Volume XLI, Number 27 www.abac.edu February 24, 2003

Calendar of Events

Monday, February 24

8:00 a.m.-Office of Library Services Workshop (Cordell Conf. Room C)

11:00 a.m.-Student Union Event—Jeff Mandell (Dining Hall)

3:00 p.m.-Tift Co. Board of Education Textbook Adoption (Cordell Conf. Room A)

6:00 p.m.-Basketball: Fillies vs. Darton (Gressette Gym)

7:00 p.m.-Gospel Choir (Chapel)

Tuesday, February 25

7:30 a.m.-Red Cross Board Meeting (Magnolia Room)

2:00 p.m.-Open Campus Day Set-Up (Gressette Gym)

3:00 p.m.-Softball: Fillies vs. N. Florida (Fillie Field) DH

7:30 p.m.-Black History Program (Chapel)

Wednesday, February 26

10:00 a.m.-Open Campus Day

7:00 p.m.-Gospel Choir (Chapel)

7:30 p.m.-Basketball: Stallions vs. Coastal Ga. (Gressette Gym)

Thursday, February 27

11:00 a.m.-Student Support Services Workshop (Cordell Conf. Room A)

11:30 a.m.-Faculty/Staff Luncheon (Magnolia Room)

7:30 p.m.-FYE Workshop (Cordell Conf. Room B)

7:30 p.m.-Tift County Foundation for Educational Excellence/Tifton Rotary Club Banquet (Dining Hall)

7:30 p.m.-Basketball: Stallions vs. Anderson JV (Gressette Gym)

Friday, February 28

8:00 a.m.-Focus on Africa (Cordell Conf. Room A)

Noon-Focus on Africa Luncheon (Magnolia Room)

Noon-GISA Literary Meet Event (Cordell Conf. Room C)

2:00 p.m.-Tennis: Fillies/Stallions vs. W. Florida (ABAC Tennis Center)

6:00 p.m.-Baseball: Stallions vs. St. Catherine’s (Stallion Field)

6:00 p.m.-Young/Powell Wedding Rehearsal (Chapel)

Saturday, March 1

Today-Regional Science Olympiad

8:30 a.m.-PREP Workshop (Cordell Conf. Room)

9:00 a.m.-Focus on Africa (Magnolia Room)

9:00 a.m.-Tennis: Stallions vs. Chattanooga State (ABAC Tennis Center)

4:30 p.m.-Young/Powell Wedding (Chapel)

Monday, March 3

Today-Midterm deadline for withdrawal without penalty

1:00 p.m.-Tennis: Fillies/Stallions vs. Georgia Perimeter (ABAC Tennis Center)

6:00 p.m.-Ms. MASDA Rehearsal (Dining Hall)

8:00 a.m.-Library Services Workshop (Cordell Conf. Room C)

11:00 a.m.-Student Union Event—Jeff Mandell (Dining Hall)

3:00 p.m.-Tift Co. Board of Education Textbook Adoption (Cordell Conf. Room A)

7:00 p.m.-Gospel Choir (Chapel)

Baseball on the Radio

The Golden Stallions of Coach Steve Janousek will host St. Catherine’s at 6 p.m. Friday at Stallion Field. It will mark the first home night game in ABAC baseball history. The game will be broadcast live on WKAA Kool 97.7. Bookstore Manager Emory Johnson will be at the play-by-play microphone. Tune in, or better yet, come on out to the old ball yard.

Open Campus Day on Wednesday

The Admissions Office will sponsor the Winter Open Campus Day on Wednesday beginning with registration in Gressette Gym at 10 a.m. Set up for all exhibits will be on Tuesday from 2-5 p.m. and from 8-9 a.m. on Wednesday. All exhibits must be in place by 9 a.m. Exhibits must be dismantled between 12:30-1:30 p.m. on Wednesday and removed from the gym floor by 1:30 p.m. The tables will be moved and the gym floor covering taken up after that time.

