The Key September 9, 2016 Edition

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A newsletter for students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends

September 9, 2016

On a muggy Delaware Conference weekend afternoon that Academy that he and defines Delmarva’s dog his wife, the former days of summer, five Descendants of UMES’ first educators explore their roots Portia E. Lovett, opened visitors gathered at the Sept. 13, 1886 as they University of Maryland welcomed the first nine Eastern Shore looking for a palpable connection to their family history. students who dared to enroll. The couple is laid to rest on the campus.

Just as Portia and Benjamin Bird must have experienced 130 years “This fills that void of not knowing,” said Belinda Patrick of Culpepper, ago, a quintet of their descendants took in the sights and sounds of solitude Va., the oldest great-grandchild. “It’s the final chapter. It brings what I’ve that envelop the land-grant institution on a quiet Saturday. They came in been working on (family ancestry) some closure.” search of stories about Patrick’s their two ancestors who grandfather was Lovett founded the school for Burns Bird, born March African-Americans.

28, 1892 in Princess Four of the Birds’ Anne some five and half great-grandchildren years after Portia and and a great-greatBenjamin Bird accepted granddaughter made the the Methodist Episcopal pilgrimage to Princess Church’s challenge to Anne to see where the operate a prep school in couple carved out a rural eastern Maryland. hardscrabble life as Because of its pioneering educators location in Somerset in post-Reconstruction County’s seat of America. It was the first government, the school time any of them had set became known as foot on the campus.

Princess Anne Academy, Benjamin O. Bird which prepared some Alvin Fore, Debbie Patton, Denise Fore, LaTonya Bannister and Belinda Patrick. was the founding students for work on principal of the DESCENDANTS / continued on page 5

A step back in time

UMES pharmacy school recruiting goes global UMES and a medical university in Taiwan have an agreement in place that both anticipate will lead to academic exchange opportunities for students in their respective institutions.

A delegation from UMES’ School of Pharmacy and Health Professions met recently with counterparts from Chung Shan Medical University to begin laying the groundwork for Chinese students to earn a doctorate of pharmacy degree in Princess Anne.

Dr. Rondall E. Allen, UMES’ pharmacy school dean, also envisions

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Hotelier Donation Freshmen Move-In

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Interim Provost Named Faculty Spotlight Meet the SGA

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Ben Barnes Ben Webster

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Alumna Speaks at Founders’ Day Worship Service

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Women’s Volleyball

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Promoting Community Policy PT Students Bond Froggy Fiasco

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Calendar of Events

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Circling the Oval

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Hotelier donation to benefit campus lodging One of the partners of an award-winning Gaithersburg, Md. hotel has by spending a night at the hotel.

McDaniel said “in-kind” gifts like donated furniture of the quality he volunteered to help UMES modernize its lodging options. found at the Comfort Inn are as important as monetary donations if they fill Vira Safai, managing partner of a Comfort Inn just a 10-minute drive from the Universities at Shady Grove in neighboring Rockville, will transfer a genuine need.

The Comfort Inn donation “means a long-awaited upgrade of our to UMES roughly enough hotel furnishings for 100 rooms this fall. physical facility to current standards,” UMES officials have big plans for Boger said. the gift worth an estimated $200,000, Anticipated changes in how Henson including renovation of all 24 hotel is managed as an on-campus lodging rooms on the top floor of the university’s facility will mean a more visible role for Richard A. Henson Center.

UMES students majoring in hospitality “Our intention wasn’t to get any and tourism management. publicity,” Safai said. “We just wanted to A part-time faculty member in support your program, which is doing a the hospitality and business program terrific job.” at Montgomery College, Safai said his Safai occasionally does guest hotel has provided part-time jobs and speaking and delivers guest lectures to internships for UMES Shady Grove students enrolled in UMES’ hospitality students, so the donation was a natural and tourism management program at next step in his support of the university.

Shady Grove in Montgomery County.

“You’ve got a great program. You It was at a Shady Grove function have good students who are going to be where Safai and Dr. Ernest Boger, the future leaders of our industry,” said chairman of the university’s hospitality UMES representatives, from left, Stephen McDaniel and Safai, who is a member of the Maryland and tourism management program, Kimberly Dumpson, met with Vira Safai, owner of the struck up a conversation that led to the Comfort Inn in Gaithersburg, Md., to finalize arrangements Tourism Development Board. for an in-kind donation of furnishings worth $200,000.

