether they can have a
baby; and the final couple is a pair of
40-year-olds who would prefer to be
finished with child rearing.

Performances will be held May 1-6 and
8-13. For more information call 454-2201. 1

— Brian tittsek

discipline. Fellows for 1990-91 w r ere
named recently; more will be selected
for the remaining year of the grant.

Froseh-Sehrodcr's project, "Dance in
World Cultures," is designed to examine
dance in a selection of non-Western
cultures in a historical and societal con-
text, enrich the undergraduate cur-
riculum, and serve new general educa-
tion requirements.

New to the university, Frosch-
Schroder found her faculty mentor,
music ethnologist Carol Robertson, at
the suggestion of a colleague. It was a
match with high overlap. Both scholars
are involved in looking at the cultural
context of performance, attempting to
understand the larger picture through
comparative studies. Both had worked
and studied in many parts of the world,
having in common both Ghana and
Hawaii. And both arc committed to
preparing students for living in a "global
village" by opening them up to the
richness of non-Western arts and allow-
ing informed, multi-cultural points of
view to develop.

Frosch-Schroder, a modern dance
choreographer, whose background in-
cludes study at New York's School of
Performing Arts, Juilliard and the Califor-
nia Institute of the Arts, was interested
in creating a laboratory of interplay be-
tween western and non-western forms.

Robertson's mentorship has given her
many ideas "Carol's approach is very
empowering to her students." she says
"She's also a font of knowledge and
energy, who can cut across ways of
thinking and disciplines as only few
can."

Robertson, an associate professor in
the music department, finds interacting
with a dance expert equally stimulating.
"I am not trained as a dancer, and don't
have that perspective. Learning how some-
one in dance sees a performance has
been quite an education," says Robert-
son. "Joan stretches my eyes."

Frosch-Schroder and Robertson
strengthen each other in another way, as
well. Both feel strongly about the value
of teaching non-western culture to
undergraduates in order to prepare them
for the global world they will live in— a
world that in many ways is already here.
Throughout their careers, both have run
into academic resistance to an forms
outside of the western tradition. Part of
their time together has been spent in for-
ming strategies to open up disciplines.
"You can't define an area of human ex-
perience only through the west." says
Robertson.

Frosch-Schroder hopes her new
course, which will be offered in the
spring of 1991, will provide her students
with an enhanced perspective on the
human experience. "I want to have the
gaps in their cultural literacy well
challenged by the end of the course."
she says.

Frosch-Schroder considers dance a
window on the inner life of humanity.
"It uses the one instrument we all

Joan Frosch-Schroder

Carol Robertson

share— the human body— and can com-
municate in ways language cannot, It
goes deeper than language, right to the
human core. It's another, and very im-
portant w ; ay of knowing."

Having done field work in a small
Ghanaian village, Frosch-Schroder re-
turned to Ghana last summer to con-
tinue her research and initiate the
development of a Maryland/Ghana stu-
dent exchange. While there, she con-
ferred with her Ghanaian mentor. Professor
Ma we re Opoku, founder of the Ghana
National Dance Ensemble, about her new
course. After carefully studying her draft
syllabus, the University of Ghana pro-
fessor gave his full approval to the new
course, quoting in his encouragement an
ancient Ashanti proverb, "Dance makes
us children of one family."

Frosch-Schroder plans to share that in-
sight with her Maryland undergraduates. ■

— Linda Freemtm

5

Outlook

April 30, 1990

Dominic Cossa. baritone

Dominic Cossa Joins William Hudson for
Season's Final Scholarship Benefit Concert

The May t final concert of Eliis season's Artist Scholarship Benefit
scries will feature Metropolitan and New York City Opera baritone
Dominic Cossa an J Fairfax Symphony conductor William Hudson
leading the University of Maryland Symphony in a program of
operatic selection and lighter show tunes. Both artists are members
of the university's music faculty. The varied program will include
music by Mozart, Verdi, Massenet, and Prokofiev as well as Lerncr
and Porter. The concert begins at 8 p.m. in Tawes Theatre, Tickets
are $10 ($7 students and seniors); call -ivi-MmO for information.

