LehighWeek Volume 01, Issue 23

              MARIE C. BOLTZ
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
RM.306
LINDERMAN   LIBRARY
NO-03 0
INSIDE
THE LEHIGH FORUM
It's been 18 years since the Lehigh Forum was
created. Today, this body of students, faulty and
adminsitration has restructured. How effective is
Lehigh's Forum? See Sory Page 3 >
DESKTOP DYNASTY
Lehigh assistant professor of
Chinese David Pankenenier
generates Chinese news on
computer. See Story Page 4 >
NEW EMPLOYMENT LISTINGS
In this week's issue of LehighWeek, Human
Resources begins an expanded format of job
listings at Lehigh. Also included now are
faculty job postings. See Page 7 >
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Issue Twentythree
FIRST CLASS MAIL
U.S. Postaga Paid
Permit No. 230
Bethkrwm, Pa. 18015
April 13,1988
The Changing Of Guard
Wrestling Mentor Thad Turner Steps Down After 18 Years
After a brilliant 18-year career as head wrestling coach
at Lehigh University, Thad Turner will step down effective July 1, 1988.
The announcment was made by Director of Athletics
John Whitehead on April 5, 1988. Whitehead added that
Turner will be succeeded by associate coach Tom Hutchinson. Joining the staff as assistant coach is four-time All-
American and 1986 National Champion Jim Heffernan.
"I've had a very rewarding coaching career at Lehigh.
I've enjoyed my time as head coach immensely. It
doesn't really matter what kind of year you had, you always wish the best for your kids. I've enjoyed coaching,
especially the association with those young people,"
Turner said.
"If you take a look at programs throughout the country,
you always hear and see guys (coaches) hanging around
too long. I've always wanted to have sense enough to get
out at the right time—now's the right time. Coaching
wrestling is so much one-on-one. Coaches have to get
down on the mats with the kids. I just can't do that as
often," Turner continued.
"I feel comfortable with the transition. Tom's been
here and has gotten to know the kids in the program. He's
been involved with all facets. The program is in good
hands," Turner said.
"We salute Thad for his significant contributions to the
University. His leadership and integrity have brought
national recognition to our institution," said Lehigh
University President Peter Likins.
"The entire community regrets that Thad will be
stepping down. He has been an outstanding coach and has
provided leadership to our program," Whitehead said.
"We are fortunate to have an excellent successor in
Tom Hutchinson, who will certainly carry on the fine
Wrestling coach Thad Turner listens pensively as
associate coach Tom Hutchinson talks during the
press conference at which Turner announced his
retirement.
tradition of head coaches at Lehigh," Whitehead said.
"I've always respected Thad's integrity and honesty. It
wasn't the wins and losses that really mattered to Coach, it
was the growth of the individual. Lehigh has a unique
mixture of academics and athletics and I'm looking forward
Continued On Page 5>
Hutchinson Excited To Succeed His Old Friend, "Coach
55
Coaching, says Tom Hutchinson, is a mission
whose goals go far beyond winning.
"You go into coaching almost like you go into the
ministry," says the 1973 Lehigh graduate who will become
the university's head wrestling coach on July 1.
"You go into coaching because it's a way to influence young people. If at the end of your career, all you can
point to is a winning percentage, you haven't had much of a
career."
Nothing illustrates Hutchinson's point better than
his relationship with his own wrestling coach and the man he
is succeeding — Thad Turner.
The two met in 1970. That year, Hutchinson began
wrestling for Lehigh and Turner, a 1961 Lehigh alumnus, returned to his alma mater to take over as head wrestling coach.
Under Turner's tutelage. Hutchinson finished sixth
in the NCAA tournament in 1971 and earned all-America
honors. He was a two-time EIWA champion.
In 1973. when Hutchinson got married. Turner
served as best man.
In 1972. Hutchinson became wrestling coach at Blair
Academy in Blairstown, N.J.
Over the next ten years, Blair compiled one of the
best wrestling records among American prep schools. In 1981.
Hutchinson was named Coach of the Year by Wrestling USA
and the U.S. Wrestling Federation.
Along the way, he encouraged many Blair wrestlers
to attend Lehigh, including All-Americans Mark Lieberman.
'79, Colin Kilrain. '82, and Bobby Weaver, '83. who won an
Olympic gold medal in freestyle wrestling in 1984.
In 1982. Hutchinson returned to Lehigh to become
Continued On Page 5>
Fund Drive To Start For
S. African Scholarships
Lehigh University will begin raising funds from its
faculty and staff this month in support of its pioneering
effort to provide scholarships to bring black South African students to the university.
The campaign is the first step in a plan to bring two
South African students to Lehigh in the fall of 1989,
followed by two students each year until that nation
ceases to practice apartheid. The university will contribute tutition expenses, estimated at $100,000 for the first
two students, provided an estimated $60,000 to cover
expenses can be raised from the faculty, staff, students,
and private sources.
"The keystone in the process is the amount given by
the Lehigh community," said the Rev. Hubert L. Flesher,
university chaplain, who chairs the campus fund-raising
effort. By providing the initial funds, the faculty and
staff "is saying 'Here's an idea we really believe in.
Please help,'" Flesher said.
"A handful of students are not going to change the
world," Flesher observed. "But Lehigh can be proud that
it is setting an example for others to follow. Hopefully
we'll see a snowballing effect." Already four institutions,
"A handful of students are not going to change the
world. But Lehigh can be proud that it is setting an
example for others to follow."
Chaplain Flesher
including Moravian College and Dartmouth College, have
inquired about Lehigh's initiative.
The scholarship program was conceived by Lehigh's
student-faculty Forum last fall, after more than a year of
study of possible reactions to the moral horror of apartheid. The Forum debated recommending divestment of
funds from corporations active in South Africa, but
became mired in "ambiguities," Flesher said. "We
couldn't be sure than any degree of investment change
would help or hurt those we wished to help," he said. "So
we turned to the one area we as a community knew best —
education."
The Forum committee that authored the scholarship
plan concluded that Lehigh can help to educate black
South African professionals who can be ready to take
leadership roles when the rule of apartheid ends.
"The often-expressed fear that chaos and South African
students trained in Soviet Bloc countries will push the
country into communism is a truth only if we don't
counter it." Flesher said. "Leaders educated in Western
universities will testify to the fact that we have cared for
South Africa's future and opposed apartheid."
The committee also foresaw educational benefit for the
Lehigh community. "Students we have sought from a
counlry engaged in one'of the most fundamental human
Continued On Page 3>