ECU FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCE/RETAIL MERCHANDISING PROGRAM PARTNERING WITH MAURICES FOR FASHION SHOW ON MARCH 9

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The East Central University Family and Consumer Science/Retail Merchandising Program in partnership with Maurices in conducting a fashion show on Saturday, March 9, beginning at 2 p.m., at Maurices, located in the North Hills Shopping Center in Ada.

The show is a benefit for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life as a silent auction will begin Monday, March 4 and will conclude at the end of the fashion show on March 9.

Among the items being auctioned are a $25 gift card from Santa Fe Restaurant; five i-phone 4S cases from Q-Shop; ECU gift bag; porcelain doll from Nine Months; three movie passes from Cinemark Theatre; smiley face boots and pajama pants from Celebration Party Store, $250 gift card from Auto Blast; angel necklace from Gem Jewelers, two purses, wallet and phone case from Hair Shack, Tyler Candle from Artisan Salon and Spa, two free oil changes from Patriot Ford and feather hair clips from Inch A Long Clothing Company.

Refreshments will be served at the show and every ECU student, faculty or staff member can get a 15 percent discount on their purchase in the store that day. The first 150 guests will receive good bags from local businesses.

For more information on the show contact Jan Long, ECU Family and Consumer Science instructor, at 580-399-4771.

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AWARD-WINNING PIANIST DR. DEAVER TO PERFORM AT ECU ON MARCH 3

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Award-winning pianist Dr. Stuart Deaver will perform a free concert on Sunday, March 3 at 3 p.m. at the Ataloa Theatre of East Central University’s Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Deaver, who currently served as a professor of piano at the University of Tulsa, has won numerous awards and has performed across the United States as well as internationally in Portugal and Japan.

He was invited to perform and lecture on the complete solo minimalist works by American composer John Adams and Palacio Foz in Lisbon, Portugal in 2010. He returned to Portugal in 2012 for a solo recital at Teatro Eduardo Brazao (Vila Nova de Gaia) in the northern region.

Deaver was also invited to play a solo recital of works by Mozart, Jose Vianna da Motta and John Adams at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., in 2011. Recordings of this performance were selected for radio broadcast and can be heard on classical radio station WWFM, which serves the greater New York City area.

He began playing the piano at age 11 and, by the age of 16, was the first-place winner of the Tulsa Philharmonic’s Young Artist Competition which led to his orchestral debut performances at Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Bernard Rubinstein.

Deaver maintains an active performance schedule as a chamber musician and has collaborated with esteemed musicians around the country such as violinist Maureen O’Boyle, clarinetist Paul Garritson, cellist Diane Bucchianari and baritone Brady McElligott.

He performed a series of recitals in 2009 with Bucchianari that featured Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Cello and Piano. His collaboration in 2010 with O’Boyle featured a series of recitals of sonatas by Franck and Brahms. The tour included a performance at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M.

Deaver is an active adjudicator through MTNA and was invited to sit on the jury of the inaugural Schmidbauer International Piano Competition in Texas in 2008. He was also on the staff of the 15th and 16th Vianna da Motta International Piano Competitions in Lisbon, Portugal in 2004 and 2007.

He is also involved in music theory research and has presented his work at conference and universities around the country, including the Rocky Mountain Society of Music Theory at the University of Denver, the 15th Music Theory (MTMW) Conference at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, and at Rider University in Princeton, N.J.

At MTMW, Deaver was awarded the Arthur J. Komar Award for outstanding research and presentation of his paper Musical Equivalency of Alphabetical Order in Torke’s Telephone Book.

He has held teaching positions at the University of Kansas, Midwestern Music Camp and ECU. Deaver holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Kansas where he studied exclusively with the renowned pianist Sequeira Costa.

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ROTC Cadets Honor Fallen Soldiers in Mountain Man Memorial March

Sixteen Eastern Kentucky University ROTC cadets, along with five cadets from the University of the Cumberlands, participated in the Mountain Man Memorial March on April 20 in Gatlinburg, Tenn.

