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Title	Iowa Alumni Review Quarterly, vol. 50, 1997, The University of Iowa
Publisher	University of Iowa. Alumni Association
Date Original	1997
Contents	Iowa's Own: With a smile on her face and her sleeves rolled up. President Mary Sue Coleman is directing the UI toward its goal of becoming one of the ten best public research universities in the nation. -- Striking Accord: Even a nursery rhyme can take on a jazz cadence when a master performer comes to class. -- Community Health: For more than seven decades, Iowa's tuberculosis patients battled their disease at Oakdale Sanatorium, a medical facility and self-contained community near campus. -- Class of 2000: Early indications are that Iowa's freshman class is talented, directed, and preparing to go places. -- Elementary, Dr. Caplan: Already a respected dermatologist and medical administrator. Richard Caplan is now making his mark avocationally—through his passion for Sherlock Holmes. -- lowa Celebrates 150: Pride in the University of Iowa made the campus sparkle during a special week in February, when residents of Iowa City and beyond gathered to mark a milestone in university history. -- Natural Wonders: Ever since he was a kid on his parents' farm. Dennis Schlicht has been learning about the Midwest environment and working to protect everything from butterflies to prairies. -- An Orchestrated Life: Putting down his baton as conductor of the university's Symphony Orchestra this spring, James Dixon concludes a career of making' music. And. to think, he could have been a baker! -- Time Clock: Are UI professors doing their job educating undergraduates? In the midst of some legislative uproar about faculty accessibility, we followed three liberal arts professors for a week. -- Big Bird Faces 50: Hatched into the baby boom generation, Iowa's lovable mascot hasn't aged a bit. Despite a hectic schedule, this bird shows he can keep up with Hawkeye fans year after year. -- Life-Saving Stories: Charley Kempthorne, a graduate of the Writers' Workshop, has taken the coaching concept on the road, helping seniors write their memoirs and wringing out priceless stories from ordinary lives. -- Visionary Research Named a Howard Hughes medical investigator in 1997, Val Sheffield is a medical geneticist, one of the Iowa trio that recently identified the gene responsible for the most common form of glaucoma. -- Portrait of a Family: Jeanne Jordan, who began her career as a researcher for PBS in Johnston, Iowa, has earned acclaim for her documentary of the family farm on Troublesome Creek. -- Clear Skies: Iowa undergraduates will have a new telescope to run this year, thanks to physics and astronomy professor Robert Mutel and their own ingenuity. -- Simon Sings Iowa's Praises: The headline attraction for Hancher's Silver Anniversary Gala in 1997, Simon Estes had not experienced opera when he came to the UI 40 years ago. In September, the internationally recognized baritone reminisced about his Iowa beginnings. -- Schaeffer Hall: Originally designed to imitate the grand architecture of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Schaeffer Hall has been renovated with style. -- Secrets from the Home Front: Imagine UI engineers working under the cover of darkness to help the Allies win World War II. In those days, "apple orchard warmers" weren't intended to prevent frost damage and FIDO was not a dog. -- Water Names: In Samantha Chang's short story, three little girls learn that their Chinese family "runs together, like raindrops" across 1,000 years. -- Nursing Interventions: If nursing dean Melanie Dreher has her way, nurses will be recognized as the heroes they are, and North American health care will adapt to better serve people.
Topical Subject (LCTGM)	Universities & colleges Alumni & alumnae
Corporate Name Subject	University of Iowa
Geographic Subject	United States -- Iowa -- Iowa City
Chronological Subject	1990-2000
Type (DCMIType)	Still image Text
Type (AAT)	Serials (publications)
Type (IMT)	jpeg
Digital Collection	University of Iowa Alumni Publications
Subcollection	Iowa Alumni Review Quarterly
Contributing Institution	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Archival Collection	University Serials and Journals Collection
Collection Guide	http://lib.uiowa.edu/collguides/?RG01.0009.02
Collection Identifier	RG01.0009.02
Rights Management	Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information	Contact the University Archives at the University of Iowa: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/contact/index/
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