S c h o o l o f H e a l t h a n d H u m a n P e r f o r m a n c e s p r i n g 2 0 0 6
Inside
HHP Students
First Campaign
Update
Dance Professor
Heads to Circus ...
to Teach
McGee Refl ects on
Decades of Growth
Source to Sea:
Alumnus Navigates
the Mississippi
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Congressman Visits UNCG Speech and Hearing Center
Dean Emeritus
Receives National Award
The National
Association
of Kinesiology
and Physical
Education
in Higher
Education has
presented Dr. Bob Christina,
dean emeritus of the School
of Health and Human
Performance at UNCG,
with the 2006 Distinguished
Scholar Award.
A nationally recog-nized
expert in exercise and
sport science, Christina has
authored and co-authored
more than 100 scientific and
professional publications and
three books. He has given
174 scholarly presentations in
the United States and abroad,
and he has served on the
National Research Council
Committee of the National
Academy of Sciences. He is
also a nationally recognized
golf expert and serves as
a consultant for Pinehurst
Golf Advantage School, Golf
Magazine, Frankly Golf Co.,
the PGA of America and the
LPGA Teaching Division. He
has been quoted in numerous
national journals, including
The Wall Street Journal, Golf
Magazine, Golf Digest and
Golf World Business. He has
appeared on NBC, CNN and
the Golf Channel.
During his tenure at
UNCG, he also served as a
professor in the Department of
Exercise and Sport Science.
He holds a bachelor’s degree
from Ithaca College and a
master’s degree and PhD
from the University of
Maryland.
n January, U.S. Rep. Howard Coble
(R-6th District) visited the UNCG Speech
and Hearing Center, which is run by the
Department of Communication Sciences
and Disorders in the School of Health and
Human Performance. Chancellor Patricia
Sullivan, Provost Ed Uprichard and HHP
Dean David Perrin also accompanied Coble on
the tour. Coble toured the CSD clinical areas,
laboratories, classrooms and offi ces.
Coble particularly enjoyed talking to
students who were working in the department.
For the NC students, he could name all of their
high school mascots.
Coble was instrumental in securing
funding to establish the UNCG
Tinnitus Clinic, which was
founded in 2002 and is part
of the UNCG Speech
and Hearing Center. He ensured that the
clinic received the Congressional Earmark
Grant that supports tinnitus clinic services.
The Tinnitus Clinic is managed by Denise
Tucker, PhD, CCC-A.
About 50 million Americans have
severe tinnitus, which causes constant
ringing in the ears.
The clinic not only serves the community
with services such as tinnitus retraining
therapy but also provides a training ground
for students who are receiving their education
at UNCG, as well as student observers and
participants from NC A & T State University,
James Madison University, Vanderbilt
University
and UNC Chapel
Hill. The Speech
and Hearing Center,
directed by Vicki
McCready, CCC-SLP,
in operation since
1967, provides
diagnostic and
therapy services
for children
and adults in
the greater
Greensboro
community.
For more
information,
visit www.
uncg.edu/csd.
Left to Right: Dr. Vickie McCready, Dr. Denise Tucker, Congressman Howard Coble, Dr. Celia Hooper
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Message from the Dean
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As I travel around the coun-try
meeting our distinguished
alumnae of Woman’s College,
they are amazed to learn
of the growth in what was
their Department of Physical
Education.
The School of Health and
Human Performance’s history
begins with Mary Settle Sharp
in 1896, and the first profes-sional
director, Fay Davenport,
came in 1907 and left in 1921.
Physical Education was estab-lished
as the premier program
of its kind under the leadership
of Mary Channing Coleman
(1920-1947) and Ethel Martus
Lawther (1947-1971). The Department of
Physical Education eventually spawned what
are now four departments: Dance; Exercise
and Sport Science; Public Health Education;
and Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality
Management. Communication Sciences and
Disorders joined the School as its fifth
department in 1999. The early emphasis
on teacher preparation is now flourish-ing
as teacher education programs in the
Departments of Dance and Exercise and
Sport Science.
The School of HHP has grown to include
1,064 undergraduate students (784 female;
280 male) and 285 graduate students (204
female; 81 male), 64 full-time and 28 part-time
faculty, and 18 devoted staff members. Our
undergraduate student body is diverse and
composed of 8.3 percent American Indians,
3.7 percent Asians, 9.8 percent African-
Americans, and 7 percent Hispanics. Nearly
16 percent of our faculty are from minority
populations. You, our distinguished alumni of
the School of HHP, currently number 5,726.
Under the capable leadership of Miss
Coleman, Miss Martus, and my other
predecessors (Margaret Mordy, 1974-1979;
Rosemary McGee, 1979-1980; Dick Swanson,
1980-1992; and Bob Christina,
1992-2001), the School of HHP
has established itself as one
of the premier schools of its
kind in the nation. Two of
our programs are nationally
ranked by U.S. News & World
Report’s 2005 Rankings of Best
Graduate Schools in the Health
Disciplines Category (CSD
Speech Language Pathology is
50th; PHE Community Health
is 12th in the nation tied with
the University of Maryland
and University of Southern
California. Our doctoral pro-gram
in ESS is ranked 24th in
the nation by the American
Academy of Kinesiology and Physical
Education — tied with Purdue University).