The donation includes lamps, art donation. work and furniture known as case goods “Mr. Safai is very enthusiastic about what we do, and he offered to help,” Boger said. “This couldn’t come – dressers, tables and desks – as well as some mattresses, upholstered seating and chairs. at a better time.”

UMES also plans to utilize some of the furniture not placed in Henson at Choice Hotels, which licenses Comfort Inns like Safai’s, is doing a nationwide makeover of its 6,300 properties. The innkeeper faced a other locations, including graduate housing and possibly apartments where dilemma: how to dispose of gently used furniture only six-to-seven years old. residence-life staff and their families live year-round.

Boger calls Safai’s gesture an important “opportunity to reach out to It turns out UMES is about to ramp up a major overhaul of the Henson the broad, deep, rich hospitality community in the Baltimore-Washington center, which opened in 1993.

Two senior UMES administrators – Stephen McDaniel, vice president corridor and show these professionals what we are doing here at UMES.” Tentatively, renovations to the Henson center are expected to be for institutional advancement and Kim Dumpson, the university’s executive vice president – traveled to Gaithersburg recently on a fact-finding mission completed by mid-2017.

UMES welcomes the Class of 2020

Freshman India Oliver from Cleveland and her family get special help moving in from UMES President Juliette B. Bell.

UMES student ambassadors lined up on UMES Blvd. to give incoming students a hearty Hawk welcome.

UMES alumna Ta-Sha Watkins (’14) takes a selfie with her brother, freshman Demetrius Johnson, their mom and Dr. Bell.

UMES People

Whitehead named interim provost Dr. Kimberly Whitehead will serve as UMES’ interim provost and vice president for academic affairs, effective Sept. 1. She takes over academic policy-making responsibilities in that office from Dr. Alton Thompson, who agreed earlier this year to serve as interim provost through July 31.

Whitehead joined the university in July 2014 as associate vice president for academic affairs after serving in a similar capacity at West Virginia State University the previous year. She has served in administrative roles at higher education institutions for the past 15 years.

Whitehead worked for three years at Rowan University’s Camden, N.J. campus, where she was an associate dean and director of academic services responsible for oversight of academic programming, registration, records and bursar services. She also was a special assistant to the provost at Bowie State University and director of Shaw University’s honors program.

Whitehead enjoys working with students in the classroom and laboratory and prides herself in “enhancing student achievement and providing unique experiences to all students.”

Whitehead holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Norfolk State University and a doctorate in genetics from N.C. State University in Raleigh. She completed postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health NCI Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis and at Fayetteville State University.

The Office of Human Resources will work with a consulting firm specializing in college administrator searches to identify candidates for the permanent provost.

Meet your SGA officers for 2016-17 UMES students serving on the SGA’s executive board this year from left, are: (bottom rows) Rashad Kennedy, Chief of Staff; Ayanna Stevens, secretary; Anthony Bagley, vice president; Alisa Fornwald, president; Amber Dennis, business manager; Jelani Worrell, public relations coordinator; and (top row) Miss and Mr. UMES, Jahmai Holland and Joseph Marks. The University System of Maryland student representative, Jasmine Vice, is not pictured.

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Faculty Spotlight Dr. Terry L. Smith, associate professor of English, will serve not only as UMES’ chapter president, but as the northeast regional vice president for The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi for 2016-18.

Smith was elected at the society’s biennial convention in Atlanta. Phi Kappa Phi is “the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.” Membership is by invitation to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of second-term juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify.

Smith will work with Phi Kappa Phi chapter officers and members to “strengthen and enhance chapters in the society’s northeast region.”

“I am honored to have the privilege of serving Phi Kappa Phi, in which I believe so strongly, at both the chapter level and, now, the regional level,” Smith said.

Smith, who was initiated in Salisbury (State) University’s chapter in 1979, has been an active leader in the UMES chapter since its installation in 2010.

Smith holds a doctorate in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

She currently serves on the board of the College English Association, MidAtlantic Group and is co-editor of the organization’s journal, CEAMagazine.

Dr. Ernest Boger, chair of UMES’ Hospitality and Tourism Management Department, was elected president of the Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Council for 2016-17. He previously served as vice president representing Somerset County on the board of directors and has been a member since 2008.

The Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Council is “a grassroots, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to preserve, protect and promote the cultural, natural and historical heritage of Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties.”

The key goal of the organization is to stimulate heritage tourism growth and the associated economic benefits, while preserving the area. LESHC serves as a regional partnership for interpretation, stewardship, and appropriate development of the area’s natural, historic and cultural resources. The LESHC also serves as a conduit to funding sources for Heritage Area projects and activities.

