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1 Purlie Victorious~ MU Theater opener Marshall University Theater will present "Purlie
Victorious," a comedy, as its 1977-78 season opener at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 5-8, in Old Main Auditorium.
Written by Ossie Davis, black actor, as a vehicle for himself and his wife, actress Ruby Dee, the play deals with contemporary social issues facing blacks in the "deep South." Both Davis and his wife appeared on Marshall's campus last year, according to Dr. N.B. East, MU associate professor of speech and director of the Marshall production.
Law mini-series to begin Tuesday
Marshall University's Student Experiential Services, a division of the Career Placement Office, in conjunction with the John Marshall Pre-Law Association, will sponsor a miniseries on law during October.
The sessions, open to everyone interested, will be held on four successive Tuesdays, beginning Oct. 4, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge of Memorial Student Center, according to Terry L. Myers, assistant coordinator with the placement office.
The sessions or mini-series are designed to assist people in becoming more familiar with our country's legal system, Myers said. "We will be using local resource people and there will be an emphasis on careers in the legal fields," he added .
Speakers for the sessions will be: Oct. 4-John L. Cummings, Cabell County prosecuting
attorney, who will speak on criminal law. Oct. 11-Thomas H. Gilpin, a member of the firm of
Huddleston, Bolen, Beatty, Porter and Copen, who will discuss corporate law.
Oct. 18--A Cabell County Circuit Court judge, who will discuss the judicial system.
Oct. 25- Jon A. Reed of Charleston, deputy state attorney general assigned to the consumer protection division, who will discuss consumer law.
Scholarships awarded to 5 transportation majors
Five students have been awarded scholarships as transportation majors for the Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Marshall University, according to Dr. W.F. Ashford, chairman of the Marketing Department.
Students and donors of their scholarships are Stan Griffith and Michael Abraham, both Huntington seniors, Union Carbide Corp.; Irene Montgomery, Clay senior, Delta Nu Alpha transportation fraternity; Pat Burdette, Ashland junior, Kyova Traffic Club, and Jan Smith, Charleston senior, Ashland Oil Co.
The scholarships are for $350 each and will pay tuition expenses for the students. The awards are based upon academic achievement.
Dr. Ashford said the transportation curriculum being offered at Marshall is based upon programs offered at Auburn, Indiana, Tennessee and Penn State universities. It was developed at Marshall as a result of requests by area industry and traffic clubs.
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The cast includes Joe Johns, Columbus, Ohio, junior, as Purlie Victorious Judson; Carolyn Sheterly, Charleston senior, as Lutiebelle Gussiemae Jenkins; Carolyn Thomas, Huntington graduate, as Missy, and Thomas Tolliver, Logan senior, Gitlow.
Supporting cast members are Dorothy Wright, Beckley graduate; Mark Lenning, Huntington graduate; Stewart Ebeling, Wheeling junior; Michael Hawk, Charleston junior, and Charles Sammons, Crum junior.
MU Theater has selected this play as its entry into the American College Theater Festival which is under the auspices of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the American Theater Association, East said. An adjudicator from the Southeastern Theater Conference will attend one of the performances next week, he added.
Ticket reservations may be made between noon and 4 p.m. weekdays by calling the University Theater Office, 696-2306. Tickets will be available at the door. All seats are reserved and cost $2.
Excused absences ... The following absences have been excused by the deans
of the respective colleges: SEPT. 22-24-Bryan Beymer, Scott Davis, Jim Peet,
John Norton and Ross Scaggs.
Speech path program ranks among nation's best
Marshall University's training program in Speech Pathology and Audiology currently is ranked among the upper third of all such programs in the nation, university officials have been notified.
Dr. Robert D. Olson, director of the Speech and Hearing Center, said J. Buckminster Ranney, chairman of the Clinical Certification Board of the American Speech and Hearing Association, indicated Marshall ranked 51 among 17 4 of the institutions whose students were tested.
Dr. Olson said the ranking is based upon scores achieved by graduates on the National Examination in Speech Pathology. Marshall's ranking puts it among such institutions as the University of Virginia, Ohio State, Northwestern and the University of Tennessee.
