eriait TVolclegiorgis, a seiiiov chemistry major who hails Si

eriait TVolclegiorgis,
a seiiiov chemistry
major who hails
Si-oin Eriri.ea, is one
of rlie uiiiversiiT's
116 inrernational
suidenrs ii-110 have
come to the Universiy of
Indianapolis to sr~ich-.
Senair is on tlie Board of
Dii-ecrors of tlie uniiersih's
inrercultural ~\ssociatioii.
In Octobei-, the u i i i ~ e r s i n
saluted irs iiirernatioiial
student population viih
the annual Celebi-arion of
tlie Flags. Siudeiirs, facull!.
and sraff garliered rei- the
cei-emonv in kaniiel-i
>leinorial Libi-ai:-: iiliere
tlie flags of sixty natioiis
are hung. Fiftytwo of ~liese
repi-eseni rlie uiiiversit\'s
inreriiarional smdent
popiilation; r h t res1 honor
the Sacaculiy and sraff iilio
are narives of oilier couiiI-eceiiiaccreditor
tries. ~\
referrccl to L-OS I as "rlie
most rho1-ong111~
intenlationalized iwiversity" she
had encountered. In
addiiion to ihe iniernarional yopulaiioii on
caiiipui. tlie iiniversitv has
accredired, full-service
hraiiches offering associate's, bachelor's. a n d
inastei-'~
degrees in C:~I-LIS
and GI-eeceand forinal
s i s t e r school relationships
Trith universities i n Taiwaii
and China. \lore than 500
riiiyersity of Iiidianapolis
stitdeiiis froin man)- addiiioiial countries \\ill be
enrolled i n our Sdl-sei-lice
sires in Xicosia, Lai-naca. in
Lirnassol. C y r i i s . and in
;Itliens. Greece.
Hanna to close?
Pat nnd Pearl Smith ni the dedication of Smith Board Room
Smiths leave largest bequest
in university's history
The universit? is pleased to announce it has receiT-ed the
hi-gest bequest in its history, a 53.8 million gift from tlie
estate of Patrick aiid Pearl Smith of Indianapolis.
Pat, a graduate of DePauv, died in 1982; Pearl passed
axay on No\-ember 7 , 1994.
Pat and Pearl are shoiin above at the dedication of the
Smith Board Rooin in Ih-aiinert Memorial Libraiq- iii 1977
The Smiths were honored by thempresident Gene E. Sease
and the Board of Trustees for their devotion to their
adopted school (then Indiana Central University)
Ted Plum, formerly an executive at Indiana Bell and
an intimate of the late President 1. Lynd Esch, introduced
Pat and Pearl Smith to tlie university during Dr. Esch's
tenure. The Smiths were attracted to the entrepreneurial
leadership and \ision of Dr. Esch and the noble mission thc
school embodied. Follo\\ing the election of Dr. Sease to the
presidency; the Smiths' interest in the uniyersit? continued,
a commitment that Pearl kept strong even after Pat's death,
They were generous donors ox-er the years, and among
their significant gifts was tlie Smith Fund, created to
p r o d e support for the university's fund-raising efforts.
Pat, "an excellent attorney and a loyal friend," according to Ted Plum, inrroduced the university to many indiTiduals Jvho later became generous benefactors. .bong
them were Glenn Marsen, ~rliomade possible tlie building
of TVarren Hall, and Louis Schwitzer, diose name adorns
the student center.
President G. Benjamin Lantz said, "Pat and Pearl
Smith loved die universihi and worked for it while they were
able. It was important to them that it succeed in its distinctive mission. Indeed, they were so concerned about its
success and pleased that their lives had been blended Jvith
it that they would continue to support it rhroughout iti
future by gidng their entire estate, and therefore themsehes, to serve in its behalf. This kind of devotion is Trhat
really builds a university and makes it great." I
Undergrad enrollments
up 45 % in seuen years
The university has achieved its eighth consecutive year of
record enrollments, including more than an eighteen
percent inci-ease in tlie freshmen class.
Since 1988, when dien-new President Lantz initiated
a major marketing effort, there has been a forty-five percent
increase i n daytime undergraduates. SAT scores h a x
inci-eased by thirty-nine points within that same period.
These outstanding figures come in a year when many
colleges and universities are scrambling for new students
among 18- to 22-year-olds.
The L'niversih of Indianapolis has asked the city to investigate the feasibility of closing the section of Hanna Avenue
between Otterbein and Mathews avenues, as a first step in
t+g
to put the brakes on ti-affic passing through campus.
In a public meetirig in October, more than GOO people
crammed the three levels of the DeIlaan Center performance hall to respond to the university's proposal to close
Hanna from Otterbein to 1.lathew-s.
For ox-el-three hours, well-organized, vocal
Southsiders aired concerns and, in most cases; strong
disappi-oval over the university's plan. The meeting v a s
held by rhe city's Department of Capital Assets Managemeiit
to gather information .Adininistrator Mark Jacob empliasized that "no decision bas been made, n o petition yet
receiT-ed." Mteter transcribing the minutes of the meering, h e
said; his office would oversee a cost/benefit sur\ey to
determine the "economic potential" resulting from furui-e
uniwrsiq- expansion and new traffic flow patterns.
President La1112 expressed the uni\-ersitfs "great
c o n c e i d over the safet). issue created by Hanna's physical
diIision of tlie norrh and south areas of campus. He cited
four accidents in die past five years resulting in sigiiificant
injury to pedestrians t+ig to CI-ossIlanna, as well as eight
personal injuries to motorists and elei-en other accidents
resulting in property damage.
Lantr also described a plan to beauLify the Otterbeinto-Shelby aiid Srate-to-Mathe\z-sblocks u;iili 11-ee-lined
boulevards featuring landscaped medians. ";11 of u s are
interested i n making this neighboihood the best place we
can make it," lie told the crowd. "\Ve want to be a good
neighbor for another several hundred years."
Lantz said the cii? was looking into upgrading h-ational A\\-enuefi-om Keystone to Shelby, bi-inging curbed
sideivalks foi- residents and a free-floiiing traffic partern for
motorists who would encounter "two fewer school zones, n o
playgi-ound; and no one crossing their pathway."
Lantz also cited problems with such solutions as
skyvalks, tunnels, and "gerbil tubes," noting that water
tables, incliiies, and the university's round-the-clock schedule made them unxorkable.
Southsiders presented D M I with petitions bearing
5,453 names opposing tlie Hanna closing. Those who lined
up to n i c e objcctions mentioned increased traffic on
inadequate residential streets, dangei- to small children
plajing in and near streets, and fear of decreased property
d u e s , increased property taxes; and c a t to taxpayers for
infrastructural changes.
Making sense of what's happening in today's j o b market is
no easy task. Figuring out how to stay on top of one's o ~ v n
career is even more challenging.
T'iliat changes and trends are appa~-entin the emplo!-.
menr world? Tjhat do Tve need to consider to explore new
career opportunities? HOWdoes a person go aboutjob
seeking in today's corporate and industrial mare?
Mike Fari-, nationally lmorvn speaker, author, and president oCJIST, an Indianapolis-based career/business p u b
lishing house, will offer a presentation Saturda); Februal? 3,
fi-om 9:OO a.m. to noon i n ICrannei-t Memorial Libran, To
register, send a check for S7.30 to Career Serrices, Universit7 of Indianapolis, 1400 East Hanna Aye., Indianapolis, IN
46227. Indicate iii an attached note that the payment is 101.
the "Careering in the New Economy" T\hrkshop; and include
your name, address, day and evening phone numbers, and
current 01- recent careei- position or situation.
Questions? Contact Paul Gabonay, 317/588-3296
(e-7naii: OCStZgandlf,uindy,edu). L
Claili Su&!ier L9
Pack the House Night
Lei's pdck Nicoson Hall a s the Grevhounds host the n e i r e s t
meinbet- of the Great Lakes 1hlley Confe~-ence.Southern
Illinois-Ed~rards~ille,
on Saturday. February 3.
Chili will be seimed fl-om 4:30-7:00 p.m in Ruth Lilly
Centei- (adjacent to Nicoson Hall), instead o i tlie usual
Schwitrei- Center Dining Hall location. Tlie 'Iroinen's
basketball game starts at 5 3 0 pin.; iiieii's basketliall gets
undenray a t 7:30p.m.
So: You caii eat befol-e both games 01- between games
(even during games!). Adinissioii foor adults, i\liicli iiicludes
chili arid admission to boLh gamcs. is $7.00. Foi- Icids ages
(5-12, admission isjust %4.00.
S o reserrations iicceshary. JLISI sIio.i,. u l i ! i'
The Grtylaouiad license
plate laas anived!
Beginning Januai-y 1 , ill? l i e n Greyhound plarc lser 6nch
couo-) will be available at a license brancli near you. If you
liave already submitted an application, it will he signed and
recurlied to :-ouapp~-oximatelyone i n n n t h before your
current plate expires. Simply take it to yout- license branch
(or inail it) rrith yom other registration papers; pay ail additional SI0 fee. and sliorr the iiorld ~ O L I I Greyhound
Pride!
IS you have not coinpleied an application, call tlie
.-Uumni Office at (317) 788-3295. 1<-ewill be l i q i p y to send
ouc to Y O U f.
U of I's Night
witla the Ice
Tlie Office of-Uumui
Relatioiis is sponsoi-ing a
pre-game party and
reserved seating when
the Indianapolis Ice
liockej- team plays Las
\egas oii Friday,January
26. The $10 cost iiicludes
adiiiissioii to the p x h
(iiicluciing rnunchies. of
course!) and i-ink-side
seats. \latch your iiiail for
registration details 01- call
the Alumni Office at
(317) 78s-3295. 1
Mentoring program
set for jurraiors, seniors
Alumni he& select
Teaclam of &e Ear
Vice Prcsident and Provost Lynn Yoounghlood has announced that DI-.John Langdon, aSsocidte profeshor of
B i o l o ~has
, been named as tlie Teacher of the Year f i n
199495. The selection of D r Langdon Tras made b y a broadbased committee of faculty: srudents, and a l u ~ i i n i .
Tlie designation iucludes a S1;000 stipend SI-omthe
universir!,. plus a S500 grant fi-om the Board of HighelEditcaiion and lIinisti-!, of ilie United Metliodiht Church.
Dr. Langdon, xliosr cTed~lilialsincludc bachelor's
and mastei-'s degrees from I-Iai-yard and a P1i.D. from Y d c .
has been a member of tlie full-time faculty since 1984.
Laiigdoii t e a c l i o uiidcrgraduate and graduate coui-ses i n
the Depai-tiiient of Riolo,q.
Soiiiiiiatioiis suppoi-ting Dr. Langdonk seiecrion for
this recognition came fioiii undergraduate and gi-adtiate
stucieiits. a l u m n i , and i , i c u l t ~colleagueh. This iras rlie first
time alumni wei-e invited to offel- norninations. L.
The Office of;Unmni Relations is reci-uiting aluiiiiii to
ihai-e their career strategies ~ r i i hstudents interested in
entering their ficld. The onl! requirement is i i i i ~ i ~ e s(aiid
l
the abilin. to spend appi-oximaiely two lioiirs per Inonth
nith il studenLj.You do not have 10 be at the top ofyouifield; even if you've only been out o ~ s c l i o o al short time,
you have valuable experience to shai-e!
TCitIi Careel- Connections, "hlumni iiieiitors \vi11 lie111
bridge the gap lienwen class~-oomaiid nmrkplace. They caii
provide valuable insight into ~\-orl~force
cliiiiate and j o b
scarcli tactics," savs Brett TVillia~iis'94, who is cochairing
the prograin u i t h Dart! l-larrington Mal-tin '853 e . 9 1
Iiyon'd like to wlunteer, call the Vuiniii Office ai
(317) 588-3295 for an application 01- mol-e in€oormadon. L.
Tlae Hounds are coming!
The m e n ' s and women's haslcethall teams i d 1 \isit soon in
Fort Wayne, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Evausdle. T\-atch
youi- inail for your inTiration to a special alumni event and
evening of Greyliound basketball!
s
NKL. (Cincinnati/I\'orther-n I<entuckyj
F e b ~ i i i i q10........ Bellarmine (I~iiuisville)
Febriinry I 7 ........ IPRC (Fort TYa\.iie)
.llmr/i 2 .............Cniversity or Southern Indiana (EvansTillc)
PrliTiinTJ
\\hndcriiig ~ h c rhe
n Gre!~liounds will \-isit j o u r iieigIilioi-liooci? Check ilie back cover Sol- nlithe Ijinter and spi-iiig
spoi-ts schedules.
3
Lambert says using the Internet is fun. h i t a great
time waster. "It h e l p s m e i-elax. I can s p e n d lioili-s reading
the newsgi-oups 01- using Netscape to exploi-e home pages. I
like to read the L-niversitv o i California a t Berkele!. Cheinis117Depirtmeiit home page, for example; to 5ec what
research projects they have going. I also like to check out
.Yum magazine's home pafie to see w h a t ' s goins on around
io\m. Ic a n dolvnload music and art or h i d oiii iiliat's
playing a t tlie movies. It's addicting: I also e-mail m y
pal-elits. TvIiich saves on phone bills." Lambert notes.
I.ambert is nile ofsisty studeii~s1~110pay a 575 "techi i o l o g fee" per semester to live in North Hall. For srudents
like him. the iiorlil of c v b p r s p c c is as closc ' ( 5 their dorm
room. For others. it's as close as t h e libi-ary.
Dr. Philip Young, director or IO-annert Memorial Library,
this year also chairs t h e Pi-il~ate.Academic Libral? Nenroi-k
of Indiana (P.\LSI), a consortium or nveiir\.-five pri\.atc
liidiana unive~-sities
with tlie goal o f providing access t u the
libi-ary 1-ehoui-cesof all mcnibei-s. P1LiiI is one of the first
sucli consortia to operare over the Internet.
P~4LNIpro\ides students, faculty, aiid siaff with a
comprehenrivr on-line catalog of librai-y holdings and
encourages iresource sharing aiid cooperation
T h e Vniversity oC Indianapolis aiid \la]-ian Collcgc
1j-ei-e the first P~ALSIiiisiitutioiii to go on-line ( I N L iveiit
on-line in Februar-! 1994). The mainfreme cornpiitel- a t
k
.Yo,-th HoII iim licruiiir
o "oil-iuiil Iibwrs, "
~ ~ i ! l ~ ~O 0l ,1 7 I h t TOOlIi
iti
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Aaron Lambel-t is a 20-year-old junior in t h e medical
i e c h i i o l o g ~pi~ograiiifi-om \Iantrno. Illinois. Lanibcrt lix-es
in North Hall (in the largest room 011 canipLis. he'll proudlp
tell you). the first residence hall connected to the fiber
optics neorork.
The caiiiectioii brings a "vimial I i b r a i ~ , piped
"
through dor111-room data jacks, into North Ilall. Lambert's
glad the hall is connected, 1xc;iuse using the t e c h n o l o g
from the comfort and coiiveniriice of his rooiii is eclucational aiid fnn. "It's easy to use the Iiiteriiet to broij.se the
libi-ai? holdings of
universities all over
the country. Yo'ou call
find tlie inCormaiion
you're interchred in;
doimload it, and
print it out. You c m
search for information on v a11ous
.'
topics by tyliiiig in a
keyivord. Living i n a
dorm h a t ' s wired is
so coiivenieiit."
PALIiI's central office i n Indianapolis maiiiraiiis the entire
consortium catalog wliilr distingiiishing aiiioiig the holdiiigs of each member. Currently. there are inore than oiie
million unique recoi-ds 011 the system. "Each member has a
collccrioii of materials that's differciir fi-om every other
member-each lias books that nonc of the resi of 11s ha\-c.
depending on the institutioii's rocits,.' Yo'oung says.
P:LLYI eiiables students to access material unavailable
i n their oun lilxai-y. "If a hrurlent is searchins Coi- a book
a n d the library doern't have it, lie 01- slic can use the on-liiic
catalog to 5ee if illnotier P.4LNl l i h r a r ~owiis it, then so to
that lilxary and clieck i t out. TVith a valid stitclient ID, stiidents caii go to Ffiinkliii or \ l a r i m College for research
materials, 01- the)- can go to Gosheii during their iiext trip
home," Christine Guyoiiiicau. reference librarian. esplains.
Young say? this acadeinic :ear has been a great step
foi-ivai-dfor the libi-ary. " T Z m u s t look forii.ai-clLO see what
the n e r d s of 0~11- students will b e i n thr future. \lost iiicoiiii i i g students have gron-ti up i\itli computers and expect to
s r e them in the Iilxa1-y. They d o n ' t have time for tcclious
seal-ches by haiid. e ~ p c c i a lthe
l ~ nontl-;rclitional stiidenis
iilio have families and jobs."
Guyonneau aclids. "This is an exciiiiig time for the
lilxai.y, because stiideiirh are leal-iiing about thr tremeiidous tresoiircch hei-e. The librai? is like a store crammed too
full wirh racks of clothes; ~ v l i i c hgi\-es c1tstonici-z m a n y
choices. StudenLs need help to get througli the maze:
There's so mucli iiifoniiaiion that can be reti-ieved, and
they have to k i i o ~ hoiv
i
to f i t i d it. The! need to be trained in
lioii. io use the Iibi-aiJ- and the tools iliat are availalile."
