June 20, 2003 UNT Inhouse publication: Bulletin board

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Time out — From left, National Youth Sports Program coaches Steven Loewenstein, Annabel Miranda, Troy Thompson, Kamille Johnson and Darnell Green relax while campers take a breather during the day's events June 16. This is UNT's sixth year to host the program, which provides children with free sports instruction and classes to promote healthy living and higher education

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PETE A.Y. GUNTER, Regents Professor of philosophy and religion studies, delivered a talk titled "Temporal Hierarchy in Bergson and Whitehead" at the University of Saskatchewan, May 29 in Saskatchewan, Canada. The next day he performed a song cycle, The Clone University Fight Song and Other Cultural Debacles.

National

STEPHEN G. KATSINAS, professor of counseling, development and higher education and director of the Bill J. Priest Center for Community College Education, discusses the impact of state budget cuts on community colleges in the May 30 Chronicle of Higher Education.

State

CECIL ADKINS, Professor Emeritus of music, and ALIS DICKINSON ADKINS, retired lecturer in music, along with their children, are featured in a May 14 Fort Worth-Star-Telegram article discussing their work together as the Adkins String Ensemble.

ABRAHAM BENAVIDES, assistant professor of public administration, comments on the influence of concerned citizens on the political scene in an article about coalitions in the June 8 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

GREGG CANTRELL, professor of history, discusses the consequences of a possible end to the Texas State Historical Association in the June 1 Dallas Morning News.

UNT System Chancellor LEE JACKSON comments on the possibility of tuition increases in the June 4 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In the June 5 Oak Cliff Tribune, he comments on plans for the curriculum of UNT-Dallas to reflect the urban setting of the school.

RICHARD ROGERS, professor of psychology, comments on the faking of illness and odd behavior by mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante to avoid prison in the June 9 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

BERNARD WEINSTEIN, professor of applied economics and director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, comments on the announcement by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas that the Texas recession is over in the May 8 Dallas Morning News. Weinstein discusses the continuing decline in per capita salaries in the Dallas area in a June 1 Dallas Morning News opinion piece. In the June 1 Fort Worth Star-Telegram, he discusses the positive indicators of an improving Texas economy.

Regional

AL BAVON, associate professor of public administration; KENNETH DICKSON, Regents Professor of biological sciences and director of the Elm Fork Education Center; and STAN INGMAN, professor of applied gerontology and sociology and director of the Center for Public Service, are mentioned in a May 29 Oak Cliff Tribune article concerning their participation in the June 10 "Building Sustainable Communities" summit in South Dallas.

DAVID SHRADER, vice president for development, gave a tour of UNT's new "Regal Eagle" touring bus to an ABC-Channel 8 Daybreak news crew on June 3. The tour footage aired at 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.

Local

GEORGE CHRISTY, Professor Emeritus of business administration, discusses the possibility of a continued depressed dollar in a guest column appearing in the June 1 Denton Record-Chronicle.

PATRICIA CUKOR-AVILA, associate professor of English, comments on the dedication of local students taking English as a second language in the June 9 Denton Record-Chronicle.

DAVID KESTERSON, professor of English and provost and vice president for academic affairs, is featured in a June 12 Denton Record-Chronicle article on his decision to step down as provost to return to teaching before he retires. President NORVAL POHL and JAMES TANNER, professor and chair of the English department, also comment.

President NORVAL POHL and JAMES SCOTT, professor and dean of the College of Music, comment on the recently completed Regal Eagle, a customized bus for friends and alumni donated to the university, in the June 4 Denton Record-Chronicle. Pohl also comments on recent legislation allowing Texas universities to increase tuition at their own discretion in the June 8 issues of the Dallas Morning News and Denton Record-Chronicle.

STEVE SELBY, director of the Coliseum and Gateway Center, comments on the increase in traffic near the Coliseum as a result of high school commencement ceremonies being held there in the May 30 Denton Record-Chronicle.

