The UCF Report, Vol. 11 No. 16, February22, 1989

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Volume 11, Number 16
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February 22,1989
Scholarship started
Mary Gross, wife of the late Leslie M. Gross, former purchasing director, university business manager and research director, is pictured with
UCF President Trevor Colbourn as she presented $10,465 to start an
endowment fund in his honor. A sophomore student in the College of
Engineering who is in the ROTC program will be chosen this spring to
receive the first award of $800 in Fall 1989. Friends of the two are still
making contributions to the Colonel Leslie M. Gross Award, she said.
Gross served in the US Army Corps of Engineers from 1941 to 1968,
retired to Seminole County and served UCF from 1968 to 1988.
Engineers Fair on Friday shows
many uses of a vital profession
Engineers Fair this year will be celebrated on campus inside and outside of
CEBA-1 Building, beginning with an outside address by the president of the
Florida Engineering Society at 12:30
p.m. on Friday of this week.
Kermit Prime, a 1972 industrial engineering graduate of UCF, will be introduced by Dean Gary Whitehouse for the
opening of fun demonstrations of a usually serious profession. Prime, now regional vice president of Boyle Engineering, will talk about the importance of the
engineering profession and of education
to enter it.
After the address at the door of the
Engineering Building (CEBA-I) visitors
and people who work and study on campus are invited to walk by tables of exhibits both inside and outside the building to get a better idea of what goes on
in UCF's classrooms, institutes and
centers, the related clubs and societies, as well as nearby industries that
use graduate engineers.
Mixed among the educational displays
will be fun opportunities, both for participants and observers. A dunking booth
will feature faculty and other well-known
personalities.
The best-known event of past Engineers Fair has been the egg drop, and
this year it will take place at the southeast wall of the four-story CEBA-I at 3
p.m. High school students and UCF students will compete separately in building
a package that will allow an egg to be
dropped from the roof to the turf without
breaking.
There will be contests for paper airplanes and mousetrap cars, and a mystery event to test the students' skills.
More than 100 area high school students affiliated with the Southeast Consortium for Minorities in Engineering will
join in the fun and get a first-hand look
at engineering education in action.
Exhibitors representing three dozen
corporations, societies, clubs and institutes Will be on hand from 1 to 5 p.m.
Nominations due
for researcher '89
Nominations for the UCF Distinguished Researcher -1989 award must
be submitted to the Vice President for
Research by March 1. The honor, formerly called Researcher of the Year
award, will be determined by the Research Council.
No more than one nomination in research or creative scholarship will be
accepted from each college, with the
exception of Arts & Sciences, which
may submit two. Florida Solar Energy
Center and the Institute for Simulation
and Training may each submit one.
Each college and institute will select
its nominee through a peer review procedure based on nominations from faculty, students , alumni and self-
nomination.
BLOOD DRIVE
The Spring Blood Donor Drive will be
held on Wednesday and Thursday,
March 22 and 23, from 10 a.m. until
5 p.m. Central Florida Blood Bank Inc.
will have mobile units on campus to accept contributions from students, faculty, A&P and staff employees.
Meetings today and Friday
advance field to 10 (or 12)
candidates for president
The search for UCF's next president
picks up speed this week when the
Search Advisory Committee studies the
field of 31 names advanced by Chancellor Charles B. Reed and reports its evaluation to the Regents' Selection Committee.
Both committees will meet on campus
in open sessions this week.
Today (Wednesday, Feb. 22) at 1:30
p.m., the Search Advisory Committee,
chaired by Finance Professor David F.
Scott Jr., will meet in the President's
Dining Room to evaluate the pool of candidates with an eye to identifying the 10
to 12 who will be invited to the interviews. Vice Chancellor William Shade
will be.present.   Shade is the BOR representative who spent time on campus
in the fall explaining to different groups
the presidential selection process.
Scott said that his committee of 33
members is not limited to the 31 names
recommmended by the chancellor when
he reports to the Board of Regents'
committee on Friday.
The Regents' Selection Committee
meets in the President's Dining Room at
9a.m.on Friday and Chancellor Reed is
expected to be present. BOR Chairman, Joan Ruffier, serves as chairman,
and UCF Student Regent Jackie Goigel,
Charles B. Edwards Sr. of Ft. Myers,
Pat N. Groner of Pensacola, and Raul P.
Masvidal of Miami, are the members.
The whole search committee has been
invited to attend the selection committee's meeting when the Regents' group,
advised by the chancellor, arrives at a
list of 10 to 12 candidates who will be invited to campus for first round videotaped interviews.
The interviews are expected to take
place on the first three days of March,
leading to invitations for about five to return for follow-up interviews. A final
choice is expected by April 1.
Everything will be done under full public scrutiny, Scott said, including the final interviews when there will be a general meeting when everybody interested
may attend to see and hear the candidates.
The Board of Regents is expected to
make a final choice about April 1.
(See list of 31 on Page 5)
Ann Landers
keynoter for
Women's Clinic
Ann Landers, legendary syndicated
advice columnist, will be the keynote
speaker for the 16th annual Women's
Enrichment Clinic, to be held at Orlando's downtown Expo Center on April 20.
Sessions ranging from how to throw
the perfect party to financial investment
planning head the list of topics for the
clinic, sponsored by the Orange County
Medical Society Auxiliary and the Office
of the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at UCF.
UCF's Carol Wilson, program coordinator, encourages interested parties to
register early as the annual event is "always a sellout." Individuals will choose
three sessions from a list of nine topics
available on the registration form.
Landers will kick off the event at 9
a.m. The $15 registration fee includes
the keynote address, three sessions,
lunch prepared by the OMNI International Hotel and refreshment breaks.
For information call Wilson at x2824.
QUOTABLES
Unless a man undertakes more than
he possibly can do he will never do all
that he can.
-Henry Drummond
What most folks need is an alarm
clock that will ring when it's time for
them to rise to the occasion.
Footprints in the sands of time were
not made sitting down.
ANN LANDER;
UCFs AFROTC
tops on inspection
Captain Dana N. Willis, TSgtTim Beavers and SSgt Bill Dennehy were named
"Professional Performers" during a unit
effectiveness inspection of UCF's Air
Force ROTC detachment.
Willis was cited for his efforts in the
detachment's recruiting program. Beavers is responsible for cadet personnel
and pay records and no errors were
found in over 100 cadet records. Dennehy is responsible for all matters of
supply, budget and equipment at the
ROTC detachment.
This is the second consecutive inspection that the UCF AFROTC unit received the top rating an inspection team
can give. Only one other unit in the nation got a comparable rating from the
early February inspections.