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June 2, 2000 Vol. 53, No. 1

Historic Home Tour begins at Drake Saturday

The annual Drake Historic Home Tour will start this year at Drake's Center for International Programs and Services. The tour will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 3, and Sunday, June 4.

In addition to the International Center, the tour will showcase restored houses, a bed-and-breakfast, an apartment and the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George. A trolley will provide transportation between sites.

Tickets are $7.50 in advance at the Alligator's Tale bookshop, 857 42nd St., and the Drake Diner, 1111 25th St. Tickets are $10 at the door.
For the second consecutive year, the tour is being held in conjunction with the Greek Food Fair on Sunday, June 4, at the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George, 35th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue.

Tickets for the food fair are $8.50 in advance or $9.50 at the door. A $1 discount is given to people who purchase tickets for both events. To order advance food fair tickets, call 277-0780.
Drake Neighborhood Farmers Market opens Wednesday

The Drake Neighborhood Farmers Market begins its fourth season with opening day on Wednesday, June 7, in the parking lot of First Christian Church at 25th Street and University Avenue. The market will run from 4 to 7 p.m. each Wednesday through Oct. 4.

Vendors at the market offer a variety of home-grown, home-baked and home-made items for sale. Vendors signed up so far include Kathy Cleghorn with produce, crafts, baked goods and plants; Heart of the Prairie with prepared and bakery goods; Sam's and Vanh's, egg rolls, pop, sno-cones; Michelle Phillips and Stephanie Petersen, produce, plants and flowers; Pappy's Popcorn; Yellow Rose Holiday Creations, crafts; Ho-Ho-Ho, crafts; B n B Woodcrafts; Andrew Lietzow, plants (hostas); K&M Gardens, produce, plants and flowers; and Neighborhood Housing Services of Des Moines.

Plans are under way to provide weekly entertainment throughout the season. The band Tropical Steel is scheduled to perform from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 7. Other acts slated to appear are Billy Joe's Karaoke Show; Miss Kitty's Free Country Dance Lessons, with the Mid-City Dance Co.; Hunter's Blues Connection; the Capitol City Buskers; the Norwalk Drill Team; country singers Melissa Lynn and Stephanie Carter; The Principal Ladies Singers and The Principal Guys Who Harmonize; Girl Scouts jump rope team; the Maori Performers; Trace Elements; Guitar Guys; and The Lap Dogs Band.

The market is a qualified participant in the Farmers Market Nutrition Program, which provides fresh produce to nutritionally at-risk women and infants who qualify for the WIC program.

Managed entirely by volunteers, the Drake Neighborhood Farmers Market is a joint project of the Drake Neighborhood Association, First Christian Church and Drake University. The University's nearby parking lots are open to the public during market hours.

Vendors or others who would like more information about the Drake Neighborhood Farmers Market should call First Christian Church at 255-2181.
New journal published

The first Drake Undergraduate Social Science Journal has been published on the Drake Web site at www.drake.edu/artsci/PolSci/ssjrnl/ssjournal.html. The journal features the best short essays and research papers written by Drake students in the social sciences.
Keep current on program review

To stay up to date with Drake's program review, visit this Web site:
www.drake.edu/artsci/drakeprogrev/
Four Levitt professors named

At the Spring Faculty/Staff Recognition, Interim Provost Stephen Hoag announced that the following faculty members have been named Ellis and Nelle Levitt distinguished professors:

Faculty gain promotions, tenure

The following faculty members have gained tenure and/or promotion through the peer review
process:
Bernadette Baker was promoted to associate professor of math.
Karen Conner was promoted to professor of sociology.
William Ehmann received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of environmental science.
Jack Gerlovich was promoted to professor of education.
Catherine Gillespie received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of education.
Teresa Koch was promoted to associate professor of librarianship.
Jennifer McCrickerd received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of philosophy.
Elizabeth Robertson was promoted to associate professor of English.
Karl Schaefer received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of librarianship.
Susan Smith was promoted to professor of education.
Grad students receive honors
for research papers

Two Drake graduate students' research papers have been accepted for presentation at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual meeting in Phoenix this August. They are:

The papers were written in Journalism 202, Communication Research Methods and Application, taught by Lee Jolliffe, associate professor of journalism and mass communication.

Drake mourns Gary Osborn

Gary OsbornGary J. Osborn, BN'68, GR'70, head women's track and cross country coach, died May 21 of a heart attack at his home in Truro. He was 56 and had been a Drake coach for 32 years. He also was an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education.

"The coaches, staff and track athletes at Drake were devastated by the sudden loss of our colleague and friend, Gary Osborn," said Jean Berger, co-interim athletic director. " 'Oz' will always be remembered for his quick wit, warm smile and his commitment to students. His contributions to Drake, to our department, the Drake Relays and to literally thousands of track athletes will never be forgotten."

Under Osborn's guidance Drake won consecutive Missouri Valley Conference cross country titles in 1994 and 1995 as well as 1998. Osborn was named the MVC Cross Country Coach of the Year in 1993, 1994 and 1995. In 1989 he was named the Gateway Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year.

Memorial contributions can be made to the Gary Osborn Scholarship Fund at Drake.

Mark your calendar

Drake's annual summer ice cream socials will be held in Olmsted Circle from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 14, July 12 and Aug. 9. Campus picnics will take place near Medbury Hall from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 22 and Aug. 2.

At right: Drake Real Estate Manager Larry Molenberg, left, presents a folding chair decorated with polka dots to Paul Johnson at his retirement reception. Molenberg dubbed the colorful piece
of furniture the "Paul Johnson Endowed Chair of Good Humor." Johnson, renowned for his wit, is retiring as Drake's assistant vice president for physical plant and auxiliary services
to become a consultant at the University of the Pacific in California.

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