October 29, 1998
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In from the cold
Students, faculty and staff at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work are participating in a blanket drive sponsored by the National Association of Social Workers' Eastern Missouri Unit to collect new or clean used blankets for elderly and disabled persons who can't afford heat. Donations from all members of the University community are welcome. There are boxes in Goldfarb Hall's student commons for the drive, which will continue through Nov. 8. For more information, call 481-5615.
Y classes
The Campus Y offers a variety of classes in fitness and health for University students, faculty and staff as well as members of the public. Classes range from aerobics to yoga and tai chi; a class in sign language is available as well. Fees vary, and University employees and students receive a discount. The schedule for current offerings is available at the Campus Y office in the east basement of Umrath Hall. For more information, call 935-5010.
Best way to care
The University and the Human Resources offices extend thanks to the many faculty and staff who have returned their United Way pledge cards, and ask that those who have not please do so as soon as possible. If you have misplaced your card, more are readily available! Contact Blanche Johnson, 935-6126, or Ann Prenatt, 935-8046, on the Hilltop Campus; Karen Seifert or Paul Anderson, both at 362-4369, on the Medical Campus; or Jeannine Bogacki, 935-4492, or Jeff Cooper, 935-5710, on West Campus.
At your fingertips
The University Libraries include more than 3.2 million books, periodical volumes and government publications, plus a large and growing number of collections in both print and nonprint formats, in the John M. Olin Library and 12 school and department libraries. The libraries offer many special or rare materials, including the Modern Literature Collection, devoted to the study of 115 British and American writers, and the Bernard Becker Medical Library's Paraclesus Collection, regarded as the world's largest collection of works by or about Paraclesus, the 16th-century physician and polymath.
Did you know?
Carl F. Cori, M.D., and Gerti Cori, M.D., of the School of Medicine won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for isolating an enzyme that starts the conversion of animal starch into sugar. Six other Nobelists received training under their auspices.
Answer: This owl is mantling his mouse prey in the McMillan Hall archway.
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