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William Kelso- 1988 CLAS teacher of the year
Page 1 Diamonds are forever Page 2 Page 3 Blueprint for saving tropical forest Page 4 Page 5 Be my guest Page 6 Faculty news Page 7 Scenes from campus Page 8 Page 9 From the desk of Charles E. Sidman, Dean Page 10 CLAS baccalaureate Page 11 Development news Page 12 Page 13 Alumni news Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 |
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A Touch of CLAS SUMMER 1988 NES FRMTECLEEO LIEALRSADSINESA THE UNVRST OF FORID William Kelso-1988 CLAS Teacher of the Year Dr. William Kelso, always a popular teacher in the College, was se- lected as Teacher of the Year for 1987-88. This is the second time he has re- ceived this honor. In 1977 he was chosen as the College's outstanding teacher, and was a finalist in 1981, '82 and '86. This award, given in acknowledgement of teaching excellence, is presented annually to an outstanding faculty member by the College Student Council. Professors are nominated by CLAS students, then ob- served in the classroom and voted on by members of the Teaching Excellence Com- mittee of the Student Council. William Kelso, an Associate Professor of Political Science, teaches undergraduate and graduate level Public Administration courses, and is known to his students for his sense of humor, warmth, and commit- ment to teaching. He laces his lectures with humor and actively encourages stu- dent involvement in class. He simply en- joys teaching. "Being a professor," he said, "is a lot like being in a Broadway play. When you have a good session, you come out feeling great, knowing you had a good day teaching." Dr. Kelso feels that a good classroom environment is essential to learning; if it is positive, the students will be more attentive to lectures, and show a greater interest in learning the material. Initially planning a career in the law, Dr. Kelso decided to become a teacher after his junior year at Stanford University. Dur- ing that summer, he had a job teaching bi- ology in Portuguese Macao. "After all," he said, "being a Political Science major, my knowledge of biology was rather exten- sive; whatever page I had assigned to the students for the following day I made a point of reading the night before...always keeping one page ahead of the students. The first day I walked into class, all the kids stood up and called me 'Sir.' Well, I'd never been called Sir before, and was quite embarrassed. I asked them to in- stead call me Bill. My students were very polite and formal. So after the first day, they called me 'Bill Sir'. Sir had become my surname. With so much respect, I had to go into this profession of teaching, and I've been teaching ever since." After earning his Ph.D. in Political Sci- ence from the University of Wisconsin in 1974, he joined the Department of Social Sciences in University College (which later merged with Arts and Sciences to become CLAS), and became a member of the De- partment of Political Science in 1975. Shortly after, Dr. Manning Dauer, Depart- ment Chairman, appointed him Director of the new graduate level Public Adminis- tration Program. In 13 years, Dr. Kelso has created a public administration program at UF that has been extraordinarily suc- cessful in placing students throughout Florida and beyond. Many of his former graduate students now hold high-level po- sitions in city, county and state govern- ments. They still keep in touch-writing, phoning, and visiting when they are in Gainesville. They often come back as guest speakers to lecture before his classes and share their experiences. "We have so many graduates who are tremendously successful," he reported. "We get a lot of bright, capable people in the PA program, and most of them go on and do extremely well." Teaching as a profession has three pri- mary benefits, he explained. Watching your students develop through the years, and then after graduation go on to good careers is quite rewarding. The response of students in a good class is in itself exhil- arating. And, teaching keeps you young. "As an example," he said, "if I were not a Professor I would probably think U 2 was an American spy plane that had been shot down over Russia, rather than a rock group; or I would think that heavy metal was a new kind of steel rather than a kind of music. Of course, there's a down side to that. Time passes so quickly. Last semester a young man came up to me and said ,'My father says hello. You had him as a student years ago.' My first reaction was that this was a child prodigy standing before me who had skipped junior and senior high school. But I figure I'm in good shape be- cause it will probably be another 15 or 20 years before someone comes up and says 'my grandfather says hello."' Dr. Kelso also keeps young by learning and doing new things. He will soon teach in areas outside Public Administration and is currently preparing a new course on urban design and land use planning, a course with emphasis on the structure and appearance of cities, complete with field trips. Another course on political theory, an analysis of the morality of political is- sues, is being planned. This summer, he is writing a book on poverty. The book will offer a comprehensive review and analy- sis of the different theories of poverty. "Policies dealing with poverty," he ex- plained, "vary according to the theory of its cause. Little work has been done to date on this connection." He likes to spend his free time white wa- ter rafting and snorkeling, two newly ac- quired hobbies. He recently discovered white water rafting while on a trip to Can- ada, and tried snorkeling in Key West, Florida. His goals are to go white water rafting down the Grand Canyon and snor- (continued on p. 6) 2 Diamonds Are Forever by Harriet Bennetts When we mine for treasures of fac- ulty activity in this College, there's an embarrassment of riches: what we respond to is a sparkling and a glittering from the walls of Aca- demia-an air of excitement, a thrill of something unusually fine growing there. We started hearing about Linda Jackson months ago (and she's only been on cam- pus for a year and a half)-in echos from the caverns (in the basements of Turlington Hall) wherein the secretaries dwell, steadily growing murmurs of admi- ration, indications of excellence. As we raised our jeweler's loupe to focus upon Dr. Jackson, we realized that her re- search work is concerned, to a large de- gree, with a part of the world that evokes painful feelings; it is so often the site of events and situations that are beyond our ability to comprehend. We find it difficult to understand the intricacies of those countries' politics, and to contemplate the toll in human lives resulting from conflicts of warring factions. The continent, so huge, has problems of equal size, and we don't know how to define them, much less what attitude or steps to take, if any, to help. So we see Africa through dark clouds-a pall which obscures its size, its incredible diversity, and its promise- realized and yet-to-be. But now we can see parts of it more clearly, because Dr. Jackson's positive atti- tude and fresh approach give us new eyes. Her summary of proposed research from a recent (successful) grant proposal puts Dr. Jackson's work in perspective for us: "Var- iation and selection, as proposed by Darwin, remain the cornerstones of our thinking about evolution. Darwin's advo- cacy of evolution by gradual change, how- ever, has been a subject of recent contro- versy. A number of scientists have proposed a more sporadic, uneven tempo to evolution. Indeed, recent studies have concluded that transmission of a learned behavior can increase the rate of major ge- netic change... a related hypothesis of par- ticular relevance