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Symposium focuses on 'Island Earth'
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N.C. House of Representatives
since 1980 (replacing James E.
Ezzell, Jr.) and its speaker since
1989, Mavretic has developed a
reputation as a relentless ques
tioner armed with a wealth of in
formation on a vast variety of
subjects.
After Mavretic retired from
the Marine Corps in 1977 as a
lieutenant colonel, he moved to
Edgecombe County, and became
involved in politics. He has an
experimental farm in Edgecombe
County on which he experiments
with growing alternative crops
for North Carolina.
The Use and Abuse of Our
National Rivers and Estuaries
will be discussed by Dr. Quinton
White, an alumnus of North
Carolina Wesleyan. In 1978, as a
member of the faculty at Jack
sonville University, he estab
lished the major in marine sci
ence, and currently serves as
head of the marine science pro
gram in the department of biol
ogy and marine science.
He has been active in marine
science education, having re
ceived five National Science
Foundation grants to conduct
marine science workshops for
teachers. Also, he has been active
in research concerning the St.|
John’s River and the impact of
man on marine ecosystems.
His marine science research
Calligraphic art
now on display
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been employed as a fireman,
teacher, fisherman, cattlerancher,
and as a translator and guide dur
ing his travels in Europe.
Along the way, Podesta stud
ied at art institutes in Mexico
City, San Francisco, and Flor
ence, Italy.
Podesta has been recognized
in International Calligraphy To
day, and his work is displayed in
the National Cathedral in Wash
ington, D.C., and at the Grace
Cathedral in San Francisco. His
studio is located in Carrolton, Va.
The exhibit at Wesleyan in
cludes about 60 prints and many
card designs. The prints are also
available matted and framed.
Catalogs are available in the li
brary for those who wish to pur
chase his designs.
The exhibit will be on display
in the Browsing Room of the Li
brary throughout the month of
February.
has taken him to China, South
America, the Galapagos Islands,
and the Bahamas. While most of
his research is done on the sur
face of the sea, he has traveled
downward to 1,500 feet in the
Johnson-Sea Link submersible to
conduct research on deep sea
crabs.
Dr. Linda W. Little, executive
director of the North Carolina
Governor’s Waste Management
Board, will lead the symposium
section entitled Opportunities for
Citizens Sharing Responsibilities
for Waste Management.
From 1974-1983, Little was a
part-time administrative judge on
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission’s Atomic Safety
and Licensing Board Panel, in
which capacity she served as one
of the three judges who con
ducted hearings on the restart of
Three Mile Island Unit 1. Dr.
Little has over 20 years of teach
ing, research, and consulting ex
perience in the areas of environ
mental biology and industrial
waste management.
Dr. Bernard E. Kane, Jr., pro
fessor and graduate coordinator
in the department of environ
mental health at East Carolina
University, will present Risk
Benefits of Managing the Pam-
lico-Tar River Basin.
His environmental perspec
tives were strongly influenced by
his childhood in rural Florida,
“witnessing the destruction of
natural habitats of that state by
the combined forces of rapid
population growth, a powerful
tourism commission, and a rapa
cious electorate that lacked an
education in fundamental envi
ronmental protection.”
Kane once worked as a micro
biologist for the state of Florida
in their shellfish sanitation pro
gram, monitoring the effects of
pollution on the sanitary quality
of shellfish. Impressed by the
many forces involved in estuar-
ine protection programs, he again
became concerned with the need
for improved understanding of
environmental protection issues,
not only by the general populace,
but also by the personnel, both
political and professional, who
were responsible for the environ
mental programs.
Dr. Malcolm Gillis, professor
of public policy and economics at
Duke University, will present
Economics, Ecology and Ethics -
Mending the Broken Circle in
Tropical Forests, on Wednesday.
Gillis spent 15 years at Har
vard, where he was Institute Fel
low in the Harvard Institute fori
International Development. His
research and advisory activities
have taken him to numerous
countries in Asia, Africa, and
Latin America.
He organized and directed a
team of 28 expatriates who pro
vided, over the period 1981-
1984, the framework for an en
tirely new tax system in Indone
sia. This tax system has been in
operation since 1984. Gillis has
also worked in Thailand, Paki
stan, the Phillipines, and Bangla
desh. Gillis is co-author of the
widely used textbook Economics
of Development.
Edmund B. Welch will pre
sent Environmental Problems,
Corrective Actions, and the Role
of the Federal Government.
Welch has served as chief
counsel for the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
in Washington, D.C. since May
1981. He makes policy recom
mendations to the 40 members of
his committee on issues such as
merchant marine, shipping, de
fense sealift, Coast Guard, Pan
ama Canal, outer continental
shelf resource development, fish
eries, wildlife, and ocean and
coastal environmental protec
tion.
A native of North Carolina
and a graduate of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
and the University of North
Carolina Law School, Welch
began his career in Washington
as legislative assistant to Walter
B. Jones (D-N.C.). He has been a
panelist on environmental con
cerns from east to west coast and
from Mexico to Jamaica to Ge
neva.
R.J. “Dick” Hargitt is area
manager for health and environ
mental affairs at E. I. DuPont de
Nemours and Company, Inc. in
Kinston. His topic is Positive
Corporate Stewardship to our
Eastern North Carolina Environ
ment.
He has worked with DuPont
for 29 years, in environmental
engineering, process engineer
ing, process engineering man
agement, manufacturing man
agement, and corporate planning.
He is a commissioner on the N.C.
Emergency Response Commis
sion and is on the executive com
mittee for the N.C. Chemical In
dustry Council.
To Till It and to Keep It:
Human Responsibility for the
Earth will be presented by Dr.
Gayle Felton, a native of Pine-
tops who was educated in the
public schools of Edgecombe
County, and graduated summa
cum laude with a degree in his
tory in the first graduating class
of North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege.
She taught social studies and
English at South Edgecombe
High School from 1964-1979,
received the master of divinity
degree from Duke Divinity
School in 1982, and was then
ordained into the ministry of the
United Methodist Church.
After being awarded a Gurney
Harriss Kearns Fellowship for
graduate study in religion at
Duke, she both took classes and
worked as teaching assistant and
instructor at Duke Divinity
School, receiving the Ph.D. de
gree in History of Christianity in
1987.
The community is invited to
participate in the three-day an
nual event, which focuses on a
different topic each year. Last
year’s symposium highlighted
the cultures of Eastern North
Carolina and was well-attended
by the Nash-Edgecombe commu
nity.
For more information con
cerning specific times and loca
tions for “Our Island Earth,” call
977-7171.
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