(Wells College Offers Flute & Harp Concert

The Music Department at Wells College is pleased to offer an evening of flute and harp music. On Monday, October 7 at 8:00 pm in Barler Recital Hall, flutist Laura Campbell and harpist Myra Kovary will present the premiere performance of local composer Laurie Conrad's "Visions" written especially for this duo. Other works on the program will include pieces by Debussy, J.S. Bach, and Faure. This concert is free and the public is cordially invited to attend.

Laura Campbell is currently instructor of chamber music at Wells College, as well as instructor of flute at Colgate University and principal flutist of the Colgate Symphony. She has performed with the Springfield (Ill.) Symphony, the St. Louis Municipal Opera Orchestra, the Ithaca Opera Orchestra, St. Louis Gateway Festival Orchestra, the Utica Symphony, and the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. A contemporary musician, her recording of Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy's "Windrider / Final Ascent" is available on the CD "Evocations" from Capstone Records.

Myra Kovary performs as a harpist with several orchestras including the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Syracuse Symphony, the Cornell University Orchestra, the Ithaca College Orchestra, the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, the Binghamton Symphony, the Ithaca Opera Orchestra, and the Tri-Cities Opera Orchestra. She has played chamber music with faculty ensembles at Ithaca College, at Cornell University, with the Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble, and with Pro Musica (Ithaca, N.Y.). Ms. Kovary currently maintains a private studio in Ithaca teaching both classical and folk harp.

As a duo, Campbell and Kovary have been performing together at recitals, weddings, and receptions for over twenty years. Their new CD of classical favorites, "Morning Light," has recently been released to very positive reviews. For more information about the performance, please contact Laura Campbell at 315/364-3281.

September, 2002

Motivational Speaker and Author at Wells College
"Remember the Titans" teammate talks about personal accountability

The Well College Office of Intercultural Programs is pleased to bring James Amps to the Aurora campus for an inspiring keynote address. On Tuesday, October 8 at 6:00 pm in Barler Auditorium, the former football player will deliver a dynamic presentation which shows individuals how to move out of comfort zones, be accountable, and achieve personal and professional success. The public is cordially invited to attend this exciting free lecture.

Amps’ presentations motivate participants to be accountable, take action, and get immediate results. A former All-American football player for T.C. Williams High School under Coach Herman Boone as portrayed in the hit movie "Remember the Titans,” Amps is a former sales and recruiting executive who has 18 years of corporate experience. He captivates his audiences with upbeat, high energy, and enthusiastic presentations spiked with a unique style that propels participants to learn how to challenge life instead of allowing life to challenge them. An inspiring speaker, trainer, and author, Amps is the host of the syndicated talk radio show, Motiviational Moments. He inspires individuals and organizations to turn obstacles into opportunities, problems into possibilities, and temporary defeat into permanent victory.

Amps will sign copies of his book following the presentation. The speaker's latest book, Speaking to Excel, will be available for purchase for $10.00. For more information about James Amps and his presentation, please contact assistant dean Carolyn Morales at 315/364-3312 or cmorales@wells.edu. To arrange an interview or photo session with the artist, contact Gwen Webber-McLeod, director of communications, at 315/364-3260.

September, 2002

Poetry / Fiction Reading at Wells College

On Wednesday, October 2, and Thursday, October 3, authors Judith Kitchen and Stan Sanvel Rubin will be on the Wells College campus in Aurora to give a joint reading, attend classes, and conduct workshops in both fiction and poetry. The reading will take place at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 2 in the Art Exhibit Room on the 2nd floor of Macmillan Hall. The public is invited to this free event.

Ms. Kitchen, currently writer-in-residence at SUNY Brockport, has published prize-winning work in three genres: poetry, creative non-fiction, and fiction. Her first book, a collection of poetry entitled Perennials, won the Anhinga Prize. She has also published two volumes of creative non-fiction essays, Only the Dance and Distance and Direction, as well as co-edited two major anthologies of creative non-fiction, In Short and In Brief. Recently she won the S. Mariella Gable Prize from Greywolf Press prize for her new novel, The House on Eccles Road.  In addition, she has published a critical study on the poet William Stafford. Ms. Kitchen serves as regular poetry reviewer for the Georgia Review.

Mr. Rubin is professor of English and director of the Writers Forum at SUNY Brockport, which hosts a nationally known Writers Series and is renowned for its unparalleled archive collection of poets and fiction writers. His poems and essays have appeared widely in leading magazines, including Virginia Quarterly Review, Chelsea, Kenyon Review, Ohio Review, Laurel Review, and Georgia Review. Mr. Rubin is the author of a book of poems, Midnight, and his new chapbook, On The Coast, will be published this fall.