Filling the Campus Workforce

/t's sometimes tough to get
engineers and architects to join
the College Park campus
workforce. And scientific and
business computing experts. And electri-
cians, refrigeration and temperature con-
trol mechanics and other skilled
tradespeople. And laboratory .scientists
and technicians. And clerical staff.

In fact, says Jose Mendez, campus
employment manager, the university
wages a continuing battle to recruit can-
didates in fill [lie approximately 3.-1(111
classified and ~<)0 associate staff posi-
tions the university relies on to fulfill its
three-fold mission of teaching, research
and public service.

"Even though it is one of the largest
employers in Prince George's county,
many people don't see the university as
a place to work," he says 'They see the
university as a place where we have pro-
fessors and students, but not as a place
to seek employment opportunities "

To illustrate the kind of recruiting dif-
ficulties he faces, Mendez tells of talking
with a woman he met at a job lair in
Northern Virginia who was looking for
employment. He discovered that she
lived within walking distance of the
College Park campus.

'That was not an isolated case, but a
common misconception among people. "
he says. "We need to do a better job of
selling the public on the idea of the
university as a desirable place to work.''

The university, he notes, is competing
with federal government agencies and
laboratories and private sector firms Tor
employees Like the competition, it too
seeks administrative, support, clerical,
technical and scientific, maintenance and
service, skilled trades, and environmental
and safety staff

Through a scries of initiatives, the
employment office has improved its
visibility and that of the university as an
employer, and has extended and
broadened its reach into the area's
dynamic and highly competitive labor
market.

A new recruitment brochure depicting
employment opportunities and benefits
at the university has been in use since
the fall It has been received favorably
by both potential applicants and campus
departments. Mendez says.

In 1988, the office began placing
classified vacancy announcements with
the Maryland State Job Service com-
puterized job posting system. An-
nouncements circulate throughout t he-
state and at Job Service offices across the
country The response to this free and
innovative program has been highly
fav< irahle. It also has served as a pro
totype program for other agencies.

In cooperation with The Flagship
Channel Productions, the office has
developed a cable television program
that carries a listing of weekly classified
employment opportunities available here.
Called the CMCP Job Mart, the free ser-
vice automatically includes all classified
jobs advertised through the employment

Front row. seated from left to right: Rosemary Nester, Barbara McElroy, Meryl Balen. Back, standing: Ellen Encamacion, Jose Mendez, Wally
King, Christine Zarkos, Karen Bank and James Brent.

office. It is available to Prince George's
county cable TV subscribers on Channel
3SB Monday through Saturday at " a.m.
and Sunday at 7, y and 1 1 a.m. The ser-
vice is expected to expand to include
other nearby counties

Advertising in local and regional dailj
and weekly newspapers as well as those
serving area military installations, has
been expanded. Christine Zarkos. the of-
fice's ad coordinator, says [he office has
contracts with the classified sections of
both The Washington I'nsl and the jinir-
tint newspapers. This means a discount
and easier billing procedures. Zarkos
produces and distributes by fax an
average of two dozen ads each week
.She reminds campus departments that
the deadline for ads is noon each
Wednesday.

Mendez has two ideas he believes
would give the campus additional ex
posure in the job marketplace. Becau.se
of budgetary constraints, both arc-
presently on hold.

"We would like to invest in a recruit-
ment vehicle, an RV that could serve as
a mobile employment office that could
be driven to various sites around the
area." he says The vehicle, equipped
with telephone and computer terminals,
could be parked at shopping malls or
other targeted locations suitable for
recruiting where a large group of people
assemble.

lie is also planning the production ol
a recruitment video tape that could be

used in a wide variety of settings. "We
could show it at job fairs lo help sell the
beauty of this campus, its size and ac-
tivities and employment opportunities."
Mendev says. It would be extremely
helpful to us."

