The Key March 8, 2013 Edition

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February was a bittersweet month for the UMES community, which found itself coping with the deaths of two of its own – junior Edmond St. Clair and former student Dickson Muiruri – over homecoming weekend.

President Juliette B. Bell called a campus-wide Town Hall meeting Feb. 19 that drew upwards of 3,000 people to the William P. Hytche Athletic Center, where those who gathered heard words of condolence and encouragement to unify the campus and begin the grieving process.

Classes the following day were cancelled for a Day of Reflection, which enabled the Class of 2014 and Student Government Association leaders to hold a memorial program paying tribute to St. Clair and Muiruri. It included prayers, music, eulogies, the lighting of candles and a symbolic balloon release.

St. Clair was a 21-year-old biology major who talked of becoming a doctor. Nicknamed “Trini Wes” for his Trinidad heritage, he was said to enjoy producing reggae music.

Muiruri, 26, was studying aviation sciences at UMES until December. He was a veteran of the U. S. Marine Corps.

“We live in extraordinarily fastmoving times and the events of the past few days have caused all of us not

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Page 3 Retool Our School Football Decision

Page 4 Professors Receive Research Award Fine Arts Faculty Win Awards

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After a stirring rendition of “How Great is Our God” mourners released balloons symbolizing the spirit of the fallen Hawks.

A student signs a card for the families of St. Clair and Muiruri. Attendees also made donations to a funeral fund to aid their families.

only a great deal of heartbreak and sadness, but to take a collective assessment of our lives. We all have heard the saying that tough times can make us stronger. These are indeed tough times, not only for the families of those who have lost loved ones, but the greater UMES community as well,” said Dr. Juliette B. Bell, president at UMES, in an open letter to faculty, staff and students. “With your help and prayers, I am confident that we will emerge from this challenging time a stronger UMES family.”

She ended with an appropriate quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Photos by Amanda Rippen-White

Dr. Ron Mclean, director of counseling services at UMES, conveys a message to the campus community about the grieving process.

Photos by Jim Glovier

Page 5 Mojos’ Joel Olive Student Critiques Obama Speech

Page 6 Athletics

Page 7 Alumnus Credits UMES for Success Phil-anthropy

Page 8 Calendar of Events Save the Date Dinner Theatre Save the Date Award Luncheon

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UMES Jazz Ensemble hosts

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Legendary saxophonist Jimmy Heath performs with the UMES Jazz Ensemble March 27 at a 7 p.m. concert in the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts.

Director of Bands Dr. John R. Lamkin said he and students are honored to work with a musician of Heath’s stature. “To be around someone of that caliber who has experienced all of the changes in the music industry from the 1940s to the present, is like being around a living encyclopedia of jazz,” he said.

Heath was born in 1926, the same year as John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Lamkin said.

The saxophonist is a National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master who has “played with the likes of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Milt Jackson,” Lamkin said. In fact, Lamkin said, Heath was given the nickname “Little Bird” by Gillespie because he sounded so much like Parker, his mentor. Parker was known as “Bird.”

Heath also performed and recorded for over 30 years with his brothers, Percy and Albert “Tootie,” Lamkin said. Together, they were known as the Heath Brothers.

“We’re going to play a few of his original pieces as well as arrangements he’s made of the music of well-known jazz composers,” Lamkin said. In the repertoire, he said, is “A Flower is a Lovesome Thing” composed by Billy Strayhorn and Heath’s arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Fiesta MoJo.” The concert is $10 general admission and $3 for students with identification.

Tickets will be sold at the door. Call 410-651-6571 for more information.

Mosely Gallery hosts “FACE, FACE” exhibition Mosely Gallery interim director Corrine Beardsley curates a show, “FACE, FACE,” March 29 through April 26 at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Thomas/Briggs Arts and Technology Center.

The exhibit, which features five established and emerging artists, opens with a reception March 29, from 4-6 p.m. Artists featured in “FACE, FACE” use the representation of the head as a vehicle for expression, Beardsley said.

“The works vary from realism to abstraction,” she said, “and include a wide variety of mediums including ceramics, wax and concrete sculpture, paintings and collage.”

One of the artists, Quentin McCaffrey, will also present an artist lecture March 11, at 6 p.m. in the Gallery.

