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Page 3Faculty and Staff SpotlightBenefits Open EnrollmentFaculty Assembly & Senate OfficersNAA Slate of Officers

Page 4 - 5 Founders WeekCelebrations

Page 8Calendar of EventsGourmet Dining Series

Page 7Miss UMES Q&ASecurity ReviewUndergraduate Wins Award

Page 6Club FootballCareer Fair

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Page 2Interim VP IA NamedHonors Program DirectorChildhood Cancer Month

UMES is again rated in the top tier of America’shistorically black institutions by “U.S. News & WorldReport” for the seventh consecutive year.

The 2013 survey lists UMES 29th along withNorfolk (Va.) State, Alcorn State in Mississippi andPhilander Smith College in Arkansas. UMES wasranked 33rd a year ago.

“I am delighted that we continue to be rankedamong the top HBCUs in the country,” UMESPresident Juliette B. Bell said. “This survey givesUMES a snapshot of where we stand among our peersand where we would like this university to go.”

UMES is joined in the upper tier again this yearby Morgan State and Bowie State universities, twopublic HBCUs in Maryland rated 18th and 25threspectively. UMES’ “peer assessment” score was

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The east side of the University of MarylandEastern Shore campus is about to be transformed byconstruction of a new classroom building.

University and civic leaders were joined at aceremonial groundbreaking Sept. 11 by architects andthe contractors about to start building a 166,000square-foot structure for aviation science, computerscience and engineering instruction.

“In the new building that will rise behind me,”President Juliette B. Bell said, “future airline pilots,air traffic controllers, engineers, mathematicians,computer scientists and others will be trained as thenext generation of leaders in their fields.”

When completed in 24 months, the new buildingwill be the university’s largest. That distinctioncurrently is held by the Student Services Center with155,000 square feet.

“I can’t wait to move into our new building,” saidKayla Press, a mathematics education major.

To make room for the three-story engineeringbuilding, a structure used for poultry scienceinstruction off College Backbone Road will bedemolished.

U.S. News again lists UMES among top black colleges

Groundbreaking signals start of construction on new STEM building

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UMES President Juliette Bell poses with STEM students whospoke at the groundbreaking. Pictured from left, are: KaylaPress, a mathematics/mathematics education major; EstherNwogu, a computer science major; Rodrigo Ramos, anengineering major; Bell; and Stephanie Minto, an aviationscience major. Photo by Jim Glovier

Bell attends White House

briefingPresident Juliette

Bell participated in anEducation StakeholderConvening eventorganized Thursday bythe White House.

U.S. Secretary ofEducation ArneDuncan and otheradministrative leadersbriefed educators onimplementation of theAffordable Care Act,what changes inhealthcare coveragewill mean for studentsor employees as well ascollaborationopportunities over thenext year.

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Stephen L. McDaniel has been namedinterim vice president for InstitutionalAdvancement by President Juliette B. Bell. Hetakes over the post held for the past year byKimberly Dumpson, who now works in Bell’soffice as executive vice president.

McDaniel comes to UMES from Norfolk(Va.) State University, where for the past year heheld the same title while heading up thatinstitution’s fundraising activities. His first day inPrincess Anne will be Oct. 7.

Over a 30-year career, McDaniel has held senior-level fundraising andmarketing leadership positions at nine colleges and universities, includingAlcorn State, Fayetteville State, Alabama A&M, North Carolina A&T State,Tuskegee and the University of Maryland at College Park.

The United Negro College Fund served as his fundraising trainingground, where for 18 years he was a part of the UNCF team that collectedscholarship support for deserving students at the nation’s privatehistorically black institutions.

In 1997, McDaniel branched out into international fundraising whenhe served as a consultant in Niamey, Niger. He was part of a team in 2001that conducted an evaluation of the fundraising readiness at the KigaliInstitute of Science, Technology and Management in Kigali, Rwanda.

McDaniel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University ofMaryland Baltimore County and a Certificate in Managing InstitutionalAdvancement from the University of Chicago.

He is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), a former member ofthe Council for the Advancement and Support of Education’s (CASE)National Commission on Philanthropy and a member of the board ofdirectors for CASE District III (2009-2011), American Association of StateColleges and Universities 2011 Advisory Council for Communications andPublic Affairs.

