Celebrating the Accomplishmentsof our Fulton Family

When we were little,time seemed to passslowly, except

during summer vacation.Reach a certain age,however, and time seems tofly by – or is that just whenwe are having fun? For meit’s hard to believe we’reclosing in on the end ofanother academic year andanother commencementceremony, when wecongratulate hundreds of ourstudents as they, perhaps alittle nervously, face whatcomes next. Every year, wehave a few great stories ofpeople who have made thisjourney with us in a “non-traditional” way, butin most cases, we have been the muses, guidesand mentors as our students take on thechallenges of adulthood: as individuals, ascitizens, as professionals.

Every spring, at our Appreciation Daygathering, we celebrate the contributions of allthe people who work to make the FultonSchool experience the best it can be for ourstudents. As part of that celebration werecognize a few individuals for distinctiveaccomplishments as teachers, mentors,scholars, chairs, staff and colleagues. Theaward categories underscore the values andqualities we consider to be most important.

We also recognize accomplishments throughpublicity, such as The Exchange you are nowreading. Over the years, we have steadilyproduced four issues a year, full of great news.I’m very grateful to Dr. Jennifer Cox for theterrific work she’s done this year as our neweditor, filling the “big shoes” of our formereditor Dr. Jody Morrison, who over the yearsmade this publication what it is today. As weworked on the Middle State reaccreditationreport this year, we found that The Exchange wasa very useful and reliable source of information.

Before the end of the semester, weappreciate and celebrate the accomplishmentsof our students and faculty with a lot of year-end performances and shows across the visualand performing arts. This issue comes out inthe midst of our Spring Music Festival, whichculminates in a very special performance ofthe Salisbury Symphony Orchestra, conductedby Dr. Jeffrey Schoyen and featuring soloist,SU alumna and actress-singer Jennifer HopeWills, who has had a very successful career sofar performing on Broadway and across the

country to great acclaim.Much about her return tocampus is exciting, but Ithink in particular of theinspiration she is to so manyof our current students whoare working hard to developtheir talents as actors and musicians.

It’s becoming morecommon, but no lessthrilling, to hear about ourstudents’ successes. EmilyLembo was in South Koreathis year on a Fulbrightscholarship after graduatingwith an English ESOLmajor last spring. Our vocalperformance students

reached unprecedented heights at NATS(National Association of Teachers of Singing)competitions this year – and it’s not over yetfor two of them, John Wixted and MeredithJones. Mayra Melendez, a political sciencemajor graduating in May, has won a FirstGenFellowship to do an internship at the NationalImmigration Law Center this summer. And inphilosophy, Grace Clement mentored a groupof six students from the Fulton and Hensonschools to a top four finish at the Ethics Bowlregional competition on Connecticut, fromwhich they went on to the nationalcompetition in California.

Our students achieve these distinctions withthe support of an outstanding faculty, andwhile I would stress that we promote a cultureof academic rigor and conscientiousmentoring across the board, that excellenceshows up in distinctive ways also, such as ElsieWalker’s new book on film soundtrackspublished by Oxford University Press or DeanKotlowski’s recent Fulbright award to spendnext spring in Austria (his second Fulbright), asuccess that follows hard on the heels of theappearance of his own major book this year.

Inside this edition you’ll see much moreevidence of the great things we haveaccomplished in the Fulton School this spring.We’ve had a great year, in which among otherthings we celebrated the 25th anniversary ofthe endowment Charles and Martha Fulton sogenerously made back in 1989. Theirgenerosity has nourished that margin ofexcellence evident in so much of what we doto sustain a rich liberal arts environment atSalisbury University. Whatever yourrelationship to the Fulton School, thanks foryour interest in and support for what we do!

www.salisbury.edu/fulton

Charles R. & Martha N. Fulton School of Liberal Arts SUMMER 2015

Visit Us On the Webn Salisbury University Home Pagewww.salisbury.edu

n Fulton School of Liberal Artswww.salisbury.edu/Fulton

n Advisingwww.salisbury.edu/Advising

n Department of Artwww.salisbury.edu/Art

n Department of Communication Artswww.salisbury.edu/Commarts

n Department of Conflict Analysis and DisputeResolutionwww.salisbury.edu/CADR

n Department of Englishwww.salisbury.edu/English

n Department of Environmental Studieswww.salisbury.edu/EnvironmentalStudies

n Department of Historywww.salisbury.edu/History

n Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studieswww.salisbury.edu/ModLang

n Department of Musicwww.salisbury.edu/MusicDept

n Department of Philosophywww.salisbury.edu/Philosophy

n Department of Political Sciencewww.salisbury.edu/PoliticalScience

n Department of Psychologywww.salisbury.edu/Psychology

n Department of Sociologywww.salisbury.edu/Sociology

n Department of Theatre and Dancewww.salisbury.edu/TheatreandDance

The Exchange is published twice a semester.

EXCHANGEThe

Fulton School DeanDr. Maarten Pereboom

By Dr. Maarten Pereboom, Dean, Fulton School of Liberal Arts

2 The Exchange

Student Art on Display Through Mid-MayBy Elizabeth Kauffman

This semester’s Semi Annual Senior Exhibition includes close to50 graduating art students, one of the largest groups in recentyears. Students from the fine arts tracks of painting, drawing,

photography, sculpture, new media, hot glass and ceramics and thegraphic design track present the culminating work they’ve producedhere at SU.

In semesters past, the exhibition is typically in two parts: one for thefine arts students and another for the graphic designers, given thatthese two groups often present different types of objects. However, thissemester, with the unusually high number of students, the exhibitionhad to be split into three parts to allow enough space for each student.

The senior exhibitions are known for the variety of work on display,and this semester the students chose to highlight that variety with theirshow’s theme. Dimensions is the exhibition’s title, and it refers to themultidimensional group of students brought together with this capstoneexperience and the multifaceted works they present with an array offorms, techniques and subject matter.

This show is the result of a course lead by Professor and Painting AreaHead Jinchul Kim, and while he provides structure and accountability tothe process, the students are thoroughly involved and lead the decision-making, such as where each student is placed in the gallery and what thetheme and title will be.

The process of creating this exhibition is truly collaborative, and thesuccess of the show is therefore the result of both Professor Kim’s smartleadership of the group and their cooperative process and the seniors’ability and willingness to step up to the challenge.

As of mid-April, part one of the show was on view, and manyfaculty and visitors have commented on the strength of this semester’sversion. One faculty went so far as to say it was the best senior showthey had ever seen.

