The holidays are coming which means it’s time for COAR’s Annual Head Start Gift Box Drive! Each year we ask students, faculty, and staff to fill boxes for children in local Head Start Programs. If you are interested in filling a box this holiday season, COAR will be in the faculty and staff dining room on Thursday, November 21st from 11-1 passing out boxes. If you are unable to make lunch that day but are still interested, COAR will be happy to bring a box to your office or to let you know what we ask for in each box. If you have any questions, please email COAR at coarumw@gmail.com or x1802. Thanks and have happy holidays!
Alumna Presents Financial Literacy Series, Nov. 13
Join College of Business Alumna Debrah Farnell for the second installment of her Financial Literacy series. This seminar will focus on how to plan for having money in retirement.
There is a difference between saving for retirement and having a plan so we can match our saving to the amount of income for not only the things we need in retirement, but so we can enjoy the activities we dream about during our working years, such as vacations, a second home, golf. You get the idea! We may know that having a plan is important, but have yet to put it in place.
You will:
- Learn about the traditional sources of income in retirement
- Learn how to take steps toward creating retirement income
- Create an inventory and personal financial statement to assess your current sources of potential retirement income
To get the most out of this workshop, we encourage you to dream about what you want your life to look like in retirement. At the end of the workshop, you can identify how create action steps to help you take action toward financial success and the retirement you’re dreaming about.
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Time(s):
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – UMW Faculty, Staff and General Public
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. – UMW Students
Location: Woodard Campus Center, Red Room (map and directions)
Please RSVP: Andrea Cordray at acordray@umw.edu
About The Speaker:
Debrah Farnell, CFP® ChFC® is the founder of DKM Planners, Inc. Beginning her career as a FINRA registered Series 7, General Securities Representative, and Series 66, Uniform Combined State Law Representative, in VA, MD, DC, LA, FL, CA and GA, she is also licensed to sell life and long term care insurance in VA, MD, and GA. Determined to educate and help people become financially independent, she earned the Chartered Financial Consultant® (ChFC®) and Certified Financial Planner™ professional (CFP®) designations. She holds a Bachelor of Professional Studies degree in Leadership and Management from the University of Mary Washington.
Thanksgiving Lunch for Faculty & Staff, Nov. 21
Campus Dining invites you to join us for our annual Thanksgiving Lunch for faculty and staff, which will be served on Thursday, Nov. 21 in the Historic Dining Room at Seacobeck (faculty and staff dining room).
The menu will include carved roast turkey, turkey gravy, herbed bread stuffing, glazed baked ham, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie and a host of other traditional favorites.
Service will begin one half hour early at 11 a.m. and continue until 1:30 p.m. The cost for this special lunch will be $6. We hope to see you there!
UMW to Commemorate Veterans Day, Nov. 11
On Monday, Nov. 11, UMW’s Association of Student Veterans (ASV) and the Army ROTC will observe Veterans Day. The Army ROTC, under the command of cadet Jeremy Hillberry, will raise the flag at George Washington Hall at 8 a.m. and at Mary Washington Hospital at 5 p.m. The ASV will hold a remembrance event on Ball Circle from 4 to 6 p.m. on Monday with free food and an opportunity to meet with campus vets and leave messages of support.
A recently released survey of UMW students shows nearly 350 students (7.3 percent of the student body) are either veterans or children or spouses using military benefits.
“We created the survey to gain a more accurate picture of the number of veteran students, their demographics and needs so that we can make recommendations for changes in services available, and also to help raise awareness as to the number of veterans, and the nature of their unique situation at UMW,” said Daniel Nelson, staff counselor in the Counseling and Psychological Services Center.
The major concerns that students reported on the survey were consistent with what other institutions have reported, namely a concern with work/life balance, the need for a sense of community, and the need for well-defined policies about deployment.
For more information about the survey, contact Nelson at dnelson@umw.edu.
COAR Gift Box Drive Benefits HeadStart
Every year, COAR holds a gift box drive to benefit children in the HeadStart Program. Students, faculty, staff and community members can fill a shoebox with the following items:
- a toothbrush or toothpaste
- hat, scarf, mittens/gloves
- books, coloring books
- small toys and crayons/markers
The boxes should not include any food, religious items, or any items that are not safe for 3 to 5 year olds.
This year’s drive started this week and will continue through Monday, Dec. 2. COAR hopes to fill nearly 350 boxes this year.
Those who would like to contribute items toward the drive, but who are unable to fill an entire box can drop off individual items to COAR. Community members can drop their boxes and donations off at the COAR office, located underneath Seacobeck Hall in the Center for Honor, Leadership and Service office. If you have any questions or concerns, contact COAR at coarumw@gmail.com or at 540-654-1802.
