The UCF Report, Vol. 06 No. 37, May 16, 1984

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The UCF Report
Volume 6, Number 37
for the Faculty and Staff
Wednesday, May 16, 1984
Ellis lists
promotions
for faculty
Leslie Ellis, provost and vice president
of Academic Affairs, announces the following faculty promotions, f^ective
Aug. 3, 1984:
To professor — John J. Brennan,
Physics Department, Arts & Sciences;
Llewellyn M. Ehrhart,'Biological Sciences, Arts & Sciences; Peter L. Gillet,
Marketing, Business Administration;
Patricia C. Manning, Educational
Foundations, Education, and Fred L.
Raffa, Economics, Business
Administration.
To associate professor — Donna
Baumbach, Educational Services, Education; Delorys M. Blume, Educational
Foundations, Education; Terry L. Campbell, Accounting, Business Administration; Rosie Joels, Instructional Programs, Education.
Also, Donald C. Malocha, Electrical
Engineering, Engineering; William W.
McCartney, Management, Business
Administration; Gary W. Orwig, Educational Services, Education, and E. Theodore Veit, Finance, Business
Administration.
Canadians give
Library backruns
of paper, magazine
The Canadian Consulate in Atlanta
has purchases backruns of the Toronto
Globe and Mail newspaper and
McLean's, a newsweek magazine, to
give to UCF Libraries.
Director Anne Marie Allison, said the
Atlanta Consulate serves the southeastern U.S. and the only other institution recognized by the consulate is Duke
University, which also has a Canadian
Studies program.
Consulate spokesman, Jeffrey Smith,
said the Canadian Government was
impressed by the fine work of Henry
Kennedy (professor/Political Science),
the director of UCF's Canadian Studies.
At their recent annual meeting UCF
Women's Club made a contribution so
the Library could buy a special cabinet
to house the microform backrun
donated by the Canadian Government.
Doris O'Hara, outgoing Women's Club
president, said she was pleased to show
a donor that the UCF community recognized the external contribution with a
matching local gift.
Crew pair places
fourth in nation,
women's 8, fifth
The two man rowing team from UCF
came in fourth in the Small College
National Championships of Rowing at
Philadelphia on Saturday, May 12.
Women's junior varsity eight took
fifth in their event.
Dennis Kamrad, coach of crew at UCF
for 12 years, took 40 students to Philia-
delphia and they entered five events.
Three of the teams, all in boat crews
of eight, missed by one place making
the finals. These included women's varsity, men's freshman and men's varsity.
April grants signal summer research
Research grants that came through
the Division of Sponsored Research in
April signal the call of faraway places.
A National Science Foundation grant
of $64,357 is a continuing one that a
husband-wife team of archeologists
bring with them to UCF now, although
they will not have classes on campus
until the Fall term.
Diane Chase, from Princeton, and
Arlen Chase, of the University of Pennsylvania, get the NSF grant for their
continuing study of a Mayan city,
Caracol, in Belize. Caracol's existence
Belated thanks
Since UCF passed its own fund-raising goal last fall, and since that
helped United Way of Orange County, Inc. to surpass its goal of
support for nearly 70 social service agencies in the community,
Kim Dehler (left) and Marcia Gonzalez (right), president and vice
president of the Barry Manilow Fan Club, called on UCF President
Trevor Colbourn to convey a special thank you. Manilow didn't get
a kiss, but gets mentioned because he donated his song, "One
Voice," to United Way. P.S.: The next fund drive begins Sept. 25,
1984.
"Newpeople"and "newideas"
are new goals of Staff Council
President Marti Lyon last week
pleaded for "new people" and "new
ideas," to keep up the momentum that
gave the Staff Council a very successful
year in supporting the Career Service
role at UCF.
As promised, the annual Staff
Assembly, held in the President's Board
Room, Tuesday, May 8, started and
ended within 45 minutes, summed up
the year's accomplishments, and
extended challenge and hope for the
future.
