Congratulations to these randomly-selected winners in last week’s InHouse Fun Fact and music giveaways.

• Miriam Sheehan, administrative assistant, Texas Municipal Clerks
• Rachel McMullen, assistant director, Athletics
• Debbie Kutsky, senior assistant to the dean, College of Education
• Adam Silva, ID assistant, ID Systems
• Jackie Thames, computer support specialist, College of Public Affairs and Community Service
• Arlinda Marie Arriaga, NT Daily, Journalism Department
• Paula Arreguin, library specialist, UNT Libraries
• Mark Coomes, Facilities
• Rebekah Moreno, financial aid counselor 
• Denise Philpot, doctoral student/teaching assistant, Department of Management
• Philippe Becerra, academic advisor, College of Education

Win free stuff; read InHouse, the electronic newsletter that is always online and is regularly updated with news about events and strategic activities at UNT. The formatted version is e-mailed to faculty and staff each week, usually on Wednesdays.

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The newsletter includes opportunities to win a UNT T-shirt gift pack, free tickets to concerts, sports and other campus activities.Tickets and prizes are generously provided by event sponsors and departments. Winners are randomly selected from all responses.

Raymond J. Clay Jr. is a professor of accounting in the College of Business Administration, who is particularly happy when his students see the relevance in auditing. And when he’s with his grandchildren.

What is your title and department?
I am a faculty member for the Department of Accounting in the College of Business Administration.

How long have you been at UNT?
I have worked at UNT for 25 years.

Your educational background?
I received both my bachelor of science and master of science in accounting from Northern Illinois University, and my doctor of business administration in accounting from the University of Kentucky. I am also a certified public accountant licensed in Texas and Indiana.

What is your past experience?
I taught at Indiana State University from 1968 to 1971 and at Texas Tech University from 1974 to 1980. Then I have worked on the audit staff of Price Waterhouse & Co. in Chicago, Ill., and as the director of professional development for Union Pacific Corporation in Omaha, Ne.

Do you have an area of interest or research?
Auditing and professional ethics.

What do you like most about teaching?
I thoroughly enjoy the interaction with the students. Students bring a great deal of enthusiasm to the classroom; however, that enthusiasm is only directed to the subject matter if the professor makes the classroom experience enlightening and relevant to the student. I truly enjoy the challenge of making the subject of auditing come alive to a group of people who have no experience with the subject.

How do you define success?
Success is feeling good about who I am, and being proud of what I do.

How do you spend your free time?
I have three grandchildren who dazzle me on a consistent basis. I spend as much time with them as my schedule, and their parents, will allow. My wife, Dr. Joan Marie Clay, who is a professor in the hospitality management, and I travel a great deal. We enjoy new places and new experiences, and love to travel with family and friends.

Do you have a favorite expression?
The harder I work the luckier I get.

Do you have a favorite season?
I like them all equally! I equate the joy of a season with the events I participate in during that season. Thus, as I have favorite events that occur during every season, I like all the seasons for different reasons. For example, in the spring, I watch my grandchildren play soccer. In the summer, I play golf, travel with my wife and do some consulting. In the fall and winter, I watch my grandson play ice hockey.

Is there an accomplishment that you are especially proud of?
Doing whatever it was I did to impress my wife enough to make her want to marry me.

What was your first job?
Operating a postage meter machine at a mail order company in Chicago.

How about a favorite restaurant?
Gino’s East in Chicago.

(Interview by Elizabeth Knighten, student assistant, University Relations, Communications and Marketing)

The Club at Gateway Center, which is operated by UNT’s School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management program, will open again for the Fall 2008 dining season on Sept. 29. When did the fine-dining laboratory officially open at the Gateway location?

A. Fall 2002

B. Fall 2000

C. Fall 2001

D. Spring 2001

The correct answer is B. The Club at Gateway Center opened in Fall 2000 when the hospitality management program relocated from the Club College Inn, to the state-of -the-art facility located in the Gateway building. The original Club College Inn successfully operated for 14 years previously to the relocation to the Gateway Center building.

To win a pair of free lunch tickets to The Club at Gateway Center, send an e-mail with the word “Club” in the subject line to inhouse@unt.edu by 5 p.m. Sept. 26. The winners will be selected at random from all e-mails received.

Operations

For a limited time each semester, The club opens to the public for lunch on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.  Download the semester's menu.

Season Tickets
A special discount of 10 percent is given to all season ticket holders. For $56.70 guests may buy a book of nine tickets which may be used in any combination and for any meal each season. Students are required to sell these tickets books as part of their marketing training each semester.

If you would like to purchase a ticket book for the current or upcoming season, please e-mail GatewayClub@unt.edu, and a student will contact you when tickets are available.

Seating Times
Seating is available for lunch from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m,.. Reservations are recommended and will be held for 15 minutes.

Groups
The Club is a great casual setting for birthday or business luncheons and can easily accommodate large parties. Seating is limited. To ensure availability, reservations are recommended at least one week prior.

