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Campus Day Care
Seen Likely By '90-91
By Robert W. Fisher
A survey has found a significant need for child care
among faculty and staff", and the co-chair of Lehigh's task
force on day care says an on-campus center may be in
operation by next fall.
"There's no doubt in my mind that there will be a day
care center at Lehigh," says Gail Vollman, a coordinator in
transportation services, who has helped lead the group that
has studied the day care issue since March. The task force
has set a goal of having a day care facility operating by
September, 1990.
A campus location has been identified as a possible site
for the day care center and may be announced as early as
next month. Vollman said the university will contract for an
outside provider to run the center, and the question of
whether Lehigh will subsidize the cost of day care remains
open.
The day care task force was formed as an offshoot of the
conditions of employment study group of the Presidential
Commission on Women. The group surveyed faculty,
professional and support staff, and student need for day care
services in May.
Response to the survey was "overwhelming." Vollman
said. Sixty-five faculty members. 130 support staff. 111
professional staff and 54 undergraduates responded to the
survey. Respondents indicated a need for 109 children to be
in day care on a full-time basis over the next three years, and
121 on a part-time basis. Vollman said.
The survey found that faculty and staff members
currently using day care services pay an average of $60 to
$75 per week. The averages include those that have children
in day care full- and part-time. Full-time day care in the
Lehigh Valley averages $80 to $100 per week, Vollman said.
The survey found that most employees would like to see
a day care center in a campus building, with the Packer
campus the choice of most employees, followed by Mountaintop and Goodman campuses, she said.
Vollman attributes the preference for an on-campus
location to the belief that the university would ensure that
quality care is provided. Many employees feel "it's important to have a place that we can call our own," she said.
With the surveys-tabulated, the task force is turning its
attention to reviewing the potential site for compliance with
safety codes, according to Vollman. Once that step is
completed, the group will be able to determine how many
children can be accommodated.
"We don't plan to have a center big enough to serve everyone," Vollman said. "We want to get it established, and
let it grow as needed."
Once the site is finalized, the task force will solicit
proposals from day care providers, she said.
Vollman said the day care center should be a help to
Lehigh's efforts to attract and keep top employees. "We are
finding that more and more institutions and businesses have
day care on site and use it as a recruiting tool," she said.
Lafayette College currently operates a campus day care
center, and Muhlenberg College is investigating a similar
center, she said.
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
September 26,1989
Fest Brings
South Side Alive
Not even the remains of Hurricane Hugo could keep
people away from the second annual South Side
Alive festival sponsored by local merchants and
community groups. At left, juggler Al Grout
prepares to balance a spinning ball for Angelina
Drummond, 2. Below, Cindy Estojak and Tony Ortiz
of South Side Little League and Fiji brothers Todd
Schanzler '90 and Mike Lewis '90 man a food booth.
PHOTOS by YOUNG HONG
Campbell To Give Founder's Day Address Oct. 8
Author Whitten, Research Scientist Good To Receive Honorary Degrees
By Rita Plotnicki
Donald T. Campbell, University Professor of Social
Relations, Psychology and Education at Lehigh University,
will give the principal address at Lehigh's l l lth Founder's
Day Exercises Sunday, Oct. 8 at 2:30 p.m. in Packer
Memorial Church.
At the ceremonies, Mary L. Good, senior vice president
of technology for Allied-Signal Inc., and Leslie H. Whitten
Jr., a prizewinning investigative reporter and novelist and a
member of Lehigh's Class of 1950, will receive honorary
degrees. Good will receive an honorary Doctor of Science
Degree and Whitten will receive an honorary Doctor of
Human Letters degree.
Lehigh University president Peter Likins will confer
degrees during the exercises upon seniors and graduate
students who completed their degree requirements over the
past summer. Diplomas will be awarded to students in
Lehigh's Colleges of Arts and Science, Business and
Economic, Education, and Engineering and Applied Science.
Campbell, who is internationally known for his contributions to social science research methods, has earned
Campbell
Good
Whitten
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United Way At Work                  3
Lehigh Valley Educational
Partnership Formed                  3
Keys To Minority Retention      4
Panama Discussed                  6
Inside Sports:
Liz Tursi, Lehigh's
number one singles
player, has won five of
her seven matches this
season.
See story on Page 1 of
The South Mountaineer,
numerous honors as a researcher and author. A native of
Grass Lake, Michigan, he has been a member of the Lehigh
faculty since 1982.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Science, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and
a past president of the American Psychological Association.
He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the
University of California at Berkeley.
Good, a research scientist, is chair of the National
Science Board, a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and a member of the National
Academy of Engineering. She is a past president of the
American Chemical Society and of the Inorganic Division of
the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
She has been honored by many organizations, including
the Franklin Institute, the American Institute of Chemists and
the American Chemical Society. The author of nearly 100
articles in technical journals, she earned a bachelor's degree
in chemistry form, the University of Central Arkansas and a
master's and doctorate in chemistry from the University of
Arkansas. Fayetteville.
Whitten. a native of Florida, has been an investigative
reporter for The Washington Post, Hearst newspapers and a
co-byliner with columnist Jack Anderson.  He won the
American Civil Liberties Edcerton Award for refusing to
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