To lielp students learn about the librai?'s 1-esoui-ces,
Guyoiineau created an oii-line "toiii-" of tlie library ivliile 011
sabbatical leave in 1994. The IOLII: an informational
I-lperCard program installed oil tlie campus netiiorl; and
on se\en Macintosh "infosrations" near IWL's fi-ont desk,
is complete with cartoolis and color pictui-es of library
personnel. It's oi-ganized into a t o ~ i of
r the librai? by floor,
by seriices offel-ed, and by research questions that students
~ . ~example, describes
fi-equently ask. The first-floor t o ~ i for
cisculation procedures, library hours, rime limirs for
checking o ~ i certain
t
materials, oi-erdue fines; tlie 1-ese1r.e
desk, and hoiv to use the on-line catalog. Guyoniieau
recenilp initiated a nev. seryice called "libi-ary lielp," which
offei-s help \ia e-mail in aiisriering qnestions, finding
citations. 01- loolciiig u p othel- infoormation. Those using the
sei-vice should receive a response ivithin forn-eight hours.
FirstSearcli is a n on-line darabase of material,
dating fi-om 1953 to the pi-esent. available through OCLC.
Csing l%tSeai-cli, one can search muliiple databases 01- a
"IlhddCat" listing of holdings (including books, audio
recordings, and 1-ideos) owned b y 11,000 lib]-at-iesij-orldwide. FirstSearcli 0rfet-s specialized databases for tlie arts/
Iinmaniiies, business, education/social studies, and science.
It proiides recent information 011 cui-i-eiit ei-ents and is
updated more quicM:- than other databases because it's 011line tlirougli tlie Intemct. FirstSearcli also catalogs periodical articles, n.hicli are available b y fax or mail with a credir
card h i - a cost of about S8 to $12 per article.
InfoTi-ac is 3 database that catalogs and indexes
periodicals. InfoTi-ac's academic index includes astronomy,
religion, hi,histoi?. psycholog?, liumaniiies; c u i r m t
events, sociolog\., communications; and the general sciences. In the business index, students find information on
fiiiance, acquisitions and mergers, inlei-national trade.
InoneT- management. nei\- technologies and pi-oducts, local
and 1-egional business wends, and investments and banking.
In addition to the FirstSearcli and InfoTi-ac databases;
the lihrary suhscrihes to others, such as ElUC (education),
IlEULINE (medical), CINAHL (nursing and allied health),
Ps7~cLit(psyclioloc), SeTvsBank (nervspapers) , CCH
(business). BIP (books in print), and ?IL&(liierature)
''TVe're moving toiiard pi-oviding access to on-line
datahases because thet-e are certain pi-oblems irith CD-ROM
dataliases," Youiig says. "Only oiie yersoii at a time rail u s e
a CD, CUs can be damaged, and they're outdated qnickly."
Indexes on CD-ROhl are updated once a month and they
can't lie remotely accessed. I n coinparison, on-line systems
are updated r,.itliin c l q s after an event. "Tivo days aftci- the
Old;ihonia City bombing," lie says, "InfoTi-ac's on-line
service had c;iialoged magazine articles about the tragedy."
For these i.easoiis, the library recently upgraded its
capabilities by suliici-iliing to InfoTrac via the Internei.
IiifoTrac's index can be accessed h m any computer on the
caiiipus netirork. " T h e upgrade enhances tlie InfoTi-ac
application because usei-s no longer need to Trait in line to
use a machine in the 1iliimi.y. It gives addecl value to resources the university already onns. becauhe ease of getting
citations encout-ages iiio1.e use of existing periodicals. Tlie
indexes are also updated on a daily basis. so infonnatioii on
cui-i-eiit ei-ents is ai-ailable in days, 1-athet-than iiaiting for
monthly CD-ROhl updates;" says Young.
"The InfoTi-ac sysieiii is tlie first step in long-range
planning at tlie librai-y. The goal is to v.ork iorrarcl iniegfiiting tlie libi-al?'s on-line catalog, InfoTi-ac. and all tlie otheidaiabases inio oiie iiorksiatioii so that students can access
all oiir resoiirces frorn ilie same macliiiie."
Imagine a class that begins like any other. Tlie students ai-e
boisterous and noisy as they enier tlie clasrroom and plop
doim in tlie nearest sear, laughing and talking among
themselves. "All right, people, let's make it h a p p e n Let's
1-espect each other and listen carefully," says tlie teacher. as
lie quiets tliem cloim and begins to call the roll.
Vow imagine a classroom that'\ eiiip"; except for the
teacher. Imagine teaching students wlio see you only on a
television monitor. Imagine trxing to maintain their interest
and entliusiasm.
DI-. Solomon Xlielie, facult? metnbei- in rlie School of
Education, is doing this each liiesda)~and Thursday this
semester; and he's doing it quite successfully. On September 5,Aliebe made Vniversity oSIndiaiiapolis histoi? when
lie taught the first fully interactive class. Explorations in
Education, using the universi'q's fiber ,optics video network.
Tlie course liiils Aliebe iiitli a gi-oup of students at
1PS.s Broad Ripple High School. This joining of IPS. tlie
university, and .&neritech video service networks a l i o w ihe r\
university's c a m p s .
The i-ideo confecrencing icclinologies alloiv continuous iiioway interaction bemeen -4bebeand liis sludenLs,
Tlie coiii-se or-iginates from a srate-of-the-art "distance
learning classroom" oii the second floor of tlie IibralT. Tlie
claswoom rias equipped through a grant provided b y rlie
Coi-poi-ationfol- Educational Communications, and colitains strategically positioned cameras to traminit Alxhe's
lectui-e fi-om campus to the classroom in Broad Ripple. One
caiiiera is moiwted atoll a big-screen telciision monitor
(measuring 53" diagoiially~)in t h e h n t of tlie room;
another is mounted in tlie back. T~vomicropliones liang
fimm tlie ceiling to transmit ilie discusiion. A tliii-d camera,
tlie "document camel-a," fiuictions iiiucli like a traditional
overhead machine; except tliai i t projccls 1101 only ~i-aiispat-encies but "ariifacts." like b o o l ~
individual
~
sheets oi'papei-,
or tliree-ilimensional olijects. A control console below the
document camera enables :\bebe to zoom in and out for
close-up i i e m of tlie ariifacts lie iIaiiLi to pi-oject.
Tlie classroom at Broad Ripple High School is
equipped i n mucli the same ~ ~as ithev university's dismice
learn in^.classroom Next vear. Abehe nil1 icach univei-sitv
students in liis classroom and students in Broad Ripple i n
tlie same class period
musicians aiicl iiiiisic teachers. LaImi-ator\~expel-iences
involvr irord pmcessiiig, database management. IIIDI,
sequencing, music notation, composiiion progfiims, and
exploration of commei-cia1 softimi-e for music insti-tiction
and managemeni.
"I'd nevei- go back io teaching the ~ i a Iy did heSoore,"
\\'eimei- says. "The softirare is custoiii-made to my teaching
stvlc-ir rellecti mv personalii) and the 7ra)- I like io teach.
and student e\-altiations shoi+~
t h a i usins this r y e of tecliiiiilop makes ihcm iiiorc motivated and l i e l p r iliein have
a iiioir positive attitude.
"The unirersii\ hlnric Dcpartmeiit is leading ilie
i\.ay in inusic education b y using this iecliiiolo,g 0111uiiclergi-acluairs have ilie opporiiinii\~to interact more
\villi computers than siitdenw at larger schools in Indiaiia.
I teach stm~mci\~mi-l~sliops
for music leachers and t h c are
~~
simply awed a i nliai ihe tcchnologS\ can do. I ' m niucli in
request foi- demonsii-aiions of this sori of tcchnoloF, and
often serve as a resiiiu-ce pel-ion Sol-those ~vlio~ i i i to
i set
lip similar pi-ogi-ami in their schools."
L-sing conipiitei~st o teach music is nor T\-eimei.'?only
area OS expel-tise. Ile'i alio heeii appointed a professor of
teacher education aiid is team-teaching a n e ~ veducaiion
coime. IIultiincclia Presentations, with Dn 1Iarie Tlieol,alcl.
Tlie course is dcsisncd to teach siurlenv concepts and
applications ;i\ailable for multimedia pi-esentaiions tiring
boih 3Iacintosli and Tiiiidoirs enTiroiimeiirs. R~ltiliimedia
solixai-e iii the cotirw includes H\perCard for tlie Zlaciiitosli, 2lultimedia ToolBoolc a n d MicrosoSt Poivet-Point for
TVincIoivs. and HyperTcxt Marlaup Languaze (HT\iL)
The c o w i e grew out of a coiicei-ii the university's
instructional technoloy committec 11x1 coiiceriiiiig tlie
lack of skill and expel-ieiice among facult!: siaSf, and
s t u d e n ~ in
i creaiing rricccssful multimedia pi-esentaiions,
Theohald a n d TVeimer ,\-ere both o n that commiiiee
aud decided to Tri-ire a pi-oposal seeking funds to s u p p o r ~
development of a inultimcdia coui-se. Tlie gi-ani m s i i ' t
f h d e c l ; bui tlie IIIO designed a course. " T i e didn't Ianoii
where to house tlie class. But the School of Education
offers several t e c l i n o l o . ~courses, a n d Lyiuie TVeisenbach,
dean of Education. embraced the idea a n d oiTei-rd i t a
home. T l e applied for and i-eceivd a teain-ieacliiiig grant
ii-om the uniyersity to teach t h c class," TVeimei- explains.
Theobald a n d Tleinier have a great deal of experience
as Hpei-Cai-claiiiliot-s and teachers, and i1ie)~'T-etranslated
their expel-ience inlo pracrical suggestions for their siiidents. "The goal is to create effecti1-e pi-esentationq that
folloa- carefully defined design guidelines. Students \rork
on different projects b a s e d on ilieii- iiiteresis and arc €1-ee to
create multimerlia pi-eseiiiations for u x in f~iliillingassigiiinenis for other classes. Some are ct-eating pi-esentaiions for
L'nivercit? Coinpitting Senices aiid the like," l~lieobaldadds.
Student Kevin Simiiisld, a technical support assisiaiii
Tor Universit:~ Computing Seinices, is developing a multirnedia pimject on coiiimoii coiiipuiiiig prohleiiis using the
Hypei-G.ASP program. "TVe basically \\ant io teach faculty
and staff h o i i to do some simple sup1joi.t tasks on their own.
like wliat to d o if iliey are cxperiencing problems pi.inting a
document. Tlie goal is to help them solve their owi pi-ohlems and save them a phone call."
Aiiber Swihai-t is doing a pi-oject fol- an education
class. "I i i a i i t to do a iiiulriinedia pi-esentation for my class
t h a t feaiiires a historical figure and his x-ieiis on education
then and h o ~ vit applies to education no^: I've been woi-1:iiig Irith Bol,,Jones in Mcclia Senices to find out how I can
rake a clip El-om a x-ideo aiid import i t into a HyperC1SI'
document." Says studrnt Mark Church, "TVe get to m e a lot
o i t e c l i n o l o p we ~ r o u l d n ' normall\t
have acceis to."
Tlieolxild adds, "Tiith the hardware a n d soii~rai-e
available, it is \-el-).ea!' to create custoiii, polished preseiitalions. The s l d s students develop i n this class will serve
ihem ire11 in the job market. This is fun to teach because it
integrates learning ilieoty, design. and authoring soft~vare."
Media Services plays a central role in using ieclinolo? to
enhance teaching aiid learning at rhe univei-sin. "llcdia
Services lias iiiade a commitment to r e c h n o l o ~ TVc
. ~rork
liitli instructors and students to h e l p t h e m effeciivch- use
tlie media 1-csoui-cesa t our dispos;il, T l e also h e l p hculiy
use media to iiiore fully d r v e l q iheii- coitines. Faculty have
ihe academic I;non.ledge. I can help t h e m transfer that
l<noivleclgeinto multimedia presentationr 01- distance
learning Ixogfiims," says Bob Joiiei, dii-ectoi-OS Media
Sei.vices a n d a iwelve-vex universin- \-etei-aii.
"Currently. Tre pli)~sicallyiiiovc a R a n d \%R into a
classroom when instructors requesi i h r m - i ~ ' ~a 'i-ollingstock inveiitoi-\-.' I f a n y times. we'll need a \'CR, oi-el-head,
and slide Ixojectot- for t h e same class at t h e same time," lie
says. "Instructoi-s sometimes say the!- need to he technicians
to operate this equipment and that it cuts into ilieir teacliiiig time. But instrucioi-s are 1-espoiisible for teaching-I
ani to help them ha\-e mol-c flexibiliiy i n ilieir teaching
efforts. not less."
To assist faculiy. Media Services plans to iise die libeloptics neiirork as the backbone for a media retrieval sysrem
capable of sending audio-visual progi-aniniing io Ieciure
halls and individtial clacsi-noms electi-onically, "Our pi-imaq
goal is to build a media 1-etricl-alsysieni;"Joiies says.
-1 iiiedia reti-ieial >).stemnil1 coiiiiect RIeclia Services
to classrooms aiid lcciiire halls Trired to the network.
Instructors \rill siiiipl: call 01- e-inail tlie oiiice T O irequest a
pal-iicular y-ideo 01- program on a certain day and time.
liisri-uctors can t h e n play all 01- part of the program i h e y ' x
chosen, and List-foniard, reirincl. or pause to discuss the
pi-ogi-amjust as they do iiov, except rlie program Trill pia!on a \ ' C X located in \ledia Seinices rather than the classroom. "AIthe instructor \vi11 do is use a \\-ireless reinote,
and lie 01.she \\-ill have slides; laserdiscs. overlieads; I-ideos.
and satellite 111-ogi-ammingat the touch of a butto1i. AI1 of
these media can be used in a single class session. and
itisti-ucioi-s can sivitcli from one medium to another ~ r h e i i
teaching a lesson," Jones says. ".And most media retrieval
s)-stems can send u p to six diffeereiit media sources to a
classroom at oiie tiine. The system can convert everything
to an clecti-oiiic signal, even old sisteen-milliiiieier filrns,
slides, or iilmsti-ips."
.A 1-eti-ienl >yrtem ~ r o u l dalso peinnii broader use of
satellite doirn1inl;iiig capabilities. Althougli it's n o ~possible
i
to deliver pi-ograms through ilie nct\voi-k to siies such as
Raiisburg Auditorium; the uniwl-sit? doesn'r ha\-e tlie
abilit? io coiiiiect miiltiplc siies or link classroom in a
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.ilxbe', fifty-rninutc class is a busy one. O n the
monitors. lie can see wliich stndents a1-e bored and i\liicli
ones ai-e interested. who'.; paying attention and rdio's 1101.
He calls on them 11)- name. .'T$liat's )-OLII- pi-esenration topic,
Tisha7" or "llelissa. r d l you r e d the bottom pal-agraph 011
page 49, please?" aiid occasionally chides them when rhey
talk out of tiin-ii. "Lei's remember h a t rilien someone
s p c a l s i i c all iiccd t o lisieii." h e s a ) ~ s , j u s tas lie ~ \ ~ o uif
ld
they wese in tlie sanie classroom.
TVlien Abebe firsi tliouglii about teaching a disiance
learning class. lie says. "I irar nei-voiis about rhe 1 x 1 that I
~ ~ m i i l d nhave
' t studenis in 11-ontofme. because 1 read their
faces for silenr inpul." Distaiicc reaching isn't easy. .%bebe
miisi communicaie well enough 10 get l i s point across iia
iclciision monitors; ancl there Tie1-e some Tide0 and audio
pi-oblerns in the beginning.
Lynne \leisenhacli, dean of Education. notes that
"Solonion .Xbcbc is a 1-isle-takei-,aiid that's to his credit.
TVlien )'ou try something n c it's
~ a screening pi-ocessyou're tr)ing to teach aiid yci learn fi-om the experience to
ina1;e i t better. It's like leaching thl-ough a glass n.all. You
cannot iisc ti-adirioiial lecture til- classi-oom techniques."
"The clisrance learning experience has added to my
being positive ahoui tcacliing." Abebe says. "The technolo , is ~one inole p l u s I can use in my cvci-\day efforts. 11's
made me focus inore 011 m y questioning techniques,
because with distance learning you need to gei inreractive
responses fioiii studenis. I've learned to be inose patient
aiid listen vel:- closely to ivhat's being said. Being able io
have a coiitiiiuous dialog ,\-it11 the studenu is an enol-inoiis
help. It's amariiig l i o i i m u c h iliey'1-e willing to be open to
this teclinolog and ihe tolerai~cethey've exercised.
"The uni~~crsit\.'s
disrance learning pi-ogi-am indii-ecily
encoilsages stiiclenis to 11c open-minded about rechnolog?and h e possibilities i t can o p e i l iip for them. ILalso icachcs
thciii h o ~ to
i listen and horv io focus. The iecIinolo9 is
iini>oi-taiitto iiiternalirine these \-slues, r d i i c l i T-OLI can't
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Ttliat do ~ o idi o if tlie oiily sofi~rai-e
t1iai.s on ilie inarlcet docsii't r~wi-le
for
what you ~ f i i i i rio teach? Ifvou're George
\leime]-. pi-ofessor of IIusic and Teacher
Ediicaiion, )oii simply write >~otiiown.
"Commercial software clidii't h a ~ e
the preciw infoi-inaiion that I wanted io
present or iliey clicln't iise the music I
lvanied, s o I r r o i c m y ow11 wfnrni-e;"
TVeimei- explains. ".&id tcxiboolcs for
coiirseq l i l e this t!pically iisc a ' s t u p
riaich appsoacli' wlien cliscussing
diSfesent sectioiis of m u s i c h) instructing
studenis to s r o p listening after r~vo
miiiiites. ~vliiclicaii be ciiiiibei-~unie."
