Campus Spotlight

Energetic walkers and runners competed in the final Art Doyle Road Race Saturday, May 10. Alice Doyle of ITS, who has organized the event for the past six years in honor of her late husband, former Academic Vice President Arthur Doyle, is leaving the college.

Doyle is seen above at the race, back row left, with her son Jay, daughter-in-law Heather, granddaughter Alevia, age 7, and grandson Glennie, age 4.

“I loved being a part of an event that brought our college community of so many wonderful and caring friends together to remember and honor Art’s memory,” said Lois Oak, the administrative assistant for several Hemenway Hall academic departments.

Oak took first place among the walkers with a time of 40:25 minutes. The male winner was Daniel Canella, son of Associate Dean of Admissions Liz Canella, in 40:38 minutes.

In the runners’ race, the men’s winner, Christopher Williams, completed the course in 20:05 minutes and Jessica Henderson, the women’s winner, in 22:50 minutes.

Registration fees, scholarship donations, and a raffle for beautiful theme baskets traditionally donated by departments on campus raised $6,383 for the Art Doyle Scholarship.

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.

“Once again, we were reminded of the consistent high quality of our students’ writing at the 2008 Literary Awards ceremony,” said Dr. Evelyn Perry, English Department, coordinator of the annual event which took place Thursday, April 24. “From academic essay to poetry to prose, the winning pieces were thoughtful, sophisticated, articulate and artistic.”

Three of the winning pieces were produced by Kristen Gridley, ’10, who won first place for the Sparrow Award and first and third places for the Hirt Award. Brad Petrishen, ’08, won the the Chartier Award. Sara L. Fortin, ’10, was the second place winner of both the Hirt and Sparrow Awards. Emily L. Harvey, ’09, and Sarah Sarlitto, ’10, were the second and third place winners respectively of the Sparrow Award.

These talented student writers are seen above with Perry: from the left, Fortin, Petrishen, Gridley, Perry, Sarlitto, and Harvey.  Harvey is an art major and the  other four students are English majors.

“FSC’s professors–the English department in particular–have been a tremendous influence on my academic career thus far,” said Gridley. “The faculty here is extremely encouraging to students both in and out of the classroom. I couldn’t have asked for a better collection of professors than what I have found here at FSC.”

“We are indeed lucky to have such excellent young writers at work at Framingham State College,” said Perry. “We’re pleased to have the opportunity to showcase their talents.”

A less paper intensive purchasing process will be initiated on campus by July 1, 2008. The change will be implemented in four areas: 1) requisitions; 2) approvals; 3) receiving of goods; and 4) checking your budget.

1) Requisitions and 2) approvals. Requisitions will be completed online using SunGard Banner (FSC’s administrative software suite). By doing so, you will be able to track the requisition through the purchase order then through the payment to the vendor. Requisitions will go through an electronic approval process. Notice of approvals will be sent to you automatically through Banner messaging. What’s even better is that a few items, such as subscriptions and memberships, will no longer need requisitions.

3) Receiving of goods. Here’s how things will work: items will be received by the storeroom, which will enter receipt into Banner. In lieu of payment vouchers and handwritten signatures, when items are delivered to your department, you will go into Banner and verify that you received the items.

4) Checking your budget. You will have real-time, 24/7 access to your budget online and also have the ability to know how much remains on an open (or standing) purchase order. In addition, you will be able to click through to see what vendors were paid under which object codes along with the amounts paid.

Training dates for the new system can be found in myFramingham. Just click the “FSC Work” tab and look for the “Training/Professional Development” channel (located in the middle column under the “Business Office Resources” channel.)

Above, members of the business office staff: back row, from the left, Nancy Murphy, Director of Financial Services Joseph Calapa, Director of Purchasing Brenda Bussey; front row, Michelle Fallon, Linda Nesta.

Many emeriti faculty and administrators returned to campus Tuesday, April 29, to enjoy a luncheon in their honor with former colleagues.

Dr. Margaret Carroll, chair of the biology department, third from left above, welcomed past faculty members of the biology department Dr. Paul Cotter, far left, and, center to far right, Drs. Dana Jost, Judy Klaas, formerly academic vice president, Willard (Bill) Spence, Rene LeBlanc, and Joseph Previte.

Mr. Ralph Eddy, ’96, second from left, is an alumnus of the biology department and director of FSC dining services. Together with his staff, he deserves credit for the success of this lively reunion. The event was coordinated by the office of college advancement.