Meet the new dance
faculty
Alumni receive
Lawther Awards
CSD laboratory
sees improvements
Two HHP Graduates
enter UNCG Athletics
Hall of Fame
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Inside
horizons
It affects 3 to 6
million Americans,
but many people
have never heard
its name.
Fibromyalgia,
a syndrome that
causes widespread
muscle pain and
is often associ-ated
with chronic
fatigue, was first
identified in the
1980s. Diagnosed
based on 18 tender
points, the pain
often manifests
itself in the shoul-ders,
neck, lower
back and hips.
Beyond the muscle discomfort, sufferers
may also experience symptoms of depression,
non-restorative sleep, migraines, irritable bowels,
cognitive deficits and heightened sensitivity to
light, sound and odors. Because of the multitude
of symptoms, those with the condition are often
on many medications, yet because fibromyalgia
has not yet been classified as a disease, they have
trouble collecting disability.
For the past five years, Dr. William Karper
(ESS) has been studying the effects of exercise
on the pain associated with fibromyalgia. Karper
and graduate assistant Carlynn Murrell lead a
one-hour exercise session weekdays at the School
of Health and Human Performance. The women
attend as they are able, often three to five times
a week, with the total group size at about 10 par-ticipants.
The sessions
begin with a warm-up
walk before the
women head to a
small exercise room
on the third floor.
Belying their internal
pains, the women
giggle and banter as
they take their seats.
Each numbered chair
represents a differ-ent
exercise and each
woman uses indi-vidually
assigned
weights. Their move-ments
are fluid and
dance-like. When one
exercise concludes,
they move to the next station to lift more weight,
stretch on the mats or do squats against a wall.
“These exercises are designed to make them
stronger, without hurting them,” said Karper,
who designed the exercise regimen.
He has published articles based on his work
in Clinical Nurse Specialist, North Carolina
Medical Journal, Fitness Management and
Perspective. Karper has received hundreds of
calls about his unique program, which also pro-vides
education and resource support.
“I was having trouble getting out of a couch
and now I don’t have to brace myself with my
hand,” said Pat Raynor, who has been coming to
the exercise classes for three years.
Others said the comradeship is what keeps
them coming back.
Professor leads way in fibromyalgia studies
Dea Aune, of Greensboro, takes part in an exercise pro-gram
lead by UNCG’s Dr. William Karper. The exercise
program is for women with fibromyalgia.
Calendar
of Events
Spring 2004
HHP Honors Banquet -
Tuesday, March 30, 7 p.m.
Cone Ballroom, Elliott
University Center
AAHPERD Social -
Friday, April 2. Held at the
AAHPERD Convention,
New Orleans, La.,
March 30 - April 3
HHP Graduation
Ceremony - Friday, May 14,
2:30 p.m. Fleming Gym,
HHP Building
HHP Alumni Breakfast -
Saturday, May 15, 7:30 a.m.
Cone Ballroom
Dance
Concerts
Prime Movers Concert -
Jan. 23-24
MFA Thesis Concerts -
• Elizabeth Longphre -
Feb. 13-14
• Lily Culp - Feb. 20-21
• Erin Brown Craven -
Feb. 27-28
• Nicole Laliberté -
March 19-20
• Alice Holland - April 2-3
Spring Departmental
Concert - April 15-17
BFA Thesis Concerts -
April 23-24 and
April 30 - May 1
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Message from the Dean
In the spring issue of Horizons, I men-tioned
the appointment of two key peo-ple
in the School of HHP: Jane Harris,
instructional technology consultant, and
Keith Howell, our first director of
research. I am pleased to report the
impact of these appointments is already
being felt throughout the school.
This fall, 30 faculty are working with
Jane to integrate new instructional tech-nologies
into their classroom teaching. Several
faculty are enhancing their courses with discus-sion
online. They report that students demon-strate
deeper thinking and that they read and
learn from each other’s messages. Faculty also
report that this activity enables them to know
more about their students’ relative understand-ing
of course content. This has caused them to
make appropriate adjustments. Other faculty
have created and posted compressed, narrated
PowerPoint lectures. They report students like
the online lectures because they can listen to
them more than once. We have also acquired a
new wireless laptop cart that has been used in
many classes this fall for online searching, group
work and as an orientation to Blackboard, a
course management software. Jane’s expertise
and the enthusiasm of our faculty have moved
us to the cutting edge of instructional technology
in the classroom.
Our productivity in obtaining external fund-ing
to support the HHP research enterprise dou-bled
from the 2001-02 to 2002-03 academic years,
to nearly $800,000 in 2002-03. Under Keith’s lead-ership,
we have already obtained nearly $600,000
of external funding from federal agencies and
private foundations in just the first quarter of the
2003-04 academic year. We have also submitted
proposals for external funding with other faculty
from across campus, and in partnership with
other institutions of higher learning.
Some examples are:
• “Does Masculine Ideology Correlate with
HIV Risk Behavior?,” submitted in August to the
National Science Foundation by Bob Aronson,
assistant professor of public health education and
Willie Baber, professor of anthropology in the
College of Arts and Sciences, is pending approval.
• Paul Davis, assistant professor of exercise
and sport science recently submitted a proposal
to the National Institutes of Health titled,
“Exercise Dose and Metabolic Risk Factors in
Young Women.” This is a collaborative project
between UNCG and North Carolina A&T State
University.
• Paige Smith, associate professor of public
health education has a pending proposal with
the U.S. Health Resources and Services
Administration, titled “Breastfeeding Needs
Assessment Questionnaire Development.” This is
a partnership with West Virginia University,
UNC Chapel Hill and health care agencies in
Atlanta and North Carolina.