Insieacl, T\~ciinci-rcaclies using
softrvarc lie i w 3 t c \villi H\~pci-CardTvliile
oil sabharical a couple of veal-s ago, and
s a r e Tiell laio\vn loor their
cffccti~euse or inultimeclia. He n o i y plays
music oS1iis o r i n choosing. Test that
desci-jbes the n i o ~ e i ~ i e iiii
i t precise
mri\ical ternis is displayed on the sci-een
as suudents lisicn. TYIicn lie rcachcs
lisiening skills 10 his IntrocluLtioii to
IIiisic class. for cxaniple. Tleimer may
use the tliii-d iiioveiiieiit fi-om i i i i r I ( j ( , i i i ~
.Yr,~litu~,,si/~
I O illnstl-aie tiow the form of inclodies c a n be
the same 01- clirki-en1 wiihin a pal-ticiilar piece. Tleimer's
sofixare is timed 10 play for a ceinaiii m i o i i i i t of tinie, and
lie caii paiise'. 1-elrind, 01- scan misic Si-om CD.; played
thi-ougli the compuies's atrclio E\ stein
Diiring h i s lectures, Tlcimci- u s e s ii Ilacintosh Quadra
650 nil11 a CD drive. The Mac is coiincctccl IO an o\~e1-11cxl
machine oil ivhich rests an LCD panel rhai display.; the
compiiter's sci-een on a la]-ge pi-ojection screen behind hiin.
The color slides lie uses are prepat-ed in ClarisTYoi-ks. and
Tleimer Cequenrly moves rrom Clai-is\loi-l;s slide.; to his
Hypei-Card sofhiare and hack again. He uses standard
textbooks and CDs IO accoinpan)-his lessons.
ipopular professor at the uni\-ei-sitTrot- eighieen
yeai-s. TVeimer traches inusic education, instr~umental
conducting, and iiiicrocoinpurer applications for music. In
liis \lusic Fundamenials class; Tleimer teaches basic iniisic
t1ieoi:- skills including i-h)-tlims,pitches, time signatu~-es,
key signaturcs. and niajor and niinor scales aiid arpeggios.
His c o i i i x oSSei-s individualized, teacher-giiicled explofiitioii
using \lacs in ilie Music Depai-tment's computer lab a n d
comprelieiisive coinputci-~assistcd-iiisti-iictioii
solmare
(called 1:.~/i/om/mus)that accompanies h e t e l l . Says music
majot- Christine Romano, "In California, I had a teacher
rrho pounded on the table to teach lis almui rhythn1. Nolv I
can learn rliythiii on the computei- aiid it immediately tells
ine when I get the rh) thin v ~ o n g . "
T\eimei- points out tliat "In the computer lab, stuclcnts
can pi.iiit out S C O I E S foi-assigiiineiits or do simple composirions." Studeiiti progi-ess at their o ~ c nspeed, and the l a b i s
opeii ei-enings and iveekeiids. with flexible Iioi~rsduring the
~ccclc.\loorkstarioiis haye a Mac r r i h keyl~oai-d.liai-d di-ii-e.CD
driye. mouse. Ilusical liisti-ument Digital Intei-race (\lIDI)
l~eyhoard.c h i n iiiachiiie. amplifiers; miser.;. spealm-s, a n d
\IIDI patc1ib;i)~to "patcli" togcthcr pieces of cquipnient.
"Studen~sleal-? ihis univei-sit? ri.ell-eqiiippec1for a inaster's
pi-ogram in music technolog," Tjeimrl- iioies.
Ilarlisa Ihnei-ly, a senior music major has had
T\-eimei-Sol-Imth his music fiindamen~alsand instrumcntal
conducting coui-ses. "The , ' ~ x / i / o m / i o ~soitware
~s
helps teach
beginners the hasics or music 111eoi-r..Di-. TVeimer i n t i n
rlticed lis to the software in his class ;ind I found t h a t ii rias
nor only easy to use, b i i i it's been a ~remei~clous
lielp in
lcai-niiig die material," Iieinei-ly iavs. Cindy l.itiiillerz a notimusic Inajoi-, also had Tleiniei- lor music liinrlamentals.
"The I~itrocliictionto Ilusic class is great ljecause i t uses a
iseally diffei-ent appso;icli," she says. 'To'ou'i-c iie~ei-t e m p t e d
1 0 gel bored 01.not pav artenlion. It caii IJC 11-usri-ating,
though, becauye soinetiinei 111e computer s h o w inc how
rnucli I nccd to learn \\-lien 1 thonghi 1 h a d a lesson cioiv~il"
TVeimer teaches Introduciion l o l l i i r i c t o non-iiiusic
majors io strengthen [heir alility 10 hear elements of niusic
a i iliev are ~ ~ r r s c n r cin
c l pcl-iol-iil:illces and io pi-ovide a
hisiorical uiidei-standing of [lie development of l\-esrei-n
music as a symbol of human Seeling. Renaissance. Baroque
opera, and eighteenth-criitui-y and classical chamber music
ai-e among the s t ~ l e scxamincd. "1 try to enrich the teachiiig
hecaiise siiirleiiLs often conic into i h c coui-sc r i i t l i low
motivation." lie explaiiis. "IS ilier. don't l i k ~ h a Ii lcacli,
rhey m a y never gaiii an appi-eciarion foi- classical miisic."
Donna IlcDougall. uniwi-sin staff member and one 01
TVeimer's former student^, s a y "I took Inti-o to \lusic as a
required course, a n d Tvas s o m e ~ l i a afraid
r
of the class
because I have a hearine; loss in liotli eai-s. A u t aster one da:
nith Dr. TVeimcr. 1 had no more fear. The c o i n p u i e i - p e s e n ration \\as great. and I could simultaneously read ahmil
n.liai I r ~ a chearing. T l i t l i t h e coinputei-. Dr. \2einier could
sloit. doi~.nor repeai hat in a rraditional presentation a
siiident niight l i a e n i i s d alrogctlici-. .hid i i 1 missed a
beat. I could go nest dooi- I O the coinpiiter lab to hear and
1-cad the Icsson again. Di-.T\eiiiiei- \vas enrliusiasiic eie1-y
single clay of clas,. He TPOI-C me o u t jmi observing his er1oi-t
luqt!zm~ fine arts class ar exciting a i po5sihle:" Says
suidcnt Kelley Sirarvsma, "Yoou,just t i i i n i o n the coin]xues
and hear [lie niiisic. T1ierc.s n o dead iiinc rlaiiine while
Dr. \Veimer finds ihe right ti-acl; oil a CD."
Tleimer also tc;iclics Ilicrocompuiei- .+plicaiions in
\litsic: ivliicli iiirroclucci applications a~ailablcon I'Cs for
"point-to-point" fashion. .Iretrieval system n.ould allow
multiple sites to connect at the same time. For example, a
U of I class could interact xith classes at other universities.
In developing long-range plans for Media Senices,
Jones visited schools and talked to sevet-al vendors. "Many
public schools ai-e using media reti-ieval systems. but they
are under one roof. It's a little more complicated in a
university setting wliei-e there are several buildings 011
campus that have a need for media seinices-such a system
'There3 7xow
a coy!Yuter o n
evely facult))
desk am?the
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here i d 1 not be inexpensive. But the university has an
advantage: Tfiien the decision Tvas niacie to build the fiber
optics network, we installed fiber for both \ideo aiid cilata
applications, and this gives 11s a head stai.t,"Jones notes.
The current plan is to connect large instruciion areas
to the \ideo portion of the fiber optics nenvoi-k fii-st; then
each ! e x , as the budget a l l o n , indi\-idual classrooms ivill
be Trii-ed. "The ~oi-I:is about fifteen percent complete,"
Jon?, says. "Tl'e're planning a system that pro\-ides Sol- the
university's groiiiiig iiiedia needs." Almost every campus
building, including each of the foui- i-esidence halls, is
connected io the video n e t ~ ~ ~ o"Neal-ly
sl<.
eve? room in the
Chistel DeHaaii Fine Art.5 Center is 'fibered' for \ideo and
data signals. including the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall,
gallei?, and music classi-ooms," he says. .kid while the
campus nenvork caii now transinit rlrii0 signals to North Hall,
the univeiaity is not yet able to transmit \ideo signals. "Eventually stitdents might be able to iiatch \ideo assignments for
their classes i n the dorm rooms. This is the far eiid of the
dream, but it irould be fairly casy for us to accomplish
because of our size. It \iouldii't be as costl>~
as wiring residence halls at IU or Purduc. for eiample,"Jonessa)-s.
Jones can also help iiisti-uctoi-s iisc distance learning
technology in their classes. "For year,. distance learning
techniques iiei-e one-ivay communication that simply
invol\-ed viewing a pre-taped \ideo of a class at some remote
location S o i r distance learning is truly interactive: TTj-o-Tray
convei-sations are possible benreen the instructor and students, and they caii see aiid hear each other as if they xiere
in the same room. TVith distance leal-ning technology, i - e p
resentatives from liospiials, government agencies. or businesses can provide 'real ivorld' perspeciives to studeiitsand they Tron'i even need to leaie their office or lab."
Computing a t the nniversiiv has come a vet? long \yay in a
short time. "There's now a computer on even^ faculty desk
and the desk of nearly evei:: support staff person. They
ai-eii'tjust interested i n irord processing programs anymore
-they're into multiinedia softxare aiid CD-ROMS. all of
8
irliich requires support fi-om OLII- office," says Beth Iiiggins.
director of University Computing Seinices (CCS) since 1990.
"Six years ago, we only supported administi-ative coinputing on campus. TVe didn't promote or suppoi-t academic
computing by faculh- inemhers. The university brought in a
consultant who helped 11s determine the direction to take
in regard to computing aiid technology on c a n i p s . At that
time. v e liad an average of oiie personal computer- per
department, and the Admissions Office was siili hand-tying
every letter they sent out to students. Faculty had n o
computers, and tlie main coinpimi- lab ivas in tlie School of
Business, irliei-e they taught IBM's DisplayTVrite as the ivorcl
processing program Tlie use of e-mail by Caculty and staff
w a s nonexistent because it imsii't available. The universih
i i a s one of tiw sites in the state that XIS still using a punch
card reader," ICiggins says.
"It's been fun-I've seen faculn go fi-om being afi-aid
of the computer that's sitting on their desk to imnting to
learn more \rays to use it effectively," she notes. T\iiile abottt
seventy percent of faculty aiid support staff computers on
canipiis are hlacintoshes, some clepartinenrs aiid faculty,
especially those in the School of Business; physical therapy,
financial aid, and accounting. prefer IBlls. "Tle'll support
either system the faculty choose. Fos those with little
coinputel- experience, i r e recommend the Macintoshes,
liowevet.; because the leal-ning curve is shorter."
One trend Kiggiiis has seen emei-ge at the univei-sit?
is t h e use or e-mail. "Tlie use of e-mail on this campus has
exploded in the last three years, aiid its use by Iacult?, staff,
ancl students has really taken off since ire became coiinected to tlie Internet. All full-time facult? have e-mail
access, and an overwlielining majorih use it oii a regular
basis." Adjunct facult?: use e-mail somewhat less fiequently,
although they can have access to theit- e-mail fi-om an offcampus location if they choose.
A ne\\ service this year is dial-in access to t h e campus
neirrork through a Bulletin Boai-d System (BBS) for coinmuter students to use e-mail aiid pal-ticipate i n discussion
groups. Nineiy-eight coiiiniiitei- students have acti7-e accoiints on the BBS. and the number is expected to gi-air.
The uiiiversit? has eiglii dial-in lines and tliei-e is a t x m l i o u ~ ~
connect limit for each session. Commutei- student5 \\-ill
soon have access io the TVorlci-\Vide M'eh as irell.
L-CS is also seeing more and more hciilty, like Solomon
-\bebe and George TVeimei-, using LCD panels in their
classes. "Tflth all the tools that are now andable to fiiculh,
they ~viliitto use tlie TVoi-Ici-TVide \Vel> and PowerPoint, for
example, in their classes. Il:no\v that Linda Fo~vlerin the
School of Business nses an LCD display panel in her classes
evei:-day. She ~von'tteach rvitliont oiie," she says.
Itiggins. descrihiiig the installation of the univei-sitT's
fiber optics nci~rorl<.
says, "The first fiber Tvas installed in
the sLtniiiiei- of 1991 and \\.as run to Lilly Hall. In 1992, the
library was connected to the tiework and the university
grant h m the National Science
received a 528,000 stai-t-u]~
l?onndation to puscliase liard\rare and p i y fees for an
Intel-net connection. In 1993, Ruth Lilly Ceiiiei- and
Sclivitzei- Center were connected, although Sclnvitzeiiiasn't activated until after the renovaiions were complete.
In 1994, the DeHaan Center aiid Good Hall were coiinected. Ancl i n 1995, North Hall was connected and the old
3 1 3 Intel-net connection m s upgraded io a T1 cotinection, iiliich gave the unkersit? twenh-four times i n o r e
bandiridth than it had beioi-e."
"The pi-ogram in North Hall has gone amazingly well.
Better ihan I had even anticipated," savs IGggins. I n fact,
some students moved out of other dorms to Ih-e in North
because it iias important io thein to be connected to the
netwot-I:. "Student demand will determine \iliether more of
the dorms are mired in the futui-e. TVe'll see hoi\-the
program goes in North Hall first," she explains.
The H e a l t h Center ancl the Developmental Preschool
in Cravens Hall irill be brought on-line b y tlie first of
Januair; giving all academic and administrative departtnetiLs direct access to the campus iietivorlc, e-mail, and the
Internet. "It's amazing to me thative've been able to
acomplish all this i n a four-and-a-half year period. The
university adniiiiistratioii lias been exii-emely suppoinive of
the use of technology on ranipus and has pi.ovided i l i e
funding to make it all possible," says IClggins.
The fiber optics network lias also enabled t h e univei-sit? io create its oivn home page on tlie \'iht-ld-\Vide TVeb
(T\T\TV), The T1121V enables Iiiternei users io use text,
phorographs. graphics. sound, and video images to create
on-line documents called "hoine pages" that oilier Intcriiet
users can bi-owe thi-ougli, much like a magazine. Iiiteriiet
users rho have L-etscape. Mosaic. 01.other TZeb IiroTvsers
can iisit the home pages of a \-ast array of coi-poi-atioiis,
businesses. magazines, on-line shoppiiig seimices, a n d
educational institutions.
Iiiforniatioii on honie pages is "hy~>ei-linlced~"
meaiiing that by clicking a computer inoiise o n a headline, word,
"l~utton,"01-object, use1.s ci.eate a unique p i l i to find the
infoorination they want. Iiiteriiet users can "cruise" the Web
and examine the university's home page. unusual in that it
includes an on-line application form fos undergraduates.
Bob Bui-chfield. Office of.kdmissions, ivlio has infoormally
surveyed the hornc pages of many unii-ersities aci-oss the
nation, says, "Rarely d o you find universities ~ v h ooffer
admissions information on their home page." .After connecting to the tlie Lliiivessity of Indianapolis honic page
( I i ! / ~ : / / ~ ~ ~ ~ u ~users
~ ~ . click
~ i i ~on
i ~a ~button
. e ~ ~ that
~ ) , looks
like a pencil, labeled "Oii-Line .+plication for .4dmibsioii."
111addition; there is a button for a "virtual tour" of
campus led b y President Lailtz. aiid a button for informacion on various depai-tinents, so fas including the Registi-ar's
Office, Admissions, tlie School oCEducation, a n d the
English Departrnent, among others. The Campus-\Vide Info
System button provides information such as iaculiy and staff
listiiigs. a inaslei. schedule Sor art; i n u i c , theatre. and coiivo
events; a n d a student e-mail dii-ectoi?. "Reach Out" contains
listings of universities aiid related 1-esoiii-ccsin ihc C.S. and
across die ii.ot-ld.T\T<TV-reIatedjob opportunities, and online 1-esoiii-cesto help design home pages.
According to hlujih Lodhi, UCS Mac specialist. t h e r e
have hccii S0.000 "visitors" to tlie university's home page i n
the last six months. sixty percent of them fi-oiii off-canipus.
To study issues of the TfTlTV and tlie home page, a
committee was formed. representing various faceis of the
univessity. Chaired 11) Iiiggins. ihe group includes Shirley
Bigna, hlujih Lodhi, Petei- Noot, I k i n Siminski. Bob
Ternon, Mark TVeigand; a n d Angela Tlhire. "The committee's p i - p o s e is to discuss the ramifications of ci-eating o w
home page," sa)-s Publications Dii-ector P e i e r Noot. "Home
pages can't be thronii together haphazai-dlv. TVliat information best repi-eseiits ihc uiiixrsit?? \Vhoshould be respoiisible for home page wi-itiiig and design? .&id i h o should
appo7-e i v h a t is piililished iii tlie name of the uiiiversii!?"
It's iiiipoi-tant that simplicity, clarity, accuraci; a n d
aesthctics arc all considered in creating rhe ofiicial home
pzge. Explains Iiiggins. "T\iih 0111. home page still i n its
infiincy, coniinuous impi-ovemenrs are being made under
ihe guidance of the TVcb cominittee. The committee sees
the home page as a mnrl~etingtool, where we can adxrtise
prograins and depai-tinenis. T Z ' I - e diiciissing an idea to
include some of our publications on tlie home page. T\e
i-eas on the home page io einphasire t h e m ;
biit don't irant the page to look cluttered People don't
realize the aiiioiint of tiinc it rakes to develop a slick.
pi-ofessiunal home pagc and l i n l s It's phenomenal.
"TViring North Hall and providing the dial-in access
for coiiiiii~terstiidentb are n v o sci-vices the u~iivcrsit>~
provides as a way io 1-emain competitive." Iiiggiiis says.
"Frcshmen will soon have so much compntei- l<norj.ledge
t h a t irc'll also need to develop ne^ coiii-scs to raise the
baseline of tlir computer basics we teach. These srudcnts
will h i - e a greatel- exposure to computers and t l i q won't
need TO knoir tlie basics of ivord processing programs,
spi-eadslieet5, 01- databases. Microcomputer Applications
i d 1 be ont of date. IVe'Il use coui-ses like Multimedia
Presentations as t h e baseline, because these students itill
~vaiitto knoii how to create professional presentadons for
use in the cowses or to design 13TLlL documents for
pnblication on the TVeb."