McDaniel is a life member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc, is listed inWho’s Who in Black Atlanta and has two adult sons, Larry and Kenya, andtwo grandsons.

Dr. Michael E. Lane is the new director ofthe Richard A. Henson Honors Program at theUniversity of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Lane comes to UMES from Appalachian StateUniversity in Boone, N.C., where he was associatedirector of its Honors College.

He became a member of the Appalachian State faculty in 2000 as anassistant professor of French, teaching in the Department of Languages,Literature and Culture.

In addition to his responsibilities as Henson Honors Program director,Lane will be a tenured associate professor of French in UMES’ Departmentof English and Modern Languages.

At Appalachian, he earned tenure in 2006 and three years later beganserving as an assistant honors program director. He played an instrumentalrole in assisting the university in moving that program to college status.

Lane specializes in 19th and 20th century French poetics and shortfiction. For two decades, his teaching focus has been to provide “a broadarray of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in French andFrancophone language, literature, cultural studies, and methodology,especially teaching with technology.”

He also enjoys organizing study abroad programs and has led severalfive-week immersion study trips to Paris and Angers, France forundergraduates.

He was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant to lead12 North Carolina public school teachers of French, history and worldliterature on a summer program throughout Senegal.

The North Carolina American Association of Teachers of Frenchnamed him “Teacher of the Year” in 2012.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in French from Saint LawrenceUniversity (1992); his master’s in French is from the State University of NewYork in Binghamton (1994) and he received his doctorate in French fromPennsylvania State University (1998).

Lane will be working alongside long-time UMES staffer AundráRoberts, who now holds the title of assistant director of the Henson Honorsprogram.

Interim vice president for Institutional Advancement named

UMES names new Honors Program director

Employee’s daughterraises money forchildren with cancerCedric (a counselor with theOffice of Counseling Services)and Benita Rashaw (associatedirector of Residence Life)proudly support daughter,Carrington, in her efforts toraise money for children withcancer. Modeled after Alex’sLemonade Stand, Carrington’sFresh Lemonade proceeds willbe donated to the Children’sCancer Research Fund. Sheraised over $200 withdonations still coming in.Interested donors can emailbbrownrashaw@gmail.com.September is ChildhoodCancer Awareness Month.

better than four institutions ahead of it in the latest survey, which also takes intoaccount such factors as graduation rates, full-time faculty, class size and alumnigiving.

Since the 2013 survey was conducted, UMES received notice itsundergraduate engineering and doctorate in pharmacy programs earnedaccreditation credentials signifying the university is preparing qualified graduatesfor their professional fields. UMES now has 28 accredited academic programs, anumber that has grown exponentially from just a handful a decade ago.

UMES awarded 724 degrees during the 2012-13 academic year, including 30doctorates in the largest class to graduate from its physical therapy program.

Bell, who became UMES president in July 2012, said the annual U.S. Newssurvey can be a motivational tool to inspire everyone at the university to worktoward the pursuit of “eminence,” the watchword of her presidency.

“We’ve made important strides in that direction in my first year aspresident,” she said. “We acknowledge there is still plenty of work to do. UMES iscapable of achieving our goals. I know our university is committed to doing so.”

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UMES National Alumni Association elects new slate of officers

Dr. Marcos Cheney, associate professor of environmentalchemistry, Department of Natural Sciences, served asprogram co-chair for the 2013 International Conference onMaterial Engineering in Nanjing, China. Based on the successof the conference last May, Cheney has been chosen to co-chair the 2014 conference. The conference provides aplatform for researchers, engineers, academicians and

industrial professionals to present their research results and developmentactivities in material science and engineering.

Dr. Sheila Harleston, has returned as the interim director ofchoral activities and associate professor at the university.Harleston retired from UMES in 2011 after 21 years in theDepartment of Fine Arts. She received bachelor and masterdegrees from Norfolk State University and a doctorate fromWilmington University. After retiring from UMES, Harleston

joined the executive board of the I. Sherman Green Chorale Inc., in Norfolkand also became the director of the semi-professional group during its 40thanniversary season. Harleston was the recipient of the National Associationof Negro Musicians award for performing and promoting the music of blackmusicians. She looks forward to again “working with talented and dedicatedstudents as director of the UMES Concert Choir.”