MARSHALL UNIVERSITY
News Letter September 30, 1977
OFFICE OF INFORMATIONAL SEFIVICES •NEWS BUREAU •MARSHALL UNIVERSITY •HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA 25701
MARSHALL CAMPAIGN KICKOFF
Dr. Bernard Queen, right, executive director of the Marshall University Foundation, receives checks from four of the university's supporters to launch the 1977-78 Marshall Annual Giving campaign. From left are Colonel William G. Powers, representing the area's business community; Marshall Vice
President for Administration Karl J. Egnatoff, representing the university employees; W.A. (Buck) Thompson, representing alumni, and Burt Anderson, newly-elected president of the foundation, succeeding Powers.
MU Foundation launches major fund drive The Marshall University Foundation has launched a
major Annual Giving Campaign to raise funds in support of Marshall programs.
Dr. Bernard Queen, Marshall development director and executive director of the foundation, said the effort will involve alumni, friends, faculty and staff of the university,
WVU president to speak at MU
Dr. Gene A. Budig, new president of West Virginia University, will be the speaker at a joint meeting of Huntington civic clubs Monday, Oct. 10, at 12 noon in the Marshall Memorial Student Center's MultiPurpose Room.
Members of the university faculty and staff have been invited to attend the luncheon program to hear and meet Dr. Budig.
Reservations should be made by telephoning the President's Office, 696-2300, by Thursday, Oct. 6. The cost will be $4.
Those making reservations but not attending will be expected to pay for the meal unless they cancel the reservations by Friday, Oct. 7.
corporations in the region, business firms and professional offices.
A new brochure, "Your Dollars and Your University," has been mailed to more than 25,000 alumni and has been distributed to members of the university's faculty and staff, Queen said. In addition, personal contacts will be made with officials of industrial, business and professional firms, as well as with other friends of the university.
The campaign was launched in conjunction with the annual meeting of the foundation, held Sept. 21, Queen said. The organization's annual meeting will serve as the kickoff point for the campaign each year, he added.
"Private gifts serve as a catalyst to progress and growth for the university," Queen said. "They are particularly important in the initiation of new programs which later will be funded by the state. For example, there is no way we could have established the School of Medicine without the major financial support provided by a number of area firms and individuals.
"In addition, funds made available through the foundation provide financial assistance to students, support extracurricular programs, help to improve the quality of the faculty, enable us to bring outstanding speakers to campus, improve the library collections, and provide the type of flexibility which can make this one of the nation's outstanding universities," Queen said.
Announcements ... Humanities faculty or those with humanistic interests
in political science and sociology may be interested in pursuing a National Endowment for the Humanities Residency Fellowship for 1978-79 which provides for a full academic year residency related to a particular seminar topic. Topics, leaders and institutions are available in the Graduate School Office. Stipends are $15 ,000.
DESERTIFICATION
The Marshall Botanical Society will sponsor a discussion, "The Sands of Time," by Dr. Howard L. Mills, professor of botany, at 7 :30 p .m. Thursday (Oct. 6) in Smith Hall Auditorium. Mills was part of a two man technical design team sent by the U.S. State Department's International Development Agency to plan an intervention for halting desertification.
CALENDAR REFILLS
Faculty and staff should send requests for 197 8 calendar
Burt Anderson to head foundation
Huntington insurance executive Burt Anderson has been elected president of the Marshall University Foundation, Inc., for 1978-79, Dr. Bernard Queen, executive director of the foundation announced. Attorney James 0. Porter was named first vice president and retired Appalachian Power Co . executive Hugh D. Stillman was elected second vice president.
The officers were elected by the foundation's board of directors following the organization's annual meeting last Wednesday evening in Marshall's Memorial Student Center.
Anderson succeeds Colonel William G . Powers, president of Huntington Trust and Savings Bank, as foundation president. Col. Powers, as immediate past president, will serve on the executive committee.
