Longwood Magazine 2011 Vol 10 No 02 Autumn

From the Editor

It was nearly 12 years ago when I wrote my very first Letter from the Editor” for the inaugural issue of Longwood Magazine That first issue, Vol I, No 1, was published in Fall 1999 and featured Dr Jane Goodall on the cover Dr Goodall visited campus thanks to the efforts of the Student Government Association, the Alumni Association, and especially Longwood student, now alumnus, Yared Fubusa Now, as our 20th edition of Longwood goes to press, I am writing my last “Letter from the Editor” as I am retiring from after serving as your editor and PR chief for the past 15 years

In that first issue, Longwood “College” boasted an enrollment of 3,600 (now 4,800) and 22,000 alumni of record (now 31,000) There were many more changes to come, both good and bad, from our transition to university status and NCAA D-1 to the Great Fire of 2001 that tested the mettle of the entire Longwood family. There have been new bricks and mortar, including Brock Commons, a new science center, which would be named in honor of John H and Karen Williams Chichester, ’74, a new health and fitness center, heating plant, Center for Communication Studies and Theatre, and, of course, a completely reconstructed Ruffner Hall built to the original archival blueprints with new amenities and infrastructure throughout These are just a few of our more prominent campus additions that have been covered by Longwood Magazine.

Over the years, Longwood Magazine has been honored with major awards from the Public Relations Society of America, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, and other professional organizations Additionally, the marketing / communications efforts of the Office of Public Relations have been recognized with major awards from the American Association of Museums (LCVA publications), the American Advertising Federation, and the Printing Industries of Virginia, among others

Awards are nice, but the true success of Longwood Magazine and the Longwood Public Relations office is due to the people who work here I have been honored to work with such a dedicated and professional group Their longevity at Longwood underscores their commitment to your alma mater

When I first began my job here in 1996, I had no office, no phone, and a PR staff of one – Kent Booty Kent has been here so long that we like to kid him that his first press release was about Robert E Lee’s retreat up High Street But seriously, Kent has provided us with an historical perspective and continuity that is worthy of the generations of students who have become Longwood alumni

As you may know, Kent also is an associate editor of Longwood Magazine, a role he shares with Gina Caldwell who has been with us for six years Gina serves as primary communications liaison between Longwood and major external media outlets including print, radio, television and other electronic media, while initiating media and promotional programs that support our marketing plan developed by CRT/tanaka Gina provides the media with story ideas, background, press releases, editorial copy, photography and other forms of communication that convey the story of Longwood in a positive manner. Gina is also our go-to person for crisis communications, a role that has become increasingly important in higher education today

One of my first hires in the new PR office was David Whaley, who has done a superb job as our director of publications and visual arts In addition to serving as creative director of Longwood Magazine, David’s support of the LCVA and the Longwood community has enhanced our fund raising and development efforts. David also serves on the national board of the University and College Designers Association Foundation

At the other end of the longevity spectrum are James Rutter and Mar y Jo Stockton, both key members of our web communications staff, which is under the exemplar y leadership of Longwood alumnus Dave Hooper, Class of 2000 Dave has been with us since graduating from Longwood and has created one of the most dynamic web environments in higher education. Dave’s dedication to his alma mater is evident in ever y facet of his work –he exemplifies the concept of citizen leader

Keeping us all on schedule and out of trouble is Cocheyse Gilliam, another Longwood alum and another long time Longwood employee Cocheyse, who graduated from Longwood in 1997, has been with us since 1999 She manages the daily operations of the public relations office with particular emphasis on budgetary supervision of all PR accounts (state and foundation) including purchasing, accounts payable / receivable, procurement, and other budget matters including supervision of the CRT/tanaka marketing budget Officially, Cocheyse is our office manager, but she does so much more, working with all of us – faculty, staff, and students – in a professional and collegial way From writing to design, from media relations to special events, Cocheyse does it all She is, indeed, the glue that holds this office together. We are very fortunate that Cocheyse has been with us for 11 years.

So, let me wrap up my last letter by saying that the state of the PR office is great and you have an excellent staff to carry on the good work of the past years and the legacy of Longwood will continue in Longwood Magazine

Thanks, Longwood It’s been a great ride

Dennis Sercombe Editor

Longwood

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E d i t o r i a l Dennis Sercombe, Chairman, Associate Vice President for Marketing and Communications

A d v i s o r y B o a r d Kent Booty, Public Relations Writer and Photographer

Br yan K Rowland, Ph D , Vice President for University Advancement

Gina Caldwell, Media Specialist

David Hooper, ’ 00, Director of Web Communications

Greg Prouty, Associate Athletics Director for Media Relations

Chris Register, Associate Professor of Art

Nancy Shelton, ’68, Director of Alumni Relations

David Whaley, Director of Publications and Visual Arts

L o n g w o o d U n i v e r s i t y Pa t r i c k F i n n e g a n , P r e s i d e n t

M a r j o r i e M C o n n e l l y , R e c t o r o f t h e B o a r d o f V i s i t o r s

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M Jane Brooke, ’63, Richmond, Virginia

John W Daniel II, Richmond, Virginia

Edward I Gordon, M D , Farmville, Virginia

Rita Berr yman Hughes, ’ 74, Vice Rector, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Thomas A Johnson, Lynchburg, Virginia

Ripon W LaRoche II, M D , Farmville Virginia

Judi M Lynch, Ph D , ’87, Richmond Virginia

Jane Sheffield Maddux, Charlottesville Virginia

Stephen Mobley, ’ 93, McLean, Virginia

Marianne Moffat Radcliff, ’ 92, Richmond, Virginia

Susan E Soza, ’62, McLean, Virginia

Ronald Olswyn White, Midlothian, Virginia

From the President

They say that time flies when you ’ re having fun, and now I know that saying is absolutely true. My first year as the 25th president of Longwood University has come to a close and it certainly went by quickly – and if you have seen pictures of me covered in paint at Color Wars, cheering on the Lancers at a basketball game, or speaking to the graduates at commencement, it was definitely fun!

My experience at Longwood has been ever ything I expected and more. I have had the privilege of celebrating the university’s 100th anniversar y of the Honor Code, guest lecturing at classes, welcoming potential students at orientation, and working with the various university boards. I have come to an even fuller appreciation of our dedicated staff and faculty I have traveled the state getting to know our alumni, donors, and friends and sharing the Longwood stor y with them I have started to learn the General Assembly process, opened a new bridge and a new Nursing Simulation Center, and shared meals with students in the Dining Hall Joan and I have also enjoyed our new home, Longwood House, and being welcomed into Farmville and the surrounding community

Although this has been a busy year, I am proud that we have been able to kick off an Academic Strategic Plan process. I believe this plan will guide the academic life of the university in the coming years and will help us focus on what is best for our students in the future A task force is currently starting its work, with recommendations to be made next year. I look for ward to sharing our plan with you in the coming year.

Another key initiative of mine continues to be promotion of the university When I was selected to be president, I mentioned that I wanted to spread the word about Longwood and what it can offer students I am proud to say that our incoming freshman class is the largest in Longwood’s histor y, so perhaps that word is spreading Nothing works better than endorsement from our alumni, donors, and parents – so thank you for your enthusiasm about Longwood and sharing your pride

As I move for ward into my second year, I am excited about what is ahead In addition to completing the Academic Strategic Plan, we’ll be working to expand international opportunities for our students as well as potentially bringing more foreign students to Longwood We’ll press for ward on a conference affiliation for our intercollegiate athletic program, look for innovative ways to upgrade our internship program, and continue to emphasize the key roles that leadership and character play in developing graduates who are committed to making a difference We will remain committed to providing our students with the personal touch and the sense of community that make an education at Longwood something special, both in and out of the classroom.

Go Lancers!

Patrick Finnegan President

Living & Learning Abroad In England

Brian Bates, Ph D , ’92, Associate Professor of Anthropology

& James Jordan, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology

Like all of our colleagues at Longwood, we are always searching for new ways to enhance the learning of our students – to help them define their limits intellectually and culturally and then push them beyond those limits so that they grow as scholars and as human beings. This is always a challenge, because no matter how inquisitive we may find our students to be, we recognize that true learning comes only when one ’ s boundaries are tested and then exceeded, and this can be an uncomfortable experience for some, but a worthwhile one for all. It is in this constant quest for new opportunities that we developed a course that has proven to be far more rewarding in its transformative value in the intellectual and personal growth of our students than we could have ever imagined. In this experience we have found not only a new vehicle to offer the richness of the world to our students, but a rebirth of sorts for our own professional growth and development

appreciation for the value of an international experience in the development of a college-educated person It seemed only natural to us that the rich archaeological tapestr y of England could ser ve as a vehicle for exposing our students not only to the exciting cultural heritage of that island nation but also to the vibrant, diverse, energetic culture found there today

From that initial conversation ensued several more until we decided that we would set about the planning process to sort

No matter how inquisitive we may find our students to be, we recognize that true learning comes only when one ’ s boundaries are tested and then exceeded, and this can be an uncomfortable experience for some, but a worthwhile one for all.

through all of the complexities of teaching a course in a distant land At first we decided to do several “dr y runs ” to London to develop our course materials and to build upon the already established contacts that we had in England which were necessar y to make the course proceed smoothly

In October 2005 while attending the Primitive Technology Club’s semi-annual PRIM-TECH weekend seminar, we had a casual conversation about the possibility of offering a course on the archaeology of England for our undergraduates In the Anthropology Department we have a long tradition of offering international learning opportunities for our students, and we have a deep

In March 2006 and then again in March 2007 we travelled to England “ on our own dime” as it were, to fine-tune our program and galvanize the local contacts and infrastructure When we returned to Longwood in March 2007, we were confident that we had a course that would be academically demanding and culturally challenging for our students

Throughout the planning stage we were focused on the fact that the true value of this course would be met only if we were diligent in ensuring that students were not only

Back row, from left: Caitlin Gray, Lauren Hilt, Elizabeth Baker, Jamie Mesrobian Middle row, from left: Whitney Rice, Meghan Banton, Katherine York, Dr Jim Jordan Front row, from left: April Harper, Sally Meadows, Samantha Zerio, Aubrey Neuf, Dr Brian Bates (kneeling)

learning about the archaeological past of England but also about its ver y rich and diverse cultural reality today Beyond that, we felt compelled to make this an academically rigorous learning experience To that end we took the position that we are university professors, not tour guides, and while we were taking our students overseas, we would not approach it as “ a trip,” but rather as an intellectually challenging course delivered with a foreign nation as our classroom and its cultural diversity as our teaching aids Since adopting that mindset we have not referred to this experience as a trip, rather we always emphasize that it is a course. The value of this approach cannot be overstated and is evident in the student perspectives that we will share in this article

Most people think of themselves as having one birthday, but in our anthropology classes at Longwood we often say that we who study other societies around the world actually have three birthdays The first birthday is the day you are born in the society where you will grow up The second and third birthdays come much later. The second occurs when the young anthropologist does their first fieldwork, learning about the lives of people living some other place in the world – slowly, not all in one day, the fieldworker is born a second time into a different world This is seen as a sort of initiation ceremony into our discipline. And the third birthday happens when the young anthropologist returns to their home world with a new

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appreciation, a new perspective, on the difference in the lives of people in various places

We began to see the potential for a truly transformative experience manifest itself in our students almost from the moment that we landed at Heathrow Airport. Over the next 10 days we watched as our students matured through their fieldwork experience and grew as human beings with a new appreciation for the richness of the world beyond our American shores. “

We could see these rebirths in our students during and after the Archaeology of England course Indeed, perhaps the best way to see the rebirths is in the ver y words our fieldworkers wrote in their journals each evening after our seminars and the day’s fieldwork. We offer here our students’ reflections from the field in their own words

Holly Phelps, ’12, double-majoring in anthropology and music, like many people in our technology-obsessed world was surprised at the tasks prehistoric people could perform: Visiting the great earthen circles at Avebur y and at Stonehenge made me have a great appreciation for human capability in the past The people who built these monuments were at one time considered savages This clearly is not the case They have a sophistication and knowledge of their environment that rivals our own ”

Reflecting on her time at Stonehenge also, Rachel Anderson, ’11, wrote: “I think the most astonishing thing to all of us today were the incredible feats that people went through to build this structure They did so much with so little And I have

so much but feel as though I’ve done so little ... it makes my life appear to lack meaning compared to these prehistoric people ”

After travelling and studying the past over nearly the entire length and breadth of England and from a time 5,000 years ago up to the Great Plague and Great Fire of London in the 1660s, our Longwood anthropologists developed the awareness that prehistor y and histor y were ever ywhere here –from the Picts and Celts to the Saxons and Normans to the Romans and the Dark Ages. This contrasts with much of life in the United States where the present and the future are valued so much more, it seems, than the past

Alyssa Foley, ’12, double-major in anthropology and histor y, reflected: “England lives with her histor y ... In America we separate ourselves from our histor y, creating a divide between ourselves and our past ”

Michael Thorogood, ’11, Longwood anthropology major who was born in Liverpool, England, wrote: “Having so much histor y in such a small area is fascinating It is like having Colonial Williamsburg wherever you go!”

