The HSU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 5, Ed. 1, Saturday, April 3, 1982 Page: 2 of 4
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NEWS
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HSU Brand
April 3 1982
Board approves three-year HSU fund drive
Declaring "It Is time to buy up
the dream" Dr. Jesse C. Fletcher
president of Hardin-Slmmons
University announced In February
that the HSU Board of Trustees
has approved a three-year fund-
raising drive.
The overall base goal has been
set at $15 million and includes en-
dowment for faculty salaries stu-
dent scholarships professorships
academic chairs and building
maintenance. An art building Is the
only new building projected.
Fletcher compared HSU to a
long distance runner pointing out
that to many runners It is a worthy
goal to be good enough "Just to
qualify for the Boston Marathon-
Just to get to compete." That Is no
small feat in itself but he pointed
to the handful that enter the race
"not Just to compete to compete
and to finish but with a very real
33 honored in "Who's Who"
The 1982 edition of Who's Who
Among: Students In American
Universities and Colleges will
carry the names of 33 students
from Hardin-Simmons University.
The list was recently released
from the Who's Who national of-
fice in Tuscaloosa Alabama. Cam-
pus nominating committees and
editors of the annual directory
have included the names of these
students based on their academic
achievement service to the com-
munity leadership in extracurric-
ular activities and future potential.
Who's Who students from
Hardin-Simmons Include: Larry
Armentrout Sally Bundlck Mar-I
shall Crossnoe Curtis Flnley Pete
Ondeng Cathy Pittard Cynthia
Poulos Linda Redman Mark
Setser Rick Strange Tim Tre-
maine Patti Vanstory Beth
Dowdy Charles Downey Michelle
Dunn Jerry Joplin Shannon
O'Chester John Pita Mike Rich
ards Kim Vinson Tim Taylor
Russell Routon Darla Patton
Terry Zavala Annette Layman Lee
Ann Ammons Paul Gomez Vlcki
Lee Myra Oxford Debbie Proctor
Robin Baker and Terry Biggs.
chance of winning."
"Hardin-Simmons University
now has the opportunity and
please underline the word oppor-
tunityto move Into that higher
level" he explained. "We have the
chance to do more than provide
good solid education to our
students and to survive the
challenges of the 1980's we have
the chance if we are willing to pay
the price to become one of the
universities who run to win who
stand at the very top of their
chosen fields and provide the best
education available."
Fletcher pointed out that the
friends and alumni of HSU paid the
price earlier under the leadership
of Dr. Elwln Skiles In the Profile
for Progress to bring the University
to the point of being within reach
of the top levels of educational ex-
cellence. "Our financial picture is excep-
tionally healthy our physical
facilities in the best shape they
have ever been in our faculty more
qualified as a group our students
have the highest average on col-
lege entrance exams of any stu-
dent body HSU has ever enrolled"
he said. "We are competing and
we are doing very well. But I think
the time has come for us to make
the next leap and compete at the
very top."
Plans for utilizing the money to
be raised reflect Fletcher's
priorities. The focus will be on a
special endowment for faculty
salaries that will provide "a quan-
tum leap" In that area. "As far as I
know this has never been done
before but I don't see any reason it
can't be done" Fletcher explained.
The endowment will not be used to
underwrite present salaries but
will be put on top of the current
salaries.
"In the past three years we have
raised faculty salaries an average
of 50 percent and we have pro-
jected another 50 percent increase
over the next three years" he said.
"But this endowment would allow
us to hold the outstanding pro-
fessors we have and attract even
more."
Like the world-class marathoner
HSU and its supporters must
decide if the sacrifice and dedica-
tion necessary to move to the very
top Is worth the price. "The dream
is within reach" Fletcher is con-
vinced. "It Is up to us to buy it up."
Pulitzer Prize winning poet to present work
Louis Simpson noted Pulitzer
Prize winning poet distinguished
biographer and widely published
scholar will be at Hardin-Simmons
University Friday afternoon and
evening April 9.
Both sessions will be held in the
President's Room (210) of the HSU
Student center. At 2:30 p.m. Simp-
son will talk about writing poetry
and answer questions from the
audience. From 819 p.m. he will
read from his poetry. An informal
reception will follow the reading.
Everyone Is invited to both ses-
sions and there is no admission
charge.
Simpson was born in 1923 In
Kingston Jamaica and grew up in
the environs of Kingston where he
studied at Munro College a
preparatory school from 1933 to
1940.
In 1940 at the age of 17 Simp-
son emigrated to th$ United States
and entered Colurdbla University.
In 1943 he was inducted into the
U.S. Army serving with the 101st
Airborne Division in France
Holland Belgium and. Germany
until 194546. He.eamedjthe.rankof
sergeant and was' awarded two
Purple Hearts a Bronze Star with
oak leaf cluster and a Presidential'
Unit Citation.
After the war he returned to
Columbia University receiving his
B.S. degree in 1948 a M.A. in
1950 and the Ph.D. In comparative
literature In 1959.
From 1950 to 1955 he worked as
an editor for Bobbs-Merrill Publish-
ing Company and from 1955-1959
was an instructor In English at
Columbia U. while earning his
Ph.D. Simpson taught at the
University of California at Berkeley
from 1959-1967 and since 1967 has
been a professor of English and
comparative literature at the State
University of New York at Stony
Brook.
Among his books of poetry are:
Caviar At The Funeral 1980;
Searching For The Ox 1976;
Adventures Of The Letter I 1971;
Selected Poems 1965; At The End
Of The Open Road 1963; A Dream
of Governors 1959; Good News Of
Death and Other Poems 1955 and
The Arrivistes: Poems 1940-1949
1949.
Simpson's books of prose In-
clude: A Company Of Poets 1981;
A Revolution In Taste: Studies Of
The Works of W.H. Auden Dulan
Thomas Allen Qlngsberg Sylvia
Plath and Robert Lowell 1978;
Three On The Tower: Lives apd
Works Of Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot
and William Carlos Williams 17;
North Of Jamaica (autobiography)
1972; Riverside Drive (novel) 1962
and James Hogg: A Critical Study
1962.
As an editor Simpson has
published: An Introduction To
Poetry 1967 and with Robert Pack
and Donald Hall me new Poets
Of England and American 1957.
He has also published numer-
ous poems plays and articles in
such literary periodicals as:
American Poetry Review Hudson
Review Paris Review and Critical
Quarterly.
Among his many awards and
honors are: an American Academy
of Arts and Letters Rome Fellow-
ship (the Prix de Rome) (1957) a
Hudson Review Fellowship (1957)
an Edna St. Vincent Mlllay Memo-
rial Award (1960) Columbia Univer-
sity's distinguished alumni award
(1960) two Guggenheim Fellow-
ships (1962 1970) an American
Council for Learned Societies
Grant (1963) the Pulitzer Prize
Medal for Excellence (1965) and
the American Academy of Arts and
Letters award in literature (1976).
Waiting For The Ox will be avail-
able at the HSU Corner Bookstore
prior to April 9 and may also be
purchased at the afternoon ses-
sion and the evening reading.
Louis Simpson's reading is be-
ing funded by the Cullen Founda-
tion and The Texas Arts Commission.
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