Johns Hopkins Magazine -- September 1997

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Editor: Billie Walker

	Peabody Symphony To Make NY Debut
	Alumni Association Awards Honor Excellence in Teaching
	Alumni Council Gains Second Spot On University's Board of Trustees
	Convocation Slated for Washington, D.C.
	Trustee, Alumna Honored
	Trustee Challenge Doubling the Rewards to Hopkins and Yourself
	Class of '97 Enhances HUT
	Famous Alums To Help Celebrate Writing Seminars' 50th Anniversary
	Alumni Activities Regional Plans Include Arts, Crew, Dancing, and Dining

Peabody Symphony To Make NY Debut

The Peabody Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Hajime Teri Murai, will make its New York debut at Lincoln CenterÕs Alice Tully Hall on Saturday, May 2, 1998, at 8 p.m. The program will feature a new commissioned work by Peabody Conservatory faculty member Chen Yi and a saxophone concerto performed by faculty soloist Gary Louie. The concert will be followed by a private reception for Hopkins affiliates. For ticket information, call the Alumni Relations Office at 410-516-0363 or 800-548-5481.

Alumni Association Awards Honor Excellence in Teaching

Fourteen faculty members from throughout the University's divisions were presented last spring with Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Awards.

Since 1992 the Alumni Association has given $2,000 yearly to each school to use as cash awards for the recipients, selected by the schools themselves.

Those honored this year are as follows:

Nitze School of Advanced International Studies--David Fernandez, assistant professor, international economics, and Enzo Grilli, professorial lecturer, international economics;

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences--Antoinette Burton, lecturer, history;

School of Continuing Studies--Beth Kobett, adjunct faculty, education; E. Ray Sprenkle, adjunct faculty, liberal arts; and Matthew Will, adjunct faculty, business;

Whiting School of Engineering--Wilson J. Rugh III, professor, electrical and computer engineering, and John van Zanten, assistant professor, chemical engineering;

Nancy L. Craig, School of Medicine

School of Medicine--Nancy L. Craig, professor, molecular biology and genetics;

School of Nursing--Susan Appling, assistant professor, and Sharon Olsen, clinical instructor;

Peabody--Donald Sutherland, organ faculty;

School of Public Health--Marie Diener-West, associate professor, biostatistics, and W. Henry Mosley, professor and chairman, population dynamics.

Alumni Council Gains Second Spot On University's Board of Trustees

Two members of the Alumni Council Executive Committee--instead of one--are now sitting on the University's Board of Trustees. And in the future, two Council members, with overlapping terms, will serve on the Board for four years each, instead of the previous two-year terms.

All of this is the result of recent changes in the by-laws of both the Board of Trustees and the Alumni Council.

Previously, the president of the Alumni Council was a member of the Board of Trustees for two years--the length of his or her term as Council president.

Last spring, the trustees decided that this resulted in the Alumni Council president leaving the Board just at the time when that person's experience on the Board would make him or her most effective.

Therefore, the trustees voted that a second Alumni Council officer--the person expected to become president--should come on the Board as well. The Alumni Council has designated that officer as first vice president. The person holding that office would thus serve two years on the Board while first vice president and two years while president.

"The trustees felt that the Alumni Council president was just hitting his stride as a trustee when he had to leave the Board," explained trustee Wendell Smith, A&S '54. "This new position on the Council and on the Board offers four years' continuous service that will be of mutual benefit to the Alumni Council and to the Board of Trustees." Mr. Smith was the first president of the Alumni Council, serving from 1988 to 1990.

Fran Keen, Nurs '70, president of the Alumni Council until October 1998, has been on the Board since October 1996. She was joined in July by newly elected Alumni Council first vice president Jim Archibald, A&S '71, who had been serving as a vice president of the Council. As first vice president and then president, Mr. Archibald would expect to serve on the Board of Trustees until 2000.

The Alumni Council also voted that besides the first vice president, the Executive Committee will have two second vice presidents. The Council elected Idy Iglehart III, Med '83, as second vice president. Gene Detroyer, A&S '69, already serving as vice president, is the other second vice president.

Convocation Slated for Washington, D.C.

University President William R. Brody and Johns Hopkins Medicine CEO Edward D. Miller Jr. will be among the speakers at the Johns Hopkins Washington, D.C., Convocation on Saturday, November 15. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel. For information, call 410-516-7711.

Trustee, Alumna Honored

Trustee emerita Marjorie G. Lewisohn, Med '43, was honored in May by the JHU Women's Forum on her 25th anniversary as Hopkins' first woman trustee. Presenting the award, School of Medicine Vice Dean Catherine DeAngelis, right, praised her as "trailblazer and pioneer." Later in May, Dr. Lewisohn received the Bronk Award from the New York Metropolitan Alumni Chapter in recognition of her personal and professional accomplishments.

