January 25, 2019
A newsletter for students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
Anderson fills three cabinet-level posts Among the many tasks new UMES President Heidi M. Anderson confronted during her first four months on the job was building a cabinet – of senior advisers. Prior to the winter holiday break, Anderson announced the appointment of three vice presidents to her administration, including a senior leadership position emphasizing the importance of student enrollment. They are (from top): • Hans Cooper, enrollment management and student experience (formerly student affairs). • Lester Primus, administration and finance (formerly administrative affairs). • David Balcom, institutional advancement. They join Dr. Robert Mock, Anderson’s chief of staff who came on board in December, as members of the presidential cabinet. Meanwhile, a search is underway to fill one more cabinet post – provost, the university’s chief academic policymaker. Balcom is no stranger to Maryland’s public higher education scene; since 2000 he’s held fund-raising positions across the University System of Maryland at Coppin State, at College Park, at the Center for Environmental Science and with the USM Foundation. He routinely has connected donors who have made six-figure and million dollar gifts to the USM institutions he’s represented. Balcom’s first day was Jan. 7. Primus comes to Princess Anne from Capital Community College in Hartford, Conn., where as dean of administration since 2004 he oversaw institutional planning and oversight of administrative and fiscal operations. He’s also worked as a senior level administrator at three other institutions in Connecticut since 1993; Eastern Connecticut State University, Yale University’s School of Medicine and Manchester Community Technical College. Primus will start Feb. 4. Like Balcom, Cooper has extensive experience working for universities in the state of Maryland. For the past year and half, he was registrar at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to that, he was Morgan State University’s registrar for four years, was associate registrar at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a grants program management specialist at Bowie State University. Cooper’s first day is Jan. 28.
Winter Commencement The 22nd edition of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s winter commencement exercises began shrouded in fog, much like the way some degree candidates surely must have felt their first day of college – some just 3½ years ago. By midday Dec. 14, 270 newly minted graduates emerged from the William P. Hytche Athletic Center to find the fog had lifted and bright futures ahead. The latter was among the messages Dr. Richard Warren Jr., Maryland’s 2018-19 state Teacher of the Year, delivered to some 3,000 who sat raptly as he spoke about how education turned his life around. Warren, who earned three degrees from UMES, including a doctorate in May 2018, described the hardscrabble upbringing of a “move-around” kid with divorced parents who lost a close friend to gun
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1968 Golden Hawks Recognized
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Essay: A Graduate Student’s Triumph Assistant Professor Named DPI President Endowment Fund Established
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UMES Students’ Public Art In Princess Anne
Triple-Jumper Makes A Big Apple Splash
Same Voices, New Look: Faces Of WESM
Professor Gifts Original Painting To Pro Wrestler
Bowler Earns National Honor
Champion Tree Located On Campus
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violence – but was rescued by a caring teacher. “Young man,” Warren recalled that teacher telling him, “I refuse to let you live below your potential.” When the time came to go to college, Warren said “UMES was my second chance at life.” He cautioned graduates to be prepared for ups and downs. “Don’t ever give up,” he said. “The world needs you.” Richard M. Gordon of Princess Anne didn’t give up. At 55, he earned a bachelor’s degree in English. Gordon’s parents, both 74, his wife and three of his four children were on hand to see him walk across stage – a big smile beaming across his face. “I had a terrific experience here,” Gordon said. “The professors are fantastic. They go out of their way to help you succeed.” Gordon graduated with highest honors – summa cum laude – as did Jaelyn M. Shade of Upper Marlboro, who completed his degree in criminal justice in 3½ years with a 3.9 grade point average. “I just worked hard,” Shade said, “stayed focused, and got all my work done. It’s a huge accomplishment. I never thought I would be graduating from college, let alone in 3½ years.” Shade, who had a job waiting with the National Guard, had something in common with Eden Enjoh Ndjami, the winner of an audition to deliver UMES’ traditional student commentary. She also completed work in 3½ years on a biology degree and graduated with honors. “May you never forget your story,” Ndjami said, “because it is with that story that you navigate through life – taking one step at a time, looking forward but always remembering how far you have come.” Listening carefully in the audience was Busola Sule, a fellow biology major who said her “dearest friend” Ndjami “motivates me to be a better person.” Sule also found motivation in siblings Similoluwa, who graduated from UMES with a human ecology degree in May 2018 and Modupeola, a 2016 UMES alumna also with biology degree.