McCaffrey, an emerging artist who received his master’s degree in fine arts from the New York Academy of Art, will talk about his contemporary sculpture in beeswax and bronze and his career sculpting for Jeff Koons Studio

and his own studio in N.Y. “Mr. McCaffrey has a method of composing form and designing rhythms of line that drive the viewer into his work and keeps them there,” said Beardsley. By focusing on the head, she said, he is able to “express the complexities and subtleties of human nature.”

Other artists in the show are: John Mosher of Salisbury. with works in mixed media on paper; Nicolas Holiber of N.Y. using oil painting on steel and mixed media sculpture; Ledelle Moe of Baltimore. sculpting in concrete; and Robert Simon of Philadephia. showing pieces in earthenware, bronze and plaster.

“To enter a space surrounded by the varying expressions and feelings of each piece of art has been the reward in curating this show,” Beardsley said. “I am sure viewers will be as engaged as I and will take away much from this experience.”

The Mosely Gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Call 410651-7770 for more information or to schedule a group.

Cockwise top left works by: Nicolas Holiber, Ledelle Moe, Quentin McCaffrey, Robert Simon, John Mosher

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It’s an Internet and social media blitz as the campus community strives to win a piece of a $225,000 “pie” in The Home Depot’s 2013 “Retool Your School” campus improvement grant program.

“It’s a good opportunity to get funds to enhance our facilities, making UMES a nicer place for students to come to study and learn and for employees to work,” said Leon Bivens, director of the university’s physical plant and initiator of the school’s involvement in the project.

UMES, he said, is in a pool of 75 HBCUs chosen as finalists in the challenge. The schools are competing for a $50,000 grand prize, with 12 runner-up prizes, awarded on a combination of scores of the submitted campus improvement project proposals and online voting. A $25,000 Campus Pride grant is also up for grabs to the campus that receives the most votes and social media activity.

Bivens urges supporters to visit www.retoolyourschool.com now through April 15 to cast their vote for their favorite school, UMES, or to use Twitter or Instagram at #umesRYS2013. Voters can also go to the UMES homepage and click on The Home Depot logo. Voting began Feb. 18.

“To win, we need everyone’s help to cast their vote and show their

support for UMES,” Bivens said. Voting is not limited to faculty, staff and students and alumni, he added. Anyone in the continental U.S. can vote.

Bivens points out that one of the most important things is that individuals can vote daily and can Tweet and use Instagram on an unlimited basis.

Winners will be announced May 3. After the April 15 online voting deadline, a panel of judges will evaluate each school’s proposal. How the proposals stack up are based on their relevance to the challenge’s requirements and how each project will make a lasting, positive impact on their campuses; those with eco-friendly plans will be given special attention.

UMES’ project is replacing fluorescent lighting with energy-efficient LED lighting to reduce the school’s carbon footprint, Bivens said. Painting is also proposed for doors, trim, walls, classrooms and residential areas to improve general aesthetics.

The week of Feb. 18, the university surged into the Top 10, once it started to publicize its participation. Since then, UMES has risen as high as first.

“Cast your vote,” he said, “it matters. We can win this.”

UMES will remain an institution without intercollegiate football for the near future, President Juliette B. Bell announced Feb. 28.

After consulting with her cabinet, Bell accepted recommendations by a task force she appointed to evaluate an independent consultant’s study of the pros and cons of reinstating football.

“The university is not currently in a position, with either human or fiscal resources, to reinstate football at this time,” the task force report concludes.

While fielding a Division I football team would be too costly right now, the topic could be revisited in five years, the report also notes.

The task force headed by Dr. Earl S. Richardson, a UMES graduate and retired president of Morgan State University, recommends the university focus on: • Stabilizing the existing athletic program and balancing the existing athletic budget, including cost containment and generating additional non-state revenue.

• Conducting an in-house review within three years to determine if enough progress has been made that would position the university to reconsider the subject in five years.

• Continuing to support club football “as a way to maintain enthusiasm and school spirit.”

When the university had a football team, it regularly produced athletes who went on to play professionally in the 1950s and 60s. UMES last played football in 1979, when it had fewer than 1,000 students.

Eleven of UMES’ peer institutions in the Mid-Eastern Athletic

Conference compete against such schools as the University of Delaware, James Madison University and Towson University.

“I know some of our alumni, especially those who were here when the university fielded a football team, may be disappointed,” Dr. Bell said.

“However, I know that they share my respect for the unforgettable football legacy of this institution.”

“The task force is to be commended for doing a thorough job of analyzing the consultant’s report and showing us how those facts fit into our current environment,” Bell said.

