Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, April 8, 1990 TAG: 9004060440
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV7 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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\ GERALD O'MORROW, chairman of the department of recreation and leisure services, has been appointed to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board as a consultant. He will review the quality of existing doctoral programs in the field of park, recreation and leisure resources at public state institutions.
\ JENNIFER SPOON, assistant professor of art, recently had two works accepted in Digital 90, a national computer art show at Glassboro State College in New Jersey.
\ JOSEPH SCARTELLI, dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will have a paper published in a special fall issue of the Journal of Music Therapy focusing on music and medicine.
\ DOUGLAS WOOLLEY, professor of economics, was named acting chairman of the department. He succeeds\ BENNIE BEESON, who has returned to full-time teaching in the department.
\ BRUCE P. MAHIN, director of the Center for Music Technology, had his composition "Of Mice and Men" for vibraphone and computer performed at the Western Illinois New Music Festival.
\ FRANKLIN JONES, chairman of the physical science department, received a $41,000 grant from the state Council of Higher Education toward a spring and summer training institute for 20 Buchanan County 4th-grade through 7th-grade teachers.
\ SKIP WATTS, director of the institute for engineering geosciences, completed two environmental studies in Southwest Virginia: Giles County and the Roanoke River Parkway.\ ROBERT WHISONANT, geology department chairman, assisted Watts in the projects.
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