This year, five students will receive General Honors, more than any previous year since the program's inception in 1987.
This year's recipients include: Kelly Renee Barbour, bachelor's degrees in philosophy and religion and biology; Alexandra Vasiliki Olympia Glynias, bachelor's degree in philosophy and religion with minors in Greek, classical studies and anthropology; Carrie Lynn Holbo, bachelor's degree in music and communication with a minor in theatre; Weylin Lloyd Laubis, bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics with a minor in German; and Tami Louis Poehlman, bachelor's degree in accounting.
The Phi Beta Kappa Association of Northeast Missouri is hosting the Fourth Annual General Honors Program Medal Ceremony April 30 at 3:30 p.m. in the Sunken Garden for the recipients.
The General Honors recipients wear their medals with their academic regalia during their graduation ceremony.
There will be a procession beginning from McClain Hall foyer to the Sunken Garden. In the case of inclement weather, the medal ceremony will occur in the President's Office, McClain Hall 200.
The honors program offers outstanding students the opportunity to select rigorous courses in the liberal arts and sciences component of their programs.
General Honors in Arts and Sciences will be awarded to graduating seniors who have completed five approved courses, with at least one from each of the four areas of mathematics, natural science, social science and humanities, with a GPA of at least 3.5 in those five courses. Students who complete a single undergraduate major may not satisfy general honors requirements with any course in their major field. All students are eligible to pursue general honors by taking the courses designated by the respective disciplines as being those courses whose successful completion by a non-major is especially noteworthy.
The medals feature the lamp of learning and are hung from purple and white ribbons. They will be presented by Stephen Pollard, president of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Northeast Missouri, and Patricia Burton, chair of the Truman State University General Honors Committee.
The Vice President for Academic Affairs Search Committee will soon resume the search for a vice president. Garry Gordon's appointment as Interim Vice President extends until June 30, 1998.
The VPAA Search Committee welcomes comments from the University community regarding the search process. Committee members will be available on April 24 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Student Union, Room 4. Comments may also be forwarded via e-mail to the committee's chair, Maria Di Stefano, associate professor of physics, at mdistefa@truman.edu.
George E. Curry is editor-in-chief of Emerge: Black America's Newsmagazine. The Washington Association of Black Journalists named Curry its 1995 "Journalist of the Year." Curry has appeared on Nightline, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, The Today Show, Good Morning America, MacNail/Lehrer Newshour, Washington Week in Review, CNN's Talk Back Live, CNBC and C-SPAN. He has recently written a book titled, The Affirmative Action Debate, with contributions from President Bill Clinton and Cornel West. A book signing and reception in the Quiet Lounge will immediately follow the program.
Kelly Watson, senior English major, won 6th place at the American Forensic Association's National Championship Speech Tournament.
Watson competed against a field of 108 competitors in her event, Communication Analysis speaking, during a three-day tournament at the University of Texas-Arlington. More than 475 students from 112 colleges and universities attended the national tournament.
Watson is a member of Truman's Forensics Team and president of the University's Pi Kappa Delta chapter, a national speech and debate honorary.
This was Watson's second appearance at the AFA national tournament; she and has attended two other national tournaments in the four years she has competed at Truman.
The AFA tournament is considered to be the most competitively difficult of the four major collegiate national speech tournaments because of its qualification procedures. In order to qualify for the national tournament, Watson earned high ranks at three regular season tournaments.
Watson was the only member of the Truman speech team to qualify for the 1997 AFA tournament.
Twenty-eight Truman students will travel to Costa Rica this summer through an eight-week study abroad program directed by Vera Gomez-Piper, assistant professor of Spanish.
While in Costa Rica, the students will attend daily classes and live with Costa Rican families in the city of Alajuela. They will also get to visit the beaches, tropical rain forests and volcanos of the Central American country.
One of the highlights of the trip is a visit to the Bri-Bri Indian Reservation. The students will have the opportunity to spend the Fourth of July at the American Embassy. Participants will also meet with authors and politicians, as well as a visit with the president of Costa Rica.
Faculty, Staff, Students to Organization The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at Truman initiated 63 faculty, staff and students to its organization on April 13.
Phi Kappa Phi is the oldest and largest national honor society which recognizes and encourages superior scholarship in all academic disciplines. Established in 1897, it has high academic standards, electing from the upper 5 percent of the students who have reached the final period of their junior year, the upper 10 percent of senior students and outstanding graduate students, alumni and faculty.
At the ceremony, Kelly Renee Barbour was recognized for receiving a $7,000 Phi Kappa Phi national fellowship for graduate studies.
Each of the past five years, Truman nominees have either won the award or received honorable mention. Barbour had to meet the qualifications of having a GPA in the top 10 percent of her senior class and be planning to pursue graduate study.
This year's faculty and staff initiates Phi Kappa Phi include David Christiansen, Adam Brooke Davis, Michael A. McManis and Heidi Crist Templeton.
