Archive for October, 2011
October 27, 2011
Faculty, staff, students, parents and alumni, get periodic updates from the College by liking our main page on Facebook.
If you were on the main page this week you saw photos from the recent tree planting in memory of DAVID NEWTON, the second annual President’s Forum and the dedication of the Guilford College Woods historical marker.
Guilford has other Facebook pages for CCE, Alumni, Athletics, Friends Historical Collection, Hege Library and the Bryan Series, and a Twitter feed for Athletics.
October 27, 2011
The Administrative Programs and Services Assessment Team is now accepting community feedback on the questionnaire criteria and rubric for the APSA project.
If you are interested in providing feedback, please visit the APSA page on GuilfordNet. It is the first link on the “Services” drop-down menu in the upper right corner of the home page. If you wish to provide feedback, please submit an online feedback form. Submissions will be accepted until Nov. 3.
Please contact the APSA Team at apsa@guilford.edu with any questions.
October 27, 2011
Guilford was picked third in the ODAC’s annual preseason poll of men’s basketball teams.
Virginia Wesleyan was first place in the 11-team poll, followed by Hampden-Sydney and the Quakers, who were one point ahead of Randolph-Macon.
Guilford posted a 16-10 record in 2010-11 and finished with a 10-6 ODAC mark. The Quakers are coming off of their fifth straight winning season and are led by guard JOSH PITTMAN ’13, a 2010-11 First Team All-ODAC selection. Pittman finished the 2010-11 campaign as the team leader in points per game (18.1), steals (41) and assists (59). Now in his ninth Guilford campaign, coach Tom Palombo returns nine letter winners.
The Quakers host their annual Meet the Team Night Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ragan-Brown Field House. Guilford plays a Friday, Nov. 11, exhibition at NCAA Division I member Davidson at 7 p.m. and hosts Methodist Tuesday, Nov. 15, in their regular-season opener.
October 27, 2011
Student Success Counselor ETHAN G. HUTCHINSON is being awarded the Outstanding New Professional Award by the North Carolina College Personnel Association today (Oct. 28) at the NCCPA State Conference. Ethan has been working here since August and mentors students in the Student Success Program.
October 27, 2011
Guilford Shares is the College’s annual giving campaign to support nonprofit organizations beyond our campus that serve the environmental, arts, human, and social resource needs of the broader community.
Three organizations are again part of the campaign: United Way of Greater Greensboro, Earth Share of North Carolina, and the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro.
Make a donation online by visiting the GuilfordNet home page or this link.
The 2011 goals are 50%% participation and $30,000 funds raised. The campaign will run until Dec. 9.
The community is encouraged to donate early to be in the pool for weekly drawings for prizes from the Guilford Bookstore donated by Follett.
October 27, 2011
The Creative Writing Program at N.C. A&T State University has invited CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW to read in the “North Carolina on my Mind” Series Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. in Auditorium A218 (second floor), General Classroom Building (corners of N. Benbow and Sullivan Roads) on the A&T campus.
Carolyn’s poem, “Rockin’ A Man, Stone Blind,” has been selected to appear in The Everyman’s Library Anthology-Villanelles in their Pocket Poets Series, and in the 9th edition of Three Genres: Writing Fiction/Literary Non-fiction, Poetry and Drama.
Home is Where: An Anthology of African American Poetry from the Carolinas houses four of her poems: “Doll,” “Silly,” “Fickle,” and “Sepia Picture Postcards,” while A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry contains her poem “Extant Diary of Amanda Elizabeth McKenzy.” Solo Caf
October 27, 2011
Guilford’s newly renovated athletic training room has been named in honor of longtime athletic trainer and sport studies instructor MARY BROOS. The recently completed project transformed a former locker room and storage space into a modern area for the evaluation and treatment of athletics-related injuries. The room in the basement of Alumni Gym also contains office space for the athletic training staff and visiting doctors.
Broos became Guilfords full-time athletic trainer in 1978 and held the position until her retirement in 2008. She was the first female head athletic trainer in North Carolina and named the 1989 North Carolina Athletic Trainer of the Year by the N.C. Athletic Trainers Association. Broos was enshrined in the organization’s Hall of Fame in 2003, nine years after her induction into Guilford’s Athletics Hall of Fame.
Mary and her husband, Jim, have two sons, BRIAN and BRAD, both Guilford graduates. She continues to teach in the Sport Studies Department on a part-time basis.
October 26, 2011
Guilford will join more than 25 theatres and universities nationwide to host the premiere of the new play “Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays” Monday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. in Sternberger Auditorium.
Theatre Studies will present a live, staged reading of the play, directed by theatre studies professor DAVID HAMMOND. Admission will be free on a first-come, first-served basis. Donations will be accepted by Equality North Carolina.
The performance will be preceded by a video prologue via internet from the New York theatre where Tectonic Theatre Project will be opening the play that night. Following Guilford’s live performance, the audience will join a discussion from New York, also broadcast via live internet streaming, in which panelists will address questions submitted via Twitter.
Hammond said that “Standing on Ceremony” examines the subject of gay marriage from multiple perspectives and includes works by some of America’s leading playwrights. “Both because of the contemporary significance of the subject matter and because of the excellence of the writing, it’s a theatre piece we felt compelled to do,” Hammond said. “We participated in Tectonic’s ‘The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later’ a couple of years ago, and it was a very powerful and thought-provoking evening for our audience.”
Audience members will be able to watch a live streaming introduction before the play, as well as a post-performance Q&A, from the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City, where “Standing on Ceremony” begins preview performances that night. Attendees will be able to participate in the Q&A, regardless of their locale, by submitting questions via Twitter in real time.
For more information, visit the website or the Facebook page.
October 26, 2011
Theatre Studies opens its 2011-12 season with “Company,” music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth. Performances are November 4-5 and 10-12 at 8 p.m. in Sternberger Auditorium, located in Founders Hall.
Tickets are $3 for Guilford College students, faculty, and staff. All other tickets are $5. For tickets or more information, visit the Guilford College Theatre Studies website.
“Company” follows the life of Bobby, a committed bachelor celebrating his 35th birthday with the five married couples who are his best friends. A series of vignettes show Bobby’s interactions with these friends and three ex-girlfriends, all of whom urge him to settle down into traditional married life. Finally, “Company” is the story of a man who weighs the fun of bachelorhood against the benefits of deeper intimacy.
“Company” won six Tony Awards in 1971, notably for Best Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Book of a Musical. Broadway revivals of “Company” won Tony Awards in 1996 and 2007.
Guilford’s production is a collaboration between the departments of Theatre Studies and Music with stage direction by JACK ZERBE, professor and chair of theatre studies, and musical direction by JIM BUMGARDNER, instructor of music. Costume design is by MAHEALANI JONES and lighting design is by ROSLYN FULTON-DAHLIE, instructors of design. Set design is by guest artist Jayme Mellema.
