• Cheers and tears as seniors say goodbye
• Wittenberg salutes four with honorary degrees
• Sportswriter and alumnus delivers 2000 Commencement address
• Nine faculty members complere distingushed academic careers
• Student achievement recognized at annual honors convocation
• Economist recieves Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Teaching
• Pre-health club offers opportunities for science majors and serves the Springfield
• Wittenberg residence halls to be smoke free beginning in fall 2000
• Area businesses and students benifit from Wittenberg advertising partnership
• Hobson meets with Wittenberg scholars to discuss historic China trade agreement
• Professor, class featered on Korean Television
• McCready to head Wittenberg's Defining Moments Campaign
• Four students present research at national conference
• Sociologist appears on ABC's Nightline
• Board of Directors approves proposal for M.A. in Education

Campus Notes

Douglas M. Andrews, associate professor of statistics, will chair a session on the effectiveness of activity-based learning strategies in statistics education at the annual Joint Statistics Meetings, this August in Indianapolis. At the same conference, Andrews will work with colleagues at other institutions to establish and standardize curriculum and program guidelines for undergraduate programs in statistics during the Symposium on Undergraduate Statistics Education, sponsored by the American Statistical Association.

Linda Arena, associate professor of health, fitness and sport, was the featured speaker for the International Field Hockey Club in Louisville, Ky. on May 28. Arena gave two presentations, “Nutrition, Performance, and The Female Athlete” and “Parents Beware: College Recruiting.”

In February, E. Leonard Brown, professor emeritus of geography, organized and participated in an “intercambio” in Central America, which involves administrators of successful development projects in one country sharing their knowledge in a nearby country. In this case, the interchange was between Honduras and a program that works with Mayan-speaking people in Chimaltenango, Guatemala.

E. Charles Chatfield, professor emeritus of history, had his essay, “Peace and Antiwar Movements,” published in The Oxford Companion to American Military History.

Robert Davis, associate professor of English, received the 1999-2000 “Outstanding Professor Award” by the Junior Interfraternity Council and Junior Panhellenic Council at its awards ceremony in April.

Mark Ellison, assistant professor of chemistry, has published a paper titled “Scattering of Xenon from Ni(111): Collision-Induced Corrugation and Energy Transfer Dynamics” in the Journal of Chemical Physics.

On March 5, Trudy Faber, professor of music and department chair, was chosen as the seventh organist to perform for the annual Kathryn MacMillan Memorial Organ Recital at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynchburg, Va. on the church’s Taylor and Boody Organ. This annual recital, always presented by a nationally recognized organist, attracts not only church members but also numerous organists in the area.

Carmiele Foster, instructor of English, presented a paper titled “Hidden Identity: Double Consciousness and the Caribbean Tongue” during the W.E.B. Du Bois, Race and the New Millennium: A Symposium Celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of the Publication of The Souls of Black Folk, March 23-25. Foster was also invited to an archival research workshop at The Pompey Museum in the Bahamas to learn to use the slave registers there for research on an article titled “Travelling Women.” She has also been selected for Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 2000.

Gary Gaffield, assistant provost for academic programs, was one of three co-presenters at a workshop session titled “10 Ways to Blow a Grant Proposal,” at the Council on Undergraduate Research Eighth National Conference, June 22-24. The conference’s theme was “The Many Facets of Undergraduate Research,” and it was held at the College of Wooster.

Elizabeth George, assistant professor of physics, gave a poster presentation on “Learning Momentum and Energy Conservation Principles with Motion Detectors and Video” at the Winter 2000 national meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Theresa Conway ’01 assisted with the work that led to the presentation and was a coauthor of the poster. The presentation described a new application of computer-based tools to the introductory physics laboratory.

Horton Hobbs, professor of biology, presented a paper titled “A Review of the Stygobitic Crayfishes of North America with Notes on a New Species from Missouri” at the 109th Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science hosted by Ohio Northern University, April 1. He also co-authored an article that recently appeared in the Journal of Cave and Karst Studies and as the lead article in the April issue of Conservation Biology. In addition, he attended the board of directors meeting of the Karst Waters Institute held in Videmont, W.V. on March 5, the board of directors meeting of the Cave Conservancy of the Virginias held in Wintergreen, Va. on April 15-16, and the board of directors meeting of the American Cave Conservation Association held in Horse Cave, Ky., April 29.

