Bill Nelson, Reese Library, was elected president of FOCLIS (Fellowship of Christian Librarians and Information Specialists), a national organization which meets at the annual conference of the American Library Assn. (ALA ). He was also named chair of the Committee on the Status of Academic Librarians, a national committee of Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) at the ALA annual conference in San Francisco. Dr. Nelson serves as assistant editor of InPrint: Publishing Opportunities for College Librarians, 2nd. edition, the first electronic publication of ACRL. He also served as a library consultant to Anderson College in Anderson, SC.

Sociology professors and students presented at the American Sociological Annual meeting at Anaheim, Calif. Kim Davies presented The Connection Between Spanking and Drinking: A Replication Study Preliminary Report. At the conference, she also presented Capturing Student Attention: Linking Courses and Student Interests into a Two-Course Methods Sequence in an Academic Workplace Workshop.

At the same workshop, Allen Scarboro, presented Using Data Sets in Courses Other than Research Methods. He also presented Bringing Experience to Theory: Building Collaborative Active Learning Electronically. Ralph Watkins presented Teaching to Transgress: A Grass Roots Approach or Teaching that Leads to an Inclusive Classroom. ASU students who made presentations include Oceanna Pappillion and Albert Jimenez, Advertising Desire: Research on Local Personal Ads; Jimenez and Christine Ellison, Honoring the Forgotten: Field Work in an African American Cemetery; Aaron Brock, Marching Back to World War I; and Ann Knighton, Personal Explanatory Models of Hypertension among African American Women.

Philip Morsberger, fomer ASU Morris Eminent Scholar in Art, will have a Survey Show of 46 Canvases at the Sun Trust Plaza Gallery in Atlanta this month, with an opening reception at the gallery on October 4, from
5 - 9 p.m. The exhibition will feature paintings from the late 60s up to the present. There will be a concurrent survey show of canvases in San Francisco at the Larry Evans Gallery.