FYI
The News Bulletin for the
Winthrop University Community
December 2, 2009
Jerry Richardson gives $500,000 in honor of wife
Jerry Richardson, founder and
majority owner
of the National
Football League’s
Carolina Panthers, has established a fully endowed scholarship in
the amount of $500,000 to honor his
wife, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson,
who attended Winthrop in the late
1950s.
Rosalind Richardson left school to
marry Richardson, assisting him in
becoming a successful business owner
and executive after a noteworthy stint
in the NFL with the Baltimore Colts.
“While Rosalind was attending
Winthrop College, it was my good fortune that she agreed to marry me, and I
have tried to take good care of her ever
since,” Richardson said. “It will give me
great pleasure to honor my wife, Rosalind, with an endowed scholarship.”
The Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Senior Scholarship, a full tuition
scholarship for a rising college senior,
will be available in fall 2010. The recipient will be announced at Convocation each year.
A Florence, S.C., native, Rosalind
Richardson was active during her years
at Winthrop. She participated on the
May Court her freshman and sophomore years. Her peers also selected
her as Freshman Beauty Queen and as
secretary of the sophomore class.
She has stayed in touch with many
of her Winthrop classmates from the
Class of 1960 and will celebrate a
50th reunion with them this spring.
Winthrop honored Rosalind Richardson with an honorary Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1996.
Facilities
management
employees placed
the final touch,
the star, to
the Winthrop
tree before the
Thanksgiving
holidays. The
tree lighting
ceremony will
be held Dec. 3 at
5:15 p.m. For
more information
on the tree
lighting please
see page 2. For
a list of holiday
happenings, see
page 5.
Four QEP proposals to
be presented Dec. 4
The campus community is invited
to hear four proposals for Winthrop’s
Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)
on Friday, Dec. 4, at 2 p.m. in Vivian Moore Carroll Hall’s Whitton
Auditorium.
The plan is one of the main requirements of the upcoming Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools’
(SACS) accreditation and will demonstrate how Winthrop is enhancing
student learning.
A decision on the proposal finalists will be made in December when
the proposals will be forwarded with
comments to President Anthony
DiGiorgio. The final proposal will be
developed and refined over the spring
semester with final submission to
SACS in January 2011.
The proposals are:
•“GPS to Success: Navigating the
Information Highway” by Justin
Brown, Kaitlin Budette, Bob Gorman,
Guy Reel, Susan Silverman and Gale
Teaster;
•“Coordinating and Enhancing Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and
Creative Activities Across Campus”
by Dwight Dimaculangan and Merry
Sleigh-Ritzer;
•“Facilitating the Cognitive Shift to
Global Learning” by Angie Edwards,
Lindsey Hill, Padmini Patwardhan,
Bonnye Stuart and Virginia Tawse; and
•“Critical Thinking Across the Campus and Throughout the University
Experience” by John Bird and Gloria
Jones.
The proposals will be available
online at www.winthrop.edu/sacs. For
more information, contact Marilyn
Sarow at sarowm@winthrop.edu.
.
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Next phase of Tillman renovations to begin
The third phase of Tillman Hall
renovations will start this month as
work on repairing heating, air conditioning and electrical systems gets
underway.
Tillman, the university’s administration building, has many generations of
electrical wiring dating back to when
it was built in 1894 on each of its five
floors. The mechanical system is 40
years old and needs updating to bring
in conditioned outside air to improve
air quality.
Walter Hardin, associate vice president for facilities management, said
the next 12 months will be challenging
for workers in Tillman because of several disruptions and temporary moves.
“There will be some inconveniences,”
Hardin warned Tillman staff members
at a group meeting on Nov. 20.
One of the immediate tasks will be
to measure the linear feet of electrical
wiring in each office.
The next step will involve installing two units on the fourth floor to
bring in outside air to the building’s
hallways. On Dec. 12, the mechanical
and electrical crews will begin demolition to cut holes large enough to run
duct work, wiring and piping systems
in two sections of Tillman to install
a vertical framework. A chase will
be built from the President’s Office
straight up to the Graduate School
Office and to Procurement for one of
the units. A pathway to the second
unit will go through Tillman Auditorium to the top floor.
The fan coil units will remain in
each office, Hardin said, but will be
able to pull conditioned fresh air from
the hallways.
Project Manager Kelly Huber will
meet with each of the 20 offices to
work out a suitable schedule for renovations. As crews go in and replace
electrical systems in each office, starting in the basement, workers will need
to move to temporary quarters in 308
Tillman for about two weeks.
Hardin encouraged Tillman workers to work through Huber with any
questions or concerns for the contractors.
