JUNK 17, 1982
Interest in students
crucial, says Crumley
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BY MARLENE BUR BACH
To be a .successful teacher, an interest in
the students and their goals is most basic,
said Prof. Wilma Crumley.
Mrs. Crumley received the Nebraska
Foundation Award, one of the University of
Nebraska distinguished teaching awards, for
the 1081-82 academic year.
Mrs. Crumley is from Fremont. She
started in journalism as the advertising man
ager of her Fremont high school paper, the
"Rustler."
"I very much enjoyed my experience on
this paper and after I graduated from high
school I got a job on the Guide and Tribune, a
Fremont paper," said Mrs. Crumley.
That fall she attended Midland College and
worked for the college paper. After college,
she worked on other papers for the next
seven or eight years.
After her husband died unexpectedly, Mrs.
Crumley decided to go to graduate school at
the University of Missouri.
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Music library opens
BY MEILING LIU
On Aug. 29, the Bennett Martin Public Li
brary will provide a new service for Lincoln
residents. A 1,346-square-foot area on the li
brary's second floor will be turned into the
Polley Music Library.
The music library is the gift of Lillian
Helms Polley, who died in 1978 at 96. She left
her estate to finance the music library. Her
gift includes money to furnish the room, pay
staff and collect materials.
This year's budget for providing the serv
ice is $135,000. After this year, the bequest will
provide $55,000 a year. All money comes from
the earnings of Mrs. Polley's estate; no tax
money is involved in the project, said Linda
Hillegass, assistant director of the Lincoln
City Libraries.
When Mrs. Polley was alive, she donated
$10,000 for remodeling the music reference li
brary and gave several thousand pieces of
sheet music and manuscripts to the library.
The music collections range from the classics
to the most obscure works of Lincoln and Ne
braska composers.
3,000 pieces of music
A music advisory board, representatives
from the music departments of the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Wesleyan
University, Union College, Concordia College
(Seward) and Doane College (Crete), is in
charge of Mrs. Polley's trust. The advisory
board is also responsible for hiring a consult
ant, and approving programs for the music li
brary. The consultant, Kurtz Myers, former
music librarian at the Detroit, Denver and
Buffalo public libraries, has studied Lincol
nites' interests and tastes as a guide to what
music to purchase, Ms. Hillegass said.
By this summer the library will have a col
lection of 3,000 pieces of sheet music, 500
books, subscriptions to 36 magazines and
several thousand donated scores and books.
Ms. Hillegass said.
In five years spent at the University of
Missouri, she obtained her masters degree
and her PhD. She taught at Stevens College in
Missouri. She was a teaching assistant, a sum
mer instructor and a research assistant at the
University of Missouri.
"All of that gave me a good start."
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1004
asked her to look at its program.
"I've always said that one shouldn't be se
lective in job hunting according to geogra
phy," said Mrs. Crumley, "so I did not take
into account that it was close to home."
Mrs. Crumley said that UN-L had the
greatest potential of any job offer she had re
ceived and in the fall of 1065 she became an
assistant professor at UN-L.
Now Mrs. Crumley is the associate dean
and chair of graduate studies at the School of
Journalism at UN-L. She is a professor at the
school and directs the Martha II. and Gilbert
M. Hitchcock Center for Graduate Education
and Professional Development. Mrs. Crumley
is also the chair of the University Admission
and Advisory Board at UN-L.
"I was both pleased and surprised that I
received the award," Mrs. Crumley said.
"At the time I thought it was a waste of
time, because it was the only (distinguished
teaching) award that I was eligible for."
The distinguished teaching awards are
based on teaching rather than the research of
the recipient, said Dr. Lynn Mortensen, a fac
ulty instructor consultant at the Teaching and
Learning Center.
Nominations for these awards are
provided by alumni, colleagues, students and
administrators.
Final consideration of nominations and se
lection of the recipients is by a subcommittee
of the Teaching Council. This subcommittee
makes recommendations to interim aca
demic Vice Chancellor John Strong.
Other teaching awards given to teachers
were the Sorensen Award to Prof. Gene
Hardy and two Amoco awards, one to Prof.
Sang Lee and the other one to Prof.John De
muth. Fifteen Nebraska Legislative awards
also were presented. These teachers will re
ceive $1000 awards and medallions.
The collections, worth more than $44,000,
range from operas and classical piano music
to bluegrass, jazz and ukulele instruction
books, she said. The oldest collection,
"Tramp-Tramp-Tramp," dates back to 1864,
said Carolyn Dow, chief music librarian.