I hope you will visit our web page at
www.uncg.edu/hhp to learn more about these and
other exciting projects and initiatives underway
in the School of Health and Human Performance.
I wish you a happy holiday season and healthy
New Year.
“The other women understand. They know
what you’re experiencing and you’re accepted,”
said Cheryl Barlow, a five-year participant.
Despite his positive results, Karper’s efforts
have so far been largely unfunded.
“It is hard for me to get funded because I
break a lot of the rules. You have to with this
population,” he said. “Their conditions change
over time so it is hard to have controlled condi-tions.
I have to roll with the punches and test
when they’re feeling good.”
This year Karper hopes to take his studies
to the next level with help from HHP’s new
Office of Research. He and assistant professor
Dr. Kathy Jamieson (ESS) are utilizing the ser-vice
offered by Dr. Keith Howell, director of
research, in order to apply for a grant from the
National Institutes of Health. The office helps
faculty seek grants to support their work.
If funded, the study will replicate Karper’s
current program, comparing it with two
controlled conditions over six months. There
will be a group that receives exercise, education
and resource support; a group that receives the
education and resource support without exer-cise;
and a group that receives no portion of the
program. After six months, all subjects will
receive the total program for six additional
months. Jamieson will study the non-exercise
portion to see if any non-exercise factors might
affect the outcome.
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Center for Women’s Health and Wellness
benefits from alumna’s generosity
The Center for Women’s Health and Wellness is off to a healthy start,
as an alumna and former faculty member of the School of Health and
Human Performance has made a gift to aid in its mission.
Celeste Ulrich ‘46 has established the Ulrich Fund for the Center for
Women’s Health and Wellness in the memory of her parents, Frank and
Adele Ulrich.
The discretionary fund will go toward accomplishing the center’s
goals of establishing a professorship, a faculty research grant program, an
annual symposium, a newsletter and a graduate fellowship.
After graduating from Woman’s College (now UNCG), Celeste
went on to a distinguished career as an administrator, teacher, author
and inspirational speaker. She earned her doctorate at the University of
Southern California in 1956 and was a member of the first graduate fac-ulty
in UNCG’s Department of Exercise and Sport Science. She taught at
UNCG from 1956 through 1979. For the next 11 years, she was professor
and dean of the College of Human Development and Performance at the
University of Oregon. She retired in 1990.
Among her many awards are the Honor Award from the North
Carolina and Southern District of the American Association of Health,
Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAPHERD), Gulick Award
from AAHPERD and the Distinguished Administrator Award from the
National Association for Physical Education in Higher Education. She
was the first recipient of the School of Health and Human Performance
Distinguished Alumni Award in 1977 and also received UNCG’s
Distinguished Service Award in 1980.
Pro-Am celebrates
10th Aniversary
The School of
Health and Human
Performance hosted
its 10th annual Ellen
Griffin Seminar and
Pro-Am, Sunday and
Monday, Sept. 7-8.
The seminar was
held Sunday at the
Elliott University Center
Auditorium. Dorothy
Germain, who played
on the LPGA tour from
1974-89 and served as
its president in 1983, joined Mary Beth McGirr, the 1995 LPGA National
Coach-of-the-Year, for a tribute to Ellen Griffin. Griffin, a Class of 1940
alumna and former faculty member, co-founded the Women’s Golf
Association. This association was the foundation for the LPGA.
Also during the seminar, Patti Benson presented the 2002 Ellen Griffin
Rolex Award. Benson is the current LPGA Teaching and Club Pros Division
National President. The distinguished lecturer was Annette Thompson ’66,
the 2002 Rolex Award winner and a master professional since 1978.
The golf clinic and tournament was held at Stoney Creek Golf Club on
Monday and attracted 145 players and 29 golf professionals.
Next year’s Pro-Am will be held Sept. 13. For more information, call
Mary Ann Sensebaugh at (336) 334-5744.
Dr. Lyn Lawrance, an associate professor of public health
education at UNCG, has been named the university’s new
associate provost for international programs. Lawrance
had served as associate dean for the School of Health and
Human Performance since 1997.
A member of the faculty since 1985, she has been ex-tremely
active in the expansion of international opportuni-ties
for faculty and students. Lawrence served as chair of
the UNC Exchange Program faculty advisory committee
for Australia, as well as program coordinator for UNCG’s
bilateral exchange program with Australia. In addition, she
was an active member of the committee that drafted the
report on “The Future of International Programs 2003-
2008.”
Lawrance began her new position in August and suc-ceeds
Dr. Charles Lyons, who founded UNCG’s Interna-tional
Programs Center 11 years ago.
Professor Karen “Pea” Poole was chosen as the recipient
of the Teaching Excellence award due to her ability to suc-cessfully
teach a wide range of courses and for continuing
to search for new and creative teaching methodologies to
enhance students’ motivation, interest and success within
the learning environment.
The inaugural presentation of the Gail M. Hennis
Graduate Faculty Teaching Excellence Award was given
to professor Leandra Bedini. The award was established
through the generosity of UNCG alumni Dr. Jerry Tolley and
his wife Joan. Bedini was chosen for this award due to her
innovative teaching and strong mentoring of students, both
while at UNCG and after they have graduated.
Five inductees, including two graduates of the School of
Health and Human Performance, entered the UNCG
Athletics Hall of Fame Sept. 27. Comprising the hall’s
fourth class were: student-athletes Mike Sweeney, Ellie
Jones and Donna Friesen Wigton, former Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs James H. Allen and longtime supporter
Elizabeth House.
