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| After work and school, Kathleen will collect the girls and return home. When Stephan and Amos arrive, the family sits down to dinner. They talk about the day as the plates pass 'round the table. Depending on the day, the girls then will be off to piano lessons, and Amos will pull his weight by doing his homework and chores to help keep the household running smoothly. If it's Wednesday, the family will be on its way to church, where Stephan is a choir member. On weekends, Amos volunteers for the Jessamine County Humane Society. This fall, he saved his money from working so he could take a Lexington Community College photography class. |
Celebrate!Family Week in Kentucky
is Nov. 15-19. Events on campus will include a symposium with
Early Childhood Task Force |
Balancing act
"Kathleen and I looked forward to having children and had
lots of dreams for them," said Stephan, who also directs
UK's Research Center for Families and Children. "But life
got more difficult as the children grew older, and I'm sure it
will get more difficult still as the children develop further.
There's a lot of running and many activities to be involved in."
To help balance their hectic family life,
Kathleen and Stephan rely on two mostly unspoken rules: children
can be involved in only one activity that requires mom and dad
to run them around and the family will always have dinner together.
"Having dinner together is important
to us. It is a sacred family time when we can find out what is
going on with each other," Stephan said. "It takes
a lot of effort to do all the things that need to be done in
a day, to support our individual and collective lives in this
family, and there are many, many competing demands for our time,
energy, emotions, creativity and interest. Most of the competing
demands are worthy but also complicate or threaten having quality
family time."
To keep the family under control, Kathleen
and Stephan make sure their children have plenty of opportunities
to talk with their parents. The Wilsons also have recently embarked
on a family project building a cabin in rural Jackson County.
"There are a lot of things to do
there that bring us together," Stephan said. "There's
no phone, no TV. It gives us time to contemplate things and to
get to know each other better. Just being in each others' presence
as a family for extended periods is a bonus.
"The quiet, the awesome natural world
around us and the physical realities of what we have to do and
the labor that we must give to get things done all make useful
object lessons for each one of us ... and for all of us as a
family."
The cabin provides an escape from the
hectic world and also gives everyone a little stress relief,
something that can save the day from arguments over who rides
in the front seat and why no one can seem to pick up after themselves.
"It's very important to figure out
a way to jettison stress whether it's a project, a good
book or a half-hour of time to yourself," Stephan said.
"Many parents don't have a good way to deal with the day-to-day
frustration. That builds up and can hurt a family."
Romancing the couple
But no matter how hard a family works at being together and balancing
everything, something inevitably gives, Wilson said. Most of
the time, it is the family's core - the couple - the thing that
started it all.
"So many things pull a couple apart,"
he said. "It is easier to remember special days such as
birthdays and anniversaries than it is to remember the little
things that brought us together in the first place."
Time at the cabin, a special dinner here
and there, a lot of talking and a simple touch help Kathleen
and Stephan make sure the couple are still intact.
"And time in the car," he added.
"The kids are not even close to being interested in what
we are saying, and the rear radio speakers and their own diversions
give us a small bonus of time so we can have some great conversations
in the car."
Community connections
Being near grandparents - Stephan's parents Jan and Gene who
have retired to Nicholasville - and having a strong community
ties also help Kathleen and Stephan keep track of the family.
Grandparents can provide occasional relief from and advice for
parenting. Parents of other children, school groups and teachers
keep them in tune to what's happening at school.
"We really try to make sure our door
is open to the children's friends, too," Stephan said. "It's
with their peers that they are learning about relationships and
dealing with things in life."
As the day comes to a close late in the
evening and everyone can stop running, Kathleen and Stephan can't
imagine having their lives any other way. From watching their
first-grader learn to read to seeing their 14-year-old begin
to plan for college, their lives are full of the little moments
that make it all worthwhile.
"You're trying to be cool and learn
all the latest toys and keep up with everything," Stephan
said. "But things change everyday and you have to remember
four or five years in the life of a child passes quickly and
is gone forever for them - and for you as the parent. Having
these children around you who are constantly learning and trying
to keep up makes us feel young and alive. We both feel that this
may be our greatest contribution to making the world a better
place ..."