The 26.2-mile track through the city and into Smoky Mountains National Park is an event to honor fallen soldiers and their families. Each team carries a gold star flag signed by the family, as well as a photograph and biography of the soldier. The cadets participating in the marathon and half-marathon (running and rucking) spent weeks training before classes, sometimes as early as 3 a.m., to be prepared for the event.

EKU participants were: Logan Hart, Highland Heights; Jake Buerger, Union; Adam Thompson, Radcliff; Jacob Mangan, Kevin Hemmelgarn, Jeffrey Cutrer and Ben Cuthbertson, Louisville; Martin Mudd, Bardstown; Dylan Baine, Independence; Bryan Buttry, Hendersonville, Ohio; Kayla Verett, Beavercreek, Ohio; J.P. Gramig, Honolulu, Hawaii; Zachary Creutzinger, Cincinnati, Ohio; Beth Fariello, Elizabethtown; Victoria Powell, Madison, Ala.; and Ashleigh Livingston, Richmond.

Livingston finished the 26-mile individual run in first place for her age division, and Fariello and Powell completed the full marathon in first and second place, respectively. Creutzinger, third in the full marathon, received fifth place in the individual military heavy category.

The Mountain Man Memorial March began in 2008 when University of Tennessee students marched for their fallen peer, 1st Lt. Frank Walkup. EKU ROTC cadets have marched for the last four years, with the full marathon team marching three years for Sgt. 1st Class Harvey Crabtree and the half marathon team for Pfc. James McClamrock.

Published on May 01, 2013

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AWARD-WINNING PIANIST DR. DEAVER TO PERFORM AT ECU ON MARCH 3

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Award-winning pianist Dr. Stuart Deaver will perform a free concert on Sunday, March 3 at 3 p.m. at the Ataloa Theatre of East Central University’s Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Deaver, who currently served as a professor of piano at the University of Tulsa, has won numerous awards and has performed across the United States as well as internationally in Portugal and Japan.

He was invited to perform and lecture on the complete solo minimalist works by American composer John Adams and Palacio Foz in Lisbon, Portugal in 2010. He returned to Portugal in 2012 for a solo recital at Teatro Eduardo Brazao (Vila Nova de Gaia) in the northern region.

Deaver was also invited to play a solo recital of works by Mozart, Jose Vianna da Motta and John Adams at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., in 2011. Recordings of this performance were selected for radio broadcast and can be heard on classical radio station WWFM, which serves the greater New York City area.

He began playing the piano at age 11 and, by the age of 16, was the first-place winner of the Tulsa Philharmonic’s Young Artist Competition which led to his orchestral debut performances at Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Bernard Rubinstein.

Deaver maintains an active performance schedule as a chamber musician and has collaborated with esteemed musicians around the country such as violinist Maureen O’Boyle, clarinetist Paul Garritson, cellist Diane Bucchianari and baritone Brady McElligott.

He performed a series of recitals in 2009 with Bucchianari that featured Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Cello and Piano. His collaboration in 2010 with O’Boyle featured a series of recitals of sonatas by Franck and Brahms. The tour included a performance at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M.

Deaver is an active adjudicator through MTNA and was invited to sit on the jury of the inaugural Schmidbauer International Piano Competition in Texas in 2008. He was also on the staff of the 15th and 16th Vianna da Motta International Piano Competitions in Lisbon, Portugal in 2004 and 2007.

He is also involved in music theory research and has presented his work at conference and universities around the country, including the Rocky Mountain Society of Music Theory at the University of Denver, the 15th Music Theory (MTMW) Conference at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, and at Rider University in Princeton, N.J.

At MTMW, Deaver was awarded the Arthur J. Komar Award for outstanding research and presentation of his paper Musical Equivalency of Alphabetical Order in Torke’s Telephone Book.

He has held teaching positions at the University of Kansas, Midwestern Music Camp and ECU. Deaver holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Kansas where he studied exclusively with the renowned pianist Sequeira Costa.

