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SBDC Addresses Business Needs
From Left: Kathy Dolan, VA. Dept. of Business Assistance, Stephanie Brown, Dept. of Rehabilitative Services, David Valadez, RCC Workforce Development, and Dr. Elizabeth Crowther, President of RCC, work in a group during the UMW SBDC HP Life event.
The University of Mary Washington Small Business Development Center, in partnership with Rappahannock Community College, hosted the Hewlett Packard Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs (HP LIFE) Demonstration June 21.
HP LIFE focuses on business needs at various stages of growth, and with varying degrees of technology experience. The UMW-SBDC will introduce several classes in the HP LIFE curriculum in the next few months. For the latest information, please visit the SBDC website.
Next Edition of EagleEye, 7/5
The next issue of the EagleEye newsletter will go out on Thursday, July 5, not Thursday, June 28.
We welcome submissions that highlight upcoming events, faculty and staff achievements, notable student and faculty projects and campus announcements of general interest. With more than 800 visitors to the website each week, EagleEye is the perfect place to promote information among the campus community. To submit information, follow the directions at http://umweagleeye.wpengine.com/contribute/ or contact Brynn Boyer or Marty Morrison in the Office of News and Public Information.
Friday’s Welcome Program for New Students and Families
The university is looking forward to welcoming 347 of our new students and their families to campus for “FLIGHT SCHOOL” on Friday, June 22. The planning committee has been working hard to create a program that is both informative and fun for our incoming freshmen and transfer students. While we expect most of the guests to park in the Parking Deck, we are aware that parking may be difficult across campus. Please plan accordingly.
We will be hosting a meet and greet with families on the Lee Hall Terrace from 10:30-11:30 a.m. that day. All campus staff is welcome to join us and partake of the refreshments. Please remember to wear your UMW nametag!
UPDATE:
Due to extreme registration numbers, heat and possible thunderstorms the Administrators Meet & Greet has been moved to the Anderson Center Lobby from the same 10:30 to 11:30 time. We have a FRED bus, golf carts and even a van to transport people from main campus (Lee Hall Loop) to the Anderson Center on a continuous loop.
You can find more information about “Flight School” at www.umw.edu/flightschool. The schedule of events can be reached via the link on that page. If you have any questions, please email Chris Porter at cjporter@umw.edu.
Thank you for all you do every day to make UMW a place where great minds get to work!
Sincerely,
The UMW “Flight School” Planning Committee
Enrollment for Medical FRA Ends 6/22
From the Office of Human Resources. If further assistance is needed, please contact Denise M. Holmes, Benefits Administrator dholme2@umw.edu
Special Enrollment for Medical Flexible Reimbursement Accounts ends on Friday, June 22.
As stated below, you may now contribute up to $5,000 to the Medical Flexible Reimbursement Account (MRA) for the plan year of July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. To enroll, increase or decrease your MRA contribution, please complete the special enrollment form and forward the form Office Of Human Resources on or before close of business Friday, June 22, 2012. EmployeeDirect will not be available for this special enrollment.
If you take no action your 2012-2013 MRA will remain as you elected during our annual open enrollment.
Piece of James Monroe History Heads to Richmond
Art handlers from Ely, Inc. and staff members from the Executive Mansion and the Library of Virginia installed the portrait in February
Virginia’s Executive Mansion in Richmond has a new addition – an almost 200-year-old painting on loan from the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library. A portrait of James Monroe will reside in the State Dining Room of the Executive Mansion for two years to commemorate the bicentennial of the building’s construction in 2013. On Thursday, June 21, Gov. Bob McDonnell and First Lady Maureen McDonnell will formally unveil the Rembrandt Peale portrait in a private reception.
Members of the James Monroe Museum staff, including Director Scott Harris and Curator Jarod Kearney, were on-hand to help install the portrait in February.
“The process of transporting and installing the painting was carried out flawlessly by personnel from our art handlers, Ely, Inc., and staff at the Executive Mansion,” Harris said. “Peale’s portrait of Monroe is at a near life-size scale, and with its frame is quite heavy. Once it was in place, First Lady Maureen McDonnell texted the Governor, who was at the State Capitol, telling him ‘James is here!’”
(from left to right): Bowley Scholar Emilie Kracen; Tom Camden, Director of Special Collections, Library of Virginia; Maureen McDonnell, First Lady of Virginia; JMMML Director Scott Harris; JMMML Curator Jarod Kearney (Courtesy Kathy Scott, Virginia Executive Mansion)
The portrait, painted by Rembrandt Peale from 1817 to 1825, is thought to be based on an earlier bust-length portrait of Monroe painted by Peale from life. The James Monroe Museum has housed the portrait since 1985.