"This is unique for a small city like Lincoln
to have a music library, in comparison with
other big cities like San Francisco, Chicago
and Washington, D.C.," Ms. Dow said. Lincoln
could not have supported a music library be
cause it would have been too expensive, she
said.
Ms. Dow has degrees in music from St.
Olaf College, Minn., and a library science de
gree from San Jose State University, in Cali
fornia. She has been a music librarian for
more than four years. Before she came to
Lincoln, she worked at San Jose State.
Mrs. Polley, born in Creston, Iowa, grew
up in Lincoln, and fell in love with music and
Lincoln. She graduated from the Nebraska
Conservatory of Music and studied singing in
Chicago, New York and Europe. She taught
singing at the Nebraska Wesleyan Conserva
tory School of Fine Arts. She was known
through the West as a recitalist, specializing
in historical lecture recitals, and had been a
soloist in a number of Lincoln churches.
Mrs. Polley first considered a music li
brary in the 1930s when she was an instructor
at the UN-L School of Music. Mrs. Polley said
in an interview published in the Lincon Star in
1971, "The school had just received the music
library of Mrs. Carrie Belle Raymond, its for
mer director. It was a beautiful, extensive li
brary, but within six years it was gone from
the stacks."
Mrs. Polley did not want the same fate to
befall her own beloved music, so she stipu
lated in her will that her estate be given to the
public library under the condition that the li
brary board use the money to develop the
music library.
Because Mrs. Polley considered Lincoln
part of her life, she wanted to pass on the
knowledge and literature of music to all Lin-colnites.
The sun poured down on the crowd gathered for a Photo by Kris Mullen
concert at Pinewood Bowl in Pioneers Park Sunday
afternoon. Charlie Burton and the Cutouts, the
Aaron Baron Band, Jim Sealstrom and Footloose
performed at the concert sponsored by radio station
KFMQ.
in Aug.
The Lincoln City Libraries look forward to
offering this service, Ms. Dow said, the first
new music department to be established in a
U.S. public library in 20 years.
The library will offer adult music, but wil
be open for all ages, 35 hours a week, includ
ing some evenings and weekends.
Yungmeyer severance
pay trial is postponed
HASTINGS (AP) - The trial to determine
whether former Hastings city administrator
Harold Yungmeyer should receive severance
pay has been postponed by mutual agreement
until July 22, according to District Judge W.G.
Cambridge.
Yungmeyer, now a resident of Kansas
City, Mo., said he was told before he was
hired in 1978 that he would be given three
months severance pay if he were fired within
the first three years of employment. He was
fired by Mayor Bill Welton on Dec. 8, 1980,
after about two years with the city.
Before he left Hastings, Yungmeyer filed a
claim with the city asking for severance pay
of $7,982, based on his monthly salary of $2,631.
The claim was denied by the city council last
year.
Jewelry shop burglary trial is postponed
HASTINGS (AP) - The jury trial of a Lin
coln man charged with the May 1981 burglary
of a Hastings jewelry shop has been post
poned until Aug. 30. The continuance was
granted to allow time for the state to locate a
witness.
Prosecutors are seeking Veronica Taylor,
a girlfriend of the defendant, 37-year-old
James Taylor Smith, at the time of the Zinn's
SUMMER
NEBRASKAN
The Summer Nebraskan is a student
newspaper published each Thursday as a
laboratory project by School of Journalism
classes in Advertising, Editing, Photogra
phy and Reporting.
REPORTERS
Jim Anderson Mark Krieger
Marlene Burbach Dianne Lutzi
Jcnni Burrows Pat Masters
Mike Klusaw Jean Timmerman
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Mike Boettcher Beth Lawton
Bruce Boyle Kris Mullen
Jeff Browne Kevin O'Hanlon
Connie Gonyea Peggy Polacek
Jeff Goodwin Tim Schaffert
Kathy Graff Tom Shelton
Julie Hagemeier Larry Sparks
Terry Hyland Ann Stedman
Kris Knudsen
COPY EDITORS
Linnea Fredrickson Bill Hayes
Theresa Goodall Pat Kovanda
ACCOUNT REPS
Gary Coleman Jeanie Lingenfelter
Instructors are Jack Botts, Julie Dean,
Ron Gibson and Don Glover. School of
Journalism Dean is R. Neale Copple.
Jewelers burglary.
Taylor Smith, the woman shared an apart
ment with the defendant in Lincoln, said Dale
Lamski, Adams County deputy attorney.
In his affidavit requesting the continuance,
Lamski staled that Ms. Taylor told an FBI
agent in August of 1981 that she received
some of the jewelry taker. :i the burglary.
She said the stolen items were given to her by
Smith.