Curt Holder, instructor of geography, has published a paper in the Journal of Biogeography. Holder, Ralph Lenz, professor of geography, Olga Medvedkov, professor of geography, and Sunita Reddy, instructor of geography, all attended the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Pittsburgh in April. At the meeting, Holder presented an extension of his research on pine trees titled “Geographic Variability of Slash and Longleaf Pine Leaf Life-Spans in the Southeastern United States.” Medvedkov presented a paper on “Moscow’s Changing Economy,” and Reddy presented her paper, “The Alternative Space of the Commons: Community, Identity, and Power in Highland Guatemala,” and participated in the organization of her own and another session on North-South continuities in political ecology.

April Lindner, visiting assistant professor of English, has had her monograph, Dana Gioia, just published as part of Boise State University’s Western Writers Series. Her poem, “Crystal,” is forthcoming in The Formalist, and her article on literary magazines is also forthcoming in a volume of The Dictionary of Literary Biography devoted to the New Formalism.

Dave Mason, professor of biology, and Shana Ryan ’01 presented “A Histological Evaluation of Lung Cancers by means of High-Resolution Light Microscopy, Immunomicroscopy and Electron Microscopy” to The Ohio Academy of Science in April. The goal of the project was to evaluate lung cancers for cellular and histological features that can help with their identification.

Rochelle L. Millen, associate professor of religion, is an invited participant in the Pastora Goldner Holocaust Symposium at Wroxton College held every two years in England. A member of the Goldner Symposium since its inception six years ago, Millen participates in a series of discussions lasting four days with scholars from around the world on issues relating to the Holocaust and the teaching of the Holocaust. In addition, Millen presented a paper and chaired a session in Oxford, England at the international meeting called Remembering for the Future 2000: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide. The paper is titled “On the Jews and the Lutherans: The ELCA Confronts History.”

Paul W. Miller, professor emeritus of English, has published an article titled “Hemingway vs. Stendhal or Papa’s Last Fight with a Dead Writer,” in the Hemingway Review. Miller also presented a paper at the Modern Language Association’s convention titled “James Purdy’s Gertrude (1997): A Visit to Chicago Painter Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1997) in Hades.” The paper was presented in a section on Midwestern literature devoted to the literature of Chicago.

Pamela Schindler, professor of management and director of Wittenberg’s Center for Applied Management, will have her textbook, Business Research Methods, 7th edition, published this summer by McGraw-Hill. Her coauthor is Donald Cooper.

James Swindler, professor of philosophy and department chair, delivered a paper titled “On Purpose: A Kantian Kind of Freedom,” at the annual meeting of the Ohio Philosophical Association (OPA) at Ohio Wesleyan University, April 1. At the annual business meeting, Swindler was elected vice president of the OPA and program chair for 2001, and it was agreed to hold the 2001 annual meeting at Wittenberg.

Richard Veler, professor of English and general secretary to the university, attended a conference of the Association of Governing Boards in New Orleans, March 17-21. He also traveled to Calvin College, Grand Rapids, to attend the Festival of Faith and Writing. The first meeting featured U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley as well as political analyst/commentator Mark Shields, but this year, the festival hosted Maya Angelou, Chaim Potok and Walt Wangerin, among other authors.

Paul Voytas, assistant professor of physics, received a Research Opportunity Award from the National Science Foundation for nuclear physics research in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Christopher Ternovan ’00 collaborated on this work and presented a poster at the fall meeting of the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society. The research involved studying the electron capture decay of Beryllium-7 and constituted Chris’ senior project.

Leanne Wierenga, associate professor of languages, presented a paper titled “French Fairy Tales for Beginners” at the American Association of the Teachers of French annual convention in Paris, France, July 17-20.

Molly Wood, assistant professor of history, presented a paper titled “American Foreign Service Wives Between the Wars” at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting in St. Louis, Mo. in March. She also commented on a session titled “New Directions in U.S. Diplomatic History” at the Ohio Academy of History conference in Westerville, Ohio in April.

Bin Yu, associate professor of political science, presented a lecture on “Political-Military Issues and China’s Role in Asia” for the overseas course by the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, and he addressed the staff of the National Air Intelligence Center, also at Wright Patterson, on the Taiwan Strait situation. In addition, Yu participated in a conference on “China and the United States: Long-term Visions of Regional Security,” sponsored by Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) and Pacific Forum CSIS, Honolulu, Hawaii. He also has published two analyses on the Hawaii-based online journal, Comparative Connections at http://www.csis.org/pacfor/ccejournal.html