SHSU
Update For Week Of June 10
Second Annual Perkins Tourney
To Benefit Daughter
A second memorial golf tournament to honor the late Brad
Perkins and to raise funds for the future education of his
daughter, McKenna Perkins, is scheduled for June 29 at the
Raven Nest Golf Club.
Perkins, who worked in SHSU’s Physical Plant Department,
died in April 2006 after a battle with melanoma. After his
death, the department established the fundraiser to honor
Brad and plan for his daughter's future education.
The Second Annual Brad Perkins Memorial Golf Tournament, a
four-person scramble, is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m., with
check-in beginning at noon.
The entry fee is $50 per person, which includes the 18-hole
green fee, cart, range balls and a sandwich dinner, with prizes
for closest-to-the-pin and men's and women's long drive. Entry
deadline is June 26.
Hole sponsorships are also available at $150 each, and contributions
to the McKenna Perkins scholarship fund will also be accepted.
The fund is being administered through Edward Jones Investments.
Entries should be mailed to Golf Tournament; c/o Physical
Plant; Box 2357; Huntsville, Texas, 77341. Checks should be
made payable to Glenn Green.
Teams should be made up of no more than one "A"
level player, those with an average score of 79 or below.
Three person teams will be allowed one shot per player.
Last year’s inaugural tournament raised almost $8,000
for the scholarship fund.
For more information, contact Glenn Green at 936.294.1876,
Mike Yargo at 936.294.3814 or Rodney Conwell at 936.294.3152.
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Today@Sam Redesigns Experts
Page
Like most universities, Sam Houston State has a list of
experts who are available to be contacted on specific topics
by the working media.
Working with Computer Services, the Today@Sam Experts page
was recently redesigned and updated for the first time in
more than four years.
Among the new features of the Experts page are a more user-friendly
format, a submission link for corrections and additions, and
new profile categories that will allow experts to include
their home or alternative phone numbers, individual web addresses
and photographs of themselves, along with the traditional
information.
In addition, faculty members can now search for themselves
with the “Search
By Name” link to periodically check their
information.
The Public Relations Office will be working over the summer
to work out any kinks with the new format, reorganize the
current categories and also add the “new” experts
that were submitted in the fall.
We ask that our experts, or anyone interested in being added
to the list, take a few minutes to browse the page, found
at /experts/,
and send corrections, feedback or any of the new information
available to display (Web sites, photographs, and home/alternative
phone numbers) to Today@Sam.edu
or jenniferg@shsu.edu.
Please note that home or alternative phone numbers should
only be submitted if you are willing to be contacted by the
media at those numbers.
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Student Seeks Family
Volunteers For Divorce Study
SHSU clinical psychology doctoral student Jessica R. Gurley
is seeking families with children between the ages of 6 and
12 who either have finalized a divorce or are in the process
of getting a divorce for her dissertation study.
“I am currently testing two treatment programs for families
of divorce,” Gurley said. “A main focus of these
programs is helping the children adapt to the changes; divorce
can be really tough for children and these programs were designed
to help children deal with their thoughts and feelings about
the divorce.”
“Another focus of these programs is to help the parents
help the children by teaching the parents things they can
do to make this time as easy as possible on the children and
themselves,” she said.
The program will begin on June12 and will run for six weeks.
In order to participate, parents must have finalized a divorce
in the past 30 months or be in the process of a divorce.
Participants also must be a custodial parent, having the children
at least 50 percent of the time.
As a participant, volunteers will fill out a series of questionnaires
at different times in a three-month period, and in addition
to free treatment, families will be compensated by up to $50.
For more information, call Gurley at 936.294.3376 and leave
a message with your name and phone number.
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Visiting Artist To Display Works
Through June 13
Si-Won Lee, a visiting artist from Korea, is displaying
her “Moment of the Line Act II,” a textile art
exhibit, in the SOFA Gallery through June 13.
Lee, a textile artist and designer, is currently a visiting
scholar in the School of Art at Bowling Green State University
in Ohio.
“Her works are exceptional,” said Debbie Davenport,
art department audio/visual librarian.
The SOFA Gallery is located in Art Building A, Room 101.
For more information, call 936.294.1317.
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Send Update Items Here
Please send information for the SHSU Update to the Office
of Public Relations at SHSU. For electronic access to SHSU
news see the public relations Web page Today@Sam.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
June 10, 2007
Please send comments, corrections, news tips to Today@Sam.edu
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