October 29, 1998

Three recognized with President's Award

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Bradley recently announced three recipients of the 1998 President's Award. The President's Award is given annually to an individual and a business, corporation or other entity whose philanthropy, service, and exceptional leadership have made extraordinary contributions to Bradley's development.

Illinois Mutual Life Insurance Company, was named the corporate recipient and Donald V. Fites, Chairman was named the individual recipient at the annual Appreciation Dinner on September 17. An unprecedented third President's Award was presented to the faculty and staff during a brief ceremony on Founder's Day.

Mike McCord, Chairman and CEO, accepted the award on behalf of Illinois Mutual. "Bradley is better able to fulfill its educational mission because of the leadership and resources this company provides," said President John Brazil. "Its employees have served on the Bradley Board of Trustees, the Bradley University Council, and other advisory groups. They provide important personal financial support to the University." Illinois Mutual has funded an endowed professorship in executive

management development that is named for Robert McCord, Chairman of the Board emeritus. In support of the campaign, the company is funding an endowed scholarship named for a former president.

In recognizing Mr. Fites, President Brazil said, "During the Centennial Campaign we have benefited immeasurably from the extraordinary support of Caterpillar, from his leadership of the campaign steering committee, and from his personal generosity. He has meant so much to Bradley and to the community, that it is no exaggeration to say that neither would enjoy its current robust health and growing stature without his historic contribution to them."

The third award recognizes unprecedented giving to the Campaign by the faculty and staff. Eighty-five percent of the Bradley faculty and staff made gifts and pledges of more than $1.4 million to the Centennial Campaign. "This extraordinary support enabled us to approach other potential benefactors in the sure knowledge that those closest to Bradley and its educational mission were solidly behind the goals of the Campaign," Brazil said.

Visiting Professor Series

The Central Illinois Higher Education Consortium is expanding its list of college and university professors who are willing to deliver one to two hour lectures, demonstrations and other presentations to high schools and agencies. Experts in all curricular areas are needed. Contact the CIHEC office by November 1 at 677-2861 for details.

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President, editor of USA Weekend at Bradley

Marcia Bullard, president, chief executive officer, and editor of USA Weekend, the nation's 2nd largest publication, will give the McCord Lecture at Bradley on October 30 at 11 a.m. in the Marty Theatre in the Student Center. Her topic will be "The Media Can Make a Difference."

Ms. Bullard has been with USA Weekend since 1985, first as managing editor and then as editor. In 1996, she assumed additional responsibility as president and CEO. She started in the newspaper business at age 17 as a reporter with the State Journal-Register

in Springfield. From 1974 until 1982, she worked as a reporter at the Demo

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Four awards presented

Four faculty and staff members were recognized for teaching, scholarship, and service during the annual Founder's Day Convocation on campus on October 1. The following awards were presented.

Putnam Award

The recipient of the 1998 Putnam Award for Teaching Excellence is Dr. Max Taylor, Professor of Chemistry. The award, which recognizes an outstanding tenured faculty member, was established in 1957 by the late Charles A. Putnam of Peoria.

According to one colleague, Taylor is a master teacher in every sense of the word. He has a great mastery of his subject and is able to communicate these ideas in a masterful way. His most remarkable characteristic according to both his students and colleagues is his creativity in the classroom. He routinely drives students to professional chemistry meetings to introduce them to real-world chemistry, and is actively involved with undergraduate research and with counseling students on their careers.

After nearly thirty years as an outstanding teacher, Dr. Taylor is still working on new things, such as the Environmental Chemistry course developed recently for a new program in civil engineering. This year he is spending his sabbatical leave at the Caterpillar Technical Center as a scientific consultant.

New Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching

Dr. Kyle Dzapo, Assistant Professor of Music, is the recipient of The Caterpillar Inc. New Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching. The award is presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional teaching skills in the early years of his or her career at Bradley.

