Give It Your Best Shot! This 1964 photo is of members of the Matthew Fontaine Maury Science Club of Mary Washington College. We know about the club’s namesake – a 19th-century naval officer, oceanographer, and Fredericksburg native who sailed around the globe. But we know nothing about the aspiring scientists pictured here. If you think you can identify any of them, please tell us! Leave a comment on this page or send an email with “Get the Picture” in the subject line: UMW Magazine – Get the Picture 1301 College Ave. Fredericksburg, Va. 22401-5300. You Got It! Linda Tucker Weaver ’68 and Donna Sheehan Gladis ’68 recognized one of their classmates, psychology major Frances “Franny” Scavullo ’68, pictured selling pumpkins on Lee Hall patio in the fall/winter 2015 issue of UMW Magazine. No one identified the woman on the right. If you know her, please get in touch with us. A big thank you to Linda and Donna for helping us. We use the information from this … [Read more...]
Book Report
Books by UMW alumni Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution By Sarah Crabtree ’01, assistant professor of history at San Francisco State University Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in Holy Nation, Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism within the larger intellectual and religious undercurrents of the Atlantic World, Crabtree shows how Quakers forged a paradoxical sense of their place in the world as militant warriors fighting for peace. – University of Chicago, July 2015 A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9-19, 1863 By Bill Backus ’10 and Robert Orrison In the months after Gettysburg, Gen. Robert E. Lee looked for the chance to strike out at Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade. The authors trace a game of cat and mouse between the armies’ camps around … [Read more...]
Swimmers Go All-America
Two individual swimmers and a women’s relay team earned All-America honors at the 2016 NCAA Division III Swimming Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, in March. Steph Hallock ’16 came in 11th in the women’s 50-yard freestyle and 15th in the 100-yard freestyle, earning All-America honors for both. Dallas Tarkenton ’17 achieved the status with an eighth-place finish in the men’s 100-yard butterfly. Hallock was on the women’s 200-yard medley relay team, with teammates Katie Fago ’16, Hannah Hagy ’16, and Anna Corley ’17. That team finished 13th, earning All-America honors. UMW swimmer Shannon Coryell ’17 also competed in the invitation-only event in Greensboro. … [Read more...]
Athletics Gala to Feature Wong
Jin Wong ’97, assistant general manager of the World Series-winning Kansas City Royals, will speak at the third annual UMW Athletics Gala on May 19 at the Jepson Alumni Executive Center. Wong, a business administration major and former All-American center fielder for Mary Washington, exemplifies UMW Athletics’ mission for student-athlete excellence. UMW President Richard V. Hurley, who is retiring in June, also will attend. The event begins at 6 p.m. with cocktails and silent auction bidding; dinner and the program start at 7. A live auction will end the evening. Seats are $130 each or $1,000 for a table of 10. A portion of each ticket purchase is tax-deductible, and proceeds will benefit Mary Washington student-athletes. For information, contact Philip Pierce at 540/654-1153 or by email at ppierce@umw.edu. … [Read more...]
UMW Dedicates Rosner Arena
The arena in the William M. Anderson Center has a new name in honor of Ron Rosner, a Fredericksburg-area businessman and longtime benefactor of University of Mary Washington athletics. The Ron Rosner Arena was officially named in December during a halftime ceremony at a men’s basketball game. Rosner gave $500,000 to fund the Ron Rosner Athletic Endowment, supporting UMW’s student-athletes and the community. Rosner is founder and chairman of the board of the Rosner Automotive Group, and he’s long been a supporter of UMW and the community. At Mary Washington, he has sponsored lectures by National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths and husband-and-wife journalists Jennifer Griffin of the Fox News Channel and Greg Myre of National Public Radio. “The community has been so generous to me,” Rosner said. “The University of Mary Washington is a great asset to the region and an integral part of the community. I hope my gift will help bolster the university’s already strong athletics … [Read more...]
Women Take CAC Championship
The University of Mary Washington women’s basketball team blazed through another stellar season, winning 24 games including the Capital Athletic Conference Championship. Along the way, UMW head coach Deena Applebury earned her 300th career win. It was the Eagles’ sixth CAC championship and the eighth trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament under Applebury, who has coached at UMW since 2003. The program has made 10 NCAA appearances altogether. The Eagles advanced only through the first round of the NCAAs, losing 67-56 to Maryville College of Tennessee in March. But the season saw some great moments for the UMW women, including hard-fought wins over conference rivals St. Mary’s, Christopher Newport, and Marymount. … [Read more...]
UMW Wins Regional World Geography Bowl
A team of five UMW geography students headed to Pensacola last fall and came back winners of the 2015 Southeastern Regional World Geography Bowl Competition. Each year, a team represents UMW at the meeting of the Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers, which sponsors the competition. Virginia’s undefeated team, which included UMW students and one Georgia State University graduate student, competed against seven other state teams. Teams must include students from more than one school, both genders, and graduate and undergraduate students. Many of the competitors in the bowl are graduate students, which makes UMW’s performance especially noteworthy. UMW students also present research and visit sites of interest to geographers at the annual meeting. UMW’s Steven Fernando ’16 was the second highest scorer overall and the highest scoring undergraduate in the competition. As a result, he traveled to the national meeting of the American Association of Geographers in … [Read more...]
Mellon Funds Multicampus Digital Initiative
UMW will be part of a three-year project to expand distance, team-taught, and multicampus digital research seminars in the liberal arts. The Andrew Mellon Foundation awarded COPLAC – the 29 member-school Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges – a $540,000 grant for the three-year project. UMW is a COPLAC member. The project, “Digital Liberal Arts at a Distance,” will be co-directed by UMW History Professor Jeffrey McClurken ’94 and University of North Carolina Asheville History Professor Ellen Holmes Pearson. McClurken, who also is UMW special assistant to the provost for teaching, technology, and innovation, and Pearson co-directed the successful COPLAC-sponsored pilot course “Century America Digital Liberal Arts” that inspired the new effort. Using distance and online technologies, undergraduate researchers will collaborate across campuses to build major digital projects that will be available to the public on the web. They will develop research, production, and … [Read more...]