Archive for August, 2006
August 31, 2006
Discount tickets for the homecoming comedy show Sept. 29 (9 p.m .) featuring Michael Ian Black and the homecoming concert Sept. 30 (8 p.m.) featuring The Wailin’ Jennys will be sold to students and employees on the following schedule in September:
- Sept. 12, 13 and 14 from noon-2 p.m. in the lobby of Founders Hall.
- All other business days during regular office hours at the Alumni House; call ext. 2321 to inquire.
- Sept. 29 and 30, one hour prior to the start of the events at the door (subject to availability).
Tickets for both homecoming shows — to be held in Dana Auditorium — will be $5 for students and $10 for employees. There will be a limit of four tickets per homecoming show per person at the discounted price. The general public pays $20 for the comedy show and $15/$25 for the concert.
BRAD ALDOUS ’93 will open the comedy show and Mad Tea Party (including AMI WORTHEN ’93) will open the concert.
For more information, visit www.guilford.edu/homecoming.
August 31, 2006
Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, will speak on “Religion and Domestic Culture: Judaism in the American South,” Thursday, Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Bryan Auditorium. Admission is free.
In the book, Ferris, the associate director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, guides readers through the expressive power of food throughout Southern Jewish history, and demonstrates how Southern Jews reinvented culinary traditions as they adjusted to living in a largely Christian region where forbidden foods (such as pork, shrimp, oysters, and crab) are intensely popular.
Following the talk, a reception for Ferris (featuring desserts prepared from recipes in the book) will be held in Guilford College Art Gallery. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and Ferris will autograph them.
Ferris’ appearance is one of several events this fall at the college related to the Guilford College Art Gallery exhibition, Fabric of Survival: The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz (which runs through Oct. 29). Also included is a Monday, Sept. 25, talk by Alison Leslie Gold, author of Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family.
The events are presented in conjunction with the Greensboro Public Library’s “One City, One Book” project, which focuses this year on a community-wide reading of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl.
The program is partially underwritten by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies as part of its North Carolina Jewish Studies Lecture Series, a statewide lecture program that began in 2004-05. The series brings UNC faculty to Jewish and non-Jewish institutions, to secular and interfaith groups in both major urban areas such as Charlotte, Greensboro and Wilmington, and to smaller communities such as Asheville, Pembroke and Fayetteville.
For additional information, contact TERRY HAMMOND ’81 at ext. 2438 or thammond@guilford.edu.
August 31, 2006
Members of the Guilford community are invited to an open house for the new advancement offices in Quaker Village Friday, Sept. 8, from 4-6 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
The new offices are located in the former Greensboro Public Library branch at 619 Dolley Madison Rd., directly behind the BP station that fronts on West Friendly Avenue.
Offices for development and advancement services staff were moved from Hendricks Hall and offices for college relations staff, from Bauman Telecommunications Center, in early August. Alumni relations staff remain in the Alumni House.
For more information, contact LIBBY RICH at ext. 2178 or lrich@guilford.edu.
August 31, 2006
Johnnetta B. Cole, president of Bennett College for Women, will be featured speaker for Opening Academic Convocation Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 3:45 p.m. in Dana Auditorium. Convocation is a traditional year-opening assembly for students, faculty and staff.
Cole is speaking at Guilford as part of a continuing “exchange” arrangement with President KENT CHABOTAR, who has addressed Bennett’s opening faculty convocation and its Board of Trustees.
For more than three decades, Cole has had a distinguished career as a college and university professor and administrator. She was appointed Bennett’s 14th president in July 2002 and announced in July of this year her intention to leave the post in the summer of 2007.
Cole is president emerita of Spelman College and professor emerita of Emory University. She is chair of the Board of Trustees of United Way of America and of the Johnnetta B. Cole Global Diversity and Inclusion Institute, which promotes diversity in employment and society.
After beginning her college studies at Fisk University, Cole completed her undergraduate degree at Oberlin College. She earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in anthropology from Northwestern University.
Convocation will also feature remarks by President Chabotar, Vice President and Academic Dean ADRIENNE ISRAEL and student leaders.
Previous opening convocation speakers have included Columbia University professor Robert Thurman, Project Vote Smart president Richard Kimball, Yale University professor Sherwin Nuland and his wife, SARAH PETERSON ’70 NULAND, Greensboro Symphony conductor Stuart Malina and author and historian James Carroll.
August 31, 2006
Joan Elizabeth Hovelsrud McLeod, mother of Assistant Professor of Philosophy LISA McLEOD, died Aug. 16 at her home in Newport Coast, Calif. She was 77.
In accordance with her wishes, no service was held; her children, their partners, and her grandchildren gathered in her memory.
August 30, 2006
Campus Ministry Activities
Daily, M-F: 8:05 – 8:20 am, quiet worship. Hut.
Friday, Sept. 1
4:30 p.m. “Am I the Only One?” passional attraction group. Hut.
TBA Shabbat candle-lighting. Hut.
Sunday, Sept. 3
1 p.m. College Meeting for Worship, led by NATHAN SEBENS ’07. Moon Room.
5 p.m. Episcopal Eucharist. Hut.
6 p.m. Catholic Fellowship. Hut.
8 p.m. Guilford Christian Fellowship Bible Study. Boren Lounge.
Monday, Sept. 4
9:30 p.m. Vespers, led by GREY GRANTHAM ’10. Hut.
Tuesday, Sept. 5
11:30 a.m. Quakerism 101. Session on Quaker spirituality, led by DEBORAH SHAW ’84 and FRANK MASSEY. Walnut Room.