The new senior student initiates are Cassandra M. Anders, James T. Bang, Kevin Bauer, Eric J. L. Blankenship, Kelli J. Brady, Erin K. Burns, James E. Cecil, Damara Illene Crist, Colby Dickinson, Jerritt Farrar, Darren W. Glosemeyer, Gerald J. Good, Gwendolyn A. Habel, Stephanie Nadine Jelks, Jennifer M. Johnson, Kenna Kathleen Johnson, Scott Kreher, Laura C. Krom, Sarah M . Lucas, Amy L. Peterson, Lisa Lynn Roberts, Bridget Kathryn Scheve, Staci M. Verman, Jennifer Wallace, Michael Watson, Jr. and Jennifer R. Wheelehon.
Junior student initiates are Kristen L. Aggeler, Matthew Ahlers, Jason Ward Beckfield, Timothy J. Bierbaum, Michael D. Bokermann, Rebecca Anne Bryan, Rong Chen, Patrick Cross, Carrie Ann Erwin, Lynn Evenhouse, Leslie Graff, Janine M. Hall, Kristin Anne Juul, E. Kyle Kelley, Tracy L. Kelly, Mary E. Kissel, Thomas M. Lancaster, Amanda Lee Lybarger, Skylar Ann Martin, Amanda F. Mechlin, Diane H. Meissen, Jennifer Lin Meyer, Trisha A. Okuna, Cathe Renee Pence, Shelly Russell, Matthew J. Siemer, Karin Dawn Stolenberg, Joanna L. Tucker, Tamra L. Wells, Meredith L. Wiecher, Rebecca R. Winfrey, Anna M. Worrell and Sara Beth Younger.
Also at the initiation ceremony, Thomas Michael Landcaster and Lynn Joanne Evenhoust were each honored with a $250 MaGee/Korslund/Phi Kappa Phi Junior Scholarship.
Alpha Delta Kappa is offering a $300 annual scholarship to a graduate of Des Moines County high schools who is already committed to becoming an educator. College freshmen through seniors may apply. The application deadline is May 9.
The Stephen Bufton Memorial Education Fund is offering one interest- free loan ($2,000 maximum) and one $1,200 grant to any female college student who is a resident of Saline County. Candidates should have completed 60 semester credit hours and have achieved a 2.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Application materials are due May 15.
The Air and Waste Management Association's Midwest Section is offering a $1,000 scholarship for the 1997-98 academic year. Individuals must be full- or part-time students pursuing courses of study and research leading to careers in air pollution control and/or waste management at the start of the academic year. Application materials are due May 30.
The Kansas City Society of CPCU is offering the Percy S. Lorie Scholarship for students who have completed at least 90 credit hours and are majoring in an insurance related field. Applicants should submit material by Aug. 1.
For more information on any of these scholarships or for applications, contact the Financial Aid Office, McClain Hall 103
"Puppy Love for Tally," an Alpha Sigma Alpha philanthropic event, will be April 21-26 from 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in front of the Student Union and Wal-Mart. Donations are needed for the Kirksville Humane Society and can be given to volunteers walking dogs.
An interdisciplinary mediation workshop is being offered May 12-23 for three- credit hours in communication, history or psychology. Interested students should see Ann Ellsworth, Mondays, 1:30-3:30 p.m., or Wednesdays, 9:30- 11:30 a.m. for a yellow card.
Tutors are needed for one nine-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy with deficiencies in basic math and language skills. Positions start immediately and continue through summer. Interested individuals should contact Sherry Sizemore at 665-2076.
The Multicultural Affairs Center is seeking students to participate in Montage III, a multicultural Freshman Week program. Students interested in acting or technical support should pick up a survey form at the Center, Adair Building.
Garden plots are available at the University Farm. If interested, contact Mark Campbell at 785-4280 or send a note with name, address and phone number to 162 Barnett Hall, Science Division. Participants should indicate whether they would prefer a 150- or 300-square foot plot, organic or non- organic. Participants will be notified of plot assignment when they are ready.
EKKLESIA and the Filmore Street Church of Christ will host a session of Christian evidences at 7 p.m. April 21 in SUB 5. Charles Fry, of Bakersfield, Calif., will be the speaker. For more information, contact Barry Poyner at 785-4063.
The 10th Annual Secretaries' Teleconference will begin at 11:15 a.m. April 23 in the SUB Activities Room. There will be a pasta buffet lunch with President Magruder speaking at 11:45 a.m. and the teleconference will run through 2 p.m. The teleconference is free; to RSVP, call 785-4545.
If any office or organization is planning to have an on-campus student return early in the fall (between Aug. 17-22), that office or organization is responsible for the student's room and board. Also, in order to have the room cleaned and to accommodate the resident, Residential Living needs to know the full name and social security number of the student returning in writing. The information must be submitted to Kirk Building 112 by July 28. No exceptions will be made.
May is Better Speech and Hearing Month. For information, call the American Speech and Hearing Association at (800) 638- TALK.