Indeed, one of the hottest new ti-ends in the iroi-Id of
cyberspace is that college studenis arc using home pages
like a resuiii6 01- portfolio to market themselves as ihey
begin joh-hunting. Especially for stiidenLs interested i n a
graphic design or rnultimedia career. pi-ospective employers
expect to see a home page srudents have designed tlieinselves. Student oi-ganirations and clubs on many caiiipuses
across the nation ai-e using home pages to "adi~ertisc"theiiactivities aiid recruit nerv meinhers. Other students simply
use home pages as a iiieans of exercising their creativity a n d
self-cxpresbion, bolneiimes including poems 01- short stories
they've i3,ritten For these students, home pages are a way to
tell others about their personalities and personal tastes.
Pat Ralston, software development specialist for UCS,
teaches workshops io educate Sacu1t:- 011 h o i v to integrate
some of the neiv t e c h n o l o p into their teaching and to
better acquaint Fdculty and staff irirh ihe capabilities of the
s!-stems on their desktops. i\-hether the!- are hlacintosh or
TCindoivs usei-s. Ralston iii-ites docuineiiratioii for some of
the sofhiai-e used 011 campus and assists in the development
ofspecialized software psogi-ams for faculty and staff.
Ralston also teaches "quick tips" for staff on s u c h topics
as finding files, using the Finder- 011 Macs 01- the pi-ogram
manager o n Tl-iiidoivs, and explaining subdirectories and
folders. She del-elops tip sheets that acconipaiiy tlie vel-1x1
poi-tion of what pal-ticiptiits learn i n each session.
The PoiverPoint ivoi-kshop; for example, explains Iioi\io ci-eaie slide-shoiv matei-ials for classrooin lectures and
pimfessional conference and marketing pi-esentations.
HyperGASI' is a "template" used to add sound, color and
graphics to HyperCard stacks ct-eated foi- course 1-ciieivs,
indepeiident stud!; 01- coinputel-ized test questions.
Quic1;Time is used to create digital movies ptnxluced on tlie
computer for displa!~on the compuier. HTML is used to
create home pages for the T\hrld-TVide \\el>.lblston is also
a\ailable to go into iiidividiial departinenis 01- schools to
teach a pai.ticulai- i~-orl<shop
for large groups.
".&iytiine a neiv teclinolo,q. emerges, there are nei\
consideratioils we must think about for i i s use. TVe'se
leal-ningTihat some of these considerarioiis ai-e and we'i-e
all learning together. Some teaching stvles and sulijecls
Tj-oii't necessarily be enhanced by the use orsome of t h i s
iiiu~timediasofiTva1-e. The sofhh.i.al-ca n d t e c h n o ~ o
don't
~ do
the teaching-the
Fxiilt:~ do," says Ralstoii.
Making technology
available in classrooms,
dorm rooms, and the
library requires vision
and commitment on the
part of university
administrators. It also
requires a great deal ot
technical support from
the stafl at University
Computing Services.
Faculty/staff activities at a glance
.-It tlie annual coni-elition of tlie .4mericaii Psychological
Irsociaiion. Dn Victoria Bedford organized aiid cochaired
il symposiutii, .Yezo p i
ier1iz)e.s 071 077 old / ~ o l o , ~ i /Aj :p i q mid
roiiiiiiuniuii, Tvliei-e she also pi-esented a paper, "Sibling
differeniiation in relation to agent). atid comiiiiiiiioii in
adtiltliood." In November, she \vas an i m i t e d discussani on
L'IIO symposia ai the Gerontological .&sociatioii Meetings.
I n J u n e , Dr. Jan Cise (Nursing) presented a reseal-ch poster,
"Self Reflection During Guided lmagei?: Implications SotPractice i n \lomen'? Health," ar the Natioiial League for
Niu-sing Biennial Convention in Chicago.
Jo h Doinb (2liisic). chair of the Nomiiiaiions Committee foor tlie Naiional :LTsociation of Schools OS Iliisic, ivorl<ecl
with rlie iiaiiotial oiiice a n d lie]- committee in evaluaiing
iiomiiiatioiis fi-om the 5.50 member colleges Sol-foiu-teen
offices. Vice president/music adviser or Ilu Phi Epsilon. she
coordiriarcd the music for die liiennial Coiiwnuon at DePanis
A iilm cl-eij-ii-om the BI-itisli Broadcasting Company was on
c a m p s this fall to filiii a segment Toor an upcoming documentary. Thir L i i l r .Tiiuuq a BBC program that investigates
ciiltut-a1 and political issues, I-ecorded comments fioin Pat
Jefferson-Bilby (Communications) Sol- a pogl-am aboul tlie
US as a "mcliiiig pot" of ethnically di\-erse cultures.
Barb Lee (Ad\aiicemetit Services) was a prcscnrcr at
Indiana R i n d Raisiiig Da! on September 15. Her iopics
were "Tsiiig tlie Internet for Developtneiii and Prospect
Reseal-cli" and 'Ti-eaiiiig aiid Ifanaging a Home Page oti
tlie \Vot-ld-lVide\\-el>Tor Notipi-ofit Or-ganirations,"
Dawn Pate1 (Health CPIiysical Education) last year Tvoti a
logo coiitest for tlie lliclwesi Badininion A t s o c i a t i o n
Elecled pi.esirlent of the ~Lssociationin \larch, she was then
selecied to coach badminton at rlie Olympic Festival in
Colorado. her thircl year as a coach a t tlie Se5tiva1, ancl her
icam Tvon rhc gold medal (thus i.iiniiiiig the gold both yeai-s
of ilie new ream format). 111 Ailgust she i m s selected io
a t i e n d an inlei-naiional coaches' clinic tliai was held in
-\tlaiita prior to t h e U.S. Yonex Bacltniiiroti Open, pari 01'
tlie Atlanta '93 tiiiilii-sport event to Iielp ihe cii) prep"t-e for
the Suinmer Ol~mpics.Daivti and her husband became cet-.
tified linesmen and called lines for the Yonex Opeti a s 1 ~ 1 1 .
On October 20, a composition by adjunct insiructor Paul
SiiGregory (lliisic) was played a s part of a rcgioiial
conference of the Societ? of Composers Inc. a t Ohio
L-tikersity. "Nocturiial Blue" was written for clarinet and
piano. In November. ihc Indiana L-iiivcrsit)~Spiipliony
01-cliesri-a pla!.ed h i s ii-ark "Becoming the Night." nliich lie
iiibmitted as his dissei-ration tor the D l 1 degree a i I C last
year. L of I music depai-tment Saclilt!, haye commissioiied
him to ri-riic songs for mezzo-sopi-ano. piano, a n d cello for a
co~icei-tin hlarcli.
TVork by Art Depai-tinetit Chair and cei-amisi Dee Schaad
n a s fcaiiii-ecl iii the ".hisis \Cho Teach" exhibit at Coticoi..
dia College, SI. Paul. \limiesota, iii S e p i n b e r . He was also
repi-esentecl in the "Bald Headed Potters oSAmei-ica"
exhibit at Grossiiioiit College in California iii Octohel; and
the "Potters of Ceniral Indiana" exhibii in h-err Castle. .Use
i n Octobel; Schaad sei-ved as a \lid-.kiierican College .h-t
Association panelist for "Clay Artists Tllio Dcal\2itli High
.h-t Issues;" in Indianapolis.
hfartlia Sparlzs (Nursing) macle a research pi-esentation at
the nntiual Nursing Research Symposium in September in
Louisville. Her pi-esenration !vas titled "T\Ives, Daughters.
and Husbands of Dementia Patients: Predictors of
Caregivers' Physical and Ilenial Ilealth."
Michelle Stoneburner ( M o d e r n Languages), vith assistance
ft-om Beth Kiggins of Universiy Computing Scnices. led a
prcsciiratioii of the Internet aiid the TVooi-ld-Tl-idrIVeb fov
foreign language teachers at the annual Iiidiatia Foreign
Langiiage Teacliei-s ConSerence. Tlie session was held oii
U o f l ' s campiis Ociobet- 27-28.
P m i n i m m i d t h e P u l i l i r s u J l ~ i 1 r m ; i Rr/iiilaiion: Tlir EmanifJleof
F i i r n Jong, a book 11)- DI-.Cliarlotte Ternplin (English),mas
published in Api-il 1993 by tlie Cnivcrsity Press of Iiansas,
aiicl is being used as an assigned text in a graduate seminar
a t Loyola of ?lar\Iand. "Through persolia~intervielis and
pailistaking reseal-cli. Templiii has prociuccd the dcfiiiirivc
account of Erica Jong ancl h e r wiling;" lvrites S.L. Inness of
\liami L-niversit? i n Choir? magazine. Tcmplin pi-cscntcd a
papel- in -2ugnst liilecl "Tlie Political Carioon and the
Pi-esiclent's T\ife: Bashing Hillary" ai ilie annual meeting OS
rlie Inter-narional Society for Humor Stiiclies at Birmingham. England.
DI-.David Wmtz cliaii-ed the congress session on research in
counseling psycholou and p e s e n t e d a paper titled "Research oil the Use of a Di\-ergenr HqJothesis Slimleg for
Making Clinical Decisions" at Loiidoii's Fourth European
Congress of l ' s y c h o l o ~in July.
Ut-. George 'Il%imer(llusic) is one of txo candidates
noniinaied for tlie oiiice ~~~~~~esident-elect of the North
C e n ~ r a Division
l
(~-epi-eseiitiiigmusic teachers fiom ten
siaies) of the Music Educatol-s National Conference.
TVeimei-iyas recognized Soor long aiid dedicated service to
MEYC collegiate niembcrsliip and in gi-atitude for c0iiti.ihuiions to tlie ad\.anccmcnt of music education he has
b e c ~ an
i adxisol- to collegiate c l i a p t e i ~of MENC siticc 197s
aiid iras prei-ioiisly an advisor a t St. .hiclreivs PreslI!.tesian
College. TZeimei- is one oT 01i1)~ forh collegiate ackiioi-s in
ilie nation (only 1 x 0 in Indiana) to have sei-ved i n such a
capacity Toor OKI- t w n t y years and w i l l l x recognized
natioiially for his ouisianding support atid contributioii IO
IILSC collegiaie membei-ship
Ut-. L j m e W'eisenbach (Education) received a grant fiom
Lilly Encloi\-ment as cliaii- of a starelvide task force creaied
by the Indiaim Asmciaiion of Colleges of Teacher Education
(I-iCTE) and tlie Indiana ProTessional Stanclarcls Boarcl to
examine minor-it? recruittiieiit/rctentioii i n ieachei- educat i o n and alternativc t-ouies to teacher licensure. Tlie grant
will fiiiicl the work of this ancl iivo oilier task forces.
Dr. Jolui R. 7l'inimer has been
nained ro serve a sis-year
tet-iii on tlic L-niied M e t h o d ist Chiit-cli'y Boai-d of OrIndiana Conlerence. He is
tcacliitig a course this fall on
cliui-cli liisloi-y for ilie
Indiana &ea Course of Study
School for L'tiitccl Methodisi
L~ocalPastors. He hosted a
group OS pastors in October
in a con-titiuing education
melit o n thc tlicolog of
e\-angelism sponsored b y tlie
North Indiana Division on
\linisti-y Dei-elopment. i n
No\ember. lie made a
presentation to program
officers of Lilly Endoimient.s
Religion DiTision, evaluating
ilie POLIS Religion and
Vrban Culture Project. ! _
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Nursing Center to help
students, comnaunitj
The u i i i v e i - s i ~iic~v
' ~ Nursiiig Ceniei: housed in Lilly Hall,
prayides nursing facult: aiid students with much-needed
clinical expel-ience and offers raluable services for faculty,
siaff>students, and the sui-rounding commiwity.
The idea for a nul-sing center started when associate
professor of nursing Ibthy Iior~al.~ v h ospecializes i n conimuiiitT Iicalrli. \Isore a grant seeking funds io start a clinic
d i e r e faculty aiid s t u d e n ~ scould get expel-ieiice. The grant
'ivasii't funded, but the idea ~ r a resurrected
s
i n 19
tially as a result of changes in the nation's heal111tale system.
"The emphasis in health case h a s shifted to pi-wention, wellness, and efficiency." says Barb l k l l y ~dii-ectoi-of
the Nursing Center and a family nurse practiiioiier. "Research has shoim that prei-entioii screening and rvellness
educarioii is key in p r e ~ e n t i n gillness and seducing health
care costs."
Dr. David Kenney, an ophihalmologist and faculhmembei- at IV's School of lledicinc. donates his time to
serve as iiiedical chi-ectoi-.Kathy Kava1 is chaii- of the
Primary I-Iealtli Care Committee, xrliich helps decide the
focus and prioi-ities of the Nursing Center pi-ogi-ams aiid
coordinates gi-ant-wriiing efforts to fund ceiitei- programs.
The S n n i n g Center has a lobby area, two exam
rooms, aiid a small conference 1-oom It xvill eveiiiuallv
pi-ox-ideprograins in such areas as pi-eveiitioii aiid rielliiess
education: health sct-eenings, physical exams, pap snieai-s
and pekic exams. ii-eainent of acute minor illnesses; such
as flu,colds, and arrhritis. and chi-onic health problem
monitoring, such a s high blood pressure a n d diabeies.
Students play a key role in running a n d developing
center pi-ograms. Students developed, Tor example, a
nutrition pogi-am targeted to residents of Laurelwood. an
area populated 117 many single ~ i o m c i and
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their children.
Prevention and wellness programs in local schools may be
developed in the future.
"The Nursing Center is a great way for students to get
the experience they need while proviciing valuable sen-ices
to the community." Iielly sa!~s. The center pi-oxides expei-ielice in a cliiiical setting Sol- all iiursiiig students. especially
Master of Nursing Science students. The Kui-sing Center
prograins d l help these students meet h e 600-900 hours
i n dinical experience required for nur-se prdCtiiiOliCrS. I n
addition, faculh~villbe able to get the cliii
need io keel' their- specialh rertificatioii. I
Symposiu ??I focuses
o n US and China
The university hosted scholars fi-om Asia and the United
Staies i n September during the Fifth International Syinposiuin on China. Mol-e than Eft? participants took part iii
the conference, which examined major political aiid social
issues facing the US, the People's Republic of China. and
Taiwan (ROC). Di-. Phylis Laii Lin, the univei-sit~-'sdii-ector
of Asian Programs. as s;-mposium cochair.
Illness affects
twenty.& students
T\ienn;six studeiits iie1.e taken ill October 19 aiid trrentyfix-ewere evaluated ai hospitals for symptoms ranging from
vomiting to stomach cramps.
All the studeiits had eaten their evening meal in the
dining hall; but a Board of Health repoi-t noted that the
cafeteria was clean and that eveiyhing had been properly
handled. The food poisoiiiiig x a s believed to have been
caused by a staph infection that spread when someone with
01- scratch tonched a pasta dish. It could not be
detei-mined d i e t h e r the contamination happened i n ihe
kitchen dul-ing food p e p r a t i o n os in the self-seiv area.
The stiidents becaiiie ill behreen 6 and 11 p m . aiid were
taheii in inteiyals to emergency i.ooins at St, FI-ancis Medical Ceiiiei-, Tfisliat-d Memoi~ialHospital. aiid Coiiimunit~
Sonih Hospital. AI1 were all treated aiid released.
Presideiir Lantz voiced his coiicet-ii and expressed relief
that the number taken ill aiiioug the 650-pius Schwitzer
el~
diners wzs i - e ~ a t i ~ -small.
Campus nui-se Lynn \loran said Marion Coniit? and
state hoards of health w x e iiivol~edin efforts to identify
the convarninant aiid determine i1.s oi-igiii. E
a cut
LifeFitness Center
foi-mei-lywas ]mown simply as "the weight rooin" 011
campus has been greatly enlarged and iinpi-oved. The new
Alethodist Hospital/hfethodist Sports hledicine Life Fitness
Center is bciiig beautifulh- decal-ared and equipped with
state-of-the-art. wall-to-wall fitness stations aiid clescriptiom
\lucli of the iiev center is geared toward nse b y everyone,
the iion-athlete as well as the athlete.
The Center is larger than the pi-evious weight rooin;
and the design calls for it to be much more "usei--fi-iendly"
and attractive, ~ i i t ha wall of wiiido~is,a wall of mirrors; live
plants. aiid other amenities. 721ien complete, it u i l l feature:
Cybex. Haniiiie~-~
Staii-master, Lifestride and helectorired T\.eiglit machines for total body conditioning and
rehabilitation
-lift platforms and nio1.e than 10,000 pounds in fixe
weights. dumbbells, and h e a y lifting equipment foor
poivei- ti-aiiiiiig
an impressive ai-1-ayof ireadinilk, statioiiai~bicycles.
aiid ron'ers.
At the same time, an incentive program is being
estahlished fat-Greyhound athletes rho complete a demanding set of lifting rcquireiiieiit?. 4dditional funds are
being raised to ci-eate the Torn Zupaiicic Tl'all o i Gi-e!-hound Champions, designed to I i o n o ~ ~ ~ ~ L the
i ~ p19%
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graduate and foi-mei-Greyhound athlete who is noiv the
strength and coiiditioiiiiig coach for the NFL's Indianapolis
Colts. Quali&iiig L of I ineii aiid women athletes Tiill be
identified 011 the Honor T,Vdl.
\$%at
TZlio on campiis should you see to learn l i o ~ to
r protect you-.
?elf ag;iinst a rerrorist attack or inspect your car for a bomb?