Our only Arabic language speaking anthropologist in the course, Courtney Traylor, ’12, touched squarely on the remarkable permanence of the past in the United Kingdom in her journal: “Standing before these four sites –Stonehenge, West Kennett Long Barrow, Silbur y Hill, and Avebur y – makes me feel quite insignificant They are such large monuments and have lasted thousands of years ...

Yes, in the U.S. we have some nice buildings and natural scener y, like the Grand Canyon But we don’t have the Crown Jewels or the Tower of London If we did decide to build a cathedral to rival St Paul’s Cathedral, it still would mean little in comparison You cannot build a histor y ”

Our Longwood scholars were often struck not only by the cultural differences in the objects and places they could see, but even more powerfully by the more subtle social factors which distinguish life in 21st centur y Virginia from other ways of daily living. The variation in ideas and attitudes and values and beliefs which make a culture unique became increasingly apparent to our students

Jennie Yuhas, ’12, noted in her journal: “I now realize how much space Americans waste. Our houses are huge, our cars are huge, our roads are wide, our restaurants are gigantic This experience has made me realize how Americans are obsessed with how large an amount we get We expect to get “free refills” of ever ything Most people here are in really good physical shape because they regularly walk; in the U.S. we drive If we have to go one block from the comfort of our LazyBoy and T V , we drive our car ”

This “private automobile-centric” view of the world stands in sharp contrast to the British way of getting about. Carrie Mosby, ’12, the 2011 winner of our Department’s Cover Award for Outstanding Scholarship, noted: “Our travel to York has really made me think about the availability of public transit here Almost every place is connected in one way or another You can catch a bus, or train, or in town, the underground ...

Longwood archaeologists at the 5,000-year-old prehistoric site at Stonehenge on the Salisbur y Plain

In the U S , I now realize how dependent I am on my car –without it I would not be able to get anywhere ”

Casey Cate, ’11, one of our majors who spends parts of his summers hiking the Appalachian Trail, noted a related American cultural trait here After we had walked several miles to reach a certain spot at the archaeological site of Avebur y in the Salisbur y Plain, Casey wrote: “If Avebur y was located anywhere in the United States there would be a parking lot right in the middle of it!”

Also reflecting this “take charge and drive right up to it” attitude we often find in our own culture, Holly Phelps shrewdly noted a nuance in the way British as opposed to Americans navigate in a crowd: “ There is a difference in etiquette I found fascinating People in England wait quietly when they need to get by, saying “ Thank you ” once the way was free Americans step up and say “Excuse me ” in order to get by.”

One evening, after the class had discussed the literar y stereotype of “the Ugly American,” Rachel Anderson wrote: While American ways spread out all over the world affecting lives and societies, America seems somehow imper vious to others’ cultures I am ver y glad to have left for a time my American bubble and come here so that, I hope, I won ’ t fulfill any of those awful stereotypes ”

We, in common with most professors, frequently say that we would like very much to know what is in the minds of our students Knowing these thoughts, while perhaps personally a

bit threatening, would help us to comprehend more fully the effects of our teaching In a field course such as The Archaeology of England, where students and teachers form one living and learning seminar day after day, and where students keep written journals of their experiences, we professors can perhaps come a bit closer to perceiving our students’ minds

Sometimes what we see aids us in a practical way to see what we ’ re doing, as when Michael Thorogood wrote “ Today, I began the day a bit behind again It sure is difficult in this course to get eight hours of sleep a night!”

Or, the revelations may shine light on an individual’s realization of a new alignment of some long held notions, as when Cathy Burkhard, ’12, wrote, “ Today it suddenly became clear that most if not all, of our American traditions came from England ” Or, it may be a singular, almost quirky, surprising glimpse of an oddity Holly Phelps had such a moment deep in the burial cr ypts under St. Paul’s Cathedral in London surrounded by the ornate vaults and tombs of 2,000 years of British elites: “In an out-of-the-way corner was a ver y small statue of George Washington on a tiny pedestal I found it interesting that the British would memorialize him, even in such a small fashion, since he did cause them quite a bit of trouble back in the 1700s!”

Sometimes the journals recorded a profoundly felt process which can reasonably be termed a “conversion experience” as when Amber Hirst, ’13, the youngest student in our course wrote in her final entr y: “My experiences in this course have changed my life I have officially fallen in love with England!”

Carrie Rae Mosby, '12, writes an entr y in her course journal in front of the British Museum

A medieval gate in the city of York in the north of England

But, perhaps most poignantly of all for us professors, our students’ thoughts can allow us to recall our own first days in the field: “ The person wishing to be an anthropologist needs fieldwork to truly know it. Going to another countr y ... is not something ever yone can do I’ve been homesick at times in this course but it has made me reflect on why I want to be an anthropologist ” – Jennie Yuhas, Senior Anthropology Major

this course they have, in a ver y real sense been reborn into our culture, rejoining it with a quiet new perspective on what it means to be a member of our society Perhaps more important, they have a fundamentally new and transformed way of thinking about the culture of others, whether they be in a distant land or across town This skill set, this way of developing a more open, considered, thoughtful approach to encounters with people who are from different backgrounds

In an out-of-the-way corner was a ver y small statue of George Washington on a tiny pedestal. I found it interesting that the British would memorialize him, even in such a small fashion, since he did cause them quite a bit of trouble back in the 1700s!” – Holly Phelps, ’12 “

As anthropologists, we are trained to examine cultures with what Margaret Mead called “disciplined detachment ” This approach is necessar y so that we can develop a fair understanding of each culture in its own terms, rather than in the terms of our own culture While we do not pretend to believe that this skill, which takes years, or perhaps an entire career, for the seasoned anthropologist to develop, can be mastered in a course of just several weeks duration, we do believe that we have witnessed profound change in our students through this course Upon their return home from

and cultures, is more meaningful in our world today than at any time in our histor y In a ver y meaningful way, the Archaeology of England in Prehistoric, Roman, and Medieval Times course has helped students to grow intellectually and personally in ways that transcend the stated course content Indeed, it is more than a little ironic that a course that covers broad periods when tolerance for the differences between people was hardly the norm, has become the vehicle for developing the ver y skills required for a more tolerant world view

Longwood students examine the ruined walls of the Cluniac Prior y in the village of Lewes, East Sussex, on the southern coast of England

Gina Caldwell Associate Editor

LU@YNP is a rich, interdisciplinar y project focused on the difficult yet fascinating challenges associated with the management of our public lands.

The project grew from Longwood’s involvement with the Stewardship of Public Lands initiative of the American Democracy Project. Since its inception, the Yellowstone project has focused on developing a novel, rigorous, and engaging General Education capstone experience for students from all three Colleges within the university Participation in the program has grown from eight students in 2006 to 48 students in 2011. While in the field, students and faculty blog about their experiences and impressions

Blogs for the May 2011 project can be found at: http://blogs longwood edu/yellowstone2011/

The LU@YNP experience challenges students to work in unpredictable, interdisciplinar y settings and to do so collaboratively Additionally, those students see their faculty operating in exactly the same challenging context and in the same collaborative and adaptive mode. In this process, students practice the skills of 21st centur y citizen leaders

One of the goals of GNED 495 is to have students stop thinking like students and to start thinking like citizens and to interact as one would in the workplace, PTA, church, or other places in society,” said Dr Alix Fink, associate professor of biology, who leads the group along with other Longwood faculty

Yellowstone’s iconic geyser, Old Faithful.

Since the beginning of the project, Longwood faculty and staff participating in the trip have included Josh Blakely, area coordinator for Residential and Commuter Life; Dr Scott Cole, associate professor of political science; Kerri Cushman, associate professor of art; Dr Alix Fink, associate professor of biology; Dr Joseph Garcia, professor of geography and earth science; Dr David Hardin, associate professor of geography; Dr. Edward Kinman, associate professor of geography; Elizabeth Kocevar-Weidinger, instructional and reference services librarian; Dr Heather Lettner-Rust, assistant professor of English; Kelly Nelson, associate professor of art; Mark Newton, adjunct faculty in the sciences; Dr. Phillip Poplin, associate professor of mathematics; and Dr Carl Riden, associate professor of sociology

The impact of the project on the students who participate is long lasting In a letter to Longwood President Patrick

Finnegan, Caitlin Zoetis, ’11, a biology major who was first involved with the 2009 project, wrote: “I have always been interested in working with animals and thought that a career in veterinar y medicine would allow me to do so I have also always been interested in environmental issues, and working as the student assistant to the sustainability coordinator at Longwood has provided both theoretical and practical ways to be more involved in the stewardship of our environment But here is the best part: the trip to Yellowstone brought this all together and helped me to re-focus my education and goals toward a career where I can work with animals and have an impact on environmental issues. I was able to see firsthand what a career in wildlife management looks like, meet professionals who enthusiastically shared their perspectives on wildlife, and learn about the habitat and habits of various species indigenous to the area ”

Katie Robey, ’12, looks for wolves in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley

What Are Students Saying About The LU@YNP Experience?

About Transferring the Experience to Local Communities:

I have never been a person to really care about these sorts of things, but after listening to ever yone and all of their different perspectives it got me more interested in local issues around Virginia ”

About Perspectives on Citizenship:

I was able to learn how to be an active citizen who can make decisions by listening to all sides and then making my best decision ”

This course helped me understand the roles of citizenship at a new level I feel throughout school I have learned the role of citizens as just voting and being aware of politics ”

About a Sense of Civic Duty:

I really feel like I could make a difference now, when I did not feel that way before The people we met and talked to in Yellowstone are so passionate about some ver y serious issues, that they have shown me that I need to be more passionate about things that are affecting my life too ”

About Making Important Connections:

This class allowed me to do a lot of things that I would not have been able to do in graphic design if I was working for a client In my free time, however, I feel like I could really make a difference through freelance work with a cause Any public issue that I had feelings for, I could take a stand and make simple things like signs or posters or other public documents for the general public.”

About Listening to Diverse Viewpoints:

Through this course I have learned that it is OK if you are not emotional about something and someone else is –you still need to let them express their ideas and viewpoints I guess by facing this in a class I was not allowed to shut the emotional person out I had to listen and interact this was hard for me to do but I feel like I have grown a lot in this way. ”

About Finding Common Ground:

When I was in Yellowstone, meeting all of those people, it was like a whole new world Those people actually knew what they were talking about and knew both sides of the issues I think that the progress I made while in Yellowstone was really about the fact that I opened my mind to these new ideas that I was hearing from all of these different people At first, when we were all at home and were doing discussion boards, I was ver y opinionated, but I really did not understand both sides of all of these issues I just knew what I felt was right and made my opinions based on that.”

West Thumb Geysir Basin on the edge of Yellowstone Lake

LU @ Yellowstone: A Student Travel Journal

Katie Robey, ’12

Katie Robey, a senior visual and performing arts major from Lexington, was a member of the 2010 LU@YNP project The following is the journal she recorded during the trip

The people we met with and talked to are so passionate about what they believe in, it’s almost exhausting, which is fantastic. So often I find myself settling down into a comfortable routine, not questioning what’s going on around me. People like Linda and Nathan (wildlife biologists), Bruce (a lifelong Montana cattle rancher), and Julia (a bison enthusiast and Montana state senate candidate) have devoted their lives to the issues that they stand for.” – Katie Robey, ’12 “

In May 2010, 42 Longwood students, six student “logistics managers, ” and six Longwood professors journeyed out west to study biology, leadership, and sociology in Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and surrounding towns The entire group traveled in a series of mini-vans and Suburbans from Jackson, Wyoming, to Gardiner, Montana

During the seven-day trip, the students engaged in non-stop, hands-on learning in a variety of disciplines They gained knowledge of sociology from Dr Carl Riden, biology from Dr Alix Fink, geology from Dr David Hardin and Mark Newton, geography from Dr Edward Kinman, art from Kerri Cushman, and received constant technological guidance from instructional and reference ser vices librarian

Elizabeth Kocevar-Weidinger

Arrival in Jackson

Upon arrival in Jackson, the students were greeted by Longwood faculty members and fellow students Shuttles ran from the airport 10 miles south to the hotel in Jackson’s city center. With Grand Teton National Park ser ving as a backdrop to the airport, the shuttle ride provided a first glimpse of the wildlife and topography that would be studied throughout the trip

The students who arrived on early flights were given the opportunity to ride into Grand Teton National Park for some sightseeing Within just a few hours of being in Wyoming, the students were able to obser ve elk, mule deer, pelicans, osprey, bison, and a coyote The night ended with an orientation for students to meet the professors and hear about upcoming assignments including blogs and “Place as Text ”

Place as Text – Explorations into Community Issues

Before departing for the trip, the students completed a pretrip group project to familiarize themselves with local issues affecting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem The students were divided into groups of three called “packs ” Each pack worked together prior to the trip, and continued to do so throughout the course. On the first day in Jackson, the packs went out into the town and really began exploring local issues first hand by obser ving and conversing with residents of the area This assignment was called “Place as Text” and was done in three different towns throughout the trip

Road Trip

After a brief stay in Jackson and a bit of exploration of Grand Teton National Park, including an art activity at Jenny Lake, it was time to head to Yellowstone. The student logistics managers packed the cars and ever yone loaded up for a road trip from Jackson, through Idaho, and into Montana Along the way, professors taught via walkie-talkie radios that were in each vehicle Students learned about ever ything from potato irrigation and wildlife to Native Americans, Ar yan Nations and civilian militias throughout the area The students also received a brief geology lesson at Lower and Upper Mesa Falls in Idaho and had a chance to take some great photos!

