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• Dan Pesut, chair of the IUPUI Department of Environments for Health, is the first male president-elect of Sigma Theta Tau International, the nursing honor society founded in 1922 on the IUPUI campus. He will take office in November 2003.

• IU has the first underwater resource management certificate program in the nation through the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. Read about it at this Web site:
http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/ocm/releases/underwa01.htm

• The first IU Madrigal Feast was held in 1947 on the Bloomington campus, the first ever on a college campus in the United States.

• TubaChristmas originated in Bloomington in 1974 when Distinguished Professor emeritus of music Harvey Phillips, “the Paganini of the tuba,” invited local tubists to don red suits and beards to raise funds for charity. That same year, Phillips gathered hundreds of East Coast tubists at New York City’s Rockefeller Center, beginning a national movement of TubaSanta performances. He founded TubaChristmas in memory of William J. Bell, the dean of American tubists and Phillips’ predecessor at the IU School of Music, who was born on Christmas Day, 1902.

• IUB telecommunications major Antwaan Randle El has been named a first team All-America quarterback by the Football Writers Association of America.