Our externally funded research program has
grown from less than $500,000 in 2001 to more
than $2.5 million in 2005. Our faculty remain
at the forefront of classroom teaching and stu-dent
advising and recently led the university
in presentations at a prominent conference on
teaching excellence.
I am also pleased to report that our loyal
alumni are responding in grand fashion to
our call to support the HHP Students First
Campaign. Our growing scholarship pro-gram
– so critical to attracting and retaining
the top students – provided nearly $80,000
to 45 undergraduate and graduate students
this year. Elsewhere in this newsletter you
will find a report on our progress in the
Students First Campaign and a listing of the
new funds established since the inception of
the Campaign. I invite you to become part of
the evolution as we grow from the premier
program in physical education into one of
the nation’s preeminent schools of health and
human performance. As always, I welcome
your comments and suggestions and can be
reached by email at dhperrin@uncg.edu.
From Physical Education to Health and Human Performance
Dr. David Perrin
2005 School of HHP Distinguished Alumni Award
At the event, Dr. Joan Hult ’58,
received the 2005 School of HHP
Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr.
Hult has been a pioneer in the
modern movement for equality in
women’s intercollegiate sport in the
United States. As a faculty member
at Concordia College in Moorhead,
Minn. for 10 years (1958-1968), she
was the leader in establishing one of
the first women’s athletic conferences, the Minn-Koda
Women’s Intercollegiate Conference, which lasted until
the mid-1980s. For five years she served as president of
the conference while also coaching volleyball, basketball,
softball, tennis, and track and field. Additionally, she was
chair of the Department of Women’s Physical Education
and Athletics at the college.
Dr. Hult left coaching to teach in 1968. She also
worked with activists and politicians seeking to pass
and implement what would become Title IX of the
Educational Acts of 1972. She was an active member
of the newly organized Association for Intercollegiate
Athletics for Women (AIAW), serving as Chair of the
Ethics and Eligibility Committee, Chair of the Search
Committee for the Executive Director, and member of
the Executive Board. Following the demise of that orga-nization
in the early 1980s, she worked to preserve and
organize the archives of this important organization.
Also at the lecture, the following alumni were presented with
Department Alumni Awards:
Dance – Dr. Doug Risner ’88,
’90 MFA, ’01 PhD earned both his
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from
the Department of Dance. He also
holds a PhD from the Department of
Curriculum and Instruction. He cur-rently
serves as Chair and Associate
Professor in the Department of Dance
at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Since 1992, he has presented research across the country
and published actively in both books and journals. He
has served on the board of directors for the National
Dance Education Organization since 2003 and this year is
secretary for that organization’s executive committee.
Exercise and Sport Science –
Mary Joe Lentz ’69 is an exemplary
teacher, coach, administrator and
persuasive advocate for children and
female educators. Her pioneering
spirit and commitment to her beliefs
were hallmarks of her 34 years with
Guilford County Schools. In 1972,
she won a class action suit against
Greensboro City Schools resulting
in equal pay for female coaches, cafeteria workers, bus
drivers and custodians. In 1980 she became the second
female athletic director in the state. As principal of Jones
Elementary Spanish Immersion Magnet School, she was
honored with Principal of the Year Awards from the
NC Association of Educators in 1999 and the Visiting
International Faculty Program in Chapel Hill in 2000.
Recreation, Tourism, and
Hospitality Management –
Carla Kim McGlynn ’98 majored in
leisure studies with a concentration
in travel, tourism and commercial
recreation and a minor in business
administration. Upon graduation,
she served as a sales manager for
corporate accounts at Grandover
Resort and Conference Center. She
then began her first of two businesses. She helped found
Helms Briscoe (C. McGlynn and Associates) a profes-sional
meeting planning company. In 2000, she started
Planet Travel. Since graduating from UNCG, she has
remained closely affiliated with the department serving
on the department’s Professional Advisory Committee
and guest lecturing in classes.
Six Alumni Honored at 2005 Lawther Lecture
The 2005 Lawther Lecture marked the return of six alumni who have made significant contributions to
their field and enhanced the status of UNCG and the School of HHP.
The keynote speaker at the event was Dr. Mary Jo Kane, a professor in the School of Kinesiology and
Director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. An
internationally recognized scholar, Dr. Kane has published extensively on media representations of athletic
females. She is also considered one of the nation’s experts on the social and political implications of Title IX.
Dr. Kane gave a stimulating presentation on how female athletes are portrayed in the media.
Her presentation inspired discussion for several weeks after the lecture.
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S c h o o l o f H e a l t h a n d H u m a n P e r f o r m a n c e
ne of the most gratifying
aspects of being involved
in HHP’s Students First
Campaign (SFC) is how eager
former students and faculty of
HHP are to say “thank you”
for their experience and to the
school for being:
What it was.
