Campus Communique

UNCW Alumni Association Receives Award for Wise House Preservation

The University of North Carolina at Wilmington Alumni Association received the Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit for its renovation of the Wise Alumni House.

The award was presented Sept. 27 by the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina. Accepting the award at Preservation North Carolina's annual conference in Tarboro was Norm Melton '74 and Jim Stasios '70, former alumni association board chairmen.

Made possible by a generous grant from the Kellenberger Historical Foundation, this Carraway Award is one of 12 presented annually to individuals and organizations that have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to historic preservation.

The alumni association was recognized for its work in restoring Wise Alumni House, which was deeded to UNCW by the heirs of Jessie Hargrave Kenan Wise in 1968. The house sat vacant and neglected for the next 25 years until the UNCW Alumni Association, under the direction of Patricia A. Corcoran '72, made the commitment to take on the massive task of renovating the historical neoclassical mansion which is one of Wilmington's largest and most distinctive old homes. The association took on the project because it needed office space, meeting rooms, a place for alumni, university and community functions and room to grow as the alumni base expanded.

In March 1993, the alumni association formed a partnership with United Carolina Bank and received a four-year $400,000 loan for phase one of the renovations. The money was used for the removal of asbestos, basic repairs to the electrical, plumbing and heating and air conditioning systems which would bring the aging structure up to current codes and make it a usable facility.

Paying back that money has been the alumni association's driving force for the past four years as it conducted numerous fund-raisers including the Designers Showcase in 1995, the Fantasy Auction in 1996, the raffle of a GMC Jimmy donated by former alumni board chairman Robert S. King '66 and the $19.47 appeal (in conjunction with UNCW's 50th anniversary celebration). In addition, the university has come to the aid of the alumni association contributing more than $200,000 for improvements to the property, including the addition of a lighted parking lot, reconstruction of the sunken garden, landscaping of the grounds and renovation of the carriage house.

The final payment on the loan ($400,00 principal plus $71,799 in interest) was made May 1, and the house was formally dedicated on June 7.

SECC Enters Third Week

Tbe State Employees Combined Campaign is entering its third week. University campaign coordinators are seeking participants within each division.

"Increased participation is a key factor for UNCW to outperform last year's ranking among the 16 constituent universities," said UNCW SECC chair Donna Cameron. "We want employees to give, not until it hurts, but until it feels good."

There are more than 1,000 charities employees can designate contributions, and the United Way is only one aspect of the campaign. Cameron said campaign coordinators would be discussing the many charities that employees could elect to designate contributions.

Announcements

Nature Preserve

Ev-Henwood, UNCW's nature preserve in Brunswick County, is open to the public daily from dawn to dusk. Features include woods, streams, a picnic area, an historic tar kiln and numerous well-maintained trails with learning stations. October through April are excellent months to visit the preserve. For more information call ext. 3197 or Ev-Henwood, 253-6066.

Afternoon Tea with Carolina Authors

The American Association of University Women is sponsoring an afternoon tea with four Carolina authors: Wendy Brenner, creative writing; G. D. Gearino; Susan Kelly and Suzanne Tate. The event will be held at 2 p.m. Nov. 22 in the University Center Ballroom. Tickets are $10 and proceeds will help fund the AAUW Educational Foundation for graduate studies and grants for local undergraduate scholarships.

The River Keeper Speaks

UNCW's Geography Club will sponsor a presentation on the Cape Fear River Watch by Bouty Baldridge, entitled "The River Keeper Speaks" at 2 p.m. Oct. 14 in DeLoach Hall, Room 114. Everyone is welcome.

Athletic Council Appointments

The Athletic Council is appointed annually by the chancellor to provide advice and counsel regarding UNCW's intercollegiate athletic program. Faculty appointees for 1997-98 are William Atwill, Kathleen Benzaquin, Robert Buerger, John Clifford, Deborah Dowd, Randall Hanson, John Nasuti, Joanne Rockness, chair, and Joan Willey. Two students also serve on the council, along with two ex-officio members, Paul Miller, director of athletics, and James Sabella, NCAA faculty athletic representative. Any questions or concerns regarding athletics, especially as they relate to academics, can be addressed to any member of the council or the chancellor's office. The council's next meeting is Oct. 24.

Charlotte Hornets Bus Trip

A bus trip to see the Charlotte Hornets take on the Indiana Pacers will leave at 3 p.m. Nov. 8. The trip, sponsored by campus recreation, includes transportation and ticket for $20. It is open to students, faculty and staff with a valid UNCW ID. For more information, call ext. 3261.

National Scholarships Available

The Honors Scholars Program has information on two national scholarships that may interest UNCW's best students. The Morris K. Udall Scholarship provides awards of up to $5,000 for juniors and seniors planning careers in environmental public policy. The Harry Truman Scholarship Foundation offers $30,000 merit-based scholarships to students who wish to attend graduate school in preparation for careers in public service. The deadlines for these highly competitive scholarships are in early spring semester. For more information, contact Diane Levy at ext. 4181.

ACE Hosts Candela Festival

UNCW's Association for Campus Entertainment (ACE) is hosting the Second annual Candela Festival from 6 p.m. to midnight Oct. 15 in the University Union Ballroom. The festival is designed to look into the creation of independent films. The feature presentation will be The Bakery, a 16mm black and white production. Michael Anderson, director of The Bakery, will be a guest speaker. For more information, call ext. 3842.

Wilmington College Reunion

The UNCW Alumni Association is sponsoring a Wilmington College reunion Oct. 17 and 18. A reception honoring retired Wilmington College faculty and members of the Order of Isaac Bear will be held 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Wise Alumni House. A sock hop will be held from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Oct. 18 at the Center Stage Cafe. Tickets for both events are $19.47 per person. RSVP by Oct. 15 by calling 251-2682.

Women's Studies Meeting

Anyone who has taught or would like to teach a course for the women's studies minor is invited to an informal meeting of current participating faculty at 5 p.m. Oct. 17 at the home of Janet Ellerby. For more information, call ext. 3764.

Bookstore Bosses Day Special

In celebration of Bosses Day Oct. 16, the bookstore will deliver a nine-inch cake, custom-designed for your boss, along with one Bosses Day balloon and two latex balloons for $15. Or, the bookstore will deliver a Bosses Day mug filled with eight ounces of selected favorite jelly bellys and one Bosses Day mylar balloon and two latex balloons for only $9.95.

Place your cake orders prior to Oct. 10 for early morning delivery, call ext. 4021 or ext. 3054 to order your cake.

Wilmington in Black and White

"Wilmington in Black and White" is a series of 10 Thursday evening conversations sponsored by the Philosophy and Religion Department and the Division for Public Service and Education. The conversations will be held 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursdays through November 20 in the new Science Building, Room 103. Tonight's topic is "Race Issues in Police Work" with Terry Gandy and Ricky Simpson. The Oct. 16 topic is "White Supremacy at Home and Abroad in 1898" with Chancellor James R. Leutze and John Haley. Attendance is free. To pre-register call ext. 3195.

CTE Lunch Discussions

The Center for Teaching Excellence is hosting three informal lunchtime discussions on "Interactive Teaching and Learning" in the CTE faculty work room, Friday Hall Room 101. "Grading Essays and Essay Examinations" will be held noon Oct. 15; "Experiential Learning - Thinking Beyond Formal Labs" will be at noon Oct. 31; and "Designing and Using Class Discussions" will be at noon Nov. 12. Cold drinks, coffee and dessert will be provided. For more information, call ext. 3034 or e-mail CTE.

