Washington University St. Louis, Missouri

 FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK

Here we are, poised on the brink of a new century, a new millenium.  Like all such calendar shifts—some things inevitably will change, and others will remain very much the same.  So it is with East Asian Studies.  Although the last year has seen a number of changes, for the most part things remain very much the same.  East Asian Studies is STILL a thriving multidisciplinary program, bright with success and rich with promise.

CHANGES

First of all, to list a few of the changes: Most obvious is the change in directorship.  Marvin Marcus, the director from 1995-1998, is currently on academic leave and has passed the baton to Rebecca Copeland.  There are a number of other changes in faculty that deserve mention: Robert Morrell—he of Buddhist Thought and Values fame—has retired, after 34 years of service.  For more on Bob’s retirement, see Milestones below.  Curtis Milhaupt has resigned in order to take a position at Columbia University.  A search will be conducted to find a replacement in Japanese law—though we all know that Curtis is irreplaceable.  Two new faculty members will join us in the fall:  Elizabeth Oyler in pre-modern Japanese language and literature, and Tz’u Chiang in modern Chinese language.
 

CONSTANTS

The East Asian Studies Program at Washington University has enjoyed another successful academic year.  We were pleased to welcome a “bumper crop” of new MA candidates: 13 in GSAS and 4 in the JD/MA. Our undergraduate population continues to thrive.  Presently, we have nearly 50 majors and minors.

Our debt of gratitude to JoAnn Achelpohl for her efficient resourcefulness, wisdom, and good humor in managing the EAS Office and assisting director, faculty, and students alike is another constant in the EAS sphere that deserves remark.
 

CONGRATULATIONS

Four  JD/MAs earned their degrees in December: Robert Baran, Patri Ginsberg, John Grellner, and Nick Holcombe.  Jody Clegg will complete his EAS degree work this spring.  Heather Peck, Anne Schmidt, and Kelly Gates are not far behind!

Twelve undergraduates will graduate this spring with East Asian Studies majors:  Richard Chau, Byron Davis, Shawn Johnson, Joseph Kodner, Joey Kushi, Judy Lee, Steven Liu, Jennifer Milman, Jeremy Murphy, Owen Rosa, Cameron White, and Mark Yen.  Those with EAS Minors: Sarah Bedell, Wendy Shih-wen Chen, John-Michael Li, Christopher Lin, Shavon McGowan, Amy Nicodemus, and Sheri Nishimoto.  Join us at Busch Hall, room 23 on Commencement Day (May 14) to honor all our graduates with a bit of bubbly.

Three EAS graduate students were awarded FLAS scholarships for the academic year: Sarah Cao, Scott Markowitz, and Kristen Wanner. Joseph Dreher received the FLAS for the summer.  Jia Wu was awarded a WU tuition scholarship for graduate study this summer. Heather Peck, a candidate for the JD/MA degree, was awarded the NSEP grant.

COURSEWORK

We were fortunate to have a number of visiting faculty this year, who helped enrich our course offerings.  Dr. Ok Kyung Yang of EWHA Women’s University in Seoul was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar with the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.  During her year-long stay, Dr. Yang taught courses for EAS on the Korean family.  Additionally, her husband, Dr. Gil-Sung Park, Associate Professor of Sociology at Korea University in Seoul, taught the Korean Civilization course in the spring.  Both courses were very successful and offer further proof that EAS would do well to have more permanent faculty members in Korean Studies.

EAS once again enjoyed the expertise of University of Missouri-St. Louis faculty members—a benefit of our Joint Center.  In the fall, Chikako Usui taught “The Society and Economy in Japan;” and in the spring Ray Bowen offered “Advanced Topics in Economic Analysis: Recent Chinese Economic Development.”  The spring term was also enriched by contributions from Michele Shoresman who taught “East Asian Educational Policies: China, Japan, and Korea.”  Additionally, two graduate students in Japanese/Chinese-Comparative Literature offered courses in their area of interest.  Tom Lavallee taught “Topics in Chinese Literature: Ancient Chinese Ghosts;” and David Earhart, “Modern Voice in Japanese Literature.”  Crosslisted courses with faculty in Anthropology and Political Science helped round out our course offerings this year.
 

