Tim Brown, professor of exercise science, athletic director, and men's golf coach, was inducted into the Golf Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame Jan. 23 in Orlando, Fla. For details on the award and Brown's record, click here: http://apollo.skidmore.edu/news/news.release.detail_show?p_news_id=90

Glenn Egelman, M.D., director of health services, has been approved by the Board of Trustees of Saratoga Hospital for an appointment to the associate staff of the hospital's department of medicine.

Catherine Golden, professor of English, gave an invited talk following the inaugural Charlotte Goodman Women's Studies dinner Oct. 11 at Skidmore. Golden's talk was titled "My Circle of Fictional Friends: A Reader's Journey." Golden also gave an invited lecture, "Women Should Not Read? A 19th-Century View," to the Evening Branch of the Women's Alliance Nov. 15, 2001, in Schenectady.

Reinhard Mayer, visiting associate professor of German, accepted an invitation to participate in the Wirtschaftsdeutsch-Seminar (Business German Seminar) by the Goethe Institute Dec. 14-16 in Chicago. The workshop was held to organize the future administration and promotion of ZDfB and PWD exams in the U.S. These exams provide certificates to students on their linguistic skills and knowledge of business practices and culture in German. Skidmore is a magnet testing site for these exams, which are available for students to take each April and May.

In addition, Mayer attended the annual meeting of the American Literary Translators Association Oct. 24-27, 2001 in Raleigh, N.C., where he conducted a three-day workshop on translating poetry. From June 12-19, 2001, he participated in the Advanced Placement (AP) Readings for the Educational Testing Service and College Board. The AP Readings took place in San Antonio.

On May 2-4 and Aug. 8, 2001, he participated in the German Collaborative Meeting organized by the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College. As a result students in his FG 201 class created exhibits in the "Virtual Museum" along with students from Middlebury, Union, Mt. Holyoke, and Allegheny colleges.

President Studley was among 10 college presidents who convened Nov. 14 at Columbia University's School of Journalism for a dinner and discussion with representatives of the national media. The annual event is hosted by Columbia to foster dialogue among educational leaders and the reporters and editors who cover higher education. This year's discussion focused on the events of Sept. 11 and how they are likely to affect the operation of colleges and universities. Those attending included the presidents of Columbia, Barnard, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania, and Notre Dame.

Mark Youndt, assistant professor of management and business, presented a paper titled "The Role of Human Resources in the Strategic Positioning of Service Organizations" (co-written with Bruce Skaggs from the University of Kentucky) in December at the Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management in Charleston, S.C.

Publications & Exhibitions

Reinhard Mayer, visiting associate professor of German, has contributed four bio-bibliographical articles to the Internationales Germanistenrlexikon 1800-1950 edited by Christoph König in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach, Germany. This three-volume reference work on scholars of German literature will be published during the summer of 2002 by Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, and also will be available in CD-ROM format.

Mayer's articles covered the life and works of Henry Hatfield and Jack Stein of Harvard University and Meno Spann and Erich Heller of Northwestern University. Mayer also contributed supplemental information to complete Harry Zohn's article on Ernst Waldinger. Waldinger was an Austrian poet-scholar, a refugee from Nazi Germany, who taught at Skidmore from 1947 until his retirement in 1967.

In addition, Mayer's translation of Peter Schneider's essay "Paradoxes of Responsibility: Adriano Sofri and the Italian Left, was published in the fall 2001 issue of Southern Humanities Review.

Doretta Miller, professor of art, has work included in a two-person show (with Tom Schottman) titled "China Images and Stoneware Forms" on exhibit Jan. 27 through Feb. 24 at the First Unitarian Society, 1221 Wendall Ave., Schenectady. Exhibition hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. An opening reception is planned from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3.

Jeffrey Segrave, professor of exercise science and chair, Department of Exercise Science, Athletics, and Dance, is the author of " "The Lovely Evil": The pregame sex myth and the denigration of women," published in Violence Against Women, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2002.


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