The two sisters surprised Sule by showing up unannounced for a pregraduation “photo shoot” that many degree candidates like to stage to share on their social media platforms. “It meant so much to me that they would come and share that moment with me,” Sule said. “Everybody who saw (the pictures) liked them. I think they like the bond we have.” Then there is Neus Quiñonero, who 2½ years ago left Valencia, Spain for UMES to compete as a long-distance runner. On the eve of her graduation, she shared thoughts on social media about what she had accomplished. “People told me I was crazy to leave my country and move to another continent without being fluent in English – and to complete a degree as a student-athlete,” she tweeted. “Now, (I’m) a sociologist, graduating with honors and a fivetime All-MEAC team (honoree). I guess I really was CRAZY.” “This is a really big step in my life,” she said at graduation rehearsal. “I always wanted to live the life of an American college student. That was my dream.” Daminique Vargas didn’t travel as far as Quiñonero; she grew up in Queens, N.Y. but also was looking for a dramatic change in scenery to earn her degree in English. UMES offered her admission at a college fair, so she opted to come south, where she also worked as the men’s basketball team student manager for four years. “I’m in shock,” Vargas said before the ceremony. “It took a lot for me to be here.” Vargas, who will work for Def Jam Recordings as a social media marketer, is the first person in her immediate family to earn a college degree and insists she won’t be the last. Two younger siblings “don’t have a choice” about whether to follow in her footsteps, she said. Warren, the commencement speaker, reminded Vargas and her classmates about the importance and value of their UMES experience inside the classroom and out. “Be the person you needed when you were growing up,” he advised fellow alumni. “You are the answer to the problem.”
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Class of ‘68: Golden Hawks forged by an incendiary year Left: President Heidi Anderson pays tribute to Clifford Newsome Jr. Right: (L-R): James T. Smith; Clifford M. Newsome Jr.; Starletta DuPois; Drexel (Smith) Harris; Jean McBride-Elbert; Gail M. Davis; Grace Matthews; Alfonzo Grimes Jr.; and George Trotter.
By Tahja Cropper As UMES’ December 2018 graduates embark on the next chapter of their lives, members of the Class of 1968 were honored at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 22nd winter commencement. The class of ’68 includes a Tony-nominated stage actress, retired educators, social workers and several federal and state employees. During their undergraduate days at then-Maryland State College, this group experienced some of the best moments of their lives – and lived through what some contend was the 20th century’s most turbulent year following World War II. 1968: The Vietnam War was in full swing, civil unrest was high and the nation witnessed the assassination of two champions for change, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (April 4) and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (June 6). Those national sorrows were followed by a tumultuous presidential campaign that saw rioting in the streets of Chicago at the Democratic National Convention and the election of Richard Nixon, who eventually became the first president to resign from office. Wiping a tear from her eye, Starletta Seawell DuPois, a veteran actress with a background in nursing, recalled the moment 50 years ago she learned of Dr. King’s murder as she exited the stage during intermission of a performance on campus. The moment still resonates inside her all these years later. King’s death sparked riots across the nation. Clifford Newsome Jr., who was from Sudlersville, Md., the hometown of baseball Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx in Queen Anne’s County, remembers being greatly impacted by his time at
historically black Maryland State as well as Dr. King’s words. “It’s not the color of your skin, but the content of your heart that counts,” said Newsome, a white agriculture education major who attended a segregated high school. “Ever since I heard him say that, it’s just been something I strived to do.” Each December during winter commencement, UMES alumni who reach the 50th anniversary of their graduation return to campus for recognition as “Golden Hawks.” “You can’t turn down an opportunity like getting an education,” Newsome said. “The diploma that says UMES is the same that says University of Maryland College Park. It has the same weight. If you apply yourself, your education can be as good, or better, than what you can get anywhere else.” The ’68 Golden Hawks recalled a horrifying memory of a cross burning that happened on campus outside of Wicomico Hall a short time after Dr. King’s assassination. Those incidents inspired Maryland State students to take up the mantle in the fight for equality as they held peace marches in the Town of Princess Anne. Four days before Kennedy died, the class of 1968 found itself at June commencement exercises featuring Jackie Robinson, one of Dr. King’s contemporaries and a civil rights pioneer in his own right. Robinson was the first African American man to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball. On that day, Dr. John Taylor Williams, Maryland State’s president, awarded Robinson an honorary degree of humane letters during the ceremony.
