LehighWeek Volume 02, Issue 28

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Curtissa Odi (left) admission counselor at Lehigh, and teaching assistant Cheng-Sheng Leu demonstrate a
teaching robot to Brougal Junior High School students in Odi's education-awareness program.
Admissions Counselor
Urges Local Students
To Stay In School
By Edye London
LehighWeek Intern
Curtissa Odi, an admissions counselor at Lehigh, is
helping sixth and seventh graders at Broughal Middle
School to think ahead to higher education. Through a six-
week series of discussions, Odi is hoping to convince the
students that they can use their education to achieve a
brighter future.
"I've come to believe that we have to start earlier
encouraging children to do well, to stay in school and to
begin thinking about college, careers and success," said
Odi.
Samuel Missimer. director of admissions at Lehigh,
contacted William Feigley and Walter Salaski. guidance
counselors at Broughal. after Odi expressed her interest in
talking with the students. The guidance counselors and the
principal have worked together with Odi to develop the
visits.
"I think it's important to begin thinking about the future
early on. and sixth and seventh graders are an excellent
group to start with." said Missimer. "Lehigh should be a
good neighbor and we are doing this by educating these
students about different opportunities open to them."
After observing the students in a classroom setting. Odi
began posing both academic and personal questions to the
students to get to know them better. In her second session.
the classes discussed the importance of learning and how
Brougal Junior High students tour the robotics
laboratory in Harold S. Mohler Laboratory.
each academic subject can be applied to different careers.
This discussion led into information about higher education
and campus life in preparation for a visit to Lehigh.
On April 24th and 25th the 18 sixth graders and 16
seventh graders visited Lehigh for a day. The students
toured the robotics laboratory, Linderman Library and a
residence hall and ate lunch at Club 31. Students were impressed by Lehigh and had many questions and comments
about college life.
During lunch, several Lehigh students talked with small
groups of Broughal students. The students asked questions
ranging from social life and discipline to the differences
between secondary school and college.
"If even one student stays in school to graduate — or goes
on to college — the program will be a success in my mind."
said Odi. "Success can be defined differently for every
student. For some it means going to college, and for others,
it means simply staying school."
Church Historian Marty
To Address Baccalaureate
Religious historian Martin E. Marty will be the
Baccalaureate speaker at Lehigh University on Sunday,
June 4 at 10 a.m. in Packer Memorial Church. The
ecumenical service will precede the University's 121st
Commencement later that day at which about 1,200
undergraduate and graduate students will receive degrees.
In his Baccalaureate address Marty will discuss "Creative
Forgetting, Re-Creative Remembering."
Marty, who will receive an honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters at Commencement, is the Fairfax M.
Cone Distinguished Service Professor of the History of
Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago. He is
also senior editor of the weekly The Christian Century,
editor of the fortnightly newsletter Context, and co-editor
of the quarterly Church History.
He is president of the American Academy of Religion,
a professional organization of 4,600 scholars of religion.
He is also president of the Park Ridge Center, an institute
for the study of health, faith and ethics, and a past
president of both the American Society of Church History
and the American Catholic Historical Association.
The author of 40 books, Marty won the National Book
Award in 1972 for "Righteous Empire." His two most
recent works are" Modern American Religion Volume I:
1893-1919, The Irony of It All" and "Religion and
Republic: The American Circumstance." His next book
will be the second volume of his four-volume work, "The
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ROTC Cadets Quiz Youngsters
During Science Olympiad
By Faith S. Rosenshein
Media Relations
Force equals mass times what? Sir Isaac Newton's
birthday was on what date? Avogadro's number has what
numerical value?
Questions such as these were asked of 1200 junior and
senior high school students during the 1989 Eastern
Regional Pennsylvania Science Olympiad pentathlon event
in March, which was won by the Stroudsburg High School
Senior Division.
While Moravian College hosted the Science Olympiad,
Lehigh University Army Reserve Officer Training Corps
(ROTC) cadets ran the pentathlon event.
"I am proud of the way the cadets have pulled together
to make this event the best run event in Pennsylvania." said
Capt. Brooks J. Breece. Lehigh University assistant
professor of military science and pentathlon faculty
advisor.
"Last year Lehigh Army ROTC put more teams through
the pentathlon event than any other school in the state."
Lehigh cadet Michael Bamberger of Coopersburg. Pa.
added.
The pentathlon consisted of an obstacle course with a
broad jump, javelin (jart) throw, short distance run. discus
(frisbee) throw and a series of academic questions about
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