UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 25, Page 4
March 25, 1993
Up and coming

Alumni group plans Civil War bus tour
     The University Alumni Association has scheduled a tour of Civil War
battlefields this spring that will include stops at Harper's Ferry,
Manassas, Antietam and Gettysburg.
     Scheduled May 14-16, the tour will be led by Raymond Callahan,
professor of history, who will discuss the significance of the battles
fought at each site.
     Cost of the tour is $291 per person and includes round-trip motorcoach
transportation, accommodations for two nights, admissions to sightseeing,
two lunches, one dinner and one Civil War feast. Payment is due by April 2.
     For more information, call the Office of Alumni Relations at 831-2341
or Four Seasons Travel at 594-1030 or (out-of-state) 1-800-458-1030.

Wolf Hall to be site for magic evening
     E-52 Student Theatre will present An Evening of Magic III: This Time
It's for Real .
     Magician Jason Nocks returns with an original script, an expanded cast
and musical compositions tailored to the magic. In addition to classical
illusions and light-hearted effects, Nocks has specifically designed
several, never-before-seen, highly original illusions for this performance.
This show is suitable for both adults and children.
     Two matinees will be held at 2:15 p.m., April 17 and 24. Four evening
performances will be held at 8:15 p.m., April 16, 17, 23 and 24 in Wolf
Hall.
     For information, call 831-6014.

HRAA plans visit to museum, gardens
     The College of Human Resources Alumni Association (HRAA) is sponsoring
a bus tour to Hillwood Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C., on
Wednesday, May 19.
     Hillwood is located six miles from the Washington Monument on 24 acres
that were originally part of the Peirce estate, which dates from the 18th
century when Isaac Peirce moved there and acquired 2,000 acres.
     The mansion, amid lovely gardens, was purchased by Marjorie
Merriweather Post, the Post cereal heiress, as a residence in l955.
     She completely remodeled the interior. The home was opened to the
public in l977.
     The Hillwood Tour offers an exceptional opportunity to see and
appreciate extraordinary 18th- and 19th-century Russian and French
decorative arts. Displays feature services commissioned by Catherine the
Great, icons, gold and silver chalices, Faberge jeweled Easter eggs, French
furniture, tapestries and Sevres porcelain.
     The C.W. Post exhibit of painting, sculpture and furnishings was
assembled around the turn of the century.
     Other buildings on the grounds include a picturesque Dacha with a
smaller Russian art collection. The gardens include a formal French
parterre off the drawing room with statuary and a fountain. A rose garden
beyond the parterre is linked to a Japanese garden with a friendship walk.
Many varieties of orchids can be found in the greenhouse.
     Half of the tour group will visit the main house starting at 10:30
a.m., while the other half strolls at leisure in the gardens and can enjoy
lunch or tea in the cafe.
     At noon, the groups will switch, giving the first group a chance to
eat and stroll while the second group tours the mansion. Lunch is not
included in the price of the tour.
     The tour bus will leave the University's Goodstay Center at 2600
Pennsylvania Ave. in Wilmington at 7:30 a.m. and stop at the Newark Park &
Ride, Routes 4 and 896 near the Bob Carpenter Center, at 8 a.m. The bus
will return to Newark about 5 p.m. and return to Goodstay at 5:30 p.m.
     Cost of the tour is $50.
     To register, send a check payable to HRAA to: Hillwood Museum Tour,
c/o Bette Todd, 33 Park Drive, Newark, DE 19712. Include name, address,
telephone number and pick-up site. Reservation deadline is April 23. For
more information, call Todd at 366-1056.

Alumni to travel to Norway, Greece
     The University Alumni Association is sponsoring a cruise to Norwegian
fjords in July and another cruise to Greece and the Greek islands in
September.
     The Norwegian cruise, which departs July 22, includes stops in Oslo,
Copenhagen and Bergen. Prices range from $2,380 to $3,235, depending on
type of cabin and deck on the 460-passenger Ocean Princess.
     Features of the cruise include round trip airfare; two-night,
pre-cruise land package in Copenhagen, including first-class hotel
accommodations and a half-day of sightseeing; and a seven-day cruise aboard
the Ocean Princess, including all meals and entertainment.
     For reservations or more information, call Four Seasons Tours and
Travel at 594-1030 or 1-800-458-1030.
     The 13-day trip to Greece and the Greek islands runs from Sept. 19
through Oct. 1. Cost is $2,738.
     Tour includes roundtrip motor coach transportation from Newark and
Wilmington to the Philadelphia airport; roundtrip flight from Philadelphia
on British Air; accommodations for seven nights in deluxe and first-class
hotels (double occupancy); accommodations for four nights aboard the Stella
Oceanis; meals, including full American breakfasts in Athens, continental
breakfasts on the classical tour, four dinners and all meals aboard the
cruise ship; and extensive sightseeing, including a four-day classical tour
and two guided tours in Athens.
     In addition to Athens, the cruise include stops at Olympia, Cornith,
Mucenae, Epidauraus, Nauplia, Delphi and the islands of Rhodes, Kusadasi
and Mykonos.
     For information, call Four Seasons Tours and Travel at 594-1030 or
1-800-458-1030.

New SDALL course on Delaware issues
     "Topical Issues-Delaware '93" is the theme of a new five-week course
being offered by the University's Southern Academy of Lifelong Learning.
     The course which will feature guest speakers from various state
departments, will speak for about one hour, followed by a
question-and-answer session.
     The course will meet at the University's Milford Center, 15 Southwest
Front St., Milford, starting April 8 at 1:30 p.m. Registration fee is $20.
     Grover Biddle from the Delaware Development Department will speak on
state development on April 8.
     In the following weeks, other scheduled speakers will include Robert
Jordan, state geologist, who will speak on water resources; N.C. Vasuki,
director of the Delaware Solid Waste Authority, who will speak on solid
waste disposal; Daryl Tyler, director of air pollution division at
Department of Natural Resources of Environmental Control, who will speak on
air pollution; and Gerald F. Vaughn, extension specialist with the
University, who will speak on resource economics and policy.
     For registration information, contact Renee Moy at 424-5000.

'Scholarly nostalgia' lecture on April 8
     As part of its Distinguished Scholars Series, the Department of
Foreign Languages and Literatures will sponsor a lecture by Judith Ryan,
professor of German and comparative literature at Harvard University, at
7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 8, in 108 Memorial Hall. Ryan will speak on
"Post-Modernism and Positivism: Scholarly Nostalgia in the Recent Novel."