for humans is that certain dietary practices can accelerate the change in gene frequencies of human evolution." Dr. Ronald Cohen, her colleague and also an anthropologist and Africanist of the first rank, describes one of those "die- tary practices" on which her research fo- cuses: "She looked at something that was really quite traumatic-the sub-lethal doses of cyanide in their food, cassava. Be- cause you can't leech all of it out, they have been getting little bits of cyanide for countless generations. Those people who would've been seriously harmed by it probably did not reproduce..,so those populations had linked to this food ecol- ogy, and it might've strengthened their im- munological systems." (For example, those who eat more cassava than rice as part of their carbohydrate intake are less susceptible to sickle-cell anemia, because the cyanogens break the sickle bond. That increases the life of the red blood cell, thus decreasing the amount of anemia.) Dr. Jackson sums up the findings thus far: "Eating cassava (also known as manioc, or yuca), as long as it's part of a balanced diet, has been beneficial. In fact, it may en- hance immunity; it may reduce high blood pressure; it might have some beneficial ef- fects as far as malaria, or schistosomiasis, goes. There are probably also some detri- mental effects-just like anything else. There's no free lunch in the world. There's a cost, and a benefit." Another area of her research that bears little relation to cassava consumption is the problem of (non-sickle-cell) anemia in pregnant women. The primary cause seems to be their adherence to dietary ta- boos of long cultural standing, some of which exclude the needed foods. But the future is bright because, Dr. Jackson says, "There seems to be a growing body of ed- ucated, very competent Africans who are working in their own countries, who have a ready and intimate understanding of the traditional dietary patterns, and they are not locked into a commitment to change the traditional diet to a Western diet." Linda Jackson is herself a product of the Western World. Her history as an Ameri- can, and as a Black American, gives us ma- jor clues about her personal evolution. Dr. Jackson, who is a third generation Colo- radan, told us: "My father's people came out from Missouri after the Civil War, part of a group of African Americans that set up a series of townships in western Kan- sas and eastern Colorado. When the rail- road came to Denver, it ended up absorb- ing many of the farmers who were just not making it, with their 40 acres and a mule and no fertilizer. There were none of the technological advancements that we now have to make that a semi-viable agricul- tural region. If I could be half as tenacious I ""I'm confident that in the end we oll w1ii finally have the answers, but meanwhile the adventure of dis- covery and the insights that come with it-those are the main things that compel me, and the potential to do some mod.100 *- ....,, r .I% f as my ancestors, I'd be doing well...I've been really blessed with good family background, good family support (includ- ing her husband, also a Ph.D., and five children)." Another facet of the person reflects her light in a different way-her religious be- liefs. A practicing Muslim, she says, "I was raised a Christian, and I found it to be a very beautiful and good religion...but Is- lam provided answers to some of the ad- ditional questions I had...and so for me Islam was a continuation of Christianity. I was reading the Bible, then I also started reading the Koran-as a scholar, because I was working in a part of Africa where there were more or less equal numbers of Muslims and Christians. I had noticed, among the pregnant women at the health center where we were working, that the Mandingo women and the Fulani women carried themselves with such pride ...there was a kind of sense of self worth and stoicism that made them mag- nificent! And I thought, well maybe it has to do with their belief system. For me it's brought a lot of stability, a more egalitar- ian view on life and a more advanced perspective on human variability. Because it is very explicit-the Koran is- about the equality of Humankind, and that we're created different so that we'll get to know each other, not so that we would despise each other." Taking into ac- count her sophistication and tolerance for different cultures, we still wondered how an academic born, bred, and trained in the United States could adjust to the some- what different pace of life in Africa. Dr. Jackson explained: "I've learned, over the last ten years maybe, to be more patient, and that things happen in their time, not in my time.. .and not to try to impose my views on the situation." She adds, "Travel- ing and living in a place, in another cul- ture, and learning the language and cus- toms, makes you no longer solely a citizen of your own country; it doesn't make you a citizen of that other country either...but I kind of feel that the whole world be- longs to me, that I can go anyplace and that I can find good people anywhere, and that no place is completely satisfying or completely hopeless." Such an equable attitude should con- tribute to the success of future re- search projects, whose directions Dr. Jackson describes: "I'd like to expand the research into more African countries. Be- cause of the ecological variation within Af- rica I'd like to make a contrast between regions in the savannah where cassava is eaten, or other foods that contain these natural sources of organic cyanogen, such as sorghum and yams. I'd like to contrast the tropical rainforest regions with the sa- vannah regions, to look at the wide range of health parameters that might be altered by the diet. The only way to really look at this evolutionally, to have continuity, is to integrate more Africans into the research. So one of my main goals is to work in- creasingly collaboratively with African sci- entists, to evaluate what role the diet plays in increasing susceptibilities to cer- tain diseases, decreasing them to certain other diseases, and them to try to develop theoretical models." The above plan of action would seem to carry with it many months of live-in research work, and the Jackson family has decreed that the next time she goes, they'll all go! She com- ments, "I'd like for them to come with me, now that I've kind of gone and staked out some territory.., especially, I'd like for my children to see the tremendous varia- bility within Africa. In this part of the world we speak of Africa as if it's a cul- tural and ecological monolith, but it's the most diverse continent in the world. It's a unique place, and it's the place of origin of our species. So it's an important place for all of us to see. We're all Africans!" There is no doubt in anyone else's mind that Linda Jackson is a gem of great value, but she views herself as "an experiment still in progress: the verdict is not in yet!" Maybe so, but it's crystal clear to us that diamonds are forever beautiful-especially in a setting of Orange and Blue. 3 Be My Guest... Blueprint for Saving Tropical Forest by Dr. Francis E. Putz (Reprinted, in a condensed version, from the March/April 1988 issue of Garden, and used with their permission.) Large tracts of old-growth forest re- main in the Amazon and Congo River Basins and elsewhere in the tropics, but the sad fact is that virtually all of them eventually will be exploited. Tropical forests are being logged even faster than they can be converted to plan- tations or even slash-and-burn agricultural fields. The reasons for this enormous destruc- tion are easy to find: Millions of people in the tropics depend on recently deforested land to grow crops; wood from forests cooks the food of millions of families; and the apparently