Drake dedicates pharmacy classroom, laboratory The new facilities were made possible by a $100,000 gift from Jay Langford, PH'44, a retired pharmacist who lives on a farm near Sheffield, Ill. “His role at Drake has been to look at the needs of the greater group," said Raylene Rospond, dean of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. "As such, he has provided us with a legacy. "These classrooms are pivotal for us," she added. "Every student in our curriculum will benefit from this gift. It’s not just a gift of space. It will impact each and every student and faculty member who comes through this door.” Drake President David Maxwell said, "These classrooms are a glimpse of what future learning spaces at Drake will look like. Jay, we thank you for your commitment and generosity.” Langford reminisced about his years at Drake and revealed that he once got caught with a beer and was nearly expelled. "I was on probation for a year," he said, "for one beer! You can see how things have changed!" Langford also said, "I’m thankful for the education I received at Drake, and I’m thankful I can share my good fortune and appreciation by supporting Drake. The profession of pharmacy has been good to me through the years, allowing me to support my family and help others in need. To you students, I say, upon graduation you’ll find employment that will provide a good income. Share it and invest it well." Langford then summed up his philosophy with this quote: "Plan today like you’re going to live forever. Live today like you’re going to die tomorrow.” At the recent dedication of the time element, faculty, staff, students and alumni gathered at the southeast corner of Meredith Hall to honor Larry Katzen, BN'67, and Susan Nieder Katzen, ED'68. Their leadership and generosity made the $110,000 project possible as did contributions from other partners of Arthur Andersen who attended Drake University. Larry Katzen, a former member of Drake's Board of Trustees, is a former managing partner of the St. Louis office of Arthur Andersen. Drake President David Maxwell said the Arthur Andersen Time Element "is a wonderful capstone to the project to renovate Helmick Commons.” He also praised the Katzens for their continuing support of Drake. “They have been a wonderful example of Drake alumni, and have always been willing to host alumni events at a moments notice,” he said. “Larry and Susan wanted to enrich our lives in a meaningful way, and they have surpassed that.” Student Body President Drew Gulley also spoke at the dedication. He described his initial experience with the time element. “The first night the time element was on, I came by to see how students would react," he said. “Many of them would slow down and look up at the color of the screen and smile.” Gulley added that the Arthur Andersen Time Element is a welcome addition to the University. "This is easily one of the most heavily traveled intersections on campus," he added. "The confluence of paths at this point bisects the University, east to west. This time element manages to connect the academic and administrative sections in the east to the student residence halls and hang-out areas in the west. These piers are both a focal point and a gateway. "Larry and Susan’s dedication to Drake is an inspiration to the student body. The Arthur Andersen Time Element is a testament to the years of support for this campus, love for Larry’s company, Arthur Andersen, and a desire to give back. As students, we can benefit from and be inspired by Larry and Susan’s gift. This time element truly makes a student turn Bulldog Blue!" During the ceremony Larry Katzen recounted his first days at Drake. "I came to Drake 41 years ago and my first stop was at Jewett, where I lived for the first year," he added. "Going to class and getting around campus was easy, but even then it was still a struggle to get to class on time. Hopefully we made it a little easier.” Last Thursday the Iowa chapter of the American Institute of Architects announced the Top 50 Iowa Buildings, which included two structures on the Drake campus: Sgt. Mark Risvold was training Melissa Wright on her second day on the job as a Drake security officer on Wednesday, Oct. 13, when he heard a report of a bank robbery at 2401 University Ave. on the police scanner. After listening to Des Moines police describe the suspect, Risvold said, "Let's go!" He and Wright hurried to a Drake security car and began searching the area for an African American male who was missing his front bottom teeth and wearing a red T-shirt, dark pants and jacket. Almost immediately they spotted an African American man wearing a red T-shirt and dark pants in the 1400 block of 25th Street. Risvold radioed Dennis Smith at the Campus Security dispatch desk and asked him to find out whether the robber had displayed a weapon during the robbery. After Smith informed him that the police said no weapon had been shown, Risvold approached the suspect and asked him how he was doing. "The guy said, 'Fine,' and I could tell he didn't have his bottom teeth," Risvold said. "That's him," Wright said, as Risvold left her in the car and went after the suspect. "At 25th and Clark, I asked him to stop and get on the ground," Risvold said. "He refused and started running toward the Tennis Center. "I ran after him and as we got to the wooded area north and west of the Tennis Center, I grabbed him by the shoulder and we tumbled 30 to 40 feet down the ravine and into the creek. After we landed, he got up and started walking