Category: What’s New @ UMW

The Office of Residence Life is very excited to welcome three new professional staff members and four graduate assistants to the Office of Residence Life and Commuter Student Services.

Matthew Troutman joined the staff as associate director of residence life for housing and operations. Over the last five years, Troutman was employed at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and has his M.S. in higher education from Indiana University. Matt has a 12-year background working in student affairs and is excited to now be working at UMW.

Marissa Miller joined the staff as the assistant director of residence life for Ball, Madison, Custis, Westmoreland and Virginia Halls (known as Area 3). Miller was employed previously at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y. She has her M.S. in administration and supervision with a specialization in higher education from Middle Tennessee State University. Marissa has a background in first year living communities, apartment style living, theme housing, and campus wide programming. She is ecstatic about joining the residence life team at the University of Mary Washington. Furthermore, Marissa is overjoyed to supervise Area 3 because of the history that plays into those residence halls and seeing students/programs daily on Ball Circle!

Colin Coleman came to us from Arizona State University where he was a community manager for upperclassmen apartments and adult housing.  He has his M.Ed. in higher and post secondary education.  Colin has a varied background from college admissions to residence life working with first year, upperclassmen, and adult students in traditional housing, apartment style and family houses.  Colin is the assistant director for Area 1 (Bushnell Hall, Jefferson Hall, Framar House, South Hall and the UMW Apartments).  This year, he will be working closely with our themed housing opportunities and residential curriculum.

Graduate assistants for the Office of Residence Life include Alex Mejia, Matthew Shepherd, Tony Leger and Mary Cait Nannery.  Alex Mejia is enrolled in the MS-MIS graduate program and is responsible for Willard and Virginia Halls.  Matt Shepherd is pursuing a MBA and is responsible for Jefferson and Bushnell Halls.  Tony Leger is pursuing an MBA and is responsible for Marshall and Russell Halls.  Mary Cait Nannery is also pursuing an MBA and is responsible for the desk at Eagle Landing.

Please help the Office of Residence Life in welcoming these new UMW Eagles.

“Fogettaboutit.”  Stop carrying cash or credit cards on campus by using your EagleOne ID Card to make purchases at the UMW Bookstore, the Copy Center, the Post Office, campus vending machines, and on & off campus dining. Your EagleOne ID card is already setup with a debit account so you can add funds at any time. Better yet, sign-up for payroll deduction and as an added bonus you will receive a punch card redeemable for one free meal per month at Seacobeck Dining Hall (that’s equivalent to $60 a year).

To sign up, print and complete the FORM and send it to Payroll, 4th Floor, Eagle Landing.  The minimum is only $10 per pay period and you may withdraw from the plan at any time.

Your bookmarks and favorites to the EagleOne online deposit page will no longer work! Please use and/or bookmark the link below to access the deposit page: https://eagleone-sp.blackboard.com/eaccounts.

The University of Mary Washington Department of Theatre & Dance will kick off its 2012-13 season with a production of Jane Martin’s “Talking With.” Performances will be Sept. 20-22 and Sept. 27-29 at 8 p.m., and Sept. 23 and 30 at 2 p.m. in Klein Theatre, duPont Hall. Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for students and senior citizens.

“Talking With” is comprised of 11 monologues performed by women. Each woman invites you into her world as she confesses a secret that she keeps from the rest of society. These monologues deal with a range of themes from marital problems to religious experiences, and everything in between. As the women speak they teach important lessons about love, loss and the search for happiness.

“Talking With” premiered at the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Ky., as part of the 1982 Humana Festival of New American Plays. Jane Martin is a pen name of a Kentucky playwright suspected to be the former Actors’ Theatre of Louisville artistic director, Jon Jory. Martin won the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for “Keely and Du” in 1994 and “Jack and Jill” in 1997. “Keely and Du” was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1994.

“Talking With” is directed by Helen Housley, associate professor of theatre. Scenic and lighting design is by Associate Professor Julie Hodge and costume design is by Associate Professor Kevin McCluskey. For more information, call the Klein Theatre Box Office at (540) 654-1111.

Jose “Pepe” Viera Bermúdez, a former Cuban diplomat, will visit the University of Mary Washington on Thursday, Sept. 20 and Friday, Sept. 21.

He will give a public lecture “Cuba Today: Changes to Remain Unchanged” on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Lee Hall, Room 411. Viera Bermúdez also will speak to international affairs students in the U.S. Foreign Policy course during his visit.

For more information about Viera Bermúdez, please visit http://www.umw.edu/news/2012/09/11/former-cuban-diplomat-to-speak-at-umw/.

UMW’s Police Department is now offering the R.A.D. Basic Physical Defense Program to Students, Faculty and Staff Women.  R.A.D. (Rape Aggression Defense) for Women is founded on four basic principles:  Risk Awareness, Risk Reduction, Risk Recognition, and Risk Avoidance. These principles are the basis for 90 percent of self-defense education.  R.A.D. for Women is a female-only class.

The R.A.D. Basic Physical Defense Program is a self-defense class designed for women of all ages and taught by men and women to teach methods to defend against potential attacks as well as to educate women about risk awareness, risk reduction, risk recognition, and risk avoidance.  The R.A.D. Systems Basic Physical Defense instructional objective is “to develop and enhance the options of self-defense, so they may become viable considerations to the woman who is attacked.”

R.A.D. Basic is a three day course (three hours per day) offered to female faculty/staff/students of the UMW community FREE of charge. It is taught by Sgt. Bobby Somers, who is the R.A.D Coordinator and a certified R.A.D. Instructor and Advanced R.A.D. Systems Instructor. Sgt. Somers serves as a Law Enforcement Defensive Tactics Instructor and a former U.S. Army Special Operations Self Defense and Survival Specialist.  Sgt. Somers is currently a Patrol Sergeant and Field Training Officer with the UMW Police Department.  Sgt. Somers will be assisted by Dr. Nicole Surething, who is the Director of C.A.P.S and also a Certified R.A.D. Basic Instructor and Officer Kelly Ernst, who is also a Certified R.A.D. Basic Instructor.

The class dates are September 17, 19 and 24, 2012, 6 to 9 p.m., held in the University Tennis Center, Second Floor.

If you interested in taking this self-defense course, please contact Sgt. Bobby Somers by email at wsomers@umw.edu to register.  Spaces are limited.

James DeLoatch, VCA
Police Department Business Manager