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JULY 2007 Volume XI, No. 6 |
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Gagne to Speak at ConvocationSAFE Federal Credit Union President and CEO Beverly Gagne will deliver the Keynote Address during USC Sumter’s Opening Convocation Monday, August 27, 2007. Gagne is a USC Sumter alumne who began college as a “mature” student in 1980 and was already the mother of five children at home. In 1983, she received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina, Magna Cum Laude. She went on to receive a Masters of Accountancy from the University of South Carolina in 1986 and in 1991 became a graduate of South East Regional Credit Union School. Gagne has also completed Leadership Sumter and obtained Certified Credit Union Executive designation.In 2006, Gagne was the first recipient of the USC Sumter Distinguished Alumnus Award. She was a charter member of Rotary Club of Sumter Sunrise in 1996 and has served as Treasurer and Board Member. Gagne has served on the United Way Board and the YMCA Board is currently serving as Treasurer on the USC Sumter Partnership Board; Carolinas Credit Union Foundation Board; South Carolina Credit Union League Board; South Carolina Automated Clearing House Board; and the Sumter Green Board. Gagne attends Westside Baptist Church and is married to Armand "Joe" Gagne, Jr. She has two children, five step children, two adopted children (ages 14 and 16), and 11 grandchildren. |
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Bellanca Publishes BookAssistant Professor of English Dr. Mary Ellen Bellanca has recently published Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain. Published by University of Virginia Press, the work is an expansion of Bellanca’s Ph.D. dissertation in which she studied a variety of diaries and journals kept by 19th century British writers. The book is the culmination of almost ten years of research for Bellanca and has been well-received thus far.Below is the description according to the publisher: In Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870, Mary Ellen Bellanca offers the first critical study of this genre. In looking at the diaries of Gilbert White, Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Shore, George Eliot, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, as well as those of lesser-known figures, she explores the writers' pursuit of empirical knowledge of nature for its own sake, rather than focusing on Romantic nature philosophy or on 'ecology' as a metaphor for spiritual connectedness. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history, examining how journal writing enabled and mediated the diarist’s practice as naturalist. A melange of fact, narrative, and imaginative re-creation, the nature diary played a crucial role in literature and science in a period of burgeoning knowledge about the natural world. For students and scholars of environmental history, the history of science, ecocriticism, and Victorian studies, Daybooks of Discovery will prove an essential tool for understanding this distinct genre. The book is currently available through a variety of online retail outlets. |  |
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New Alumni Association Benefits!The USC Sumter Alumni Association and the My Carolina Alumni Association have just joined forces! Join or renew your membership with the USC Sumter Alumni Association and have a dual membership in the My Carolina Alumni Association. You receive the full benefits of both Associations by joining the USC Sumter Alumni Association. More services, more communications, more ways to stay connected! For more information on the My Carolina Alumni Association visit www.carolinaalumni.org. To join the USC Sumter Alumni Association and get in on this great new membership, visit www.uscsumter.edu/advancement/benefits.shtmlNew members also receive FREE use of the Nettles Gym facilities which include: badminton courts, basketball courts, racquetball courts, weight room, locker rooms, volleyball courts and a wallyball court. This is in addition to several other benefits listed on the website. Annual dues are $50 for a single member OR for two members at a single address. Each member receives an individual membership card with all its benefits and privileges. Each address receives one mailing. For more information, contact S. Hayes Jones at 803-938-3851 or email jonessh@uscsumter.edu |
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Employee NewsFind out who’s coming and going at USC Sumter. Congratulations! |
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 | Absolutely Useless Trivia Question!If you can be the third person to answer the following question by email, you’ll receive a prize!_______ astronauts manned each Apollo flight. |
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