The Key September 14, 2018 Edition

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

September 14, 2018

Anderson’s theme:

TEAM - Together in Excellence, Affirming our Mission at student activities, including move-in day, where she described being Dr. Heidi M. Anderson’s whirlwind first week as UMES’ 16th leader “inspired by their joy and their stories of what they are expecting now that began with fund-raising outreach in Orlando and ended at Metropolitan they are Hawks.”

United Methodist Anderson Church in a shared that traditional gesture anecdote and recognizing the outlined her plans 132nd anniversary of and vision for the the university and the university at a church as Princess “welcome” event Anne landmarks.

Sept. 7 at the Ella In between, Fitzgerald Center Anderson for the Performing demonstrated a highArts. energy willingness to “We open a immerse herself in new chapter in campus life. After all, the distinguished students already had history of the a head start on her University of since classes started Maryland Eastern Aug. 27.

Shore,” she said.

Sept. 1 was “As a public Anderson’s official institution of first day on the job, but she made it (L-R) Carmia T. Smith, Simone C. Smith, Ariyan J. Spears, Desmond O. McCullough, ANDERSON / a point to appear Jasmine R. McCoy and Dr. Heidi M. Anderson. continued on page 2

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT RANKINGS For the second year in a row, the UNIVERSITY of MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE has been ranked by its historically black peer institutuions in the

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SGA Executive White House Names Chigbu Top Science Educator Council UMES Senate Carr Named Acting VP Onyeozili Lends Expertise to Officers Nigerian University

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UMES Marine Scientist Moonlights as Archaeologist UMES Professor Elected to Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Art Show

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Martin Possible Oldest Living UMES Grad

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Stadium Dedicated to Cappy Anderson

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UMES Role Models Greet Students | Residence Life Donates Golf Team Volunteers | American Fisheries Celebrate UMES Basketball Team Welcomes 6th Graders Students Participate in National Science Research

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A&E Calendar Tom Joyner Foundation

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Circling the Oval

2018-2019 Student Government Association Executive council

2018-2019 UMES Senate Officers

Aajah Harris, President Jonathan Mitchell, Vice president Owanaemi Davies, Chief of Staff Morgan S. Branch, Business manager Codi Chavis, Program coordinator Abigail Chambers, Executive secretary Jasmine McCoy, University system representative Marcus Burrell, Mr. UMES Carmia Smith, Miss UMES

Dr. Latasha Wade, President Dr. Linda Johnson, Vice president Crystal Purnell, Secretary Joseph Bree, Parliamentarian

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higher education designed to serve the citizens of Maryland, and particularly, first-generation college students, could we really be at any better place?”

She wasted no time pinpointing where she’ll be directing her energies.

“I am driven to succeed on three specific fronts right now – growing enrollment, increasing fundraising to sustain our community, and passionately pursuing our mission to educate first-generation students in Maryland,” she said.

Over the first 100 days Anderson said she will hold a series of meetings, first with students, then with faculty and staff and the community she’s calling “Listen-LearnLead” town halls.

“One thing you will soon learn about me,” she told the audience, “is that I love to listen and I love to learn.

I consider those essential talents for a president.”

She also unveiled a slogan she said will shape her approach to shared governance; TEAM – Together in Excellence, Affirming our Mission.

“When I see you and ask how you are or what is going on in a class or what we might do to help you help students succeed, I want to know,” she said, adding “I want to know what you think about how we

Meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 11 a.m.

The UMES Senate’s mission is to “provide the President and administrative officials with the benefit of systematic consultation with members of the UMES community and to enable the community to participate in the formulation of policies of concern to the UMES campus.”

might address those issues, needs, concerns.”

“When I ask you why, I want to learn more about your perceptions and experiences so we can lead together,” she said.

Anderson also challenged the audience to “look at ways we can reframe our messages among ourselves and to our stakeholders; remove barriers to access and success; recognize what large and small experiences tell us about who we are and what we do; realize we have challenges; and respond to those challenges with new ways of knowing, seeing, and acting.”

A first-generation college graduate, Anderson said that achievement demonstrated that higher education can and does make a difference in people’s lives.

“We change lives at this institution, and through higher education by challenging people to be more than they thought they could be.”

“I can’t really tell you how proud I am to represent and to be part of this transformational work at this time in our lives,” she said.

PHOTO BY JIM GLOVIER

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White House names Chigbu a top science educator Dr. Paulinus Chigbu, a UMES marine environmental science professor, was honored this summer in a White House-sponsored ceremony saluting 140 of the nation’s leading science educators.

