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Ursinus College Bulletin, Summer 1988

Sally Widman, Richard P. Richter, Glenn A. McCurdy, and Nancy Landis Wood

President's memo: Thinking of the natural sciences • "None of it seemed real" • Library: Farewell to the old card catalog • Evolution of biology • Reality training for future teachers • Volunteers appreciated • A picture-perfect commencement • The day of the bear • Ursinus receives $50,000 Pa. grant • Senior gift • Board member top philanthropist • Science fair held • Card exchange • Computer expert tells of banking crunch • College hosts special medieval fest • Publishing contest announced • Stauffer, Bright elected to Board • Mideast compromise possible: Scholar • Scholarship awarded • Much ado, 20s style • Wyeths displayed • Former Penn aide named head football coach • 21 MVPs honored at first varsity dinner • All-around award is re-established • Stahl selected World Cup coach • Class notes • Class president ready to take on the world • Lancaster benefits from Ursinus connection • Marriages • Births • Deaths
Ursinus College Bulletin, March 1988

Sally Widman, Rick Miller, Richard P. Richter, Kenneth W. Grundy, and Elliot Tannenbaum

President's memo: Then and now, the state of the college • Preparing for the decennial inspection • From war's horrors to safe harbor • Women's studies: The 100% solution, a curriculum for all • South Africa: Against the "blood-dimmed tide" • T.G.U. professor teaching at Ursinus • "Black perspective" a misnomer, journalist says • New England tour • Evening School dinners held • Sculpture exhibit at Ursinus • Alumni festivities planned • California alumni • Center City alumni hear about museum • Kutztown Folk Fest welcomes Ursinus • Campaign goal achieved • Snell chair drive exceeds goal • Nine to be inducted into Hall of Fame • Spring sports schedule • Brown quits football, remains assistant athletic director • Class notes • Second career is realization of life's dream • He knows the value of a name • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Letters to the editor
Ursinus College Bulletin, January 1988

Sally Widman, Rick Miller, Richard P. Richter, Willis G. Frick, and Chris Goldberg

President's memo: Students face evolution of social values • Colleges reexamine student alcohol use: What other colleges are doing; What Ursinus is doing • Research expert leads students to chemical frontiers • Friday nights on the Sturgis rails • Founders' weekend an 18th century sampler • Memorial details • Students learn of corporate world's human side • GRRs aid admissions • Ursinus festival host • They're making a list • Alumni awards • Zack on the turnpike • Ursinus calendars • Nominations sought • From fog to fun, a massive reunion • Ursinus Messiah is 50 • Alumni advise on grant proposal • Surdna grant • Schultz trust • Campaign total • Repko flies for Eagles during NFL strike • Fall honors • Hockey Hall of Fame at Ursinus • Winter sports schedule • Team to California • Class notes • Bringing enlightenment to women's health care • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Letters to the editor
Ursinus College Bulletin, September 1987

Sally Widman, Rick Miller, Richard P. Richter, Debra Kamens, Blanche Allen, and Elliot Tannenbaum

President's memo: Israel's past awesomely present as its future shouts to be born • Eisenhower lauds Constitution at opening convocation • Campus Art Center announced • Lisa Tremper named Director of new Center • Forming a more perfect understanding • Freshman advisers are 4-year mentors • New faces: Faculty, freshmen • Looking at all ages and all needs • It's more than a movie • A sweltering, sweet reunion • Lacrosse team loses title in OT • Field hockey team to California • Alumnus heads national athletic anti-drug campaign • Fall sports schedule • Ace Bailey among 9 inducted into Hall • Japanese program in 15th year • Stellar heads A.P.S. • Alumni officers • Alumni directory research begins • Alumna wins Press prize • Two elected to Board • He seeks names of war dead for memorial • Students win prizes • Class notes • Alumnus presides over Pennsylvania Bar • The cause is the thing • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Letters to the Editor
Ursinus College Bulletin, June 1987

Sally Widman, Rick Miller, Richard P. Richter, Debra Kamens, Nicholas O. Berry, and Elliot Tannenbaum