Copies of various printed works by the authors will be available for purchase in the Wells College bookstore and at the reading. This visit is made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. For more information about Kitchen, Rubin, and the reading, please call 315/364-3228.

The Visiting Writer Series is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Virginia Kent Cummins Writers-in-Residence Fund, and the Mildred Walker Fiction-Writer-in-Residence Fund. Several writers will be on campus during the academic year.

September, 2002

"The Legacy of Leaders": President Ryerson Writes Editorial in Celebration of the Women's College Coalition's 30th Anniversary

President Lisa Marsh Ryerson's op-ed essay "The Legacy of Leaders" celebrates the Women's College Coalition's 30th anniversary.
 

September, 2002

Wells College President Presides Over Women’s College Coalition 30th Anniversary

Lisa Marsh Ryerson, President Wells College, and national Chair of the Women’s College Coalition (WCC) in Washington D.C. will preside over the celebration of the Coalition’s 30th anniversary on September 24, 2002 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. At this special event the Coalition will honor sixteen women serving in the 107th Congress who attended women’s college. They will be recognized for their visionary leadership in the United States and for being outstanding examples of the legacy of women’s colleges.

“As an alumna of Wells College, I know first-hand the significant role women’s college play advancing women through the liberal arts. Women’s colleges prepare women for leadership in all aspects of their lives. This landmark event is a reminder of the importance of women’s colleges in our nation’s history and their necessity in the higher education landscape today. These women represent some of our best and brightest graduates. I am proud to preside over a celebration in their honor,” said Ryerson.

Being honored at the WCC 30th anniversary celebration is:

The Honorable Tammy Baldwin (WI)    Smith College, MA
The Honorable Donna M. Christian-Christensen (VI) St. Mary’s College, IN
The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY)  Wellesley College, MA
The Honorable Rosa DeLauro (CT)    Marymount College, NY
The Honorable Jane Harman (CA)    Smith College, MA
The Honorable Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX)   St. Mary’s College, IN
The Honorable Nancy L. Johnson (CT)   Radcliffe College, MA
The Honorable Sue W. Kelly (NY)    Sarah Lawrence College, NY
The Honorable Barbara Lee, (CA)    Mills College, CA
The Honorable Blanche L. Lincoln (AR)    Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, VA
The Honorable Nita M. Lowey (NY)     Mount Holyoke, MA
The Honorable Betty McCollum (MN)   College of St. Catherine, MN
The Honorable Barbara Mikulski (MD)   Mount Saint Agnes College, MD
The Honorable Patsy Mink (HI)  University of Hawaii & Wilson College Pennsylvania
The Honorable Ann M. Northrup (KY)  Saint Mary’s College, IN
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi (CA) Trinity College, DC, First woman elected as Democratic whip on the House of Representatives, highest post ever held by a woman in congress

Lisa Marsh Ryerson is the 17th president of Wells College. Known as a national leader in women’s education and the liberal arts, she is one of the youngest college presidents serving today and is the first alumna president of Wells. Ryerson is known as an inspirational speaker, who discusses and writes about the benefits of women’s colleges, women-centered education, gender equality in education and society, women in leadership and business/education partnerships.

As the Chair of the Women’s College Coalition in Washington D.C., Ryerson leads an association board of directors representing 70 women’s college in the United States and Canada. Its current membership includes 62 colleges, including public and private, independent and church-related and two year and four year colleges.

The Coalition makes the case for single–sex education for women in the higher education community to policy makers, to the media and to the general public. Additionally, the Coalition collects and disseminates information and sponsors research in areas relating to the education of women and gender equity in education.

Other priority areas are the issues of retention and recruitment of women into math, science, and engineering, and the development of women’s leadership in society. The nation’s 70 women’s’ colleges are located in 23 states and the District of Columbia.

September, 2002

Wells College Names First Assistant Dean for Intercultural Programs and Services

Carolyn J. Morales has been named Assistant Dean of Students for Intercultural Programs and Services at Wells College. In this capacity she joins the staff of the college’s Student Life division.

At Wells Morales will provide leadership for the development of educational, cultural, and social programs that enhance intercultural understanding and foster a campus climate that celebrates and respects the uniqueness of all its members. In addition, she will serve as an advocate for students from diverse racial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, religious and sexual orientations, and works cooperatively with admissions, faculty and administration to build and strengthen support networks and to increase and retain representation in historically underrepresented groups.

Before joining the Wells College student affairs staff in August, she was Director of Multicultural Affairs at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania where she served as a liaison between students, administration, and the local community. She successfully created, developed, and implemented diversity plans, training programs, and inclusive multicultural programs.

