Summer in Review


by Linda Charles

Those lazy, hazy days of summer are almost over, with fall 
semester classes beginning Monday. For those who were not 
around for all or part of the summer, here's an update.


BACK TO THE CLASSROOM
Robert M. Anderson left his position as vice provost for 
extension to return to his "first love," teaching. Anderson 
is a professor in the electrical and computer engineering 
department.


LAUNDERING LAVERNE
Workers vacuumed 36 years of dirt off the bottom of Lake 
LaVerne in a restoration project that also included 
installing a well and constructing an island for swan 
nesting. Some additional landscaping will be done around the 
lake, which will be deeper and cleaner when the project is 
finished.


CLOUDY DAYS 
ISU's solar car finished 19th out of 38 cars in the Sunrayce, 
the 1,200-mile race from Indianapolis to Denver, after 
receiving a time penalty for not crossing the finish line. 
The solar car was just 30 miles from the line when a rear 
tire blew, sending it into a guard rail. Driver Maury 
Anderson suffered a broken leg in the accident, while the car 
was a total loss. Solar car team members vow they'll be back 
in the solar pack for the next Sunrayce in 1997, and the car 
was repaired enough to be shown at the state fair.


REMEMBERED
University employees established an annual award in memory of 
Carroll Ringgenberg, who worked at ISU, mostly in the 
department of facilities and management, from 1952 to 1992. 
He died in 1993. The award will go to a professional and 
scientific staff person who "exhibits constant and contagious 
dedication and goodwill for Iowa State University."


ATANASOFF DIES
John Vincent Atanasoff, the father of the electronic digital 
computer, died June 15 after an extended illness. As a 
faculty member of Iowa State College in the 1930s, Atanasoff 
and engineering graduate student Clifford Berry invented the 
Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the first machine to use electronic 
switches (vacuum tubes) to perform on-off functions to 
represent information and do arithmetic.


MERGING PROGRAMS
The personnel, child care, P&S classification and employee 
assistance programs were merged into a new Office of Human 
Resource Services. The reorganization is expected to 
strengthen training and professional development of staff, 
labor relations, employee benefit programs, staff advising 
and counseling.


ON BOARD
Former Creighton University head coach Cathy Klein was named 
ISU's first women's head soccer coach in June. That same 
month, Bill Fennelly, former head coach at the University of 
Toledo, was named ISU's sixth women's basketball coach. He 
replaces Theresa Becker, who resigned in May after three 
seasons at ISU.


THE BIG PICTURE
Plans were announced for all 6,000 faculty and staff to 
gather in November to discuss trends in higher ed, what those 
trends mean for Iowa State, and how the university can better 
serve its students. Termed "Succeeding with Students," it 
will be the most ambitious employee learning program ever at 
the university. Root Learning, a Perrysburg, Ohio, firm that 
produces interactive learning products for businesses, is 
assisting Iowa State in the project. 


GREEN THUMBS
Despite hot and humid weather, volunteers were up to the 
task, planting and watering hundreds of flowers at the new 
Rieman Gardens. The formal dedication of the gardens will be 
in September.


THE CHOSEN FEW
ISU standouts Loren Meyer and Fred Hoiberg were among the 58 
ballplayers chosen in the National Basketball Association 
draft June 28. 


NO AUTOGRAPHS, PLEASE
Iowa State locations, including the WOI-TV studio and a 
grain/machine storage warehouse at a farm northwest of 
Slater, will be featured in the new film Twister. However, 
few movie patrons are likely to recognize ISU. The studio was 
transformed to look like one in Oklahoma and the warehouse 
was cast as the National Severe Storms Center.


DRESSED FOR SUCCESS
The Cyclone football team's new uniforms were unveiled this 
summer. 

This season, fans will see a lot of red and white, and a bit 
of gold and navy blue. The new uniform includes a darker red 
jersey and helmet, white pants and the new Cyclone logo


A LITTLE PAINT 
The soffits at C.Y. Stephens, Fisher Theater and the Scheman 
Building are receiving some attention, as workers from Wasche 
Interiors, a Minneapolis-based company with a Des Moines 
office, apply a primer coat and two coats of paint to the 
cedar underside sections of the roof overhangs. The 
approximate cost of the project is $276,000.

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contact:  Linda Charles, Internal Communications, (515) 294-
3129
updated:  8-17-95