Ellie B. Jones graduated with a B.S. in physical
education in 1973. She excelled in three demanding sports
for the university - field hockey, basketball and tennis. She
was ranked the top player on the tennis team for three
seasons and held the No. 1 rank in North Carolina, Maryland
and Georgia. Ellie won the National Invitational Collegiate
Tournament in Chapel Hill her senior year. Today, she is the
head tennis professional at Forty West Racquet Club in
Cantonsville, Md. She continues to win championships,
including most recently, the 2002 Club Championship at
Forest Park Golf Course in Baltimore, Md.
Donna Friesen Wigton graduated with a B.S. in physical
education in 1974. She served as team co-captain for
volleyball her senior year and received the best offensive
player award. In 1996, she worked at the Olympic Games in
Atlanta as part of the officiating team for volleyball. In addi-tion,
she has continued to play competitively, participating in
the U.S. Volleyball Association’s (USVBA) Gold Medal 30-and-over
team in the 1987 Open, the USVBA’s Bronze Medal 40-
and-over team in the 1992 Open and the USBVA Nationals
50-and-over team in the 2002 Open. Donna is an elementary
physical education teacher in Colorado Springs.
Lawrance to lead
Bedini and Poole Receive
Teaching Awards
Jones and Wigton enter UNCG
Athletics Hall of Fame
Helping to make the Ellen Griffin Pro-Am a
success were, left to right: André Martin,
Dot Germain, Mary Beth McGirr, Annette
Thompson and Patti Benson.
International Programs
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Basketball coach calls final timeout
JOE BATES
THE JOURNAL STAR
Lorene Ramsey ‘63 MEd
long ago established she
was an exceptional coach.
Monday, March 31, she
proved she’s good at keep-ing
a secret.
More than five months
after handing in her final
resignation as Illinois
Central College (ICC)
women’s basketball coach,
Ramsey made it public
knowledge that the 2002-03
season was her finale at a
news conference in the gymnasium foyer.
The winningest women’s basketball coach at
any collegiate level, Ramsey, 66, retired with a
career record of 887-197 in
33 seasons. The next ICC
coach will inherit a 28-game
winning streak and quite a
legacy to follow.
In June 2000, Ramsey
took a place among the
sport’s elite when she was
part of the second class
inducted in the Women’s
Basketball Hall of Fame in
Knoxville, Tenn. She has
won national coach-of-the-year
honors five times, has
coached 22 all-Americans
and has helped her players
earn more than $2 million in scholarships to four-year
colleges and universities.
Lorene is the winningest women’s
basketball coach at any collegiate level.
Communication professor practiced what she preached
“I was always impressed by the breadth of the relationship I had with my students - friendship, Emerita faculty member Dr. Mariana Newton
knew there was something strange about the
nuns on her front step that night, but she ducked
back inside to retrieve a donation in spite of her
reservations. Then she heard rustling and gig-gling
outside. When she returned to the door, she
realized the habits of the three nuns were made
of crepe paper and a group of her students
jumped out from hiding. The prank was a refer-ence
to the nuns who enrolled in Newton’s class-es
in the summer.
“We had a Halloween party right there on the
spot,” Newton recalled. “I was always impressed
by the breadth of the relationship I had with my
students - friendship, mentoring, play and laugh-ing.
It wasn’t just in the classroom.”
When she retired in 2000 from the
Department of Communication Sciences and
Disorders, approximately 150 well-wishers came
to her retirement party.
“She cared about you but she’d give it to
you straight,” recalled Dr. Celia Hooper, a former
student of Mariana and new department head
for CSD.
Yet, the professor known for her playful atti-tude
and devotion to her students wasn’t missed
for long.
Just two years after she retired, she was invit-ed
back to UNCG to serve as interim department
head. With the hiring of Hooper this fall, Newton
retired for the second time.
Now assisting Hooper with the transition and
active with special projects for Dean Dave Perrin,
she is working on her third retirement. She uses
her expertise as a consultant for improving com-munication
with the elderly. Newton talks to
businesses, churches and support groups about
the special considerations the aging need as they
lose their hearing, become ill or find themselves
alone without familiar communication partners.
A native of Wyoming, Newton came to
UNCG in 1969. She chaired the gerontology pro-gram
for six years, as well as served as chair-woman
for the faculty senate. Her early interest
was in children with neurological and physical
impairments, such as cerebral palsy. She used
technology to create augmented communication
systems, which would create voice outputs when
people with disabilities typed in the words.
The value of communication was a passion
she practiced as well as taught. As her students
graduated and spread across the nation, Newton
made sure their relationships lasted beyond the
college campus.
“Communication is the glue of social relation-ships,”
Newton said, “and if it breaks down
those relationships break down as well.”
E x e r c i s e a n d S p o r t S c i e n c e
Alumni news
fall 2003 page 5
friendship, mentoring, play and laughing.” —Dr. Mariana Newton
Sheila Bogan ’98 MPH is
now the health promotion
and disease prevention
director for the Forsyth
County Department of Pub-lic
Health Education.
Connie (Spadanuta) Brown
’69 has opened a sports
and leisure complex in
Vilamoura, Portugal, with
her husband, Alan. The
complex caters to profes-sional
teams and occasion-al
sportsmen. The facility
includes four golf courses
and residential training
programs.