Yellowstone Wildlife Watching

Once in Gardiner, Montana, the students learned about Yellowstone National Park and studied the wildlife that makes the park its home Wildlife biologists Dr Nathan Varley and Linda Thurston ser ved as guides for the students and professors on wildlife watching trips This was a unique opportunity because Nathan and Linda have they have lived in the area and have special knowledge of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem Students obser ved grizzly and black bears, bald eagles, bison, elk, coyote, wolves, mountain goats, mule deer, and pronghorn antelope

Guest Lectures

While in Yellowstone, the students had the opportunity not only to learn from Longwood professors and Nathan and Linda, but also from other locals. President and Executive Director of Yellowstone Countr y Guardians Michael Leach met with students in a park for an outdoor classroom experience Michael worked for the National Park Ser vice for seven years before founding Yellowstone Countr y Guardians More information about the organization can be found online at http://www yellowstonecountr yguardians org/

The group took a tour of the Yellowstone National Park Archives, which houses some of the oldest artifacts of the park Original paintings by Thomas Moran from a sur veying expedition in 1871, which were used to persuade members of Congress to create the first National Park, are now kept in the archives.

Students also had the opportunity to meet with local rancher Bruce Malcolm to learn about a rancher’s life Bruce met with students in his barn, where ever yone sat on hay bales and had a truly unique classroom experience. Bruce shared stories with the group about working in state-level politics, ranching cattle, and leading hunting trips in the area

Unique Recreational Opportunities

Along with learning sociology, biology, geology, geography, and art, the students did have some time for recreation

The group was given the opportunity to go swimming in the Boiling River, where a hot spring meets a river full of glacial meltwater They also were able to hike within Yellowstone National Park, explore Mammoth Hot Springs, and get in some exceptional sightseeing, including Old Faithful and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Become a Leader and Discover the Power in You!

The LU@YNP program teaches more than science, art, and sociology The program also encourages students to become leaders within their own communities upon return. The students learned the importance of their voices and their actions in creating a better world Besides, what better way to learn that with such a fantastic and picturesque background as Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks?

Lim Hale, ’09, and Caitlin Zoetis, ’11, take in the amazing sites found within Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

Water walk: A Passage of Ghosts

Longwood Professor Steven Faulkner’s Book

About His Re-creation of Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet’s Famous River Journey is Made into Feature Film

I should not be surprised that he remains an enigma to his mother and me. And how could I expect two months on the water to overcome the continuing distractions of our overly busy lives? Two quiet months of hard canoeing, of campfires and conversations, of sleeping under the silent stars cannot replace 16 years of a speed-addicted, media-juiced culture. But it was something. Something real, and still, and quietly enduring. There, for a time, the stories were ours, the adventure was our own, and the once-upon-a-time fair ytale was once our time. However long he lives, whatever decisions he makes, however he chooses to define and lead his life, those two months are ours for good.” – Steven Faulkner

Kent Booty Associate Editor

In 1996 Steven Faulkner and his 16-year-old son took a 1,000-mile canoe trip from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to St. Louis.

Faulkner, now an English professor at Longwood University, wanted to re-create the famous 1673 journey by French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, who discovered the Mississippi River and learned that it flowed into the Gulf of Mexico. Faulkner also wanted to connect with his son Because Faulkner was then in graduate school at the University of Kansas and was working two jobs, he felt he had not been spending enough time with Justin

The 61-day trip was turned into a book, Water walk: A Passage of Ghosts, published in December 2008 The book is being turned into a film, called simply Water walk, that will be released later this year The real names of both Faulkner and his son are being used, though because the actor playing his son is half-Korean, the Justin character is being portrayed as his adopted son

I suspect my students will have a good laugh when they see me in this movie,” said Faulkner, assistant professor of English, who has taught at Longwood since 2006 They put me in a scene in which I play a disheveled old swamp rat whittling on a stick who points them the way out of the swamp. I don’t say a word. The actor playing me, Robert Cicchini, is also co-director, so I assume he knows what he’s doing I never expected my book would be turned into a movie ”

The film, produced by the Michigan Blue Lake Production Co , will be released in 2012 and will premiere in Green Bay, Wis , which Faulkner plans to attend It will be shown by four theater chains at about 100 theaters in the Upper Midwest, as well as in Berkeley, Calif , and Laon, France, where Marquette lived. Both of the main actors (Chase Maser, a theater student at Western Michigan University, is playing Faulkner’s son) have agreed to attend a screening of the film at Longwood

Filming for the movie wrapped up in May. “It was filmed on location in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri,” Faulkner said “ The lake and river scenes were filmed over 29 consecutive days that began August 17 last year

Steve Faulkner's son Justin paddles on the Fox River in Wisconsin during their 1,000-mile canoe trip

They did the inside scenes in Januar y One scene they still have to do is the car crash that Justin had four years later ”

I was there for four days during filming. The two actors didn’t know how to canoe, the river was in flood, and they were weaving around and crashing into trees I was tr ying to tell them how to go straight, and one of the assistants also knew how to canoe and was tr ying to help them All four of those days, they were learning how to canoe, which is about as long as it took Justin and me to learn By the time I left, they were just getting the hang of it ”

The canoe trip was inspired in part by a children’s book that Faulkner had read 10 years earlier to Justin’s older siblings ( Justin is Faulkner’s third son and the fourth of his seven children). The book, published in 1951, was The Explorations of Père Marquette by the late Jim Kjelgaard, who wrote children’s books, many of them about dogs, and is best known for Big Red

Kjelgaard, whom I loved as a kid, wrote a children’s biography of Marquette that told the tale of him going across the Great Lakes and across Wisconsin and down the

I’ve had lots of people tell me you ’ re never supposed to go in just one canoe, and I knew that. You’re supposed to take two in case one capsizes. In spite of the dangers, my wife was pretty good about me going on the trip, maybe because she knew she couldn’t talk us out of it. Plus, she knew we had life insurance!

I wouldn’t advise anyone to tr y it without more experience than we had.” – Steven Faulkner

Faulkner had praise for the actor playing him. “Robert saw that I wear glasses, and he said ‘ Well, maybe I ought to wear glasses,’ so we went to the local Walgreens and he bought a pair of glasses and punched out the lenses so the light can ’ t reflect off them He ended up not wearing glasses After I returned here, Rob called me ever y couple weeks saying ‘How should we do this scene?’ He’s a really nice guy, not some arrogant Hollywood actor ”

The filmmakers have changed some things around “In the movie, my son wants to go on the trip and has to talk me into it,” Faulkner said “Instead of me being a graduate student in Kansas, I’m a small town newspaper editor in Michigan who’s just won an award for obituar y writing and then loses his job And, even though the trip was in 1996 before all this modern technology, in the movie my son supports the trip – remember, I’ve been laid off – by stopping at various places along the way and blogging, asking for donations Also, there’s a lot of conflict in the movie between father and son, and the son is angrier than Justin was. You sign away your rights, and I knew that.”

Mississippi,” Faulkner said. “I wanted to see if it could be done again, and I wanted to see how much our nation had changed, if the wilderness is still there Also, I wanted to spend more time with my son I was taking classes at the time and working two jobs, and I hadn’t had as much time with Justin as I’d had with his older brothers and sisters. Justin wasn ’ t excited at first He didn’t know if he wanted to spend that much time with Dad! But he adapted well ”

How did Faulkner prepare for the journey? “Before the trip, Justin I had gone canoeing only once, one afternoon on the Kansas River, though that wasn ’ t related to the trip And I’d read a book on canoeing, which I thought was sufficient It did help the first three days Fortunately, we had good weather the first three days which really helped since we were learning to canoe and were on Lake Michigan, where canoeing is more difficult than on a river So, I learned how to canoe on Lake Michigan Then, on the river on about the third day, we got waves and winds Wind is a real problem When it’s windy, you have to angle into the waves; you can ’ t go straight in.

The canoe would lift up and practically crash when it came down We were about a mile from land and had 50 or 60 miles of lake behind us, so we couldn’t go that way

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I’ve had lots of people tell me you ’ re never supposed to go in just one canoe, and I knew that You’re supposed to take two in case one capsizes In spite of the dangers, my wife was pretty good about me going on the trip, maybe because she knew she couldn’t talk us out of it Plus, she knew we had life insurance! I wouldn’t advise anyone to tr y it without more experience than we had ”

At the time of the trip, Faulkner was living in Topeka, Kan , and working on a Ph D at the University of Kansas, about 30 minutes away. “I was working two jobs: running a newspaper route seven nights a week, 365 days a year, for six or seven hours a night, and I was taking two classes in the evening I was an impoverished student at the time Justin and I shingled a house to get the money for the trip We took the $700 and bought a canoe, which was cheap for a canoe even back then ”

The trip began May 21, 1996 in St Ignace, Mich, on the southern tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, about where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet The trip ended in late July under the St Louis Gateway Arch “I invited both of my older sons, but neither could go, and now they regret it,” Faulker said “Had all four of us gone, it would have been more like the Marquette-Joliet trip, which involved two canoes and seven people ”

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We paddled 300 miles on Lake Michigan to Green Bay, then to the Fox River, which was in flood, to Portage, Wis , where the river curves to within two miles of the Wisconisn River Then, by taking a two-mile canal, we got on the Wisconsin River, which is down current, and we got on the Mississippi just below Prairie de Chien (Wisconsin) and went 400 miles on the Mississippi It’s not very good canoeing on the Upper Mississippi, which is a mile wide in some places and can be more like a lake than a river, with not much current Plus, there are a lot of locks and dams, about 22 locks. They would open the gates and let us into the locks. Fortunately, we didn’t have to portage once on the Mississippi

It wasn ’ t all still water ... Steve Faulkner and his son navigate rapids on their adventure.

Canoeing looks romantic, but it’s really hard work,” he said. “It’s hard on your lower back. One day when we’d canoed for nine hours on Lake Michigan, I could hardly stand up at the end of the day Most days we got up late and canoed six or seven hours We would take about an hour break at lunchtime We stayed in a tent ever y night except for two nights, one of which was in Montello, Wis., when a man in whose yard we were camping became interested in us and had us spend the night inside the house Ever y couple of weeks we would get food, and we stopped in Hannibal, Missouri, and visited the Mark Twain sites Justin and I were reading Huckleberr y Finn while canoeing down the Mississippi ”

The trip was almost derailed June 20 in Appleton, Wis , some 25 miles south of Green Bay “At Appleton, which is the 400mile mark, the river was in flood. We couldn’t fight the current and we cut to the inside of the bend, where the water is quieter The canoe capsized, and our stuff wasn ’ t strapped in because we’d had to portage around the dams a half-dozen times that day After we ran below the dam, the canoe stayed in the backwash but eventually kicked out, and Justin swam to the canoe and pulled it out We saved all three backpacks and one life preserver, but we lost the other life preserver and the paddles We also lost the canoe ’ s spay skirt, which keeps the waves off, and a fly from the tent, so I made one, and I lost my camera, which had my name on it and was found a few miles down river by the police, who called my wife, who became worried Fortunately, the canoe – which I named Natty Bumppo, after James Fennimore Cooper’s hero in The Last of the Mohicans – was fine

I was devastated because I thought the trip was over, since we’d lost so much stuff Fortunately, a woman who came down to help us called the local newspaper, and they sent a couple reporters. One reporter, instead of just asking questions, offered to help us and drove us around to some stores so we could replace our supplies including life preser vers and paddles He also took us to meet his editor, who offered to put us for the night We were soaked from swimming out of the river, in the nick of time, and we spent the night with him He gave us socks and shirts and drove us around to buy a tent Without the help of the good people of Appleton, Wisconsin, our trip would have ended there

A lot of people let us set up our tent and took us in and showed us around. There are a lot of ver y good Midwestern people out there in upper Michigan and Wisconsin and down the Mississippi ”

Faulkner and his son found themselves one day in a 35square mile swamp, which didn’t have much current. We got out of that partly by trial and error, ” Faulkner said

The river was flooded and we canoed through the trees, then we surprised a fisherman in a jon boat back in the trees. When I said hello, he practically jumped out of his boat Fortunately, the fisherman told us how to get out Another memorable day was when we were on the Mississippi and we had hours of constant rain We went in a café and ordered one item at a time: pancakes, some bacon, some juice, more coffee, pie We must have been in there three or four hours until the rain quit ”

What did he enjoy most about the trip? “Being out there immersed in nature. I’m a city guy, and my son was a city boy I liked being out there in the wind and rain and sun, cold nights that we could hardly sleep, hot days in the upper 90s, watching wolves chase a buck into Lake Michigan, finding baby raccoons in an abandoned house along the shore, finding coyote pups running with their mother –all kinds of aspects of the natural world I enjoyed the proliferation of nature, the changing of the seasons, taking it hour by hour, day by day, the birds, the animals and the people we met along the way, who were always offering to lend us a hand. It’s an experience that I’ll take with me for the rest of my life And I’m sure my son will too

