Thesis (M. A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1997. / Bibliography: leaves 86-92.

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This Q study revealed Fort Wayne, Indiana donors' typical attitudes and perceptions toward philanthropy. Participants completed a 55-statement Q sort about 1) perceptions of nonprofit organizations, 2) various fundraising methods, and 3) types of organizations donors prefer funding.The researcher then entered the data into the PQMethod software and determined three factors of donors: Skeptical Givers, Generous Givers, and Untapped Givers.The Skeptical Givers did not trust nonprofit organizations and only donated a limited portion of their money to charities. Skeptical Givers also felt it was more important for them to save their money and support their family than it was for them to donate money to people in need.The Generous Givers held church as one of their top priorities. They were also taught that it was their social responsibility to help those in need. Therefore, the Generous Givers donated their time and over 11 percent of their annual income to nonprofit organizations.The Untapped Givers were business-minded individuals who were also committed to their communities and nonprofit organizations. They trusted nonprofits and considered helping the less fortunate to be a high priority. Although the Untapped Givers gave money to nonprofit organizations, they preferred to donate their time through volunteering and serving on boards of directors. The Untapped Givers were committed to giving financially to charities; however, they only gave a limited portion of their savings to charities.These three factors illustrated that nonprofit development officers should recognize that different strategies might be employed to entice separate segments of donors to give money. / Department of Journalism

The project examines the architectural and financial feasibility of adaptive reuse of the Pennsylvania Station at Fort Wayne, Indiana, as an international cultural center and railroad passenger station. The project summarizes the results of primary research which determined the history of the station's original construction and subsequent alterations, as well as the property's associations with the history of Fort Wayne. The narrative also provides an illustrated summary of the current physical condition of the site and its two structures. The proposal for adaptive reuse includes an Amtrak rail passenger facility, shops, a restaurant, and classroom and dormitory areas to be used as a campus of the International Education Center, a school based in Tokyo, Japan. The proposed rehabilitation work is described in terms of its impact upon the historic features of the property, and the design issues involved are stated, as well as the major elements of the proposed work. An itemized budget for all proposed construction is provided.Based upon current rents in the project area, financial comparison of the investment needed with projected returns determined that the project would provide an acceptable acceptable rate of return on the required investment. The study concluded that the project would be both financially and architecturally viable. / Department of Architecture

This creative project involved preparation of a cultural landscape report for Lindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Using methodologies adapted from the National Park Service and National Register of Historic Places, the report sought to define the existing conditions, historic significance, and appropriate treatment approach for the historic cemetery. Report chapters include site history and contextual documentation, existing conditions assessment, analysis of historic significance and integrity, treatment recommendations, and recommendations for further study. Lindenwood Cemetery was found to be significant for its association with the major four American cemetery design movements and its ability to display all four eras in a single landscape. Overall, Lindenwood retained a high level of integrity from its historic periods of significance advocating a minimally-invasive rehabilitation treatment approach. Treatment recommendations focused on maintenance and repair, guidelines for implementing new uses, and restoration of certain sunken garden elements. / Department of Landscape Architecture

The sandstone petrology of the Cocoa Sand Member of the Eocene Yazoo Formation is not well documented. Acquisition of two cores (#1 Ketler and #1 Young) during the Mobil-Mississippi Project of 1993 has provided the opportunity for a detailed petrologic and depositional analysis.The Cocoa Sand Member is a moderate to well sorted, poorly cemented quartz arenite with an average composition of Q% Fo L4. Lithic fragments are dominated by sedimentary rock fragments that appear to be rip-up clasts from the underlying North Twistwood Creek Clay. Quartz grains range from well rounded to angular with embayed anhedral to euhedral grains common. They are often encased in tangential clays indicating a possible reworked sedimentary to volcanic source for this sandstone. Heavy mineral analysis supports a volcanic source, but also indicates a metamorphic contribution.The Cocoa Sand shows little compaction with a packing density averaging 43% and the packing proximity averaging 21%. Point and tangential contacts are predominant as point count porosity averages 18.4%. The dominant authigenic phase is Camontmorillonite with lesser amounts of kaolinite, illite, calcite, and heulandite.Core, petrographic, and log analyses indicates that the Cocoa Sand Member of the Yazoo Formation is an isolated, intrabasinal sheet sand that thickens in the down dip direction. Winnowing of the North Twistwood Creek Member of the Yazoo Formation during transgression resulted in the deposition of the Cocoa Sandstone. This is supported by the similarities in composition between the North Twistwood Creek Member and the Cocoa Sand Member and the presence of rip-up clasts found at the North Twistwood Creek-Cocoa Sand Member contact. It is concluded that the Cocoa Sand Member is the initiation of sequence TE3.3 and here called subset TE3.3a of a transgressive system tract. This subset runs from the base of the Cocoa Sand Member to the bottom of the Pachuta Marl. / Department of Geology