Gen. Hugh Shelton will address UK Nov. 19.
The nation's top military leader, Gen. Hugh Shelton, will
speak at the University of Kentucky Friday, Nov. 19.
| Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, will deliver remarks titled, "Force, Diplomacy
and National Security" at 2 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of
the Student Center. The chairman's visit to UK is organized by the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce and hosted by UK. Professor Michael Desch, associate director of the Patterson School and point man on the event, said Shelton's remarks promise to be highly relevant to current world events. |
Gen. Hugh Shelton |
William Nunn Lipscomb, the University of Kentucky's only living
Nobel laureate, visited the UK campus in late October to receive
the first College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award.
| The 1941 UK alumnus made a brief
public address, "Science as a Humanity: The Humanities as
a Science" on Oct. 21 and received the alumni award Oct.
22. Lipscomb won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1976 for his research into the structure of boron molecules that led to new conclusions about the general nature of chemical bonding. He earned his doctoral degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1946, then joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota. In 1959, he became professor of chemistry at Harvard University, where he conducted his Nobel Prize winning research. He is the second UK alumnus to receive a Nobel Prize. The first was Thomas Hunt Morgan, who received the prize in 1933 for research in heredity and genetics. |
George Lewis |
Perhaps they wanted to help an academic program. Perhaps they
wanted to be sure a student from their hometown could get a scholarship
to the University of Kentucky. Whatever the reason, 173 individuals
and groups joined the ranks of UK's top benefactors this year.
| The new members of the UK Fellows
Society were honored Oct. 15 at a black-tie dinner in Rupp Arena.
The Fellows are private donors who have given or pledged $10,000
or more to the University. "These are our strongest and most consistent givers," said Jon Zachem, director of the UK Fellows Society. "Everybody has a different reason for giving to the University, and there are so many good reasons. The dinner is our way of recognizing and thanking them." The new additions push the total number of Fellows over the 4,700 mark. Over 3,000 of the Fellows are from Kentucky, almost 1,000 are from across the United States and approximately 700 are deceased. The group even includes some international givers. |
Teresa Arnold |
Many Central Kentucky children will have a happier holiday
this year thanks to the University of Kentucky's annual Circle
of Love which provides gifts to underprivileged children in Fayette
and several surrounding counties.
| Children's names are supplied by
teachers and counselors from the area schools. UK employees and
departments participate in the program by selecting children's
names and buying gifts from a wish list made by the children.
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The University of Kentucky has issued itself a challenge:
"A Call To Greatness."
| It is a call to raise in excess of $400 million to help propel UK colleges and programs to even higher levels of excellence; provide more student scholarships, fellowships and assistantships, and faculty chairs, professorships and lectureships; and to provide the infrastructure to develop new academic, research and service programs to meet the needs of the 21st century. The call is also to recognize that UK has a responsibility to the citizens of Kentucky as well as to the citizens of the United States and the world. |  |
National, regional publications highlight the team's success.
The nine-time national champion University of Kentucky cheerleaders
are getting plenty of attention from magazine writers and editors
these days.
| In its fall 1999 issue, Sports Illustrated
for Women features Kentucky as the top college or university
to attend if cheerleading is your sport. The article cites UK's
streak of five consecutive Universal Cheerleaders Association
titles. The January 2000 issue of Seventeen will spotlight UK in an article about males taking part successfully in activities which are dominated by females. It's estimated there are more than three million participants in cheerleading nationally and less than five percent are males. Regionally, the November 1999 issue of Kentucky Monthly devotes its cover to a picture of cheerleaders from UK, the University of Louisville and Morehead State University. The story inside highlights the tremendous competitive success enjoyed by the cheerleading squads at all three institutions. |
The UK cheerleaders are featured in a number of recent publications, including the November issue of Kentucky Monthly. |
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The University of Kentucky theater department's next production
will be Moss Hart's 1949 comedy "Light Up the Sky."
Set backstage during a new play's opening night, the play depicts
the opening night distress of a Broadway-bound production.
From the pre-show toast to the anticipation of
the critics' reviews, all of the excitement and trauma experienced
behind the scenes is brought to life. Originally, Hart portrayed
himself in the character of Peter, a first-time playwright who
becomes fed up with the entire experience.