1 p.m. Meeting for healing, led by FRANK MASSEY. Hut.
9:30 p.m. Vespers, led by MEGAN FAIR ’10. Hut.
Wednesday, Sept. 6
1 p.m. Stump speeches. Founders Terrace.
2:30 p.m. GCRO meeting. Hut.
5:30 p.m. Midweek worship. Hut.
8 p.m. Pagan Mysticism. Hut.
9 p.m. Buddhist meditation. Hut.
Midnight Hillel bagel brunch. Hut.
Thursday, Sept. 7
9:30 p.m. Vespers, led by LAURA HERMAN ’10. Hut.
Saturday, Sept. 9
GCRO interfaith visit to Beth David Synagogue, leaving from the Hut at 9:45 a.m.. Includes lunch. RSVP by Sept. 6 to ext. 2445.
August 29, 2006
Old Dominion Athletic Conference men’s soccer coaches picked Guilford 10th in the league’s preseason poll. Virginia Wesleyan, the defending ODAC champion, topped the 10-team poll with eight first-place votes.
New coach JEFF BATESON leads a young team that features 16 returning letter winners, but only two seniors. ZANE CAMPBELL ’07, a three-year starter in goal, will be asked to provide stability in the back. Forward JOE RIGERT ’09 scored 14 points on five goals and four assists as a rookie and is Guilford’s top returning scorer.
The Quakers’ first regular-season game is Sept. 2 against Tennessee Wesleyan at the Nike Kickoff Classic in Maryville, Tenn. Guilford opens its home schedule Sept. 16 at 3 p.m. against Virginia Wesleyan at Haworth Field.
ODAC Men’s Soccer Coaches Poll
Ranking (first-place votes)
1. Virginia Wesleyan (8)
2. Roanoke (2)
3. Washington and Lee
4. Hampden-Sydney
5. Bridgewater
6. Eastern Mennonite
7. Lynchburg
8. Randolph-Macon
9. Emory & Henry
10. Guilford
August 29, 2006
Old Dominion Athletic Conference volleyball coaches picked Guilford ninth in the league’s preseason poll. Washington and Lee, the defending ODAC champion, topped the 11-team poll with eight first-place votes.
First-year coach EMILY HAYES leads a young squad that features six returning letter winners and no seniors. BECCA JONES ’09, who averaged 8.71 assists per game last season, is the Quakers’ top returning 
setter. JESSICA SMITH ’09 and KACI LOEFFLER ’09 are Guilford’s top returning outside hitters.
The Quakers begin their regular-season Sept. 1 against Oglethorpe in the opening game of the Oglethorpe Classic. The first home match is Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. against Peace in Ragan-Brown Field House.
ODAC Volleyball Coaches Poll
Ranking (first-place votes)
1. Washington and Lee (8)
2. Randolph-Macon (3)
3. Bridgewater
4. Virginia Wesleyan
5 (tie). Lynchburg
Roanoke
7. Emory & Henry
8. Eastern Mennonite
9. Guilford
10. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
11. Sweet Briar
August 29, 2006
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Old Dominion Athletic Conference cross country coaches chose Guilford’s women’s team seventh in the league’s preseason poll. The men’s team was picked eighth.
Washington and Lee, the defending men’s and women’s champions, topped both polls.
New coach JAMIE LAFOLLETTE welcomes a large class of first-year and transfer students and has more than doubled the size of both rosters. LAURIE HENNINGER ’07 earned all-state honors in 2005 by virtue of a ninth-place finish in the Old North State Championships college division. She is the Quakers’ top returning female harrier. On the men’s side, KEVIN SMITH ’08 ranked 10th in last year’s state meet and should again contend for all-state honors.
Both squads open the season Sept. 2 at the Marlin Invitational, hosted by Virginia Wesleyan. The men’s and women’s teams will compete against Fayetteville State Sept. 14 at 4 p.m. in the first cross country race held on Guilford’s campus. The on-campus course is located in the Meadows on the far northwestern end of the college’s property.
August 29, 2006
Timeline for Staff Performance Appraisal Review
• Sept. 1: Human Resources will distribute appraisal forms to supervisors/managers by electronic announcement.
-Supervisors/managers review materials and information
-Supervisors/managers begin gathering materials to complete appraisal form
• Sept. 8: Human Resources will notify all direct-reporting employees of the president and vice presidents who will be participating in the upward assessments that assessments will open.
• Sept. 11: Supervisors/managers distribute copies of appraisal forms to each of their employees and ask them to complete their portions in time for the appraisal review meeting.
• Sept. 18: Assessments will close for the direct-reporting group.
• Sept. 19: Human Resources will notify all randomly selected participants that assessments will open.
• Sept. 27: Assessments will close for the randomly selected group.
• Sept. 28: Human Resources will notify the campus community at large that assessments will be open.
• Oct. 4: Supervisors/managers begin preparing annual appraisal form for employees.
• Oct. 6: Assessments will close for the campus community group. All upward assessments must be completed.
• Oct. 13: Supervisors/managers discuss overall outcomes with reviewer and schedule appraisal interview(s) with employee(s).
• Nov. 3: Deadline for completion of appraisal interviews for all employees except vice presidents.
• Nov. 10: Deadline for completion of appraisal form for all employees except vice presidents, and return to reviewer for final signature.
• Nov. 22: Deadline for completion of appraisal form for vice presidents.
• Nov. 30: All completed appraisal forms must be returned to Human Resources.
NOTE: Assessment feedback on the president and vice presidents will not be disclosed until after all other employee appraisal forms have been finalized.
