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Volume XCI, Number 14	University of Southern California	Wednesday, July 21, 1982
PIONEERED L YMPHA TIC RESEARCH
Faculty member Fay wins art talent award
Joe Fay, an adjunct faculty member at the School of Fine Arts, has won the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's 1982 Young Talent Purchase Award.
The prestigious award is given annually to outstanding artists under the age of 36. Recipients receive $3000 and a one-person exhibition at the museum. In return, each artist presents an artwork to the museum within three years.
Fay, along with co-winner Karla Klarin, was selected from a field of 250 artists in the Los Angeles area.
His relief paintings are characterized by polyurethane foam systems that modulate over the canvas surface in mounds of spiky vegetation. The brightly painted foam protrusions evelope images from desert and urban landscapes — cacti, cow-
boys. birds, or city buildings.
Fay, 31, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Southwestern College in San Diego. He earned bachelor's and master’s degrees from San Diego State University.
He has shown his work at the Molly Barnes Gallery in Los Angeles and is currently represented by the Roy Boyd Gallery of Chicago and Los Angeles. He maintains a studio in the downtown Los Angeles art-sits' community.
Fay, a resident of Glendale, has been a member of the faculty for three years.
Photo by Alec Tan
FRAMED — A portion of the VKC tower is framed by the building in this unusual angle.
Photo by Dm Canales
MIRROR IMAGE — The SAC window reflects the picture of a lone student eating his lunch on a bench outside the Student Clnion.
Michael Halloran appointed admissions, financial aid dean
Michael H. Halloran, an expert in automated systems analysis, has been appointed associate dean of admission and financial aid at the university.
The appointment, effective immediately, was announced by Edward B. Wall, dean of admission and financial aid. who said:
"Despite the severe cuts in federal loan support, USC remains committed to providing educational opportunity for high-ability students regardless of their economic means.
“In order to meet 100 percent of the demonstrated financial need of all entering undergraduates. we are dramatically increasing the monies available for scholarships, loans and work-study grants.
“Michael Halloran will be working to develop additional programs of financial aid.”
Dr. Halloran, 44, has held various faculty and administrative posts at the university.
He has been director of automated systems and financial aid for more than two years: and, before
Dean Wall assumed his present position earlier this month, Halloran also served as interim dean of admisssion and financial aid.
From 1978 to 1980, he was the university’s senior systems analyst for academic information systems.
From 1971 to 1978, he handled both faculty and administrative duties in urban studies, planning and public administration.
In his first five years at the university, Halloran was an assistant professor at the Center for Urban Affairs and an assistant professor of physics and materials science.
He came to the university in 1966, after working for several years as a researcher at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Halloran earned a bachelor of science degree in physics, magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame in 1957. He holds a master of science degree and a Ph.D.. both in physics, from the University of Wisconsin.
Emeritus professor of anatomy Patek dies
By John Iki
Assistant Editor
Paul R. Patek, professor emeritus of anatomy with the School of Medicine, died July 14 of cardiovascular complications after a short illness. He was 74.
After earning his undergraduate (A.B., 1931) and his doctorate (1938) in anatomy from the university. Patek remained as an instructor with the school until his retirement in 1974.
As well as being what his peers call a very popular teacher, Patek was chairman of the anatomy department for 25 years.
Patek pioneered research on the lymphatic system particularly as it pertains to the heart, and on artheriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), reports a colleague. Professor Gerald Hungerford.
Ironically, artheriosclerosis exacerbated Patek’s disease, detected during a hospital stay that began 17 days before his death.
Patek also researched how the tar in cigarette smoke affects the body’s immunization system. Hungerford continues.
“He was a gentleman with a capital ‘G’,” says Sol Bernick, professor of electron microscopy research and Patek's colleague since 1952. Bernick fondly describes Patek as an administrator who would trust other professors to fulfill their responsibilities without his constant supervision.
“I feel he gave me a chance to develop a microscopic-ana-tomy course as I saw fit,” Bernick declares.
Hungerford agrees with Ber-nick’s appraisal.
“(Patek) was very supportive of the faculty. The department was a small, sleepy group
when I first came to the School of Medicine in 1952, and now, USC's a major medical school. Paul was instrumental in that,” Hungerford says.
“He was reasonable, kind, understanding, easy to get along with, while at the same time, he was upholding standards,” Hungerford adds, expressing the consensus from Patek's peers and his wife.
“I think the important thing about this man is not his research but his love and his consideration for his students,” says Esther Patek, M.D., and his wife for 44 years.
He loved teaching,” she says. “His students cared about him And he cared about his students. He cured that they got a good education.”
She married Patek soon after earning both her undergraduate and doctorate from the university, “just like my husbnad.”
From 1938 to 1944. Patek worked with the School of Medicine as an assistant professor in anatomy. In 1944. he left for the only occasion during a 50-year affiliation with the university to work as a visiting associate professor at Washington University's School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo.
After his return in 1945, Patek was named associate professor and acting chairman of the department. He was promoted to professor and appointed permanently as chairman the following year.
Patek served actively until his retirement and was named emeritus professor in 1978. He occasionally taught after then.
More time was available for Patek and his wife to travel to places such as Indonesia, Peru. India, the Galapagos Islands, and many other places.
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