Every sprinkler head in the building, all of which are more than 50
years old, will need to be replaced,
beginning in February on nights and
weekends.
Hardin urged Tillman workers to
take their valuable personal items
home to avoid breakage or misplacement.
This third phase of renovations also
will involve installing an elevator and
a staircase to the fourth floor. It will
not include renovations to the fourth
floor.
Earlier work to Tillman involved
restoring the windows and replacing
the roof.
In brief
• The S.C. Secretary of State’s Office recently announced its 2009 Scrooges and
Angels list. The list notes the non-profit organizations who, as “angels,” use the
vast majority of their funds to actually go toward what they promise, while the
non-profits known as “scrooges” fall short of spending the money the way potential
donors might think. A Place for Hope, Inc., for which Jennifer Disney, an associate professor of political science, serves as board president, was honored as an angel.
Disney was on hand at the Columbia, S.C., event to accept the award on behalf
of A Place for Hope. “With more than 8,000 non-profits in South Carolina, this
is very significant. I could not be more proud,” said Disney. A Place for Hope is
the community resource center of York County’s Blackmon Road community, one
of the poorest communities in the state. A Place for Hope provides after-school
programming for children, evening education and job training for adults, and serves
as an advocacy organization for the residents of Blackmon Road.
• Senior Kelley Taylor was named the Big South Volleyball Player of the Year.
She also was named to the Big South All-Conference First Team and to the Big
South All-Academic Team.
Tree lighting to celebrate
old, new holiday traditions
In December, Winthrop will host a
tree lighting ceremony to continue the
celebration of a longtime campus tradition and kick off a month of holiday
activities, including the City of Rock
Hill’s ChristmasVille, an annual four-day
celebration of the Christmas season.
The tree lighting ceremony — a Winthrop Christmas tradition since 1969 —
will mark a merging of the university’s
holiday traditions with ChristmasVille,
an event that involves many faculty, staff
and students.
During the Dec. 3 ceremony, members
of the Student Alumni Council will
flip the switch to light the tree at 5:15
p.m. and provide schedules for ChristmasVille. This year the tree lighting will
not be accompanied by the Festival of
Carols, discontinued due to its timing
during the semester. This change will
allow students to become more involved
with campus holiday activities.
Following the tree lighting ceremony
will be the annual Lighting of the
Village on Main Street at 6 p.m. The
village lighting, part of ChristmasVille’s
opening ceremonies, will include an
exciting performance by the RockHettes,
Winthrop’s group of student dancers.
ChristmasVille’s lineup of events will
feature additional Winthrop festivities.
This schedule of shared holiday activities signals the university’s move to
link the long-celebrated Christmas tree
lighting tradition with the city’s evergrowing ChristmasVille, said President
Anthony DiGiorgio.
“The tree lighting ceremony and
Rock Hill’s ChristmasVille celebration
present Winthrop with an important
opportunity to align the university’s rich
past with Rock Hill’s bright future,”
said DiGiorgio. “This collaboration will
provide Winthrop with a wider venue
to display the impressive artistic and
creative talents of our faculty, staff and
students.”
More events will be planned for next
year’s tree lighting ceremony to celebrate Winthrop’s 125th anniversary.
For more information about this
year’s ChristmasVille festival, visit
www.ChristmasVilleRockHill.com.
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McNair Scholars program
Cassidy, choreographer collaborate for
critically acclaimed N.C. Dance Theatre piece accepting applicants
As an artist, Shaun
Cassidy, associate professor of sculpture, frequently
looks for ways to extend
his creative range. So when
the director of the McColl
Center for Visual Arts in
Charlotte approached him
about working with N.C.
Shaun Cassidy
Dance Theatre choreographer Sasha Janes to create an original
work, he saw a valuable opportunity.
Based on digital images he submitted, Cassidy was chosen to collaborate with Janes on a movement and
sculpture piece to celebrate the 2010
opening of the new Dance Theatre
building, which will be located next
door to the McColl Center. Cassidy
designed “Taking Time,” a 12-anda-half-foot white metal sculpture
— modeled after a similar one he’d
crafted while he was an artist-in-residence at the Djerassi Resident Artists
Program in California — for Janes’
dancers to utilize on stage. Using
“Taking Time,” Janes created “Glass
Houses,” a dance piece that focuses
on how online social networking sites
frustrate mankind’s desire for genuine
connection.
“Glass Houses,” performed Nov.
