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Vol. 3, No. 4 November 1982
CAMPUS AUTUMN-Students stroll as multi-colored leaves carpet the campus. Sweaters and warm coats now replace the short sleeves and popular t-shirts of summer.
in this issue
Al McGuire addresses campus convocation, page 1; ETN Industrial Advisory Committee takes a look at high-tech possibilities for the area, page 2; library endowment pledges pass halfway mark, page 3; spotlight on staff this issue features Pam Elliott of Arts and Letters, page 3; and focus on faculty takes a firsthand look at the electrical engineering program with David Mauritzen, page 3.
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Vol. 3, No. 4 November 1982
McGuire calls game more than mere points
"All I ever did wherever I was, was to make people one," said Al McGuire, former basketball super-hero, whose head coaching accomplishments include 11 straight seasons of more than 20 victories, 10 straight trips to post-season play-offs, eight All-American players, nine who became professionals, the 1977 NCAA Championship, and a 13-year coaching record of 295 wins and 80 losses. Al McGuire - the legend, the man - spoke Tuesday evening, Oct. 19, in the ballroom of Walb Memorial Union. Sponsored by the Red and Gold Booster Club and the Student Union Board of Governors (SUBOG), McGuire addressed nearly 250. "I've touched Fort Wayne quite often," the former chair of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports said. He explained that he had been a member of the basketball team that first played in the then-new Allen County Memorial Coliseum in 1952. At that time, he was a member of the New York Knickerbockers. Discussing issues close to home for IPFW, McGuire said he is excited for Coach Tim Russell and his new basketball team as they begin action in NCAA Division II. "Division II is just as difficult as Division 1," the NBC sports commentator said. He went on to note that the basketball build-up at IPFW will probably take time to perfect. "No program is good until it peaks. To peak, it takes time," McGuire explained. "There's nothing better than watching them blossom." McGuire said that his secret for successful teams, aside from making the individual into one, was to eliminate "the fifth column," to spur a change from within each player. "The world is people. People is what it's all about," said the chair of McGuire's Run for the Milwaukee Children's Hospital. He noted that when his players were about to graduate - "my players got degrees," McGuire stressed - he asked them for one year of their lives. McGuire said he then told his graduating players to take six months and be bartenders, and to follow that profession with six months as taxi drivers. Both jobs, he explained, deal totally with people. McGuire said that he had been asked on several occasions to run for public office - senator, governor - but found no interest in politics. "I know I'd win, though," he firmly stated. "I'd touch the people." He went on to say that anything a person really wants is possible to get. "If you dream it, go get it." McGuire said much of getting anything comes from within ("the fifth column"). "Once you get to like yourself, everything is quite easy." Not getting everything he wanted was one of the reasons McGuire cited for leaving the coaching profession. He said the losses got to be too much for him, and the wins didn't quite balance out his depressed feelings after a defeat. "Give no excuse," he said at one point in his talk, when discussing what he often told the team before the game. "You either win or lose." In discussing winning ways early in this talk, McGuire said that he predicts IU will be among the top four college teams this season. "Bob has the type of players at the university this year who fit his system," he said. Iowa and Minnesota will be the big competition from the Big 10 for IU, McGuire predicted; local competition will be Notre Dame. He said that Kentucky will be the best team in the country, and that Ralph Samson is the best ballplayer in the country. "Ralph Samson is the greatest player who ever lived," McGuire said, adding that he feels Samson made a big mistake by not going pro - businesswise, that is. He mentioned that last year L.A. offered him between $15 and $20 million, a hard offer to turn down on anyone's terms. "I like predicting the future," McGuire smiled and said. "A lot of times, obviously, I'm wrong, though." The basketball giant said he plans to stay at NBC at least two more years, especially since he is now doing a sports program he predicts will not succeed. "I believe you should live in the moment. It's so important," McGuire said. He went on to say that when one goes fishing, "you don't have to catch the fish - the disgrace is not going out at all."
AL McGUIRE-Al McGuire holds a miniature soldier received as a memento of his Oct. 19 visit to the campus. The gift resulted from McGuire's mentioning earlier in the day that he collected toy soldiers. Pictured with McGuire are: Barb Kidd and Tim Russell, athletics staff members; Chancellor Joseph P. Giusti; and Hilliard Gates, dean of Fort Wayne sportscasters.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURER-Alfred Bader, this year's School of Science and Humanities Distinguished Lecturer, addresses an IPFW audience on "Chemistry in Art." Mathematics professors C. C. Edwards and Marc Lipman stand by with prints of paintings in Bader's extensive art collection.