at a fast pace while I grabbed my radio and tried to call in my position, but the radio wouldn't work because it got wet in the creek." Ryan Grams, another Campus Security officer, arrived at the ravine in time to see Risvold and the suspect tumble down the hill. Des Moines police arrived shortly after that and Grams directed them to the suspect's location. Des Moines police officers apprehended the man and arrested him, then recovered cash scattered in and around the creek. Risvold, 38, received a few cuts and scrapes and lost his watch while tumbling down the ravine. "This is the first time I've caught a bank robber in my 14 years with Campus Security," he said. "If we hadn't tracked him down, he probably would have gotten away before the police arrived. We did our job. It was great teamwork. Everybody came together as a team, which I love to see on my shifts." A forum on the proposed Des Moines/Polk County merger will be held from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, in Sheslow Auditorium. The forum, which is free and open to the public, offers the opportunity to hear the pros and cons of the merger proposal. Paul Anger, editor of The Des Moines Register, will moderate the discussion. The featured speakers will be merger advocates Doug Reichardt and Rick Neumann and merger opponents Bonnie Campbell and Larry Pope, professor of law at Drake. The forum is sponsored by the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Soros fled the communist country for England in 1947, where he later graduated from the London School of Economics. He emigrated to the United States in 1956 and founded an international investment fund that made him a Soros has established a network of philanthropic organizations active in more than 50 countries. His Open Society Institute and other networks have spent $450 million annually to promote the values of democracy and bring about social, legal and economic change. Soros is the author of eight books, including "The Bubble of American Supremacy: The Costs of Bush’s War in Iraq." His articles and essays on politics, society and economics regularly appear in major newspapers and magazines around the world. Three "un" movies (described below) will be shown at Drake this Thursday (Oct. 21), Saturday (Oct. 23) and Sunday (Oct. 24). The "un" movies are: "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" (57 minutes) — A documentary film about the disenfranchisement of mostly black voters in the 2000 Florida election. "Uncovered: The War on Iraq" — (57 minutes) — A documentary film about the Bush Administration's decision to go to war in Iraq. "Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties" (69 minutes) — A documentary film about the Patriot Act. All films will be shown in Bulldog Theater in Olmsted Center. Admission is free. Show times are as listed in the On Campus calendar highlights. For more information, contact Cathy Lesser Mansfield, professor of law, at x2076. The 10th annual Drake Community Halloween Hoops Shoot Out will start at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, in Drake University's Bell Center. The festivities will include four basketball competitions as well as pizza, pop, candy, face painting and awards. The event is open to Drake Neighborhood residents and Drake students, faculty and staff. Law professor Russ Lovell and Drake basketball legend Dolph Pulliam, director of community outreach and development, will host the shoot out, which is co-sponsored by the Law School Student Bar Association, Delta Theta Phi and the Des Moines branch of the NAACP. Drake students will debate two members of the British National Debate Team, Rob Marrs and Nye Brewer, on the topic "Debt Relief in the Developing World" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, in Bulldog Theater. The debate will be held according to the rules of international parliamentary debate, which invites interaction, occasional interruption and witty heckling. The debate will provide students with an understanding of the complexities of Drop the Debt campaigns and help them to recognize the relationship between northern hemisphere creditor and southern hemisphere debtor nations. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of the Study of Culture and Society and the Schreck Endowment. Harry Boyte, founding director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Minnesota, will discuss "Everyday Politics in Higher Education" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, in Bulldog Theater. Boyte also is a senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute and a graduate faculty member of the College of Liberal Arts. From 1993-95 he served as national coordinator of The New Citizenship, a broad, nonpartisan coalition of civic and educational groups which worked, in association with the White House Domestic Policy Council, to analyze the gap between government and citizens. For the last 10 years, Boyte has directed action research projects at the Humphrey Institute aimed at developing practical theory on "what works" to re-engage citizens with public life. In this role, he has overseen development of the center's public work framework for civic engagement. Public work stresses the productive, creative qualities of politics and democratic citizenship. It focuses on solving public problems, creating and sustaining public wealth, and realizing the civic mission of public institutions including higher education. This approach is widely recognized as a distinctive and