The purpose of the study was to focus attention upon selected community leaders in Fort Wayne, Indiana, who influenced the formulation of educational decisions in the Fort Wayne Community Schools from January 1, 1,964 to December 31, 1972. Three other purposes of the study included: (1) clarification of influence patterns by interviewing in depth selected community leaders identified by educational leaders in the Fort Wayne Community Schools as influencing educational decisions; (2) to clarify influence patterns by interviewing in depth selected community leaders identified by other community leaders as persons influencing educational decisions in the Fort Wayne Community Schools; and (3) to identify a profile of specific traits of community leaders most influential in the process of formulation of educational decisions in the Fort Wayne Community Schools.

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The purpose of the study was to determine attitudes of parents toward the Fort Wayne Community School Title I Parent Resource Center. Specifically, the study was designed to measure the quality of services extended during the first six months of Resource Center operation, January 1980 through June 1980.Literature regarding the role of parents in educational programs at both the national and state level was reviewed. Through study of the-literature, limited data were reported involving parents in program evaluation. Therefore, a study was undertaken to address parent attitudes toward program effectiveness.From a sample population of one hundred parents of children enrolled in the 1979-1980 Fort Wayne Community School Title I Project, ninety-five parents completed questionnaires delivered to homes by Title I Liaison Aides. Five parents were not available for contact during the two-day questionnaire delivery period. Completed questionnaires were placed in unmarked envelopes for return by the aides to the Parent Resource Center. Questionnaires were then delivered to the Fort Wayne Community School Computer Center for key punching and computer scoring.Responses to "yes" and "no" questionnaire items were reported in percentages addressing attitudes toward (1) Parent Resource Center location and visitation hours, (2) delivery of services and materials, (3) workshop presentations and (4) advertising techniques. Written comments expressed in two open ended questionnaire items were analyzed. Perceived benefits and need for program change were reported in narrative form.Parent attitudes toward Resource Center services revealed:1. Parent Resource Center location and visitation hours were satisfactory as reported by more than 80 percent of the respondents. However, among written comments, parents recommended decentralized or school-based centers and evening or weekend visitation hours.2. Service extended by the Parent Resource Center Staff was regarded as helpful by 94.7 percent of those queried and materials to be used in the home were clearly understood by 100 percent of the respondents.3. Workshops held at the Parent Resource Center were attended by 68.4 percent of the respondents. Further, 65 percent of Center clients attending workshops reported value in presentations and appropriateness of materials for use in the home.4. Among advertising techniques employed, parents ranked the Title I meeting as the primary information source. School newsletters, news paper articles, church announcements andparent-school personnel sharing were less frequently cited sources of information.Services extended at the Parent Resource Center had benefited children in the improvement of reading and math skills, in strengthened parent-child relationships and in provision of unaffordable educational materials.

This creative project presents an overview of the architectural styles and history of the surviving commercial architecture of A.M. Strauss in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was the best known architect working in Fort Wayne during the period covered by this creative project, and his work is an excellent example of how national architectural trends affected architecture in Fort Wayne. His commercial architecture represents his best known and most significant work. He did far too many buildings to cover in a single thesis, and so his residential and institutional architecture in Fort Wayne remains for another study, as do his many works outside of Fort Wayne. This project also brings together in one treatment as much photographic, historical and architectural documentation of these buildings as possible — documentation now scattered across east central and northeast Indiana. It traces Strauss's stylistic changes from Spanish Eclecticism through Art Deco and Art Moderne to Modernism. The surviving buildings represent each of these styles and shifts in historical context. / Department of Architecture

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In 1901, three German American candidates ran for the office of mayor in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The winner, Henry Berghoff, had emigrated from Germany as a teenager. This thesis examines the election discourse in the partisan press for signs of ethnic tension. The first chapter places Fort Wayne in historical context of German immigration and Indiana history. The second and third chapters investigate the editorial pages for evidence of ethnic tension. I also reference a few articles of an editorial nature outside of the editorial pages. The second chapter provides background information about the election and examines indications of the candidates’ ethnicity and references to the German language papers. The third chapter considers the editorial comment about Germany, the intertwining of ethnicity and the issues, and ethnic name-calling. In order to identify underlying bias for or against Germany and to better understand the context of the references to German ethnicity, the fourth chapter explores the portrayal of Germany in the Fort Wayne papers.

