11/18/10 Activities

Here are the faculty and staff activities for November 18, 2010.

Staff Activities

Dr. Chris Erickson, industry & technology, recently attended and presented at the 2010 Association of Technology, Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) Conference in Panama City, Fla. His presentation was titled “Research, Design and Fabrication in an Upper Level Metals Class.” The refereed presentation was attended by students and colleagues from across the country. Erickson also assisted Dr. John Wright, industry & technology, and the robotics team as a co-advisor.

Dr. M. P. A. Sheaffer, English, participated in a special Halloween program of poetry in the “Poetry at the Players” series at the Players’ Club in New York City on October 28.  She read selections by Sandra Liatses, Jack Prelutsky and Mairi Teras Gallagher. In addition, she read some of her original poems in the November program of “Poetry at Borders” at Border’s Bookstore, Park City, on November 8.

Dr. John Wright, industry & technology, recently attended and presented at the 2010 Association of Technology, Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) Conference in Panama City, Fla. He presented a refereed presentation on “Assessing Knowledge of Electronics Students via the Incorporation of Manipulative and Design Methods of Examination,” and co-presented with two former students, David Oliver and Joshua Jordan, on “Firefighting Robots for the Classroom: An Exciting Application for Your Microcontroller-based Electronics Curricula.” In addition, Wright also served as an invited panelist on two roundtable/forums while at the ATMAE Conference: “Strategies to Negotiate the Tenure and Promotion Process” and “Student Chapter Roundtable Discussion.”

Retired

Jean Bradel, professor emerita music, will have two of her vocal students in “The Sound of Music” at the Fulton Opera House during the month of December. Catherine Walker, who was recently seen on Broadway in the role of Mary Poppins in “Mary Poppins,” as well as in “Ragtime,” is contracted to perform the lead role of Maria. Bradel’s high school student Jill Wiley, daughter of Millersville music professor Dr. Keith Wiley, is contracted as the understudy for the role of Liesl and will perform in the ensemble.

Dr. Joseph W. Glass, ’53, retired geography professor, was invited to deliver the annual Professor J. Williams Frey Memorial Pennsylvania German Lecture at Franklin & Marshall College on October 6.  Titled “It’s Just An Old Barn …???,” his talk focused on the Pennsylvania Barn. Developed by Germanic people in Switzerland in the mid-1500s, their descendants brought it to Pennsylvania 200 years later. He discussed the barn’s features, its importance as a farming tool, its century’s long life span and its fate in the 21st century.

Obit

Joseph E. DeCamp (“Ned”) died October 24. DeCamp was a professor of foreign languages at Millersville University (1966-1989).