President's memo: Ursinus evolves toward greater vitality • Premed dilemma: A profession in transition • A special premedder • Seeing alma mater through alumni eyes • Meisters celebrate 50th anniversary on tour • The bombarding of the editorial writer • The coddling of college students • Commencement: A day of joy, thought and change • Five from faculty, staff retire • Bears win MAC title • From basketball sub to track standout • Board elects one, promotes seven • Beardwood Society awarded lecture • 30th science show • Super reunion I • Industrial decline calls for action • Peruvian Fulbright visits Ursinus • Employment report • Rubys needed • Class notes • A student of the human race • Militantly molding the middle of the road • Marriages • Births • Deaths
Ursinus College Bulletin, March 1987

Sally Widman, Rick Miller, Richard P. Richter, Debra Kamens, Elliot Tannenbaum, and Blanche Allen

President's memo: Preparing for a populous future • From Pennsburg to the Vatican in search of beauty • Musser Hall meets the world • Of life, infinity and classic sport • Evening School: Taking fear out of the college plunge • Loyalty Fund totals soar, give cause for celebration • Women's studies grant won by Ursinus • College receives funds to aid black student • California alumni have six reunions • Where are they now? • Staff promotions • Who's who • Say, just which fund got that check? • Main Street lauded • Landis selected • Books given • Meistersingers tour • Making a fast break from bleakness • Spring sports schedule • Ursinus running renaissance sparks precocious women's program • Odgers academic all-American • Class notes • The feline's answer to Dr. Spock • Bio art: Her perfect solution • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Kutztown Folk Fest welcomes Ursinus
Ursinus College Bulletin, January 1987

Sally Widman, Rick Miller, Richard P. Richter, Debra Kamens, Elliot Tannenbaum, Judy Baxter, Betsy Ramsey, and H. Lloyd Jones

President's memo: The healthy debate of controversy • "King of instruments" awes audience • French installed in Heefner Chair • Fulbright tour enriches Dr. Eaton's courses • Coming home to double vision • Loyalty Fund prizes • It's a hoopster's lullaby • Fall season honors • Bruins Club note • Letter of thanks • Memories of Fetterolf • Inaugural exhibit delights Ursinus community • The art-full life is a rewarding one • A. V. Davis grant supports campaign for Ursinus • Clemens, Fretz families plan concert endowment • Class gifts give campaign a boost • A "44.66%" reunion • Chemistry alumni asked for reactions • Library given books • Ho-hum memories • Ursinus hosts Fulbright scholar • Fraktur displayed • Hartman elected to Board • Evening enrollment • Class notes • The law of science is his business • Anti-terrorism in the slow lane • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Sports schedule
Ursinus College Bulletin, September 1986

Sally Widman, Richard P. Richter, Rick Miller, Blanche Allen, and Thomas Shaw

President's memo: Japan revisited • Nicaraguan cause draws three from class of 1962 • Students help mental patients join the world again • Expand world view, say symposium speakers • Students learn to relax in foreign tongues • A new kind of valedictory victory • A dedication, a reunion, a reminiscence • Eight named to Hall of Fame • Communications staff wins 16 awards • Ursinus receives grant from Merck • Myrin trust grants Ursinus $750,000 • Professors Schultz and Fletcher retire • Student body tops 1,200 • A balm for the backslider • 122 go for M.B.A.s • 2 elected to Board • Rubys sought • "Marvelous" gathering reunites six • Faculty, staff positions filled • Lacrosse team gives Ursinus first NCAA title in any sport • Club funds sought • Fall-Winter sports schedule • Class notes • A surgeon's life: Intensity and camaraderie • He finds the peace is in giving • Marriages • Births • Deaths
Ursinus College Bulletin, June 1986

Richard P. Richter, Elliot Tannenbaum, Thomas Shaw, Sally Widman, and Rick Miller

President's memo: Terrorism and the global view • Meridian Grant will support Residential Village • Bequests to Ursinus • Grant will help provide scholarships • Ursinus wins Kresge grant • The Pattern emerges • And now, the future commences • Medical lectures highlight history and future • Alumni gather in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey • Pilgrim Press contest entries due • Teacher-in-space finalists address Ursinus students • Ursinus has "majority" on commission • Meistersingers tour in three states • Hair revival a sellout • Jamison appointed • Ursinus fields put Bears on level ground • The Bruins Club needs your support • Alumnus led shuttle search • Class notes • A doctor at pains to help • A mission of health and the spirit • Marriages • Births • Deaths
Ursinus College Bulletin, March 1986