insatiable international de- mand for low-cost high-grade tropical tim- ber encourages loggers to go far into the forest to extract valuable but scattered trees. Citizens of forested tropical coun- tries view timber as a valuable commod- ity-a means of financing schools, roads and hospitals, a source of funds for the im- port of modern technologies, and a re- source to enable a few individuals to accu- mulate vast wealth. Uncontrolled exploitation of forest has historically been the norm. Making the situation much worse, how- ever, is the current practice of logging in the absence of proper control. A carelessly logged forest looks as if a herd of bull- dozers had run amok: Valuable young growth is destroyed, the soil is so com- pacted that seedlings have difficulty estab- lishing themselves, and the proliferation of lianas (woody vines) and other weeds suppresses tree growth. Poorly planned roads and lack of buffer strips along water courses cause enormous soil loss, espe- cially on logged slopes. Conservationists are not going to halt logging in the tropics-the weight of his- tory and economic pressures are against them. But conservationists can work for better management of the forests that are logged. They can also seek a balance of logged, farmed and reserved land, a for- mula that will both benefit the country's economy and permit sustained harvest of its natural resources. The elements of sustainability In tropical countries with extensive for- est land, a reasonable approach to sustain- able forestry has three components: some areas for plantations; carefully managed logged natural forests; and large tracts left as reserves. Tree plantations have a major role to play in the economic development of many tropical countries. Providing wood, fuel, pulpwood and to lesser extent tim- ber, plantations are important to the wel- fare of millions of people. These stands of carefully planted and tended trees-usu- ally of all one species and with known sil- vicultural requirements-have the poten- tial to yield far more wood than the same amount of land in a managed natural for- est. Thus, they can take some of the ex- ploitation pressure off nature reserves if a government so determined, and off logged natural forests, making sustained yield possible. Many countries of the tropics, including Burma, Malaysia, Nigeria, Ghana, India, Trinidad and Surinam, have long histories of developing and using methods for man- aging natural forests for sustained yield. Now in some countries facing the choice of mining or managing their vast timber resources, there has been a revived enthu- siasm for low-intensity sustained yield of timber. Especially in countries where the human population pressure is not yet overwhelming, any selectively logged for- ests are now being allowed to regenerate. Tropical foresters are increasingly aware of their responsibility to increase timber production on these often remote and marginal lands. But with the growing in- terest in sustainable forest resources, for- esters need to develop management sys- tems for the wooded lands. Managing mixed forest Logging is generally selective in tropical countries having large areas of mixed-spe- cies forest. That is because among the multitude of tree species in tropical for- ests, only a few fetch high prices on the market; and these few are scattered throughout the complex forest. In many logging areas only two to six trees are taken from each acre. Timber felling and extraction can do se- rious damage in forests where extractors depend on "advanced growth"-that is, small trees growing up as the next timber crop. Studies conducted in Malaysia re- veal that during poorly managed logging operations, up to half of the small trees are damaged, and afterward weeds prolif- erate. Many lowland tropical rain forests 4 .it *,' are not well stocked with advanced- growth trees; logging them depletes an al- ready scarce resource. If advanced growth could remain un- scathed, however, logging could be consid- ered a forest-benefiting operation, because felling opens the canopy, bringing light to the forest floor, and reduces root competi- tion for water and nutrients. Hence, what successful tropical forest management must do is control the felling and timber extraction processes, to limit the damage to the remaining forest. Management may also require control of weeds and, some- times, the enhancement of tree growth by judicious thinning of competitors. One method that has the potential to minimize logging damage-extracting the logs via an overhead cable system-is too costly in forests where felling is selective. A better way is to require loggers to drop trees where they are unlikely to harm ad- vanced-growth trees. The impact of ex- traction trails can be minimized by using vehicles with rubber tires moving along selected paths. Forest management can also encompass overall forest-use techniques. One ap- proach is the "polycyclic" regime, in which timber is extracted gradually over a period of several decades. Under such a regime the forest retains the basic appear- ance, species composition and canopy structure of a natural community. Proper polycyclic management usually entails felling only the largest trees, killing dam- aged or poorly formed trees by poison gir- dling, and cutting lianas. A second cut is usually carried out 25 years or so after the initial felling. Polycyclic regimes work well where nu- merous intermediate-size trees of com- mercial species respond to a newly opened canopy by growing rapidly. Low- land and peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia seem particularly suitable. Because the aim is to get young trees to grow to commercial size, it is especially important to minimize logging damage. Where commercial species regenerate primarily from seed after forest distur- bance silviculturists turn to monocyclic management-timber extracted from small patches of forest in one intensive operation. Foresters can thin the canopy a year or so before the major cut, which en- courages seed production and the estab- lishment of seedlings. In tree species whose populations only produce large seed crops every few years, foresters should try to postpone felling until after a fruiting year. After logging, if there are enough seeds and seedlings and not too much logging damage, the young trees generally outcompete weeds. Forests managed for timber production should not be constructed as wildlife con- servation areas-but neither should they be seen as the death knell for many ani- mal species. In Malaysia, selective logging has been reported to benefit some species (e.g., elephants, gaurs, tapirs, bearded pigs and deer) but hurt others (gibbons, langurs and several other primate species, and rhi- noceroses). Twenty-five or so years after harvesting, Malaysia's logged forest sup- port mammal populations similar to those of unlogged forests. Several studies have shown that with selective logging, local extinction of even sensitive species can be avoided. Although most conservationists might prefer inviolate nature preserves, many would be pleasantly surprised by the spe- cies diversity, canopy structure and gen- eral ecological balance of properly man- aged tropical forests even only a few years after selective logging. New management approaches Forest research is now being conducted in many different parts of the tropics, and knowledge is rapidly accumulating about numerous tree species. Noteworthy new forestry projects are well under way in Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, to mention a few. Among these efforts are a study of the effects of different logging in- tensities on regeneration in the Tapajos National Forest in Brazil, and thinning studies in the Irobo Forest of the Ivory Coast. In