The Key October 18, 2013 Edition

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Donor supports “Fore!” scholarships A half-million dollar pledge to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore business of golf.”

He’s hopeful his donation will expand opportunities for students to was announced at the 2013 edition of the annual donor recognition enter the golf industry and profession, particularly women and minorities. reception earlier this week.

Jones, 59, is the epitome of the self-made entrepreneur. After The donation from Carnelious Jones, a Baltimore businessman, will graduating from high school in the early 1970s, the Tennessee native support four full-ride scholarships in UMES’ PGA golf management enlisted in the military. He served five years in the U.S. Navy, including a program. They will be named in honor of trail-blazing African-American tour of duty in Vietnam aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, and golfers James Black, Renee Powell, Calvin Peete and the late Ann Gregory. learned to be a plumber.

“Mr. Jones' transformational gift will provide the university's PGA golf After an honorable discharge with citations, he earned a master management program with much needed resources to recruit motivated plumber’s credential – which he still holds – and started his own business. students to the program,” said Kimberly Dumpson, who worked with the He eventually invested in a small oil tank farm, a decision that has enabled philanthropist to establish the scholarship program when she was UMES’ him to grow a petroleum lead fundraiser. distribution business domestically The university is one of 20 and internationally. By the late higher education institutions in the 1980s, his clients included FedEx, country that offers the unique International Paper, the U.S. course of study backed by the Department of Transportation and Professional Golfers of America the state of Maryland. organization. UMES is the lone Through a state contract, he historically black institution with did business with the University of an undergraduate program that Maryland Eastern Shore providing combines instruction in how to it with fuel.

His youngest child, play professional-level golf as well Carnelious Jones II, graduated as hospitality industry training.

UMES President Juliette B. Bell From left, PGM golf management students KayJay McClay and Ryan Claypole from UMES in 2007. meet program benefactor Carnelious Jones, along with UMES Executive Vice His interest in and said Jones’ gift is “an President Kimberly Dumpson and former PGA golfer James Black. Photo by Jim commitment to golf expanded extraordinarily generous gift that Glovier earlier this year when he invested we promise to use to achieve his goal and ours – and that is making in a golf shoe and apparel company, A-GAME Global Sports.

He is a past educational opportunities available to those who deserve and will benefit by winner of UMES’ Art Shell Celebrity Golf Classic fundraiser, and carries a it.”

Jones, a petroleum wholesaler, has emerged as a leading advocate in a handicap in the upper teens.

Jones also operates a consulting firm; Carnelious Jones & Associates. growing movement in search of strategies to diversify golf. He asked that the In addition to his appointment as the First Tee’s first African-American scholarships created by his gift be named in honor of the four golf legends national trustee, he also serves on the advisory board of Texas Southern considered pioneers in their era.

University’s College of Science and Technology, the Blacks of the Jones recently was named a national trustee of the First Tee, “an Chesapeake Foundation Inc., a black maritime history organization, and on international youth development organization introducing the game of golf a U.S. Department of Energy advisory panel working to help African nations. and its inherent values to young people.”

“Maybe my gift will start a dialogue around the dinner table in AfricanFirst Tee’s focus is on working with young people from elementary through high school. Jones sees UMES and its golf management program as American homes that they can have access to the game through UMES’ degree,” Jones said, adding he hopes other historically black institutions the next step in “growing the game” among a more diverse group of might follow the university’s lead. athletes and casual players.

Jones said he sees plenty of opportunities in the game for minorities; “It’s about opportunity and access,” Jones said. “The University of playing competitively as well as recreationally, working in the industry or Maryland Eastern Shore seems like the natural place where young people being a supplier of goods and services. can come and earn a degree and learn what it takes to be involved in the

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Page 2 Food Service Options HBCU Lawsuit Ruling

Page 3 Dual Enrollment Program UMES Open House

Page 4 Iambics on the Internet Devenia Wallace Remembered

Page 5 Drama Society Fall Production Health Equity Summit

Page 6 Golf Update Baseball Hawk Hysteria

Page 7 Chinese Students Visit Flu Shots Diversity Event GSA Officers Physician Assistant Lecture

Page 8 Calendar of Events Neebo MD Charities

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Food service options explored The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has invited private-sector vendors to submit business plans detailing how they might operate a public institution’s food service program.

