LehighWeek Volume 09, Issue 28

              LEHIGHWEEK
Volume 9, Issue 28
with South Mountaineer
Lehigh University Campus Weekly
May 9,1996
INSIDE
News
Events
People
Jobs
Calendar
1-3
4-5
8
8
THIS    WEEK
>#cew
Cen
The "Unofficial
tour" of
Brodhead
House ^
Dartmouth's Hunter named dean
of admission and financial aid
Hunter
Lorna J. Hunter has been named dean of
admission and financial aid effective June 17.
The announcement was made by Pres. Peter
Likins.
Hunter has spent the last
seven years ,5s associate .
director of admissions 2nd
as a senior officer at
Dartmouth College. She
was the successful candidate
selected among those
identified in an extensive
national search. Hunter
replaces Pat Boig, who will
move full-time into her position as assistant
vice president of development, following a
successful eight-year stint as director of
admissions.
"I have been deeply impressed by Lorna
Hunter's combination of professional experience and personal qualifications, and I'm
looking forward to her service as a member of
the Lehigh team," Likins said. "She brings a
rare combination of intelligence, character
and personality to this position, and she is a
worthy successor to Pat Boig, who did a
magnificent job."
"The executive committee of the board of
trustees endorses unanimously Peter's
decision to hire Lorna Hunter for this very
important position," said William Hittinger,
chairman ofthe Board of Trustees.  "We're
excited to welcome her into the Lehigh
family."
At Lehigh, Hunter will oversee the day-today activity of the admissions operation and
the financial aid office, which is under the
immediate supervision of William Stanford.
The office of the registrar, under the guidance
of Bruce Correll, and Hunter will report
directly to Patti Ota, vice provost for academic administration and planning.
"The three enrollment management functions (admission, financial aid, and registrar)
will be coordinated in the provost's stem with
faculty advising along with the academic
support and counseling functions under John
Smeaton (assistant vice president for student
affairs) in order to achieve even higher retention to graduation goals," Likins said.
Since arriving at Dartmouth in 1989,
Hunter has served as a senior officer and
director of minority recruitment with responsibility for all aspects of Dartmouth's regional
undergraduate enrollment management
efforts.  She also directed Dartmouth's transfer student program. In the past five years,
Dartmouth's overall applications jumped more
than 40 percent and its minority enrollment
increased significantly.  Before joining
Dartmouth, Hunter spent one year at St.
Paul's School (Concord, N.H.) as assistant
director of admissions.
Hunter started her work in higher education in 1985, when she served two years as
assistant director for minority recruitment at
the University of Pennsylvania.
Hunter is ready for the challenges posed by
the coming of the next century. "The cost of
higher education continues to provide for a
See Hunter on page 2
In memoriam
Professor
Donald T. Campbell
Donald T. Campbell,
professor emeritus of
sociology and anthropology,
and
psychology, and
one of.
Campbell
the world in the last half-
century, died May 6 of
complications after
surgery in St. Luke's
Hospital. He was 79.
Campbell, a member of
the National Academy of
Sciences since 1973,
called himself a "dabbler"
in the fields of sociology,
psychology, education,
anthropology, epistemol-
ogy and philosophy. He
evaluated the success of
government programs
like Head Start, and he
pondered efforts by
government and other
institutions to overcome
the natural tendency of
people to associate with
See Campbell on page 2
Lehigh tutors say £o cbiwhm*! to Broughal Russian
class; lessons learned by students and teachers
John Kish IV
Eric Kennedy, Jacqueline Cadogan (center) and Ingrid Johnson discuss a lesson plan
before they begin teaching the Russian numbers to 6th-graders at Broughal Middle School.
by Kathy Richards
Cossack dances, troika sleds,
nesting Babushka dolls and
Russian candy found their way
to a Broughal Middle School
classroom this semester, courtesy of Russian Professor Mary
Nicholas's class in advanced
Russian language. While studying the difficult language itself,
the Lehigh students found that
twice-weekly sessions of teaching rudimentary Russian to
Donna Gray's 30 6th-graders
was a good way to keep their
own basic skills honed.
But there was another
agenda, says accounting major
Eric Kennedy '96. "Americans
are having a hard time realizing
that after 70 years of learning
not to associate with the Rus-
See Russian on page 3
LEHIGH
LehighWeek Office
422 Brodhead Avenue
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015-3067
MARIE C. BDLTZ Anrrr.
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
RM.306 .„„
LINDERMAN   LIBRARY
NO. 030
NON-PROFIT
U.S. Postage Paid
Permit No. 230
Bethlehem, Pa. 18015