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www.westminster.eduFaculty Making NewsBarbara Faires, professor of mathematicsat Westminster, completed atwo-year term asfirst vice presidentof the MathematicalAssociation ofAmerica (MAA).Faires has held nationalpositions aschair of the budgetFairesand audit committeesand currentlyheads the strategicplanning initiative of the MAA, thelargest professional society focusing onmathematics accessible to undergraduates.The Washington, D.C.-based associationhas nearly 27,000 membersnationwide. During the summer, Faireswas one of six mathematicians at theScience-Engineering Technology CongressionalVisits Day in D.C.; chaired thenational committee on revenue planningfor the MAA; and gave presentations atthe executive committee and at the boardof governors in Albuquerque, N.M.William Evans, associate professorof education and the coordinator ofthe graduate counselor educationprogram, recently presented researchto the Association of CounselorEducation and Supervision’s nationalconference in Pittsburgh. “I made severalpresentations about my ongoing researchand collaboration with professors fromCalifornia State University at Fresno,Temple University, and YoungstownState University,” Evans said. Hepresented “Enhancing Live ClinicalSupervision through the Use of an AudioTrack Overlay Package,” followedby “Dynamics of Cultural Bias andDiscrimination in Public Schools: CreativeSolutions for Change.” Evans alsopresented two papers at the PennsylvaniaSchool Counselor Association’s WesternRegional Conference: “Creating Shadesof Gray with Black and White Thinkers,”and “Don’t They Get It? Understandingthe Dynamics of Children and Familiesfrom Poverty.”Assistant professor of history TimothyCuff ’78 moderated two panels andpresented his research findings at arecent Social Science History Associationmeeting in Portland, Ore. Cuff’s paperwas based on results developed inconjunction with research published inhis book, The Hidden Cost of EconomicDevelopment: The Biological Standardof Living in Antebellum Pennsylvania.Research indicates that during the earlydecades of the 1800s, the biological wellbeingof Pennsylvanians deterioratedslightly during a period of significanteconomic growth.Kang-Yup Na, assistant professor ofreligion at Westminster, was recentlyelected to serve onthe Lilly FellowsProgram NationalNetwork Board fora four-year term.“I’ll be attendingt w o m e e t i n g seach year, muchof which willbe devoted toprogramming andNaplanning for the program’s future,”Na said. “In particular, we will beconsidering, deliberating and voting onproposals for grants.”Delores Natale ’01, a lecturer in publicrelations at Westminster, recently presented“Reading Between the Lines: WeltyAddresses Racism” at the South CentralModern Language Association annualconvention held in Houston. “Throughthis paper, I explored the historicalevents and political climate EudoraWelty encountered as she continuallystrived to write about the human side ofher home state of Mississippi,” Natalesaid. While at the business meetingfollowing the presentations, Natale waselected secretary of the Eudora WeltySociety for 2006. She will becomepresident of the society in 2007.Kathleen Schott, woodwindinstructor at Westminster,recently earned the first flutechair in the West VirginiaSymphony. Schott won theblind audition over a fieldof more than 60 applicants,including the symphony’sacting principal chair. Schotthas been the principal flutist Schottfor the Youngstown Symphonyfor the past four years, but will work outscheduling conflicts in West Virginia’sfavor because that position not only offersan increased salary, but also tours morefrequently than Youngstown. In additionto her teaching duties at Westminster,Schott plays with the Faculty WoodwindQuintet and coaches the Westminster FluteChoir. She also teaches about 25 privatestudents near her home in Harmony andplays many church concerts.Assistant professor of English BethanyHicok recently presented “Companionsin Disguise: The Conjuries of WallaceStevens and Marianne Moore” at theModern Language Association AnnualConference in Washington, D.C. “In thepaper, I argued that a close examination ofthe important relationship between thesetwo poets can help us to understand betternot only their poetry of the 1930s, but alsotheir response to the dire political, social,and economic conditions of the 1930s,”Hicok said.Helen Boylan ’95, assistant professorof chemistry, and Deborah Mitchell, associateprofessor of English and publicrelations, had a joint article, “DetectiveFiction and Forensics in Collaboration,”published in the 2005 Winter issue ofAcademic Exchange Quarterly. “Thispaper is about the interdisciplinarycollaboration at Westminster Collegethrough cluster courses, which typifiesthe best of what learning communities offerto both faculty and students,” Boylansaid. “The focus is on the link betweendetective fiction, a literature course, andforensics, a lab science course, and howcombining the two courses into a clustercourse allow students to evaluate thesame general topic from two disciplinaryperspectives.”Jody Guinn, harp instructor at Westminster,was featured in the cover storyin the November/Decemberissue of Harp Column, one ofthe nation’s two harp journals.Guinn and her colleague, NancyLendrim, form the SalzedoHarp Duo. They have accompaniedfor stars such as ClayAiken, The Three Tenors, RayCharles, Barry Manilow, JoshGroban, and the Moody Blues.They also perform at variousevents including weddings, funerals, operas,churches, and ballets.Winte r 20 06 • Wes tminste r C ollege Magazine