Chigbu, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center, received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring awarded jointly by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

He received a presidential citation, participated in formal discussions on science, technology, engineering and math education priorities and received a $10,000 NSF grant.

Michael Kratsios, Deputy Assistant to the President for Technology

Policy, saluted honorees for “the tireless dedication that these men and women bring to educating the next generation of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.

“Each day more and more jobs require a strong foundation in STEM education, so the work that you do as teachers and mentors helps ensure that all students can have access to limitless opportunities and the brightest of futures,” he said.

The award Chigbu received “recognizes the critical roles mentors play outside the traditional classroom in the academic and professional development of the future STEM workforce.”

Awardees represent schools in all 50 U.S. states, Department of Defense Education Activity schools and schools in the U.S. territories American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Carr Named UMES’ Onyeozili lends Acting Vice President for criminal justice expertise University Relations to Nigerian university Alissa Carr, associate vice president and director of marketing and external relations, has been named acting vice president for university relations. With the departure of Kimberly Dumpson, who served in the dual roles of executive vice president and chief of staff, Carr will stand in as leader of the division, which includes public relations, social media, campus photography, institutional advancement, community outreach, alumni affairs, advancement services and the public radio station, WESM. A Maryland native, Carr grew up in the greater Baltimore area and attended Towson University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in mass communications. She has worked in the marketing, public relations and communications field for two decades and will graduate from University of Maryland University College with her Master’s Degree in Management with a marketing concentration in December.

In naming her to the position, Interim President Dr. Mickey Burnim said in early August that “Ms. Carr has been taking the lead for the division … so I am confident she can continue to function effectively as point person for the division” during and after the transition to Dr. Heidi M. Anderson assuming the presidency this fall.

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program this past spring awarded Dr. Emmanuel C. Onyeozili a fellowship to travel to Nigeria where he has been working as a consultant helping Nnamdi Azikiwe University develop and implement a criminal justice, criminology and security studies curriculum.

The goal is for Onyeozili, a UMES criminal justice professor, to assist the university in Awka, Nigeria in kick-starting a Department of Criminology, Justice, and Security Studies so it can award executive certificates, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees when fully implemented.

The fellowship also is allowing Onyeozili to complete work on an ongoing new curriculum in International Executive Management, which he began a year ago for Nnamdi Azikiwe University’s School of Business.

The Onyeozili/UMES project is part of a broader initiative that paired 55 scholars with 43 higher education institutions and collaborators in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda to work together on curriculum co-development, research, graduate teaching, training, and mentoring activities this year.

Fellowships match host universities with African-born scholars and cover expenses for project visits of between 21 and 90 days, including transportation, a daily stipend and the cost of obtaining visas and health insurance.

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School News

UMES marine scientist moonlights as underwater archaeologist PHOTO BY STEFAN QUINTH

Before Dr. Bradley G. Stevens joined the University of Maryland Eastern Shore faculty in 2009 as a marine scientist, he conducted research on biology and reproduction of king crabs for 22 years in Kodiak, Alaska.

In the early 21st century, Stevens added successful underwater archaeologist to his list of accomplishments.

Stevens and fellow scientists donned wet suits and discovered a mythical mid-19th century shipwreck at the bottom of Icon Bay off the coast of Alaska’s Spruce Island.

The Kad’yak “was a Russian three-masted sailing ship carrying ice from Kodiak to San Francisco,” Stevens said in a YouTube video. “In 1860, it set forth from Kodiak and after sailing only three miles, ran into a rock and (eventually) sank.”

“That would have been the end of the story – except for one fascinating detail,” Stevens writes in his new book, “The Ship, the Saint, and the Sailor: The Long Search for the Legendary Kad’yak.”

“The (ship’s) captain had given a solemn vow to hold a religious service over the grave of Father Herman.” a 19th century Russian Orthodox Church missionary living in the Alaska territory.

“For some reason (the ship’s captain) didn’t do it,” Stevens said. “And after his (disabled) ship … drifted for four days – because it (was) full of

Dr. Ray J. Davis, education professor and UMES alumnus, has been elected to a two-year term as a divisional vice president for Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

ice – it finally sank (in 80 feet of water) right in front of Father Herman’s grave” on April 2, 1860.

Herman was a “revered saint … the first North American saint in the Russian Orthodox Church who had lived and died on remote Spruce Island,” Stevens says in a video he made to promote his book while aboard a boat.