Sarawak, Malaysia, foresters are pursuing a system called "liberation thin- ning," in which plants impeding the growth of selected trees are removed. Researchers are now working with local Amuesha Indians in the Palcazu Valley of Amazonian Peru to develop a sustainable forest management system based on clear cutting narrow (60-foot-wide) strips of for- est. Oxen pull out all the timber from the strip; large trees are sawn into planks in a small local mill, and the smaller tree trunks are pressure-treated with preserva- tives for use as fence posts. The ecological rationale for this variant of monocyclic cutting is that the strips are narrow enough to assure adequate seed dispersal from the adjacent forest but wide enough to provide adequate sunlight for the light- demanding fast-growing timber. With careful planning of strip locations, ade- quate rotation periods, and a diversity of local wood-based industries, the Amue- sha should be able to sustain themselves in the region without seriously degrading their resource base. The managing of tropical forests has be- gun to.emerge as a concern of major inter- national organizations. Recently the Insti- tute for Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico and UNESCO have sponsored interna- tional workshops on natural forest man- agement; and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank and international aid agencies from the U.S., Canada and several nations are all investing in tropical forest management. Better training for foresters Despite the new interest in managing natural forests, plantation forestry cur- rently receives the preponderence of fund for research and development. Unfortu- nately, most foresters have not been trained to appreciate the intricate ecology and multitude of plants of tropical forests, but have instead studied forestry in the temperate zone and learned a great deal about the cultivation of pine, spruce and eucalyptus. All too often such students have returned to the tropics motivated to "clear cut and plant pine." Another problem is the impossibility of having a single management system suit- able for all the world's tropical forests. Ecologists and silviculturists are becoming increasingly aware of the substantial vari- ation among forests-for example, the abundance of understory seedlings in some Southeast Asia forests as opposed to the lack of such seedlings in New World forests. And within any one forest there are likely to be some tree species that re- quire large openings for their regenera- tion, and others that die if the canopy over them is drastically disturbed. Forestry practices must depend on the biology of the desirable tree species. Are these species well represented by seed- lings, saplings and small trees? Do they re- quire full sun, tolerate shade or withstand (continued) Be My Guest (continued) fluctuating light conditions? Are they drought-sensitive and nutrient demand- ing? Are they likely to succumb to disease or to creatures that feed on them? In the tropics, these questions and many others need to be answered for an awe-inspiring number of tree species. Schools of forestry and international de- velopment agencies need to recognize and respond to the special requirements of tropical forest. Tropical silviculturalists, who need to learn how to manage diver- sity, should be trained in plant ecology and tree biology. Researchers should be encouraged to investigate the require- ments of lesser-known species. Much also remains to be learned about managing forest on sloping terrain. Re- search of the ecology of forest slopes is of utmost importance because in the future the relatively fertile plains will be used al- most exclusively for agriculture, with the forests relegated to the hills. The major impediment to sustained- yield tropical forest is not lack of silvicul- tural knowledge. The fundamental prob- lem is the desire for short-term economic gain without regard for long-term sus- tainability. Nevertheless, as resources di- minish, sustainability will emerge as a key issue. For tropical countries with exten- sive mixed-species forests, an ecologically and economically balanced approach to development is to allocate land to agricul- ture, plantations, managed natural forests and inviolate nature reserves. A combined plan of careful selective logging, judicious use of plantations and creation of reserves may go far toward preserving much of the diversity we so cherish. Dr. Francis E. Putz is an associate professor of Botany, and has been a member of the CLAS faculty since 1982. He received his Ph.D. in the biology of woody vines from Cornell University in 1981. He teaches courses on botany, plant ecology and tropical silvicul- ture. Research interests include tropical ecol- ogy and forest management, and cultural perceptions of tropical rain forest. He has conducted ecological research in the forests of Southeast Asia and Latin America. An ar- ticle entitled Tropical Rain Forest Images: Jungles in Western Art, Literature and Film, co-authored with graduate student N. Mi- chele Holbrook, will be included in a book soon to be published by the Smithsonian Institution. (1 to r) Associate Dean Anita Spring. Ellen Catherine Ham and Rebecca Robin MacNair. Not present is Mary Elizabeth Dougherty. Ellen Catherine Ham, a junior majoring in Criminology and Criminal Justice. has been awarded the 0. Ruth McQuown Scholarship for 1988-89. Named in honor of the late Dr. Ruth McQuown, long-time Associate Dean and Professor of Political Science, the scholarship is presented annually to an outstanding female student. Ms. Ham was presented with the scholarship during the Baccalaureate ceremony by Associate Dean Anita Spring. Receiving honorable mention were Rebecca Robin MacNair, a senior in Psychology, and Mary Elizabeth Dougherty. a senior in Romance Languages and Literatures. A Touch of CLAS A Touch of CLAS is published by the University of Flori- da's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences for its alumni and friends. Please send all correspondence to the edi- tor, 2014 Turlington Hall, University of Florida, Gaines- ville, FL 32611 or call 904/392-1516. Dean .............. .... Charles F Sidman Editor ................ ....... Linda Kahila Director of Development .......... .. Jim Palincsar Photographer ............... ..... .Kitty Powers Printing ................. Storter Printing Co., Inc. Teacher of the Year (continued from p. 1) keling on the Great Barrier Reef in Austra- lia. Although he claims that since he discov- ered snorkeling, his goal is to get a fulltime job with Jacques Cousteau, it is obvious his first love is teaching. And it is reciprocated with student respect and af- fection. During the April Baccalaureate ceremony, as Dr. Kelso received his Teacher of the Year Award from the Stu- dent Council President, he was greeted with a standing ovation from the gradu- ates. Sometimes, nice guys do finish first. by Linda Kahila New CLAS Dean Named Dr. Willard W. Harrison has been named Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences by UF President Marshall Criser, after a nationwide search. Dr. Harrison has been a faculty member of the University of Virginia for 24 years, where he taught Chemistry. served as Chairman of the Chemistry Department, and as Associate Pro- vost for Academic Support. He will succeed Dean Charles F Sidman in July, who will return to teaching and research. A profile of Dean Harrison will be featured in a future edition of A Touch of CLAS. J1 i Faculty News Three Awarded Guggenheims Drs. Michael Moseley, Alexander Stephan and Jack Zipes have each received Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Me- morial Foundation for 1988/89. Dr. Moseley. Professor of Anthropol- ogy, will engage in research this summer in Peru on