Four faculty members were recognized during the Founder's Day Convocation. Pictured left to right are Dr. Kyle Dzapo, Dr. Ann Jones, Dr. Kelly Roos, and Dr. Max Taylor.

Now in her fifth year of teaching, Dr. Dzapo has made an indelible impression on her students in both her classroom where music appreciation and history are taught and in her studio.

"Her commitment to education has been an inspiration," one student writes. "I have thoroughly enjoyed her teaching style and appreciated her interest in increasing my knowledge and improving my abilities as a musician."

She has pursued grants to fund the residency of well-known and respected guest artists, initiated the Bradley Flute Festival, and performs not only with chamber groups but as principal flutist and featured soloist with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra. She is an active scholar and accomplished performer, and expects her flute students to excel in an active program of performance and research.

New Faculty Achievement Award for Scholarship

Dr. Kelly Roos, Assistant Professor of Physics, is the 1998 recipient of the Caterpillar New Faculty Achievement Award for Scholarship. The award is given to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional scholarship in the early years of his or her career.

Dr. Roos has had three papers published and one accepted for publication by refereed journals and was

invited to give papers on his surface science research at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Surface Diffusion, the Institute for Festkoper Physik, and the 17th European Congress on Surface Science.

In addition to his primary research area, he contributes to a Bradley-based group working on Quantum Cellular Automatia theory and its application to physical structures, co-authoring several papers with this group.

Most importantly, he incorporates his research in his classroom and actively involves students in his research. According to one student, "His classes are a challenge that builds character, and working with him on research has built a sense of discipline in me that was lacking. Working with him has given me more motivation to become a scientist."

Mergen Award

Dr. Ann Jones, Director of the Center for Wellness and Counseling, is the recipient of the Francis C. Mergen Award for Community Service. The Mergen Award is given annually to a member of the Bradley faculty, staff, or administration who has distinguished herself or himself in the area of public service. The award was established in 1973 in memory of Dr. Mergen, who was director of the department of

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Shakespeare comedy brings Allar back to campus

industrial engineering.

Dr. Jones began her volunteer service with the Central Illinois Chapter of the American Red Cross as a member of the Disaster Action Team providing assistance to local disaster victims. She has since taken additional training to advance in the ARC Disaster Response System nationally and has been appointed to the Illinois State Disaster Mental Health Committee. She has completed an extensive training program and earned certification to teach ARC Disaster Mental Health classes to mental health professionals throughout the country and remains on the front line for providing service to local disaster victims. In addition, she has spearheaded the formation of the Mental Health Alliance composed of American Red Cross, the Community Response Team, and the Critical Incident Stress Management Team.

She also is active with the Central Illinois Friends of People With AIDS as a facilitator for family and friends support and grief groups and was named CIFPWA's 1997 Volunteer of the Year.

Bradley University Theatre presents Shakespeare's classic comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with Daniel Allar featured as Falstaff in selected performances during a two-week run opening with a general admission preview on Thursday, November 12, at 8 p.m. in the Meyer Jacobs Theatre of the Hartmann Center.

Shows continue on November 13, 14, 20, and 21 at 8 p.m., with a 7:30 p.m. curtain on November 19 and a matinee on Sunday, November 22, at 2:30 p.m. Reserved seats are $10, with a $4 ticket (or two for $6) extended to any student. For ticket information contact the Box Office at 677-2650.

Allar, who now lives in Chicago,

last appeared on the Bradley boards as Lawrence Garfinkle in Other People's Money. His most recent Peoria area engagements were at Eastlight, where he played The King in Big River and The Foolkiller in Johnny Pye and The Foolkiller. Other local roles include Lenny in Of Mice and Men and Peron in Evita, both at Corn Stock, and Lazar Wolf in Fiddler on the Roof for the former Peoria Civic Opera. Since graduating from Bradley, he has performed in professional productions at the Court Theatre, Shakespeare Repertory Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook and Drury Lane Evergreen Park, and Candlelight.