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ECU FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCE/RETAIL MERCHANDISING PROGRAM PARTNERING WITH MAURICES FOR FASHION SHOW ON MARCH 9

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
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East Central University Communications and Marketing580-559-5650 or 405-812-1428 (cell)

The East Central University Family and Consumer Science/Retail Merchandising Program in partnership with Maurices in conducting a fashion show on Saturday, March 9, beginning at 2 p.m., at Maurices, located in the North Hills Shopping Center in Ada.

The show is a benefit for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life as a silent auction will begin Monday, March 4 and will conclude at the end of the fashion show on March 9.

Among the items being auctioned are a $25 gift card from Santa Fe Restaurant; five i-phone 4S cases from Q-Shop; ECU gift bag; porcelain doll from Nine Months; three movie passes from Cinemark Theatre; smiley face boots and pajama pants from Celebration Party Store, $250 gift card from Auto Blast; angel necklace from Gem Jewelers, two purses, wallet and phone case from Hair Shack, Tyler Candle from Artisan Salon and Spa, two free oil changes from Patriot Ford and feather hair clips from Inch A Long Clothing Company.

Refreshments will be served at the show and every ECU student, faculty or staff member can get a 15 percent discount on their purchase in the store that day. The first 150 guests will receive good bags from local businesses.

For more information on the show contact Jan Long, ECU Family and Consumer Science instructor, at 580-399-4771.

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Edinboro University faculty, staff, students to celebrate Women’s History Month with myriad campus activities - Kicks off Sunday, March 3

02/22/2013

Edinboro University’s faculty, staff and students will come together for a variety of events in March to celebrate Women’s History Month.

This year’s Women’s History Month line-up includes a dozen and a half dynamic campus events highlighted by a March 7 panel discussion with three Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education university presidents – all women.

Other highlighted panel discussions and lectures include Women in Flight; Religion and Gender; Tituba: The Reluctant Witch of Salem; Real Desperate Housewives: How So-Called “Reality TV” is Bad for Women; and even Women of Zombie Cinema!

With one presentation seeking the address the question, “Can Women be Sexists?”, the month features additional equally fascinating, motivating and controversial topics, according Dr. Nina Thumser, Chair of the Edinboro University Women’s History Month 2013 Committee.

The PASSHE Female President’s Panel scheduled for Thursday, March 7, at 2 p.m. in the Frank G. Pogue Student Center’s Multipurpose Room, includes Edinboro’s first female president, Dr. Julie E. Wollman, and Clarion University President Karen Whitney and Slippery Rock University President Cheryl Norton. Moderated by Edinboro’s Dr. Rhonda Matthews, of the Sociology Department, panel members will discuss women in leadership and field audience questions.

Women’s History Month programming has not only grown significantly at Edinboro during the past several years, but also has become extremely popular with student, faculty and staff audiences of both genders.   

All Women’s History Month events are free and open to the public. All are sponsored by Edinboro’s Women’s Studies Committee in collaboration with Edinboro’s History, Anthropology, and World Languages Department; Student Government Association; Office of the President; Office of the Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Admissions Office; Math and Computer Sciences Department; Math Club; and History Club.

In addition to Chair Thumser, members of the Women’s History Month 2013 Committee include Dr. Jerra Jenrette, Ms. Vicky Wetsell, Ms. Thasia Frazzini, Dr. Martha Donkor, Dr. Rhonda Matthews, Ms. Susan Woodland, and Ms. Sierra Stakes.

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Edinboro University’s ‘First Friday Concert’ series resumes March 1 at Alexander Music Center

02/22/2013

Edinboro University’s monthly “First Friday Concert” series will resume Friday, March 1, in the Dr. William P. Alexander Music Center’s Recital Hall.

The performance will be held from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.

This free March First Friday Concert, which is open to the public, will feature Music Department faculty members Patrick Jones on alto saxophone and Kristine West Denton on piano. The concert will include music of Michael Lysight, David Maslanka and Rudy Weidoeft.

First Friday Concerts, which feature Edinboro University Music Department faculty, are held monthly at the Alexander Music Center throughout the fall and spring semesters.

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ECU SYMPHONIC BAND, WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT SET FOR MARCH 7

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The East Central University Department of Music will present the Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble Concert on Thursday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m., inside the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

The concert, which is free and open to the public, is under the direction of conductor Dr. Allen Correll and assistant conductor Dr. Ben Finley.