5-7 and 12-14 at the Blumenthal
Center in Charlotte, received critical
acclaim. The work will be performed
again on New Year’s as part of “Light
of the Night,” the grand gala opening of the Knight Theatre, part of
the newly constructed Wells Fargo
Cultural Campus in Charlotte.
The artistic collaboration presented
Cassidy with several challenges,
including building a structure sturdy
yet flexible enough to withstand the
weight of human bodies and relinquishing creative control to Janes,
who designed his work around the
sculpture. Still, Cassidy said that
working with Janes on such a unique
project pushed him to extend his
range as an artist and try something
new, he said.
“With this kind of collaboration, there’s a kind of synergy that
develops that allows you take bigger
leaps in your work than you would
if you were working individually,”
said Cassidy, who joined Winthrop
in 1999. “It is tremendously gratifying to have been part of such a huge
team effort.”
Shaun Cassidy designed “Taking Time,” a 12-and-a-half-foot white metal sculpture, as his contribution
to “Glass Houses,” a dance piece choreographed by Sasha Janes. Photo courtesy of Jeff Cravotta.
The new McNair Scholars program
is still accepting applicants.
Funded by a four-year renewable
TRiO grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the McNair
grant will provide $220,000 in federal
funding each year to help 25 first generation, low-income and/or underrepresented undergraduates to prepare
for and succeed in graduate school.
This represents 74 percent of program
costs with Winthrop contributing
more than $75,000 in cash and inkind matches.
“This is going to be a great program,” said Cheryl Fortner-Wood,
director of the McNair Scholars
Program and associate professor of
psychology. “We’ve had the application online only since Oct. 1 so we
want to make sure to get the word out
to all students.”
So far, upperclassmen in the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business
Administration, Visual and Performing Arts and Education have applied
for the aid. The students must have at
least a 3.0 grade point average and be
willing to attend graduate school. The
goal is to have at least three of the
students complete a Ph.D. program
within a decade.
Decisions will be sent to applicants
by Dec. 15.
Those selected for the program
will earn a $2,600 stipend and must
commit to a summer research project.
The McNair Scholars also can apply
for money to travel to conferences,
application fees and Graduate Record
Examination fees to improve their
chances for getting into post-undergraduate programs.
Fortner-Wood said the program
will continue to accept applications
through the spring and summer to
build up a waiting list.
For more information, contact
Fortner-Wood at ext. 2125, e-mail
McNair@winthrop.edu or visit www.
winthrop.edu/mcnair.
.
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Longer dances, film focus of annual showcase
Turning a theme or idea into a
dance can be challenging, and this year
seven senior dance majors have pushed
themselves to choreograph longer,
more involved dance pieces for the Senior Choreography Showcase Dec. 4-6.
Choreographed, produced and
performed by students, this year’s show
involves fewer student choreographers
than previous choreography showcases,
encouraging the dance majors to create
more complex pieces involving various
sections. The showcase will include
pieces choreographed by Claretta
Bethea; Reba Bowens; Michelle Dickson; Megan Hoeffner; Jessica Roszell;
Chantelle Sauls; and Marissa Tusa. As
part of the three-day concert, there
will be showings of senior Jamie Drye’s
dance film.
The pieces, all modern in style,
involve 20 student dancers — including four of the choreographers — and
demonstrate the students’ creativ-
ity, said showcase coordinator Meg
Griffin, dance instructor. One of the
choreographers created music for her
piece using the software application
GarageBand, while another incorporated personal photography to enhance African music and movements.
Though unique, all the dances are
based on a strong theme or idea, said
Griffin, adding that these themes will
make it “interesting to hear the audience’s interpretations of the dances.”
The showcase will run Dec. 4 at 8
p.m., Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and
Dec. 6 at 2 p.m. in Johnson Theatre.
Tickets are $8 with Winthrop I.D.
and $15 for the general public, and all
seating is reserved.
Presented by the Department
of Theatre and Dance, the Senior
Choreography Showcase is part of the
City of Rock Hill’s ChristmasVille.
To reserve tickets, call the Box Office at ext. 4014.
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Members of the women’s soccer team, along with Head Coach Melissa Heinz (right), presented President
Anthony DiGiorgio with the runners-up trophy from their stellar play in the Big South tournament. The
Lady Eagles entered the conference tournament ranked eighth and fought their way into the championship
match against High Point University.
Men’s soccer captures
second straight title
For the second straight season the
men’s soccer team competed in the
College Cup NCAA tournament. The
Eagles fell to the Duke Blue Devils
on Nov. 19 in the tournament’s opening round.
The team advanced to the College
Cup after winning the Big South
Conference championship on Nov. 15
against Liberty University. The championship marks the Eagles’ fourth Big
South title, having won in 2002, 2006,
2008 and 2009.
