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Jim Hammond Attended the Higher Education Pedagogy Conference at Vir-ginia Tech on Febru-ary 16-17.

Ed Snyder Attended the Higher Education Pedagogy Conference at Vir-ginia Tech on Febru-ary 16-17.

Catherine Vickers Attended the Higher Education Pedagogy Conference at Vir-ginia Tech on Febru-ary 16-17.

Bryan Herek Attended the Higher Education Pedagogy Conference at Vir-ginia Tech on Febru-ary 16-17.

cademic Affairs February 17, 2017 / Volume 15, Issue 6 SOMETHING MORE……………. P2

THE BROWN LADY……………. P2 PONDERINGS…………………... P2

Seok Yoon

Attended the South-east Chapter of American College of Sport Medicine in Greenville, South Carolina, on Febru-ary 16-18.

Faculty Advisor of the Year

Finalists Announced The Chowan University Faculty Advisor of the Year Award is given each year to recognize excellence in academic advising. All students, faculty, and staff were invited to nominate an academic advisor. The finalists for the 2016-2017 Faculty Advisor of the Year Award are: James Hammond,

Assistant Professor of Physical Education

Heather McGuire, Professor of Biology

Edward Snyder, Assistant Pro-fessor of History

Thomas Whitaker, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Jayne Wolfskill, Assistant Pro-fessor of Education

The Right Hand of History

In May 2017, the Department of History says goodbye to its student worker since August 2013. Quanteria Wilson is gradu-ating with a Bachelor of Science in His-tory. For the history faculty, it has been a priv-ilege to watch Quanteria grow from a wide-eyed freshman to a leader in the history program. Known for her clothes emblazoned with images of Marilyn Monroe, she has been and is a dynamo, a leader, and a force in the department.

During her tenure as a history major, Quanteria has served as President of the History Club and Chowan’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, which is the national honor society in history. Quanteria is also a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society and the Honors College. Despite all of this, Quanteria will be re-membered by the history faculty for her astounding ability to cope with tragedy. Her faithful service to the department, her leadership roles, and her academic success occurred despite experiencing the loss of her mother at the end of her sophomore year. She will be missed, but the faculty know that they will be impressed with all of her new accomplishments in the next phase of her life.

Selection is based on the following criteria:

availability to advisees; approachability; monitoring of student; progress toward academic and

career goals; knowledge of institutional reg-

ulations, policies; and proce-dures; and

ability to make appropriate re-ferrals.

Past recipients of the award include: Jayne Wolfskill, Assistant Pro-

fessor of Education (2009) Shannon Williams, Associate

Professor of Accounting (2010) Gladys DeJesus, Distinguished

Professor of Economics (2011) Jennifer Place, Associate Pro-

fessor of Psychology (2012) John Dilustro, Professor of Biol-

ogy (2013) Carolyn Modlin, Professor of

Education (2014) Tom Collins, Professor of Sport

Management (2015) Patsy Taylor, Associate Profes-

sor of Marketing (2016) The winner of the award will be announced during the Awards Day Convocation on Wednesday, April 19 at 11:00 a.m. in Turner Auditori-um.

I never set out to be a university adminis-

trator. As a professor of history from the

Department of Social Sciences, I rose to

become the chief academic officer on Jan-

uary 1, 2003.

During my fourteen years in the position,

many myths about me have circulated—

from wrestling Charlotte, who was as

fierce as an alligator, down the front steps

of the Columns, to hiring Victoria’s Se-cret models to spy on professors.

Now, there is always a kernel of truth in

any myth. I did fire a woman name Char-

lotte and a faculty member did tell a po-

lice officer I was sending Victoria’s Se-

cret models to his house.

Currently, the myths about me are in

abundance. Here are a few I have heard

this year.

Academic Events

Something More

The Brown Lady Magazine Accepting Submissions

“Danny Moore

can fly”

Would you like to see your name in

print?

The Brown Lady, Chowan Universi-

ty’s award-winning creative and aca-

demic magazine, wants to showcase

the best work of Chowan students!

The magazine welcomes a wide va-

riety of work: poems, short stories,

short works of creative nonfiction,

Ponderings

Jell-O is the true twentieth-century American food. Though

it was in-vented in 1897, four years be-fore the twentieth century began, in look and feel and conven-ience, it was way ahead of

its time. As such it was a model for all the bland, sweet, cheap convenient foods we eat now. The originals flavors were strawberry, raspberry, orange, and lemon. 1906

Cherry and chocolate join the original flavors. Cherry is still with us. Chocolate lasts twenty-one years.

