UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 4, Page 10
September 23, 1993
United Way campaign video spotlights UD employees

     It's a quiet summer evening at Battery Park in historic New Castle.
Joggers are running by, people are walking their dogs, families picnic and
children play. Jean E. Stewart, research associate in marine studies, is
trying her best to ignore it all and concentrate on the video camera a few
feet in front of her face.
     As one of several University employees selected to talk about their
volunteer work for this year's United Way campus video, Stewart stands
poised, ready to deliver a message about the Sierra Club. Behind her,
Sierra Club volunteers are busy cleaning up the park's beach.
     Stewart gives video producer Charles Marsh of the University's Media
Services a nervous smile. The camera rolls and, after a few false starts,
she takes a breath and, it's perfect.
     "I've always cared about the environment, recycling, fresh water
wetlands and energy conservation....," she says.
     Stewart is one of 12 University employees who appear in the video.
     Marsh found them through recommendations and word-of-mouth leads,
interviewed them on tape for about five minutes and planned to use about a
minute of footage from each in a series of 12 mini-interviews. The length
of the entire video, to be made available to University units, is about l0
minutes, Marsh said.
     The theme of the video is family- the family of programs offered by
the United Way, the family of employees at the University and the family of
humanity, Marsh explained.
     This year's video is upbeat, tied together with music, graphics and
narration by several University employees. Marsh filmed several segments
off campus at the sites where employees volunteer. He captured intense
little girls trying to learn a dance routine at the Christiana Cultural
Arts Center in Wilmington and children singing at a day camp run by the
Jewish Community Center.
     In addition to President David P. Roselle, who opens and closes the
video, other narrators are Blue Hen head football coach Tubby Raymond;
Helen Morgan, benefits plan administrator; John Burmeister, professor of
chemistry and biochemistry; and Judith Gibson, assistant vice president for
affirmative action and multicultural programs.
     Appearing in the video, but listed in alphabetical order are:
     
        * Jerry Beasley and Thomas Calhoun, professors of English who, as
          the Elderly Brothers, give benefit concerts for Homeward Bound;
        * Jorge Cubillos, assistant professor and sequence supervisor of
          Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
          who staffs an AIDS hotline;
        * Richard Gaw, editorial coordinator in the Publications Office,
          who works with Literacy Volunteers of America;
        * Nan Lipstein, a student at the Academy of Lifelong Learning, who
          volunteers at the Jewish Community Center;
        * Scott Mason, assistant director of the Perkins Student Center,
          who reminisces about his great-grandmother's activities at the
          Wilmington Senior Center;
        * Eileen Prybolsky, administrative assistant in art history, who
          delivers Meals On Wheels for the Newark Senior Center;
        * Dot Roberts, president of the Academy of Lifelong Learning
          Council, who volunteers for Contact Delaware;
        * Darlene Sharp, senior administrative assistant in labor
          relations, who talks about her ties to the Christina Cultural
          Arts Center;
        * Peggy Sullivan, alumni associate in the Office of University and
          Alumni Relations, who volunteers for United Cerebral Palsy;
        * Jack Townsend, director of career planning and placement, who
          participates in biathlon that benefit the Wilmington YWCA; and
        * S.B. Woo, professor of physics and astronomy, who reads to school
          children for Read Aloud Delaware.
        
     Joyce Dennis, assistant to the director of employee services and the
University's United Way coordinator, said the video will be unveiled at the
United Way kickoff Oct. 13 in Clayton Hall. The campaign runs through Oct.
27. Employee units that would like to view the video may make arrangements
by contacting Dennis at 831-2171.