Olivia DrakePamela Tatge, director of the Center for the Arts, announces the lineup for the '05-06 CFA season during a presentation May 4. Posted 05/23/05 An American brass quintet, ballet, African rhythms and Bulgarian bebop are all in the mix for the upcoming year at Wesleyan. During the Center for the Arts season announcement on May 4, CFA Director Pamela Tatge introduced the 2005-06 season events. The season opens with Middletown Dances! on September 10. In Collaboration with the City of Middletown and community groups, the CFA is planning a citywide dance festival. The event will culminate in a community…
Pictured in center, Migdalia Pinkney, administrative assistant for the Center for Community Partnerships and Lisa Currie, director of Health Education, congratulate Gabrielle Tynes-Labonte 06 (left) and Vladrose Petit-Frere 05 during the Academic Awards, Prizes and Scholarships program May 3. The students both received the Mosaic Award, given to four students who have brought about cultural awareness and education on race, ethnicity, culture or sexual orientation. Posted 05/23/05 More than 240 Wesleyan students received accolades and formal recognition during the 2005 Academic Awards, Prizes and Scholarships program May 3 in the Russell House. These are honor students who represent the…
Georgie Leone, administrative assistant for the Center for African American Studies, has worked at Wesleyan for 41 years in four departments. She started here at the age of 18. Posted 05/23/.05 Q: So, youre one of those rarities. A: Yes. I am originally from Middletown. We were referred to by the Wesleyan boys as townies way back when. I was born right here at the Middlesex Hospital. My maiden name is Lockhart and I am the oldest child of three children -- the only girl and two brothers. One brother has passed on, but I have a baby brother…
Suzy Taraba, head of Special Collections & Archives and university archivist, searches for a 15th century book housed in the Davison Rare Book Room. George W. Davison donated Olin Memorial Librarys oldest printed books. Posted 05/23/05 Q: You're the university archivist and head of Special Collections & Archives. What led you into this area? A: I was drawn to librarianship at an early age in part because my mothers two sisters are librarians. Later on, after thinking about various other careers, I realized that librarianship, especially special collections librarianship, was a natural outgrowth of my education as well as…
Krishna Winston, professor of German Studies, chair of the German Studies Department, and coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, holds her translation of Crabwalk by Nobel-Prize-winning author Günter Grass. Posted 05/23/05 In 1956, Richard and Clara Winston left their farm in Vermont to spend some time in Switzerland. Their two daughters, Krishna, 12, and Justina, 10, were enrolled in Swiss public school. They knew only a few words of German. There were little boys who brought their gym shoes to school in cloth bags, Krishna Winston recalls. As we were walking home, they would swing those bags by…
At left, Wesleyan Jewish Chaplain Rabbi David Leipziger and Muslim Chaplain Imam Abdulla Antepli try on traditional Turkmenistan hats in an Egyptian Bazaar. At right, Jessica Strom 07, Alana Miller 08 and Jeremy Gillick 07 observe the only mosque in Ankara, Turkey. Posted 05/02/05 What is life like in a secular Muslim nation, especially for Jews? This was the question that motivated 17 Wesleyan students 12 Jewish, 5 Muslim to go to Istanbul, Turkey, in March during spring break to see for themselves. The eight-day trip, which was envisioned and created by Wesleyans Muslim Chaplain Imam Abdullah…
Bill Holder, director of Publications, is the the editor of "Wesleyan" magazine. Q: Your history with Wesleyan goes back more than three decades. How did it start? A: My story with Wesleyan begins in 1971, when I came here as a freshman, graduating in 1975. I ended up working here most of my professional career here in the Office of University Communications, formerly the Office of Public Information. Q: As director of publications, what are you in charge of? A: Im the editor of Wesleyan" magazine. I plan content for the magazine, write, edit and oversee production, but really, the…
Mark Flory, assistant professor of molecular biology, studies genomic integrity in Hall-Atwater Laboratory. Mark Flory joined the Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Department as an assistant professor of molecular biology and biochemistry in January 2005. Flory, a native of Roanoke, Virginia, completed his bachelors of science degree at the University of Richmond majoring in biology and minoring in chemistry in 1994. He earned his Ph.D. at the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2001. His dissertation was titled, "Isolation and Characterization of Calmodulin-Binding Centrosome Components Related to Sacharomyces cerevisiae Spc110p from the Fission Yeast…
Leah Kelley, assistant dean of admission, looks through a student's file in the Office of Admission. Posted 05/02/05 Q: When did you come to Wesleyan? A: I came to Wesleyan as an assistant dean last fall after graduating from Yale in the spring. Q: What led you into working in an admission office? A: I have a bachelors of arts in psychology, but in college, I became very involved in college awareness and SAT prep outreach programs. The different programs that I worked with opened up my eyes to the complexity of admissions. After working with high school students…
Pamela Tatge is Director of the Center for the Arts and spearheaded the development of the Green Street Arts Center. Posted 05/02/05 When Pamela Tatge became the director of the Center for the Arts (CFA) six years ago, Wesleyan had a golden reputation in the arts. Unfortunately, not enough people in the community or on campus were taking notice. We were an undiscovered gem, Tatge recalls. I saw the richness in this institution and believed the resources should be shared with the community. Tatge would spend the first five years of her Wesleyan career raising the publics…
Above, Tula Telfair, professor of art, sits near her students' work inside her office in Art Studio South. At right, Telfair's oil on canvas, "Obscured to the Eye Apparent on the Map," measures 79 by 100 inches. Posted 05/02/05 Many people who see Tula Telfairs landscape painting titled To Make Space Distant, are confident the artist painted a place familiar to them. However, before she painted it, the grassy field, split by a pond highlighted in fire brush existed nowhere but in Telfairs mind. Its part of a world that the professor of art at Wesleyan creates from…
Kirk Davis Swinehart, assistant professor of history, specializes in early American history. (Photo by James Ward Swinehart, Jr.) Posted 05/02/05 Kirk Davis Swinehart, assistant professor of history, has been spending most of his time in the 18th century with an Irish knight and a Mohawk woman. Swineharts research and teaching focus on events from the period just before and leading up to the American Revolution. He has also done extensive research on the New World soldier-adventurer Sir William Johnson (171574) and his families, Irish and Mohawk, both of which fought for Britain during the American Revolution. Funded by an…