Elected or re-elected to three-year membership in the 50-member foundation were Anderson, Mrs. Alex E. Booth Jr., William C. Campbell, Paul H. Collins, Noel Copen, Dr. Marvin Dill, Ezra Midkiff, Ronald Hooser, Charles Lanham, Mrs . Edward H. Long, Dan Love, Patrick R. McDonald, Kermit E. McGinnis, Lake Polan Jr., Porter, Dr. Thomas Scott, W. Howard Taylor , and Leland W. Thornburg.
Mrs . Booth and McDonald succeed Jackson N. Huddleston and John L. Brothers, long-time members of the foundation who died during the past year .
Elected or re-elected to three-year terms on the 21-member board of directors were Anderson, Midkiff, McGinnis, Polan, Porter, Scott and Thornburg.
NEWCOMERS New to the campus are: JACQUELINE PLYBON, secretary, English
Department; BRUCE LEFTWICH, resident director, Hodges Hall; SHIRLEY FAY TERRY, clerk, Bookstore; MILDRED JOHNSON, clerk, Bookstore, and JERALDINE HARLESS, custodian, plant operations.
Welcome to Marshall!
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refills to Jess Bocook, Receiving Department, no later than Oct. 3. Please specify size, make and quantity of refills and include your department name, room number and building.
DOCTORATE EARNED
David Allan Stern, assistant professor of occupational, adult and safety education, has been awarded the Doctor of Education degree by Texas A&M University . The degree was conferred in August. Dr. Stern's dissertation is entitled "A Survey to Determine the Influence of Traffic Accident Severity and Selected Variables on Seat Belt Usage by the General Public."
EQUIPMENT GRANTS
Faculty members are reminded that if they need to use uncommon equipment and facilities not available to them on this campus, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provides small grants enabling usage of such equipment. MU geologists have received such aid in the past. Additional information is available from the Graduate School Office.
COUNSELING AVAILABLE
The Department of Counseling and Rehabilitation is accepting counseling clients for the fall semester. Services available include personal, vocational and educational counseling for children and adults. There is no service fee. Appointments may be made by calling Mrs. Chinn at 696-2383. Any questions may be referred to Dr. Lawrence Barker, departmental chairman, or Dr. Robert Dingman, associate professor, at the same number.
FUND DIRECTOR HERE
On Wednesday, Oct . 5, at 3 p.m. at the Campus Christian Center, Edward Wright Jr., associate director of the Fund for Theological Education, Inc., Princeton, N.Y ., will meet with faculty, administrators or students interested in theological education, ordained ministry or the various fellowship programs administered by the fund.
Golf tournament scheduled for Oct. 15
The Marshall University Faculty Golf Club will sponsor the 1977 Autumn Invitational Faculty Golf Tournament on Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Elks Golf and Country Club. Tee off time will be I 0 a.m.
All faculty, emeritus faculty, staff and administrators, including new members of the MU community, are eligible to enter the tournament which Dr. Joe LaCascia, professor of economics and event director, calls "exciting and fun filled." Prizes will be awarded based on a calculations system designed by Neal Adkins, associate professor of accounting.
Golfers interested in participating should send their name, handicap and $1 to LaCascia, Northcott Room 213, or present themselves to the director at the starting time on the first tee.
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Faculty and staff achievements, activities. . . DR. WARREN W. WOODEN, associate professor of
English, has a note entitled "Two Papers on Sir Thomas More" in the current issue of Moreana (XIV, no. 54, p. 26). WOODEN also has been notified of the acceptance for publication of several other notes : "Shakespeare's Globe Theater in Appalachia" by the Shakespeare Newsletter; "Renaissance Studies" by Seventeenth Century News, and "A More Celebration" by Moreana.
DR. LEONARD J. DEUTSCH, assistant professor of English, has been appointed to the executive committee of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS). He serves as National Membership Chairperson.
DR . JOHN MEAD, associate professor of music, spent much of the Spring Semester in the vicinity of London,
Extended hours
Extended hours on Mondays for the MU Bookstore have been announced by Joseph L. Vance, bookstore director .