According to Baltimore’s Afro-American newspaper, the former Dodgers star addressed the slain civil rights leader’s social contribution, stating “Martin Luther King Jr.’s death leaves no void. He has given us a clear picture of what sound thinking and dogged determination can accomplish.” “Never give up the struggle,” the newspaper quoted Robinson as saying. “Win we will.” Although those were some of America’s darkest days, Maryland State alumni say the good outweighed the bad. This was especially true for Jean McBride-Elbert, originally from Philadelphia, as she met her husband on campus. She and Thomas Elbert celebrate 50 years of marriage this coming July. During the Golden Hawks luncheon, alumni focused on reminiscing about the many good days at Maryland State. The room erupted with laughter and surged with energy when classmate James T. Smith, affectionately known as “Scooggy,” arrived late for the luncheon. (He had wandered off to explore campus.) Smith, a retired educator from Coatesville, Pa., emphasized the impact of his time at Maryland State, saying “I wouldn’t trade my experience during those four years for all of the money in the world! We were a family.” “I’m a proud Hawk,” added DuPois, who played Esther, the nurse in the film ‘The Notebook.’ “We weren’t a number. Our professors cared about us.” Fellow classmates who returned for their Golden Hawk recognition also included Gail M. Davis, Alfonzo Grimes Jr., Drexel Smith Harris, Grace Matthews and George Trotter.
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How a UMES degree gave my life renewed focus By Lisa Thomas I came to work at UMES in 2009, beginning in the Division of Student Affairs. I eventually transferred to the Department of Education and while working there learned about the master’s degree program in counselor education. So, I enrolled in 2011. In late October 2012, Hurricane Sandy severely damaged my Crisfield home. I took a break from graduate school to handle the situation. My family and I moved to Princess Anne and eventually to Salisbury. After about a year off from school, I reenrolled in the graduate program. I doubled up on my classes. At one point, I was taking three classes per semester. All of this working full-time and as a single mother raising four children, including one with special needs. As I was about to graduate, I seriously injured my shoulder and back. My shoulder was so badly injured I was referred to a specialist in Towson, who performed rotator cuff surgery to repair it. I was forced to take more time off from school and was out of work for four months. I returned to work in August 2018 and enrolled in my capstone class. I wrote my master’s thesis on the “Resistance to
Therapy in the African American Community.” This was a personal topic because I know the resistance is real in the African American community and I wanted to explore the reasons why it occurs. For a long time, I grappled with the daunting questions of why things I had worked hard for and maintained for such a long time were taken away. Returning to my mother’s home, now with four children, was extremely difficult. I realized, however, that if I wanted to rebuild my life, I had to get through the spiritual and emotional pain I was feeling and start over again. After serious reflection, I started to appreciate the new life that I had gained. The courses I took required me to explore my background, perspectives, biases and world view. I learned various techniques of counseling and applied them to my life. I discovered I was healing through these courses. I honestly believe the program helped me get through my trials and set me on a path to the place where I am today; accepting of my new life and embracing my future. A future which includes the pursuit of my doctoral degree. UMES’ counselor education program was a lifesaver for me. I can now tell my clients that counseling works because I’ve applied the theories to my own life and have come out victorious on the other side of my trials. Ms. Thomas is an administrative assistant in UMES’ Career and Professional Development Center.
Photo: Delmarva Poultry Industry
Jennifer Timmons, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore who teaches poultry production and animal nutrition, is the Delmarva Poultry Industry’s president for 2019. She is the third woman to serve in the leadership post in the regional organization’s 71-year history, which just announced its first female executive director, Holly Porter.
