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CHANGES TO THE WOLFTEXT NEWSLETTER—
In an effort to reach more alumni and industry leaders, the Wolftext Newsletter will be changing its delivery method. In the past the Wolftext has been printed and received by all alumni that have graduated in the past five years and donors to the college. By making the newsletter an email version, it will allow the college to reach more people and of course make for faster delivery. Don't worry, it will still be the same newsletter that you enjoy receiving bi-monthly. As always it will keep you abreast of all the happenings at the college and keeping you in touch with fellow alumni.
If you are an alumni and want to receive the Wolftext email newsletter, please go to the following site: http://www.alumni.ncsu.edu/address.html.
Type in all of your information including your email address. It's that easy! Or you can contact Emily Parker at emily_parker@ncsu.edu or call 919-515-6529. If you are a contributor or graduated five years or less, you have the option of having a printed version, but we prefer to send it to you electronically. Alumni that have graduated more than five years ago will only receive the newsletter via email. If you are an industry representative, retired faculty or staff, or friend of the College we prefer to send it to you electronically. In addition, if you do not have an email address and would still like to receive the newsletter, please contact Emily Parker as well. Contact us soon, so you don't miss a single issue of the Wolftext!
COLLEGE OF TEXTILES OPEN HOUSE — You're Invited!
Saturday, February 9, 2002
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Come visit the largest and most modern textile college in the world! See demonstrations such as pyro-man, digital printing, the body scanner, the textile wireless laptop program and much more. Current students, faculty and staff will be available to answer questions and give you tours! All high school students who attend "State of the College" lecture will receive a free t-shirt. For more information and directions, please visit us online at http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/open_house.html or call 919-515-3780.
STUDENTS SEE STRONG FUTURE IN TEXTILE JOBS
Schools concentrate on technology's effect
By Tony Mecia, reprinted with permission from the Sunday, December
2, 2001 Charlotte Observer
In two years, textiles will be Josh Cox's career. Now, it's a one-word question. "Textiles?"
Friends ask. So do relatives. They want to know why the 20-year-old textile engineering student at N.C. State would choose a career in an industry that's slashing jobs and moving plants overseas.
"When you say, `I'm going to the College of Textiles,' they think I'm going to college and coming back to sew socks," said Cox, a junior from Mount Airy. "People don't realize all of what it is."
Despite current problems, Cox and his
classmates are staking their futures on an industry they and their professors
say will bear little resemblance to its "Norma Rae" image.
To Read More Please Visit http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/alumni_visitors/wolftext/jan2002/job_future.html
CHECK OUT THIS "RAD" WOLF
Chancellor Marye Ann Fox with "Rad"
Wolf at the NC State/Clemson Textile Bowl tailgate party.
This "Rad" Wolf is located in the Atrium at the NC State College of Textiles. He was designed by Branan Hackney, Megan Scronce, Kilara Little, Katherine Hudson, Jessica Smyth and Orvokki Halme, six of the first students of the Anni Albers Scholars Program at the College of Textiles. "Rad" Wolf was designed with a 1980's theme. The fur fabrics were donated by Glenoit in Tarboro, NC. The white fur is a phosphorescent fiber that glows in the dark! The socks on the wolf were knitted here at the College of Textiles using the phosphorescent fibers that were developed here at the college. The eyes also glow! To read more visit http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/alumni_visitors/wolftext/jan2002/chancellor.html
Charles Little (left), President of the NC Textile Foundation, and Darrell Steagall, the foundations's Past President, present a symbolic check for $1.3 million to the College of Textiles during the NC State/Clemson Textile Bowl football game on October 13th, 2001. Accepting for the College are Dean Blanton Godfrey (center), Lennie Barton, Director of Development, and Emily Parker, Director of College Relations. Click here for larger picture.
The National Textile Center, a research consortium including Auburn University, Clemson University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, Philadelphia University, and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, has received $10,000,000 in funding from the Department of Commerce for the period May 1, 2001 to April 30, 2002. The portion coming to the College of Textiles is approximately $2,300,000. To read more visit http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/alumni_visitors/wolftext/jan2002/ntc_funded.html
The NC State University Textile Off-campus Televised Education (TOTE) program is a distance education program designed to provide textile undergraduate and graduate courses to any individual seeking an improved textiles education or background (credit or audit). The present delivery system is predominantly video tape, but the College wants to be the leader in global textile education within the next five years. To that end, it is expanding the program to include offerings via CD-ROM and the World Wide Web. Certification and master's degrees in textiles can be obtained via TOTE without a residence requirement. To read more visit http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/alumni_visitors/wolftext/jan2002/tote.html
One program sponsored by Extension and Applied Research is the Professional Development Program. This program consists of a series of continuing education seminars. The program attendees include owners, CEOs, Presidents to the supervisor level and include personnel from companies throughout the supply chain. Representatives from many international companies also attend our programs. To read more visit http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/alumni_visitors/wolftext/jan2002/extension.html
By Keith Beck, Department Head TECS
- Dr. Gupta is working with scientists from UNC-CH and Incara, an industrial company, to develop woven tubes that can be used in stem cell research.
