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Vol. 3, Issue 30
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
July 1990
FACULTY / STAFF
PICNIC      1990
Date: Wednesday, July 18th
(Rain date Wednesday, July
25th) Time: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Place: Mountaintop Campus,
between  Bldgs.  J  &  H
Food:Served at 5 p.m. Games!
Aiding literacy
Education Dean Alden
Moe says it's not enough
for communities to think
about the problem of illiteracy -- it's time to take
action.
Staff awards
More than 119 Lehigh
staff members were recognized for service at the
first annual Support Staff
Dinner last month.
Business on the move to new Rauch Center
Lucy? Lucy!
English professor
Alexander Doty wonders
whether America loved
Lucille Ball or her crazy
comic housewife, Lucy
Ricardo.
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oving is never fun.
There's all that packing
and unpacking to do, as
well as the inevitable
decisions about whether
to save or discard
personal possessions,
Ms books, and papers. But
H the final result is worth
m the temporary hassle.
The moving process
is now in full swing at
Lehigh University as
faculty and staff members in the College
of Business and Economics prepare to
move from Drown Hall into the new
Rauch Business Center. The move began
July 9 and the the college will be moved
into its beautiful new home by Friday.
The offices in Rauch Center are
completed but some minor finishing work
remains to be done on classrooms in the
building and outside landscaping. About
90 faculty and staff members and their
possessions are moving into^he building
this week, starting with people now in
Drown Hall, then those in Johnson Hall
and offices on Brodhead Ave.
The Small Business Development
Center, which is part of Lehigh's Musser
Center for Entrepreneurship, will move
into Rauch Center on Friday, July 13.
The packing and moving process has
gone smoothly so far, according to
Richard J. Benner of Lehigh's facilities
services. Although the actual moving is
being done by O'Brien's-Glose Moving of
Allentown, faculty and staff were responsible for packing personal possessions.
"Some faculty members have been in
Drown for 20 or 30 years. You can
imagine what a person can collect in that
time. We hope as people pack their offices
they will weed out papers and other items
A.E. King
Eli Schwartz, professor of economics,
cleans out his Drown Hall office in
preparation for the move to Rauch
Business Center. Schwartz moved to
Drown with the business college in
1956.
they don't need and throw them away."
Benner added that since Drown Hall
doesn't have any elevators, the movers
must carry every box up or down stairs. If
the weather is very hot, or faculty pack
more boxes than expected, it might take
the movers additional time to complete the
entire process.
Old textbooks no longer wanted by
faculty members are being collected and
will be donated to the World Council of
Churches for use in other countries.
Kathleen Trexler, director of Lehigh's
MBA program, is overseeing the effort.
The large stack of donated books is
growing daily.
Among those faculty who have been in
Drown Hall for many years is Eli
Schwartz, the Charles W. Macfarlane
professor of economics. A member of the
faculty since 1954, Schwartz was with the
business college when it moved into .
Drown from Christmas-Saucon in 1956.
"It takes a great deal of time to sort
through things," said Schwartz. "It's
difficult deciding what to discard and what
to keep. And as you're packing it's
tempting to re- read articles which makes it
take even longer. It was much easier to
move into Drown Hall in 1956 because at
that time I'd only been here two years and
had a lot less stuff.''
Schwartz said he is donating publications of historic interest to Lehigh's
libraries. But he admitted it's difficult to
throw things away.
After 34 years in Drown, Schwartz said
there is a little sentimental tug to leaving
behind his old oak desk, but the move is
necessary and will improve the college.
"We definitely outgrew our quarters in
Drown Hall," he continued. "The faculty
is spread among three buildings, our
classes are held all over campus, and there
is no student center for business students to
gather informally to get to know one other.
"The Rauch Business Center will be
very good for students. It's a big step up
from Drown and has a lot of room. The
new lounge will give students a greater
chance to meet others. We'll also be able
to have all the faculty together and teach
our courses in the same building."
Rita Malone
Lipko honored for cool response to crisis
By Kurt Pfitzer
Lehigh University Writers' Group
When she was a trainer with Lifeline of
the Lehigh Valley, Linda Lipko taught
volunteers how to talk to people dealing
with the death of a loved one.
She hardly thought she would need that
skill when she came to Lehigh five years
ago and became administrative coordinator
in the department of journalism.
But last August, without warning, Lipko
was put to the test when a new journalism professor died of a
heart attack moments before he was to teach his first class at
Lehigh.
Her response so impressed her colleagues that Lipko was
chosen in May to receive the Perry and Carol Zirkel Award.
The award is funded by Perry A. Zirkel, university professor
of education and law, and his wife, Carol F. Zirkel, a librarian at
the university's Centennial School. It is given annually to a
member of the university's support staff who has made "lasting
Linda Lipko
contributions" to Lehigh in the performance of his or her job.
Lipko, the third recipient of the Zirkel Award, had been
nominated for the award in 1989 for her work as business manager
of The Brown and White and The Epitome. She said she would
donate a portion of her $500 award to the Center City Ministries
homeless shelter and to a program at St. Luke's that cares for
babies dying of AIDS.
Lipko had already become friendly with Morad Asi and his
family on the morning when the newly hired, Jerusalem-bom
assistant professor walked for the last time into the journalism
department office.
Asi showed Lipko a coffee mug inscribed with the words
"Number-One Dad," that his children, Ahmed, 12, and Yara, 4,
had recently given him. "I think I am a pretty good father," he
told her.
Lipko told Asi she was glad he had brought the mug to his
office. She said it was a sign that Asi, who had just moved with
his family to Bethlehem, already felt a sense of kinship with the
department.
See Lipko page 8