his project. "The Loss of Agricultural Land in the Andes." followed by on-cam- pus research utilizing remote sensing satellite imagery. Dr. Stephan. Professor and Chairman of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Lit- eratures, will be working in various European archives on a project titled "Literature and the Nazi State: Exiled Writers in the Files of the German Foreign Office 1933-45." Dr. Zipes. Professor of Ger- manic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. will work on a project James Channell, Associate Professor of Geology, has been awarded a Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The Fellowship will enable Dr. Channell to pursue his re- search interests at Kyoto Univesity for three months. Gene Dunnam. Professor of Physics and Senior Associate Dean of CLAS. will return to teaching and research in the Department of Physics, after serving nine years as Associate Dean. His resignation will be effective in August. Dean Dunnam is currently engaged in research activity with Dr. Carl Rester on gamma-ray detectors. A recent experiment, carried out at the South Pole, was the detection and characterization of supernova gamma rays via a balloon launch. Raymond Gay-Crosier, Professor and Chairman of Romance Lan- guages and Literatures. has been named "Chevalier des Palmes Academiques" by the French government. This distinction, rarely awarded to non-French citizens, is in recognition of his perform- ance and dedication to the teaching of French, and contributions to the development of the French language and culture in Florida. Art Hansen, Associate Professor of Anthropology, recently served as a consultant for the World Bank and the United Nations Devel- opment Program in Pakistan. While there, he advised the govern- ment on planned resettlements due to a projected dam on the In- dus River. Dr. Hansen will be on sabbatical next academic year: he will be a visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Univer- sity. England. James Haskins, Professor of English, was given the Alabama Li- brary Association's award for best children's book of 1987 by an Alabama-born writer for his four-book Count Your Way series. (Carolrhoda Books). Two other books. Mr Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson. co-authored with N. R. Mitgang. and A Sixties Reader, are currently being published. Randal Johnson, Professor of Romance Languages and Litera- tures. is the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, awarded by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He will spend the next academic year in Washington. D.C., where he will pursue his research on "The Social Relations of Brazilian Literature. 1930-1945." Alan Katritzky, Kenan Professor of Chemistry. had been awarded the Medal of Tartu State University (Estonia. USSR) for his out- titled "The Social History of the Fairy Tale in the West." and will be carrying out his research in various archives in Europe and Amer- ica. Presidential Young Investigator Awards Dr. David Hodell, Assistant Professor of Geology, and Dr. Michael Miyamoto, Assistant Professor of Zoology, have each been selected to receive a 1988 Presidential Young Investigator Award. These awards. sponsored by the National Science Foundation, are in rec- ognition of research and teaching potential, and provide five-year grants to young faculty to further develop research programs. standing work in synthetic and physical organic chemistry of het- erocycles. Dr. Katritzky was also cited for his long and fruitful coop- eration with the chemistry department of Tartu State University. Robert Lawless, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has been chosen by the National University Continuing Education Associa- tion to receive its Distinguished Independent Study Course Award for his continuing education course in Cultural Anthropology. George Pozzetta, Professor of History, has been awarded the The- odore Saloutos Prize for 1987 for his book, The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa. 1885-1985. published with Gary Mormino. The prize was awarded by the Im- migration History Society for the best book on immigration history. The book was also runner-up for the Herbert G. Gutman Award for Social History given by the University of Illinois Press. Anthony Randazzo, Professor and Chairman of Geology, was re- cently elected to the board of Directors of the Oakridge Associated Universities. He was also appointed a member of the Florida Board of Professional Geologists by Governor Martinez. David Richardson. Assistant Professor of Chemistry. has been se- lected as an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow for 1988-89. The Fel- lowship will provide a $25,000 unrestricted grant to support his research in physical inorganic chemistry. The purpose of the Sloan Fellowship program is to stimulate fundamental research by young scholars of outstanding promise. Anita Spring, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean of CLAS, has announced her resignation as Associate Dean, effective August. At the invitation of Queen Elizabeth House, Ox- ford University, England, she will become a Fellow during the 1988- 89 academic year. Dean Spring recently published Gender Issues in Farming Systems Research and Extension, in collaboration with Dr. Susan Poats and Dr. Marianne Schmink. William Ster, Professor of Botany, was elected to the board of directors of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Also. dur- ing the annual AIBS meeting, Dr. Stern was awarded the Botanical Society of America Merit Award. given in recognition of his out- standing contributions to botanical science. Neil Sullivan and Rick Field, Professors of Physics, were recently (continued on p. 10) 0- 1 1 0 E 0 A Touch of ,CLAS ABOVE: Central Science Library-Computer Sciences/Engineering Building. BELOW: Lawn near Architecture Building. -rchitec B . ~ L I-0~ Scenes FrQm Campus Photographer Kitty Powers recently took a walk through campus, and captured some of the old, new and changing landmarks with her camera. ABOVE: Century Tower, facing west. BELOW: Outside Florida State Museum. I ABOVE: Near Little Hall. BELOW: Turlington Hall. 10 From the Desk of Charles E Sidman, Dean T here is always some sadness when the time comes to take leave, and so it is on the occasion of my relinquishing the duties of Dean of the largest and, in my view. best College at the University of Florida. During my ten years in office, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has grown inquality, both in its faculty and student ranks. Along with tese palpale improvements has come an enhanced academic repgtatifor the College. Gifts from alumni and friends have increased substantially, such that an im- pressive endowment for the Co~lge is now in prospect. This en- dowment will provide the CWolege V-th ti-se additional resources necessary to sustain the advanmesb: hiCollege into the top eche- lon nationally It is with Weg w:iare on of the efforts of the many friends of the C0ol,9 a:-ta ie 1 is .final opportunity to express gratitude for the t itb.d e4if epended on this worth- while enterprise. Theb fAurei e and indeed of the Uni- versity, is brighter because of.c y yuave brought to it. Thank you one and all Charles F. Sidman, Dean Collegeof Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida Dr. Crawford Holling Named to Occupy Marshall Eminent Scholar Chair Dr. Crawford Holling has been named the first Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Eminent Scholar. The $1 million chair, a research and teaching position in ecological studies, was created in the Department of Zoology in honor of Florida environmentalist Arthur Marshall Jr., a UF alumnus and former professor who died in 1985. A $400,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a challenge grant of $200,000 from the Elizabeth Ordway Dunn Foundation, and $400,000 from the State of Florida's Eminent Scholar Trust Fund established the Marshall Chair. Dr. Holling came to CLAS from the University of British Columbia, where he served as professor of zoology. He earned his doctorate in zool- Faculty News (continued from p. elected Fellows of the American Physical Society. Dr. Sullivan was cited for his fundamental studies of quantum solids using NMR techniques, and Dr. Field for his work in the application of the Quantum Chromodynamic theory of quarks and gluons to hadron collisions and the concept of parton fragmentation. Grant lan Thrall, Professor of Geography, is author of Land Use and Urban Form: The Consumption Theory of Land Rent. which was published last fall by Methuen of London. He is also co-author of Spatial Diffusion. published February 1988: co-authors are Ri- chard Morrill of the University of Washington and Gary Gaile of Harvard University. Spatial Diffusion is Volume 8 in the Scientific Dean Charles Sidman was honored by his staff with a farewell luncheon held in the Music Room of the University Auditorium in April. He was presented with a scrapbook containing momentoes of his ten-year tenure as Dean. Surrounding Dean Sidman above, left to right, are Senior Associate Dean Gene Dunnam, Director of Adminis- trative Affairs Charles Thomas, Dean Sidman. Director of Communi- cations and Computer Resources Samuel Trickey. Associate Dean Harry Shaw, Associate Dean Anita Spring, and Director of Honors Keith Legg. W Dr. Crawford Holling ogy from the University of British Columbia, and his bachelor's degree in biology and master's degree in zoology from the University of Toronto. He is the author of more than 90 publications in such areas as entomology, ecology, population biology, forestry and mathematical modeling, and a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the chair position, Dr. Holling will research solutions to problems of Flori- da's ecosystem, and preservation of its fragile habitats. Geography Series: Volumes 9 and 10 have just been published: they are Spatial A utocorrelation and Point Pattern Analysis. Michele Wheatly, Assistant Professor of Zoology, has been named by the Society for Experimental Biology as the 1988 recipi- ent of the Presidential Medal in Zoology. The Medal is awarded annually to a scientist under the age of 35 for outstanding contribu- tions to the field of experimental biology. Dr. Wheatly delivered an honorary lecture at the University of Lanchester, England during the presentation ceremony in March. Frank Bradshaw Wood, Professor of Astronomy, was awarded a Plaque of Appreciation from the Ministry of Science and Technol- ogy of the Republic of Korea recently. The award was given in ap- preciation for Dr. Wood's outstanding contributions to the estab- lishment of Astronomical Science in Korea. Achof CLAS Bac11 CLAS Baccalaureate- April 29, 1988 Dr. William Kelso, 1988 CLAS Teacher of the Year, receiving award from College Student Council President John Allen Graduates during Ceremony in University Auditorium Robert Arch Latham, Valedictorian Graduates with families and friends 12 Development News Dear Alumni and Friends: The University of Florida is planning a University-wide major gifts campaign. The University of Florida , Campaign is a program that will raise at least $200 million in private funds by the end of 1991. The College . of Liberal Arts and Sciences will attempt to raise at least $10 million of the total. I An undertaking such as this is a recognition of the progress the College of Liberal Arts and Saences had made and a recognition of the many alumni and friends who support it. In preparation for the Campaign, we have carefully examined our priorities. The Campaign objectives emphasize endowments for students and faculty and for improvements in the College's facilities and programs. As we look to the 1990's and beyond, these goals will be keys to a strong and dynamic College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. We aspire to excellence and want to insure that the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences continues to produce the quality of graduates the State of Florida expects. In order to do that, we need endowments that are sufficient to withstand economic fluctuations so that the absolute best scholarship is assured under any foreseeable circumstance. We are delighted to have CLAS alumnus Robin Gibson chair our College's Campaign. Please read the article on this page about Mr. Gibson, and learn of his accomplishments. We are indeed fortunate to have a person of his stature accept this important role. We continue to build a standard of excellence at the University of Florida that is equal to the best universities in the country With the continued dedication and loyalty of our alumni, we can work together to make this upcoming Campaign an outstanding success. Cordially. James J. Palncsar Development Director Gibson to Head College's Volunteer Effort in University of Florida Campaign Dean Charles F Sidman and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Office of Development are pleased to announce that Robert L. (Robin) Gibson of Lake Wales will head the College's volunteer effort in the Univer- sity of Florida Campaign. The University of Florida Campaign is a concerted. University-wide fund raising effort dedicated to ensure continued excellence in the University's performance of its mission. The Campaign will build upon UF's established strengths by locating new, private gift support for faculty, students. and facilities. In accepting this important leadership role, Mr. Gibson will work closely with the Dean, the development staff and other volunteers to see that the College achieves its Campaign goals. The College's goals emphasize faculty and student support, as well as needed research and teaching space. "The Campaign will not only secure private resources for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:' Mr. Gibson said. "but will heighten the awareness among alumni and friends that this College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is among the very best in the nation." Robin Gibson grew up in Miami and received his B.A. in Political Science in 1959 and his law degree in 1962, both from UF. While a student, he was President of Sigma Nu. President of the John Marshall Bar Association, and a member of Florida Blue Key. Mr. Gibson practiced law in Miami from 1962 to 1966 before moving to Lake Wales and is currently a partner in the firm of Gibson and Lilly. Mr. Gibson is a member of the Florida Bar and the American Bar Association. and has been a member of the Florida Bar's Board of Governors. He served as a member of the Board of Regents of the State University System from 1981-87. and as Chairman of the Board from 1984-86. He was named Lake Wales' Citizen of the Year in 1974. Mr. Gibson is married to the former Jean Haeseker of St. Petersburg. Jean Gibson, also a graduate of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, received her B.A. degree in 1961. The Gibsons have four children: Kathy, a 1986 UF graduate. 25: Bob, 23; Danny. 