CAROLYN OPSOMER
Carolyn Opsomer is Director of Development and Donor Relations for
the Iowa State University Library. She is employed by the ISU Foundation
and started in her position in September 1995. Prior to that, she held
several positions in the development office at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;
both in central development and at Cornell Law School. She worked there for
four years. Her most current focus at the Iowa State University
Library has been on funding the Library's portion of the recently
(September 1996) announced $300 million capital campaign. She is also
responsible for fund raising for ISU Foundation projects.
JENNIFER PAUSTENBAUGH
Jennifer Paustenbaugh has been Director of Library
Development & Outreach at Oklahoma State University since
March 1994. Prior to starting her career in development,
she was head of OSU's Patent & Trademark Library and
Assistant to the Dean of Libraries at Indiana University
where she worked on the Bob Knight Library Endowment
Campaign. She has a BA in Political Science and Russian
Area Studies, an MLS, and an MA in East European Area
Studies all from Indiana University. She is currently writing
her dissertation on academic library fund raising to
complete a PhD in Library Science.
CLIFF DALTON
Cliff Dalton is Director of Development for Libraries and
Information Services at Oregon State University. Cliff
began his development career in the College of Business at
Oregon State University in 1989. He moved to the OSU
Library in 1991 to plan and manage a $47 million campaign to
build a new library. Cliff served as campaign manager and
one of two major gift fundraisers for the project. The
Library campaign is within $550,000 of goal and the new
building is under construction.
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Traditional ways to thank library donors with a twist
Non-traditional ways that libraries can thank donors
LYNN TROJAHN
Lynn Trojahn has been in the development field for over 12 years
working predominantly in the San Francisco Bay Area and now Albuquerque,
her home town. She has a bachelor's degree in International Relations
from Colgate University and a master's degree in International
Management from the American Graduate School of International
Management. In November 1993, Lynn became the first director of
development for the University of New Mexico General Library system.
The development program has greatly expanded, almost $1,500,000 has
been raised in three years. Lynn is in the second year of a two-year,
million dollar campaign for the libraries, and has enrolled UNM's
basketball coach, Dave Bliss, as the annual fund chairman. Lynn is one
of the founding members of ALADN. She is also a member of NSFRE and
many civic and non-profit organizations in her community.
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(2) these feelings should be reciprocated;
(3) tasks should be accomplished in a timely manner; and
(4) after a normal period of time during which culture shock is expected, people should be able to deal effectively with stress in their work.
People can be prepared for intercultural contact such that the probability of success is increased by learning about concepts that summarize important and impactful cultural differences. One of the most helpful concepts focuses on the individualistic vs collectivistic socialization people have in different cultures. The impact of this cultural difference on intercultural work relationships today will be discussed and recommendations to increase work effectiveness will be offered.
RICHARD BRISLIN
Dr. Richard Brislin is Professor of Management and Industrial Relations
at the University of Hawaii. Until 1996, he was Senior Fellow and
Project Manager at the East-West Center.He received his Ph.D. in
psychology from Pennsylvania State University in 1969. He coordinates
yearly programs at the East-West Center for college teaching, and for
business people who offer various types of intercultural workshops. He
is the author or co-author of a number of widely-used books. One of his
recent books, The Art of Getting Things Done: A Practical Guide to
the Use of Power (1991), was a selection of the Book of the Month
Club and the Quality Paperback Book Service. His frameworks for the
analysis of cultural differences during international business dealings
have been widely used in university courses in international management
and also by human resource directors and international business managers
in a wide variety of organizations.
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LORRAINE SATO TAMARIBUCHI
Lorraine Tamaribuchi earned her BEd at the University
of Hawaii and her MA at Stanford. She is an honorary alumna of Wellesley
College. For ten years, she served as Wellesley's Director of Class Fund
Programs, overseeing the annual fund efforts which included fund raising
through alumnae reunions, regional clubs, and parent programs. Returning to
Hawaii in 1991, she has been Director of Development for the Honolulu
Symphony, Planned Giving Officer for The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, and
is currently Director of Regional Development-Maui for the University of
Hawaii Foundation.
