Lawrence Today magazine, Summer 2004
Phred Beattie, a senior from Klamath Falls, Ore., who was
grandmaster of this year’s Great
Midwest Trivia Contest, was quoted in the February 20 issue
of The Chronicle of Higher Education as part of a “Short Subjects” item
on WLFM’s 39th annual iteration of what some have called “the Mount
Everest of Useless Information.”
As reported by The Chronicle, “Since
1966, teams as large as 100 people and from as far away as Japan have participated,
some staying awake
by their
radios the entire weekend so as not to miss a single question. Mr. Beattie
or another moderator reads each question on the air, then waits for someone
to call in with the correct answer. Points are awarded based on difficulty.
No points are subtracted for wrong answers.”
Martha Hemwall, ’73, dean
of student academic services, has been named the 2004 recipient of
the Service to Commission Award presented by the Small
Colleges and Universities Commission as part
of the National Academic Advising Association’s national awards program.
Hemwall is a former chair of the Small Colleges and Universities Commission
and co-editor
of the monograph “Advising and Learning: Academic Advising from the
Perspective of Small Colleges and Universities.”
Carol Mason, adjunct professor of anthropology, had an article titled “Jesuit
Rings, Jesuits,
and Chronology” published in the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Fall 2003.
Devin Scheef, ’05, from Racine, and Nick Endres, ’05, from
Sun Prairie, were selected for the 2005 Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Competition,
part of the American
College Theatre Festival. In addition, Jessica
Whitehead, ’05, from Burlington, was nominated as stage
manager for the ten-minute play festival at next year’s
competition. Earlier this year, Brendan Marshall-Rashid, ’04, Petoskey,
Mich., and Matt Murphy, ’06, Eagan, Minn., represented Lawrence at
the 2004 Ryan Competition.
Kuo-Ming Sung, associate professor and chair of the Department of Chinese
and Japanese,
is the current vice president of the Northeast Wisconsin Chinese Association.
Daniel J. Taylor, ’63, the Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics, is
the newly elected president of the North
American Association for the History of the Language Sciences.
President Richard Warch, in April, received the Bernie Pearlman
Downtowner Award, given annually by Appleton
Downtown, Inc., to an individual
who has had a positive impact on the area. He was cited
for his continued consideration of Lawrence as a vital part of the downtown.