powerful approach. Boyte is author of a forthcoming book titled "Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Drake is the only Iowa stop on his book tour. His appearance at Drake is sponsored by the Drake Center for Humanities, the Center for Global Citizenship, and the Department for the Study of Culture and Society. Drake Theatre will present Cynthia Heimel's sassy comic venture into the romantic and sexual escapades of the urban female at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28; Friday, Oct. 29; and Saturday, Oct. 30; and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, in Studio 55 of the Harmon Fine Arts Center. This play contains adult language and is intended for mature audiences. Admission is free with reservations. For reservations, call the Drake Fine Arts Box Office at x3841. Mike Lewis, trombone, will give a guest recital at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium. Tenor Tony Humrichouser, visiting professor of musical theatre at Drake, will perform an evening of musical theatre at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium. The program will include material written by Richard Rodgers, Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Schwartz and many others. The recital also will feature original material written by many up-and-coming musical theatre composers. Duane Funderburk, piano, will perform at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. Funderburk will be joined by soprano Jane Thorngren and violinist Alex Russell. The program includes works by Gounod, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Grieg, Foss, Grainger, Bernstein, Rogers & Hammerstein and Gershwin. Funderburk is a pianist, composer and arranger as well as the dean of the School of Music at Azusa Pacific University and artist-in-residence at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, Calif. The Drake Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Canarina, will open its season with a varied program at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium. The featured soloist will be Drake faculty member Andrea Classen, who will be heard in the "Trumpet Concerto" by French composer Henri Tomasi. The orchestra also will perform the "Antar Symphony" by Rimsky-Korsakov as well as Beethoven's "Prometheus Overture" and two excerpts from Wagner's "Die Meistersinger." In a bow to the Halloween season, the orchestra will present Saint Saens' popular "Danse Macabre." All of these recitals and concerts are free and open to the public. Tickets for Drake's annual Christmas Madrigal Dinners, featuring the Drake Chamber Choir, will go on sale at noon on Monday, Nov. 1, at the Drake Fine Arts Box Office. The tickets, which are $40 per person, often sell out in 24 hours. To reserve tickets, call the Drake Fine Arts Box Office at x3841 or visit the box office in the lobby of the Harmon Fine Arts Center. This year's dinners will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, and Sunday, Dec. 5, in Parents Hall at Olmsted Center. The title of the lecture, which is free and open to the public, refers to a statement by former Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren who said, "In civilized society, law floats on a sea of ethics." Allen’s lecture will candidly explore the 21st century American ethics scene. She will address what it means for society in general, and for lawyers and judges in particular, to see so many social sectors permeated by ethical failures, to experience value uncertainty brought on by change, and to witness an undercommitment to justice. Drawing on her new book, "The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape," Allen will explain the difficulty of adhering to ethical and moral standards but suggest that the fate of the Titanic need not be the fate of our democracy. Allen's book has drawn praise from leading scholars such as Cornell West of Princeton University, who said, "This is a fascinating and illuminating book." Allen is a graduate of New College and has served on its board of trustees. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan and later earned her law degree from Harvard University. For more than a decade, Allen was a member of the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as associate dean. She also was the first black woman to teach philosophy at Carnegie-Mellon and the first black woman on the University of Pittsburgh law faculty. She has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, Villanova Law School and Harvard Law School. Allen has been an ethics consultant for industry and government. She also is a nationally known expert on the law and ethics of privacy. She is the author of "Why Privacy Isn’t Everything," "Privacy Law" (with R. Turkington), and "Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society." In addition to her books, Allen has published more than 70 articles. Representatives of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, Drake's campus planners, were on campus last week, meeting with the academic deans, the Buildings and Grounds Committee of the Board of Trustees, student groups, staff and faculty, as well as members of the Des Moines business community, the Drake neighborhood and city leaders. ZGF is gathering information regarding Drake's priorities for the future and learning how those relate to its physical environment.