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'Out All
Night' to Be Staged
Galloway in a scene from "Out All
Night
and I Lost My Shoes." |
Performance artist Terry Galloway
will present her one-woman show, "Out All Night and I Lost
My Shoes" at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, in the Dance Theater.
Admission is free.
L.A. Weekly calls Galloway "a hoot and a provocateur
from the get-go....She blends physical humor, wry intelligence and
a heartfelt mortification at human suffering into the autobiographically
based stories of 'Out All Night and I Lost My Shoes'." The
Austin Chronicle's Robert Faires wrote, "Terry Galloway
writes with passion and intensity and wit and elegance about her
life and about art...."
A native of Stuttgart, Germany, Galloway was reared in Berlin, Germany,
and Austin, Texas. She has a degree from the University of Texas
at Austin and did graduate work in theater as a Heckscher Fellow
at Columbia University in New York City. In Austin she helped found,
wrote, produced, directed and performed with Esther's Follies, one
of the longest-running musical comedy theaters in the Southwest.
While a student in New York, she wrote and performed several one-woman
shows at venues as diverse as W.O.W. Cafe, P.S. 122, and the American
Place Theater. Since then her work has been produced around the
world in venues ranging from the Manhattan Theater Club in New York
City to the Zap Club in Brighton, England.
She has written a volume of verse, two plays, a performance piece,
countless popular or quasi-academic articles and essays as well
as any number of poems, monologues and shorter theatrical pieces.
She is currently at work on The Unheard, a memoir about growing
up deaf.
UWW Student Works Toward Lifelong Dream
of College Degree
Geneva Long with UWW Advisor Chris Whann
(left) and UWW Director Corky Reinhart. |
Skidmore's oldest student, Geneva
Long 96, a student in the University Without Walls, is well on her
way toward a lifelong goal of earning a bachelor's degree in education.
Mrs. Long met with UWW director Corky Reinhart and academic advisor
Chris Whann when she came to campus in late December for a meeting
on her final project. She enrolled in UWW last summer. The Missouri
native says that she knew since childhood that she wanted to be
a teacher and had enrolled in a number of colleges over the years
to work toward her goal. After earning an associate's degree in
1927, she began to teach and eventually taught in three different
elementary schools. By juggling her days as a teacher with her evenings
as a student, Mrs. Long obtained her permanent certification as
a teacher on her 53rd birthday. "It was a wonderful birthday
gift," she reported.
After she retired as an elementary school teacher, Mrs. Long began
a new career as a Sunday School teacher in the division of education
at the Troy Conference of the United Methodist Church. In 2000,
Mrs. Long moved to Woodlawn Commons in Saratoga Springs and it was
then that she began to investigate the idea of earning her bachelor's
degree. She said, "I thought I would try again. I had indeed
started this many times but was interrupted. Now I am ready."
Mrs. Long's faculty advisor is Professor Emerita of Physical Education
Beverly Becker; Whann is her UWW advisor. Says Whann, "Although
Geneva had earned more than 120 credits over the years, she did
not have a bachelor's degree, but she always had the desire. I was
very impressed with her dedication to her goal. She is a living
history of education. I have learned as much from her as she probably
has from me."
Mrs. Long's final project will be in the form of a memoir describing
how her formal education and life experiences contributed to her
success as an elementary school teacher. She will analyze teacher
certification requirements from early in the 20th century and compare
them to current standards to illustrate how teacher preparation
program requirements have changed.
Scope Wins "Accolade"
Skidmore Scope, the College magazine, has been recognized
for the second straight year in the "Accolades" annual
awards contest sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and
Support of Education (CASE) District II.
Scope won a silver medal for "Best Article of the Year"
in the college-magazine category for "Now Hear This: Audio
Art Sparks Tang's Inaugural Exhibit (and Scope Eavesdrops on the
Curatorial Process Behind the Scenes)" by staff writer Barbara
Melville. (The article may be viewed at: http://hudson2.skidmore.edu/scope/fall2000/feature/tang.html)
There were more than 60 entries in that category; two silver medals
were awarded. Last year Scope earned a bronze award in the category
of "Periodical Staff Writing" for a collection of five
articles written by various members of the Scope staff.
This year's award will be formally presented during the District
II annual conference Feb. 9 to 12 in Toronto. CASE is a 38,000-member
organization of advancement professionals from colleges, universities,
and independent schools in the U.S. and 44 other countries. The
organization comprises eight districts, with District II encompassing
the Mid-Atlantic states.
Bloodmobile Announced
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit the campus Tuesday, Feb. 5,
for the first blood drive of 2002.
The bloodmobile is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the multipurpose
room of the Sports and Recreation Center. In order to serve people
more efficiently, the Red Cross urges prospective donors to make
an appointment.
Some guidelines for donating include being between the ages of 17
and 75, in good general health, and weighing at least 110 pounds.
Donors must wait at least 56 days between donations. There is a
12-month wait after body piercing (no restriction if by sterile
procedure) and a 12-month wait after a tattoo.
To obtain more information on eligibility, please call the Red Cross
at 800-724-0547, ext. 806. To make an appointment for the Feb. 5
Bloodmobile, contact Holley Hodgins (hhodgins@skidmore.edu),
ext. 5309.
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