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TAKE A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE Drama Society Performs Dinner Theater Retrospective Long hours and hard work paid off again this year as Drama Society Director Della Dameron-Johnson and her student crew presented another stellar evening of musical theater for Dinner Theater 2012. More than a dozen English majors were joined by numerous campus colleagues on stage and behind-the-scenes for Do You Remember: A Musical Revue. The two acts, featuring more than 30 songs from prior dinner theaters, were tied together Preparations begin well before show time. by a script written by Dr. Dameron- Johnson. The cast spent the evening reminiscing about their favorite songs from shows staged since Jennifer Locust mans the audio booth. 2001. That included crowd-pleasers from Motown N More, Blues N BBQ, The Wiz, The Mikado, The Color Purple and other past productions. Do You Remember included several rousing gospel tunes which featured members of the University’s Gospel Choir, which is also under the direction of Dr. Dameron-Johnson. While the English department is most proud of the theater portion of dinner theater— the dinner is equally renowned. Students enrolled in the University’s Hotel-Restaurant Management Aja Meadows sings the Program prepare a title song from Purlie. feast of culinary creations. This year’s meal featured some two dozen salad, appetizer, and entrée items, but the audience seemed most energized at intermission when they selected treats from a dessert buffet of more than 15 different items. WORD PLAY: Commonyms Commonyms are words that have something in common, so they share a semantic property. Example: fur trench rain What do the words FUR, TRENCH and RAIN have in common? Answer: The semantic property they share is that they are all kinds of coats. Use your lexical competence to determine what semantic property each of the following sets of commonyms share. 1. A Ball – A Fish – A Cold 2. A Ball – A Salad – A Coin 3. Fog – A Jack – A Body Builder 4. A Bell – Mouth – A Shoe 5. Seventeen – Time – People 6. A Bottle – A Baseball Player – A Mushroom 7. A Cork – A Question – A Balloon 8. A Tug of War – The Nightly News – A Boat 9. A Basketball Court – A Highway – A Bowling Alley 10. A Hockey Game – A Restaurant – A Bank (Answers: Page 6) Visit the website www.lumosity.com to improve your brain health and performance, and to enhance memory, attention, and creativity. You can build your own personalized Brain Training Program on this website. Visit www.wuzzlesandpuzzles.com for more than 1100 FREE printable puzzles to test your brain. Word Play, provided by Dr. Barbara Seabrook, is an Insights monthly feature which explores the creative use of language. CONGRATULATIONS! Senior English Education major Ashley Bell is one of seven UMES students selected as a Maryland “Teacher of Promise.” The program is designed to identify teacher candidates with superior academic records statewide and partner them with award-winning veteran mentor teachers during the transition period between college senior and classroom teacher. Participation in the program also included a daylong conference where Ms. Bell and her colleagues heard 2011 National Teacher of the Year Michelle Shearer deliver the keynote address: “Teaching, Learning, and the Power of the Human Factor.” Ms. Bell is a member of the UMES Honors Program and Sigma Tau Delta, an international English honor society. She also serves as a tutor in the University Writing Center. 2
WRITING CENTER ANTICIPATION New Director Assumes Responsibility in September By Assistant Professor Terry Smith As I’m sure most of you have heard, I will be Director of the University Writing Center next fall, and I’m really looking forward to it. Dean Cooledge, who has done a wonderful job of developing UMES’ writing center since he founded it four years ago, is excited about returning to his literary research. And I, who directed the writing center at Salisbury University for four years and at Wor-Wic Community College for five years, am excited about returning to this rewarding part of my career. Even though my new responsibilities don’t start until next fall, recently I’ve been enthusiastically engaged in several writing center activities. On March 31, I drove to Shippensburg University early in the morning to present at the Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association (MAWCA) Conference for the third consecutive year. My presentation, “Changing the Way Writing Center Tutors Perceive Rhetorical Effectiveness: Training English-Major Tutors to Tutor COMPARING NOTES Technical Writing,” was well received. Further, I had the chance to renew relationships with people I hadn’t seen since last year’s conference and others I hadn’t seen in even longer. One of them was the conference keynote speaker, Ben Rafoth. I had no idea until I arrived at the conference that Dr. Rafoth would be the keynote speaker, and it was a delightful discovery. In addition to being the director of the writing center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Ben is an internationally known and respected writing center scholar. I am currently in the process of reviewing one of his several books on writing centers for The Writing Lab Newsletter, and Ben was a member of my comprehensive exam committee for CAUGHT DOING GOOD Dr. Rafoth (L) and Dr. Smith Photo provided by Dr. Smith Composition Theory with a question on writing centers. But the best part is still to come. As Ben and I talked, I discovered that he was going to be one of the leaders of the International Writing Center Association Summer Institute 2012. I really wanted to attend since I knew it would be an opportunity to immerse myself in the latest and the best in writing center scholarship and practice, but I knew I could not afford the $950 tuition. However, I applied for and received a full scholarship, so I’ll be spending July 29-August 3 at Seven Springs in Western Pennsylvania, studying with the leading scholars on writing centers. I plan to return to UMES full of great ideas for our writing center! HAPPY CUSTOMERS Spanish language professor Nydia Gregory traveled to Winston Salem State University in North Carolina recently. Her primary purpose was to accompany her daughter on a campus tour, but she also visited the Dr. Gregory HBCU’s Department of English and Foreign Languages. She learned that all of the school’s foreign language instruction takes place in a lab, which is similar to Dr. Gregory’s use of UMES’ Foreign Language Instructional Center for her classes. “It validated what I do,” she said. Dr. Gregory acknowledges that Winston Salem’s larger lab size was desirable. English staff member Pat Jones-Bailey was one of six candidates considered for the University’s sixth annual “Caught Doing Good” award. The nominees were honored at the recent 2012 Leadership Luncheon. Crystal Purnell from the Center for Access and Academic Success was selected as the award winner, but Ms. Jones-Bailey can still be caught doing good in the English department office. President Mortimer Neufville and Ms. Jones-Bailey Photo by Jim Glovier A group of students met recently to discuss the radio and television activities supported on campus by the U.S. Department of Education’s Title III program. Among other things, those federal dollars established the student radio station, fund the video production unit Discover UMES, pay for a faculty member to teach communication courses, and support other staff members related to those activities. Twice a year an “external evaluator” travels to UMES to gauge the merit of those federal expenditures. Last month the evaluator, Sam Gough, asked to meet with students who participate in communication activities. Corey Alexander, Akouba Marina Anoh, Melissa Lindsay, Jennifer Locust, and Brandon Shoats told Mr. Gough they are well served by the federal expenditures. 3
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