Because of a reduction in funding, only the visiting students will be able to eat free at the noontime lunch event which will be held on the front campus, weather permitting. Everyone else is invited to eat, but only at their own expense. The ABAC Foundation is footing the bill for the visiting students.

Baldwin Players This Week

The Baldwin Players of ABAC will present Quazimodo! by David Koren Thursday-Saturday in Room 319 in Conger Hall. Showtime is at 7:30 p.m. each night. General admission is $5. There is no charge for ABAC faculty, staff, and students. The play is rated PG-13.

The cast includes Dr. Kelley Swilley of Douglas as Esmeralda, David Charles Thompson of Winder as Phoebus/Frollo, B. J. Giddens of Lester as Quazimodo, Hillary Hamby of Ocilla as Gudule, and Michelle Farrar of Arabi as Paquette.

A comic retelling of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the production will be staged as a readers theatre, a form in which symbolic movement and metaphorical images contribute. The actors, or “readers,” sit on stools holding bound copies of the script, sometimes portraying multiple roles.

“The conventions of readers theatre are to make the audience ever mindful of the importance of the text, as both literature and as dramatic artifact,” Dr. John Galyean, ABAC’s Director of Theatre and the Baldwin Players, said.

Black History Program Tuesday

MASDA and the Minority Advising Program Peer Advisors will present a Black History Month program on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel of All Faiths. The presentation is titled The African-American Experience Through Speakers and Writers. Everyone is invited to attend.

Science Olympiad on Saturday

The Division of Science and Mathematics will host the annual Science Olympiad for high school students on Saturday.

Ag Sciences ‘Topped Out’

President Mike Vollmer and Regent John Hunt spoke at the “topping out” ceremony Friday for the new $7.1 million Ag Sciences Building. An evergreen tree on top of the building symbolized an accident-free workplace and the entire building under one roof. The building will be completed later this year and will open for student use in January of 2004.

President’s Club Inducts Twenty-Two

Celebrating

Birthdays

February

24 Dick Reeves

25 Barbara Garrick

27 Joyce Willis

March

2 Joyce Cogdell

A total of 22 new members were inducted into the President’s Club at Abraham Baldwin at Friday night’s annual dinner. Each new President’s Club member has given or pledged at least $10,000 to the ABAC Foundation.

New members include Mr. and Mrs. Aulton B. Akridge of Tifton; Mr. and Mrs. James L. Allen, Jr., of Adel; Mr. Andrew Avery, Jr., of Bainbridge; Mr. and Mrs. Stewart I. Bloodworth, Sr., of Perry; Mr. and Mrs. Dake A. Boling of Adel; Ms. Beverly K. Brownlow and Dr. Ron Hoffman of Tallahassee, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Call of Tifton; Miss Betty C. Claxton of Tifton; Mr. and Mrs. W. Ray Cross of Tifton; and Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Dillard of Moultrie.

Other new members include Mrs. Virginia P. Dorminey of Tifton; Mr. and Mrs. Andy Ellis of Tifton; Dr. and Mrs. Jeff D. Gibbs of Tifton; Mr. and Mrs. Jason J. Hendricks of Tifton; Mrs. Viola Carswell Johnson of Tifton; Mr. and Mrs. Royce A. Jones of Tifton; Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Jordan of Tifton; Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Perry of Tifton; Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Rakestraw of Tifton; Mr. and Mrs. Michael N. Ross of Tifton; Mr. and Mrs. Van Thornton of Tifton; and Mr. and Mrs. James W. Threatte of Lakeland.

Visit Africa Friday & Saturday

“Focus on Africa,” the Second Annual Workshop on World Affairs, will take place Friday and Saturday in the Donaldson Dining Hall. The event is open to the public. There is no charge to attend. Staff Development Unit (SDU) credit is available.

For more information or to register, contact Katrina Williams, Assistant Director of ABAC’s Public Service and Business Outreach Center, at 3267, or email her at kwilliam@abac.edu.