James Brent recently joined the staff as
a recruiter with full-time responsibility in
the trades area lie is on the road virtual
ly even' day. visiting vocational and
technical schools, and representing ihe
university at job fairs. He also maintains
regular contact with organizations like
the Air Conditioning Contractors ol
America. American Builders and Contrac-
tors, and the National Association of
Power Engineers,

In addition, he visits various retail
stores that specialize in electric, plumb-
ing and heating, and has created a scries
of recruitment flyers.

"We continue to have serious difficul-
ty in recruiting skilled trades personnel
since there are many demands and
strong competition for these skills in the
Washington area," Mendez says.

The office helped run a recent open
house for the campus Administrative
Computer Center. Held in the
Rossborougb Inn from ^ to 9 p.m.. tin.
open bouse provided an opportunity lor
prospective employees to meet and talk
informally with ACC managers and staff
about the job openings available.

It was very productive and successful
for us and the ACC." Mendez notes.

Another successful open house effort

involved mailing thousands of letters to
recent campus graduates about openings
in Engineering and Architectural Services.
"The cost was minimal and the results
very satisfactory," Mendez says.

The tuition remission benefit for cam-
pus workers is a great recruitment tool.
Mendez says. There have been
employees who took salary reductions of
several thousand dollars to join the
university workforce to take advantage
of [his benefit.

The Applicant Plow System, a totally
computerized program was created in-
house, to speed the employment pro-
cess. The system can produce a list of
eligible candidates for departments
within three weeks of the announcement
of a job vacancy At many other large
public universities, the process can take-
as long as three lo six months

F.qual Employment Opportunity and
Affirmative Action regulations require
that lists of eligible candidates for all
vacancies include a minimum of one ap-
plicant who is a minority candidate and
one applicant with a disability

To help campus staff better unders-
tand the process used to announce,
advertise, recruit for and fill campus job
openings, Mencle/. urges that all new staff
with employment responsibility visit the
employment office for familiarization of
employment procedures and an explana-
tion of iis operation. ■

— Iimi (uirell

21st District Legislative Delegation to Meet
with Campus Community

The College Park Campus Senate will Host an open forum with
Senator Arthur Donran, Delegates Pauline H, Menes, Tim Maloney.
and Jim Rosapcpe on Wednesday, May 2, 12:15-1:30 p.m. in the
Maryland Room (Km. 0100) of Marie Mount Hall. Organized by the
Campus Senate Legislative Affairs Committee, the forum will feature
reports from the four state legislators, who represent the College
Park area, on legislation during the reeent 1990 session of the
Maryland General Assembly Issues to be diseussed include alloca-
tions to the university from the state's capital and operating

budgets; cost of living and merit pay increases for university
employees; grievance procedures for associate staff; changes in
faculty conflict of interest policies; and effects of university in-
itiatives in Montgomery County and Baltimore on the College Park
campus. The forum will include an open question and answer ses-
sion. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. For
more information, call the 21st District Office at 858-31 14 or the
Campus Senate Office at 454-4M9.

QunooK

April 30, 1990

COLLEGE PARK PEOPLE

Three Win 1990 Clerical/Secretarial Recognition Awards

From left to right: Joanne Smith, Rosemary Wainscott, Wallie Stevens.

Two years ago, the President's Com-
mission on Women's Affairs established a
committee and a process to recognize
members of the clerical/secretarial profes-
sion who have distinguished themselves
by outstanding service to the College
Park campus community.

The 199(1 winners of this award arc
Joanne K. Smith, administrative aide II
in the Procurement and Supply Depart-
ment, Walli L. Stevens, administrative
aide II in the Institute for Physical

Science and Technology, and Rosemary
Wainscott. executive administrative aide
1 in the College of Business and
Management.