Speakers Bureau Update

Community response to the 50th anniversary Speakers Bureau has been great. More than 125 copies of the publication have been mailed area civic and business organizations. Faculty and staff members who missed the initial publication can be included in the second edition. For more information or to request signup forms, contact Phillip Brown at ext. 7223 or e-mail BrownP. The deadline for inclusion in this edition is Oct. 31.

Spring International Travel

Faculty requests for financial help with international travel for spring 1998 are due by October 15 in the Office of International Programs. Forms are available from departmental chairs or by calling international programs at ext. 3685.

Fiftieth Fact

On October 9, 1958, the Building and Grounds Committee selected two architectural firms to jointly design three buildings for the new campus of Wilmington College and instructed them to submit preliminary plans to the committee. On September 15, 1959, the board voted unanimously to approve the modified Georgian style seen on campus today.

Focus on Faculty and Staff

Paul Wilkes, English, published the article "That's the Spirit" about American Catholic parish life in The Tablet, an international Catholic weekly based in London.

Charles Ward, chemistry; Rick Dixon, sociology and anthropology; Allen Gray, nursing; Gabriel Lugo, mathematical sciences; Patty Turrisi, philosophy and religion; and Ronald Vetter, mathematical sciences, attended and participated in the UNC Workshop on the Use of Technology for Distance Education held at the McKimmon Center on the campus of North Carolina State University. The workshop was held in conjunction with NCSU's Instructional Technologies Expo. Ward and Lugo gave a poster presentation on their paper "The UNCW Technology College." Gray gave a poster presentation on his paper "The RN ACCESS Program at the UNCW School of Nursing." Vetter gave an oral presentation on his paper "Developing an Online Internet-based Course."

Dianne Matthews, Student Development Center, attended the Southeastern Testing Association Conference in Williamsburg, Va., and was moderator for the session "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Computer-based testing and test security were the main topics of discussion. Matthews has served as state director for the past two years.

Bill Atwill and Diane Levy, Honors Program, and three students attended the 1997 annual meeting of the North Carolina Honors Association at Appalachian State University in Boone on Sept 26. The honors scholars, Melva Brown, Kathy Cole and Vicki Cranford, led a panel entitled "Honors Scholars Associations: Sharing Ideas."

Tom Barth, political science, made a presentation on "Building an MPA Urban Concentration: Process and Content Issues" at the 1997 Southeastern Conference on Public Administration in Knoxville, Tenn.

Sridhar Narayan, mathematical sciences, was awarded the Object Oriented Programming Systems and Languages (OOPSLA) 1997 Educators' Scholarship to attend the OOPSLA conference Oct. 4-9 in Atlanta. The scholarship is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) special interest group on programming languages.

William Cleary, earth sciences and CMSR, was keynote speaker at a workshop on coastal change sponsored by N.C. Sea Grant, N.C. Division of Coastal Management and the N.C. Real Estate Commission. Cleary's seminar was part of a day-long workshop held in Wilmington Sept. 29. His presentation focused on the process and condition of the shorelines in southeastern North Carolina.

Brooks Dodson, English, spoke to the Friends of the Brunswick County Public Library on changes in the English language.

Joseph Pawlik, biological sciences, received funding for "Assessing the Chemical Defenses of Caribbean Sponges."

Karen Shafer, SMEC, received funding for "1997 Earth Science Workshop."

William McLellan, Ann Pabst, Laela Sayigh, biological sciences, received funding for their "Mid-Atlantic Humpback Whale Study."

Laela Sayigh, biological sciences, received funding for "Photo Identification of Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins off Wilmington, N.C."

Mary Moser, CMSR, received funding for "Low Light Impediment to Fish Migration with Particular Emphasis of River Herring."

Official Notices

Students Sent Balance Due Bills

Balance due bills have been mailed to students' home addresses. These bills include the 3 percent in-state tuition increase that was approved by the Board of Governors in August. Student accounts must be paid in full in order to pre-register for spring classes. Pre-registration begins Nov. 3. If anyone has questions, call Tammy Blizzard at ext. 3143.

