Reflections Magazine Issue #77 - Fall 2012 | Page 5

Campus News

from the heights
Three Siena Heights
Professors Retire from
the Classroom

SHU Representatives
Travel to Vietnam for
Curriculum Partnership

Siena Heights celebrated the professional lives
of faculty members concluding their full-time
careers at SHU on May 3. Siena Heights paid
tribute to retiring art faculty members Barbara
Cervenka, OP, and Deborah Danielson and
English faculty member Daniel McVeigh.

Last summer, SHU’s Kelly Cichy, Joy Garrow
and Sally Rae traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, for
a three-week partnership/workshop with The
Olympia Schools. They worked with Olympia’s
faculty/students and administration on curriculum development and implementation of
content delivery based on some of the American
theorists. This was an attempt to best prepare
their students for success in college and in life,
as many of the attend colleges/universities in
the U.S. Seen below are Kelly, Sally, Joy, and
Olympia students attending Olympia’s prom.

Professor of History
Awarded Fellowship
SHU Hosts 5th Annual
Arts Speak Festival
On May 10, SHU hosted the 5th annual Arts
Speak fine arts festival for Lenawee County
high school students. This celebration in the
arts brought approximately 400 top artists
and musicians to campus (above) for a day of
workshops and collaborative projects. The day
featured a keynote from SHU alum Leslie Love.

SHU Professor Has
Article Published
Siena Heights Assistant
Professor of Philosophy Jeff
Englehardt will have his
article titled “Varieties of
Multiple Antecedent Cause,”
published in the September
2012 journal of Acta
Analytica. Acta Analytica is a peer-reviewed,
international quarterly. The journal aims to
promote a rigorous, argumentative approach
in philosophy.

Dinner Theater Event
on the “Cutting Edge”
Theatre Siena and the
Alumni Office co-hosted
SHU alumni and friends on
March 31 for an evening of
dinner and drama, meat
pies and music! This year’s
dinner/theater event
included a wine & cheese reception with
entertainment by Barbershop Voices of Siena,

an elegant dinner with dessert speaker Mark
DiPietro discussing “Revenge Tragedy and
the Theater of Blood: From Penny Dreadful to
Broadway”, and the Theatre Siena production
of the musical thriller “Sweeney Todd: The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”

Business Division
Awards Honors;
Inducts New Members
The Business Administration division had
its annual Sigma Beta Delta induction and
honor awards ceremony in April. SHU alum
Josh Burgett was the guest speaker and was
also inducted into SBD. Those students to be
honored were: Brittney Rhodes, Isaac Ashong,
Kelly Ferguson, Kimberlee Conolly, Kelby Allen,
Brett Kuebler, Darrell Gudenau and Mariann
Weiss. Students inducted into the Sigma Beta
Delta were: Ruben Becerra, Debra Blohm, Kyle
Hanson, Christopher Schurr, Isaac Ashong, Nana
Ampong, Roselinda Odhiambo, Austin Harper,
Ashley Tillotson, Thomas Koomson, Nathaniel
Snyder, Adam Schmaltz, Leslie Grob, Kaitlin
Ludwig, John Lyszczyk and Derek Henning.

Peeradina Gives Poetry
Reading in Pennsylvania
SHU Associate Professor of English Saleem
Peeradina was invited to give a poetry reading
at Gwynedd-Mercy College in Pennsylvania
as part of the celebration of N