Sally Widman, Richard P. Richter, Rick Miller, Elliot Tannenbaum, and Debra Kamens

The case for giving • 1985 census: Just who and what are we, anyway? • Of tee shirts and cookies: A tale of health and well-being • Renaissance in teaching • Unfriendly takeovers benefit few, Rorer chief tells students • Professorial chairs the ultimate tribute to faculty excellence • The pattern emerges • The Pa. German collection: An uncharted treasure • Playing the numbers for the good of the college • U.S. News survey cites Ursinus • Bear beats • Alumni gather in four states • Zucker's work to be performed • Wenhold receives Eshbach award • Stress workshop • Women's Club expands fund • A grim story of success at an early age • Sports schedule • Class notes • Rechanneling a flood of emotions • Estate planner's exotic garden his pride • Marriages • Births • Deaths
Ursinus College Bulletin, January 1986

Sally Widman, Richard P. Richter, Elliot Tannenbaum, Robert Worthing, and Leon North

Ursinus: A college with big plans • Liberal arts leavens a scientific education • In praise of science • Snyder takes Clamer chair • Faces of Homecoming • Gala launches campaign • Volunteers trained • The pattern emerges • A Fulbright, half a world away • Faculty research reaches "critical mass" • Lights, camera, action! • Ursinus a "best buy" • Sisters double the treasure • Bear facts • Women's Club disbands after 71 years • Colloquium book published • 1926 football presented to college • Phillips collection • 1915: A good year • Landis installed as campus minister • Surveys needed • French elected • Richter heads F.I.C. • Faculty dialog book • Future alumni of Ursinus • Board adds two members • Campaign for Ursinus: Questions and answers • A master in dermatology • Class notes • Lone administrator • Ursinus in California • Jean Garton honored • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Letters to the editor
Ursinus College Bulletin, September 1985

Sally Widman, Richard P. Richter, Calvin D. Yost, and Debra Kamens

The purpose survives • The magnificent Ursis Horribilis • Students' character: Who's responsible? • Alumni return to campus at night • A catalyst for alumni central • Going back to the future • "Stardusters" in the spotlight again • Ursinus College: A history of its first hundred years • Japanese students: Learning by negotiation • Yost portrait presented • Dr. Cogger retires • New faculty, staff at Ursinus • Tradition carries on • Promote Ursinus • NSF awards grant • Freshmen arrive • Campus village renovated • Forum programs scheduled • Women's Club luncheon • Friends regaled at Gurzynski roast • Weight room dedication • Angelos appointed basketball coach • Sports schedule • Class notes • Tripping the Leight fantastic • Her classroom is wild America • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Letters to the editor • Do you know where your classmates are?
Ursinus College Bulletin, June 1985

Sally Widman, Sandy Frank, Richard P. Richter, and Elliot Tannenbaum

Affirming one woman's vision • Evolution of the Ursinus woman • Life in the old days: Lights out at 10 • Medicine: Life in an exacting profession • Women in the law: The view from the bench • Matchmaker has time for family too • Academia: Carrying on the scholarly tradition • The first lady is always "on" • Arts: Her dramas show kids reality • Religion: Her words reach thousands • The Board: Ursinus' link with the town • Ursinus women on their way up • Commencement: The unity of the arts and sciences • Japanese prof at Ursinus • Du Pont grants $7,000 • Alumni elect • Ursinus alumni most loyal • Meistersingers tour • Culture blooms • MBA offered • Board elects • Chemists meeting • Latin Studies minor added • Class of 2006 • More jobs for '85 grads • Ursinus women are triumphant on court and green • Grizzellany • Class notes • Below decks she'll run the show • Teaching the abused to tell the whole truth • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Letters to the editor
Ursinus College Bulletin, March 1985

Sally Widman, Sandy Frank, Richard P. Richter, Robert Poole III, and Elliot Tannenbaum