Morales advised and mentored many student organizations including Elizabethtown’s Asian Cultural Association, Colors United, Allies, Womenspeak, Interfaith Dialogue, and International Clubs. She also worked with faculty members to design cultural programs including Hispanic Heritage Month, National Coming Out Month, Rosh Hashanah, Black History Month and National Disability Month.

“Teaching and learning should not be bound by categories of ‘in’ or ‘outside’ the classroom,” said Karen Green, Wells College Dean of Students. “All aspects of teaching and learning at Wells must promote and support our mission to educate women in the liberal arts and prepare students for leadership and service to society. I am pleased to welcome Carolyn Morales to the Student Life division of Wells College. I know she will make many positive contributions to building a true learning community on our campus.”

September, 2002

Wells College Book Arts Center Appoints Two

The Ellen W. Hall, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, announced two appointments in the Wells College Book Arts Center.  The Book Arts Center is the home of the Wells College Press and the Jane Webster Pearce ‘32 Bindery.

Terrence Chouinard has been named director of the Wells College Book Arts Center. He is the center’s former Victor Hammer Fellow. As the director, Chouinard will take an active leadership role in the development of the center, known for the distinctive education it offers students who aspire to become writers, artists, photographers, illustrators, editors, or who plan to enter the publishing field.

Chouinard received his bachelor of fine arts degree from the Memphis College of Art. He earned his master of fine arts degree in book arts at the University of Alabama. While there he was awarded the first William Reese Fellowship in the American Bibliography and History of Books in Americas.

Chouinard is the founder of the Wing & the Wheel Press and has published the writing of Lee Smith, Kaye Gibbons, and John Grisham.
 

Sarah Roberts has been named Victor Hammer Fellow in the Wells College Book Arts Center for a two-year term. Roberts earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, in English, from the University of Washington, Seattle and her master in fine arts degree in English from the University of Iowa. Roberts is the third person to be named Victor Hammer Fellow at Wells College.

Her responsibilities at Wells include teaching letterpress printing; organizing workshops and lectures; printing projects including broadsides for the creative writing program; and serving in an apprenticeship at the Press and Letterfoundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler in Skaneateles, New York. The Victor Hammer Fellowship in the Book Arts was inaugurated at Wells College in 1998 and is funded in part by a generous grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

The Wells College Book Arts Center is the home of the Wells College Press. The center offers classes, exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations, workshops, and symposia. In addition to faculty who teach there on a regular basis, distinguished writers, book artists, printers, and publishers visit the center throughout the year.  A highlight of the program is the biannual endowed Swartzburg lecture funded by the family of Wells alumna Susan Garretson Swartzburg ’60, herself a figure in the important field in libraries across the country: preservation management.

Wells College recently established the book arts as an academic minor. Through the book arts center students can take classes in printing, binding, digital design, and the history of the book. The traditions and history of the book serve as a foundation for learning about literary production in the technologically driven Information Age.

Victor Hammer, an internationally renowned figure in twentieth century graphic arts that achieved some of his greatest work during his days at Wells College founded the Wells College Press in 1941. His publications, making his own type and his drawing and painting, gained him prominent position among the leading typographers, printers, and artists of his time. Victor Hammer operated the Wells College Press until his retirement in 1948. In 1991 Wells College
re-established the Wells College Press.

Coincidental with the re-establishment of the Press, Wells alumna Jane Webster Pearce, Class of 1932 presented the college with a complete fine art bindery now known as Jane Webster Pearce’32 Bindery. Pearce also contributed funds to support a course in bookbinding, which has been offered to Wells students each semester since 1993.

September, 2002

Wells College Partners with Cornell for Environmental Film Screening & Discussion

Filmmaker Emily Hart will be on the Wells College campus on Tuesday evening, October 8 for a showing of her movie depicting the plight of the Northern Spotted owl. The screening will take place at 8:00 pm in the Sommer Center as part of Cornell’s 6th Annual Environmental Film Festival. The event is free and the public is welcome to attend.

Ms. Hart will host a screening of her film “The God Squad and the Case of the Northern Spotted Owl.” The documentary investigates the controversial Endangered Species Committee’s proceedings focusing on the impact of the Oregon timber industry on the habitat of the endangered owl. In May of 1992, for the first time in history, the cabinet-level committee selected economic interests over the survival of a species. While the proceedings ostensibly focused on the owl and a limited number of timber sales, the controversy was a microcosm of a much larger debate concerning the fate of the Pacific Northwest’s old growth forests and the Endangered Species Act. The story-behind-the-story, as told in surprisingly candid interviews with President Bush’s cabinet members, their staff, witnesses, lawyers, and the people of Oregon’s rural communities, is a fascinating cautionary tale for generations to come.

