Morehead State University - Raconteur Yearbook (Morehead, KY)

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On the move but, Very much at home Perspective and a supportive family keep every- thing running smoothly for Yvonne Baldwin, direc- tor of the Academy of Arts and a history instructor. Baldwin grew up in Yancey County, North Caro- lina where the closest town was twenty miles away. She obtained her bachelors degree in history from Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, her mas- teris in history from this University, and is cur- rently working on her Ph.D. in history at the Uni- versity of Kentucky, Lexington. It was her husbandis work that brought her here three years ago. Her husband is Lieutenant Colonel Alan Baldwin, head of the Universityis Re- serve Officer Training Corps program. The Bald- wins have been married for 20 years and have two children, Matt, 14, and Amanda, 11. Baldwin has lived in Oklahoma, Germany ton three separate occasionsl and Morehead. She ene joys moving, and making new friends and making a contribution as an Army wife. Even though it is difficult to leave old friends. During her stay in Germany, she fell in love with the country and was able to study lancscape painting with Otto Martin, a well-known German artist. Baldwin is an oil painter who sometimes instructs art classes. The Academy, which she is director of, is a five-year-old, university-sponsored, non-profit organization. Its purpose is to give gifted people of all ages the opportunity to study with talented in- structors in the fields of music, dance, art and cre- ative writing. Baldwin hopes that through her history classes she is able to present history as being alive. She enjoys presenting a diiferent point of View, being outspoken, and challenging her students to think. Living in Germany has allowed her to present the German perspective on World War II and the Holoe caust, which most students have never heard. She finds the students to be the best part of the University because they are ambitious and on the move, and wishes that people would quit looking down upon the institution as just a regional univer- sity. - By: Christie Sheppard While in Germany, Yvonne Baldwin studied landscape painting with well-known German artist, Otto Martin. Baldwin teaches history at the University. PHOTO BY: jeffColquhoun F.S. 8t Admin. 39

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Exum - Lemaster Harold C. Exum Military Science Dr. Daniel Fasko, Ir. Assist. Profi, Education Jean Flannery Residence Hall Dir. Carolyn S. Flatt Director, PDI' Dr. Donald F. Flatt Professor; History Judith A. Flavell WMKY Promotion b Development Director - Dr. William W. Flint , Assist. Prof, Education Dr. Ercy G. Fulbright , Profeasar ofMasic , Pamela L. Fultz ClerkITypist, Registrar W. Scott Gillock Asst. Prof, LE. b 13 Dr. Christopher Gallaher , Dept. Chair, Music Dr. Lawrence Griesinger Prof: Education Dr. Frances Helphinstine Prof, English Jack Henson Asst. Profl, Bus. Admin. Madonna B. Huffman Director of Residence Educ. Clyde 1. James Mgr. Univ. Ctr. Services 'Bart A. Jeffrey Military Science Dr. Larry Jones Dean, Professional Studies Dr. Roger . Jones Pro essor Art ' Joyce Y. LeMaster 1 Assoc. Prof, English ES. 8tAdmin. 38

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Helping others Measure of Freedom As a child, all I wanted to do was read. Everyone thought it was strange, because it just wasnlt what girls did during that time. Dr. Betty Gurley, professor of philosophy, has always been different. I grew up during the Depression, I came from a very eco- nomically deprived family. I was raised aCatholic. It was a time when Catholics looked up to authority; the priest or the Pope answered all your questions. I didn,t know why I wasnitjust as capable as those men to answer my own questions. I became a feminist at a very young age. Because of social pressures of the time, Dr. Curley was mar- ried and pregnant by the time she was 17. This was in 1945. While working as a bookkeeper, she raised four children. Her second child was born six years after her first child. Her third and fourth children were born three years apart. In 1963, fifteen years after she married, she got a divorce and moved to California. While living there, she received a letter from Mt. St. Anonio, ajunior college that offered classes for free. She then decided to go to school. She thought about accounting as a major at first. She had been doing the work of an accountant for a long time without the pay. She thought ifshe got her degree she could then receive the salary she deserved. She also consid- ered history, but after her first philosophy class she knew that it was the field for her. Dr. Curley received her bachelor of philosophy from Califor- nia State at Los Angeles. In 1965 she went on to graduate school at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She was the only woman in the field of philosophy in her class. She received the National Defense Fellowship, which paid her tuition, books and living expenses. Without the Fellowship, Dr. Gurley would not have been able to finish her education. In 1969, after finishing the classwork for her doctorate at S.I.U., Dr. Gurley started teaching at our university. It took her six years from that point to finish her doctoral exams and disser- tation, which was entitled, The Size ofFreedom. It was on the existential concept offreedom. She received her doctorate from S.I.U. She is new writing a book on Metaethics, a new theory on how ethical decisions are made. IFS a feminist approach to the subject. Dr. Curley teaches Social Ethics, Existentialism, and Conteme porary Philosophy. uI try to get my students to think critically about values. I want them to know that they donit have to simply accept blindly. I teach freedom to think. Tom Bailey, a senior from Cincinnati, OH, said, Dr. Curley is different, she makes you think. One 0fthe requisites for one ofDr. Gurleyis classes is to write papers on your own beliefs and values. If you donit know yourselfbefore her class, you will after it, said Tresa Roberts, a senior from Morehead. Dr. Curley married her second husband, Neil, in 1970. He is a former health administrator for Rowan County and now he buys old homes, fixes them up and sells them. Dr. Curley has three daughters and three sons, ranging in age from 29 to 40. tTm a firm mother. I tried to teach my children how to get along in the world, how to find their own values? Dr. Curley and her husband own a condominium in Spain, which they visit every summer. ttWe traveled to many diHerent places such as the Bahamas, Mexico City, all the southern states. Then we went to Spain and decided after a few days that this was the place for us. The couple plans to move to Spain when Dr. Gurley retires. . - By: Suzanne Smith Social Ethics, Existentialism, and Contemporary Philosophy are the classes taught by Dr. Betty Gurley, professor of philoso- phy. All classes discuss life decisions and worldly problems. PHOTO BY.- JefColquhoun