The participating students as well are happy with the results of theirhard work. While the three-part exhibition makes for challenges andchanges from past years, it seems the quality of the show has not sufferedas a result.

2015 Semi-Annual Senior ExhibitionFine Arts Part 1: April 13-18Fine Arts part 2: April 27-May 2Graphic Design: May 11-16

The Exchange 3

SU Students Experience the World through Washington Internships By Darrell Newton

About two hours from Salisbury is anotherworld; a world of global opportunities, socialresponsibility and a lot of fun – and I don’tmean the Jersey Shore.

SU recently has entered into a partnershipwith The Washington Center in D.C. Thisworld-class learning institute allows studentsfrom SU and other universities to partake inopportunities that develop leadership abilities, civic engagement and service to their communities.

Classes focus on specific topics such asnonprofit leadership and management, nationaland world affairs, branches of government, thepeace process, essentials for aspiring leaders, andother contemporary issues. Evening courses alsoare offered, as are housing and a full range ofstudent services. Students also have opportunitiesto visit a variety of locations around the citysuch as the Capitol, CNN’s D.C. offices, foreignembassies, Congress and many others.

Besides a range of exciting courses andseminars, semester-long internships are available

in government, corporate and nonprofitorganizations. Participating groups include theKennedy Center for the Performing Arts, theSave the Children Foundation, the Library ofCongress, U.S. Department of the Interior, theGlobal America Business Institute, InternationalTrade Administration, Voice of America, CBSNews, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S.Senate and more.

Each opportunity is tailored to providemeaningful work experiences that enhance astudent’s resume and prepare them for acompetitive job market. Students also gain “realworld” experience while learning how to committo the improvement of society and our globalvillage. These opportunities include learningday-to-day procedures in a professional settingand undertaking projects that specialize in theservice of others and their needs.

Classes at The Washington Center can betaken by nearly any major. That means studentscan draw from previous classes in politicalscience, conflict analysis and dispute resolution,

communication arts, sociology, philosophy,history, and others. Students also are given anopportunity to choose from internships offeredat the Center.

The courses are worth four credits, and theinternship is worth eight hard-earned credits.Both the course and the internship are takenduring the same semester for a total of 12 creditsand become part of students’ records here atSalisbury University.

Those interested in attending TheWashington Center must be accepted into theprogram through me, an SU internshipcoordinator and Sara Biggs, senior director forAdmissions and Institutional Relations for theWashington Center’s Internships andAcademic Seminars.

For a list of internship coordinators who canhelp you, please visit the Career Services page ofthe SU website and scroll down to find thecontact for your major. You can also check withyour academic advisor or seewww.twc.edu/rfi/students.

Theatre and Dance Department’s SpringProduction, Drood By Judith Dressel

Winner of five Tony Awards, includingbest musical, Drood is based on CharlesDickens’ unfinished novel

The Mystery of Edwin Drood. SU’s Theatre andDance Department production opened on April9 in the Black Box Theatre for eightperformances to sell-out audiences.

The play’s conclusion is left to the audience,which votes at each performance’s end because itwas unfinished at Dickens’ death.

Directed by Dr. T. Paul Pfeiffer, 19 SU studentsmade up the cast, singing and dancing on theproscenium stage’s set of London’s Music HallRoyale, while the live orchestra of 12 was led by

Music Department chair, Maestro William Folger,in the pit below.

Period costuming designed by Dr. LeslieYarmo required constructing new costumes,rentals and restoration of costumes madeavailable to nonprofit theatres by theMetropolitan Opera and other New York houses.John Raley designed the music hall sets, TomAnderson designed the lighting, and MarthaPfeiffer provided the cast’s choreography.

Salisbury University’s 2014-15 Adventures inIdeas: Humanities Seminars series concluded witha lecture on “Dickens and Drood” on April 12 byDr. Tony Whall, professor emeritus of English

and former director of the Thomas E. BellavanceHonors Program. Seminar participants, many ofwhom are SU alumni, then attended the matineeand a post-performance discussion led by Pfeiffer.

The Humanities Seminars, sponsored by theWhaley Family Foundation since 2007, offerengaging and innovative public seminars andlectures on a variety of topics and themesthroughout the year, for alumni, students and ourcommunity. The programs draw upon thehumanities to nurture a deeper understanding ofhistory and culture, enrich the life of the mind,and contribute to the development of a morehumane world.

Worldwide Climate Change Issue Addressedat SU Lecture Series By Jessica Crew

Michael Lewis, chair of theEnvironmental Studies Department,revealed that there are many unknown

truths about climate change at theEnvironmental Lecture Series “ChangingClimate, Changing World” on Monday, April 6.

The Fulton Sustainability Committee, run byFulton School faculty members, offers theEnvironmental Lecture Series as aninterdisciplinary studies course. The series givesstudents, faculty and the public the opportunityto gain more knowledge and awareness about

the issue of climate change as they listen to awide range of perspectives.

Lewis said different faculty members speakabout the complex, multifaceted topic of climatechange from the perspective of their disciplineevery Monday during the semester.

He said each lecture can stand alone, but ifpeople come to more of them, they will have aneven richer understanding of the subject.

Lewis engaged his audience using facts,examples and his background as a historian todisplay his ideas and opinions about such an

important issue. His presentation included theimpacts of climate change on humans and therelationship between social and natural disasters.

Patrick Clark, an environmental studies majorat SU, learns about environment issues every dayand feels that the information is important forpeople to become aware of their actions.

“What I like about these lectures is that theyare a quick and interesting way to learn the truthabout climate change in a way that anyone canunderstand,” Clark said. “The fact that theseseminars are open to the public is great.”

4 The Exchange

History Student Exhibits Weave the Stories of Women’s Lives By Kara French

Iam happy to report back that this year’sWomen’s History Month celebration, titled“Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives,”

was a resounding success. This year’s calendar included two guest

speakers, two documentary films, a paneldiscussion, a film festival, as well as student-curated exhibits at the Nabb Center andBlackwell Library.

One of the highlights for me as both ahistorian and co-chair of the Women’s HistoryMonth Committee was the opportunity to workwith history graduate students to design museumexhibits for our celebration.

Four students proposed exhibits as their finalassignment for my U.S. Gender History graduateseminar in fall 2014. They drew inspiration fromthe collections of artifacts and archives housed atthe Nabb Research Center for Delmarva Historyand Culture, and their exhibits were based ontheir own original research.