The purpose of issuing the Requests For Proposals (RFP) is to get an industry snapshot of how the private sector operates a collegiate food service compared to the university’s current approach.

No company has been chosen to run UMES’ food services, which includes student dining, catering and related activities.

Responses to the RFP are due Nov. 18 and will guide senior administrators in deciding how UMES should proceed in its delivery of food service on campus.

Dr. Ronnie Holden, vice president for administrative affairs, said the decision to issue an RFP is partially in response to students lobbying for a “wider variety of food options in general” that address a variety of “dietary needs.”

Holden said the university will be looking at plans from potential vendors that address questions dealing with “economies of scale in procurement activity” supported by professionally trained chefs and nutritionists capable of delivering creative menus for student dining and other university functions.

Another factor the university is weighing is how an experienced private-

sector provider might be viewed as an amenity by students that would help with “enrollment, retention and graduation rates.”

Until the university sees what the marketplace will bear, Holden says it is premature to speculate what direction they will choose in providing food service in the future.

UMES has run its own food service system since the mid-1990s – roughly 20 years. It is self-supporting, meaning that no public funds are used to operate the system.

Three of the University System of Maryland’s 12 institutions have in-house food service operations; Salisbury University, University of Maryland College Park and UMES. UMES employs 70 “seasonal” employees in its food service operation and another 11 “regular, non-managerial staff employees.”

If the exploratory RFP does result in the university choosing to privatize its food services, the company would be required by contract to consider current UMES food-service employees for positions it would need to fill to deliver its services. RFPs are due in mid-November.

Employees were initially briefed about the RFP in August. If UMES decides to engage a private-sector vendor, the transition could occur at the start of the spring semester (2014) or by the start of the next fiscal year July 1, 2014, Holden said.

UMES was thrust into the public eye a week ago by a federal court ruling in a seven-year-old lawsuit that asserted Maryland does an uneven job delivering higher education.

A decision handed down Oct. 7 cast aside those claims the state plays favorites in the way it distributes funding to its public colleges and universities, but admonished policymakers for allowing academic program duplication.

The court applauded UMES and Salisbury University for their collaboration in the delivery of a handful of degree programs. Both have a long history of working together on joint ventures that benefit students and help stretch state resources.

A group calling itself the "Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education Inc.,” filed a lawsuit in 2006 on behalf of UMES, Bowie, Coppin and Morgan, the state’s four historically black institutions. Alumni and some students at those institutions complained segregation-like policies and attitudes still hurt those universities six decades after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling ended the “separatebut-equal” approach to public education.

Defendants in the case were the Maryland Higher Education Commission as well as state government. The four universities had no role initiating the legal action, although the ruling could have a sweeping impact

on them.

The 60-page ruling directed both sides to enter into mediation to resolve questions raised about degree-program duplication during the 2012 trial.

Both sides have yet to lay out how they plan to address federal Judge Catherine C. Blake’s directive. Blake deferred issuing a final judgment in the case “pending mediation or further proceedings, if necessary, to establish an appropriate remedy.”

She cited the UMES-Salisbury partnerships as an example of what her expectations are. She suggested the state consider shifting degrees from one public institution to another or merging the programs. Another option would be identifying specialty or niche programs to bolster enrollment to make UMES, Bowie, Coppin and Morgan more attractive to a broader range of students.

The strategy worked in the late 1970s when the state authorized UMES to offer degrees in construction management technology, hotel and restaurant management, environmental science, poultry technology and management, elementary/special education, computer science/data processing, engineering technology and physical therapy.

These programs remain among the university’s niche offerings. Today, UMES’ roster of distinctive programs also includes PGA golf management, pharmacy and aviation science.

The UMES-Salisbury collaboration efforts currently include a joint master’s program in teacher training and undergraduate degrees in sociology-social work and in marine-environmental science.

UMES, Bowie and Coppin are members of the University System of Maryland. Morgan is an independent public university overseen by a separate governing board.