Chemical company president Bader talks art
The School of Science and Humanities distinguished lecturer for 1982, Alfred Bader, spoke at IPFW on Oct. 7. Bader's topic, "Chemistry in Art," reflected his long-standing interest in painting and his professional career as a chemist. Now president of the Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Company, Milwaukee, Bader is widely known in both the chemical and art worlds. The reference volumes published by his company are used by chemistry researchers and technicians, and he holds 27 patents on his chemical research. His interest and expertise in art history have led to his being named a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a guest curator at the Milwaukee Art Center. Bader's interests in art and chemistry are frequently combined. He is particularly noted for his research into, and restoration and authentication of, the paintings of the 17th-century Dutch Masters. This interdisciplinary topic was the focus of his public talk at IPFW. During his visit to IPFW, Bader also met with chemistry students to discuss professional concerns and vocational possibilities.
IPFW ready to assist in helping community needs
chancellor's message
More than one local citizen has expressed surprise at the speed with which IPFW has been able to respond with a diversity of resources to the announcement that Harvester is phasing out assembly operations in Fort Wayne. I am not surprised. A public institution of higher education is, by its very nature, prepared to face public-policy issues promptly and constructively. The first meeting of the educational consortium called by Mayor Win Moses on October 29 was very productive, and we are pleased to have advanced the consortium concept and to contribute to the consortium's efforts in those areas where we hold a comparative advantage. Specifically, we stand ready to offer skills, aptitude, and interest testing for vocational and professional redirection; workshops for coping with stress; and programs for university graduates who seek professional development and retraining. The wide range of programs offered at IPFW means that we have, of course, faculty and staff with wide-ranging skills, knowledge, and experience. I have been proud, but not surprised, by the willingness our people have shown in volunteering to assist the community in any way they can. I have heard from those who have experience with large industrial shut-downs, with crisis counseling skills, with economic forecasting, and with inter-institutional consortia for broad cooperative efforts. All these people are to be thanked for their community spirit; as the plans of the educational consortium are carried out, these offers of assistance will be kept in mind. Already in place is one way IPFW is seeking to serve as a community resource, and that is through the Chamber of Commerce's new efforts to establish a high-technology center in Fort Wayne. I have selected Dr. Warren Worthley, associate dean, Engineering, Technology, and Nursing, as IPFW's representative to a six-member steering committee formed by the Chamber's board and headed by Richard Bonsib, president of Bonsib Advertising, Inc. As IPFW's representative, Dr. Worthley will assist in drawing together university resources which can contribute to enticing a high-technology center to Fort Wayne. Public universities are opportunistic in the best possible sense, and IPFW is ready and willing to seize the opportunity to help provide resources to the community when and as they are needed. -Joseph P. Giusti
AN APPLE A DAY - Presidents from area colleges look on as Stephen Harroff, assistant professor of Germanic languages, demonstrates foreign-language programs on an Apple computer. The presidents' group, chaired by Chancellor Joseph P. Giusti, meets periodically to discuss higher education.
Women's club plans holiday drive
To help make the holiday season a bright one for needy Fort Wayne families, the University Women's Club is again sponsoring a campus drive to collect food, clothing, and cash contributions. "Donations of non-perishable foods, blankets, towels, linens, winter coats, trading stamps, toys, and children's clothing are especially appreciated," explained Judy Clinton, chair of this year's drive. Decorated canisters for cash contributions will be placed in central offices throughout the campus during the week of November 29. Checks (payable to the club) and other donations may be delivered to Clinton's office, Kettler 160, or left for her at the Kettler switchboard by December 4.
United Way donations important
The results of increased efforts to gain employee contributions to the United Way campaign are not yet available. But Carl Bickley, development officer, is hopeful that the personal involvement of the chancellor, vice chancellors, and dean of student services has succeeded in increasing the percentage of IPFW employees who choose to become United Way donors. Chancellor Joseph P. Giusti expressed his personal appreciation for the contributions employees make to this important community activity.
