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On December 13, 1982, Sandy Apgar, Gary Spiess, and Dan Tompkins sent the Faculty Fellowship Committee's first annual report to Class President Josh Rich. "In one of those happy but unexpected coincidences, our nominee, Professor Esther Rashkin of the Department of French and Italian, also received a simultaneous National Endowment for the Humanities grant. After consultation with Dean of the Faculty Hans Penner, we agreed that Professor Jocelyne Kolb should be named 'Class of 1962 Fellow,' and Professor Rashkin, 'Honorary Fellow.' The monetary award will go to Professor Kolb according to long-standing College policy. So in our first operating year, we have two fellows." Professor Kolb has been praised for her skill in presenting German to beginners, and for her superior performance in leading the L.S.A. Program in Mainz. Her research proposal was stimulating, responsible, and bold in scope. "In reviewing the applications, we were impressed with the range and quality of junior faculty scholarship, and heartened by the many contributions these men and women make to student development, often outside the classroom. We hope other members of the class will become involved in this process and, in particular, suggest ways to enlarge the fellowship's reach." The class officers and executive comittee wish to thank Sandy, Gary, and Dan for their efforts in getting this program started. Formal presentation of the fellowship award will take place in Hanover this spring.

Levi's has announced the appointment of Michael Howard as vice president, marketing, for their northern Europe operating division. In this newly-created position, Mike will assume overall responsibility for the jeanswear, menswear, and youthwear product categories. Prior to this. Mike has had responsibility for only the menswear portion of the business. He has been with Levi's since 1967. Originally in product management at the San Francisco headquarters, he joined international in 1970 and moved to Hong Kong as general merchandise manager. After a series of moves within international, he was general manager of Levi Strauss New Zealand prior to moving to London in 1979.

The American University, Washington, D.C., recently honored several senators and congressmen, including Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, at a dinner in the Rayburn House Office Building. The event celebrated the 35th anniversary of American's innovative Washington Semester Program, which brings students from colleges and universities across the country to the university for a semester's study. American U. initiated the Washington Semester Program in 1947 to bring students into contact with the men and women who influence public policy. Since then, the program has grown in size and reputation, increasing enrollment from an initial 12 students to between 350 and 400 a semester. The number of institutions in the semester consortium has grown from five to nearly 200. In addition, the program has added areas of concentration to its original semester study of federal government and politics. Students can now study policy, economic policy, the criminal justice system, foreign policy, journalism, the arts and humanities, or public administration.

Tim Hankins returned to the College last year as an associate professor. In an article entitled "The Nature of Pulsars" in The Year 1981-1982, a publication of the Thayer School of Engineering, Tim conveys some of his enthusiasm for pulsar research, which he is continuing with colleagues at Cornell and at observatories in Puerto Rico and New Mexico. Unfortunately, we have learned that the acre of television aerials Tim used for his first pulsar measurements near San Diego was burned to the ground in an accidental brush fire in September. The antenna array had been in use for 24 hours a day since 1968 for monitoring the solar wind. The 1,000-foot radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, is run by Cornell University under contract from the National Science Foundation. It is located in a natural sink hole in the limestone karst region of Puerto Rico. The telescope surface, constructed of more than 38,000 aluminum panels, covers about 18 acres. It is by far the most sensitive steerable radio telescope, well-suited for pulsar studies as well as spectral line and continuum radio astronomy, radar studies of the planets and asteroids, and incoherent backscatter studies of the upper atmosphere.

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