Students worked together with Nabb Centerstaff to bring their vision to life as part of theNabb’s Women’s History Exhibit, on displaythrough the end of spring semester. Their work– which explores topics as varied as the life ofConfederate spy Clara Gunby to the “SecretSexual Revolution at Salisbury University”during the 1960s and 70s – can be viewed alongwith artifacts from the Nabb’s collectioncelebrating the lives of inspirational womenfrom around Delmarva.

For the students, these exhibits were not only anopportunity to flex their research muscles, theyalso were infused with personal meaning. JulieMessick chose to focus her exhibit on “Women onthe Eastern Shore during WWII” and was able toincorporate uniforms and artifacts from familymembers into her display.

“I really enjoyed being able to work on anexhibit that featured a topic I was interested in,”Messick said.

“I believe that history should berepresentative of who we are,” said ArturaJackson, a history graduate student whodesigned a display on civil rights leader GloriaRichardson. “This exhibit became more thanjust a class assignment for me it became missionto acknowledge the work of a forgotten leader.One of greatest moments of my life wasmeeting Gloria Richardson and sharing with herphotos of my exhibit.”

For many of us, Women’s History Monthrepresents a chance to re-examine who isremembered and who is forgotten in history.

“By celebrating the history of women, we areattempting to amend a gap in the scholarshipwhich women fill,” history M.A. student HallieKroll said. “We are the other half of thepopulation. Why haven’t we been studied until now?”

It is a question well worth asking, not onlyduring Women’s History Month, but all yearround in our classrooms and communities.

Society of Professional Journalists Travel to College Park By Jennifer Cox

Salisbury University’s Society ofProfessional Journalists (SPJ) chapter ishaving an amazing semester, featuring

several great programs and workshops. The group journeyed to the SPJ regional

conference in College Park in April. We had11 students – reportedly the largest studentcontingent in the region! The students had agreat experience, and they returned fired upand with lots of contacts.

SPJ has also hosted several workshops thissemester, including a photojournalism eventwith Daily Times photographer Joe Lamberti.We also hosted WBOC reporter MikeaTurner, who spoke about how to get started inthe media field.

Several members also joined the MarylandProfessional SPJ chapter on March 4 inAnnapolis to learn about using social mediain journalism.

The group elected six new executive boardmembers, who will continue the greatprogress we have made this year. We lookforward to hosting many more events andgrowing our membership even more in thecoming year.

The Exchange 5

Student Wins Two Prestigious ImmigrationPolicy Fellowships By Tim Dunn

Mayra Melendez, graduating doublemajor in international studies andconflict analysis and dispute resolution,

Honors Program student and immigrant studentactivist, has been awarded two prestigiousfellowships with immigration policyorganizations: the First Generation Civil RightsFellowship and the Immigrant Justice CorpsFellowship.

She is one of seven FirstGen fellows thissummer and will intern with the NationalImmigration Law Center in Washington, D.C. forthe FirstGen Civil Rights Fellowship. According tothe organization’s website: “FirstGEN is a 10-week summer program for undergraduatestudents who are the first in their immediatefamilies to attend an institution of highereducation and who are passionate about pursuingcareers in social justice.”

It is a joint program begun in 2012 sponsoredby the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil RightsUnder Law, the National Immigration LawCenter, the Catholic Legal Immigration Networkand Asian Americans Advancing Justice. Thisfellowship will be focused on immigration policyand was first recommended to Mayra a year agoby longtime SU stalwart Liz Bellevance (nowdeceased, formerly a Career Services counselorand spouse of longtime former SU president TomBellavance) who had worked closely with her onimmigration policy activism.

This fall, Mayra will start a fully paid two-yearCommunity Fellowship with the Immigrant JusticeCorps in New York City; she is one of 10 fellowschosen for 2015 from a pool of some 200applicants.

“I was so happy when I heard from IJC [aboutbeing awarded the fellowship],” Mayra recentlysaid. “I first heard about IJC about a year ago,looked over the fellowship description and thought‘This is perfect for me. This is exactly what I wantto do.’

“The fellowship and its mission was alsosomething I could personally relate to – IJCprovides legal access and representation forimmigrants – in doing so, helping them avoid thecircumstances that fell upon me and my family.”

The IJC “is the country’s first fellowshipprogram dedicated to meeting the need for high-quality legal assistance for immigrants seekingcitizenship and fighting deportation,” according tothe organization’s website. The IJC was created in2013 by Hon. Robert Katzmann, chief judge ofthe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,the New York City Mayor’s Office of ImmigrantAffairs, the Cardozo School of Law, the RobinHood Foundation and Equal Justice Works, inresponse to a crisis of inadequate legalrepresentation for low-income immigrants(typically ineligible for public defenders).

This internship has a strong focus on outreachand organizing in under-served immigrantcommunities to provide high-quality services forimmigration relief, such preventing deportationsand applying for resident visas (especially ifPresident Obama’s November 2014 program toexpand temporary protection from deportation tosome 5 million undocumented immigrants withU.S. citizen or legal resident family memberssurvives a court challenge and is implemented).

Mayra’s two fellowships fit her background andextensive previous activism perfectly. She is aPeruvian immigrant raised in the U.S. and“dreamer” (the name for often high-achieving,striving undocumented immigrant students) whoobtained temporary legal status on PresidentObama’s 2012 program (Deferred Action forChildhood Arrivals [DACA]).

She has long been active in immigration policyissues, including working very hard for the passageof the Maryland Dream Act in 2012 (allowingundocumented immigrant students graduatingfrom Maryland high Schools to attend college forin-state tuition). She and fellow activists, many SUstudents, knocked on over 3,000 doors in

Wicomico County, helping the measure pass hereand statewide.

Her immigration policy activism evolved as shestrove to attend college after graduating from alocal high school and found numerous obstacles asan undocumented immigrant (including having topay out-of-state tuition). She persevered and hascounseled and helped numerous other immigrantstudents as well. She became more involved inpolicy at the urging of the recently deceased,long-time SU key community member and fellowimmigration policy activist Bellavance, whointroduced her to the Maryland Dream Actcampaign and statewide immigrant advocacyorganizations such as CASA of Maryland.