I think the trip changed my son a lot He became a canoeist and kayaker and camper He bought a kayak and spends lots of nights in a tent, with his family or friends A trip like this slows you down, since you never go more than three or four miles an hour You get to see landscape, the water, the animals, the fish You get to see stuff you wouldn’t see on television or from the window of a car Justin and I became closer, and we both enjoy reminiscing about the trip ”

Faulkner was asked to compare his journey to that of Marquette and Joliet “Of course, nature has changed so much. On the early part of the trip, along Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and the 300 miles on Lake Michigan down to Green Bay, a lot of that is wilderness The Hiawatha National Forest and other parts of it are just full of fir trees It’s ver y wild in a lot of parts As we crossed Wisconsin, there were dair y farms and little cities and little towns, and then once we hit the Mississippi, you could see how much has changed since 1673 It’s an industrialized river ”

Also, of course, the journey by Marquette and Joliet was much more dangerous than ours. They were going into area that was totally unknown Part of the way, they had Indian guides, but after a while even the Indians didn’t know where to go from there They just made their way west along what is now the Wisconsin River, through swamps, and finally on out to the great Mississippi River. And they were sometimes helped by the local Indian tribe, who had heard about these

– Steven Faulkner “

For the waves are still running with the wind, and the ground sometimes takes on the motion of the waves, and the currents are still running to an unknown sea, and sometimes I feel the twist of a sudden swirl or am caught floating backwards in a quiet eddy, and feeling this, I will glance back and see our reflections there.”

strange white men from the East, and they were sometimes in fear of these men. At one time a tribe captured them and debated whether to kill them all, but eventually they let them go

And once Marquette and Joliet got to the end of their journey, they had to turn around and go back up 1,500 more miles, against the current of the Mississippi River, which wasn ’ t blocked by any dams at the time Theirs was a really tough journey – they had to fight disease, the weather, tribes they didn’t know about The people along our journey were universally kind and helpful Joliet almost died on the journey He got swamped on a rapids in Montreal, two of his friends were drowned, and some fishermen found him on a rock knocked out Marquette made his way back up to the area of Green Bay and rejoined the mission and later made it back to some of the tribes that he had visited to carr y on his mission, but he came down with dysenter y and died on Lake Michigan about a year later ”

Faulkner is scheduled to appear in a companion 20-minute documentar y about the Marquette-Joliet voyage that is being produced with the Michigan Council for Histor y Education His inter view for that was filmed in August 2010 near Portage, Wis

Faulkner isn’t through with rugged adventures with his sons Last summer he and his youngest son, Alex, took a 10-day trip in which they canoed on mountain rivers in Idaho, rode

mountain bikes, and hiked on a part of the Lewis and Clark Trail known as the Lolo Trail, which they had to give up since it was so difficult Justin camped with them one night That’s my next book,” Faulkner said “I’m going back there this summer, and Justin wants to go We’ll go on mountain bikes on the Lolo Trail ”

At the end of his book, Faulkner wondered whether he had succeeded in connecting with his son

I should not be surprised that he remains an enigma to his mother and me And how could I expect two months on the water to overcome the continuing distractions of our overly busy lives? Two quiet months of hard canoeing, of campfires and conversations, of sleeping under the silent stars cannot replace 16 years of a speed-addicted, media-juiced culture But it was something Something real, and still, and quietly enduring There, for a time, the stories were ours, the adventure was our own, and the once-upon-a-time fair ytale was once our time However long he lives, whatever decisions he makes, however he chooses to define and lead his life, those two months are ours for good

For the waves are still running with the wind, and the ground sometimes takes on the motion of the waves, and the currents are still running to an unknown sea, and sometimes I feel the twist of a sudden swirl or am caught floating backwards in a quiet eddy, and feeling this, I will glance back and see our reflections there ”

Longwood professor Steve Faulkner looks for ward to the release of the film based on his book

The Gordon Center Opens

Longwood Nursing Program’s Amazing Ne w Instr uctional and Simulation Facility

Kent Booty Associate Editor “ “

Longwood University’s nursing program has a state-of-the-art instructional and simulation facility.

The Edward I Gordon, M D Clinical Simulation Learning Center (CSLC), located on the renovated third floor of Stevens Hall, is designed to advance the clinical and critical reasoning skills of Longwood nursing students in a safe environment The facility was made possible by a $1 million gift from Dr Edward Gordon, a longtime Farmville physician, in August 2009. The CSLC features high-tech equipment including manikins capable of simulating a remarkable array of physiological functions, called “highfidelity patient simulators,” and a digital audiovisual system that allows for live recordings of simulated experiences to be recorded and played back for faculty and student evaluation. The cameras and manikins are controlled from one central control station

The nursing students who will go through this program are going to save lives,” Dr. Gordon said before he and others cut a ceremonial ribbon Feb 1 in the corridor of the CSLC And they’re going to save lives in a way that is so different from in the past because they’ll go into their first clinical experiences with live people who actually talk back to them and know what to do and have been through some of the horrors of the mistakes that were made in the simulation lab but not in the real world The amount of things that can be done here just appear to be endless, and the growth potential of this is also endless This Center ties together all of the things that mean the most to me – health care, nursing, computers, Farmville and Longwood – and is more than I ever envisioned ”

All of the funding for the work and equipment for the CSLC came from private donations and grants Other donors include the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission, the Mar y Morton Parsons Foundation, the Richmond Memorial Health

From left: Nursing student Stacy Bolt; project manager Kim Bass of Longwood Capital Planning & Construction; Dr Melody Eaton, chair of the Nursing Department; Longwood President Patrick Finnegan; lead donor Dr Edward Gordon; and Cindy Crews, clinical simulation director in the Nursing Department, officially open The Gordon Center

Foundation, and the Marietta McNeill Morgan and Samuel Tate Morgan, Jr. Foundation. The CSLC labs have been used since August 2010 Longwood’s bachelor of science in nursing (B S N ) program, launched in fall 2009, currently has 74 students

You cannot help but be impressed by the Center and the technology that our students will have the opportunity to use to aid in their learning,” Longwood President Patrick Finnegan said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony “ This Center puts our program on the cutting edge of educating and training these student nurses to help prepare them to be among the ver y best in their profession Thank you, Dr Gordon, for your outstanding support of this Center, for your enthusiasm for our nursing program, and for all your efforts on behalf of Longwood University You are helping to make a difference in the lives our students, whom we know will go on to assist and ser ve others in an area of great need for our Commonwealth and our nation ”

Dr Melody Eaton, chair of the Nursing Department, also praised Dr. Gordon’s generosity and touted the CSLC’s benefits “ This Center will play a key and integral role in the success of our new nursing program, ” she said “It will offer experiential learning in a safe environment Students will enhance their knowledge, critical thinking skills, and confidence in caring for patients ”

The CSLC includes two Patient Simulation Labs, two Fundamentals Labs, a Health Assessment Lab, a control room, a conference/debrief room, and a storage/prep room

Anything that you can do in a clinical setting simulation lab, we can do here,” said Cindy Crews, clinical simulation director and lecturer in the Nursing Department

The facility has four high-fidelity manikins and about 12 mid- and low-fidelity manikins, which are somewhat less advanced The manikins are in the Patient Simulation and Fundamentals labs.

The other Patient Simulation Lab has, in addition to another high-fidelity manikin, a code cart with a working defibrillator One Fundamentals Lab has five stations with mid-fidelity manikins on which students can check pulses, “ “ “ “ “

All of the high-fidelity manikins can breathe, talk, and have a wide range of physiological responses, ” Crews said We can simulate anything from birth to death, and we have a manikin who delivers. We have adult, pediatric and infant manikins ‘Sim Man 3G’ is one of the most advanced patient simulators He can have seizures, blink and sweat, and he has bodily fluids He runs the full gamut ”

Crews, who earned a B.S.N. in 1996, said this type of nursing instruction wasn ’ t available when she attended nursing school

The use of high-fidelity patient simulators in nursing education kicked off in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and it became a mainstay in 2006,” she said “Most nursing schools now have some level of simulated nursing experiences. Virginia and Texas are leading the way in this field ”

In the Patient Simulation Lab with Sim Man 3G, the manikin and software can calculate if students are doing effective chest compressions and medication administration

Student nurses Alison Kitchen '13 (center) and Marsha Blevins '13 (right) receive training from Wanda Bolton, RN, a community health partner and volunteer.

blood pressures and respirations and listen to lung, heart and bowel sounds The other Fundamentals Lab has some highfidelity manikins including Noelle, a “birthing simulator who actually delivers vaginally,” said Crews, as well as Sim New B, a neo-natal simulator that weighs seven pounds and is 21 inches (“He cries, moves, has pulses, turns blue, and can have seizures,” said Crews), a 20-pound toddler supposed to be about 18 months old, and an electronic medication-dispensing machine Both Fundamentals Labs are set up with a 12-seat classroom (lab sections are limited to 10 students).

and Longwood, which is a vital part of Farmville. And then it brought in the individuals who were instrumental in me doing ever y single thing that I do in medicine – nursing What better way to look into a mirror and see who I am than to place all of this into one environment? What better way to reflect who I was than to put all of this into play? This is a perfect fit ”

Dr Gordon noted that his late wife was a nurse and all three of his daughters are nurses He and his wife, Loretta, moved the family to Farmville in 1973 and began his pediatric and

Dr. Gordon’s early interest in using computers to enhance health care practices and his dedication as a practicing physician are among several strands of his life that led to his donation to Longwood’s clinical simulation lab.

In the Health Assessment Lab, which has five physical exam stations with functioning equipment, students practice doing physical assessments and histories In the control room, each of the monitors goes to a separate room, and there is a continuous live video feed. “In this room you can communicate overhead and through the manikins to the students,” Cre ws said “It’s like a whole different world in here!”

In the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Dr. Gordon, surrounded by his four children and five of his eight grandchildren, talked of how his interest in medicine and computers began As a young boy, Dr Gordon developed polio, resulting in a yearlong hospitalization and his desire to become a physician When computers were first introduced, he tried to pique his son ’ s curiosity by enrolling him in a class, at the now-defunct Longwood Campus School, to introduce him to the Commodore Vic-20 computer Although his son was “ not too fascinated,” Dr Gordon was “ most intrigued,” and he incorporated the use of computers into his medical practice. His early interest in using computers to enhance health care practices and his dedication as a practicing physician are among several strands of his life that led to his donation to Longwood’s clinical simulation lab

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Computers became intertwined with my health career, and I found I could become more productive in learning and in caring for patients by utilizing my medical knowledge with computers complementing this approach,” he said “So, when I was approached about the simulation lab that tied computers and medicine, the tie became perfect It also tied two other loves of mine – Farmville, of which I am a citizen,

family medicine practice that he continues today Loretta, who died in 2005, was a licensed practical nurse (LPN) who managed his practice and ser ved as his nurse until her retirement in 2003 His oldest daughter, Ginger Amos, is a registered nurse (RN) and radiology technician, practicing as his nurse and office manager Another daughter, Deborah Gordon, a 1981 Longwood graduate, is an RN who practices as a nursing super visor at Piedmont Geriatric Hospital, and another daughter, Gwen Buchanan, is an LPN who practices in the operating room at Centra Southside Community Hospital in Farmville Dr Gordon’s son, Michael, a deputy with the Cumberland County Sheriff ’ s Department, is also involved in the medical profession as an emergency medical technician

The renovation that paved the way for the CSLC, called Phase I, was completed by August 2010 The Virginia General Assembly in March 2011 appropriated $885,800 to cover the construction cost of Phase I1, in which an open room of about 3,000 square feet at the Wheeler Mall end of Stevens Hall, also on the third floor, will be renovated This work, expected to be done by August 2011, will create a student lounge, two debrief rooms, a third Patient Simulator Lab for maternal and infant simulators, an exam room, an apartment-like home care area, and offices for some of the nursing faculty and the clinical simulation director Offices for all the faculty and staff in the nursing program are currently on the second floor of Stevens, which is shared with some classrooms in the Art Department while Bedford Hall undergoes an addition and renovation. Nonlab classes in the Nursing Department meet on the second floor, which has a 44-seat classroom Stevens Hall, which

opened in 1951, was home to Longwood’s science programs for 54 years.

The nursing program has 34 sophomores and 40 freshmen

The goal is to admit 40 students ever y fall (44 were admitted last fall) and to have 120-160 students by 2014 One student, Stacy Bolt, ’13, of Farmville, was chosen by her classmates to help cut the ribbon

The Nursing Department is in its infancy, but there is no doubt it has hit the ground running,” Finnegan said at the ribbon-cutting. “From a competitive admissions process to innovative technology and terrific partnerships, this is a tremendous addition to Longwood’s academic program, which also ser ves a great need in Southside Virginia Our state has 624 nurses for ever y 10,000 residents, lagging well behind the national average of 746. In the last few years, Virginia has fallen from 40th to 45th among the states in nurses per capita This program and these students are directly involved in Longwood’s aim of graduating citizen leaders who contribute to the overall good of society Having

been married to an RN for almost 40 years now, I have a deep appreciation for what nurses do to assist those in need ”

In the CSLC, the audiovisual system was provided by a company called Education Management Solutions, the highand mid-fidelity manikins were provided by Laerdal, medical equipment and supplies were provided by Pocket Nurse, and the headwalls, which have suction, oxygen and compressed air, were provided by Modular Ser vices

In addition to Dr Gordon’s family practice, he is the chief physician to The Woodland retirement community, medical director for Piedmont Regional Jail and the Farmville Police Department, and a Commonwealth of Virginia medical examiner for Prince Edward and Cumberland counties. He is a member of the Longwood Board of Visitors and Farmville Town Council

When Dr Gordon was handed a pair of scissors shortly before the ribbon-cutting, he joked “Now remember, I’m not a surgeon ”

From left: Stacy Bolt '13, Dr Joe Montoya, Marc Bein '13, in training at The Gordon Center

Meet Nick Creasey, ’13

Nothing Can Stop This Member of the U.S. Paralympic Men’s National Soccer Team

Kent Booty Associate Editor

Nick Creasey’s life reads like a case study in a medical journal.