Fortunately for Hart, the great majority of the
plays that he wrote turned out to be major successes. His first
success was in 1930 with "Once in a Lifetime," a play
which he wrote with the help of George S. Kaufman. Eventually,
over a 14-year period, Kaufman and Hart opened eight productions
on Broadway, including the Pulitzer Prize winning "You Can't
Take It With You." Eventually Hart wanted to prove he could
achieve success by himself. He proved that when "Light Up
the Sky" turned out to be Broadway's biggest comedy hit
of 1949.
At UK, the play will be directed by Nyalls Hartman,
an assistant professor in the theater department. It will run
at 8 p.m. Nov. 18-20 and Dec. 1-4 , at 2 p.m. Nov. 21 and Dec.
5 and at 4 p.m. Dec. 3 in UK's Guignol Theater. Tickets are available
in the Singletary Center for the Arts ticket office or by calling
257-4929. Prices are $9 for UK employees and senior citizens,
$7 for students and $11 for the general public.
Two University of Kentucky employees were honored Oct. 14
for their dedication to student success. Kate Johnson, academic
coordinator for the UK Honors Program, and Robert Ireland, professor
in the Department of History, were named 1999's professional
and faculty Outstanding Advisers at UK.
| "Advising is an
important part of students' experience at the University, and
I take it very seriously," said Ireland, who serves as director
of undergraduate advising for the Department of History. "I
was very happy to receive the award." As the undergraduate advising director, Ireland advises all the new freshman history students and about half of the department's remaining undergraduates. This year, that load has him advising about 130 students in addition to his teaching, research and writing. Johnson said, for her, receiving the award was gratifying. A team of three faculty members and one senior student nominated her. |
George Lewis |
Need to know where the best free clip art might be?
Want a fast way to switch between multiple documents?
Ever wondered how you can wrap text around a
table in Word?
You can find out answers to those questions and
more by signing up for the University of Kentucky Desktop Training
Services' Tip of the Week! You'll receive tricks and tips every
seven days via email.
Here's a couple examples of the tips:
- Switch Between Word (or Excel or PowerPoint) Documents
Normally, to switch from one document to the other, you would
choose Window and then select the next document to work on. But
the fast way to switch between Word (or Excel or PowerPoint)
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To subscribe to Desktop Training Services' Tip
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And while visiting Desktop Training Services, a division of UK
Information Systems Support Services, check out the computer
training resources and classes available at no charge to the
UK community (http://www.uky.edu/IS/Training).
We all use batteries every day in some form or fashion. Batteries,
large and small, serve many different functions at the University
of Kentucky - in pagers, cameras, two-way radios, medical equipment
and laptop computers.
| In the past, employees and students
were allowed to throw small batteries into the regular trash
when they went dead. In 1998, however, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency began regulating batteries as hazardous waste.
An exception to this rule is allowed for institutions that recycle
batteries rather than disposing of them. In order to comply with
the new regulations, UK now collects all batteries and recycles
them according to EPA procedures. |
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Veterans Day and events surrounding it this year mark a period
of extraordinary military presence at the University of Kentucky.
In a ceremony at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, retired
Air Force Brig. Gen. George Cole will address Air Force and Army
ROTC cadets. A graduate of the Air Force Academy, Cole will share
his experiences as a B-52 pilot and speak about the meaning of
military service and the significance of being an American and
serving one's country.
In his final sortie before retirement, Cole led
a group of B-52s in a flight commemorating the fourth anniversary
of the U.S. victory in Kuwait. During a non-stop around-the-world
flight, Cole dropped 451 bombs on an area containing Iraqi tanks
left over from the Gulf War.
"This was to demonstrate the capability
of the B-52 to go anywhere at any time," he said.
In Vietnam, Cole flew approximately 450 combat
sorties in AC-47 gunships armed with Gattling guns capable of
firing 6,000 rounds per minute.
"We could lay down a lot of lead,"
he said.
Demonstrating his diplomatic aplomb, Cole also
served as chief of the Air Force Senate Liaison and was in charge
of the U.S.-Panama Canal Treaty negotiations in the early 1970s.