Also, in fall 2013, she was an intern with thelocal office of Migrant Clinicians Network, anational immigrant health justice organization.Most recently, this past March, Mayra and fellowdreamer and SU student Veronica Martinez-Vargas organized an “Undocumented Sea Gulls”forum for the SU community and area highschool students, on how immigrant students(undocumented and otherwise) can attend collegeand SU specifically, which they organized withVaughan White and the staff with MulticulturalStudent Services.

Mayra has worked very hard to succeed inschool while working and being very active onimmigration issues, all while navigating the stressand obstacles of life as an undocumentedimmigrant. She aimed high with her ambitionsand went on to apply for a number of verycompetitive post-graduation fellowships andscholarships, and to win two of those.

She is a model of many of the best qualities westrive to teach and encourage in our students. Ithas been my pleasure to counsel and listen to herfor several years as she sought me out as animmigration scholar and to currently have her asa student in my Sociology of Immigration class.Congratulations, Mayra!

A Broadway Star Comes Home By Tammy Kilgore

Jennifer Hope Wills joins the stage for “ABroadway Star Comes Home: Songs fromStage and Screen” on May 9 with the

Salisbury Symphony Orchestra (SSO) at SU. For nearly four years, Wills delighted many

audiences on Broadway as Christine in ThePhantom of the Opera. Her other Broadway creditsinclude Eileen in the revival of Wonderful Town(opposite Brooke Shields), The Woman in Whiteand Beauty and the Beast.

Nationally, Jennifer has held lead roles in TheMusic Man, The Sound of Music, Aspects of Love,Showboat, My Fair Lady and most recently Camelot.

A Salisbury-area native, she grew upperforming with her family’s theatre, ParkerProductions in Ocean City, and later for theCommunity Players of Salisbury and SU’sTheatre Program.

Wills holds a Master of Music from IndianaUniversity and earned her undergraduate musicdegree from Salisbury University.

The SSO, under the direction of Dr. JeffreySchoyen, offers musical selections from The King’sSpeech, Raiders of a Lost Ark, An American in Parisand Schindler’s List, among others. Wills, asoprano, performs selections from The Sound of

Music, Carousel, Guys and Dolls, and of course,Phantom of the Opera.

Tickets for the Saturday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.concert in Holloway Hall Auditorium can bepurchased at the Information Desk in theGuerrieri University Center or online atwww.salisburysymphonyorchestra.org. Admissionis $25 for adults, $20 for seniors (+60) or $5 fornon-SU students. SU students may receive onefree ticket with ID. For more information call410-543-8366.

Kudos to Wright Studio voice majors whoadvanced in six categories to theNational Association of Teachers of

Singing (NATS) mid-Atlantic regional auditionsfollowing wins at the MD-DC state auditionsheld at Morgan State University on March 7.

Tyler Brunner of Finksburg, MD, took firstplace in junior/senior men’s musical theatre; JohnWixted of Ronkonkoma, NY, took first place infreshman/sophomore men’s musical theatre andfirst place in sophomore men’s classical music;Meredith Jones of Salisbury took first place injunior/senior women's musical theatre and honorsin senior women's classical music; and DesireeBorges of La Plata, MD, received honors infreshman women’s classical music.

Each of them received an average score of 50 or better out of a possible 60 points and were

judged on tone quality, vocal technique, bodyalignment/freedom, artistry, musicianship andeffectiveness of communication.

At the mid-Atlantic regional auditions heldMarch 28 at College Park, John Wixted wonsecond place in sophomore men’s musical theatre,and Meredith Jones made history giving SU itsfirst-ever first place award at the regional level,winning the junior/senior women’s musical

theatre category. John and Meredith competedwith winners from colleges and universities inMaryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, NorthCarolina and South Carolina and are eligible tocompete for NATS nationals.

All the students were accompanied by SU staffcollaborative pianist Veronica Knier.

(From left) Veronica Knier, Meredith Jones, John Wesley Wright andJohn Wixted.

6 The Exchange

Fulton School Hosts Charlie Hebdo Panel By Creston Long

In early January 2015, two gunmen attackedthe Paris headquarters of French satiricalmagazine Charlie Hebdo. By the end of the

massacre, 12 people were dead, including themagazine’s editor and several staff cartoonists.

The primary motivation for the attack centeredon revenge for the magazine’s publication ofcartoon images of the Prophet Muhammad. Theattack made it clear that images can have apowerful effect on viewers.

On Wednesday, May 6, at 7 p.m., a panel offaculty from several Fulton School disciplines willconvene at the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art todiscuss the complicated dimensions of the CharlieHebdo attack and the power of political cartoons.

The title of the event is “Graphic Power:Perspectives on the Influence of Political Cartoons

in the Age of Charlie Hebdo.” The panel includesTodd Becker of Conflict Analysis and DisputeResolution, Jennifer Cox of Communication Arts,Tom Goyens of History, and Tim Stock ofPhilosophy. The panelists will speak on topicsranging from conditions in contemporary Europe,humor and religion to freedom of the press andthe influence of historical cartoon images.

The event takes place in the main lobby of theWard Museum. The backdrop for the discussionis an exhibit featuring the political cartoons of JayN. “Ding” Darling, an early-to-mid-20th-centuryPulitzer-Prize winning artist who turned hisattention to conservation starting in the 1920s.

The event is co-sponsored by the Institute forPublic Affairs and Civic Engagement (PACE) andthe Ward Museum.

FultonAppreciation

Day

Thursday, May 7, 2015 Fulton Lawn

3:30-5 p.m

(Rain Location: Fulton Gallery Lobby)

SU’s Award-Winning Vocalists By John Wesley Wright

(From left) Veronica Knier, John Wixted and Meredith Jones.

The Exchange 7

SU’s Philosophy Symposium 35 Years StrongBy Judith Dressel

The Fulton School of Liberal Arts’Philosophy Department presented its35th annual symposium on April 11 to a

crowd of nearly 100 alumni, students, facultyand community members.

This year’s topic, “What’s On Your Plate?Food, Politics and Identity,” appealed to a wideaudience. Speakers Chad Lavin, Ph.D.,

professor of political science at VirginiaPolytechnic Institute, and Lisa Heldke, Ph.D.,professor of philosophy at Gustavus AdolphusCollege, provided “food for thought” along withhumorous observations on the universal topicsof farming and cooking, meat andvegetarianism, diet and obesity.

The symposium is sponsored by the FultonSchool of Liberal Arts, making it free and open tothe public, and by additional donations fromphilosophy alumni and other dedicatedsupporters.

