LehighWeek Volume 08, Issue 05

              Special section on pages 10-11
Contents
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News pages 1-3
♦ LU gets $1.5 million
♦ Lehigh 1st in satisfaction
♦ New Center
Events pages 4-5
♦ Joe Lucia play
♦ LU and Sinfonia
♦ Other events
People page 6-8
♦ Barbara Scherer profiled
♦ Changing Faces
♦ Awards and Honors
Jobs
page 8
Perspective    page 9
♦ "Southern Cross"
Calendar        page 12
SOUTH MOUNTAINEER
pages 13-16
♦ Big Red of Cornell
proved to be bigger
than we expected!
♦ Next week we will go
for win #3 against the
Yale Bulldogs
SOUTH MOUNTAINEER
LEHIGHWEEK
Volume 8, Issue 05
For the Campus Community
October 4,1994
Family Day '94
A future Lehigh alumna pauses briefly to ponder her next design technique, as she decorates her
own Lehigh painter's cap during Lehigh Family Day '94 festivities on Sept. 24. More than 500
painter's caps were given away during the event, which also featured face painting, a clown
show, cartoon portraits, musical entertainment and scavenger hunts.
Action outside Goodman Stadium rivaled that inside on Family
Day '94. Clarence the Clown demonstrates his artistry with
balloons to colorful audience members, complete with painted
faces and decorated painter's caps. Sponsored by Lehigh's
alumni association, the special activities were held in tents
outside of the stadium, prior to the Lehigh vs. Columbia football
game, photos by Elizabeth Keegin Colley
by Paul Klenck '98
Lehigh will confer
undergraduate and
advanced degrees upon
nearly 240 students at the
University's 116th annual
Founder's Day Ceremonies
on Sunday, October 9. The
traditional ceremonies will
begin at 2:30 p.m. in Packer
Memorial Church.
Niara Sudarkasa,
president of Lincoln
University, will give the
principal address. She will
receive an honorary Doctor
of Humane Letters degree.
Two other honorary
degrees will also be
presented at the ceremony.
Gregory O'Brien,
chancellor of the University
of New Orleans and a
Lehigh alumnus, will receive
an honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters degree.
Paul E. Torgersen,
president of Virginia
Founder's Day Ceremonies
Gregory O'Brien
Polytechnic
Institute
and State
University and
also a Lehigh
alumnus,
will receive
an honorary
Doctor of
Engineering
degree.
O'Brien has served
as chancellor of the Univ.
of New Orleans since
1987. From 1980 until
1987, he served the Univ.
of South Florida as vice
president for academic
affairs and professor of
psychology, social work,
management and public
health. From 1978 to
1980, he was provost and
professor of psychology at
the Univ. of Michigan at
Flint.
O'Brien earned his
Niara Sudarkasa
Paul E. Torgersen
bachelor's degree from Lehigh
in social relations in 1966. He
holds master's and doctoral
degrees in psychology from
Boston Univ.
Torgersen assumed the
presidency of Virginia Tech
in 1994, where he also serves
as the John W. Hancock Jr.
Chair in Engineering. Prior to
that, he served as president of
the university's Corporate
Research Center and as dean
of the College of Engineering
for 20 years. He also served
as chairman
ofthe
Engineering
Dean's
Council,
the national
organization
of engineering
deans. He
was elected
- to the
National Academy of
Engineering in 1986.
Torgersen earned a B.S.
in industrial engineering
from Lehigh in 1953. He
earned his M.S. and Ph.D.
from Ohio State University.
Sudarkasa was
appointed president of
Lincoln Univ. in 1987. She
is the first woman to head
Lincoln, formerly an all-
male college chartered in
1854 as America's first
Black college. Prior to
Lincoln, she served as
professor of anthropology
at the Univ. of Michigan
in Ann Arbor. She is
recognised internationally
for her pioneering research
on Yoruba women traders
of Nigeria, and African and
African American families.
Her numerous honors and
awards include being
named to the Peace Corps
National Advisory Council
by President Bush, and to
the White House Commission on Presidential
Scholars by President
Clinton.
Sudarkasa was a Ford
Foundation Early Entrance
Scholar at Fisk University
and Oberlin College, where
she graduated at the age
of 18. She earned her
master's and doctoral
degrees in anthropology
from Columbia.
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