A News Across Campus

ove Robert Rupp Nov. 4 Linda McCullough 6 Nancy Brooker 7 Kathy Maksymicz 11 Jeanette Eberle 13 Jill Byers 15 Jim Lawrence 18 Joellitt 19 Tom Stoll 20 Rick Mitchell 21' Judy Cox 22 Jill Gallion 26

Office of the Interim Director

Our new enrollment figures give us several points of

pride.

This is the.... • first time over 1000

students were enrolled • fourth consecutive year

with record Autumn Quarter enrollments

• sixth consecutive year of an enrollment increase over the

previous year • 10th of the last 12 years

with increased enrollment

Nearly all the increase is in Associate of Science programs (up 63).

The top enrollment programs continue to be Turfgrass and Landscape except they changed positions this year. Landscape, with 148, moved anead of Turf, with 141. Horse Production, Horticultural Science and Construction are other programs with more than 50 total enrolled.

The Autumn Quarter enrollment report from the Registrar's Office indicates ATI had the largest increase (6.80/0) with all regional campuses up and the Columbus campus down (1.0%

). An analysis of our enrollment shows:

Female enrollment: 302 (up 11); 29.3%

Male enrollment: 729 (up 55); 70.70/0

Full-time enrollment: 854 (82.8%

)

Part-time enrollment: 177 (17.20/0)

25 years and over: 139 (13.50/0)

These are not significantly different from the demographics of last year.

The Tri-County Education Service Center has approached ATI to host an Industrial Technology Camp in late July 2000. All the details have not been worked out but it is pretty certain to happen.

Institutional Services

Equine Center:

Eleven contractors submitted bids on Wednesday, October 17, for the site development work at the Equine site. The low bid was $100,064 by Dirt Dawg Excavating of Ashland. We hope to have the contractor working by November 15. The Phase II construction bid will be due the third week of December.

CEED:

The site work at CEED is going well and nearing completion. The Phase II construction bids will be due the first week of December.

Hort Center:

Planning meetings are continuing with the Hort faculty and staff on the Program of Requirements. The Division has provided excellent, detailed planning for this facility.

Wellness Day:

A special thank you goes to Karen Myers and the OSU Case Management staff of nurses who coordinated and conducted the Wellness Health Screening Day at OARDC earlier in the month. It was a very successful day with the largest participation by OARDC and ATI staff and students ever.

Positions:

The Director's position was posted in the Green Sheet; however, it is being reposted again to correct one minor change relating to tenure credentials. The ads are going out this week to a variety of journals and newspapers. A big thank you to Charlotte Marsh, Mark Headings and Helen Thompson for han91ing all the paperwork and mailings for this position. It is no small task.

Cafe Carmen

One of my student supervisors, Amy Kingsborough, is

receiving the American Degree from FFA the week of October 25 in Kentucky. This is the highest degree one can receive through FFA.

Please stop in the Cafe and join me in congratulating Amy on this achievement.

Jeannine Snyder

Development Office

Fill in the blank:

Three shy of a load.

Answer: bricks

More info yet to come, really!

Hor1iculture

Gary Anderson, Terry Lanker, and the Floral

Design and Marketing students will be designing hand-crafted decorations for the feature Christmas tree at the annual Red Cross Festival of Trees. Students in the Retail Flower Shop Operation class will help assemble the tree at the Wayne County Historical Society on November 9th.

Public viewing of the ATI designed tree, as well as many other holiday trees and decorations, is open November

19-28 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM in several of the Historical Society buildings. Admission is free.

Staff Council

lease mark your calendar for December 14 for the

Holiday Party. More details will be provided in the next edition of ATI Events.

Wooster Campus Safety Office

New Employee Safety Training will be held

Wednesday, November 3, at 9:00 a.m., in the Old Admin. Building, Room 206, at OARDC.

This training is required of all Wooster Campus (ATI & OARDC) faculty and staff. All new employees are required to attend this training as mandated by OSHA and university requirements.

Please be on time as we start promptly at 9:00 a.m.

If you have any questions, please call the Safety Office at 5-5-3663.

FYI

f you're confused by the world Iof computer mumbo-jumbo, there's an online dictionary you can check out.

It offers 1,500 computer-related definitions plus features on how the Internet works. Go to http://www.whatis.com

(Source: Communication Solutions)

Just For Fun

Just how smart are you? (Answers at the end of the newsletter)

1. There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contestants do. What is it?

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. At noon and midnight the hour and minute hands are exactly coincident with each other. How man~

other times between noon and midnight do the hour and minute hands cross?

5. What is the only sport in which the ball is always in the possession of the

team on defense, and the offensive team can score Without touching the ball?

6. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

7. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

8. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw". They are all common. Name two of them.

9. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?

10. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers"?

11 . There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls - a walk - is one way. Name the other six.

12. It's the only.vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, orin any other form but fresh. What is it?

13. How is it possible for a pitcher to make four or more strikeouts in one inning?

14. Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet, that begin with the letter "s".

Good luck and no cheating..... (Answers on page 4 )

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Anursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full

of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog.

The children fell to discussing the dog's duties.

"They use him to keep crowds back," said one youngster.

"No," said another, "he's just for good luck."

Then a third child brought the argument to a close..."They use the dog," she said firmly, "to find the fire hydrant"

Answers to the quiz:

1. Boxing. 2. Niagara Falls. The rim is

worn down about 2 and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.

3. Asparagus and rhubarb. 4. Ten times (not eleven, as

most people seem to think).

5. Baseball. 6. Strawberry. 7. The pear grew inside the

bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.

8. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle. 9. Period, comma, colon,

semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

10. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers, and kept the name when they moved west.

11. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.

12. Lettuce. 13. If the catcher drops a

called third strike, and doesn't throw the batter out at first base, the runner is safe.

14. Shoes, socks, ~andals,

sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings, and so on.