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John Bradac, director of career planning and placement, recently served as coordinator for the placement and career services operation for the American College Personnel Association and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators joint convention in Chicago. The event brought together more than 7,300 registrants. The placement operation hosted more than 1,800 candidates and nearly 1,000 position listings. Convention placement and career services facilitated more than 10,600 interviews in four days for college student development professionals. This was Bradac's 10th year volunteering for the event. Gretchen DeBolt, college relations and resource development, recently won first place in the adult advanced B division of the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition, Finger Lakes Chapter, at Syracuse University. DeBolt studies with Ithaca College School of Music faculty member Deborah Montgomery. Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France recently received the Outstanding Translation of the Year Award for 1995 from the American Literary Translators' Association. Written by Joan Kessler, modern languages and literature, the book is a gathering, for the first time in English, of French fantastic tales by such authors as Balzac, Gautier, Dumas, Verne, and Maupassant. These stories explore the dark, irrational side of the human psyche. The Inverse Square, a play by Curt H. Louison, cinema and photography, was recently selected as a finalist in this year's Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival One Act Play Contest. It was one of 11 finalists chosen from more than 150 plays submitted to this year's festival. The play will be published by CrazyQuilt Quarterly in the summer of 1988. Katharyn Howd Machan, writing, presented a reading of her sequence of satirical sonnets, The Professor Poems, on February 21 at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference at the University of Louisville. In March she travelled to Key West to teach creative writing at The Secret Garden Writer's Workshop, and that same month she visited Clarion University to present a reading of her literary monologues, Redwing Women, and to give a two-hour lecture and demonstration entitled "Feminist Bellydance: Not an Oxymoron." Howd's poems have recently appeared in Language and Literacy Spectrum, The Crescent Moon, Creations, Caprice, and Hard Love: Writings on Violence & Intimacy. Ithaca College patrol officer James "Jamie" Masclee was recently named the Ithaca Kiwanis Club's officer of the month. Masclee lists among his many duties the teaching of crime prevention to the campus community. "Community policing is a buzz-word you hear when talking about police techniques and addressing community needs," says Robert Holt, director of campus safety. "The Ithaca Police Department has three officers dedicated to community policing, and Jamie is very good at community policing here at Ithaca College." Holt says Masclee truly cares about the safety and problems of the College community, and that he has used his communication skills to develop an excellent rapport with students, staff, and faculty. Masclee trains the campus safety student patrol on bicycle safety and patrolling techniques, and teaches his department in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid techniques. A native of Fairport, New York, Masclee holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Elmira College. He joined Ithaca College in 1995. Joel Savishinsky, anthropology, is on leave this semester thanks to a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The support enabled Savishinsky to spend two months in India, where he lectured on "The Anthropology of Aging" at a number of colleges in the state of Tamil Nadu. Savishinsky is using the remainder of his fellowship period doing research and writing on a project that is examining the experience of retirement in modern American culture. His article, "Understanding Life Backwards," recently appeared in the book The Cultural Context of Aging. |