The ECU Symphonic Band will present musical scores of American Barndance by Richard L. Saucedo and How to Train Your Dragon by John Powell and arranged by Sean O’Loughlin.

The ECU Wind Ensemble will present Canzona by Peter Mennin; Rhosymedre by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Walter Beeler, from a prelude on a Welsh Hymn Tune; Mock Morris by Percy Grainger, transcribed by Joseph Kreines; and Nitro by Frank Ticheli.

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ECU MUSIC FACULTY PAIR TO PERFORM CONCERT ON MARCH 11

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East Central University music faculty members Dr. Lauren Cox and Dr. Starla Hibler will present a free clarinet/saxophone and piano concert on Monday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Performance selections include “Romance” by William Grant Still; “A Joyous Lament for a Gilly Flower” by Margaret Garwood; “Sonatina” by Joseph Horovitz; “Summer Evening at Bryanston” by Alma Goatley; “Dance Preludes” by Witold Lutoslawski; and “Premier Rhapsodie” by Claude Debussy.

Cox joined the ECU faculty in August of 2012. She teaches clarinet, saxophone, music theory and aural skills, and woodwind methods. Cox has performed with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Pine Bluff (Ark.) Symphony Orchestra and the Missoula (Mont.) Symphony Orchestra.

She holds degrees from Florida State University and the University of Montana-Missoula. An advocate of new music, Cox always incorporates music from living composers on her recital programs.

Hibler, professor of music, has taught at ECU since 1991. She is active nationally as a soloist, accompanist and chamber music performer. As an active member of the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association, College Music Society and Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs, she serves regularly as a clinician and adjudicator.

In 1987, she was the first prize and recital prize winner of the Ernst Krenek Competition/Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition held in Palm Desert, Calif. Hibler was named Outstanding Adan in the Arts in 2011 by the Ada Arts Council. During the summers of 2005-08, she was on the piano faculty of the Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony’s Piano and String Camp in Eureka Springs, Ark. Hibler also is the organist/choirmaster for St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Ada.

She holds doctor of musical arts and master of music degrees in piano performance from the University of North Texas where she studied with Joseph Banowetz. Hibler received a bachelor of music degree in piano performance from Illinois Wesleyan University and has studied at the Vienna Conservatory in Vienna, Austria.

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RUSSIAN PIANIST GLIADKOVSKY TO PERFORM CONCERT AT ADA ARTS & HERITAGE CENTER ON MARCH 13

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Acclaimed Russian pianist Kirill Gliadkovsky will perform a free concert, hosted by the East Central University Department of Music, on Wednesday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ada Arts and Heritage Center.

Gliadkovsky’s performances have been met with great enthusiasm by both audiences and music critics in Russia, Europe and North America. His popularity has been fast-growing as well. He has been a featured artist in numerous live television and radio broadcasts and programs on such networks as NPR, CBS, PBS, CBC, WQXR, KBYU, KPAC and Russian State TV. He has recorded six CSs for Alexei Records and for CMK Classics labels.

Joseph Woodard, a critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote. “…the intensity and a nicely honed musicality left the audience stunned…enthralling…all in all, a gripping and masterful performance.” Dany Margolies at the Malibu Times describes his playing: “wondrous range…impassioned depth…enormous physical and emotional power…a complete artist”. “Fine dramatic senese…appealing range of emotional effects and pianistic devices…wonderful,” wrote the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Since making his first public appearance at age 6, Gliadkovsky has toured extensively on three continents, performing piano and organ recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in various cities in Russia, including Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi, Maliy and Rachmaninioff Halls, St. Petersburg Philharmonic’s Glinka Hall, as well as in Italy, U.K., Poland, Mongolia, Canada, Japan and throughout the United States.

Gliadkovsky was born in Moscow and has studied music since the age of 5. He attended the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow where his teachers included renowned musicians Lev Vlasenko, Mikhail Pletniev (piano) and Leonid Royzman (organ). Gliadkovsky also earned both his master’s and doctor of musical arts degrees as the University of Southern California with Professors Daniel Pollack (piano), Cherry Rhodes (organ) and William Schaefer (conducting).

