THE RECORD

February 1978

No. 49

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS,

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

EDITOR Marilyn Duncan

HEALTH CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR MARCH

Issues related to the nature and role of health systems agencies under the 1974 National Health Planning and Resource Development Act will be examined in an upcoming conference sponsored by the LBJ School.

The Conference on Organizing for Health Planning will be held in the Thompson Conference Center March 8-10.

Background material will be provided by the School Policy Research Project on Health Planning, funded by a grant from the Department of HEW, Region VI. Project Director David Warner is also coordinator of the conference.

A reception and registration session will open the conference on the evening of March 8. Addressing the opening session on March 9 will be Robert Crane, member of the subcommittee on health, U.S. House of Representatives. His topic will be "The Health Planning Law of 1974: The View from Congress."

Six workshops will be held twice on March 9, once in the morning and again in the afternoon. Workshop 1 will be on Alternative HSA Structural Arrangements. Speakers and commentators will include Wood McCue, acting director of American Health Planning Association (tentative); David Helms, director of the Alpha Center for Health Planning, Syracuse, New York, and Hardy Loe, director of the Region VI Health Planning Center.

Workshop 2 will be on Provider Representation. The panel will include Ray Hurst, executive director, Texas Hospital Association and Terrance Shannon, special assistant to Director, Bureau of Health Planning and Resources Development.

Workshop 3 will be on Consumer Representation. Conveners and discussants will include: David Ewers of the South Texas Health Consumers Association, and Dr. Julian Knox, British Department of Health & Social Security. (Mrs. Betty Himmelblau, councilwoman, City of Austin and vice Chair of the Texas SHCC, and Irwin Salmanson, president of Central Texas Health Systems Agency and member of the SHCC will each appear on one panel.)

Workshop 4 will be on Special Problems of Rural HSAs. Alice Hersh, director of rural health projects at the National Rural Center in Washington, will direct this workshop with the active participation of several rural HSA directors and others, including Laurel Carson Shannon, special assistant to the Associate Administrator for Planning, Evaluation, and Legislation, Health Resources Administration.

Workshop 5 will be on Relationships with Other Entities. The panel will include Charles Cranford, DHEW, Dallas; Jose Contreras, Camino Real Health Systems Agency, San Antonio, and Scott Bunton, staff director, Committee on Human Resources, National Governors Association.

Workshop 6 will be on Future Directions for HSAs. Panelists will include Brian Biles, Office of the Assistant Secretary of HEW for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, and Larry De Priest, director, Oklahoma HSA.

Additional panelists have been invited and will be announced at a later date.

On March 10, participants will attend two general sessions during the morning. A luncheon address, which will close the conference, will be provided by E.B. Johnson, Principal Regional Officer, Region VI HEW (Dallas). He will speak on "A View of Health Planning From the Regional Office."

The registration fee for the conference is $25 per person to cover materials, refreshments, and the final luncheon. Pre-registration forms may be obtained from the Office of Conferences and Training, LBJ School of Public Affairs.

TOM SLICK COLLOQUIUM ON PEACE ANNOUNCED

A colloquium on the prospects for world peace is scheduled for March 10 in the East Campus Lecture Hall.

The colloquium, entitled "The Road to Peace: Obstacles and Opportunities," is being sponsored by the Distinguished Visiting Tom Slick Professorship of World Peace of the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The Slick Professorship, endowed from the estate of the late Tom Slick of San Antonio, promotes research, teaching, and public enlightenment on the subject of world peace.

Colloquium participants will be Professors Gunnar Myrdal and Alva Myrdal, holders of the Slick Professorship for the spring semester; former Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Alejandro Orfila, Secretary General of OAS; and another person to be announced.

The event, which promises to be the highlight of the spring semester's activities, is open to the public. Additional information will be available through the Dean's office in late February.

'ON THE RECORD'

The Internship and Placement Committee met Monday, January 23, and made the following decisions on the awarding of special internships for next summer.

Johnson Congressional Intern: Russell Hedge was selected as this year's nominee. Dan Reingold is first alternate, and Ira Birnbaum is second alternate.

Bentson Internship: The Committee selected DeAnn Friedholm. John Gooding is the alternate.

Pickle Internship: Mitchell Goldstein is the Committee's first choice. Paul Hilgers' and Jack Adams' resumes will be submitted as unranked alternates. Congressman Pickle will select from the three.