What it is.
What it will become.
They have found different
ways to do this – through creat-ing
an endowed fund for use
today and tomorrow, donating
to an existing endowment or in
some cases setting up a current
fund to help today’s students
right now.
While past issues of
Horizons have featured many of
the school’s new endowments
since the SFC began in July
2004, perhaps seeing a compre-hensive
list will help you realize
just how enthusiastically HHP
is supported. Below we list new
funds since July 2004, some of
which are already supporting
today’s students and faculty.
Imagine, $4,766,542 given
or pledged to the school
since July 2004!
The range of donors is
equally impressive – alumni
over a 60-year span, friends,
parents, and current and former
faculty. In addition, gifts are to
be used for scholarships or fel-lowships,
student and faculty
research, personal need, service,
teaching and recruitment to
graduate school.
The commitment and
loyalty of these donors to the
school’s continued excellence
is gratifying and heartwarm-ing,
and the HHP family wants
you to know how much your
thoughtful generosity means.
It is our turn now to say:
“Thank You.”
Alumni and Faculty Say “Thank You” by Kate R. Barrett
NEW FUNDS
Karen Lux Scholarship
Loretta M. Williams Undergraduate Center for Women’s
Health and Wellness (CWHW) Research Fund
Theodore & Loretta M. Williams Fund for Arts Health
Dr. Ron G. Morrow Graduate Fellowship
The Marge Leonard Scholarship
School of HHP Undergraduate Research Award Fund
The Dean’s Student Advisory Council Scholarship
Sue Stinson Award in Dance
Ulrich Fund for the CWHW
Doris S. Tanger Fund for the CWHW
Caroline Furey Matney Fund for the CWHW
Alight Fund for Breast Cancer Survivorship
in the CWHW
PLANNED GIVING FUNDS
The Safrit Measurement in Research Fund
The Jo Anne Thorpe Scholar-Service Award
New Scholarships/Fellowships (Dean’s discretion)
Mary Jean Pyatt Scholarship in Dance
Araminta Little Distinguished Professorship
in the School of HHP
Martha Anne Jesnak Scholarship
Marjory W. Johnson Pre-Physical Therapy
Research Program Fund
Anonymous Alumni supporting existing
undergraduate scholarships
Figures for the Period Ended January 31, 2006
University Grand Total: $48,254,342
HHP’s Contribution
Total receipted gifts: $775,329
Total outstanding pledges: $80,133
Total planned gifts: $3,911,079
Grand total: $4,766,542
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UNCG's Goal is $78.2 million (during first five years)
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eptember 23, 1872, I was born in
a little log cabin on Hurricane
Creek in Surry County, North
Carolina. They named me
Phoebe Pegram.”
Raised on a farm, Phoebe
had five formal days of school-ing
before arriving at the
State Normal and Industrial
School. In the introduction
to “Something of Myself,”
Marjorie S. Mendenhall stated:
“The Normal School in those
early days must have been some-thing
of an experimental school in
which there was an endeavor to adapt
the pattern of formal education to the demands
of varied personality and opportunity.” Phoebe
Pegram’s acceptance is an example of this
philosophy.
Although she failed her entrance exam,
Phoebe was allowed to stay on a trial basis.
“By dint of early rising, against which there were
no rules, I passed at the end of the first semester in
all but four studies.”
In her second year, she discovered her
passion. “I especially enjoyed the Physical Culture
classes, in which I became efficient in swing-ing
Indian clubs and dumbbells, vaulting the
old horse at 60 inches and the rope at 5 feet 10
inches. I remained in school for six years. Two of
those years I was an assistant teacher in Physical
Culture.”
Phoebe’s hard work did not go unnoticed.
“May 17, 1897, Dr. J.L.M. Curry announced
that he wanted to give a medal to a girl whom
Dr. McIver and the faculty would name as deserv-ing.
Dr. McIver said that he thought that he spoke
the minds of the faculty when he named Phoebe
Pegram of Surry County. I was so overcome by the
applause and the words of advice from Dr. Curry
that my tongue as usual refused to make a sound.”
In the fall of 1898, Phoebe moved to Gastonia,
where she taught for three years. She met her
husband, Hillsman B. Baughan, and they had
two children. She named her son Charles after
Dr. McIver. Her daughter, Phoebe, attended
Woman’s College, graduating in 1927.
Phoebe Baughan’s life took a drastic
change sometime after the birth of her
children. While in southern Georgia,
she contracted malaria. Complications
arose which traditional physicians
could not address. Phoebe’s family
contacted an osteopath on recom-mendation
and, after a short course
of treatment, Phoebe recovered.
“A year later, I announced to my
husband that I wanted to know
something about osteopathy.
Mr. Baughan said, ‘Go to it,’ and I
did. I received my diploma in 1914. In
the time of the influenza epidemics at the
close of World War I, I was as busy as any
doctor and didn’t lose a patient. I have added to
my work massage and dietetics. I find that this
combination, along with what you think, will
eliminate most human ailments.”