The bookstore will remain open on Mondays until 7 p.m., during the periods when the university is in session, Vance said.
"With such a large number of evening students, we thought we could provide them with more services by not closing our doors at 4:30 p.m.," Vance said. He added that the bookstore also normally is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays.
Recruitment schedule The Career Placement Center has announced the
following recruitment schedule for graduating seniors and graduate students. Interviews will be held in the lobby of Prichard Hall, unless otherwise noted.
TUESDAY, Oct. 4 U.S. Navy Officer Programs Department of the Navy
Interviewing majors in: Math, Physics, Sciences, an Business Positions: U.S. Navy Officer Programs.
West Virginia Civil Service System State of West Virginia A state recruiter will discuss the aspects of the
employment procedures pertaining to career opportunities in state government .
Group meeting- Memorial Student Center 2w37: 12 :30-1 :30.
Individual appointments available in Career Placement Center, Prichard Hall: Contact Center. WEDNESDAY, Oct. 5
Kanawha County Schools Charleston, WV
Interviewing all education majors for prospective education candidates.
Wood County Schools Parkersburg, WV
THURSDAY, Oct 6 Center for Extension and Continuing Education West Virginia University
Interviewing majors: Home Economics, Education, Adult education, Communications, Creative Arts Sociology, Social Work, Behavioral science.
Positions: Throughout West Virginia as County Extension Agents
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England, while on sabbatical leave, studying trombone performance of Dennis Wick of the London Symphony Orchestra. He also observed British orchestras, brass bands and conservatory teaching methods.
DR. ROBERT R. CLARK, associate professor of music, and THOMAS O'CONNELL, associate professor of music, served as adjudicators for the marching band competition at the annual Apple Festival, Sept. 24, at Jackson, Ohio .
DR. RICHARD H. ROSSWURM, associate professor of political science, was awarded the Master of Science in Judicial Administration degree from the University of Denver College of Law on Aug. 19 .
MRS. JANE FOTOS, assistant professor of nursing, is coordinator of a continuing education program series for registered nurses entitled "Management Skills: A Challenge for Nursing." The series is sponsored by the West Virginia Nurses Association, District IX and is offered to registered nurses in this area for continuing education credit.
WILLIAM RADIG, assistant professor of accounting, attended the National Convention of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, held in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 18-20.
MRS. MARY ANN ROSSWURM, instructor in nursing, was awarded her Master of Science degree in nursing by the University of Colorado in May.
Nine faculty members attend WVSA meeting
Nine Marshall University faculty members from the Speech Department and Community College will attend the annual meeting of the West Virginia Speech Association (WVSA), this weekend (Sept. 30-0ct. 2) at North Bend State Park, near Parkersburg.
Barbara Lieb-Brilhart, WVSA associate executive secretary, will be the keynote speaker. Her topic will be "Communication as a Basic."
Marureen Milicia, WVSA president-elect and MU assistant professor, is program chairman for the three-day meeting. Serving as workshop leaders from Marshall will be Dr. John Bliese, Catherine M. Cummings, Henry Sullivan and Craig Monroe, all assistant professors.
Attending in addition to those above will be Dr. Dorothy R. Johnson, professor and departmental chairman; Sarah N. Denman, Community College communications coordinator and WVSA secretary/treasurer; Dr. William N. Denman, associate professor of speech, and B.R. Smith, assistant professor and WVSA president.
Also participating will be two graduate assistants, Barbara Stemple and Dan Silo sky.
Community College
appoints assistant
Robert L. Lawson of Gallipolis, Ohio, has been named to a full-time position as administrative assistant with the Marshall University Community College.
Dr . Paul D. Hines, vice president and dean of the college, said Lawson's primary duties will involve the Community College continuing education program and special administrative functions in the planning, development and refinement of existing and innovative new programs for youth and adults.
The 27-year-old Lawson obtained his B.S. degree at Rio Grande (Ohio) College and is doing graduate work at Marshall. He taught English at Gallia Academy High School for four years and at Rio Grande College in 1976.
