UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 4, Page 4
September 24, 1992
Up and coming
Half-day workshop on interests, skills
David Campbell will conduct a half-day workshop based on his new
Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS), from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 9, at Clayton Hall.
An assessment instrument designed to aid career planning and
development for students and adults, CISS integrates interest with
self-assessed skills. CISS also has a single set of norms for men and
women and focuses on occupations requiring post-secondary education
and on today's careers.
CISS takes approximately 35 minutes to complete, and the results
give the individual a picture of his or her interests and skills,
matching responses against those of people in many occupations.
A recognized authority on interest measurement and the role of
interest in career planning, Campbell is the Smith Richardson Senior
Fellow in the Colorado Springs branch of the Center for Creative
Leadership.
For further information or to obtain a registration form, contact
David J. Berilla, associate director of career planning and placement,
at 831-2391 or by e-mail to David.Berilla@MVS. UDEL.EDU.
Columbus series to begin Sept. 29
"America on the eve of 1492 was remarkably disease free. It was
an epidemiological disaster waiting to happen," says Calvin Martin,
associate professor of history at Rutgers University.
Martin will open the University's free, public lecture series on
"The Consequences of 1492: A New World Perspective" with a talk, "When
the Gods Wept: Disease and the European Colonization of America," at 7
p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 29, in 120 Clayton Hall.
His talk focuses on how, through the mixing of "disease pools,"
the European encounter with native Americans was an epidemiological
catastrophe. European diseases such as smallpox spread like wildfire
among native Americans, which Martin refers to as disease-free or
"virgin" populations.
"Military encounters were really of secondary importance," he
says.
Martin's studies on the history of native North Americans have
generated much discussion. He is the author of Keepers of the Game:
Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade and is the winner of the
American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award. He also
is the editor of The American Indian and the Problem of History. He is
currently completing a third book, In The Spirit of the Earth:
Rethinking History and Time
The University's lecture series continues Thursday, Oct. 8, with
a talk on "Ecological Imperialism" by Alfred Crosby, professor of
American studies at the University of Texas, also at 7 p.m. in 120
Clayton Hall.
The series is sponsored by the University's Department of History
and funded in part by the Delaware Humanities Forum, which receives
its major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Business expert to speak in Milfor
John Stapleford, director of the University of Delaware's Bureau
of Economic and Business Research, will speak from l0:30 a.m.-noon,
Thursday, Oct. 1, at the University's Milford Center, 15 Southwest
Front St.
Stapleford will be a guest lecturer for the Southern Delaware
Academy of Lifelong Learning course, "Campaign '92: National and
International Issues."
His talk is free and open to the public. For more information,
call the Milford Center at 424-5000.
Concerts scheduled for tuba lovers
Tuba lovers will want to take advantage of two free "Oktubafest"
concerts offered this fall by the Department of Music.
The annual Oktubafest Outdoor Concert will be held at 3 p.m.,
Sunday, Sept. 27, on the University Mall, north of Memorial Hall.
During the free, casual concert, Jay Hildebrandt, professor of music,
will conduct a tuba choir composed of professional and amateur players
from throughout the Delaware Valley in music ranging from pop to
classical.
Listeners are urged to bring lawn chairs or blankets.
An Oktubafest Chamber Recital will be held at 8 p.m. on
Wednesday, Oct. 14, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont
Music Building.
This free, public concert had previously been scheduled for Oct. 13.
The program will feature Hildebrandt on tuba and euphonium; Julie
Nishimura on piano; the U.D. Tuba Quartet and University student
soloists
Rec programs offer dance, self-defense
The Recreation and Intramural Programs Office is offering
ballroom dancing, self-defense, gymnastics and white water rafting to
the University community.
The ballroom dancing program will be held from 7-8 p.m., Sundays,
Oct. 18-Nov. 15, in the Carpenter Sports Building (CSB) front gym. The
program fees are $10 for full-time University students and $20 for all
others. Register in Room 101A, CSB by Oct. 9
The self-defense program of Pa Sa Ryu Martial Arts, featuring
David Finney, University police officer and second degree black belt,
will be held at 6:30 p.m. for ages 6-12; 7:30 p.m. for ages 13 and
older; and 8:30 p.m. for advanced students.