Susan Holt is the Mosely Gallery’s new director. Holt,however, is not new to the UMES community. She has been anadjunct instructor in the Department of Fine Arts since 2002and has also taught in the Art and the Modern ForeignLanguages departments at Salisbury University. Holt receiveda bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor, and a master’s from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has an

international background and has taken art students to Italy for study abroadprograms. Holt looks forward to “building an exciting exhibition program inour Mosely Gallery.”

Ruth Lee O’Rourke was elected to serve as a board memberfor the Montgomery County Conference and Visitors Bureau.O’Rourke is the program director for the UMES Hotel andRestaurant Management program at the Universities at ShadyGrove in Montgomery County. She said this is an appropriateappointment as the department weighs adding tourism to thecurriculum.

Dr. Dandeson Panda, an associate professor in the Business,Management and Accounting Department, completed abusiness ethics course through the University of New Mexico’sAnderson School of Management. The 36-hour online classis part of the school’s career and professional developmentprogram.

Dr. Joshua Wright, an assistant professor in the Departmentof Social Sciences, was among 25 applicants selected fromthousands to attend the National Endowment for theHumanities Summer Institute for College and UniversityTeachers at Harvard University. The prestigious, month-longinstitute was hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., director ofHarvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African-

American Research. Through readings and discussion, participants focusedon African-American struggles for freedom and civil rights.

Correction: (Sept. 6, 2013 issue) Dr. Gurdeep Hura is a professor of math andcomputer science. He served as chair from 2006-2011.

Faculty and Staff Spotlight

Faculty Assembly2013-14 officersNina Lyon Bennett, chair

E. William Chapin, chair-elect

Lombuso Khoza, secretary

Joseph Bree, parliamentarian

Peter Stanford, treasurer

UMES Senate officersLaKeisha Harris, chair

David Spinner, vice chair

Lombuso Khoza, secretary

Joseph Bree, parliamentarian

The UMES National Alumni Association has elected a new slate of executiveofficers that will serve until 2015. Dr. Bryant Mitchell, ’78, associate professor inthe university’s Department of Business, Management and Accounting, is theorganization’s new president.

The other 2013 – 2015 executive officers of the UMES National AlumniAssociation are:

• Diana Rogers-Ford, ‘69 1st vice president • Joanne Johnson-Shaw, ‘72 2nd vice president• Pamela A. McCullough, ‘99 3rd vice president• Robert McGlotten, ‘75 4th vice president • Thomas Holt, DDS, ‘93 parliamentarian • Richard Jones, ‘76 treasurer • George Trotter, ‘68 sergeant at arms • Kia Roberts, ‘05 recording secretary • Michael T. Moore, ‘08 corresponding secretary

NAA officers serve an alumni community of more than 10,000 members, keepingthem abreast of news and updates that affect or relate to the life of the university.The association is “a united, dynamic and diverse organization whose mission is toserve and add value to the University, its students, fellow alumni, local chapters” andits friends.For more information or to join the UMES NAA please go to: www.umesnaa.org.

Benefits open enrollment for fiscalyear 2014 is fast approaching!

Open Enrollment Period: Oct. 1-16

Correction Period: Oct. 22-31

Materials will be coming to faculty and staff viainterdepartmental mail.

Direct questions to Betty Fosque, benefits coordinator, 410-651-6403, bafosque@umes.edu.

Mosely Gallerykicks off year withfaculty show

Department of Fine Artsfaculty member MichelDemanche studies worksby fellow faculty membersin the Mosely Galleryshow, “Points of View,”during the openingreception Sept. 6. Theexhibit remains on displaythrough Oct. 4.

Students get a glimpse ofa variety of facultyartworks. Pictured in theforeground are ErnestSatchell’s raku pottery;the back right,Department ChairChristopher Harrington’sresin and pigment paintings; and the back left, Corinne Beardsley’s ceramicsculpture. Several faculty members also recently exhibited in the Art Institute andGallery’s Regional Juried Exhibition. Harrington took second place and the Award ofExcellence for his mixed media, Demanche received an honorable mention for herphotography and Susan Holt, the Mosley Gallery’s new director, displayed herdrawings.

