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LehighWeek
Volume Two, Issue Two
September 14, 1988
Keeping Venice Dry
PHOTOGRAPH By BERNHARD J. SUESS
Robert M. Sorensen, professor of civil engineering and an expert on coastal engineering, is consulting with an Italian firm trying to stem the flood tides that repeatedly put     ^
Venice's plazas under water.
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Residence For Visiting
Scholars Is Dedicated
By Rita T. Malone
Lehigh University Writer's Group
Lehigh University's new Visitor Center at 314 East
Fifth St., Bethlehem, was dedicated Thursday, September 1,
at a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by members of the
University, city representatives, and community residents.
In cutting the ribbon, Joseph I. Goldstein, Lehigh's vice
president for graduate studies and research, said the building
is a place for visitors to call home. While living and
working there campus visitors will get to know the community.
James McCarthy, Jr., director of community development for the city of Bethlehem added the the guest house is a
nice annex to the University.
"It's particularly nice that the project was done through
a private owner who has renovated the property," McCarthy
said.' 'Faculty can now live in the Southside community and
get more of a sense for Bethlehem and the local commu-
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lacocca Institute Names Director
Laurence W. Hecht, former senior vice president of
Owens-Illinois, Inc., has been named executive
director of Lehigh's lacocca Institute. Hecht brings
extensive international business experience to
Lehigh's effort to help meet the challenges of industrial competitiveness in a global economy.
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South Side Panel To Report Sept. 19
The Bethlehem Mayor's South Side Task Force will
present its Phase I Report on Monday, September 19 at 7:30
p.m. at Brougal Junior High School, Packer and Brodhead
avenues.
The task force's report will include results of a survey of
those who live and work on the South Side, according to James
W. Harper, director of community relations at Lehigh and a
member of the task force. Lehigh employees were asked to
participate in the survey earlier this summer.
Out of about 1,000 surveys sent to Lehigh faculty and staff,
more than 500 responses were received, according to Harper.
"The Lehigh response has been almost unbelievable," he said.
"The task force is charged with looking at major projects
that could be developed in the South Side. The survey was a
means of finding out what our basic needs are," Harper said.
"In the next phase we'll focus on potential retail, social, and
community projects."
Members of the task force include include Harper, Nancy
Adams Taylor, publisher of the Globe-Times, Tom Mohr.
president of the South Side Merchants' Association, the Rev.
Edward R. Dufresne, pastor of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, and
Peg VanDoren, chairperson of the Summit-Montclair-Carlton
Block Club, and James McCarthy, Jr., director of community
development for the city.