August 17, 2001 UNT Inhouse publication: Bulletin board

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An article by JOHN HIPPLE, senior staff counselor and associate professor of counseling, development and higher education, was published in the July 2001 issue of Visions, the American College Counseling Association's newsletter. The article is titled "Client Session Patterns: One Center's Experience."

ALLEN W. JACKSON, Regents Professor of kinesiology, health promotion and recreation, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education.

MARIE-CHRISTINE KOOP, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, received a grant for $25,000 from the Quebec Ministry of International Relations to organize and direct a national, two-week research seminar on Quebec society and
culture. The seminar was held July 15-29 at Université Laval in Quebec City and McGill University in Montreal. The seminar was held under the auspices of the American Association of Teachers of French, which Koop serves as vice president. A volume on Quebec is planned as a follow-up to the seminar.

PERRY KOZIRIS, assistant professor of kinesiology, health promotion and recreation, was presented with the 2001 National Strength and Conditioning Association Young Investigator Award.

MARK RORVIG, associate professor of library and information sciences, was awarded the 2001 Steven I. Goldspiel Memorial Research Grant by the Special Libraries Association. Rorvig was chosen for his project, "Exploiting Image Content Features for Image Index Term Assignment." Michelle Walker Bertina Hildreth Combes

MICHELLE WALKER, assistant professor of technology and cognition, was elected to the board of directors of the National Marketing Education Association. Her term is from 2001 to 2004. Walker, with JOYCE RADEMACHER, associate professor of technology and cognition, and BERTINA HILDRETH COMBES, associate professor of technology and cognition and associate dean in the College of Education, presented "Learner-Centered Assignments in Higher Education" at the 26th International Conference on Improving Learning and Teaching at the University, July 9-12 at Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Bringing Up Girls in Science, or BUGS, a new program developed by UNT, is discussed by TANDRA TYLER-WOOD, associate professor of technology and cognition, and DONNA FLEMING, TAMS associate director of counseling and research, in the July 17 Denton Record-Chronicle.

ROY BUSBY, professor of journalism, discusses the promotional campaign for Dallas' new American Airlines Center in the July 20 Dallas Morning News.

EUGENE CORPORON, professor of music, talks about an unpublished march by composer Giacomo Puccini, which was premiered by the UNT Wind Ensemble at the Texas Band Master's Association conference, in a July 23 Associated Press report.

TED FARRIS, assistant professor of marketing, and JARED HAZLETON, dean of the College of Business Administration, speak about the slowing Metroplex economy in the Aug. 3 Dallas Business Journal. Juliet M. Getty

JULIET M. GETTY, associate professor of merchandising and hospitality management and chair of the UNT Faculty Senate, PHIL DIEBEL, vice president for finance and business affairs, and BOBBY RAY, UNT System Board of Regents chair, all comment on proposed faculty merit raises in the July 27 Denton Record-Chronicle.

Work conducted by HARRELL GILL-KING, director of the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology, at Fort St. Louis, the first European settlement in Texas, is the topic of a July 22 Denton Record-Chronicle article. Constance Hilliard

CONSTANCE HILLIARD, associate professor of history, writes about the nuclear family in a column in the July 13 USA Today.

PERRY McNEILL, professor of engineering technology, comments on professional training in businesses in the July 20 Fort Worth Business Press.

JON NELSON, associate professor of music and co-director of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, talks about the center and computer music in the July 23 Dallas-Fort Worth TechBiz.

LESLIE PATTERSON, professor of teacher education and administration, talks about the negative aspects of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) test in a column in the Aug. 5 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

FOSTER RODEN, Regents Professor of finance, insurance, real estate and law, speaks about the importance of knowing Spanish in today's marketplace in the July 20 Fort Worth Business Press.

RICK VILLARREAL, UNT athletic director, discusses plans for a $95 million, five-year upgrade of UNT's athletic facilities in the July 18 Denton Record-Chronicle.

LAURA WATKINS, UNT sports marketing director, DARRELL DICKEY, head football coach, and RICK WATKINS, head track coach, talk about a television advertising campaign spotlighting UNT athletics in the Aug. 3 Denton Record-Chronicle.

BERNARD WEINSTEIN, director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research and professor of applied economics, speaks about the impact of the loss of technology jobs on the telecom industry in the July 20 Dallas Morning News. Weinstein and BRENDA WELLS, associate professor of finance, insurance, real estate and law, comment on the complexity of the current job market in the July 6 Fort Worth Business Press.

BRIAN WHEELER, exhibit coordinator for the Elm Fork Education Center, discusses the center's natural gas-powered bus dubbed "The Mean Green Environmental Machine" in the July 23 Denton Record-Chronicle.

DAVID WILLIAMSON, assistant professor of sociology, comments on his contribution to the creation of a sociology program at Neve Yerushalayim, an Orthodox women's school in Jerusalem, in the Aug. 3 Denton Record-Chronicle.

SHIELA VAIL MEYER, 69, of Denton died July 20 at Denton Regional Medical Center. She was executive director of the Health and Wellness Center from 1970 to 1994.

Meyer was born July 19, 1932, in Ellis County, Okla. Survivors include three sons, Stuart Meyer of Wichita Falls, Beau Meyer of Garland and Larry Meyer of Denton; two brothers, Jack Haines of Fargo, Okla., and Jim Haines of Rolling Hills, Calif.; one sister, Karen Martin of Woodward, Okla.; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Services were held July 23 in Woodward, Okla. Burial was in Elmwood Cemetery in Woodward.

CLARICE EDLA JOHNSON PAULS, 76, of Denton died July 27. She was the food service manager of West Hall from 1980 until 1992.

She was born Aug. 17, 1924, in Austin. After completing high school in Hutto in 1941, she attended Texas State College for Women (now Texas Woman's University), where she earned a bachelor of science degree in institutional management in 1945.

She was a registered dietitian and during her career worked at the San Marcos Boys Academy and at Texas Woman's University in addition to UNT. She was a member of the American Association of University Women, the American Home Economics Association and the Texas Home Economics Association, among others.

Survivors include her husband, Edward Pauls of Denton; three daughters, Sarah Houdek of Lake Dallas, Debbie Coomes Reinhard of Lewisville and Becky Jones of Denton; one brother, Quinton Johnson of Farmers Branch; and 10 grandchildren.

Services were held July 31 at the Lamb of God Lutheran Church in Flower Mound. Burial was in Palm Valley Cemetery in Round Rock.