The Michigan Daily - Sunday, June 3, 1984-- Page 3
SECOND FRONT PAGE
Barbour scholarships aid oriental women
By INGRID KOCK
Although today Levi Barbour's name is most often
connected with the Betsy Barbour dormitory that
bears his mother's name, the scholarship program he
established 70 years ago has provided nearly 500
oriental women with a University education.
"The Barbour scholarships make the University of
Michigan a focus for outstanding oriental women
graduate students," said Prof. Ann Larimore, who
has served on the selection and executive committees
for the scholarship program. Nine or ten oriental
women in Rackham receive the scholarship money
each year.
WHEN HE BEGAN the program in 1914, Barbour
explained its purpose in a letter to University
President Ruthven Hutchins. "The idea of an oriental
girls' scholarship," he wrote, "is to bring girls from
the Orient, give them an Occidental education and let
them take back whatever they find good and
assimilate the blessings."
According to a 1942 article by University historian
W. Carl Rufus, Barbour decided to set up the scholar-
ships after a trip to China and Japan. He had met
three Oriental women there who had graduated from
the University and returned to their home country
and became prominent leaders in medicine. Barbour
wanted other Oriental women to have the opportunity
for similar successes.
Barbour entered the University as an un-
dergraduate in 1863 and went on to graduate from the
Law School. From 1892 to 1908 he served as a Univer-
sity regent.
THE DIFFERENCES between the women Barbour
saw in the Orient and those who benefit from the
scholarships today reflect 70 years of dramatic
changes in the Orient. Rufus said the early Barbour
scholars brought their now-archaic customs with
them to Ann Arbor.
The first two women who arrived, Kameyo Sade
Kata and Mutsu Kikuchi, came from wealthy
families, Rufus wrote.
The two "thought housework beneath their
dignity" and had to be taught how to make their own
beds, he said:
OTHERS CAME WITH their feet bound as part of a
Chinese tradition, and some women from Muslim and
Hindu countries had been raised under the purdah,
the tradition requiring that women be kept from
men's sight by a curtain or veil.
Recently, however, Larimore said the Barbour
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Shelter
supporters
celebrate
new site
By ERIC MATTSON
After months of planning and
problems, members of the non-profit
corporation in charge of Ann Arbor's
planned homeless shelter celebrated
their victory Friday evening.
The members were toasting the pur-
chase of the building which will house
the city's homeless. The site at 420 W.
Huron, a former church, was bought for
$75,000 last March.
THE COCKTAIL party, sponsored by
the Shelter Association attracted about
75 supporters, including Mayor Louis
Belcher and Councilmembers Larry
Hunter (D-First Ward) and Kathy
Edgren (D-Fifth Ward).
The party was also a fundraising
kickoff. Paul Brown, president of the
Shelter Association, said he hoped to
raise $50,000 in private donations by the
end of the year to pay off the cost of the
shelter.
BELCHER, who has announced that
he will not seek reelection next year af-
ter six years as mayor, also lauded the
cooperation the shelter group received
from Ann Arborites.
"I can guarantee that the citizens of
AntrArbor will support this shelter," he
said.
Brown said he was happy just to be in
the former church, which will be con-
verted to a homeless shelter next mon-
th.
"This is the most beautiful building
I've been in in 18 months," he said.
"Somehow you have to thank the city of
Ann Arbor and the people in it."
Letty Wetcliffe, a longtime shelter
supporter, urged the audience to look
toward the future. "We can have the
best shelter in the whole country," she
said.
Wetcliffe also said the Shelter
Association should push to expand the
program. "Just having a place for
people to sleep then turning them out on
the street is inhuman," she said.
Shelter Association leaders said they
hope to expand the shelter to include
job-training programs.
A. Alfred Taubman, a University benefactor and local businessman, delivers the commencement address to the
Medical School's graduating class Friday.
Taubman tells new doctors to help U'
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contributing financially to this school
in years to come as an expression of
your dedication," he said. "Very sim-
ply, your involvement with this school
should not end today."
As founder, chairman, and chief
financial officer of the Taubman com-
pany, Taubman has been the developer
of several shopping centers nationwide
including the Briarwood mall in Ann
Arbor. He is the owner and chairman of
the Michigan Panthers football team in
the United States Football League and
is involved as a booster of several civic
and cultural activities including
Metropolitan Detroit Magazine, The
Detroit Symphony, and the Detroit In-
stitute of Art.
The University's A. Alfred Taubman
Medical Library was named after the
Detroit-born businessman because of
his involvement in the medical school
- both financially and personally -
since 1977. The Ambulatory Care
Facility, a four-story emergency
treatment building which will be con-
nected to the north side of the new hos-
pital, will be named the Taubman
Health Care Center.
At the ceremony, Taubman spoke of
the quality of education the University
Medical School provides. "It is a
tradition of quality - practicing quality
and producing quality," he said.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you are the
cream of the crop."
Taubman also said the University
and the people here "are at the heart of
the quality of life in this community."
Several of the medical graduates
received special honors including
Michael Rizzo, who received the Up-
john Award for having the highest
academic achievement of the
graduating class. Rizzo received his
Bachelor of Science degree from Notre
Dame and a Master of Science from
Harvard.