1918 Coffee-flavored Jell-O is intro-duced and sold briefly in certain markets.

1956

Johnny Carson, Lucille Ball, and Roy Rogers help introduce three new “deep, dark, deli-cious flavors”: black cherry, grape, and black raspberry.

“He teaches his history students that eve-

rything they have ever learned about his-

tory in his class is a lie.”

I can explain, but it would take a semester

of lectures to for you to understand the

method to my madness. For example, no

one got last week’s Ponderings (or no one

read it).

“Dr. Moore doesn’t like George.”

Who is George?

“He really likes Donald Trump.”

That is just not true!

“Chowan pays for his Lincoln.”

Yeah, right.

“Dr. Moore is only 35-years old.”

Okay.

“Danny Moore calls public safety when

someone parks in his spot.”

Brittany, quit blaming me for your ticket.

I didn’t know it was your car.

“Danny Moore cheats on his wife.”

Yes. My mistress is Chowan. NOTE:

NOT MISS CHOWAN.

“Dr. Moore runs hurdles in his free time.”

First, I don’t have free time. Second, but

if I did, I could.

“Dr. Moore cheats so the History Depart-

ment can always win the academic bowl

tournament.”

C’mon, man!

“Trevor Marshall is Dr. Moore’s son.”

No, but Crystal Sarnor is my son, and

Sean Timmons’ political commentary is

what I would sound like if I was more

grown up about it. Sorry, Trevor.

“Danny Moore rigs the Brown Lady Aca-

demic Bowl.”

Again?

“Dr. Moore is a closet Libertarian.”

That’s just stupid!

“Dr. Moore patrols Yik

Yak.”

That’s not a myth.

“Dr. Moore listens to Fet-

ty Wap on the way to

work.”

Who?

“Dr. Moore controls

weather.”

I did push Hurricane Matthew away and

once I melted newly fallen snow over-

night.

“Danny Moore stole all of the Donald

Trump signs in Murfreesboro.”

Trump did tweet that there were millions

of Trump signs in Murfreesboro, but

some loser took them. For the record, I

am not a loser.

“Dr. Moore rigs the academic bowl.”

Alright, folks, this is fake news!

“Dr. Moore is an ageless

man who feeds on the

misery of freshmen and

seniors.”

What?

“If Jesus announced his

Second Coming, Dr.

Moore still wouldn’t can-

cel class.”

Not a myth.

“Dr. Moore used to have long flowing

hair.”

No, but I use to have an asymmetrical

haircut.

“Danny Moore can fly.”

This was actually said in Cuba, attesting

to my international fame. You should

heard what they were saying Palestine in

December.

Wednesday

February 22

Chowan University Student

Research Conference Appli-

cation Deadline

Thursday

February 23

The Brothers Muldowney

Exhibition Opening, 5-7 pm

(Green Hall)

Sunday

February 26 President’s List and Dean’s List Dinner, 6 pm (Thomas Dining Hall)

Wednesday

March 1

Graduation Application

Deadline

Friday

March 3 Mid-term Grades Due at 12 noon Spring Break Begins at Conclusion of Classes

Monday

March 13 Classes Resume, 8 am

of the

Provost

short plays, academic essays, art of

all types, music (digital recordings),

and even short films.

The deadline for submission to ap-

pear in the next issue is April 15.

Submit your work at

www.chowan.edu/BrownLady.

The story aired on SciTech Now North Carolina on Thursday, February 9.

The

Correctional Prison’s Enter-

prises Print Plant near

Rocky Mounty. The plant

“employs” 130 inmates and

thirty-five full-time staff.

Flexography Workshop Julie Williams, a 1994

Chowan graduate in graph-

ic communications, is the

assistant plant manager.

Tom Brennan, Chair of the

Department of Communica-

tion Arts, led a workshop on

flexography for thirty in-

mates at the Nash County

has been sighted on the 93rd floor. That someone might be Jesse Presley, the stillborn twin of Elv-is, and we’re in for a wildly un-hinged ride through America past, present, and future.”

Shadowbahn by Steve Er-ickson “Crowds flock to the Badlands of South Dakota when the Twin Towers inexplicably reappear there 20 years after their fall, and it’s soon rumored that someone

Novels of the Week The Young Widower’s Hand-book by Tom McAllister “Awkward and underachieving if

charmingly funny, Hunter Cady is

overjoyed when the great, gor-

geous Kait agrees to marry him.”

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL NEWS

OVERHEARD “You are always calling out people in

your ‘Overheard’ in the newsletter. That’s

just wrong.”

— Katrina Hodge