Department of English Language and Literature Department of History and Social Sciences - Leslie Downs Making a Change From the Usual Thursday , November 3, 1983, was a sad, yet joyous , occasion for the Department of English Language and Literature. It was a sad evening because it was the retirement dinner for Dr. 10 Cleveland who had been forced to take early retirement because of health reasons. Dr. Cleveland had twice received the Distinguished Teacher Award in 1972 and 1981 - and she had received the 1983 Petit Jean dedication. At the retirement dinner, Dr. Dennis Organ. Chairman of the department, an - nounced that the creative writing contest sponsored annually by the department had been named in honor of Dr. Cleveland and that more than $2,600 had been received toward an endowment fund to finance the contest annually. Members of the department were involved in sponsoring several scholarly activities for studen ts. Winning papers in the creative writing con test were published in Shapes and Names, a literary magazine. For the third year, the department sponsored "an evening of scholarship" at which scholarly student papers from various academic disciplines were read. Dr. Organ and Dr. Larry Long, assisted by Dr. Fred Jewell of the Department of History, sponsored the intramural college bowl and coached the intercollegiate team that entered the regional tournament. In 1983, the Harding team placed third in the Southwest region, defeating teams from Rice University, Baylor University, and the University of Texas. 98 English In the late spring of 1983, Dr. Long received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend the Seminar on 'Transcenden talism at Concord, MA. He spent eight weeks in productive research. While in Concord he attended a meeting of the Thoreau Society. Dr. Eugene Underwood taught the first English offered in Harding's Elderhostel Program in July. His course dealt with "Folklore. " Rod Brewer worked on his doctoral dissertation at the University of Missouri. Betty Ulrey taught a creative writing course in the Harding University in Florence Program in the spring of 1983. For two weeks in June, she audited classes in creative writing and literary London at Richmond College in London , England. She did research on Dorthy Sayers. She also traveled extensively in Europe , visiting sites related to several British authors. In October, Dr. Organ accompanied by Alice Jewell , Charles Pittman, Bill Lambert, Edward White, Mrs. Ulrey, Dr. McCampbell, and Dr. Long attended the Southwest Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature in Waco, TX. In October, Dr. Underwood attended the Southcentral Modern Language Association meeting in Fort Worth. Several members of the department attended the Arkansas Philogical Association meeting in Conway in November. Dr. Long attended the North American Association of Summer Sessions meeting in New Orleans in November. Mrs. Ulrey attended the meeting of the Arkansas 'Press Women at Wilhemina Inn in October. Not only did the faculty members in the Department of History and Social Science teach courses in history , political science, geography, and social science but they were also act ively involved in the writing of history. Dr. Ray Muncy, Chainnan of the department , wrote a chapter on "History of the Nobel Foundation" and a chapter on "History of the Weingarten Foundation" for the Greenwood Press's book on American Foundations. He also wrote a chapter on "Pre-territorial Arkansas" for the History of Arkansas being published by the state. Dr. Tom Howard wrote "Lebanon: A Critical Test for U.s. Policy" for the Arkansas Gazette in February. Virgil Lawyer taught in the Harding University in Florence program during the spring semester, he took his Civil War class on a tour of the battlefields at Shiloh and Vicksburg. Dr. Fred Jewell was named to the national Paper Award Committee of Phi Alpha Theta , national honor society in history . He attended the American Historical Association meeting in San Francisco in December and chaired a paper session at the Phi Alpha Theta meeting of Arkansas in April. Dr. Jewell also served as a director of the East Europe Campaign group. Dr. Muncy was named state coordinator for National History Day for 1984, and was named to the Executive Board of Directors of the Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Muncy, Dr. Jewell, and Mr. Lawyer taught courses in the 1983 summer Elderhostel Program.
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