Performing Arts Plaza
Electronic Newsletter
Volume 1 Issue 15
October 2003
Welcome to PSFA E-Connect, an electronic newsletter for alumni and friends of the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts (PSFA). We hope you enjoy this summary of SDSU and PSFA news. For detailed information, please click on the links provided or copy and paste into your web browser.
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EVENTS CALENDAR |
| Honk! A musical comedy based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling" Don Powell Theatre |
October 24, 25, 30, 31 and November 1 @ 8:00 p.m. October 26 and November 2 @ 2:00 p.m. |
| Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography from the
Haudenschild Collection University Art Gallery |
October 25 through December 6, 2003 Monday through Thursdays and Saturday 12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m. |
| Concert Band Music of the U.S. Smith Recital Hall |
October 20 @ 6:00 p.m. Tickets: 619.594.1696 |
| Performing Artists Concert Series: Jazz Combo Smith Recital Hall |
October 21 @ 6:00 p.m. Tickets: 619.594.1696 |
| Guest Artist: Jaren Hinckley, clarinet, Vince Humphries, piano Smith Recital Hall |
October 22 @ noon Free admission |
| Brass Ensembles Smith Recital Hall |
October 23 @ 7:00 p.m. Free admission |
| Senior Dance: Tamara Saari, Theresa Jones ENS 200 |
October 24 and 25 @ 8:00 p.m. Tickets: 619.594.1696 |
| Folk Music of Finland and Appalachia Smith Recital Hall |
October 27 @ 6:00 p.m. Tickets: 619.594.1696 |
| Performing Artists Concert Series: Latin Jazz Ensemble Smith Recital Hall |
October 28 @ 6:00 p.m. Tickets: 619.594.1696 |
| Music of Vietnam Smith Recital Hall |
November 3, 6-7:30 p.m. Tickets: 619.594.1696 |
| Jazz Ensemble #1 with Sunny Wilkinson, jazz vocalist Smith Recital Hall |
November 6 @ 7:00 p.m. Tickets: 619.594.1696 |
Zhao Bandai, 1999
CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE HAUDENSCHILD COLLECTION
COMES TO SDSU
The School of Art, Design and Art History will be hosting a Southern California premiere showing of new art from China in the University Art Gallery, October 25 through December 6, 2003. Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography from the Haudenschild Collection is the first of a two-part exhibit and educational programs that will feature the work of many of the most noteworthy Chinese artists working today.
The work of these artists comes to SDSU through a generous loan from the Haudenschild collection, and will be the first of its kind on the West Coast.
Noted art collectors, Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild are both alums of SDSU. The program is being organized and curated by Eloisa Haudenschild and Tina Yapelli, director of the University Art Gallery.
These exhibitions and educational programs comprise a significant project that will showcase contemporary China with new perspective and insight. The second exhibition, to open in late January 2004, will focus on video installation.
Be sure to visit the gallery to see this exciting exhibition and also
attend the special events listed below.
Video Dialogue: Shanghai-Tijuana
November 1 from noon to 2:00 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana Mexico
Moderated by Norma Iglesias with presentations by Yang Zhenzhong and Tijuana
video artists.
Special Events - November 8, 2003
Keynote Lecture
Chinese Artists (Digitally) Facing the Globalizing World by Hou
Hanru
2:30 p.m. in Room 100, Nasatir Hall, SDSU
Premiere Performance
Super Angel by Shi Yong
4:00 p.m. in Room 412; School of Art, Design and Art History; SDSU
Reception for the Artists
Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography from the Haudenschild
Collection
4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the University Art Gallery
November 9, 2003
Presentation in Mandarin
by Hou Hanru
2:30 p.m. A reception will follow until 4:00 p.m.
Asian Garden, San Diego
These events are also made possible by funding from the Instructionally Related Activities Fund at SDSU. Sponsors include CliniComp International, the SDSU Art Council, Chin's Szechwan, JoEllen and Lowell Parsons, Phyllis Kraus, Nine Dragons, Inc., Mayme Kline, Ledford Enterprises, Inc., Ye Wa, the School of Art, Design and Art History, the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, and the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts.
Alumni Profile |
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| James Collins (1986) physical education Department of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences (ENS) |
If you happen to watch the San Diego Chargers play in the NFL on any given Sunday, you are likely to see James Collins on the sidelines. A 15-year veteran in the National Football League, Collins took over the job as head athletic trainer for the football team in January 1999. Prior to that he spent three seasons as the head athletic trainer of the Philadelphia Eagles (1996-98), and as assistant athletic trainer with the Denver Broncos (1991-95). In the summer of 1995 he traveled to England to work with the now defunct London Monarchs of the NFL Europe's World League.
