Entries from October 2009

October 29, 2009

Nillie Bipper Art Festival

The Nillie Bipper Creative Arts Festival is held the first weekend in October.  This year was the 42nd annual show, and it is a function of the Cleveland Creative Arts Guild.  Professor John Simmons is a Vice President in the Guild and Co-Director of the Festival.
There are typically about 70 exhibitors from throughout the Southeast, [...]

October 28, 2009

Public Speaking Class Reads to Kindergartners

Earlier this month, Dr. Christie Kleinmann partnered with Oak Gove Elementary School to give the students in her Public Speaking class first-hand experience.
In order to teach delivery, phrasing, and voice inflection, Kleinmann took her students to Oak Grove Elementary to read children’s books to the Kindergarten class.  Kleinmann says that she always uses children’s books [...]

October 8, 2009

New Faculty Joins Arts and Sciences

This year, new faculty joins the College of Arts and Sciences.  Professor Jeff Ringer, Dr. Wendy Steinberg, and Professor Alan Wheeler are new additions in the English, Psychology, and Anthropology discipline respectively.  
Professor Jeff Ringer is a Lee alum finishing his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition through the University of New Hampshire while teaching here [...]