“Maryland is a benchmark state in the global establishment and fostering of the Heritage Area concept,” Boger said. “As chair of the exclusive hospitality and tourism bachelor’s degree program in the University System of Maryland, presidency of LESHC provides an extraordinary opportunity to extend the resources and leadership of UMES in the economic development of the area via its wealth of cultural and heritage tourism sites and experiences.”

Boger holds memberships in Sister Cities of Greater Salisbury, Ocean City Hotel Motel Restaurant Association, Maryland Tourism Educational Foundation and Salisbury Sunrise Rotary. He also is a member of the International Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education.

Boger received a doctorate in management from Revans International University in Buckingham, England, an MBA from the University of North Texas and a bachelor’s from the University of South Florida.

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Barnes earns prestigious EPA fellowship, White House names Webster an HBCU All-Star

UMES’ Ben Barnes spent this past summer as a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency research assistant tasked with helping search for ways to rid drinking water of lead and copper contaminants.

The senior from Onancock, Va. worked at the EPA’s Water Supply and Water Resources Division in Cincinnati, part of a fellowship award that paid him for a 12-week summer internship as well as for two years of undergraduate study.

A chemistry major with a 3.94 grade point average, Barnes was one of 34 recipients selected a year ago to receive a Greater Research Opportunities fellowship each worth up to $50,000.

“EPA’s GRO fellowships … provide undergraduates like Benjamin with support to cultivate their research skills and explore their passion for environmental science,” said Shawn M. Garvin, EPA’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator. “EPA knows today’s students are tomorrow’s environmental scientists and engineers who will lead the way in protecting human health and the environment.”

It wasn’t long after Barnes arrived at UMES in the fall of 2014 that he connected with chemistry professor Victoria Volkis. Barnes was looking for experience working in a laboratory and Volkis is among the university’s most active faculty researchers.

“He initially came (to me) as a volunteer and struck me as a young man (who) not only very clearly knew what he wants to study and what career to (pursue),” Volkis said, “but he also had a solid plan how to achieve it.”

Barnes, a member of UMES’ Richard A. Henson Honors Program, had done research on the fellowship program and targeted qualifying for it as a path to graduate school.

Volkis played a crucial role in mentoring him with his application so it would get the screening committee’s attention.

Barnes’ long-term goals are earning a doctorate in materials science and then teaching and doing research at the college level.

At UMES, Barnes is also working with physicist Kausik S. Das on developing organic solar cell technology and hopes to conduct similar research in graduate school.”

“It’s so fundamental to different parts of science – physics, chemistry, electrical engineering,” he said.

During his stint as an EPA intern in Cincinnati, Barnes crossed paths with Darren Lytle, a front-line scientist singled out for praise by agency critics as one of the “good guys” in the controversy that swirled around the slow response to Flint, Mich.’s lead contaminated water system.

“I got to apply some of the things I’ve learned here (at UMES),” Barnes said of his EPA experience. “It was a great opportunity to see the research alternative to what is done in an academic setting.”

In addition to working alongside Volkis, Barnes also credits the mentoring he’s received from Das and aviation science instructor Chris Hartman.

“The key to where I’ve gotten is developing good relationships with faculty,” Barnes said.

Volkis said Barnes has been a superb student-diplomat for UMES during the short time she has known him.

“Ben has made some significant presentations on national and regional conferences and has won couple of best poster awards.

Since its inception in 1981, EPA’s Greater Research Opportunities Fellowship program has awarded more than $13 million in funding to nearly 400 students.

Editor’s note: UMES Junior Ben Webster was named over the summer as a national student ambassador by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The Key invited him to share his vision of the year ahead.

Being selected as an All-Star by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities is a great honor.

I am swelled with appreciation for the stakeholders in my life who provided me with the development, opportunities and encouragement necessary to achieve this honorable role.

At HBCUs, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students are often forgotten and silenced. According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 20 percent of college students fear for their physical safety due to their gender identity or their perceived sexual orientation? Did you know that approximately 25 percent of LGBT students and university staff have been harassed due to their sexual orientation? Did you know that 51 percent of LGBT students have concealed their sexual orientation or gender identity to avoid intimidation?

These are unique and traumatic experiences happening on our campuses. These experiences matter. The reality faced by LGBT students and the civic efforts we are making are often overlooked by student bodies and university leaders as well.

My selection provides an opportunity and responsibility to enact positive change for LGBT students through leveraging my network of White House staff, policymakers, fellow HBCU All-Stars and UMES leaders.