Collins' first athletic training experience in the NFL came with the Chargers
when he joined them as an intern during the 1986 season after graduating
from SDSU's Exercise and Nutritional Sciences Department with a degree
in physical education. He also spent two years as an orthopedic surgical
assistant with the OASIS Medical Group in San Diego. Collins serves on
the NFL safety panel, and is a member of the National Athletic Trainer's
Association.
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| Kevin Delgado |
1994 OUTSTANDING STUDENT RETURNS TO SDSU
Kevin Delgado has come full circle. He has just completed his first year as a faculty member in the School of Music and Dance where, in 1994, he received his undergraduate degree in Music, and was selected as the PSFA Outstanding Graduating Senior. Kevin then went on to complete his Master's degree and Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA. Kevin returned to SDSU via Tulane University where he was an assistant professor in Music. He recently returned from Cuba where he conducted research in Afro-Cuban ritual celebrations, and the study of rhythms and songs existing only in the city of Matanzas.
| DID YOU KNOW... | |
| 15.7% of first-time freshmen
were first generation college students 23.6% of transfer students were first-generation college students |
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The following students did NOT work during the school year 52.8% of new, first-time freshmen 30% of sophomores and juniors 25% of seniors |
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(Fall 2002 data compiled by Enrollment Services) |
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MUSICAL THEATRE HAS SWEDISH CONNECTION
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Musical Theatre students in the
2002- 2003 season production of Saturday Night |
Instrumental in helping many students in the MFA Musical Theatre Program at SDSU achieve their dreams of studying abroad by providing scholarships has been the Swedish Women's Educational Association (SWEA). In November, faculty from the School of Theatre, Television and Film will host an event at the Old Town Theatre to acknowledge the significant contributions of SWEA to the SDSU program. Also attending the event will be Eric Fagerborn and Sven-Eric Dahlberg, guests from Artisen, a musical theatre academy in Gothenburg, Sweden. They are here to work with students in the musical theatre program, and to discuss the possibility of creating an exchange program with SDSU. The evening will wrap up with a performance by the current MFA class who are gearing up for a trip to Gothenburg in the Spring of 2004.
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CONFERENCE
TO SHOWCASE SILVER FROM THE WEST COAST
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On Sunday, November 9, the conference, Silver of and From the West, will arrive at San Diego State University. This annual conference on silver will address every aspect of the metal that has originated in California from its composition, to the specific styles and patterns of West Coast silversmiths. Many of the nation's leading experts including faculty emeritus, Arline Fisch, and Helen Shirk of the School of Art, Design and Art History, will participate in the conference that begins November 7, and will be held in various locations from Pasadena to San Diego. The SDSU session will begin at 11:30 a.m. when participants arrive at the Everett Gee Jackson Gallery in the School of Art, Design and Art History. The day's session will include an exhibition of Silver Work by students and alumni, and professor Helen Shirk will discuss the metals program here at SDSU. For more information about this conference and to see a complete schedule please visit: www.scps.nyu.edu/silver.
THE 11th SEASON OF THE
SHORT LIST
TO AIR SOON
The Emmy Award-winning showcase for international short film, produced by Jack Ofield and Helen-Maria Erawan in the Production Center for Documentary and Drama, will feature 43 films from 14 countries, and include a special all-SDSU program of outstanding films by senior and graduate students. You can watch the new series beginning November 2, at 9:30 p.m., on public television locally. The series is carried throughout the United States and Canada. For more information visit The Short List at: www.theshortlist.cc.
"CALIFORNIA
WATER CRISIS:
MOVING TOWARD RESOLUTION"
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The School of Public Administration and Urban Studies will sponsor a public forum on the water crisis in the Southern California Region. A federal order has directed the Southern California Region to curb its overuse of the Colorado River or be faced with absorbing punishing cuts in water supply. How will 18 million Southern Californians and a few hundred farmers share a dwindling river supply for decades to come? What can be done to curtail the impact of this crisis while minimizing potential harm to the environment? This forum will focus on how residents of Southern California and more specifically the residents of San Diego County can be assured of water reliability for years to come.
The
forum will feature Bernie Rhinerson, Chairman of the Board, San Diego
County Water Authority, as Panel Moderator. Panel Members include Lloyd
Allen, President of the Board, Imperial Irrigation District, Denise Moreno
Ducheny, California State Senator, 40th District, and Richard Katz, State
Water Resources Control Board and Chief Negotiator for the Governor of
California. Rhinerson is a graduate of the School of Public Administration
and Urban Studies and also serves as Chair of the PSFA Dean's Advisory
Board. To RSVP for this event, or to receive more information, please
contact Nancy Flitcraft @ (619) 594-6084 by Wednesday, November 12, 2003.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Patricia Sandback (Music and Dance)
received the Eloise M Jaeger Physical Education Honorary Award, which is
presented annually to an educator for outstanding contribution in the field
of teaching and professional service.
