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Montgomery Campus Celebrates National Library Week |
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SU Montgomery (Spring 2010) - The Montgomery campus library sponsored a celebration of National Library Week (April 12-17 2010) with the theme “Libraries: A World of Information.” The week included contests, prizes, genealogy workshops and a book exchange, then culminated in an International Feast featuring “Foods from Around the World (but mostly Montgomery)”.
The genealogical workshops attended by a few students and employees also proved fruitful. One student was able to find direct ancestry back to 1620s Virginia, while another found records of an ancestor who was a slave in 1790s North Carolina (several centuries being not bad for an hours worth of guided searching). A free book exchange -an annual tradition in the library- managed to find new homes for many novels and paperbacks.
The meal required a special library “Passport” that students and faculty/staff had to have stamped and signed twice by library staff on any two separate days. To give as many students as possible a sampling, the dinner was held at noon and again at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 15 (a taxing but memorable date).
The dinner featured eclectic cuisine of roasted lamb (a staple of European, Australian, and Indian cuisine but a first taste for many South students), bratwurst, Italian sausage, Asian stir fry, fried plantains, Puerto Rican cornbread, and various other dishes from around the world as well as a National Library Week cake. If the adage “The proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof” is true then the dinner proved a success; there were no leftovers and a few students and staff enjoyed the meal at both sittings!
Prizes were awarded by drawings of passports at the dinner and by two contests. The first was a match the author to his or her birthplace, the other being “How many books are in the Library” (the guesses ranging from 600 to 230,000 - the correct answer if you’re interested is closer to 17,000).
The library staff owes many thanks to all who made the celebrations a success. Special thanks go to student workers Heavenly Chambliss, Denise Coulter, Linda Phillips, and Melissa Sullivan, and extra special thanks to Michael Barnett, SUM’s resident griller extraordinaire, for once again taking the heat by manning the grill for a school affair. |
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Professional Counseling makes a difference in Montgomery |
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SU Montgomery (Winter 2010) - A message from a graudate student:
In my graduate class in community mental health counseling at South University in Montgomery, I, Donna Long, completed a video on how the special needs section of our society was overlooked, shunned, and ignored by certain elements of our community. The video showed ways the community could help these individuals. The idea of the Jeffrey S. Long Project, Inc. (JSLP, Inc.) resulted from this video.
JSLP, Inc., is now a non-profit corporation that will help set up a center for the special needs individuals transitioning from high school to the working world. It will also be a place where they can be helped with work skills. Our organization has a distinct approach; we would like to have a partnership where the individual is placed along with a mentor on a specific job, similar to what is done with some school systems in our area. We want to help educate employers on the advantages of hiring special needs individuals and to dispel any inaccurate impressions. JSLP, Inc., has come into being by the hard work and determination of many people but without the help of Janice McLane, a professor at South University, and Kay Dickey, program director of our Legal Studies department, it would not be in existence today. Both of these women are founding members of this non-profit corporation. Kerry Cherry, manager of the Miracle League, is also a founding member of JSLP, Inc.
JSLP, Inc. will also be an organization that can help individuals with funding when trying to get service dogs and upgrades on other equipment that is needed. Service dogs are expensive, with a starting price of $16,000.00 that must be paid up front before a person can be trained with a dog. The prices can range as high as $25,000.00 or more. At this time, I have been in contact with 4 Paws for Ability who will put us on their list of organizations to contact for help. 4 Paws is a company that supplies service dogs throughout the United States.
Jeffrey S. Long was my son, who died of pulmonary atresuia at the age of 22. He was the first person to sign up to play with the Miracle League in Montgomery when it was established. He was the water boy for the Faulkner University basketball team, and he loved the University of Alabama football team. He also loved his job at Eastside Grille in Montgomery. He told me that he was upset because his friend, Chris, couldn’t find a job. This statement stayed with me, and when I was given the assignment to find a need in our community, I knew exactly what I was going to pursue and that was helping these individuals.
So thank you Dr. Self, Dr. Majure, and Dr. McNeil, who were the counseling professors at the time this idea was born, for making this dream come true, and thank you South University - Montgomery for offering the master’s program in professional counseling that enabled this project to be developed.
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Poetry Night at South University Montgomery |
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SU Montgomery (Winter 2010) - On October 22, 2009, the 9th publication of Southern Reflections, South University’s literary magazine, was unveiled at the second annual reception and reading, sponsored by the Student Success Leadership Committee and the SU library. Winners were announced and the successful submissions were read to the audience, which included both students and family members.
This year Gabrielle Howell won first prize for her poem titled, “Emission of the Perfect Night” followed by Sharanda Norman who walked away with second prize for her poem titled, “Um, No (So Whatcha Saying?)” that brought loud applause for her poem and rendition, and Shelly Simmons won third prize for her poem titled, “I am From.” Kittie Robison won the only prize for art work for her drawing titled, “Here I Am.”
The South University Library was packed with people, and the founder of the project, Ms. Charlyn Liddell, was honored and recognized for planting the seed for this project. President Biebighauser made welcoming remarks and then passed the program to the host, the chair of the Southern Reflections Initiative, Dr. Kalai Mugilan. The judges and the authors were all acknowledged with a certificate handed to them by Mr. Biebighauser. The gathering began with an opening dance by student Crystal Wright and ended with refreshments in the student lounge. The success of the SSLP initiative has concluded a year-long submission process for the students.
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Charlyn Liddell, founder of the Southern Reflection, receives gift from President Biebighauser.
Sharanda Norman reads her poem “I Translate Myself into You.” |
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Montgomery Students, Faculty & Staff Celebrate Health Professions Week |
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SU Montgomery (Fall 2009) On October 19 - 20, the student break room at South University/Montgomery was transformed into a mad scientist’s laboratory complete with costumes, test tubes, and spooky music. The occasion was a celebration of Health Professions Week.
Linda Reynolds, Program Chair for Medical Assisting; Joanne Rice, Program Director for Physical Therapist Assisting; Faith Berryman, Clinical Coordinator for Physical Therapist Assisting; and Laura Saucer, Program Director for Nursing; decorated the break room and provided students with an opportunity to perform an “autopsy,” view the results of multiple “sense”-ational science experiments, and create their very own “cell.” The science projects were designed to show the students how our senses can be fooled, and cells were made of cookies and candy. The autopsy patient was a model from the PTA lab with multiple toy “causes of death” suspended in old, cold spaghetti, combined with a potion that, when the participating students returned after washing their hands, fluoresced under a black light if any “autopsy” germs remained. This lesson in hand-washing was the perfect introduction for short presentations by physical therapist assistant students who educated attendees about the current and past flu epidemics, including the history of flu, prevention and treatment, as well as presentations related to fitness, stress reduction, and nutrition.
Students and faculty, dressed as mad scientists, crazy nurses, and other spooky health professionals, raced sticky eyeballs and played a match-the-“ologist” game. Do you know what a hoplologist or a cynologist studies? We do!
Dr. Joanne Rice, Laura Saucer, Linda Reynolds, Anna Pearson and Faith Berryman prepare to perform their first autopsy.
Stephanie Winston creates a winning cell and gets to eat it too.
PTA students, Candi Helton, Oona Joseph and Zenita White pose with Faith Berryman and President Biebighauser before presenting at Health Professions Week.
Dr. Half-Cracked and student Jarita Huffman discusses what went wrong during a skullotomy.
Tonika Alexander and Brittney Payne - Medical Assistants “At The Heart of Healthcare”
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SU Montgomery (Summer 2010) - Durling Laboratory Competencies class in Montgomery, medical assisting students watch Alicia Turner donate platelets. A presentation by William Andrews and Sylvia Patterson, of Lifesouth Community Blood Centers, explained the importance of platelet donation and the procedure involved. The students have recently completed studying hemostasis and coagulation studies. This presentation has generated a great deal of interest in the students to consider donating platelets themselves.