“Well, (some) 140 years later, after painstaking research into historical documents, I found the ship” in 2003, he said.

“Over the next year,” Stevens and fellow explorers “battled with other divers over who actually owned the rights” to the wreck.

The divers confirmed the wreck’s identity when they found the hub of the ship’s wheel displaying the name “Kad’yak” in Cyrillic.

Thanks to the work of Stevens and fellow explorers, the Kad’yak site is on the U.S. Department of Interior’s National Register of Historical Places “for the significant role it played in Alaska’s history,” a citation on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website says.

Steven said he set out to tell “the story of the Kad’yak, Father Herman and Captain (Illarion) Arkhimandritov in the context of the Alaskan ice trade, the history of Alaska and the archaeological expedition that uncovered the ship” by taking readers “into the deep dark waters of time and … to bring the Kad’yak from mystery to history.”

The Fall 2018 Faculty Art shows features exhibitors (L-R) Brad Hudson, first-year photography instructor Jesse Halpern, Chris Harrington, Susan Holt and faculty member emeritus Ernie Satchell. The FREE show at the Mosely Gallery in the Richard H. Thomas & Theodore Briggs Arts & Technology Center runs through Thursday, Sept. 20.

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Louis F. Martin, Class of 1940

may be the institution’s oldest living graduate University of Maryland Eastern Shore alumni leaders aren’t certain, but they believe that at age 101 Louis F. Martin might be the institution’s oldest living graduate as the 132nd anniversary of its founding on Sept. 13, 1886 approached.

He was born July 3, 1917 in Princess Anne, where Louis Henderson Martin, his father, was distinguishing himself as Maryland’s first African American agriculture extension agent. The elder Martin’s office was based at the state’s historically black landgrant campus.

Martin and his twin sister, Lourene, initially enrolled in 1935 at Hampton Institute, their parents’ alma mater.

After the first year, Lourene transferred to Mercy Hospital in Philadelphia to study nursing.

As the Great Depression lingered, Martin opted to save his family money and finish his studies at Princess Anne College. Louis earned a degree in agriculture education, and was followed by six other siblings as graduates of the school.

In the spring of 1940, Martin and 10 classmates posed for pictures in their regalia in front of a new gymnasium / auditorium built with Works Progress Administration funds used for brick-andmortar projects.

“It was a small group - it was like a family,” he said.

“We got along fine, and we didn’t have the problems like you see today. Everybody wanted to graduate.

Everybody behaved themselves.”

Martin took a job after graduation teaching agriculture and science at an all-black high school with three faculty members in Howard County (Md.), where he also served as dean of men. War was brewing in Europe, however, and he was drafted in March 1941. He finished the school year before reporting to the Army.

His wartime experiences reflected those of other college-educated

black men who encountered skepticism about their leadership skills. Martin persevered, however, and left active duty as a logistics officer.

After his discharge in 1946, Martin earned a master’s degree from the University of Illinois and went on to teach agriculture at the college level, first at Florida A&M (1954-1959) and then at Virginia State until he retired in 1982.

While Martin was living in Florida, Life magazine came calling at Happyland, his parents’ homestead near Eden. The weekly periodical’s Sept. 19, 1955 edition featured a lengthy article: “Degrees by the Dozen on $40 a Week,” a tribute to Martin’s parents putting their 12 children through college on an extension agent’s modest salary.

Martin missed the group photo of the family that ran across pages 188 and 189, but the magazine did include a photo of him in his military uniform.

The national attention didn’t have much impact on his life, he said.

“I had already patterned my life in what I was going to do. It didn’t excite me. I have never sought publicity. Being a farm boy, I just live one day at time,” he said.

Martin attributes his longevity to “eating good food and doing things in moderation.”

He calls himself “a staunch (Presbyterian) church member and elder” who looks forward each week to Sunday services.

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Athletics

Athletics rededicates renovated stadium in Anderson’s honor

UMES’ athletics department is reworking plans to celebrate the legacy of the late Clifton Anderson after a threatening long-range weather forecast postponed a series of Sept. 14 events to rededicate the university’s renovated track & field stadium that carries the name of the man known affectionately as Coach “Cappy.”

Anderson, a native of Cape May, N.J., shaped the lives of countless students to become an iconic figure in Hawk athletics and in campus lore.