GUS SELIGMANN, associate professor of history, is featured in a May 31 Fort Worth Star-Telegram article on a recent 50-year reunion of classmates from the American Dependents High School in Bremerhaven, Germany, which he helped to coordinate. A similar article appeared in the June 1 Denton Record-Chronicle.

ED SOPH, associate professor of music, discusses the discovery of arsenic in the Eureka! play structure at South Lakes Park and shares his opinions as founder of Citizens for Healthy Growth in a guest column in the June 11 Denton Record-Chronicle.

A commissioned work of ELIZABETH HINKLE-TURNER, student computing services manager, was featured at the International Trumpet Guild annual conference at Texas Christian University, May 22 in Fort Worth. The work, for video, electronics, trumpet and organ, is titled Finish Line.

PERRY McNEILL, professor of engineering technology, was recognized June 11 as Leadership Denton Alumnus of the Year. Members of the Leadership Denton Alumni chose him as the recipient of the award, which was given in recognition of his service as last year's chair of the board of the Denton Chamber of Commerce and his service as city councilman.

THOMAS SHEPHERD BURKHALTER SR., 83, assistant professor of chemistry from 1950 to 1952, died May 30 at his home in Richardson. He graduated from Oklahoma University with bachelor's and master's degrees and earned his doctorate in analytical chemistry from Louisiana State University. After teaching at North Texas, he served as head of freshman chemistry at Texas A&M University and for 28 years worked as the director of central research at Texas Instruments. He served as a consultant for the National Bureau of Standards and the National Materials Advisory Board. Survivors include his wife, Mildred; children Dianne Tetreault, Kay Armstrong, Jana Wurfl and Thomas S. Burkhalter II; and two sisters. Services were June 3 at Sparkman Funeral Home Chapel in Richardson. Burial was at Chinn Chapel Cemetery in Copper Canyon.

LEE HUDDLESTON, 67, associate professor of history since 1967, died May 29 in Denton. He received his bachelor's degree from Texas Tech University in 1959 and his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in 1966. He had taught at PMC Colleges in Chester, Pa., the University of Arkansas, Colorado State University and Kansas State University. At UNT he taught courses in Latin American history and the ancient Near East and served as an undergraduate adviser in the history department. His book Origins of the Indians: European Concepts, 1492-1729, was published by the University of Texas Press in 1967, and he wrote numerous articles, abstracts and book reviews. He had served on the board of editors for the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Huddleston was researching the origins and development of social and theological concepts in the ancient Near East and Pre-Columbian America for a book he had tentatively titled Footnotes in the Name of God. In accordance with his wishes, there were no services.

JAMES HOLLIS JONES, 83, former North Texas athletic team doctor, died April 24. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from North Texas in 1941 and 1946 and was honored as an outstanding alumnus. He received his M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. During World War II he served with the U.S. Army Air Corps' Flying Tigers in China, and during the Korean War he served as a physician at Brooks Army Hospital in San Antonio. He was recognized for his work against polio in the 1950s, served as medical director for the Denton City-County Health Department and at one time was the chief of staff at Flow Memorial Hospital and Lewisville Memorial Hospital. Survivors include his brother, Bill R. Jones; children, James R. Jones, Holly J. Jones and D. Jan Ball; and five grandchildren. Services were held May 31 at Mulkey Mason Funeral Home in Denton. Burial was in Kopperl.

CRAWFORD SLOAN, 74, employee in the physics department from 1965 to 1978, died June 6 in Mineral Wells. He had owned and operated his own machine shop and was a member and deacon of Grace Temple Baptist Church. He was also a member of the Keller Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite and Hella Temple Shrine. Survivors include his wife, Dora Lou Sloan of Denton; two daughters, Rita Kathryn Sloan Ashby of Longview and Lisa Suzanne Sloan Rowett of Mineral Wells; one son, Crawford Jacobs Sloan Jr. of Cooper; three brothers, Donald Sloan and Leon L. Sloan Jr. of Garland, and Michael Sloan of Nocona; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Services were June 10 at Grace Temple Baptist Church. Burial was in Jackson Cemetery in Krum.