Becki Davis ’01 MEd was
one of two finalists for
Guilford County’s Rookie
Secondary Teacher of the
Year. Davis, who is in her
second year of coaching
and teaching physical edu-cation
at Western Guilford
High School, wrote three
essays about her manage-ment
style, recommenda-tions
to other new teachers
and teaching activities for
the year. The winner of the
award was selected by
the Greensboro Chamber
of Commerce and Doris
Henderson’s Office of New
Teacher Development.
Lisa Toé Dubili ’01 the AHA
training center coordinator
and health educator at the
Moses Cone Health System
recently married Fred Dubili
from Germany.
Shannon Holt ’02 MPH is
now the Triad regional di-rector
for the Make-A-Wish
Foundations of Central and
Western North Carolina, Inc.
Robin Lester ’91, ’00 MPH
and Alicia Beck ’02, the
2002 Priscilla M. Gowen
awardee, are working for
Point 4 the Future in the
School of Nursing at UNCG.
Alicia married Michael
Perham, a research and de-velopment
chemist at PPG
Industries, in October.
Ninevah Murray ’74, speech-language
pathologist in
the Wake County Schools
and legislative councilor,
American Speech-Lan-guage-
Hearing Association
(ASHA), is being honored
as a 2003 ASHA Fellow
at the annual meeting in
Chicago in November.
Amanda Shoe ’02, physi-cal
education teacher at
Lindley and Sternberger
elementary schools, was
honored in May at the
N.C. Alliance for Athletics,
Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance Con-vention.
Shoe was one of
two teachers in the state to
win the Amy Carroll/Sherry
Little Convention Scholar-ship
Award. The award
honors physical education
teachers who have been
teaching five years or fewer
and demonstrate quality
programs.
Louise Raleigh ’83 MEd, a
CSD faculty member, is the
new president-elect
of the North Carolina As-sociation
of Supervisors in
Speech, Language and
Hearing.
Faculty member Lyn
Mankoff ’75, ’85 MA, is
president-elect of the North
Carolina Speech-Hearing-
Language Association.
Celeste Bell ’03 landed an
internship with the Ladies
Professional Golf Associa-tion.
Kristy Norton ’02 is cur-rently
UNCG’s assistant
softball coach and a
master’s degree student in
socio-historical studies.
Lavon Williams ’96 PhD has
just completed her three-year
term as vice president
for research for the National
Association for Girls and
Women in Sport.
Taitym Benesch, who was enrolled in exercise and sport
science as a senior undergraduate student, passed
away April 20.
Obituaries
Barrett receives Distinguished Service award
In May, the School of Health and Human Performance awarded retired
professor Dr. Kate Barrett its Distinguished Service Award.
Barrett has served UNCG devotedly since her arrival on campus in
1970. She spent 18 years as a professor of physical education and served
four years as the director of teacher education in the School of Education.
In 1984, she was the recipient of the UNCG Alumni Association’s Teaching
Excellence Award. Her expertise is in the areas of physical education for
children, motor development and the development of sports skills.
An educator with wide interests, Barrett endowed the university with
the Kay Brown Barrett Theatre for Youth Scholarship Fund in memory
of her mother. Barrett has also established the Kate R. Barrett Student
Professional Development Fund. She is also leading an effort to collect
china plates for official functions at the Chancellor’s residence. The plates,
which feature pictures of campus landmarks such as Foust Building and
the Alumni House, were sold to students in the 1940s and ’50s.
Barrett completed her undergraduate studies at Wellesley College and
Bouve-Boston School. A field hockey and lacrosse athlete, she was induct-ed
into the Northeastern University Athletic Hall of Fame as a Boston-
Bouve alumna in 1976. She earned her graduate degrees at the University
of Wisconsin – Madison.
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Q&A with New Faculty
The Department of Dance welcomes two new faculty members this year —
Robin Gee and Anne Burnidge. Learn some of the professors’ unique perspectives on
dance in the following Q&A.
Robin Gee - A full-time faculty member, she is teaching African and modern dance
forms, dance history and dance appreciation. Gee holds a Master of Fine Arts in Modern
Dance/Choreography and Performance from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY.
Her performing experience includes gigs with Asase` Yaa Dance Company (dancer
and choreographer), Bossikole Percussion Ensemble (dancer/musician), Maimouna
Keita African Dance Company (principal dancer) and Brooklyn Academy of Music’s
DanceAfrica (dancer/choreographer, in conjunction with Chuck Davis).
She has lectured on African dance technique at several colleges and was a visiting
artist at The Ohio State University and Greenwich Academy, Connecticut.
What makes your approach to teaching unique?
African dancers are considered part artist, part historian and part researcher. My con-temporary
classes are an attempt to take the basis of that African experience and create a
new voice. That voice is rooted in my interest in the fusion of contemporary jazz, hip hop
and modern vernaculars.
What are your research interests outside the dance studio?
The cultural events that sustain traditional dance are changing and subsequently the
dances, music and visual arts are being lost. As an artist I am interested in both the docu-mentation
of traditional work as well as the use of new technology to make accessible
the sophisticated, influential cultures of Western Africa and the Americas. I have recently
developed, in conjunction with associates at The Ohio State University, “Feche,” a DVD
ROM that documents the dance and music of Senegal. The multimedia capabilities of
DVD video are used to interweave Senegalese music dance and text and are presented as
a way of acknowledging the fact that these forms that have been traditionally preserved
and conveyed orally. It is my desire to continue to use adaptive technology in the devel-opment
of coursework and creative projects which provide access to otherwise disenfran-chised
communities.
Anne Burnidge - A 3/4 time faculty member, she teachs ballet and modern dance.
Anne holds a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from The Ohio State
University. Her choreography has been produced in Colorado, Illinois, Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
What makes your approach to teaching unique?
