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Dr. John McManus' Expertise in Educational Administration By Tiffany Chang On November 30, 2000, Dr. Tony Lei received a beautiful Christmas card signed by Dr. John McManus from Pepperdine University, California. Tony was suprised and humbled upon seeing the familiar signature, which brought back memorie of about twenty years ago. In 1981-82, Jack was Tony's big boss when Tony worked as a computer consultant in the Academic Computing Laboratory and studied in the doctoral program at Pepperdine. The most difficult course with 5 units in the Program, failed by a sizable number of students, was "Quantitative Approaches to Educational Research and Evaluation". Jack taught that course and Tony received an "A" grade (4.00 GPA) in the course. Dr. McManus, Tony's respectable teacher, has now been promoted as the Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP) of Pepperdine University. Congratulations! Jack also taught a course named "Computer Utilization in Educational Management" in the doctoral program. Tony was his student once again. In 1985, Tony presented a paper to the IMC's Asia-Pacific Regional Information and Micrographic Management Congress. It was published by the Proceedings of the Conference, entitled "Computer Education, Organizational Changes, and Principal's Decision-Making." A research project entitled "On the Relationship of Computer Science Learning and Standard Mathematics Scores," was presented by Tony to the Data and Document Systems Conference of the International Information Management Congress in 1989 at Taipei. The paper was published by the Proceedings of the Conference of IMC. All of those together with Tony's technical experience in the Lab and teaching performance in the business graduate school of the University made it possible for him to complete his Doctoral Dissertation through quantitative analysis and computer utilization. The Dissertation, named "A Study of the Impact of Enrollment in a Computer Science Class on Mathematics Scores and Attendance in a Secondary School," was published by University Microfilms Inc., Michigan, in 1990. It received the copyright from the United States Copyright Office of the Library of Congress, U.S.A. in January 30, 1991. Tony was an Associate Professor of Information Management at the Graduate School of Business Administration of Chunghsing University, Taipei, from 1985 to 1990. Public Administration Institution (PAI) of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) has the following faculty members winning the November elections: Myron Leavitt and Nancy Bcker as Justices of the Supreme Court, Valorie Vega, and Lisa Brown, Cheryl Moss ( Family Division) as Judges of District Court, Ann Zimmerman (Las Vegas Township) and Natalie Tyrrell (North Las Vegas Township) as Justices of the Peace. WBTI has long time publicized their participation and efforts in community service and academic performance. The Faculty of WBTI joined Dr. Lei to pay a high tribute to these "Boa Ching Tien" (The great Judge of righteousness respected and loved by all the people in Chinese literature and show) of Nevada with their sincerest congratulations! "With the effort of the Faculty and under the brilliant leadership of Dr. Tony Lei, WBTI has accomplished valuable contributions to the academic research and community service for Nevada. We are proud and honored to have Justice Nancy Becker as a PAI Fellow. Her participation in this Institution will enrich and enhance its academic production featured with practicality and adaptability as an efficient 'Intelligence Tank' with her excellent and impressive public administration experience and contribution," said the President of Seniors United, Lillian Wallace. It was delivered by a feature article published by Nevada Examiner on May 19, 2000. Dr. McManus believes that, "technology is the backbone of any communications system." On his Message delivered in the Summer 2000 Issue of the 'Pepperdine Colleague,' he stated that, "As part of GSEP's position as a leader in education technology, we have established the goal of installing reliable and powerful computer servers, as well as 'redundant systems' that will be automatically operational in the event the main server is disabled. The work of students, faculty, and staff must not be disrupted." "Just as we have had successes in the past, we look forward to the future," said the Dean last month. "I have been working with the president and the provost in sharpening the definition of the role of dean. It is safe to say that the position of dean will become more outward-looking. Future tasks will include fund-raising, putting together two Boards of Visitors, one for Psychology and Education Divisions, and the creation of more partnerships in the community." May the quiet peace and great joy be yours. Nevada Examiner, WBTI, and Seniors United all wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!