April 19, 1996


UNL Shines in Mayor's Arts Awards

Larry Lusk, retiring dean of the UNL College of Fine and Performing Arts, received the Leadership Award April 11 at the Mayor's Arts Awards. The Leadership Award, sponsored by the Lincoln Arts Council, recognizes a person or group that has had a major effect on the arts in Lincoln.

Lusk has been fine arts dean since the college was established in 1993 and was associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1988 until he took his current position. An accomplished pianist who has had a series of performances at New York's Lincoln Center, Lusk joined the university's music faculty in 1958. He also was interim chairman of the Department of Art from 1982 to 1984.

Other awards presented included:

  • The Literary Heritage Award was presented to Marly Swick.This award recognizes writing or the promotion of excellence of writing in Nebraska. Swick, a professor of English and creative writing at UNL since 1988, is a writer of national acclaim. Her stories won the 1990 Iowa Short Fiction Award.

  • The Larry Enersen Urban Design Awards included the new campus entrance gates south of Love Library. This award recognizes outstanding urban design in Lincoln.

  • The Helen Haggie Artistic Achievement Award was presented to Robert Hillestad. This award recognizes professional accomplishments in any arts discipline. Hillestad, a professor and textile artist in the UNL Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, has won several awards around the country for his works in fiber and fabric.

  • The "Heart of the Arts" Volunteer Award was presented to Suzy Schulz. The award honors an outstanding volunteer in the arts. Schulz, a UNL graduate student in music, gives free piano lessons.

    9 Elected to Ag Achievement Hall

    Nine people have been elected to membership in the Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement.

    The new members are Lincoln's Karen Craig, UNL dean of Human Resources and Family Sciences and John A. Schmitz; Mathew W. Fleischer of Columbus; Mark R. Gustafson of Mead; Richard C. Hahn of Omaha; Thomas C. Hoegemeyer of Hooper; Hollis B. Miller of York; Doris Rush of Scottsbluff; and Boyd E. Stuhr of Bradshaw.

    Austin Planning Book Translated to Chinese

    Richard Austin, associate professor of horticulture and community and regional planning, has had a book translated into Chinese. The book, Designing with Plants, was originally published by Van Nostrand Reinhold. It was one of only 12 books reviewed to be accepted for translation. The translation is by Lamper Enterprises in Taipei.

    'Reading Rainbow' Receives Emmy Nominations

    Eight Daytime Emmy Award Nominations were garnered by Reading Rainbow, the popular public television series seen Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. on the Nebraska ETV Network.

    Currently in its 13th season, Reading Rainbow is designed to motivate 5-to-8-year-old children to read on their own for pleasure and enjoyment. The award-winning series is a production of GPN/Nebraska ETV Network and WNED-TV, Buffalo, N.Y., and is produced by Lancit Media Productions, Ltd. of New York.

    University Press Gathers More Awards

    Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska by UNL emeritus professor Robert E. Knoll has been commended for its outstanding design by the Association of American University Presses. It is one of seven University of Nebraska Press books to be honored and included in the association's 1996 Book, Jacket and Journal Show. The other NU Press Winners include:

  • Outstanding Overall Book Design: All My Sins Are Relatives, W.S. Penn; Bach Perspectives 1, Russell Stinson; The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology, LeRoy C. Bruening and You've Always

    Nine peBeen Wrong, Rene Daumal.

  • Outstanding Jacket and Paperback Cover Design: Bach Perspectives 1; Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel and The Writing of the Disaster, Maurice Blanchot.

    Prairie University, All My Sins Are Relatives, The Cubist Poets in Paris and You've Always Been Wrong are the work of Richard Eckersley, a designer at the press for 15 years. Dika Eckersley, who has been with the press for nine years, designed Back Perspectives 1. Andrea Shahan designed the covers for the paperback Bison Books Lectures on the History of Philosophy and The Writing of the Disaster. Shahan has been with the press for three years.

    David J. Wishart, a professor of geography at UNL, has won the 1996 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize for his book An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians.

    Two winners of the NU Press's own North American Indian Prose Award, a publication prize for Native American nonfiction, have been singled out by librarians and critics as well:

  • Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve's memoir Completing the Circle will be included in the 1996 "Books for the Teen Age," sponsored by the New York Public Library.

  • W.S. Penn's All My Sins Are Relatives, also an honoree in the 1996 Book, Jacket and Journal Show, was selected for inclusion in the premier issue of The Critics' Choice 1995-96, sponsored by Today's First Edition and the San Francisco Review of Books. The Critics' Choice represents the recommendations of 25 top literary critics from cross the nation.

    David Block's Missions Culture on the Upper Amazon: Native Tradition, Jesuit Enterprise and Secular Policy in Moxos, 1660-1880 won the 1995 Howard Cline Memorial Prize.

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