In my dance technique courses, I incorporate the work of Rudolf Laban and Irmgard
Bartenieff. Laban Movement Analysis is a system for observing, describing and analyz-ing
movement and can be applied to a variety of movement disciplines including dance,
theater, athletics and somatic techniques, as well as to everyday activities such as driving
a car or carrying groceries. Bartenieff Fundamentals is a system of body re-education
based on developmental movement. The work focuses on finding ease and efficiency in
internal body connection and expression in the world. My goal is to create a class that
not only increases the students’ understanding of body mechanics and ways of moving
efficiently, but that also still feels like dancing.
What are your research interests outside the dance studio?
My recent research has focused on the connections between dance and chaos theory.
I recently completed a creative project that explored ways in which dance can be viewed
from the lens of mathematics, and conversely, ways in which mathematical/scientific
theories can be studied through movement.
D a n c e
Dance department loses its founder
Dance alumni news
fall 2003 page 7
Jessica Jolly ’02, David
Schmidt ’01, and Donnell
Turner ’01 co-founded a
Brooklyn-based modern
dance company, every-thing
smaller. The com-pany
sprang into action in
February of 2003, rehears-ing
new work and apply-ing
to perform in various
dance festivals available
for emerging artists.
Dara Gordon ’99 recently
became the performing
arts coordinator at
Longwood Gardens in
Pennsylvania.
Ellen Byars ’01 got a job
with “Sesame Street Live”
and left L.A. in late August
to go on a national tour for
10 months.
Nadirah Rahman ’03 has
a contract with the Chuck
Davis Dance Company.
Christal Brown ’01 is
currently an apprentice
with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie
Zane Dance Company, the
founder and artistic direc-tor
of Women@Work and
Dance Explorations, and
recently became a compa-ny
member of Urban Bush
Women. She performed at
the UNCG Dance Alumni
Concert on Sept. 27.
Justin Tornnow-Westcott
’01 is now the associate
director, choreographer
and dancer for Queen City
Jazz Company in Char-lotte,
a new company dedi-cated
to the performance
style of concert jazz
and other contemporary
works. Justin also per-formed
at UNCG’s Dance
Theater for the Alumni
Concert on Sept. 27.
Jane Cline Wellford ’75
MFA has recently reached
tenure as associate
professor of performing
arts at Elon University.
Jane has been director of
Moving Liturgy Dance En-semble
for 16 years and is
on sabbatical during this
fall to work on her latest
book, “Dancing the Sacred
Using the Everyday.”
Virginia Moomaw, founding chair of the
UNCG Dance Department, died July 27,
2003, at the age of 90.
Virginia was active during the National
Dance Association’s formative years when
it was known as the National Section on
Dance. She served as chair of the section
from 1962-63, treasurer from 1948-50, and
secretary from 1959-61. She was also edi-tor
for the Dance Directory, 6th Edition,
1969. Further, she was active in the Southern District
AAHPERD, serving as district dance chair from 1946-47.
During her long tenure at UNCG, Virginia was instru-mental
in establishing a viable program that included one
of the first MFA degrees to be awarded in dance. Shortly
before her 90th birthday, she was honored with a plaque
of appreciation from the UNCG School of Health and
Human Performance. The plaque, along with a memory
book with letters of acknowledgment from her former
students, was delivered and presented personally by
Dean David Perrin, at a special celebration at her Tustin,
Calif., retirement home.
Memorial contributions in her honor may be made to:
The Virginia Moomaw Dance Scholarship Fund
School of Health and Human Performance
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
401 - HHP Building
P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
— submitted by Araminta Little,
NDA President, 1972 - 73
Dance theater renovations
Due to recent renovations, concert-goers will have a
much more pleasant experience at the UNCG Dance
Theater. New, covered seats and carpeted flooring were
installed. The theater now accommodates a capacity of
190 with the upgrades.
Dance faculty news
Dr. Jan Van Dyke delivered
a keynote address at the
“Pulses and Impulses for
Dance in the Community”
conference in Lisbon
Portugal in October. Jan’s
dance company performed
as part of the Alameda
Dance Festival in Lisbon
during the conference.
Dr. Eluza Santos per-formed
and presented at
the “Pulses and Impulses
for Dance in the Commu-nity”
conference in Lisbon,
Portugal, in October.
Dance faculty members
Dr. Ann Dils, Dr. Susan
Stinson, Dr. Eluza Santos
and department head
Dr. Larry Lavender
presented creative and
scholarly research at the
National Dance Education
Organization conference
in Albuquerque, NM, in
October. Dance graduate
student Julie Mulvihill
also presented at the
conference.
B.J. Sullivan taught master
classes at Beloit College in
Wisconsin and rehearsed
a duet commissioned from
her by the Chelonia Dance
Ensemble in October.
Virginia Moomaw, center, is pictured with dance alumni Jean
Pyatt (left), Minta Little (right) and Dean David Perrin.
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Faculty news
Dr. Bob Strack attended the June meeting of the
Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)
where he presented the financials of the orga-nization
in his capacity as treasurer for the
society. He and Kay Lovelace are continuing
their partnership with the Center for Health and
Healing of the General Baptist State Convention
of NC on a funded grant called “Picture Me
Tobacco Free,” which is addressing tobacco use
among NC youth. Strack has a paper on the use
of Photovoice as an intervention with adoles-cents
coming out in the January issue of Health
Promotion Practice.
Sharon Morrison gathered data in the Bahamas
this past summer to explore the elements of
social capital that might help reduce the risk of
HIV infection among young women. Morrison
involved two students, Christina Hardy and
Betria Stinson.
