• Defining Moments Campaign surges forward with news of several large gifts
• Smith meets first three scholarship recipients
• Civil rights activist urges tolerance during Wittenberg Series address
• Acclaimed Chicago dance troupe
• Homecoming 2000 reunites alumni, current students and the community
• Alumni share their success stories during Homecoming Weekend
• Formed chamber group perfoms selections spanning six centruries
• Witt men create a cappella singing group
• Education professor starts mentoring program in springfield City Schools
• First communication major established to meet student demand
• University announces graduate education program beginning fall 2001

Campus Notes

Linda Arena, associate professor of health, fitness and sport, has authored an article titled “Attack Strategy” in the September/October issue of Hockey News, the official publication of United States Field Hockey.

Donald Busarow, professor of music, presented a Festival of Hymns for the Reformation on the occasion of the sesquicentennial celebration of Beth Eden Lutheran Church, Newton, N.C., Oct. 29. At that time, his commissioned work, a hymn concertato on “Abide With Me,” premiered. On Dec. 3, Busarow played a Festival of Hymns for the season of Advent at St. Michael Lutheran Church, Unionville, Penn. Five of his concerto settings were used during the program. Busarow’s most recent composition, “Not Unto Us,” has been published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. The piece was written for Kenneth Scheffel, professor of music, in honor of his retirement as Music Director of Grace Lutheran Church in Springfield.

Shih-Ming Chang, associate professor of theatre and dance, served as host to Professor Ke Fen Wang, the leading authority on Chinese dance history, in October. Wang presented a slide presentation on the “Dancing Arts in the Dunhuang Caves” to dance and East Asian Studies students and faculty. Chang continues to interview a number of experts on Chinese dance history in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China as part of her Chinese Dance Project.

Charles Chatfield, professor emeritus of history, was the co-convener and a participant in the international conference, “Orienting the Twentieth Century Toward Peace,” held in the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Aug. 11-12. He also wrote about the conference for the American Historical Association’s Perspectives and the Peace History Society’s newsletter.

Keith Doubt, professor of sociology and department chair, presented his paper, “The Ethical Requirement of Burial and its Transgression in the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina” at the International Conference on Crimes in Bosanka Krajina during the Aggression on the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sept. 22-24, in Bihac, Bosnia. The conference was sponsored by the Institute for Research on Crimes Against Humanity and International Law. Doubt was also awarded a Fulbright Lecture Award for one semester at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia. Doubt will begin teaching sociology to Bosnian students in February and will remain in Bosnia until July.

Mark Ellison, assistant professor of chemistry, accompanied two students to Denison University, Oct. 7, for the Central Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium. The students participated in a poster session on their chemistry research, conducted under Ellison’s direction. Michael H. Stewart ’02 presented his poster, titled “STM Spectroscopy: Investigating Energy Bands,” and Matthew E. Stewart ’02, presented on “Topographical Imaging with STM.” Ellison also recently co-authored an article titled “Selectivity of Aromatic Versus Non-aromatic Groups in Cycloaddition Chemistry on Silicon Surfaces” in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Trudy Faber, professor of music and department chair, performed a harpsichord recital for the September series at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Ind. on Sept. 8. Faber also performed an organ recital at Zion Lutheran Church in Springfield on Oct. 15 as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the church as well as the 10th anniversary of the installation of the John Nordlie tracker organ, for which Faber played the dedication recital. On Oct. 27, Faber gave a harpsichord recital for this year’s Artist Series Recitals at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbus, Ohio.

James Huffman, professor of history, was the banquet speaker for the Ohio Academy of History at the Toledo Art Museum, Oct. 6. Huffman spoke on “The Naughty Edward H. House: Interpreting Meiji Japan.” Huffman was also a presenter at the Oct. 7-9 Shibusawa Seminar, a gathering at the University of Missouri-St. Louis of 20 invited scholars from Asia, Australia, the United States and Canada to discuss the major issues facing Japan today. In November, Huffman presented his paper, “E.H. House and Meiji Japan’s Struggle for Equality,” at the Midwest Japan Seminar at the University of Iowa.

Dan Kazez, professor of music, gave a lecture and performance at the Third World Cello Congress in Baltimore, Md. Kazez spoke on the ambiguities involved in collecting, cataloging and performing Jewish-inspired cello music. Other presenters included Yo Yo Ma and Janos Starker.

Thomas Kennedy, associate professor of music and conductor of the Wittenberg Symphonic Band and Chamber Orchestra, has been appointed conductor of the Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra, based in Dayton. Kennedy has been with the MVSO as a performer and conductor for four seasons.

Associate professors of anthropology Linda Lewis and Stephen Smith spent the fall semester 2000 on sabbatical in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, where they co-directed the Lutheran Colleges’ China Consortium Hangzhou Study Program. Lewis, director of Wittenberg’s East Asian Studies Program, examined issues of gender and Chinese legal reform, while Smith studied traditional Chinese medicine and its relationship to food and nutrition.

Tim Lewis, associate professor of biology and department chair, has concluded his three-year study of wood turtles in Michigan and has published an article in Chelonian Research Foundation on spotted turtle home ranges in Ohio. Lewis has also been appointed to a second, three-year term as chair of biology and will have 15 students presenting 10 different papers at conferences this spring.

Amy Livingstone, assistant professor of history, served as the local arrangements chair for the Midwest Medieval History conference, held at Wittenberg on Sept. 22-23. More than 60 scholars attended the conference, which examined “The Medieval World.”

Maureen Sheehan Massaro, director of human resources and quality management, began a two-year term as secretary of the Ohio Chapter of the College and University Professional Association of Human Resources during its Nov. 1-3 meeting in Cleveland.

Jim Noyes, professor of computer science, attended the First SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering. This international four-day conference was sponsored by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics and took place in Washington, D.C. in September. In addition to learning about the latest numerical modeling methods and data visualization techniques, Noyes was able to meet with faculty members from other colleges to discuss common experiences in starting an undergraduate Computational Science Program.

Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, assistant professor of religion, has authored three chapters covering the history and thought of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism in China: Empire and Civilization published by Oxford University Press. The book debuted in October 2000.

Tammy Proctor, assistant professor of history, has published an article titled “‘A Separate Path:’ Scouting and Guiding in Interwar South Africa” in the July issue of the interdisciplinary journal, Comparative Studies in Society and History.

Kathy Schulz, director of Thomas Library, presented a poster session at the Academic Library Association of Ohio at Ashland University on Nov. 3. Schulz analyzed library circulation data from colleges and universities throughout the state for the presentation, which was titled “OhioLINK Use and Institution Type: Special Focus on Undergraduates.”

Catherine Waggoner, assistant professor of speech communication, published “Feminist Ideologies Meet Fashionable Bodies: Managing the Agency/Constraint Conundrum” in Text and Performance Quarterly with Lynn O’Brien Hallstein of Babson College. Waggoner also presented a paper and chaired a session in November at the 2000 National Communication Association convention in Seattle.

Steven Winteregg, adjunct associate professor of music, received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers’ ASCAPLU$ Standard Award. The award is based on the unique prestige value of each writer’s catalog of original compositions as well as recent performances of those works in areas not surveyed by the ASCAP.

Bin Yu, associate professor of political science, has published an article titled “Putin’s `Ostpolitik’” in the October issue of Comparative Connections and was interviewed by the British Broadcasting System Co. in August on the issue of the U.S. National Missile Defense system. Yu also made a presentation on the topic of Russian-Chinese relations for the Mershon Center of The Ohio State University in October.