Creasey, a Longwood junior, has undergone two surgeries for a brain tumor, first when he was five and later in the seventh grade Just before the first surger y, his right side was paralyzed – his use of that side of his body remains limited –and after ward his paralysis increased and he had to learn to walk again. He needed another surger y after breaking his kneecap in the fifth grade and later had major leg surger y, to help him walk better His vision is limited but is good enough to drive He’s had inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, occupational therapy (OT) and physical therapy (PT), and had to switch to being left-side dominant

Despite these setbacks and his physical limitations, he has not slowed down or been prevented from playing his beloved sport Creasey, a lifelong soccer player and a soccer referee, is a member of the U S Paralympic men ’ s national soccer team He has played in three international tournaments in the Netherlands, including one this June that was a qualifying tournament for the 2012 Summer Paralympic

Games in London, and in one international tournament in England In the tournament in the Netherlands this summer, which Creasey likened to the World Cup, the team qualified for the Paralympic Games in London, in which he hopes to play as well

This is a dream come true, ” Creasey, an art education major from Chesterfield County, said of his participation in Paralympics, for athletes with physical disabilities

I’m playing against the best players in the world who are representing their countries, and I’m able to represent my countr y And I’ve been able to see places I never would have seen. ”

Paralympic soccer is played seven-a-side on a smaller field and with smaller goals than non-disabled soccer To be eligible for Paralympic soccer, athletes must be ambulator y and have a diagnosis of non-progressive brain damage that is associated with motor control dysfunction such as cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injur y or stroke

Usually 12 players travel with the team, and there’s a pool of about 30 people who participate in the camps, which are

Nick Creasey, ’13

like tr youts, ” Creasey said “I usually travel with the team In addition to the World Cup this summer, I’ve played in two other tournaments in Holland, in May 2009 and October 2009, and one in Manchester, England, in May 2010. I’ve missed only one tournament, last October in Argentina I’ve been to more than 10 camps, which are held at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California, near San Diego

A five-part YouTube series about Creasey, “ParaView with Nick Creasey,” was produced in summer 2010 by Ron Logan, a photographer who works with the U S Soccer Federation. The series, which features an inter view with Creasey that runs a combined total of 39 minutes, can be viewed at http://www youtube com/user/rlogan2009 It was filmed at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif

This is a dream come true. I’m playing against the best players in the world who are representing their countries, and I’m able to represent my countr y. And I’ve been able to see places I never would have seen. ” – Nick Creasey, ’13

Some of the camps are closed (invitation only) and some are open Fortunately, the team is considered a full national team by the U.S. Soccer Federation which sponsors all the team ’ s expenses while on trips and at camps ”

His most recent tournament, June 17-July 1 in Emmen, Assen and Hoogeveen, the Netherlands, was the Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association (CPISRA) Football 7-a-side World Championships 2011, which featured teams from 16 countries The U S team, which defeated Ireland and Japan and lost to Iran, was one of eight teams that qualified for next year ’ s Paralympic Games This summer ’ s tournament and the one in the Netherlands in October 2009 were sponsored by the CPISRA

Creasey attended his first three Paralympic camps while still in high school, and he played in his first tournament a month before graduation. “He skipped his senior prom to go to Holland,” said his mother, Linda Creasey

Creasey first learned about Paralympics through a girls’ soccer game that he refereed in Richmond during his senior year in high school. The coach for one of the teams, Matt Bush, who lives in Virginia Beach, noticed Creasey and began talking with him Bush gave Creasey’s contact information to Jay Hoffman, also of Virginia Beach and the head coach of the Paralympic team, who contacted Creasey’s parents. One of the teams playing that day was from Virginia Rush, a soccer club for which Bush and Hoffman both work

Nick’s a remarkable young man, ” Hoffman said “He’s ver y dedicated to the Paralympic program, and he has found a way to compete at the highest possible level When he comes into the camps, he’s always one of our fittest players He’s a great kid ”

Creasey played recreational soccer beginning at age four and, said his mother, began “dribbling a ball around soccer fields at the age of two. ” His older sister played on a boys’ team during his early childhood, and their father, Mike Creasey, coached youth soccer “As soon as I could walk, I had a ball on my feet,” Creasey said

Not long after he began playing organized soccer, his medical issues emerged When he was five, he was diagnosed with a tumor he described as “literally the size of an orange ” Linda Creasey called it a “benign childhood tumor, which he probably had at birth Fortunately, it was benign Before his first surger y, he was vomiting all the time and sleeping 18 hours a day ” The tumor was removed in his first surger y, in May 1996 at the Medical College of Virginia (MCV, where Linda Creasey works as a registered dietitian) Two days before that surger y, his right side was paralyzed as a result of swelling in his brain. After ward, he was significantly paralyzed “It took him about two weeks to stand on both feet and walk a little,” said Linda Creasey

He under went inpatient rehabilitation for two weeks, then had to attend outpatient rehab at Children’s Hospital in Richmond ever y day for three months He had trouble walking after ward and had to wear an orthotic for about five years “ The orthotic, which began just below his knee, was to keep his lower leg and foot in an L-shape At first he had to wear it day and night, then just at night. He hated wearing it ”

I learned to walk again through OT and PT,” Creasey said PT, especially, got my legs going again, and I kept playing youth soccer after my first surger y. The farther down the extremity, the less use I have, like my fingers and toes My hip, shoulder and knee are more mobile I was told that I had the best brain tumor, in regards to outcome, at the

best age You learn fine-motor skills up until you ’ re eight, so I had a three-year gap in which I could reconnect with those fine-motor skills ”

The first occurrence of the tumor also affected his vision I see in what is called stripes, which means half of the visual field in my right eye isn’t there. It doesn’t quite pick up where my left eye leaves off, and my peripheral vision is limited Instead of 180 degrees of vision, I have only 112 degrees A requirement for a driver’s license is that your vision be 105 degrees, so I make it by seven degrees I drive better than a lot of my friends!”

T h e t u m o r re c u r re d b e g i n n i n g i n t h e f o u r t h g r a d e

T h e y we re n ’ t s u re w h a t i t w a s a t f i r s t , a n d t h e d o c t o r s monitored it It was a microscopic cell at first and eventually became about half the size of my pinky fingernail. After the second surger y, which is called stereotactic radiosurger y, the tumor shrunk and eventually went away I’ve been clean ever since two years after that surger y ”

Creasey learned he was tumor-free through an MRI in the

ninth grade “He has had 24 MRIs in his life but now needs one only ever y two years, ” said his mother. “ When he was young, he thought the MRIs were what was causing his tumor, especially since he walked into MCV for his first MRI, two days before the tumor surger y when he was five, and ended up paralyzed So, they were traumatic for him Due to his apprehension when he was young, he had to be put to sleep before each MRI, and the drug causes you to not breathe, so they had to intubate him – insert a breathing tube Finally we were able to convince him that the MRIs weren ’ t causing the paralysis ”

Creasey had leg surger y in the eleventh grade that involved muscle lengthening “ They operated on my achilles tendon, adductor muscle, posterior and big toe tendons, so I would have a better walking gait That surger y has made an amazing difference. It’s made my ability to walk cleaner, and my balance is also much better I used to walk on the toes and balls of my feet, and now I walk flat-footed thanks to the surger y on the achilles tendon ” Following that surger y, he under went outpatient rehabilitation at MCV for about three months.

Nick Creasey, ’13, in action with the U.S. Paralympic soccer team. Photos by Ron Logan / U.S. Soccer.

Longwood Center for the Visual Ar ts Awarded National Accreditation

Beth Cheuk LCVA Program Manager

Joining the ranks of museums like the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, the Chr ysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, and the University of Virginia Art Museum, the LCVA has received national recognition from the American Association of Museums (AAM). Accreditation from the AAM is a seal of approval for the LCVA’s high professional standards and dedication to public ser vice. Across the countr y, only 4.5 percent of all museums are accredited.

In honor of the LCVA’s accomplishment and its general contributions to the cultural and economic health of the region, on March 27, the Town of Farmville proclaimed that April 2011 is “LCVA Month ”

To assist the LCVA in getting out the good news of its accreditation, area students, LCVA staff, LCVA patrons, and others have been photographed “jumping for joy ” Area businesses added to the festivities by posting congratulator y messages on their marquees “Congrats LCVA – national museum award,” dotted the streets of Farmville, adding charm and spreading the message that the LCVA is for ever yone

LCVA Advisor y Board president Julie Kline Dixon notes, I’m delighted and flattered to have been president of the board when this good news came through. But of course, the accreditation was made possible by the efforts of many past presidents – people like Pat Fitzgerald ’54, Jack Blanton, Harriet Miller ’51, and, most recently, Heyn Kjerulf Advisor y board members past and present, LCVA staff members, volunteers, and the strong support of our community have made possible this tremendous accomplishment ”

Accreditation is important on a number of levels It validates the work of the museum, providing confidence to current and potential donors of the excellence of ou policies, and ou stewardship of artworks given or loaned to the center It fulfills a longtime goal of the staff and board and supports Longwood’s ove commitment fo departments to be accredited by their associated professional agencies Finally, it communicates to the region and beyond the value and excellence of our exhibitions and educational programs, helping the LCVA continue to attract visitors and attention from across the area, region, state, and beyond.

Pthe ART of the centuries

Kathy Johnson Bowles LCVA Director

Guests at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts’ fourth gala traveled through a live histor y of art with models and artists recreating classic and contemporar y masterpieces. They took a walk along the Seine River in Georges Seurat’s

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. They stood alongside the husband and wife in Grant Wood’s American Gothic They even hung out with hipster Andy Warhol and experienced pop art from the 1960s. These live artworks not only were jaw-dropping theatrical successes, but they also symbolized the LCVA’s mission to encourage art, from ever y centur y, in our ever yday lives.

Themed The Party of the Centuries, the gala was a major success, selling out of tickets nearly a month before the event and generating buzz that started well before the event and continues even now Aside from the live artworks, guests commented on the excellence of the food, the elegance of the flowers and general décor, and the fun addition of dancing to live music by the Catalinas In total, the event netted more than $100,000 for the LCVA’s educational programs.

However, much more than just a party, the gala itself is a celebration of the arts and the artists in our community Between the live art displays and the silent auctions, the event highlighted the talents of up-and-coming artists studying at Longwood (who painted the canvasses for the models) and provided a platform for local and regional arts to display and sell their work The event also ser ves as an invitation for ever yone who attended the event to learn more about the LCVA and the university Guests at the gala went home more aware of the LCVA’s strong conviction that art is an important – and beautiful – element of ever yday life

Proceeds from the gala make possible programs such as lectures, films, and workshops for adults; summer studios, in-school presentations, and on-campus field trips for

students; and activities such as the Annual Area Youth Art Exhibition, Kids’ Activity Rooms, or the Free Family Workshops, which welcome and lift the spirits of ever yone, young and old

The gala would not be possible without the help of hundreds of people, whether sponsors, committee members, volunteers, contributing ar tists, or, in many cases, a combination of the above The LCVA is indebted to many but par ticularly wants to acknowledge the work of tireless and cheer ful gala co-chairs Emily Pilk and Joan Witschey

The food and decorating chair, Melissa Panzarello, along with her husband, Eric Koger, and some of their students in the theatre depar tment, helped transform an idea about live ar t into an unbelievably effective reality Chris Dowdy ser ved as chair of the gala’s sponsorship committee and achieved record contributions that exceeded $120,000. Drawing from the talents of students and faculty, the models, painters, seamstresses, stylists, scriptwriters, and coaches for the live ar tworks exceeded our expectations in ever y way And of course there would be no point in having a gala if it weren ’ t for the ar tists who contribute works for the auctions The LCVA is profoundly appreciative for each person ’ s contributions to this special evening

Clockwise from top: Candy ’69, Katherine, Chris, and Chuck Dowdy pose with Mar y Beth Dillon as ToulouseLautrec's Jane Avril Dancing to music provided by The Catalinas was a popular addition to the 2011 gala. Longwood’s First Lady and Honorar y Chairperson for the Gala, Joan Finnegan, places a bid during the silent auction Guests such as Robert Burger enjoyed studying and speaking with the models who interpreted the live artworks Shown here is Madeline Hunter portraying Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Committee Members

