Kathleen Conver, Editor
Linda Yoder, Public Information Assistant Summary is a newsletter for Bradley University faculty and staff.
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Kay W. McCurdy '72 recently was elected to a six-year term on the Board
of Trustees joining a group of corporate executives and nationally known
figures. Ms. McCurdy is a partner in the law firm of Lord, Bissell & Brook
in Chicago. With the firm since 1975, she was elected the first woman partner
in 1983. Practicing primarily in corporate law, she also has served as vice
chair of the firm's legal personnel committee and member of the partner
selection committee, divisions committee, and credit for business committee.
Ms. McCurdy was the chair of the board of directors of The WBEZ Alliance,
Inc., Chicago's only public radio station, from 1993 to 1995. During her
tenure on the board, she helped manage the station's successful separation
from the Chicago Board of Education and raise funds for its first capital
campaign. She holds memberships in the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois
Secretary of State Business Corporation Acts Advisory Committee, the Chicago
Finance Exchange, and The Law Club of the City of Chicago.
After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bradley, Ms. McCurdy earned
a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School. She was
inducted into the Centurion Society in October 1995.
Concert April 19
The Bradley Community Chorus and Chamber Orchestra will present settings
of the Te Deum by Handel, Dvorak, and Bruckner on Sunday, April 19, at 3
p.m. at Dingeldine Music Center.
Soloists in the concert will be soprano Kerry Walters of the Bradley University
Music Department; mezzo-soprano Kathleen Randles, and baritone John Koch
both on the voice faculty at Illinois State University; and tenor Eric Ashcroft,
a Bradley alumnus who was a regional Metropolitan Opera Award winner and
has sung with The New York City Opera. Dr. John Jost will conduct.
Admission is $5 for adults and free for students.
As part of the Music Scholarship Concert Series, all proceeds from the concert
will go toward scholarships for music students.
Time change
The starting time for May 1998 Commencement has been changed to 9 a.m. on
May 16.
Personal commencement announcements ordered by students prior to the change
have been reprinted and shipped free of charge to them at the addresses
provided. Generic announcements purchased from the Bradley bookstore will
be available for exchange today.
Questions concerning the announcements should be directed to Kathy Fuller,
Assistant Vice President for University Relations, or Nial Johnson, Commencement
Committee Chairman.
Rostow to speak
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, speaking on
"U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century." www.bradley.edu/pubinfo/Newsline
An Illinois Portfolio
Bradley University welcomes artists and poets featured in "An Illinois
Portfolio," on campus today for a symposium at 3:30 p.m. in the Wyckoff
Room of the Cullom-Davis Library.
Featured artists include Dr. James Ballowe and Dr. Kevin Stein from the
Department of English, and Ann Coulter from the Department of Art. A poetry
reading will be held at 7 p.m. in the Marty Theatre.
The Illinois Portfolio exhibition will be in the Library through April 24.
www.bradley.edu/pubinfo/Newsline
International Night
Bradley's 21st annual International Night is Wednesday, April 15 from 6-10
p.m. in the Robertson Field House.
Entertainment, a fashion show, and food specialties from around the world
will be featured.
Admission is free for Bradley students, $1 for members of Peoria Area Friends
of International Students (PAFIS), and $2 for the public. www.bradley.edu/events
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..Noteworthy...
Articles
Dr. Hong Cheng, assistant professor of communication, "Toward an Understanding
of Cultural Values Manifest in Advertising: A Content Analysis of Chinese
Television Commercials in 1990 and 1995," Journalism & Mass Communication
Quarterly, Winter 1997.
Dr. Herbert Kasube, associate professor mathematics, "Using Original
Sources in Discrete Mathematics," Mathematics in College.
Dr. Chen-Sin Lin, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering
and technology, "Integrated Production-Inventory Models with Imperfect
Production Processes and a Limited Capacity for Raw Materials," Mathematical
and Computer Modeling.
Dr. James Lumpkin, Dean of the Foster College of Business Administration,
"Making the Decision to move to Retirement Housing," coauthored
with Karen Martin Gibler and George P. Moschis, Journal of Consumer Marketing,
Vol. 15, No. 1, 1998.
Dr. Mary Ann Manos, assistant professor of education, and Dr. K. Paul Kasambira,
professor of education, "Standing on Common Ground: Researching the
Effects of Teacher Education Programs upon Non-Traditional Students,"
Journal of Teacher Education - May/June, 1998.
Dr. Robert Underwood, assistant professor of marketing, "Is Your Package
an Effective Communicator? A Normative Framework for Increasing the Communicative
Competence of Packaging," Journal of Marketing Communications, Spring
1998.
Papers and Presentations
Dr. Rosalyn Anstine Templeton, associate professor of education, and Dr.
Celia E. Johnson, assistant professor of education, "Results of the
School Level Environmental Questionnaire," Manual High School, Peoria,
March.
Dr. Herbert Kasube, associate professor mathematics, "Learning From
the Masters: Using Original Sources in the Classroom," southeastern
sectional meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of Louisville,
Kentucky, March 20; "Euler's Solution of the Konigsberg Bridge Problem:
The Invention of Graph Theory," annual meeting of the Illinois Section
of the Mathematical Association of America, McKendree College, March 27.
Dr. Mary Ann Manos, assistant professor of education, "Recharging Reading
Instruction for Middle Grades," Illinois Reading Association Conference,
March 20.