(L-R) Franklin L. Ausby, Jr., Chenita Reddick (Institutional Advancement) and Anthony Kevin Chase. Ausby and Chase are members of the Screaming Hawk Chapter of Groove Phi Groove Social Fellowship, Inc. The chapter recently gave $1,000 to establish The Groove Phi Groove Social Fellowship Inc. Screaming Hawk Chapter Endowment Fund.
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Pro wrestler Ric Flair owns a Brad Hudson original
To be the man, you have to paint the man - or more precisely, paint a portrait of the man. The portrait subject is legendary pro wrestler Ric Flair; the painter is UMES art professor Brad Hudson. The two became social media acquaintances in 2018 after Hudson crafted an interpretive drawing of the (retired) Nature Boy that he gave as a birthday gift to a friend. On a whim, Hudson also posted the image online and tagged the “styllin’, profilin’ … son-of-gun”
hoping to get Flair’s attention. It worked. Flair reached out to Hudson with a compliment, and inquired whether the founder of UMES’ sequential arts program might consider doing a second portrait. “He was saying how he liked my work,” Hudson said, “... and that he wanted a piece for his house.” After some initial hesitation, Hudson concluded the overture was legitimate and the two subsequently established a private online dialogue. “Flair is a larger-than-life character,” Hudson said, so he jumped at the opportunity to fulfill the request. Hudson sent Flair preliminary sketches to get the project rolling.
“Wakanda” art is this? Public art made a brief, “animated” appearance in downtown Princess Anne in December when UMES students installed a temporary mural on the Washington Street wall side of Price Cutters on Somerset Avenue. Envision Art Club conceived, created and installed a poster-size image of T’Challa, the superhero known as Black Panther. The project was inspired by the release of Marvel’s “Black Panther,” 2018’s highest-grossing movie, and a desire to promote good will between the town and university community. Junior Jamarcus Coley described the experience:“We are grateful this day is here! It means a lot because we talked about getting (UMES) representation down here. That’s all we wanted, and we finally got it!” Front row (L-R): students Imari Sydnor, Mariah Terry, Nicquitta Wedderburn and Faith Crudup (Installer). K’Leah Bennett, Jamarcus Coley, Carmall Washington, John Rolon-Ortiz and David Felix (Installer)
Hudson has a studio in his Mardela Springs home, but the Flair portrait was visible in the Thomas & Briggs Arts and Technology Center on campus, where UMES students could watch progress on the 18-X-24 inch oil painting take shape. “I try to demonstrate (to students) good practices of a working artist,” Hudson said. “How it’s important to meet deadlines, make connections and engage in networking to get your name and your work out there.” Hudson’s work IS out there, alright. He’s a licensed Star Wars illustrator, a coveted designation that evolved from a chance meeting with a trading-card company representative who recruited him to create one-of-a-kind images to promote the 2015 film, “The Force Awakens.” That exposure led other marketers to enlist him to do collectible drawings, such as AMC’s “Walking Dead,” the Netflix series “Stranger Things” and installments in Marvel’s film series such as “Avengers Infinity War,” “Guardians of the Galaxy II,” “Thor Ragnarok” and “Spiderman.” Hudson estimated he spent 10-to-12 hours on the Flair painting, which he mounted in an ornate gold frame emblematic of Flair’s over-the-top ring persona that included wearing sequined robes into the “squared circle.” Hudson sent it off in early December. On Dec. 19, Flair posted a photo of himself online, standing in his Atlanta-area home holding the Hudson portrait. “Thank You To Brad Hudson For The Phenomenal Fan Art,” Flair wrote. “Love It! WOOOOO!” Social media being the echo chamber it is, Hudson quickly was overwhelmed by best wishes and congratulations from friends and professional acquaintances. “I’ve gotten a lot of attention from wrestling fans,” Hudson added. “My (late) dad would have been amused by this whole situation.” UMES’ Brad Hudson: Artist to the Stars. Wooooo!