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Dean Elspeth Rostow addressed the Adult Services Council of Austin February 8 at their Annual Meeting. The ASC is a group funded by the United Way to plan and coordinate services for the elderly and to provide information to the public on problems faced by retired citizens. The Dean's topic was "Aging in an Age of Inflation."

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Professor Lodis Rhodes participated in the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Educational Research Association January 26-28, in Austin. In addition to being a panel discussant, he presented a paper on "Refocusing Educational Research and Development to Address Regionally Defined Needs of the Southwest."

Dr. Rhodes is also scheduled to lecture and present a paper at the Fifth National Institute on Minority Aging in San Diego, February 15-17. The paper, which will be published as part of a book of Institute proceedings, is entitled "Mandatory Retirement Policies: Impact on Income Maintenance for Minority Elders."

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Professor Leigh Boske recently presented a paper at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C. The topic of his paper was "Neglected National Policy in Regulating Transportation."

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The hours for the Computer Room during the spring semester are as follows:

MWF 8:00 a.m.—12:00 noon;

1:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m.

TTH 1:00 p.m.—2:30 p.m.;

4:30 p.m.—6:00 p.m.

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Newly elected Class representatives for the spring semester are: Russell Hedge and Jan Hilton, first year class; Lee Solsberry and Marc Dominus, second year class; and Todd Kaufman and Don Saylor, first year representatives to the Faculty Recruitment Committee.

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The LBJ School is now part of the University's PAX system. The School-wide PAX number is 4562.

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Professor Jared Hazleton travelled to Oklahoma State University January 26, where he spoke to the Econoclastics, an undergraduate economics society, on "The Role of Professional Training for Public Service." While there, he also interviewed potential applicants to the LBJ School.

On February 2, Dr. Hazleton attended the Region VIII meeting of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), where he met with the Committee on Peer Review, established to set standards and procedures for peer review of public affairs and administration programs. The meeting was held in Ft. Worth in conjunction with meetings of the American Schools of Public Affairs (ASPA).

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Dr. Fred Singer, Visiting Richardson Professor for the first half of the spring semester, met with LBJ faculty and department heads at a Brown Bag Luncheon sponsored by the Dean's Office February 2.

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Faculty secretary Toni Nelson gave birth to a 6 Ib. 9 1/2 oz. girl, Carlye Lynne, on January 15.

Marilyn Smiland, who is a familiar face in the School, is filling in for Toni until she returns April 3.

RHODES ARTICLE PUBLISHED

The alternate care approach to service delivery to older citizens is the subject of an article by Professor Lodis Rhodes published in the Winter issue of Public Welfare (Vol.36,No. 1, pp. 42-48).

In "Alternate Care for the Elderly," Dr. Rhodes discusses the emerging national emphasis on a social service-based approach to dealing with needs of the elderly, as opposed to the traditional income-support approach. He provides a legislative history of both approaches to explain how the alternate care model is in jeopardy of curtailment despite its growing popularity among legislators, service providers, and consumers. According to Rhodes, the shift toward a social services approach began with the Social Security Amendments of 1956 and was reflected in successive amendments to the Act. However, the Amendments of 1972, while advancing the development of alternate care services in many ways, simultaneously short-circuited future growth by placing a ceiling on funding for those services.

Other basic problems confronting the development of social services programs for the elderly stem from policy and program incompatibility in the Social Security Act and the later Older Americans Act. These conflicts are found in "(1) the philosophy and reality of home and community oriented long-term care for the aged; (2) the legislative mandates for planning and coordinating services; (3) program eligibility requirements authorized by the two acts; and (4) the resultant funding mechanisms governing service providers."

Rhodes outlines what he believes to be the goals necessary to resolve these problems and allow for full development of alternate care programs: (achievement of) "(1) parity between direct cash payment and in-kind services; (2) dismantling of the vertical administrative structure of the Administration on Aging; (3) vesting of program planning and coordination functions in the state agency that administers Title XX of the Social Security Act; and (4) sub-state decentralization, through area agency on aging-type mechanisms whose flexibility to develop horizontal service delivery networks seem the most adaptable to states' differing service needs. None of these goals is impractical or impossible,"

The article developed from research conducted in a 1976-77 Policy Research Project directed by Dr. Rhodes. The project report, Alternate Care for the Elderly, is available through the School's Office of Publications.

ALUMNI FORUM

This is your opportunity to find out all you wanted to know about consulting but were afraid to ask.

The LBJ School Alumni Association has organized the first of its "occasional seminars". It will be held on Thursday evening, February 23, from 6:45 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. in the LBJ School Faculty Lounge.

