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 See ORIENTAL, Page5 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' (contnuedfromPage1) 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.