Salisbury State University

The Board of Public Works gave Salisbury State University the green light yesterday to take over the Ward Museum, a financially troubled Eastern Shore tourist attraction known for its collection of decoys and other wildfowl art. Under the agreement, Salisbury State will pay the Ward Foundation $1 and assume the museum's $1.6 million in debt so that it can take control of the 25-year-old institution. The university will acquire the Salisbury waterfront museum and its 4.2 acres of grounds, valued at $4.7 million, along with an art collection valued at $4 million.

For Janet Dudley-Eshbach and Calvin Lowe, taking jobs as presidents of universities in Maryland was something of a homecoming. That's quite literal for Dudley-Eshbach -- her academic career has taken her as far as Mexico, but she is returning to the state where she was born, to the Delmarva Peninsula where she grew up, not far from the beaches where she has taken family vacations since childhood. "I always like the feeling of sand between my toes," says Dudley-Eshbach, the new president of Salisbury State University.

A memorial service will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Salisbury State University for Mike McGlinchey, the former Salisbury football and wrestling and Frostburg State football coach who died Monday from complications of a neuromuscular disorder.The family will receive visitors from 1: 30 until 2 p.m in the Wicomico Room of the Guerrieri University Center, and requests that any memorial contributions be made to the New England Medical Center; Salisbury State University Foundation Inc./Football; Salisbury State University Foundation Inc./Wrestling, or Friends of Football (Frostburg State)

The Board of Public Works gave Salisbury State University the green light yesterday to take over the Ward Museum, a financially troubled Eastern Shore tourist attraction known for its collection of decoys and other wildfowl art. Under the agreement, Salisbury State will pay the Ward Foundation $1 and assume the museum's $1.6 million in debt so that it can take control of the 25-year-old institution. The university will acquire the Salisbury waterfront museum and its 4.2 acres of grounds, valued at $4.7 million, along with an art collection valued at $4 million.

David Scott, currently enjoying a retrospective exhibit at Salisbury State University, has had a dual career as artist and art administrator. Now 80, he spent his early career during the 1930s and 1940s as what he calls a "realist in perception, a romantic in mood."His self-portrait titled "Drafted" was painted in 1942. After service in World War II he returned to painting and his work became more abstract. Then, from the 1960s to the 1980s, he was an art administrator in Washington. From 1964 to 1969 he was director of the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art.In the 1970s and early 1980s he was at the National Gallery, where he first coordinated gallery planning during the development of I. M. Pei's East Building and then the remodeling of the West Building.

Photographer Yousuf Karsh, now almost 90, has been one of the most successful portrait photographers in history. His subjects include presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, the present British queen when she was Princess Elizabeth, artists Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, movie stars Laurence Olivier and Clark Gable, scientist Albert Einstein, Pope John Paul II and writers Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway....

Leonard Baskin, sculptor, print-maker and painter, has long been known as a deeply committed figurative and humanist artist whose work frequently embraces Jewish subject matter. Among his sculptures are five bronzes created as maquettes for submission to the Holocaust Memorial at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.The one shown here, "Holocaust Figure No. 1," was selected to be created in a monumental version for the memorial. The five maquettes are in an exhibit of Baskin's work now at the gallery at Salisbury State University.

Ansel Adams' photographs of the great scenery of the American West have become some of the most popular images in American photography. They capture the majesty of landscape and also speak of the aspirations of the human soul.An exhibit of about 50 Adams photographs, primarily from the first half of his career (he lived from 1902 to 1984), is on view at the gallery of Salisbury State University.Concurrently, there is a supporting exhibit of works by Edward Weston and Paul Strand, two photographers whose work influenced Adams.

The Carutherses, auto crash victimsMemorial services for James Wade Caruthers, an educator and historian, and his wife, Gwynette Thompson Caruthers, a teacher and child psychologist, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Social Room of Salisbury State University.Dr. Caruthers and Mrs. Caruthers, who lived in Annapolis, died Sunday in an automobile crash on U.S. 50 at Mardela Springs. Both were 74.Survivors include a son, David Wade Caruthers of Monkton; two daughters, Ellen Caruthers Liebenberg of Livermore, Calif.