Mimi Chase; diinxtor of International Progmins. of conrse:
A n Indianapolis native, Chase w a s fascinated as a cliild
will1 the idea OS traveling and living outside Indiana. She
became intet-ested in foreign languages and placed second
i n tlie stale i n a contest sponsoi-ed by the National .Associalion of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. V h e n the firsti all-expenses
place contest Tiinner became ill, Chase ~ r o i tlie
paid trip to lievico 11) default-and afterward was even more
interested in international ti-avel.
Chase receivd a bachelor's degree i n Spanish aiid
Fsench fioin Indiana L7niversiq in 1952. During h e r undei-graduate career, she spent lier freshman year in Blooiningion, her sophomore year in Peru, her junior )-ear hack in
Bloomington, and her senior year in hladrid, where she
graduated and ivent tlirougli commencement.
Embar1;ing on Tiliar xvas supposed to be a brief \isit
with Si-ieiidsin Jordan, she left Spain with the intention of
reinrning. .-Vier her visit, liowevei-, Chase rook advantage of
the airline's "one stopover per passenger" policy. She chose
.ktliens, and liked it so ri.ell slie stayed eleven months. Tlliile
in A t h e n s , Chase tauglit Lnglkh to grade school students; a
position slie obtained with the help of fiiends she had made.
.As a r e s u l t oftliis "stopo\-ei-,"Chase added Greek to her i-epei..
mire of languages and made many fiiends i n the process.
,Joining tlie Peace Corps in 1983, Chase was dispatched
to Zaire for public health ~vo1-kOne night, she W A S a w k e n e d
by a nurse and led to a room v h e r e a guard lay on tlie floor,
appai-ently di-unk. Chase was inclined to let him sleep it off,
ljut w a s e\~ciituallypel-suaded that he needed liohpitaliration.
Indeed, as Chase soon learned, the man had been
poisoned. The guard ~r.a>comatose for months; and hecaiise
there ivere no immediate funds for h i s care, Chase paid foih i s expenses personally until slie could lie reimbursed. She
believes the chief of police poisoned the guard to pi-event
him fi-om talking; the guard had been an accomplice to the
chiei's theft OS the hospital's jeep aiid radio.
In June 1954. Chase left Zaire and returned to the L-.S.
She earned lier master's in international education a t tlie
.kmei-ican L-niversiry i n TYashington, D.C., in 1988. TZliile i n
school, she w o r l d for a program called "Tlhrld Learning"
aiid led high school stndents on studyabroad t o i i ~ sAfteter
.
graduadon, Chase consulted for the Departineiir of Jusdce's
Intcmutional Criminal Invzstig-ative Training Assistance
program She iids responsible for coordinating police
training courses in Central and South .&iierica.
Chase, i n Colombia in 1989 \rheii President BUS^
declared the ~ r a ron drugs, coordinated a program to train
bodyguards aiid judges (targeted for attack b!- drug kingpins
ti-ying to escape prison) i n personal safety. such as how to
check for car bombs and Iioiv to vaiq daily routines so movements aren't easih- tracked. Some instructors Trere retired
DE:\ agents; Chase had their belongings periodically packed
and moved to different hotels so they rrouldii't be targets.
U'lieii America intervened in Panama during Manuel
Noriega's regime i n 1990. Chase went io Panama City to iiiaiiase a neiv police training program (most of Soreiga's force
were ousted), During this time of instability. one of the officei-s >he'd helped train led a coup attempt against Koriega.
She began thinling about h o m e and found herself, w h e n
\r.atcliiiig .kiierican moTies. pa51iig little attention to plot.
focusing instead on houses, cars, aiid trees. "I needed to
learn to reassimilate myself to American culture," she says.
Chase reiui-lied to liicliaiia in 1991. The uiii\-ersin's
Office of International Programs (OIP) had recentl!- been
ci-eated, aiid the administration i i a s looking foor a director.
Chase xias hit-ed in 1992.
O1P's mission is to improve and enhance die quality of
lire for international studenLs at the university, while broadening the c a i i i p s communii~'sglobal pel-specc'ive.As
director. Chase lias a multitude of responsibilities. She
supports international students i n any n a y necessai?, men
going to the emergency room mith international students
when they become ill 01- have accidents. She sei-ves as the
campus immigration representative. answering questions
and monitoring the visa status of international students.
Chase is advisor to the university's Intercultural Association, created to integrate intcriiational and American 5tndents through such extracurricular activities as international
dinners aiid coffee hours, day ti-ilis to destinations like Bi-own
Count? or Chicago, and fun things like boii.ling 01- dining at
local restaurants. She coordinates the university's stud!;
abroad program; evaluates academic lranscrip~sof inteiiational hrudeiits seeking admission, and acts as liaison 10 the
Cyprus and Greece campuses. Chase is on t h e Board of the
Indiana Council on T\hrld Affairs and the Executii-e Board
of the Indiana Consortium Sol- International Programs.
Michael Poulakis of Greece spent his first two years at
the Athens campus, then transferred to Indianapolis in 1992,
receii-iiig a bachelor's degree in psycholog\. and political
science. Poulalcis stayed at the universit7- to earn a master'h
in clinical psycholog. He's knoivn Chase since she was hired.
"The i - ~ m owas
r that Mimi spolie Greek, so I was excited. She
ivon't admit it. but she can speak Greek ve? Trell.
"The interesting iliing about 24imi is r h a t it d o c s n ' ~
matter ~rliei-eyou come from--regardless of > our cultural
background, hliiiii ~ i l be
l rhere for you no matter what. She
formed the Intercultural Association because most iiiteriiational students live off-campus, aiid slie \ranted people to get
to lmoiv each other. She also has pal-ties for u s in lier home.
It's difficult w h e n you don't haT-e tlie money to go home for
Christmas, for example, but if you have a p a i q to go to, it
makes being away from home much easier."
ShilpaJogani, ajuiiior in biologywliose parents are fiom
India, says "Mimi's very helpful. I caii talk to her about my
~ he open
classes 01- aiiphing else I need to talk about. 1'0'0can
nith Mimi about anything. She's just a woiiderfnl jxi-so~i."
loannis Glylcos, a native of Greece, is a senior in
economics and finance with a n emphasis on industrial
iiianageilient. "14imi responcied immediately to questions 1
had. I needed so much information about in!- ~ i s ahousing,
,
transportation, tuition costs, and other things . . . She
corresponded with me by telephone and fax until all m y
questions were answered. She's really something else!"
Chase remains close to friends in Colombia, Panama,
Peru. and Greece, "but now the irorld comes to me," she
says. "In a sense, I travel the ~ r o r l dei-ei? day arid get to go to
places I've never been before. I love 'uaveliiig' eve? day in
my mind; especially xilien 1 hear the latest news fioin a
,tuden-it's better than reading a nrrripaper!" Zj
--Bisn,i
Corkri-i/l
Chase's office is
decorated with dolls,
wall hangings, a fish tank,
postcards, and other'
artifacts internation
they see there isn't
anything from their
country,' she laughs.
Dave Bowman is a mechanic, and h e pIa:-s
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one 011 r\-hut
don't let that fool you. Boirman, ~vhostars as liimself in The
Nashlille Nehvork's Siindrfi-rc \'frrhnnir rele7~isionshoT!-$ isn't
exactly tlie person lie seeins to h e .
H e and liis co-liosi, Sain \fcnniiolo, ~voi-l<
in a gal-age
in w h a t looks like any suburb in .hnerica. The garage is
lined ~vitlitools, old liceiise plates, a laim tiiolver. an old
bicycle, and the clcti-irus of a typical garage. hi A~nei-ican
flag flies out fio111, aiid a barbecue grill sits off to one side.
€vel:- Sunda;; SO t h e s i o n goes, l~leiiniiolocoiner ovciLO Boimian's place and togethei- they ~ro1-kon an auto
maintenance project. One weel,, i L might he rlie exliaust
system; the next Tveek. maylie it's a brake job. Bowinan
s e i v s as tlie lead maii--i\.elcomiiig xieiiers, introducing
tlie pimject, and askiug the leading qnestioiis that
Me111111010 rlien aiis~vei-s.
It's a convincing enough arrangement that, in
Slimdc/i~ieP'seai-ly days, some \iewei-s called to ask if they
could send theit- whicle over for the guys to take a loolc-see.
Sowadays; people j u s t ant to knoit~irliu liws in tlie
attaclied house.
Bownaii and l l c m m o l o d o iioi-1: 011 real vehicles with
real tools. But the "garage" they're in is a set behind Cinerrl
Productions in IC~ioxville,Tennessee, and lleiiiinolo
doesn'ijust drop by fi-om do1ni t h e 5ti-eet Sol- a leisurel:
Sunday tinder the liood. He's actually fi-om ~4tlanta:Bow
inaii lir-es in Rhode Island. They gct together in ICliowi-ille
time to touch a car orlici- tliaii the Cobra replica h e built in
1954 aiid srill wo1-k on occasionally. Tlie neglect is calculated: Back iii tlie late sixties, aftel- dt-opping oitt of C of 1 to
build Iiidy car engines, Bo~vinaiilcneiv lie didn't i$-aiitto
spend tlie rest of liis life on the rneclianical side.
"I didn't want to do that p x t of it foi-mer," lie said. "I
decided I iroiild prohalily be better off on the b u h e s s side."
Bo~vmaii.~ ~ 1 h1a0d eiitet-ed V oi.1 in 196.7 as a physical
education niajoi-, reeni-olled in 1970, this t i m e focusiiig liis
e n e r , 011
~ mai-kcting and sales coui-ses. His aim iras to ride
rrhar h e belirI-ed wxilcl be a wave of [he future: auto
racing's rise as a inajor sport.
H e gsaduated in 1972 rvith a libel-a1 arts degi-ee. The
folloxving :car. lie i m s liii-ed hy a coinpaiiy iioii- called
VliedSigiial aiid u o r l e d his KA;~ into the position of motor
sposts manager. handling tlie inarlcetiiig and adcei-rising of
F R . W filtei-s and -\iitolite spark plugs.
Esseniiall!; liisjob as to pronioic brand loyalty by
associating those pi-oclucLs with racing drivers aiid ieains the
fans knew aiid united. Tlie "classic exaiiip1e"--though
Boiiniaii i i a s not associated ~rilli
tlie product-is STP, Tvhich
"has become oiic of the top-selling oil additil-es i n the world"
almost excliisivels tlirot~gliits exposiii-c in auto racing.
The time Boirinaii spent biiildiiig engines has sciTccl
him \?ell; lie h a 5 consisteiitlv used the expri-ience lie gained
10 advance his business and inai-ketiiig goals. For example.
fi-om liis time as a meclianic lie knei,~tlicrc ivas "a ~vliole
about twice a inontli for four clays of intense planniiig and
filming, vliicli result-if all goes as planiied-in txo
completed shorrs.
;Is for Donman's I-ea1life. lie tinily is a genuine,
certified inechanic, hut h e doesn't repair cars in liis spare
time. In fact, aside fi-om the set o f S h n d ~ / i ~h. e ,rarely has
tlie Iiackgi-oiind.
\Ieaniiine, Bownail preseiitcd another idea for a
s h o ~ r Because
.
of a cliange in inanageineiit a t VliedSignal;
the idea was 1101 irell I-eceived.
"Ciifoorrunatel;; i i i a big corporation, ivhat you find is
that if soiiieoiie has a good idea, eve17one pooh-poohs it,"
Bonnian said.
Because of the qualih of her voice, though, and
because ofher gender. Bigbee \\-as alwavs eiicoui-aged to
pursue music ratliei- than science. As a teenager. slie \+-as
sent to tlie prestigious Interlochen h t s Academy; her
teachers at Crispus Xttucks High School belieTed they
couldn't give her tlie Bind of training slie needed. She
scholarship IO study cheniisti?
turned doirii a Sull, foou~--)-ear
at Oberlin College because in>^ parents could not comprehend niy doing that."
Ilhen Bigbee graduated from college and was faced
with the decision of ~\hiclifield to pursue, she finally 131-oke
firee firom expectations: Slie wen1 to xiork as a medical
technolo&t at hlerhndi<t
students each semestei-.
Meantime, she was granted an h.3.A. in
vocal pei-fommice from Indiana L-nivenity in 1995 and
continues to perSoorm i n oiie or tiyo operas every year. Slie
has also managed to stay in touch xviili her first love.
"Singing is in: job." she said. "On niy clays off, I get m y
medical hooks out and Iread them. Tliat's ~ v h a It do viih niv
free time. I still love it."
Such was the chain of events leadiiig up to Bigbee's
appointmeni xiith Mr. Rogers' people (the soft-spoken man
himself was busy taping shows). Bigbee met with t h e m late
in the morning. By mirl-aftelmoon, oiie of them had called
to say they wanted 11~1-to appear on t h e show and co111d
she please call b a c k in \lay or June?
The A ~ l i s lRogm
e ~ ~ appearancc was n o t to be. In earl:Ma!,, Bigbee's ageni told her chat Indianapolis's public
telex-ision station, TZT1T. \vas looking for a n e ~ vchildren's
telel-ision Iiosi. She still hadn't told anyone about her
application at M i s t e r Rogers.
"I asked m y husband wliat he thought about me doing
children's ielerision," she said. "He said; 'Tliat's y."'
And that was all i t took. Bigbee got the job at \ZRl,
and now appears evei-y Sunday through Friday as "Rainboir,
Rosie" in one- to uio-minute seginenLs airing benvecn the
station's regular mol-iiing programining.
"I have to give Channel 20 credit," she said. noting that
she's the first black host for a children's shoiv i n Indiana.
"\iou have to give them credit for stepping oiii and dai-ing to
be different. That rook a loi of guts."
Bigbee is on tlie air ten 01.fifteen m i n u t e s a clay, doing
a variety of. educational and entertaining 1-oiitines, both
alone and n-itli a group OS children. She might sing, practice
a letter o f t h e alphabet, count toy cars, or read a siol-v. The
activities on Kid Tiiiir differ, but her goal remain3 "to giye hope
IO childrrn and help diein learn that Ieaniing is fun."
Few reachers are better qualified to teach that lesson
than Rainboxi Rosie, considering her record. I n high school.
she studied art (on scholarship) ovei- the suniniet~a i the
Nesi-on School in Indianapolis. She learned to play the
piano a i d cello, was 3 majoi-ette, took dance classes, m d
joined writing and Latin clubs. She learned golf fi-om the
pros ~ v h oplayed the course near lier childhood home.
"~hiytliingI did, I 11-ied ro do xrell," she said. "That's
what 1 117 to teach m y students here."
Bigbee p~mbablyinherited her xvorl<ethic fiuin her
Sathei; \vIio, as custodian of Chi-ist Cliurch Cathedi-a1 on
Monument Circle, wore a tie to xrork ex-el-yday. She definitel:. iiilieritecl his musical talent: He \$-asgood enough as a
singer IO gi\-e occasional concerti a t the c h u r c h
"He believed that if you take a j o b you should respect
it, do it ~ v e l l , "she said. "You should give thatjob pi-estige.
He's such an incredible person.''
In Ixeping with her iathel-'s philosoph~:Bigbee goes the
exu-a inilc \+it11her students at the School of I'erforiiiing.~-ts,
becoming a friend and pal-en! figure tu Inuht of them. T\lien
her students have a prohleln they need to discuss, Bigllee has
no reseinaions about putting tlie music aside.
"I reall~-€eel
one of in). callings i i to help childi-en,"she
said. "Even here. sonletirnes I don't t e a c h I j u s t s i t d o ~ wit11
n
them and say. 'Tlliat's the pi-oldern?' They (the administration) know I tinil:- have the best inter-est of t h e children at
heart. I really. really love these little beanies." (Bigbee points
out ihat all the vocal xork gecr done eventually.)
Kid 7 i m e is a less pel-sonal niedinm ilian the voice
lessons, in that it offel-s no oppoI.tLinit7 io!- intel-action 01response. Still, Rainbow Rosie has a definite message she
xvanrs 10 convey.
"I really want children to h a \ ~ ea positive feeliiig about
things, about making accomplishmeiits." slie said. "I nmit
them to try to do posiiive things, and I xiant to encourage
Uieni 10 mal<e posiilive decisions."
As foor her o i i n decisions-\vhat could he next on the
agenda for all opera singer, teacher, medical technolr~gist,
children's television host, a n d lli-eaker of ,racial barriel-s?
She isn't sa>-ing.N o t yet. anyway.
"1'111 taking things as they lead me," Bighee said. "I
can't foresee all of that. I ' m just graicful foor this oppoi-t~inity. I don't knoiv r r h u will coliie of it. i)ut a t least we've
made a s t e p "
Jeff Pierson'sjob i s 10 fi11d the 1-ig11tqiicsiions 10 is^'^
perplexing answei-s. It's good woik if you can yet it.
Pierson moved to Los Aigele5 in 1990 and worked a
variety of odd jobs before applying at,JcgDal-d~.!h e game
s h o i v i n ~vliichthe host read, the answcI-s and contestalit~
p o v i d e tlie coimxt questions. This \\as almost four veal-<
ago. xilien "not a lot ofivork \vas going on in L..&.,'' a n d tlie
c o m p i r i o n \\as stiff.
"11was kind o i a weird position io be ill,'' Pierron said.
"To be i n a rooni iiith hundreds of other app1icanr.c for r h e
same job."
He took the test used to screen contestaits, passed it,
and "three inter\ie\vs later" becanic a researcher for J t m p
wd! Non he spends IIIOSL of h i s ivoi-king time in libraries
and 011 the telephone, veriiizing the co~nectqllestions to
Aftel- coming Lip against several brick walls, he ialked
to a vice president of advertising at AIliedSignal, Frank
McGonagle. r v h o was receptive to ilie idea. Thev becaine
biisiness p"rtne1-s and put together a proposal t h a t T N S
liked. Slindfti-re ~ ~ t ~ l i r iInqi ac n airing in 1992. i+~liile
Borrmail \vas still worlciiig for AIliedSignal.
