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The Triangle Alumni Chapter will host its annual Durham Bulls Minor
League Baseball event at the ballpark Sunday, May 2 when the Bulls
take on the Richmond Braves. Tickets are $20 and include admission
to the game, food, beverages and door prizes. To make reservations,
download the reservation form at http://www.uncw.edu/alumni/Bulls_form.pdf.
Forms may be faxed with credit card payment to 910.962.2685. Otherwise,
mail form and payment to the UNCW Alumni Association c/o Wise Alumni
House, 1713 Market Street Wilmington, NC 28403. Attn: Durham Bulls.
Tickets may also be charged by phone at 800.596.2880. For more information,
contact Bekki Bennett’91
at 919.362.7152 or visit the alumni
Web site.
The UNCW Alumni Association and the Cape Fear Alumni Chapter will
hold their sixth annual Grand Slam Jam baseball pregame tailgate
at 6 p.m. Friday, May 21 at Brooks Field on the UNCW campus. At
7 p.m. alumni will cheer the UNCW baseball team on to victory as
they take on the Old Dominion Monarchs. Tickets (which include a
game ticket) are $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. For
more information or to make a reservation call the UNCW Alumni Association
at 910.962.2682. Space is limited and advance reservations are required.
If you are interested in attending only the baseball game, please
contact the UNCW Athletic Ticket office for game tickets at 910.962.3233.
Mandy Hill '99, '02M, marine biology, has a paper describing her
thesis work featured on the Web site of the Royal Society. Co-authors
on the paper are Laela Sayigh, biological sciences, and CMS; Jim
Blum, mathematics and statistics; and Randy Wells, Chicago Zoological
Society. MORE
The Seahawk Spotlight shines on Kristin Gruver Asher ’02.
Kristin has a degree in communication studies and certification
in professional writing. She has served as the administrative secretary
for the Office of Alumni Relations since January 2002 and has been
an asset as well to the Alumni Association and University Advancement
by using her focus, drive and achievement oriented style to support
alumni programs. Kristin served on the Communication Studies Alumni
Chapter and has given her untiring support of all areas of the alumni
association. Kristin is married to James, who works for Sears, and
they have one son, Perry, who attends St. Mary School. Kristin has
accepted a position with the Generation Company in Durham as a trainer.
Her UNCW degree will be actively used in her exciting role. She
plans to become active in the Triangle Alumni Chapter, so this is
not a goodbye, just a Seahawk thank you with hopes to see more of
you on the road.
During the four weeks leading to the chancellor's Installation,
Rosemary DePaolo hit the road on a "Procession to Installation."
She visited Duplin, Bladen, Craven and Onslow counties to learn
more about the education and economic conditions of each area. She
was warmly welcomed by key business, civic and education leaders
in addition to area alumni. The purpose of these outreach efforts
were to provide her a first hand look at the counties that surround
UNCW and to explore ways to serve them better. Thank you to everyone
who attended and hosted these events. Our thanks go out to Virginia
Baysden '72, Ron Choate '72, Mickey Corcoran '70, Hobby Green '77,
Bob Joos '79, Murphy-Brown LLC and Sam O'Leary '83 for making these
events possible.
Soprano Bridgid Rathgeb Eversole ‘00 performed a concert of
lieder with pianist Patricia Ainspac, cellist Michael Hickman and
flutist Mary Jo White on April 2 in Kenan Auditorium. The program
included songs from Bach, Schumann, Bellini, Debussy and Britten.
Eversole completed her master’s degree in vocal performance
at the University of Minnesota, where she was a recipient of the
Sutton Opera Scholarship. She is currently a voice instructor at
UNCW.
The African American Graduates Association (AAGA) will sponsor Senior
Sankofa, for graduating African-American seniors at 1 p.m. Friday,
May 7, at Wise Alumni House. In the Akan languages of West Africa
sankofa means "wisdom in learning from the past to build for
the future" and symbolizes an African rite of passage. Its
concept has been adopted to represent the unity among students of
African descent; a Senior Sankofa gift is presented by AAGA to each
student. The ceremony marks the tradition of students of color graduating
from their lives at UNCW to their new careers. Alumni are invited
to attend and can RSVP to Yvonne
Smith with the Office
of Campus Diversity at 910.962.3832. Please respond no later
than Friday, April 30.
The UNCW Alumni Association was involved in four events during Installation
Week honoring Rosemary DePaolo. The week started out by bringing
together all alumni who work at UNCW as faculty or staff for breakfast.
Their gift to the chancellor was near and dear to her heart –
they raised alumni faculty and staff giving to 80 percent and pledged
to reach 100 percent by June 30. The Wilmington College Alumni Chapter,
the Order of Isaac Bear and the Retired Faculty Association hosted
DePaolo for a "Heritage Luncheon" on April 14. Jervie
Babson ’53 presented her with a hand-crafted gravel and base
with a plaque featuring seals of both Wilmington College and UNCW.
In attendance were many influential former administrators faculty,
staff, alumni and friends. The Cape Fear Alumni Chapter, the Past
Chairs Council and the Graduate School hosted a reception April
14 at Wise Alumni House that drew over 300 people. The program honored
Chancellor DePaolo, and the group presented her with a framed Ronald
Williams print with a plaque noting the special occasion. The UNCW
Student Ambassadors hosted all orientations leaders, presidents
of student organizations and their members at buffet breakfast on
April 15. They presented her with two signed books about North Carolina
and a pair of "Rainbows" so she could feel like a student
again and enjoy the area’s relaxed life-style when the opportunity
arises.