Advisory committee discusses local high tech
Take 34 leaders of area businesses, add the nine leaders of academic programs in the School of Engineering, Technology, and Nursing, and you have the school's Industrial Advisory Committee, a body designed to ensure close cooperation between the university and employers. "Especially in this time of rapid technological change and economic uncertainty, it is important for the university to meet the needs of local businesses and to lead in high technology," said Warren Worthley, professor and chair of manufacturing technology, and associate dean of the school. The committee's meeting of Oct. 20 provided several examples of this close cooperation. The 34 business leaders came prepared with shopping lists - programs which would prove useful to their companies. The lists included everything from courses in stress mangement to workshops in robotics and computer-assisted design and manufacturing. Working together, the group scheduled almost 100 programs, budgeted at about a third of a million dollars, as continuing-education offerings during 1983. "It is a consolidated program," Worthley said, "which brings the full resources of the school to bear on community needs." Worthley added that the program may establish IPFW as a continuing-education center, so that area companies will encounter fewer needs to send employees to distant training programs. The committee also heard a welcome from Chancellor Joseph P. Giusti and a review of its charge from Vice Chancellor Edward Nicholson. John Dalphin, dean, outlined current school activities, and Worthley presented information on plans for the Fort Wayne High-technology Center. A steering committee was established to continue the work of the larger body and to maintain the close contact between the school's academic programs and the business community.
Six faculty address social sciences meeting
around ipfw
Richard S. Manalis, assistant professor of biological sciences, and Gary P. Cooper, University of Cincinnati, presented a symposium paper, "Influence of Heavy Metals on Synaptic Transmission," at the International Conference on Neurotoxicology of Selected Chemicals. The conference was held in Chicago, Sept. 21. Manalis and Cooper will present a paper entitled "Cadmium Reduces Rate of Spontaneous Transmitter Release by Blocking Calcium Channels" at the 12th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Minneapolis, Nov. 2.
Several faculty members from IPFW addressed the meeting of the Indiana Academy of Social Sciences in Crawfordsville, Oct. 7 and 8. Paul Jean Provost, assistant professor of anthropology, presided over the anthropology symposium and presented a paper entitled "Ethnicity and Political Viability: The Case of Tibet." Alan R. Sandstrom, associate professor of anthropology, lectured on "Limited Good of Limited Woods: The Ecological Basis of the Nahua Indian World View." "Geoarchaeology: A New Discipline" was the subject of an address by Diane E. Beynon, assistant professor of anthropology. Barbara J. Koch, assistant professor of English and linguistics, presented a paper entitled "Presentation as Proof: The Language of Arabic Rhetoric." Two assistant professors of sociology at IPFW, Peter Iadicola and Patrick J. Ashton, lectured on "Economic Crisis and the Role of the State: Contradiction and Class Conflict."
Richard A. Pacer, professor of chemistry, recently received a $13,000 grant from  the Petroleum Research Fund. Pacer will use the grant to continue research on a project entitled "Substoichiometric Isotope Dilution Analysis Using Lead-210."
Don McAleece, professor of manufacturing technology, was named to the editorial consultation board of the Industrial Press, Inc., New York.
A-R Editions, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin has just released two editions of violin music edited by K Marie Stolba, associate professor of music. These editions are Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni's Caprices et Airs Varies pour un violon seul, originally published in 1787, and Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni's Cinquante Etudes, originally published in 1800. As one of three principal speakers at the Illinois State Music Teachers Association state convention, Nov. 6-8 at Southern Illinois University, Stolba will discuss "The Life and Work of John Antes."
Chancellor Joseph P. Giusti was the guest speaker at a noon meeting of the Fort Wayne Principals' Association, Oct. 14. In his remarks, the chancellor highlighted the cooperative efforts between the Fort Wayne Community Schools and IPFW. Among the new interinstitutional initiatives he mentioned were the Oct. 29 counseling conference and a proposed advanced-placement program.
Pauline Hunsberger of the library requests that anyone who has photos depicting the history of IPFW's growth and development please send her copies. She is attempting to update the archives on the history of IPFW. Any photos used will be returned, and credit will be given to the donor of the material.
