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7.    THREE COLLEGE NURSING PROGRAMS ACCREDITED

      The nursing program in three community colleges has recently
been accredited by a national association. Accreditation was
granted to Elizabethtown, Northern at Covington, and Lexington
Technical Institute, after visitations by nurse educators from the
National League for Nursing Board of Review for Associate Degree
programs. The educators made a joint accreditation visit with
members of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools last
November. The criteria for national accreditation are over and above
the requirements for legal recognition within a state and they are
established by the schools themselves, according to Miss Marie Pie-
karski, coordinator, Associate Degree Education in Nursing in the
Community College System. Approximately 400 students are enrolled
in seven associate degree nursing programs in the system. More than
160 students have graduated from the program since 1963, when it was
established by a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The nursing
curriculum is designed to provide a balance between general education
and nursing education, Miss Piekarski said. Various local clinical
facilities within commuting distance of the colleges are used for
nursing laboratories, including Ireland Army Hospital at Fort Knox.



8.    ROTARY CLUB CITES 10 HONOR STUDENTS

      The Lexington Rotary Club has honored 10 University students
and four from Transylvania. Each of the 14 students was presented
a $100 scholarship from the Lexington Rotary Club Scholarship Fund,
Inc. Six of the UK students and the four Transy students--all fresh-
men--have a four point standing. All were chosen for academic ex-
cellence. The UK recipients are in the Honors Program. They are
freshmen Robert Alan Poe, Brooksville; Gary John Chellman, Indiana,
Pa., a pre-dental major; Lynne Joanna Crawfort (cq), Lexington, psy-
chology, and Margaret Rose Stone, Jeffersontown, English. Sophomores:
George Thomas Dreckman, Louisville, physics, and Ward Richard Rice,
Florence, chemistry. Juniors: Jackie Glenn Dempsey, Adairville, pre-
med, and Ann Ayres Davis, Frankfort, philosophy. Seniors: Jess Brown
Scott, Guston (Meade county), electrical engineering, and Patricia
Ann Truesdell, Miamisburg, Ohio, political science. Transylvania
University students are: Grace I. Garner, Winchester; Jeffrey C. Gaunce,
Paris; Betsy C. McMillin, Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Clarence G. Vire,
Monticello.



9.   DR. GILLIS GETS FULBRIGHT TO NEW ZEALAND

      An associate professor of materials science has been awarded a
Fulbright Fellowship for research in New Zealand for a year beginning
next summer. He will study structural properties of wood, principally
commercial lumber. Dr. Peter Gillis, Department of Metallurgy, said
he will concentrate on the control of shrinkage and warping in lumber
during the drying process. Timber accounts for more than 10 per cent
of New Zealand's export trade. Another important potential application
of the results of Dr. Gillis' work would be the design of more effec-
tive polymers (plastics).