"The process for selecting [he 19 l M
recipients was a difficult one because of
-n outstanding nominations received."
notes Linda Scovin.li, chair of the
recognition committee. "Clearly, all the
nominees have earned the respect and
affection of their colleagues, both as pro-
fessionals and as individuals."

The three award winners will be
presented plaques at the May 1" Person-
nel Practices luncheon in the Stamp Stu-
dent I'n ion.

Joanne Smith has been with the
university for almost JO years. She serves
as administrative assistam to Ronald
Jones, director of Procurement and Supp-
ly She analyzes, formulates and prepares
the annual budget and reviews contracts
for services, maintenance, construction
and entertainment as well as monitoring
personnel and payroll activities.

For tlie last four years, she has made a
daily 1-io-milc round nip commute from
her home in Hagcrstown

'Joanne Smith's service is a hallmark
of credit and will become a bench mark
lor seeking a quality replacement when
she retires (his summer." notes John R.
Wall. Jr.. assistant to the director.

Walli Stevens is a 25-year veteran of
the campus workforce. She serves as
chief administrative assistant to IPST
director James A. Yorkc and is its
primary representative to both the na-
tional and international scientific com-
munity, As the senior staff members she
also exercises overall supervision of the
Institute support staff.

' Walli probably has more knowledge
of College Park than any other
secretarial /clerical person serving the
campus," says Yorkc. She has been here
since I9fn and those 2S years have been
spent in service to eight succeeding
directors of the Institute. She has become

Freimuth Continues to Make a Difference

continued from jutge t

"Iter work with colleagues here at
Maryland dealing with the AIDS informa-
tion campaign represent-, the pioneering
studies used by researchers and practi
doners alike in coming to grips with this
critical world-wide health problem," says
Andrew Wolvin, chair of the Department
of Speech Communication.

i'reimuth is also a consult am on health
information campaigns in developing na-
tions, such as Ghana, Swaziland and
Ethiopia.

"My international work has been very
satisfying," says Freimuth. who has
travelled to Geneva and Trinidad, as
well, and has served in consultancies
with the World Health Organization and
the Agency for International
Development.

"The satisfaction comes from helping
to train the professionals in that coun-
try," she says. "I'm only there on a
short-term basis. They, the health profes-
sionals, are the ones who make the dif-
ference. I'm just there to bring additional
skills and to help improve what they are
doing Developing these relationships is
so fascinating and rewarding."

Then there are her contributions to
the university community . especially to
the women on campus.

"Yicki's service to women and
women's issues in higher education are

legendary." says Wolvin.

As chair of the Chancellor's Commis-
sion on Women's Affairs, she provided
leadership on such issues as day care,
salary equity, affirmative action and sex
bias in the classroom.

She also served on the Greer Commit-
tee, helping to shape the campus con-
sciousness as to the important role of
women in higher education.

"Changes have been made," she says.
"And there have been some very
positive concrete changes, such as day
care."

The child care center on campus was
established in Sept. !9KH,

"1 remember that when 1 was working
on the issue of child care, my children
were that age, and 1 used to laugh and
say that maybe child care would be
available for my grandchildren.' she
says,

She adds that there also have been real
efforts made to solve the salary dif-
ferences between women and men.

The effort has heen made." .she says
"But the problem has not been solved.
Hut I think that the institution has really
made a commitment to solving these
kinds of problems. And a number of
women have benefitted, including
myself."

She is concerned, though, for the

young female faculty members and the
pressures they face.

"I always feel a little uncomfortable
when a younger woman will say to me,
'Look at you. you've got children and a
career,' " she says. "And 1 always have
to look back and think, 'Have [ really
done that well?' It's such a difficult thing
to do."

She says that in order "to have it all"
women must work very hard and make
sacrifices along the way.

"There's just no support system." she
says. "And it is particularly hard for
academic women. The years when you
are striving to become tenured and you
must be your most productive, are also
the child- bearing years."

She also expresses a lot of concern
and interest in her students. Many are
returning students who are older
women.

"1 hope one of the reasons that 1 was
chosen as Woman of the Year was
because of the relationships I've had
with students, especially the female
students." she says. "I hope that I have
been helpful and that they leave here
feeling that they have been well-trained
to take positions in this pragmatic type
of work "

Many of her students keep in touch
with her after they graduate.

highly respected professionally as well as
personally by all who have had the
pleasure of doing business with her"

Rosemary Wainscott is administrative
assistant to Dean Rudolph Lamone, She
has been with the university for 25
years. In addition to providing a variety
of complex administrative support ser-
vices, she maintains close contact with
private and public sector executives from
the Governor's office, major business
leaders, the College's Board of Visitors,
and others.

"For a number of years, she has been
the prime mover behind the female sup-
port staff day on campus." notes Judy D
Olian, associate pro lessor, management
and organization. "Rosemary has heen
very conscious of the need to enhance
the sense of appreciation, identity and
professionalism among the female staff
on cam juts. I have been very impressed
with her organizational abilities and drive
in putting this event together."

"As the senior manager of 35 classified
staff members. Rosemary has established
a standard of quality of work and work
environment thai has touched significant-
ly the working life of all faculty, staff and
students." says Dean Lamone.

Outlook is delighted to extend our
congratulations to these three outstan-
ding employees and to wish them well in
the years ahead. I

— Tutu Otuvtt

"She has a remarkable ability to
translate difficult statistical methodology
to the humanistic minds of our
students," says Wolvin. "Through the
years that I have worked with her. I
have always been impressed that she is
one of a few people who can develop
true research skills in her students "

Freimuth consistently receives ex-
cellent ratings in her courses, says
Wolvin

"And her former students testify as- to
the influence she has had on their pro-
fessional careers." he adds.

Freimuth continues to make a dif-
ference. I

— Usa Gregory

Vicki Freimuth will be honored by the
President's Commission on Women's W
fairs at a reception next fall.

She joins other women who have
been similarly honored, including Elske
Smith (191% Chris Weller (1978), Mar.}
Broadwater and Pita Cdlwell {I9 7l »,
Wilhelmina Jashemski (1980). Margaret
Bddwt [l 1 1981), Eugenie Clark (1962),
Shirley Kenny (1983). Maiic Davidson
(1984), Catherine Atwell (1985), Sylvia
Stewart (I'-wio, Roz Nicheri il"s~), Janet
McKay and Mady Segal (19HS). and Jean
Grambs (19H9). ■

Outlook

April 30, 1990

£1 Salvador Memorial Mural
to be Displayed on Mall

A -n-foot-long Memorial Mural displaying thousands of names of
Salvadorans who have been killed during the past decade of war in
El Salvador will be displayed on Hornbake Mall May 2-4. A rally in
support (if peace in El Salvador will be held May 3. from noon to
t p.m. on Hornbake Mall. Speakers will include Jose Pens, an
designer and director of the mural. There also will be name-writing
ceremonies at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. that day. The three-day
event is sponsored in part by the University of Maryland El
Salvador Coalition. Call 422-23t1 or 4^4-4998 for more
information.

Dear Editor:

I was happy to have Ouitnolt publicize
the Banneker Scholars and the article
| "Two Programs Work to Help Black
Students Succeed," April 2, 1990] was
generally accurate. However, there is one
case where John frit/ and I were on dif-
fereni wavelengths. He asked who came
up with the idea for the Banneker
Scholarship program. I responded that
Ulysses Glee and Ken Morgan were iwo
of the originators, hut i did not know
the third person. He indicated that he
would he talking to Ulysses and would
ask him. Unfortunately when I read the
story 1 discovered thai he talked with
Ulysses Connor and ihai he had
understood t'lysses Connor when I had
said Glee.

