LehighWeek Volume 08, Issue 09

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CONTENTS
NEWS: New dean named,
Post office moves, Health plan
changes 1-3
EVENTS: Art exhibits open,
String quartet, Kristallnacht,
Cuba series 4-6
DEPARTMENT: Computer PERSPECTIVE: Another
store not micro 7     view of liaison programs     11
CALENDAR:
12
PEOPLE: Karen Wiley
profiled, Changing faces,
Milestones, Achievements   8-9      SOUTH MOUNTAINEER:
Engineers sparkles after brush
JOBS: 10       with Colgate. 25-22 victory!
13-16
SOUTH MOUNTAINEER
LEHIGHWEEK
Volume 8, Issue 09
Bookstore
entrance closes
The Bookstore phase 2A
renovations started Oct. 31 and
continue through Dec. 30. This
work will temporarily inconvenience
persons who use the north entrance
to get to the Bookstore and
Maginnes Hall.
During this period, the north
entrance doors and the ATM site
will be closed. The service road
Asa Drive from the loading dock
to the circle will be barricaded
Nov. 14-30.
The east stairwell on the main
floor of Maginnes will be used as the
temporary main entrance to the
bookstore. Please contact Mike
King at 758-3375 should you have
special needs requiring access to the
elevator at the ground floor.
For the Campus Community
November 1,1994
New vice president named
Rhonda I. Gross of
the University of
Pittsburgh has been
named the new vice
president for finance
and administration.
She is currently
associate vice chancellor
for budget and
administration at Pitt.
She will succeed John
W. Woltjen, who has
accepted the special
retirement plan after
15 years at Lehigh.
Her appointment,
effective in early 1995,
was announced by Pres.
Peter Likins, who praised her
qualifications in glowing terms.
Rhonda I. Gross
"She has demonstrated
at Pitt her capacity to
deal with complex issues
requiring both a keen
mind and a stout heart.
She's proven herself to
be a team player, and
will be comfortable in
the Lehigh
environment."
Gross also currently
serves as vice president
for finance and
treasurer ofthe
University of Pittsburgh
Trust. She has served
in roles of growing responsibility for
20 years at the university. Prior to
her work at Pitt she was a senior
accountant for Ernst and Ernst
(now Ernst and Young) in Chicago
and Pittsburgh.
"I am elated to become a
member of the management team at
a university as prestigious and well
respected as Lehigh," said Gross.
"My family and I are looking
forward to becoming active
participants in the Lehigh Valley
community."
Likins thanked the hardworking vice presidential search
committee, which was co-chaired by
Roger D. Simon, professor and
chairman of the history department,
and Trustee Karen Stuckey, a
partner in Price Waterhouse's New
York office.
"The university faces a
please turn to page 2
Bethlehem Steel's
CEO shares insights
A great experience for students!
Curtis H. "Hank" Barnette, chairman and chief executive officer of
Bethlehem Steel Corp. and a Lehigh trustee, spoke to more than 100
alumni, students, parents and guests about the role of business and
Bethlehem Steel in shaping public policy. He was the keynote speaker
at the annual MBA Alumni Day Oct. 22. photo by Young Hong
Former Vice President
Dan Quayle speaks
with students in
Prof. Frank Colon's
freshman seminar
on "Citizenship at the
Grass Roots." Quayle
also spoke to
students in Prof. Rich
Aronson's course
on "Federal Public
Finance" and had
lunch with lacocca
student scholars and
faculty mentors. He
was on campus as an
executive-in-residence
for the lacocca
Institute, photo by
Elizabeth Keegin Colley
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