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Dtobember t, 1994 i wwisigi 1 . ii ;"" jm ,:W m f| ; M|!i^Bi^ hH| HH| ♦ .a ********* • ~ . . : s■■■: -• ■ .; •'- , ;.r, '*■ ' ?Al'"'*•■ *•* " " """'■'' '*. -•- ' ••■■ ■ -- A •-■ • - A 1 • Jf f _ * f f . ? . A I -/• A newly acquired sculpture adorns the lawn in front of the Hege library. By Horace Farlozve, it is made of cor ten steel It was given by Dick and Joan Steele, a local family. Physics Students Receive Research Grants The Physics Department re cently awarded five S2OOO under graduate research grants that will enable five Guilford students to complete one-year research projects. The winning projects were selected from proposals written and submitted by each stu dent. Each recipient will present his/her research results at the ninth National Conference on Under graduate Research which will be held in April. Reggie Hicks will develop a computer simulation of a Krider muon drift chamber. He will com pare the results of this simulation with experimental data he gath ered at Fermi National Accelera tor Laboratory last summer. This research will be a continuation of the summer research done in the Neutrino Physics Laboratory at Fermi Lab. He will worlc with Rex Adelbearger, professor of physics, and Donna Naples of Fermi Lab. Viktoria Jane will develop and test a method of deconvolving digital images of double stars to determine the brightness and separation of the constituent stars. Images will be gathered using the Guilford Micro Observatory and data reduction will be completed using computers in the physics department. She will work with Thom Espinola, associate profes sor of physics at Guilford. Jane's grant was funded by the NASA- Guilford College Joint Venture in Space Science grant. Katarina Plavetic designed a project to study the everyday phe nomena of water droplets dancing on a hot skillet. She will attempt to measure the shapes of these drops and determine why the drops assume the geometric shapes ob served. Plavetic's grant was made possible from a gift from Loretta and the late William Jeglinski of Greensboro. Jessica Speltz will study the physics controlling the reaction rate of the Diels-Alder reaction. This well-known organic chemis try reaction is of interest to scien tists because it forms two carbon carbon bonds in a single step. Speltz will construct a moleculary dynamics computer simulation of the reaction and test the predicts of the simulation by performing laboratory experiments. She will work with Rob Whitnell, assistant professor of chemistry. Steven Watts will study the pho toemission from potassium-iodide JJetog Ms. Bonner visits Guilford Daphne Lewis Co-Editor in Chief Mrs. Corella Bonner spent a day meeting Bonner Scholars and tour ing Guilford last Monday, October 24. Mrs. Bonner is the head of the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation of Princeton, New Jer sey, which initiated and supports Bonner Scholar programs at 22 colleges around the nation, includ ing Guilford. Mrs. Bonner is currently on a tour of Bonner Scholar campuses. So far, she has visited 19 of the 22 Bonner schools. Mrs. Bonner's activities for the day ranged from dinner at the President's house with Board members, faculty and staff, to tour ing the campus, to spending time with individual Bonner scholars and listening to their community service stories. Mrs. Bonner had her picture taken with all the Bonner scholars and attended a dinner with them. President Rogers, Judy Harvey, Bonner scholars Mark Ferguson Heather Glissen and other alkali-iodides at photon energies below the substance's work function. He will synthesize the material in a moisture-free en vironment. The crystals will be placed in a vacuum and illumi nated with ultraviolet radiation. He will work with Rex Adelberger and David Oro of Los Alomos Na tional Laboratories. Henry V performers will be on November 11, 12,17, 18, 19 at 8:00 p.m. in Sternberger. Tickets are $1 if you purchase them in advance, and are free to students, faculty and staff at the door. After the opening night performance, there will be a bake-off for any interested studnets, faculty or staff. There will be prizes, so bring your best homemade baked goods on November 11. Auditions will be held for Slawomir Mrozek's "Tango," directed by Robert Davis on November 14. Sign up for audition times Nov. 7-11 in Founders lobby. and Shawntay Stocks, and Mrs. Bonner herself all spoke at the re ception. Mrs. Bonner brought the mes sage of community service to those she spoke with, and she also stressed the importance of gradu ating from college. After the reception, many Bonner scholars crowded around Mrs. Bonner to greet her and talk with her about their experiences in the program. Bonner scholar Jessica Mendelson said "Meeting Mrs. Bonner gave me a stronger con nection to the foundation—l see some of the strength from which it operates" "What impressed me the most about Mrs. Bonner is her vitality and her genuine interest in the in dividual students. She wanted to hear stories about their work and service," commented Harvey. Mrs. Bonner was described by President Rogers as a "remarkable woman." Judy Harvey noted how amazingly involved and active Mrs. Bonner is in spite of her age WINNETT cancer. A mastectomy and two rounds of chemotherapy would follow. There never was, how ever, what might be described as a fading to Ms. Winnett and her life. Throughout her illness, she continued her teaching and her artwork. Just this last April she had a show of her photog raphy at the Greensboro Artists' League. "She had a wit and warmth," said Guilford College President Bill Rogers, "a droll laugh and a nore pwm pope house Continued from page 1 Ct* of 85 years: "Mrs. Bonner is at an age where most people are watch ing T.V., have slowed down and retired. But not Mrs. Bonner. She gets up and goes to work everyday." Mrs. Bonner became involved in community service in 1952 when she and a minister's wife started The Cri sis Ministry in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, an organization concerned with feed ing the poor and hungry. Her organi zation quickly spread into 50 food banks across the nation. With the money left over from that project, she decided in 1989 to start a scholarship program based on commu nity service at Berea College in Ken tucky. According to Mrs. Bonner, it was so successful that the next year she added 11 more colleges, and in 1991 she added 11 more. The Bonner program, established at Guilford in 1990, provides Bonner scholars with a chance to serve their community throughout their college years. A Bonner scholarship replaces work-study for Scholars, who, in re turn, are required to volunteer 10 hours a week. There are currently 82 students in the Bonner Scholar Program at Guil ford. a ready smile, an unfailing trust in people and an honesty of self expression that was totally dis arming." As part of her memorial ser vices, Guilford has planted a tree for Merry Moor Winnett in front of the Hege-Cox art building. The tree comes from a seed, which was c arried into space aboard one of NASA's lunar rockets. It is a fitting tribute. A living and natural wonder, deliv ered from the heavens to grow among us and teach us beauty. Goodbye, Merry. You will be missed. 3
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