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College of HEALTH • ENVIRONMENT • SCIENCE School of Physical Therapy; Departments of Allied Health, Biology, Chemistry and Physics, Exercise and Rehabilitative Sciences, Geography, Geology and the Environment, Mathematics, Nursing, Parks and Recreation, Environmental Education, and Psychology; the Robert A. Macoskey Center for Sustainable Systems Education and Research; SRU, Clarion and Edinboro universities form minoritynursing scholarship in honor of Pittsburgh nursing pioneer Many students who graduated from the Pittsburgh Public School District might not recognize Hattie Turk’s name, but they owe a lot to the leadership she exerted when she led the district’s health services. And now her inspired leadership, in multiple settings, is being acknowledged by the creation of a scholarship in her name. The Hattie Turk Scholarship for Advanced Practice Nursing Students is the brainchild of the Minority Mentoring Committee of the Clarion, Edinboro and Slippery Rock Universities Master of Science in Nursing Program. “Nursing is a good profession offering opportunities to make a difference in the lives of the members of our communities while earning a good living in a career where every day offers a challenge,” says nursing pioneer Hattie Turk, for whom a new scholarship is named. The committee consists of six African- American family nurse practitioners who graduated from the program and share an interest in enabling other African-American nurses to continue their educations at the master’s degree level and a desire to recognize Turk. The committee recently launched a $100,000 fund-raising campaign to fund the scholarship, which the SRU Foundation, Inc. will manage. HELPING STUDENTS Once funded, the Hattie Turk Scholarship will provide up to $10,000 annually to students enrolled in the graduate program. Retired from the Pittsburgh Public School District since 1997, Turk, of Pittsburgh, was one of the first black women to graduate from the University of 24 The Rock Summer/Fall 2005 Pittsburgh’s School of Nursing in 1956. She went on to obtain a master’s degree in education from Duquesne University, a master’s in public management from Carnegie Mellon and a certificate as a nurse practitioner from the University of Pittsburgh. Her career also included 16 years as director of health services at the Community College of Allegheny County. Storm Harbor Equestrian Center going up Under construction on the east side of campus near N. Kerr Thompson Stadium, SRU’s Storm Harbor Equestrian Center will be completed this fall. The 16,640- square-foot building includes an indoor riding arena, 12 horse stalls, offices, a kitchen and restrooms. SRU will consolidate its equestrian team and a riding program for children and adults with disabilities at Storm Harbor. Currently, the equestrian team and Adapted Physical Activity Program operate from off-campus stables. The project was initiated with $380,000 in donations, including substantial gifts from the late Ethel Carruth of Houston, Texas, her daughter, Dr. Carolyn Carruth Rizza, and son-in-law Dr. Paul Rizza, both retired SRU faculty. Not just another summer camp Camp SportsVision fosters growth, life-skills Camp SportsVision at SRU, a creative program that provides athletic opportunities for children with blindness or visual impairment, is emerging as a model of excellence in the world of adapted sports. “It’s a mystical relationship between horse and child,” President Smith said. While children have fun and make new friends, they also gain skills that will better them for life. Their self-esteem increases by doing new things. And all these factors help the children gain their independence. Forty children attended the 2005 camp, run by faculty and student volunteers from SRU’s Adapted Physical Activity Program. Campers rode horses, played beep baseball, swam, danced and scaled a rock-climbing wall. Horseback riding was new. The event was held by SportsVision, a Pittsburgh non-profit organization, SRU and the Adapted Physical Activity Program. Children ages 6 to 18 participated. Camp SportsVision Objectives • Discover undeveloped potential • Increase self-confidence • Improve physical vigor • Promote awareness of adapted sports • Have fun
