SHSU
Update For Week Of June 24
Coordinator To Compete For
Miss Texas Title
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| McDonough's pageant debut will be televised
live at 8 p.m. on July 1 on Houston's KHOU-TV Channel
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She has been SHSU’s Multicultural and International
Student Services program coordinator for approximately six
months, but on July 1, Ashley McDonough will be affiliated
with another type of “miss:” the Miss Texas USA
pageant.
McDonough will make her first pageant appearance ever as Miss
Brazos County during the event, which will be televised live
from Laredo on Houston’s KHOU-TV Channel 11 at 8 p.m.
“I’m only nervous in that I don’t really
know exactly what to expect when I get there,” she said.
“I think it’s something that’s almost kind
of nice: since I’ve never done it before, I’m
going in just wanting to make new friends and hopefully those
girls will think the same thing.”
The College Station native was named Miss Brazos County after
sending a biography and picture of herself and being selected
by the state director. Qualifying pageants for Miss Texas
USA “are only held in major cities,” she said.
McDonough graduated from Texas A&M University in 2006
with a Bachelor of Arts in international studies and Spanish.
She plans on continuing her education at the University of
Wales at Swancea, in the United Kingdom, to earn her master’s
degree in development and human rights.
Judging for the weeklong competition will be held on Thursday
before live telecast, with the preliminary evening gown and
swimsuit competitions on Friday and the announcement of the
top 15 girls and the winner on Sunday.
McDonough will be one of more than 120 women from across the
state competing for the title and a prize package that includes
a brand new 2007 Ford Mustang, cash, gold and diamond jewelry,
travel and wardrobe.
In addition, Miss Texas USA will represent the state in the
nationally-televised Miss USA pageant next spring in hopes
of moving on to the ultimate of pageants, Miss Universe.
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Employee Scholarship
Application For Fall Due June 29
Applications for the President’s Employee Scholarship
program for the fall 2007 semester are due by Friday (June
29).
The President’s Employee Scholarship allows full-time,
benefits-eligible employees to take and be reimbursed for
up to four semester hours, or one class or one class and one
lab, at SHSU.
Staff and faculty members through the rank of assistant professor
are eligible for the scholarship.
Applicants must have a minimum of one year full-time continuous
employment at SHSU and have earned at least three semester
hours at SHSU with a minimum 2.0 grade point average.
Undergraduate students with a 2.5 GPA will be given first
priority, and graduate students with a 3.5 GPA or greater
will be given second priority.
An employee’s GPA, length of employment and student
classification level are primary consideration factors.
New applications forms, which have been revised to replace
the social security number with the Sam ID number, can be
accessed online here.
Forms should be submitted to the Human Resources Department,
at Box 2356, Estill Building Room 334.
For more information, contact Sandra Blair at hrd_sgb@shsu.edu
or 936.294.1068.
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Theatre To Perform 'Like
You Like It'
Dan Acquisto and Sammy Buck’s “Like You Like
It,” which has had quite a bit of success in its post-New
York life with high school and university incarnations, will
be landing in Sam Houston State University’s theatre
department Thursday and Friday (June 28-29).
Show times are 8 p.m. on both nights in the University Theatre
Center’s Mainstage Theatre.
The cast is a mixture of SHSU musical theatre and theatre
students, as well as students from the Theatre Under The Stars’
Humphreys School. TUTS
is one of the country’s top theatre companies.
An updated and set-to-music version of William Shakespeare’s
”As You Like It,” the play is “kinda like
an old Molly Ringwald movie,” according to playwright
Sammy Buck.
Set in the 1980s, the story takes place in a high school and
at the opening of the new Arden Mall.
Told through a series of flashbacks and filled with 80s pop
music, the script revolves around the romantic escapades of
Orlando (Nkrumah Gatling), Rosalind (Briana Resa), Audrey
(Amanda Spindola), Touchstone (Tony Johnson) and Celia (Grace
Marie Walton) with a plethora of zany subplots, including
mistaken identities and loves lost and found in the Shakespearean
and Ringwald traditions.
A benefit performance will also be held on Sunday (July 1),
at 7 p.m. at Zilkha Hall, for the TUTS Tommy Tune Awards Scholarship
Fund.
Tickets are $8 for the SHSU performances and are $19.85 for
the Houston performance.
For more information, call 936.294.1339 or to purchase tickets
for the Houston performance, call 713.558.TUTS (713.558.8887).