This study examined the social work environment and the innovation or change potential of administrators in a large midwestern school district. It examined three dimensions of the social work environment: (a) relationships, (b) personal growth, and (c) system maintenance and change. It also examined 10 dimensions of innovation and change potential: (a) challenge, (b) freedom, (c) dynamism, (d) trust/openness, (e) idea time, (f) playfulness/humor, (g) conflict, (h) idea support, (e) debates, and (j) risk-taking. The primary purposes were as follows: (a) to determine if relationships existed between dimensions of the social work environment and the administrative group's propensity for change, and (b) to determine if selected demographic variables (age, gender, race, length of service in the district, employee classification) are associated with the group's propensity for change.The study population included 214 administrators and professional and technical staff members responsible for leadership functions within the district. Two standard instruments were used to gather data. The Work Environment Scale (WES) developed by Moos at Stanford University in 1986, was used to assess the social environment. The second instrument, used to assess the 10 dimensions, was the Climate for Innovation Questionnaire (CIQ), developed by Ekvall and Arnonen in 1983; it provided a measure of the propensity of the work climate to support change as perceived by organizational members.Findings indicated that this school district is innovative, that there was a positive potential for change, that the administrative employees were committed to and concerned about their jobs, and that friendly, supportive relationships existed and were supported by organizational leaders.The personal growth dimension suggested that change within the district was moving in a positive direction and that administrators felt encouraged to be self-sufficient. Idea support (i.e., the manner in which an organization treats new ideas) was strongly related to the work environment, again suggesting conduciveness to change.Results of this study were used by the school district to move toward substantial school renewal. The process used in this research provides a framework that can be replicated in other school districts to determine possible factors in the work environment that support or inhibit personal dispositions toward change and innovation. / Department of Educational Leadership

This thesis project is about a television engineer in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at the University of North Texas. This project records the engineer's activities in the Department and interviews him about his career path. An accompanying written production report describes the pre-production, production and post-production processes of this project.

Wayne Barrington was a tenured member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for ten years and held positions with the LA Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, and San Antonio Symphony. He was an early member of the Chicago Brass Ensemble and a founding member of the LA Brass. While performing in these major orchestras and brass quintets, Barrington played alongside many notable musicians including Philip Farkas, Forrest Standley, Arnold Jacobs, Bud Herseth, Frank Crisafulli, Miles Anderson, Roger Bobo, David Krebhiel, and Christopher Leuba. Many of these musicians mentioned have received recognition in books and dissertations for their achievements as performers and pedagogues. Barrington, however, has not. Barrington was also a founding member and secretary of ICSOM, the International Conference of Symphony and Orchestra musicians. This organization helped improve the working conditions for musicians by creating transparency of orchestra salaries and giving musicians throughout the United States and Canada a say in ratifying their contracts. After Barrington's years as a symphonic musician, he transitioned from a full-time performer to a full-time pedagogue and taught for over three decades at the University of Texas at Austin, and several of his students went on to have successful careers of their own. His impressive career and influence are noteworthy. This lecture and the accompanying dissertation serve to pay tribute to the life and career of Wayne Barrington by offering a biography of his professional playing positions, union activism, teaching philosophy, and impact on several of his colleagues and students.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether teachers' perceptions of principals' promotion and support of technology in the Fort Wayne Community Schools, Fort Wayne, Indiana, effected the successful integration of technology into the elementary school curricula. The selection of variables for this study was based on a comprehensive review of the literature and identified practitioners who had educational computing experience. These variables included teacher perceptions of principal support, teacher participation in staff development opportunities, availability of support with computer-related problems, and computer availability. These variables were correlated with teachers' use of computers, students' use of computers, and teachers' perceptions of their own improvement as measures of technology integration.A 75-item researcher-developed survey instrument, based on these variables, was presented to 558 elementary classroom teachers in the 22 participating elementary schools in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on two scannable pages. Pearson product-moment correlations were calculated for the pairs of variables.This research provided evidence of a strong correlation between the FWCS teachers' perceptions of principal leadership and support of technology integration and the teachers' evaluations of their own improvement in integrating technology into thecurricula. It also supported the premise that the level of staff development that teachers engage in directly affects their level of improvement in integrating technology into the curricula. / Department of Educational Leadership