I want to sa\ for the record that the
originators of the Banneker Scholarship
Program were llysses Glee, Andy
Goodrich (I asked Glee) and Ken
Morgan

One other inaccuracy (perhaps! con-
cerns the fact that 1 am stepping down.
As I said to Mr Frit/.. I am in my final
year as Associate Chairman for Graduate
Studies I have served three years in this
capacity in the Mathematics Department
I am not in my final year as Chairman of
the Banneker Committee, unless you
know something that 1 don't.

Raymond L. Johnson
Professor of Mathematics

(itilittttk sincerely regrets the errors.

FYI

O'Neil Receives Magoon
Award

James M. O'Neil was presented the
Thomas M. Magoon Distinguished Alum-
ni Award at the American College Per-
sonnel Associations recent annual
meeting in si Louis Named for the
director emeritus of the Counseling
Center, the award recognizes an alumnus
or alumna of the Counseling and Person-
nel Services Program in the College of
Education who has made outstanding
contributions to the profession as a prac-
titioner and scholar O'Neil. who receiv-
ed his Ph.D. in 1975, is on the faculty at
the University of Connecticut ai Storrs.
His research has focused on women and
gender role conflict.

Gordon and Wasserman to
Teach in Library Ad-
ministrators Program

The 24th annual Library Ad-
ministrators Development Program will
take place May 6- is at the College of
Library and Information Services (CLIS)
University of Maryland Donaldson
Brown Center in Port Deposit, Md.
Featured on the program's faculty this
year are Lawrence Gordon of Business
and Management and Paul Wasserman of
CLIS.

Colwell Named to FDA Ad-
visory Committee

Rita Colwell. director of the Maryland
Biotechnology Institute, was recently
selected to serve on the Ivmemher Ad-

Dear Editor:

Recently, the attached notice began
appearing on storage and other items in
the corridors of the Physics Building, It
has created quite a stir among employees
of this department because it appears to
be having a very positive effect clearing
the corridors (and other rooms) of
miscellaneous storage.

Several months ago. Lorraine DeSalvo
contacted me about the storage pro-
blems in the building (a condition that
exists campus wide). She was looking for
a way to get the stuff out of the cor-
ridors. At that time, she was told that it
is a violation of the fire code and that
we {Environmental Safety) could send a
memo to the Department Chairman to
correct the situation but, there was little
that we could do beyond that point. It is
the responsibility of the occupants to 1)
not create safety hazards and 2) correct
those safety hazards that they do make
It takes a real commitment on the pan
of occupants and administrators to create
a safe place to work. Together, we came
up with the wording for die poster, and
she had it printed, and obviously got the
backing of the department chair to begin
to get a handle on this pervasive
problem.

1 was in the building this last week
and was amazed at the progress she has
made clearing the corridors, and it is my
understanding that she has also been in-
strumental in having numerous rooms
with ancient storage (stuff that has been
stored for vears) cleared to make room

visory Committee of the Food and Drug
Administration. The committee's job is
io examine FDA's mission, respon-
sibilities and structure and to make
recommendations over the next year for
improving the agency's operations and
effectiveness.

A Moving Story

The Campus Telephone Information
Office has moved from its former li i( a
tion in the Skinner Building, room uin.s,
to the new Communication Services
Building on Field House Drive, building
010. campus zip 4911.

Winning Poetry

Rose M. Thompson, secretary in
Creative Services, received word this
month that her poem. "Martin Luther
King Jr., " had been awarded honorable
mention in a national poetry contest.

New Professors Emeriti
Appointed

President William E. Kirwan has ap-
pointed six new professors emeriti on
the recommendations of their colleagues.
Honored by the new status are: Donald
H. Mcssersmith, entomology; Francis E.
Wood, entomology: Kohert F Mcnzer.
entomology; Chester f Holmlund.
chemistry and biochemistry; Hugh D,
Slslcr, botany; and Kenneth R, Henen
Logan, chemistry and biochemistry.

for more current and needed items.