Speaking on the topic of consulting will be Terrell Blodgett of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co.; John Frannae of the Texas Department of Human Resources; Robert Tinsman of the Lower Colorado River Authority (former Austin city manager); and Philip Barnes, a private consultant.

Those of us responsible for developing a continuing education program for the Alumni Association decided that many, if not most, of the LBJ School Alumni either work with consultants or work as consultants. We have therefore asked the speakers to address issues such as how to choose a consultant, how to reimburse a consultant for services, the right and wrong reasons for using consultants, contract preparation and accountability, starting a consulting business, and the process of seeking clients. Plenty of time has been scheduled for discussion, so come with your ideas and questions and share them with us.

You are welcomed to invite your friends to attend this seminar. Also, the faculty, staff and students of the LBJ School are invited to attend.

Special thanks go to Wayne Campbell, Nancy Davis, Beverly Hovenkamp and Bill Stotesbury for assisting me in the preparation of this seminar. Also, Wilda Campbell and Jared Hazleton have contributed their cooperation and support.

At your convenience please inform one of the members of the Alumni Board if you are planning to attend this seminar. We will need this information to make the proper arrangements for refreshments. The Board members are: Dave West (475-1545); Lydia Gardner (458-9161); Debbie Cartwright (475-3311); Meg Wilson (475-6902); and Malcolm MacDonald (475-6071).

--Malcolm MacDonald

HAZLETON SPEAKS ON MIDDLE EAST ECONOMICS

Professor Jared Hazleton spoke to students at a brown bag seminar January 20 on the topic of Economic Development in the Middle East. Hazleton, who returned recently from Jordan, offered general summaries of the state of economic affairs in various countries of the Middle East, including both oil-producing and nonoil-producting nations.

Kuwait, an oil-producing nation, was laid to be a major international center for investment, with an advanced socialistic system resulting from an ex-patriot culture.

Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is an oil-producing nation whose wealth is concentrated in a small ruling class, which maintains a feudal system.

Bahrain, said Hazleton, is different in that it is more progressive socially, but its oil is on the down side of the production scale and will eventually run out. His advice to Bahraini officials was to cultivate ties with Saudi Arabia now in order to "live off their crumbs" later. He noted that his advice is being heeded.

The non-oil-producing countries, comprising a larger portion of the Middle East, vary in their ability to sustain themselves economically. Egypt, the largest of these, is also the worst equipped for self-sustenance, according to Hazleton. With natural resources limited to the Nile Valley, Egypt is in need of foreign investments to stimulate its import-dependent economy.

Jordan, he said, is better off because of large imputs of foreign aid for developing the Jordan Valley. Most funding goes into construction in this country, which has served to raise land prices to exorbitant heights. He reported the employment rates are high due to a large phosphate fertilizer industry and a tremendous service sector. Agriculturally, however, Hazleton noted some problems in Jordan. The U.S., in conjunction with its investments in an extensive irrigation system, is attempting to impose a Land Reform program according to a model he feels is irrelevent. In the context of the Jordan Valley, a labor-scarce economy, Land Reform may even be counterproductive in terms of income redistribution and agricultural productivity.

Syria is relatively well-off, according to Hazleton, because of its tremendous amount of resources. Unlike most Middle Eastern nations, Syria's agricultural lands are highly productive, and the country also has a fairly good industrial base.

Iraq is not as healthy economically, as all investments are made at the national level, and productivity is limited in industry and agriculture.

He noted that Lebanon's position is totally deteriorated due to the ongoing civil war between Moslem and Christian sects.

He concluded that in general, in the non-oil-producing states, agriculture is the chief economic problem in the Middle East. These countries need to generate agricultural surpluses for exporting, but either the lands are not arable, or the rural populations have migrated to urban centers before there is adequate rural development to support the urban centers. As long as they must import food, he said, real progress in industrial development will be difficult.

SPEAKERS PROGRAM FOR LBJ SCHOOL, FEBRUARY 1978*

Date Time; Place Speakers Topic

February 7 Noon; Andrea Beatty, Austin Can You Do Good Things

Tuesday Student Lounge Assistant City Manager in a City Manager's Office?