The planned speaker, President Trevor Colbourn, was in Tallahassee. Vice
President of Business Affairs Phil Goree
reported that Colbourn and Associate
Vice President Alan Fickett, the University's legislative liaison, were meeting
in Tallahassee with their counterparts
from other state universities on Career
Service salaries.
"We hope that out of these efforts the
governor and legislative leaders will
recognize the contribution Career Service employees make to the state university system," he said.
He promised to let the employees
know when there is a bill on salaries
pending so that as individuals, Career
Service employees could let their legislators know how they feel.
Some of the highlights of the past
year recounted by Lyon.
1 — Sick leave pool implemented that
know has more than 300 employees
participating.
2 - A charter change to allow permanent representation on Staff Council by
area campus workers.
3 — Fall and spring fashion shows.
4 — Showing of an educational film on
Proposition One.
5 — Initiating a "no smoking" lounge
per building.
6 — Establishing an annual reception
for retirees.
7 — The largest ever awards banquet.
There were 108 employees recognized
for time in service and 20 year awards
will be given next year.
8 — $100 given to the police escort
service.
"We are becoming more visible. Our
efforts have received more publicity
with more stories in the UCF Report this
year. For years the interest in the Staff
Council has been minimal. We hope we
got across to you the need to get more
attention," Lyon said.
Dr. Robert Harman, director of the
Counseling Center, spoke about stress
on the job, how to recognize it and ways
to avoid it. He advised that counseling
at his office is available to Career Service employees, as well as students.
Goree opened, and closed the 1 3th
Staff Assembly
has been known since 1 938 and Arlen
Chase has been studying it since 1950.
The Chases have the sole digging
permit for Caracol. Artifacts that have
been allowed to leave the country have
gone to a museum in Philadelphia.
Harvey Miller (professor/Biological
Sciences) has a $56,1 29 NSF grant to
continue his study of mosses and liverworts in Melanesia. He and an associate will island hop by local airline in
the Republic of Vanuatu collecting
samples.
Dr. Miller's grant started last year and
that summer was spent merely preparing for the current field trip. Another
year of field collecting will be needed
after this one, he said.
Other research funding for April
included: R. L. Arnold, Instructional
Resources, $3,600 for audio-visual services for ADVICE Inc.; P. R. McQuilkin,
Undergraduate Studies, $22,400 from
various sources for support of a program to give gifted high school students
a college experience on campus.
Also, F. A. Pinder and J. W. Gracey,
Cooperative Education, $6,000, Florida
Department of Education, for a computerized vocational counseling project to
assist students in career decisions; L. H.
Armstrong, Mathematics, FL/DOE
$19,493 for development of test items
for a college-level academic skills project.
Also, K. Z. Keller, English, $2,506
from National Endowment for Humanities for support to attend a seminar on
mythical structures in literary satire; D.
T. Kuhn, Biological Sciences, $3,200
from NATO for study of gene controlling
enzyme pattern formation in imaginal
discs in fruit flies.
Kuhn also received $2,400 from the
American Cancer Society for summer
research fellowships for medical and
pre-baccalaureate students; Abraham
Pizam and R. J. Calantone, Tourism
Studies, $7,499 for market research
survey for Cypress Gardens; W. E.
Rodriguez-Ramos, Civil Engineering,
$7,187 from UCF/EIES for development
of an elementary computer graphics
electronic spread sheet module for construction projects.
Also, H. C. Towle, Electrical Engineering, $9,245 from UCF/EIES for review
of LISP and OPSS for artificial intelligence research, and F. O. Simons, Electrical Engineering, $9,748 from Electronic Associates Inc. for research on
new algorithms to improve the computational effectivity of a dynamic systems
analysis program.
UCF Report goes
on summer mode
This is the first edition on the summer
schedule for the UCF Report. There will
be seven more biweekly editions.
The Aug. 22 edition will be the last of
the biweeklies. Start of the Fall term on
Aug. 20 signals the return to a weekly
schedule.
Future summer edition will be dated
May 30, June 13, June 27, July 11,
July 25, Aug. 8 and Aug. 22.
Deadline for summer editions will be
noon on Fridays, May 25, June 8, June
22, July 6, July 20, Aug. 3 and Aug. 17.