FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS

DR. ANDREA MUELLER JARMON, Instructor of Music and Voice Area Coordinator, was elected president of the Georgia chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

KIM BARBER KNOLL, coordinator of Theatre Arts, directed Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” in the fall and worked closely with English professor Dr. Jack Slay to produce his original one-act play, “Tales from the Hill,” based on LC ghost stories. She also trademarked her method of teaching movement, “In the Movement,” and is working on a book detailing her method.

DR. JOHN COOK, Professor of Religion, presented “The Trust in Resurrection of Paul the Thaumaturge” for the online meeting of the Society of New Testament Studies in Leeuven, Belgium. He also responded to Boston University School of Theology Professor Shively Smith’s book, “Witnessing Jesus Hang: Reading Mary Magdalene’s View of Crucifixion through Ida B. Well’s Chronicle of Lynching” at the Atlanta New Testament Colloquium.

VICKI T. PHEIL ’98, M’00, Assistant Professor of Education, was recently awarded the Paul R. Hanna Laureate Scholarship through the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education for her doctoral studies. She is currently in the dissertation phase. Also, she began a two-year term as president of the Georgia Field Directors Association.