UNC-Asheville Ready For Managers
FRANK BERRY
Frank Berry is an old hand at
“doubling in brass”. As a man who
makes music for fun, he plays both
trumpet and trombone. He was the
organist recently for the wedding of a
former student. And he once made a
xylophone from scrap pipe.
As an executive with more than 20
years experience in leading American
companies and impressive credentials
for teaching, he uses the same ver
satility to create close harmony for
business and education.
Berry is the newly appointed direc
tor of UNC-A's Management Con
ference Center.
The Center itself is as new as the
director's position at the University. It
began to function experimentally with
the opening of the $1.9 million Charles
D. Owen Art and Management
Building in January. Its purpose is to
New Programs,
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degree programs in Literature and
Classics, Behavioral Analysis, and
Political Science and Sociology as
"chronically under-subscribed."
Financial Aid
For Summer 1980
Students presently receiving finan
cial assistance and planning to attend
summer school should contact the
Financial Aid Office, PA 203, as soon
as possible as funds are very limited.
serve as a specialized training center in
higher education for business and in
dustry.
To do this job, it expects to attract
management personnel from all over
the Southeastern United States.
'The UNC-A Management Con
ference Center," said Berry,
"recognizes the need for today's
managers to stay competitive. It is
designed to keep their professional
skills at their best and enable them to
meet new challenges with new
abilities."
The Center will have three types of
programs, arranged for different re
quirements.
For its working "students" in North
Carolina and neighboring states, there
will be a continuing series of seminars,
lasting one to five days.
For clients near the university, in
Asheville and adjoining counties, the
Center will design programs which can
be given either at the place of business
or at UNC-A. Typically, these will be
held one afternoon or evening each
week for several weeks.
The third type of programs will be
arranged for a varied group of clients
in Western North Carolina. They will
deal with specific and general manage
ment problems for industrial, non
profit, professional, educational and
government organizations.
Some typical subjects. Berry said,
will be along these lines: "Accounting
for the Non-Financial Executive," "Ef
fective Cost Controls" "Sales
Forecasting Principles," "Interper
sonal Relations for the New Super
visor," "Inventory Management and
Optimum Dollar Investment," "Con
trolling Absenteeism" and "Credit and
Collection Techniques."
"You name it," Berry grins, "and
we'll develop a program for it.
Anything concerned with better
management and better business. We
mean to keep people informed about
business trends and help them be
prepared for new ones as they
develop."
The Management Conference
Center occupies the top floor of the
Owen Building. Its central feature is a
spacious, comfortably upholstered
conference room with a glass side wall
that seems to look out on half the
mountains of North Carolina.
The rest of the floor is occupied by
rooms to be used for smaller con
ferences and seminars.
Most of the seminars, said Berry, will
be conducted by leading business and
management experts and practicing
executives from many places in the
country — local, regional and na
tional. They will be supplemented, oc
casionally, by faculty members.
That could include, from time to
time, the director himself, in his
capacity as a lecturer in management.
His preparation for that job includes
degrees in general management and
finance, plus business positions in
finance, accounting, planning and ad
ministration. The companies include
such prestigious names as McGraw-
Hill, Schering and IT&T.
What more could anyone ask?
"Just this," adds Berry; "Asheville is
a great place to visit any time of the
year. And anyone who doesn't know
how to mix business and pleasure
doesn't know the first thing about suc
cessful management.
Josh White, Jr. To Perform
Vanguard recording artist josh
White, Jr. will give a concert at 8 p.m.
Friday, April 11, in Lipinsky
Auditorium.
White has sung in Lincoln Center,
Madison Square Garden,
Philadelphia's Main Point and
Washington D.C's Cellar Door, and at
over 1,500 college campuses. He has
apeared on the Mike Douglas Show
and Today Show, and has completed a
major tour in Europe.
Josh has been described as a "total
entertainer," playing the twelve string
guitar, singing folk, rock and gospel
music and acting in several Broadway
shows.
He began singing professionally at
four, the top of his head resting on the
knee of his illustrious father, Jose
White, composer of "St. James Infir
mary", and original adapter and per
former of "One Meatball" and
"House of the Rising Sun."
His latest recording was released in
January on Mountain Railroad
Records. He has also recorded for
Mercury and United Artists.