The jiiggliiig aci was too much; aiid soon Bowman left
to concentrate on building his own companies: .%uta Communications, \ihich rnarkels Tlorld of Outlairs racing, "the
elite of the sprint cars series" and tlie Iourili-largest raciiig
n d Breiiton Productions, which lie
esiablished to market Shndetreeaiid nro neIi shows. (One is
another auto sho\r, focused on performance rather than
repair: the other i5 a boat show, similar in foormat to Shndlpti-er.
They'll begin airing, Boa-man said; "as soon a s we sell them.")
hleantime. Sliodetrre \ ~ l ~ ~ c h nrolls
n ~ c on. atti-acting a
total or 1.3 million viewel-s to four s h o e~v e~n Sunday-two
in the morning aiid nvo in tlie afternoon. The shoii has
been renewed for the '96 season, and Bowman said one key
to its success has been the chemistn he and \lemmolo
share: "Tle're good friends, we enjoj~doing the show, and
I think rliat comes aci-oss."
rldd to that tlie sI1ccessrLil bleiicl of educational
content with an entertaining style.
"You've got to h a r e something people Trill want io
n-atch," Bowman said. "Something enter-iaining enough so
that commercials can he sold on it,"
For dieliai-d do-it-yourselfers-in other Jrords. foithose people Tt~irlia \ideo camera wlio believe it can't be
/lint liai-cl to make a TV shom-Bomiian
offers cautionary
ad!-ice.
"Unfoi-rimatel!; a lot of people tiTing to make a sIio~v
end up with a home movie;" lie said. "That's about all. You
liave to h a x pretty good production quality Any way you
slice it; this isn't a cheap business.''
11 takes a crew of about fifteen people four days to
produce two episodes of Shadetree .Mechanic, and each
episode LOSE about S43,OOO. In sum. unless j-ou havz deep
pockeo, a lot of time oil your hands. aiid some v e n taleiited 11-iends,expect to be reiegaiecl to ihe public access
channel of !~oui-cable carrien
That's nor to say. though, that creating a slioir is
impossible. given the right preparation aiid opportunin.
Boliman's o ~ m
case is a classic example, aiid the iron:- of a
n o ~ plays
r
one on n;-and
gets
real. retired mechanic ~ i h o
paid well for it-is nor lost oii him.
"Back then (in college). I never had any idea I'd be
doing Tihat I'm doing today," Bowman said. '%'nu do o n e
thing successfully, and there's ahvays something that leads
to. You have IO ger on iliat Trave and follox it. Life is iia: too
short to do something you can't staiid doing."
Rose Marie Bigbee round herself in hfistei- Rogers' neighborlioocl last Janiiaiq applying foi- a spot on his shoir. But
Bigbee-an opera singer. voice teacliei-, ancl medical teclinologist-Tyasn'r in toim because slie needed another job.
"Deep doiin, ir as something I've lvanted io do io]-a
loiig time," Bigbee said. "I sat down iiiJanuai7 and asked
myself wliat v'as the one thing I've v a i t e d to d o a n d had
never done; and the ansirel- itas children's pi-ogramming.
I told my daughter I was coming to Pittsburgh (where A14i,rtei.
Rogers is pi-oduced) to iui-~iiii my resum&."
She didn't tell anyone else or the plan; perhaps
because it seemed so unlike anyihing else die had ever
doiie. Bigbee atteiidecl the University of llichigan for three
ah ears, studring voice on full scliolarsliip. .hi emergeiiciforced her to retui-ii to Indianapolis, and she completed
her education at U of I, graduating in the mid-seventies
irirh a major in voice and a minor in science.
Txro people i n pariicular eased her transition to what
was then Indiana Centi-a1 College, she said. One \cas Dr.
Gene E. Sease, then the college president; who "was 1-eallya
mentor to me; really ~roiiderful."The)-'ve continued to stay
in touch since. The other x a s Miriam Ramakei-, hei- roice
teacher. Bigbee worked with Ramakel- oil tlie conception of
the Indiaiiapolis Opera Company, rounded irhile Bigbee
was still a student.
Bigbee excelled ai music through a combination of natural talent and hard work, ancl because a sense of duh compelled lien Blessed villi a n extraordinair. opei-aric voice, she
believed she should make the most of it. But she's iievei- hac1
the same passion for singing that she has for die laboratoir..
"Chemistry is m y first love;" slie said, "Chemistry Tias
alwaJ-stlie desire of my lieart. Opera was never something I
Tranced to do on a fnll-time basis. Anyone ri.110 heard me
singvould say 'This is ~ O L I . 'I \rould say. 'I enjoy singing,
but I'm reall!- a scientist inside.' I'm tlie kind of person rrho
likes to see ihings evolve. I like iixenting, mixing things
rogetliei-, seeing Trhar yo11 come up with. Thai's really
exciting to me: taking nothing, and 111-ingingit togerlier so
that it's something-that amazes me."
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potential aiiswers. ( O n this day, for example, Pierson liad to
briefly excuse IiiinseIE The president of a large candy
company was oii another line. presumably xrith a bit of
rrivia about candy's past, preseiit. or future.)
,Jeopi-dj!'s full-time staff of about txenty-five includes
five wirers; five researchers, and a head writer Tlie writers
come ~ i with
p
a caregoi? idea along with six aiiswers and six
questions. \vhich then go io the researchers foi- verification
Most of the time, h e can find what lie needs in the,Jeopm!y!
libi-ai-y-a scattershot collection of encyclopedias and
refei-ence works the staff has put together ovei- tlie coui-se
of the s h o i r ' s twelve-year run-or by phone. Occasionall::
he'll use a cit? 01- college library.
J e o p r d j ! tapes shows from earl) August to late Fehruai7. There are hro da!-s of iapiiig eve17 Treek, and the staff
produces five shows each day. llliile the show is taped,
Pierson and the other researchers \\-atch from a sepai-ate
room in case a question comes up about one of the contestants' responses. It happens inore often than you might
think, and Pierson has learned to take nothing foi- granted.
Tllien people h i d ont lie works at Jeu$ordj!, "the first
thing they generally say to m e is. 'Oh, you must he really
smai-t,"' Pierson said. "At parries, people think they caii ask
me anything. I ahrays say, 'Let me look it up.' ll'heii I'm
here at work, I can't be \\Tong."
People ai-e, after all, watching. Pierson said.Jeopardj!
1-ecei7-esinail and phone calls e v e n day-half a dozen lett e n and ni'o or three calls-from people claiming the show
got it iiisong. L-sually, lie said, theyjust didn't hear it correctly.
" n e don't make many out-and-oui mistakes," lie said.
"Ma!-be hvo a year. Most of thein we catch on game clay, and
they don't 50 all tlie uay to broadcast."
During the summer months, when tlie shorr isn't
raping, Pierson's time is devoted completely to researching;
and he and the staff "ti-y to get as much as possible done"
t h e n On average, lie 1-eseai-chesiiinet? questions a Tieel;.
Thejob is not Trhat Piersoii had expected to he doing
when he came to L..%.Actually, nothing coiild have been
what lie expected, because he didn't know what h e wanted
to do. He just believed things lvould fall in place, and lie
came and w x k e d hai-d-a coiisistenr pattern in his life.
and one thai h a s wor1;ed mil.
Pies-son entered the University of Indianapolis on tlie
same terms, unsure of\rliat lie Tranted to do. He graciuated
in 1958 with a double major in English and comrnunicaLions, went to the Universit? of Michigan foi- a master's
degree in telecoininuiiicatioii arts, and returned to his
lioinetoirn with three choices. H e could stay in Indianapolis, move to Detroit (the only place he had contacts), 01mol-e to a cih- where lie \rould be completely uiikno~rii.
Bccause tlie opporruiiities Tre1-e liniited in lndianapolis, and he didn't care to live in Detroit, Pierson went to
L A His onl!- contact there was a school teachel-, but ihe city
offefered bouiidless opportunin foi- would-be television
producers irilling to get their haiids dirty. In little m o r e
than a month, he liad found a j o b as production assisrant
011 the shoi-t-lii-ed sitcom Get o Lip
For the liexi year-and-a-half, h e would serr.e as a
production assistant for a varieh of shorrs. ("Production
assistant" is a generic iiidustiq title that caii mean anything
fi-om equipment cai-1-ierto bagel buyer.) At various times.
lie ran errands for companies that pi-odnced television
"movies of tlie week"; served as a greeter for a cerebral palsy
telethon ("an interesting thi~-ty-six-liourwoi-l;day") : and
worked 011 a remake of rhe Cniidid Cniiiem television show;
a j o b that turned out to be useful \\.lien he applied at
Jcu$n~dj! His iiiteniewei- 1;iierr people who had worked at
C m d i d Cciiiiei~o*the) gave Pierson a good recornrnendation,
aiid lie got the job.
Oiie of the iliain advantages of JeoJini-dj! is the securini t offers: The sho\r's contract is guaranteed through the
year 2000. Beyond that, the Trorking hours ai-e regular and
limited-not ahrays the case in L A ' S cutthroat entei-taiii-
m e n t industry, where the average production job demands
at least sixty hours a weel;. The Jw~p~irc~!i~-oi~l<
week is about
fol-t? hours.
ll'hile he's happy to stay put for noli; Pierson does have
aspirations beyond researching for Jeopni-d)! He's interested
in both producing aiid witing foi- teleiision and film,
though acting is one aspect that doesn't appeal to him.
"If you'7-e seen me on camel-a," h e said; "it's because I
didn't get ont of the way quickly enough."
Tlie pi-oblem lie faces is an ironic one for a JeoJxird?!
researcher: He has 1noi.e questions than answers. H o ~loris
i
should h e stay at Jeopai-djF Does he want to be a screeiiTri-iter?Can he break into educational television, the field
h e ' d ultimately like to \rork i n ? Piei-son is pursuing the same
tack lie did when elitel-ing U of 1 and leaiing for L..i.: He's
takiiig it all in stride, not rushing anything. Success !rill come,
lie believes, as long as he 'i+.orksha]-d aiid puts his time iii.
"I've developed a differeiir way of lookiiig at things,"
lie said. "To make it here, you really have to \rant to be here.
You caii't be so dead set on what yon want to do.I didn't
plan the things I've done so far, and !-et all of those things
liai-e been really positive. Instead of setting up different
car-eel-goals to drive m e nuts; I think of the areas I ' d like to
rrork in, but don't set deadlines."
The fortT-liour work ij-eek ai Jeupmdj! has given him
the time and flexihilin to ~ r o r kon outride projects. He
iwote a film script; for example, 'ljust so people here would
take me seriously." The script has been filed axray awaiting
1-elision,but there are other projeco to occupj- his time noTr,
smaller projects that will pi-obably never be seen by a large
audience b u t that giJ-e him production experience aiid
"something to shorr."
Piei-son has "a lot of optiinisin for children's TV'and
would eventually like to worlr on a she\\- that coinbiiies
educational content it~itlian entertaining foi-mat. .kt hventynine, though, he isn't rushing it. Things have worked out
\vel1 so fx;there's n o 1-eason to believe they iroii't continue
to in the future.
"My goal lrheii I came out here was to get a writing 01pi-oduciiig position on a
sho~i.,"he said. "I'm basically
doing the kind of xork I planned on doing; I'm really
satisfied n i t h \,.hat I've done. The big question iio\\~is
7 i d .S/u/;
deciding iiliat I waiit to do next."
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Previews, reviews,
for
hnP Chad Brandenburg.
Brandenburg ~ r x as triple
Tdnner in 111~.r of I I m i m
iioiial la51 ~ c a i -also
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sci-ving
as a irain co-rap:ain.
Kinkcad l i a r brought in
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Men's baikcthall coach Royce
TValtman ((PIcoiiics back 111s
top cight pla)cri from Ins1
icasoii's 16-11 wain. xrhirh
r a r n r d thc school's first-cier
NC&%IInationalranking (iilii)
Senior guard Pcirell Lucas
is a n UI-.hncrica c;inclicla~ein
1SS3-SG a i t c r ivinning ihe
GL\Z sconng championship
(il1.0j ;and rarning first-team
.%II-GI.\~Crecognition lasi
s r a m n . Joining Lucas as
rcurl-ning arter err are
sopiimiioi e Bart Holubar.
s c n i n r Chad Pate. sr-nior
Michael Brooks and junior
Dilvid M'iese. Seniol-r Kyle
Shirk Noi Chay, a i d Daniel
Johison give ilie Gi~e)liouncls
an excellent eight-man
rotation. Junior T e q
JlcB17.de could h c a n
imnediatc contl-ibuml- at ij'i,
Thc Houncls WCTC piclced
fourdl in the GLI'C b y league
coachts. Confcrcnce play
bcgan Dccembel- i will] rlir
team shooting for a top-three
finish in t ~ i eGLI'C to i c n i i e
thr ir1,""I's fiist-er-cr NC&%
I1 1OUrnainrnl berth.
e ~ ~ r m to
~ng
the NCAAs
lionx%s bashctball coach
Lisa Hicks has t l i r c ~ita,-teis
h a r k floni lar1 icas"n's 21.7
team, ~vliicliearned the Lad)
Hounds' second N C 1 A 11
toiiimaiiieiit bid in three years.
Senior :UI-imerica
carididaLe hHensley
earned f i i st-ieam All-GLVC
h u n o r i for thc second
conseciiiive year with a 1 i . i
fiw talentcd frcslin~enfor
19?15-9G,including Californ i a n Tom Ikchaenchai.
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Coach G a q Kinkead lias
high cxpectationi for his
mcn's a n d Tiomell's teami in
1993-9G. The Lady G r c y ~
Iiounds 11m-e 11 retul-ninp
leiiemiiiiiei~sfroni l a s t
s e a s o i s 26-14 i r a m conibined with an imprcssivc
iecroiting d a i s 011 thc 23prrson rostc,-.
Senior NC.&4 11i l l .hneriian Sara W'allare lcads
the rrtuinircs altrr placing
14th at the IC.&% I1 Nationals
las: y e a . IVallace ,,ill ti? to
become the first U of I
wniiieii's swimmer to qualif?
for thc XC.AA I1 Sationals
four coiiseciitiw years.
Olympic Trials qualifiar
(in 1992) Tricia T!ner and
Arizonan breastsir oke
specialist M a g Percival
lieadline ilie Lady Grryhouncl
sccruiting clas\. The I ~ a r l y
Hounds h a w riiimmel-s fi-om
six stales and Bermuda.
On die I ~ ~ I I side.
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the
Homnds h a s t five returnin5
lrtrernitll l,-om Inst 56a5013'5
29-1.5 t r a m . Icd 12:- ~ o p h o m o r e
ers prime time
Conch Joe Polizzi's fnoiliall
team responded well to tlic
releiision camriai wiih
vicmriei i n t w i :ele\ised
games thir fall. Thr Huundi
deiratcd Northn.ood. 90-2.3,
on High School Day, after
traveling 1" l\aync S1atc lor
a n impl-eisivc 2 1 ~victoi?.
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The telecast of the
S o r ~ h ~ \ - owin
u d with alums
Steve Hurst. Tim Bragg and
Kevin Conrad liandling the
c o m m e n i a ~dmr
~ the highest
IYiclscn ,raring eve, foi a
Greyhound football game.
Scniol- 1994 GTE i c a dcniic rUl-.her-ican defensive
rail& Ted Miinson led a
strong group of lour Honnds
numinatcrl for 1995 Academic
AlLhnci-ica recognition
hlunson, i3-110 boaiu a 3.79
curnulari\a GP.4, made 5.5
tackles in thc first ninc games
of thr s c a i o n Scniol- i-unning
back Phil Shihan. a 3.7:;
student, was third in ilie
hlIFC in ,receiving (3.8) and
iourrh in all-purpose yardage
(126.3j. ~Aiid,sopliomoir
identical twmc Jason and Jeff
Sorg stained in tlic defensive
hacldkld vliilc maintaining
3.72 and 9.74 GI?%s respectivcly. Jason ticd ror the tralii
lrad nit11 two intcrccptions.
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i 4 . i 4 ~ t r n l i e spel- 18 l~olei,
was icatured i n a n a i i i c l e b)
Dirk Mittman i n die Indianu,tw/i~.Sin, on Octobrr 27.
Freslinian Rusty Ripberger
1iindce inro ilie Ind) lineup,
d i i a l i had d l f i r - t golicl-s
returning from last s c a m i s
188-41-1 NC-II I1 Toill-naiiieiit team. The talmrecl
roolcic lcd the team wit11 a
74.24 a\-el-age. including a
sizzling 68 at tlie Butlrr
Iinitatioiial. Junior Bobby
Delagrange (74.53).sr-nior
Jason Christy (75.05):and
scnioi. NCLA 11 iill-~American
Chad Hilderbraud (7.516)
g a ~ rlic
t Hounds a potent
fuursome at the top this MI.
Partridge'sGreyhounds
d l shoot Tor h c i r n i n h
i t r a ~ g htrip
t
io i h c K C l i I1
Nauonals n c s i spi.ing. I n
Partl-idgc's 90 iea5ons a?
co;lch. t h e Hounds have i i o i i
67 tntirnaineiit iiiles!
defendcr Rich Miotke lccl i h c
tram i n scoring, helping ihc
Hounds finish 6-10-1 ol-cl-all.
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Coach Kathy Casey's men's
cross counri? tcam matched
its brsi GLYC iinirh ~ V P I with
a fourtl~-placccilol-t i n the
l0-icam meet ai \-onliein
l i c n ~ u c l qon Ociobel- 21
The 52-26 Hounds ~ r r r
lccl by senior Anthony Hibbs,
~ v h oilniihcd 12th i n ihe field
of G i n1niier5 rrith a W 4 1
clocking ovrr the 101; coiii-it.