Construction Managementprogram and the NationalAssociation for Accreditation ofTeacher Education for theTechnology Education program.He established off-campusprograms in construction

management technology at the Universities at Shady Grove in MontgomeryCounty and in career and technology education at the Baltimore Museum ofIndustry.

Following convocation, wreath laying and birthday cake cuttingceremonies ensued. Home Depot presented a check for $10,000representing the school’s award in their campus improvement grantcontest—Retool Your School.

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UMES celebrates Founders’ Week with events for campus and communityOutdoor concerta Founders’Week tradition

Mother Nature provideda lovely evening for theoutdoor concert, aFounders’ Weektradition. This year’sevent took on a patriotictheme in observance ofSept. 11. The UMES JazzEnsemble and GospelChoir performed alongwith students doingpatriotic spoken word.Concert-goers weregiven American Flags.

Attorney (and 1974Alumnus) presentslecture

Sherman Lambert, an attorneyand alumnus (1974),presented a lecture, “InSearch of Justice” Sept. 10during Founders’ Weekactivities. His presentationexamined social justicethrough recent court cases.

UMES President Juliette B. Bellthrew out the first pitch at thestudent/faculty softball game onFriday the 13th. Who was on thereceiving end of the bad luck?Students, 0, faculty 15. Better lucknext year.

From left, Dr. Anthony Jenkins,vice president for student affairsand enrollment management;Phillip Harrison, Campus Life,UMES alumnus; and Dr. DaleWesson, vice president fortechnology and commercializationjoined the faculty/staff team.

Students fill the dug-out for ahigh-spirited game of softballagainst the faculty, staff andadministration.

Street Sweep unites Town & Gown for worthy project

Jamell Stanley takes “Street Sweep” literally. He joinedmembers of the baseball team and pharmacy cleaning upMain Street. UMES construction management studentsvolunteered their time at the Princess Anne PoliceDepartment, discussing needs with officials anddesigning a plan for an outbuilding. The women’sbasketball team and students and faculty from theDepartment of Technology planted flowers and vegetablesat the Garland Hayward Youth Center and the men’sbasketball team assisted with the food drive at the SetonCenter and discussed the potential for a mentoringprogram there

UMES President Juliette B. Bell congratulates students forshowing up on a Saturday morning (Sept. 7) to pitch in fora day of service in Princess Anne ending with lunch andmusic in Manokin Park. Ayanna Evans, event organizer,said “there was good representation from studentorganizations, athletic teams, faculty and staff, andindividuals.”

A Princess Anne Police Department cruiser is filled withdonated food from members of the UMES community andtown residents. Frederick Douglass Library andDepartment of Education faculty and staff raised the barwhen it came to collecting items, Evans said.

Historic tour offersglimpse into past

Rhett Burden, an areadirector with the Office ofResidence Life, and Dr.Kathryn Barrett-Gaines,associate professor ofAfrican and African-American history, portrayUMES’ two founders duringthe annual Light Night onthe Academic Oval.

UMES observedits 127th Founders’Day with aconvocation andcommencement for26 doctoratecandidates in theschool’s physicaltherapy program.

The students, 22of whom are fromMaryland and sevenof which hail from theEastern Shore,

donned traditional caps and gowns to receive the Doctor of Physical Therapydegree after three years of study. Graduates then have one more hurdle toclear—passing the national licensing exam. UMES has an envious record ofproducing graduates who earn the credential on the first try, said Dr. RaymondL. Blakely, the program’s founder and chair. Following licensure, they willenter the healthcare field as physical therapists in hospitals, senior carefacilities and the private sector with home health providers.

Dr. Juliette B. Bell, the university’s 15th leader, gave the Founders’ Dayaddress. During the ceremony, Dr. Leon Copeland of Salisbury received theFaculty Emeriti award.

Copeland retired from the university a year ago after a 35-year career inthe Department of Technology, where he most recently served as chair inaddition to professor. He was recognized for his individual achievements andleadership.

During his tenure, the Department of Technology earned accreditationwith the American Council for Construction Education for the school’s

UMES recognizesFounders’ Daywith convocationPhotos by Jim Glovier

Students vs. facultyand staff softball game

space agency has big plans for expanding its programs in Virginia and isexcited about UMES’ new building and the engineering program’s recentaccreditation.

“We need your engineering students to be part of that exciting future,”Wrobel said.

