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Dr. Haley Attends ROTC History Course Dr. John H. Haley, assistant professor of history at UNCW, was selected to attend the Army Training Doctrine Command ROTC mil itary history workshop June 23-JuIy 23, 1982 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Haley was one of three North Carolinians and one of 80 professors nation wide to participate in this intensive overview of military history from the American colonial wars through the Arab-Israeli conflicts. Maj. Henry Osterhoudt, workshop director and assistant professor of history at the Academy, explained that the course gives Haley a basis from which to reach the Ameri can military experience. “This benefits UNCW because Haley will conduct a course that will be required for earn ing a ROTC commission,” said Osterhoudt. UNCW will offer the history course for the first time in the spring of 1983. According to Osterhoudt, “past experience shows that undergraduates enjoy taking mil itary history. So the professor will get a larger student load, benefitting him and the depart ment. The course also will provide closer ties between the history department and the ROTC program, benefitting the university and the Army,” concluded Osterhoudt. Haley agrees with Osterhoudt that the Edward L. Ward, Jr. (center) receives the Chancel lor’s Award from Harold Wells, III (left), chairman of The Foundation of UNCW, and Dr. William H. Wag oner (right), UNCW Chancellor. course will be popular with students. He expects the course to enhance the curriculum for both ROTC and the history department. “By going to the workshop, I have met col leagues from across the country who teach military history,” said Haley. “Hopefully, I have learned techniques in the course to make it more attractive to students.” A retired Army lieutenant colonel and Green Beret for 14 years, Haley joined the UNCW faculty in 1976. His particular interest is U.S. southern history. He also teaches Afro- American history and modern East Asian his tory at UNCW. UNCW Grad Gets Sea Grant Mary Beth Dail, a 1982 summa cum laude graduate of UNCW, received the only UNC Sea Grant Fellowship awarded this year. The grant will finance her first year of graduate studies in marine science at UNCW beginning this fall. The fellowship pays full tuition and fees to the university as well as a $6,000 stipend and $1,000 for associated research expenses. If Dail does well her first year, she may receive the grant again for her second year of masters work. Dail will do research at the Institute for Marine Biomedical Research under the direc tion of Dr. Robert Roer, assistant professor of biology and a research physiologist. Her work will involve the fiddler crab. According to Dr. James Merritt, chairman of UNCW’s department of biological sciences, Dail’s Sea Grant Fellowship is the first of its type for UNCW. This summer Dail accompanied Dr. Ralph Brauer and three other UNCW scientists from the Institute for Marine Biomedical Research on a six-week scientific expedition to Lake Baikal in Russia, the deepest freshwater lake in the world. Board of Trustees Elects Officers The UNCW Board of Trustees met July 7, 1982 and elected officers to its executive committee. Re-elected to one-year terms were: Dr. Hubert Eaton, Sr., chairman; Mrs. Kenneth Newbold, vice chairman; Mr. John Burney, Jr., secretary: Dr. John Codington, at-large member; and Mrs. Catherine Burruss, assistant secretary. Visiting Prof Was a Star In (Hollywood UNCW has gone Hollywood! Jean Muir, a former star of films, theater and TV, has been appointed the Foundation Distinguished Pro fessor for the 1982-83 academic year. As a visiting professor in UNCWs creative arts department, Muir will teach “Beginning Acting” and “Voice and Diction” during the fall semester. She will also perform and direct, and will be available for any community group or class that wishes to make use of her experience and background. Muir is the second UNCW Foundation Dis tinguished Professor. Classical guitarist Michael Lorimar was the first. The UNCW Foundation has presented the university with an unrestricted gift since 1980 to fund the position. Dennis Sporre, chairman of the creative arts department, explained that Muir’s role on campus “is to make her wide-ranging expe riences available to as many students as pos sible. She will approach her courses as explo rations designed to enhance even a non-actor’s use of his or her physical and mental capaci ties. Miss Muir has said that the purpose of teaching theater is not to make actors and actresses, but rather to make more sensitive human beings,” said Sporre. Jean Muir began her acting career at age 19 in Ivor Novello's Broadway play “Truth Game” in 1930. Her first screen role came three years later in “Missing Persons Bureau” with Bette Davis. Muir was considered a full- fledged leading lady by 1934, and had over 30 Warner Brothers’ films to her credit by 1937. Warner Brothers released her because of her efforts to help organize the Screen Actors Guild (the same Guild that later had Ronald Reagan as its president!). After that Muir returned to theater in summer stock and col lege playhouses. Between 1946 and 1950, her acting career included television on such shows as “The Philco Hour” and “Actors’ Studio.” In 1950, however, everything came to a halt after her name appeared on a list of suspected “subversives.” Muir was never actually accused of being a Communist, but she sud denly became too controversial for television and its sponsors. She was able to resume her television career in the 1960s, after a difficult personal struggle over her blacklisting and subsequent loss of work. In the late 1960s Muir made the decision that ultimately brought her to Wilmington—she became a teacher of her first love, the theater. From 1968 until her retirement in 1975, Muir taught at Stephens College in Columbia, Mis souri. Since then she has been a visiting pro fessor and artist at the University of Iowa, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Loyola Marymount University, State University of New York at Albany, and the University of New Mexico. “When I first met Jean Muir," said Sporre, “I knew she could make a tremendous contribu tion not only to the creative arts department, but also to the entire university and the com munity as well. Her stay in Wilmington will be active and exciting for all of us.” Mrs. Jacqueline Morris-Goodson was elected as the other at-large member of the executive committee of the board. Steven Schmidt, president of the Student Government Association, will serve as an ex officio member of the board, representing the students. The board presented the fifth annual Teach- ing Excellence Award posthumously to Wil liam F. Adcock, who died April 7, 1982, after 17 years of outstanding work on the faculty in the creative arts department at UNCW. His widow, Mrs. Alma Adcock, accepted the award and the cash stipend that accompanied it. Top IBM Exec Comes to UNCW International Business Machines (IBM) has loaned one of its top executives to UNCW for a one-year special assignment. Martin W. McCann, director of manufacturing programs for IBM’s General Technology Division in Endicott, New York, is a special assistant to Chancellor William H. Wagoner, effective July !• In this position, McCann will be a business consultant and guest lecturer for the Universi ty s School of Business Administration. He will also be working closely with Dr. Wagoner on special projects. UNCW today UNCW today is published six times a year by the Development Office of The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, P.O. Box 3725, Wilmington, N.C. 28406. Postage paid at Wilmington, N.C. DEVELOPMENT OFTICE Dr. Jairy C. Hunter, Jr., Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs and Development M. Tyrone Rowell, Director of Development Services Jean W. Farmer, Publications Officer, UNCW today editor W. Frank Bowen, Alumni Affairs Officer Mimi Cunningham, Public Information Officer Patsy Larrick, Public Information Assistant Katey Kelch, Student Intern
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