21: and Jane, 20. Recent Gifts to SGif t the Arthur and Violette Kahn Vis- public lecture on topics of world have established a $20,000 gift an- the College iting Scholar Endowment in the interest, nuity. The gift will benefit the De- Center for Jewish Studies. The apartment of Chemistry, of which Kahn Endowment to Kahns' gift of $50,000 will allow Laitinens Donate Dr. Herbert Laitinen is a longtime Benefit Center for the Center to invite an outstand- $20,000 to Chemistry faculty member. Jewish Studies ing Jewish scholar to campus to rtm Jewish Staddress important issues with fac- department A Miami couple has established ulty and students, and to give a Herbert and Marjorie Laitinen 13 Research in Antarctica A group of 20 scientists and engi- neers led by Dr. Carl Rester, Direc- tor, Laboratory For Astrophysics and Planetary Exploration (APEX), launched an advanced gamma-ray detector from Antarctica on Janu- ary 8. Borne aloft to an altitude of 115,000 feet by a helium balloon measuring 11.6 million cubic feet, the detector was used for the col- lection of data on the spectrum of gamma-ray emissions from the su- pernova data appears to confirm the production of chemical ele- ments heavier than iron by explo- sive nucleosynthesis and to indi- cate that the supernova exploded asymmetrically. The new detector system, consisting of a central de- tector of n-type germanium with bismuth germanate active shield- ing, exhibited a superior signal-to- noise ratio over more conven- tional designs. -. . (left to right) Ron Zussman, Katie Granger, Debbie Rockwell, Chris Morris, Beth McMahon (traveling judge), Kellie Roberts (UF Director of Forensics), Rusty Watts (Business Manager), Marc Heimowitz, Rusty Little and Harry Shevin. Speech and Debate Team Has Outstanding Year The UF Speech and Debate Team, a student organization under the aus- pices of the Department of Speech, recently completed a successful year in speech and debate competition. The debate team won six out of eight overall sweepstakes championships; the cross examination debate team is ranked among the nation's top fifty, and the individual debaters in the top ten in the Southeast. In March, the Department of Speech sponsored the 17th Annual Gator Invitational Forensics Tournament with more than 200 participants from 26 colleges and universities throughout the country. Pic- tured above are some of the team members after a recent winning tourna- ment. Observation Hill above McMurdo Station pernova 1987A. The balloon is the largest ever to be used in Antarc- tica. The detector was housed in a solar-powered gondola and sus- pended from the balloon on a parachute. After the launch from Williams Field, an airfield for ski- planes on the Ross Ice Shelf near McMurdo Station, the payload re- mained aloft for 72 hours. Re- leased by a radio command from a chase plane, it was brought down for a soft landing on the po- lar ice cap approximately 200 miles from the Soviet station at Vostok. It was retrieved by a land- ing party in a LC-130 Hercules ski- plane on January 13. Preliminary analysis of the su- Other CLAS scientists on the team included Dr. Guenther Eich- horn (Space Astronomy Lab), the project manager, and Dr. Bob Col- dwell (Physics and SAL), the data manager. Physicists from the God- dard Space Flight Center, the Cath- olic University of America, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency rounded out the team of investigators. A team of 12 balloonists from the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, New Mex- ico State University and Okla- homa State University assembled and launched the balloon and op- erated the tracking and telemetry system. I !cqueme. A Helium balloon with solar-powered gondola __ _ .n~k~L~.-. ~rill~kc-c .s. SI 14 Alumni News 1950 i_ I_ Mel Mayfield N(.A. Physics) ictired after 30 years faculty se ice at Austin Pea' State University. Clarksville. TN Dur. Ing his tenure. he established the physics deparnnent served as chairman and promoted the department s growth to a level of national reputation Along '.. th his teaching duties he has held the positions of director Physics The Program for Teach ers director. The Center for Teachers and vice president for development and field serve. iccs In his honor. APSU has es- tabhshed a scholarship in his name In retirement he '.vill continue to work on special projects in the physics depart. ment and % rite 1954 Nelson G. Williams, Ph.D. (Ph. D Latin American History) Re- ceived a law degree, with honors, in 1987 from Florida State Univer- sity and is now a staff attorney with the Withlacoochee Area Le- gal Services. Inc.. Floral City FL. He retired from teaching in 1984. His hobbies include old toy elec- tric trains. 1959 Wayne Synstad, Capt. (B.S. Geol- ogy) is in the U.S. Navy. currently stationed in Greece. He received his M.B.A. from Pepperdine Uni- versity. 1941 R. Fain Embry. (B.A Political Science/SociologylPsychology) No'. rented and living in Gainesville. after successive ca. leers in the military, invention. agriculture and mutual funds In 1S'S he visited Mrs. Ruby R Bro'.. n the first \woman to re. ceive a degree from Arts and Sciences N1 A English. 19231. in Wa\vnesville. N.C Mr Embry enloys traveling and visiting family and friends in his retire. Imerit 1971 Bruce Stone (B.A Sociology). was elected to serve on the Di. rectors Committee of the law firm of Holland & Knight for a three-vear term. He received his I D with highest honors. from Florida State University in 1"'3 and practices in the areas of estate planning probate and tax law Practicing in Miami. FL. he is a Fellow of the Amen. can College of Probate Counsel and a member of the American Bar Association. the Florida Bar the Dade Coullnt Bar Associa tion and the Greater Miami Es tate Planning Council He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America 1972 Audrey Wells. Ph.D. (Ph.D. Po- litical Science) has been promoted to director of marketing support for the Asia/PacificCanada region of Syntex International Ltd.. Palo Alto. CA. She spent four years with the U.S. Division. and ten years in international marketing for Syntex before being promoted to her present position. She lives in Mountain View. CA with her son Jonathan. who is a senior in high school. 1973 Jeffrey Delotto Ph.D. (B.A. English) is an assistant professor of English at Texas Wesleyan Col- lege in Fort Worth. TX. He re- ceived his M.A. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1981 from Florida State Univer- sity. In addition to teaching. he writes poetry and conducts work- shops relating patterns of poetry and fiction to composing exposi- tory and persuasive discourse. 1961 '" ' Capers Jones (B A English) is chairman and co founder of Software Productivity Re. search Inc in Cambridge MA He developed the line of SPQR (Software Productivity Quality. and Reliability) estimating models and is an international private consultant speaker and seminar leader. He has au- thored Prroramingi Producn v. tn' Issues for the Eightres and Programming Producrtvity His third book on software mea. surement is in publication Prior to the formation of his firm he was with IBM for 12 years and received the IBM General Product Division s President's Award for his out standing contribution in qual. iry and productivity improve. ment methods His career also includes positions with the ITT Programming Technology Cen- ter and Nolan. Nortan & Coin pani He is a member of ACM. The Boston Computer Society and IEEE. John Hoyt Williams, Ph.D. (Ph.D. History and Latin American Studies) is professor of history at Indiana State University. Terre Haute, IN. His book. Rise and Fall of the Paraguayan Republic. 1800- 1870.. published in 1979, was se- lected by the University of Con- necticut's department of history as best book published before 1980 by an alumnus. Dr. Williams has Elgin A. Hyler (B A Psychol. ogv). Received his M.Ed in School Psychology in 1"'6. Cur. rently self.publisher. Marian Books Tucson AZ. Interested in writing illustrating and pub. fishing educational material for drop-out prevention and study skills programs. 1976 -a -N Richard ). Burges B A His. torv\ has been appointed to a newly created position as agency research coordinator for the Florida Deparntent of Eni ronnental Regulation. Tallahas see FL He had previously been panther coordinator with the Department of Natural Re. sources at the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve In that been an ISU faculty member since 1969, and has served as area editor of the Americas Quarterly Renew since 1976. 