February 14 Noon; Mr. Jack Perry, Chairman, Dimensions of China's

Tuesday Student Lounge London Export Corporation Economic Expectations

and Policy

February 17 Noon; Ralph J. McGuire, Former The Sahel—Lessons for Relief

Friday Student Lounge U.S. Ambassador to Mali of Starvation and Drought

February 21 Noon; Cindy Keaver, LBJ Alumna Role Change: Student to

Tuesday Student Lounge Coystal Stone, Assistant Professional

Dean for Counseling, School

of Education and Counselor,

U.T. Counseling Center

February 24 Noon; Sidney Weintraub, Dean Tensions in U.S.-Japan

Friday Student Lounge Rusk Professor, LBJ School Trade Relations

February 28 Noon; Dr. Fred Singer, Richardson The Cost of a Risk Free

Tuesday Student Lounge Visiting Professor Society

*The schedule is always subject to change.

EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PRP REPORT PUBLISHED

The Office of Publications recently released No. 23 in the School's series of Policy Research Project Reports.

Federal Policies for Equal Educational Opportunity: Conflict and Confusion is the outgrowth of a policy research project conducted in 1976-77 under the direction of Professor Beryl Radin. LBJ School Professor John A. Gronouski and Law School Professor Mark Yudof also served as project faculty members.

The study consists of an inquiry into five areas of federal policies and procedures:

•Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA);

•Bilingual and bicultural programs, particularly Title VII of ESEA;

•The Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA);

•The policies of the HEW Office for Civil Rights (OCR); and

•Directives of federal court orders affecting the cities studied.

These areas were viewed from the perspective of five communities nationwide. The community perspective is designed to give a bottom-up look at separate federal policies and programs at the points at which they are implemented within a single local education effort.

Issues addressed in the study include the use of Title I monies by districts undergoing court-ordered desegregation and the problems of money following the child to a new school; the use of ESAA funds by school districts desegregating either voluntarily or under court order; the ability of local districts receiving federal monies to develop comprehensive equal educational opportunity plans; and the procedures for applying for funds and policies used in awarding grants.

Recommendations arising from the study are directed to the Office of Education and to the Office of Civil Rights, and attempt to mesh the two major federal approaches to equal educational opportunity-desegregation and compensation. Some of these include: the adoption of consistent standards for all federal programs, with bilingual standards set by OE and civil rights standards by OCR; the earmarking of a separate source of funds (apart from present Title I or ESEA funds) for the special needs of children displaced by desegregation; the allowance of more flexibility in the application for and use of ESAA funds to allow for financial needs in schools' planning phases and development of programs not .outlined in the original plan or court order; and more active monitoring of district practices by OCR to assure compliance with the Title VI goal of nondiscrimination.

The project leading to this report was funded in part by a grant from the Office of Public Education of the Ford Foundation. Copies of the publication are available through the School's Office of Publications at a cost of $3.50 each.

WOMEN'S ISSUES DISCUSSED AT BROWN BAG

Three attendees of the International Women's Year Convention in Houston reviewed that event at a well-attended brown bag seminar January 17.

Liz Carpenter, Martha Smiley, and Marta Cotera described the convention and identified some of the major needs and issues facing the women's movement.

Martha Smiley said IWY captured the energy and enthusiasm of a wide range of women and instilled a commitment to work toward a goal of equality. She noted that two needs requiring attention at this point are that of identifying women who have been isolated from the movement and the need for communicating more effectively within the movement.

Liz Carpenter stressed the necessity of pushing for legislation so that the Plan of Action developed by IWY does not become simply another document. She went on to review the Plan, which has 26 points, and to discuss strategies for its implementation.

Marta Cotera, Chicano women's advocate, said minorities must come together as a coalition within the movement in order to advance the causes of particular importance to them.

As a follow-up to the brown bag, a planning session was held February 1 to discuss possibilities for a series of seminars on women's issues.

MATHEWSON VISITING THIS SEMESTER

Mr. Kent Mathewson, President of the Metropolitan Fund, Inc., in Michigan, is teaching at the LBJ School this semester as a Visiting Professor of Public Affairs.

The Metropolitan Fund is an urban affairs foundation designed to develop research and action on metropolitan problems in the five million population, seven-county Detroit region of southeast Michigan. The Fund has been a principal agent in the development of several organizations now functioning in the region, among them the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority, New Detroit, Inc. and Regional Citizens.

Before assuming this position in January, 1964, Mr. Mathewson served as City Manager and Assistant City Manager of five U.S. East and West Coast cities from 1939 to 1964.

