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Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 8, Number 1, Fall 1997 Bridgewater State College Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University Bridgewater Magazine Campus Journals and Publications 1997 Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 8, Number 1, Fall 1997 Bridgewater State College Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College (1997). Bridgewater Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1. Retrieved from http://vc.bridgew.edu/br_mag/45 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Fall, 1997 Dr. Nancy Street, Department of Communication Studies and Theatre Arts, is a veteran of four trips to the People's Republic of China. In this issue, Dr. Street describes the rapid transformation of modem China. The Bridgewater State College Foundation Presents BRIDGEWA TER FESTIVAL 1997-1998 Marvin Hamlisch Friday, February 6, 1998, 8:00PM Marvin Hamlisch's life in music is notable for its great versatility as well as substance. Best known as a composer, Hamlisch has written major works for film, stage, recordings and concert halls. As conductor, he has led the great orchestras of the world, and as a pianist and entertainer, he has performed both with ensembles and in solo capacity. Hamlisch believes in the power of music to bring people together. He says: "Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music which has the potential to bring all people together. Music is truly an international language, and I hope to contribute by widening communication as much as I can." Orchestra Seats $29, Balcony Seats $23 New York City Opera performs The Daughter ofthe Regiment, Friday, April 3, 1998, 8:00PM Marie, the spirited darling of Napoleon's 21st Regiment, discovers love and her true identity in Gaetano Donizetti's melodi­ ous comic opera, The Daughter of the Regiment, performed by the New York City Opera National Company. Now in its 18th year, the Company is considered the premier touring opera company in the country. The Company travels in an old-fashioned "bus and truck" style, bringing vivid stagings of classic operas to both small rural communities and bustling urban centers. The Daughter of the Regiment will be sung in French with English supertitles. Orchestra Seats $37, Balcony Seats $30 All performances to be held at the Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium For more information and to make reservations call: 508-697-1290 or write Bridgewater State College Foundation P.O. Box 42, Bridgewater, MA 02324-0042 Washington, D.C. Alumni Gathering and Travel Program Alumni in the D.C. area are invited to attend an evening reception at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 24, 1998. Hosted by Congressman John Tierney, the reception is jointly sponsored by Bridgewater, Fitchburg, Salem, Westfield, and Worcester state colleges. Our college presidents, and the Massachusetts senators and congressmen have been invited to take part in the evening. As part of the event, the alumni association is sponsoring a tour of Washington from March 22-25. Motorcoaches will leave the state college campuses on Sunday and guests will stay at the deluxe Channel Inn, located on the Potomac River through the morning of the 25th. Among the sites on the four-day tour are the White House, the Vietnam Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, and the Smithsonian Institute. For information and pricing, please contact the Alumni Office at (508) 697-1287. A Call for Nominations The Bridgewater Alumni Association seeks nominations for its annual awards, to be presented Alumni Weekend. We would appreciate it ifyou would attach supporting materials. The Bridgewater Alumni Award for Outstanding subject matter, enthusiastic teaching style, and Service to the Alumni Association is given to an personal attention to the students. individual whose qualifications include the ability to build understanding and awareness The Adrian Rondileau Award for Professional through involvement, leadership that fosters a Achievement and Community Service was estab­ caring community, and programs that promote lished to recognize an alumna/alumnus who strategies for drawing others into a network of demonstrates the qualities most valued by Dr. cooperation. Rondileau, the eighth president of the college. The recipient must demonstrate exceptional The Dr. Catherine Comeau Award for Profes­ service to the community, resulting in improve­ sional Achievement and Community Service is ment of the quality of the community's life. presented to a graduate of the college's Depart­ ment of Movement Arts, Health Promotion, and The Nicholas P. Tillinghast Award for Achieve­ Leisure Studies. The recipient will be a graduate ment in the Field ofEducation was named in of at least five years and be an influential role honor of the college's first president. The award model in the field. is given to an alumna/alumnus who demon­ strates qualities of outstanding leadership, excel­ The Dr~ V. James DiNardo Award for Excellence lence in performance, and personal achievement in Teaching is presented to a member of the in the field of public education. faculty whose contributions include mastery of 1998 Bridgewater Alumni Association Awards Nomination Form Nominator Class Year _ Telephone I nominate _ For (name of award) _ Brief description of nominee (include occupation/title): _ Seal with tape Fold here Place Stamp Here Bridgewater Alumni Association PO Box 13 Bridgewater MA 02324 Fold here Table of Contents A Publication for Alumni, Parents, and Friends ofBridgewater State College On the cover: Dr. Nancy Street, Department of Communication Table of Contents Studies and Theatre Arts, made her first trip to China in 1986 and her Faculty Profile: Dr. Nancy Street. .. ....... 2-6 most recent trip just last spring. The differences she saw in China Development News . .. 7-8 from that initial journey are signifi­ cant. Story begins on page 2. Alumni Update.. 9, 10 BridgewaterMagazine staff: Donor Honor Roll 11-42 Editor: David Wilson, '71 Alumni Update............................................................... 43 Editorial Board: Dr. Richard Cost, vice-president for institutional Class Notes 44·52 advancement; Marie Murphy, '86, • director of public affairs; and Mary In the center of this magazine: Annual Report 1996-1997 Tiernan, director of alumni relations. Contributors: Michelle Stuart, director of major and planned gifts; Karen Cooper, director of annual giving Photography: D. Confar, Marie Dennehy, Galaxy Studios, Kindra Clineff, Larry Joubert, Carolyn Mariorenzi, Linda Balzotti, David Wilson Correspondence: address all mail to Editor, Bridgewater Magazine P.O. Box 42 Bridgewater, MA 02324 508-697-1287 e-mail to: [email protected] Bridgewater is published three times per year for the information and reading pleasure of Bridgewater State College alumni, faculty, students, staff, parents and other Friday, September 26, 1997, the first train arrives in Boston's South Station friends of the college. on the "New Old Colony Line". Faculty Profile "A Trip to the Other Side of the Moon" by David Wilson, '71 In the fall of 1986, that was how had absolutely no idea of what it China - so far, three more times. Dr. Nancy Street described her just­ would be like to go there. Inevitably, She returned to Shanxi Teachers completed, year-long stay in the you take a lot of assumptions into University for a semester in Septem­ People's Republic of China (PRC) another world and, suddenly, the ber, 1988, and two years later, in after she and three BSC students­ old world isn't there anymore. And 1990, she made a six-week tour of Helene Baldino, '87, Mary Azar, '87, you're on the pther side of the moon the country, sponsored by a and Steve Ricci, '87 - returned in terms of the way their world, their Fulbright-Hayes Group Study grant. home to Bridgewater after partici­ life, is structured." Her fourth trip to China took pating in the college's first exchange • place this past spring and summer program with Shanxi Teachers Dr. Street was then, as she is - a five-month journey that in­ University, which is located in a now, a member of the faculty in the cluded a teaching assignment at poor, remote part of China that had Department of Communication Southeast University in Nanjing and been previously closed to Westerners. Studies and Theatre Arts at visits to other universities in the They were the first group from Bridgewater (she is currently Nanjing area. Bridgewater to go to China as part of chairperson of the department). • an exchange agreement the college As the first member of the BSC 'While life in the United States had with the university in the latter faculty to travel to China to teach at hasn't changed all that much since part of the 1980s. As they were Shanxi, she had looked on the 1985, in Mainland China life has heading to Shanxi, a group of opportunity as a once-in-a-lifetime changed a great deal since then," Chinese students and faculty were adventure. "I had always wanted to says Dr. Street. "I feel privileged to on their way to Bridgewater. go to China, but it's something I have seen China at various stages of "It is so totally different one thought 1'd never be able to do," Dr. what is the ongoing transformation cannot even imagine it," said Dr. Street said in that 1986 interview. of a great society and a great • Street in an interview when she Nor did she think she would be people./I came back to the college that Sep­ going back anytime soon, if ever. Dr. Street has accumulated a tember, now eleven years ago. "I But Dr. Street has gone back to wealth of experiences during these four trips to the PRC and has published two books, one devoted completely to her first two visits to China and the second with chapters based on her extensive first-hand knowledge of the country and its political movements.
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