The 1997 Leadership Recognition Program will be April 23 at 7 p.m. in the SUB Georgian Room. All faculty, staff and students are invited and refreshments will be served. The program recognizes outstanding leadership and service throughout the campus community. Tracy Knofla will speak about "Valuing Involvement." Knofla is the co-owner and a featured speaker for TRYangle Training. She has traveled extensively across the United States offering people her motto, "If it's not fun, I'm not doing it." She is adamant that training is serious business that doesn't have to be serious.
The University League is having its last meeting of the school year on April 26 at 11 a.m. in the SUB Spanish Room. Guest speaker Steve Salt will present "Vegetable Gardening." Elections for 1997-98 school year, will also take place. Music will be provided by Margo Jones, flutist, and Jenny Crabb, pianist. The luncheon will cost $6 per person. Child care will be provided at a cost of $1 per child ($2 maximum). For reservations, call Amy Huston, 627-9624, or Colleen Gooch, 627-0215.
The Fine Arts Department is hosting a faculty cello recital April 26 at 8 p.m. in the SUB Activities Room by Lawrence Stomberg, assistant professor of cello and bass. Works by Barriere, Siskind, Debussy and Shostakovich will be performed. Stomberg will be joined by Eun-Joo Kwak, assistant professor of piano, and Jennifer Crowell Stomberg on the cello.
The Wesley House is having a rummage sale April 26 from 8 a.m. to noon at 903 S. Davis. There will be furniture, household items, albums, books and more.
Jim Barnes, writer-in-residence and professor of comparative literature, has been invited to give a presentation of his poetry and prose at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) on May 12. He has also been invited to be a presenter at the 20th Annual Festival of French and English Poetry, to be held in Paris in May. Paris, a book of poems by Barnes, has just been published by the University of Illinois Press.
Juniors Heather Burgess and Heath Moylan presented their course papers and personal reflections on the interdisciplinary course, "Constructing Madness: Literature and Sociology," with their professors, Keith Doubt, associate professor of sociology, and Betsy Otten-Delmoni, associate professor of English, at the Midwest Sociological Society Meeting in Des Moines, Iowa.
Douglas Davenport, assistant professor of justice systems, presented two papers, "Environmental Constraints and Organizational Outcomes: The Case of Municipal Police Departments" and "Big City and Little City Police: Organizational Distinctives," at the annual Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences meeting in Louisville, Ky.
Truman's chapter of Delta Zeta Sorority was honored with several regional awards for 1996. The chapter was named Outstanding Chapter for large chapters among chapters in Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. The chapter also received the Scholarship Award for Outstanding Academic Program and the Evelyn Omstead Award for the best new member program. In addition, Jennifer Bosshardt and Jennifer Van Winkle received awards for outstanding recording and corresponding secretaries, respectively. Among all-size chapters, Delta Sigma Chapter was recognized for membership grade point average above the all women's average and other sorority averages on campus. The group received a certificate for 100 percent initiation, for maintaining quota and total for six years and for outstanding programming.
Angela Ellis, senior history major, presented her paper, "The Provice of Ladies: Mercy Otis Warren and Her View on Gender Roles," at the Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association in New Orleans. Also presenting were senior history majors Jeffrey Hartnett, "Lincoln and his Changing Attitude Toward the Peculiar Institution," Jennifer Orey, "Southern Romanticism: Trying Popularing Literature Culture Ideals in the Old South," and Rena Vannoy, "Greed and Goodwill: Portuguese Intervention on the Gold Coast of Africa."
David Fortney, assistant professor of journalism, has been named Missouri Student Media Adviser of the Year by the Missouri College Media Association at its annual meeting in Kansas City. Fortney is the adviser of three student publications at Truman: the Index, Echo and the newly created community magazine Detours.
Elizabeth Kelly, senior communication major, has been invited to represent the Truman chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at the 1997 Ted Scripps Leadership Retreat in Greencastle, Ind., from July 11 to 13. She is one of 50 attendees selected from SPJ chapters around the nation. The retreat focuses on building leadership and team skills for future SPJ chapter leaders.
Lucy Lee, associate professor of Spanish, and Gregg Siewert, associate professor of French, attended the March 13-15 conference titled "Rethinking the Purposes and Practices of Foreign Language Education" in Charleston, S.C., and sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. They also met in two sessions with foreign language colleagues of COPLAC institutions on March 15-16 and toured the College of Charleston's foreign language computer labs.
Ruth Mach, vice president of the Board of Governors and a 1958 Truman graduate, was named the St. Louis Suburban Principals' Association distinguished principal. In March, she was honored by the Missouri Association of Elementary School Principals as a distinguished elementary principal. She was recently the focus of a feature story, "Area Principal Gets Pat on the Back," in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Mach has been principal of Meramec Elementary School in the Clayton School District for 14 years.
Fontaine Piper, director of health and exercise science, has been named USA Triathlon's Midwest Regional Federation official of the year designation for 1996. This honor is the highest the federation recognizes at the regional level for officiating.