UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 18, Page 11
February 4, 1993
In the news

Recent comments about the University and its community in the media are
featured in this regular column.

Comments on Russia
     Minnetonka, Minn.-Curt Carlson used to go door-to-door hawking soap,
then trading stamps to local grocers.
     But that was more than half a century and billions of dollars ago.
     The 78-year-old Carlson, who runs the Carlson Holdings Inc.
conglomerate, continues to knock on doors but his latest stomping ground is
in Russia and other former communist counties. He's hoping to make a
presence there with his upscale Radisson Hotels.
     "They've got treasurers over there that you can't describe," said
Carlson. "But the hotels were bad."
     ..."I think it's a big risk," said Paul Wise, director of the hotel,
restaurant and institutional management program at the University of
Delaware. "Do we really know what's going to happen in Russia? There could
be some changes there that could be devastating for them."
     Still, Wise said the venture could turn out to be lucrative "if the
country stabilizes and they (the Russians) are able to get their act
together in terms of developing a capitalistic society."...
                                                 "He's Moscow's New Hotelier
                                                                  of Choice"
                                                   New Hampshire Sunday News
                                                               Jan. 17, 1993

Warm water currents
     Oceanographers call it the Western Pacific Warm Pool, a great band of
ocean straddling the Equator north of Australia where surface temperatures
are among the world's warmest. This computer-generated map charts a 10-year
average of temperatures recorded by earth-orbiting TIROS satellites since
1982....
     The satellite data reveal that the Western Pacific Warm Pool got
warmer--by half a degree Celsius--during the past decade, and much larger
too, according to Xio-Hai Yan of the Center for Remote Sensing at the
University of Delaware, who led the team that produced the map.
                                                  "Is the Sea Warming in the
                                                           Western Pacific?"
                                                         National Geographic
                                                               December 1992

E-mail messages
     Friends and family scatter like dry leaves, drifting to different
cities and counties. "I'll write," I promise solemnly. Alas, my good
intentions produce only imagined letters never embraced by paper, never
kissed by stamps.
     Ah, but electronic mail has changed my ways. My computer has become an
epistolary Pinatubo, erupting with letters and missives and memos whizzed
around the world at warp speed. I share thoughts with pen pals in New
Zealand, query strangers in Bombay, debate magicians in Manhattan...it
spurs me to investigate unexplored territory, to ask more questions and to
establish contact with people half a world away.
     The long reach can also draw families closer, says Rita Levine, a
Pittsburgh parent. She swaps daily electronic notes with her daughter,
Erin, a freshman at the University of Delaware, where all students have
Internet addresses. In the first two months of school, Levine, got 53
E-mail missives from Erin, who drops her mom a few chatty lines wherever
she is near a terminal. "It's funny," says Levine. "We talk more now than
when Erin lived upstairs."
                                              "Communicating in the New Age"
                                                    U.S. News & World Report
                                                               November 1992

Painting coach
     Near the easel in his new office, University of Delaware football
coach Harold (Tubby) Raymond keeps a box filled with artists' brushes and
tubes of acrylic paint. "Some of those brushes," he says, "have been around
since my first painting."
     ...Since the mid-1960s (Raymond doesn't recall exactly when) during
the football season the 65-year-old coach has painted a portrait of at
least one senior player every week and hung the portrait on the team's
locker room wall on Thursday. "He's no Michelangelo," says Delaware sports
information director Scott Selheimer, "but for a football coach he's pretty
good."
     Raymond happens to be a pretty good football coach, too. In his 39
years at Delaware, 27 as head coach, he has won three national
championships and has a career record of 214-85-2 (as of Sept. 20, 1992).
To Delaware fans he is football.
     Every Wednesday during the season, when the weekend's game plan is
complete, Raymond walks into his office, shuts the door, pulls out a photo
of a senior and paints his portrait on a piece of posterboard..... Ask him
what his style is, he says, " I just paint. It's a great catharsis."
     A few years later, before he had become head coach, Raymond started
doing portraits of seniors, and since then he has painted more than 400
players.
     ...It's part of what makes Delaware special. Three years ago the
athletic department included six head coaches who had held their jobs for
25 years or more. Offensive coordinator Ted Kempski is currently in his
25th season. He played for Raymond in 1961 and '62 before accepting an
assistant coaching job in '68. "He doesn't remind me of an artist, yet he's
very creative," Kempski says of his longtime friend. "He always finds new
ways to inspire people."
     ...But Raymond has never painted a portrait of Kempski. Would Kempski
like one? "I wouldn't ask for something like that," he says.
     Maybe it's time for those old brushes to paint an old friend.
                                                 "A Coach's Brush with Fame"
                                                          Sports Illustrated
                                                             October 8, 1992