Distinguished lecturer — Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell gave a public lecture, "A Political Overview," on Oct. 25. Part of the UNT Fine Arts Series, the lecture was presented in cooperation with the UNT Distinguished Lecture Series, the UNT Model International Organization and the North Texas Invitational Model United Nations.

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BRUCE BOND, professor of English, has had several poems published recently: "Art Tatum" in Best American Poetry 2003; "Crucifix" in the Gettysburg Review, vol. 16, no. 1; "Elegy for the Living" in the Indiana Review, vol. 25, no. 1; "Joy" in Descant, vol. 42; "Black Sun" in Artful Dodge, vol. 42/43; "Compass" in Animus, vol. 10; and "Pilgrim" in Passages North, vol. 24, no. 1. He has also given poetry readings at John Carroll University, Sept. 23 in Cleveland, Ohio; at Youngstown State University, Sept. 22 in Youngstown, Ohio; and at Prairie Lights Bookstore, June 16 in Iowa City, Iowa.

LYNDAL BULLOCK, Regents Professor of technology and cognition, organized and chaired the International Conference on Children and Youth With Behavioral Disorders, Oct. 2-4 in St. Louis. More than 30 graduate students from UNT presented papers at the conference.

BAIRD CALLICOTT, professor of philosophy and religion studies, wrote a book titled American Indian Environmental Ethics: An Ojibwa Case Study, published in September by Prentice Hall.

JOHN S. GOSSETT, associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies, received the 2003 Educator of the Year Award from the Texas Speech Communication Association, Oct. 9 in Corpus Christi.

JARED HAZLETON, professor of finance, insurance, real estate and law and dean of the College of Business Administration, spoke at a Dallas Association of Financial Professionals meeting, Oct. 16 in Dallas. His speech was titled "Juggling the Ups and Downs of the U.S. and Texas Economies."

UNT System Chancellor LEE JACKSON served with administrators from three other area universities on a panel hosted by the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, "Higher Education: What is Being Done to Fill the Work Force Gaps," Oct. 16 in Dallas.

BONITA JACOBS, associate professor of counseling, development and higher education and vice president for student development, wrote a book chapter, "New Student Orientation in the Twenty-First Century: Individualized, Dynamic and Diverse," in Student Academic Services, Jossey-Bass, 2003.

FRANK KEMERER, Regents Professor of teacher education and administration, received the Bronze Book of the Year Award in Education from Foreword Magazine for the book School Choice Tradeoffs: Liberty, Equity and Diversity, published in 2002 by the University of Texas Press.

GAIL LIPPINCOTT, assistant professor of English, presented "Shaping Knowledge for Graying Audiences: Where Are the Technical Communicators?" at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Professional Communication Conference, Sept. 21-24 in Orlando, Fla.

CINDY McTEE, Regents Professor of music, has been named to the board of directors of the American Music Center, a national nonprofit, service and information organization that advances new American music. McTee was also named one of D Magazine's "Cool Crowd" in the Sept. 1, 2003, issue.

JOHN PETERS, assistant professor of English, published "Assimilation and Appropriation, Catalogues and Chronicles: The Europeanization of the New World in Robinson Crusoe" in the North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 64.

FRED P. WATKINS, lecturer in radio, television and film, was one of 19 professors invited to Eastman Kodak's Technology Symposium on new films and digital applications for film, Oct. 1-7 in Kodak, Colo., and Fort Collins, Colo. He chaired a panel on the evaluation of visual educational materials and the teaching of film.

National

RANDOLPH CAMPBELL, Regents Professor of history, appeared on History on Book TV, a program shown on C-Span2, at 1 p.m. Oct. 11. He discussed his book Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State.

State

OSCAR GARCIA, professor of computer science and engineering and dean of the College of Engineering, comments on a $100,000 award from the National Science Foundation to the UNT College of Engineering in the Oct. 19 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

MYRA HAFER, assistant director of admissions, notes some of the reasons students attend community colleges in the Oct. 18 Dallas Morning News.

UNT System Chancellor LEE JACKSON discusses Senate bills 1297 and 1652, which allowed funding for the first building on the UNT at Dallas campus, in the Sept. 1 Minority Business News.

