Judge Pope to donate papers to library AISN receives distance-learning grant ACU in '100 Best College Buys' Again Reunion classes donate $327,482 IMC students market to Apple Judge Pope to donate papers to library For the second time, Abilene Christian's Friends of the Library has named Dr. Jack Pope ('34) as its Friend of the Year. Judge Pope, former chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, recently announced plans to donate his personal papers, collections and memorabilia to the university's Brown Library. Judge Pope and his wife, Allene, have previously donated books to the ACU library. The latest gift includes court records, speeches, correspondence and pictures of Texas' chief justices. Judge Pope is an Abilene native and a senior member of the ACU Board of Trustees. He was named the university's Outstanding Alumnus of the Year in 1964 after being elected to the Texas Supreme Court. Pope became chief justice in 1982 and retired from the court in 1985. AISN receives distance-learning grant ACU and the Abilene Intercollegiate School of Nursing have received a grant for about $350,000 to establish a distance-learning program for additional training of registered nurses in West Texas. U.S. Rep. Charles Stenholm announced the grant recently from the rural development office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The new program will enable RNs to study for a Bachelor of Nursing degree through distance learning. ACU and AISN will be connected to a statewide videoconference network, and later the program will provide telecommunications technology that will allow health care providers to treat patients in rural health clinics. ACU in '100 Best College Buys' Again For the fifth consecutive year, ACU has been listed in "America's 100 Best College Buys." The guidebook, which is published by Institutional Research and Evaluation, has included ACU from its beginning. Abilene Christian is one of only six schools in Texas included in the most recent edition. "It's amazing that these schools can consistently, year after year, deliver a quality education at a cost that is within every student's reach," Lewis Lindsey, the organization's president, said in a letter to the university announcing the 2001 guidebook. Schools listed must provide "the highest quality in education at the lowest cost." ACU was also included as a Best Value in the latest edition of Best Colleges in U.S. News and World Report. Reunion classes donate $327,482 ACU's class reunion campaigns have raised a total of $327,482 as of Homecoming 2000. The class of 1985 is the current leader in the amount raised with $81,012. The leader in participation rate is the class of 1955 with 51.5 percent. The nine campaigns (as of Homecoming in October): Class year Amount Percent 1955 $64,396 51.5% 1960 $24,043 37.2% 1965 $33,547 26.7% 1970 $41,988 21.3% 1975 $25,942 31.1% 1980 $28,994 28.4% 1985 $81,012 22.8% 1990 $17,999 25.8% 1995 $9,561 21.3% Final figures will be announced after Dec. 31, 2000. Classes with year sending in "1" and "6" will conduct campaigns in 2001 and have reunions Oct. 19-20 at Homecoming. The class of 1951 will celebrate its 50th reunion April 19-20 in Abilene. IMC students market to Apple ACU's award-winning Intergrated Marketing Communication class is at it again! This time Dr. Jeff Warr and 10 students have designed three marketing campaigns scheduled to be used by Apple next fall on college campuses. Warr ('72) and five of the students met with Apple marketing executives in Dallas in last fall to make a proposal (while Apple stock was declining), then developed the three campaigns during the fall semester. The class presented the plans in December, and Apple executives accepted the campaign models for use at 10-15 universities this fall, including LSU, Texas A&M, Baylor and Texas Tech. "It's great experience for our students," Warr said. "They work for a real client, a client in some trouble. It could mean millions of dollars for their company. It's not cost effective for Apple's big agency to develop a campaign for something that accounts for only 10 percent of sales." The 10 class members are Randal Senter, Vidya Ananthanarayana, Pam Percival, Courtney Smith, Kristi Pawlik Jayci Jenkins, Bruce Beaver, Jared Watkins, Deidra Hall and Jamilyn Garrett. The class did original research (surveys of students at three colleges) before organizing as an agency with account managers, graphic designers, etc., to complete the project.
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