Stee Ree eeerer ee ee PERF Weber State Comment, EE CEE Spring HERR EE HSE 1990 _—17 to develop new programs Faculty receive Hemingway awards Seventeen Weber State faculty recently received major cash awards to develop new programs and curricula at the college. The $30,000 in “Hemingway Faculty Development Awards” funded five programs designed to increase faculty vitality and improve student education, said Dr. Robert B. Smith, vice president for academic affairs. The awards were presented in a January ceremony. “This is a major step forward for Weber State in supporting the vitality of the ~ faculty,” Dr. Smith said. He noted that over the past years of decreasing budgets many innovative academic programs were left undeveloped. During the college’s centennial fund-raising drive, however, a donation of $1 million from the Richard K. Hemingway family established an endowment to fund development of some of those programs. “What these awards do is allow the faculty time to pursue new ideas. It gives them the opportunity to learn,” Dr. Smith said. The result is that faculty are forced to rethink what and how they teach, a process that brings vitality to professors and enthusiasm for learning to the students, he said. “It’s very difficult to stimulate learning in the student when you’re not doing the same yourself,” he said. Dr. Eugene Bozniak, a professor of botany, Dr. Gary Malecha, associate professor of political science, Elizabeth Nunn, an assistant professor in political science and Dr. Candadi Seshachari, professor of English, will develop a course exploring the science, politics, economics and literature of the past century around the theme of American individualism. Dr. Robert Parker and Dr. Carl Wood in mechanical engineering technology will team with Dr. Mali Sabbiah and Dr. Robert Hogge from the English department to combine writing and speaking education with technical education. Barbara West, an English instructor, and Dr. Kathryn MacKay from the history department will develop and teach what has been described as a writing-intensive course sequence on women’s experience in Western tradition. d Dr. John Thaeler, an associate professor of mathematics, will create a library of learning strategies and teaching techniques for developmental math students. Dr. Shannon Butler, Dr. Janice Fauske and Dr. Linda Oda of Weber State’s teacher education department, and Dr. Gary Dohrer, Dr. Kathleen Harndon and Dr. James Young of the English department will redesign apprenticeship experiences of future English teachers. The projects were selected on the basis of creativity, relevance to WSC’s mission statement, and opportunities for learning. UNIVERSITY continued from front page Ruth Swenson The Comment is published four times a year. January, April, July and October for alumni and friends of the college at no charge by the Weber State College Department of News and Public Information, 313 Miller Administration Bldg, Weber State College, Ogden, Utah 844081010. Executive Editor Howard G. Noel Editor/Writer Craig V. Nelson Design Editor Cindy Nichols Second class postage paid at Preston, ID. POSTMASTER: Form 3579 to: News and Public Information-1011 Weber State College Ogden, UT 84403-2025 (USPS 791-360) Archibald is currently the president and chief executive officer of Black and Decker Corp. He graduated from Weber State in 1968. He was a member of the All-Conference and Academic All-American basketball teams under coach Dick Motta and served on the WSC Supreme Court. After graduating from WSC, he attended Harvard University where he received a masters degree in business. He has been president of Liken Home Furnishings, Samsonite Luggage, Culligan Water Treatment, Taylor Food Service, Day-Timer Business Forms, and Stiffel Lamps - all divisions of Beatrice Foods. Hurst is the former vice president of college advancement at Weber State. He was a student in 1944, and when he graduated two years later he was a class officer, yearbook editor, and active in a variety of - campus activities. Hurst and a partner started their own Swenson joined Weber State’s faculty in 1953 as director of a new nursing education program. She spent two decades at the college, building the nursing program, 16 years as director. She was elected chairman of the National League of Nursing Council for Associated Degree Nursing Education in 1967-69. During those same years, she was invited to serve on the Nursing Advisory Committee to Health, Education and Welfare in Washington, D.C. Swenson also helped develop the extended baccalaureate degree program in nursing. It was a beautiful morning when I started out for the world’s fair at Ogden, on the anniversary of the Lucin cutoff. The flying machine Gy 2b i sen pt Sip Dr. Sundquist, who graduated from Weber State in 1934, is a senior fellow emeritus of the Brookings Institute. He has been a member of the American Political Science Association, the Governor’s — ~ Commission on Virginia’s Future, and on the executive committee of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences. He chaired the White House Conference on Balanced National Growth and Economic Development, and was on Pres. Reagan’s Appalachian Regional Commission. Sundquist retired as Deputy Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Agriculture in 1965 and since that time served as an adjunct professor at Smith College in Massachusetts and as director of governmental studies at Brookings Institute. Jennie Groberg was a woman with an uncanny sense of prophetic vision. A student at Weber Stake Academy in 1906, Ms. Groberg came from what became Farr West, and attended the fledgling school 13 years after the Moench Building had been dedicated. Total enrollment in the young institution was a mere 280, and the downtown Ogden campus was more than adequate. The airplane had just been invented. No one at that time thought of an expanded school or a new campus, yet with keen insight young Ms. Groberg wrote of a glimpse into the future that has proven amazingly accurate. i advertising agency while attending the University of Utah. He was later hired by a Salt Lake City firm, and eventually became a partner in Pierson, Kearney and Hurst where he worked for 12 years. He came to Weber State in 1967 as executive director of both the Alumni Association and Development Fund Board. aaa Three alumni and a former professor will receive Honorary Doctorate of Humanities degrees during graduation exercises. The Weber State Institutional Council announced that Nolan Archibald, Dean Hurst, Dr. James Sundquist and Ruth Swenson will receive the awards during commencement exercises on June 8. Archibald will also give the commencement address, the council said. “These four individuals have contributed a great deal to this institution, to their professions and to the nation. It is our honor to recognize them in this manner,” WSC President Stephen D. Nadauld said. The four join 62 other honorary degree recipients who have received the degrees from Weber State. Prophetic vision ae College recognizes four WSC greats was ready and after we started upward the scenery was beautiful below. . .. AS evening approached we reached the city. How large it looked. After lowering the machine, I met my friend at the out-skirts of the city and she consented to show me the city from the air. As we traveled over the city, I noticed many improvements. No telegraph poles were ia ape James Sundquist standing in the roads as the wireless system was used throughout. Then I noticed some large buildings upon the hill and asked what buildings were extending into the air so high? She answered, “Why those are the buildings of Weber University. Don’t you remember the Weber Stake Academy? This is what it is grown to.” ... 1 answered, “I shall never forget that school. But where is the old building now?” She replied that after I left school it was sold. They then moved up on the hill where they could have plenty of room for training and University work. tei Dean Hurst teenie Noda. Asati absolutely wonderful team feeling.” College administrators are planning a large New Year’s Eve party this Dec. 31 to welcome in the new year and the new name. Officials are also studying the effect the name change will have on alumni.