Trustee Challenge Doubling the Rewards to Hopkins and Yourself

Seize the day! In its most edifying sense, this could be the motto of the University's Annual Fund. The unrestricted moneys contributed to the University and its divisions through annual giving provide the president and the deans with the flexibility to "seize the day" when unexpected opportunities arise to further teaching, research, and medical care.

Enhancing the quality of student life, assisting promising junior faculty, and obtaining the most advanced research equipment are some of the ways in which these funds are used.

This year, thanks to a $1 million Trustee Challenge, giving to the Annual Fund is doubly rewarding. The University trustees have pledged to match the first $1 million in new and increased gifts during fiscal year 1997-98.

This challenge will match, dollar-for-dollar, all gifts from alumni who have never made a gift or who have given in the past but did not do so in 1996-97. In addition, the trustees will match the increased portions of gifts from current alumni donors who raise their contributions from last fiscal year. All such gifts, up to $10,000 each, will be doubled.

"The importance of annual giving in meeting new challenges and opportunities cannot be overstated," said Lenox D. Baker Jr., A&S '63, Med '66, vice chairman of the University Board of Trustees. "Look at the tremendous contributions the University and its divisions make," he went on.

"The agenda is incredibly ambitious, and our operating costs grow yearly. This means the level of annual giving must increase to help keep pace. So even when alumni make gifts to the Johns Hopkins Initiative campaign, it's important that they also contribute to the Annual Fund."

Dr. Baker said that goals for 1997-98 include adding at least 3,300 new alumni donors to the annual giving rolls--which will result in more than 18,500 alumni making gifts to Johns Hopkins.

"The Board wants to underscore the important, valuable role of the Annual Fund by doubling the value of new and increased gifts," added trustee R. Champlin Sheridan, A&S '52, who, with Dr. Baker, co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Initiative. "We hope this will also double the personal satisfaction that our donors have in being a part of the success of Johns Hopkins."

For further information on how your gift to the Annual Fund can be matched by the trustees call 410-516-3400 or 800-548-5422.

Class of '97 Enhances HUT

Co-chairs of the Senior Class Gift Committee, from left, Alex M. Gershman, Amy Flood, and Adrienne Graage, are shown in the Hutzler Reading Room in Gilman Hall, the beneficiary of a $7,000 gift from the Homewood Class of 1997. The funds, which the Friends of the Libraries will match dollar for dollar, will provide updated computer terminals, work stations, and other amenities.

John Barth

Famous Alums To Help Celebrate Writing Seminars' 50th Anniversary

Alumni and guests are invited to attend events September 25-28 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Writing Seminars at Homewood. The festivities will include a joint reading by writers and alumni Russell Baker '47, John Barth '51 and '52, and Molly Peacock '77; John Astin '52 portraying Edgar Allan Poe; and readings by Mark Strand and other faculty. For information call Doug Warren '77, director of Homewood Alumni Programs, at 410-516-8722, or e-mail warren@flash.dev.jhu.edu.

Alumni Activities Regional Plans Include Arts, Crew, Dancing, and Dining

Crab feasts, major league baseball games, young alumni events, and student send-off parties were popular Alumni Association chapter activities this summer. In Seattle, a record attendance of 135 at the Space Needle welcomed the Blue Jay men's lacrosse team at a special reception during the team's summer tour.

The fall lineup of alumni events includes a major Johns Hopkins convocation in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, November 15, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel. Among the featured speakers will be University President William R. Brody and Johns Hopkins Medicine CEO Edward D. Miller Jr.

The Alumni Council will meet during the Johns Hopkins Alumni Leadership Weekend September 25-28 in Baltimore. The weekend's events will include the third anniversary gala of the Johns Hopkins Initiative campaign, which also honors the Johns Hopkins Associates.

Looking ahead to the spring, the Peabody Symphony Orchestra will make its New York debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall on Saturday, May 2, 1998, at 8 p.m., followed by a private reception for Hopkins affiliates.

Additional events around the country include those listed below. Many other chapters are finalizing plans, so watch for invitations in the mail.

September 20--Private tour of the "Jewels of the Romanovs" exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Art

October 17--Society of Engineering Alumni event in Cincinnati

October 18--Society of Engineering Alumni combined D.C./Maryland event: behind-the-scenes tour of the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel

October 19--Head of the Charles crew races, Boston

November 7--Pittsburgh dinner with Simeon Margolis, A&S '53, Med '57, professor of medicine and biological chemistry at the JHU School of Medicine

February 7, 1998--Baltimore Mid-Winter Ball at the B&O Railroad Museum

For information on any of these activities, call the Alumni Relations Office at 410-516-0363 or 800-548-5481 or check the alumni Web pages at http://www.jhu.edu/~alumni/.

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