SHSU
Update For Week Of April 15
Folk Festival Volunteers
Needed
The SHSU history department is seeking volunteers to help
out in such areas as the children's tent, Dutch oven cooking,
blackpowder shooting, ticket taking and costumed characters
for the Gen.
Sam Houston Folk Festival on Friday through Saturday (April
20-22).
Volunteers will get free festival admission, receive a T-shirt
and can eat for free at the Webb Society's Corn Crib Camp.
For more information, or a complete list of jobs, visit the
Olson Auditorium lobby, located in Academic Building IV.
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Twentieth Folk Festival To
Celebrate Life In 1800s
Approximately 18,000 visitors are expected to learn about
life in the 1800s during the 20th annual Gen. Sam Houston
Folk Festival April 20-22 at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum
grounds.
Returning to the president, governor and senator’s Scottish
roots, the historical event will include live history re-enactors,
costumed historical characters, folk life demonstrations,
arts and crafts, dulcimer workshops, live acoustic music,
a living history theatre and ethnic foods.
The festival will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday
and Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
Admission is $7 for adults, $3 for children ages 5-12 and
free for children under 5 years old. In addition, group rates,
for a minimum of 15 people, are available for $3 per person.
For more information, call the Sam
Houston Memorial Museum at 936.294.1832.
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Retirement Reception Planned
For Prof
The foreign languages department will celebrate the 43-year
career of French professor Mary Gutermuth with a retirement
reception on Thursday (April 19).
The reception will be held from 3:30–5 p.m. in Austin
Hall.
Gutermuth came to SHSU in 1967 and during her tenure, served
as the foreign languages program coordinator discontinuously
for seven years. She will officially retire Aug. 31.
While program coordinator, Gutermuth supervised the purchase
and installation of a computer lab and later on, helped install
the Spanish faculty's evaluating of the Practice Texas Oral
Proficiency Test.
During her career, she also taught at Loyola University in
Chicago and for two different summers for the Peace Corps
with Oberlin College in Ohio and in Quebec, Canada.
Any donations can be made in honor of Gutermuth to the “Friends
of Foreign Languages.”
For more information, call 936.294.1404.
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History Prof To Share ‘Roots’
For Lecture
Bernadette Pruitt, assistant professor of history at SHSU,
will field questions and discuss her ‘roots’ on
Wednesday (April 18).
The “Grassroots: A Series of Conversations on Leadership
in a Diverse Community” lecture will be held at 5 p.m.
in Academic Building IV’s Olson Auditorium.
The first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in history
from the University of Houston, Pruitt has been teaching at
SHSU since 1996, according to her vita.
Her dissertation, “For the Advancement of the Race:
African-American Migration and Community Building in Houston,
1914-1945,” examined the movement of black people into
Texas’ largest metropolitan center from surrounding
farms and small towns in eastern Texas and Louisiana.
Pruitt received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees
from Texas Southern University in Houston.
Her current research endeavors include black population patterns
in southeast Texas and southern Louisiana, the development
of black Creole and Creoles of Color communities in the Upper
Texas Gulf Coast industrial region, and community development
among Houston African Americans during the first half of the
century.
A reception will immediately follow the discussion in the
Student Advising and Mentoring Center, located in AB IV Suite
210.
The event is sponsored by the SAM Center’s academic
support programs, the Elliott T. Bowers Honors Program, the
International Hispanic Association, Lambda Theta Alpha Latin
Sorority, and the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement
Program.
For more information, call the SAM
Center at 936.294.4444.
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Association Tournament
To Benefit Scholarships
The Sam Houston State University Alumni Association will
sponsor a golf tournament to raise funds for its Alumni Legacy
Scholarship Endowment Fund on June 2 at the High Meadow Ranch
Golf Club near Magnolia.
The format is a 4-person scramble, with lunch and registration
at noon and shotgun start at 1 p.m. Dinner is included at
the end of the round at approximately 5:30 p.m.
Entry fees are $125 per player, with corporate sponsorships
of $1,000 (bronze), $2,500 (silver) and $5,000 (gold). Hole
sponsorships are $150.
Team prizes will be awarded for three places in two flights,
with individual awards for long drive and closest-to-the-pin.
Individuals, teams and sponsors can register using credit
cards on the Office of Alumni Relations Web site at http://alumni.shsu.edu
or mail payment to: Office of Alumni Relations; Box 2022;
Huntsville, Texas; 77341.
For more information contact the Office
of Alumni Relations at 936.294.1841.
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Faculty, Staff To Tee Off For
Tourney
Registration is under way for the 13th Annual Faculty/Staff
Golf Tournament, scheduled for May 14 at the Raven Nest Golf
Course.
The entry fee of $40 per person includes a scramble format
round of golf, a T-shirt, a golf towel, a goodie bag, raffle
prizes, lunch, and more.
The first 80 entries received by May 9 will be accepted.
For more information contact Tina
DeAses at 936.294.3658 or visit the Recreational
Sports Web site.