Cole's daughter, Suzy Cole, is an Air Force ROTC
cadet at UK.
"UK has an excellent ROTC program,"
Cole said.
Joining Cole at the podium will be Rep. Earnest
Fletcher of Kentucky's 6th District. A graduate of UK's College
of Medicine, Fletcher was an Air Force pilot from 1974 until
1979.
The University community is invited to attend
the ceremony, which will take place on the parade field in front
of the Administration Building.
The appearances of Cole and Fletcher complement recent and future
visits to UK by the military's top brass.
In early October, retired U.S. Gen. Colin Powell,
who rose to popularity as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
during the Gulf War, spoke to a sold-out crowd at the Sanders-Brown
Center on Aging Foundation's fund-raising dinner. In his remarks,
Powell praised ROTC and explained the positive influence it had
on his life and military career.
On Friday, Nov. 19, Gen. Hugh Shelton, the nation's
current chairman of the Joint Chiefs, will hold a speaking engagement
at 2 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Center.
Marcia Radosevich, former president and chief executive officer
of HPR Inc., has donated $100,000 to establish the Ronald L.
Akers Endowed Professorship in Criminology and Deviance in the
University of Kentucky Department of Sociology. The gift will
be submitted for matching state funds from the Research Challenge
Trust Fund bringing the total donation to $200,000.
| Akers, director of the University
of Florida Center for Studies in Criminology and Law, received
his doctoral degree in 1966 from UK. He developed a theory of
criminal behavior known as the Akers Social Learning Theory,
a theory that one's social interactions - primarily with family
and friends and secondarily with schools, churches, neighbors
and other groups - are the major determinants of behavior. Akers, while a University of Iowa sociology professor and visiting fellow at the Boys Town Center for the Study of Youth Development, hired Radosevich in 1976 to help on a study of adolescent drug and alcohol use. Radosevich was an undergraduate at Iowa. |
 Doug
TattershallBenefactor Marcia Radosevich talked about the influence UK graduate Ronald Akers has had on her life and career, prompting her donation. |
UKadvance seeks candidates
UKadvance, the University's leadership development institute
for employees, is taking applications.
The institute helps staff members gain an in-depth
understanding of the University, its organizational culture and
its strategic goals and objectives. Participants explore personal
and professional growth opportunities and become part of a network
of professionals committed to the University's mission.
This year's institute will run March 13-24, 2000.
The deadline for applications is Jan. 14, 2000. For information,
call 257-9555 ext. 185 or visit www.uky.edu/FiscalAffairs/ HumanResources/UKadvance.
Children's artwork selected for annual holiday cards
Three patients at the University of Kentucky Children's Hospital
have created artwork selected for the 1999 limited edition holiday
cards being sold to benefit the hospital.
Drawings by Samantha Yates, 16, daughter of Carmella
Yates of Lexington; Bethany Anderson, 7, daughter of Richard
and Carol Anderson of Lexington; and Kelsi Brown, 9, daughter
of Edward and Jeanne Brown of Campbellsville, were selected for
this year's cards.
The cards will be available throughout the holiday
season at Kroger stores in Lexington, Versailles, Winchester
and Nicholasville and through the UK Children's Hospital Fund
Development office by calling 257-1121. The cards are sold in
packages of 15 for $4.99. Proceeds fund pediatric research, new
equipment and program enhancement.
'UK News Report' to air
The November edition of "UK News Report," the University's
30-minute, monthly newscast-style television program will air
at noon Nov. 20 on Kentucky Educational Television; 6:30 a.m.
Nov. 21 on WAVE-TV/Ch. 3, Louisville; Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. beginning Nov. 23 on UKTV-16; and 12:30
p.m. Nov. 28 on WTVQ-TV/Ch. 36, Lexington.
Arboretum gets spruced up for 1999-2000 holiday season
School groups will decorate the University of Kentucky Arboretum
for the holiday season Dec. 4. Students will use their creative
powers along with natural and recycled material to give Arboretum
spruce trees a holiday dressing during the "Environmental
Tree Extravaganza."
To learn more or to enroll a group to participate
in the event, contact the Arboretum office at 257-9339 or 257-6955.
