Kathleen Conver, Editor
Linda Yoder, Public Information Assistant Summary is a newsletter for Bradley University faculty and staff.
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Dr. Walt W. Rostow, director of the National Security Council under presidents
John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, will give the Armstrong Lecture on
Thursday, April 16 at 7 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom.
The distinguished foreign policy expert who groomed such diplomatic luminaries
as Henry Kissinger and Warren Christopher will speak on "U.S. Foreign
Policy in the 21st Century."
Dr. Rostow, who is in semi-retirement, is one of the country's foremost
economists and teaches at the University of Texas-Austin. He was a Rhodes
scholar after graduating in 1936 from Yale, where he returned to complete
his Ph.D. in 1940. He served as a major with the O.S.S. (military intelligence)
during World War II, and was appointed chief of the German-Austrian economics
division of the Department of State in 1945. He was decorated with the Legion
of Merit, the Honorable Order of the British Empire and the Presidential
Medal of Freedom with distinction. He was the Harmsworth Professor of American
History at Oxford University from 1946 to 1947, and was appointed assistant
to the executive secretary of the Economic Community for Europe in 1947.
He was appointed Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University
in1949, and in 1950 joined the faculty of MIT, with whom he was affiliated
for ten years.
In 1960, he was appointed deputy special assistant to President Kennedy
for national security affairs, and later served as chairman of the policy
planning council of the Department of State, as ambassador to the Inter-American
Committee of the Alliance for Progress, and as special assistant to President
Johnson. He is the author of more than 30 books on history and diplomacy,
and is considered one of the architects of modern U.S. foreign policy. His
latest book will be released in April by Oxford University Press.
The Armstrong lecture, sponsored by the Department of History, is named
for William M. Armstrong '47, a Peoria native who attended Bradley at intervals
in the 1930s and 1940s, interrupted by service in France and the Philippines
during World War II. He taught high school in Glasford, Illinois, and went
on to receive a master's degree in history from Louisiana State University.
He received his Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. He died in 1991.
Dr. Armstrong, a life-long lover of art, wrote numerous reviews of art books
and in retirement exhibited his own paintings in juried shows at the State
University of New York in Potsdam, the Naples Art Association Gallery and
the Art Council of Southeast Florida. His paintings are in collections throughout
the United States. His articles and reviews appeared in The Christian Science
Monitor, the American Historical Review and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Student Expo deadline
The Office for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development will accept applications
for entries in the sixth annual Student Research/Creative Production Exhibition
through April 1. The event, scheduled for April 28 in the Student Center
Ballroom, is intended to recognize and promote the scholarly and creative
activities of students under faculty supervision. Entry forms are available
in Bradley Hall 117. www.bradley.edu/otefd/Expo.html
Nominations due
Nomination forms for emeritus status and for Putnam and Caterpillar New
Faculty Awards are now available in the Office of the Provost, Swords Hall
205. The deadline for emeritus nominations is April 1, and for Putnam and
Caterpillar awards is April 17.
Campus Carnival coming
The Activities Council of Bradley will sponsor Campus Carnival, a fun-filled
activity that raises money for Peoria area charities, on Saturday, March
28. Held in the Robertson Field House from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the carnival
is open to the public and gears its activities to pre-school and elementary
school children. Admission is free, but tickets for individual games and
concessions are 25 cents each. www.bradley.edu/events
...Noteworthy...
Awards & Grants
Robert Byczynski, director of food services, received the Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Heart of Illinois Hospitality Association at its annual Best
in the Midwest Awards banquet in January at the Hotel Pere Marquette.
Jim Foley, international trade specialist, recently received the State of
Illinois International Trade Center Director of the Year Award given annually
by the Illinois Small Business Development Association.
Dr. Robert Fuller, professor of religious studies, had his book Naming the
Antichrist named an Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North
America by the Gustavus Meyer Center for the Study of Human Rights in North
America.
Dr. Kevin Teeven, professor of business administration, had his article,
"Development of Reform of the Preexisting Duty Rule and Its Persistent
Survival," selected to receive the Midwest Law Review's 1998 award
for the Best Article Published In Any Source.
Books
Dr. Fred Fry, professor of business management, and Dr. Chuck Stoner, Robert
A. McCord professor of executive management development, Business: An Integrative
Framework, co-authored with Richard Hattwick of Western Illinois University,
Irwin McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Articles & Chapters
Dr. Donna Hill, associate professor of marketing, "Plant Tours as a
Customer Contact Tool: An Integrated Marketing Communications Framework,"
co-authored with Dr. Ross Fink, associate professor of operations management,
and Dr. Amy Morgan, assistant professor of marketing, the Journal of Marketing
Management.
Dr. Timothy Maga, Oglesby Chair of American Heritage, "Richard Nixon
and Japan, 1969-1974," Diplomacy and Statecraft, March 1998.