“Spring Awakening” Opens Tonight at Klein Theatre
The University of Mary Washington’s Department of Theatre & Dance will continue its 2013-2014 season with a production of the rock musical “Spring Awakening.” Performances will be Nov. 7-9, Nov. 13-16 and Nov. 21-23 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 10, 16, 17, 23 and 24 at 2 p.m. in duPont Hall’s Klein Theatre. Tickets are $24 for general admission and $20 for students, senior citizens and military.
“Spring Awakening,” with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik, revolves around the lives of school children in 19th-century Germany who are struggling to comprehend the changes in their bodies and the consequences of searching for the answers on their own.
“The truth of ‘Spring Awakening’ is as relevant today as it was over a century ago,” said Gregg Stull, professor and chair of the Department of Theatre & Dance and Department of Music. “I know our production will touch our audience and leave them pondering the musical’s questions about what it means to grow up in our complex and uncertain world.”
The play, by Frank Wedekind, first opened on Broadway at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on December 10, 2006. The original Broadway cast starred Lea Michele, Jonathan Groff and John Gallagher, Jr. in the lead roles. The musical won eight Tony Awards, including for best musical, direction, book, score, and featured actor in a musical. The collaboration between Steven Sater and American singer-songwriter, Duncan Sheik, also brought the show a Grammy for its cast album.
Stull is the director of the show, with musical direction by Christopher Wingert and choreography by Samantha Reynolds. Scenic design is by Associate Professor Julie Hodge and costume design is by Associate Professor Kevin McCluskey. Lighting and sound design are by guest artists Jason Arnold and Christopher Husted.
The show explores provocative ideas with explicit language, sexual situations and nudity. For more information or to purchase tickets, call the Klein Theatre Box Office at (540) 654-1111 or visit http://cas.umw.edu/theatre/.
News release prepared by: Jamie Wilson
News from Human Resources
Congratulations to our service award recipients for the month of November. Please click the link below for the list.
http://adminfinance.umw.edu/hr/files/2011/08/April-13-Service-Award-Recipients.pdf
Visit http://adminfinance.umw.edu/hr/employee-relations/worklife/whats-new-2/ for the upcoming Professional Development Opportunities.
As a state employee, please remember you can take advantage of the discounts on this page: http://www.dhrm.virginia.gov/employeediscounts.html.
Rep. Wittman Visits American Government Class
Rep. Rob Wittman (right) addresses students in Professor Abby Jones’ class.
On Election Day, UMW students had the opportunity to hear from a member of Congress firsthand. Rep. Rob Wittman, who represents Virginia’s 1st Congressional District, visited Professor Abby Jones’ American government class.
Wittman, who was re-elected for his third full term in the House of Representatives in 2012, spoke to students about topics ranging from the government shutdown to immigration reform to education, and answered students’ questions for nearly an hour.
Professor Stephen Farnsworth in the Center for Leadership and Media Studies arranged the visit.
Phi Beta Kappa Scholar to Visit UMW, Nov. 21-22
Philip J. Deloria, a 2013-2014 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, will visit the University of Mary Washington to present a public lecture on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Hall, Room 411. Deloria’s lecture, “American Indians in the American Popular Imagination,” is presented through the Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Visiting Scholar Program and will be featured as part of UMW’s Native American Cultural Celebration, taking place Nov. 18-22. The lecture is free and open to the public.
During his two-day visit, Deloria also will speak with students and faculty in a range of American studies and history courses and meet with PBK members.
Deloria is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan and has joint appointment in the departments of history and American culture. He is currently the associate dean for undergraduate education in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. He is the author of two prize-winning books, “Playing Indian” and “Indians in Unexpected Places,” as well as the co-editor for several others. He also has written for numerous scholarly journals in the fields of American Indian studies, environmental history and cultural studies. Deloria has served as president of the American Studies Association, as a trustee of the Smithsonian’s National History Museum of the American Indian and is an elected member of the Society of American Historians.
Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most widely known academic honor society in the nation, with chapters at 283 institutions and more than half a million members. Its mission is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, to recognize academic excellence and to foster freedom of thought and expression. The UMW chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa of Virginia, selects its members based on rigorous scrutiny of students’ academic achievements as demonstrated through grade point averages. UMW inducted 51 new members into the society last spring.
The lecture is sponsored by Kappa of Virginia, the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication, the Department of History and American Studies, the American Studies Program, the Honors Program, and particularly the Wendy Shadwell ’63 Program Endowment in British Literature. Additional information about the PBK Visiting Scholar Program can be found at http://www.pbk.org. For more information about Deloria’s visit, please contact Professor Gary Richards at grichard@umw.edu or (540) 654-2365.
Alumna to Give Lecture, Nov. 20
Gain a more dynamic understanding of early Islamic society and the nature of religious interaction during a lecture entitled “Religious Identity and Conversion between Christianity and Early Islam (650-900 C.E.)” by Anna Chrysostomides on Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. in Trinkle Hall, Room 204.
Chrysostomides is a 2007 University of Mary Washington religion graduate and a Ph.D. candidate in theology and religion at Saint Antony’s College, Oxford, England.