President and Mrs Patrick Finnegan, honorar y chairpersons

Emily Pilk, co-chair

Joan Witschey, co-chair

Kathy Johnson Bowles

Johnnie Britt

Lonnie I Calhoun III

Stanley A Cheyne

Crista Cor y

Kim Davis

Guy Dixon

Julie K Dixon

Candice Jamison Dowdy ’69

Charles H. Dowdy III

Chris Dowdy

Katherine Feil Dowdy

Jarrod Fergeson

Larissa Smith Fergeson

Kristin W Gee

Everett Gee

Navona Hart

Pat Hicks

Harlan L Horton

Angela M Jackson

Dirk Johnson

Eric Koger

Jennifer Logan

Jessica Moseley

Melissa Panzarello

Lisa F. Tharpe

Rob Wade

Brad Watson

Lorrie Cundiff Watson ’95

Michael David Whaley

Pam Wilson

Clockwise from top: Gala committee members Kim Davis and Angela Jackson work on the Jackson Pollock-style painting that adorned the band’s stage during the gala Melissa Panzarello of Longwood’s Theatre Department measures Brandon Hennessy ’12, for his role as Annie Leibovitz’s Portrait of Christo Stuart Gregg ’12, was one of many art and art ed majors at Longwood who recreated masterpieces to ser ve as the backdrops for the live art interpretations at the gala

Chris & Barbara Howard and Judy Forlines & Richard Cralle / Kate Duval, Bob Satterfield, Bob Duval, Sue Satterfield, Walter & Joan Witschey

Tim & Lisa Tharpe, Congressman Robert Hurt, and Darlene & Dick Bratcher / Virginia & Brad Watson

Joan & Pat Finnegan and Gwen Eddleman / Guy & Julie Dixon with Trey & Kristin Gee with Ed Kinman as Vincent van Gogh / Smantha Kozub & Troy Austin

Bill & Harriet Miller with Meg Gouldin, Betty Rowe, and AnnaLeah Chantry / William & Ann Oppenhimer with David Whaley / Harlan & Reed Horton

Jarrod & Larissa Fergeson / Kathy Johnson Bowles with Chris Dowdy and Julie Dixon / Michael & Anne Lund and Marian Hahesy Calhoun & Lonnie Calhoun with Madeline Hunter

Lancers Update

Longwood Lancers Enjoy An Outstanding Spring

Greg Prouty Associate Athletics Director for Media Relations

Longwood University Athletics recently enjoyed another outstanding spring sports season

The Lancers’ softball team finished 2011 with a Division I record 37 wins (37-13), including 10 straight wins to start the year before finishing with 15 wins in the last 20 games Highlights included a 7-5 road win at number eight Georgia, a 1-0 shutout at No.14 Hawaii, and a 2-0 shutout of Notre Dame, before adding two-game sweeps of Virginia, South Carolina, Penn State, and Liberty while splitting games against Virginia Tech and East Carolina Longwood just missed on an invitation to the 2011 NCAA Division I Softball Championship Head Coach Kathy Riley has an outstanding 15-year record of 434-230-1, including 13 winning years

The Longwood baseball team won 14 consecutive games during the period of March 1-19, including a road win at VCU and a four-game sweep of Buffalo, and the Lancers finished 2011 with a record of 28-18 It marks the 30th overall 20-win campaign and 23rd season with at least 25 wins in the program ’ s 34-year histor y Veteran 33-year head coach Charles Buddy Bolding attained milestone coaching victor y number 900 with a 6-4 road win at James Madison May 10 and is now 900-495-4, including 30 winning seasons during his tenure (see related stor y)

Longwood women ’ s golf posted a tournament-record, 36-hole score of 291-297-588 March 28-29 while finishing in first place among five teams at its own Tina Barrett Invitational played at The Manor Resort Golf Club in Farmville Freshman Amanda Steinhagen took individual medalist honors in the field of 28 with her tournamentrecord and collegiate-best four-under par 69-71-140 for her first college victor y

Senior men ’ s golf standout Michael Young just missed on an individual invitation to the post-season NCAA Regional Championships He led the Lancers with his school-record 73 26 average, including five top-five efforts among six top10 finishes Young enjoyed an outstanding four-year career with a new school-record scoring average of 74 10, including 11 top-five among 26 top-20 individual career finishes.

Longwood women ’ s lacrosse finished 2011 with a winning record of 10-8, including 5-2 in the National Lacrosse Conference (NLC) The Lancers were the No 3 seed for the NLC Tournament, falling in the semifinals.

The Lancers’ two tennis teams each enjoyed winning campaigns as the men finished 12-7, its second straight 12win season while claiming the Independent Tournament title, and the women completed their year with a record of 8-7.

New Mascot Coming Soon

In early March, Longwood President Patrick Finnegan asked Director of Athletics Troy Austin to chair a Longwood Spirit Initiatives Committee of faculty, staff, students, and alumni to work on finding a new mascot and creating a school fight song The goal was for the committee to deliver a new mascot by August for the start of the new school year, while introducing a new fight song later during the 2011 fall semester The committee released sketches for voting upon for a new Longwood Lancers mascot on May 1 at the Late Night Breakfast in the Dorrill Dining Hall Alumni, faculty, staff and students were emailed on May 2 with instructions for one week of online voting to select the new mascot The mascot will be a costumed individual celebrating Longwood school spirit, and there is no intention to change the athletics logo with the lance and horse graphic

Mark Montgomer y, ’11

Selected by Ne w York Yankees

Longwood University baseball standout Mark Montgomer y was selected by the New York Yankees in the 11th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft on June 7, day two of the three-day, 50-round amateur draft The 6-0, 205-pound right-handed pitcher was 1-0 with 10 saves and a 0 89 earned run average in 22 appearances, including 30 1 innings and 48 strikeouts (14 24 per nine innings) as a junior closer with the Lancers during 2011. Montgomer y, the 359th overall selection, becomes only the ninth Longwood baseball player to ever be drafted.

We’re thrilled at Mark being drafted by the New York Yankees,” said 33rd-year Longwood head coach Charles Buddy Bolding “It’s the premier organization in professional baseball and they have a great reputation at developing pitchers. He should have the opportunity to advance rapidly through their organization.”

Montgomer y established new Longwood season-records for ERA (0 89), saves (10), and fewest hits allowed (12 or 3.56 per nine innings) during 2011. He yielded just four runs, three earned, while limiting opponents to a .120 batting average with only 10 walks (2.97) and no home runs allowed. Montgomer y led the pitching staff in appearances, games in relief, ERA, saves, strikeouts, opponent batting average, games finished (21), and batters struck out looking (16). Throughout his three-year, 64-appearance career at Longwood, Montgomer y was 7-6 with 16 saves and a 3 79 era over 128 1 innings with 157 strikeouts (11 01) He owns the school-record for career saves (16), while ranking sixth in ERA (3.79). – G.P. “

Men’s Rugby Team Wins National Championship

The Longwood University’s men ’ s rugby team has won the national championship.

The squad captured the national title in Men’s College Division III of USA Rugby by defeating Occidental College of California, 36-27, on May 1 in Virginia Beach. Some 138 colleges and universities from across the countr y compete for the national championship at this level, which has no connection with Division III in NCAA-sanctioned intercollegiate athletics

The championship game was played the day after the semifinal game, also played in Virginia Beach, in which Longwood defeated Salve Regina University, which had been ranked No 1 in the nation, 31-19 Those two games were part of the Final Four, similar to the Final Four in the national college basketball tournament The Longwood men ’ s rugby team had twice made it to the Final Four, losing in the national semifinals in 2009 and 2007, but had never won the national championship

The Longwood squad, undefeated during its regular season last fall, first won the state championship last November (winning both games), then won the regional championship in March (winning all three games), then advanced to the Final Four by winning two games in April that correspond to the “Sweet 16” and “Elite Eight” rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament

After last fall, the team made it a goal to win the national championship, and they worked really, really hard,” said Dr. John Graham, associate professor of computer science, who coaches the men ’ s and women ’ s rugby teams “ They were dedicated to it They cut their spring break short and came back early to play a playoff game ”

Graham was treated to a Gatorade “bath” after the championship game, and the players participated in their post-game ritual of posing shirtless for a team photo About 500 Longwood fans, including local alumni, attended the game, he said

Midnight Madness here on campus was the night we won the championship, and when we walked into the dining hall, all of the student body stood up and applauded,” Graham said “President Finnegan, who was there, shook hands with all of the players and high-fived them.”

After capturing the regional championship, the team entered the national championship, beating Mount St Mar y ’ s, 48-25, on April 2 in Farmville On April 16 in Knoxville, Tenn , the Longwood team eliminated the University of West Florida, 31-17.

Earlier the team won the regional championship, of the Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Union (MARFU), by defeating the College of New Jersey, the University of Delaware, and the University of Richmond MARFU encompasses Virginia, Mar yland, Delaware and southern

Longwood Ruggers celebrate their national championship with President Patrick Finnegan “

Pennsylvania The team won the state championship, of the Virginia Rugby Union (VRU), by beating Hampden-Sydney College and then the College of William & Mar y It was Longwood’s third VRU title in the last five years

Among all the Virginia schools that play rugby in Division III, we have the smallest male enrollment of any of them except Hampden-Sydney,” Graham said “In our regular league season, we play them and William & Mar y, Christopher Newport, the University of Richmond, Washington & Lee, and Roanoke College We won 19 games and lost only two games all year: to VMI in the finals of the Todd Miller tournament on Feb. 26, and to Old Dominion in a pre-season game Feb 5 Both VMI and ODU are Division II teams; we were 19-0 against Division III teams We played four teams ranked in the Top 20 by USA Rugby and beat all of them We beat Virginia Tech, and we beat VCU twice We played 21 games, which is a lot of rugby ”

The most valuable player (MVP) of the national tournament was Ben Smith, a Longwood freshman from Matoaca Preston Leep, a senior from Richmond, was the team captain and this year ’ s MVP The second week in April he received the first Todd Miller Scholarship, named for a Longwood rugby player who died in March 2008 and established by Todd’s mother, Ellie Miller The scholarship recognizes a member of either the men ’ s or women ’ s team who has at least a 2 8 grade-point average and is of solid character and playing ability This year ’ s Todd Miller Tournament, which raises money for the scholarship, was the third annual tournament.

Rugby is a club sport at Longwood It has been played at Longwood since 1979, although Graham, who came to Longwood in 2005, is the first coach Even though Graham retired at the end of the spring semester, he will continue to coach the men ’ s and women ’ s teams – K B

Winning the Right Way

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President Patrick Finnegan was inter viewed by SPORTSfever Television Network’s Jon Schaeffer at halftime of the LongwoodJames Madison men ’ s basketball game that was nationally televised live December 1 from Willett Hall on Fox College Sports (FCS)

First-Ever Live TV Game

Longwood University Athletics accomplished one of its most significant achievements in program histor y while hosting its firstever national television live broadcast of a men ’ s basketball home game against James Madison University on the Fox College Sports Network (FCS) December 1, 2010 The highly anticipated contest was played in front of a hugely supportive and raucous record-crowd of 1,963 in sold-out Willett Hall (1,807) The Lancers led 41-36 at halftime during a closely played first half that featured six lead changes and five ties JMU needed a late 24-6 run to gain control and secured its come-from-behind road win with 5-6 free throws over the final 33 seconds, much to the disappointment of the unbelievably loud capacity crowd in the jam-packed facility while on TV

The environment in Willett Hall that night is exactly what college basketball is all about,” said eighth-year head coach Mike Gillian. The crowd was incredible, the game was well played between two evenly matched teams and the only thing that could have been better is if we would have come out with a win

Our Longwood students took their pride and spirit for this fabulous institution to a whole new level There are not enough ways to say how much we appreciate the support ever yone shows our program when they turn out to watch us play ”

Longwood will open its 2011-12 campaign on Friday night, November 11, against visiting Navy at Willett Hall in Farmville beginning at 7 p m – G P

Longwood University baseball head coach Buddy Bolding (No.16) talks to his team following an exciting 9-8 win in 11 innings past James Madison University March 29 at Charles Buddy Bolding Stadium

Bolding Earns 900th Career Win

Greg Prouty Associate Athletics Director for Media Relations

Longwood University 33rd-year baseball head coach Charles Buddy Bolding earned his 900th career coaching victor y on May 10 during a 6-4 road win at James Madison University in Harrisonburg Coach Bolding’s 900 career wins are more than any other active college baseball coach in Virginia among all Divisions (I, II, III, and NAIA)

This is another great achievement for a truly remarkable person, ” said Longwood Director of Athletics Troy Austin “Congratulations to Coach Bolding and his family for winning 900 games ”

Bolding became the Lancers’ mentor during the fall of 1978, and has since posted 30 winning seasons. Longwood finished 2010 with a record of 28-20, its first season after the University dedicated the baseball facility as Charles Buddy Bolding Stadium on October 3, 2009 The Lancers posted a winning record of 2622 during 2009, following a 2008 season during which Coach Bolding reached his milestone 800th career win on March 8, 2008 with a 6-5 come-from-behind home victory past Binghamton at the formerly known Lancer Stadium Longwood finished that year (2008) with a record of 23-26-1, after posting a winning record of 34-19 during 2007, the program ’ s 12th 30win season overall, following a 23-27 record during 2006

Prior to playing its first Division I schedule in 2005, as required during the school’s four-year Division I Reclassification, Bolding had coached Longwood to 26 consecutive winning seasons (1979-2004). In 2005, however, the Lancers finished 16-32.

