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Seeing War Up Close
MHC Professor Visits Russia During Uprising
By Michael S. Roten
Hilltop Editor
“I knew things weren’t okay when my
asband called and said the Anti-Yeltsin
arces were attempting to take the
eonimunication center; The main
ejevision tower could be seen from my
"’indow.”
. h i§ hard to
'®agine the terror
?1 War when
flave
you
not
^'^lerienced it, but
one MHC
•"■ofessor, the
..^irors of war are a
little
Undei
®>ath(
“All night you could hear
gunfire. By morning,
everthing had calmed
down.”
Dr. Susan Kiser
professor of math education
more
fstandable. Dr. Susan Kiser of the
j, lematics and education department of
college went to Russia last October
ph was the same time as the Russian
Pi^mg against Boris Yeltsin.
flo twenty-second
t 'i'' room, she could see the red tracer-fire
artillery. Her husband, calling from
r ^ Hill, told her to request a room on the
lik side of the hotel when he realized the
3nd range of the artillery. Shrapnel
reach Kiser’s room.
All night, you could hear the gunfire,”
k 5"^ explained. “By morning, everything
^med down.”
®ut, the day just ended, Oct. 2, had been
and the other participants of the joint U.S.
and Russian math education conference.
“When we went on the trip, we knew we
were going at a less than perfect time,” said
Kiser.
Oct. 2 began for the conference
participants with a decision to go on with
the meetings. There would have to be some
changes, however,
like a scheduled
trip to the Kremlin
being changed to a
tour of the socialist
art-filled subway.
At noon, the
people moved to
the observatory
deck of the
the vantage of that
she could see the
k
Wi
'trul
y action-packed experience for Kiser
Presidium. From
building, Kiser said
Russian Parliament building (the Russian
White House) burning.
“That was the most impressing time of
my life, to see things like that happening
before my eyes,” said Kiser.
Kiser said that the impressiveness of the
event went deeper for the Russian people.
“The Russian people were so aware of
the significance of what was happening, as
well as the potential danger. They could see
that their whole way of living was not
resolved,” Kiser said.
The conference Kiser went to was for
mathematics and science education. A
total of 102 people from 36 different states
Dr. Susan Kiser visited Russia at the height of the recent
uprising against President Boris Yeitsin.
This Yeitsin doii holds the Russian rulers all the way back
to the last Russian Czar. Each ruler fits into his successor.
N.
I',
went to the Citizen Ambassador program.
The group visited Moscow, as well as two
other cities, St. Petersburg and Minske.
During the visit to Minske, Kiser got to
see several elementary schools, which
feature happy, uniformed children who rise
when a teacher enters a room. The students
also neatly work math in pen and are the
results of a different educational emphasis.
“There is more —
emphasis on the
work the child is
doing and less focus
on the environment
they are in,” said
Kiser.
In St.
Petersburg, several
secondary schools
and pedagogical or
teacher institutes ——
were visited.
Also at St. Petersburg, the Youth Palace
for Creativity was visited. This palace, built
for an empress of the lineage of Peter the
Great, was taken over during the 1917
Revolution. The Pioneer palaces as they
were then named, became places for
training youths in the ways of being good
citizens. Since the end of communism, the
palaces have become centers for
“The Russian people
were so aware of the
significance of what was
happening, as weii as the
potentiai danger. They
couid see that their whoie
way of iiving was not
resolved,”
educational enrichment. The Youth
Palace for Creativity became a center of
math and computer science education.
During the conferences at the Russian
Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Kiser
presented a paper to the group. The paper,
involving retraining of Algebra teachers in
the public school system, had to be
translated into Russian. Since the paper
—was presented on
the morning of
much of the revolt,
interpreters were
delayed and a
Russian professor
translated Kiser’s.
“1 really found
out quickly that 1
couldn’t use certain
words,” Kiser said.
““ She explained that,
much of the jargon of
out meaning totally
comes
in translation,
educators
different things.
The entire experience was definitely
one Kiser will never forget.
“In a bizarre way, I hated to leave
Moscow. I was there for five days, but
wished I could stay for a few more. At the
end, it was no longer so frightening.”
^nancial Aid Director To Retire
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•On to retire early, she said. The fact that her
' retired in Sept. 1992 after 25 years as director
,.1'liei^^^'^^st Baptist Conference Center, iso had bearing
,^^^ision to retire early. The two anticipate retirement
more time with their three grown children and
titjj demands of such off-campus engagements on
rip ^ ^d the stressful nature of her job contributed to
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two young grandchildren, as well as opportunity for other
personal interests.
It is possible, McAnear said, that she will return to
volunteer work such as she was involved in several years ago.
She has served as treasurer and vice president of Memorial
Mission Hospital Auxiliary in AsheviUe. She has also served
on the hospital’s board of directors and as corporate
secretary.
The new director, Ruth Angle, is an UNC-Greensboro
graduate who has also studied at Oklahoma City Community
College. She has served in the financial aid office at
Embry-Riddle since Feb. 1990. Before that, she was
financial aid director at the National Training Center, a
proprietary school in Oklahoma City. Angle has served in
many other financial aid positions at various organizations.
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