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Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas 78626 ISSN 0025-8709
Friday, January 15, 1982
Vol 75 No. 16
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ability to get Into position, especially on
the front line."
LSU coach Ruth Nelson called Bulla
"very competitive, very effective in the
front court,” and “one of the better hit-
mittee and also served as State
Democratic ‘Committee-woman. Her
husband is U.S. District Judge Joseph
Jefferson Fisher of the Eastern District
of Texas.
Ceremonies honoring the three in-
clude a reception in Mood-Bridwell Hall
at 11 a.m. and a luncheon In Bishops
Memorial Union.
1 Presenting the awards to Akin and
Clark will be Robert Rork, president of
Southwestern’s Alumni Association.
Mrs. Edward A. Clark will present the
Distinguished Alumna Award to Mrs.
Fisher.
Also taking part In the program will be
University President Roy Shilling,
Chaplain Farley Snell, with music by
faculty members Virginia Dupuy, Kenny
Sheppard, Gary Warmink and Ellsworth
Peterson.
I know — and her love of the game
supersedes injuries and anything she
has to put up with in practice,” says
Munt.---- —
Her coach noted that Vela responded
to pressure. “The tougher the competi-
tion, the more Important the game, the
better she plays.
“Another team cannot intimidate her. ‘
She always seems to be up, a very
positive player,” says Munt.
Other coaches were impressed with
(UNS) — Three Southwestern Univer-
sity volleyball players have been named
All American this week by the National
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Picked on the NAIA’s first team All
American squad were Southwestern co-
captains Jeanne Bulla and Alfie Vela,
while Robyn Hall made second team All
American.
Hall and Vela, both juniors, are ex-
pected back next season to anchor a
team that placed second nationally in
the NAIA this fall.
Bulla, a senior biology major, at-
tracted considerable attention on op-
posing teams’ scouting reports during *
the season.
“She’s exceptional, and could certain-
ly start for us," says coach Mick Haley,
who led his University of Texas team to
the national AIAW championship Satur-
day.
Haley called Bulla an “extremely fine
leader,” and noted her "great control of
spike reception — she’s an extremely
dominating player at the net.”
Haley also noted Bulla’s ability to
receive serves. “She passes the serve as
well as any big kid in the country,” he
said.
Rice coach Debbie Sokol called Bulla
“one of the most effective middle
blockers I've seen — she could star on
any of the Division One teams we’ve
played.” Sokol also cited Bulla's ability
in the back court and ability to pass free
balls, and called her "an outstanding
server.”
Linda Wells, coach at the University of
keeps things In perspective, and her
sense of humor helped keep us relaxed
in some tense situations. She is a hard
worker and very dedicated,” Munt said.
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Vela, on the other hand, was a highly
recruited player from Harlandale High
School, San Antonio, who has been liv-
ing up to expectations from her first
game as a freshman.
Vela overcame a number ofsinjuries in.
her junior year to make the All American,
team, including shin splints, a sprained
knee, a badly sprained thumb and a cut
that required several stitches on her
forearm.
"Alfie loves to play more than anyone
Several months ago The Brown Foun-
dation Invited us to submit some sug-
gested changes in The Brown Challenge
contract which would make It more ef-
fective In achieving the purposes for
which it was originally instituted. We du-
ly submitted a series of changes which
were considered by the Foundation,
after which we received a proposed revi-
sion of the original document which war
sent for our inspection. The majc
changes in the revised document wer
twofold. First, the time period for the
contract was extended from ten to twen-
ty years, and secondly, the incentive
awards were improved. We quickly in-
dicated our pleasure with the approved
as a new contract with us. Chairman A.
Frank Smith, Jr., signed the new docu-
ment, and we returned it to the Founda-
tion on Wednesday, December 16,1981.
Extension of The Brown Challenge
Program through 1995
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Minnesota, said that "Bulla-ieexcep-a- -.Munt aiso praised Bulla’s leadership,
tlonally quick for her size and has great "She has worked hard with our
freshmen. Jeanne is down-to-earth
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UNS — Three Texans noted In the
fields of law, the oil and banking In-
dustry, and civic leadership will receive I
Distinguished Alumni Awards at
Southwestern University on January 22.
