Daily Staff Writer

Lunch held today

The first meeting of the Tuesday Brown Bag with Diversity Scholars will be held today at noon at the Margaret Sloss House Women’s Center.

Today’s program, titled “White Image In the Black Mind,” will be given by Jane Davis, professor of English.

The Tuesday Brown Bag lunches are sponsored by women’s studies, African American studies and the Margaret Sloss House Women’s Center and are held the first Tuesday of each month.

Faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend the lunch.

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FCS honors alumni

The College of Family and Consumer Sciences will be hosting a reception for the alumni award recipients this Friday, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., in the LeBaron Lounge of LeBaron Hall.

Janet C. King is among the award recipients who will be receiving the ISU Distinguished Achievement Citation. King currently is the director of the USDA/ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center, Presido of San Francisco and professor at the University of California-Berkeley.

Barbara Johnson also is receiving the ISU Alumni Medal. She is the financial counselor and registered investment adviser for the Ohio National Company.

ISU alumnus James Huss, of the 1964 graduating class, is receiving the Faculty Citation. Huss is the extension specialist and associate professor of hotel, restaurant and institution management.

Martha Farrell Erickson, a 1967 graduate, is receiving the Alumni Merit Award by the ISU Club of Chicago. Erickson is the director or Youth and Family Consortium at the University of Minnesota.

Two alumni are the recipients of the Professional Achievement Award in Family and Consumer Sciences presented by the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.

The two recipients are Margaret Arcus, a 1968 graduate and professor of family science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., Canada and Linda Gene Nixon Foster, a 1972 ISU graduate. Foster is the principal of Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, Texas.

The Helen LeBaron Hilton Recognition will be presented to 1983 graduate Debra Emery and 1989 graduate Carol VanWaardhuizen.

Emery is the housing assistant at the Department of Planning and Housing in Ames. VanWaardhuizen is the administrative assistant at Northwest Iowa Transportation, Inc. in Waterloo.

Another award, The Memorial Union Service Medallion, will be presented to Beverly Crabtree.

The public is welcome to attend the reception to congratulate the alumni. The honoring of the alumni will follow at the Scheman Building.