COLLOQUIUM

Every academic year EAS—under the auspices of the Joint Center for East Asian Studies—sponsors a Colloquium Series. Past topics for the series have ranged from “Women in East Asia” to “Political Transitions in East Asia” and have featured such speakers as Dorothy Ko (University of California, San Diego), Cameron Hurst (University of Pennsylvania), and Thomas Gold (University of California, Berkeley).  This year the title of the series was “East Asian Diasporas,” and we had a fabulous array of scholars from across the nation speaking to us on various aspects of the subject.   The selection and arrangements for the Colloquium was handled by Beata Grant and the success of the program is entirely to her credit.  The 1998-1999 Colloquium Series featured the following speakers: In September, Harry H. L. Kitano of the University of California, Los Angeles spoke on “Hyphenated Identities.”  The October lecture featured Roger Daniels of the University of Cincinnati who lectured on “East Asian Diaspora in the Americas.” George A. DeVos, University of California, Berkeley, spoke on  “The Confucian Heritage: Internalization and Alienation Among Japanese and Koreans in Diverse Cultural Settings” in the November meeting. Former WU history professor, Evelyn Hu-deHart returned to St. Louis in January to lecture on “From Yellow Peril to Modern Minority: Asians in the Americas.”  In February David R. Yoo of Claremont McKenna College spoke on “New Spiritual Homes: Religion and Asian Americans,” and Elaine Kim of UC-Berkeley concluded the series in March with her lecture “Dangerous Women = Korean American Feminism and Gendered Korean/Racialized U.S. Nationalist Narratives.”
 
 

SPECIAL LECTURES

In addition to the Colloquium series, EAS also sponsored the following lectures:
 

The Annual Nelson Wu Lecture on Asian Art and Culture

This new annual lecture, co-sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum, was inaugurated in October 1998 to honor Nelson I. Wu.  A specialist in Chinese painting, Wu is the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Chinese Culture and a world-recognized scholar of Asian art and architecture.

The opening lecture, “Shadows and Gestures: European Images in the Visual Culture of Late Ming China,” was presented by Dr. Richard Barnhart of Yale University on October 29.  Joe Allen of EAS and Steven Owyoung, Curator of Asian Arts, Saint Louis Art Museum, were responsible for organizing this lecture.

The 2000 lecture will be presented by Dr. Milo Beach, Director of the Sackler and Freer Galleries, on October 21 at the Saint Louis Art Museum.  Dr. Beach will also be on hand to meet with Washington University students to discuss careers in museum work.
 

The Annual Stanley Spector Memorial Lecture on East Asian History and Civilization:

This lecture was founded in 1994 to honor Dr. Stanley Spector (1925-1999) for his tremendous contributions to the creation and development of Asian Studies at Washington University.  Past Spector Lecturers have included: William Kirby (Harvard University), Jonathan Spence (Yale University), and Lucien W. Pye (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

The lecture this year was held on April 9, 1999 and featured Dr. Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University.  Dr. Gluck presented “Past Obsessions: War and Memory in the Twentieth Century.”
 
 

EAST ASIAN STUDIES OCCASIONAL PAPERS

Occasionally (or more nearly, every year) EAS compiles select examples of student-authored papers into an Occasional Papers Series.  This series, which represents the talent and diversity of the EAS program, will soon be adding a FOURTH volume.  Thanks are due to Heather Peck for her diligence and brilliance in editing the volume.  The contents are as follows:
“Official Development Assistance or Corporate Welfare? An Investigation into Whether Japanese Firms Benefit Improperly from Japan’s Foreign Aid” by Karlton Gruendel (BA96); “A Chinese Socialist Advertising Model” by Eric Riutort (MBA/MA97); and, “The Immortal Sage: A Translation of Sennin” by Heather Peck (JD/MA candidate).  If you would like a copy of Volume 4 (or any back number), just drop us a note with $1.00/volume to cover postage and we will gladly send one to you.
 

CURRENT STUDENTS

Wedding bells are tolling for a number of EAS students!  Heather Peck tied the knot May 8, 1999 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  Jody Clegg will also be marrying this summer.  And Alison Ketner is engaged to be married.  Add to the list: Michael Dankert (MA95); and, Stacy Kaneshiro (BA98).

Other EAS-ers will be wedded to their language books this summer.  Joseph Dreher will be studying Japanese at the Ohio State University; Scott Markowitz will be at Middlebury; and Kristen Wanner will be in China.