After her husband retired, the couple settled
in Dillard, Ga., where they lived for 25 years.
“During those years, she practiced her professions
of osteopathy and chiropractic in the surround-ing
section of the country. She drove tirelessly
many miles through that mountainous region in
all kinds of weather to neighboring towns and
to isolated country homes, treating the sick and
giving them spiritual comfort and hope, as well.
She was known far and wide for her kindness to
the poor and needy, and was loved for the help
she could and did give to the sick and suffering.”
— Alumnae News, v. 44, no 2, Jan. ’56
After falling and fracturing her hip in
November 1955, Phoebe was hospitalized.
She died Dec. 4, 1955, at age 88.
For any questions regarding establishing or
contributing to a named scholarship, please
contact Sharon Storm Brown, Director of
Development, (336) 256-1481, ssbrown2@uncg.edu.
Phenomenal Women: The Graduates of WC Phoebe Baughan by Sharon Storm Brown
In 2002, the Peggy Pegram-Phoebe Baughan Barr Scholarship
was established by Eleanor Hopper to honor mother-daughter
graduates of Woman’s College. Phoebe Pegram graduated from
the State Normal and Industrial School in 1893 and Phoebe
Baughan Barr in 1927. The following is taken from “Something
of Myself, A Brief Autobiography” by Phoebe Pegram Baughan,
published in The Alumnae News, April, 1937.
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fter hiking the Appalachian Trail
while a student at UNCG, John Pugh
’01, a Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality
Management major, promised himself that he
would “do something cool” every five years.
That – combined with his desire to pro-mote
environmental protection and learn some-thing
about himself in the process – led him
on a 2,350-mile journey down the Mississippi
River last summer.
On May 14, 2005, Pugh and his girlfriend,
Jessica Robinson, launched their 18-foot canoe
from the river’s source, a creek flowing from
Lake Itasca in Minnesota. They spent more
than two months paddling 15 to 50 miles a day,
and camping at night, in an expedition they
called “Source to Sea.” The trip was designed
to raise awareness about the Audubon Society’s
Upper Mississippi campaign, which stresses the
environmental importance of the river and its
drainage basin.
They spent the last 150 miles of their jour-ney
off the Mississippi, opting instead to take
the Atachafalaya River, which was less con-gested.
They ended in Sweetbay Lake, LA.
“It was such a wonderful trip and experi-ence,”
says Pugh, 36. “I think about it every
day.”
As part of their mission to raise environ-mental
awareness, the couple gave numerous
media interviews during the trip. They were
featured in a segment on National Public
Radio and wrote a series of columns for the
Greensboro News & Record. Their Web site,
www.source2sea.info, has received more than
40,000 visits and counting.
“We want to help maintain the river and
its watershed as a place where people prosper,
and birds, fish and wildlife thrive in a healthy
environment,” Pugh wrote on the site.
The changing weather – and predicting it
– became a key challenge of the trip. When they
started, they battled cold, sleet, hail and flood-ing.
Midway through, they were faced with
sticky 100-degree days. Near the trip’s end,
they had to pull off the river for three days to
wait out Hurricane Dennis.
It would be the first of several hurricanes
to batter the area, a reality hard for Pugh to
imagine. “Just watching [television coverage
of] Katrina go through all those cities really
slapped me in the face,” Pugh says. “When you
spend 10 hours a day on the river, you get so
connected with that place. It was not easy to
deal with. My heart goes out to all those in that
area.”
Now back in Raleigh, Pugh is pursuing
his doctorate in parks, recreation and tour-ism
management at NC State. He also plans
to focus on writing – a book chronicling the
trip, along with an appendix of resources
about the river, is due out this summer.
He credits his experience at UNCG
with teaching him the value of out-reach
to the community as well as
the importance of writing about aca-demic
topics in a readable way.
In another five years he may
decide to do something cool again,
perhaps hike the Pacific Crest Trail
or mountain-bike the Continental
Divide Trail.
If nothing else, he and Robinson,
who are now engaged, hope their
efforts inspire others to “get outside
and play a little.”
“Ditch the TV and go for a walk.
Ditch the TV, at the very least. Get
muddy. Laugh in the rain. Live a
little.”
Mission on the Mississippi: HHP Alumnus Raises River Awareness
by Dawn Martin
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Dr. Margaret C. Lumpkin ’44 died in
December. She was 81.
Born in Franklinton, she received her
bachelor’s degree from Woman’s College,
her master’s degree from Wellesley College
and her doctorate in education from Oregon
State University. While at OSU she taught in
the School of Physical Education and later
in the School of Education. She retired from
teaching in 1985.
She was active in women’s issues on
campus and in the community in Oregon and
was instrumental in fighting for the rights of
women in athletics.
In Memorium
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Ellen Griffin Pro Am Changes
With a new format and new name, the
UNCG Ellen Griffin Pro Am for Breast Cancer
Survivorship raised $8,500 in corporate and
private sponsorships this year.