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Award-Winning Recruitment Video
Now Available
The 11-minute recruiting video "Where Education is Up
Close and Personal," which is shown in the Sam Houston
State University Visitor Center, is also available for viewing
online and in digital video disk (DVD) format.
The video is shown on the Visitor Center's auditorium on five
center screens, two additional plasma screens in the rear
of the auditorium and four plasma screens in the atrium. These
screens display six separate streams of graphics and high
definition footage.
Joey Chandler, Visitor Center director, invites anyone who
has not seen the video to stop by the center or to contact
her for a DVD copy.
The video is also available for viewing online on the Channel
Three Productions Web site, at http://www.channel3.com/.
Chandler and Kris Ruiz, SHSU marketing director, worked with
the Channel Three company to create the video.
Channel Three Productions announced that it has received a
Telly Award for the standard definition DVD version of the
video.
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Planetarium To Show ‘Colors
Of Summer,’ ‘Ring World’
The physics department will continue its public planetarium
program this summer with “Ring World” and “The
Colors of Summer” on Tuesday (June 26).
The series, which shows attendees which constellations, stars
and planets they can expect to see in the upcoming weeks,
will be held at 3 p.m. in the Planetarium, located in Farrington
Building Room F102.
The program will include a “tour of what’s currently
up in the summer night sky with ‘The Colors of Summer,’”
as well as the summer feature, ‘Ring World,’ “a
fantastic journey to perhaps the most beloved planet in the
solar system: Saturn, the true Lord of the Rings” specifically
formatted for viewing on a dome-shaped screen, according to
Michael Prokosch, staff aid for the physics department.
The show will last approximately one hour.
The Planetarium, which seats up to 29 visitors, includes a
dome that is approximately 18 feet in diameter and more than
20 feet high in the center, Prokosch said.
Admission is free.
Repeat showings will be held on July 10, July 24, Aug. 7 and
Aug. 14, all at 3 p.m.
One-day visitor parking passes for those off-campus who would
like to attend a showing can be picked up at the Visitor Center.
For more information on current show times for the Planetarium
or the Observatory, call 936.294.3664.
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Student Activities To Create
‘Summer Fun’
The Student Activities department will give students some
relief before the finals with some “Summer Fun”
on Tuesday (June 26).
The event, which will include ice cream, lemonade and hot
dogs, will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Lowman
Student Center Mall Area.
In case of rain, the event will be moved to the LSC Atrium.
For more information, call Student
Activities at 936.294.3861.
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Military Science Welcomes 13
For Junior ROTC Training
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| 2nd Lt. Jacob Lopez, a Gold Bar Recruiter
for SHSU's ROTC program (second from right), instructs
the JROTC cadets in how to un-blouse their BDU bottoms
for ventilation prior to running the Bearkat O-Course. |
Thirteen Junior ROTC cadets from Sam Rayburn High School
in Pasadena conducted their JROTC Leadership Camp at Sam Houston
State University June 18-21.
The event was hosted in large part by Lt. Col. Rick King,
head of the SHSU Military Science Department and the Bearkat
Battalion.
Several days were spent at Gibb’s Ranch bivouacking
and using the ROTC facilities to participate in the obstacle
and leaders’ reaction course, as well as conduct land
navigation and practice basic leadership, according to retired
Lt. Col. Alan Mooneyham, JROTC instructor for SRHS and former
head of SHSU’s Military Science Department.
The JROTC cadets also had an opportunity to spend some time
on campus during freshman orientation and at the Visitor Center
and the Health and Kinesiology Center.
The 13 JROTC cadets were selected from the Rayburn JROTC program
of over 200 high school students, according to Mooneyham.
“They are the best of the best,” he said. “They
have all successfully passed TAKS (the Texas Assessment of
Knowledge and Skills test), have a 4.0 grade point average
or higher, are members of at least one high school organization
or team, have met high physical fitness standards and hold
leadership positions within JROTC.”
Mooneyham and King said this event is a win-win opportunity
for both SHSU and Sam Rayburn.
“The leadership camp teaches basic leadership and self-discipline,
while conducting it on a great university campus like Sam
exposes high school students to an achievable alternative
after high school,” Mooneyham said.
In addition, King awarded each of the cadets with their camp
completion certificates, recognized seven for earning the
RECONDO badge, presented two other cadets with a Bearkat Battalion
commander’s coin and extended an invitation to SRHS
again next summer.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
June 24, 2007
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