William Collazo notes that he’ll be working an odd assortment of jobs this summer: a grader/tutor at the Ladue Kumon Center, an English conversation teacher for visiting Japanese college students at UMSL . . . “I may even look into pizza delivery!  Needless to say, I’ll also be spending some much needed ‘quality time’ with my lovely wife.” In addition to William’s more “orthodox” summer occupations, he will also be conducting taste-tests of  “Smoothies.”  Look for him at a supermarket near you!
 

NEWLY GRADUATED STUDENTS

Owen Rosa (BA99) has been selected for a CIR (Coordinator for International Relations) position with the JET Program!  Where exactly he will end up is yet uncertain.  CIRs are “placed in offices of local governments or related organizations such as international associations, universities, convention bureaus and so on.”

Patri Ginsberg (JD/MA98) is working at the law firm of Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell in Chicago.  Heather Eaton (JD/MA candidate) will be working there this summer.
 

JOINT DEGREE INITIATIVES

Brown Bag Series

Have you had an interesting summer job or internship experience that you would like to share with your peers?  Did you study abroad?  A number of Joint Degree students led brown bag discussions last year under Michele Shoresman’s initiative.  Recent graduates Patri Ginsberg and John Grellner described living, working, and studying in China and the U.N. in their talk, “Network Your Way into China and the U.N.” Trish Welch, doctoral student in Social Work described “NSF (National Science Foundation) Opportunities in Japan and Korea.” Mr. Yi-Qing Li of Armstrong Teasdale in Shanghai spoke on “Legal Work in China;” and recent graduate, Rob Baran talked about Mombusho Fellowships to Japan in his presentation, “Don’t be Afraid of the Nontraditional Path.”  Please contact Michele Shoresman if you would like to lead a brown bag session this coming academic year: shoresman@wulaw.wustl.edu

Thank you to JD/EAS Joint Degree Alumni

Michele Shoresman, in her new capacity as Director of Joint Degree and Graduate Programs in the School of Law, recently distributed a brief survey to Joint Degree alumni, and has the following to report:  Thank you to those who returned the survey and are  helping us to evaluate the Joint Degree program. In addition, we are trying to find out how our joint degree alumni are using their degrees. Based on this survey, we plan to put together an alumni directory available in both hard copy and online for our alumni, and current and prospective students.  We mailed the surveys several weeks ago, if you did not receive one, please let me know.  We will keep you posted on the results and appreciate the time it takes you to complete the survey and send it back to us.

Michele Shoresman
314-935-7244
shoresman@wulaw.wustl.edu
 

MILESTONES

Robert Morrell will retire at the end of this semester after thirty-four years of service to  Washington University.  Bob received his Ph.D. in Japanese Language and Literature from Stanford University in 1969.  He began his employment at Washington University under the auspices of the Department of Chinese and Japanese in 1965.  During his tenure here Bob has taught Japanese literature surveys—both modern and classical; surveys of Oriental Culture; third-level modern Japanese language; classical literary Japanese language; graduate seminars on research methods and on Japanese and comparative literature; and, of course, Buddhist Thought and Values/Topics in Buddhist Tradition.  Bob has published widely on Japanese Buddhism and Japanese poetry.  He has contributed both articles and book reviews to numerous journals in the field and has participated in a variety of academic conferences throughout the years.  Presently, he is working on a study of Kamakura’s Tôkeiji Convent.  As this is the site where he and Sachiko Morrell married, it is perhaps appropriate that she is also co-authoring this project.

Sachiko Morrell retired from the Washington University Libraries—where she was the head librarian of the East Asian Library—after thirty-one years of dedicated service.  Sachiko received her BA in English and American Literature from Tokyo Woman’s Christian College in 1953; and her MA in Asian Studies from Washington University in 1972.  In 1987 she published A Guide to Research Materials in Japanese Studies, Washington University Olin Library System.  Bob and Sachi have just returned from a trip to France and seem to have many more plans for a happy retirement.
 

EAST ASIAN STUDIES LIBRARY

Tony Chang is the new Head Librarian of the East Asian Library.  The library is now searching for a new Japanese Catalog Librarian/Subject Librarian.  In the meantime, Sachiko Morrell is helping out on a parttime basis.
 

