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P.34 Reynolds SCULPTOR’S GOODBYE TO REYNOLDS P. 24 SPIRIT P. 30 MCIVER BUILDING P. 34 SCHOLARS FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS SPRING 2018 Volume 19, No. 2 MAGAZINE FASHION FORWARD Spartans make their mark in every part of the apparel industry PG. 16 contents news front 2 University and alumni news and notes out take 12 Spartan celebration as team takes title the studio 14 Arts and entertainment Cutting Edge 16 For many decades North Carolina has been a center of the apparel world. And UNCG, with its focus on not only design but marketing and sales, continually adapts to put its graduates at the fore. Sculptor’s Spirit 24 From the creation of the Minerva statue to a day in our foundry to alumni accomplishments, find out what makes UNCG’s sculpture program stand tall and proud. Goodbye, McIver 30 As we get a first look at the new Nursing and Instructional Building, here’s a last look at good, old McIver Building. It’s a short trip down memory lane. Soaring Scholars 34 UNCG's Reynolds Scholars find that service, study abroad and challenging academics in the honors college set them on a path to making a huge impact. 38 grad tidings Lots of class notes and pictures, too old school 49 In 1964, cruising through campus was a delight. Cover photography: Apparel by Sanja Grcic, CREATIVE VISION Being at the fore in apparel design model from Marilyn’s Agency. Photograph on means using the most innovative technologies. In the Stone Building lawn by Martin W. Kane. Department of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies, 16 lecturer Dr. Trish Kemerly trains students in the VStitcher software. Each class project is a work of art. Enhanced magazine website! Visit alumnimagazine.uncg.edu to enjoy the digital version of the magazine in both photo-rich stories you can easily share on social media and in PDF format. While there, you can also submit a class note, view video clips or click on archives to see former issues. bigpicture newsfront FRANKLIN D. GILLIAM, JR. CHANCELLOR As we approach the end of the 125th anniver- sary year for UNC Greensboro, we turn to the theme we used at the beginning of the year, “Ascension.” This referenced an album by jazz legend John Coltrane – an album that followed his groundbreaking “Giant Steps” – and has served as a guiding principle for us in the past year. Where do our Giant Steps take us? They take us forward. They take us upward. They help us rise. Consider the steps we have already taken this year – reaching nearly 20,000 students, millennial campus approval, the opening of Spartan Village II, the beginnings of our work on the new state-of-the-art Nursing and Instructional Building, increases in research productivity, national recognition for our faculty and academic programs, the unveiling of a five-year strategic plan, record-setting athletic success, our best-ever Believe in the G fund- raising campaign, and the list goes on and on. Over this past year I talked with students from all over the state and the world, first- generation students and students whose grandmothers went to Woman’s College. I A sparkplug for student success met veterans, UNCG Guarantee students and Graduate school was once traditionally underrepresented Reynolds Scholars, and they all agreed on a completely abstract idea undergraduate students for one thing: They undergo a transformative for junior English major doctoral studies. In fall 2017, experience here that changes the trajectory Nicholas Smurthwaite. UNCG was one of six universities of their lives. “I knew I wanted to work in in the state to be selected for Our challenge is to continue this trajectory academia, but I had no idea how the program. – in academics and research, in fundraising to do it.” Smurthwaite and his 24 fellow and alumni engagement, in increasing our vis- Terms like Graduate Record McNair Scholars receive faculty ibility and building our reputation, and in the Examination (GRE) and mentoring, GRE test preparation, classroom. curriculum vitae were foreign to a research and writing course I hope you join me in looking back proudly Smurthwaite, who is the first in and a $5,000 research stipend. at the tremendous year we have had at UNCG. his family to attend a four-year Last summer, Smurthwaite More importantly, I hope you will join us as we university. returned home to deliver pizzas. keep taking Giant Steps and keep Ascending But then he got wind of the This year, he’ll remain on campus at UNC Greensboro. g McNair Scholars Program, a U.S. to conduct research on the Dept. of Education initiative that stigmatization of vernacular prepares first-generation and in academia. CHANCELLOR'S PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICCICHE PHOTOGRAPHY. 