On Campus (December 13, 1985)

              On Campus
FOR THE UC SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY
December 13, 1985
[Photograph] Alfred Hahn, right, and Vice Chancellor Bruce Moore, second from left, with Hahn
Scholarship winners: (l-r) Osvaldo Luis of Salinas, Rebecca Bokulich of Soquel, Scott
Levkoff of Santa Cruz, and Abigail Abenoja of Watsonville.
Hahn scholarships
for five students
Five UCSC students from the
communities of Santa Cruz,
Soquel, Watsonville and
Salinas have been awarded support
funds from the Hahn Scholarship
Trust, established by Alfred Hahn
of Santa Cruz and his late wife,
Margaret.
Because of their drive and dedication, the five students were recommended for the scholarship aid by
their high school teachers and
counselors.
The Hahn trust of more than $1
million provides support for
students wishing to attend UCSC
who have need of financial aid but
whose academic records might not
qualify them for other scholarships.
"Through this trust, Mr. Hahn
wants to help promising young
people with a strong determination
to secure a higher education," says
Charles Newell, a longtime friend of
Mr. Hahn's and a trustee of the
fund.
"It isn't based simply on academic records," he says, "but on the
students' potential and stick-to-
itiveness. I hope any students who
think they might qualify will apply
or be recommended by their
teachers, counselors, parents or
friends," says Newell.
When he established the scholarship trust, Hahn said, "there are
many capable, academically promising students in need of financial
aid. They may not be good at everything, but if you don't show faith in
them and take a chance, they'll
never have a chance to show their
potential. If I can just help one
student through these scholarships, if just one reaches his or her
potential, that's what I want to do.
And that alone will make it all
worthwhile."
Chancellor's
holiday bash
Zats! Bob and Karen Sinsheimer cordially invite all
faculty and staff to attend
their annual celebration of the holiday season at University House on
Thursday, December 19.
Festivities will begin at 4 p.m.
and conclude at 6. Refreshments
will abound.
Lick and NASA
astronomers
confirm comet's
ice theory
For the first time, solid ice
particles have been detected
in Halley's Comet, confirming the long-held belief that comets
consist largely of ice, astronomers
from Lick Observatory at UCSC and
from NASA's Ames Research
Center in Mountain View reported
this week.
The idea that comets are "dirty
snowballs" was first presented in
the 1950s, but direct evidence for
the ice's existence has always been
missing.
New infrared observations of
Halley's Comet made at Lick Observatory allowed astronomers to
penetrate into the gas cloud
surrounding the comet to a region
where the ice grains exist intact.
There they detected a characteristic
infrared signature from the ice
grains.
"We were able to see down to
where snow flakes were coming off
the comet," says David Rank, Lick
astronomer and UCSC professor of
astronomy.
Rank, along with Jesse Bregman
and Fred Witteborn, research scientists at NASA's Ames Research
Center, and Diane Wooden, an
Ames colleague currently enrolled
as an astronomy graduate student
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