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Disability Services featured in national newsletter

The University’s Office of Disability Services (DSS) was prominently featured in the fall edition of the national newsletter Disability Compliance for Higher Education.

The newsletter focused on DSS’s program for new students with disabilities. The feature article is entitled “Program retains first-year students with camaraderie, opportunities.”

Director Mary Helen Walker and Misty Sykes, disabilities counselor, were quoted.

“Our goal is to reach every student who has a disability to make sure they get accommodations,” Walker said.

“Freshmen take part in group discussions so they can learn about themselves and others and how to self-advocate,” Sykes said.

DSS sponsored an orientation program for new students before classes started.

Dr. Reising published in Journal of Popular Culture

The February, 2005, issue of The Journal of Popular Culture carries an article by Dr. Robert Reising (English) entitled "From the Big Top to the Big Leagues: Burt Lancaster's Baseball Odysseys (Oddities?)."

The piece discusses two New York Giant right fielders portrayed in films by Lancaster: Jim Thorpe, the Olympic champion and Native American and "Moonlight" Graham, born in Fayetteville in 1876. “Jim Thorpe, All-American” was a Hollywood hit in 1951; “Field of Dreams,” in 1989. Graham was the brother of former UNC-Chapel Hill president and candidate for the U.S. Senate Frank Porter Graham.

Dr. Crandall co-authors article for magazine

Dr. Rick Crandall (Business) published an article in APICS: The Performance Advantage, a practitioner magazine devoted to operations management issues.

The article is entitled "The life cycles of management programs" and appeared in the
January 5 issue. It is co-authored by his father, Dr. Richard E. Crandall, a professor at Appalachian State University.

In the article, the authors discuss how management programs often go through an evolutionary cycle, similar to product life cycles.

Labadie named advisor to East Indian organization

After three years of involvement as a participant and advisor to the Indian Documentary of the Electronic Arts (http://retiary.org/idea/), Dr. John Antoine Labadie was named a special advisor to the newly formed Academy of Electronic Arts based in New Delhi, India (www.theaea.org/).

The Academy of Electronic Arts is a learning, sharing, mentoring, networking, benchmarking and empowering institution that evolves continuously to address all e-creative practices and practitioners, whether already existing or as yet inconceivable, whether professional or not, and whether formally recognized as art forms and artists or not so, on a public-benefit basis into the future.

The academy coalesces and deploys years of independent cutting-edge practice, networking and development of a variety of e-creative practices, e-creative entities, and also allied fields of human endeavor globally, in the bodies of its advisory council, its board of trustees, and also the innumerable other e-creative practitioners and associated individuals and organizations whom it continually engages itself with on individual projects and also on ongoing relationship bases all over the world.

AIS hosts campus book forum

The first American Indian Studies Book Forum was held recently on campus.

Dr. Jay Vest (American Indian Studies) was chair. Dr. Judy Curtis (Mass Communications) presented a book review of “Cultural Politics and the Mass Media” by Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James (Alaska Native Voices; Champaign, Ill.; University of Illinois Press; 2004).

Dr. Tulla Lightfoot (Art) presented two reviews on “Whadoo Tehmi: Long Ago People’s Packsack; Bags: Tradition and Revival” by Dene Babiche and Jo Orten (Gatineau, Quebec, Canada; Museum of Civilization; 2004) and “Woodland Reflections: The Art of Truman Lowe” by Suzan Marie and Judy Thompson (Madison, Wis.; The University of Wisconsin Press; 2003).

Dr. Vest presented a review of “The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories” by Hugh A. Dempsey (Norman, Okla.; University of Oklahoma Press; 2003).

Dr. Hossfeld speaks at Washington gender conference

In November, Dr. Leslie Hossfeld (Sociology) was an invited speaker to the Center of Concern Gender, Trade and Development Project in Washington, D.C., for their Conference on the impact of trade liberalization on women’s economic security in the U.S.

Dr. Hossfeld also presented her research on “Gender and Job Loss in North Carolina.” The conference, entitled, “Beijing +10 Meets World Trade Organization +10,” is part of the International Gender and Trade Network’s preparation for the upcoming Commission on the Status of Women in which findings from the conference will be presented to the United Nations in February.

