ART IN ADVENTURE FOR IT TAKES A P.22 OVERDRIVE P. 30 THOUSANDS P. 34 VILLAGE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS << NAVIGATION KEY >> SPRING 2014 Volume 16, No. 2 COVER / BACK PAGE ENLARGE VIEW MAGAZINE RETURN TO SPREAD VIEW PREVIOUS / NEXT PAGE TABLE OF CONTENTS (CLICK ON TITLES TO GO TO STORY) OUR CUP SCROLL PAGE OVERFLOWS (IN ENLARGED VIEW) For generations, we have struggled to balance the many facets of our lives. Now WEB LINKS some employers are making @ (URLS IN TEXT ALSO CLICKABLE) it easier to take care of the business of life – both at CLICK HERE TO EXIT work and at home. (OR USE ctrl/cmd-Q) pg. 16 MAKE WAY FOR PIXAR ART UNCG contents 22 professor Heather Holian is researching the art of Pixar Animation Studios for the first scholarly book on the subject. She plans two more research trips to the studio in the coming opening notes months. “Animation is the artistic medium of 2 our era,” says the Renaissance art scholar. by Beth English ’07 MALS, Editor Pixar art warrants more thoughtful letters consideration from the fine arts world, she explains. This work was created by artist Shelly calendar Wan as “Monsters University” was made. 3 Copyright Disney·Pixar. Campus performances and events 4 news front Campus news and notes 9 the studio Arts and entertainment 14 blue & gold Spartan athletics 16 Our cup overflows Thanks to research resulting in family-friendly policies, employers make it easier to take care of the business of life. 22 Art in overdrive The great art medium of our time? Animated films. The greatest studio? No question, it’s Pixar. The one scholar who’s researching their art? UNCG’s Heather Holian. 30 Dinner for two, adventure for thousands UNCG takes the road less traveled by using a different kind of model for student exchanges. 34 It takes a village Spartan Village, UNCG’s newest residential community, makes students and faculty feel right at home. 37 connections Alumni Association news and information 39 grad tidings Class notes and alumni profiles 49 old school From the archives Visit us online To see a digital flipbook of this magazine, go to alumnimagazine.uncg.edu. While there, you can also submit a class note or click on archives to see older issues. openingnotes letters calendar We couldn’t have asked for a better We had so many wonderful letters in I enjoy UNCG Magazine, and warm and rustled through the March day. My daughter and I had explored response to the fall 2013 issue that when I saw the final page, I knew trees. The bulbs were popping MARCH 20 Michael Parker we don’t have room to print them all. immediately that the photograph up everywhere. We remembered this trail by Lake Higgins before, reading from his eighth novel, Please visit alumnimagazine.uncg. was from 1964. how beautiful the campus was but now we were determined to go “All I Have in this World,” MFA edu to read more letters. I attended WC from 1960- and how big and imposing the farther, to see what new things lay Creative Writing series, Faculty 1962, right in the middle of the buildings were. Students passed ahead. It was a day for adventure, event. My class was the first one to us and gave us a friendly smile Center, 7 p.m. never mind the bare branches and Reflecting on 1964 graduate from the new UNCG, and and greeting. As we walked along MARCH 20-23 “The Ugly mud puddles. Your article in the alumni magazine most of us were miserable about chatting about everything under Duckling,” North Carolina The sun warmed our faces while struck a chord. the change. It felt like a betrayal to the sun, I suddenly stopped and Theatre for Young People, Taylor occasional breezes caused the trees to I came to UNCG as a freshman lots of us — no one consulted us. I said, “Are you thinking what I’m Theatre murmur. Moss and running cedar carpeted the forest floor, and in 1965, only the second year we mean, my grey Woman’s College thinking?” “Uh-huh,” replied MARCH 21-23 “The Last from a distance we could hear a woodpecker’s rat-a-tat-tat. had boys on campus. But who saw jacket was proof that I went to WC! my friend. “I sure would like to Maple Room, EUC, 7 p.m. APRIL 13 New Music with Old them? They were nearly invisible Although I left school in the spring be part of this.” “Me too!” I said Supper,” performance, Brown We came around one curve and found two green APRIL 4 Baseball vs. Western Friends: An Afternoon with (and to this day I give them credit of ‘62, my heart has NEVER left, and laughed as we walked