July 21, 2000 UNT Inhouse publication: Bulletin board

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UNT sophomore Tracy Putnam donates blood during the university's summer blood drive July 12, with help from employees of Carter Blood Care — Kelley Brashear, trainer, Robert Lloyd, team leader, and Zhana Doosti, phlebotomist.

MICHAEL BRUNER, associate professor of communication studies, presented "Working Across Boundaries and Battles Over Cognitive and Rhetorical Landscapes" at the Eighth International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, June 17-22 in Bellingham, Wash.

ALEX CHRESTOPOULOS, assistant professor of dance and theatre arts, is directing My Fair Lady, July 23-Aug. 8 at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Ill.

WES CLARKE, assistant professor of public administration, and BOB BLAND, professor and chair of the Department of Public Administration, were published in the Summer 2000 Municipal Finance Journal. Their article is titled "State Guarantees for School Debt and the Texas Penalty."

PETE A.Y. GUNTER, Regents Professor of philosophy and religion studies, has been included in the Texas Council for the Humanities Speakers Bureau. Outlines of Gunter's talks, "Frontier Mentality and the New World of Texas: Time for a New Ethics?" and "The Big Thicket: Ecology and a Philosophy of Value," are included in the 2000 issue of Explorations, the bureau's magazine.

JOHN HIPPLE, senior staff counselor and associate professor of counseling, development and higher education, presented "Adolescent Suicide: Motivations and Characteristics" at the fifth annual Conference for At-Risk Children and Youth at Texas Woman's University, June 16 in Denton.

MADHAV PAPPU, assistant professor of marketing, attended a case-writing workshop that focused on providing case material for a new John Deere/Arizona State University MBA program, March 30-April 1 in Davenport, Iowa. photo of Elisabeth Warren

PETER SHILLINGSBURG, visiting professor of English, presented "A Modified Resistance to German Editorial Theory" March 3-8 in Lingen, Germany.

ELISABETH WARREN, director of the Department of Housing and Residence Life, presented "The Learning Environment: Civility in the Classroom and Across Campus" at the North Texas Community and Junior College Consortium, April 25 at UNT in Denton.

BERNARD L. WEINSTEIN, professor of applied economics and director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, presented "Barriers to the Implementation of NAFTA" at the Sixth Summer Institute of the Pacific Regional Science Council, June 13-16 in Mexico City.

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ROBERT BENJAMIN, associate professor of biological sciences, discusses the significance of mapping the entire human genome sequence in the June 27 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

The artwork of HARLAN BUTT, professor of visual arts, is the subject of a June/July 2000 article in the American Craft Council's magazine, American Craft.

UNT's summer musical theater workshop is discussed by ALEX CHRESTOPOULOS, assistant professor of dance and theatre arts, in the June 22 Denton Record-Chronicle.

PRISCILLA CONNORS, assistant professor of merchandising and hospitality management, discusses convenient, healthy eating options in the July Runner's World magazine.

UNT's new Jewish studies program, which begins this fall, is discussed by RICHARD GOLDEN, professor and chair of the Department of History, in a July 3 Fort Worth Star-Telegram article.

ANN JORDAN, associate professor of anthropology, discusses the effects of boredom on the job in the June 25 Fort Worth Star Telegram.

The influence of the Korean War on military and geopolitical strategies in the Vietnam War is discussed by PETER LANE, lecturer in history, in the June 25 Dallas Morning News.

Compiled by Donna Carter in Human Resources.

20 years

Lewis Donald Smith Jr., Physical Plant

15 years

Linda Ellen Maughan, Hospital and Health Services

10 years

Mary Kathryn Fischer, University Union
Jorge L. Hernandez Sr., Motor Pool
Kathryn A. Loafman, Libraries
Gary S. Mathews Jr., Library and Information Sciences

5 years

Jason Lyon Myre, Computing Center
Tomas Cruz Nunez, Recycling Services
Mary Ann Venner, Libraries

JOHN S. JOHNSON, 39, died June 19. Johnson had been a UNT graduate research assistant and teaching fellow in the Department of History since September 1999.

IMOGENE DICKEY MOHAT, Professor Emeritus of arts and sciences, 91, died June 26 at the Denton Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Mohat was the dean of women at Photo of Imogene Dickey Mohat North Texas from 1944 to 1968, an English professor from 1944 to 1977 and acting director of the drama division from 1977 to 1979.

She was a graduate of Paris Junior College and earned her bachelor's degree from East Texas State University and master's and doctoral degrees from George Peabody College for Teachers (now part of Vanderbilt University).

She taught in the Paris public schools and was dean of Paris Junior College before coming to North Texas in 1944.

She was a member of several professional organizations and served as president of the Texas Association of Deans of Women and the Denton chapters of Delta Kappa Gamma and the American Association of University Women.

In 1989 she received the city of Denton's highest honor, the Otis L. Fowler Award, for her contributions to the betterment of Denton through her field. In 1990, Mohat and her husband, John T. Mohat, established the Imogene Bentley Dickey Mohat Scholarship, which is awarded annually to a full-time undergraduate student majoring in English at UNT.

Survivors include the children of her late husband, Mike Mohat of Denton and Marion Clark of Bridgewater, N.J., and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

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Conductors Collegium, UNT Wind Symphony, featuring the music of Norman Dello Joio, Thomas Stone, Martin Mailman, Frank Ticheli and Timothy Brocge, 7:30 p.m. July 21, Winspear Performance Hall.

Georgia Maher Exhibit, watercolors, reception 3-5 p.m. July 24, exhibit July 24-Aug. 13, Union Gallery.

Operas: I Pagliacci and Gianni Schicchi, 8 p.m. July 28-29, 3 p.m. July 30, Lyric Theater. Call 369-7802 for ticket information.