Peter Andersen (Communication) will
be honored at the National Communication Association Convention in November.
He is the recipient of the Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award, given to an
individual who is an outstanding combination of teacher-scholar-mentor.
The NCA Convention, to be held in Miami Beach, November 19-23, will also
be host to many other faculty and graduate students from the School of
Communication who are participating in the annual conference.
Ralph Funicello (Theatre) is designing
the set for Henry IV, directed by Tony award winning Jack O'Brien
for the Lincoln Center Theatre in New York. He is also working on King
Lear, directed by Jonathan Miller, with Christopher Plummer in the
title role for the Lincoln Center.
Anna Stump (Art, Design and Art History)
participated in the Third International Terra Cotta Symposium in Eskisehir,
Turkey in June 2003. As the American representative to the festival, she
created a permanent public artwork in a city park entitled "The Slippery
Slope."
The sculpture made of terra cotta tiles, bricks, and marble, doubles as
a children's slide, and comments on the current friendship/aggression between
Turkey and the United States over the war in Iraq.
Simon Marshall (Exercise and Nutritional
Sciences) was one of 25 international fellows accepted to the "Post-Graduate
Course of Research Directions for Physical Activity and Public Health" held
September 2003 at the CDC -University of South Carolina in Hilton Head.
Jay Sheehan (Theatre) has been named
Vice President for Viejas Entertainment, an entertainment consulting business
that will assist other Native American tribes in the area of concert venue
development and concert production. He has just finished a successful season
as production manager for 28 shows at Viejas for such acts as Bill Cosby,
LeAnn Rimes, Chicago, and Billy Idol.
Jeff Morrison (Theatre) taught new
MFA students at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training of the American
Repertory Theatre at Harvard University. He also coached Elizabeth Waterston,
daughter of Sam Waterston, for a production of Lady with a Lapdog,
the lead show of the ART's mainstage season this year.
Jim Yaggie (Exercise and Nutritional
Sciences) recently served as conference chair for the 2003 American Kinesiotherapy
Association National Convention and was awarded the "Harry B. Dando
Memorial Award"
for outstanding service to the organization.
Susan Levy (Exercise and Nutritional Sciences) was awarded the Art Broten Young Scholar Award by the Western Colleges Physical Education Society. The award is given to individuals early in their careers in the areas of physical education/kinesiology in the 13 Western States and Canada. She will present a paper at their conference to accept the award.
News From
Alumni
Who's Doing What, Where
1970s
1972: William Ponder (Music, MS Counseling,
1983) has been promoted to Vice President of Student Affairs at Eastern
Washington University.
1975: Jean Marmet (Physical Education)
teaches physical education at Dana Middle School to 5th and 6th graders.
1975: Jim Koontz (Public Administration,
MPA, 1978) has been selected to serve on the Tulsa Community College Purchasing
and Materials Management Advisory Committee. The Committee consists of
area leaders whose mission is to achieve closer cooperation between businesses
and TCC in training the workforce.
1978: Ron Yukelson (Journalism) was
recently named Chief Business Development Officer at Century City Hospital
and Midway Hospital Medical Center, both in West Los Angeles.
1980s
1983: Kathleen Ann Tkac (Criminal
Justice Administration) is presently attending Bryant and Stratton College
in Rochester, New York, where she is pursuing an A.O.S. degree in Paralegal
Studies. She is currently interning in the Family Court, and plans to continue
her education at Brockport State College for a Masters degree in Public
Administration.
1990s
1992: Colleen La Ra (Criminal Justice
Administration) is an elementary teacher, teaching 5th grade. She lives
in Phoenix, Arizona, where she attends the University of Phoenix and will
be receiving her Master degree in Education in November 2003.
1992: Sherri Allen (Drama) recently
understudied all female roles in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at
the La Jolla Playhouse. She received her Teaching Credential in English
and Drama from CSU San Marcos in May 2003, and is also currently appearing
in a television commercial for Valley Career College.
1994: Brett Lowder (Speech Communication)
was promoted to Marketing Coordinator/Webmaster for the Mountain West Conference.
He was also named Tournament Assistant Manager for the 2004 NCAA Division
I Men's Basketball Championship First/Second Rounds in Denver.
1994: Matthew Katz (Speech Communication) has recently started two new careers. He has joined Globix Corporation as a major account manager, and is also now a licensed life and disability insurance agent.
Did you get a promotion? Recently relocated? Have personal news to share?
Send us your news and/or updated contact information to Class Notes at econnect@mail.sdsu.edu.
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its programs. For those who prefer the convenience of on-line giving, the
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