Dr. June J. Pilcher, assistant professor of psychology, and Michael Coplen,
Department of Defense, Volpe Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "The
Effects of Shorter-than 24-hour Work/Rest Cycles on Sleep and Alertness
in Locomotive Engineers," Federal Railroad Administration, Washington,
D.C., March 16.
Steven Tippett, assistant professor of physical therapy, "Clinical
Examination of Athletic Injuries to the Hip," "Functional Progression:
Return to Sport," and "Functional Training," fourth annual
Sports Medicine Symposium for Health Care Professionals, Cincinnati, Ohio,
March 13-14.
Professional Activities
Adrienne Hurt, director of graduate programs in the Foster College of Business
Administration, has been named National Chairman of Red Cross Health and
Safety Services by the American Red Cross. The post is the highest national
office ever held by a volunteer from central Illinois.
Dr. June Pilcher, assistant professor of psychology, served as a Federal
Railroad Administration representative at meetings of the North American
Rail Alertness Partnership in February 1998 in Dallas, Texas and March 1998
in Washington, D.C.
Dr. David Vroman, associate professor of music, was guest conductor for
the 5th Annual Charles E. Snook Midstate Music Festival in Lexington, Illinois.
The festival involved 100 students from 12 high schools. He also was the
guest conductor for the Tri-County Honor Band, which involved 110 students
from 9 high schools, hosted by Franklin High School.
NPR host in Peoria
Bob Edwards, host of "Morning Edition" from National Public Radio
in Washington, D.C. will speak at a fundraising dinner for WCBU-89.9 on
Thursday, April 16 at the Country Club of Peoria.
Mr. Edwards will be joined by NPR President and Chief Executive Officer
Delano E. Lewis, who has been at the helm of NPR since 1994 and has had
a long and distinguished career in the public and private sector.
Tickets for the dinner are $50, with all proceeds to benefit programming
on Bradley's public radio station. A cocktail reception will begin at 6:30
p.m., with dinner at 7 p.m. Dress is semi-formal.
For reservations, call WCBU on ext. 3690.
Bradley program for gifted youth offers new
courses
The 1998 "Summer of Wonder" program for gifted and talented
youth at Bradley will offer a number of new courses during its four 1-week
sessions in June.
Bradley's Institute for Gifted and Talented Youth offers the enrichment
courses to enable preprimary through ninth grade students to explore and
expand their interests in a university environment.
Some of the new courses planned this year are Mirrors and Magic; Math Munchies,
Pickles, Problems, and PCs; Books and Cooks II; Astronomical Activity; Dinosaur
Detectives; and Science for your Stomach. Session dates are June 8-12; June
15-19; June 22-26; and June 29-July 3.
The enriched program is open to all children ages 4 to those entering 2nd
grade in the fall of 1998. The gifted program is open to eligible students
entering 3rd through 9th grades. Eligibility is based on objective measures
and professional judgement.
Session fees are $75 per course and the last day to register is June 4.
Registration materials are available by contacting the Bradley Division
of Continuing Education and Professional Development at 677-3329. A 10%
discount is given to children of Bradley faculty and staff members.
Holocaust Remembrance
Holocaust survivor Lillian Podolov will give a public lecture on Sunday,
April 19, at 8 p.m. in Neumiller Lecture Hall as part of Bradley's annual
Holocaust Remembrance Week. In addition, students will read the names of
Nazi concentration camp victims for 24 hours starting Wednesday, April 22
through Thursday, April 23 in the Olin Quad.
Hillel also will sponsor the compiling of a book, each page of which will
be dedicated to a person who died during the Holocaust.
Activities begin April 18 with Havdallah services at Hillel House, and a
special showing of Schindler's List will be held Monday, April 20 in the
Student Center Marty Theatre. Hillel Shabbat services will be held on Friday,
April 25, and on Sunday, April 26, Hillel will sponsor an Interface Dinner
in the Student Center Ballroom.
Earth Day observances
Displays by more than 35 environmental organizations, businesses and school
groups and performances by individuals and bands will be featured at Bradley's
observance of Earth Day on Sunday, April 19 in the Founder's Circle and
Olin Quad.
Aunt Betsy, an acoustic, folk-groove band of four members will spend its
third Earth Day at Bradley. Environmental folk artist Paul Adams will return
to Bradley for a sixth appearance. Other entertainers include the power-pop
band Ham and the ska-reggae group Ruschies.
Storyteller Mary Shallbetter will present a program and Germantown Middle
School's Earth Posse group will present puppet shows on the half hour. The
Heartland Vegetarian Society will offer a potluck supper in the University
Hall cafeteria during the festivities.
A related event will be the appearance on campus of Earth First co-founder
Howie Wolke, who will speak on Wednesday, April 22 at 7 p.m. in the Student
Center Ballroom. Mr. Wolke is the owner of Wild Horizons Expeditions, a
backpacking guide service in the Bitterroot Mountains on the Idaho-Montana
border.
The lecture and Earth Day events, sponsored by the Student Environmental
Action Coalition, are free and open to the public.
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Opera Workshop
Bradley's Opera Workshop will present Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan
Williams and Gallantry by Douglas Moore, two one-act operas, on Friday,
April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center.
Admission is $5 for adults and free for students. Riders to the Sea is the
heart-wrenching tale of a family torn apart as a mother struggles to come
to terms with the loss of her sons. Gallantry is a hilarious story of hospital
hijinx in pure television soap opera format.