He also coached with Ann Schein, Herbert Stessin, Stephen Kovacevich and Lev Naumov. Gliadkovsky took numerous prizes at international piano competitions in Europe and the United States.

Gliadkovsky is an orchestra and choir conductor and performs on the harpsichord as well. He is part of a duo and trio piano team with his wife and a concert pianist Anna Gliadkovskaya and their 14-year-old daughter Anastasia. They have toured together in many states and internationally, to a critical acclaim. Gliadkovsky has been on piano faculties at USC, Pepperdine University and Santa Monica College. He has been the music director and organist at Westwood Hills Christian Church in Los Angeles for 10 years.

Additionally, Gliadkovsky has been a sought-after adjudicator at piano competitions across the nation and a guest artist-teacher in lectures and master classes in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Dallas as well as universities in Indiana, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Colorado and Oregon.

His students have won prizes in numerous piano contests and have been accepted (often with full scholarships) at schools such as Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University, Peabody and San Francisco Conservatories, USC, UCLA, UC Berkley, University of North Texas and others.

Gliadkovsky combines his busy concert schedule with teaching. His recent engagements include tours in the Midwest and on the East Coast, solo and concerto appearances in Costa Rica, California, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, and Colorado, as well as collaborative performances in Oregon and California. Prior to coming to Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif., where he serves as the director of keyboard studies, he had been the head of piano area at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. His wife, Anna, has also been on the piano faculty at Southern Utah. She currently teaches as Saddleback and Irvine Valley Colleges.

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OKLAHOMA STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR TO BE HELD AT ECU ON THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 7-8

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The 43rd Annual Oklahoma State Science and Engineering Fair is set for Thursday and Friday at East Central University’s Kerr Activities Center.

Exhibits can be viewed by the general public from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday while judging for all of the OSSEF projects will take place Friday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

Categories for the fair include: Biochemistry, Medicine and Health Science; Physical Sciences; Earth and Space Sciences; Behavioral and Social Sciences; Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science; Environmental Sciences; Zoology and Botany; and Microbiology.

There are two divisions: Division I (high school) and Division II (junior high).

The fair includes over 230 registered participants and 210 registered projects (17 team projects and five floor projects).

An awards ceremony is scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m. in the Kerr Center.

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ENMU Hosting Jazz Fest on March 21-22

Date: 3/21/2013
Contact: Kathi Fraze at 525.562.2377
Reporter: Wendel Sloan at 575.562.2253

PORTALES--Eastern New Mexico University’s Department of Music will host its 13th annual Jazz Fest on March 21-22 in the Music Building on the Portales campus.

It is free and open to the public.

Special guests will be Chad Eby, the Onate High School Jazz Band, and the Clovis High School Jazz Band.

Eby, associate professor of jazz saxophone at the University of North Carolina in Greensborough, will give a master class on jazz improvisation at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, in the Music Building. Those interested in performing should bring their instrument.

At 7 p.m. on March 21 the Onate High School Jazz Band and the ENMU Faculty Jazz Combo will perform. The ENMU Faculty Jazz Combo consists of Neil Rutland, instructor of percussion, Travis Erwin, instructor of guitar, with Eby as special guest.

At 7 p.m. on Friday, March 22, the Clovis High School Jazz Band, the ENMU Student Jazz Combo, and the ENMU Jazz Band will perform. Both ENMU ensembles are under the instruction of ENMU faculty member Ann Bradfield, professor of jazz and saxophone and Jazz Fest director.

Both concerts will be held in Buchanan Hall in the Music Building.

For more information, call Kathi Fraze at 575-562-2377.

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EKU to Host Kentucky Science and Engineering Fair March 30

Eastern Kentucky University will host the 11th annual Kentucky Science and Engineering Fair for middle school and high school students Saturday, March 30.