For more information about Emily Hart and the screening, please call 315/364-3279. To arrange for a possible interview with the filmmaker, contact Gwen Webber-McLeod, director of communications, at 315/364-3260.

The Cornell Center for the Environment (CfE) is committed to research, teaching, and outreach focused on environmental issues, with the goals of enhancing the quality of life, encouraging economic vitality, and promoting the conservation of natural resources for a sustainable future. Information about the Environmental Film Festival may be found at www.cfe.cornell.edu/filmfest.

September, 2002

Welsh Poet / Printer To Read at Wells College

The Wells College Visiting Writer Series is most pleased to welcome poet and printer Shirley Jones all the way from the United Kingdom. On Monday, September 23, Ms. Jones will present a slide lecture and read from her recent work. The reading will be held at 8:00 pm in the Art Exhibit Room in Macmillan Hall, and is free and open to the public.

For more than 25 years, Shirley Jones’ Red Hen Press, located in Powys, Wales, has been creating limited edition letterpress books that present poetry and prose in concert with etchings and mezzotints. Each of Jones’ books is a total concept - the choice of paper and typeface, the unity of text and images, and the harmony of the binding are all as carefully considered as the visual and literary creativity involved. Her work has received critical acclaim and is now collected by rare book libraries and private collectors in several countries. Jones studied printmaking at the Croydon College of Art and Design, and taught in London for several years before naming her own press in 1983. She now lives and works in Wales, and lectures extensively. She has won several awards, including the 1994 British Book Design Award.

Copies of various Red Hen Press works will be available for purchase in the Wells College bookstore. Ms. Jones’ visit is made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. For more information about Shirley Jones, the Red Hen Press, and the reading, please call 315/364-3228. To arrange an interview or photo session with the artist, contact Gwen Webber-McLeod, director of communications, at 315/364-3260.

The Visiting Writer Series is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Virginia Kent Cummins Writers-in-Residence Fund, and the Mildred Walker Fiction-Writer-in-Residence Fund. Several writers will be on campus during the academic year.

September, 2002

Visiting Poet Reading at Wells College

The Wells College Visiting Writer Series welcomes poet Charles Martin to campus. On Wednesday, September 25, Mr. Martin will read selections from his latest book "Starting From Sleep: New and Selected Poems." The reading will take place at 8:00 pm in the Art Exhibit Room in Macmillan Hall, and is free and open to the public.

Charles Martin is the author of four books of poems, including "Steal The Bacon" and "What The Darkness Proposes," both published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of the poems of Catullus has also been published by Johns Hopkins, and his critical introduction to the Latin poet’s work appears as one of the volumes in the Yale University Press’s Hermes Series.

Martin’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, Boulevard, The Threepenny Review, and in many other magazines and anthologies. He is the recipient of a Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, a 2001 Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a professor at Queensborough Community College (CUNY) and has recently taught workshops at the Sewanee Writers Conference, the West Chester Conference on Form and Narrative in Poetry, and the Unterberg Center of the 92nd Street YMHA. "Starting From Sleep" was published in March 2002, from Sewanee Writers’ Series/The Overlook Press, and a new verse translation of the "Metamorphoses of Ovid" will be published next year by W.W. Norton and Co.

Copies of "Starting From Sleep" will be available for purchase in the Wells College bookstore and at the reading. Mr. Martin’s visit is made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. For more information about Charles Martin and the reading, please call 315/364-3228. To arrange to meet with the poet, please contact director of communications, Gwen Webber-McLeod at 315/364-3260.

The Visiting Writer Series is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Virginia Kent Cummins Writers-in-Residence Fund, and the Mildred Walker Fiction-Writer-in-Residence Fund. Several writers will be on campus during the academic year.

September, 2002

Third Annual Peachtown Native American Festival and Education Day at Wells College

In collaboration with Wells College’s Office of Intercultural Programs and Services, Peachtown Elementary School, and local community members, S.H.A.R.E. (Strengthening Haudenosaunee-American Relations through Education) is proud to announce the third annual Peachtown Native American Festival and Education Day on Saturday, September 28. The festival will be held from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. on the front lawn of Main Building on the beautiful Wells College campus in Aurora. The event is free and the public is invited to join in the fun.

Russell Ges ton joh Smith, a Haudenosaunee performer, will serve as Master of Ceremonies this year.  Ges ton joh is fluent in both powwow style and Iroquois social dancing and has won numerous awards for his performances in Canada and the United States.  A craftsman as well as a musician, Russell records stories of Iroquois history and legends in his beadwork patterns. He will be accompanied by the Onkwehonwe Unity Dancers.

