Students Win Awards at Japanese Speech Contest

The 12th annual New England Japanese Speech Contest was held on April 26 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. Harvard students took first and third place in the beginner level, and second place in the advanced level.

Jun Um '00 was awarded first place in the beginner level for his speech "San Kou to San Dai Tou," winning a round-trip ticket to Japan. Third place in the beginner level was awarded to Benjamin Liu '97 for "The Significance of Anime." Second place in the advanced category went to Misasha Suzuki '99 for her speech "Today's Young Japanese Women: After Graduating from College, What Chances Are There?"

All three students are currently enrolled in intermediate Japanese at Harvard taught by Terumi Mizumoto with drill sections taught by Miyuki Hatano and Atsuko Inomata.

The event was sponsored by the Japan Society of Boston, and cosponsored by the Japan Foundation; the Consulate General of Japan in Boston; All Nipon Airways; Mangajin; Sakurabana; and Sasuga Bookstore.

Donaldson Named to Posts at Quincy, Brigham and Women's Hospitals

Magruder C. Donaldson, associate professor of surgery at the Medical School, was recently named the new chief of surgery at Quincy Hospital and the vice chairman of surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Donaldson has been a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital since 1987. He received his bachelor's and medical degrees from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, respectively.

WHRB to Hold Jazz Orgies

WHRB (95.3 FM), Harvard's student radio station, will present two eight-hour orgies of Harvard jazz musicians on Monday and Tuesday, May 26 and May 27. The orgies are just two of many extended listening specials among WHRB's traditional reading and examination period programming. The music of Lennie Tristano and Dexter Gordon, as well as Charlie Haden duets and a jazz piano orgy will also be played during the month of May.

The Harvard University Jazz Band, currently celebrating its 25th year, will be heard in concert highlights on Monday, May 26, from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. Active jazz alumni of the Harvard Jazz Band will be heard on Tuesday, May 27, from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, call 495-4818.

College Jazz Ensembles to Compete at Harvard Club

Four undergraduate jazz ensembles will compete for prize money in the Harvard Club of Boston's first Jazz Festival, to be held Friday, May 9. The concert, which is open to all Harvard students, will be held at 8 p.m. in the Massachusetts Room of the Harvard Club, 374 Commonwealth Ave.

The four competing students combos are: the Okazaki/Roy/Eggers trio, the Crimson Jazz Group, the Dorian Ramirez Jazz Sextet, and the Pangaro/Shaw/Reuland/Schneit quartet.

The first-prize winner will receive $750. The prize money comes from a music trust endowed by Harvard Club member Mark Horblit '05 set up to award prizes to Harvard students.

Legendary jazz trombonist and arranger Phil Wilson, a professor at Berklee College, will judge the competition. Refreshments will follow the event.

To reserve free tickets, call 536-1260, ext. 411. Reservations are required.

Delpit Delivers Lecture on Culture, Community, and Elementary Education

Lisa D. Delpit, author of Other People's Children and a 1990 MacArthur Fellow, spoke on "The Role of Culture and Community in Teaching all Children Well" last week at Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound's National Conference at the Gutman Conference Center.

Delpit is a Harvard graduate and holder of the Benjamin E. Mays Chair of Urban Educational Excellence at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She received the Harvard Graduate School of Education 1993 Alumni Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education. Her work focuses on the education of children of color and the perspectives of teachers of color.

The conference -- cohosted by the Harvard Outward Bound Project at the Graduate School of Education -- convened 200 teachers from a network of nearly 40 schools in 12 regions of the country, including Boston, working with Expeditionary Learning. Expeditionary Learning is a comprehensive school design, inspired by the founders of Outward Bound, that transforms curriculum, instruction, assessment, and school organization to challenge all students to go beyond their perceived limits. In expeditionary learning schools, students and teachers work on multidisciplinary investigations that allow students to study real-life issues.

Digital Video and Multimedia Fair Set for Today

The annual Harvard Digital Video and Multimedia Fair takes place today from 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Kennedy School of Government's Taubman Building. Over the past four years, the fair has drawn together faculty, staff, and students from all of Harvard's schools to share their experiences working on the cutting edge of new technology. The fair, organized by the University's ABCD committee -- an informal association of faculty, administrators, researchers, and students -- features a panorama of new media currently used in Harvard's classrooms, laboratories, and offices.

The fair's keynote speaker, Robert Doyle, associate editor of New Media magazine, will explore this year's theme, "Multimedia on the Internet," by discussing the latest advances in digital video. Presentations by members of the Harvard community will include explorations of a South African neighborhood, a medical clinic, and the mind of a 19th-century composer.

The fair also provides those interested in multimedia an opportunity to view work from more than a dozen student, faculty, and staff developers of multimedia from around the University. Demonstration booths will fill the ground floor and fifth floor of the Taubman Building.

The booths will be open from 8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. and from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. The keynote speech begins at 11 a.m. in the Taubman Building's Weiner Auditorium.

The fair is free and open to all members of the Harvard community. Due to limited seating in Weiner, preregistration is encouraged through the fair Web site at http://www.harvard.edu/multimedia_fair/, which also carries more details about this year's program. For further information, contact Bijoy Misra at bmisra@fas.harvard.edu.

Man and Superman To Open Tomorrow at A.R.T.

The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), under the artistic direction of Robert Brustein, begins performances of George Bernard Shaw's famous satire, Man & Superman, directed by David Wheeler, tomorrow at the Loeb Drama Center. Shows will run through Sunday, June 8. The theater is located at 64 Brattle St.

Single ticket prices range from $21 to $50 depending on the day of the week and the seat location. Discounts are available to students and seniors, including rush tickets before curtain at $12. The A.R.T. also continues its Pay What You Can program, making tickets available for every Saturday matinee performance for patrons to purchase at whatever amount they can afford. Group discounts are also available.

Information about all A.R.T. productions this season can be found on the Internet at the A.R.T.'s Web site at http://www.amrep.org or call the A.R.T's information line at 547-8300.