Mr. Mathewson received his B.S. in Public Administration, with major in City Management, from the University of North Carolina, and his M.S. from Syracuse University at the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

In addition to Mr. Mathewson's achievements as guest speaker, lecturer, and writer for professional organizations, journals and universities, he was the originator of Oregon's Intergovernmental "Massive Cooperation" Program, which resulted in the first multi-level Council of Governments in the United States in 1958. Prior to that he was the creator in 1955 of a continuing "Commission on Human Values" in southwest Virginia, a forerunner of today's municipal Departments of Human Resources. In 1967-68 he functioned as chief administrative officer of the "New Detroit Committee", the nation's first urban coalition organization.

In 1971, Mr. Mathewson toured twelve countries in the Middle East on behalf of the U.S. Department of State, lecturing on "Planning the Cities" to governmental, business, civic and student leaders with a return visit to the Middle East in the Spring of 1975. He has travelled throughout Europe, Scandinavia and Russia.

In 1972, Mr. Mathewson was a participant in the "Global Strategy Discussions" called by the Secretary of the U.S. Navy. The discussions were held in Newport, Rhode Island.

He has edited and jointly authored over two dozen major publications and books on metropolitan affairs, the most recent being The Regionalist Papers, which is currently being used nationally as a text by colleges and universities.

COHON SPEAKS AT BROWN BAG

Dr. Jared L. Cohon, Assistant to U.S. Senator Patrick Moynihan and Professor at Johns Hopkins University, spoke to students January 3 1 at a Brown Bag seminar on the topic of "Policy Analysis: Can It Be Done by Congressional Staff?"

Dr. Cohon noted that the voting behavior of each member of Congress is highly complex, and the legislative staff is only one among many active influences. Operating in the midst of these impacting agents, policy analysis must compete with Administrative opinion, the influence of other members of Congress, lobbyist pressure, and to some extent constituency opinion.

Among the barriers to effective analysis of any given legislation, Cohon listed as foremost the lack of time, the politicization of data, and the dynamic art of compromise (Senatorial bargaining).

TAX ASSESSORS PROCEEDINGS RELEASED

The Proceedings of the Eighteenth Institute for Tax Assessors was published in January by the Office of Publications.

The Institute was held in December 1976 under the sponsorship of the LBJ School, in cooperation with the Texas Association of Assessing Officers and the Texas Municipal League. It is held annually to provide in-service education for Texas tax assessors and assessment personnel of counties, cities, school districts, and other units of local government.

Included in the volume are six papers on various aspects of property taxation by scholars and technicians: "Challenges of the Professional Assessor," by Charles R. Henington, Louisiana tax assessor and president of the International Association of Assessing Officers; "Current Problems in the Appraisal of Syndicated Land Holdings," by Terry D. Khan, UT Professor of Community and Regional Planning; "The Proposed Property Tax Code," by State Representative Wayne Peveto, Chairman of the Property Tax Subcommittee, Texas Legislative Council; "The Governor's Office Study of Taxable Values," by John H. Poerner, Director of the Governor's Office of Educational Resources; "Property Tax Proposals of the Texas Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations," by N. David Spurgin; and "Legislative Proposal Relating to Texas Property Taxation," by James W. McGrew, Executive Director of the Texas Research League.

The volume is available in the Office of Publications for $3.00.

IS THERE LIFE AFTER WORK?

In answer to this question and in an effort to enlighten those who would be disbelievers, The Record is offering brief insights into the lives of LBJ School staff members. Each month two School offices will be represented, beginning in this issue with the Dean's Office and the Business Office.

Dean's Office

Senior Secretary Jody Foote came to the School in August 1977 after spending a year in Bristol, England, where her husband studied on a Rotary Fellowship and she worked as secretary to a nationalized electricity board.

Jody, who is a native of Oklahoma, has a B.A. in Spanish from Oklahoma State University and remains an avid Oklahoma football fan.

Among her leisure time activities are reading biographies and cooking, Chinese cuisine being her current favorite.

Jean Graeber, Executive Assistant, is a native of London, England, and has lived in the U.S. twenty years. She has worked in the Dean's Office of the LBJ School five of those years.

Jean, who has four children, is married to an architect. They live in a restored saloon on East 6th Street, built at the same time as the Capitol Building.

Life-after-work activities include cooking (specialties: Mediterranean, Northern Italian, and Southern soul), and sailing. She and her husband David recently bought an Islander and hope to take it to the Gulf into Mexico next summer.

Vicki Vincent, Administrative Secretary, was born in Ketchikan, Alaska, and was raised in Rockdale, Texas, a small town about sixty miles northeast of Austin. She returned to Alaska between 1972 and 1974, during which time she worked as a tally clerk for an exporting pulp company. While in Alaska she also enjoyed hunting and fishing, the highlight being the time she caught (and ate) a 36-pound halibut (fish story available upon request).

