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Fitness & Athletics Center ALUMNAE MAGAZINE Breaking Ground for the VOLUME 79 NUMBER 2 FITNESS & SPRING/SUMMER 2008 ATHLETICS CENTER NOTE FROM THE chair of the board of directors Dear Sweet Briar Alumnae and Friends, I know that you recently received a letter from President Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, announcing that she plans to retire at the end of the next academic year, in June 2009. Betsy made this announcement to the Board of Directors at our April meeting and discussed her decision with the Alumnae Board later that day. There is never a “good” time for an extraordinary person such as President Muhlenfeld to retire. Largely due to her leadership, however, the College is as strong as it has been in many years, with new or updated facilities, outstanding academic programs, nationally known faculty, highly effective, cohesive senior administrators, and sound finances. Her tireless efforts ensured our successful $111 million capital campaign, and her vision has led to the steadily increasing enrollment of vibrant, engaged students. As a result, the College is well positioned to meet the challenges of the future. The most immediate of those challenges is to find a worthy successor to President Muhlenfeld. This is the single most important responsibility of a Board of Directors; we pledge to you that we will do everything in our power to do so. The Board is currently in the There is never a “good” time for process of appointing a search committee, and as soon as it is finalized, we will let you know an extraordinary person such as by email. Its membership will consist of representatives from important constituencies of the College, including the Board, faculty, students, and alumnae. President Muhlenfeld to retire. During the search we will be eager to solicit your views on the qualities you would like to see in the tenth president of the College. We want you to feel that you are an important part of Largely due to her leadership, the process, and we welcome all of your nominations. Of course, we are seeking exceptional however, the college is as strong as individuals whom you feel would be suitable replacements for President Muhlenfeld. Even at this early point in the search, we have developed an email address for your comments. Be it has been in many years, with new assured that any thoughts you send, or any nominations you make, will remain confidential. Please send your ideas to [email protected]. or updated facilities, outstanding In keeping with our philosophy of transparency, we will be giving members of the Sweet academic programs, nationally Briar constituency periodic updates on our progress. We do ask, however, that you not inquire about specific candidates since the majority will need their candidacies to remain confidential. known faculty, highly effective, Our goal as a Board of Directors is to choose a president who will continue Sweet Briar’s upward trajectory toward being one of the very top liberal arts colleges and the premier cohesive senior administrators, and woman’s college in the country. Fortunately, because of Betsy’s brilliant contributions, that sound finances. vision is now closer to becoming a reality. I look forward to working with many of you to choose a new president who will take us the rest of the way. Sincerely, Ginger Upchurch Collier ’72 Chair, Sweet Briar College Board of Directors SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE MAGAZINE SPRING/SUMMER 2008 VOL. 79, NO. 2 Focus on Research INSIDE FRONT COVER: Letter from the Board of Directors Chair 2 CAMPUS RESEARCH 2 In the Garden • 3 Dave Griffith: A Good War is Hard to Find • Summer 2008, Student Honors Research • 4 The Dialogue between Teaching and Research, Bringing Students in on the Conversation • 6 SBC Professor Raising Shark Colony 8 Sweet Briar Days Top 1,000 Participants! contents 12 Breaking Ground for the Fitness and Athletics Center 14 Faculty Awards 14 American Philological Association Recognizes Sweet Briar Classics Professor Eric Casey • Sweet Briar Riding Director Wins Coveted Award • 15 Sweet Briar Riding Coach Recognized for SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE MAGAZINE POLICY One of the objectives of the magazine is to Achievements in Collegiate Riding present interesting, thought-provoking material. Publication of material does not indicate 16 Spotlights endorsement of the author’s viewpoint by the magazine, the Alumnae Association, or Sweet 16 A Personal and Professional Journey into Black Catholic History • 17 Courtney Arnott Silverthorn Briar College. The Sweet Briar Alumnae Magazine reserves the right to edit and, when ’04 • Evangeline Easterly Taylor ’00 • Anne Sheffield Hale ’54 • 18 Alaskan Adventures necessary, revise all material that it accepts for publication. Contact us any time! 19 Making News Boxwood Alumnae House, Box E, Sweet Briar, VA 24595; (434) 381-6131; FAX 434-381-6132; 19 Pamela Weekes ’83 Bakes Manhattan’s Best Cookies E-Mail: 1) (Office) [email protected]; 2) (Magazine) [email protected] 20 Transitions Alumnae Association Web site address: 22 Alumnae Weddings