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Vol. 3, No. 4 November, 1982
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Mauritzen sees E.E. changes ahead
focus on faculty
As one of three faculty members teaching electrical engineering in the engineering department at IPFW, David Mauritzen finds himself constantly experiencing change - a product, so to speak, of the revolutionary high-tech era. And when he's not working with a student or a computer, or updating himself on new course material, Mauritzen finds the time to do what he calls speaking engagements. "I discovered that I like to talk," he said. "I kid people that I came to Purdue because they guaranteed me 12 hours of captive audience a week." One of Mauritzen's more popular talks is one he does periodically through the speakers bureau. Entitled "A Tricentennial Speech," the speech is an after-dinner piece for a broad audience - the type of talk which is comical, yet spurs one to really do some soul searching and thinking about the future, Mauritzen said. His most popular talks, however, occur in the classrooms and offices of Neff Hall, where the engineering department is housed. He has been with the department since fall 1978. With a constantly changing subject matter and a new four-year degree program, Mauritzen does a lot of talking about "E.E." "You don't take an engineer out (of school) and put him on a drafting table now," the former 11-year Magnavox employee said. Engineers today, he added, have many areas to explore - microwaves, antennas, communications, fiber optics, digital computers, servomechanisms, and bio-medical electronics, to name a few. He added that artifical intelligence, robotics, pacemakers, and pattern recognition are additional fairly new fields that electrical engineers are rapidly moving into. "Even the curriculum is drastically different today," Mauritzen said. "Sophomores now study what used to be introduced in grad school." At IPFW, the entire program is undergoing revision. As of this fall, students entering the engineering programs can obtain a B.S.E. degree at this campus - without transferring to Purdue University at West Lafayette to finish. "I've been trying to integrate computers into the E.E. program - especially the basic ones," Mauritzen said. To help familiarize students with computers, Mauritzen also gives tests, quizzes, and handouts from a word processor. He emphasized that engineers today work with computers a lot. "In 10 years, you'll probably not be able to buy an electric toothbrush without a microprocessor," he said. FOCUS ON FACULTY is a regular Intercom feature and appears in each issue. David Mauritzen
IPFW Dickens Dinner plans underway
Merry toasts at the wassail bowl, a traditional English holiday feast, costumed madrigal singers, and familiar carols - these are some of the old favorites of the Dickens Dinner. But John Roberts, chair of the division of music, hints that "the fifteenth anniversary of the Dickens Dinner will offer some new surprises" to supplement the old traditions. To enjoy the always heartwarming reformation of that coldhearted miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, and to discover what new musical treats are in store, the public is invited to attend the evening festivities on Thursday, December 2, and Friday, December 3. Tickets for the dinner and program are now on sale at the division of music (482-5746), and cost $11.00 each. Proceeds from the dinner fund music scholarships. The gathering at the wassail bowl takes place at 7:00 p.m., and dinner is served at 7:30 p.m. in the Walb Memorial Union ballroom. The tables seat 10, and friends wishing to dine together may request seats at the same table.
Library Endowment Goal: $1 million
Frank Freimann Trust Kettler Family northAmerican Van Lines Indiana and Michigan News-Sentinel Lincoln National Corporation ITT Aerospace/Optical Division Foellinger Foundation E.H. Kilbourne Foundation Eckrich Foundation Helmke Family Hardware Wholesalers, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. William Mossman Magnavox Fort Wayne National Bank Mr. & Mrs. Ralph W. Walb
PLEDGES GROWING - Pledges for the library endowment have reached $535,000, more than half way to the $7 million goal. The most recent large community donation comes from the Freimann Charitable Trust, which pledges $50,000.
Elliott strives for perfection - nothing less
spotlight on staff
The desire to make everything perfect may well be what motivates Pam Elliott. "She wants to learn everything and do everything," said Jim Hostetter, Arts and Letters advisor whose desk is not far from Elliott's. Elliott's desk suggests her activity and her personality. Piles of file folders are stacked in one corner, and papers a foot high sit in another. Between is a covered dish of candy for the dozens of students and staff members she sees daily. "I like dealing with people," she said, with a grin conveying that her statement is not merely a cliche. Elliott's job as senior Arts and Letters secretary - a job to which she was promoted less than 20 months after beginning work at IPFW in 1978 - is "the keystone clerical position," according to Linda Balthaser, assistant to the dean of Arts and Letters. "We rely on the senior secretary to coordinate in the unit," Balthaser said, and Elliott combines completing her own work with supervising two other full-time and two part-time secretaries. She also enjoys continual contact with secretaries in other departments and with faculty members and students. "This job has a lot of variety," she beams. "There's always something out of the ordinary to deal with." Of this readiness to accept challenges, Hostetter commented, "In terms of willingness to do things, she puts the rest of us to shame." Elliott is more matter-of-fact about herself. With characteristic understatement, she explains how her professional career began: "I was in the seventh grade and watched my older sister type. Since she was a kind of role model, I joined the Typing Club … In high school, I took shorthand because a friend said I'd enjoy it, and I needed another course to be on the cheerleading squad." The friend dropped shorthand, but Elliott ended up loving the course. Even the cheerleading has stuck. In her spare time - when not at work or reading (mysteries, novels, and the Bible) or rollerskating or bowling - Elliott trains cheerleaders for the Colts, a team of 9-to-12-year-olds in the mostly Black Metropolitan Football League. Her squad won first place this year. Her new interests seldom drive out the old ones. Schooling has become a habit, too. After graduation from South Side High, Elliott earned an associate degree in office technology at the division of general and technical studies. Now she frequently attends in-service workshops sponsored by personnel and payroll services at IPFW, and is working on a bachelor's degree in supervision. "I'm in two courses this semester," she said, adding that her Arts and Letters supervisors have encouraged her to take the workshops and courses. "And make sure you spell my name with two L's and two T's," she insisted. "Lots of people get it wrong." And Pam Elliott has a desire to make everything perfect. SPOTLIGHT ON STAFF is a regular Intercom feature and appears in each issue. Pam Elliott
November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Women's studies, Self-help Health Care for Women, Walb 224, noon; soc/anthro forum, The Attitudinal and Cognitive Backgrounds of Black and White Youth, J. Hunt, Walb 110, noon; women's volleyball at Ohio State-Lima, 6:30 p.m.
