Onyx Fall-Winter 2019

On The Avenue continued

Outstanding faculty recognized Five faculty members received high honors during the 2019 Faculty Appreciation Day in April. The ceremony honored Pomeroy Faculty Excellence Award winners Douglas Sperry, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, for scholarship; Bill Riley, MFA, assistant professor of English, for teaching; and Tracy Collings Richardson, ’88, Ph.D. , professor of music therapy and director of the Master of Arts in Music Therapy program, for service. Kathleen Pickrell, an adjunct faculty member in the nursing department, received the Outstanding Adjunct Faculty award and Gina Baird, adjunct faculty member in the art therapy graduate program, was honored with the Alumni Faculty Leadership Award. Summer 2019 provided girls and boys, grades 2-12, the opportunity to learn and grow. This year's camps included beginning and advanced equestrian and adventure camp. Youth enjoyed hands-on learning experiences in science, technology, engineering and math with emphasis on environmental science. 2019 Summer camps L to R: Campers Mattox Walters and Ave Wrede enjoyed dissecting cow eyeballs during adventure camp.

SMWC receives $28,200 grant

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College has received a $28,200 grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Fund, administered by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. The award is one of 15 federal grants announced Aug. 27 totaling $454,000. The funds will be used to rehabilitate SMWC’s brick, limestone and iron gate, built in 1918. SMWC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

L to R: Award winners Tracy Collings Richardson, ’88 , Ph.D., Douglas Sperry, Ph.D., Kathleen Pickrell and Bill Riley, MFA, with Janet Clark, Ph.D., vice president for academic and student affairs.

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