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Today is Friday, May 25, 2012 at 01:35 AM.




Linda H. Mantel resigns as dean of faculty

After four years as serving as the dean of the faculty, the college's chief academic officer, Linda H. Mantel is resigning from the post.

"Linda did yeoman's service in legitimizing the position of dean of the faculty," said President Steven Koblik. "She worked to develop the confidence of the faculty, the staff, and rest of the community and provided extremely important continuity to the ongoing evolution of the institution. She also showed great interest in supporting the faculty in their work."

The faculty expressed their appreciation of Mantel's service in the following resolution: "During her term of office she has tirelessly sought the well-being of the college and of the faculty through her active attention to opportunities for faculty teaching and research support, her creative administration of the dean's development fund and summer support fund, her efforts toward regularizing and improving searches, faculty travel, orientation, and access to and use of new technology, and her support for student research, travel, and equipment. Further, she has ably and energetically carried out her responsibilities of oversight in computing and information services, the library, the office of the registrar, the reactor, and the office of special programs. The faculty of Reed College hereby expresses its appreciation, regard, and affection to Linda Mantel."

Mantel is a graduate of Swarthmore; she earned her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Her many honors include an outstanding woman scientist award from the New York Association for Women in Science, listings in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in the East, and a faculty service award from the alumni association of City College.

Annual Fund gifts

Thanks to the generosity of Reed alumni, parents, and friends, the Annual Fund surpassed its goal by raising $1.84 million in fiscal year 1997, which ended June 30. The number of alumni donors to the Annual Fund increased by eight percent, raising the alumni percentage of participation to nearly 43 percent. Parents of Reed students and alumni gave $176,000, 39 percent more than last year, in gifts to the Parents Fund.

Alumni who have left Reed within the past nine years increased their contributions significantly in response to the Chairman's Challenge--a program established by campaign chair and trustee Walter Mintz '50 that matched two-for-one all new and increased gifts from reunion classes and young alums. Their support increased 65 percent from a year ago. Reunion class alumni contributed more than $75,500 in unrestricted gifts. The Chairman's Challenge ended up matching a total of $100,000 from the combined gifts of reunion classes and young alumni.

Gifts to the Annual Fund are an important source of unrestricted revenue for Reed and go directly to where the needs are greatest, including student financial aid, faculty salaries, and support for the academic program such as library and computer resources. Thanks to all of you who supported the Reed Annual Fund this year.

Achievements continued

Reed College has a remarkably successful history of producing alumni who go on to earn Ph.D.s and meet with other success in the sciences. Forty years ago Scientific American said, "This small college in Oregon has been far and away more productive of future scientists than any other institution in the U.S." This tradition continues unabated: this year two more Reed alumni (for a total of 13) were elected into the National Academy of Sciences.

Student receives Goldwater scholarship
Ellen Roberts, a junior biology major from Copake, New York, has been named a Barry N. Goldwater Scholar for the 1997-98 academic year. This prestigious, competitive scholarship is awarded to undergraduates who have outstanding potential and intend to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering. The scholarship covers expenses for tuition, books, room and board, and fees. The award was created by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, of Springfield, Virginia.
Roberts grew up in Camphill Village, a small intentional community on 600 acres of farm and forest land in rural New York. The people in the community live and work with mentally handicapped adults in a safe and respectable environment. Roberts wrote her application essay for the Goldwater scholarship on Camphill Village. She says it gave her the opportunity to experience the value of nature and to watch the cycles of life and death in a natural ecosystem. These experiences influenced Roberts to become a biology major. "Getting this award is an affirmation of my potential to do something to change the world and a challenge to me to stick with it and realize that potential," explained Roberts. After graduating from Reed, Roberts plans on pursuing the field of ecosystem studies.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation was authorized by the United States Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry M. Goldwater, who has served his country for 56 years as a soldier and a statesman. The purpose of the foundation is to provide the nation with a continuing source of highly qualified individuals in the fields of mathematics and science, as well as to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering.