BRUCE BENNETT had two poems published in The Healing Muse, three fables in Green Mountains Review "Comedy in Contemporary American Poetry" Special Issue, and five poems in Edge City Review. Professor Bennett read his poetry in the FootHills Authors Reading at Wells on October 17.

CATHERINE BURROUGHS was one of five scholars invited to participate in a symposium sponsored by The Juggernaut Theatre Company in New York City in late October. This event was called "The First 100 Years: The Professional Female Playwright," and it was held at The American Airlines Theatre on 42nd Street. At the symposium, scenes written by 17th- and 18th-century British female playwrights were performed by professional actors, and Professor Burroughs introduced the 1798 play written by Joanna Baillie. The audience was composed of approximately 200 designers, playwrights, dramaturgs, actors, and directors working in New York City--many of whom are aiming to bring these playwrights and their work to contemporary theatres. The event was filmed for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. While at the symposium, Professor Burroughs was invited to serve as the dramaturg for the world premiere of a Joanna Baillie tragedy, Count Basil (1798), to be performed at the Horizons Theatre in Washington DC in June. Horizons Theatre, founded by Leslie Jacobson twenty-five years ago, features plays that focus on women's experiences.

On another note, Professor Burroughs has just been asked by the family of Jonas Barish to be the respositor for his extensive notes on closet drama. Mr. Barish was a professor at Berkeley, who recently passed away, leaving behind an unfinished book on closet drama. This book was to have been the follow-up to his influential 1981 publication, The Antitheatrical Prejudice.

SUSAN FORBES' production of As You Like It, for which she did the adaptation and direction for the Auburn Players this fall, has been selected as a competitor/finalist at the Theatre Association of New York State Festival on Saturday, November 23, at 1:00 p.m. The festival is in Auburn this year. She, along, with Victor Penniman and a number of students from the Scapin production, will be there at the awards ceremony to receive merit awards. She hopes that her production wins the festival, as it will then move on to the National held in Massachusetts this summer.

CYNTHIA GARRETT read her short story, "In Season," on September 21 as part of the Renate Rewald Writers Series at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora. On October 20, Professor Garrett participated in a panel discussion for high school students and their families, held at Syracuse University. The panel was part of a program administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.

This fall JEANNE GODDARD arranged three guest artist residencies on behalf of students: a semester long ballet technique class, a week-long floor barre intensive with Cynthia Williams of Hobart-William Smith Colleges, and a choreographic premier by Lesley Tillotson, performed by students in the Fall Dance Concert, "Dances Unveiled." Professor Goddard also produced and directed the concert, setting one new work and restaging four pieces from repertory. Off campus, Professor Goddard provided choreography for a new multimedia production of Dracula at Barnes Hall, Cornell University.

SPENCER HILDAHL reviewed the book, Virtual Organization: Toward a Theory of Societal Transformation Stimulated by Information Technology, by Abbe Mowshowitz, for the November 2002 issue of CHOICE.

KENT KLITGAARD delivered a paper entitled, "Environmental Racism in Cayuga County: A GIS Approach," at the 55th Annual convention of the New York State Economics Association in Buffalo, New York, on October 19. He also chaired the session on "Applied Microeconomics," and discussed a paper on "The Shadow Price of Morality."

VICTORIA MUÑOZ attended "Sex in the Stacks," a conference on using primary sources for sex research at Cornell's Human Sexuality Collection. At the University of Connecticut, Professor Muñoz gave a lecture on her research in the Out to Lunch Lecture Series and as part of GLBTQ Awareness Month. At State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, she was the keynote speaker for Latin Night.

A paper entitled, "Waiting Lists for Radiation Therapy: A Case Study," co-authored by LAURA PURDY (David D'Souza, Douglas Martin, Andrea Bezjak, and Peter Singer), was published in BMC Health Services Research (2001) 1:3. A two-page review of her book, Embodying Bioethics (1999, with Anne Donchin) has appeared in Politics in the Life Sciences, March 2002, 21(1): 72-72, by Rachel Ankeny. Professor Purdy contributed blurbs to two scholarly books, one published by UC California Press and the other published by Indiana University Press.

SARAH ROBERTS' book "Red Geometry" was exhibited at the Third National Book and Paper Arts Biennial in Chicago during the months of September and October.

Sponsored by The Syracuse Post-Standard, WILLIAM ROBERTS was credentialed as a media photographer for the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships at Arlington Park in Chicago on October 26.

CRAWFORD THOBURN conducted the college choral ensembles in a joint concert with the Men’s Glee Club of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a symphonic orchestra at the Sommer Center on October 27. The major collaborative work on the program was Ludwig van Beethoven’s "Mass in C Major" op.86, which featured student vocal soloists Angela Dockwiller and Nandani Sinha. An unusual feature of the occasion was that several Wells Choir alumnae from the classes of 1973 through 2002 rehearsed with the current choir for several weeks and took part in the performance, which received a standing ovation from a capacity crowd. On November 10, Professor Thoburn conducted the college choral ensembles in a joint concert for Parents’ Weekend with the college Chamber Orchestra conducted by Laura Campbell in Barler Recital Hall.

ROSEMRY WELSH presented a paper entitled, "David Alfaro Siqueiros: March to Humanity," at the 17th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Literature and the Visual Arts in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, November 9. She also chaired two sessions as Moderator and attended the business meeting of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts.
 

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