Dr. Claire-Antoinette Lindenlaub, assistant professor of French, "Eugénie
de Franvan de Sade ou la conversion de l'éthique en souveraineté,"
Romance Languages Annual, West Lafayette, Indiana, Spring 1998; articles
on Choderlos de Laclos, Zola, Schlöndorff, Renoir, Melville, Cocteau,
Duras, and Resnais in the Encyclopedia of Novels into Film, Facts on File,
New York.
Dr. Amy Morgan, assistant professor of marketing, "Exploring the Impact
of Gambling Revenues on Local Retail Expenditures," co-authored with
Jill Attaway, Illinois State University, Journal of Shopping Center Research.
Papers & Presentations
Dr. Rosalyn Anstine Templeton, associate professor of education, "Avoiding
power struggles by helping students cope with stress, Georgetown Middle
School (partnership site with the College of Education and Health Sciences),
February.
Dr. Amy Morgan, assistant professor of marketing, "Perception of Equity
in the Acceptance of Salesforce Automation," with Dr. Scott Inks, Middle
Tennessee State University, National Conference of Sales Management.
Admissions events
The office of undergraduate admissions will host several events for prospective
students and their families in March and April. "Spring Weekend,"
an overnight program, will be held March 27 and 28. "Decision Day,"
a program for admitted students, will be held April 4. "Visit Days"
for high school juniors will be held April 17 and 25.
Programs begin on the second floor of the Student Center on each day.
In Memoriam
Dr. Thomas H. Kent, associate professor of English, emeritus, died February
26 at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. He was 70.
Dr. Kent, who joined the faculty in 1958, served as chairperson of the Department
of English and Foreign Languages, and was secretary of the University Senate.
He had taught the history of English, English literature before 1500, and
English Drama. He was selected in 1978 as a regional judge in the National
Council of Teachers of English Achievement Awards in Writing Program. He
was a member and former president of the Illinois Association of Teachers
of English.
He was an elder at Westminster Presbyterian Church where he established
the Gretchen R. Iben Arts series. He directed 20 plays at Peoria Players
Theatre. Dr. Kent received a B.A. degree from the University of Vermont,
an M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin, and an Ed.D. degree from
the University of Indiana.
He is survived by his wife, Myrtle N. Kent, assistant professor of English,
emeritus, and their daughter, Margaret Kent of Naperville.
Night Before Nationals
Members of the Bradley Speech Team will give public performances on campus
on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28 at 6 and 8 p.m. each night, at
a location to be determined.
"Night Before Nationals," a Bradley tradition, gives team members
an opportunity to perform their material on campus before they compete in
two national individual events tournaments. The show will feature solo,
duo and group performances from original speeches to interpretations of
literature.
Each show will feature a different mix of performers and performances. Admission
is $5 for adults and $3 for Bradley students. Celebrating its 50th anniversary
in the 1997-1998 academic year, the Bradley speech team took first place
in 22 of the 23 regional tournaments in which it participated.
The team will compete nationally in the American Forensics Tournament at
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff April 4 through 6, and the National
Forensics Tournament at Western Illinois University in Macomb April 16 through
20.
Bradley has taken the AFA title 16 times, and has won the NFA 13 times.
Works by Richard Hull in Bradley galleries
Paintings, drawings and prints by Chicago artist Richard Hull are being
featured in the galleries of the Heuser Art Center and Hartmann Center for
the Performing Arts. Prints and drawings will be shown in the Hartmann Center
through March 30, and paintings will be shown in the Heuser Art Center through
April 17.
Hull will return to campus in April to work with faculty and students to
produce works in conjunction with Cradle Oak Press, Bradley's master print
facility.
Hull's work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution,
the Art Institute of Chicago, the Illinois State Museum in Springfield,
the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Kansas City, the San Antonio Museum of Art,
and on the premises of Arthur Andersen & Co., and the American Medical Association
in Chicago, and Chase Manhattan Bank and Chemical Bank in New York City.
His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago,
New Orleans, Denver and Portland, Oregon. Hull attended the Skohegan School
of Painting and Sculpture, and received the B.F.A. degree from the Kansas
City Art Institute and the M.F.A. degree from The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago.
Chorale spring concert
The Bradley Chorale will present its spring concert on Sunday, March 29,
at 3 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center.
The 45-member choir, under the direction of Dr. John Jost, will perform
a program that will include music of American composers Aaron Copland, Randall
Thompson, and Leonard Bernstein, as well as music of Schutz and Gorczycki.
The featured work will be the Missa brevis in D Major, K.194, of Mozart.
The Bradley Madrigal Singers will also perform, including vocal jazz arrangements
as well as English madrigals.
The concert is part of The Music Scholarship Concert Series at Bradley,
and all proceeds will go toward providing scholarships for Bradley students.
Admission is $5 for adults and free for students