2 uncg magazine ° Spring 2018 newsfrontHands-on innovation in education UNC Greensboro and Rockingham County Schools will collaborate on an innovative new elementary school. The Moss Street Partnership The program is School brings educators and fac- “ saying, ‘We ulty from UNCG’s nationally ranked School of Education to understand that work in the new school, which will there are people have about 420 students, with 24 who don’t have classrooms in grades Kindergarten-5. The school will opportunities, develop student skills and interest and we want to in the highly-desired “STEAM” subjects – science, technology, give them that.’ engineering, visual and performing arts and math – as well as provide Nicholas Smurthwaite, ” other services including counsel- a member of the McNair ing, social work and additional Scholars Program support for students and families. “With the Moss Street Partnership School, we have a unique opportunity to reinvigo- rate a school that enables students from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds in our state to achieve greater edu- cational success,” Chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. said. “This is a powerful partnership The program is transformative, MARC U-STAR grant to support said Dr. Lee Phillips, director designed to help students dis- to say the least. But it’s just underrepresented minority and of the Undergraduate Research, cover and unleash their potential one example of how UNCG disadvantaged students pursuing Scholarship, and Creativity with the help of cutting-edge, is investing in the success of biomedical and behavioral Office. hands-on learning and innovative all students, no matter their health degrees. It’s opportunities like these teaching techniques.” background. And then in May, UNCG that can change the life trajectory The Moss Street Partnership In January 2017, UNCG was selected to join the Gates for students, especially the 33 School concept began in 2016 received $1 million from the Foundation Frontier Set, a group percent of UNCG undergraduates with a law passed by the North National Science Foundation to of 31 educational institutions who are first-generation students. Carolina General Assembly enroll academically talented and across the country working to “The tools weren’t available to requiring nine UNC System uni- financially challenged minority, improve student outcomes and us,” Smurthwaite said. “Now, the versities with teacher education programs to open laboratory female and first-generation close the achievement gap. McNair Program is giving us the schools in low-performing areas. students seeking degrees in “I think these awards resources that we need. Although The UNC System office selected science, technology, engineering demonstrate confidence in the it’s scary at times, the staff and UNCG to run one of the schools. and mathematics. university, in our commitment faculty mentors are going to Moss Street, opening in August, Later that semester, the to provide quality educational be there all along the way. I’m will be the first stand-alone labo- university received a $1.4 million experiences for all students,” extremely thankful.” ratory school in the state. Spring 2018 ° uncg magazine 3 news front has given to the UNCG Alumni Association Fund, Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project and the College of Visual and Performing Arts. “Jo sets high standards for all of us. She is compassionate, fiercely loyal and dedicated to her alma mater,” said Mary Landers, director of alumni engagement. “She is a natural mentor, leading students, faculty and staff to excellence in all that we do. When Jo arrives, she lights up the room. We all stand proud just by being in her company.” A Salisbury, North Carolina, native, Jo was a physical education major at Woman’s College and went on to teach at The University of Texas. Subsequently she spent many years as a researcher and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a focus on quan- titative measurement. She currently lives in Greensboro and serves on the boards of the Alumni Association and the Excellence Foundation. “It’s really an evolution for me,” Jo said. “As Cheers, Jo! UNCG has evolved, I feel like I have grown up with the university.” Chances are, if it has to do with far beyond the basketball court. Along with In her more than three decades of giving to UNC Greensboro, Jo Safrit ’57 has left her longtime partner, Dr. Catherine Ennis ’77 her alma mater, Jo has demonstrated unparal- her mark. The alumna can be spotted on MS – who passed away last year – Jo established leled generosity. In November 2017, she made the Homecoming float, in New York City with the Safrit-Ennis Women’s Basketball Athletic a $1 million gift, establishing the Safrit-Ennis theater students, on a panel for Spartans of Scholarship Fund and the Mildred Curlee Distinguished Professorship in Kinesiology. The Promise, mentoring students with the UNCG Cooper Scholarship for Women’s Basketball. professorship enables the university to recruit Guarantee scholarship program and welcoming Most recently, Jo provided funds for the or retain kinesiology faculty who are outstand- new graduates into the UNCG Alumni women’s basketball locker room.
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