Chapter XXIX. SLANT WALK MEDLEY--1984

   The Shriver presidential years are reviewed with text and photo in the Miami Alumnus, Summer 1981, and Fall 1981. The Pearson inauguration and the first one hundred days of Pearson administration are pictured and narrated in the first ten pages of the Miami Alumnus, Winter 1981. A James Langley article in MIAMIAN, September 1982, characterizes the new vice presidents in the Pearson regime. A framed reproduction of the Alumni Association "Greetings" to President Pearson now hangs in the upper lobby of Murstein Center. The Marilyn Throne poem appears in the Miami Alumnus, Summer 1981. The MIAMIAN January 1983 reports on two successive women's basketball championships. The Diamond Anniversary Volume (Miami University, 1899) portrays student life in the old North and South dorms, now Elliott and Stoddard halls. The New York Sunday News, October 25, 1959, featured football history at "Miami of Ohio." Construction of Yager Stadium and the new sports complex is reported and pictured in MIAMIAN, January 1983, and in the Oxford Press April 14, 1983. The Parseghian quote appeared in Cincinnati Enquirer, February 11, 1983. "Miami Field, End of an Era" is a double-page spread in MIAMIAN, April, 1983. The MIAMIAN, January 1983 is given almost entirely to computer education. "Miami University in Age of the Computer" is surveyed in a column of the Cincinnati Enquirer, August 22, 1982. Details of the John E. Hull Memorial Room with a biographical profile of General Hull appear in the Miami Alumnus, February 1970 and Summer 1981. The Commencement of 1983 is reported in Oxford Press, May 19, 1983. The Special Collection of the King Library contain a George Orwell collection of some two hundred titles, including all of Orwell's books, in several languages, and a number of critical appraisals.