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K-12 and higher education collaborate on dual enrollment program said Ashley The Nowak, a Wicomico Parkside High County Board senior also of Education enrolled at held a press Wor-Wic. “It’s conference a different last week to (harder) style herald in a of teaching, new era for which the county’s definitely puts dual more enrollment Wicomico County K-12 educators meet with Lower Shore representatives of higher education, local government responsibility program and business to sign agreements for enhanced dual enrollment programs. on students.” thanks to the India Whitehead, a senior at James M. Bennett High, will have 37 passage of recent state legislation. credits when she graduates from high school and will enter college as a Representatives of public education, higher education, the business sophomore. She completed five classes as a junior and is currently taking community and Wicomico County marked the occasion with signings of agreements to expand opportunities for high school juniors and seniors to three. It is a lesson in time management, she said. “I have my weekly schedule planned out,” said Whitehead, who takes AP and college courses earn high school and college credit for courses taken simultaneously at while holding down two jobs and participating in SGA and her church’s area institutions. youth group.

Dual enrollment has been available for Wicomico students for many “It is a great experience for all high school students,” Whitehead said. years. The most important change Maryland’s College and Career “It prepares you for the future.”

Readiness and College Completion Act of 2013 provides for is reduced Selected courses are aligned with high school requirements to adhere costs for students in the program and potentially free tuition for students to state of Maryland standards. To be eligible, Fredericksen said, students who qualify for free and reduced meals. must carry a minimum 2.75 GPA and take the required number of credits at The change means “having all of our students access higher the high school—four credits, one of which must be earned at the high education,” said Dr. John Fredericksen, superintendent of Wicomico school. Students apply for dual enrollment through the high school County public schools. “Several groups are (currently) underrepresented guidance office and also must apply for admission through the institution of and we want to get them engaged.” higher education.

“Studies have shown that at risk and low-income students who “The scope of opportunity is broad,” Fredericksen said, “(students) participate in dual enrollment are more likely to graduate from high school and complete college than non-dual enrollment students,” said Dr. Ray Hoy, opt to take one class at a time or they can earn an associate degree while president of Wor-Wic Community College, which has had a dual enrollment getting a high school diploma.”

Ernie Colburn, CEO of the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce, said agreement with Wicomico County schools for many years. “Most they are working with the school system to establish transportation to importantly, the program builds confidence and reduces anxiety” before ensure that any student who wants to dually enroll can get to the college students leave high school and enroll in college. campus.

High school students have taken courses at Salisbury University and “The business community is dedicated to working together with UMES with permission from guidance offices, but not as part of an official education to help equip the student of today as a (future) qualified worker dual enrollment program. Only if the course is approved and is aligned in our community,” Colburn said. “Everyone who has a stake—educators, with a course currently listed in the high school catalog, would it receive parents, legislaters—must cooperate toward these goals. Average is gone. high school credit.

“I think it has given me a good preview as to what college will be like,” We need to take everything to the next level. Our future is on the line.”

UMES open house informs prospective students Tyrone Young, director of admissions at UMES, goes out on a limb, or should we say “out on a roof” to capture the attention of prospective students during the shooting of a segment for Discover UMES for the open house.

Nearly 400 high school juniors and seniors and their parents visited campus last Saturday to hear what admissions, financial aid and residence life staff have to say about attending UMES. Following an opening presentation, prospective students met with representatives from academic departments to learn about majors and internship opportunities. The event also featured on-site admissions and campus tours.

“This is an opportunity for interested students to learn more about UMES,” said Tyrone Young, director of admissions and recruitment. “We aim to showcase the university and build a pipeline for future enrollment, particularly for Fall 2014.”

The next admissions open house is for transfer students on Nov. 1, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call 410-651-8403, email recruitment@umes.edu or visit www.umes.edu to register or for more information on this or other upcoming admissions events.

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Iambics on the Internet

The faculty in UMES’ Department of English and Modern Languages is watching this semester with curiosity how colleague Amy Hagenrater-Gooding is using a 21st century approach to deliver a course that includes the works of 19th century poets.

A $10,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is enabling Hagenrater-Gooding to experiment with the latest trend in higher education – Massive Open Online Courses. She used the money to pay for specialized training this past summer and to underwrite the cost of a videographer for data collection and a student tutor.

In her grant application, Hagenrater-Gooding wrote her goal was “to study how students respond and learn with the integration of MOOCs in (a humanities) classroom.”

So far, the 11 juniors and seniors in her “Studies in Poetry” class seem energized as well as engaged by their roles as pioneering participants.

“I wanted to give students a chance to see how academic discourse is modeled,” Hagenrater-Gooding said. “Instead of the lecture and the ‘I know, you don’t’ model, I wanted them to take responsibility for their

learning. They need to do the work. We need to do the work together.”