The event honors Ellen Griffin ’40 for
her contributions to UNCG and to golf. Funds
raised benefit the Ellen Griffin Fund, which
pays for the scholarship Ellen Griffin Spirit
Award and golf education in HHP, and also the
Alight Initiative for Breast Cancer Survivorship,
a new initiative of the Center for Women’s
Health and Wellness.
This year’s event included a banquet
on Sunday, Sept. 18, the evening before the
tournament. Sixty-four people attended the
inaugural “Honor the Legend” banquet to see
Marge Burns ’46 receive the LPGA 2004 Ellen
Griffin Rolex Award. The award is presented to
golf instructors who exhibit outstanding teach-ing.
Burns’ former students and friends were on
hand to tell stories of her earlier playing and
teaching days.
Mary Jones of The Alight Initiative also
spoke to the audience about breast cancer sur-vivorship
and women’s health.
On Sept. 19, the Pro-Am attracted 22
teams of amateurs who were paired with an
LPGA teaching professional. The five-person
teams played a captain’s choice best ball for-mat.
The winning score of -18 was posted by
Bob Christina, HHP dean emeritus, along with
Peggy Kirk Bell, Julie Cole, Steven Boyd and
Eric Schmitt.
The presenting sponsor was the Breast
Center of Greensboro Imaging. The contribut-ing
sponsors were The Center for Women’s
Health and Wellness and the University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center Golf Fitness
Laboratory at Pinehurst.
The event was previously called the Ellen
Griffin Pro Am.
Dr. Larry Lavender
ran off to join the
circus. But it was
only to teach there.
And he was back
after a couple of
days.
A professor
and the head of
the Department
of Dance, Lavender was invited to
teach at the National Circus School in
Montreal. The school trains dancers
and other artists to work in circuses
across the world, including the famed
Cirque du Soleil.
From March 13 to 15, Lavender
worked with students and instruc-tors
at the school using his “Creative
Process Mentoring” methods to teach
and develop students’ overall creative
skills rather than just ways to improve
a particular piece.
“There are ways to stimulate cre-ative
thinking,” he said. “And that’s
what the process mentoring methods
are designed for. The idea is to stand
beside and help students without
breaking their flow. I think it’s better
to do this than to just tell someone that
their piece is or is not good.”
Lavender and the other instructors
at the school helped coach circus school
students – not in a final project but in
the process of developing a conceptu-ally
complete artistic piece.
Traditionally, students at the circus
school have been taught the skills of
circus performers, but not the creative
and artistic skills to create narrative or
thematically-driven dances or pieces.
“The field is moving toward a
more theme-based, theatrical style,
and they want new ideas about that,”
Lavender said. “At the school, they are
trained to do things like rings or jug-gling
or wire skills. They aren’t trained
in the theatre, as we are, so they are
looking for people – like me – from
other arts to come in.”
Professor Takes Teaching Expertise to Circus School
John Pugh and his fiancee,
Jessica Robinson, paddled
a canoe 2,350 miles down
the entire length of the
Mississippi River to raise
awareness about the river's
environmental importance.
About the Mississippi River
The Mississippi River
drains 41 percent of the
United States.
It serves as a spring and
fall migratory route for
40 percent of the nation's
waterfowl.
Sixty percent of all
North American birds
(326 species) use the river
as a migratory flyway.
Name to Benefit Breast Cancer
hen Dr. Rosemary McGee accepted a
teaching position at Woman’s College in
1954, she came on the basis of a faculty recom-mendation.
She hadn’t had an interview or set
foot on the campus.
But something must have clicked – because
she’s remained in Greensboro for nearly 52 years.
“My motto is, ‘Do something for which you
have a passion,’” McGee says. “I really love teach-ing,
and I love teaching because I love working
with the students.”
McGee, who retired in 1988 after 34 years in
the classroom, has seen decades of change and
growth in what is now UNCG and the School of
HHP. In particular, she cites a dramatic increase
in options available for study
as well as additional fields and
buildings for instruction, recre-ation
and athletics.
She remembers when the
faculty was asked to vote about
whether to pursue Division 1
status in athletics. “A lot of the
faculty members were against
it. I voted for it because I knew
it would help us get better
facilities,” she says. “I don’t
think we’d be where we are
today if we had stayed a wom-an’s
college or if we hadn’t gone
Division 1 in athletics.”
McGee was also on the
building committee to redesign
and renovate the HHP building.
While the building is more extensive now, so
are the areas of study the school offers. “At one
time, if you wanted to be a physical education
teacher, you majored in physical education,” she
says. “Now all five departments in the School of
HHP offer three or four options for study.”
She imagines this level of choice would
be quite exciting for a student today. “It’s like
going to a cafeteria – you are bound to find
something you like,” she says.
McGee, who is from Texas, came to the
university to “come back south” after earn-ing
a bachelor’s degree from Southwest Texas
University, a master’s from Illinois State
University and a doctorate from the University
of Iowa. Her father had encouraged her to get
her advanced degree and loaned her the money
to do it. Once on her own, she paid him $100 a
month until the entire loan was paid off.