Dr. John Dunn, an assistant professor of history at ABAC, is the coordinator of the conference. The conference will consist of one workshop and five lectures. Two lectures will be given on Friday: “The Geography of AIDS in Africa: Current Crisis, Future Dilemma,” by Dr. Reuel Hanks, an associate professor of geography at Oklahoma State University, and “African-American View on Africa,” by Dr. Larry McGruder, a professor of history in ABAC’s Division of Social Science.

A special workshop for teachers called “Incorporating Africa into K-12 Curriculums” will also be conducted on Friday from noon – 6 p.m. by Dr. Agnes Leslie, Director of the Outreach Program at the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida.

Three additional lectures will be presented on Saturday. Dr. Peter P. Garretson, a professor of history at Florida State University, will present “Ethiopia: Africa’s Oldest Nation,” from 9 – 9:50 a.m. Dr. Melanie Byrd, a professor of history at Valdosta State University, will present “Why Ancient Nubia Belongs in Your Social Science Class” from 10 – 10:50 a.m.

“Africa’s Role in Current American Foreign Policy” will be presented by Dr. Joseph Njoroge, an assistant professor of political science in ABAC’s Division of Social Science, from 11 – 11:50 a.m.

A round table discussion by speakers and participants called “Africa Today” will take place at noon on Saturday. This project is supported by the Georgia Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly.

Tennis on Friday

The men’s tennis team of Coach Alan Kramer and the women’s tennis team of Coach Alton Hudgins will host the University of West Florida on Friday at 2 p.m. at the ABAC Tennis Center. Come out and enjoy some great tennis!

Softball on Tuesday

The Golden Fillies of Coach Donna Campbell will host North Florida for a 3 p.m. doubleheader at Fillie Field on Tuesday.

Basketball This Week

The Golden Fillies of Coach Julie Conner will host Darton at 6 p.m. tonight at Gressette Gym. The Stallions of Coach Robert Moore will host Coastal Georgia at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and the Anderson College JV at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Note of Thanks

Many thanks and kudos to Cindy Jones and Mike Chason for the time and talent they personally devoted to President's Club Dinner 2003.  Their production of ABAC 2008: A New Era, A New Vision represented our President, our donors, our college and our students very well.  Great job!

Sincerely,
The ABAC Foundation Board of Trustees

ABAC Family

Darby Sewell was the guest speaker at the Albany Schools Family and Consumer Sciences Advisory Committee meeting on Feb. 5. She also attended the Dougherty High Career Fair on Feb. 11, the Irwin County High School Career Fair on Feb. 13, and the Georgia Association of Family and Consumer Sciences winter board meeting on Feb. 15.

Bryan Golden was the guest speaker at the Tifton Kiwanis Club meeting on Friday. He showed pictures from his recent trip to Israel and discussed the differences between Israeli law enforcement and law enforcement in America.

Jewrell Rivers attended the University System of Georgia’s Task Force meeting on Enhancing Access for African-American Males on Jan. 17.

Jimmy Felton, Danny Cravey, and Dr. Ed Seagle attended the 74^th annual International Conference and Tradeshow of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America on Feb. 12-15 in Atlanta. Seven turfgrass students assisted with recruiting at ABAC’s exhibit booth.

Dr. Ed Seagle was the guest speaker at the annual Georgia Golf Course Superintendents Association’s Employees Seminar hosted in Young Harris on Feb. 17. His presentation was Characteristics of the Turfgrass Industry and Curriculum in Turfgrass Education in a Changing World.

Sue Wilson attended the spring P-16 Network meeting at Callaway Gardens on Feb. 12-14. As a member of the VSU P-16 Team, she presented information on COPE (Career Opportunities for Paraprofessionals) and the ACE (Adult College Experience) program initiated this spring at ABAC.

Fourteen members of the ABAC Tennis Team partnered with eight members of the Student Georgia Association of Educators to remove trash and debris from Davis Road on Feb. 11. After completing the clean-up project, everyone enjoyed good food at a cookout, prepared by SGAE members Ben Kennedy and Anthony White.