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RE:
Graceland University Board of Trustees
Steve Anders, Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
August 3, 2013
Report on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Division of Visual and Performing Arts
 Music has been prepping for the drumline professor. Work is being created this summer
for a show at Luther College that will go up in January of next year.
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Rob Stephens
Artist Resident at Mission Grafika in The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Art , San
Francisco, CA – four prints now in their collection
Guest lecturer for two days at De Anza College, Cupertino, CA – lectured about two
point perspective
Attended Tom Huck’s Woodcut Bootcamp June 2013 St. Louis, MO – made a
monumental woodblock
Assisted a Children’s SilkScreen WorkShop at Evil Prints, St. Louis, MOAssistant for a
Digital Printmaking Workshop with Howard Paine, Vermillion SD
Assistant for a Four Color Wood Block Workshop with Sean Starwars, Vermillion, SD
Frogman Assistant’s Art Show , University of South Dakota , Vermillion SD
My zine Good Kid Rob was picked up to be distributed in Alchemist’s Closet a queer
zine distribution center
Anticipated: Print Banger’s Ball Print Event , St. Louis, MO
Anticipated: San Francisco Zine Fest, San Francisco, CA
Division of Health and Movement Science
 Phyllis O’Daniels continued her life of service to Graceland and the community by
training and retraining local lifeguards and water safety instructors.
 Faculty and staff athletic trainers (Diane Bartholomew, Jay Hoffman, Brandy Leffler,
Jessica Wallace, John Bartholomew, Erin Lundy, Dylan Hogan, and Dana Hoffman)
attended the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) annual meeting and clinical
symposia. Athletic trainers are required to earn professional continuing education credits
for both state licensure and national certification.
Division of Humanities
 Bob Mesle published the article "The World as an Ultimate: Children as Windows to the
World's Sacredness," in Theopoetic Folds: Philosophizing Multifariousness, ed. Roland
Faber and Jeremy Fackenthal, Fordham University Press, 2013.
 Brian White has had a paper accepted for presentation at the Annual National Collegiate
Honors Council conference in November. This July, Brian travels to Glacier National
Park with National Collegiate Honors Council Colleagues to set up and organize a
national honors Experiential Education Seminar with the park staff for the following
year.
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Jerry DeNuccio published the following essays in the online journal "Fictionique":
"True Colors" May 22, 2013
"Echo of an Echo" June 2, 2013
"By Any Other Name" June 14, 2013
"Alchemy" June 27, 2013
Division of Science and Mathematics
 Emily Henson interviewed at 5 different graduate schools for programs in genetics
counseling. She will be attending the program at Wayne State in the fall.
 Charlie Ellithorpe a past graduate was accepted into the Pharmacy program at Creighton
and will begin this fall.
 Dr. Mary Shawgo and Chris Chambers were selected for the FUTURE in Biomedicine
program at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. FUTURE represents the
goal of Fostering Undergraduate Talent - Uniting Research and Education.
 Kirubel Hailu is conducting summer research at the University of Iowa in their
Biochemistry Department.
 Besa Molaku is conducting summer research at the University of California San
Francisco.
 Dr. Paul Johnson is once again teaching two math classes for us this summer.
 We are looking at record enrollments for most of our science and math classes this fall.
 The science and math division continues to do a great job of preparing students for the
future.
Division of Social Sciences
 Nancy Wallace completed the Social Work Exam class.
 David Devonis participated for the fourth consecutive year in the annual reading of AP
(Advanced Placement) Examinations for the Educational Testing Service as a reader at
the Kansas City Convention Center, June 1-8.
 David Devonis & Deborah Rowe presented a paper "An Excursion in the Archaeology of
Recent Apparatus: The Ball And Spiral Test" at the 45th Annual Meeting of Cheiron:
International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University
of Dallas, Irving TX, June 20-23. David also participated as the Society's Treasurer at
the Business Meeting of the Society June 22 and delivered the annual financial report.
He is finishing his tenth year as the Society's Treasurer.
 David Devonis has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal History of
Psychology (official journal of the American Psychological Association, Division
26/Society for the History of Psychology).
 David Devonis participated in selecting the best article published in Vol. 15 of History of
Psychology (official journal of the American Psychological Association, Division
26/Society for the History of Psychology) last year as a member of a three-person
selection panel drawn from editors of, consultants to, and contributors to the journal.
 This July Steve Glazer attended the World History Association annual convention in
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 Graceland graduate, Angel Velitchkov, was asked to serve in the position of Deputy
Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Bulgaria.