Campus Rec Fall Break Schedule

The following is the fall break schedule for campus recreation: aerobics, noon to 1 p.m. Oct. 9-10 and 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. Oct. 12; recreational swim, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 9-10; fitness center, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 9-10 and 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 12. Facilities will be closed Oct. 11.

Spring Event Calendar

If you would like to have your events in the 1998 spring calendar, submit the information by Oct. 31. If possible, include photographs and any details about the events. The calendar will be ready for distribution by Jan. 5. All students, faculty, and staff will receive a copy.

Send information by e-mail to Bennettm or to the Activities and Leadership Center office in the University Union, Room 214. If you have any questions, call ext. 3827.

Physical Plant Open House

The Physical Plant Open House will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 16. Tours will be conducted at 9, 10 and 11 a.m. and 1 and 2 p.m. Faculty and staff are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served at the end of each tour and door prizes will be awarded.

Self-Defense Classes

University police are offering two three-week self-defense classes for women called Rape Aggression Defense (RAD). The classes will be from 7 to 9:30 p.m, Tuesdays and Thursdays Oct. 14-30 and Mondays and Wednesdays Nov. 3-19. To sign up for either class, contact university police at ext. 3184.

Flu Shots

Flu shots will be available for faculty and staff from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 13-17 at the Student Health Center in Westside Hall. The cost is $10. No appointment is necessary. For more information, call ext. 3280.

Student Paychecks

Effective Oct. 15 student payroll checks will be in student post office boxes. The payroll checks will not be distributed at the cashier's office. Call ext. 3538 with any questions.

Chancellor's Student Hours

The chancellor will hold student hours from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 16 in Alderman Hall, Room 110.

Anti-virus Software Upgrade

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) has received an upgrade to Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus software. Check with your departmental liaison for more information and installation disks. If your department does not have a liaison, call the help desk at ext. 4357.

The university site license allows faculty and staff to install the software on their home computers. Your liaison can provide you with the software, or if you do not have a liaison, copies can be made at the help desk in Hoggard Hall, Room 218. Bring the following new, unformatted high density disks to the help desk for each version: Macintosh, one disk; Windows 3.x, six disks; Windows 95, five disks; and clean up boot disk, one disk. For best service, call ahead and inform the help desk which disks you will need.

Welcome

Please welcome the following new employees:

Zella Lee and Sandra Rowell, physical plant and Nancy McLemore and Kim Proukou, School of Nursing.

Nomination Forms for All-USA Academic Team

Faculty interested in nominating students for the 1998 All-USA Academic team should contact Sharon San Diego in university relations at ext. 3861. Sixty full-time undergraduate students nationwide will be chosen and featured in a two-page color package in USA Today. Winners will be determined by a panel of educators selected by USA Today, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The criteria, developed by the co-sponsors, are designed to find students who excel in both scholarship and leadership roles, on and off campus. A key element will be a student's outstanding original academic or intellectual product. Judges will be influenced by the student's ability to describe that endeavor in his/her own words and will rely solely on this composition, recommendations from the nominating professor and recommendations of three other persons of the nominee's choice.

Nominations must be postmarked by November 29.

Staff Development

Come Sign with Us - Part III, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursdays, September 4 to November 20.

Yoga, noon to 1 p.m. Wednesdays through November 25.

Business Etiquette, 2 to 5 p.m. October 13.

Supervision for Managers and Professionals, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. October 22 and 23 and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. October 24.

Interaction Management, 8:30 a.m. to noon October 27-31.

Please refer to the Staff Training and Development Booklet for registration information or call ext. 3274. To register for computer classes, call ext. 4357.

The Campus Communique is UNCW's weekly faculty/staff newsletter. It is published every Thursday. The deadline for Communique submissions is noon, Tuesdays. E-mail submissions to Communique, send faxes to 962-3847 or mail to 108 Alderman Hall. Phillip Brown can be contacted at ext. 7223.

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