https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/71939ec502ee5ec433efd40eaf0e424b.pdf 794279da86bcaf83e5551eedf00e2979 PDF Text Text Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville A special edition dedicated to A Campus of Excellence �Th e Presidential Focus On Southern Illinois' University at Edwardsville Scholar In an attemp't to better the educational experiences for students of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, President Kenneth Shaw has initiated several new programs aimed at creating a 'campus of excellence.' Among these programs is the Presidential Scholars Program, which • would provide four-year scholarships to outstanding high school students who wish to attend SlUE. The program is scheduled to kick off this year. ( . This supplement to Focus magazine attempts to highlight SIUE,t~s a 'campus of excellence' through the students who are presently attending the university. Photobiographies of six outstanding SlUE students are included in this issue . Although these students are not Presidential Scholars, they are represe ntatives of the type of students the scholarship program will aid. This special supplement to Focus magazine was produced by six students of photojournalism: Nancy Behrns, Ron Hempe l, Chris Ochoa, Jim Roche, Pete Stehman and Mark Wakeford. These students produced the" photographs and wrote and edited the copy. They also designed and layed out most of the magazine. Focus is a pictorial quarterly magazine produced by journalism students at Southern Illinois University at' Edwardsville. Now in its seventh year, Focus is basically a laboratory publicat ion, produced from journalism courses in reporting, photography, editing and publication de~ign. . Focus provides pictoria l coverage of the campus as well as occasional in -depth or in vestigati ve reports. Focus is six times regiona l SOX "best college magazine." Once it has been named SOX "best in the nation." Tom Koertge ' • Mark Mueller �A campus of excellence. This has been the goal of SlUE President Kenneth Shaw since his arrival here not much more than a year ago. Since his arrival, Shaw has organized the Presidential Scholars Program, a scholarship fund, to attract students with outstanding skills to SlUE. Pictured below and in the photobiographies throughout this special edition of Focus magazine are some of the outstanding students who are presently attending SlUE. These are the students Shaw hopes to draw to SlUE. Robert Mitchell Melissa Curry Monica Sharp A lice Noble �:T om Koertg e Future Dentist Tom Koertge, 23, of Alton is a third-year seni or at the Alton Denta l School. He hopes to graduate in June and go on to spec ialty school to study periodont ics, which has to do with surgery of the gums. As a biology major he graduated from the Edwardsv i li e campus in 1975. Tom was one of three students from the Dental School named to the Who's Who For American Colleges and Universities this year. He also works part-time for Dr. Greg Stewart in research on dentures. When he isn't study in g or working, Tom enjoys playing volleyball, which he claims to play~our or five times a week. He even plays on his lunch hour ~th other students from the Dental School. �Above... Tom works on a patient at school. L eft. .. Tom watches television with his girlfriend, Linda Carlton. ��Alice Noble: Alestle editor It is a typical newsroom scene, wi th busy reporters rushing in and out. Ove r the din of the typew riters, there is the co nsta nt ringing of t he telephone. T he editorin-chief moves around the newsroom, checking on a story or cle~ring ~p a problem. , But th is is no ordinary newsro om. It is the headquarters of the Dail y Alestle, ca mpus newspaper for S I U E. T he repo rters, as we ll as t he edi tor-in-ch ief, are all stude nts . Alice No ble, ed itor-i n-chief of the Alestle, adm its t hat thi s can cause problems. Noble said , "Whe n you have students work in g for you and they have to go to class, sometimes they ca n' t get th in gs do ne. Then it falls back on my shoulders as ed ~ or." Nob le might've missed a class but she's never missed a deadline. The paper has always gone out. Noble was chosen as Alestle editor in Srring, 1977. She ran for the j ob because she didn't I ike the way the paper was being run at the time . Noble sa id, " I felt that it (the Alestle) had a lot of potential " Noble, a double major in j our nali sm and psychology, is a Dea n's Coll ege student. Ma intai ning her grade poi nt average, as we ll as hav in g the most de man d in g stude nt job on campus, keeps her goi ng, but she loves th e chall enge. Top photo -- Noble checks on a cartoon being drawn by Alestle cartoonist Phil Timper. Bottom photo -- Even when she 's relaxing, Nob le is