Lovaltv draws new alumni director to UNL
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By John Fulwldw
Staff Reporter
Whether they’re her colleagues at
the Wick Alumni Center or alumni
hundreds of miles away, people arc
the most important thing to Jeanne
Salerno.
“Working with people energizes
me,” said the new chairwoman of the
board of directors of the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln Alumni Asso
ciation*
Salerno, a 1962 graduate of UNL.
said her ability to strike a balance
between leadership and management
traits would help her in her duties at
the Wick Center.
“l ama leader who tries to moti
vate and inspire other people and a
manager who can get things done
efficiently,” she said. She is also the
director of professional development
for Kutak Rock, an Omaha law firm.
She has taken on the difficult task
of managing an organization that
provides a wide range of services to
both the university and its alumni.
The alumni association’s mission,
she said, is to generate support for
the university by building and main
taining a strong membership base. It
can also provide services and activi
ties that benefit both alumni associa
tion members and the university.
The association's many duties in
clude providing information to
alumni, maintaining membership
records, reaching out to alumni, help
ing alumni clubs stay active and pro
viding career service networking to
help alumni find jobs, she said.
Salerno, who was elected July 1,
succeeds Gates Minnick of Lincoln.
She said she would focus on improv
ing the alumni association for its
members.
“(I want) to schedule interesting
and enlightening board meetings so
that members not only have the op
portunity to contribute their ideas and
expertise to activities that support the
university and its alumni, but also to
gain personally from the time they
spend at the Wick Alumni Center,”
Salerno said.
Salerno said she had always been
active in community affairs, and her
nomination to the board was partially
a result of her leadership experience
on other national boards.
She chose to serve on the board
both to help the university and for
personal reasons.
She said she was “a loyal supporter
of the university.”
“I felt that serving on the board
would allow me to support the uni
versity, and I would enjoy serving
with other alumni from all over the
country.
“I felt that 1 would benefit from
keeping up with what’s going on at
the university.”
She said the board of directors did
not participate in management of the
alumni association, but the board was
kept informed of all activities and
contributed ideas to the association.
Salerno has always been involved
in service to other people. In her uni
versity days, she was president of the
Association of Women Students, the
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She also was first vice president of
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More recently, she has been nomi
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women’s volunteer group, and a
board member of the National Asso
ciation for Law Placement.
Salerno said her loyalty to the uni
versity motivated her to accept the
volunteer job, which has no pay or
benefits, except maybe a Christmas
card at the end of the year.
Prior to her nomination as chair
woman, she served as first and sec
ond vice chairwoman of the board.
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said, “but because of the whole
Dracula thing, people have given bats
a bad rap.”
Kirshenbaum said bats were the
most misunderstood animals in the
world.
“When you go up to someone and
say ‘bats,’ they get the shivers.” he
said.
Lincoln has a large bat population,
Kirshenbaum said. The most popu
lar bat in the Midwest, the little
brown bat, formed large colonies in
the Capitol, the First Plymouth
Church in Lincoln and wooded areas
outside Lincoln, he said.
The largest bat colony, 20 million
Mexican free-tails, lives in Bracken
Cave, Texas, near the Austin-based
Bat Conservation International.
The organization served as scien
tific consultant for “Masters of the
Night.”
Robert Benson, BCI public infor
mation officer, said the exhibit's pur
pose was to “reach kids at a young
age and bump bat stereotypes.”
Benson said stereotypes came
from movies, bad media coverage and
“old wives talcs ”
He said many people had bad ex
periences with bats because natural
bat habitats were being destroyed and
the animals were forced to dwell in
man-made structures.
But Benson gave advice for any
one who runs into a bat
“The important thing to remem
ber is don’t panic,” he said. “Bats arc
more afraid of you than you are of
them.”
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Bats arc wild animals, he said, and
people should never try to handle
them. Bats can contract rabies, but
arc no more likely to do so than any
other animal.
Actually, Benson said, bats arc
very beneficial.
“We need them to balance nature's
delicate ecosystem ”
Important bat facts from BCI:
• Almost 1,000 kinds of bats ac
count for almost a quarter of all mam
mal species.
• Vampire bats arc the only bats
that drink blood. They live in Latin
America and compose only 1 percent
of the entire bat population.
• A single little brown bat can eat
600 mosquitos in one hour.
• A colony of 150 big brown bats
can protect local farmers from up to
18 million or more root worms each
summer.
• Tropical bats are key elements
in rain forests, which rely on them to
pollinate flowers and disperse seeds
• An anticoagulant from vampire
bat saliva may soon be used to treat
heart patients.
• Bats are not blind.
• Bats use sonar, an echo-feed
back device, to navigate at night and
catch their pray.
• Almost 40 percent of American
bat species are threatened or endan
gered.
• Bats arc vulnerable to extinc
tion. They are the slowest-producing
mammal, producing only one pup
each year.
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