IN MEMORY

Dr. Stanely Spector passed away on January 29, 1999.  He was seventy-four.  Dr. Spector joined the Washington University faculty in 1955, having earned a Ph.D. in Chinese culture and language at the University of Washington.  When Dr. Spector arrived at WU, he was the first to teach courses related to Asia—as there were no other faculty available to offer these—and he taught them all—running the gamut from modern Japanese language to ancient Chinese history.  Dr. Spector worked tirelessly to develop a program in Asian Studies here, and he successfully established the Department of Chinese and Japanese in 1962.  This department has now grown to include Hebrew, Persian, Korean, Arabic, and (as of next year) Hindi!  Subsequently, the departmental name was changed to Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures.  The East Asian Studies Program was founded in 1991.  Dr. Spector’s many contributions live on in these programs and in his namesake, The Stanley Spector Lecture series.
 

FACULTY BITS AND PIECES

The Joint Degree—JD/MA

Shoresman Appointed Director of Joint Degree Programs

Michele Shoresman, Ph.D. was appointed as Director of Joint Degree and Graduate Programs in the School of Law as of August 30, 1998.  Michele has had a long history with our Joint Degree in Law and East Asian Studies.  She was one of the original writers of the first FLAS (Foreign Languages and Area Studies) proposals to the U.S. Department of Education in 1990.  WU has to reapply for this grant every three years and has received FLAS funding for students of advanced Chinese and Japanese ever since that time.

In this newly created position, Michele is advisor to students in all Law related Joint Degrees including Social Work, Business, Engineering, and Medicine.  She is also responsible for the international LL.M. program, which is a master’s program for students who are already lawyers in their home countries.  She is now looking for mentors for this program, especially Joint Degree students who might want to exchange language with LL.M.’s from China, Japan, and Korea.  Please let Michele know if you would like to participate in the LL.M. mentor program.
 

Frances Foster Reports:

I had three recent Chinese law publications: The Illusory Promise: Freedom of the Press in Hong Kong, China, 72 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 765 (1998); Translating Freedom for Post-1997 Hong Kong, 76 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW QUARTERLY 113 (1998); and Towards a Behavior-Based Model of Inheritance? The Chinese Experiment, 32 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS LAW REVIEW 77 (1998).  This summer I will continue my comparative analysis of Chinese and U.S. approaches to inheritance in an article entitled Linking Support and Inheritance: A New Model from China.  As for conferences, this fall, I served on two panels at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies’Annual Convention in Boca Raton, Florida.  In the middle of Hurricane Georges, I spoke on recent developments in Chinese and Russian law.  In January, I attempted to attend the Association for American Law Schools’ annual meeting but was snowed in.  In March, I attended the AAS Annual Meeting in Boston without encountering any weather disasters.  Clearly, Asianists have influence in high places!
 

The Chinese Section

Beata Grant’s time this year has been largely taken up by her new duties as Chair of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures.  It was a particularly busy year due to the fact that the department conducted five faculty searches—two of which have netted new EAS faculty members, Elizabeth Oyler from Stanford University and Tz’u Chiang from Taiwan.

This spring, Dr. Grant also managed (just barely) to teach a new freshman seminar, “Understanding Religion,” funded by a Kemper Grant, complete the copyediting for a new journal entitled NanNu: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Late Imperial China; and publish one article and several book reviews.  This coming summer she will catch up on her research on Buddhist nuns in China, weed her sadly neglected garden, and travel to Beijing to visit various Chinese language programs and see which would be most suitable for WU students.

Over the last academic year, Xia Liang taught the third and fourth level of Modern Chinese as well as Advanced Conversation (412).  She also presented two papers: “Teaching Grammar in the Advanced Chinese Class” at the Chinese Language Teachers Association; and “Advanced Chinese: Material and Pedagogy” at the Princeton Conference on Chinese Language Instruction.  Her book review of Language of the Dragon—A Classical Chinese Reader appeared in the February 1999 issue of the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers.

During the summer Xia Liang will serve as the Director of the Chinese Education Tour Chinese Language Program in Beijing.  She claims to be looking forward to taking care of sixty students from all over the US!  Perhaps she is really looking forward to visiting her family and eating delicious Chinese food!

Judy Mu will also be busy this summer directing a language program in Beijing.  This marks the second year that she has organized the Chinese Summer Program through Washington University.  The site for this year’s program will be Beijing Capital Normal University.  Dr. Mu will take eight students on the program—all from Washington University.  The program dates are from June 14 to August 6.

Fred Wu, after a busy year of teaching at Washington University, will be teaching Third-Level Chinese at Middlebury College from June 9 through August 13.