Toys for Tots drive makes
holidays brighter for kids
The 2009 Toys for Tots campaign is
currently underway.
The primary goal of Toys for Tots
is to deliver, through a new toy during the holidays, a message of hope
to needy youngsters that will motivate them to grow into responsible,
productive citizens and community
leaders.
Heading up the campaign this year
is the Olde English Leathernecks
Detachment of the Marine Corps
League. Wayne Broach, accounting/
fiscal manager, has served as campaign chairman for the past four
years.
Toy drop-off locations have been
set up throughout York County and
on Winthrop’s main campus, including drop-off locations at Withers/
W.T.S. Building, Dinkins Student
Center and the accounting offices in
020 Tillman Hall. The Athletics Department also will be collecting toys
before men’s and women’s basketball
games.
In 2008, more than 9,000 toys were
received that benefitted 3,200 less
fortunate children of the surrounding
community. And the need may very
well be greater this year. Each toy
donated and every dollar raised stays
in York County.
For more information, contact Broach at ext. 6049 or e-mail
broachw@winthrop.edu.
Around Campus
Events calendar
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All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Dec. 2-Jan. 14
“Winthrop Fine Arts and Design
Faculty Exhibition”
Rutledge Gallery
Dec. 4
Holiday Pottery Sale
G-10 Rutledge Building,
noon-6 p.m.
“Conversations with an Echo
Exhibition”
Paul Martyka
Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery
Performance: Will Scruggs Jazz
Fellowship
Dinkins ATS Café, 8 p.m.
Winthrop I.D. $5; public $10;
free with DSU fall pass
Dec. 2
Wednesdays at the Wall
Leitner Wall, 2:50-3:50 p.m.
Kwanzaa Celebration
Speaker: Kareema Gray,
assistant professor social work
Frances May Barnes Recital Hall,
7 p.m.
Dec. 3-6
ChristmasVille Festival
Downtown Rock Hill
www.ChristmasVilleRockHill.com
for events, times and locations
Dec. 3
Winthrop Tree Lighting
Tillman fountain, 5:15 p.m.
Men’s Basketball vs. Radford
Coliseum, 7:30 p.m.
Musical Performance:
A Christmas Prayze by the Vision
of Prayze Gospel Choir
Tillman Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Admission is one canned good
Dec. 4-5
Olde English Madrigal Feaste
McBryde Hall, 7 p.m.
Ticket deadline was Nov. 30
Dec. 4-6
Senior Choreography Showcase
Johnson Theatre, Dec. 4, 8 p.m.;
Dec. 5, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Dec. 6,
2 p.m.
Winthrop I.D. $8; public $15
Dec. 5
Women’s Basketball vs. USC Aiken
Coliseum, 4 p.m.
Men’s Basketball vs. High Point
Coliseum, 7 p.m.
Dec. 6
Ensemble Series: Winthrop
Woodwind Quintets
Barnes Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 8
Faculty/Staff/Retiree Holiday
Drop-In Reception
President’s House, 2-4 p.m.
Dec. 12
Women’s Basketball vs. Augusta
State
Coliseum, 5:30 p.m.
Men’s Basketball vs. Barton
Coliseum, 8 p.m.
Dec. 17
Graduate Commencement
Coliseum, 7 p.m.
Dec. 19
Undergraduate Commencement
Coliseum, 11 a.m.
Papers and presentations
Tomoko Deguchi, music, presented a paper entitled “Motionless
Spherical Mirror on Top of the Hill:
Toru Takemitsu’s Early Works in
Postwar Japan” at the American Musicological Society national conference held in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov.
12-15.
Steven Frankforter, management
and marketing, Brooke Stanley,
accounting, finance and economics, and former Winthrop faculty
member Bret Becton had an article,
entitled “The Nominating Committee as an Antecedent of Effective
Corporate Governance,” accepted for
publication in the 2009 edition of
Journal of Business and Leadership.
Professional activities
Rick Chacon, sociology and
anthropology, lectured on “CrossCultural Perspectives of Music” at
the Levine Museum of the New
South’s Nov. 8 We Are What We
Sing workshop.
The latest composition, entitled
“I thought I’d better let you know,”
by Ron Parks, music, premiered in
Byrnes Auditorium on Nov. 15 as
part of the Charlotte Symphony’s
Orchestra on Campus Composers
Project. The composition, which was
performed at a special pre-concert
event, was written specifically for
the Winthrop concert and featured
soprano Kristen Wonderlich, music.