DONNA HOWARD Donna Howard received her BA from Pennsylvania State University in 1965 and her M.Ed. from University of Hawaii in 1975. She was Director/Community Relations Specialist for the Kailua Satellite City Hall, 1973-78. During that time she founded the Kailua Arts Fair and the Windward Marathon Clinic. From 1978-1984, she was Vice President of Institutional Development at Hawaii Loa College. She left that position to become Vice President for Institutional Development at Mills College in Oakland, California. Six years later she accepted a position as Assistant Vice Chancellor of the Health Services Advancement Program at the University of California-Irvine. While there, she also served as Executive Director of the College of Medicine Foundations Endowment Program. In early 1984, she returned to Hawaii to run the University of Hawaii Foundation. An "army brat," she was born in Louisiana, attended high school in Virginia, and traveled extensively in Japan and Europe. Her daughter, Kimberly Howard Carhart, is a graduate student at the University's School of Public Health. Her son, Matthew, is an artist.
DAVID IHA
David Iha has been Provost of Kauai Community College since 1982,
responsible for the full range of college operations and management. From
1970 to 1982, he served as Director of Administrative Services at the same
College, and from 1966 to 1970 worked in the budget area of the Community
College Chancellors Office and the UH Budget Office, including a year as
Acting UH Budget Director in 1969. From 1993-96, he was a member of the
Board of Directors of the American Council on Education. He has been
Hawaii's representative to the Accrediting Commission for Community and
Junior Colleges since 1991, serving as the Association's President and
Chair of the Board, 1993-95. From 1991-96, he was on the Board of
Governors of the Hawaii Community Foundation and Vice Chair of the Board,
1995-96.
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ERIN MINNE
Erin Minne has served as Director for Foundation Relations at Michigan
Technological University in Houghton, Mich., since the fall of 1995. She is
a native of the Detroit area and worked in development there, specializing
in foundation grants and major gifts for nearly a decade. Her longest
tenure in development was with the American Cancer Society. She is a
graduate of Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.
PHYLLIS JOHNSON
Phyllis Johnson has been the University Librarian and Director of the J. Robert
Van Pelt Library at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich.,
since 1989. She earned her M.A. in Library Science from the University of
Chicago. At Michigan Tech she has instituted a program which offers parents
of graduating seniors an opportunity to honor their son or daughter by
purchasing a book in their name. She has also started a Friends group. In
the coming year she and Erin Minne will be working closely together to
increase gifts and grants to the library.
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ABSTRACT:
Doing business with Japanese people will go more
smoothly if you are aware of some of the cultural expectations and social
practices that infuse the business meeting situation. This
lecture-demonstration will cover such matters as cultural differences, gift
giving, making an appointment, the first meeting, non-verbal communications,
bowing, exchanging business cards, and knowing where to sit (office, home,
car or restaurant). You will have a chance to try some practice exercises.
AKIO NAKAZAWA
Akio Nakazawa is Chair of the Business Language
Communications Program at JAIMS (Japan-America Institute of Management
Science), a private graduate school of business in Honolulu. He was born and
raised in Japan. For many years he has taught Japanese to foreign students,
first in Japan at the Stanford Center for Japanese Language Studies &
International Students Institute, and then as a Fulbright Lecturer at
Amherst and Smith Colleges. He completed an MA in Linguistics and Japanese
at the University of Hawaii, where he has continued to teach Japanese while
at the same time developing an interest in business. For 12 years he managed
a radio station in Honolulu. Among other things, he translated and recorded
news broadcasts and radio and television advertising for Japanese businesses
in Hawaii and for American businesses sending promotional material to Japan.
As an international business consultant, he has conducted seminars in
cross-cultural interaction for Japanese personnel doing business in Hawaii.
His 1994 appointment at JAIMS has enabled him to combine all his interests--
he is now teaching Japanese language and communications to international
students who will do internships with Japanese companies and work in the
Japanese business environment.
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