The emergence and popularity of mobile and social media have transformed the nature of the parasocial relationship between weathercaster and audience. Two experts and nine television viewers were selected for qualitative interviewing via non-probability sampling to gain an understanding of how respondents’ growing use of social media and other emerging media has impacted the relationship with the local television weathercaster. Additionally, these interviews explored the ways in which these relationships have ultimately changed how viewers receive weather warnings. Storms producing strong straight-line winds and multiple tornadoes in the Fort Wayne, Indiana television market provided a case study that illuminated the role of trust in the complex relationships between weather forecasting and new social media. Mobile and social media have increased the weather forecasters’ influence over the audience, while quickly allowing them to provide severe weather warnings. This study demonstrates the popularity of social media among diverse age groups and that user demographics do not indicate any level of social media literacy. Second, as the literature suggests, this study confirms users’ trust in their weather forecasters as well as the informationseeking behavior displayed during severe weather. Third, this research finds that social media has transformed parasocial relationships. Finally, this study suggests that stations have not recognized nor taken advantage of these new parasocial relationships, and that they can do so by promoting TV personalities’ online social profiles. / Introduction -- Literature review -- Methods -- Trust, weather forecasting and social media -- Online presence -- Conclusion. / Department of Geography

This study was an effort to identify the reasons for use or under use of neighborhood parks in Fort Wayne, IN and to suggest the solutions for the problems found. Two heavily used parks and two underutilized parks were chosen after an interview with the Director of Parks and Recreation Departments of Fort Wayne. Questionnaires and direct observation were the two major tools used to understand user preferences and tendencies. Each data were analyzed to find out the differences between the heavily and underutilized parks in the categories of age, sex, income and race. The significant differences between under and heavily used parks were found by the quantity and quality of each park's facilities and by the racial characteristic of residents around the each park. Environmental and social factors, and user satisfaction with their neighborhood park are suggested to be the solutions. The solutions may be used as a general recommendation to improve the conditions of neighborhood parks. / Department of Landscape Architecture

The purpose of this study was to appraise the quality and effectiveness of the master's degree program at Saint Francis College, Fort Wayne, Indiana.Data were obtained through the technique of survey research, employing a combination of the open form - closed form type of questionnaire which was devised by the investigator. Data were obtained from three separate population groups. Group A was comprised of those persons who earned the Master's Degree in Education from 1962 through 1972. Group B consisted of those persons enrolled in the program at the time this study was conducted. Samples were selected at random from Groups A and B. The entire population of the graduate faculty was utilized for purposes of this study.A pre-evaluation study was conducted to generate the contents of the questionnaire. Initially, broad questions designed to approach the evaluation from the viewpoint of present students, past students, as well as faculty members teaching at the graduate level were prepared for the prestudy. These questions were submitted to sample groups from each of the population groups. Persons participating in the pre-study were not utilized in the final study.Responses to the questions used in the pre-study helped to determine items used in the final form of the questionnaire. The questionnaire was field tested in order to eliminate any remaining ambiguities.The final form of the questionnaire was mailed with a cover letter of explanation to a random sample of 500 persons from Group A and 300 persons from Group B. All of the faculty population, a total of 45 persons received the questionnaire.Data received from the questionnaire were used to provide a detailed description of the respondents. Frequency tabulations and percentages were calculated for comparison purposes. A measure of central tendency, the mean, and the standard deviation were calculated for the responses. Rank orders were established for both the perceived importance of items and the perceived evaluation of the institution, Saint Francis College, used in the study. This allowed meaningful comparisons to be made.

Thesis (D.Min.)--Asbury Theological Seminary, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-115).

<p>A saugeye is the progeny of a female walleye (<i>Sander vitreus)</i> and male sauger (<i>Sander canadensis)</i>. In the United States, hybrid saugeyes are considered important for recreational fisheries and as a potential food source. Saugeyes grow exceptionally faster than their non-hybrid parents and are more tolerant of a broader range of water conditions. They are also of interest to anglers due to their increased growth rate and ease to catch. Rather unexpectedly, biologists have recently observed fish that they believe to be saugeye in the Fort Wayne Rivers even though only walleye have been stocked in the area. The fish in Hurshtown Reservoir are believed to be walleye and the identification of those in the Three Rivers is unknown. A potential source for saugeye in the Fort Wayne Rivers is St. Marys State Fish Hatchery in Ohio. This research aims to determine if the fish found in the Fort Wayne Rivers are walleye or saugeye using microsatellite analysis. Microsatellites at seven loci were genotyped for 20 reference walleye, sauger, and saugeye as well as 21 unknown fish caught near Fort Wayne. Of the fish caught near Fort Wayne, three are from Hurshtown Reservoir and 18 are from the Three Rivers. Assignment tests of genotypes were completed using model and non-model based cluster analysis. Genotypic variation clearly resolved the two parent species from their hybrid offspring. Sixteen of eighteen <i>Sander</i> (unknown species) caught in Fort Wayne Rivers between 2018 and 2019 were determined to be first generation saugeye. The other two were walleye found in the Maumee River downstream of Hosey Dam. The three <i>Sander</i> caught in Hurshtown Reservoir were verified to be walleye. Sauger have never been stocked in the Fort Wayne Rivers and connecting waterways. Therefore, it is not likely that the saugeye found in the analysis are from natural reproduction. It is speculated that saugeye are swimming to Fort Wayne from hatcheries within the Maumee watershed. There are many potential sources for walleye in the Fort Wayne Rivers. </p>