Reporter Volume 25, No.29 June 13, 1994 Summer theater arts program begins in July The UB Department of Theatre and Dance has initiated a new summer program for high school students interested in the theater arts. RA Week of Theater ArtsS is an intensive program of classes and workshops offered in three, one-week sessions in UBUs Fine Arts Center during July. Session I will run from July 11-15, Session II from July 18-22, and Session III from July 25-29. The program allows students to select one of two specializations: performance dance or theater/acting. It will run from 9-5 p.m. daily. The $125 fee includes an individualized makeup kit. Faculty for the program includes Tressa Gorman Crehan, program director; Stephen Henderson, director of theater specialization; Frank Bradley; Kazimierz Braun; Yvonne James Brown; Karen Georger; Shelley Hain; Vincent OUNeill; Ron Schwartz; William Thomas; Steve Vaughan; Catherine Norgren; Fortunato Pezzimenti, and Linda Swiniuch. An athletic trainer will be on staff at all times. For further information call Crehan at 645-6990. Buckle to serve as WomenUs Club president Shirley Buckle was installed as president of the WomenUs Club during the annual spring luncheon, May 7 in Slee Concert Hall. Also installed were Janet Fedor, vice president; Dawn Halvorsen, treasurer; Gerri Ryder, recording secretary; Winifred Doran, corresponding secretary; and Kathie Mogensen, Janet Morgan and Norma Zimmerman, all members-at-large. Twenty-five-year members Corinne Culver, Winifred Doran, Barbara Dumain, Marjorie Gearing, Jane Kite, Shelia Lewis, Judith Papalia and Ellen Reis were honored and presented with a new print of a photo collage designed and contributed by Maggie Headrick. Kerry Grant, dean of Arts and Letters, and Linda Swiniuch, co-chairman of the Department of Theatre and Dance, accepted a contribution from the WomenUs Club for the Theatre and Dance Department of the Fine Arts Center. Michael Burke, director of student programs in the Music Department and adjunct assistant professor of organ, gave a demonstration on the Slee Hall Organ. UB student to attend summer arts program in Italy Rozlyn Savage, a masterUs student in painting at UB, will attend RLa Cippressaia,S an intensive study program of fine arts and fine arts teacher training held in the countryside outside of Florence, Italy. Twenty students from all over the world who have previously studied art in Italy have been invited to participate in the six-week program. Students live and work in 15th and 16th century buildings while attending workshops. Savage, one of four U.S. students chosen to attend La Cippressaia, completed her undergraduate degree at Lorenzo de Medici College in Florence. She expects to receive her M.F.A. degree in February, 1995, and teach art privately in Buffalo. Poss awarded Migrant Health Care Fellowship Jane Poss, clinical professor of nursing in the UB nurse practitioner program, is one of seven persons in the U.S. to win a four-month Migrant Health Care Fellowship sponsored by the National Rural Health Association. Poss was honored in April as Nurse Practitioner of the Year by the Nurse Practitioner Association of Western New York for her work with Niagara County migrant workers and with health-care providers at clinics in El Sauce and Managua, Nicaragua. Fluent in Spanish, Poss worked with clinics in Nicaragua in 1992 and addressed the Ninth Annual North America Nicaragua Colloquium on Health, held in Managua, on developing diabetes education programs. She became involved in Nicaragua through a sister-city exchange program between Rochester, N.Y., and El Sauce. A member of the UB School of Nursing faculty since 1985, Poss is a specialist in diabetes education, and will devote some of her fellowship time to working with diabetes patients. She will work out of the Oak Orchard Community Health Center in Brockport. Nitzberg named development communications director Jed S. Nitzberg has been appointed director of development communications at UB. Previously director of public relations with the Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, D.C., he will be responsible for planning and implementing internal and external communications programs to enhance and support the universityUs development program. Cheryl R. Brown, associate vice president for university development, said Nitzberg will focus on presenting to the public and friends of UB the case for private support of the university and its programs, and, in turn, communicating UBUs gratitude to its donors. A graduate of Brandeis University, Nitzberg holds a masterUs degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining the Hospital for Sick Children in 1989, he was a news anchor and reporter with WLNH-FM/AM in Laconia, N.H., and had worked as a marketing and communications assistant with Waltham Weston Hospital and Medical Center in Waltham, Mass. From 1984-85, he taught English to students and business executives at the Date Academy of Foreign Languages in Nagoya, Japan. Accounting student wins doctoral dissertation fellowship Thomas A. Lechner, a doctoral student in accounting in the UB School of Management, has been awarded a $2,500 doctoral dissertation fellowship from the Richard D. Irwin Foundation. An