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Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Professor Donald Campbell and President Peter Likins lead the academic procession into the 111th
Founders Day exercises Sunday. In the second row are honorary degree recipient Mary Lowe Good and
Provost David Sanchez; behind Good is author Leslie H. Whitten, '50.
Grads Told To Examine
'Experimenting' Society
By Rita M. Plotnicki
Donald T. Campbell urged the 187 graduates, their
families and friends at Lehigh University's 111th
Founder's Day Exercises to examine "the experimenting
society" as "one alternative future that I propose we
seriously consider."
Campbell, who is University Professor of Social
Relations, Psychology and Education and a member of the
National Academy of Science, described the experimenting society as "an image of the future that emerges from
using social science in the service of society and government."
He noted that "In my daily work I continue to be
appalled at how regularly we lack any interpretable
evidence of the effectiveness of new programs costing
millions of dollars."
The experimenting society would be "one that would
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Patrick R. Balunis receives his diploma, the B.A. in
social relations, from Likins during the ceremony in
Packer Memorial Church.
Department's People Key To Chemical Engineering Success
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By William Johnson
The key to the growth and success of Lehigh's chemical
engineering department has been its people, said Lehigh
President Peter Likins and Air Products and Chemicals
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dexter Baker.
Addressing more than 200 at an awards banquet Oct. 5
during the department's two-day convocation, both Likins
and Baker praised the efforts of the people.responsible for
the department's 25-percent annual growth over the last six
years. Results of this growth include:
•current annual research support of $4 million;
• 10th place nationally in the number of Ph.D.s awarded
annually;
• recent fellowships from the National Institutes of Health
and the Department of Education;
• new offices and laboratories on the Mountaintop Campus;
• a high ratio of seniors (9 of 29 last year) going on to
graduate work— a critical need— instead of industry;
October 10, 1989
Scholarship Giving
Sets Record, Again
By William Johnson
Lehigh alumni, long noted for loyal financial support to
their alma mater, last year funnelled their generosity more
than ever toward a top university priority— scholarships.
During the 1988-89 academic year ended June 30,
Lehigh alumni contributed $ 17.4 million— about $2 million
more than any previous year— for a series of building,
endowment and program purposes. For the third straight
year, they earmarked a record amount of these total gifts for
financial aid.
Michael G. Bolton, vice president for development and
university relations, said increasing financial aid and
strengthening Lehigh's educational programs are the top
fund-raising priorities for the university.
Over the past four years, alumni have contributed more
than $60 million, with nearly 25 percent of that total going
toward scholarships or endowment for future scholarships.
Over the same four years, Lehigh has increased the
number of students receiving university scholarship money
by 190, despite increases in Lehigh costs and little real
increase in state or federal financial aid for students.
Bolton noted that it was the fourth straight year that 60
percent of undergraduate alumni donated to Lehigh, a level
of giving second in the nation among major research
institutions.
"Many of our alumni have families, and they are very
much aware that a college education requires not only
financial planning, but in many cases, significant financial
aid," said Bolton. "Lehigh is extremely fortunate to have so
many alumni and friends who not only support our efforts to
improve Lehigh, but who also recognize and support our
efforts to help worthy yet needy students."
Lehigh's scholarship fund-raising total for last year was
part of a record year for total gifts from private sources, with
$26.7 million for all purposes received from alumni, friends,
government, corporations and foundations. This included a
record $6.6 million for Lehigh's annual giving program.
Other uses of the funds included campaigns for the
Mountaintop Campus and lacocca Institute; the new Rauch
Business Center; the Murray H. Goodman Stadium; and
endowment for faculty chairs and other projects.
The university also was encouraged by its success with
private foundations which gave ma broad range of programs
designed to strengthen the university '■:•; education and
research activities. Bolton cited several foundation grants,
including:
• $1 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
made to 52 schools— most of them medical schools— to
strengthen life sciences programs;
• $450,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation, which selected
Lehigh, Grinnell College, Penn and Yale for grants to
establish Luce Professorships. At Lehigh, the professorship
is in cognitive robotics and the philosophy of knowledge;
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a new undergraduate unit operations laboratory program in
Whitaker Laboratory; and
• Lehigh's success in enrolling one out of every two American chemical engineering candidates it recruits, versus the
national average of one out of three.
Likins cited many of these achievements, noting that the
programs and facilities "mean nothing without the people to
carry them forward. Our people in chemical engineering take
undergraduate instruction seriously, while they reach for
horizons in research. At Lehigh, we have to do both, and we
have to do both extremely well."
Likins credited Baker, '50, for his leadership in the
undergraduate laboratory development campaign.
Baker, master of ceremonies at the Mountaintop
Campus dinner, said the undergraduate labs dedicated earlier
that day "personified Lehigh's strong relationship with
industry." He went on to thank the 15 companies and the
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