MOOCs have emerged as a muchdiscussed and sometimes controversial topic in higher education circles because tens of thousands of people can potentially tap into an online course – hence the description “massive.” Some are pursuing degrees, while others are auditing them.

Critics say MOOCs devalue the experience of up-close interaction with professors, a model that has worked for centuries. Advocates say MOOCs utilize the Internet as an effective tool that breaks down barriers by delivering knowledge to a broad audience.

Either way, UMES has dipped its institutional toe in the MOOC waters with Hagenrater-Gooding’s experimental class as well as a genetics class taught by Dr. Joseph Pitula.

Hagenrater-Gooding’s poetry students meet for 50 minutes three times weekly in a Henson Center classroom. They also participate “in the collaborative dynamic” of a “Modern and Contemporary Poetry” class taught by Al Filreis, the Kelly Family Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Generations of UMES alumni are fondly remembering Devenia Wallace, a beloved fellow Hawk who passed away late September. She was 93.

Wallace earned a Bachelor of Science in 1943 from Princess Anne College, as the university was known in the mid-20th century.

She went on to earn a Master of Science in 1946 from Virginia State College and eventually returned to her alma mater in the late 1950s to teach.

Born Dec. 14, 1919, Devenia Victoria Pinder was the daughter of the late Victoria W. and Charles Edward Pinder. She was a graduate of F.D. St. Clair High School in Cambridge, Md. Wallace was a life-long educator who specialized in the field of home economics and dietary studies. She taught 20 years at UMES, retiring in June 1978.

Her days as an undergraduate were highlighted at graduation when she was named the recipient of the “Alumni Achievement Award” – also known as the H.C. Byrd graduating senior award.

It was the first in a long list of honors and recognitions she received during her life, including being given the honorary title of faculty member emeritus following her retirement from UMES. In addition to her two degrees, Wallace did additional study at Drexel University, the University of Massachusetts, Iowa State University, Cornell and nearby Salisbury State College, according to her personnel records. She also spent time at Metropolitan Hospital in East Harlem, N.Y., and with the American Dietetic Association in Chicago.

At UMES, she taught and eventually served as chairwoman of the home economics department, today known as the Department of Human Ecology. In retirement, she was a fixture at alumni and homecoming events who routinely delighted others in attendance.

“In my time as director of alumni affairs and planned giving, I came to know Mrs. Wallace as a wonderful woman with a lifelong passion for the university,” said Kim Dumpson, UMES’ executive vice president.

“We shared the same date of birth, albeit, decades apart, and (I) found a kindred spirit in her through our shared love of university history and advancement for young women in various fields of endeavor,” Dumpson said.

In 2011, the university's human ecology department celebrated its 75th anniversary and simultaneously held a special recognition honoring Wallace.

She held a Registered Dietitian credential and was a member of many professional organizations, including the American Dietetic Association, the Maryland Dietetic Association, the Society of Nutrition Education and the Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education.

Wallace was an officer in the university’s alumni organization and had the distinction in 1959 of being part of the platform party at graduation where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the commencement address.

During the university’s recent 125th anniversary celebration, she donated some of her personal papers to UMES, including rare photographs from her undergraduate years as well as her days as a professor.

Devenia Victoria Wallace 1919 - 2013

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UMES Drama Society in production for fall play When Dr. Della Dameron-Johnson and her theater troupe returned from a National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts competition in Baltimore, they came back knowing exactly which piece they wanted to take on for their fall play.

“Miss Evers’ Boys” won first place in a one-act play contest that Dameron-Johnson was moderating. “I was impressed they could condense it into a 60 minute short,” she said.

The university’s adaptation, performed in two acts, is based on the 1992 stage play written

by David Feldshuh. A 1997 TV film version for

HBO won Emmy Awards in four categories.

The play will be performed by university students and administrators at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 and 2 in the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts. It tells the real-life drama of poor black men in Tuskegee, Ala., who were part of a secret medical experiment conducted by the federal government.

“Students in the cast are amazed that something like this really happened,” Dameron-Johnson said. “We are revealing a part of history through enactment of a play to an audience for whom many of which may have known nothing about the incident. It shows that sometimes it is wise to question, even if it is the government.”

Tickets are available at the door.