Art Professors Present their Work in AnnapolisBy Jennifer Liston

Art Department facultyBrooke Rogers, ElizabethKauffman and John

Mosher shared a session at thenational Foundations in ArtTheory and Education (FATE)conference in Indianapolis inMarch.

The panel, “Designer Artists:Fusion Foundations for DesignSavvy Students,” exploredapproaches to the art-design hybridfoundations curriculum bypresenting SU Art Department’sinnovative approaches as a casestudy. The panel addressed the issueof how to best teach foundationscourses, such as Design Principlesand Drawing I, to students in anArt Department that has an equalnumber of graphic design and fineart majors, as at SU.

Whereas many universities offerseparate sections of foundationscourses like Design Principles forgraphic design majors and fine artmajors, the Art Department at SUkeeps these students together.

“Good designers have a strongfine arts background, and good fineartists are conversant in digitaltechnology,” said Brooke Rogers,professor and Art Department chair.

Their papers presented thevarious ways innovation isaddressed in SU art foundationscourses. Rogers’ paper detailedthe methodology and practice of ART 299Sophomore Seminar, created in 2010 as a wayto better integrate students from all eighttracks of the B.A. and B.F.A. art major at anearlier point in their careers.

The course strives to create a greater sense ofcommunity among the students, while introducingthem to issues in contemporary art and askingthem to create a studio reaction piece as acapstone project. The course is also part of thecampus wide retention effort of the SophomoreYear Experience (SYE), focused on meeting theneeds of students the year they are likely todeclare their majors. As such, the course is a mid-

career touchstone, which makes explicit the effectsof students’ foundations training.

Assistant Professor and Gallery DirectorElizabeth Kauffman’s paper emphasized theimportance of a content-centered approach in artand design foundations courses by highlightingmethods used in her own classes to lead studentfrom the “idea” stage of the creation process tothe material form of a project.

Drawing from “The Four Levels of Learning”by William Perry and psychologists at WellesleyCollege, Kauffman is interested in encouragingstudents to be more self-reflective, to challengeexisting belief structures in the classroom and to

engage a higher level of research. Sheshared successes and challenges ofthis approach experienced in herclasses, especially by having studentsassist in creating the syllabus andcourse assignments with the goal of“giving them permission to think.”

The Art Department’s newest hire,Assistant Professor John Mosher,presented his research from fiveinterviews he conducted of localfoundations professors, including SU’sAssistant Professor of New MediaDavid Gladden, on the use of digitalsoftware or social media in traditionalfoundations classes. He consideredthe ways in which the use oftechnology already familiar tostudents could serve as a collectiveexperience that can enhance theconcept of art making in afoundations course.

One of his interviewees utilizesInstagram as a critique tool, anotherused Google maps as a massive scale-drawing tool. He also highlightedGladden’s first day of class icebreaker in which students workedtogether to create a stop motionanimation using Dragonframesoftware, concluding that allowingstudents to engage in familiar socialplatforms and digital environmentscan integrate seamlessly withtraditional studio medium, such aspaint, pencils and paper.

Our professors’ participation in thenational conference was part of a renewed effortin the department to focus on foundations as thecore of the curriculum. The effect of thesecourses that combine students from bothbackgrounds is, according to John Mosher, astronger bond amongst students and increasedself-reflection.

All three professors similarly benefitted fromattending other FATE conference panels, whichbrought to light further innovation infoundations education and encouraged greaterself-reflection on future developments in the SUArt Department.

Departmental ReportsARTArt Lecturer Jess Cross Davis participatedin the Plein Air painting event Paint Snow Hillin April. Her works were exhibited in the WetPaint Show and Sale on April 19 at the OldFirehouse on Green Street in Snow Hill. Thisannual event is run through Bishop StockGallery and sponsored by Snow Hill Arts onthe River.

Assistant Professor of New Media DavidGladden and his wife and Galleries ManagerTara Gladden gave an audio/visualperformance at the Outpost Artists Resourcein New York City on May 2 as part of theRealtime Media (Audio Visual) Performancesseries called distENDed cinema: temporal flow in thewake of sound #1 2015.

In early April, Assistant Professor of Art HistoryVictoria Pass presented her paper “Elsa’sExhibitionist Mannequins” at the NationalPopular Culture Association/American CultureAssociation (PCA/ACA) Conference. This paperexamines the connections between the work offashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the artisticmovement of Surrealism in the 1930s. Thepaper argues that Schiaparelli’s display practicesin her Place Vendome shop and her shockingdisplay of an unclothed mannequin in thePavillon d’Elégance at the Exposition Internationale desArts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Parisinspired the use of mannequins by theSurrealists at their 1938 Exposition Internationale duSurréalisme. This year, Pass and Joy Sperling, aprofessor of art history at Denison Universityand a past president of PCA/ACA, co-chaired anew area at the conference: “Art and DesignCulture.” There were 15 presenters in the area,sharing works on diverse topics includinginstallation art, Disneyland, Beyoncé’s feminismand the history of staircases as spectacle. Passalso served as a committee member for the TothBook Award for the best single work in women’sstudies. The committee chose Warrior Women:Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Staras this year’s winner.

Surf Shop, a solo exhibition of new paintings byBrooke Rogers, will be on view at the OceanCity Center for the Arts from June 5-27.Brooke’s recent paintings combine simple wordpairs with the visual language of geometricabstraction. Two-word phrases like “surf shop”or compound words like “hometown” arelayered on top of pronounced patterns, colorsand textures. In some places the stacked-upgeometric grids harmonize with one another,in other places they conflict. The resultingtensions suggest a number of issues central togeometric painting: flat planes versus theillusion of space, representation versusabstraction, and synthetic versus organic formand color. Rogers grew up in Ocean City andmuch of the imagery in the show evokes hischildhood at the beach. The gallery is locatedon 94th Street in Ocean City and is openevery day from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

William Wolff ’s work was featured as part ofa two-person exhibition titled Familiarity of theImagined at the contemporary art space SpoolMFG. in Johnson City, NY. The exhibition ranfrom March 21 to April 25. His work also isincluded in two national juried shows. Twelvepieces from his series “Flock” were shown at theWashington Arts Center in Rockville, MD, aspart of Aviary” from March 6-26, and his work“Charge” was shown at the Downeast NationalSculpture Exhibition from March 6-28.

