School News
The Key / April 7, 2017
PGA golf management program holds clothing drive for local charity Members of UMES’ PGA golf management program accepted the Golden Hanger Clothing Drive challenge by the Pros Fore Clothes Foundation to “chip in to help those in need.” Students collected 483 pounds of gently worn professional clothing that they donated to Go-Getters Inc. in Salisbury, Md., said Joe Ellis, UMES’ Professional Golf Management Student Association president. GoGetters is “a voluntary community of friendship providing sanctuary and support to adults recovering from substance abuse or mental illness on the lower Eastern Shore.”
UMES hosts Women’s History Month event Kendra E. Hayward, the first African-American Assistant State’s Attorney for Somerset County and a UMES alumna, was the keynote speaker for the March 29 Women’s History Month event at the Richard Henson Center, which also featured musical selections by the reorganized Employee Gospel Choir. Hayward graduated from UMES in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in English. She earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore School of Law. In her current post, Hayward is responsible for the prosecution of cases in district, circuit, and juvenile courts. She previously was a judicial law clerk for the Hon. David Young of the Baltimore City Circuit Court and with the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services. She is the daughter of Zelma Hayward, UMES Office of Admissions and Recruitment.
UMES grad student holds honor society office
Eyerusalem Fitta, a criminal justice graduate student at UMES, was elected vice president of the Alpha Phi Sigma National Criminal Justice Honor Society at the 2017 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences conference. UMES’ Dr. Emmanuel Onyeozili is a national APS adviser. HTM PROGRAM / continued from cover
USMH Executive Director Mark Halsey said, “The major student market is expected to be transfer students who have completed associate degrees in business at Hagerstown or Frederick community colleges. As such, UMES would provide a local and convenient two- to three- year stepping stone to the bachelor’s degree.” The program is one of some 1,000 like it worldwide and one of only 100 that hold ACPHA accreditation. Applications are now being accepted. Prospective students can contact Tiffany Ahalt, hospitality center coordinator, at tahalt@hagerstown.usmd. edu or 240-522-7552. This will be UMES’ first academic offering at USM Hagerstown. University System of Maryland at Hagerstown is a regional higher education center offering more than 20 academic programs of study from seven universities within the University System of Maryland.
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