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McNair Scholars Sought
For Next Academic Year
The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
is seeking 13 SHSU students who are interested in future doctoral
studies to participate in the program next year.
The McNair program is a federally-funded undergraduate research
program that offers a stipend to first-generation, low-income
or minority students.
“We target those three groups because they are underrepresented,
and we want to increase their representation in graduate schools,”
said Lydia Cruz Fox, McNair program director. “We try
to search for students who are interested in getting a doctoral
degree.”
Students who are accepted into the program receive a $1,600
stipend, disbursed in three payments throughout the academic
year, and are paired with a faculty member in their discipline
to complete a research project.
McNair scholars also receive other benefits, such as free
graduate school preparation workshops, a tuition waver for
a three-hour spring research class, paid travel to research
conferences and for visits to prospective graduate programs,
and the use of a laptop computer, as well as graduate application
fee wavers, among other incentives.
“If you are an undergrad and you have research experience
and you’ve been to or presented in conferences, that
makes your odds of being accepted into a graduate program
increase dramatically,” Fox said. “So we try to
make our students as competitive as possible.”
Applicants must be classified as at least a junior at SHSU,
have a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average and be a permanent
U.S. resident.
The application deadline is August 10 and are available online
at http://www.shsu.edu/~mcnair/apply.htm.
For more information, contact the McNair Office, located in
Academic Building III Room 216, at 936.294.3279, mcnair@shsu.edu
or visit the Web site http://www.shsu.edu/~mcnair/.
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‘Rejected’
Art To Be Featured In Show
SHSU art students will present the second annual “Rejected:
A Student Art Show” April 16-20 in the SOFA Gallery.
The show will be held in conjunction with the art department’s
Student Juried Show to provide an “unusual contextual
twist much different than the show held last year,”
said art/graphic design major Leah Fecteau.
A public reception will be held alongside the department’s
open house on April 19 from 5-7 p.m.
Last year, art students hosted a “Salon des Refusés,”
a show exhibiting artwork that had been turned away from the
art department’s annual student juried show, during
which students’ works are judged for scholarships.
The show “had a great turnout of both artists exhibiting
in the show and viewers for the reception,” Fecteau
said.
The SOFA Gallery is located in Art Building A.
For more information, contact Fecteau at 443.504.4730 or lfleia@gmail.com
or Debbie Davenport at ddavenport@shsu.edu.
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Art Student To Auction
Works
The Huntsville and SHSU communities will have the opportunity
to support student artists and the Student Art Association
during the group’s annual Student Art Auction on Saturday
(April 14).
The silent and live auctions will be held at 6 p.m. at 1421
Sam Houston Ave., formally known as Jose's Restaurant.
A viewing of the artwork will be held from 4-6 p.m., when
the bids for the silent auction will be accepted for those
unable to attend the live auction.
For more information, contact Debbie Davenport, art department
audio/visual librarian, at 936.294.1317 or ddavenport@shsu.edu.
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December Graduation
Applications Due April 23
Students who anticipate graduating in December are to file
degree applications by April 23 with the Registrar’s
Office.
Students who fail to apply by the deadline will be assessed
a $25 late application fee in addition to the $25 graduation
fee.
Applying late may also result in names not appearing in the
commencement program or the honors program.
Final exams will be held Dec. 10-13, with a study day scheduled
for Dec. 7.
Commencement is scheduled for Dec. 15.
The Registrar’s
Office is located on the third floor of the Estill
Building.
For more information, call 936.294.1040.
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ADP Celebrates Democracy With
Speech, Awards
Thirty individuals and five projects were recognized by
the American Democracy Project at the group's recognition
ceremony as part of Celebrating Democracy Week.
Other activities included a speech by former Cuban political
prisoner Rafael Saumell-Munoz, professor of Spanish and coordinator
of foreign languages at SHSU, and a showing of the documentary
“Addicted to Oil.”
The projects recognized were “Voter Registration and
Election Information;” “Rita B. Huff Animal Shelter
Support;” “Dredging the Duck Pond at the SHSU
Memorial Museum;” “the Harriet Beecher Stowe Program”
at a Huntsville elementary school; and “Decorating Huntville
for Christmas.”
Faculty members who have been featured on the Today@Sam service-learning
spotlight series were recognized. They include Lee Miller,
Corliss Lentz, George Moore and Jane Haggard, Stephanie Frogge,
and Sanjay Mehta and John Newbold.
Instructors in the SAM 136 freshman seminar course were also
recognized. They include Terri Harvey, Wally Barnes, Joellen
Tipton, Tina Kuo, Jennifer Roberts, Kristy Vienne, Dana Grant,
Sophia Polk, Beth Charrier and Jeff Kennon.
Also, Trey Charrier, Frances Fennessy, John Jordan, Tess Johnson,
Pam Laughlin, Karen McIntush, Valerie Muehsam, April Murrie,
Jessica Payne, Dannell Price, Amber Van Roekel, Gene Young
and Keri Rogers.
SHSU's American
Democracy Project is part of a national effort
to increase student participation in government and public
service.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
April 13, 2007
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