“I concur with its conclusions.” Bell noted her senior advisers were unanimous in their support of the task force’s recommendation.

Bell’s predecessor, interim President Mortimer Neufville, initiated the exploration of restarting intercollegiate football after determining the topic was worth revisiting after some three decades.

The University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents last fall adopted a policy that requires intercollegiate athletic program expenditures to be covered by intercollegiate athletic revenue. Some USM public colleges, including UMES, have previously supplemented athletics’ budgets with funding from other sources.

“We live in challenging economic times,” Bell said. “We must continue to focus the university’s limited resources on its core mission of educating students.”

In his concluding statement, Richardson said “with increased human and fiscal resources, and a strengthening of the infrastructure, the task force believes the university’s athletic program can be enhanced, thereby charting a new course in the university’s athletic legacy.”

UMES seeks to

“Retool Our School”

UMES passes on restarting intercollegiate football

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UMES professors recognized for stock market research/model Drs. Dinesh K. Sharma and Aaron R. Rababaah, professors in the university’s School of Business and Technology, received the Distinguished Research Award of the Academy of Information and Management Sciences for their work on a predictive model for stock market indices.

The award was presented at the 2012 Allied Academies Conference. Sharma and Rababaah’s article was published in the conference proceedings and also will be published in the Academy of Information Aaron R. Rababaah and Management Sciences Journal.

“Stock market indices vary and have unpredictable patterns,” Rababaah, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, said. “For human analysis, it is not easy to monitor them to have strong and accurate predictions for trends in the future.”

Rababaah said it is critical for major businesses and financial organizations to know these indices because it affects their planning.

“Analysts at these organizations work around the clock to keep track of the stock market indices to make accurate and reliable financial

positions that should tell them better for future plans,” Sharma, a professor in the Department of Business, Management & Accounting, said.

The contributions of Sharma and Rababaah were to design an intelligent software system based on artificial neural networks combined with signal processing.

The software would provide a decision support system that would automatically give what they believe will be “a more reliable forecast for predictions on stock market Dinesh K. Sharma indices.”

Rababaah said he and Sharma used real-world data for a 12-year period for the Dow 30 and the Nasdaq 100 indices for training and testing the proposed model. The model’s predictions accuracy was 98.6 percent, he said.

“The research anticipates that the future studies will utilize advanced signal processing techniques such as Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) to further explore the effectiveness of these techniques for stock market predictions,” Sharma said.

Fine Arts faculty win awards in local show Three members of UMES’ Department of Fine Arts exhibiting took home awards last month in the Salisbury Art Institute & Gallery’s show, “Figures and Portraits.”

The exhibit featured 40 works by 23 artists, including five from UMES. Artworks consisted primarily of portraits, self-portraits, figures and nudes.

Corrine Beardsley, the Mosely Gallery’s interim director, was awarded the “Best Use of Medium” for her piece, “Self,” a ceramic nude sculpture in a twisted pose. Daily Times art critique Ursula Ehrhardt said, “The work challenges traditional approaches to this subject, in that the nude is represented as an idealized personification of nature, art or beauty. In contrast, this nude, with its cracked surfaces, broken skull and contorted pose conveys a sense of vulnerability and psychological turmoil.”

David Simpson, an adjunct instructor, won the “Form, Integrity and Expressive Power” award for his “Lover, Rearrange Me.” The large-scale pencil drawing Ehrhardt said, “Zone 6, Self-Portrait with Scars” by Michel “underscores the nude’s beauty and sensual appeal.”

Associate Professor Michel Demanche received an Demanche honorable mention for her photograph “Zone 6, Self Portrait with Scars.” In the review, Ehrhardt said a woman looking into a mirror usually represents beauty, vanity or pride. “In contrast,” she said, “Demanche uses this motif to show the aging process and to allude to personal growth through “Self” by Corrine Beardsley intense self-examination and self-acceptance.”

“Lover, Rearrange Me” by David Simpson

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Got his MoJo's working In college, Joel Olive had a goal for himself —own a restaurant by age 25.

He failed.

“I actually signed the paperwork for MoJo’s a month and 20 days before my 26th birthday,” says the chef/co-owner of the Salisbury eatery.

“So I kind of reached that goal —it wasn’t open at 25, but I felt like I was going to keep pushing for it.”

Still only 27, Olive’s career continues to rise from a freshman who had no intention of being a chef in college.