www.alumnae.sbc.edu Sweet Briar Web site address: www.sbc.edu 24 From Red Clay, SBC Student Literary Magazine THE ALUMNAE OFFICE STAFF www.sbc.edu/alumnae/staff 25 Night Hunting Louise Swiecki Zingaro ’80 Executive Director of Alumnae Affairs; 26 Bookshelf Managing Editor, Alumnae Magazine Melissa Coffey ’98 29 Sweet Briar is Powered by Giving! Associate Director; Tour Coordinator; Advisory Councils 30 Mini Reunions Melissa Gentry Witherow ’80 Associate Director; 31 Bulletin Board Homecoming Coordinator; Advisory Councils Colleen Karaffa Murray ’06 32 Friends of Art Meet in New York City Assistant Director; Reunion Program; Editor, Alumnae 33 Special Thanks to AAR Volunteers Magazine Bonnie Seitz ’01 34 Financial Update and General Comments on the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2007 Assistant Director; Alumnae Computer Services 36 Recent Deaths Nancy Kleinhans ’06 Assistant Director; 37 Class Notes Reunion Program; AAR Program Donna Dodd Assistant to the Executive Director INSIDE BACK COVER: In the Sweet Briar Tradition: The Sound of Music Sweet Briar Alumnae Magazine Production Graphic design by The Design Group, Lynchburg, VA. COVER: Athletics faculty and student athletes stand in the foundation area of the new Fitness and Athletics Center Printed by Seckman Printing, Forest, VA. Photo © Aaron Mahler Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine • www.alumnae.sbc.edu Spring/Sumer 2008 • 1 CAMPUS RESEARCH In the Garden JANET STEVEN, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY Ever wonder whether that late February and then set up baskets of vegetables for A radish seedling. fancy fertilizer is really better experiments in the garden in subscribers and has served for your garden? Or what mid-March. The experiments as a model for other local varieties grow best in your involve control plants that community gardens. soil? In Biology 107, students receive no special treatment Conducting formal are using the scientific method as well as plants that receive experiments within the garden to find out. Biology 107 is a particular fertilizer or are benefits both the students Kimberly Shrader ’09 measures a radish seedling. the laboratory for Plants and growing in different garden and the garden members. EHuman Affairs, a biology locations. The students are Biology students get access to course for non-majors; students collecting data on plant growth the resources and gardening in the course are answering and success by measuring and knowledge that the community gardening questions by counting leaves on lettuce and garden members provide, and conducting experiments in weighing radishes when they the gardeners in turn gain a the Sweet Briar Community are harvested. The project will better understanding of their Garden. By combining run until the last day of class, garden. The results of this everyday questions with a when students will make final spring’s student experiments rigorous scientific approach, presentations on their findings will be of particular interest to the class obtains precise and eat salad made from the the community gardeners, who answers to their own gardening plants they’ve grown. are invited to the students’ final questions and practices science Providing space for student presentations. For example, in a context that is relevant for research in the Sweet Briar the garden gets composted non-science majors. Community Garden has been paper mill waste for use as an This semester, students in a natural complement to its organic fertilizer, and gardeners the 15-person class are running mission. The garden was have debated its relative merits experiments on lettuce, peas, founded in 2002 to provide for years. This spring, the garden space for campus students are growing lettuce residents and increase the and radishes in soil amended community’s access to and with the paper mill compost, awareness of local organic soil fertilized with worm agriculture. Anyone associated castings, and soil amended with Sweet Briar is welcome with compost from the pile the to join, and every member garden maintains. The results gardens in a plot of their own from their experiment will give and also helps to maintain everyone a better understanding community crops like of how the paper mill compost asparagus and blackberries. stacks up against other sources The Community Garden uses of nutrients and may settle organic gardening practices and some long-running debates has served as an environment among gardeners. for informal experiments in Students in future classes gardening. Its members use will continue to conduct Katie Segreto ’11 and Sarah a diversity of approaches in experiments in the garden and Strapp ’10 transplanting peas. and radishes to find out what their own plots and have tried provide practical information varieties grow the best in the organic pest control techniques for the community. In addition, garden, how soil composition and methods for growing these experiments might pave and different kinds of compost vegetables throughout the the way for student research affect plant growth, and the winter.
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