As a football and track & field coach across 18 seasons, he mentored such Hawk greats as Art Shell, Carl Hairston, Billy Thompson, Russ Rogers and Olympians Charlie Mays and Benedict Cayenne. He was the first Hawk coach to win a national championship, winning the NAIA Men’s Outdoor Track & Field National Championship and the NCAA College Division Men’s Outdoor Track & Field National Championship in 1963.

Cappy Anderson Stadium now features a new track surface, infield, throwing areas and a digital scoreboard.

While finishing touches are still being placed on the facility, the athletics department thought it fitting to hold a rededication in conjunction with Founders’ Week.

Among those who are expected to attend the rescheduled ceremony and offer words are members of Anderson’s family, former athletes and the university administration.

“Coach Anderson is the cornerstone upon which our track and field legacy is built,” athletics director Keith Davidson said. “It is a legacy that includes two national championships and numerous conference titles. I hope you will join me in honoring his legacy by providing for the student-athletes and facilities that are the future of the track and field program.”

Athletics also has plans to host the Cappy Anderson Legacy Dinner, a fundraiser for the university’s track and field programs that Anderson helped bring to prominence.

Organizers hope the event will raise awareness of two major fundraising initiatives inspired by Anderson’s memory.

The Cappy Anderson Stadium Revitalization effort and the Cappy Anderson Scholarship Fund are both accepting contributions now.

The stadium revitalization fund will help construct new seating, a new press box, locker rooms, restrooms, storage areas, a concession/ticket building, along with equipment for the program, including hurdles, mats and blocks.

The scholarship fund, started by Hawk alumni, including Willie Baker, Richard Davis, Melvin Hill, James Liggins, William Mitchell, Hilliard Bouleware and George Marable, is an endowment that looks to fund scholarships for track and field athletes.

Anderson, who played professional football with the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants, died March 16, 1979. He was 49.

Both the Cappy Anderson Scholarship Endowment and Cappy Anderson Stadium Revitalization Fund are activities of the UMES Foundation. Funds received will be managed by the University System of Maryland Foundation, Inc.

School News

Kappa Alpha Psi brothers (L-R) Emanuel Cadet, Georgio Lamptey and Omari Carter were on hand on the first day of the new school year at Carter G. Woodson Elementary School in Crisfield as participants in an event the principal organized to have role models greet students as they arrived.

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(L-R) Residence Life school supply donation: Zach Castell (Groove Phi Groove), “Dean” John Tilghman, Greenwood Elementary School assistant principal Dorothy Bell-Jackson, Keona Smith (Swing Phi Swing), Cy’Anna Scott (Graduate Student Government vice president) and Janayne Johnson of residence life.

Coach Jamila Johnson and the UMES women’s golf team were among volunteers who helped out this past weekend at the 2018 National Folk Festival in Salisbury.

PHOTO BY GRACE FOXWELL

UMES’ American Fisheries Society subunit celebrated “Get Outdoors Day” 2018 at the Hazel Outdoor Discovery Center in nearby Eden. Left to right: Kayle Thunstrom, Dr. Maurice Crawford, Laura Almodovar-Acevedo and subunit President Kasondra Rubalcava

Hawks men’s basketball players, coaches and managers were at Bennett Middle School greeting incoming 6th graders on their 1st day of school.

Correction: Walgreens has donated $110,000 to UMES since 2010.

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Mark Joseph and Taryn Jones spent 10 weeks at Northern Illinois University participating in a National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) summer program. They were joined for two weeks by UMES’ Victoria Volkis, who arranged the experience where Jones and Joseph could learn more about mass spectroscopy and liquid chromatography. Joseph was chosen to share results of his research work at a national REU conference in late October.

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Billy Graham (The Irreverent One): Illustrator of the Black Panther Opening Reception

4-6 p.m., Mosely Gallery Landmark exhibition of the African American artist who became the first Black illustrator at Marvel Comics in the 1970s. These original works have never been exhibited before. Hours: Mon. – Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Exhibit on display until October 25.

410-651-7770 or gallery@umes.edu

OCTOBER

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Hawk Hysteria

6 p.m., William P. Hytche Athletic Center Men’s and women’s basketball scrimmages.

Give-a-ways, contests, games, autographs

and Harry the Hawk’s birthday party.

410-651-8471

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Gallery Talk: work of Billy Graham (The Irreverent One): Illustrator of the Black Panther

11 a.m., Mosely Gallery Talk by artist, illustrator and professor of sequential arts, Prof. Brad Hudson and Mardine Graham, son of Grahm.

410-651-7770 or gallery@umes.edu

*Unless noted, all events listed are free.

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