Dr. Labadie proposal accepted

Dr. John Antoine Labadie’s proposal entitled "Teaching visualization through design thinking" was accepted for presentation at a workshop session at the University of North Carolina Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference.

Steeds’ prints appear in Washington show

Twenty-three printmakers including Ralph Steeds (Art) have produced a portfolio of 23 prints in 23 sets. The show is entitled "Beat For Jesus" and explores the darker sides of religion.

This folio has been accepted to be shown at the Corcoran Museum of Art, in Washington D.C. The exhibition is at the invitation of the Southern Graphics Conference. The print folio will be shown at the Corcoran Museum from March 30 through the month of April.

R.A. Fountain General Store celebrates ‘Possum Day’

Dr. Shelby Stephenson (English) will read his book-length poem “Possum” at R.A. Fountain, General Store and Internet Café, on Thursday, February 3. Dr. Stephenson’s homage to the much-maligned marsupial is part of R.A. Fountain’s Possum Day celebration. Area residents are invited to share their favorite possum stories after Stephenson’s reading, which will begin at 7 p.m. Admission is free.

The author of eight books of poetry, Dr. Stephenson is editor of Pembroke Magazine. He was honored in 1999 as writer of the year by the North Carolina Writers Conference, and in 2001, he received the North Carolina Award in Literature.

Dr. Stephenson and his brothers, Marshall and Paul, and wife, Linda, have attracted large crowds to R.A. Fountain for their three Bluegrass shows.
“ We were so poor,” Dr. Stephenson said, “we had possums for yard dogs. Most of my poems come out of that background, where memory and imagination play on one another.”

“Possum” was published in 2004 by Bright Hill Press in Treadwell, N.Y. Copies will be available at the reading for $5.50. For more information, phone (252) 749-3228 or visit www.rafountain.com.

Will Clark named pre-season all-conference

Will Clark, a second baseman for St. Andrews College, was named to the pre-season all conference team by the Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference baseball coaches. He is the son of Sallyann Clark (Mass Communications).

Birthdays, February 1-14

Marchell Adams
Eileen Barbour
Sean Breeden
Andreas Broscheid
Susan Chavis
Russell Cherry
Rhoda Collins
William Crandall
Larry Floyd
Jing Gao
Charles Graham
Jessica Hall
Susie Harris
Connie Hawk
Stephanie Hunt
Deok-Hyun Hwang
Margaret Inman
Brenda M. Jacobs
Malcolm Jacobs
Ira Jarrell
Amy Johnson
Derrick Locklear
Gary Locklear
Sandra Locklear
John McMillan
Surrie McNeill
Michael Oxendine
Carla Rokes
Sara Simmons
Robert Spivey
George Walter
Delois Williams
Rudy Williams
Vincent Winnies

New Hires

Sherry Harrelson – Aministrative Assistant, Sponsored Research & Programs
Jessica Hall - Program Assistant, International Programs
Michael Sanderson - Grounds Worker, Physical Plant
Ophelia Revels – Housekeeper, Physical Plant
Sylvia Reed - Education Specialist, Healthy Start
Natasha Wilson - Applications Programmer, Institutional Research
Jennifer Carter - Administrative Secretary, Mass Communications
James Strickland - Maintenance Mechanic, Physical Plant
Mary Baynes - Administrative Secretary, Nursing
Kelly Cheek – Lecturer, School of Education

Promotions

Willie Scott - Maintenance Mechanic III
Penny Locklear - Accountant I

In-Range Adjustments

Tiffany Capps
Geraldine McMillan
Janet Taylor
Effie Locklear
Randall Blue
Robert Hunt
Douglas Hammonds
Betty Strickland
Kevin Pait
Robert Hughes

Deaths

Susan O. Locklear's father, Hartley J. Oxendine, passed away on Monday, December 27, 2004. Susan works at Physical Plant.

Mrs. Francine Alessi Dunlavy, mother of Dr. Patricia Valenti (English), passed away on Saturday, January 29.

Bruce Jacobs (Housekeeping) passed away on Sunday, January 30.