College of HUMANITIES • FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS Departments of Art, Dance, English, History, Modern Languages and Cultures, Music, Philosophy, Theater, and Women’s Studies SRU’s reputation for dance brings ‘American Idol’ spin-off “So You Think You Can Dance” to campus for auditions Los Angeles-based producer Nicola Gaha said a tip from the University of Pittsburgh prompted her to hold dance auditions at SRU for “So You Think You Can Dance,” Fox TV’s new elimination-competition show that debuted this summer. A Pitt professor told her, “you better go to Slippery Rock” when she asked where to find talented dancers for auditions, Gaha recalled. About half of SRU’s 91 dance majors auditioned, as did a few recent graduates and others from the region. The producer invited 10 SRU dancers to second auditions in New York and Chicago. Andrea Savelli, ‘04, advanced to the third round in Hollywood, where she became one of 25 finalists, before getting cut. “So You Think You Can Dance” began traveling the U.S. on the hunt for the next Gregory Hines or Janet Jackson this spring. Producers extended an open casting call to dancers ages 18 to 30, pitting the best undiscovered talent against one another in a 12- week competition to become America’s No. 1 dancer. “Fox wanted to tape in Pittsburgh,” SRU’s Nora Ambrosio, dance department chair, added. “When they called Pitt, somebody there said, ‘If you want really good dancers, you need to go to Slippery Rock. They have some of the best hip-hop dancers in the country.’” Popularity of U.S. Army Jazz Band’s Concert at SRU results in ‘sell out’ at Miller Two weeks is all it took for SRU to distribute 1,200 complimentary tickets to the recent concert by the U.S. Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors, such was the interest in the event. An SRU Color Guard added to the pageantry of the concert, at Miller Auditorium. The 19-member band performed patriotic, big band, swing, contemporary jazz and Dixieland selections, conducted by U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Kevin Laird. Sergeant 1st Class Marva Lewis was the featured vocalist at the July 4 weekend “We are very pleased by the response to this special event and sorry if some folks who wanted to go couldn’t obtain tickets,” said Ross Feltz, SRU public relations director. “We have other concerts and exciting arts events coming up through our ING Performing Arts Series.” History professor pens firstever biography of Yankee manager Joe McCarthy SRU history Professor Dr. Alan Levy researched an untold baseball story for his latest book “Joe McCarthy: Architect of the Yankee Dynasty,” which details the skipper’s 29-year span in the major leagues. McCarthy’s Yankees won four straight World Series titles from 1936- 1939 and three consecutive American League flags from 1941- 1943. His seven World Series titles as a manager are unsurpassed in baseball history, and his .615 career winning mark is the best ever. “There were many books about the game’s top players — Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams — and about the great managers — John McGraw, Connie Mack, Casey Stengel, Billy Martin and Earl Weaver — but none about McCarthy,” Levy said. The 435-page, published by McFarland & Company, Inc., is available ($35) at SRU’s Student Government Association Bookstore, from Barnes and Noble, Borders Books as well as online at www.Amazon.com from the publisher. SRU’s Warner Film Festival draws 75 entries; winners announced with awards Top honors in the recent Harry M. Warner Festival of Short Film and Video, hosted by SRU’s Harry M. Warner Film Institute, went to Adetoro Makinde of Hollywood for the 19-minute presentation “In Time.” Second place honors went to “The Passage of Mrs. Calabash,” directed by Scott Tuft of Los Angeles, and third place to “Twitch,” directed by Leah Meyerhoff of Brooklyn, N.Y. Cass Warner (left), granddaughter of film magnate Harry Warner of Warner Brothers Studios, lectured and sold copies of her book “Hollywood Be Thy Name: The Warner Brothers’ Story” during SRU’s first Harry M. Warner Festival. Her grandfather opened his first theater in New Castle nearly 100 years ago. With her is SRU’s Wilma Cavill, assistant professor of health and safety. The festival, launched in conjunction with a film studies minor at SRU, drew more than 75 U.S. and international entries, from as far away as Germany. Two philosophy students garner academic honors For his essay on German philosopher Immanuel Kant, SRU senior Brian Skibo of Hermitage received the $125 first prize at the 18th Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Interdisciplinary Association for Philosophy and Religious Studies Conference, held recently at Mansfield University. Mary A. “Molly” McGuigan of Franklin Park, an SRU philosophy minor, wrote a paper on comedy in philosophy that was accepted for the highly competitive Goucher College Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. www.sru.edu 25
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