An internal newsletter for faculty, staff and students
at The University of Texas at San Antonio
Vol. 5 No. 34 Oct. 24, 1977
news notes
College of Business appoints council
UTSA has named 18 San Antonio area
business leaders to the College of Business
Advisory Council.
Members include Jesse A. Baker, builder-developer; Col. Victor Ferrari, Vice
President and Executive Officer, United
Services Automobile Association; Lyman
Fink, consulting engineer; Katherine
Folbre, Vice President of Marketing Services, Texas Pharmacal Company; Gordon
George, partner-in-charge, Ernst and
Ernst of San Antonio, and Alex Halff,
President, Alamo Title Company.
Also named to the council were Marvin Kline, President, Rosow and Kline
Realtors; Quincy Lee, owner, Quincy Lee
Properties of San Antonio; Steve Lee,
Vice President, Quincy Lee Properties of
San Antonio; Byron LeFlore, President,
Bexar County National Bank; Harold
O'Kelley, President, Datapoint Corporation, and Charles Orsinger, President,
Charles Orsinger Buick Company.
Other advisory council members are
Jim Phelps, President, Tesoro Petroleum
Company; Gen. John W. Roberts, Air
Training Commander, Randolph Air
Force Base; Sue Schoolfield, brokerage
agent, Rotan Mosle, Inc.; Bob Seal, President, National Bank of Commerce; C.
Linden (Corky) Sledge, President, Frost
National Bank, and Jim Windlinger, managing partner. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell
and Company.
"This council will provide the UTSA
College of Business with an essential
linkage with the business community,"
Dr. Peter T. Flawn, President of UTSA,
observed.
ALL EMPLOYEES will receive a ballot with their paycheck this month. Purpose of the ballots will be to elect a
representative from UTSA to an Advisory
Committee of the Uniform Insurance
Program, newly created by the state
legislature.
All schools in the UT System will elect
a representative to provide a direct channel for suggestions and other input from
employees.
Ballots may be returned by dropping
them in campus mail or by returning
them to the person delivering the paycheck. They must be returned by the
Friday after the paycheck is received.
Dr. Lou Curry, Associate Professor of
Tax Accountancy, is chairperson of the
nominations and elections committee.
For more information about the election,
call Dr. Curry at 691-4321.
U.S. CONGRESSMAN BOB
KRUEGER will discuss his upcoming race
for the U.S. Senate at a meeting of the
UTSA Young Democrats Club Oct. 31.
The meeting begins at 2 p.m. in room
2.01.10 of the Humanities-Business Building. It is open to the public.
Krueger, who was elected to the House
of Representatives in 1974, plans to run
for the seat now held by Republican
Senator John Tower.
THE UTSA JAZZ ENSEMBLE will
perform in concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 31 in
the UT Health Science Center Auditorium.
The concert is free and open to the
public.
The ensemble will play Big Band tunes
by Bill Chase, Stan Kenton, Don Menza,
Charlie Parker, Thad Jones and Sammy
Nestico.
DAVID M. ROBB JR., chief curator
of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort
Worth, will speak on "Peter Paul Rubens
and the Duke of Buckingham," at 7:30
p.m. Oct. 26 in Chapman Graduate Center Auditorium, Trinity University.
UTSA's College of Humanities and
Social Sciences and the College of Fine
and Applied Art and Trinity will co-
sponsor the lecture, which is free and
open to the public.
GIFTED CHILDREN will be the topic
of a free workshop from 6:30 to 8:30
p.m. Oct. 25 at the UTSA Child Care
Resource Center, building 250 at HemisFair Plaza.
Dr. Paula Boothby, Assistant Professor
of Elementary Education, will conduct
the workshop. She will discuss some of
the signs parents and teachers should
watch for in identifying gifted children.
AN   ORGANIZATIONAL  MEETING
of UTSA's first scholastic honor society
for students will be Oct. 26 from noon to
2 p.m. in HB 2.01.08.
Named Archd Scholari, the society will
be open to freshmen, sophomores, juniors
and seniors.
Interested students who cannot attend
the meeting should contact Maria Pla
through the Dean of Students Office.
CONTINUING   EDUCATION   has 80
new parking spaces available at the San
Antonio Independent School District lot
on the corner of Alamo and Durango
streets.
Cars with a UTSA parking sticker are
allowed on the lot.
The lot is on the south side of Durango, behind the fire station.
questions to the president
The following questions were submitted to the Office of the President. Dr.
Peter T. Flawn's answers appear below.
December grads?
Since there are a large number of
students who graduate in December, what
is the possibility of UTSA having commencement in December for those graduates?
Planning, printing programs, and producing the commencement ceremony is
time-consuming and expensive. To ask
the faculty and staff to participate twice
a year would, in my judgement, diminish
the importance of the traditional annual
spring commencement.
Computer age
When will UTSA have the facilities
available for computerized registration?
Computer assistance is already being
used in the registration process at UTSA.
The Class Schedule, class cards, registration packets, on-line add/drop, course
verifications, class rosters and various
management reports are currently being
produced by the computer as part of the
registration process.
More extensive computer use is being
planned for continuous on-the-spot registration, student demand scheduling, and
registration by mail. Time schedules for
implementation of more extensive computerized processes are not yet developed.
Paving the way
Why isn't there a connecting road
between the south and north parking
lots? Traffic now must go completely
around the campus.
A temporary by-pass road was recently
constructed to connect the north and
south campuses. The road runs from the
southwest corner of lot 5 (the lot south
of the Convocation Center) to Walter
Brenan Ave. (just north of the Physical
Education Building.) Plans are to make
this a permanent road in a future phase of
site development work.
The ROADRUNNER is published each
Monday by the UTSA News and Information Office. Deadline for news is 10 a.m.
the Monday preceding each issue. Please
send information to Kay Simpson,
Editor, News and Information Office,
JPL 4.04.02 or call ext. 4550.