Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, January 18, 1992 TAG: 9201180142
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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NAMES ON CAMPUS
ROBERT M. GILL, a political science professor, has been included in Who's Who Among Young American Professionals 1992-93.Gill is president of the American Council for Quebec Studies and vice president of the Middle Atlantic and New England Conference for Canadian Studies. He also is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha and the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States.
Gill, who received his doctorate from Duke University, has been listed in The Directory of Distinguished Americans, Personalities of America, Personalities of the South and Directory of American Scholars.
Recently, he was one of 10 Americans and Canadians invited to participate in an international conference on the future relationship of Canada, Quebec and the United States.
\ GERALD O'MORROW, chairman of the recreation and leisure services department, has received the National Recreation and Park Association's National Literary Award for outstanding contributions to the parks, recreation and conservation fields in the specialization of therapeutic recreation.
O'Morrow also had two monographs published by the National Therapeutic Recreation Society, called "The First Twenty-Five Years" and "Therapeutic Recreation Practitioner Analysis."
\ MARY LOU EPPERLY, internal auditor, has been promoted to director of financial services. She is a member of the College and University Auditors of Virginia and was the group's president in 1987-88. She also is a member of the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Internal Auditors.
Epperly, a Wytheville native, received bachelor's and M.B.A. degrees from Radford.
Sociology professor THOMAS SHANNON and economics professor NOZAR HASHEMZADEH recently traveled to the dismantled Soviet Union as part of an exchange agreement between the university and the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow to observe first-hand the historic changes taking place.
The professors also hoped to accomplish some research in labor relations and demography.
Shannon planned to use demographic information to study industrialization and urbanization and hoped to see statistics from the Soviet census, which have never before been available to foreigners.
Hashemzadeh hoped to study emerging patterns of labor relations, including the formation of labor organizations, labor migration patterns and contract negotiations.
\ LAURA BEITZ has been named director of corporate and foundation relations in the development office. She received bachelor's and master's degrees from Radford and has worked for Giorgio Beverly Hills Perfume of Santa Monica, Calif., as an account and special-events coordinator.
\ ROB TUCKER was appointed associate director of public information and relations and will assist in managing the university-wide communications and public relations programs, serve as editor of the university magazine and direct other periodical projects.
Tucker was assistant director of public information at Ohio Northern University. He has eight years of journalism experience and received a bachelor's degree from Marshall University.
\ CLARENCE WHITE, a management professor, has received a $5,500 grant from the Virginia Department of Education to fund vocational teacher education programs. He will conduct a class on technological training that focuses on computer software.
\ BRUCE P. MAHIN, director of the Center for Music Technology, had his composition "Of Mice and Men" included in the 21st Annual New From Abroad Music Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The piece was recorded by AL WOJTERA, an assistant music professor.
A group of human service professors has received a $16,860 grant to provide retraining institutes for teachers of special education in Virginia. The institutes, funded by the state education department, allow teachers to obtain skills necessary for working with special need students. JOHN SYCAMORE will be director of the project and Professors NANCY EISS, JUDY ENGLEHARD, CAROLE GELLER and MARILYN GRAHAM will be instructors.
\ KATHY K. MULLET, a fashion design professor, presented three garments made by design students at the International Textile and Apparel Association's annual meeting and fashion show in San Francisco.
\ JERRY BEASLEY, a physical and health education professor, was featured in the November 1991 issue of Black Belt as one of five martial artists who discussed turning their interests into careers. Beasley established the martial arts program in physical education at Radford in 1984.
\ MICHAEL CRONIN, director of the oral communication program, and GEORGE GRICE, coordinator, have been appointed by the Speech Communication Association to a committee to study communication in the undergraduate general education curriculum in the United States.
They also had an article published in the Carolinas Speech Communication Annual and Cronin co-authored an article published in the journal Communication Education.
\ ANNA FARIELLO, director of galleries, had a feature article on the history of rug-making published in the September-October issue of Fiber Arts.
Fariello also exhibited her mixed-media piece, "She Don't Look Back," at the Tri-State Sculptors' Guild Conference in Boone, N.C., and had a collaboration with Christiansburg sculptor William S. Rogers called "Sconce" exhibited there.
\ HALIDE SALAM, an art professor, won second prize for his collage "Visions," which was included in the member's group exhibition of the New District of Columbia Collage Society in Washington.
\ CHARLES BROUWER, an assistant art professor, had three mixed-media pieces exhibited at the Tri-State Sculptor's Guild Conference in Boone, N.C. The pieces were titled "Flying Was Always On His Mind," "Accessory to a Journey" and "Home Juggler."
Marketing Professor HSIN-MIN and accounting Professor LYNN SAUBERT had an article published in the winter issue of The Accounting Educators' Journal.
\ DAVID HORTON was named assistant director of alumni affairs. His duties will include development of new and existing alumni chapters around the state and nation and coordination of homecoming and other reunion activities.
Horton is a 1990 Radford University graduate who earned bachelor's degrees in communication and marketing. He received the university's outstanding student award each of his four years and was named the outstanding senior in the marketing and communication departments.