The event is expected to feature the work of more than 300 students who have advanced through local and regional competitions across the Commonwealth. They will compete for trophies, ribbons, University and private scholarships and special awards from corporations and organizations in 17 categories: Animal Sciences, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Engineering (Materials & Bioengineering), Engineering (Electrical & Mechanical), Energy and Transportation, Environmental Management, Environmental Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Medicine and Health Sciences, Microbiology, Physics and Astronomy, and Plant Sciences  Also, high school students will compete for the chance to represent the Commonwealth at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles in May.

“This event represents an exciting milestone for the science and technical education community in Kentucky, and EKU is proud to again be the host,” said Dr. Barbara Ramey of EKU’s Department of Biological Sciences. “The Fair’s mission is to expand educational opportunities for all middle and high school students, and to enhance the visibility and importance of science and engineering in Kentucky by providing annual statewide competitions that support, encourage and recognize student excellence in science and engineering research.

“The Fair also gives the public a chance to see the quality of science being done in Kentucky middle schools and high schools and see what the students are capable of doing.”

The public can view the students’ work from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in Alumni Coliseum. An awards ceremony will begin at 4 p.m. in O’Donnell Hall of the Student Success Building.

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Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents Meeting March 22

Date: 3/22/2013
Contact: Bentley Deborah at 575.562.2121
Reporter: Wendel Sloan at 575.562.2253

Eastern New Mexico University
Board of Regents Meeting
ENMU-Ruidoso Campus
March 22, 2013 – 1:00 p.m.

Call to Order

Declare a quorumApprove the agenda

Routine Matters

Introduction of New Board MembersReport from the president of the BoardReport from the president of the ENMU SystemReport from the ENMU-Roswell presidentReport from the ENMU-Ruidoso presidentApproval of the minutes of January 16, 2013

Regents Matters

Election of Officers (Regent President Randy Harris, Action)Committee Appointments (Regent President, Information Only)

Business Matters

Information Systems (IS) Change from a Major to an Emphasis within the Bachelor of Business Administration, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Associate of Arts Degree in Culinary Arts, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Associate of Arts Degree in Family Consumer Science, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Major Name Change from PTE to CTE, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Associate of Arts Degree in Recreation, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Associate of Arts Degree in Pre-Nursing, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics Composite Major, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Religion Program Realignment and Department Name Change, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Removal of the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geology, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Removal of Medical Technology as a Major, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Rename English as a Second Language (ESL) Program, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Course Fees Requests, Portales (Dr. Jamie Laurenz, Action)Bookstore Services Contract, Roswell (Mr. Eric Johnston-Ortiz, Action)2013-14 University Calendar, Roswell (Mr. Eric Johnston-Ortiz, Action)Emerita Status for Dr. Suzanne Berry, Roswell (Dr. John Madden, Action)Emeritus Status for Lloyd Chaves, Roswell (Dr. John Madden, Action)Emeritus Status for Jerry DeLosh, Roswell (Dr. John Madden, Action)Emerita Status for Felecia Harvey, Roswell (Dr. John Madden, Action)Emeritus Status for Mike Juliana, Roswell (Dr. John Madden, Action)Emerita Status for Tammy Lueras, Roswell (Dr. John Madden, Action)Community College Operating Agreement, Ruidoso (Dr. Clayton Alred, Action)Academic Program Changes for 2013-15 Catalog, Ruidoso (Mr. Chad Smith, Action)New Associate of Arts Degree in Communications, Ruidoso(Mr. Chad Smith, Action)New Associate of Applied Science Degree in Culinary Arts, Ruidoso (Mr. Chad Smith, Action)New Associate of Arts Degree in English Literature, Ruidoso (Mr. Chad Smith, Action)

Executive Session

Discussion of 3 limited personnel matters pursuant to Section 10-15-1(H)(2), NMSA (1978)

ADJOURNMENT

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ENMU Hosting Junior Preview Day on March 23

Date: 3/22/2013
Contact: Cody Spitz at 575.562.4451
Reporter: Wendel Sloan at 575.562.2253

PORTALES – Eastern New Mexico University will host “Junior Preview Day” for high school juniors beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 23, on the Portales campus.