Dr. Paige Smith presented
two papers at the International
Society for Research on
Aggression, “The Impact of
Child Victimization on Men’s
Violence Toward Intimate
Partners,” and “The Impact
of Prior Abuse on Women’s Use of Aggression
with Partners.” Dr. Smith also published papers
on partner and dating violence. These were
published in Violence Against Women (volume
8), Journal of Women’s Health and Gender-based
Medicine (vol. 11), American Journal of
Preventive Medicine (vol. 23) and the American
Journal of Public Health.
Dr. Bill Gruchow was the
chair and principal author
for a committee of the Male
Advocacy Networks that
prepared the publication
Components that Work in
Male Reproductive Health
and Education Programs. Gruchow and alumna
Jen Kimbrough (M.Ed. 1994) co-authored the
“Report of Guilford County Schools Nutrition
Study” with others in the Department of
Nutrition and the Institute for Health, Science,
and Society at UNCG.
Dr. Mark Schulz was a co-author of a
paper, “Occupational Exposure Assessment
in Case-Control Studies: Opportunities for
Improvement” published in Occupational and
Environmental Medicine (volume 59).
Department to Plan DPH Degree
PHE has been granted approval to plan a doc-torate
in community health education by the
UNC System Graduate Council. A full proposal
will be submitted in May 2004.
P u b l i c H e a l t h E d u c a t i o n
Aronson explores issues of African-American men
Dr. Robert Aronson is teaming with
Dr. Willie Baber (Anthropology) in
a series of projects studying the effects
societal views and social inequalities
have had on the emotional and physi-cal
health of African-American males.
Aronson, Baber and Dr. Tony
Whitehead (University of Maryland)
recently co-authored a paper,
“Challenges to Masculine Transformation
among Low-income African-American Males,”
which was published in the American Journal
of Public Health in May. Aronson interviewed a
dozen men who were participating in an urban
program intended to help them become better
fathers and economic providers. These men
wanted to change their lives, but often faced
serious challenges, including substance abuse,
unemployment, a lack of self-confidence and
clinical depression. Aronson used Whitehead’s
model of African-American masculinity to inter-pret
the men’s stories. The model suggests that
men may turn to harmful reputational traits,
such as sexual prowess and materialism, to
compensate for the lack of respectable means to
achieve status as a man.
Aronson found that mental health services
and job-training programs, as well as re-evalu-ation
of social service policies could benefit the
men in their goals.
The professors will expand their efforts
in a new study to explore risk factors for
HIV/AIDS, which is funded by the National
Institutes for Health. They have also submit-ted
a grant proposal to the National Science
Foundation to study concepts of masculinity
among African-American males and their rela-tionships
to one’s health.
New lab will improve
fall 2003 page 9
Faculty Conference Presentations
• Louise Raleigh, Lyn Mankoff and Vicki McCready traveled to Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., June 19-21, to present at the Administration and
Supervision 2003 Leadership Conference sponsored by the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association Special Interest Division 11. Their
topic was “The Clinical Educators’ Hats: Choices and Challenges.”
• “Serving Language-Literacy Impaired Adolescents in the Juvenile
Justice System” by Vicki McCready, Jackie Cimorelli and Sandie Barrie-
Blackley was presented on Nov. 14, at the ASHA Convention in Chicago.
• “Serving Language-Literacy Impaired Juvenile Delinquents: A
Training Model by Sandie Barrie-Blackley, Vicki McCready, and Jackie
Cimorelli” was presented at the 54th Annual Conference of the
International Dyslexia Association in San Diego, Calif., on Nov. 15.
• “Evidence-Based Practice in Augmentative and Alternative
Communication,” a keynote speech, was presented by Dr. Celia R.
Hooper at the annual meeting of the International Institute for
Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Aug. 7, in Pittsburgh, Pa.
• “Right Hemisphere Disorder: A Neglected Topic,” a workshop, was
presented by Dr. Celia R. Hooper at the Tennessee Speech-Language-
Hearing Association, Oct. 10, in Nashville, Tenn.
Student Presentations
Thirteen alumni who graduated in either May 2002 or May 2003,
under the supervision of Dr. Jackie Cimorelli, co-presented three papers
at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, November 2003, in Chicago. They are Allison Boyd,
Michelle Novak, and Jacqueline Sutherland (“Effects of Positive
Obsessions as Reinforcers in Children with PDD”); Amy Nordberg and
Michael Roskelly (“Relationship Between Literacy Impairments and
Delinquency in Adolescent Males”); Crystal Allen, Tiffaney Carter, Kelly
Copeland, Angela Denny, Catherine Donovan, Molly Ferguson, Maranda
Fletcher-Meadows, and Joanna Woodcock (“Language Deficits in School-
Age Children with AD/HD”). This last paper is being done as part of a
larger study with Cryshelle Schoest, doctoral student in the Psychology
Department at UNCG.
What’s new in CSD?
Patty Booker has been promoted to department manager of CSD
office. Patty has worked for CSD for the past six years as a processing
assistant IV.
Assistant professor of audiology Dr. Susan Phillips has been funded
by the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders for a research project in speech perception difficulties in hear-ing-
impaired older adults. She is examining differences in voiced conso-nant
perception between listeners with good speech perception abilities
and those with poor speech perception abilities. Her goal is to develop
an auditory training program to help those with severe difficulties under-standing
speech.
C o m m u n i c a t i o n s S c i e n c e s a n d D i s o r d e r s
The Department of Communication Sciences and Disor-ders,
the School of Health and Human Performance and
the UNCG Office of Research have purchased instru-ments
and software to outfit the new UNCG Applied
Communicative Sciences Laboratory.
