MARGARET FLOWERS and LINDA SCHWAB presented an analysis of the controversy surrounding the revised Kansas State science education standards at the Lions Club meeting in Union Springs on September 28. Their paper was entitled, "Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy: Recent Developments."

SPENCER HILDAHL's review of the book, A Nation of Meddlers, by Charles Edgley and Dennis Brissett appeared in the September 1999 issue of CHOICE.

NIAMH O'LEARY was elected to the Board of Directors of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network. The Cayuga Lake Watershed Network is a community-based organization that advocates for a healthy and sustainable Cayuga Lake watershed. In June, Professor O'Leary participated in the final session of a three-part workshop in biomolecular visualization at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This hands-on NSF-funded program was designed to train faculty in the use of three-dimensional molecular visualization software and to facilitate its incorporation into their teaching.

ANNE RUSS's review of We Have Come To Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960 appeared in the October 1999 issue in CHOICE.

CRAWFORD THOBURN conducted the Wells Concert Choir on October 5 in a performance which was videotaped by television station WCNY (Channel 24) from Syracuse for inclusion in the holiday special, "Holiday Harmonies." The program will be telecast on November 27, December 25, and several other times during the holiday season. On October 10, he was invited to guest-conduct the choir of the Thoburn United Methodist Church of St. Clairsville, Ohio, in a performance of his published composition, "Immortal Love, Forever Full," at services marking the 200th anniversary of the founding of the church. The church was the Thoburn family church when they first came to America and is named in honor of his great grandfather Bishop James Mills Thoburn and his sister, Isabella, who were missionaries in India and Malaysia in the 19th century. Isabella was the founder of the first women's college in Asia.

On October 17, Professor Thoburn conducted the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber singers in a joint concert with the Men's Glee Club of Worcester Polytechnic Institute at the Sommer Center. The featured work was the "Mass in G Major" by Carl Maria von Weber sung by the combined choirs accompanied by vocal soloists and full orchestra. The Concert Choir was accompanied by NANCY GILBERTSON and the orchestra included Wells instrumentalists prepared by LAURA CAMPBELL. Nandani Sinha `03 was the alto soloist in the Weber Mass.

Carl Fischer, Inc. has accepted his arrangement of the Finnish melody, "In Heavenly Lov Abiding," for mixed voices with accompaniment.

MUIN UDDIN presented "College from an Economics Professor's Point of View" at the Johns Hopkins University's 1999 College Colloquium on October 10 at Syracuse University. The purpose of this annual colloquium is to offer high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and their parents a chance to familiarize themselves with the college process and to explore various education choices by hearing from college students, university-level advisors and professors. In the same colloquium, Professor Uddin participated in an Academic Panel consisting of professors of mixed disciplines in the sciences and humanities. He also took the opportunity to talk about Wells to those present and to distribute the Wells' Admissions Brochure.

JERI VARGO attended the Libraries 2000 conference on September 30 and October 1 in Albany. She also attended the annual South Central Regional Library Council meeting on October 8 in Cooperstown, New York.

JENNY YATES' book, Encountering Jung on Death and Immortality, has just been released by Princeton University Press.