BHARATH JOSIAM, associate professor of merchandising and hospitality management, notes the increasing popularity of Indian restaurants in the Oct. 10 Dallas Business Journal.

LEON KAPPELMAN, professor of business computer information systems and director of the Information Systems Research Center, comments on failed computer programs designed to make businesses run more efficiently in the Oct. 19 Dallas Morning News. In a separate article in the same issue, he discusses the analytical skills required to pursue a doctoral degree.

JEAN KELLER, professor of kinesiology, health promotion and recreation and dean of the College of Education, comments on an increase in special education certification among bilingual teachers in the Oct. 12 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

LISA KENNON, associate professor of merchandising and hospitality management, emphasizes the importance of food safety and cleanliness in the Oct. 23 Denton Record-Chronicle and Oct. 26 Dallas Morning News.

TAMMY KINLEY, assistant professor of merchandising and hospitality management, discussed extreme variations in women's brand-name pant sizes on several TV news programs and in numerous area newspapers. She was featured on Fox-Channel 4 news at 6 p.m. Oct. 13 (rebroadcast at 5 and 6 a.m. Oct. 14). She was also featured on the Oct. 22 NBC-Channel 5 news. Kinley is quoted in the Oct. 10 Dallas Business Journal, the Oct. 13 issues of the Dallas Morning News and Denton Record-Chronicle, the Oct. 21 Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Oct. 27 News-Enterprise of Elizabethtown, Ky.

RICHARD LUSKY, associate professor and chair of the Department of Applied Gerontology, reports that the doctoral degree soon to be offered in applied gerontology will be Texas' only such program in the Oct. 3 Fort Worth Business Press.

UNT President NORVAL POHL and RICK VILLARREAL, director of athletics, comment on UNT's possible inclusion in the expanding Western Athletic Conference in the Oct. 21 Denton Record-Chronicle. Villarreal discusses the same issue in the Oct. 24 Dallas Morning News and Denton Record-Chronicle.

JAMES QUINN, professor of rehabilitation, social work and addictions and criminal justice, describes chronic ailments whose sufferers use medical marijuana in the Oct. 23 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

ED REYNOLDS, senior associate director and deputy chief of police, offers advice for preventing car stereo theft in the Oct. 8 Dallas Morning News.

A commentary by PEYTON FOSTER RODEN, Regents Professor of finance, insurance, real estate and law, appears in the Oct. 3 Fort Worth Business Press. The article focuses on the 10th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

MARK VOSVICK, assistant professor of psychology, talks about the approval of a pilot research project in the Oct. 3 Dallas Business Journal. The project will study the health behaviors of patients with chronic illnesses, including AIDS.

BERNARD WEINSTEIN, professor of applied economics and director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research, discusses strategies of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce for promoting business growth in the Oct. 10 Dallas Business Journal. He reveals the number of Fort Worth-Arlington area jobs lost in 2002 in the Oct. 15 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Weinstein and PERRY McNEILL, professor of engineering technology, discuss future development in Denton and increases in area population and jobs in the Sept. 21 Denton Record-Chronicle.

EUGENE WRIGHT, retired professor of English, provides details about his book Nobody Knows His Name and notes his difficulties in getting permission to visit the Pentagon in the Oct. 10 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Regional

BILL GRUBBS, professor and chair of the Department of Engineering Technology, discusses the benefits of the Denton County Boosting Engineering Science and Technology (DCBEST) robotics competition in the Oct. 9 Oak Cliff Tribune.

JUDY MORRIS, director of the Ronald E. McNair program, talks about federal funding of UNT's TRIO programs in the Oct. 9 Oak Cliff Tribune.

GEORGE MORRISON, professor of counseling, development and higher education and Velma Schmidt Chair, discusses the impact of television violence on young viewers in the online version of the Oct. 8 Beaumont Enterprise.

Local

STEPHEN DUBBERLY, associate professor of music, talks about conducting his favorite opera, the Mozart comedy The Marriage of Figaro, in the Oct. 23 Denton Record-Chronicle.

VINCENT FALSETTA, professor of visual arts, describes his art display at the Center for Visual Arts in the Oct. 12 Denton Record-Chronicle.