COMMUNICATION ARTSDavid Burns co-authored two chapters in thenewly published book Still Captive? History, Lawand the Teaching of High School Journalism. Burns’chapters included one on teaching 21st centuryjournalism and another analyzing data fromthe national survey to high school mediaadvisers. The book was a collaboration bymembers of the Society of ProfessionalJournalists Journalism Education Committee.

Jennifer Cox was nominated for the “Light ofLiteracy” award given by the Friends ofWicomico Public Libraries on April 9. Hernominator wrote that Cox encourages herstudents to “read everything and anything”and works hard to get her students involvedboth in the classroom and the community.

Chrys Egan received a $5,000 grant from theEngineering Information Foundation’s Womenin Engineering Grant as part of its programsto encourage middle school girls inengineering. Egan also coauthored a bookchapter with CMAT’s Andrew Sharma,“Hashtag TV advertising: The multistep flowof millennial television usage, advertisingcommercial viewing, and social mediainteraction,” which will appear in the bookCommunication Basics for Millennials – Essays onCommunication Theory and Culture.

In March, Haven Simmons joined a cadre ofelite instructors in FEMA’s burgeoning NationalEmergency Management Advanced Academytraining government, non-profit and private

8 The Exchange

Red, 11 by 14 in, Oil on Canvas, 2015

From the “Flock” series (Cherry, copper leaf, oak, about 36”x24”x24”)

Gallery view from “Familiarity of the Imagined,” including O Ye(Camphor, copper leaf, about 10’x6’x6’) Organ (Japanese maple, oak,copper, about 6’x4’x10’) and other works.

The Exchange 9

sector emergency management directors fromaround nation in leadership approaches,organizational skills, crisis communication andmedia relations. He also will mentor capstoneresearch projects for students in the academy atthe National Emergency Training Center inEmmitsburg, MD.

CMAT/biology double major Thomas“Tre” Williams was selected to be one ofthe student speakers at this May’sCommencement Ceremony. He will deliverhis message at the 10 a.m. ceremony. Tre isthe second speaker from our department.The first student speaker, when studentspeakers began in the late 1990s, was RobinGuida from CMAT.

CONFLICT ANALYSIS & DISPUTERESOLUTIONToran Hansen presented a session titled“Experiential Learning in Restorative Justice”at SU’s fifth annual Teaching and LearningConference on February 20.

Soosaipillai I. Keethaponcalan’s researchpaper titled “North- South Relations andHuman Rights” was published in Bandung:Journal of the Global South (A Springer openaccess journal), Vol. 2, No. 1 (2015), pp. 1-15.

Vitus Ozoke published his article “Shades ofMemory: Reflections on the Vietnam Veterans’Memorial” in the April issue of the AmericanJournal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 5, No. 2(April 30, 2015).

ENGLISHDave Johnson’s essay “‘Not in One Dream,But in Many’: Discipline, Dialogue, and theCinema of Richard Linklater” appeared in thespring issue of Film Quarterly, and his essay“Coming Up for Air: Migrations of Meaningin Upstream Color” appeared in LOLA. He alsogave a presentation, “Synthetic Criticism andthe Essayistic Mode in Cinema and MediaStudies,” at this year’s Society for Cinema andMedia Studies.

John D. Kalb attended and gave apresentation at the 2015 Native AmericanLiterature Symposium (NALS) held March 12-14 at the Isleta Pueblo just outsideAlbuquerque, NM. The essay titled “Letting‘em in: Planets Don’t Collide When LewisOpens the Door in Gansworth’s If I Ever GetOut of Here” addresses issues of race, poverty,family and community in Onondaga authorEric Gansworth’s first young adult novelpublished in 2013. This was Kalb’s first andlikely last experience on a YA panel, but nothis final presentation at the annual NALS,which is always an opportunity to get one’sbatteries recharged. Among this year’s specialguests were Blackfeet author Stephen Graham

Jones, Lakota novelist Franci Washburn, andAnishinaabe poet, editor and dramatistKimberly Blaeser, who was recently namedWisconsin’s Poet Laureate

James King was awarded a spring faculty-in-residence position at the Center for AfricanStudies in the African Studies Department atHoward University in Washington, D.C.

Derya Kulavuz-Onal’s chapter, co-authoredwith her colleague Camilla Vasquez, has beenpublished in N. Tcherepashenets’ GlobalizingOn-line: Telecollaboration, Internationalization, andSocial Justice by Peter Lang. In this chapter, theyillustrate how two teachers of English as aforeign language, located in different parts ofthe world, collaborated online through anonline community of practice, and how thistelecollaboration provided opportunities totheir students for meaningful interculturalexchanges. In addition to her chapter,Kulavuz-Onal also has contributed to twopanels that were organized during SU’sTeaching and Learning Conference: “CivicEngagement at SU: Reflections from RecentFaculty Experiences” and “EngagingAcademically Adrift Students for CriticalAwareness of College Life.” She is currentlyengaged in a research project that exploresbilingual/multilingual parents’ languagechoices in raising children bilingually, which ispartially being supported by a 2015 FultonFaculty Grant.

Ross Leasure presented a paper in April atthe Popular Culture Association/AmericanCulture Association annual conference in New Orleans titled “Britomart to Brienne:Femininity, Affinity, and Influence in FaerieQueene and Game of Thrones.”

Susan McCarty’s short story collection,Anatomies, will be published in June byAforementioned Productions. Online and intheir April print issue, Kirkus Reviews callsAnatomies “A promising debut collection …[from] a gifted purveyor of American shortfiction.” In April, McCarty traveled to theannual Association of Writers and WritingPrograms (AWP) conference in Minneapoliswhere she was a featured reader at an eventhosted by literary journals apt and Little Fiction.

John A. Nieves was a featured reader in thePoetry and Conversation series at the EnochPratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD, thisMarch. Nieves, his book Curio, and three of hisstudents were featured on Delmarva PublicRadio’s Delmarva Today Writer’s Workshop onMarch 27. Nieves’ poem “Almost Spring” wasthe feature poem for Broadsided Press and wasthe subject of a collaborative broadside withartist Meghan Keane. Nieves’ poem “Earth(Tristitia)” is featured in the new NationalPoetry Month issue of Iron Horse Literary Review.

Elsie Walker presented a paper at the recentPCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association) conference inNew Orleans. Her paper, titled “‘I’m fine,Houston’: A Feminist Analysis of the GravitySound Track,” grew out of her recentlypublished book with Oxford UP (UnderstandingSound Tracks Through Film Theory). She will bepresenting another paper titled “A ‘direct pathto the imagination’: The Sound Track forMichael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent (1989)”at the upcoming Music and the Moving Imageconference at New York University thissummer. This paper is part of her nextresearch project: a monograph on the power ofsound throughout Haneke’s work.

