Kathleen Conver, Editor
Linda Yoder, Public Information Assistant
Summary is a newsletter for Bradley University faculty and staff.
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April 22, 1998


volume 12, number 7

CEO of Andersen Consulting to give commencement address
Cradle Oak Press
Earth First co-founder to speak
Welcome Week 1998
Communications Career Day
Noteworthy
Digital photography exhibit
Spech team wins A.F.A.
Kaizers featured in concert
Exhibition opens April 28


George Shaheen to give Commencement address
George T. Shaheen, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Andersen Consulting, will give the commencement address on May 16 in Carver Arena in the Peoria Civic Center. The ceremony will begin at 9 a.m.

Mr. Shaheen, who holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Bradley, is a member of the Board of Trustees. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1997 and was named to the Centurion Society.

He has been Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Andersen Consulting since the firm became an independent unit in 1989. Under his leadership, the firm has experienced dramatic growth with revenues increasing from $1.1 billion in 1988 to $6.6 billion in 1997. Andersen Consulting is now the world's largest management and information technology consulting organization serving more than three-quarters of Fortune magazine's 100 largest global public companies. As the first leader of Andersen Consulting, Mr. Shaheen was responsible for creating the organization's global infrastructure and management team. He is chairman of the firm's Executive Committee and Global Management Council, advisory groups he established to strengthen worldwide operations and coordination. He also serves on his firm's Board of Partners.

He has overseen Andersen Consulting's highly successful strategy setting process including the definition of its Business Integration client service model and the articulation of the firm's mission, vision and core values.


Cradle Oak Press




Chicagoan Richard Hull (right), whose work was recently featured in campus galleries, produced a new work earlier this month at Cradle Oak Press, Bradley's master print facility. Hull's paintings, drawings and prints are 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. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Denver and Portland, Oregon.







Earth First co-founder to speak


Howie Wolke, a co-founder of Earth First, will speak tonight at 7 p.m. in the Student Center ballroom. Wolke is now owner of Wild Horizons Expeditions, a backpacking service. Holocaust Remembrance The reading of names of Nazi concentration camp victims begins today in the Olin Quad and will continue for 24 hours. The observance is part of Holocaust Remembrance Week, which ends with an Interface Dinner on Sunday, April 26 in the Student Center ballroom.

Welcome Week 1998


A schedule of activities for Welcome Week 1998 is being planned for the fall semester. Activities will begin on Saturday, August 22. Faculty and staff members are invited to participate in the activities which will include a Taste of Bradley from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, August 23. For details, contact the Office of Co-Curricular Activities on ext. 2404.

Communications Career Day
The Smith Career Center and the Illinois Women's Press Association will sponsor a Communications Career Day on Saturday, April 25 from noon to 4 p.m. in the Global Communications Center. For information, call Margaret Young on ext. 2611.

No t e w o r t h y
Articles
Dr. Paul Funk, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, "Parametric model of a solar cooker," co-authored with D.L. Larson, Solar Energy 62(1):63-68, 1997.

Music and Poetry
Dr. John Jost, associate professor of music, "Twa wond ayisyen" (Three Haitian Rounds), for treble choir, Mark Foster Music Company, Champaign, Illinois.

Dr. Kevin Stein, professor of English, "First Day, Container Corporation of America, 1972" and "In March, where the Kickapoo Bends," Crazyhorse; "To the Bookstore Manager Who Stuffs Each Purchase with a How to Get a Refund Bookmark" and "Little Puddles, Spring Buckets, the Earth Awash," Crab Orchard Review; "The Heartland Meets the Swamp," Hawaii Review; and "Benefit Picnic, Cigar Makers' Strike, August 1884," reprinted from his collection Bruised Paradise (University of Illinois) as featured poem on Poetry Daily, a web site at www.poems.com.

Papers and Presentations
Dr. Francesca Armmer, assistant professor of nursing, "Creating Partnerships for Research," second annual Research and Health Care Issues Conference, sponsored by University of Southern Indiana, April 8-9.

Dr. Shyam Bhandari, professor of finance, "Time Related Risk and Evaluation of Direct Foreign Investments," and "Comments on the Four Dimensions of Long-Term Investment," annual meeting March 26 in Chicago of the Midwest Academy of International Business, where he also discussed a paper, "Central Europe: Managing the Risk of Joint Ventures," and chaired a session on issues in regional and interstate banking.

Mary Jo DeJoice, access services librarian, "Poor Mary Bailey: How Hollywood Uses the Librarian," conference of the American & Popular Culture Associations, Orlando, Florida, April 8, 1998. In addition, she served on a four-person panel discussing the image of librarian in film.

Dr. Zeev Gorin, associate professor of sociology, "Reclaiming the University Environment: Anti-Racist Activism and Higher Education," and "Celebrating Our Victories: Successful Anti-Racist Mascot Campaigns," first Conference on the Elimination of Racist Mascots, Champaign-Urbana, April 3 and 4, 1998.