The new equipment will allow the department to re-search
voice production processes and disorders. Voice
processes, particularly laryngeal function and dysfunc-tion
in speakers and singers, are a keen interest of new
department head Dr. Celia Hooper.
The lab will be used for faculty and student re-search,
as well as classroom and laboratory teaching.
New affiliated projects will also be possible, including
projects with faculty at the UNCG School of Music
and Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest
University.
New instrumentation and software include:
• Computerized Speech Lab - a hardware and
software system which digitally records and measures
speech signals.
• Digital Video Endoscopy/Stroboscopy System - a
system for viewing the laryngeal area with a small digital
camera attached to an endoscope. The camera is capable
of capturing moving and still images of the vocal cords
for analysis and measurement.
• Perci Speech Aeromechanics Research System - a
software and hardware interface that measures breathing
and speech air flow from the lungs through the mouth
and or nose. The instrument will be helpful in measuring
normal speakers, as well as those with disorders, such as
people with cleft palate.
��� Portable CD-R/RW recorders for lab and field
testing.
• Various measurement and sterilization items, a
facilitator and speech software.
voice research capabilities
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Faculty News
Dr. Leandra Bedini pre-sented
her study, “Magic as a
Therapeutic Intervention: A
Case Study” at the Research
Institute of the American
Therapeutic Recreation
Association Annual Conference
in Atlanta, Ga. She also presented a paper with
Dr. Denise Anderson of Clemson University on
the physical activity of girls with disabilities at
the Symposium for Leisure Research, National
Recreation and Parks Association Annual
Conference in St. Louis, Mo.
Dr. Erick T. Byrd is new this
year to the RPT faculty. He
completed his dissertation over
the summer at North Carolina
State University. Byrd’s
research interests are in tour-ism
development, specifically
in community participation in tourism develop-ment
and rural revitalization through tourism.
He took part in the Pinehurst Visitor Study in
2001. The study sought the input from visitors
to the Pinehurst area, as to what other develop-ments
were needed to make Pinehurst more
attractive to tourists.
Dr. Bonnie Canziani presented a paper on
managing cultural differences among meet-ing
and event participants at the recent BEST
Think Tank III on Sustainable Tourism, which
took place in Costa Rica. Additionally, she has
coordinated a review of how hotel and lodging
associations use web sites to promote and pro-vide
benefits to their members on behalf of the
Guilford County Hotel & Motel Association.
Dr. Nancy Gladwell co-presented a paper with
Dr. Denise Anderson of Clemson University
at the 2003 National Recreation and Park
R e c r e a t i o n , P a r k s , a n d T o u r i s m
Alumni Spotlight: Park Manager Chris Wilson
For 11 years now, Chris Wilson has played a valu-able
role in leading one of Guilford County’s most
popular recreation facilities, Bur-Mil Park. The park is
owned by Guilford County and operated by the City
of Greensboro Parks & Recreation Department. Wilson
started out as a tennis instructor and eventually moved
up the ranks to become the park manager.
Wilson earned his bachelors degree at UNCG in
recreation, parks & tourism in 1997. This past spring he
expanded his role in the recreation profession by teach-ing
part-time in the RPT department. Wilson says “This
was an interesting experience and a chance to share what
I do with people who are preparing for careers.”
In the fall of 2002, Wilson was named North Carolina
Recreation and Park’s Society’s Outstanding Young
Professional of the Year. He was nominated by Dan
Maxson, administrative services manager for Greensboro
Parks and Recreation Department.
“Chris cares about providing the best service avail-able
to the community, and that’s what we’re all about,”
Maxson said.
In addition to his roles at Bur-Mil and UNCG, in the
past year Wilson has also served on various commit-tees
including the City of Greensboro’s Facility Security
Assessment Committee and the Greensboro Parks &
Recreation Department’s Safety Committee.
“This was an interesting experience and a chance to share what I do with
people who are preparing for careers.” —Chris Wilson
Lawther Lecture
fall 2003 page 11
Association’s Leisure Research
Symposium in October in St.
Louis, Mo. The paper is entitled
“The Influence of Community
Factors on the Recruitment and
Retention of Recreation, Parks, &
Tourism Faculty.”
Dr. Jim Sellers
and Dr. Nancy
Gladwell have
recently co-authored
a book
chapter entitled
“Financial
Management” to be published in
the second edition of Management
of Parks and Recreation Agencies,
published by the National
Recreation and Park Association.
Donna Jeffers-
Brown was
recently promoted
to AP associate
professor and
continues to
serve as the RPT
department’s fieldwork coordina-tor.
She was a speaker during three
educational sessions at the North
Carolina Recreation and Parks
Association State Conference in
November. In addition, Jeffers-
Brown, the principal investigator,
has been working with Dr. Nancy
Gladwell, Dr. Jim Sellers, and
several graduate students on a
project to assess the effectiveness
and efficiency of service delivery by
the athletic division of Greensboro
Parks and Recreation Department.
A final report will be submitted
to the Greensboro City Council in
December.
Dr. Stuart J.
Schleien, profes-sor
and depart-ment
head,
delivered an
invited paper,
“Including
People with Disabilities in Our
Community Sports and Recreation
Programs,” at the Paralympic
Games in Stockholm, Sweden, in
October.
Partnership F.I.V.E., directed
by Schleien and coordinated
by Kimberly Miller ’98, made
presentations on the inclusion
of volunteers with disabilities
at the National Conference on
Community Volunteering and
National Service, Southeast
Therapeutic Recreation
Symposium, National Institute
on Recreation Inclusion, and
International Conference on
Volunteer Administration.