“What makes exhibiting James Monroe’s portrait in the Virginia Executive Mansion so special is that, while he signed the legislation to build the home during his last term as governor, he never got to live in it,” Harris said. “It is therefore fitting that he has returned to take up residence in the house he helped build during its bicentennial commemoration.”
UMW Students & Alumnus Attend Sorensen Institute
At the Sorensen Institute of Political Leadership’s College Leaders Program, party lines are set aside. Participants are not allowed to disclose their political affiliations to each other.
From left: Sean Simons, Meghan Hobbs and Brendan Oudekerk
“It bonds everybody together,” Brendan Oudekerk said. “It is really refreshing to get along with everybody…and know we are working toward common goals. Each person brings different qualities to the table.”
Oudekerk, a 2012 graduate of the University of Mary Washington, and UMW seniors Meghan Hobbs and Sean Simons are among 18 college students or recent graduates who were selected for the four-week-long summer program held at the University of Virginia.
The College Leaders Program, now in its eighth year, brings together youth leaders from across Virginia with a focus on ethics, bipartisanship, public policy and civic engagement. The Sorensen Institute was founded as the Virginia Institute of Political Leadership in 1993 in hopes it would identify and bring together Virginia’s emerging political leaders. More than 1,200 Virginian students have graduated from the Institute.
For Oudekerk, who is working toward a career in economic development, the program is a chance to network and learn more about Virginia politics.
“As a graduate, I’m using it to be more well-rounded,” he said. “It helps to come together with people from different backgrounds.”
The 18 program participants are divided into three groups – economics, higher education or transportation – to develop policy proposals. The groups will present their findings at the end of the program, in hopes a Virginia legislator will want to adopt the proposal.
One of last year’s groups actually got a bill passed, Hobbs explained.
“That’s everyone’s aspiration,” she said.
Hobbs, an international affairs and political science major, plans to attend law school after graduation, but also is interested in politics.
“I have been wanting to get a look into state politics,” she said, “so this program is really helping me with that.”
On Tuesday, June 12, the students met with Sen. Mark Warner and Sen. Jim Webb at the U.S. Capitol Building.
Simons, chair of UMW’s Legislative Action Committee and an intern in President Richard V. Hurley’s office, got to introduce the senators to the group: “It was an honor to have that privilege,” he said.
When the program ends on June 23, Simons says the experience of a respectful, bipartisan atmosphere will stick with him.
“A lot of issues are played in the media as being very polarizing, but people, especially my age, are much more willing to compromise and come together to find solutions,” he said. “I have a greater appreciation for what I think our generation can do.”
Economics of Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector Course featured in Virginia Business
UMW’s Economics of Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector course was featured in the June edition of Virginia Business magazine in the article “Philanthropy’s Next Generation.” 
On the cover, left to right and front row to back, are Gretchen Houser, assistant director of annual giving and a student in the fall 2010 class, Robert S Rycroft, professor of economics, and Kate Gibson and Will Zebian, students from the fall 2011 class.
Operafest Brings Opera to UMW, 6/22-6/23
The University of Mary Washington will host its 13th annual Operafest on Friday, June 22 and Saturday, June 23 at 7:30 p.m. in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium. The performances are free and open to the public.
Operafest, directed by UMW voice instructors Kathy Ahearn and Jane Tavernier, is the culmination of an intensive five-week course. The 12 performers auditioned for the course in April and have rehearsed six hours per week since mid-May in preparation for the performances.
The program will include scenes from Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” and “Don Pasquale,” Bernstein’s “West Side Story,” Mozart’s “The Abduction of the Seraglio,” Puccini’s “La Rondine” and Lehar’s “The Merry Widow.”
For more information about Operafest, contact the Department of Music at (540) 654-1012.
UMW Faculty Brass Quintet Performs this Weekend
The University of Mary Washington Faculty Brass Quintet performs during a Memorial Day observance in 2011 (courtesy of The Free Lance-Star)
On Saturday, June 16, the UMW Faculty Brass Quintet will perform the first UMW-sponsored concert of the Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center’s American Music Concert Series. The program will include the music of John Philip Sousa, Leonard Bernstein and George M. Cohan, as well as a performance of “West Side Story.” The concert begins at 7 p.m. in Fredericksburg’s Market Square and is free and open to the public.
Founded in 2009, the Faculty Brass Quintet features Bartram and UMW adjunct instructors Jim Ford and Gary Carper, along with musicians David Mersiovsky and Jeremy Cucco.
Other UMW concerts in the series include a performance by the UMW Philharmonic Orchestra on Tuesday, July 3 and by the UMW Faculty Jazz Quintet on Saturday, August 25. For more information, visit http://www.famcc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=201&Itemid=124 or call (540) 654-1012.