September 12, 1997: Volume 41, Number 1

President Hull Calls for 'Bridging' of Two Cultures

President Roger Hull urged members of the Union community to join together in elevating the College to "the next level of excellence."

Union is a college that teaches theory and practices its applications, he told the audience at the convocation to start the College's 203rd year on Monday. Examples include a sustained effort to foster study abroad that has made Union one of the top dozen colleges in America, broad support for undergraduate research and encouragement of community service by students.

The capstone effort, he said, "must be to bring liberal arts and technology together so that, in fact and not only word, all of our students will be broadly educated and technologically aware."

Noting the improvements to come with the addition of the F.W. Olin Center and an expanded Schaffer Library, the president said that Union is at "an ideal point where we can — at last — turn our attention to bridging the two cultures at Union and setting a national example and standard."

The convocation also saw:

o the investiture of Walter J. Hatke as the May Baker Professor of Fine Arts;

o the awarding of the Stillman Prize for Excellence in Teaching to Assistant Professor Ashraf M. Ghaly of the Civil Engineering Department (Ghaly announced he will use the funds to create a prize in civil engineering.);

o the honoring of 602 students whose grade point averages last year earned them Dean's List honors;

o the awarding of the Phi Beta Kappa award for excellence in General Education to Nikhil Sudan '00, and honorable mention to Sarah Shoemaker '00.

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