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December 5, 2006 Vol. 2 No. 4 thecupola news FOR MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS MBC International Recruiting Tour 2007: Dates Announced for India Seven thousand six hundred miles, give or world that students, faculty, and staff have more frequent calls, mailings, take a few. No problem for the Mary had through trips and guests on campus. and e-mails, and attending Baldwin College recruiting effort. The Visits from former Prime Minister of college fairs and making Admissions Office that has traversed the Pakistan Benazir Bhutto and Indian human individual visits equipped country and spent considerable time in rights activist Sanjana Das this semester with revamped brochures Japan to woo students to Staunton’s college introduced the community to issues in that and fact sheets. on the hill is now poised to send a represen- part of the globe. Campus appearances by “It takes all of us who tative to India to extend its recruiting reach. social entrepreneur Venkatesh Raghavendra know Mary Baldwin College Building on promising connections and musician and teacher Srinivas to recruit a class of students in South Asia made recently by people in Krishnan, both natives of India, reinforced each year,” Branson said. the MBC community, Crista Cabe, the diversity and intellectual creativity that Built into the overall associate vice president for communica- Indian students could bring to MBC. A recruiting push are concerted tion, marketing, and public affairs, will student-organized service trip in efforts to increase enrollment join a group of college and university Dharamsala — which they plan to repeat in two of MBC’s undergrad- representatives at several sites on the for May Term 2007 — reinforced concepts uate niche programs — PEG Indian subcontinent. The 16-day visit will from the classroom. Mary Baldwin also and VWIL. Those groups begin February 4 in New Delhi and initiated a new course this semester, require different strategies, include recruiting seminars and one-on- Peacemaking: Ghandi and Nonviolence, said Brenda Bryant, vice one meetings with students and parents extending its studies of Asia. president for enrollment in a country that boasts the largest Admissions will also continue to management and student life. number of prospective international broaden its recruiting area in the United Outreach for PEG is national students in the world. States, said Lisa Branson ’99, executive and accomplished mainly “When I visited India and Bangladesh director of admissions and financial aid. through professional in 1999 as a Rotary Fellow, I realized that There is renewed effort to reach prospec- networking in the gifted community. For led to continued admissions successes, Mary Baldwin, with its connected and tive students in Texas, Pennsylvania, VWIL, the college is working to build ties such as a one-day record of 40 received inclusive community and focus on person- Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee, with schools that have not been previously applications, which helps the college keep alized education, would be very appealing where the college has strong alumnae contacted, and developing “feeder pace with last year’s record-setting number to South Asian young women and their populations and a relatively close schools” with ROTC programs that will, of applicants. families,” Cabe said. geographical presence. Stepped up over time, send students to VWIL every “We want to be clear to all audiences Recruiting in South Asia will comple- recruiting stateside includes tapping into year. Stepped-up recruiting for all about what makes academic life at MBC ment recent exposure to that part of the databases of prospective college students, segments of the college population have special,” Bryant said. First Woman and Alumna to Head Institutional Advancement For the first time (in living memory at campus as the least), a woman and a Mary Baldwin Smyth Business alumna will head the Office of Lecturer in 2005 Institutional Advancement at Mary and taught Baldwin College. Dr. Pamela Fox Marketing, announced December 1 that Susan Business and Thompson Timmons ’64, founder and Society, and president of LEAD VIRGINIA, will Women in begin her tenure as vice president for Management in Institutional Advancement at Mary MBC’s Adult TIMMONS Baldwin College March 1, 2007. In many Degree Program. ways she embodies the spirit and “Susan Timmons will be able to strengths of our college. immediately establish herself nationally As a Mary Baldwin alumna, she led with alumnae/i and donors as a dynamic the Richmond Alumnae Chapter, served and inspiring presence,” said President as president of the MBC Alumnae/i Fox. “She has broad experience and Association from 1980–82, and was a significant success with