- In research sponsored by Nexia, Dr. Sam Hudson is working on techniques to spin spider silk proteins that have been generated in the milk of genetically modified goats.
- Dr. Marian McCord is leading efforts to develop new textile processes and properties through the application of atmospheric plasmas.
The Textile Engineering seniors have been challenged to develop smart textile systems for health care monitoring. Student teams have researched societal needs and identified design projects that include: 1) a continuous monitoring system for infants, 2) a smart knee brace, 3) an athletic jersey for continuous heart monitoring of athlete stress, 4) a smart textile system to prevent bedsores, and 5) a smart textile system for continuous heart monitoring. Students are combining their knowledge of textiles, engineering, and science with professional skills to tackle real world problems facing our society today. This experience is preparing them for the real challenges they will face in industry. In addition to this design experience for TE students, we have modified and renamed our required quality course (Textile Engineering Quality Improvement to Six Sigma Quality) to include a Six Sigma experience.
As the nature of the textile industry changes, we are always seeking new opportunities for our graduates. From conversations with Dr. Sonny White, former President of Ciba Specialty Chemicals, and Dr. Nodie Washington, Section Manager at P&G, we were encouraged to develop a course in Consumer Care Chemistry. The course will focus on scientific aspects of the home laundering process, components of detergents and their actions, and the effects of these chemicals and processes on textiles. The course will be taught by a team of TECS textile chemists and experts from P&G. According to Dr. White, no such course exists in the US and it should make students who have taken it attractive to both consumer oriented companies, like P&G, and their chemical suppliers. Our faculty are also part of the College effort to develop new medical textiles tracks that will fit into our existing degree programs.
Calling all Phi Psi Alumni!
The Eta Chapter of Phi Psi is creating an alumni database and would like all of our alumni's current information. Please email Kent Hester at kent_hester@ncsu.edu with your name (married and maiden name), your degree, the year you graduated, and your current mailing address and email address, if you have one. Thanks. Shayna Sellars, Phi Psi Eta, President.
Gary Harris (BSTC-1970) with Unichem, Inc. was the speaker for the evening. Pictured to the left are Gary Harris, Astra Barnes, Adam Miller, Shayna Sellars, Cheryl Soule, Karman Tong, Katie Uhrin.
DKAP is in the process of creating an alumni database. Please email Terry Brasier at terry_brasier@ncsu.edu with your name, year graduated, degree earned, current mailing address and email address. Thanks and we look forward to seeing you in the future.
The December 2001 graduation class is pictured to the left during the annual December senior dinner. Co-sponsored each year by the Textile Alumni Society and the North Carolina Textile Foundation, the dinner has become a much-anticipated annual tradition among the students.
The December 2001 class was a large class consisting of 66 undergraduates and 20 graduate students. Look for future stories about graduation and job placement for the 2001-2002 classes.
REAL WORLD JOB FORUM 2001
Alumni can be valuable resources
when helping current students prepare to make decisions about their careers,
as well as helping students prepare for the transition from college to
the work force. Having a network of selected alumni that students can
contact is one way of getting former students involved, while having alumni
return to campus is another effective and fun way to tap their experience.
At the College of Textiles, alumni play a vital role in the career preparation
process through an event known as the Real World Forum. To
read more visit: http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/alumni_visitors/wolftext/jan2002/realworld.html
To order your book, both narrative and pictorial, on the history of the textile program at NC State University, written by Dr. Gary Mock go to: http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/alumni_visitors/history_book.html
- Dr. Moon Suh was named an Honorary Member of the Fiber Society at the meeting that took place in Lake Tahoe, October 30 through November 1, 2001. This is the highest honor in fiber and textile academic circles.
- Dr. Perry Grady was elected as a member of the Fiber Society Governing Council at the recent Fiber Society meeting.
