UNL ROTC midshipmen
to serve foreign navies
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Navy ROTC midshipmen will sail the for
eign seas this summer when they participate
in training with the Belgian and West Ger
man navies.
Chris Vanderneck and Matt Poling, both
juniors, were selected for cross-training
with the foreign navies in a navy exchange
program for midshipmen, said Lt. Tim
Powell of the UNL Navy ROTC program.
Vanderneck will train with the Belgian
navy, and Poling will train with the West
German navy.
roweu saia tne midshipmen probably
will leave the United States about the end of
May and be gone for six to eight weeks,
depending on the individual program.
The midshipmen were notified they were
chosen earlier this month, he said.
Powell said it is uncommon that two
students from the same university should be
selected for participation in the program.
“The quality of the institution is recog
nized by the recognition of two students,” he
said.
Three students from UNL initially ap
plied, Powell said. About 1,500 students
nationwide applied for 71 positions, he said.
“What’s outstanding is that they were
both chosen first in their categories,” Powell
said.
Twenty-seven other countries are par
ticipating in the program, he said.
Last year, one UNL student was chosen
to train with the Japanese navy, he said.
The main advantage of the training will
be learning about how the foreign navies
operate, Powell said. The U.S. Navy can see
what other navies are doing and can make
improvements from the observations, he
said.
“We gain an insight into what they have,
and they gain an insight into what we have,”
he said. "It’s going to help us in general
friendliness and cooperation.”
Powell, Vandemeck and Poling agreed
that the experience will also be personally
rewarding.
‘The quality of the insti
tution is recognized by
the recognition of two
students.’
—Powell
“It’ll give them a broader understanding
of the outside world,” Powell said.
Vanderneck and Poling said they are
excited about the opportunity.
“It’s going to be a tremendous experi
ence,” Poling said.
While abroad, the midshipmen will par
ticipate in training on various ships, as well
as possibly training with a squadron and
doing public-relations work, he said.
Part of the requirements for participating
in the program was a foreign-language
background, Powell said. Vanderneck and
Poling were probably chosen because of
their high grade point averages and good
foreign-language backgrounds, he said.
“It’ll certainly brush up my French,”
Vanderneck said.
Chemistry majors get own room
By William Lauer
Staff Reporter
Students in the University of Nebraska
Lincoln chemistry department were given an
undergraduate student common-room, cour
tesy of Dow Chemical Company, Monday.
The room, Hamilton Hall 414, was dedi
cated on behalf of David Sheetz, who received
his doctorate in chemistry from UNL in 1952
and is now senior vice president and chief
scientist for Dow. Dow donated more than
$13,000 for the room.
Craig Eckhardt, UNL professor of chemis
try, said some chemistry students had ex
pressed the desire to have a place to meet and
socialize while at school.
Eckhardt said the room is meant to be a home
away from home for undergraduate chemistry
majors. The room was not intended specifically
as a place for students to study, he said.
“Some (students) spend the whole day on
campus,” he said. “It’s a place where they can
let their hair down, put their feet up, do what
ever they want to between classes.”
Eckhardt was interim chairman of the chem
istry department when Dick Skochdopole,
associate development scientist for Dow, was
interviewing UNL students for jobs with Dow.
“He asked me if there was anything they
(Dow) could do for the department and I said—
money,” Eckhardt said.
Eckhardt said Dow has been very generous
to the department in the past by giving money
to finance graduate projects and to hire several
UNL graduates.
Christy Martin, a senior chemistry major,
said she thinks the room will be useful.
“I wish we would have had it a few years
ago,” she said. “You get to meet other chemis
try majors.”
Principals and freshmen meet today
By Anne Mohri
Senior Reporter
High school staff members and University
of Nebraska-Lincoln freshmen will gather
today to talk about college experiences and
ways to improve college preparation.
Bob Zetocha, UNL assistant director of
admissions, said about 430 Nebraska high
school principals, counselors and faculty
members will attend the 33rd annual Principal/
Freshman Conference at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. The event is sponsored by
the UNL Admissions Office.
Zetocha said the goal of the program is to
help with the transition from high school to
enrolling into the university. “We hope to foster
the relationship between the University of
Nebraska and the high schools of Nebraska.”
The program, beginning at 8:50 a.m., will
consist of three 50-minute sessions. Each ses
sion will have 10 programs. Representatives
from various university departments and of
fices will make presentations at the sessions.
Gov. Kay Orr is the keynote speaker at the
chancellor’s luncheon where seven high school
principals or counselors will be honored for
having attended the conference 25 or more
years ago, Zetocha said.
After the luncheon, the high school officials
will meet with UNL students from their
schools, he said.
The meetings will allow students to commu
nicate with people from their high schools
about problems and successes they have had
during their first year, Zetocha said.
The principals and counselors then can let
current high school students know how former
students are doing at UNL, he said.
Sue Tidball recipients ‘bridge gaps, improve system’
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
Barb Meister, Galen Dodge and
Luis Diaz-Perdomo were surprised
and honored to win the Sue Tidball
Award for Creative Humanity, but for
Dodge and Diaz-Perdomo the award
had an even deeper meaning.
Dodge and Diaz-Perdomo said the
honor was especially meaningful
because they had known Sue Tidball,
for whom the award is named.
Meister, senior political science
major; Dodge, associate professor of
agricultural education and director of
the Human Resources Research
Foundation; and Diaz-Perdomo, a
psychological counselor at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln Coun
seling Center, were selected from 12
nominees for outstanding contribu
tions to UNL.
The three winners were each given
a certificate as well as $ 100 during an
awards ceremony Sunday at St.
Mark’s on the Campus Church.
“I was really honored and really
touched,” Dodge said.
Diaz-Perdomo said being identi
fied as someone who was consistent
with what Tidball had tried to do was
a real honor.
“It was a very emotional moment
to me,” he said.
The Rev. Larry Doerr,chairman of
the selection committee, said main
criteria for award recipients were that
they made significant contributions
to the university community, learned
to bridge gaps among different
groups, helped improve the system
and exhibited a caring attitude.
The award recipients seemed to be
more representative of the criteria
than the other nominees, he said.
Doerr said Meister had a strong
background because of her experi
ence with the University Program
Council, her work with ethnic minori
ties and homosexuals and her efforts
on behalf of the farm crisis.
Meister is currently the executive
board chairman of UPC and was co
founder of FACTS, Farm Action
Concerns for Tomorrow’s Society.
“It also has to do with the kind of
person she is,” Doerr said. “She is not
preoccupied with herself.”
Meister said she was surprised and
pleased to receive the award.
“It was an affirmation of my ef
forts in carrying out what I had set out
to do,” Meister said.
Meister said it was an especially an
honor because the others nominated
were also outstanding.
“It was just my persistent dedica
tion to addressing issues and concerns
that were relevant but also over
looked,” she said.
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