While at UNCG, she taught physical educa-tion
and swimming and pursued the specialized
field of measurement and evaluation. Her exper-tise
was in how physical education teachers could
measure or test their students’ accomplishments
in skills and knowledge. The textbook she co-authored,
"A Practical Approach to Measurement
in Physical Education," is in its fifth edition now.
She also served as acting Dean of Women
from 1966 to 1968 and as acting Dean of what is
now the School of HHP from 1979 to 1980.
The joy of working with her students – as
well as learning from outstanding university
leaders – kept her at the university for her entire
career. The late Ethel Martus Lawther, who was
the dean for 43 years, encouraged
her faculty to participate in univer-sity-
wide initiatives and join
committees, McGee says.
“She didn’t want us to sit
over here in the corner of cam-pus,
teaching ball, so to speak,”
McGee recalls. “I was on the
Library Committee. I was head of
the Curriculum Committee at one
time and also the Promotions and
Tenure Committee. Dean Lawther
was very instrumental in making
sure we were respected as an
academic field.”
McGee also helped garner
this respect by working to build
the graduate degree programs in
physical education. She was an adviser on more
than 60 master’s degree theses and 30 doctoral
dissertations and served on numerous other
graduate student committees. She now has two
scholarships named after her – one in teacher
education and one in sports medicine.
“Working with the students was always
my primary focus,” she says.
While she doesn’t teach physical education
any more, McGee strives to keep fit. At 79, she
plays golf, goes fishing, walks and takes an
exercise class twice a week. (Both her parents
lived to be 99.) She also enjoys woodworking.
But she probably gets the most enjoyment from
seeing those whom she has taught over the years.
“I go to reunions and to our women’s
basketball games, and I see people there,” she
says. “It’s always a thrill to see your former
students.”
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Faculty News
UNCG Professor Lends Hand to
American Heart Association
Dr. Paul Davis, an assistant
professor in the Department
of Exercise and Sport
Science, has volunteered
to be a spokesman for the
American Heart Association’s
local Heart Walk.
Davis specializes in the
area of exercise physiology.
His research centers around the effects of
exercise on cardiovascular disease, so he’s a
natural fit with the American Heart Association,
which seeks to lower the number of deaths
caused by the disease. Davis’ work has been
funded by numerous agencies, including the
National Institutes of Health. He is a member of
the American Heart Association and a fellow of
the American College of Sports Medicine.
Davis has been a member of the UNCG faculty
since 2000.
The Guilford Heart and Stroke Walk will
begin at 8 a.m. June 10 at Country Park,
3905 Nathanael Greene Drive in Greensboro.
For more information, call the association
at 668-0167.
Hooper Honored by National
Professional Organization
Dr. Celia Hooper, a
professor and head
of the Department of
Communication Sciences
and Disorders, has been
recognized by the national
professional organization
that she helped lead for
three years.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association honored Hooper at its annual meet-ing
in November. More than 11,000 delegates
attended.
The association recognized Hooper for her
three-year term as vice president for professional
practices in speech-language pathology. During
her term, she started the vice-president’s coor-dinating
committee on evidence-based practice.
The committee created the National Center for
Evidence-based Practice.
The national organization for speech,
hearing and language professionals has more
than 120,000 members.
In January, Dr.
Beverly Rockhill
joined the UNCG
faculty as an asso-ciate
professor in
the Department
of Public Health
Education.
She received her PhD in epide-miology,
with a minor in biostatistics,
from UNC Chapel Hill in 1997. That
year, she was awarded the prize for
best student paper from the Society
for Epidemiologic Research.
After completing her doctorate,
she went to Harvard Medical School
for a postdoctoral fellowship in cancer
prevention. While at Harvard, she
conducted research into the relation-ship
between physical activity and
risk for breast cancer, and physical
activity and total mortality. She also
evaluated the accuracy of breast can-cer
risk-prediction models.
Her recent research has focused
on the limits of statistical models in
achieving accuracy in risk screening
for future disease, and the implica-tions
of these limits for primary
prevention and for communicating
risk to patients. She also is beginning
new research into the limits of the
traditional public health model when
considering the pressing questions of
ecological degradation and environ-mental
decline.
She received her bachelor’s
degree in sociology from Princeton
University, and a master’s degree in
demography from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Dr. David L. Wyrick
’98 MPH, ’02 PhD,
has joined the
Department of
Public Health
Education as an
associate professor.
His research and
program interests are focused on
alcohol and other drug prevention,
primarily at the college and high
school levels, and survey research
methods related to the collection of
sensitive information. He earned his
bachelor’s degree in Exercise and
Sport Science from Elon University
before doing his graduate work at
UNCG. He has been involved as
a principal investigator, co-inves-tigator,
or evaluator for more than
10 National Institute of Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism and National
Institute of Drug Abuse grants. He
has authored academic papers on
survey methodology, drug prevention
and distance education. Dr. Wyrick
is the chair-elect for the Early Career
Preventionist Network, serves as a
reviewer for "Prevention Science" and
is a member of the Guilford Health
Partnership.