† Those who did not attend one of the Campus Master Plan town meetings last week still have an opportunity to offer comments regarding the Drake campus of the future by e-mailing their ideas to dmiles@zgf.com before Sunday, Oct. 31. "I encourage all faculty and staff to take advantage of this opportunity," said Vicky Payseur, vice president for business and finance. "The ZFG representatives will be back on campus to share their findings and receive feedback at future town meetings. It is important for the entire campus to be involved in this process, so please participate." Beisser was cited for co-chairing a state conference, serving a decade on the ITAG state board of directors and presenting at state, national and international conferences. She also was lauded for initiating the ITAG Newsletter "Teacher Feature," developing the first ITAG association Web site, offering Drake credit for the ITAG conference and developing the "Give your Writing Wings" program for young gifted writers in the Des Moines area. She has been a teacher of talented and gifted children in both the Ames and West Des Moines public school systems. In addition, she has contributed to gifted education in educational programs at Drake and at Iowa State University. Brown, a native of New Iberia, La., is one of the most decorated athletes in school history with six track and field all-American awards (three indoor and three outdoor) from 1987-90. He was a two-time national high jump champion, winning the 1989 USA Outdoor crown with a leap of 7 feet, 71/4 inches, then taking the 1990 NCAA Indoor title with a record 7-8 mark. Brown finished fifth in the 1992 USA Olympic Trials and was seventh in the 1996 Trials. Brown was also a member of the 1997 USA World Indoor and Outdoor Championship team and ranked as high as ninth in the world in 1998 when he finished third at the Goodwill Games and seventh in the World Grand Prix Final. Brown is a candidate to receive a doctoral degree from the University of Missouri All faculty and staff are welcome to attend the annual town meeting on the status of Drake's budget on Thursday, Oct. 28, in Bulldog Theater. There will be two sessions that day — one from 10 to 11 a.m. and another from 3 to 4 p.m. During the meeting, Vicky Payseur, vice president for business and finance, will share the results of the fiscal year 2004 budget, present the status of the five-year budget plan, provide a brief update on the current (fiscal year 2005) budget and offer some initial thoughts on the direction of budgeting at Drake. There will be time allowed for questions at the end of each presentation. Julieanna Richardson, a public historian, Harvard-trained lawyer and video producer, will discuss "'The HistoryMakers' — Oral History, Public History and New Technology" on Wednesday, Nov. 3, at Drake University. The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in the Reading Room of Cowles Library. The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of Live! At The Drake Library, The Cowles Library Series. In 1999 Richardson founded "The HistoryMakers," a video oral history archive dedicated to collecting and preserving African American history. Since then the project has grown into the largest archival project of its kind with a collection of 5,000 first-person narratives of African American "HistoryMakers." The purpose of the project is to educate and show the breadth and depth of this important aspect of American history; to highlight the accomplishments of individual African Americans across a variety of disciplines; to showcase those who have played a role in African American-led movements and/or organizations; and to preserve this material for years and generations to come. "The HistoryMakers" is committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to the internationally recognized archival collection. Before founding "The HistoryMakers," Richardson worked in theatre, television production and cable television. She combined her various work experiences and her passion for history to conceptualize, found and build "The HistoryMakers." For more information about Richardson's lecture, call (515) 271-3994 or send an e-mail message to William T. Kerr, chairman and CEO of Meredith Corp., will speak at Drake at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, in Sheslow Auditorium. His speech is titled "Meredith Corporation: The Keys to Our Success." The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Iowa chapter of Financial Executives International and Drake University's School of Accounting. Kerr is a leading figure in the magazine and media industry. He joined Meredith Corp. in 1994 and assumed the CEO title in 1997 and the chairmanship in 1998. He previously served as president of the Meredith Magazine Group, and as executive vice president and president of Meredith Corp. Prior to coming to Meredith, Kerr was a vice president of the New York Times Co. and president of its magazine group. He also has held leading positions on Wall Street (Dillon, Read & Co.) and in management consulting (McKinsey & Co.). Kerr is a native of Seattle and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington. In addition, he earned a degree in modern history as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and an MBA degree from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. "William Kerr's background and position gives us an unusual chance to understand the workings of one of Des Moines' leading businesses — Meredith Corp. — as well as the magazine and media industry," said Harry Wolk, professor emeritus of accounting at Drake. |
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