The Japanese Section

Rebecca Copeland reports: I have been busy this year with the Directorship of the East Asian Studies Program and look forward to two more years of the same.  In addition to this responsibility, I have presented a number of papers at conferences in New York, Indiana, and Wisconsin.  Now completing my study of nineteenth-century Japanese women writers, I am currently co-editing a volume of essays on Japanese women writers and images of patriarchy.  I am also on the editorial board of the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal—a multidisciplinary journal published in both Japanese and English. The job offers some interesting reading: most recently a critique of the film The Rising Sun from a “post-colonialist perspective;” and an essay on the 1950s “housewife debates” in Japan.   I was thrilled when the journal published an article EAS alumna, Claire Patrick (MA96) had written earlier for my course on Japanese women writers.   This summer, I look forward to a two-month research trip to Japan.

Mary-Jean Cowell will be presenting a paper at the Society of Dance History Scholars conference in Albuquerque in June.  This is the latest chapter in her Michio Ito research: Michio Ito and Sally Rand: Concert Dance and Tasteful Titillation. “Turns out the notorious Rand, in an effort to upgrade her act, studied with Ito and asked him to choreograph her attempt at a film come-back.”

Emi Fujiwara team-taught Third-and Fourth-Level Japanese, and taught Fifth-Level.  She attended the ACTFL conference in Chicago and was re-certified as an Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) tester.  She is the first person from WU with whom prospective EAS graduate students speak in Japanese either on the phone or in person.  She is returning to Tokyo for three weeks in May and then will drive to Vermont where she will be teaching in Middlebury College’s Japanese School’s summer intensive program.

Masayuki Itomitsu team-taught Second-and Fourth-level Japanese this past year.  In March he attended the Association of Asian Studies Conference in Boston and will also attend the Ninth Virginia Regional Workshop on technology and pedagogy in June.  Techonology and pedagogy are certainly nothing new to Masayuki Itomitsu.  He has been responsible for maintaining the webpage for the Japanese section.  Check it out at: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~mitomits/JapaneseSection.html
This coming summer he will teach at Bryn Mawr College and at The Ohio State University in teacher-training and language programs.  He has also been writing reviews of Japanese language teaching materials for the Modern Language Journal.

Ginger Marcus, Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program, team-taught in First-, Second-and Third-Level Japanese.  This past academic year she attended the AAS conference in Boston and the 12th Annual Conference of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ) in Michigan.  Her review of Mari Noda’s Japanese: The Spoken Language Interactive CD-ROM Program will appear in the next issue of the Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese. This coming summer she will teach in teacher-training and language programs at Bryn Mawr College and The Ohio State University.

Mrs. Marcus reports that while enrollments in Japanese have decreased at the national level, they remain stable at WU.  There were 87 students enrolled in Japanese language classes in the fall, and 58 remaining in the spring semester. We are also happy to welcome new undergraduate majors to EAS from the First-level class: Joe Congdon and Dorothy Hoffman. Joe will be attending Waseda University next year under the auspices of the WU Study Abroad Program. Dorothy was the very deserving recipient of the Takahashi Prize, an award given annually to the best First-level student.

Marvin Marcus is currently in Tokyo on a Japan Foundation grant.  In March he presented a paper at the AAS in Boston, “Childhood Reminiscence in the Work of Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943)” for a panel on Reminiscences of Childhood in Modern Japanese Literature that he and Rebecca Copeland organized.

Misako Suzuki team-taught First- and Second-Level Japanese.  She reports that she found the students highly motivated and is looking forward to teaching next year.  She attended the ACTFL conference in Chicago last fall and plans to attend the Ninth Virginia Regional Workshop in Japanese Language Pedagogy at Georgetown University this June.  The focus of the latter will be on integrating technology (computers and the internet) into the language classroom. Over the summer she plans to teach (visa status permitting) in the Japanese language program (SPEAC) at the Ohio State University.  She recently published two book reviews for the Modern Language Journal: one on Naoko Chino’s Japanese Verbs at a Glance; the second on Jeff Garrison and Masahiko Goshi, Animal Idioms.
 