Dr. Muhsin Michael
Orsini is a research
associate and lectur-er
in the Department
of Public Health
Education.
He has experi-ence
teaching and
learning in a variety of contexts
involving diverse subjects, settings,
and populations.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in
psychology from Campbell University,
a master’s degree in teaching from the
New School for Social Research, and
an EdD in curriculum and instruction
from UNC Chapel Hill.
Before his formal education, he
served as a chaplain assistant with
the 82nd Airborne Division and par-ticipated
in Operation Urgent Fury,
Grenada, West Indies.
He also served as a teacher
assistant at South Bronx Headstart,
information specialist at the National
STD Hotline, a high-school social
studies teacher, adviser and instruc-tor
at the Teaching Fellows Program
of UNC-CH, evaluation specialist at
the School of Education of UNC-CH
and adjunct lecturer at UNC-CH and
UNCG.
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ESS Alumnus Receives Scholarship
to Attend National Conference
Gary Martin ’04 was awarded the Amy Carroll
and Sherry Little Memorial NCAAHPERD
Convention Scholarship at the 2005 confer-ence.
Martin is an alumnus of the Department
of Exercise and Sport Science.
The scholarship provides funds for reg-istration
fees, lodging, travel and expenses
to attend the North Carolina Alliance for
Athletics, Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance Convention. Each
scholarship includes $400 for convention
attendance.
The scholarship serves as a memorial
for Amy Carroll and Sherry Little. Both were
physical educators who died while en route to
the 1990 NCAAHPERD Convention.
ESS Alumna Named
Elementary Teacher of the Year
Alamance Elementary School teacher Kim
Berg, ’89, ’00 MS, was named the Guilford
County Schools’ Elementary School Teacher
of the Year for 2005. She received a $500 cash
award.
Kim has taught physical education for
the past 16 years at Alamance Elementary. She
strongly believes that as a physical education
teacher, she is able to teach the “whole child.”
She strives to teach her students the impor-tance
of being involved in lifelong fitness.
Sun Trust sponsors the awards program,
also called the Gold Star Teacher of the
Year Awards, in 15 North Carolina school
systems each year. Guilford County Schools
is the third largest school district in North
Carolina, serving more than 68,700 students
at 112 schools.
ESS Alumnus Wins Dissertation Award
Dr. Larry Lauer ‘98 MS ‘05 PhD has received
national recognition for his disserta-tion,
“Playing Tough and Clean Hockey:
Developing Emotional Management Skills
to Reduce Individual Player Aggression.”
Lauer’s research received the 2006
Dissertation Award from the Sport and
Exercise Psychology Academy of the National
Association for Sports and Physical Education.
Dr. Lauer will present a 15-minute over-view
of his dissertation findings and how
Alumni News
Yarborough Receives 2005 Alumni Distinguished Service Award
Ellen Strawbridge Yarborough ’55,
’83 PhD received the 2005 UNCG
Alumni Distinguished Service
Award in recognition of her service
to the community.
“Few individuals can match the
life of service to others that Ellen
Strawbridge Yarborough embod-ies,”
writes Frances Campbell ’55 in
her nomination statement. “Ellen’s
accomplishments have not led to
national fame or prominence. More
importantly, her professional life
has been dedicated to serving others
within her community – meeting
the needs of the least, the most vul-nerable,
the lost and the troubled.
She has helped and comforted indi-viduals
needing guidance and coun-sel.
In microcosm, she has shown us
all how to create a better world.”
After earning a bachelor’s
degree in physical education from
Woman’s College, Ellen began
working with the YWCA, which
she served in both High Point and
Winston-Salem. She also worked in
mediation, counseling and health
education with Forsyth-Stokes
Mental Health Department, the
Children’s Home and the March of
Dimes.
She earned a master’s degree
in education from Wake Forest
University in 1978, a second mas-ter’s
degree in education from the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
in England in 1980 and a PhD in
family relations and child develop-ment
from UNCG in 1983.
Ellen held adjunct faculty posi-tions
at Livingston College and
Winston-Salem State University.
In addition, Ellen is a per-manent
deacon in full connection
in the United Methodist Church.
She served as the minister for
church and community at Green
Street United Methodist Church.
Currently, she continues to work
as a clinician at the Trinity Center,
where she handles conflict transfor-mation;
mediation for individuals,
families and groups; divorce media-tion;
and family therapy.
As her classmate writes, “This
woman’s influence has touched
almost the whole spectrum of
human experience, covering as it
does, her service to others from the
prenatal period through old age,
from recreation to the life of the
spirit. Always Ellen has been there
– caring, counseling, providing ser-vice
and acquiring new skills that
enable her to serve more fully and
effectively.”
Faculty News
HHP Faculty Present
at Lilly South Conference
Nine HHP faculty members recently presented
at the 2006 Lilly South Conference on College
and University Teaching. The conference
was held at the Joseph S. Koury Convention
Center on Feb. 17 to 19.