UK student art displayed in Cincinnati's Base Gallery
Artworks by UK students will be on display at the Base Gallery,
located at 1311 Main St. in Cincinnati, through Nov. 21.
The exhibit features works by 12 art education
students, inspired by the artwork of children. Works are painted
with mops, drawn with pick-up sticks, sketched with flashlights
and relayed over phone lines.
For more information, call the gallery at 513-721-BASE
or UK professor George Szekely at 278-4824.
Professors look at community tobacco prevention options
UK professors Ellen Hahn and Mary Kay Rayens will evaluate local
community partnerships for tobacco prevention in Kentucky in
their study, "Community Partnerships in Tobacco Use Prevention
and Control."
The study is was funded through a $70,051 contract from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention via the Lexington-Fayette
County Health Department.
Workshop details review board regulations, review processes
A workshop titled "The Protection of Human Subjects Involved
in Research" or "Everything You Always Wanted to Know
about the Nonmedical IRB" is scheduled for 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday,
Nov. 18, in 231 Student Center.
This two-hour workshop is designed to provide
faculty, staff and student investigators and their research staffs
with basic information on Nonmedical Institutional Review Board
regulations and review processes.
Sponsored by the Office of Research Integrity, the workshop will
be conducted for individuals whose research is reviewed by the
Nonmedical IRB. The primary goal is to make the IRB review process
easier for investigators and their staffs.
To register, contact Lucindia Shouse in ORI at
257-3138 or lshouse@pop.uky.edu
or Norman Van Tubergen, chairperson of the Nonmedical IRB, at
huc129@ukcc.uky.edu.
Planning to begin for diversity fest
Plans for the 2000 University of Kentucky Cultural Diversity
Festival are under way.
The festival will be held Feb. 21 to March 4,
2000. Planned events are the "Taste of Our World,"
Feb. 23; the European Cafe, Feb. 21-25; a special concert and
a film festival.
For information or to suggest an event, call
Randy Gonzalez at 257-1911 or Rhonda Strouse at 257-8867.
Greek-inspired exhibit to open
On Nov. 14, the UK Art Museum will open an exhibition of paintings
and drawings by Louisville artist Henry Chodkowski.
His richly textured landscape, acrylic paintings
and graphite drawings, inspired by the Minoan labyrinth at Knossos,
Greece, are moody meditations on elemental forms that invoke
the modern and ancient landscapes of Greece.
"Henry Chodkowski: Mavros Labyrinthos Series"
will run through Feb. 27, 2000. The artist will give a slide
presentation of his work at 2 p.m. Nov. 14 at the museum with
a reception following. The museum is open noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday
through Sunday. For information, call 257-5716.
Rheinberger offers social theory lectures to UK on Nov.
8
The 1999 UK Distinguished Social Theory Author, Hans-Joerg Rheinberger,
director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
at Berlin, will offer two lectures at UK. Both are free and open
to the public.
At 3 p.m., Monday, Nov. 8, Rheinberger will present
"Historical and Epistemological Vistas on Scientific Practice."
At 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, he will present "Experimental
Systems as Units of Investigation: A Case from the Early History
of Molecular Biology." The two presentations will be held
in the President's Room of the Singletary Center for the Arts.
There also will be a reception for Rheinberger at 5:30 p.m. Nov.
9 at the Gaines Center for the Humanities.
For more information, contact Wolfgang Natter
at 257-1316 or Ted Schatzki at 257-5350.
UK professor leads team to pistol national championship
Team Ultradot, captained and coached by Peter P. Gillis, professor
of chemical and materials engineering, won the national team
championship during the 1999 National Pistol Matches at Camp
Perry in Ohio.
The national team championship is based on aggregate
score from the .22-caliber championship, the center fire championship
and the .45-caliber championship, each shot on successive days.
Over 100 teams, both military and civilian, compete annually
in these matches.
Team Ultradot was the first civilian team to
achieve this prestigious championship since the Georgia Sport
Shooting Association broke the barrier for the first time in
1971. Gillis also was a firing member of Team Ultradot as it
won all three guns at the Kentucky State Championship and at
the On To Perry Regional Pistol Championship, both held in Lexington.