Parking
Free parking is available in Fouts Field across from Gateway Center. Obtain parking permits at the visitor booth in front of the Gateway Center.

Price
Lunch includes an appetizer, entree, dessert and beverage for $7 per person. Cash, checks and UNT IDOs are accepted.

Professors in four colleges were named regents professors this year. The promotions went into effect on Sept. 1. The new regents professors are:

• Bruce Bond, professor of English
• Mary Karen Clardy, professor of music
• Ana Cleveland, professor of library and information sciences
• Thomas Cundari, professor of chemistry
• Steven Friedson, professor of music
• Mary Harris, professor of teacher education and administration
• Gerald Knezek, professor of learning technologies
• T. David Mason, professor of political science
• Adam Wodnicki, professor of music

The Board of Regents awards the designation of regents professor to provide recognition and salary support to a tenured full professor who has performed outstanding teaching, research and service to the university, and who has achieved a high level of national and international recognition. Candidates are first nominated by their department, and those names are submitted to the department dean for approval. A Regents Professor Selection and Review Committee, chaired by John Booth, Regents Professor of political science, reviews the nominations and this committee makes recommendations to the provost and vice president for academic affairs for approval. The provost submits nominations to the president who then, with the concurrence of the chancellor, recommends the nominations to the Board of Regents. Regents professors must devote at least one-half of their teaching effort to appropriate introductory-level courses. The promotion includes a $ 5,500 bonus each year to the regent professors’ salary. Currently, there are 62 regents professors at the university.

The One O’Clock Lab Band will present music from the Maynard Ferguson Music Library for the first time since acquiring the historic collection in August.

Dreaming of Birdland: The UNT One O’Clock Lab Band’s Tribute to Maynard Ferguson will be performed at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Oct. 17 at McDavid Studio, adjacent to Bass Performance Hall, 301 E. 5th St., Fort Worth. Tickets are $30 at www.basshall.com.

To win a free pair of tickets to the 10 p.m. concert, send an e-mail to inhouse@unt.edu with "Maynard Ferguson" in the subject line by 5 p.m. Sept. 26. The winner will be selected at random from all responses. The winner must show identification to get these tickets at the Bass Hall Will Call window.

“In many cases, it will be the first time this music has been performed since Maynard’s groups performed it in the late 1950s and early 1960s,” says Steve Wiest, interim director of the UNT One O’Clock Lab Band and a member of Ferguson’s band from 1981 to 1986. “Back then, this music was considered ‘cutting edge’ and super-exciting. Today, it still feels the same and has stood the test of time that defines any great work of art.” Ferguson, above, died in 2006.

Guest artists include former One O’Clock Lab Band members trumpeter Craig Johnson of New York, trumpeter Pete DeSiena of Los Angeles and drummer Stockton Helbing, who was Ferguson’s final musical director.

The 400-piece Maynard Ferguson Music Library, acquired by UNT with the help of a donation, arrived on campus in August. The Maynard Ferguson Music Library covers Ferguson's career from the mid-1950s until his death and features works by influential composers and arrangers in modern jazz history. The library complements the UNT jazz program's collection, which also includes the Stan Kenton Collection. Kenton, a famed jazz orchestra leader, gave UNT a collection of arrangements in 1962 and bequeathed the remainder of his collection to UNT in 1979.

Displays, music and dancing celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month on Sept. 17. Unofficial enrollment tallies show a 9.2 percent increase in Hispanic student enrollment. Hispanic students comprise 12 percent of UNT’s 34,795 member student body. Left, Mexican dancers performed on Library Mall. Below, students celebrated politics and  Puerto Rico. (Photos by Michael Clements).

UNT celebrated Constitution Day Sept. 17 with a lecture by federal Judge Catharina Haynes,right, of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Constitution Day commemorates the day in 1787 when 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia gathered at what is now Independence Hall to review the new Constitution of the United States of America. Thirty-nine of 55 delegates signed the document. From left, Kimi King, associate professor of political science, Judge Carmen Rivera-Worley of Denton's 16th District Court, Judge Haynes and President Gretchen M. Bataille. (Photos by Jonathan Reynolds)

President Gretchen M. Bataille, left, and Provost Wendy Wilkins, below, greet emeritus faculty members at a luncheon Sept. 11. The gathering allowed emeritus and retired faculty to learn about activities on campus, and UNT's mission as a public, student-centered research university. Emeritus faculty member Robert Rogers, right, welcomed attendees. (Photos by Michael Clements)

State Sen.Craig Estes, left, met with President Gretchen M. Bataille and UNT representatives on Aug. 25. Estes, a native of Wichita Falls, represents District 30 in the Texas Legislature. The district includes northern Denton County, plus northeastern Collin County and 15 West Texas counties. The 81st Texas Legislature convenes Jan. 13 in Austin. (Photo by Angilee Wilkerson)