November 8, 2001
Briefly
Memorial service planned to honor architecture professor
A Dec. 2 campus memorial service has been organized to honor Warren T. Hill, professor emeritus of architecture, who died Oct. 27.
A Tacoma native, Hill joined the UW faculty in 1955 and in the 1960s headed the Interior Design program. He continued teaching in the School of Architecture after the interior-design program was closed, and he retired in 1993.
Hill was a highly regarded teacher with a sophisticated sense of design and knowledge of design history, said architecture chairman Jeffrey Ochsner. His professional work included furniture, jewelry and interior design.
“Warren was a tireless spokesperson and advocate on behalf of art, craft, culture and design in the Northwest,” Ochsner said.
The Dec. 2 service will be at
2 p.m. in the Penthouse Theater. Remembrances will go toward scholarships for UW design students, at The Warren T. Hill Lambda Rho Scholarship for Design, c/o The School of Art Advisor’s Office, Seattle, WA 98195.
UW film-maker turns to radio for Skid Road
B.J. Bullert is switching mediums for her latest work, Selections from Skid Road.
Bullert, a documentary film-maker and senior fellow at the UW’s Center for Communication and Civic Engagement, co-produced three half-hour radio programs based on the late Murray Morgan’s book Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle. The programs will air on KUOW (94.9 FM) Monday through Wednesday, Nov. 12-14 at 9:30 p.m.
The programs present a portrait of the region’s vibrant past, featuring tales of the pioneers, American Indians, the building of the railroad, the expulsion of Chinese and the Seattle General Strike of 1919. Actor John Gilbert and KUOW’s Larry Stein worked with Bullert on the project.
Harvard professor to speak on Friday
Harvard University Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot will be the featured speaker at the Center for Multicultural Education’s Symposium Lecture Series on Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. in 106B HUB.
Lawrence-Lightfoot’s research has focused on the culture of schools; the patterns and structures of classroom life; the relationships between adult developmental themes and teachers’ work; and socialization within families, communities and schools.
She is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard. Her book The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture earned the 1984 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association.
In 1984 she was the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Prize Award, in 1993 she was awarded Harvard’s George Ledlie Prize and in 1995 she became a Spencer Senior Scholar.
Her talk is titled Will Anybody Know Who I am? On Witness, Justice and Respect.