Grant from USIA received

Bradley has received a grant of $146,000 from the United States Information Agency to help develop a Management Training Center and programs at the International Market Institute (IMI) in Samara, Russia. It will be patterned after the Foster College of Business Administration's Executive and Professional Development Center. A special feature will be the development and use of distance learning technology to extend management training to more remote areas of the Samara region.

The grant is the third received by Bradley for the development of joint programs with IMI and Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU).

The new grant will fund the development of a managers training center by providing training of IMI faculty and the Center director. They will visit Bradley for five weeks and work with Dr. Barbara Keim, director of the Bradley's Center, and faculty within the Foster College. The Russian visitors will observe management training sessions conducted for Caterpillar Inc.

and other companies. They will meet with training directors and discuss applications of American techniques to Russian enterprises.

Bradley and SSAU/IMI have been pioneers in the use of the Internet for distance learning programs in Russia. Currently, a three semester-hour course, International Business 400, is offered jointly by the two schools utilizing Samara region business leaders and faculty. Dr. Irina N. Goldberg, provides the voice-over interpretations and serves as interpreter for the real time discussions between Bradley students and the Russian lecturers in Samara. These techniques will be applied to management training programs in the Samara region.

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crat & Chronicle in Rochester, New York, covering criminal courts and county government. She later edited the Sunday magazine, Upstate. Ms. Bullard is the founding editor of USA Today, where she worked on the launch team and as a deputy managing editor.

She is a member of the Newspaper Association of America, the American Society of Newspaper Editors and served on the Board of the Associated Press Managing Editors.

The McCord Lectureship was established by the officers and directors of Illinois Mutual Life and Casualty Company on July 31, 1990 in honor of Robert A. McCord upon his retirement as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the company.

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Campus Calendar

Performing Arts

Entertainment

December
4-Craig Karges, mentalist,
Student Center Ballroom, 8 p.m.

Athletics

November
1 Jazz Extravaganza, Ed and Janet Kaizer, Dingeldine Music Center, 6 to 8 p.m.

12-New Music Ensemble
Dingeldine Music Center, 7:30 p.m.

12, 13, 14, 20, 21
The Merry Wives of Windsor
8:00 p.m.
19 The Merry Wives of Windsor
7:30 p.m.

22 The Merry Wives of Windsor
2:30 p.m.
Hartmann Center*

13 - Turtle Island String Quartet
Dingeldine Music Center, 7:30 pm.

15-Community Chorus/Chamber Orchestra, 40th Anniversary Concert
Dingeldine Music Center, 3 p.m. *

17- Bradley Frosh-Soph High School Honor Band
Dingeldine Music Center, 7:30 p.m. *

November

Men's Basketball
3 Athletes-in-Action 7:05 p.m.
10 NBC Thunder 7:05 p.m.
17 SE Missouri State 7:05 p.m.
21 Tennessee-Martin 1:05 p.m.
23 Loyola-Chicago 7:35 p.m.

Women's Basketball
2 Chicago Challengers 7:05 p.m.
7 Supreme Court 7:05 p.m.
14 Utah 7:05 p.m.
22 Weber State 2:05 p.m.

Soccer
6 Creighton 2:00 p.m.
8 Drake 1:00 p.m.

Volleyball
9 Wisconsin-Green Bay 7:00 p.m.

Swimming
13 Valparaiso 6 p.m.
14 Northern Iowa 1 p.m.

Lectures

October
30 McCord Lecture, Marcia Bullard, "The Media Can Make a Difference," Marty Theatre, 11 a.m.

November

15 Dr. John Jost, Haydn's "The Creation," Dingeldine Music Center, 2:15 p.m.

Galleries

Heuser Art Center gallery
through November 15
Sculpture by Robert Lyon

November

20 through January 22
Works on Paper, Anne and Jerry Schutte

Hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment

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