By Gerry Sasser
Staff, this is your section. The vision of this space is two-fold: as a “family” building space and as a professional information space. As a “family” building space, you can have any personal information that you wish to be posted here for all the staff to see; i.e. you can announce births, your child’s up coming wedding, graduation from High School or College, any awards that you or family have received or any other information that you wish to share. As a professional information space, I will include any important information coming out of the Staff Senate plus any information that you feel the staff might be interested in, including a SEANC (State Employees Association of North Carolina) update. This space will be ever changing. If you want to see something included, if something is missing, or if you have a question that you feel all the staff might be interested in, you can email the information to me (gerry_sasser@ncsu.edu). Again, this is YOUR section. All suggestions and comments are welcome.
Staff Senate Update
The next Staff Senate Meeting will be held on Wednesday January 16th from 10:00 – 12:00 in the Faculty Senate Chamber in the main library. All are invited to attend.
SEANC Update
The District 39 of SEANC will be holding its next meeting on Monday January
8th at 5:30 p.m. at the SEANC headquarters. All are invited
to attend. Go to www.seanc.org, for
more information on SEANC.
STUDENT NEWS
- Mr. Dong-Wook Jung won the Student Paper Competition
at the Fiber Society Meeting held at Lake Tahoe on October 30 through
November 1, 2001. His advisor is Dr. Kotek.
- Katherine Hudson, a textile design student had a piece that was exhibited in a juried gallery exhibition at the 2001 International Textile and Apparel Association annual meeting and exhibition that took place in Kansas City, Missouri November 9 - 13. Katherine's piece was entered in the fiber arts mounted exhibit category. There were 75 pieces entered in this category of which only 27 were accepted. The jurying process was conducted as a blind review and jurors were apparel industry professionals.
TEXTILE MERGERS
- Amanda (Kreger) Turner (BSTAM-1997) and Thomas
Turner were married on October 27, 2001 in Raleigh, NC. Amanda is currently
employed with Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. The
Turners reside in Greenville, NC.
- John Suther (BSTXM-1996) and Joy Hoyle were married on November 3, 2001. John is currently employed with Parkdale Mills. The Suthers reside in Kannapolis, NC.
- Jaime (Hayden) Pisczek (BSTC-2001) and Michael Pisczek (BSTC-2001) were married on November 24, 2001 in Wilmington, NC. Jaime and Michael are both currently employed with Milliken. The Pisczeks reside in Boiling Springs, SC.
- James Smith (BSTXM-2001) Julie (Knecht) Smith and were married on November 17, 2001 in Sunset Raleigh, NC. James is currently employed with the US Patent and Trade Office. The Smiths reside in Alexandria, VA.
Dr. Gordon Berkstresser III, (BSTXM-1954) professor emeritus of textile and apparel technology and management, died November 21. He was 70. Berkstresser received his undergraduate degree from NC State, his MBA from Bernard Baruch College, and his doctorate in business from City University of New York. He was an associate professor at Stockton State College before coming to NC State, where he taught for 19 years. He served as department head of textile and apparel management between 1985 and 1990. He is survived by three daughters, Elsa Hergeth, Susan Kaminsky and Mary Monck; one son, Gordon A. Berkstresser IV; and nine grandchildren.
NEW CUBS IN THE PACK
- Alan Wright (BSTE-1991, MSTC-1993) and Audrea
Wright (MSTES-1993) announce the birth of their first child, Amber Callie,
born on August 1, 2001. Alan and Audrea are currently employed by Kimberly
Clark as Research Scientists.
- JiNan Glasgow (BSTE-1990) and her husband Dr.
Guy R. Beretich, Jr. (BS Poultry Scence-1995) announce the birth of their
first child, Guy Richard Beretich III, born on October 12, 2001.
- Lisa (Perantoni) Brown (BSTXM, BAMDS-1995) has been named International Business Manager for Burlington PerformanceWear a division of Burlington Industries.
- John J. Frederick (BSTXT-1978) is owner and President of The New Millennium Co., Inc. in Calabash, NC. The business includes screenprinting, heat transferring and sublimating graphic designs onto foam, fabric and plastic items.
- Johnny Burleson (BSTXM-1995) has recently accepted the position of Director of Business Marketing for the NC State University Alumni Association.
- JiNan Glasgow (BSTE-1990) is now owner of Glasgow Law Firm specializing in Intellectual Property Low such as patents, trademarks, and copyrights. She is located in Raleigh and information about her firm can be found at www.trianglepatents.com.
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