Volume 25, No. 5, September 29, 2000

Watching Rob Seiler, M.B.A. '01 sink a putt at the Olin
Open 2000 are, from left, John Santangelo, project manager
auditing services, Monsanto Co.; Phil Cagney, M.B.A. '86,
vice president, transaction finance, Computer Sales International;
and Mark Hall, M.B.A. '02. The tournament brought corporate
recruiters and Olin students together for a day of networking.

Gift aids social work practicum projects

By Ann Nicholson

Social work practicum projects helping at-risk youths and faculty research are the beneficiaries of a $100,000 grant from MasterCard International to the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. The grant also will provide scholarship support for graduate students committed to remaining in St. Louis for social work and community service jobs.

"By reinforcing the George Warren Brown School of Social Work's ongoing community outreach, field education and research programs, MasterCard's contribution to St. Louis will be multiplied manyfold," said Dean Shanti K. Khinduka, Ph.D. "The grant will help provide badly needed assistance to local residents and agencies, while strengthening research and graduate education initiatives destined to improve social services well into the future."

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With the mammoth Monks Mound looming in the background, senior Corin Pursell records data from the excavation of Mound 34 at Cakohia Mounds near Collinsville, Ill. Pursell and other Washington University students worked at the site with John E. Kelly, Ph.D., lecturer in anthropology in Arts & Sciences.

Debate changes Record schedule

The next issue of the Record will appear on campus Monday, Oct. 9, followed by a special commemorative edition Oct. 20 with expanded coverage of the U. S. presidential debate between Al Gore and George W. Bush, scheduled for Oct. 17 in the Field House. Both the current issue and the Oct. 9 Record will carry expanded calendars to ensure adequate notice of campus events. The publication schedule will return to normal with the Oct. 27 issue.

Mysterious mounds; Students get hands-on experience at dig

When people think of Cahokia Mounds --if they know of it at all --they think of Monk's Mound. At 14 acres and 100 feet tall, this flat-topped platform mound is, indeed, the largest prehistoric earthen structure north of Mexico. But in fact, said John E. Kelly, Ph.D., lecturer in anthropology in Arts & Sciences and an adjunct professor, the Cahokia site is the largest Native American settlement ever inhabited in North America. Kelly has worked at Cahokia in one capacity or another for almost 30 years.

Located eight miles east of downtown St. Louis, near Collinsville, Ill., Cahokia was first occupied about 700 A.D. By about 1100, Cahokia (named for a subtribe of the Illini that lived in the area at the time that Europeans first arrived) may have had a population of about 14,000 -- greater than London's at the time. No city in North America surpassed that size until the 1800s. By 1200, the palisades --elaborate wooden defensive walls --were built, and the population dwindled. By 1400 it was essentially abandoned.

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Students, recruiters mix on the fairways

Students from the John M. Olin School of Business and corporate recruiters from 15 firms throughout the nation took to the fairways for a day of enthusiastic networking along with golf during the Olin Open 2000 tournament Friday, Sept. 22, at Far Oaks Golf Club, Caseyville, Ill.

Fifty recruiters from leading investment, asset-management, consulting, banking, high-tech, manufacturing and retail firms took part, coming from both coasts, St. Louis and points in between. Some 83 students in the school's master of business administration programs --full-time first-year and second-year students and evening students --played in the tourney.

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