CHARLES R. FOSTER, lecturer in merchandising and hospitality management and general manager of the Club at Gateway Center, discusses the student-run eatery in the Oct. 23 Denton Record-Chronicle.

PAMELA MIA PAUL, professor of music, provides details about the music of Bela Bartok in the Oct. 16 Denton Record-Chronicle.

DON STAPLES, professor of radio, television and film, discusses Denton's need for an art film theater in the Oct. 22 Denton Record-Chronicle.

25 years

• Cathy J. Wilkinson, Community Service

15 years

• Barbara Ann Heffley, Computing and Information Technology Center
• Pamela Sue Johns, Chemistry

10 years

• Sandra Kay Hartline, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
• Agustina Rodriguez, Dining Services
• Herschel Leon Voorhees II, Student Health and Wellness Center

5 years

• Tracey Michael Baggett, Student Development
• David L. Downing, Continuing Education and Conference Management
• David Honnell, Institute of Applied Sciences
• William S. LeMaistre, Legal Affairs
• Noel P. Magtoto, Chemistry
• Rodney Tyrone Mitchell, TRIO Center for Student Development
• Vicki L. Taylor, School of Library and Information Sciences
• Rachel Zuniga, College of Education

CHARLES JOSEPH KLEINSTEUBER, 76, associate professor of harp and theory at UNT from 1967 to 1981, died June 16 in West Rockport, Maine. During World War II he played in the Navy Band and Navy Symphony in Washington, D.C., while studying with famed harpist Carlos Salzedo. He also played with the Buffalo Symphony, the Ice Follies, the St. Louis Symphony and the American Ballet Theater in New York.

He earned his bachelor of music degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and his master of arts from the University of Missouri. Before coming to North Texas, he taught harp at Stephens College in Missouri, Ball State Teachers College in Indiana and the University of Illinois, and he taught many summers at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan.

While at North Texas, Kleinsteuber performed with the Dallas Symphony and the Dallas Summer Musicals and was active in the recording industry in the Dallas area. He was a supporter of the American Harp Society, having served as president of the local chapter and as chair of the board of directors. He also had served as mayor of Shady Shores.

He is survived by his wife, harpist Grace Lenfest Kleinsteuber of West Rockport, Maine; a daughter, Lee, of Ithaca, N.Y.; a son, Carl, of The Hague, Netherlands; and several grandchildren.

In memory of Kleinsteuber, a Venus harp has been donated to UNT by W&W Musical Instrument Co. of Chicago.

See a full listing of events at www.unt.edu/events

Women's Basketball. UNT vs. Oklahoma Flyers. 7 p.m. Nov. 11, Coliseum. Call (940) 565-2527 for tickets.

Latin Jazz Ensemble. 8 p.m. Nov. 12, Kenton Hall.

The Importance of Being Earnest. 8 p.m. Nov. 14-15, 20-22; 2:30 p.m. Nov. 16 and Nov. 23, University Theatre. Call (940) 565-2428 for tickets.

Women's Swimming and Diving. UNT vs. Tulane and TCU. 10:30 a.m. Nov. 15, Student Recreation Center. Call (940) 565-2527 for information.

Football. UNT vs. Arkansas State. 3:05 p.m. Nov. 15, Fouts Field. Call (940) 565-2527 for tickets.

Women's Volleyball. UNT vs. Louisiana-Lafayette. 1 p.m. Nov. 16, Men's Gym. Call (940) 565-2527 for information.

COBA Distinguished Lecture Series. Presentation by Jerry Pinkerton, retired controller of TXU Corp. 2-4 p.m. Nov. 17, General Academic Building, Room 105.

Men's Basketball. UNT vs. Northwestern Oklahoma State. 7 p.m. Nov. 21, Coliseum. Call (940) 565-2527 for tickets.

Other featured articles in this issue

• UNT celebrates 50th anniversary of desegregation with gala, online scrapbook
• Governor names Rice M. Tilley Jr. new regent, reappoints Strange and Nickell
• UNT raises almost $6,000 in heart walk
• Awards presented at Staff Sack Lunch
• Faculty Senate hears from new engineering dean
• Willis Library offers appraisals at Roadshow
• UNT implementing new Enterprise Information System
• UNT professor creates new curriculum for WIC parents

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