A matter of reputation • The Mauchly legacy: A revolution begun in Pfahler Hall • Medical ethics: High-tech dilemmas challenge healers • Stellars find reward in team effort • Bringing the Far East to Ursinus • Wrestlers have upper hand on mats and off • Spring sports schedule • Vote now in Ursinus Hall of Fame election • Eshbach receives namesake award • Grant awarded • Funds given • "All's Well" produced by proTheatre • Robbins elected • On the street where you live • Admissions nights • Band formed • Tuition up • Grizzly alumni reunited in Sunshine State • Class notes • They cracked the college acceptance code • Making friends in the deep • Marriages • Births • Deaths • In memoriam • All those years there was a bear in that trunk • Letters to the editor
Ursinus College Bulletin, January 1985

Sally Widman, Sandy Frank, Richard P. Richter, Debra Kamens, Elliot Tannenbaum, and Donald Stauffer

A mandate to liberal arts colleges • Focus on faculty: "The smart, curious and articulate" • Liberal arts lauded on Founders Day • Campus plan: Preserving "the classic college town" • Cottage now counseling center • Hot time at homecoming • A one-man information explosion • Receptions set • Japan studies program offered • Books given • Photos shown • Faculty hired • Baton assigned • Evans and Hess appointed • Who's whose confusing at legacy brunch • China trip for soccer team • Bruin notes • Grizzellany • Winter sports schedule • Class notes • For the love of legalities • He'll make your weekend creepy • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Heefner new development chairman • Letters to the editor
Ursinus College Bulletin, Fall 1984

Sally Widman, Sandy Frank, Richard P. Richter, Michael A. Renninger, and Elliot Tannenbaum

At issue: Communicating about the college • Internships: Scholarship blooms in the marketplace • Ultimate intern • Her students say she's first class • Scotland: Where ancient history meets modern trauma • Donations up 25.4% • Staff hired, promoted • Davidson elected to MAC • Bearing up: Bruin will help ease the loss • Alumni host hockey team • Coach of year • Faculty has eight new members • Class of 1988 arrives • Counselors • Association elects officers • Ursinus teachers tops • On the field: Bronze Cinderella story for field hockey team • Heroes to be honored 50 years later • Fall sports schedule • 400 join the A-Day invasion • Class notes • Vintage retirement • His work is his castle • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Take me out to the Yakyu game • Letters to the editor
Ursinus College Bulletin, Summer 1984 Special Issue

Milton E. Detterline, Sally Widman, Richard P. Richter, Donald L. Helfferich, Anna Knauer Helfferich, and Evan Snyder

Donald Lawrence Helfferich, 1898-1984 • Donald L. Helfferich: A reflection • Life of Donald L. Helfferich: A chronology • Major speeches • From the President • "I am essentially a lazy man..." • Tributes: He transformed Ursinus in all its parts • A legend in his own time • "A very generous and thoughtful man"
Ursinus College Bulletin, Summer 1984

Sally Widman, Sandy Frank, Richard P. Richter, Roger P. Staiger, Margaret Brown Staiger, and Alfred L. Creager

Business at Ursinus • California, here they come! • Ursinus who's who of Olympic field hockey • Hopeful • Helpful • Marketing of Ursinus • What you can do to help • Commencement: Leaving the garden of Eden • Faculty: Of cowboys and cactuses • Upperclass confidence: It comes with age • Staying out of the kitchen: West Indies style • Like father, like son, for better profit • Sweet & Sour poems: The farm family; Safely home • Two professors retire • Social spring for five groups • Alumna leaves $370,000 • Parents' Committee meets • Richter head of CICU • Press holds third contest • Penn program accepts student • Alumnus finds hope, survives in Beirut • Four named to positions on college staff • Meistersingers tour the east • Two elected to Board of Directors • Special games at Ursinus • Society taps thirteen from Ursinus • Cogger named • Parsons elected • Lacrosse team tops • Softball team wins • Basketball coach appointed • News notes • Marriages • Births • Deaths • The tree goes on
Ursinus College Bulletin, Spring 1984

Sally Widman, Sandy Frank, Derk Visser, and William E. Akin

Donald Lawrence Helfferich, 1898-1984 • Past and presence of Zacharias Ursinus • What were they fighting about? • Heidelberg Catechism • Today's clergy take Reformation seriously • A Homecoming for winners • November 6: A Founders Day with a difference • Striving for excellence: The life of the mind • Ursinus' Olympic 6 are L.A. bound • UC teams victorious • College names Vice Presidents • Acupressuring your stress away • Doctor of Ministry offered at Ursinus • Professor Parsons on TV • New perspectives in health care • Full schedule planned for alumni weekend • New Reagan books • ACS Chapter given high rating • Books delayed • News notes • Evening School • Marriages • Births • Deaths • An heir to the zone • Spring sports schedule
Ursinus College Bulletin, Fall 1983

