Winter 2005 - Keuka College

C AMPUS C URRENTS
Faculty F cus
A
ssociate Professor of
Communication Studies Anita
Chirco chaired a panel on American
Regionalist Writing at the Central New
York Conference on Language and
Literature at SUNY Cortland. She is a
reviewer for Interactions, a scholarly
journal published by Ege University’s
(Izmir, Turkey) English language and
literature and American culture and literature
departments.
> Associate Professor of American
Sign Language Dorothy Wilkins
teamed up with representatives from the
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
(NTID)/Rochester Institute of
Technology, University of Rochester,
and the Deaf Rochester community to
organize the first Deaf Rochester Film
Festival, scheduled March 18-20.
> Associate Professor of Art Dexter
Benedict sculpted a statue depicting
Frederick Ferris and Mary Clark
Thompson to commemorate the 100th
anniversary of F.F. Thompson Hospital
in Canandaigua.
> Professor of Political Science and
Economics Jeff Krans is director of
vocational service for Rotary District
7120, which includes 68 clubs. He also
helped establish a Rotaract Club (an
international, Rotary-sponsored service
organization for young men and women
ages 18-30) on the Keuka campus.
> Professor of History Sander
Diamond and Assistant Professor of
Management Ann Tuttle published
opinion pieces in regional daily newspapers.
Among Diamond’s pieces: “The
Tsunami: A Historical Perspective” and
“If You See My Monument, Look
Around” (about the death of Yasir
Arafat). Tuttle wrote a piece titled
“Women of The Apprentice Not
Representing Us Well” (a look at NBC-
TV’s reality show).
We Mean What We Say
We support our troops.
It is a message declared on the
College’s website.
And it’s one that students, faculty,
staff, and alumni have demonstrated
and continue to demonstrate.
One student and one alumna served
in the war effort: David Kinnard ’05
and Peggy Linthicum ’04. Kinnard
worked security in Europe during the
initial assault on Baghdad and
Linthicum ’04 supplied parts to C-130
cargo planes in Saudi Arabia.
Linthicum, a registered nurse, also
assisted medical personnel.
Last semester, the Keuka College
Republicans organized the Keuka 900,
a project aimed at sending 900 postcards
to local troops serving overseas.
The Republicans teamed up with
the College Democrats and Students in
Free Enterprise (SIFE) to form a nonpolitical
coalition that sponsored the
Holiday Drive for the Troops.
Members of the College family
responded in a big way, with 23 boxes
of goodies sent to U.S. soldiers.
Freshmen Erika Noll and Shannon
Furlong, co-leaders of a local Junior
Girl Scout Troop that meets on campus,
donated boxes of Girl Scout cookies
to troops in Iraq, along with notes
written by the scouts.
Admissions Counselor/Transfer
Coordinator Maryanne Cameron adopted
a soldier through Operation AC Inc.
(www.operationac.com). She sends
him care packages every couple weeks
and recently sent a pair of combat
boots.
KEUKA MAGAZINE 3 WINTER 2005
Links to
The Past
“H
istory is not a closeted thing;
it should be part of our lives.”
That’s the reason behind The
Keuka College History and Archives
Project, headed by Assistant Professor
of History Joe Torre.
The project began with Torre’s
New York State History class. Torre
asked his students “to look at the
Keuka experience over the years
through primary sources such as old
yearbooks, diaries, and scrapbooks.”
Most of these sources came from the
archives, located in Lightner Library.
It has evolved to include six
work-study positions. The student
workers are responsible for “utilizing,
restructuring, organizing, and inventorying”
the College archives so that
they “make more sense,” said Torre.
To date, manuscripts, various
physical objects such as wall panels,
original African clothing, missionary
items from India, and several 16 mm
films have been among the many articles
uncovered in the archives,
according to Torre.
“We want to create a provenance
for these items,” said Torre.
One way they’ve gone about creating
a sense of origin for the items is
by interviewing Keuka alumni such as
Elsie “Peg” Pond ’25. Morgan Berry
’04 first interviewed Pond to fulfill
the New York State History assignment.
According to Torre, some students
chose to film oral history sessions
with alumni and College faculty for
the assignment. Other projects included
essays on the Field Period concept,
narratives of Keuka athletic teams
through the years, and analyses of
specific years at the College, such as
1955.
Torre worked with Associate
Professor of Education Jim Schwartz
to convert some of the 16 mm films to
DVDs. He and Schwartz produced a
DVD of Berry’s interview with Pond.