fundraising PHOTO BY JENNY HOWARD BY PHOTO member of the college’s Board of Trustees campaigns in a variety of organizations. Black Baby Doll Drive Delights Students, Recipients Alike from 1983 to 1993. She served on the Her skills and expertise will enhance the presidential search committee that led to already high level of professionalism of Freshmen in the Ida B. Wells Society have collected dozens of African and African- the appointment of Cynthia Haldenby the Institutional Advancement staff.” American dolls for the college’s annual Black Baby Doll Drive, which is part of a national Tyson as the eighth president of the The work she has done in effort. Introduced several years ago by the Rev. Andrea Cornett-Scott, associate vice president for student affairs, the project is intended to promote self-esteem in young college. To acknowledge her principled conceiving, founding, and leading girls of color by providing them with a tiny version of themselves to “mother.” Dolls will leadership in the many aspects of her life, LEAD VIRGINIA is especially impres- be collected until holiday break — Cornett-Scott also purchases Asian and Hispanic dolls the MBC Alumnae/i Association honored sive. That organization connects diverse — and before Christmas they will be distributed to local children. her with its prestigious Emily Wirsing leaders to promote a statewide perspec- Kelly Leadership Award. She visited (See TIMMONS, Page 4) 2 December 5, 2006 The Cupola They are alumnae and faculty members, college presidents, deans, and community members. They have contributed to the empowerment of the minority presence on campus. They will soon be memorialized on a Wall of Honor, one aspect of the college’s celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Office of African American and Multicultural Affairs. Work has already begun — primarily by freshman minority students in the Ida B. Wells Society — on projects that will highlight the accomplish- ments of dozens of alumnae, faculty, staff, and friends of the college. (Listed HONOREE: Student researcher) EDWARD SCOTT, interim dean Melanie Kittrell ’10 • MINORITY WOMEN IN UNITY AND WOMEN of the college: Kristina Aguillard ’10 • African American Algernon Sydney OF EBONY: Chantale Milton ’10 • ANGELA WIGGINS, former assistant Sullivan Award recipients JANEEN PETTUS ’01 and CHRISTIAN PEELE dean of students: Ashley Moore ’10 • MAMIE OSEI BONSU ’05, founding ’05: Breanna Bennett ’10 • SHANICE PENN ’00 and SHERRY-ANN president of African Student Kollective: Shaterika Parks ’10 • Student STREETE ’05: Jessica Boyd ’10 • ANDREA CORNETT-SCOTT, Government Presidents of Color CHARON WOOD ’95, SHAUNTA POE associate vice president for student affairs: Chanel Whitney-Fay Brown ’10 ’99, RANYNE HERBERT ’00, LUCIA “YOGI” ALMENDRAS ’03, • LEWIS ASKEGAARD, dean of institutional research, associate dean of TIFFANI JEFFRIES ’06: Rena Pegram ’10 • CYNTHIA H. TYSON, the college, registrar: Tina Brown ’07 • ANGELA MENDOZA ’98, president emeritus: Danielle Petway ’08 • JENNIFER OLIVER ’03, founding president of Latinas Unidas: Carren Cardwell ’07 • Black Student founding director of Greater Things Dance Ministry: Alexandra Pilgrim ’10 Alliance presidents VASHTI COLSON ’99, RANYNE HEBERT ’00, • REV J. RAYFIELD VINES, JEAN GAFNEY, former Parents Council SHANICE PENN ’00, KIMBERLEY MOREHEAD ’01, AMANDA members: Alyssa Riley ’10 • TONQUISE JABARI ’03, founding director of DAVIS, JAWANDA SMITH ’03, CIERRA ALSTON ’05, and TIFFANY Kuumba Players: LaShante Robinson ’10 • IVY ARBULÚ, associate JACKSON ’07: Porsha Carter ’10 • “With A Clear Strong Voice: The professor of Spanish: Cynthia Sampson ’10 • DARA MOORE ’02, founder People in the Room” — VASHTI COLSON ’97, TORSKI DOBSON, of Libations: Tiffany Shellie ’10 • GINI RIDGE, director of food services: TIHISIA BRAZIEL ’96, CHANDA COLE ’96, ANJANETTE Rashell Smith ’10 • BRANDY TRICIA CALEB ’03, founder of Caribbean SAUNDERS ’98, FIONDA WILLIAMS ’98, BANITA CREWS, LA Student Association: Kimara Taylor ’10 • AYESHA MUHAMMAD CHONDRA EVERETT, YAMINAH CASEY ’96, TABATHA COTMAN HAWKINS ’02: Shanajha Thompson ’10 • Minority recruitment staff ’98, ANISSA ELLIS, EDWARD SCOTT, and Professor JIM GILMAN: TIFFANY GARY ’98, JACQUI ELLIOTT ’93, ANGELA WADDY: Ashley Keishara Diggs ’10 • Advisors to Libations Professor ROBERT White ’10 • Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration organizers EDWARD GROTJOHN and Associate Professor SARAH KENNEDY: Shirleene SCOTT, Professor ROD OWEN, JIM GILMAN, College Chaplain Emanuel ’10 • First Orientation board members SHEILA WILLIS PATRICIA HUNT, ANDREA CORNETT-SCOTT: Carlissa Watkins ’10 LINTON ’00 and SHOLEH EHDIVAND ’00: Latasha Hilton ’10 • • Anointed Voices of Praise directors and presidents RANYNE HERBERT JAMES LOTT, dean emeritus: Tiffany Jackson ’07 • PAMELA FOX, ’00, KIM