ALUMNI SIGHTINGS
 

Michael Dankert (MA94) is presently studying at UCLA—as is EAS Alumna Linda Flores (MA95).  Michael writes:  “I am studying pre-modern [Japanese] literature under Michele Marra, Dr. Morrell’s former student, so we’ve got that whole Zen-type scholastic lineage thing going. The majority of my time has been spent trying to learn to read classical Chinese and familiarize myself with 3000 years of Chinese literary tradition. . . . I spent four quarters last year teaching Japanese (including summer intensive). I was supposed to take this year off (since I got a FLAS), but in the autumn ended up assisting with a Japanese Civ. Class. . . . That’s about it.  Well, that, and I’m getting married in June!”

Amidst crashing computers and TA teaching duties, Linda Flores (MA95) has been busy writing papers on Japanese women writers.  Lately she’s been working on Hirabayashi Taiko’s Seiryoshitsu nite (In the Charity Ward) and Azakeru (Self-Mockery) and Elizabeth Grosz’s theory of embodied subjectivity.  “This quarter, I plan to expand my work on subjectivity and the body to include later writers such as Tsushima Yûko and Ôba Minako.  It’s interesting, really, how I find myself coming back to many of the same authors read at WU!”

And this from Bert Scruggs (MA96): “I’m still very busy (aren’t we all).  For the moment I’m still a teaching fellow (a.k.a. cheap exploitable labor) here at Penn, and I’m studying with Perry Link at Princeton.  I’m growing increasingly familiar with the potholes in Interstate 95.  Philadelphia is quite different from St. Louis.  Actually, our old Eastgate neighborhood there seems suburban compared to West Philly.  Jean and I are hoping to return to Taiwan for a month or two this summer, and leave the fair city of brotherly love next spring from Japan or Taiwan.

Susan Jones (MA96)—after a two-year research scholarship at Kyoto University provided by the Japanese Ministry of Education (Mombusho)—now finds herself living in Nishinomiya where she works in Osaka for Yomiuri TV.  While marketing YTV programs abroad, she is learning a lot about contracts, intellectual property, and piracy.  The job keeps her on the road.  She was sent to a market in Singapore in December, New Orleans and New York in January, and she went to France and England in April.  Her French bulldog, PoPo, misses her but forgives her for her frequent absences.
 

Melissa (aka Lisa) Parrish (BA95) has recently taken a position with Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management where she is an Internet Marketing Specialist.  She comes to this job after a brief stint at Motorola where she was working on their e-commerce initiative. Currently, Lisa is living in Phoenix—land of fun and sun.  All visitors are welcome!

Stacy Kaneshiro (BA98) is currently living in Okinawa and working for JET (Japan Exchange Teaching) where she teaches mostly aural/oral English to 16-18 year olds at two high schools on the main island.  She’s found the job so rewarding that she has signed on to teach for another year, which means that she’ll be in Okinawa until July 2000.  She’d sign up for more but she plans to get married in the fall of 2000!
 

RUMORS, INNUENDOS, AND UNSUBSTANTIATED REPORTS

The EAS Director is keen to hear more from alumni, candidates for graduations, current students, and faculty.   Occasionally I catch wind of a rumor or some other such unsubstantiated report.  The following is of this variety:

 Scott Markowitz has it on good authority that the World Famous “Odd Chair Lounge” is being considered for a place on the National Registry of Historical Landmarks.  He reports:

     Officials from the Department of the Interior recently visited St. Louis to inspect the Lounge.  According to blatantly irresponsible and unofficial sources, the officials observed that the set of chairs comprising the Lounge were not “odd” at all. In fact, the furniture in the Lounge was “uniform” and tastefully arranged.”  There is no word on whether the “odd” discovery will affect the Lounge’s prospects for national recognition.
 
 

LOOKING AHEAD

--Incoming--

A number of new graduate students will join the program in the fall.  Li Qin and Sun Hua Kun will be moving here from China, and Son Chi-Hyon from Korea.  Krystel Mowery, with a BA from WU, will be returning to St. Louis after a number of years in Japan; and Suzanne Kauer will begin her studies with us in the spring semester.  We look forward to meeting these students in August.  Orientation for these and returning students will be held on Thursday, August 19.  Hope to see many of you then!

--Fulbright--

Approximately 15 Fulbright full academic-year fellowships will be available for graduate students enrolled in Ph.D. and master’s programs who intend to pursue research in Japan.  Approximately 10 awards will be available to undergraduates who expect to graduate between January and August, 2000.   Additionally, there are awards available to applicants pursuing research/study in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, and other Asia/Pacific areas.  The Campus deadline for applications is September 23, 1999.  For more information, contact Dr. Priscilla Stone, 935-5073.