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What’s New and WHAT’S NEWS AT FERRUM COLLEGE President-elect Named The Presidential Search Committee worked diligently through 2001, guided by search consultant Dr. Bruce T. Alton. Over a period of many months an institutional profile was developed, which was designed to inform prospective applicants of the needs and challenges of Ferrum as well as showcase Ferrum’s strengths. The committee was chaired by Board of Trustees President William B. Bales, and included Board members Patricia Compton, Betty Forbes, Paul Harris ’65, Larry Heaton, and the Rev. Dr. Wasena Wright, Jr. ’60. Also serving were, Dr. Jody Brown and Dr. Frederic Torimiro from the faculty, Chaplain Wesley Astin ’74 from the staff, Student Government Association President Jay Greeley ’02, and Alumni Board of Directors President Michael Ferguson ’81. Once applications were reviewed and prioritized, formal in-person interview sessions were conducted in January 2002. The field was narrowed to two candidates who visited campus in February. Dr. Jennifer L. Braaten was selected from those candidates as the best choice for Ferrum, and her nomination was formally approved by the Trustees at their March Board meeting. She received overwhelming support on campus, was recommended unanimously by the search committee and was appointed unanimously by the College’s Board of Trustees. Patricia Compton summed up the selection by saying, “Dr. Braaten personified all we were looking for in a president.” Braaten previously served as president of a Lutheran-affiliated college in Nebraska. She will arrive on campus to begin her assimilation into the Ferrum College community in mid-July. She has been married for 33 years to the Rev. Conrad Braaten, senior pastor at Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, DC. The Braatens have two children. Their daughter, Kirsten, is a graduate of Duke University and is a corporate liaison at Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, FL. Their son, Conrad, attends Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, where he is a pre-medical student. We welcome Dr. Braaten to Ferrum and look forward to getting to know her and her family. New Employees at Ferrum Several new employees were hired at the College over the winter. They are Joan Bowman, part-time academic counselor; Daniel Boyce, police officer; Michael Crossan ’00, financial aid counselor; Ryan Ego, assistant soccer coach and lacrosse intern; William George, soccer intern; Betty Minton, housekeeping; Amanda Scott ’01, secretary to Residence Education; and John Spataro, coordinator of Academic Computing. Ferrum College President-elect, Dr. Jennifer L. Braaten, will be the 10th president in Ferrum College history. Photo Courtesy of Midland Lutheran College Public Relations 2 FERRUM MAGAZINE
ON on CAMPUS campus Franklin County Appreciation Day Franklin County Appreciation Day was held Labor Day weekend during the home football game against Wesley and included a luncheon for county business leaders. Abe Essig, founder and president of Ronile, Inc., in Rocky Mount, was named Franklin County Citizen of the Year by the College. A special halftime event honored him and his service to the county. Essig’s company employs over 200 people in the region, and he was instrumental in the building of the YMCA in Rocky Mount. J.F.D. Press Photo Photo by PK & Determined Jane Franklin Dance Brings Travel Tales The Franklin Guild and the Drama department teamed up to bring Jane Franklin Dance to campus for a special event on September 25. The professional dance troupe presented Travel Tales, a story of poetry and music that tells a humorous and compassionate tale of how we are bound together in our failure to communicate. While in the area, the troupe performed seven lecture-demonstrations at Franklin County schools. Preachers’ Kids Bring Gospel to Ferrum College Gospel group PK & Determined brought their gospel music to Ferrum on September 20-21. They helped the Ferrum Gospel Choir with the Gospel Workshop, showing community members how to coordinate and conduct a gospel choir. Workshop attendees offered a Saturday evening concert for the community. Young Ho “Nick” Lee and Kieun “Patrika” Cho, Korean exchange students from Sejong University in Seoul, South Korea, enjoy the football game with Jerry and Shirley Boone, who through the years have served as “adopted parents” to foreign exchange students. Family Day Family Day, held Saturday, September 29, was filled with activities such as Fun Flicks, lunch in the dining hall, a women’s soccer match against Christopher Newport University, a football game against Averett University and a mind-blowing show by Ronnie Romm, America’s foremost stage hypnotist and mentalist. The annual event recognizes the role of families in students’ social and academic success. Ferrum College encourages strong family support of new and returning students and values their part in students’ lives. The Clothesline Project Brought to Ferrum On Monday, October 15, the Clothesline Project was displayed for the first time on the Ferrum College campus. The Clothesline Project is meant to promote awareness of abuse in our country as well as to be a form of closure for those who have had abuse in their lives. T-shirts are hung on an ordinary clothesline with extraordinary expressions of grief and triumph over an abusive event. The shirts were made by victims of all forms of domestic abuse from Southwest Virginia. The project was loaned to the College by Alpha Phi Omega at Roanoke College, in conjunction with Ferrum College’s Social Problems class and Alpha Phi Omega chapter. Affrilachian Poets Return Frank X. Walker, a popular speaker with students each year, returned to Ferrum on September 10. He joined fellow poets of the Appalachian region, Bernard Clay and Crystal Wilkinson, in a presentation of contemporary poetry and thought. The visit was sponsored by the Sociology department. FERRUM MAGAZINE 3
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