LehighWeek Volume 01, Issue 24

              MARIE C. BOLTZ
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HUMANITARIAN AID
A Lehigh University staff member is collecting
school supplies and personal items to aid
children in Honduras. And you can help.
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BRUSHING UP
In the "English As A Second
Language" Program, international
students improve writing and
speaking . See Story Page 4>
MAKING A SPLASH
Junior Gail Jacobs of Boca Raton, Fla.,
continues her assault on the swimming record
books. Most of the records she's breaking
now are her own.   See Story Page 5>
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April 20,1988
All-Stars Queenan, Polaha See Numbers Retired
Senior Co-captains Daren Queenan
and Mike Polaha had their numbers retired
at the Friends of Lehigh Basketball
Awards Dinner held on April 13, 1988 at
the Bethlehem Club. The announcement
was made by Director of Athletics John
Whitehead and Head Basketball Coach
Fran McCaffery.
Queenan, of Norristown, Pa., and
Polaha, of Allentown, Lehigh's No. 1 and
No. 2 all-time leading scorers, each
received a framed jersey from McCaffery
at the_ award banquet, and will be honored
with a banner-hanging ceremony at a home
contest next season at Stabler Center.
They are the first athletes in any Lehigh
sport to have their numbers retired.
Sophomore guard Scott Layer of
Hatboro, Pa., was elected captain for the
1988-89 season as voted by the players.
The retirement of the two players
numbers highlighted an awards ceremony
in which eight awards were given in six
categories and NCAA watches were presented to the team members. As voted by
the players, both Queenan and Polaha received the team's Most Valuable Player
Award; freshman forward Greg Berliner,
of East Brunswick, N.J. captured the
Mike Polaha (left) and Daren Queenan display framed jerseys and awards presented to
them at the Basketball Awards Dinner last week. Queenan and Polaha, Lehigh's
number 1 and number 2 all-time leading scorers, are the first Lehigh athletes to see
their numbers retired. Photo by JOE RYAN
Top Newcomer award; junior forward Chris
Block of Yardley, Pa. and sophomore center
Derek Rogers of Bensalem, Pa. received the
Most Improved Award; and Layer was hon
ored with the Top Defensive Player Award.
Polaha received the first "Richard Slaff
Sportsman's Cup." The award, named in
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Big-5 Names Queenan
Top Visiting Player
Lehigh sensation Daren Queenan
has been named the recipient of the
33rd Harry Merrill Award presented by the Herb Good Club of
Philadelphia for the ''Outstanding
Visiting Player" of the Big-Five.
The award was determined by a
vote of Philadelphia sports writers.
Queenan received notice of the
award prior to his participation in
the Portsmouth Va. All-Star game
held the weekend of April 9-10 by
the National Basketball Association.
In that tournament, Queenan
averaged 21 points (63 points in
three contests) and his team won the
consolation finals. The tournament
features the top-64 players in the
country, split into eight teams.
Queenan will receive the Harry
Merrill Award at a the Herb Good
Awards Banquet in Philadelphia on
April 18.
Student Director Of M&C's "Equus"
Aims To Shock Audience Into Thought
Each year, Lehigh University's
division of speech and theater reserves
one slot in its season schedule for a show
to be directed by an undergraduate
student.
This year's student director is senior
Ralph Mills Trieschmann, Jr., a marketing
major/theater minor from Hoboken, N J.
whose production of "Equus" opens April
22 at Lehigh's Wilbur Drama Workshop.
He hopes his presentation of the Tony-
winning drama will raise eyebrows and
consciousness in the audience.
"'Equus' is about a psychiatrist, Martin
Dysart, who's been living off other
people's passion for years," says Trieschmann. "His own life has become empty,
cold, clinical, and he envies his patients'
vitality." The doctor has begun to
question the value of his work: Is he
really helping the troubled children who
file in and out of his office, or is he
sentencing them to repeat his "mechanical" life, devoid of any spark of emotion?
Dysart's moral dilemma is precipitated
by the arrival of his latest patient, Alan
Strang, a stableboy who has blinded six of
the horses under his care, animals which
he apparently loved.
Trieschmann thinks many people will
be able to see something of themselves in
Dysart. "It's so easy for people to
develop tunnel vision," he says. "They
find themselves in a 'machine' which sets
a pattern that they follow the rest of their
lives."
The director hopes that "Equus" will
encourage the audience to reconsider their
lives as Shaffer's psychiatrist does. "I
want to shock people into thinking—
exactly what they think about is up to
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Zirkel Award Says "Thank You"
To Lehigh's "Unsung Heroes"
By KURT PFITZER
Consider this familiar scene: A professor, already late for a meeting, is making
copies of a report when the copy machine
shudders to a halt. Helplessly, he blinks at the
flashing lights on the unresponsive instrument and yells for help.
Calmly, in the manner of one who
has weathered worse, a secretary walks up.
Easing the professor out of the way, she opens
the machine, flicks a lever or two and restores
the precious power of copying.
A whirl of activity, a murmured
"Thanks" and the professor rushes off to his
meeting.
This scenario, and many others like
it, have been played out dozens, if not hundreds of times at Lehigh. Perry A. Zirkel,
university professor of education and law,
and Carole F. Zirkel, a librarian at the
university's Centennial School, have wit
nessed many of them.
So many that they have developed
a sincere and enduring appreciation for the
secretaries and other members of the
university's support staff.
Now they think it is time to do more
than murmur a hasty "Thanks." They have
put their money where their sentiments lie.
On May 10, at the annual Faculty-
Staff Dinner, the university will present the
Perry and Carole Zirkel award to a member
of Lehigh's support staff.
The award, which will carry a cash
gift of at least $500, will be the first given to
a member of Lehigh's support staff at the
annual dinner.
The Zirkels, who gave an endowment to fund the award, are hoping other
faculty and professional employees will
make contributions, either to increase the
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