instructor of graduate-level financial and managerial accounting courses at UB, Lechner is an American Accounting Association (AAA) Doctoral Consortium Fellow and has presented his research at several AAA national and regional meetings. He has served as an assistant professor of accounting at Chapman College in Orange, Calif., and as a senior auditor for Arthur Andersen & Co. He received a bachelorUs degree in economics from Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., and a masterUs degree in accounting from Iowa State University. He also did doctoral work in accounting at the University of Michigan before coming to UB in 1989. Hewlett named to development post James REdS Hewlett has been named assistant dean for development for the School of Social Work and the School of Health Related Professions, according to a joint announcement by Dean Frederick W. Seidl and Dean G. Alan Stull. Hewlett, who joined UB last November as a major gifts officer, is responsible for an overall program of development activities to generate for the two schools funds from private individuals, corporations and foundations nationwide. Stull, dean of Health Related Professions, and Seidl, dean of Social Work, said Hewlett will play a major role in their schoolsU development activities. HewlettUs background includes experience in both the academic and business worlds. He served as president and interim president of Missouri Baptist College in St. Louis, and president of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo. Earlier in his professional career he was president of Hewlett-Methvin, Inc. (a corporation supplying contract labor to the U.S. Army), and vice president of Patterson-Yeary Steel, a company specializing in bridge construction. Hewlett received bachelorUs and masterUs degrees in English from Mississippi College, and a doctorate in higher education from Florida State University. Seminars help consumers navigate health care A series of three seminars aimed at helping consumers in RNavigating the Health-Care Systems of Today and TomorrowS will be held July 9, 16 and 23 on the South Campus. Sponsored by the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Urban Affairs, the course will include non-technical explanations to help consumers get the most out of each part of the health-care system. Sessions will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall. A registration fee of $10 per program, or a $25 advance fee for all programs, is required. For more information , contact the medical school, 829-2168. Gore advisor to speak at education event Elaine Ciulla Kamarck, senior policy advisor to Vice President Albert Gore and coordinator of the National Performance Review, will discuss RReinventing GovernmentS as the keynote speaker at the RExcursion to ChautauquaS lecture and panel discussion, to begin at 10:45 a.m. Friday, July 8, in the amphitheater at the Chautauqua Institution. The program is sponsored by the Graduate School of Education Alumni Association at UB. The panel discussion, RRestructuring Education as a Parallel to Government Reform,S will begin at 2 p.m. The session will be moderated by Samuel Alessi, assistant superintendent for curriculum for the Buffalo Public Schools. Panelists will be Robert L. Loretan, district superintendent of schools for ErieOne BOCES; Albert Thompson, superintendent of the Buffalo Public Schools; Stephen Jacobson, professor of educational administration at UB, and Kathaleen Burke, a teacher in the Buffalo Zoo component of the Buffalo Public Schools. For more information, call 645-2491. Editors assume new duties in Publications Two UB Publications editors assumed new duties May 15. Christine Vidal, former UB Today editor, has moved to the editorUs desk at the Reporter and Ann Whitcher, former Reporter editor, has begun work as editor of UB Today. Vidal has been a member of the Publications staff for the past nine years, including five years as editor of UB Today. Whitcher, a staff member for 16 years, served five years as Reporter editor. CASE awards won by Publications, WBFO, News Bureau The Publications Department at UB, WBFO, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by UB, and the UB News Bureau were winners in the recent Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) awards competition. PublicationsU RThink Smart R received a silver medal in the Individual Low-Budget Publications category; The RReporter,S the universityUs weekly community newspaper, received two awards: a silver medal for its World Games insert in the Periodical Special Issues category and a bronze medal in the Internal Audience Tabloids category. PublicationsU athletics development direct mail package was awarded a silver medal in the Individual Fund Raising Publications category. Another silver medal was awarded in the Individual Fundraising Publications category to the UB Report of Private Giving, produced by Development and Publications. WBFO received a silver medal in the Radio News and Features category for its series, First Year, in which a reporter followed UB students through their first year at the university, describing the changes that took place in their lives. The UB News Bureau received a silver medal for research, medicine and science writing.