The presentations included:
“Student Teams: The Good, the Bad, and
the Ever Hopeful” — Dr. Jerrie Hsieh, an
assistant professor of hospitality and tourism
management, and Dr. Bonnie Canziani, an
associate professor in hospitality and tourism
management.
“Documenting Teaching Effectiveness in a
Team Based Clinical Education Program: A
System of Checks and Balances” — Vicki
McCready, APT professor of communication
sciences and disorders; Louise Raleigh and
Lyn Mankoff, both APT assistant professors
in communication sciences and disorders.
“Diversity in Communication: Should it
change the way we teach?” — Ninevah
Murray, APT assistant professor in communi-cation
sciences and disorders.
“Embodiment and Connection in Online
Learning” — Dr. Sue Stinson, professor of
dance, and Dr. Ann Dils, associate professor
of dance.
“More Than Just a Game: A Behind-the-
Scenes Look at Using Games as a Teaching
and Learning Strategy” — Dr. Erick Byrd, an
assistant professor in hospitality and tourism
management (with Dr. Barbi Honeycutt, a
professor at NC State.)
Lilly Conferences are retreats that combine
workshops, discussion sessions and major
addresses, with opportunities for informal
discussion about excellence in college and
university teaching and learning. Internation-ally
known scholars join new and experienced
faculty members and administrators from
all over the world to discuss topics such as
gender differences in learning, incorporating
technology into teaching, encouraging critical
thinking, using teaching and student portfolios,
implementing group learning, and evaluating
teaching.
Communication Sciences and Disorders – Dr. Angela
Bright Pearson ’87, ’90 MS, received both her bachelor’s and
dual master’s degrees in speech language pathology and audi-ology
at UNCG. She earned her doctorate in audiology at the
University of Florida. She has established a private practice
in Sanford and Siler City which provides speech and hearing
services. She is active in teaching and research, presenting on
the topics of hearing aids, cochlear implants, aural rehabilita-tion,
hearing loss, and the syntactic features of Black English
in children.
Public Health Education – Regina McCoy Pulliam ’98 MPH
has taught numerous courses for undergraduates since join-ing
the faculty in 1998. She has supervised the undergraduate
field placement in the Department of Public Health Education.
In that role, she has assessed organizational needs, developed
internship placements, and managed 60 to 85 student field-work
placements per year. She has also prepared students for
their fieldwork placements by training them in community
assessment, grant writing, work plan development, program
planning, project trouble-shooting, workplace skills, materials
development and cultural competence.
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they relate to the association’s mission
at the 2006 convention of the American
Alliance for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance in Salt Lake City
in April.
The dissertation award recognizes
student research that has the greatest
potential for making a significant contri-bution
to the knowledge base in sports
psychology.
Alumna Promoted to Management
Position at Forsyth County Department
of Public Health
Quintana Clinard ’01 is the new director
of emergency response and communica-tions
for the Forsyth County Department
of Public Health.
Quintana has been an employee
of the department for four years,
initially as a health educator. For the
last three years, she has been a health
education specialist. She has served as
the coordinator of the Forsyth County
Healthy Community Coalition, and
she has played a leadership role in the
successful effort to have the coalition
certified as a Healthy Carolinians
initiative.
In her new position, she will be
a member of the department’s senior
management team.
Alumnus Receives National Award
James Worsley ’00, MS ’03, the select pop-ulation
coordinator with Mecklenburg
County Park and Recreation, received
the National Association of Counties’
2005 Achievement Award for “Journeys
in Discovery.” The award recognizes the
development of an innovative program
that enhances county government in the
United States.
Worsley is a graduate of the depart-ment
of Recreation, Tourism, and
Hospitality Management.
He also received the 2005 Innovative
Program Award from the North Carolina
Recreation and Park Association for the
development of the Young Achievers
Program at Mecklenburg County Park
and Recreation.
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NCG hosted the Graduate Research in the Arts Today (GReAT) conference on April 21
and 22, 2006 at various venues on campus.
The conference included opening ceremonies, presentations, panels and a keynote address by
Ellen Dissanayake, an independent scholar, writer and lecturer who considers arts to be part of
the elemental human experience and human nature. Her books include “What is Art For?” (1988),
“Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Why” (1992) and “Art & Intimacy: How the Arts
Began” (2000), all of which are published by the University of Washington Press.
Since 2002, Ellen Dissanayake has been a visiting scholar at the Walter Chapin Simpson Center
for the Humanities at the University of Washington in Seattle.
“This conference will celebrate curiosity, imagination and excellence in graduate arts and arts-related
curricula, creative work and scholarship at UNCG,” said Dr. Larry Lavender, head of the
UNCG Department of Dance and GReAT conference coordinator. “Knowing that we are stronger
together than we are apart, faculty and graduate students in the arts and arts-related disciplines
seek to build new bridges between and among their respective areas and with off-campus partners
in the community.”
UNCG Hosts Arts Research Conference
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