Ai ilie IC h i t a t i o n a l . Hibbs
placed sixth mdiriduiilly in a
iiclcl 0178 runners to lcad the
Hounds to lourth placc-onc
point ahcad o i the Kniwriiiy
01I < e n m c l ~. i~t ~t h. c DcPami
Imitarional, Hibbs was the
incliridual champion i n a
ficlcl 0170 i-~inneriio lead the
Greylioundi io a runner-u~3
filii41 i l l 1he eighl-learn meel.
I n t h e -\nderion Inritaiinnal.
liibbs, sophomore Brian
TValrefield and roph W'es
7Voodson iiniihed 1-2-3 io
lead Indy io ilie ieani litlr.
\\~al;efieldalso earned AllLittle Siaie honors ivitli a
14th-pIacc finish i n the field
"i 14' rnnneri.
quarteiiinalr, ,\here ihey ]"SI
a ilii-ee-setter to the eientiial
~
champinns.
I n all, fixe Indy p1a)ri-h
1m1isinglrs maiclies i n
i h e~c ~ e n ti.iith
,
the H o u n d s
going 2-0 against po~vcrful
SlU-E~l~~-~~-~l~~ill~
Thc netleis posted a 2-1
fall mark before taking on a
strong aluinni leain i n il
match on I-lomecoming
morning. Competing for ilie
alumni were Jeff Conrad '90.
i i i fil-st-c~crGLYC yictoi?.
Tlie Lady Greyhounds
blanked I<cntucl<)-TYerlcyan,
1-0, on September G for their
confercncc wiii. lndy a150
deieaied Anderwii (3.0);
Goslii-n (2-0) anci
Transvlmnia (2-1j this sraion
F ~ ~ c s h m aSara
n Clark I-?corded nt'o shiitniits for ihe
Lady Greilioundi, w h i k
snphomorc Jenny Schierk
l,lanl<ed Iicntuckv \Ycslc\-an.
'9.3. Ted Koch '62, Jay Koeller
' 9 4 , P e q J l a n n '94,Jamie
Pheifer '93, Blaine Steimel
'95, Shane Steimel '95,
and
Jollu T7enter '93.
leain put things iogellier
don-n thc stretch. Itinning
lour of its last sis GLYC
marches o n rhc ,ray 10 a 10-19
o ~ r a l rtcord
l
and 6-12 coilferencc marl;. Thc Lady
Hounds jiiri rnisscd making
thc GLT'C playoris altcr rhcir
successful s t r e a k A higlilight
of t h c season was a trip 10
Miami, Floricia. where rhr
Lad\- Hounds plwcd against
top-ranl<rdBWI? L ~ n ~ e ~ s i i ? .
Four of the L a d y Greyhounds vere 1995 GTL
. k a d r m ~UI-.hnerica
numinrcs: sopliumoi~eKristi
Hayden, junior Jodi Hilliard.
junior Jennifer Johnsen and
scnio? A m y Strieter.
ookies shoot well
Coach Lari? Bledsoe's
~~c'n,el,'sgolf team ~postccla
32-47 Sal1 lediper. including a
96-15 mark a g a i n s t n o m
\ C : i l Diviqion I CninpcLitioii.
Freshinrn Tera Deckard
(8li.80) anci Erin McGrmr
(85l.00) led h e Lady GreyI,m,nds. making a S l n o D l l l
lirlnsilion to collcgc goll.
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~finisilca
~ tilC rail
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season in imprcssivc iailiion
I,) shaoting rouncls 0181 a n d
82 I" earned runnel--"],
medaliii 11oiir)rsai i h c T r i ~
Stnic Lady T h u n d e r Classic,
Snphomol-e Stacey Conk
(Ll1.W) and senior Monica
Scott (512.00) rormcl oiit the
top fonr. The Lad) Greyhounds p l a c e d second i n ilie
s ~ ~ ~ , l - l >kmclle>te,~
can~
Inviiational on O c i o b c r 6-7
fur ilirii~besi 1,111 finidi.
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Coach Chris Johnson's
~ i o i n c d ssoccer tciim posied
a 4 1 4 r e c o d in its iecond
season o i tsisrenrc. i n d u d i n s
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Seven-figure szft to ulziumitj made
in honor of Leo and Alberta Miller
The last issue of Poi-tilo announced that an anonymous
seven-figure gift had been commiited to the universiky
\That iiasii't announced at the time was that the gift was in
honor of emeriti facult? ine~nbel-sLeo and Alberta Miller.
Tllien asking the lfillers their initial ireaction to
learning that a seven-1igui-e gift had been giiwi to the
university in their lionor, their reply included such tei-ins as
"dumbfounded," "pleased," and "surprised." \\%le the
iiaiiies of the donors h a x not
been publicly disclosed, the
Millers are ai\-ai-eof theiiidentities. And iiliile they
have for many years felt a
particular closeness to this
alumni couple, they caii't
recall ivliat they ma!- have
done for these persons that
\ m s particularly sigiiificaiit 01deseiiing of such a recognition in itself. That response is
tyI3ical of the nature of Leo's
and Alberta's service to the
univei-sit?.
Their combined tenure of
sixty J~ea1-sat Indiana Cenu-a1
College aiid Indiana Central
University, ending iiith their
retirements in the early
eighiies, was chock full of
good deeds. as reported by
many alumni ox-el-the years.
Yet these actions on the pal-ts
of the \lillci-s wei-e routine.
One member of ihe donor
couple insisted that the
Millers irere responsible for
their being i n and staying in
school
Leo illillel- came to ICC i n
1945 nith the specific charge
to start a Departmeiit of
Business. iz-liich has groim
iiiro the School of Business,
the largest academic unit a t
tlie UniversitT of Indianapolis. As the first chair of the
Department of Business. Leo
Tvas given the respoiisibilit? of
recruiting new faculh- to the
department. The Millers
fondly related how in 1949,
dui-ing Pi-esident 1. L!-nd
Esch's 1-ecuperation fi-om an
automobile accident, Leo had
shared with President Esch how he had been frustrated in
h i s effol-ts to find the right person to teach business education i n the fledgling deparunent. Dr. Esch suggested that
perhaps the universit? should consider hiring Alberta for
[he position. .it the time she iias teaching at Ft-anklin
Tomiship High School (now Franklin Cent]-al)
After a bvo-year absence fi-oiii ICC in the early fifties
ivhile Leo tauglir ai Indiana University. the Millers returned
when Leo \$-asinvited to become treasurer of the college. ;Z
yea]- after Leo's returii; Alberta rejoined the Department of
Business as the business education facult? iiieinhei- aiid by
the time she retired in 1981, she had assumed the chaii- of
the department her husband h a d founded. Rleaiiwhile, Leo
had added the title of vice presideiit to his treasurer's
1-espoiisibilities. He 1-etired in 1952.
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TVhen pressed to 1-el-ea1more about what special
influences iiould proinpt the \fillers to engender huch
admiration and respect froin their students; time and again
they respond that "T\e simply encouraged students to take
advantage of the opportunities that came theil- wa)-." Leo
and Mbei-ta agree that opportunities mill arise for those
~ i l i oprepare themselves to take the oppoimniity Tilien it is
presented. They sincerely feel that their own lives are
evidence of that.
By today's standai-ds, both ivei-e raised i n homes that
we]-e economic all)^ disadi-antaged; but they pei-se\-ei-ed and
good things came their ~ra).-i'ai-ticularly the hixty years of
contacts fi-om tlie university. Having been given these "gifts"
in their o i i n lii-es, they felt an obligation to pi-oi-ide encoui-.
agement to others. But tlie rvay in irliich that encouragement iras coiive!-ed rvas more than simply verbal admonirions. Srudeiits received many inxitations to their home.
O n e alumnus, an international student, has been forever
grateful that Leo and Alberta invited him into their home
for Christmas diuiier when the Millers ivere entertaining
their oivn family members. Another alumnus. a minot-iiy
member, gives Alberta credit for keeping him in school at a
time irlien he Tj-as I-eady to give up because of disci-imination lie had felt fi-om poi-tions of tlie Indianapolis community outside the campus. After deciding to stick with school,
he told ;Uberra that he made that decision because, as he
stated, "I believe you cat-e."That student laier welit on to
earn a doctorate aiid became a faculty member at another
Iiidiaiia institution of higher education.
Caring has obviously been a hallmark for the Millers.
One of tlie unii-ersit?'s endorved chairs, the Charlotte
Henderson Chaii- of Business, Tias the result of a majoibequest from a friend to ivhom the hlillers minisrered foimany years. The >fillers had n o inlding that she \vas remernhering the university as the p r i m a n beneficiary of hcr
estate-all the more remarkable giveii the fact that Di..
Henderson was a longtime faculty inemher of another
universit~in the state. The bequest ]vas essentially her final
tribute to tiel- close fi-iends; the Millet-s.
Those ivho vni-ked xiith Leo during his quarter
centurv as the university's treasurer ivill never forget his
ability to stretch the university's dollar and his insistence
upon responsible stewardship. He expected evei3-one to be
fiscally responsible and as efficient as possible. L - p n his
retii-ement i n 1981, his "efficiency addiction" Jvas saiuied
idien he \cas presented \villi a laminated interoffice eiivelope that had been used for years until every line on the
envelope had been used. The envelope Tvas retired the
same evening that Leo retired. It seemed a iittiiig gesture.
KO one will ever k n o ~ vh o ~ vmany tens of thou,aiids of
dollars h e saved the unii~ei-siheach year, but save them he
did. Now i n theit- retirement, Leo and Alberta are still
conti-ihuting to the bottom line because donors such as the
anonymous alumni couple and Charlotie Hendet-son make
extremely sigiiificaiir contributions to the unii-ersih-in
gratitude for the Millei-s' influence on their lives.
TChen asked about the legacy they are leaiiiig at r h e
university, the Millers respond that f l i q had been given a
legacy by "so much love" that they had felt over the years
fi-om their foi-mer students. aiid that anything returned to
the university as a result of their influence is vet? gratifying
for them. Their challenge to ail of their studenth to take
admiitage of their opportunities will noii be passed on to
future generations of soidents. Illiile pei-liaps not knorving
the 11iIlel-5.these students \rill nonetheless benefit firom
scholarships generated through donors inspired by Leo's
and Albei-ta's mentot-ing.
-Di: Ljnii R.Younglilood '63
l i c e Presidrni C
Y Pi-ooost
Malestones
-In article in Sfioits Illu~troted
ahout Somier Indianapolis
Colt Steve Emtman quotcd
Tom Zupancic '78 txtcnrivcly.
"Zupe" is the Colts srrcngth
and conditioning coach; lie
~rurktri\-cry closely with
Enitinan (now a Miami
Dolphin) in his rfforts to
secox ?I- fi-om scieral serious
injurics.
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Forties
Rerini07z: Closr sf '11
~ l l q3l-,J?tn,,2, 19%
Rnrnion: Clms of '16
.\ln~ 3l+t~ 2, 1996
l h George Kecban '49 is
closing his privatr indica1
praclice after 41 :-ears.
H c is joining the Doctor's
Iinnicdiate hledical Center
lndianapolis,
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Florabclle T W s o n '49. L- of I
librarian emerita. was
honored reccntl? ~ i i ahn
Indianapolis \layor's T ' o l m ~ leer Pal-tnership i ~ r a r for
d
her cffol-is on behalf or the
Hcritage Placr Scnior Ccntes
RrIrni"7,: Class of '51
~Ziii)31-flM 2, 19510
Rerrnion: Class of '56
\liiJ
31-f,,7w 2. 19%
TVilliam Raspberry '58.
P n l i ~ e Prize-winning
r
1ir1)ilii
affairs columnist for ?%c
libshingimz Posr, lias l i e e n
named to fill tlic Ihiglir
Chair iii Coinniunicatioiii
and Journalism at Duke
Cnirersit>.Dr. Raiphcrry will
continiie to write for the Poi1
as w e l l as teach a t thc DeTlitt
Il~allaceCenter for Commum
catiun, ;incl,Jouroalisin at thc
Terry Sandforcl Institrite uf
Public Policv.
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sixties
Reunion: Class of '61
.\lg 3l-Jtinr 2. 1996
Rerrvion: Class qf '66
~liii! i l - , f i i , i E
3. 1996
1laininnillc EciucaUon
Foiiiidation rcccntly honored
five t r i i c h c ~ samong
.
them
John Koontz '64. MI-.
l<oionnt/;
honored postumousl~,was a
teiiclicr at 1lartmsiille High
Scliool Sos 24 years, tcaching
l i t a l t h , physical education.
icicnce and d r i V E J - ' Scclucaiion
Dr. Richard A. Hughes '63,
11.13.Rich Professor of
Religion at Lycoming
Collcge. h a s w i i t e n a hook,
7/11Xoiiiont
.
.Shoci; o/Dmt/i.
The hook v a s relrasccl in
\larch of 11395 i n Europt and
t h e L'niterl S i a t e b y Pctcr
Lnng I'ulilisliing. lnc.
Jess Harper '66 has bern
raeiectcd 10 t h e national
cxccuti\-c coininiiier of thc
Elecuoniis Rcprewiiativci
2iruri;ition (El<-\) a n d is now
wriing as thc ERA senior vir?
Reirnion: Clnss of '71
October 12, 1996
Remion: CIoss ?f '76
Octobw 12, 1996
Katinnal Oil P~mciuctsof
Hamilton, Ohio, has n a m e d
Glen Mayfield '70 as general
manager. H e is a mcmbel- of
tlic SocieLy of Manufacturing
Enginccrr.
Rosemarie Bigbbee '75 has
hccn chosen by Channel 20
t o replace C.ranilpa Harloiv as
the host oi1Cld.i Club during
station hrraks hlonday
through Friday mornings.
S h e appcars as "Rosie" on tlic
Ihcl'i Block. f,St:c~ing~
11.)
Jane Fulton '7.3 recciyrd a
fellowship in June t h a t allows
trachcrs to puriiie selfdesigned plans foi-pei~sonal
;and professional reneval.
Thr fellowhip id allo!\- h e r
to map out one-day bike tours
of cast-central lnrliana and
i i c s t - c c n ~ r aOhio.
l
Shc is a
trachcr at Union City
Cornmunit\- High School and
was onc of 80 icarhrrs
awarclcd (lie fellowship.
Eighties
Rcirnio,,: Class of '81
October 12. I996
Remion: Clnss of '86
October 12, 1996
Georgc S. Olive k Co. has
proinorcd Diane Wilson
Bron.n '89 to manager.
Scott F o p '68, a Hospice
\hlunirer a t SI. Francis
Iiospital, was a "liudds" this
s u ~ n n i c ra t Camp Healing
Trrc, a fi-cc c a m p h e l d inJul:
to hclp children 5-14 who
had ~-ccenllylost a lovtcl one.
Reeaimi: Class of '91
Ortobw 12. 1996
Banr One Mol-tsage Corp.
rcrendy named Jim Clark '91
a rtsiclcntial mortgage loan
originator.
ettehlerhodirt College in Fa\;
d l e . North Carolina, h a s
named Matt Eliston '92 as
sporti information director.
He will direct tlie officr for
the college's 18 KCLA 111
atliletic teams. T f l ~ i l ea t C o i l
a f " u r - y l - assistanl to
spo~nsinformation director
Joe Gcnurv, helping in i h e
promotion of tlic universit, 's
20 NC,LA I1 ipo1-1s.
h e \\.as
Lara L. Uantzen) hndrews '92
recently graduatrd h m Ball
State L-niversity with master's
a n d Sptrialist i n Edocarion
degrees in school ps:-cliolo~.
She is employtd as a scliool
psrchologist with Itichmond
Cormiiunity Schools in
Richmond, Indiana.
Sa\, Lt. David Palmer '93
rcccntly pi-oxided supp01.t for
a major L I T 0 military
planning conferrnre while
?eining aboai~dthe command
iliip 1-5.Y L ~ S n l l roff thc coast
or soutiicrn ita]! in
Tyrrhcnian Sea. T\liile the
N-iTO Icndel-s Tiere aboard
the Lois~llidiscussing
contingency opesations for
Boinia-Herrego\iiia, Palmcr's
ship enabled KAT0 officials
to comniunicatc dircctly i i i l i i
the L1.N. representatiws.
Greg Griffin '93 is ciu-i-ently
thc Acrounti Pa:-al,lc
m:3nager for Z o l l HrolherF/
Zrsco Products.
Kimberly Wright '93 has
joined the Bloomingron
"Sfice ofGeo S. Oli\-c 8s Co.
a i a n arcoiuitant in rhc tax
department. Shr had bcen
rmployrd in a n Sndianapolir
CP.4 firm
\laking a diffcrcnce in tlie
livcs 01others. J. Christopher
Carpenter '94 ir o n e of eight
penplc ,TI10 hul-e entered a
spccial rclatioiisliip with the
Congregation OC the Sisters of
Providence of Saini \lar?-oithe-Tloodr. Indiana. through
t h c P r o d e n c c Volunteer
Ministry prugram. He is
serving as assistant director
US the SI.Joan of r l i c
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Brett Marhanka '95, a threcyear spoi.ts information
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G,~r:hounds,ihilc at L "TI.
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Gallaudct Univxsity. He vi11
be I-espomible So, tlir
promotion o i the uni\-ersir,'i
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Oscar Clayton Smith '30,
C 01I Hall of Famrr iii uack
a n d field, died Jtiiie 25 in
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a t Indiana Ccntral hc was
known for his sldi in the
h u r d l e s and \cas a n alternate
to the Olympic ganici i n
Japan. H c is suniicd lx his
wife, Rebecca, son Jay, and
niece 1,anra IicGraw
Ruby Cord '36 passed a ~ a
Ortobtr 17. Shc is i u n i v c d by
licr clauglitel-. R. J c a i i e ~ t e
Cord. son Edmund Cord, and
five grandchildren
M'illiani L. Spray '38 died i n
\ l c d o r a . Indiana, on July 22;
1995. H E is suiTivxi by his
daughtrr, liar\. Lee St. Clair.