on. Building Theatre Adirondack chairs, donated to passersby in loving memory. The Carolina, 6 p.m. UNCG Alumni, Recital Hall, for breaking the barrier at an all- and to this day, I still have dreams chairs were angled perfectly to take in the lake view. Wondering out loud about what MARCH 22 Baseball vs. Furman, Music Building, 1:30 p.m. girl school!). about my college days at WC. it would take to transfer and what APRIL 4 Greensboro Dance Film Farther down the trail, we heard rustling in the undergrowth 2 p.m. The boys from the neighboring Thanks for letting us spout off the next step should be. The more Festival, UNCG Dance Theatre, APRIL 17 Maria Hummel reading – my daughter was convinced it was the passing of fairies. We schools would flock to our campus about the name change. I’m still we talked, the more excited we MARCH 23-JUNE 22 “Inequality 8 p.m. from her poetry collection, “House located fairy houses and gently touched brambles that looked every weekend. They would come not over it. became and thus the beginning of and Social Justice in a Changing and Fire,” MFA Creative Writing APRIL 6 Men’s tennis vs. like they could have come straight from Sleeping Beauty. from Duke, Wake Forest, UNC- World,” exhibition, Weatherspoon MARTHA JONES SISK ’64X a beautiful journey of beginning Davidson, noon series, Faculty Center, 8 p.m. We had nowhere else to be, and we enjoyed the sweetness of Chapel Hill and Raleigh. By the as students at WC, and two years Art Museum APRIL 17 Miles Davis Jazz each moment. After a winter of polar vortices and unexpected way, I have a memory of girls not It was a beautiful spring day, later graduating in 1964 as the first APRIL 8 Annual Beaux Eaux MARCH 24 Terry L. Kennedy Festival, Aycock Auditorium, snows, this taste of spring felt like a gift. being able to matriculate at Chapel late April 1962. The trees were graduating class of UNCG. As Extravaganza: Music Department reading, MFA Creative Writing 8 p.m. Just the day before, we celebrated my son’s 12th birthday. Hill as freshmen…they could only budding; the flowers were Walter Cronkite would say, “And Follies Concert, Recital Hall, series, Hodges Reading Room, Such a day of joy and wonder. How is it possible that he’s transfer there in their junior year. beginning to bloom; the birds that’s the way it was!” Music Building, 7:30 p.m. APRIL 23-27 “Hedda Gabler” Jackson Library, 4 p.m. I liked the almost all-girl chirping… a picture post card SANDRA JAMES SNIDER ’64 by Henrik Ibsen, Brown Building taller than me? He has become such a funny, loving, interesting APRIL 9 Softball vs. UNC environment. It let you study day, you might say. My friend (WITH JUNE MCCRERY Women’s golf, person. I can’t wait to see how he continues to grow. MARCH 28-30 Wilmington, doubleheader, 4 p.m. Theatre during the week and then party and I decided, at the spur of the BRUNSON ’64) Bryan Invitational at Bryan Park And a few days before that, in the flow of a busy work APRIL 24 Wind Ensemble, (with limits) on the weekends. I moment, that we both wanted an CC APRIL 9 Doug Elkins week, our staff celebrated the magazine winning a CASE award was elected president of Grogan ice cream cone. It was late in the Remembering Choreography, Etc, part of Aycock Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. of excellence. We felt honored to have our work recognized. MARCH 29 Softball vs. Hall my junior year and I still afternoon and we had already had Charles Lynam University Performing Arts Series, APRIL 27 University Chorale Perhaps even more importantly, we recently combed through Chattanooga, doubleheader, 1 p.m. remember the curfews as well our dinner in the dining room, I graduated from UNCG with an Aycock Auditorium, 8 p.m. and Chamber Singers, Aycock the results of the readership survey and felt grateful to all who as the written permission of our so we ventured out on our walk MM in voice and studied with APRIL 9-13 “The Bungler” by Auditorium, 1:30 p.m. took the time to share their thoughts, praises and concerns. parents if we wanted to spend a from the campus of Greensboro April the late Charles Lynam. Charles Moliere, Brown Building Theatre University Band, night away from the dorm. Can College, up Market Street toward APRIL 27 We learned you most want to read about future directions of Lynam died this past summer and APRIL 2 Women’s tennis vs. the students now even imagine Aycock Auditorium, 5:30 p.m. UNCG, alumni stories and university history.