In the short time I’ve been in this role, it has taught me there is much more that can be done. The 2016 HBCU All-Star cohort has come together in a time of high racial tensions, troubling social inequality and other complex issues that resonate on HBCU campuses. In the coming year, I hope we can develop initiatives, action plans and programs that address the physical and mental wellness of all college students, diversity and inclusion across all backgrounds, social justice, student engagement, professional development and the value of higher education.

This cannot be achieved, however, without support and involvement of our respective student bodies. I implore my fellow Hawks to seek, improve and create professional and civic initiatives that will ensure we all have an enriching education and experience at UMES. We all deserve the right to a quality education, but it is a privilege only given to some.

Will you join me?

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Alumna to speak at Founders’ Day worship service Lt. Col. Sherrol L. James, a 1986 alumna and senior installation chaplain for the U.S. Air Force, will be the keynote speaker for the Founders’ Day worship service Sept. 11 at Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Princess Anne.

The 11 a.m. service commemorates the 130th anniversary of the church and the university. The two were founded just days apart by the Delaware Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1886.

“I remember when Sherrol was here as a student, she attended Metropolitan U.M.C. and was involved in the ministry there,” said John “Dean” Tilghman, an area director for UMES’ Office of Residence Life and a longtime member of the church. “She seemed like a perfect fit as the speaker this year to reminisce about the relationship between the university and the church.”

In her post, James advises the commander of the Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C. on spiritual, moral, ethical issues, and morale and ensures the free exercise of religion for 700 command personnel and 48 mission partners

with 17,000 personnel.

James was commissioned as a reserve chaplain in 1995 and served at Dover (Del.) Air Force Base.

She is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and entered active duty in 1997.

James served nine years as a chaplain with the Air Force, including assignments in Texas, Colorado, Kuwait and Japan. For the past decade, she has been senior chaplain at Air Force bases in Arizona, Delaware and Florida and wing chaplain in Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Prior to her active duty service she pastored in the United Methodist Church for 10 years. She also taught high school physical science and biology, was an admissions counselor and recruiter at UMES, worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Cooperative States Research Services, and served as a Chaplain at Grady Hospital in Atlanta.

James earned a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from UMES and a Master of Divinity degree from the Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta. She has received numerous military service awards and decorations.

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family farms and businesses. For others, it was a path to higher education.

Patrick decided after she retired she would busy herself doing research on her relatives, working to fill voids in her family’s story.

Joan Patricia Bird, Patrick’s mother and Lovett Bird’s only child, didn’t share much family history with her six children, including the four who visited the UMES campus.

“My mother never talked about her family at all,” said Debbie Patton of Las Vegas. “We just didn’t hear a lot about our family going back.”

“I don’t think my mother knew about the college,” added Denise Fore of San Francisco. “I think she would have told us.”

Denise and brother, Alvin Fore of San Jose, Calif., accompanied their two older sisters and LaTonya Bannister, Patrick’s daughter, on a personalized campus tour conducted by historian Eric Jodlbauer of Princess Anne and three members of President Juliette B. Bell’s staff.

The visitors rode slowly in golf carts past UMES’ signature buildings visible to most motorists – the Student Services Center, the Ella Fitzgerald Center, the Hytche Athletic Center and the new Engineering & Aviation Science Complex.

UMES’ main campus is spread across some 745 acres, a far cry from the original 16 acres and a long-gone manor house that served as the academy’s first building.

The tour guides shared stories and anecdotes about UMES’ history, including a stop where Jodlbauer showed where the Birds lived and taught in the dwelling known as Olney. He also shared what he learned doing extensive research of church archives about how Princess Anne was chosen as the location for a satellite campus of then-private Morgan College in Baltimore.

“I never really had any interest in family history,” said Bannister, the great-great-granddaughter. “Now, I’m like … ‘Wow.’ I’ve come full circle.

This woke me up.”

The Bird descendants posed for a photo in front of Bird Hall, originally a mechanical arts classroom building erected near the end of the Great Depression.

Next door, they stepped inside the lobby of J.T. Williams Hall, where posters featuring photos and narratives compiled by Jodlbauer reinforced the travelogue delivered during the outing.

The family finished its visit with a stop at the small campus cemetery where the Birds are buried. At first, they stood outside the wrought ironstyle fence, respectfully capturing images of the gravestones on their phones and hand-held tablets.

When a vase of red roses and white carnations appeared, they hesitantly stepped through the gate to pay their respects.

Tears came to everyone’s eyes.

