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September 6, 2013
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Adoption of classroom security device puts UMES in national spotlight UMES’ decision to purchase hand-held dryover in three minutes. The armor needs to be erase boards that can double as bulletproof in the hands … of the teachers because they shields has brought the university world-wide are the ones that are there to protect the media attention. students.” An international TV audience that tuned in UMES announced Aug. 14 its purchase of Aug. 26 to the CNN talk show, “Piers Morgan 200, 18-inch-by-20-inch writing tablets from Live,” heard UMES police chief Ernest Leatherbury Hardwire in nearby Pocomoke City. The talk about a new kind of classroom security boards will be made available to faculty and measure. possibly placed in other high-traffic offices. “I see this as a proactive step to ensure the The university bought the boards using safety of our community in the unlikely event … George Tunis, CEO and founder of Hardwire, $59,800 provided by its private foundation. No someone does come on this campus with the demonstrates what the impact of a bullet to the public funds or student tuition were used. whiteboard would feel like as a CNN videographer intent to harm our students, staff and our faculty,” Tunis said UMES is the first college in the tapes. Leatherbury told the show’s host. nation to invest in his new product, a Leatherbury was joined in a UMES classroom by George Tunis, founder pronouncement that has attracted attention from journalists. of Hardwire LLC, the manufacturer of protective armor for the military and Reports about the university’s dry-erase board acquisition have appeared law enforcement agencies that he is now marketing as a supplemental safety across America and in Asian newspapers, while television journalists from tool to educators. Japan and France also have expressed interest in the story. “This same technology can apply to your school and the armor needs Morgan, who was in Los Angeles, asked Leatherbury, a retired Maryland to be there,” Tunis said. The “Sandy Hook (school shooting) was done and SECURITY / continued on page 4
50th anniversary march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom “Fingertips” by Little Stevie Wonder topped the Billboard charts the last week of August 1963, stamps sold for a nickel and “The Great Escape” was the must-see movie. Upwards of a quarter million people gathered in the nation’s capital a half-century ago to participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In the crowd that day were those with University of Maryland Eastern Shore ties. Among them were Dr. David Johnson Jr., Pat Kiah and her best friend, Ann Sullivan. Sullivan and Kiah were teenagers whose fathers, T.
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Page 2 Roundabout at UMES Blvd. Founder’s Week Schedule
Page 3 Dumpson Named Executive Vice President Construction Management MOU
Waldo Kiah and James Sullivan, were Maryland State College faculty colleagues. “Mr. Kiah took us to Constitution Avenue, where we joined a stream of people that seemed to be absolutely endless,” Sullivan said. “I don't think we had ever seen so many people of color in one place.” “Almost everyone carried a sign that let the world know what they stood for, and who they represented,” she said. Sullivan and the Kiahs were too far from the Lincoln Memorial to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his “I Have A Dream” speech, but saw it later that day on TV. “We were in awe of what we had just heard,” Sullivan said. “I thought, ‘no wonder the people were cheering and applauding so loudly’."
Page 4 Faculty and Staff Spotlight Americorps VISTA Representative
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Page 5 What We Did Last Summer
Page 6 Art Shell Inducted into Hall of Fame Club Football Schedule
Page 7 Freshman Move -in College Colors Day President’s Picnic
Page 8 Calendar of Events