Wonderlich was accompanied by a
chamber ensemble composed of a
combination of Charlotte Symphony
musicians and Winthrop faculty
and students including Jill O’Neill,
flute; Hollis Ulaky, oboe; student
Jacob Mitchell, trumpet; and Janice
Bradner, piano. The performance
was accompanied by interactive visuals created by students enrolled in the
digital information design program,
under the guidance of Gerry Derksen, design.
.
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Winthrop in the news
Compiled by University Relations staff, this listing chronicles Winthrop faculty and staff
comments in the media during November and October:
Karen Kedrowski, chair of the Department of Political Science, talked to
WBTV on Nov. 20 about Sarah Palin’s
visit to North Carolina and to WCNC
on Nov. 23 about Gov. Mark Sanford’s
impeachment hearings.
Richard W. Riley College of Education Dean Jennie Rakestraw and
Mychal Frost, public information
coordinator for the Center for Educator
Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement, were quoted in a Nov. 22 article
in the Herald and the State about how
state budget cuts have hurt the Teacher
Cadet and Teaching Fellows programs,
as well as other teaching programs.
Rakestraw also talked on WRHI’s Nov.
19 “Straight Talk” about a $7 million
federal grant to help retain education
majors.
History Professor Jason Silverman wrote a column that ran Nov. 21
in the Herald about how Americans
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are forgetting what the Constitution
stands for.
WSOC interviewed Adolphus Belk,
associate professor of political science,
on Nov. 19 about whether legislators
have the courage to impeach Gov.
Mark Sanford.
A $500,000 gift from Jerry Richardson, Carolina Panthers majority
owner, to help a rising college senior
with expenses is “pretty phenomenal as
being a transformational opportunity
for a student,” said Amanda Stewart,
director of communications for the
Office of Development, in the Nov. 18
Herald.
The Winthrop Poll revealed that
nearly half the Republicans and
independents did not approve of U.S.
Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst at President
Barack Obama during a joint session
of Congress. There also seems to be a
void at the top of the party, said Belk
in the State’s Nov. 15 edition.
A class survey of 30 local businesses
about the economy showed the gloomiest predictions by construction owners
who are still trying to get rid of inventory, said Lou Pantuosco, economics
professor, in the Nov. 15 Herald.
Scott Huffmon, associate professor of political science, commented on
Newberry College President Mick Zais
running for the Republican nomination for state superintendent of education in the Nov. 13 State newspaper.
English Professor Jo Koster discussed incorporating social networking into teaching on WRHI’s Nov. 8
“Straight Talk.”
John Timmons, assistant director of residence life, appeared Oct.
3 on a weekly Internet radio show
(www.blogtalkradio.com) to discuss the
breakup of the Beatles and their careers
as solo artists or with other bands. He
and his brother, David, will be back on
the show on Dec. 16 for the second
part of their series. Also, Timmons
and his brother were listed in the “Our
Community Newspaper” of London,
Ohio, on Oct. 17 as the music trivia
entertainment for the 50th anniversary
of the Madison County Chamber of
Commerce.
Welcome to Winthrop
Tara Knitz, residence
life, recently joined
Winthrop as a residential
learning coordinator. The
Richland, Wash., native
earned a bachelor’s degree
in sociology from Pacific
Lutheran University and
a master’s degree in college student personnel
administration from the University
of Central Missouri. Before coming
to Winthrop, Knitz served as a residence coordinator at UNC Charlotte.
Kurt Moderson, residence life, has joined the
Winthrop community as
a residential learning coordinator. The Appleton,
Wis., native previously
worked as an assistant
hall director at Missouri
State University. Moderson holds a bachelor’s
degree in communication studies and
political science from the University
of Wisconsin and a master’s degree
in student affairs from Missouri
State University. In his spare time, he
enjoys reading and leadership development activities.
Pottery sale offers unique
gifts for holiday season
This year’s Holiday Pottery Sale
will showcase the artistic talents of
Winthrop students and faculty – including featured artist Jennifer Mecca
– and offer shoppers some original
ideas for holiday presents.
The 20th annual Holiday Pottery
Sale, scheduled for Friday, Dec. 4,
from noon-6 p.m. in G-10 Rutledge
Building, will feature a wide variety
of functional pottery pieces crafted by
students and faculty, as well as decorative vessels and ceramic sculptures.
The sale will include pieces by studio
potter Mecca, an adjunct ceramics
lecturer at Winthrop.
Proceeds from this year’s pottery
sale will pay for visiting artists, tools
and additional items needed in the
pottery studio, said sale creator Jim
Connell, a professor of ceramics.