Fall 1991

Features

The Name of the Game is Access
Gelman Library's electronic catalog ALADIN; Sharon Rogers, University Librarian
Amy Aldrich

Trachtenberg on the Fast Track
an interview with GW's President
Sandy Holland

Arabian Tales for New Readers
Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. and his wife sponsor 17 Saudi citizens to be trained as teachers at the GW Reading Center
Kellie J. Boyet

The Last Touchdown
a look at GW football in the past
Marc Leepson

Wolf Trap Reflections
Catherine Filene Shouse, neighbor of GW and founder of Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
Lynn Doe Shipway

Departments

GW News

• Yes, Virginia, There is a GW Campus (GW Campus in Virginia)
• All-Nighters Deluxe (Gelman Library Completes 24-hour study room)
• Peter Smith Appointed Education School Dean
• Quayle Hails Apprentice Scientists at GW (VP Quayle gives a talk to highschool students in GW summer program)
• GW Helps Urban League with Landscaping (GW's landscaping staff donate labor and material to Wash. Urban League)
• The Elliott School's First Quarter Century (ESIA celebrates 25 years as an independent institution)
• Class of '95 Includes Six 21st Century Scholars (new scholarship program for D.C. highschool graduates)
• Calling All Feds (Federal employees can donate $ to organizations, including GW, by taking a pay reduction)
• Gross Named New Associate VP (for research and graduate studies)
• New Life for Lisner (renovations at Lisner Auditorium)
• Medical Ethicist Kenneth Schaffner Named University Professor
• Incoming Class Looks Smart (GW attracts more of the nation's top highschool students)
• GW's Nondiscrimination Rule Now Includes Gays, Lesbians
• Soviet Execs Leave GW for Corporate America (Soviet Executive Program--SBPM)
• No Breakdowns in Communications here (National Center for Communication Studies created)
• How to Run a School District--By Two Who Know (Lee Etta Powell and Harry Pitt join GW as Superintendents-in-Residence at SEHD)
• At a Glance

Alumni Newsmakers

• Julianne Still Thrift, PhD '83 (president of Salem Academy and College, N.C.)
• Maryanne T. Ibach, MA '75 (the first woman admiral in the Naval Reserve)

A Faculty for Writing / Book Review Page

Speak Out and Viewpoint

• Antarctica for the Children (discussion of experience with ANSMET, Antarctic Search for Meteorites)
  Peter Wasilewski
  
  
• Taking A Bite Out of the Crime Myth
  William Chambliss

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