General admission tickets are $5; seniors, $4; and students with ID, $2. Opening night will feature a cast and audience forum at the close of curtain. Call 410651-6575 for more information.

Photo by Todd Nock

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featuring Filreis, who also delivers an occasional lesson via a live webcast. Because he is based at an Ivy League school in Philadelphia, Hagenrater-Gooding is hopeful her students might be able to travel there before the end of the semester to see a web cast in person.

The poetry course is being conducted in what she describes as a “hybrid manner” – students log in to the MOOC for global participation, then return to the traditional face-to-face classroom for “insular UMES interaction.” The classroom is “decentered;” students participate in a roundtable discussion and workshop of the poems covered.

“We’re working out a lot of bugs as we go,” Hagenrater-Gooding said. “The caliber of discussion has increased now that they have to be active participants in their learning. They can’t just check out during a lecture; they have to play a part.”

Assignments are submitted globally and locally. Discussions also are conducted globally and locally.

Hagenrater-Gooding assesses student performance in the usual manner – essays, quizzes, journals, peer reviews, discussions and tests – but the mode of delivery is a blend of traditional in-class lessons and online versions.

Among the questions she is hoping to answer at the end of the semester: • Does the use of the MOOC in the traditional classroom help model academic discourse?

• Does it give students a language by which to interact with the text?

• Does it enhance learning enough to show marked improvement?

• How does the global learning help learning outcomes of the UMES student?

UMES is represented at health equity summit

A UMES delegation attended the Oct. 11 Eastern Shore Health Equity Summit presented by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities. Pictured from left are: Dr. Mark Freebery, assistant dean of experiential education and assistant professor of pharmacy practice; Daniel Hines; Matthew Balish; Carolina Meneses-Castro, all third year pharmacy students; and Dr. Cynthia Boyle, professor and chair of pharmacy practice and administration. The purpose of the event was to learn about and discuss health reform and the new health insurance marketplace.

Dr. Thomas LaVeist, Class of 1984, was lauded for his life-long commitment toward health reform and combatting health disparities.

LaVeist is the director of the Center for Health Disparities Solutions at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was presented the Shirley Nathan-Pulliam Health Equity Leadership Award at a health care reform summit held at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills, Md.

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UMES golf doing well in its fourth season

Veverka leads way with average of 74, Hawks finish within top-7 in all three events

UMES’ golf team opened their 2013-14 season with solid play across three tournaments. The Hawks, which are now in its fourth season, have four tournaments on the schedule this fall and will conclude 2013 at the Tiger Invitational in Savannah, Ga., Nov. 8. This is also the first year that the team is a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

UMES finished within the top-7 in each of its first three tournaments. The Hawks opened with a seventh-place finish at the Myrtle Beach Invitational, before placing in the upper half of schools at the 18-team, Black College Alumni HOF Invitational Sept. 28. The team also placed seventh at the Robert Morris University Colonial Classic.

It has been the Michael Veverka (Brunswick, Md.) show for UMES so far this fall.

He has led the team in every tournament this year and has tallied the lowest round for the Hawks in all but one round. Veverka opened the year with a threeunder-par round of 69 on the first day of the Myrtle Beach Invitational in early September, which proved to be the lowest round in the history of UMES golf. He carries an average of 74.67 across six rounds this year and has placed within the top-10 twice.

Sophomore Jon Seward (Ft. Washington, Md.) and sophomore Norman Blanco (New Orleans, La.) each sit with averages under 80 and are in the top-3 for the Hawks. Seward has an average of 78 in two tournaments, including a 75 in his opening round of the year. Blanco has posted a score of 79.17 in six rounds and has finished as UMES’ No. 2 golfer in all three tournaments.

The fourth and final scoring spot for the Hawks is shared by senior Paul Cecil (Severn, Md.) and junior Richard Fleming (Upper Marlboro, Md.) scoring three times combined. Cecil shot two rounds in the 70s in his last tournament at the Black College Alumni HOF Tournament, while Fleming rounded out the scoring for UMES in the team’s last event.

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Chinese students come to campus

How the Vietnam War improved health care

Physician Assistant students, from left, Christopher Lotfabadi, Maris Smith, Liza Shaposhnikova and Christopher Bradley meet Captain Bill Dial following the lecture.

A delegation from Suzhou, China visited UMES as part of a fact-finding trip to learn about the United State’s approach to early childhood development. The visit was arranged by Chesapeake College, which played host to the group from a school near Shanghai with which it has a partnership.