The event will allow high school juniors and their parents to meet faculty and ENMU students, learn about academic programs, financial aid, tutoring, student organizations, and tour the residence halls and campus.

Door prizes include iPods, T-Shirts and $500 scholarships.

Students can register at www.enmu.edu/jrpreviewday.

For more information, call 1-800-FOR-ENMU (562-2178 locally) or email enrollment.services@enmu.edu.

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Dinner, Reception on March 29 to Honor President Whitlock

A dinner in honor of retiring Eastern Kentucky University President Doug Whitlock will be held Friday, March 29, at 6:30 p.m. in the Keen Johnson Ballroom.

Dr. Whitlock, who has served the University in various administrative capacities for more than 40 years, including the last six as its 11th president, announced his retirement at the beginning of the 2012-13 academic year, effective July 31, 2013.

The appreciation dinner, which is sponsored by the EKU Board of Regents, is open to the University community and public. Tickets are $50 each, and reservations should be made no later than Tuesday, March 26 by calling 859-622-1583. Half of the proceeds will go to the Doug and Joanne Whitlock Scholarship Fund. Those unable to attend the event but who wish to contribute to the scholarship fund should send donations to University Development, CPO 19A, Eastern Kentucky University, 521 Lancaster Ave., Richmond, Ky., 40475-9980.

A reception, from 3:30 to 6 p.m. in Walnut Hall of the Keen Johnson Building, will precede the dinner and is free and open to the public.

The dinner (business attire) will feature a special musical salute as well as tributes to President Whitlock on behalf of the Commonwealth, higher education, campus and local communities, and Eastern alumni.

President Whitlock has initiated and overseen capital, regional stewardship, student success and academic research projects that have shaped EKU’s future. These include the EKU Center for the Arts, New Science Building, Noel Studio for Academic Creativity, the Center for Renewable and Alternative Fuel Technologies, and a network of community extension agents. A Richmond native and two-time graduate of Eastern, he also has been very active in community and regional affairs, including service on the Madison County Schools Board of Education.

"The Board appreciates President Whitlock’s many years of dedicated service to the University,” said Craig Turner, chair of the EKU Board of Regents. “It has enriched the lives of countless students and colleagues and created an indelible legacy.

“Certainly, few love this university as President Whitlock does,” Turner added, “and this reception and dinner will honor his life and many accomplishments on behalf of Eastern. As he and Joanne enter this new chapter of their lives, we wish them only the best.”

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Edinboro University faculty, staff, students to celebrate Women’s History Month with myriad campus activities - Kicks off Sunday, March 3

02/22/2013

Edinboro University’s faculty, staff and students will come together for a variety of events in March to celebrate Women’s History Month.

This year’s Women’s History Month line-up includes a dozen and a half dynamic campus events highlighted by a March 7 panel discussion with three Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education university presidents – all women.

Other highlighted panel discussions and lectures include Women in Flight; Religion and Gender; Tituba: The Reluctant Witch of Salem; Real Desperate Housewives: How So-Called “Reality TV” is Bad for Women; and even Women of Zombie Cinema!

With one presentation seeking the address the question, “Can Women be Sexists?”, the month features additional equally fascinating, motivating and controversial topics, according Dr. Nina Thumser, Chair of the Edinboro University Women’s History Month 2013 Committee.

The PASSHE Female President’s Panel scheduled for Thursday, March 7, at 2 p.m. in the Frank G. Pogue Student Center’s Multipurpose Room, includes Edinboro’s first female president, Dr. Julie E. Wollman, and Clarion University President Karen Whitney and Slippery Rock University President Cheryl Norton. Moderated by Edinboro’s Dr. Rhonda Matthews, of the Sociology Department, panel members will discuss women in leadership and field audience questions.

Women’s History Month programming has not only grown significantly at Edinboro during the past several years, but also has become extremely popular with student, faculty and staff audiences of both genders.   

All Women’s History Month events are free and open to the public. All are sponsored by Edinboro’s Women’s Studies Committee in collaboration with Edinboro’s History, Anthropology, and World Languages Department; Student Government Association; Office of the President; Office of the Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Admissions Office; Math and Computer Sciences Department; Math Club; and History Club.