In 10 years, his path has taken him from dorm cook to restaurateur. And with about 15 months at the helm of MoJo’s, he has no intention of slowing down.

The professional drive

Olive (first name pronounced “Joe-EL”) possesses is hidden by a laid-back demeanor.

He sits slightly slouched in one of the booths of his restaurant, eyeing the weekday lunch crowd trickling in. Even dressed in his black chef’s jacket with a white MoJo’s dog mascot adorned over the left breast, nobody seems to notice him.

Not that Olive minds.

“I’m a pretty modest person —I don’t go on too many vacations, I don’t have a lot of flashy things,” he says. “I have my car and my house and that’s it.”

It could have been different for Olive, who arrived in Maryland from Philadelphia in 2003. The plan since high school was to become a physician’s assistant or possibly a doctor.

“I did my first year, I had good grades, my parents were happy, but I kind of woke up one day and said, ‘I just don’t like going to class,’ ”he said.

On Sundays, Olive would usually host a big meal for his friends in the dorms of University of Maryland Eastern Shore. After one dinner, someone suggested he might want to consider switching over to the university’s hotel and restaurant management program.

He switched majors.

“I was excited to cut vegetables, I was excited to chop onions,” he said, smiling at the memory. “I was just stoked about it. Not only did I enjoy class, but I was going toward something I was going to keep enjoying.”

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infrastructure could prove to be important to my Student critiques generation. Repairing roads and bridges, like the Bridge, can attract more travelers, which helps Obama's State of Union Bay tourism. Tax reform could help students in UMES’

President Obama said very little new to inspire my generation during his most recent State of the Union address. Many of his ideas and proposals for strengthening the nation struck me as recycled from stump speeches during his two campaigns.

The president mentioned the importance of making hard work valuable again, and creating more opportunities. My hope is those opportunities will be consumed by future college graduates like me, who face a depressed job market where favoritism unfortunately can trump qualifications.

His boldest proposal was increasing the minimum wage to $9. Adjusting the minimum wage with inflation would help college students, who rely on minimum-wage jobs to support themselves. In 2008, however, then-candidate Obama proposed the federal minimum wage be raised to $9.50 an hour by 2011. With 19 states – not including Maryland, of course – already at or above $9 per hour, it is difficult to understand why the federal government has not addressed this issue.

The president also proposed extending tuition tax credits. They would give more young people the chance to earn their way through college by doubling the number of work-study jobs and encouraged universities to keep tuition costs down. It is difficult for schools like UMES to keep tuition affordable when they historically have not received the same level of funding as predominantly white institutions.

Lowering the corporate tax rate and investing in the country's

business and construction management programs by attracting businesses to the state and keeping those already here, making jobs easier to come by for college graduates in this area. The same would be true for entrepreneurs in the hospitality industry, where graduates of UMES’ signature hotel and restaurant management program are always looking for a career.

Much of President Obama’s economic policies lacked detail. They were more about what needed to be done rather than how to go about doing it, especially avoiding the looming sequester cuts and debt ceiling question – events that could make every economic proposal he spoke about worthless.

The path our nation seems to choose, at least in my lifetime, is exporting democracy at the tip of a gun or bomb, especially in the Middle East, instead of focusing on actual goods, which would be a better strategy that can positively affect America. History teaches us that interfering with another country’s affairs and warring can lead to a nation’s downfall.

Unfortunately, the emptiness and recycled ideas in the 2013 State of the Union address reflects a 2012 candidate who for many Americans was the lesser of two evils.

– Leroy Myers, senior history major at UMES

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Over the past two years, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore volleyball team has found out what winning feels like. The span has seen the Hawks register two Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference titles, a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances and 52 wins.

Throw in a perfect 15-0 record at home and a 23-1 mark in conference and what do you have?

A powerhouse.

There are many reasons why the team is so successful. It could be coaching, as head coach Don Metil has recorded 230 wins with a 106-18 record in conference over 11 seasons. It could be recruiting, where the Hawks have landed players from 13 states and seven different countries on three continents over the past five years. It could also be depth, as the Hawks have had five players named to the All-MEAC team since 2011.

Ultimately, it comes down to the play of the student-athletes. The Hawks have had some sterling individual performances to spawn the success, but no effort may have been more important than that of sophomore outside hitter Saitaua Iosia.