Pharmacy students give flu shots Pharmacy students got some practice giving flu shots to fellow students and faculty last week in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. Pictured from left, Racque Reese receives her flu shot from Beldar Demaku, both are second year pharmacy students.

Photo by Valentine Anamelechi

UMES celebrates inaugural diversity event

State Sen. John Astle returned to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Oct. 1 for an encore presentation of his first-hand experiences as a MEDEVAC helicopter pilot in Vietnam.

Astle, a Democrat who represents Anne Arundel County, shared his story – “Experience in Military Medical Evacuation in Vietnam.” He gave a similar talk a year ago, which inspired the UMES faculty to invite him back in honor of National Physician Assistants Week. Astle was joined by retired Capt. Bill Dial, who flew on several missions with him as a medical corpsman.

The experience of military corpsmen in providing critical and emergency field care and medical evacuations during the Vietnam war motivated educators to develop high-level medical training that today leads to a professional degree as a Physician Assistant.

UMES is one of two historically black institutions – the other is Howard University – that offers a degree in physician assistant studies. The university, which launched its program in 1999, has produced 152 graduates.

Astle, 70, joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1966. His nine years of active service included serving in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and a tour as a presidential helicopter pilot. According to Maryland Manual biography, he worked as a medical evacuation pilot for the Washington Hospital Center from 1985 until 2005.

His military service commendations include: the Legion of Merit, two Purple Hearts, the Meritorious Service Medal, 31 air medals and the Presidential Service Badge.

Graduate Student Association names officers

UMES Counseling Services, in collaboration with campus and community partners, observed National Coming Out Day Oct. 11 with a mid-day event to promote a supportive and accepting environment at the university for all.

Representatives of the UMES LGBTQ Diversity Task Force, pictured from left, Dr. Bessie Green, a research associate in the Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences, and Jennifer Neumyer, special collections and outreach librarian in the Frederick Douglass Library, signed up 30 students interested in being on the committee. The event strives to improve awareness through education and dialogue. It featured small group discussions, movies, an open microphone opportunity, a dramatization, a fashion show, food and give-a-ways.

Officers for the Graduate Student Association, from left, are: Detbra Rosales, Heather Wolfer, Daniel Cullen, Kristen Lycett, Laura Almodóvar, Wilmelie Cruz, Juan Alvarez and Jhamyllia Rice. Coincidently, all are studying marine estuarine environmental science.

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Library Exhibit Show on display now through Dec. 6.

8 a.m.-10 p.m., Mon. through Thurs.; 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat.; 3-11 p.m., Sun. Frederick Douglass Library.

“Flying High with Hawk Pride.” 410-651-7696

holidays. Fall and winter apparel arriving daily.

October 5:30 p.m. • Student Services Center, theater “Stories My Father Told Me.” Arab-American artist Helen Zughaib shares art and memories of growing up in Lebanon.

410-651-6543

31* UMES Fall Theater Production 7:30 p.m. • Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts “Miss Evers’ Boys,” a 1992 stage play by David Feldshuh.

Cost $5 general, $4 seniors, $2 students with ID 410-651-6575

Offer not valid with “buy two, get one free” t-shirt promotion, with any other special offer or the regular faculty/staff 10 percent discount.

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Mosely Gallery Fine Arts Student Show Gallery Hours: Mon. through Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Show on display until Nov. 29.

410-651-7770

“Miss Evers’ Boys,” a 1992 stage play by David Feldshuh.

Cost $5 general, $4 seniors, $2 students with ID 410-651-6575

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4 p.m. Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts 410-651-6571

Choose item #5385 Make the Choice to Make a Difference.

Editors Gail Stephens, Assistant Director of Public Relations and Publications Manager Bill Robinson, Director of Public Relations Ashley Collier, Public Relations Assistant

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Student Services Center Ballroom 410-651-6079

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14 International Student Ethnic Festival

7 p.m. • Richard A. Henson Center HRM students and faculty present “Culinary Adventurism” featuring exotic cuisine. $50 per person or $120 for a gourmet series ticket. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

410-651-6563

10 UMES Concert Choir Fall Performance

*Unless stipulated, all events listed are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Events are subject to change. For the most updated information, call the numbers listed or visit www.umes.edu/events.

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