Dr. Paul Gullifor, associate professor of communication, "Rating the ratings: How the television content rating system played in Peoria," co-authored with Dr. Dan Kerns, Richwoods High School, annual meeting of the Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, April 1998.

Dr. Seth Katz, assistant professor of English, "The Virtual Writing Center With/In the Cybernetic Writing Program: How Well Do OWLs Fly?", Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, April, 1998; and "Where the Action Is," and, with senior English major Erin Kasprzak, "Mythic Sources for Bulgakov's Margarita," Illinois Philological Association (IPA), Western Illinois University, Macomb, April, 1998.

Activities and Recognition
Dr. Herbert Kasube, associate professor of mathematics, was recently elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Section of the Mathematical Association of America as a Director-at Large.

Dr. Joan L. Sattler, dean of the College of Education and Health Sciences, who recently completed a second three-year term on the 32-member unit accreditation board of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), has been selected to serve on the Advisory Board of NCATE's Professional Development School Standards project.

Dr. Kevin Stein, professor of English, had his book of essays on poetry and history, Private Poets, Wordly Acts (Ohio University Press) named a 1997 Recommended Book by Amazon. com. Dr. David Vroman, associate professor of music, was guest clinician for a clinic April 9 in Cheyenne, Wyoming which involved 400 students and featured seven bands and one orchestra.

Dr. Vroman recently was appointed to the Illinois Articulation Initiative Music Panel of the State Board of Higher Education.

Digital Photography exhibit to open
Sixty works from among 249 images submitted by artists from five countries are included in "Land Escapes," a digital photography exhibition sponsored by Bradley and the Peoria Art Guild April 24 through May 16 at the Guild and in the Heuser Art Center gallery, as well as on the World Wide Web.

The opening receptions will be held on April 24 at the Heuser Art Center gallery from 5 to 6 p.m. and in the Peoria Art Guild from 6 to 7 p.m. The Peoria Art Guild is located at 1831 N. Knoxville Avenue.

The exhibition is free and open to the public. Hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Heuser Art Center and Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Peoria Art Guild.

The digital photography exhibition, held annually since 1994, has been viewed by more than 670,000 people around the globe in its "virtual" form, which includes biographies and statements by the artists. "Land Escapes" and images from exhibitions since 1994 may be viewed on the World Wide Web. www.bradley.edu/exhibit

Bradley tops at AFA
The Bradley Speech Team was again the top team at the American Forensics Association National Individual Events Tournament held April 3-6 at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. George Mason University and Northern Arizona were second and third.

Bradley has won the AFA tournament for 17 of the past 21 years. Among the individual events finalists, sophomore Sarah Meinen of Pekin and senior Travis Russ of Kokomo, Indiana, took second place and junior Jill Valentine of Oak Lawn and senior Mike Rickey of Peoria took third in Duo Interpretation, and Russ took third place in After-Dinner Speaking.

Individual Sweepstakes rankings put Meinen in fourth, Russ in sixth, Stumpf in 14th and Valentine in 19th place. Results from the National Forensics Association (NFA) Individual Events Tournament in Macomb, Illinois April 16-19 were unavailable at press time.

Kaizers featured in May concert
Dr. Edward Kaizer, professor of music, and Janet Kaizer, instructor of music, will give a "Classics to Jazz" concert on Sunday, May 3 at 3 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center. The concert is the last in the 1998 Music Scholarship Concert Series.

The Kaizers will be joined by the Madrigal Singers, The First United Methodist Church Choir, drummer Greg King, and Illinois State University Jazz Band director and jazz saxophonist Jim Boitos.

The concert will include music by Beethoven, DeBussy, Liszt, and Chopin on the classical half of the program. The jazz portion of the program will include the various instrumental and vocal stylings of Cole Porter, Fats Waller, Thelonius Monk, and Duke Ellington.

The Madrigal Singers will be directed by Dr. John Jost and the First United Methodist Choir will be directed by Dr. Ken Lister.

Tickets are $5 for adults and students are admitted free. All proceeds go to the Bradley Music Scholarship Fund.

Exhibition to open


The sixth annual Student Research/Creative Production Exhibition will take place Tuesday, April 28 from noon to 4 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom.

Some 57 entries, covering works such as senior projects, studio works, independent studies, theses research or graduate projects will be featured.

The event is sponsored by the Office of Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development which offers cash prizes and certificates to winners in a variety of categories. Among the disciplines represented will be art, biology, civil engineering and construction, chemistry, communication, electrical and computer engineering and technology, English, education, family and consumer sciences, history, industrial and manufacturing engineering and technology, international studies, mechanical engineering, music, nursing, psychology, physical therapy and theatre.


"Man Vs. Nature," by Dusk Edwards, Palm Beach Shores, Florida, one of sixty images from artists around the world appearing in "Land Escapes," Bradley's digital photography exhibition '98. Summary Information
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