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Rosemary DePaolo, the third chancellor and sixth leader of UNCW
took her oath of office Friday, April 17 during a 10 a.m. ceremony
on the lawn of Hoggard Hall under a cloudless, spring sky. The installation’s
ambitious theme, “Soaring to Greatness,” is inspired
by DePaolo’s industrious aspirations for the University of
North Carolina at Wilmington. DePaolo challenged the university
to focus on excellence in teaching, diversity and internationalization
in order “to place UNCW in a position of unquestioned preeminence
among midsized public universities in the Southeast, at least.”
For the complete speech and other information on the ceremony please
visit http://www.uncw.edu/installation.
Boney Architects and six individuals are the recipients of the 12th
Annual Razor Walker Awards. The ceremony will be held at UNCW’s
Warwick Center Ballroom at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, April 26. The Razor
Walker Awards recognize the efforts and commitment of a select group
of people and one corporation who have improved the lives of and
educational opportunities for children in North Carolina. MORE
The Board of Governors of the 16-campus University of North Carolina
has selected some of its most outstanding faculty to receive the
10th annual Awards for Excellence in Teaching. During a recognition
luncheon to be held in conjunction with the board’s May meeting,
a faculty member from each UNC campus will receive a commemorative
bronze medallion and a $7,500 cash prize. W. Frank Ainsley, professor
of geography at UNCW, will be among those honored. MORE
University of North Carolina at Wilmington junior Monica Lissette
Lorenzo was selected for the International Mission on Medicine to
China from May 15 to 30. MORE
The regular quarterly committee meetings of the Board of Trustees
of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington will be held on
Thursday, April 29 with the full board meeting slated for 8:30 a.m.,
on Friday, April 30, at the Madeline Suite, Wagoner Hall. The trustees
will participate in the groundbreaking for Technology Support Center
12:30 p.m. Thursday April 29, behind Hoggard Hall. MORE
Lynetta Karlson, a junior non-traditional social work major at UNCW,
is heading up a local Books for Africa service project along with
Kappa Alpha Psi, the Black Student Union and Teaching Fellows. The
book drive is a service project being done in honor of Chancellor
Rosemary DePaolo’s installation. Books for Africa, a Minnesota-based
non-profit organization, collects, sorts, ships and distributes
books to children in Africa. There is a particular need for college-level
textbooks. MORE
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Led by conference Player of the Year Becky Berzonski, UNC Wilmington
completed a three-day comeback by capturing its third consecutive
Big South golf crown April 14, at Brentwood (S.C.) Country Club.
Berzonski carded a 73-69-75=217 to bring medalist honors back to
the Port City as the Seahawks erased a 17-stroke deficit to earn
the league’s NCAA Tournament berth in their third and final
season in the Big South. MORE
The UNCW men’s golf team fired a 290 on April 18 to capture
its first Colonial Athletic Association men’s golf championship
at the Nansemond River Golf Club in Suffolk, Va. The Seahawks wound
up with a three-day total of 867, nine shots better than defending
champion Old Dominion at 876. Coach Jason Widener’s team clinches
the CAA’s automatic berth to the NCAA Regionals and will be
making their second straight appearance on the national stage after
collecting an at-large bid one year ago. MORE
The UNCW men’s and women’s track and field teams each
placed third, and three more Seahawks collected individual titles
as the CAA Track and Field Championships concluded April 17 at Sports
Backers Stadium in Richmond, Va. Freshmen Zeickia won the 400 meters
and ran a leg on the winning 4x400 relay team for the Seahawks.
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Sophomore outfielder John Raynor tied a school record with five
hits as the UNCW baseball team out slugged William & Mary, 14-12,
April 17 to gain a split of the first two games of the weekend series
at Plumeri Park in Williamsburg, Va. UNCW improved to 19-15 overall
and 6-4 in the CAA heading into Sunday’s series finale. MORE
Senior guard Cherie Lea of Blanch, N.C., was named the Colonial
Athletic Association’s top scholar-athlete in women’s
basketball. Lea, a two-time First-Team All CAA selection, ranked
third in the circuit in scoring with 15.9 ppg and also received
the CAA’s prestigious Dean Ehlers Leadership Award. A two-time
choice on the All-Academic team and an I-AAA Academic All America
pick one year ago, Lea is majoring in mathematics. MORE
Former Seahawk standout Jake Mullis pitched a perfect ninth inning
and picked up the save as the Burlington Bees were the no-hit winners
over the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in a Midwest League game April
19 in Burlington, Iowa. MORE
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ALUMNI
HOST EVENTS FOR CHANCELLOR
ALUMNI
HOST INSTALLATION EVENTS
UNCW
CHANCELLOR DEPAOLO PROMISES TO “MAKE WAVES”
AINSLEY
RECEIVES UNC BOARD OF GOVERNORS AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE
STUDENTS
TO COLLECT 12,000 BOOKS FOR AFRICA 
SEAHAWKS
CLAIM THIRD STRAIGHT WOMEN’S GOLF TITLE
LEA
VOTED TOP SCHOLAR IN CAA WOMEN’S HOOPS
