STEPPIN' OUT--The Adams Street Recreation Center Step Team performed at the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at the Medical Center. The celebration began with an invocation by the Medical Center's chief chaplain Gloria Fish. Also participating were Strong Memorial Hospital retiree Bessie Dowdell, who offered a hymn; peace advocate Denise Young; and poet Robert Ricks. The event was co-chaired by two hospital employees: mistress of ceremonies Zola Brown and Julie Choate. Brown also is with the Service Employees International Union, Local 1199, which sponsored the event.

January 25, 1999
Volume 27 Number 2

• Alumna gift to reward graduate teaching
• ESM installs assistive-listening system
• Simon, SON establish professorships
  Smith and Kirshling designated as recipients
• Camelot rides into the millennium with Lupack's conference on Arthurian legends
• Niemi co-authors civic education book
• Science details chemical engineers' work
• Fischer, ex-radiology-dept. chair, dies
• Tracking boosts child immunization rate
• Environmental compliance deadline met
• In Brief
• Calendar of Events
• Classifieds
• Jobs

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