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Track team shines in Big Apple indoor meet Freshman Atinuke Shittu became the first Hawk to punch her ticket to the 2019 IC4A/ECAC Championships with a second-place finish in the triple jump at the HBCU Battle indoor track meet in New York Jan. 11. Shittu’s best (and final) jump of 11.60 meters (38 feet) earned eight points that helped UMES place sixth in the 12-team meet at the renowned Armory Track. The distance also qualified her for next month’s Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Championships. The IC4A/ECAC event in Boston will be the first weekend in March. Several Hawks also earned top 10 placements at the HBCU Battle. Sophomore Shemar Parker was runner up in the in the pole vault (12½ feet) and will join Shittu at the MEAC indoor meet, while freshman Mercy Chemutai placed second in the 3,000-meter race, finishing in 11:20.08. Junior John Akakeya returned home to New York to take home third place in the mile race, while freshman Joshua Goslee’s 11½ -foot pole vault was good enough for third place just behind Parker. Sophomore Jessica Roney placed fifth in the 500 meter run. Freshman Nasir Neal-Watson came in seventh in the shot put event and eighth in the weight throw. Junior Tamunoibi Dabipi finished sixth in the weight throw and sophomore Kyle Nottage placed ninth in the shot put. Additional top ten finishers were freshmen Janiela Francis (high jump) Tremaine Brown (500 meters), Nikyia Wooten (mile), Jelisa Lovett (high jump) and Ashley Woolfork (400 meters). At the Great Dane Classic (Jan. 12), the men’s 4x400 relay team of freshman Omar Rogers, sophomore Janoi Brown, sophomore Ngoy Yamitshi and Tremaine Brown ran the race in 3:27.53, good for ninth place.
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UMES bowler earns spot on national team Cayla Hicks became the first bowler in UMES history to earn a spot on the Junior Team USA when she finished third among 152 competitors at the 2019 Junior Team USA trials earlier this month in Las Vegas. “I think I’ve had different moments throughout my college performance … that have shown I am going to be successful,” Hicks said. “It’s just a matter of timing to be right. Everything fell into place … with the ball motion … and the people I was around and the choices I made.” The junior chemistry major bowled six games daily for five days, averaging 202 pins-per-game and by virtue of her finish earned one of 12 invitations to the summer 2019 training camp to prepare for international competition. “I don’t think the emotion ever … really set in,” Hicks said. “I knew before the announcements I was going to make it because I bowled my way to it rather than being selected.” Those eligible for Junior Team USA competition include only bowlers who have yet to turn 21 on Jan. 1, 2019. “In the past, when I have competed at this tournament, I do well at the beginning and then I kind of fall off at the end,” Hicks said, adding “I think because I wasn’t prepared mentally to be able to last that long.” “But this year, the first two days I bowled really well and I was in the Top 15 overall,” she said. “I just needed to keep steady. I didn’t have any one
fantastic day or a horrible day – just top to the middle-of-the-pack the whole time.” Also competing at the event with Hicks were current teammates Brigitte Jacobs and Isabel Hughes as well as 2018 UMES alumna Jalesa Johnson. UMES coach Kayla Bandy said she was “excited for the opportunity that (Hicks) has earned to represent her country internationally and be trained by the best coaches in the industry.” “It’s great for the program because it is good for (the other UMES bowlers) to see that for the hard work Cayla has put in, there is light at the end of the tunnel and there are positive repercussions for putting in the work,” Bandy said. Qualifying for the national team, Hicks said motivates her “to work harder to make the travel roster for international tournaments when summer training comes around and not just end up saying I was on the team.”
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UMES is home to a state champion tree The lone Carolina cherry laurel (tree) known to exist in the state can be found on the University of Maryland Eastern Shore campus. That, by default, makes the evergreen adjacent to Wicomico Hall the state champion of its species, according to the Maryland Big Tree Program, an allvolunteer organization sponsored by the Department of Natural Resources’ Urban and Community Forest Committee and the agency’s Maryland Association of Forest Conservancy District Boards. The tree made the list after Jim Bardsley discovered it while researching trees and shrubs across campus to incorporate in a class he teaches as an urban forestry specialist in the Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences. “I knew it was special,” Bardsley said. “I hadn’t seen anything like it.” “Then, it was a question of figuring out what it was,” he said. “Usually, when we find something new, it ends up being from another country, but this
was from the southern United States.” Because UMES’ Carolina cherry laurel is considerably farther north than its usual range, Bardsley faced a challenge convincing peers he had found a rare species in Maryland and then proving it. Leaders of the Maryland Big Tree Program registry at first were “highly skeptical.” After extensive research, which included documenting its foliage and fruit, the registry accepted Bardsley’s nomination in 2017. It measures 29 feet high with a spread of 29½ feet and a circumference of 53 inches. Carolina cherry laurels also can be pruned to serve as hedge shrubbery, so a stand-alone tree made the one at UMES stand out. Bardsley is a Maryland Big Tree Program volunteer who travels the Eastern Shore sizing up large trees, looking to pinpoint “state champion” and occasionally national champion species. The group has identified some 250 state champs, according to its web site. Only one other “state champion” tree on the registry can be found in Somerset County – a majestic southern magnolia on West Post Office Road about 4 miles east of the UMES campus. Wicomico Hall was built in the mid-1960s as student housing at a time when landscape architects experimented with stretching the natural range of trees and shrubs to create unique looks for clients. Bardsley said that likely explains how an evergreen commonly found in the Carolinas and in the more temperate South found its way to Maryland.