Sally Widman, Andrea A. Vaughan, Richard P. Richter, and Richard W. McQuillan

Rediscovering the roots of Ursinus • Pooling our alumni resources • Ursinus: "One of the best deals in town" • The non-traditional student: It's never too late • All-American visit • Sendai scrapbook • Pennsylvania German archives have busy Fall • $13,000 grant given Ursinus • Additions to faculty, staff • Ursinus phonatics • New business • Fall-Winter sports schedule • Women national lacrosse champs • '83 Loyalty Fund hits 57% • Missing alumni • Do you remember? • Zacharias commemoration readied • Memorial fund • Kennedy collection • Thank-you notes • Department chairmen named • News notes • Evening School • Marriages • Births • Deaths
Ursinus College Bulletin, Summer 1983

Andrea A. Vaughan, Richard P. Richter, Annette V. Lucas, Nicholas O. Berry, and John W. Shuck

Vision of alumni advocates • Keeping the core healthy • Modernized • Methodized • Multiplied • Ruth Rothenberger Harris retires • Professor's book is published • Library collection grows • Sports line-up • Ursinus Board approves $11 million budget, elects two directors • Election results announced • Network news • New look to the Loyalty Fund • Richter elected • Seven promoted • Small named Assistant Dean • Recruiters sought • Evening agenda • A Beta idea • Sophomore wins Scots scholarship • Celebrating a scholar • Note worthy • Alumni award nominations • Agency director addresses graduates • Commencement • Dues abolished on Alumni Day • News notes • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Evening School
Ursinus College Bulletin, Spring 1983

Andrea A. Vaughan, Sally Widman, and Charles Yerger

Faculty: Beyond the classroom • Constitution of the Alumni Association of Ursinus College • Homecoming: October 16, 1982 • Founders Day: November 7, 1982 • Alumni: Ursinus for the life of me • 20th century serendipity a success • Your legacy • Smart money • Exchange agreement ratified • News notes • Marriages • Births • Deaths
Ursinus College Bulletin, Fall 1982

Andrea A. Vaughan and Richard P. Richter

This is Ursinus: The Life Science Building and other hidden facts about your campus • Ursinus College campus map • Why you ought to know • Care and feeding of Ursinus College • Key to campus map • Gone but not forgotten • Clergy to meet on campus • May we inquire? • Hoop it up • Don't hibernate • Dancing on air • Faculty appointments for 113th year • Coming attractions • Want to listen? • Business wise • Lose a friend? • Heading south • News notes • Marriages • Births • Deaths
Ursinus College Bulletin, Summer 1982

Andrea A. Vaughan, Reginald H. Jones, Richard P. Richter, and Roger Schreffler

Commencement: Leading questions • Classified information • Creditable words from a new class • Board actions • Do you know? • Election results • Zimmer named assistant dean of admissions • Ursinus student wins national award • Special sports • Alumna presents DuPont check • Diamond day • Chemistry conference • Put your name in lights • Have we got news for you • Upcoming art exhibits • Alumni Weekend • News notes • Marriages • Births • Deaths • Questionnaire answers
Ursinus College Bulletin, Spring 1982

Andrea A. Vaughan, Richard P. Richter, William E. Akin, John Pilgrim, Derek Pickell, and Chuck Broadbent

Ursinus plans for the future: Targets and strategies • Setting the stage • Women's work • Book sale benefits Myrin Library • Name that tune • Art exhibited in Myrin • Federal funding and financial aid • Brown named football coach • G.E. Chairman to address graduates • Note of thanks • Alumni named to administration • Want ads • U.C. goes to U.N. • Winterfest! • Summer study in Japan • Frat fund • Evenings and weekends: Prime time at Ursinus • Abroad view • $500,000 grant • Arnold to assume development post • Homecoming • Founders Day • News notes • 25th reunion report • Evening School • Marriages • Births • Deaths • New alumni directory to be published