In April, Adam H. Wood presented his paper“A Violating Realism: American LiteraryNaturalism and the Violence of Narration” atthe Violence of Writing, Writing of ViolenceInternational Conference held at the Sorbonnein Paris, France.

Christopher Vilmar was an associate editorof the Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789 (gen. eds. Gary Day and Jack Lynch,3 vols. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), justpublished this spring. He also wrote twoentries, on the poet Andrew Marvell and theprinter Robert Dodsley, for the Encyclopedia.

HISTORYTom Goyens participated in a workshop onimmigrant anarchism with three other scholarsat the 2015 New York City Anarchist BookFair on April 18. Goyens also was interviewedfor the podcast Stand Up Fight Back(fightbackpodcast.com) on April 7. The topicwas Goyen’s book Beer and Revolution and thevolume of memoirs he recently edited, Storm inMy Heart, by Helene Minkin.

In January, Friends of Blackwater NationalWildlife Refuge published What a River Says –Exploring the Blackwater River & Refuge written byPhillip Hesser with photographs by CristinaCreager. The book guides the reader on severalnarrated “itineraries” around Blackwater River,focusing on the river, the life, the history, therefuge, and the future of the river and refuge ata time of marked change in the land and water.Hesser will recount stories related to the book ina Meet-the-Author talk at the Chesapeake BayMaritime Museum on June 9.

Aparajita Mukhopadhyay’s peer-reviewedarticle “Colonised Gaze? Guidebooks andJourneying in Colonial India” appeared inSouth Asia, Vol. 37, no. 4 (December 2014), pp. 656-669.

10 The Exchange

MODERN LANGUAGES ANDINTERCULTURAL STUDIESCarolina Bown served as an expert onEcuadorian indigenous communities in a New Jersey court last March. Bown was part ofthe defense team in a deportation case onbehalf of a Kichwa woman. The defendantwas acquitted and allowed to apply forresidency in the United States.

Louise Detwiler presented a paper at the MiddleAtlantic Council of Latin American Studies inApril in Ithaca, NY. The title of her paper was“Liberating Jineterismo: Temporary CoalitionalIdentities in ‘¿Quién diablos es Juliette?’”

MUSICLinda Cockey and Nan Baker Richersongave presentations at the national conferenceof the Music Teachers National Association(MTNA) held March 20-25 in Las Vegas, NV.Richerson presented a session titled “ThePedagogy of Group Teaching: Philosophies,Suggestions and Ideas” with colleagues EmilyBook McGree (Boulder, CO) and RebeccaBellelo (Baton Rouge, LA) as part of theRecreational Music Making (RMM) Track.She also facilitated a session titled “Building anRMM Network.” Richerson was a member ofthe 2015 MTNA Saturday Pedagogy PlanningCommittee for the RMM Track along withcolleagues Brenda Dillon, Richard Rejino andMcGree. Cockey also presented on “WellnessResources for Musicians” and presided overthe Saturday pedagogy sessions on “MusicianWellness and Injury Prevention.” She is theauthor of the Annotated Bibliography on MusicianWellness, a research database sponsored byMTNA. Richerson is a member of theeditorial board for MTNA’s journal, AmericanMusic Teacher, and Cockey is a member of theeditorial board for MTNA’s e-journal.

William M. Folger, music director,conducted eight successful performances of themusical Drood directed by T. Paul Pfeiffer. Thismurder mystery, where audiences decide “whodone it,” was produced by the Department ofTheatre and Dance in collaboration with theDepartment of Music. Folger enjoyed workingwith Professors Anderson, Pfeiffer, Raley andYarmo, and the cast and crew to produce thisTony Award-winning musical.

In April, Sachi Murasugi performed withthe Annapolis Symphony in concerts at theNational Presbyterian Church in Washington,D.C., and the U.S. Naval Academy inAnnapolis. Repertoire included Brahms’ EinDeutches Requiem with the Naval AcademyChorus and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society.Additionally, Murasugi was selected as aparticipant to the Eighth Biennial Starling-DeLay Symposium for Violin Studies held atthe Juilliard School in May.

On March 15, Jeffrey Schoyen and the SUDepartment of Music hosted the firstDelmarva Cello Workshop. Seventeencellists from Delmarva and the Baltimorearea met for a day of cello technique work andmusic making.

The Salisbury University Percussion Ensemble,under the direction of Eric Shuster,performed for the Maryland/Delaware Day ofPercussion on March 1. Organized by thePercussive Arts Society and hosted by theUniversity of Delaware, the SU PercussionEnsemble was invited to perform for thePercussion Ensemble Showcase Concert. Thiswas the first time that Salisbury University andthe greater Eastern Shore of Maryland wererepresented at the MD/DE Day of Percussion.The SU Percussion Ensemble, formed in 2012by Adjunct Professor Eric Shuster, performedits Spring Concert in Holloway HallAuditorium on April 9 for the opening night ofthe Salisbury Percussion Festival 2015 (SPF15),which ran April 9-11.

Eric Shuster also premiered a new work forpercussion duo on March 20 at LouisianaState University. The work, “Little Things,” byNew York-based Australian composer WallyGunn, incorporates speech, gesture, movementand other theatrical elements and wascommissioned by Shuster and his brother Tim.

Tenor John Wesley Wright made his AveryFisher Hall debut with the American SpiritualEnsemble in February, featured as a soloist inJoseph Jennings’ “Steal Away.” In March,Wright coordinated a weeklongtransdisciplinary Wellness Residency and in

April directed and performed in the SU OperaWorkshop production A Memorial Tribute toAaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.

POLITICAL SCIENCESarah Surak, along with Sandy Pope,presented the paper “Engaging the Educators:Facilitating Civic Engagement through FacultyDevelopment” at the APSA Teaching andLearning conference in Washington, D.C., inJanuary. This is the second presentation of aresearch project in conjunction with the CivicEngagement Across the Curriculumprogram. Surak also presented the paper“Works of Rubbish: Garbage as ArtAestheticized Domination or Emancipation?”at the Western Political Science AssociationConference. She also coordinated theEnvironmental Political Theory Pre-Conference Workshop.