WESM hosts now being seen and heard Radio hosts are usually heard but rarely seen, so when five highway billboards showcasing 91.3 WESM-FM’s on-air talent appeared across the Lower Shore this past fall, reaction was swift. “The boards went up and people began to call the station and post photos on social media,” said Gerry Weston, WESM’s general manager. “Colorful and dynamic, they match (the) faces with voices our listeners have relied on for music and news for years. It’s been a fun and compelling way to engage current listeners and attract new ones.” WESM, the public radio station transmitting from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, did more than put up billboards. Founded in 1984, the station redesigned and energized its brand, introducing a new logo inspired by Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” statue and featuring colors from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s website. “Our logo stands out and conveys our mission,” Weston said. “From the ‘WE’ in the top row signifying our unity with the community, to the guitar headstock nestled in the ‘M’ underscoring ‘music’, it’s a new way of ‘seeing’ the station.” Like all public radio stations, WESM needs to attract new listeners while gently reminding current ones it is partially dependent on funds raised annually from the audience, which it calls members.
One major decision early on was reviving the station’s popular slogan, “Jazz, Blues & NPR News,” which the staff believed gives WESM its distinctive identity. “No one offers the programming we do, and no other public radio station on the Lower Shore has as many local on-air hosts or as much locally based programming,” said Angel Resto, Jr., WESM operations manager and on-air host. “Every program decision is made here, and we are all locals. We know this market better than anyone, and what we have to offer the community is really special.” Since the billboard campaign launched in late October, Resto and three other hosts - Yancy Carrigan, Brian Daniels and Molly – also have been more visible in local television and print advertisements. Carrigan, WESM’s music director, has been with WESM for three decades, which gives him a unique perspective on the rebrand. “Jazz and blues are products of our country’s experience,” Carrigan said. “Young people, especially, need to know what WESM offers so they are better able to understand where rap and hip-hop spring from. It’s not just our history – it’s the bedrock of our musical future.” Visit www.wesm913.org or call 410-651-8001 to learn more about WESM and its programming, become a station member or give a membership as a gift.
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Art Exhibit Opening Reception
4-6 p.m., Mosely Gallery “PAUL HENDERSON and Photographs from the Civil Rights Era.” Profound images of Baltimore captured by the celebrated African American photojournalist, on loan from the Maryland Historical Society, displayed with parallel photographs from Crisfield and Cambridge. Show on display through March 13. 410-651-7770 or visit www.moselygallery.com
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14-16 HOMECOMING
SGA sponsored Homecoming Concert*
7 p.m., William P. Hytche Athletic Center Artist: TBA For tickets and more information, call 410-651-6434
Homecoming Tailgate*
11 a.m. - 3 p.m., Tawes Gymnasium Parking Lot Application and fee required per space. For more information, call 410-651-6434
Homecoming Basketball Games*
2 p.m. Women’s / 4 p.m. Men’s games / Doors open at noon William P. Hytche Athletic Center Basketball games vs Coppin State University $25 includes both games/Free for full-time UMES students with ID 410-621-3311 or UMEStickets.com
Homecoming Step Show*
7 p.m., Ella Fitzgerald Center for Performing Arts Greek-lettered organizations display their skills in the art of strolling. 410-651-6434 or visit UMEStickets.com
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