Longwood had enjoyed yet another successful campaign during 2004 with a record of 31-16 that capped a remarkable run of 24straight 20-win seasons (1981-2004)

Bolding’s tenure at Longwood is highlighted by six appearances in the NCAA Division II Tournament, and two trips to the Division II College World Series The 1982 team was the first to reach the national championships with a 31-10-1 record More recently, the 1991 squad completed a school-record 41-8 campaign while advancing to the final four of the Division II national championships.

Bolding served as a United States Army medic in Vietnam, then received his bachelor of science degree from Milligan College (Tenn ) in health, physical education and recreation in 1973, and earned his master of science degree from the University of Tennessee in 1974 He and his wife, Andrea, have three children: Lauren, Suzanne, and Brad -- each of whom attended and two who graduated -- from Longwood (Brad also played baseball before graduating from Old Dominion University).

Reinson New Head Coach

Longwood University Director of Athletics Troy Austin announced April 12 that Bill Reinson has been promoted as the school’s new women ’ s basketball head coach Reinson has served as the interim head coach since December 6, and led the Lancers to a record of 6-17 over the final 23 games, including four losses by four points or less among eight losses by nine points or less A native of Mesa, Ariz , he had been an assistant with the men ’ s team at Longwood since September 2002 and has 11 years of collegiate coaching experience with three post-season appearances. Reinson becomes the program ’ s eighth head coach since 1970 Longwood and Reinson have agreed to a new multi-year contract

“Bill has faithfully served Longwood for the past nine years, and this past winter he accepted the difficult task of assuming leadership of the women ’ s basketball program at mid-year,” said Austin “In that role, he lifted team morale and their performance showed improvement During the interview process, he presented an exciting vision for the future of our women ’ s basketball program. ”

I love Longwood University,” stated Reinson “It has been a lifelong dream of mine to be a Division I head coach, and I am grateful for the opportunity and excited about the chance to build a very successful women ’ s basketball program here at Longwood I would like to thank President Patrick Finnegan and Troy Austin for showing faith in me, as well as everyone else who supported me during this process ”

Reinson’s philosophy and vision for the program will include recruiting talented, intelligent student-athletes who understand the importance of competing together as a team The program will be fundamentally sound and well-prepared, sharing the basketball and working to create good scoring opportunities for one another. Defensively, the team will play as a unit, utilizing pressure defense to create turnovers, which will lead to transition opportunities The program will be in superior condition and display non-stop hustle on both ends of the court Longwood women ’ s basketball will be comprised of quality young women, with outstanding character, who will be assets to both the college and the community – G P

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Bacon Appointed

The Office of University Advancement and the Department Intercollegiate Athletics have announced that Scott Bacon has been appointed the director of development for intercollegiate athletics He previously served as the director of broadcasting and media relations for the Lynchburg Hillcats, the Carolina League (Advanced-A) affiliate of the Atlanta Braves from 2007-11. Bacon has served as the voice of the Lancers for Longwood Men’s Basketball since 2007-08

Bacon is responsible for cultivating and soliciting financial support for intercollegiate athletics His duties include managing a charitable giving program, soliciting and training volunteers, managing events, coordinating solicitation efforts, and serving as executive director of the Lancer Club Advisory Board Bacon will continue in his role as voice of the Lancers for men ’ s basketball, while adding some additional sports broadcasting that will begin with a few select baseball games during the 2011 season

I am tremendously excited for the opportunity to join the Longwood family,” said Bacon. “It has long been a goal of mine to work on a college campus and I cannot imagine a better place to accomplish that goal than Longwood where there are so many people I know and respect ” – G P “

Scott did a great job generating revenue and building a constituent base with the Lynchburg Hillcats,” explained Director of Athletics Troy Austin. “I am excited to work with Scott to continue to enhance the Lancer Club and fundraising initiatives ”

OCitizen Leaders Recognized

Four Longwood University alumni were honored recently with new Alumni Association awards that recognize citizen leadership

Brig Gen Joe Bass, ’83, of Clifton, commanding general of the U.S. Army’s Expeditionar y Contracting Command (ECC), received the William Henr y Ruffner Alumni Award, the highest and most prestigious award given by the Alumni Association Dr Jim Thornton, ’85, of Clarksville, superintendent of the Mecklenburg County public schools, and Lisa Brodie Williams, ’91, of Midlothian, an English teacher at the Maggie L Walker Governor’s School in Richmond and the author of two novels, received the Thomas Jefferson Professional Achievement Alumni Award Ann McCants Carter, ’62, of Petersburg, an active community ser vice leader in the Petersburg and Richmond areas, received the Jabez Lamar Monroe Curr y Humanitarian Alumni Award

You have taken the lessons you learned at Longwood and beyond and are the embodiment of citizen leaders,” Longwood President Patrick Finnegan told the alumni in presenting the awards during a dinner on March 4

“ Through your actions, you have distinguished yourselves with your professional success, outstanding involvement and commitment to your community and ser vice to

Longwood University You have shown that success in your personal and professional lives means even more when you ser ve as leaders, mentors, and role models You can be immensely proud of the work you have done and of being named as the first winners of the new alumni awards ”

Bass, whose command is headquartered at Fort Belvoir, is believed to be the first Longwood graduate to attain the rank of general. He became a brigadier general Dec. 18, 2009, four weeks after he took over command of the ECC He oversees more than 1,200 people around the world, has ser ved in Iraq and Kuwait in contracting assignments, and has two master ’ s degrees He was featured in the Volume 9, No. 2, Summer 2010 issue of Longwood magazine. Bass, who wrestled at Longwood and was an ROTC cadet, was nominated by Jay Poole ‘82, a retired Army colonel who was his fraternity (Delta Sigma Pi) brother at Longwood

He is a true and caring leader and is the epitome of what a citizen leader should be,” said Poole, now dean of education and outreach for the Army Logistics University at Fort Lee

“I have served with him a number of times during our careers, and I can attest that he is an outstanding mentor, coach and leader who exemplifies the finest qualities that Longwood would want from an alumnus We’ve been the best of friends for over 30 years; he’s probably my best friend "

Jim Thornton, who has a master ’ s degree from Virginia State University and a doctorate from Virginia Tech, has been

Alumni award recipients (2nd from left, from left to right) Brig. Gen. Joe Bass, ’83, Ann McCants Carter, ’62, Dr Jim Thornton, ’85 and Lisa Brodie Williams, ’91 were congratulated by President Patrick Finnegan (far left) and Steve Meyers, ’83 (far right), president of the Longwood Alumni Board

superintendent of the Mecklenburg school system since July 2010 Before that, he was with the Cumberland County school system for 19 years, the last six years as superintendent, and also was principal of the high school, athletic director and a math teacher He was named the Region 8 Superintendent of the Year in 2007 by the Virginia Association of School Superintendents His wife, Mar y Larkin Thornton ‘88, whom he met at Longwood, is a regional vice president with ARAMARK Higher Education and was Longwood’s dining ser vice director from 1993 to 1998. Thornton was nominated by Dr. Amy Griffin, superintendent of the Cumberland County schools, who is a Longwood alumna (B S ’89, M S ’95)

Jim is a visionar y who advocates putting students first with high expectations for all students and staff,” Griffin said Jim continues to inspire those of us dedicated to public education to be leaders and make a difference in the lives of all children, not just a select few He has ‘ grown ’ three current superintendents under his leadership, vision, and mentorship, including myself, for which I am forever thankful I have to say that I really never planned to be a superintendent, but with Jim’s encouragement and push, here I am ”

Lisa Williams is in her third year at the Maggie Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies, and she taught previously at Clover Hill High School in Chesterfield County (12 years), Hampton (four years) and Memphis (one year). She achieved National Board Certification (NBC) in 2007 and has ser ved as a mentor to NBC candidates A 2009 winner of the R E B Award for Teaching Excellence, she will travel to Africa and to the Midwestern United States over the next two summers to further her studies in genealogy and African American histor y, which she studied in summer institutes at Yale University and Brown University last year

Williams, the first member of her family to graduate from college, is pursuing a master of fine arts in creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University She has published two novels, Plight and Passion and Flight of Phoenix, and has published poems in collegiate literar y magazines and articles in educational journals She was nominated by LaToya Peace, her sister.

confidence and perseverance. To many, she is a role model. They often come back for a surprise visit to let her know how college life is going When they run into her in the grocer y store, they stop to catch up They remember what her class was like and their memories must be pleasant, for they are always smiling.”

Ann McCants Carter, who has a master ’ s degree from the University of Virginia, taught French and Spanish in Richmond, Hampton and Petersburg for many years, and she also was a school librar y media specialist at St. Vincent De Paul High School in Petersburg She was recording secretar y of the Medical College of Virginia’s Hospital Auxiliar y (MCVHA) from 2005 to 2010, and in April 2011 she assumed that position again In 2009 she received a 10,000-hour ser vice pin, the highest ever awarded to an MCV volunteer (the group didn’t even have a 10,000-hour ser vice pin, so they gave her two 5,000-hour pins), and as of mid-Februar y 2011 she had logged 11,700 ser vice hours In April 2010 she received the President’s Award, the highest award given by the MCVHA

She was one of the founders, in 1999, of MCV ’ s “Make It Happen” project, in which volunteers meet weekly in Richmond to make hats, teddy bears, quilts and other items for patients The project, which Carter coordinates, started out for pediatric cancer patients but now includes all MCV patients In 2010 Carter alone made 91 fleece blankets, 380 pillows, 36 hats, 150 surgical hats, 272 drainage bag holders, and 83 tissue packs, among other items. Carter was nominated for the Longwood alumni award by Dr Nancy Vick, professor emerita of education

Ann has a long histor y of outstanding involvement, commitment, enriching the lives of others and improving the welfare of her community,” Vick said “For the Make It Happen project, on Wednesdays, she leaves her home in Petersburg at 5:20 a m and arrives in MCV ’ s parking garage at 6 After a quick breakfast, she begins work in the Volunteer Ser vices office where she picks up and sor ts mail

OLisa has touched students’ lives,” said Peace “Sure, she knows her subject, but it is more than that She loves kids She cares about their past, their present, and their future She cares not only that they pass those SOL tests, but that they pass the test of life as well So, she gives them tools like

She delivers Make It Happen items to various departments of the hospital In the afternoon, she works in the patient/family librar y. She finds health information for patients or helps them find information using books, magazines, and computers This work may involve helping with seminars, photocopying, faxing, setting up VCRs for individuals or groups She arrives back home at 5:30 p m

Ann is not new to her awards, but I believe this one, from her alma mater, will be her favorite ” “

ODr. Br yan Rowland

Longwood’s Ne w Vice President for University Advancement

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Dr. Br yan K. Rowland is Longwood University’s new vice president for university advancement Dr Rowland has ser ved as a vice president at Wright State University and the University of Arizona He also ser ved as director of development of two colleges at Virginia Tech, where he worked for nine years and earned his doctorate.

Longwood is fortunate to have a person with Br yan ’ s background, experience, and leadership abilities to take a strong department to the next level,” said Longwood President Patrick Finnegan. “His expertise and proven teambuilding skills will be vital in moving for ward in the increasingly important area of private fundraising, coordinated with other methods of highlighting and advancing the university ”

Longwood has a rich histor y and a wonderful future,” said Dr. Rowland. “Under the leadership of President Finnegan and the work of dedicated faculty and staff, Longwood will accomplish much as it works to educate citizen leaders The university advancement division is committed to its goals of improving the overall student experience and supporting the efforts of our students as they evolve into citizen leaders.”

Rowland was vice president for advancement at Wright State University ( WSU), in Dayton, Ohio, and president of the WSU Foundation from October 2008 until September 2010. His responsibilities included oversight of alumni relations, communications and marketing, development, and foundation administration The WSU Foundation has an asset base of more than $100 million Rowland was special assistant to the provost at Wright State from October 2010 to December 2010.

