Faculty and Staff Activities May 12
Communication Arts
Dr. Derrick TePaske has an exhibition of his archival photographs of the Walter E. Fernald State School featured at the opening of the gallery in a newly renovated mill on the Mumford River in the Blackstone Valley. The organization located in the mill, “Alternatives, Unlimited,” provides an array of services to mentally handicapped adults.
Education Department
Dr. Diane Lowe attended the Massachusetts Reading Association conference in Sturbridge April 10 and 11. The theme of the conference was “Literacy is the Connection!” The MRA Exemplary Reading Program Award was presented to the Hemenway School in Framingham. Sheila Harper, literacy specialist at the Hemenway School, completed the Literacy and Language program at FSC in 1998. Amy Ball and Maggie Dabrush, current Literacy and Language students about to receive their FSC M.Ed. degrees, served as student ambassadors.
English Department
Bernard Horn was scholar-in-residence on May 4 and 5 at the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel at Tifereth Israel Congregation in New Bedford. The subject of his lectures was the poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Horn’s translations of Amichai’s poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Moment Magazine, and the Manhattan Review.
Office of Institutional Research
John Macuga served on a panel at the 14th Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Conference held in Amherst May 3. He discussed public speaking and presentation skills with the undergraduate attendees, sharing lessons learned from his experience as an administrator and as an officer in the Army National Guard. While an undergraduate at UMass-Amherst in 1999, Macuga presented his honors thesis at the 5th Annual Undergraduate Conference.