In addition to Chair Thumser, members of the Women’s History Month 2013 Committee include Dr. Jerra Jenrette, Ms. Vicky Wetsell, Ms. Thasia Frazzini, Dr. Martha Donkor, Dr. Rhonda Matthews, Ms. Susan Woodland, and Ms. Sierra Stakes.

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Peter Yarrow, of ‘Peter, Paul and Mary’ fame, to perform March 15 concert at Goshen College

Concert: Legendary musician, songwriter and activist Peter Yarrow from “Peter, Paul and Mary”
Date and time: Friday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: $20 regular tickets ($10 Goshen College employees, $5 Goshen College students)
Websites: www.peteryarrow.net & www.operationrespect.org

Legendary musician, songwriter and activist Peter Yarrow from “Peter, Paul and Mary” will be performing a solo concert of his songs on civil rights, human rights and peace at Goshen College Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall on Friday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets cost $20 and can be purchased at the college’s Welcome Center by calling (574) 535-7566, emailing welcomecenter@goshen.edu or visiting goshen.edu/tickets. Proceeds from the concert will further Operation Respect and the Wi’am Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution in Bethlehem, which is directed by Zoughbi Zoughbi, the father of Goshen student, Marcelle Zoughbi, and an organizer of this day of peace.

Yarrow weaves a narrative of his life in music and politics, punctuating the major events with renditions of the iconic songs many know and love. From his life in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, his connections to Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger, and his career as part of the “Peter, Paul and Mary” trio, Yarrow shares a part of American history influenced heavily by music. And he creates community within his audiences through his reflections in both words and music.

His musical creativity has always gone hand in hand with his commitment to social justice and equity in society. And today, he’s reaching a new generation with his music and advocacy. He founded Operation Respect in 1999, a program building safer and more respectful environments for school children worldwide. On behalf of Operation Respect, Yarrow has appeared, pro bono, in concert all over the world. The program has been presented to more than 10 million children.

Yarrow is not about to give up the demanding path he’s chosen. “We’ve lived through a time in which people have felt they could forge their own future and make a better world,” he said. “We may not have achieved our dreams in the time frame that we once believed was possible, but the magnitude of what is yet to be achieved only confirms the importance of our commitment. This is a crucial time in U.S. history, where the avenues of possibility are opening up like never before. Knowing this, we can’t stop now.”

Yarrow and colleague Mark Weiss, Director of Education for Operation Respect, will make a public presentation on March 15 at 10 a.m. during the college’s convocation in the Church-Chapel about Operation Respect, their anti-bullying organization, which advocates interpersonal peace in education.

Categories: Campus Events, GC News

Tags: Operation Respect, Peter Yarrow

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Edinboro University’s ‘First Friday Concert’ series resumes March 1 at Alexander Music Center

02/22/2013

Edinboro University’s monthly “First Friday Concert” series will resume Friday, March 1, in the Dr. William P. Alexander Music Center’s Recital Hall.

The performance will be held from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.

This free March First Friday Concert, which is open to the public, will feature Music Department faculty members Patrick Jones on alto saxophone and Kristine West Denton on piano. The concert will include music of Michael Lysight, David Maslanka and Rudy Weidoeft.

First Friday Concerts, which feature Edinboro University Music Department faculty, are held monthly at the Alexander Music Center throughout the fall and spring semesters.

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ENMU Hosting �Music of the Holocaust� on March 5

Date: 3/5/2013
Contact: Kathi Fraze at 575.562.2377
Reporter: Wendel Sloan at 575.562.2253

PORTALES – Four faculty members from Eastern New Mexico University will present “Music of the Holocaust-An Examination and Recital of Two Compositions Influenced by Atrocities” at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, in Buchanan Hall in the Music Building on the Portales campus.

The music faculty members are Tracy Carr, Jennifer Laubenthal, Jean Wozencraft-Ornellas and Kayla Paulk.

This event is open and free to the public

For more information, call Kathi Fraze at 575-562-2377.

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