The new classroom building will be fitted with an eco-friendly geo-thermal heating and cooling system. In addition to classrooms, labs andfaculty offices, the new building will feature conference rooms, a library,media production facilities, a lounge and central computing services. Thedean of graduatestudies and thedean of businessand technologyschool also willhave offices there.

The ceremony was held on the 12th anniversary of the horrific suicideattacks mounted by Islamic terrorists, which Bell noted in her remarks.

“As we remember the lives of those we lost, we also celebrate theheroism of the first responders and the lives that gained new meaning andfound new purpose that day to make our nation stronger,” Bell said.

Maryland’s legislature earlier this year approved an allocation of $22.7million from the sale of revenue bonds to be the first installment toward the$91.5 million project. It will be the first classroom building built on theUMES campus since 2003.

Tanner Hall, an early 1960s-era building where aviation sciencecurrently is headquartered, has 3,800 “net assignable square feet” of spaceon one floor. Engineering and computer science students and facultycurrently occupy the two-story Kiah Hall, a building that opened in 1953 asa public secondary school.

William Wrobel, director of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, said the

As hard as the Hawks fought, itwas just not enough, however, to keepthe neighboring school out of the endzone; by the end of the third quarterthe score was 49-12.

Coach Mitchell had high praisefor the Hawks’ season-openingopponent, characterizing the Salisburysquad as “the best team in the country,and we played them so we could seewhere our guys are and I think we aregoing to have a good season.”

The Hawks, he said, “played ashard as they could, given that theyonly had two weeks of practice.

Otherwise it was a very good effort. The coaches have to work on a fewthings so we can learn some things too.

“This also gave the guys who never played before a chance to see whata real game feels like; you can’t just play 15 minutes or 10 you have to playthe whole game,” Mitchell said.

Student government president Justin Thompson was pleased by the fansupport for the opening game – the visitors’ bleachers were full and nearlyas many stood along the fence on Hawks’ side of the field.

“I think the game is going well,” Thompson said, “and the studentsare showing support for their Hawks.”

After a week off, the Hawks travel to Longwood University in Farmville,Va. on Sept. 28 for their next game.

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By Airis D. Thomas, special correspondent

UMES’s club football teamopened its sophomore season on theroad this past Sunday against theSalisbury University Seagulls. Despitea hard fought first half, the Hawkswere unable to keep up in the secondhalf and fell by a final of 63-12.

Captain Josh White, a defensiveend, said “we played to the end andthat’s all we can do. It was a learningexperience for most of us and now weknow what we need to work on so wecan come back next time and pull outa win.”

Even though the Hawks trailed throughout much of the game, fansupport was strong from start to finish. The Thunderin’ Hawks Pep Bandkept several hundred UMES faithful energized by playing throughout thegame, finishing its last song with the school’s alma mater.

UMES trailed 35-12 at halftime, but the team stayed optimistic hopingto come out in the second half stronger than they did in the first. Enteringthe locker room, quarterback Mark Williams was positive, “the offense wasworking pretty well, but so is Salisbury, so we need to come back strong.”

One of the Hawk highlights occurred in the second quarter, whenKenyon Turner snagged an interception and returned it for a touchdown.The extra point failed.

Hawks club football squad puts up spirited fight in season opener

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UN I V E R S I T Y o f MARY LAND E A S T E RN SHOREDivision of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management • Office of Career Services & Cooperative Education

Career/Graduate Professional School FairThursday, September 26, 201311 a.m.—3 p.m. / SSC Ballroom

A UMES professional should selectbusiness professional or casualprofessional attire when attendingany job fair.

STUDENT ID REQUIRED.NO JEANS.

NO SNEAKERS.

Runningback Brandon Chatmon sweeps pasttwo Salisbury University defenders for a big gainduring Sunday’s season opener for UMES clubfootball. Chatmon is a freshman engineeringstudent from Waldorf, Md.

Security consultants provide independent review

Ian Bottone, a senior majoring in general agriculture with aconcentration in plant and soil science, won third place in anundergraduate research poster competition at the annual conference of theAmerican Society for Horticultural Science in Palm Desert, Calif., in July.His poster was titled, “Persistence of Urea in a Coastal Plain Soil: AnIncubation Study.”