Chris Windsor, 18, son of Charles and Paulette Windsor of Glen Burnie, recently participated in Salisbury State University's award-winning Freshman in the Wilderness program.A 1991 graduate of Old Mill High School, Windsor has been admitted to SSU for this school year.All new students at Salisbury are required to go through university orientation. As an option, they may take part in a wilderness trip. Students in the program have the choice of cycling in Maine or canoeing through the back country lakes of Ontario, Canada.

Photographer Yousuf Karsh, now almost 90, has been one of the most successful portrait photographers in history. His subjects include presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, the present British queen when she was Princess Elizabeth, artists Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, movie stars Laurence Olivier and Clark Gable, scientist Albert Einstein, Pope John Paul II and writers Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway....

The president of Salisbury State University said yesterday he sees no reason to drop the school's former top fund-raiser from the state payroll, even though auditors said he abused his office and the state attorney general has launched a criminal investigation."

JOE GILBERT'S latest course offering at Salisbury State University almost makes you want to repeat college.This fall, the college lecturer's students will earn a semester's credit for sauntering in and about Henry David Thoreau's Walden Pond and woods near Concord, Mass.Don't mistake "saunter" to mean Gilbert's students will simply be lolling about as they canoe, swim, hike and observe.Thoreau, who had to deal with plenty of people who confused his nature tramps with vagrancy, practically reinvented the word saunter in a spirited essay, "Walking," completed near his death in 1862.

SALISBURY -- When William C. Merwin is inaugurated this morning as the seventh president of Salisbury State University, the ceremony will be heavy with symbolism -- literally.During the procession that will begin the inauguration at 10: 30 a.m., senior faculty member John Knowles will carry the university's new symbol: a sizable mahogany mace created for the inauguration. The mace is embellished with words and images representing the university: a sea gull, the school seal and pewter bands etched with the names of the seven men who have led the school in its 72-year history.

A memorial service will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Salisbury State University for Mike McGlinchey, the former Salisbury football and wrestling and Frostburg State football coach who died Monday from complications of a neuromuscular disorder.The family will receive visitors from 1: 30 until 2 p.m in the Wicomico Room of the Guerrieri University Center, and requests that any memorial contributions be made to the New England Medical Center; Salisbury State University Foundation Inc./Football; Salisbury State University Foundation Inc./Wrestling, or Friends of Football (Frostburg State)

David Scott, currently enjoying a retrospective exhibit at Salisbury State University, has had a dual career as artist and art administrator. Now 80, he spent his early career during the 1930s and 1940s as what he calls a "realist in perception, a romantic in mood."His self-portrait titled "Drafted" was painted in 1942. After service in World War II he returned to painting and his work became more abstract. Then, from the 1960s to the 1980s, he was an art administrator in Washington. From 1964 to 1969 he was director of the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art.In the 1970s and early 1980s he was at the National Gallery, where he first coordinated gallery planning during the development of I. M. Pei's East Building and then the remodeling of the West Building.

The first four-year study program at a Maryland university leading to a bachelor's degree in environmental health will be launched in September at Salisbury State University in the Richard A. Henson School of Science and Technology.The new program, which received authorization recently from Maryland's Higher Education Commission, is designed to prepare students for a variety of careers in the expanding environmental health field.Job opportunities in the field are opening up in federal, state and local governments, and in the private sector, said Dr. John Molenda, SSU biology professor and coordinator of the program.

The president of Salisbury State University said yesterday he sees no reason to drop the school's former top fund-raiser from the state payroll, even though auditors said he abused his office and the state attorney general has launched a criminal investigation."

Bart Walter is best known in Maryland for the bronze otters playing in the fountain at the Baltimore Zoo's front gate.The Pleasant Valley sculptor, who specializes in animals, is likely to attract renewed attention in the state with his newest work: a life-size gorilla that will be dedicated tomorrow at Salisbury State University.The gorilla, based on the main character in Daniel Quinn's novel "Ismael," was commissioned by the university because a popular honors class centers on the book, in which the author uses a gorilla as a literary device to comment on mankind.

Leonard Baskin, sculptor, print-maker and painter, has long been known as a deeply committed figurative and humanist artist whose work frequently embraces Jewish subject matter. Among his sculptures are five bronzes created as maquettes for submission to the Holocaust Memorial at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.The one shown here, "Holocaust Figure No. 1," was selected to be created in a monumental version for the memorial. The five maquettes are in an exhibit of Baskin's work now at the gallery at Salisbury State University.