never far away from the A lestle office. �Mark Mueller, a 21-year-old education major who grew up on a farm near Mascoutah, Ill., has a wide range of interests and he works equally hard at them all. ·, In the photos above, Mark is fulfilling a portion of his student teaching requirement by working with four and five-year-olds in the Early Childhood Development Center at Florissant Valley College . (Immediate right) In a small, converted bedroom at Tower Lake, illuminated by a bare bulb, Mark works out daily, lifting weights in . order to prepare himself for the track season when he throws bo.th the shot put and the discus for the SlUE team . Mark hopes to reach World Class status in the discus, which would help him qualify for the U.S. Domestic Olympic team. (Far right) After his eight hours at the child care center , three hours of 'throwing' in a gymnasium and one hour of weight lifting, Mark takes time to play his banjo and relax with his wife, Sue, in their apartment. • �Mark Mueller: ,; A student with ambition . �Monica Sharp Mapping a life in Geography �I NV OL V ED is t he one word which mi ght best desc ribe 2 1-year-o ld Mrs. Mo ni ca Oli szews k i Sh arp 's st ude nt life at Sou t hern I llin o is Uni ve rsity in Edwa rdsv il le. Th e long-h aired brunette, now a graduate student in geog raph y, has led a ve ry bu sy ex istence durin g her quick three yea rs as an undergraduate at Sl UE . Sh e has served as a st udent se nator, a stu dent wo rk er in t he Lovejoy Li brary and has been invo lved in va ri ous co mmi ttees, both at th e uni versity and at T ower Lake Apa rt ments where she fo rm er ly resided unt i l her rece nt marri age to David Sha rp. During t hat pe ri od of ti me, she also ' ' main ta in ed such a high grade po in t ave rage t hat s~h e ra nked as one of the to p t hree st udents in her major . Th at resulted in bei ng nominated fo r and w inni ng the L incol n Academic . A chievement A wa rd-a n award prese nted ann ual ly by the govenor o f Ill ino is to outsta nd in g col lege and university stude nts t hro ughout t he state-du rin g he r seni or y ear in 1976. M oni ca 's latest invo lve ment has been in t he med ica l f ield . She co m pl et ed f ive se meste r hours of emergency med ica l tech nic ian ( EMT) t raining dur ing t he sum mer of 1977 and is now a qual if ied EMT. _. She is current ly wo rkin g t owa rd her . . . maste rs degree tn geograph y and rs JUSt one of th e many su ch ta lent ed st ude nts on t hi s campus. ~ Far left, Monica Sharp works on a map over a light table in the new cartography lab. Above, she identifies and labels rock samples . Below, she listens to advice from her geography instructor, Dr. Noble Thompson, assistant professor of geography. ��Robert Mi tch ell Bob Mitchell knows that although he's spent more than nine years in college, he'll probably never be rich . · But that doesn't dampen his spirits as he works toward completion of his master's degree at Sl UE. He says the experience and enjoyment he gets out of working in archaeomin erology is enough of a reward. Mitchell, 26, hopes to get his double master's in earth science and environmen tal studies . 'T il f.inish "in June or August ... hopefully sooner, probab ly )ater ." Between now and then, Mitchell has plenty to do . When he's not in one of his two classes, he's probably working in ' · the S I U E Archaeological Laboratories. That is, when he's not serving as a teaching assistant to Charlotte Frisb ie of the anthropolo gy department . What's next after graduation? Mitchell isn't sure. Maybe he'll try for a Ph.D. "I really feel the type of work I want to do requires further background ," he said. Or maybe he'll just go out into the job market. He may teach at the university level or do research work. "I like to be versatile," he said . �Me lis sa Curry~ Invo lvem ent, in class and out, equa ls success Melissa Curry believes public contact and work outside of the classroom are as important to her education as the classwork itself. Vice president of the student body and the ca mpus Women for Women organizatio n are • just a few of the positions she holds. In class, Curry is working for a B.S. in Business Admin istrat ion with a double sp ~c iali zat ion in account ing and finance. In so doing she ca rries a grade point *' average of 4.6 . When she graduates this December, Curry plans to go to wo rk as a cert ified publi c accounta nt. �Melissa, (above}, with Greg Mudge, Budget Committee chairman, (upper left}, and with roommate Cyndi Stewart and their pup Moonshine (left). �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Focus Magazine: Issue 17 Excerpt Subject The topic of the resource Focus Magazine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1978