As a freshman, she was among the top outside hitters in the nation and was named Russell HBCU Female MVP of the Year and MEAC Rookie of the Year. In 2012, she was named COBRA Magazine All-National First Team, MEAC Tournament Most Valuable Performer and was 12th in Division I with 5.11 points per set. The four-time MEAC Player of the Week was top in the conference in aces per set and third in kills and points per set.

Despite her incredible first two seasons as a Hawk, Iosia has not always been a star player.

“Growing up, I always worked twice as hard as most girls because I wasn’t a top player,” Iosia said. “I was insecure about my volleyball skills, but working harder has made me the kind of athlete that I am today.”

Iosia played volleyball at Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, Calif. She grew as a player over her four years with the Jackrabbits, and her prep career was highlighted by being named Player of the Year in 2010.

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States and the top spot in all of California. She played club ball with Long Beach Mizuno Club in Southern California, where the squad earned fifth at the Junior Olympic Championships.

She attributes several things to her growth as an athlete, but her biggest motivation is her parents. She is also very proud of her Pacific Islands heritage.

“I don’t know anyone else who works harder than my parents,” Iosia said. “They have sacrificed a lot for my brothers, sisters and I. They deserve it all.”

Iosia’s strong attachment to her family was pivotal in bringing her to the game of volleyball.

“Growing up, I was always around my two older brothers,” Iosia said.

“Whatever they did, I wanted to do. I only committed myself into doing something if all of my other family members were doing it, too. I did not want to play volleyball the first time I was asked to play. I only played because half of my cousins were on the team. I never would have thought the game would take me this far or mean so much to me.”

Why Iosia would leave her family to come all the way to the Eastern Shore? For Iosia, it was a tough decision, but one she is happy she made.

“Coming from California, I wanted to experience something different,” Iosia said. “I talked to (former Hawk and California native) Zoe Bowens’s little sister, Zana, and she had Zoe contact me with information. The next thing you know, I got a call from the coaches. It was a long process, but for the most part, it was worth it. I chose to come here because I really felt the loyalty from the coaching staff.”

It takes more than one player to make a team great, but Iosia has done her share to bring success to the Hawks. It is her chipper and positive presence that have helped not only her team, but the athletics department as well.

And it is all because she was not afraid to take a risk.

– David Wigham, UMES Athletics

Before the dinner rush, Olive is back in the served as executive chef for five years. kitchen doing what he loves. This evening, he’s “He wanted that position,” said Rob Mulford, hauling large steam trays filled with ribs to a prep Market Street Inn’s owner. “Joel was a very hard station. worker and honest —he was always at Market Street Someone hands him a spoonful of sauce to taste.

Inn and that is important in this business, knowing He takes it, considers it and then spits it out. that it is long hours and you will always need to be “I get the heat, but I don’t think the flavor is there.” there,” Olive says.

Mulford saw enough in Olive to have an equal While the rest of the kitchen whirls with action partnership in their next venture, MoJo’s, which the —servers picking up food, staff running hot pans Photos by Ben Penserga back and forth —Olive remains at a steady speed, two opened in November 2011.

Joel Olive, chef and co-owner of MoJo’s Olive spends 12-16 hours there, not only keeps a watchful eye in the kitchen. never fazed by anything. cooking but handling money, booking parties and It’s a trait even one of his mentors admires. other things outside the kitchen.

“Joel is a natural,” said UMES Chef Ralston Whittingham. “He has a “Everyone thinks a restaurant or any business is a cash-cow, but it’s culinary ‘mise en place,’ which is French for having things in place both not,” he says. “It costs a lot of money to do and it costs a lot of money to mentally and physically. Joel personifies that phrase; he is always ready. maintain.”

Written by Ben Penserga Staff Writer The Daily Times

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Alumnus lectures; credits school with his success The Rev. Sherman Lambert, center, is surrounded by fellow alumni, from left, Charles Laws (Class of ’59) and Kirkland Hall (Class of ’74).

Sherman Lambert credits his success as an attorney and pastor to the education he received in the 1970s at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore – and the kindness of a former employee who is also an alumnus.

“People will help you,” Lambert said. “Sometimes you don’t have to ask.”

Lambert delivered a powerful guest lecture Feb. 21 at UMES on the “continuing relevance” of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” The event was part of the university’s Black History Month programming and recognized the 50th anniversary of an important moment in the nation’s civil rights movement.

During a question-and-answer session, Lambert spotted his long-time friend, Norman Tilghman, in the audience. He shared how Tilghman, who was a housing director on campus, quietly paid an $80 bill for him during his senior year so he could graduate.