Environmental Safety believes that
Physics, as a department, and Lorraine
and Dr. Chuan Liu, as the driving force
behind this, should be recognized for
their monumental efforts. Your publica-
tion would be a good forum for this, let-
ting all those other departments on cam-
pus know that there is a need to look
critically at storage practices and a way
to get control of and reduce un needed
long term storage. With space in such
critical shortage, reduction of storage is a
good way to gain useful space, to pro-
vide safe exiting in the event of an
emergency, and reduce potential targets
for vandals.

1 hope your publication can be in-
strumental in recognizing the efforts of
these responsible individuals and get a
message out that there is a lot of space
currently being wasted with long term
storage.

Please contact me if you need addi-
tional information.

Jim Robinson

Manager. Fire Protection

Dear Editor:

1 recently used a courier parking per
roil to deliver some items on campus,
proper!) displaying the permit and park-
ing in a legal faculty /staff space.
However, upon returning some time
later. I found that I had received a 1100
parking ticket for improper use of the
permit. Since it seemed obviously issued
in error, the school's Department Park-

ing Coordinator requested that it be
voided. The Parking Office responded
with a request for a personal meeting
between myself and Ms. Janice Sum-
mons. I subsequently phoned Ms. Sum-
mons and was informed that there is a
30 minute limit for courier permit
holders, and that violators usually had to
appear in person, hut since I was a first
offender, she would do me the favor of
voiding the ticket! When 1 pointed out
that no one seemed to be aware of this
new rule, she claimed that a newsletter
was being issued dedicated to this sub-
ject. Was this their way of getting the
word out in advance?

Although 1 understand and empathize
with the Campus Parking Office on the
difficulties involved in managing the
transportation problems on this campus,
the manner in which faculty, staff and
students are being treated is in direct
conflict with President Kirwan' s desire to
improve the culture and ambience of the
campus. 1 have never objected to paying
the parking fees, nor do 1 have an aver-
sion to walking a few extra steps.
However, when 1 am made to feel like a
criminal who has been put on probation
for a first offense. I must draw the line
We are all here for a common goal—
educating our students. Let's try to work
with each other instead of against each
other.

Nancy K. Lappanc
Assistant to the Dean,
School of Architecture

Harlan To Be Honored May 2-3

Louis Harlan

continued from page i

"Louis suggested that rather than
focusing on [Washington] himself, the
conference should examine the period in
which he live," Moss says. "|ln his own
work) Louis uses the mans life as a way
of looking at American society in the late
19th and early JUth centuries," Moss
says.

In making invitations to the con-
ference, the organizers found no short-

age ot top-ranking historians interested
in participating. The honorec, however,
specified that some relatively unfamiliar
faces he included, Harlan wanted to hear
papers from young scholars who, while
perhaps less known and less polished.
are applying new perspectives to the
study of the period.

Finally. Harlan asked organizers to in-
vite dissidents, those scholars with
whom he has vigorously disagreed over
the years.

"Several people asked me, 'Are you
sure he knows I'm coming/' I told them
thai he was the one who suggested they
be invited," Moss snys,

I lighlights of the conference will in-
clude the keynote address by Leon Lh
waek on "Two Americas: Race Relations
in the South in the Era of Booker T.
Washington'' at 9 a.m. Wed,. May 2. in
Km 1 MS of the Center of Adult Educa-
tion. Harlan will address the conference
with his reflections on "White
Southerner as Historian of the Black Ex-
perience" at ~-.\\\ pin. May 1 in the
Center of Adult Education Auditorium.

Support for the conference comes
from the Department of History, the Col-
lege of Arts and Humanities, the
Graduate School, the National Archives
of the United States and the Maryland
Humanities Council.

For more information call 454-2844 ■

— Brian liusvk

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