| Foundation
Notes — College of Letters & Science |
| Linda
Karell, associate professor of English, can
now say that she had breakfast with the First
Lady in the White House. Karell was one of
approximately 150 guests from around the country
invited to an event, hosted by First Lady
Barbara Bush in September, saluting women
writers of the West. |
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of a White House series saluting America's
authors, the event focused on Willa Cather,
Edna Ferber and Laura Ingalls Wilder. |
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| Well-planned
and highly orchestrated, the symposium drew more than
an academic audience, Karell said. |
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were young people, old people, writers, independent scholars,
high school students, family members and representatives
from Hollywood," Karell said. "I think it was just an
opportunity to bring people together who might not otherwise
have come together." |
| Henrietta
Mann, who occupies the Endowed Chair in Native American
Studies, was one of the Council of Elders of the American
Indian Students in Science and Engineering (AISES) invited
to Cape Kennedy in November to watch John Herrington,
a member of the Endeavor space shuttle crew, become the
first Native American astronaut in space. |
| MSU
is well represented in the Smithsonian Institution's National
Museum of the American Indian's move from New York City
to its new facility under construction on the Mall in
Washington, D.C. George Horse Capture, '79 M, is
deputy assistant director for cultural resources at the
museum. Henrietta Mann and Wayne Stein, both faculty in
the Center for Native American Studies, and Elouise Cobell,
who received an honorary degree from MSU in May, are all
on the museum's board of directors. Mann was a special
guest at the museum's first Powwow on the Mall in Washington,
D.C. in September. |
| Phil
Kopriva, '57 Micro, who died in July, established
two endowments at MSU more than 10 years ago: the Kopriva
Graduate Seminar Program and the Kopriva Graduate Fellowship
Program. His continued support and growth of the endowments
over the intervening years has enabled the college to
provide unique and significant opportunities to its graduate
students. |
| The
College of Letters & Science is proud of its successful
efforts to attract more students to MSU this year. At
press time, there were 60 more new freshmen in the college
than a year ago. Faculty in Letters & Science went out
of their way to accommodate all of the new students in
their courses. We welcome the new students and we will
maintain our commitment to give them their very best opportunity
to achieve their goals. |
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