College of Arts and Sciences Department of English Receives Honors - Faculty Members Receive Promotions Versatitlity and excellence of achievement characterized both faculty members and students of the Department of English Language and Literature. For the second time, Dr. Dennis M. Organ , Chairman of the Department, received a Distinguished Teacher Award at the 1983 May Commencement. Also , 14 of the 16 students - graduating with a major in English during 1983-84 graduated "with honors." At the 1984 presession faculty conference, Dr. Organ was promoted to Professor and Betty Ulrey was promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. Organ served on the Steering Committee for the North Central Self-Study and he and Dr. Larry Long served as two of the five -member Editing and Revising Committee for the NCA Report. Beginning with the 1984 summer session, Dr. Long became Director of the Summer Session. Dr. Long and Dr. Organ , assisted by Dr. Fred Jewell, Professor of History, continued to direct the intramural College Bowl and to coach the intercollegiate College Bowl team that represented Harding in regional competition. At the beginning of the fall semester, Dr. Organ and Dr. Long were appointed assistant sponsors of the Arkansas Eta Chapter of Alpha Chi, national honor scholarship sOciety. The Department took seriously the responsibility of helping students to develop the ability to communicate effectively in writing, conducting a writing laboratory that was open to any student of the University several hours each week. The Department members shared the grading of the English Proficiency Test that every student must pass as a requirement for graduation. The Department also conducted the Jo Cleveland Creative Writing Contest and published an annual issue of Shapes and Rodger Brewer, MS - Asst. Professor Alice Jewell, MA - Assoc . Professor Bill Lambert, MA - Asst. Professor Larry Long, PhD .- Assoc. Professor Duane McCampbell, PhD - Professor Names, the creative writing magazine. Eddie Madden and Sherry Daniel, English majors, won four top prizes in the 1984 Contest. Madden and three other English majors - Kimberly Vinson, Etta Madden and Cathryn Supplee - won awards at the 1984 meeting of the Arkansas College Publications Association. Dr. Organ, II1rs. Ulrey, Alice Jewell and Dr. Duane McCampbell attended the annual meeting of the Arkansas Philological Association in Conway. Dr. Eugene Underwood attended the meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association in Dallas and a computer workshop in Little Rock. Dr. McCampbell also attended the annual meeting of Arkansas Philosophical Association where he served as President for the Christian Scholars Conference in Abilene, Texas. Dr. Long attended the meeting of the North American Association of Summer Sessions in New Orleans. Dr. Organ attended the Region II Alpha Chi Convention in Baton Rouge, the National Council meeting in Louisville and the Executive Committee meeting in Searcy as the Editor of Alpha Chi publications. During the 1984 intersession , Dr. Long conducted a literary study tour to Boston, Mass. He read a paper , "Alexander Campbell and James Freeman Clark," at a faculty seminar at Abilene Christian University. Dr. McCampbell published a weekly column, "Society and Ideas ," in the Searcy Daily Citizen. i'l~ Dennis M. Organ, PhD - Professor & Chairman Charles Pittman, MA - Assoc. Professor Betty T. Ulrey, MEd - Assoc. Professor Eugene Underwood, EdD - Assoc. Professor Betty Watson, MA - Assoc. Professor Edward White, MA - Assoc. Professor Dorothy Wright, Dr. de I'Universite - Professor English 181
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