Those to be honored by I
Southwestern’s Alumni Association In-
clude:
— Henry D. Akin, Dallas attorney, who
Iks considered a leading authority on
workmen’s compensation law. Akin lec-
tured and was adjunct professor at the
SMU School of Law for 32 years, has
written numerous Bar Journal articles,
revised the Texas Estates Manual and
was co-author of Texas Pattern Jury
Charges, Vol. 2. He graduated magna
cum laude from Southwestern In 1922.
— Lester Clark of Breckenridge,
chairman of the board of Petroleum Cor-
poration of Texas and active on a
number of other oil and gas Interests
and banks In Breckenridge and Fort
Worth. The 1935 SU graduate served on
the Texas Legislature from 1938-43
where he headed the Committee on Oil,
Gas and Mining and co-authored bills on
permanent conservation.
— Kathleen Clark Fisher of Beau-
mont, a leader In activities ranging from
historic preservation to state p;olitics
and from church work to gardening. She
was appointed by Gov. Allen Shivers to
the State Desegregation Advisory Com
THREE ALL AMERICANS — Southwestern University landed co-captains Jeanne
Bulla (right) and Alfie Vela (center) on the NAIA All Amercan first team, and
Robyn Hall (left) on the second team after the Pirate women swept to second place
in the nation in the recent NAIA tournament in West Virginia.
Vela’s quickness and leadership.
Rick’s Sokol said. “Vela's arm swing
is so quick it’s almost Impossible to tell
where she's going to hit it.
“She is extremely effective at the net
-end-can read blockers and defenses well
while going up to hit. The fact that she
can keep the ball in play from almost
anywhere on the court shows her
reflexes," Sokol said.
"Vela’s attitude on the court is super,
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Texas A&M’s Terry Condon called
Bulla “one of the best front row players
I’ve seen.”
And Susan Duke, whose Texas
Lutheran team placed second in the
AIAW Division II tournament, said, “I’ve
watched her (Bulla) develop over the
past four years, and she has increased
her ability and techniques each year and f
has achieved true Alb American status.
“She’s as fine a middle blocker and
hitter as I've seen. I’ve been impressed
that as a big player she plays so weel all
the way around.”
Bulla, a National Merit Scholar from
Houston’s Northbrook High School,
came to academically-oriented
Southwestern without fanfare after two
years of high school volleyball ex-
perience.
"Through desire, hard work and a
great deal of intelligence she has come *
from zero to 1,000 in ability in the last
four years, from very much a novice to a
level where she can try out for the Olym-
pic team," says her coach Giada
Her leaping ability best illustrates her
improvement. "She didn’t even jump,
just stretched, when she first came
here,” Munt said of her 6-ft. 1-inch
player. “Jeanne had improved her ver-
tical jump to 22 1/2 inches at the start of
this season and was hitting 25 inches by .
the end of the season — and that's way
up there." Her effectiveness is Increas-
ed because she has long arms, with the
reach of a person 6-3 in height, plus
quick reflexes.
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By Roy B. Shilling, Jr.
During the first six months of my ad-
ministration, I have had a number of
goals for the University and for myself.
They have been:
1. to familiarize myself with
Southwestern’s tradition, personnel,
and program;
2. to prepare a Master Plan for future
development;
3. to re-organize fund-raising and
public-relations programs to give us a
systematic, comprehensive, on-going
program of University Relations;
4. to set up a faculty enrichment pro-
gram to unleash the creative energies of
the faculty;
5. to invigorate the student admis-
sions program;
6. to achieve economics in operation
wherever they might be found;
7. to promote an overall standard of
high quality as the, measure for all
aspects of University operation; and
8. to raise the vision of the University
to become one of the premier institu-
tions of its kind In the nation.
These areas have seemed to me to be
the most critical In continuing the pro-
cess of University development which
has been in effect for many years and
which has Increasingly gained recogni-
tion for the University in Texas and
throughout the nation.
The most Important developments
which have occurred during the last few
months in line with these goals are the
extension of The Brown Challenge to
1995, the grant by the Cullen Foundation
of $1,000,000 for faculty enrichment and
development, and the initiation of a
Master Planning process for the Univer-
sity.
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Our new contract with The Brown
Foundation will carry The< Brown
Challenge program through December
31,1995. It is one of the most remarkable
instances of enlightened philanthropy in
the annals of American higher educa-
tion and will provide the basis for the
achievement by Southwestern of na-
tional maturity in the years ahead.
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