2 Placement tests, Walb ballroom, 5:30 p.m.
3 Clergy/faculty forum, Self-esteem in Women, Sister J.A. Schaeffer, St. Francis College, Walb 224, noon; women's volleyball at Tri-State University, 6 p.m.
4 Small Ensembles Concert, Neff Recital Hall, 8 p.m.; women's volleyball, Earlham College at IPFW, 7:30 p.m.
5 Supervision Alumni Dinner, Club Olympia; SUBOG movie, Ticket to Heaven, CM auditorium, 8 p.m., activity card holders free.
6 Football: Iowa at Purdue, IU at Wisconsin; placement tests, Walb ballroom, 8:30 a.m.; women's volleyball at Goshen College, TBA.
7 University Singers performing King David, Neff Recital Hall, 8 p.m.
8 Soc/anthro forum, The Rise and Decline of Prison Guard Unions, K. Ames, Allen County Dept. of Public Welfare, Walb 110, noon; faculty Senate, KG46, noon.
9 Business Alumni Luncheon Seminar; Fort Wayne Area Community Band, Neff Recital Hall, 8 p.m.
10 CAD/CAM Conference & Computer Graphics Equipment Show, Walb, noon-5 p.m., conference only; women's volleyball, St. Mary's College at IPFW, 7:30 p.m.
11 CAD/CAM Conference & Computer Graphics Equipment Show, Walb, conference 8 a.m.-12 p.m.; equipment show, noon-8 p.m., open to public.
12 IPFW visiting writers series, poet Denise Levertov reading from her works, Neff Recital Hall, 8 p.m.; SUBOG movie, Montenegro, CM auditorium, 8 p.m., activity card holders free.
13 Poetry workshop with Denise Levertov, 10 a.m.-noon, Walb 222; football: IU at Michigan, Illinois at Purdue.
14 Faculty recital, Adessa et Al., Neff Recital Hall, 3 p.m.
15 Soc/anthro forum, The 1980 Census Results for Fort Wayne, P. O'Brien, Walb 110, noon; Purdue basketball intrasquad game; Addison Locke Roache lecturer Robert Hughes, Walb ballroom, 7:30 p.m.
16 Career Day, Walb ballroom, 9 a.m.
17 CSSAC meeting, Kettler 108B, 1:30 p.m.; women's studies, Women-owned Businesses … Starting Up and Staying Up, Walb 224, 7:30 p.m.
18 Percussion Ensemble, Neff Recital Hall, 8 p.m.
19 International Festival, Walb ballroom, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., followed by an International Dinner, 7 p.m.; SUBOG movie, King of Hearts, CM auditorium, 8 p.m.; activity card holders free; Student Saxophone Quartet, Neff Recital Hall, 8 p.m.
20 International Festival, Walb ballroom, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., followed by a sitar recital, 8 p.m.; alumni football bus trip; football, Indiana at Purdue; Tri-State Choir and Band Honors Festival, Neff Recital Hall, 8 p.m.; men's basketball, University of Michigan-Dearborn at IPFW, 3:30 p.m.
21 Red & Gold Carpet Day, Walb ballroom, 3-5 p.m.
22 Women's studies, Perils of Feminist Publishing, Walb 224, noon; soc/anthro forum, Made in Taiwan, W. Tsai, Walb 110, noon.
23 Purdue Club Old Oaken Bucket Banquet, Goeglein's Reserve; University Wind Ensemble Concert, Neff Recital Hall, 8 p.m.; men's basketball at Manchester College, 7:30 p.m.
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25 Thanksgiving holiday.
26 PIT, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, 8 p.m.
27 PIT, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, 8 p.m.; men's basketball at Oakland University, 3 p.m.
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29 Soc/anthro forum, Sexist Medical Practices, J. Nusbaumer, department of social work, IUPUI, Walb 110, noon.
30 Women's basketball, Findley College at IPFW, 6 p.m.; men's basketball, Ashland College at IPFW, 7:30 p.m.
To submit calendar information, contact Lorane Hamblin at 5601.