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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Tuesday, May 17. 1977 Page Two Conference to Two brothers honored - Utah brothers whose work on alcoholism spans more than 25 years have been honored with the 1977 award and medal of the American Medical Society on Alcoholism. Drs. Chester A. end Ewart A. Swinyard Two i - - i i were given the annual award "in commemoration of outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge about alcoholism and in grateful recognition of unstinting dedication to healing the sick and troubled victims of this illness." It is the first tme the award has been presented jointly to two men, and also the first time a nonphysician has been honored by the society, which is comprised of more than 1000 physicians. Ewart Swinyard, professor of pharmacology and former dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University, is a basic - scientist - Dr. Chester A. Swinyard fiOTO M W HOT 20-- 1 ffllDAV 5:30-11:3- who has made numerous contributions to the understanding of the response of the brain to alcohol and other drugs that depress the central nervous" . system. SATURDAY a iht 0 9 BEHIND THS !!fJIUen5ITV am-- ll pm aimh slate unique h' ' V workshops ) i Dr. Ewart A. Swinyard Chester Swinyard, presently a visiting professor emeritus of surgery at Stanford University Medical Center, was founder of the University's Rehabilitation Center and organized and directed the alcoholism clinic Both brothers have been active in alcoholism education during the past 25 years through the University's School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies. Chester Swinyard was a founding member of the school and served on its faculty for 20 years. His brother has served on the faculty of the school since its inception in 1 952 and has been director for the past 15 years. University school, considered one of the largest and best of its kind in the nation, draws 1200 to 1300 physicians, social workers, educators and other professionals each summer and has involved more than 13,000 participants during the past 25 years. Chester Swinyard was a member of the Utah State Board on Alcoholism from 1951 to 1958 when he left his post as professor of anatomy and director of the Rehabilitation Center at the University Medical Center to become a professor of rehabilitation medicine at New York University College of Medicine. During the next 17 years he became a recognized international authority on birth defects and care of handicapped children. He resigned in 1975 to take his present position at Stanford , Ewart Swinyard succeeded his brother on the Utah State Board of Alcoholism in 1958 and has been a member for 19 years, two of those years as chairman. He has been a member of the University faculty for 30 years, six of those years as dean of the College of Pharmacy. He stepped down from that post e last June to return to research as director of a national center for the early evaluation and animal testing of new antiepilepsy drugs. The award to the two brothers was presented this month at the annual meeting of the National Council on Alcoholism in San Diego. The American Medical Society on Alcoholism, a branch of the National Council on Alcoholism, is concerned with alcoholism full-tim- treatment education and research. Expert to speak on Iranian lit. Dr. Philip Bray will speak on contemporary Tojik Doston writing Wednesday at 3 p.m. in W Ms Adele Hess, director of the Los Angeles "Rape Response Program," is scheduled io conduct several workshops at the Second Western Regional Conference on Sexual Assault The conference will be held May 23, 29 and 30 at Westminster College. The "Rape Response Program" is a unique crisis intervention program, the only one in the nation to provide crisis counseling for both the rape victims and her family, cud for the potentially sexually violent person. The "Rape Response Program"' is the first in the country aimed specifically at the prevention of sexual assault through counseling of potential rapists. The program is part of the Cedars-SinMedical Center and has been in operation for one year. The center offers a 24-hohotline as well as follow-uThe services. counseling of fold two the hotline to is lower a purpose callers immediate potential for violence by creating a space in which its safe for him to open up, and to encourage him to come in for long-tercounseling. The primary purpose of the Rape Response program is prevention. Hess states, "Possibly through greater understanding of the psychodynamics of the potential rapist real prevention can occur," The Western Regional Conference on Sexual Assault sponsored by the Rape Crisis Center, will be open to the public For further information phone the Rape Crisis Center, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ai ur p m 532-RAP- Overpopulation to be discussed Two books on over, population will be discussed at Tuesday morning's session of "Coffee and Politics." The guest reviewer is Katherine Lynch, a visiting assistant professor of history. She will review Plagues and People by William McNeill and The Modern Rise oi Population by Thomas McKeown. Both books analyze human society, present-da- y increases in population, and the role played by nutrition and the decline of disease. The meeting will begin at 11 a.m. in the Hinckley Caucus Room (OSH 255). The public is welcome. Honor societies Owl and Key, and Skull and Bones are accepting applications for membership until Friday. Owl and Key will accept applications from any student with more than 135 hours and who will not graduate until after fall quarter of 1977. Skull and Bones will accept applications the Marriott Library Auditorium. from male students with more than 90 hours Accompanying his lecture will be a short and who will be juniors during the coming slide presentation of scenes in Soviet central year. Asia. Selections for membership is based on Bray received his Ph.D. from the University leadership, scholarship and service. The of California at Berkeley in 1975. From 1975-197- 6 decision is to extend fellow at the preliminary to between five and nine he was a Fulbright-Hay- s membership Tojik Academy of Sciences in the U.S.S.R. members in each group. Current projects of Bray's include a Skull and Bones, and Owl and Key were h reduction of a dictionary and founded at Yale in 1832 and 1841. They are the preparation of a collection of Tojik short the two oldest and most prestigious secret stories in translation. honor societies at Yale. The lecture is sponsored by the Middle Applications are available at the Chronicle East Center and is open to the public. office. Tojiki-Englis- r Don't take all that stuff home this summer! You'll just have to bring it back next fall. Rent from 50 to 400 square ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF WEBER STATE COLLEGE AND B-1- 01 STEREO present in concert ENGLAND DAN & JOHN FORD COLEY SATURDAY. MAY 21. 1977 TWO SHOWS 7 & 10 P.M. WSC FINE ARTS AUDITORIUM-TICKET- S $5.50 & $6.50 WSC UB Main Desk. Odyssey Records. (SLC & Ogden), TICKET OUTLETS Toad Tape, (Ogden), The Competition, (Logan). For Information Call 393-660- 4 feet of security water- - and fire storage space. - patrolled, resistant UTAH SELF STORAGE 4640 So. 900 East 350 So. Redwood Rd. 266-549- 8 328-404- 3 THIS COUPON GOOD FOR 10 OFF MONTHLY RENT AT ANY UTAH SELF STORAGE rn I I |