Partnership F.I.V.E. was funded
$104,000 from the U.S. Department
of Education, Rehabilitative
Services Administration for its
second year to continue develop-ing
and implementing strategies to
foster inclusive volunteer efforts.
Dr. Charlsena
Stone and
Dr. Nancy
Gladwell pre-sented
“An
Investigation of
Multicultural
Attitudes of
Therapeutic
Recreation
Educators” at
the American
Therapeutic
Recreation
Association’s Research Institute in
Atlanta, Ga., in September. Stone
also had an article, “Exploring
Cultural Competencies of Certified
Therapeutic Recreation Specialists:
Implications for Education and
Training,” published in the
Therapeutic Recreation Journal,
Fall 2003.
The School of Health and Human Per-formance
recognized its outstanding
alumni Nov. 6 with the Distinguished
Alumni Award and five Ethel Martus
Lawther alumni awards. The late Ethel
Martus Lawther was dean of the school
for 43 years and lends her name to the
awards and lecture series.
Audiologist Dr. Gary Jacobson of
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
delivered the Ethel Martus Lawther Lecture. Jacobson
is professor and director of the Division of Audiology at
the Bill Wilkerson Center at Vanderbilt University Medical
Center. He holds a Ph.D. from Kent State University and is
active clinically in balance function and auditory elec-trophysiology
laboratories, hearing aid dispensing and
clinical audiology.
Melissa A. Parker ‘74 was the 2003 recipient of the
Distinguished Alumni Award. A professor at the Univer-sity
of Northern Colorado in teacher education, Parker is
widely known for her contributions to elementary physical
education. Her most notable contribution is co-authorship
of Children Moving, one of the most widely read texts in
elementary physical education. She has developed and
worked in service-learning programs in Native American
reservations in North Dakota and Utah, as well at the inner
cities of Chicago and Los Angeles. Melissa has just com-pleted
her term as president of the Colorado Association
for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
Winners of this year’s alumni awards were:
• William M. Evans ‘98 MPH has helped spread the ac-ceptance
of health education in local health care settings.
He is manager of marketing at Novant Health. Evans is
a second generation UNCG alumnus. His mother Madge
(Kennedy) Evans graduated from Woman’s College in
1949 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education.
• Dr. Diane G. Groff ‘84 is currently an assistant pro-fessor
of therapeutic recreation at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a master’s degree
from Radford University in adventure education in 1989
and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in therapeutic
recreation in 1998. Her work with athletes with disabilities
has included a position as director of operations for the
Walker Cup International Women’s Wheelchair Basketball
Challenge, and a committee member on the 1996 Atlanta
Paralympics Organizing Committee.
• Melissa D. Joy ‘95 has been dance director at a
Georgia high school since 1997. Along with teaching, she
is a guest lecturer at Agnes Scott College and serves as
education coordinator for the Centre for Dance Educa-tion.
She has been named Georgia Association for Heath,
Physical Education Recreation and Dance K-12 Dance
Educator of the Year for 2003.
• Gina H. Smith ‘80, ‘82 M.Ed. has been employed by
the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools since 1982, first as
a speech-language pathologist and then as an assistant
principal. In 2000 she was promoted to director of educa-tional
services for exceptional children; she is responsible
for all specialized programming for students with disabili-ties
in the largest school system in North Carolina.
• Dr. Beverly J. Warren ‘70 earned her master’s at
Southern Illinois University. She then earned an Ed.D.
at the University of Alabama in administration of higher
education and a Ph.D. from Auburn University in exer-cise
physiology. Beverly has published in prestigious
peer-reviewed journals in the area of nutritional needs for
athletes. Warren is currently associate dean of the School
of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a leading student-centered university,
linking the Piedmont Triad to the world through learning, discovery, and service.
Library puts archives
on the Web
UNCG has posted on the web many
of the important documents -
speeches, letters, catalogs and other
materials - from its early history.
The collection - http://
library.uncg.edu/depts/archives/hhenc -
contains more than 1,300 pages and
photographs from the institution’s
first 15 years, from its charter in 1891
until the death of founder Charles
Duncan McIver in 1906. Those for-mative
years included the typhoid
epidemic of 1899 and the dormitory
fire of 1904.
North Carolina ECHO, the
state’s Exploring Cultural Heritage
Online program, provided almost
$14,000 to UNCG for the project.
Five other colleges and universities
in the state also received grants for
the initiative dubbed Beyond Books
and Buildings: History of Higher
Education.
Universities partner to
build Millennial Campus
UNCG and N.C. A&T State
University are creating a Joint
Millennial Campus that will have
two campus locations, including the
site of the former Central N.C.
School for the Deaf.
To be called the Greensboro
Center for Innovative Development,
the project was announced by chan-cellors
Patricia A. Sullivan of UNCG
and James C. Renick of N.C. A&T.
The two campuses, north and
south, will have combined land
totaling approximately 150 acres.
The north campus is the former
School for the Deaf property and is
located off Highway 29 north of
Greensboro. It will be home to the
planned Institute for Training,
Research and Development.
Initially, it will target the needs of
school systems, business and indus-try,
and various health services and
social agencies in the region.
At the south campus, located on
E. Lee Street near I-40, the universi-ties
want to develop a state-of-the-art
science research park. Areas of
research will come from key aca-demic
areas of both campuses,
including the physical and life
sciences, engineering, technology,
food and nutrition, and other
applied sciences.
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