Another highlight of the festival will be the presence of the Thunder Lizard Singers drum group, represented by members of the Laguna Pueblo/Navajo, Cherokee/Kickapoo/ Lakota, Mohawk, and Cree Nations. The Thunder Lizard Singers bring songs from the Plains, pueblos and the Diné as well as Southeastern-style Stomp Dance songs.  In addition to traditional powwow singing, the group will also perform original songs accompanied by rattles, hand drums, chants and Native American flute as influenced by their various tribal backgrounds.

Dan Hill, another featured artist, is perhaps best known for his recordings of Native American flute music.  Hill is an accomplished musician and live performer whose credits include film and television appearances.  He has become a much sought-after lecturer, storyteller and teacher, and has traveled extensively across North America and beyond. Dan Hill makes flutes and is a talented silversmith who specializes in traditional Iroquois and exquisite original designs.

Other festival participants include Lillie Kane, who will share indigenous stories while conducting a Seneca corn doll workshop; Mike Tarbell, a Mohawk, who will perform bow and atlatl demonstrations; herbalists Jeanne Shenandoah and Otat Homer who will offer plant and medicinal material demonstrations; and Rick Hill, Tuscarora tribal member, who will offer a special educational exhibit with wampum and treaty belts.  Educational displays and exhibits including the archaeology of the Cayuga homeland will be available for the public to view.  Special Native foods will be offered as well as social dances.

For more information regarding the festival or S.H.A.R.E., please contact Wells anthropology professor Ernie Olson at 315/364-3206 or by email at eolson@wells.edu

September, 2002

Chinese Political Discussion and Poetry Reading at Wells College

The Wells College Visiting Writer Series and the Division of Social Sciences welcomes Chinese dissident poet Yi Ping to campus on Wednesday, September 18. Ping will lead a discussion on Chinese politics in a question-and-answer forum at 4:30. At 7:30 pm, he will read selections from his poems in Chinese with translation in English. Both events will be held in the Art Exhibit Room in Macmillan Hall. The public is invited to participate in these free discussions.

Yi Ping is a Chinese dissident essayist and poet presently living in Ithaca on a two-year residency with the City of Asylum program (ICOA). ICOA is a not-for-profit project affiliated with Cornell’s Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy which supports writers whose works are repressed, whose lives are threatened, whose cultures are vanishing, and/or whose languages are endangered. Yi Ping, who is exiled from China because of his participation in democracy activism, will spend two years in Ithaca with his family. ICOA strives to create a safe haven in which the writer can live peacefully.

The Wells College Book Arts Center will be hand-printing a broadside in honor of Yi Ping’s presence on campus. The broadside will be available for purchase at the reading. Ping’s visit is made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. For more information about Yi Ping, the political discussion, or the poetry reading, please call 315/364-3228. ICOA information can be found at www.saltonstall.org/icoa/

The Visiting Writer Series is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Virginia Kent Cummins Writers-in-Residence Fund, and the Mildred Walker Fiction-Writer-in-Residence Fund. Several writers have been invited to speak on campus during the academic year.

September, 2002

Abstract Paintings on Exhibit at Wells College

The abstract paintings of two upstate New York artists will be on display in Wells College’s String Room Gallery this fall. This is the first exhibit of the academic year. The show begins on Wednesday, September 11 with an opening reception for the artists from 7:00 - 9:00 pm. Refreshments will be served and the public is warmly invited to attend. The exhibit runs through Friday, October 11, and is free and open to the public for viewing.

Kathryn Gaspar, a painter from Victor, New York, will be presenting her latest work from a series entitled “Cards.” The series focuses on small drawings of repetitive geometric figures done on die-cut cards with silver ink.  “I’ve always loved to collect and send art cards,” explains artist Gaspar. “These cards are miniature artworks you can hold in your hand and look at closely.”  The artist received her BS in Studio Art from SUNY-Brockport and her masters in art education from Nazareth College. Gaspar has been an art instructor in several school systems in the Rochester area, and has exhibited her work throughout central New York.

Isaac Sands of Oneonta, New York, holds a BA in Art from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an MFA from Yale.  Last year he was the artist-in-residence at Hartwick College in Oneonta, and he has taught at various schools in the Northeast and the Midwest. His paintings have been exhibited in central New York, Connecticut, Indiana, New Hampshire, and San Francisco.

String Room Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. while school is in session. For more information about the show and the artists, please contact art professor Bill Roberts at 315/364-3237.
 

September, 2002

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