Their reunion Thursday was an opportunity for the 1974 alumnus to underscore one of the many lessons he attributes to King’s legacy: “We Hawks returning for homecoming festivities, Feb. 14-17, welcomed a new member, “Phil,” among them. Alumni chapters found it an opportune time to present gifts to their alma mater and students.

Several presentations were made at halftime at the UMES vs. Morgan State University homecoming game to the UMES Foundation for various funds. See photos below.

Not pictured, UMES’ chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, used the alumni

have to own the things we have gone through in our lives. Get connected.

You can’t do it by yourself … but you have to keep pressing on.”

The “pay it forward” lesson learned as a UMES undergraduate guides Lambert today. A recent client, a college student unable to pay his tuition bill, moved Lambert to draw on Tilghman’s gesture four decades earlier to help the young man financially finish his education.

“When I told Mr. Tilghman all those years ago I couldn’t afford to repay him, he told me to ‘pass it on’,” said Lambert, who was born in Washington, but grew up in York, Pa. following his parents’ divorce.

The smile on Tilghman’s face after Lambert’s lecture spoke volumes.

“It makes me feel very proud,” said Tilghman, a 1966 Maryland State College graduate, “It’s a joy seeing that young man succeed the way he has.”

Lambert was 15 when James Earl Ray assassinated King in Memphis in April 1968, but it wasn’t until he became an adult that Lambert gained an appreciation of the late civil rights leader’s impact on America. King’s advocacy of non-violent protests – sit-ins, boycotts and marches, he said, “were radical. They conflicted with the order of the day.”

In King’s day, white dominated legislatures were slow to correct social injustices, so churches played a key role in organizing, supporting and consoling participants in the civil rights movement who endured their share of dark days.

“It’s important to understand the past and present, and not be afraid to fight in the future,” Lambert said.

K.J. McClay, a junior from San Diego, Calif., said Lambert’s message inspired him.

McClay was raised by grandparents, who he said share many of the life experiences Lambert spoke about during the lecture.

Lambert “had a very powerful message,” McClay said. “He showed me what I should strive for, and not overlook the lessons of the past.

After the lecture, Lambert and Tilghman embraced.

“Thank you for speaking to these young people,” Tilghman said, “and passing it on.”

Alumni chapters find

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homecoming breakfast to present a $250 scholarship to three UMES students; all Baltimorians. Kristin Chaney, a freshman, and Byron Smith, a senior, were present to receive their awards.

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Rhythm & hues MARCH

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ENTERTAINMENT

SPRING 2013

*GOURMET LUNCHEON SERIES Noon / Richard A. Henson Center, Room 2100 Tickets still available for March 8, 11, & 15 / April 1 & 5 / May 1. Tickets are $12 and must be purchased in person.

Check or money order—no cash.

410-651-6563

11 ARTIST LECTURE 6 p.m. / Mosley Gallery Quentin McCaffrey discusses his sculpting career.

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MONDAY - FRIDAY 8 OPENING RECEPTION ART EXHIBIT 9 A.M. - 5 P.M. 4-6 p.m. / Mosely Gallery “Unexpected.” UMES Fine Arts students use various mediums to express themselves through art. 410-651-7770

27 *JAZZ ENSEMBLE CONCERT 7 p.m.

Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Art $10 general admission / $3 students with ID 410-651-6571

9 MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE SPELLING BEE 10 a.m. / Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts Top spellers from local elementary and middle schools vie to represent the Lower Shore at the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition in Washington, D.C. • 410-621-2355

29 ART EXHIBITION OPENING MONDAY - FRIDAY 9 A.M. - 5 P.M. 4-6 p.m. / Mosley Gallery “FACE, FACE.” A curated show of five artists who use the representation of the head as a vehicle for expression. From realism to abstraction, the exhibition includes ceramics, paintings, collage, and wax and concrete sculpture.

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UMES

DinnerTheatre April 12 & 13

Ticket holders are treated to a lively musical, “One Mo’ Time” by the UMES Drama Society, while feasting on a “Soul Food” buffet prepared

by Dining Services.

SAVE THE DATE A N N U A L AWA R D S LUNCHEON Celebrating years of service to UMES in five year increments

April 2, 2013 11:30 a.m.

Student Services Center Ballroom Invitations will be issued for awardees and one guest.

GALLERY HOURS:

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