The emotional moment was more than a year in the making after Denise Fore insisted her siblings commit to gathering in Princess Anne to visit the place where Belinda Patrick had slowly been stitching together Internet nuggets.

“I needed to come and stand on the land of my forefathers,” Denise Fore said. “I’m so glad I did.”

Alvin Fore, who still answers to his childhood nickname “Ikey,” was a man of few words throughout much of the tour.

Afterward, he conceded the experience “meant a lot. I knew what they were doing, but I wasn’t that interested. I’m more interested – now that I came.”

Patrick’s goal is to publish her findings for succeeding generations of Birds scattered about the country.

“This a wonderful story that needs to be told,” she said.

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Athletics

Women’s Volleyball: Shore’s Courtyard Classic After dropping its first two matches at The Shore’s Courtyard Classic, the UMES women’s volleyball team rebounded by compiling three victories in a row during the Labor Day weekend tournament.

The latest win came this past Sunday with a 3-0 victory (25-15, 25-19, 25-20) over MEAC rival Norfolk State at the William P. Hytche Athletic Center.

With the win, the Hawks have started the 2016 season with a 7-2 record.

Freshman Iva Vujosevic (Bar, Montenegro) had the best all-around performance with a team high 11 kills, a .381 attack percentage, five digs, three aces and two block assists.

The Hawks also received great efforts from junior Alana Polk (Houston) and her eight kills; a 50 percent success rate from senior Mere Serea (Suva, Fiji) on attacks with three block assists; and six kills each from sophomores Marta Klafuric (Donja Lomnica, Croatia) and Lucia Babic (Sisak, Croatia).

The Shore’s four-day Courtyard Classic tournament featured 11 matches and teams from American University, the U.S. Naval Academy, Rider, S.C. State and Norfolk State. American and Navy both went undefeated so they were honored as co-champions. UMES took the runnerup spot with a 3-2 weekend.

Iva Vujosevic

Ten players were awarded All-Tournament honors. For the Hawks, Babic took home MVP honors with 37 kills, 18 digs and four blocks.

Vujosevic and freshman Ivana Blazevic (Zagreb, Croatia) also made the All-Tournament squad.

UMES opened its season with a perfect performance on the road, traveling Aug. 26-27 to Alabama where the Hawks lost just one game in four matches with Texas Southern, Jackson State, Alabama State and Alabama A&M. The Hawks head to Pullman, Washington this weekend to participate in the Cougar Classic. They’ll face George Washington University, Idaho and host Washington State.

The next home match is Tuesday, Sept. 27 against Virginia Commonwealth University.

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American students having the option of fulfilling required field work by completing rotations in Taiwan to satisfy off-campus clinical experience requirements.

“We’re thrilled about the possibilities that establishing this relationship with Chung Shan University will have,” Allen said. “We believe it will put UMES in a position of having an impact and presence in health education internationally.”

Chung Shan Medical University in Tai Chung city has 13 “sister school” relationships with American institutions including Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Saint Louis University, Temple and the University of Maryland’s nursing school.

“We talk all the time about how we are preparing our students for the global marketplace,” UMES President Juliette B. Bell said. “This is an exciting example of putting that into practice.”

Allen said he’s hopeful of working out details of the exchange agreement over the next year so that a handful of Chinese students who want to pursue pharmacy as a career can enroll at UMES in the fall of 2018.

UMES offers a doctorate in pharmacy through year-round instruction that puts students in position to earn a degree in three years. Roughly 60 students enroll in the UMES graduate program annually.

The agreement with Chung Shan would enable a select group of Chinese undergraduates with at least two years of study to enroll in UMES’ pharmacy program. Commonly called the “2+3” model, UMES will

consider rising juniors with first-rate academic credentials that project them as capable graduate school candidates.

“We are excited about the opportunity to partner with the School of Pharmacy to develop a 2+3 program for our students,” said Dr. Kan-Jen Tsai, a professor and dean of Chung Shan Medical University’s international affairs office.

Dr. Victor Hsia, a native of Taiwan and chairman of UMES’ pharmaceutical sciences department, initiated the contact with counterparts at Chung Shan with whom he has had a professional relationship.

“This is all due to Victor,” Allen said. “He came to us with the idea of taking what we do here ‘international’ and it’s just grown from there.”

The proposed exchange agreement is initially for four years.

Logistics that still need to be worked out include admissions criteria, housing and transportation arrangements as well as tuition and fees.

Allen also said UMES and counterparts at Chung Shan would be working to ensure Chinese students are sufficiently bilingual to succeed in classes taught in English.