The program will last 12 weeks from Oct. 6 - Dec. 22 in the
Newark Hall gymnasium. The fees are $35 per session for full-time
University students, $70 for all others and $100 per family.
Registration deadline is Sept. 30 at CSB.
The gymnastic program will be held at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. on Oct.
24 and 31, Nov. 7, 14 and 21 and Dec. 5 and 12, in the CSB back gym.
The program is offered to ages 3-12, with a $55 fee. Registration is
necessary by Oct. 16 at CSB.
The white water rafting weekend will be held on Friday through
Sunday, Oct. 16-18 in Fayetteville, W.Va. The cost is $105 per person.
Participants must register by Oct. 7 at CSB.
For information on any of the programs, call 831-8600.
Three quilt artists in campus series
Three regional quilt artists who have work featured in "The
Definitive Contemporary American Quilt," a traveling exhibition now
installed at the University Gallery, will speak next month on the
Newark campus as part of an artist lecture series, "Quilt as Personal
Metaphor and Cultural Icon."
All lectures, free and open to the public, will be held from 4-6
p.m. in Room 102 Recitation Hall.
The lectures promise to give contemporary meaning to 19th-century
quilting bee traditions and provide the artist's eye view of
exhibition curator Bernice Steinbaum's definition of a quilt as
"something which warms the soul and may warm the body."
Artist Joyce Scott opens the lecture series on Thursday, Oct. 8.
The quilt Scott has in the exhibition is entitled "Three Generations"
and capitalizes on her interest in organic forms and textures.
Its primitive design is worked in rich fabrics and accented with
beadwork. Scott earned a bachelor of fine arts from the Maryland
Institute of Art and a masters of fine arts from San Miguel Allende in
Mexico.
Speaking on Tuesday, Oct. 13, will be Diane Pieri, whose quilt in
the exhibition is entitled "Medallions on Hoffman." The silk and rayon
quilt is a mysterious piece worked in dark, jewel-like colors,
embellished with gold hand-painted symbols. Pieri earned her bachelor
of fine arts at the Tyler School of Art.
Concluding the series on Thursday, Oct. 15, will be Catherine
Jansen. Jansen's work, "Michael's Room," is a scaled-to-life, mixed
media installation.
Central to the room environment is a photo transfer of a sleeping
child in a dreamlike state with a friendly dinosaur peeking around the
corner. Jansen earned her bachelor of fine arts at Cranbrook and her
master of fine arts at the Tyler School.
"The Definitive Contemporary American Quilt" exhibition continues
at the University Gallery in Old College through Oct. 20. Gallery
hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday and 1-5 p.m.,
Saturdays and Sundays.
On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Vera Kaminski, associate professor of art at
the University, will discuss "Quilt: Image and Aesthetic," at noon in
the University Gallery.
For information, call 831-8242
Talk by author on Delaware River
Bruce Stutz, author of the recently published Natural Lives,
Modern Times: The People and Places of the Delaware River, will speak
and sign copies of his book at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 24, in the
Rodney Room of the Perkins Student Center.
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be
served after the lecture.
Natural Lives, Modern Times, published earlier this year by Crown
Publishers Inc., combines observations of the nature of the Delaware
River's complex of river, glacial streams, marshlands and forest with
glimpses of history and folklore, as well as portraits of those whose
lives are sustained by the river
From the Catskill Mountains in New York to Philadelphia to the
Delaware Bay, the 350-mile river is one of the last rivers in the
United States undammed along its main course.
Stutz, an editor and writer on science, natural history and the
environment, currently is features editor at Audubon magazine.
He has written on the natural history of the Hudson River, the
Delaware River and the Chesapeake Bay. Born in Allentown, Pa., he
traveled and explored the Delaware for much of his youth and also owns
a home on the Delaware River.
The program is co-sponsored by the University Bookstore and
Volume II Books in Newark.