4.29.10 / Features
Zeta Tau Alpha will celebrate its 50th anniversary Friday, April 30 at 12 a.m. until Sunday, May 2 at 11 p.m. Speaking at May reunion is National Council member and Vice President Collegiate Keeley Riddle.
Zeta Tau Alpha is a nationally recognized women’s fraternity that was founded on Oct. 15, 1898 at Longwood University in Farmville, Va. The chapter at Clarion University is known as Delta Iota, and it was installed April 30, 1960, which made it the 107th link of Zeta Tau Alpha. The fraternity’s charity is breast cancer education and awareness. Members work with several organizations, such as Susan G. Komen For the Cure and the National Football League.
4.22.10 / Features
William Lowe speaks to students about the education system and progresses in technology. (Neal Henry / The Clarion Call)
Clarion University welcomed William C. Lowe, best known as the “Father of the Personal Computer,” Tuesday, April 20 at 3:30P.M. in Still Hall’s Carter Auditorium. Lowe is a former executive of Moore Corporation, New England Business Services, Gulfstream Aerospace, Xerox Corporation and IBM.
Lowe has served as CEO of two Fortune 1000 companies with 25 plus years experience in an accomplished career where he was known for strategic work, for delivering and sustaining revenue and profit gains with highly competitive U.S. retail market.
He has managed budgets in excess of $10 billion in development and manufacturing with worldwide plant operations. Lowe launched the IBM Personal Computer and is best known as the “Father of the Personal Computer” for leading the team that developed IBM’s PC.
In 1991, he received a major global award for the greatest Technology Product Innovation in the United States along with Bill Gates.
Lowe has recently worked as a strategic advisor for entrepreneurial companies including a Chicago based company that went public in 1999.
Lowe has traveled extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America in order to oversee and review global operations with several major companies.
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4.14.10 / Features
Members of Clarion University faculty, staff and administration were formally recognized for publications and other scholarly works April 13 in Carlson Library.
Those recognized included: Gustavo Barboza, Administrative Science; Suzanne Boyden, Biology; Jodi Burns and Rose Carbone, Mathematics; Ning Chen, Administrative Science; Kreag Danvers, Accounting; Jeffrey Eicher and Soga Ewedemi, Finance; James Lingwall, Communication; Andrea Miller, Library Science; Shelly Moore, Nursing; Laurie Occhipinti and Miguel Olivas-Lujan, Administrative Science; Kevin Roth, Administrative Science; Thomas Rourke, Political Science and Philosophy; Chad Smith, Administrative Science; Karen Smith, English; Eleanor ter Horst, Modern Languages.
Also recognized were: Chin Yang, Economics; Robert Balough, Economics; Jerry Belloit, Finance; Barbara Garland, Marketing; Joseph Green, Accounting; Brenda Ponsford, Marketing; Frank Shepard, Finance; Deborah Ellermeyer, Education; Thomas Oliver, Finance; Randon Otte, Accounting; David Hartley, College of Business; Judy Jeng, Library Science; Janice Krueger, Library Science; Mary McCarthy, Communication Sciences & Disorders; William Sanders, Economics; Lynn Smith, Economics; Tony Johns, Administrative Science; Sandra Trejos, Economics; Patricia Kolencik, Education; Pamela Gent, Special Education & Rehabilitation Sciences; and Yun Shao, Modern Languages.
The faculty and staff were recognized for journal articles, presentations and published conference proceedings, invited contributions, books, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, reviews/editorships, professional services and other research activities.
Each person recognized had the opportunity to come forward and talk about his or her publications or other scholarly works.
Most of the professors agreed that the research they have completed has helped to provide the best possible education for students.
They want to make sure that the students are well prepared when they enter the real world.
4.1.10 / Features
Clarion University students, staff and faculty can be warned, in a timely fashion, of life-threatening situations on campus.
The warning system is a program that allows anyone with a Clarion e-mail address or computer access to register two cell phone numbers and two e-mail addresses to receive emergency messages. More »
3.3.10 / Features
Students danced around the world this past weekend to raise money for Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Clarion Dance Marathon was held in the Gemmell Multipurpose Room.
Krista Baselj, Clarion Dance Marathon president, said this year’s theme was “Dancing Around the World.”
Every hour a new theme dance was incorporated from a different country. More »
2.24.10 / Features
An energetic, athletic routine by Dixon Jordan and a vocal performance by Tasha Eldridge helped the two students claim the titles in the second annual Mr. and Miss Brickhouse competition sponsored by NAACP at Clarion University.
The event was held Feb. 21 in Hart Chapel. More »
2.17.10 / Features
The cases in stores that hold all the Apple iPods have to be created somewhere. That place is IDL Worldwide In-Store Solutions, a full service retail execution firm which provides consultation, design, engineering, fabrication and installation for brands and retailers.
IDL strives to help improve methods of selling product and enhance communications with customers in retail.
(Lamont Sinclair)
One of IDL Worldwide sayings for its company is “You cannot not communicate.” More »
2.10.10 / Features
The Health Science Education Center on Main Street in Clarion looks out for people’s health around the community and the state, but now its wellbeing is in jeopardy.
The center is funded by the state Department of Health, and without funding it would be unable to operate. Nancy Falvo, director of the HSEC, explained that it will be closed March 26 if funding does not become available. More »
2.4.10 / Features
Students gather to listen to Brown’s race project and interview footage. (Justin Gmoser / The Clarion Call)
Racial or ethnical identification can be a sensitive issue.
Basketball “great” Michael Jordan once said, “I realize that I’m black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody’s wish.”
Michael James Brown poses questions about race and ethnicity in his Other Awareness Project. The writer and producer spoke on the subject Feb. 1 in Hart Chapel at Clarion University.
Brown, a writer and producer, said the major goal of his project is to end putting people into racial groups.
Brown explained his project is designed and created for the current generation of college students because they have the best combination of actual experience and resources to end the discussion concerning the so-called perpetual puzzle that is racism.
Brown traveled to cities in the United States, interviewing complete strangers about race.
He shot 15 hours of interview footage and did all the editing himself.
His project, which includes discussions with many different people all across the country, shows that there is no legal definition of what it means to be white or black. It concludes that it doesn’t make much sense to include racial classifications on most state and federal forms. More »
Michael Collins is a staff features writer for The Call.