1968 Richard L. Enochs (B.S. Chemis- try) has been appointed a vice president of ICI Composites. Inc. and general manager of Fiberite Molding Materials, both of ICI Americas Inc.. Wilmington. DE. He joined the firm as a technical sales representative in specialty chemi- cals in 1969. was named field man- ager in 1975. regional sales man- ager in 1976 and marketing manager in 1979. In 1983. he was appointed director of marketing for the company's performance resins division and two years later U.S. commercial director for ad- vanced materials. He was named vice president of sales and market- ing for Fiberite in 1986. He and his wife, Nancy. have three children. I. 1 15 position. he directed research on Florida panther and deer bi. olog. surface and ground water hydrology exotic plant control and the environmental impact of construcnon of Interstate "5 In addition, he was a biological scentist 'with UF for eight years. where e he conducted studies on experimental toxics. ecology. populanon dynamics and insect behavior He has authored sev- eial publicatons in the field of entomology, and is a member of the Entomological Society of Amenca. He is married and has two children 1977 David H. Morton (B.A. History) is the president and owner of David H. Morton. Ltd.. Buffalo Grove. IL. an investment and advisory firm specializing in the management of financial resources through the use of mutual funds. He married the former Anne Mane Arbogast in 1979 and has three daughters, ages 3.4 and 7. 1978 John P. Townsend (B.A. Political Science) received his law degree from UF in 1980 and is a partner in the law firm of Chesser. Wingard, Barr and Townsend. Fort Walton Beach. FL. He is town attorney for the town of Shalimar, FL. was pres- ident of the Okaloosa-Walton Bar Association in 1985-86, and a mem- ber of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. Antonio Lino Hemandez (B.A. English) is regional sales manager of Royal Viking Cruises: in 1987 he was named salesman of the year. He and his wife. the former Cathy Kirk, (B.A.E. Childhood Teaching. 1979) live in Clearwater. FL and have three children. Danny, Rob- ble and Sara. 1980 - Richard Wolfson (B A. Speech Communications is an attorney in private practice in New lOrk City. His hobbies are weighthft. ing and running 1981 David Buckner (B.A. Psychol- ogy) is a sales representative with Lakeside Pharmaceuncals. elect of the Eighth Judical Cir- cuit Chapter of the Florida Asso. canon for Women Lawyers and treasurer for the Eighth judical Circuit Bar Association In March she was among the 1Q at- torneys in the state to receive the Florida Bar president s pro bono service award for volun- teer commitment to providing free legal services to the poor For the past three years she has provided these services through the Volunteer Attorney Pro- gram. a cooperative effort of Three Rivers Legal Services Inc. and the Eighth ludical Circuit Bar Assocanion. 1982 Robert S. Andelman kB.A. Film Studies) is editor of the Tampa Bay Weekly, and living in Clear- water. FL. Dewey L. Bracy (B.S. Chemistry) received the D.M.D. degree in 1986 from the UF College of Den- tistry. In January of 1987, he opened a private dental practice in Tampa. FL. 1983 John Anthony Estes (B.S. Math- ematics) is a structural draftsman (C.A.D) in the franchise depart- Moving? Making News? Any Requests? What are you doing now? We would like to hear about your professional and personal interests and know your classmates would too. Please complete the form below, and if possible, enclose a recent photograph. Return to the address below. Thank you. Name Address City State Zip Major Degree/Year Current Position (company title, address) Honors, Interests, Activities Any Requests for Future Items in A Touch of CLAS? Enclosed is my annual gift in support of the college's unrestricted needs $ (Please make checks payable to University of Florida Foundation). Please Return to: Linda Kahila, Editor, A Touch of CLAS, 2014 Turlington Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Cincnnati OH He was recently recognized as a winner of their President's Award. given annu. ally for outstanding job per. formance The award included a pin a silver bullion, and a trip to the awards ceremony in Longboat Key. FL for Mr. Buck- ner and his wife Tonnie He is a resident of Prat'ille AL and has been with Lakeside Phar- maceutcals a division of Mer- rell Dow Phamaceuticals Inc. for two years. Kathleen C. Fox (B.A English) is a self-employed attorney in Gainesville. FL She is president- Alumni News Alumni News onumed) ment of Addison Steel. Inc. in Or- lando. FL. He became a member of Mensa (the international high IQ soaety) in November 1987. Verne M.I. Travers (B.A. Political Science) completed Officers' School and graduated from the U.S. Naval Education and Training Center. Newport RI in November, 1986. He received his naval com- mission and is now assigned to the USS La Salle ported in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Activities in- clude body building and weight lifting. 1984 Spencer R. Jurman (B.A. History) is a construction estimator now living in Long Island City, New York. Tauna Murphy (B.S. Geology) is a staff hydrologist with Delta En- vironmental Consultants. Inc., in Tampa and is completing her Mas- ter of Science Degree in Geology. with emphasis on hydrogeology, at the University of South Florida. She married Bill Leonard (B.A. An- thropology. 1976) in 1984. Daniel Roy Tucker (B.S. Statis- tics) is the president of Dunhill, Lord and Company in Boca Raton. FL. 1985 Christina Jurney (B.A. Criminal Justice) author and explorer, has written New Age m the Shadow of K2. and awaiting word on the book's publication. Last Decem- ber she returned to the U.S. after a one year trek thru Nepal and Ti- bet. where she witnessed upris- ings in Lhasa. Sheryl L. Sugg (B.A. History) worked for two years as a loan doser and is now going back to school at Old Dominion Univer- sity in Virginia. for her Elementary Education Degree. Darryl R. Wishard (B.A. Political Science) a second-year student at the Dickinson School of Law. Car- lisle. PA, has been elected to mem- bership on the Dickinson Law Re- view. Membership is awarded on the basis of academic perform- ance and writing ability. As a member of the journal's staff. he will help to prepare issues of the quarterly law journal. 1986 Julie Brooks (B.A. Political Sci- ence) works for the Florida De- partment of Health and Rehabili- tative Services as a public assistance specialist II (social worker), in Chiefland, FL. She re- ports she enjoys writing, fishing and keeping up with international affairs. She is a dedicated, all- weather Gator fan. Kevin Scott Lattimer (B.S. Com- puter Science) has been promoted to systems planning officer by the NCNB National Bank in Tampa, FL. He joined the bank in Febru- ary 1986. Todd Moore (B.A. Political Sci- ence) will start graduate study in Mass Communications at the Uni- versity of South Florida in the fall of 1988. He is interested in crea- tive writing and has received the Russell Brines Memorial Scholar- ship (UF) for students interested in political science reporting. and the National Council of Teachers Achievement Award in writing. He plans to work on the USF newspaper and literary magazine. Illustration by Lisa Bennetts College of Liberal Arts & Sciences University of Florida 2014 Turlington Hall Gainesville. Florida 32611 NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION Li S Pota.ige PAID Permit No S3 Gaines'. lle Fl. 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