Rowland held several development positions at the University of Arizona from 2002 to 2008, including

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vice president for development for Arizona Health Sciences with the University of Arizona Foundation In that position, he managed a development program that raised more than $35 million annually for four colleges and five medical research centers He also ser ved as senior director of development and alumni relations for that university’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Prior to that, he worked at Virginia Tech from 1993 to 2002 He was director of development for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences his last two years and also was director of development for the College of Natural Resources for two years

Rowland has a B A in speech communication from the University of Illinois, an M S in workforce education and development from Southern Illinois University, and a Ph D in educational leadership and policy studies from Virginia Tech He is a native of Christopher, Ill , in southern Illinois about 90 miles southeast of St Louis He and his wife, Stephanie, an attorney, have a 12-year-old son, Jacob Stephanie Rowland’s family is from Suffolk, Va

I look for ward to helping Longwood tell its wonderful stor y and further engage its alumni and students,” Rowland said “I’m a first-generation college student, and I’m excited about this chance to help others gain access to the opportunities that have been afforded me by my experiences with high-quality institutions like Longwood I’m excited to work with our faculty, staff, university leadership and alumni to grow and support Longwood I would describe myself as a relationship-builder I like to connect alumni and friends with their university ”

Franklin Grant, ’81, associate vice president for university advancement and director of planned and major gifts, was named interim vice president for university advancement on Sept 20, 2010 following the resignation of K Craig Rogers

Peggy Agee Earns Prestigious Award

Dr Peggy Agee, assistant professor and coordinator of the undergraduate program in communication sciences and disorders, is recipient of The Louis M Di Carlo Award for Outstanding Recent Clinical Achievement, presented by the American SpeechLanguage-Hearing Foundation The award was presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) convention in Philadelphia in November 2010

Dr. Agee was presented the State Clinical Achievement Award by the Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Virginia during the group ’ s annual convention held in April 2010 Her selection for this award earned her an automatic nomination for the Di Carlo Award

The program is aimed toward developing the skills that the National Early Literacy Council identifies as predictors of future literacy success – alphabet knowledge, concepts about print, phonological awareness, invented spelling, oral language, and name writing Camp Jump Start completed its fifth year of operation in summer 2011 – K B “

President Finnegan expressed his “heartfelt thanks to Franklin Grant, not only for his decades of success as Longwood’s primar y fundraiser, but for his willingness to step up as the interim vice president for university advancement and his dedicated ser vice in that position for eight months. I do not know anyone who is more committed to the goals and values of Longwood University, and I am delighted that Franklin will continue to be fully engaged in our capital campaign and other essential private fundraising efforts, where he has led the way for so many years. ”

As recipient of the awards, Dr Agee is recognized for her efforts during the past six years to advance clinical practice in speechlanguage pathology and specifically for her efforts to give at-risk children in the Southside region the skills to “crack the reading code” and develop strong literacy skills. Dr. Agee created a number of clinical initiatives to ser ve children in rural, Southside Virginia and developed and marketed these initiatives and programs independently In order to assist needy families unable to afford the modest tuition costs for these programs, Dr Agee initiated several fundraising opportunities including Brunswick stew and chili sales and Bingo games in the community

Through the Longwood Center for Communication, Literacy, and Learning (LCCLL), Dr Agee launched Camp Jump Start, a preschool language and literacy camp for 3-5 year-olds designed to facilitate the development of emergent literacy skills

OEleanor Borbas Williams, ’77, Honored

Julie Wiley Levine (left), ’93, and Eleanor Borbas Williams, ’77, Alpha Sigma Alpha chapter advisor for 31 years, presented a check for $1,500 recently to Longwood President Patrick Finnegan during a reception held at Longwood to honor Williams for her dedication to ASA

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From top left: Fredericksburg Event: President Patrick Finnegan with Bill Fiege, ’95, and Renee Simeone Fiege, ’97; Betty Hodnett White, ’65, Jeanine McKenzie Allen, ’62, and Lorie Ford Allen Chesapeake Event: Ashley Jarrett, ’10, Patrick Crute, ’10, Patrick Finnegan, and Dave Crute, ’81; Janet Holloway and Joan Finnegan Farmville Event: Charles Puckett, Cam Tinnell, Penny Puckett, and Dr Wayne Tinnell; Jim Charleston, Kathy Charleston, M S ’90, Dr Mar vin and Lee Warriner Scott, ’62

OFBI Agent Robin Andre ws, ’83

The investigation into the horrific shooting in Tucson, Arizona, in Januar y that left a congresswoman critically injured and claimed six lives has a Longwood connection.

Robin Andrews ’83 led the Violent Crimes squad of the Tucson FBI office, which spearheaded the investigation, until retiring May 31 after a 23-year career as an FBI agent Andrews also led the investigation in another high-profile case, the shooting death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terr y near Tucson in December 2010 Though she is retired – her last day was her 50th birthday – she may be called to testify in either case

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Andrews, who oversaw eight other special agents, was the first female agent in what is officially the Tucson resident agency of the FBI’s Phoenix division, which investigates crimes in Southwest Arizona She had held the rank of Super visor y Special Agent since 2006 Before commanding the Violent Crimes squad, she led the Cyber Squad and before that the Drug Squad In her FBI career, all of which was spent in Tucson, she investigated homicides, drug crimes, and crimes against children including sexual abuse and Internet child pornography exploitation Her work included investigations on two American Indian reser vations near Tucson, one of which, the home of the Tohono O’odham Nation, is the third largest reser vation in the United States.

Fortunately, I’ve never been injured in the line of duty, and, even though I’ve had my weapon out, pointing at subjects, I’ve never had to fire,” Andrews said in a phone inter view in late March “However, I’ve been spit at, vomited on, shouted at, cursed at – ever ything you can think of ”

Before joining the FBI, her job was even more dangerous She was an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) scuba diver during a five-year stint with the Navy Her assignments in that career, in which she attained the rank of petty officer third class, included Fort Stor y in Virginia Beach, Fallon Naval Air Station in Nevada, and a submarine tender in Holy Loch, Scotland

EOD scuba divers look for live torpedoes on the ocean floor and place plastic explosives on the torpedoes, blowing them up in place, to render them safe,” she said “I was never injured, but one time, while diving in Virginia Beach, there were sharks beside me in the water There was also a time in Holy Loch, Scotland, when my dive buddy and I were connected by a line. He had placed too much weight on his weight belt, and we sank to the lake floor, quickly becoming stuck in the ocean mud It became a lifethreatening situation I pulled him over to me and hit his chest, motioning him to inflate his buoyancy control vest, as I did. Visibility was extremely poor, but we finally made it back to the surface Another time, around Mar yland, jellyfish were ever ywhere – literally thousands of them –and I was dressed in coveralls to cover ever y part of my body except around my regulator, so they stung my lips which was quite painful. After a coworker and good friend on my EOD team died while diving on a training mission,

Robin Andrews, ’83, ser ved 23 years as an FBI agent.

Fortunately, I’ve never been injured in the line of duty, and, even though I’ve had my weapon out, pointing at subjects, I’ve never had to fire ” – Robin Andrews, ’83

I decided it was time to move on, especially since my enlistment was almost up. His death took the wind, the passion, out of my sails I don’t dive any more, though I do snorkel ”

Andrews joined the FBI only a week after leaving the Navy I requested any office on the East Coast, and they assigned me to Tucson And I’ve always wanted to be near water, which is why I joined the Navy, and they sent me to the Sonoran Desert But it’s been a wonderful career Ever y day has been different and challenging, and I’ve been blessed to work with so many hard-working, dedicated, caring agents. ”

“ We investigate ever ything from crimes in Indian countr y to assaults on Federal officers, such as the U S Border Patrol agents, to bank robberies We probably handle hundreds of cases at any time When I worked with Innocent Images (a program to combat child pornography/child sexual exploitation), I handled 50 cases, and I also had a heavy case-load on the reser vations ”

Andre ws is “ ver y proud” of her work with the FBI’s Innocent Images National Initiative, which she did while investigating crimes against children, including Internet child pornography, from 1999 to 2006 “I initiated Innocent Images in the Tucson office and acquired the funding for it, and I developed and formed the S A F E –Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement – team, composed of federal, state and local law enforcement officers

I’ve executed search warrants all over the countr y in connection with this effor t, including over 100 search warrants just in Tucson ” From August 1999 to August 2006, the S A F E team was responsible for 82 arrests, 82 indictments, 66 convictions and 142 search warrants, according to a 2007 ar ticle in the Tucson Citizen, which described the squad’s work as an effor t to “take Internet child predators off the keyboard and put them in jail.”

When I was working Innocent Images matters, as well as Indian countr y matters, there were times I’d go home at night and cr y I saw some tragically sad cases I could tell you stor y after stor y of things you couldn’t imagine. Just when you think you ’ ve seen the worst of humanity, something will come along that’s even more horrific Sexual abuse can be a cycle, and few can break it I’ve seen victims of child sexual abuse become the perpetrators However, some can break the cycle.

Eventually I knew it was time to retire and to be around good people for a change instead of criminals. You see distressing, horrific crimes, and this work can be a grind It’s a job that is 24 hours a day, seven days a week Even when you ’ re off-duty, you ’ re getting emails and phone calls Before I retired, I found that I didn’t have as much passion as in my younger years, so I figured it was time to let someone else do this ”

In the most prominent case late in her career, Andrews investigated the tragedy Jan 8, 2011 in which U S Rep Gabrielle Giffords, who represents the Tucson area, was among 19 people who were shot, six fatally, in what has been called an assassination attempt Andrews knew three of the victims, including Chief Federal Judge John Roll, whom she had seen in court recently She has conducted safety fairs with Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman, also killed, and is acquainted with Giffords The other prominent case she was working on at the time of her retirement was that of Brian Terr y, who was killed Dec 15, 2010 in a shootout with border bandits near Rio Roco, Ariz , about 10 miles from the Mexican border.

Andrews, a native of the Woodlawn community in Carroll County, near Galax, attended Longwood on a golf scholarship, majoring in business administration A two-time All-American, she won the state tournament for female collegiate golfers in 1979, finished fourth in the national women ’ s Division II golf tournament in 1981, and was runnerup in the state amateur tournament in 1982 She was Longwood’s female athlete of the year her senior year, the first woman golfer to win that honor She couldn’t attend her Longwood commencement ceremony because she had already joined the Navy and was attending boot camp in Orlando, Fla She and her Longwood golf coach, Dr. Barbara Smith, now retired, exchange Christmas cards ever y year

I would not be where I am today were it not for golf and Longwood College,” Andrews said

In Print

Recent Publications by Longwood Faculty, Staff, Students & Alumni

Water walk: A Passage of Ghosts

by Dr Steven Faulkner, Assistant Professor of English

This book chronicles the 61-day, 1,000-mile canoe trip that Faulkner took in 1996, before coming to Longwood, with his 16-year-old son Justin. The trip was an attempt to connect with Justin – because Faulkner was then in graduate school and was working two jobs, their time together had been limited – and re-created a famous 1673 voyage by French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet The trip began on Lake Michigan, on the southern tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and ended in St Louis, with the last 400 miles spent on the Mississippi River. The experience is being turned into a film that will be released in spring 2012 (see related stor y on p 14)

Published by RDR Books, softcover, 371 pages

Tank: An Ugly Dog’s Adventure

by Ellen Mullinax Poppe, ’ 90, Longwood Alumna

This children’s book, which Poppe calls “realistic fiction,” is about the time on Thanksgiving 2008 when her family’s 10-year-old basset hound, Tracker, turned up missing, prompting a search “On the fifth day, the pound found him,” Poppe said He was only three blocks from our house He was so overweight and so low to the ground that they had nicknamed him ‘Tank ’ Tank goes with me to booksignings and signs with his paw-print He’s more popular than me!” Poppe, who has a master ’ s degree from East Carolina University, is a teacher-librarian at Vandora Springs Elementary in Garner, N.C., and lives in nearby Fuquay-Varina Her husband, Doug, played basketball at Longwood in the late 1980s Published by Mirror Publishing, softcover, 28 pages

Extra Special

by Ashley Clement Frey, ’ 03, Longwood Alumna Frey describes this as a picture book for first- and second-graders. “It’s about a kangaroo, who are supposed to have big feet, who has one big foot and one small foot, and it’s about accepting others who are different and being comfortable in who you are, ” said Frey, a first-grade teacher at Cumberland Elementar y “He has to face the challenge of playing soccer when he’s clumsy Being a kids’ book, it has a happy ending – it ends with ever yone being happy!” Published by Crossbook, softcover, 28 pages.

Stealing Secrets

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Winkler, former Associate Vice President and Executive Director of Public Affairs and Publications

This book, subtitled “How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered The Course of the Civil War,” tells of the stories of 43 female spies in that conflict. “ The stories of women spies are filled with suspense and seduction, treacher y and tricker y, romance and braver y, ” wrote Winkler “ Women took enormous risks and achieved remarkable results – often in ways men could not ” Winkler, who has written three previous books about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, retired from Longwood in 1995 after 13 years and lives in Gatlinburg, Tenn Published by Sourcebooks Inc., softcover, 352 pages “

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Graduates Encouraged To Ser ve ...

Longwood University graduates were urged at commencement May 14 to maintain their integrity, to be courageous enough to tr y new things, and to ser ve others.

Ser vice above self will always be the gold standard by which you value your life, not how much gold you can accumulate,” Longwood President Patrick Finnegan told the graduates. Finnegan, who came to Longwood in July 2010, was following a tradition in which each new president is the commencement speaker at the end of his or her first year.

Some 830 bachelor's degrees and 162 master ' s degrees were awarded. This includes students who finished degrees requirements in summer 2010 and fall 2010, in addition to May 2011. Elizabeth (Beth) Megan Riley, a liberal studies major from Suffolk, and John-Har wood Scott, a chemistr y major and biology minor from Farmville, shared the Sally Barksdale Hargrett Prize for Academic Excellence, given to the graduating senior with the highest grade point average Both graduated with a perfect 4 0 GPA Scott also received the Dan Daniel Senior Award for Scholarship and Citizenship. This is only the sixth time that a graduating senior has received both awards.

From left: Rector John Adams, Dr David M Carkenord, Elizabeth (Beth) Megan Riley, ’11, and President Patrick Finnegan Dr Carkenord, professor of psychology, received the Student-Faculty Recognition Award and Beth Riley, ’11 was a recipient of the Sally

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