The possibility also exists that students in other UMES School of Pharmacy and Health Professions departments – physical therapy and rehabilitation services – also might be able to travel to Taiwan for internships and related studies to fulfill degree requirements.

“This agreement has a lot of possibilities,” Allen said, “so there are still a lot of details to be worked out.”

School News

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Maroon, Gray & Blue promotes community policing Students in UMES’ Richard A. Henson Honors Program on a Freshman Living and Giving Summer Honors Immersion Program trip to Times Square and the Harlem Festival in N.Y. are enthusiastically greeted by police officers as they off-load their bus. The first-year students pictured from left, are: (front row) Brianna Sepelak; Susan Hemauer; Shayna Jimenez-Domingo; (second row) Sydney Campbell, Alexis Dockery, Nylah McClain, Stormi Brinkley, Madeline Nee, Alexis Bell, (back rows) Jabril Arnold; Young Lee; Timothy Riley; Jaheem Pratt; Kenneh Koker; Michael Sebsbe; Loretta Campbell, honors program assistant director; Dayona Godwin; and Dr. Michael Lane, director.

First year PT students bond with classmates Jarrell Young and Megan McGowan, students in UMES’ physical therapy class of 2019, took to Ayers Creek in Berlin along with 32 of their classmates for a teambuilding activity as part of their three-day orientation.

The river adventure added a fun twist to opening activities where the group receives standard information such as lab safety and departmental policies.

By Julia Rocha

Lt. Rick Taylor, Crisfield Police Department; Sheriff Ron Howard, Somerset Co. Sheriff’s Department; Chief Tim Bozman, Princess Anne Police Department; Interim Police Chief Mark Tyler, UMES; State’s Attorney Dan Powell, Somerset Co. State’s Attorney’s office; and Assistant State’s Attorney and UMES alumna Kendra Hayward were panelists on UMES’ forum on social justice, activism and community policing. The Aug. 17 event was moderated by Dr. Lorenzo Boyd, UMES’ new chair of the criminal justice department. “The impetus was to have local police come to campus and highlight what they are doing in alignment with President Obama’s final report on 21st century policing,” Boyd said. “We focused on Pillar 1: ‘Building Trust in Legitimacy’.”

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SEPTEMBER

Opening Reception William P. Hytche Museum

4-7 p.m., William P. Hytche Athletic Center Event sponsored by the William P. Hytche Legacy Initiative Committee.

Email WPHytche10@aol.com for more information.

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Founders’ Day Events Noon., J.T. Williams Hall Birthday Celebration

7:30 p.m., Richard A. Henson Center Historic walking tour “The Ghosts of UMES.” Take a tour of UMES highlighting the places, events and people no longer visible on campus and their stories.

410-651-UMES

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arts & entertainment calendar

Agriculture Field Day

8 a.m. check-in, Student Services Center “Addressing Food Security at UMES.”

Educational information and activities for the whole

family. Pre-register on or before September 12.

Call 410-651-6168 or 6630 or visit

2016agfieldday.eventbrite.com.

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Count Basie Orchestra Concert 7:30 p.m., Ella Fitzgerald Center Come hear “The Swingingest Band in All The Land,” since 1935. The Count Basie Orchestra has won 18 Grammy Awards; more than any other in jazz history.

410-651-UMES

OCTOBER

Somerset County’s 350th Anniversary

5 p.m. gates open

Athletic fields, Westover, Md.

Music, food, activities and history.

Fireworks courtesy of UMES. 410-651-UMES

T H E U MES MISSION The University of Maryland Eastern Shore, the state’s historically black, 1890 land-grant institution, has its purpose and uniqueness grounded in distinctive learning, discovery and engagement opportunities in the arts and science, education, technology, engineering, agriculture, business and health professions.

UMES is a student-centered, doctoral research degree-granting university known for its nationally accredited undergraduate and graduate programs, applied research and highly valued graduates.

UMES provides individuals, including first-generation college students, access to a holistic learning environment that fosters multicultural diversity, academic success, and intellectual and social growth.

UMES prepares graduates to address challenges in a global, knowledgebased economy while maintaining its commitment to meeting the workforce and economic development needs of the Eastern Shore, the state, the nation and the world.

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U.S. Marine Band

TICKETS AVAILABL E SEPT. 1

7 p.m., Ella Fitzgerald Center “The President’s Own,” The U.S. Marine Band, presents its

first concert of the 2016 tour.

Visit marineband.ticketleap.com in advance for free tickets. Limit 4 per person.

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