The Re\ erend Hadley Harper
'46 of Zanesdlc. Ohio.
passcd away July 22. H E is
siiiwiied by his uifc, Iirlen
2loon Harpe,-.
Nominations
Bruce V. Mitchell '56 dicci on
Srptrmber 23 in Greenwood.
I i e ,cas an .&-my v t c r a n of
TYmld l i a r 11. H t is sunii-ed
I,?nvo sons, Brucc C. and
~ i i c h a eL.
l h.litchcl1, daughter
Lisa Doylc, a n d thrcc
grandrhilcirrn.
~ Formcr Indiana Central
histoi-y pi-ofessor Richard D.
Rowley died OS a Ileal t a t t ~ c k
a t age ill on July 22. Prof.
Rowlcy c a n x io Indiana
Central in lY4G. rrtiring in
1973. .Ircsident of East
GI-and Forks, hlinnerora,
he was a inember of i l i e
Cnital-ian C n i w l - d i r t
&sociation C h u r c h of t h e
Largcr Fclloriihip.
Former Art Depamnent head
and leacher hlarihel Gilbert
passcd away on -2ugtis: 2 5 .
S h e was a member of Carnie1
Cniicd Ilcthodist CIIUI-CII
and Kappa Kappa Gamma
sol-orit?. She i q suinixed b y
her husband. George R.
Gilbert.
il-tlzs
Robert Shdrer '61 passccl
awa)~on Scpttmbcr 7. He is
s u n i r c d b y his Jvifc. Bcity
Bmck Stuclcrr, s o n J . Iicirli
Stucker, danghters Sandra
Blevins and Trrri Coats ' 7 8 ,
f k e grandchildren. a n d nlo
step-grandchildi e n
Michael Zimmerman '91 and
his vifc Chriiiine rielcorned
Jessica Nicole on hlav 2.5.She
weighcd 7 Ibs. 14 n i . a n d 11a5
20 112 inchcs 1ong.Jerrica
joins hcr brotliel- Eryn
\lichatl, 3, a t honic i n
Bremm. Indiana.
On Friday, Ju1) 7, The
Reverend L p n A. Soughan
'65 died in Decatur, Indiana.
H e is s u n i v c d by his wife.
Vivian, and ions Dennis '93
and Daw1 '97.
Brittany R e n r r Ha\-ens, born
Januan- l i a t Si. Francis Hospiral in Bercli Gro\-c. wcighcrl
i Ibi. 19 oz. and v a s 18 I / 2
inchcs long. Her proud
parents iirr Bill Havens '84
and Becky (Smith) Havens '87.
Flora .4nn Leisure Hagenow
'65 passed a ~ i a ?on September
IC,. She is survived by hrr
h i ~ s l ~ a nE.
d , Kent Hagcnoii,
daughtcr Jcnnifecr, parenis
h l r a n d \ f i n Herbein Leisure.
and brother Rohel-i Leisure.
Newland "Skip" McElfresh Jr.
'72 died Saturdai, J u n e 21.
.in .&-my Tetcran. h c ,\.as
upcrarions manager at
Brpnnt-Habeggel-. H e i q
iuni\-cd by his wife, Kelly
sons Craig, Newland 111, ;and
llichacl: daughter Noelle:
and four grandchildren.
Fot-mer Chapter One
Prograins ieaclier Carol E.
Schmidt Gray '79 d i d J u l y 7.
Bcforc rctil-ing i n 1993 f i ~ o n ~
Indianapolis l'uhlic Schooli,
shc taught 30 years for ilir
Caiholic Arclidiocew of
Indianiipolis. S h c is siirvived
br h e r husband, Samuel. $on
Grant. itcpdaughtel- Casandi a
Sandi-rs. and tlirec i t c p ~
grandchildrcii.
22
Ramona L. Eaton TVurster '83
died Saturday, July 8 , She had
heen a cuiirt reporter for 2s
?cars in Marion Supcrior
Court 6 and Marion Probate
Conl-1. She is survived by her
hLlShdild. Robert.
Kyle Tl'ietliolter '87 and Carol
(Haumdd) TVieietliolter '86
I~~~~~~~~ tilt 13aren1sor tilc
their second son, Ei~icLynn,
on llaicli 1 . Eric wcighcd S
lhi. 2 "L. and IIaF 20 l / 2
inches long. andjoins big
brother llichacl. The proud
grandparents and greatgrandparents, all Ll of1
giaduates. are Kon '54 and
Mary (?iilhoose) ' j G
H a u s ~ ~ lBishop
d,
Paul '32
and Mary Frances '31
2lilhonse, and the I a t r Nrllir
'59 ;and Carl '31 H a ~ i n r a l d .
Rebecca (Larison) Jones '84
and husband Robrrt wclcoined d a u g h ~ c rLcah l l a r i c
on June 23. She wrighcd 9
Ibs. 14 uz. and was ? 2 inclics
long. Big brothtr Andrcii, 2,
iiclcomcd his baby sister.
Connie Adams '94 and
huiband MaI~ka,-? 1hr parents
of their ihird daughier,
Jancllc Spoor -\dams. Janelle
,,as born I"g"F1 9 a t 1:4i
p:n. She ireighcd 8 I h 5 . T OL.
and x i s 21 112 inches long.
Bradley D. Martin '84 and
wife I<riqtine announce the
birth of their daughter
Leanne hlarie. LCdnnL. was
bon-n \larch 11. wcightd
G I b s . 1 2 oz.. and meaqtu-ed
19 1 / 2 inchcs long. Shejoins
brothcr, -Indrc,r.. 2. at hnme
in Elkhart. Inciiana.
Matt '94 a n d Ikista (Metlieny)
Hensley '87 \ielcomed tlir
birth o f a daugliier. liadison
\ h i e , on JtiIy 11, Madison
weiglied 7 Ibs. 2 oz.. and was
20 I / 2 inches long. She is the
granddaughter of Diane
Ileilien) '70.
Laura (Partridge) H a g '89
and husband Kick are proud
io annoiince the amin1 of
:heir s o n D)lan K i c h o l x
Dylan ,cas born on Februai~
20, iwighing 7 I h s . 3 01. a n d
measuring 21 inches.
~hiasiasiaU a n a Gentin jninr
big siitcr V c s a n d r a and
parenLs Timoih? and Dianne
(Driscol) Gentry '80 at home
in Firhcl-s, Indiana. lnasrasia
was horn December 29. 1994.
and ircighcci 7 lhi. 8 07.
Carol (Higgiubotham) Zeek
'72 and huihanci Benjamin
annoiincc t h c birth of thcir
first child. . I l i g d Elirahctli.
Born u n l l a r r h 1. Abigail
weightcl G Ibr. 12 O L . a n d was
90 inchcs long. Shc is die
gi-anddaiightcr of EiiLdbelh
Higginbotham '69.
Sherri Kae (Wood) hliller '90
and Stephen L. Miller '89 are
happy to aniioiiii~ethe birth
of thrir son, rUcxandcr
Stcphcn, born J u l y I?. He
weighed 9 l h 2 01. and
measiiied 21 inchri.
Jennifer (Sullivan) Anderson
'91 and husband Randy are
pleased to aiiiioiince thr
bil-ih or ,heir fiint child.Jarub
Aai-on. Born \laic11 W i n
NoSS~nanEstatrs, Illinois, 11c
weighed 7 Ibs. 13 D L . and was
20 iiichcs long. Jacob a n d his
p r o ~ i dp ~ ~ e nrrsidr
ii
in
Nan"\-rr Park.
Widdirzgs
David Zehr '89 married
Lynnc Echtcnkamp "11 Jline
10 in Fort llhync. The gl-onm
is cmploycd by Zchr C h n stroction: the bridc is the
cI1ieS phutographcr for
Tiw Gosiioi Smi.
Lisa Smith '89 a n d Rod
Chandler iccrt niarricd u n
J i d y 22 in D a n d l e . The bridc
is a bisih grade ieacher at
Plainfield Cummunity lliddle
School, and thc groom is an
algebra teacher. assi5iani
rdrSily football co;acli. and
frcihmiln 1,askctbilll cuarh a t
Plainfield IHigli Scliool.
Scott Barton '90 andJant
Richardson WCTC ired on May
20 in Greenfield. The groom
is a computer analyst lor Ball
hlcinurial Hospital, iind the
briclr is a firld reprcscntatiir
for State Fdl~lllI ~ l 5 U l ~ ~ ~
l ~ ~ .
Lori Adams '91 and Mark
Hagle WCTC inarricd ipl-il 1 in
Light and Lifc C h u r c h . Thc
nrril>-ivcdsarc rcricliiig in
North Salcm, I n d i a n a
Jim Berridge '89 married
l n g e l a \Vas5 on ~ A p i 22,
I The
groom, c u l - ~ - c n ~puriuing
ly
his
1lB~4,
is an iniel-national
ilccoiini execuiive with
Cnited Parcel Se:nice i n
lilanra, Georgia. The bridr is
a cerrified child Me specialist
iind a gracluatc of Purdue
Unixrsity. The rouplc ixsidcs
in Duluth. Georgia
Cindy Blackbnrn '93 ancl Joe
BicBel '93 were wed Srptcmher 2. Both were K.\s for S e l v
H a l l while at C o i l ; where
Cindy i5 n o i i an admissions
COIIIISCIOI..
Dana Denny '93 ancl Daxid
I<notiwere married onJul?
9 2 . Thc bride is cmployeri by
the Paulding County School
l l i i t i i c i . T h r groom is
cmployed by Geoi-gia Power.
The couple resides in
121i~:esl~nrg.
C.eol-gia.
Chair)-Davidson '93 and
Tyronc T l h c e l e r rv.el-c niarricd
on .iuguit 19 at Eastern Star
Baptist Church.
Laura Hill '95 was inarriccl to
Rand? Floivcrs on JiiIy 1.3.
Thc bridc is a n c I c m c ~ ~ t i l ~ n
school tcachcl- and the groom
is emploved ai Tal-gel
Distribution Ccniel-.
David Myers '95 and Abra
Brant were married inn July 8
in Indianapoli?. The gnmm is
vice presiiclmi of lfycrs Fuiir~-al Service. Inc.. and the briclc
ii e m p l o ) c d by Cole \.iqion
Cnrp. They livr in Inclianapolis.
ortico@yaiidif.uindy.edu
Scrid nrim f o r Portico, coirimrnti oo,-.iii,qg~~tioiis
mi nhrnini
pi-ogrnirzr, 01: ~//ri:r t o v o i l i n t e e i
/ o i ~ii coiiiniitter, on t h r
Iniri-iiri. I h i i ~
lieiiri,-uiii Joii.'
xi the nations of the vorld held observances in
commemoraiion of the end of Tlbrld \lar I1 fshyears
ago this year, Dr Robert Brooker, professor emeritus
of Cliemistry, undertook his own personal journey of
remembrance. I n July of 1995 he went to Germany,
Belgium, and Luxembourg to revisit sites of
significance in his tour of dun- in 1944-15.Dr. Brooke,
was accompanied by his son, Russell, a professor at
Uwimo College in Mih>.aukee.The Brookers were
met at the airport in FranliEurt, Germany. by a driver/
interpreter fluent in German, French, and English
In 1944-45Brooker was a first lieutenant as an
engineer reconnaissance officer, spending
considerable time bcliind enem? lines. He typically
went out with a driwr ( a corporal) and a scrgeant on
tasks ranging fimm checking 0111existing bridges,
finding sites for nmr bridgcs and directing bridge
construction, to scouting foi- materials. Brooker
explained t h a t the main purpose of ihe enuncers was
to keep the diiision rnoying-to find out what had LO
be done to permit t h e division to move fomard. The
reconnaissance function xias essential, and Lt.
Brooker's team was good a t d i a i they did. He
acknolrledgei thai "\Te ere cocl<y--ronfident as all
gel-out." On a tyical nirignment the ieam might go
to a river and estimate how long it would take to build
a floating bridge: "Tl-c had io be correct within half an
hour. I couldn't do that now, but I could do it then
with confidence."
\Chile o n recon expeditions, Brooker and his mcn
had to improyise io provide for their daily needs: "If
we could, we would find someplace where we had
some protection, and ifwe could find some mess
hall-GIs lined u p to cat--\ve'd stop and eat there.
I f v e didn't slop there. we had our o i i n rations. I f w
were behind German lines, we m i i t io bed in some
house." An empw house: "\Veil, T i e emplied it. 7Vhm
i i e first did this, we decided somebody would have to
s m i d guard, and then ice decided the hell with it,
with three of us nobody would do anything. They
could catch LIS anj~eay.so w c never stood guard after
that. \Ye g a w them half an hour to get oui. Now what
I'm going to ray ill seem rl-uel: Tlhen they got half
an hour, they argued for about ten miiiiites, and then
ihey had orenv minutes left. and t h e y had time 10 get
ihc brd out. .hid ihat's whai w e wanttd-the
bed. So
we cut it down to fifteen minures. They still argued
t e n but they didn't get the bed. The beds bad c h o x
feather covers, and we wanted those."
Broolxr learned to cope uith bring fired upon'You ne\'er get urcd to getting shoi at, but you learn
to get down rapidly," Sorneumes rhe problem i i a s ,not
enemy fire: "If I took a patrol oui and l i e got shot a t , I
could come home and take a nap. Bur if 1 took a
patrol out aiid absolutely nothing happened, I
c o u l d n ' t eat, I coulddt sleep. I couldn't do anything,"
Because you are xcaiiing for somehing. You
imagine it worse and worse and nothing happens. If i t
happens, jou know what LO do.''
Brooker's first big engagement was the Battle of
tht Bulge. Then his di\ision-the Ninth Armored
Division-attacked east a c ~ o s sthe Roer River iarthcr
north The division captured ihe Rtmagen Bridge
(also called the Ludendorf Bridge) K T O X tlie Rhine
Riwr, Broolxr's whicle was the first vehicle blown up
on the bridge: ''MY
d r i x r v a i killed, and my sergeant
and I were ivounded, and the d i i c l e xias totally
wrecked. The only place that was mot damaged was
righi idiere I i i a s sitting. In fact a piece of shrapnel
~ c n1-ight
t
behieen my arm and my bod? and made a
holc in the xiindshield. My raincoat had a large holc
in it. -2nother chunk tool, off m y drixr's head."
lfter a rtcupcratioii period of about a week,
Brooker was giren a new corporal, a new sergeant.
and a new jeep and sent to Limberg. One day aftcr
capturing a group of German soldiers, Lt. Brooker
took a patrol of men round though the t o m , and, as
Broolcer explains. "This is Tiherc one of the oddcst
things occurred that I haye ever had happen to me.
Illien ?ou take a patrol out, you nevei comt hark the
way you came bccause they arc waiting for you. l l h e n
we were coming back-a different way from the way
I r e had entered-lie s a c about fifteen German
soldiers ahead of us. The? ivere just standing iherc,
armed and er-ei?tliing. If they had tried to shoot LIS,
they would have gotten us since there
were only five of us. So I said to my
sergeant-and what is incredible to me is
that he and h e orher men belimed me'IfTi.e ignore them, maybe t h c y ~ d go
l
alra?.' And we walked right through them.
\lliy did those men believe mc: I
wouldn't h a m believed me. if I had been
back diere. They never raised a hair."
.dthough Brooker can't explain the
responsc of his OTW men, he attribute3
the German's response (or lack of
response) to the fact dial they wanted the
war oyer. It mi March of 1915.
Or. Brooker attempted a similar trip in 1983
to revisit scenes of his wartime cxperiences, but came home after only one day
"I couldn't handle it. I didn't haw
anybody io talk to. At ilia1 time, if1 had
stayed there I n'as going to I d somebody.
I iras back in exactly the same mood ihat I
was in i r h e n I r$.as there the first time. I
had hate. You don't know what hate is.
I'm not talking about a little hate. I'm
talking about a hate thai lasted forty
years. You In\-c to understand-and I'm
not trying to be coy about this-I am noi
a brave mail. A i d I did things I swear I
could not have done bccause I was angi?.
\ \ l i e n they killed my driver it became
personal. People d l say to me that
wartime huddies arc as close as brorhcrs.
No, they aren't. They are closer than
brorhers. You haye to kno1r on these
patrols rhat the m a n behind you is going
to protect your back. .hid they did."
In tlie loss of his driver Brooker
grieved for a close flicnd and companion,
but he learned a lesson from the
experience. Tlhile he had become rlosc
to die first driver and learncd eyerytbiiig
abour him and his hornc and famil?, when
he got a n c ~ cdriver, he nevci- asked any
personal questions: " T l h e n I goi a new
corporal and a new sergcant, we never
talked about home. \Then we got bark
here, I had no idea where they irerc. I
found my sergeant because he joined the
engineer association. I asked him if he
knew where my driver war, and the only
thing hc could remembcr was that he had
heard the driver menuon Dayton, Ohio.
So I put an ad in tlie Dayton paper and
found him."
Dr. Broolm's trip has had at least one highly
beneficial effect.A rcrurring dream seems to have
disappeared: "Since I vas ~ o u n d c don the Rhine
Rivm, for fift? years I haw dreamed that I have to
travel somewhere, and I c o m e io water and I caii'i get
across. The bridge is out or the bridge is encircled in
such a way that I can't cross ihe riyer, I used to have
this drcam three or four times a week. And it has not
happencd since I came back." .-Dr
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