Category: What’s New @ UMW

On Monday, Nov. 5, members of the Washington Redskins Cheerleaders will join the UMW community for the “Huddle Up to Bundle Up” fundraising event. The event, from 3 to 6 p.m. on the Lee Hall side of Ball Circle, will feature raffle tickets to win Redskins gear, a punt and pass competition and performances, autographs and photos by the Washington Redskins Cheerleaders. Proceeds from the event will go toward clothing drives as well as care packages for young children. The event is sponsored by the Latino Student Association, the Underground Programming Council (UPC) and the Office of Student Activities and Engagement. For more information, contact Joe Mollo at (540) 654-1061.

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream are coming to the Fredericksburg Forum!

Purchase your discounted tickets before it’s too late! Tickets are limited.

See Ben and Jerry Saturday, November 10 at 8 p.m. in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium.

Tickets for faculty, staff and students are $15 per person, limit two tickets per person.  Stop by the third floor of George Washington Hall, room 308 to purchase tickets.

To learn more about the Forum program, call 540-654-1065 or visit www.umw.edu/forum.

Visiting art historian and University of Mary Washington alumna Dr. Allison M. Stagg’s lecture “James Akin: The First American Caricaturist” has been cancelled due to travel difficulties associated with the weather. The lecture was originally scheduled for Thursday, November 1 at 5 p.m. in Lee Hall, Room 411. The lecture would have been sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, with funding from the Wendy Shadwell ’63 Program Endowment in Art History.

Her talk would have focused on American artist James Akin, who gained the title as the most notorious caricaturist of his time after he published a satirical caricature of President Thomas Jefferson criticizing his relationship with one of his slaves.  His caricature, boldly entitled “A Philosophic Cock,” along with later caricature designs, went on to influence many of the popular caricaturists of the nineteenth century.

Stagg  has extensive museum experiences curating at prestigious museums such as the Metropolitan Museum and organizing exhibits at the National Portrait Gallery in London and the National Gallery in Washington. Her research on political caricature in the U.S from 1780-1830 has resulted in extensive papers and articles, along with a forthcoming book “The Art of Wit: American Political Caricature.” Stagg has received numerous fellowships and grants from institutions such as the American Philosophical society, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Yale University.

The University of Mary Washington’s Executive-in-Residence program, scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 31 and Thursday, Nov. 1, has been cancelled due to travel difficulties caused by the weather. The Executive-in-Residence for 2012-2013 Doug Dolton ’78, founder, chairman and CEO of San Francisco Motorsports, had been scheduled to speak to regional business leaders and meet with the students in the College of Business during his two-day trip.

The university hopes to reschedule Dolton’s trip for the spring 2013 semester.

Dolton has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services and banking industries and has served as president and CEO of Servus Financial Corporation, now owned by Wells Fargo, Chela Education Financing, now owned by Nelnet, and Zopa, a U.K.-based peer-to-peer online lending marketplace. He founded San Francisco Motorsports, a luxury automotive retailer based out of Northern California, in April 2010 and has served as chairman and CEO of the company for almost three years. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Mary Washington in 1978.

Established in 1989, the Executive-in-Residence program is coordinated through the UMW College of Business and the Division of Advancement and University Relations.  Since its inception, the program has brought more than 40 well-known and established business leaders to the university.

From a camera installed on the top of the Jepson Science Center, you are now able to take a look at the Convergence Center construction site as the work unfolds.  The WebCam feed is available at: http://provost.umw.edu/convergence-center/.

In the upper left hand portion of the WebCam window you’ll see a series of buttons.  By clicking “Just Watch” you’ll see still shots taken of the site at various intervals.  Click “Time Lapse” and you’ll see a series of images one right after another that go back several days and move up to the present.

Additional material about the project is also available at the same location.

John T. Morello, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs