Veritas, Vol. 15, No. 05, September 23, 1973

              Aging Conference Is Scheduled
by Jane Rieker News Bureau
A special UM Conference on Aging will bring 100 special invitees including several nationally-known specialists in gerontology to the campus October 4.
Conferees will work in panels to try to come up with precise definitions of the problems on aging so that the UM, cooperating with existing community agencies and other resources, can apply its efforts to solutions.
Among national experts leading the panels will be: Dr. Solomon H. Katz, associate professor, anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, who will give an anthropological and evolutionary overview of aging; Dr. F. Marott Sinex, professor and chairman, biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, and past president of the Gerontological Society, leading the panel on biology of aging; Herman B. Brotman, Washington, D.C., consulting gerontologist, including the Senate Special Committee on Aging, a panel on economics of aging; William Oriole, staff director, Senate Special Committee on Aging;
Dr. Robert Morris, The Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, Brandeis University, a panel on social services for the aged; Dr. Charles Beber, vice president of the American Gerontological Society and a professor in UM’s School of Medicine, a panel on medical psychological aspects of aging.
After the day-long study and discussion, the conference will conclude with a dinner. Dr. Martin Sicker, director, planning and evaluation of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s administration on aging, will speak on “The Role of University Programs in the Future of Aging.”
Chairing the conference is Priscilla Perry, interim director of the UM Center for Urban and Regional Studies.
The conference is jointly sponsored by the UM Task Force on Aging, chaired by Dr. Eugene H. Man, dean of research coordination, and the School of Continuing Studies through a grant under Title I, Higher Education Act of 1965.
Crafts Classes Planned
The Beaux Arts of the Lowe Art Museum will conduct art classes for children and adults beginning September 30. Classes range from macrame and ceramics to drawing and fabric design. For more information, call 667-3311.
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Volume 15, Number 5
September 23, 1974
Summer Orientation Deemed Success
This year’s new student summer orientation program, held during the weekends of June 28-30 and July 12-14 proved an academic and financial success.
The program offered a personalized view of campus and academic life at UM to ihcoming freshmen, transfer students and their families. Included in the weekend programs were a view of academic life, meetings with UM officials, academic advising and registration, and social events such as a wine-tasting party at the Lowe.
This program, begun during the summer of 1973, is financially self-supporting. In 1973,97 percent of the some 500 students who attended the summer orientation program showed up for the fall semester. Although exact percentages aren’t yet available, the Dean of Students Office feels confident that the figures for this year’s program will be about the same.
Based on the success of the program, the Dean of Students Office plans to recommend to the Orientation Committee that the program be expanded next year to three weekends.
Student reaction about the program was excellent. Feedback received from students who attended the orientation included comments such as . . everybody was exceptionally helpful and informative. I got the feeling that everyone really cared about getting us off to a good start.”
Conrad Conference Set
A commemorative conference marking the 50th anniversary of the death of novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) will be held at the University November 14-16 under the sponsorship of the English department and the American Institute of Polish Culture.
Dr. Robert Stahr Hosmon, department chairman, said the conference will present a comparative study of Conrad’s works in relationship to the literature of other writers.
The conference, which will be open to the public without charge, will be held in the auditorium of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
Scientists and staff of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science gathered with colleagues from the Main Campus September 13 to honor Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, founder and dean emeritus of the School in dedicating the F. G. Walton Smith Commons.
Internship Program
Recieves Grant
The University’s Minority Management Internship Program will continue to train men and womeh for job advancement with a grant of $275,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, President Stanford has announced.
The program, now in its fourth year with Rockefeller support, offers course work to minority members who have college degrees but want to further their knowledge and abilities to advance in their jobs. Local employers cooperate in the program. Successful completion of the program leads to a certificate in Middle Management and/or a master’s degree in business administration or a master of science degree in accounting.
The new Rockefeller grant is for a period of five years, ending June 30, 1979.
UM’s Minority Management Internship Program is coordinated by R. Paul Young, special assistant to Dr. Carl E. B. McKenry, vice president for academic affairs and principal investigator for the program.
Videotapes Aid Learning
UM’s video-tape cassette program, created to help increase the quality of undergraduate education, has expanded this year to include more than 200 tapes from 15 departments. These tapes, available at Otto G. Richter Library for students to view on individual video-tape machines, give an added dimension to their studies.
Begun in spring of 1973 by the Vice President for Academic Affairs Carl McKenry, the cassette program was an immediate success with the students. The tapes, produced by the staff of Communications Services in cooperation with the individual departments, are designed to be supplemental to course work and not just provide a repetition of the lecture. They are produced to give students a background in a particular area or to bring into focus a specially difficult area of study.
This year tape requests in the library have averaged more than 150 a day, but this is about 50 percent lower than the actual number of students who view the tapes, according to Director of Communications Services John Fiske, because multiple headsets make it possible for more than one student to view the tape at the same time. “There were more than 100 requests for tapes even before school began this semester,” he said.
The first department on campus to make video-tapes in this program was chemistry, through the efforts of Professor Henry Hubinger. Since the program’s inception, 15 faculty members and graduate students from chemistry have contributed their efforts to making some 125 tapes which comprise the bulk of the video-tape cassette library.
Chemistry department tapes consist of single-concept tapes such as “The Slide Rule,” “Molecular Geometry,” and “Acid-Base Indicators,” tapes on problems given in the course books, prelaboratory tapes and miscellaneous tapes such as “How to Use Gmelins” and “Molecular Spectroscopy.”
In an effort to help students with their academic problems, the Guidance Center, through the efforts of Peter Van der
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