Since 1974 Vicki has worked at the LBJ School, first in the Office of Student Affairs, and since 1976 in the Dean's Office.

Outside work, she is part of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters Program of Austin, and spends several hours a month with her Little Sister Cindy, aged twelve.

Vicki is moving to Dallas in March. Her last day of work at the School will be February 22.

Business Office

Kathy Brown, Administrative Clerk, was raised in Round Rock, Texas and has lived in Austin since 1971. She has been employed by the LBJ School one and one-half years, and worked in the OACIP before moving to the Business Office.

Kathy has a 2 1/2-year old son, Shawn Thomas Brown, who occupies a large portion of her off-work time.

She enjoys water skiing and snow skiing, and is planning to take a snow skiing trip to Park City, Utah later this month.

Breadpersons will be interested in learning that Kathy is enrolled in a bread-making class this semester.

Angel Leshikar, Director of Operations, has worked at UT since 1961, holding administrative assistant positions in the Zoology and Geology Departments and in the Office of the President under President Hackerson. She has directed the LBJ School Business Office since 1972.

Angel (appropriately dubbed Guardian Angel of the School) was born in Missouri and has lived in thirteen different states. Before coming to UT she was associate publisher of two national magazines— True West and Frontier Times.

Angel has two daughters, two sons, and two grandsons. Her husband T'Odon was UT Bursar before his retirement in August 1977.

Tom Loomis, half-time Clerk, is a junior RTF major, with a concentration in film. He moved to Austin in 1975 from Washington, D.C., and has worked at the LBJ School since October 1976.

Tom's after-work/after-school activities include photography, soccer, camping, and backpacking.

Kathryn Pendleton, half-time Clerk-Typist, is a junior in Music Education at UT. She plays eleven musical instruments, including the piano, the oboe, the flute, and a variety of stringed and percussion instruments.

Kathryn, who transferred to UT from Southwest Texas SU last fall, plans to be a private music instructor after completing her education.

Cathy Slusser, Accountant I, moved to Austin from Wharton, Texas ten years ago. She graduated from UT in 1976 with a BBA, and has worked at the LBJ School since that time.

Cathy and her Yorkshire terrier Joe Willie live in an older house which she recently purchased. In addition to working on the house, her free time is spent playing tennis, water skiing, country dancing, and reading magazines. She is also taking a practical law course and a breadmaking course this semester.

In addition to her fondness for bread, Cathy loves to eat Chinese food, and her taste in music is country. (In other words, she's a wok and roll food and country music fan!)

Warren A. Watson, half-time Clerk, has a B.A. in Slavic Languages and is currently working toward an equivalent degree in botany. He hopes to do graduate work in botany at Texas A&M after completing his work at UT.

Warren's main outside interest is plant systematics, which involves collecting plant samples in the field and determining their family, genus, etc. This interest has taken him from Kennedy, Texas to Honduras, working with Jackie M. Poole, curator of the UT Lundell Herbarium.

Anne West.. Accounting Clerk, has worked in the Business Office since September 1976. A native of Montgomery, Alabama, she has lived in Texas a number of years. She has a daughter and two grandsons in Houston.

Anne enjoys reading in her leisure time, and plans to take lessons in racquet ball this spring.

MAGIC VALLEY RECEIVES FILM AWARD

The Council on International Non-theatrical Events (CINE) has notified the LBJ School that the motion picture, The Magic Valley, has been selected in a national competition to represent the United States of America in international motion picture events abroad. The School has been awarded the CINE Eagle in recognition of this honor.

The Magic Valley was produced by the Policy Research Project on South Texas during the 1975-1976 school year. Carey White, a graduate student in the Radio-Television-Film department of the School of Communications, wrote and directed the film. Faculty and students in the Department assisted Mr. White in making the film.

LBJ faculty and students in the project developed ideas for the film in the course of their research on the problems of colonias, rural unincorporated communities of Mexican Americans in the Rio Grande Valley. The film depicts the contrast between a visiting journalist developing a story on the Valley and the life of an average colonia family. Interviews with public officials are used to depict the problems facing these communities and the difficulties of addressing these problems through public policy.

Professors Kingsley Haynes and Jared Hazleton directed the project. Financial support was received from the National Science Foundation, Research Applied To National Needs Program, the Division of Planning Coordination of the Office of the Governor, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation.

A report summarizing the research and policy implications has been published by the LBJ School (PRP # 18).