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9-June-1997 
97242 
 
                           College News 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
LAKE FOREST, Ill.--Lake Forest College and its Latin American Research 
Institute (LARI) recently received two grants. The United States Department 
of Education presented LARI with a Title VI two-year matching grant 
totaling $250,000, while the Chicago-based Kohler company gave a grant of 
$10,000. The Department of Education grant will help establish an 
interdisciplinary Latin American Studies program at the college. Funds from 
the Kohler Company will support research on Latin America and Latin 
American studies on campus, which will include special activities outside 
the classroom. 
 
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.--Forty elementary school children will have an opportunity 
to develop their creative potential using computers in a special summer 
program at Stillman College. Awarded by the Mellon Trust, a $30,000 grant 
will support the "Adventures in Cyber Arts: The Integration of Creativity 
and Cybernetics Project" at Stillman. The goal of the project is to 
enhance, through computers and related technology, the students' creative 
abilities by providing educational experiences in art, music, drama and 
writing as a foundation for the development of individual creativity.  This 
will be accomplished through a two-week summer camp at Stillman and 
follow-up activities. 
 
CLINTON, S.C.--Presbyterian College has named Dr. N. Douglas Anderson to be 
the new director of Thomason Library. He will come to the college in August 
as director of the library and associate professor of music. He succeeds 
Dr. Lennart Pearson, who retires this summer after 30 years at Presbyterian 
College. A member of the Furman University Library staff since 1988, 
Anderson has served as head of the cataloging department and as head of 
automated systems, directing the development and implementation of the 
integrated library system and of several data base and World Wide Web 
servers.  He also has been an adjunct instructor in Furman's music 
department for the past six years. 
 
SPOKANE, Wash.--Whitworth College has announced that Kristine Burns will be 
the college's new vice president for institutional advancement. Burns 
currently serves as the director of alumni and development for the College 
of Agriculture and Home Economics at Washington State University in 
Pullman, Wash., where she recently led a successful $54 million 
fund-raising campaign for the college that was part of Campaign WSU. She 
will assume her duties at Whitworth effective June 2. Before taking on her 
most recent post at WSU, she successfully served in a variety of 
administrative and advancement positions over her 17-year career there. 
Burns also holds bachelor's and master's degrees from WSU. 

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