PSYCHOLOGYSeveral Psychology Faculty and SUPsychology Club members recently traveledto Philadelphia for the 2015 Meeting of theEastern Psychological Association. The SUPsychology Club members attended varioussessions on the science of psychology as well astalks concerning graduate school and careers.In addition, faculty and students presentedposters at the conference, several of which aredescribed below.

Lance Garmon co-authored a posterpresentation with Jessica Kelly titled “Is the TiaraWorth it? Perceptions of Beauty Pageants andTheir Impacts.” He also co-authored a posterwith Brian Jordan titled “Do Representations ofAttachment Predict Perceptions of FantasyRelationships in Media Franchises?”

Echo Leaver co-authored three posterpresentations with current and formerstudents. “Psychophysiology and the FiveLanguages” and “Physiological Measures ofTrue and False Memories with Positive andNegative Affect” were presented by formerstudents. The third poster, “Nutrition andCognition in Older Adults,” was presented byHannah Ennerfelt and Mary Jeter.

(From left) Nan Baker Richerson and Linda Cockey ]

Seven students were inducted into the Pi Delta Phi National French Honor Society on Sunday, March 29. (From left) Ariel Schwartz, Kathryn Mangiamele, MarioOrellana, Matyas Degafie, Robin Karpovich, Erin Casey and Briana Jordan.

The Exchange 11The Exchange 11

Jason McCartney and Thomas Tomchopresented a poster titled “Undergraduates’Misconceptions about Genes and Heritability.”

Suzanne Osman co-authored(with undergraduate researchers) twopresentations. One presentation was titled“Sexual Victimization and Partnership withPerpetrator Predicting Satisfaction with aCurrent Partner.” Her second presentation wastitled “Perpetration Experience and GenderPredicting Empathy with a Stranger orAcquaintance Rapist.”

Michele Schlehofer participated in aroundtable on community engagement andpresented a talk, “The Use of Positive Prototypesto Reduce Denial of Threat Messages.”

George Whitehead presented a paper thathe co-authored, “Self-presentational Strategiesof Modern and Traditional U.S. Presidents intheir First and Second Inaugural Addresses.”This is a third in series of papers comparingmodern and traditional presidents. He alsochaired the session on “Social Papers: Politics.”

Current and former students working withLance Garmon presented findings at anumber of professional conferences recently.At the biannual Society for Research in ChildDevelopment conference, also in Philadelphia,by Jessica Kelly (“Sexy Toddlers: How DoViewers Perceive Televised Child BeautyPageants?”), Victoria DeHoyos presented apaper at the National Conference forUndergraduate Research in Cheney, WA, titled

“Death, It’s a Part of Life: Do Personal DeathExperiences Result in More MortalitySalience?” At SUSRC, Briana Jordonpresented the paper “Harry Potter, TwilightSaga, Hunger Games: Are There GenderDifferences In What Motivates Students toConsume Popular Media Franchises and TheirPerceptions of Fictional Relationships?” andSamantha Rinker presented the poster“Sophomores, a Work in Progress: AReflection of the Importance of theSophomore Year and an Evaluation of theSophomore Year Experience (SYE) Program.”

Echo Leaver had a manuscript accepted forpublication titled “The Devil Is in the Details:Brain Dynamics in Preparation for a Global-Local Task” in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Michele Schlehofer had a manuscript,“Breast Health Beliefs, Behaviors, and Barriersamong Latina Permanent Resident andMigratory Farm Workers” (co-authored withDr. Tina Brown-Reid, Nursing Department),accepted for publication in the Journal ofCommunity Health Nursing. Schlehofer also gave aworkshop, “LGBTQ Stigma 101,” at the Anti-Stigma Conference in Ocean City, MD,on March 18.

The Salisbury University Percussion Ensemble (from left) Meghan Rollyson, Burt Tabet, Eric Shuster, Josh Kahn, Becca Doughty and Mike Fitzgerald.

Delmarva Cello Workshop, 2015.

12 The Exchange

Advancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Judith DresselAdvising Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jonathan ColónArt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jennifer ListonArt Galleries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Elizabeth KauffmanCareer Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Crystal DickersonCenter for International Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brian StieglerCommunication Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jennifer CoxConflict Analysis & Dispute Resolution . . . . . .Keetha SoosaipillaiEnglish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Susan McCartyEnvironmental Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .James HatleyHistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dean KotlowskiModern Languages & Intercultural Studies . . . . .Louise DetwilerMusic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Wesley Wright

PACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Robby SheehanPhilosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tina MelczarekPolitical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Eric RittingerPsychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Echo LeaverSociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alex StonerTheatre and Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tom AndersonWriting Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nicole Munday

Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Donna Carey Tina Melczarek

Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jennifer Cox

www.salisbury.edu/fulton

Thanks to The Exchange Representatives who contributed to this issue:

SU is an Equal Opportunity/AA/Title IX university and provides reasonable accommodation given sufficient notice to the University office or staff sponsoring the event or program. For more information regarding SU’s policies and procedures, please visit www.salisbury.edu/equity.

The 25th anniversary of the gift given byCharles R. and Martha N. Fulton thatendowed the Fulton School of the

Liberal Arts at Salisbury University wascelebrated on March 28.

The afternoon began with the annual recitalby Department of Music faculty members,attended by an overflow, standing-room-onlycrowd. On view in the University Gallery wasthe annual Art Department Faculty Exhibition.In the adjacent Bobbi Biron Black Box Theatre,student workers prepared the set whilepracticing their singing roles for April’sproduction of Drood, a retelling of CharlesDickens’ unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Dean Maarten Pereboom welcomed honoredguests, who included Jennie Fulton Owen,daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fulton, and herhusband A.W. Owen, as well as Universityadministrators, faculty, staff and students.Pereboom noted the profound impact of thisgenerous a gift to the development of the liberalarts – now 13 departments – and SalisburyUniversity in the succeeding 25 years.

Mr. and Mrs. Fulton’s gift of $2.5 million in1989 was designated to provide funds for thedevelopment of curricula emphasizinginternships and community service through theliberal arts, for scholarships to attract highlymotivated students, to underwrite facultyresearch and development, to enhance libraryholdings, and to support a program for visitingscholars. Mrs. Fulton attended Salisbury in1937-38 and was a classmate of Frank Perdue.These families’ success in the poultry industrycontributed to the prosperity of Delmarva, andtheir commitment to public higher education forMaryland students are seen at SalisburyUniversity today in 2015.

Fulton School 25th Anniversary