His research was based on determining if urea-based fertilizers andmanures (including poultry litter) persist in soil after application longenough to cause water pollution. Bottone’s research will aid farmers inchoosing which urea-based fertilizers pose the least risk of polluting thewater bodies through runoff and leaching. Use of urea as a nitrogen sourceincreased after ammonium nitrate was banned after the Oklahomabombing incident.

Bottone’s faculty mentors were: Drs. Arthur Allen, Lurline Marsh,Fawzy Hashem, professors in the Department of Agriculture, Food andResource Sciences, and graduate student Leonard Kibet.

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Why did you choose to run for MissUMES? What is your platform? I have grown to love this university. I have setgoals and reached beyond what I have everimagined. I want to encourage my peersanything is possible! My platform (focus is)“professionalism, outreach, integrity, serviceand originality to navigate, to our individualsuccess.”

What are your goals this year? First, be successful in my studies; second, getthe community more involved and excited about the university; third, makethis year a fun and memorable learning experience for the students.

What other leadership positions have you held? I have served as a resident assistant for two years; I am on the board for theHollerin' Hawks Committee, a street team that promotes student andathletic events.

What is the best advice you got as a freshman?"If it is meant to be, it is up to me!" I want to pass this on to … everystudent here. Do the necessary, then go above and beyond to get what wewant in life. If it is meant to be it is up to us.

Where do you see yourself in five years? I see myself with a master’s in business administration pursuing a doctoratein psychology. I plan to work in disability services and develop my ownbusiness.

Tell us about the traditional jewelry the UMES queen wears? The pearl is a piece of jewelry that has been worn for daytime appearances,interviews and initiatives here at the university. A pearl is a hard objectmade with soft tissue and a sign of royalty familiar at historically blackcolleges and to subjects of the Queen Elizabeth of England.

What hit song/artist has your attention these days? "Act Right" by Yo Gotti. We have a Hawk shuffle to that song that getseveryone moving!

A team of consultants visited UMES a week ago fulfilling UMESPresident Juliette B. Bell’s pledge earlier this year to commission anindependent review of the university’s security policies and procedures.

Employees of Risk Management Associates Inc. observed everydaycampus life as well as interviewed students, faculty, staff and otheruniversity stakeholders. Consultants worked around-the-clock, accordingto Risk Management’s Michael R. Longmire.

While 50-to-60 interviews were pre-arranged, Longmire said, thosecomments will be supplemented by conversations consultants had withpeople during impromptu encounters.

Longmire noted no directly attributable comments from interviewswill appear in the report that the company is producing for the university.

Risk Management Associates, based in Raleigh, N.C., has donesimilar security analyses for Duke, N.C. State and Winston-Salem Stateuniversities.

In addition to interviews, the consultants will evaluate the universitypolice department’s policies and procedures as well as currenttechnology used to alert the campus of important information.

Meet Miss UMES Porsha Harvey, a senior majoring in rehabilitation servicesNewark, Del.

UPDS marks move with an open houseUniversity Printand DocumentServices openedits doors Sept.13 to show thecampus its newlocation in theformer AlumniHouse. UPDSstaff picturedfrom left areCrystal Neal,Oral Telphia andWossenMakonnen.

Sept. 19-27 stopby UPDS for a specialpromotion: one-sided,letter size color copiesfor 35 cents.

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4* Gourmet Dining Series7 p.m. Richard A. Henson CenterHRM students and faculty present “A Night of Elegance”featuring French-Italian and sophisticated tropical dishes.$50 per person or $120 for a gourmet series ticket. Tickets must be purchased in advance.410-651-6563

11 Art Exhibit Opening Reception4-6 p.m.Mosely GallerySequential Art (Comic) ShowGalley Hours: Mon. through Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Show on display until Nov. 8. 410-651-7770

12 Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert7 p.m. Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing ArtsUMES and Alumni jazz ensembles perform.410-651-6571

18 Hawk Hysteria 7 p.m. William P. Hytche Athletic CenterMen’s and women’s basketball scrimmage. Give-a-ways, contests, games, autographs and Harry the Hawk’s birthday party.410-651-6499

19* Tri-County Alumni Chapter Fall Fling7 p.m. Richard A. Henson Center, ballroomCost TBA.410-651-6277

31* UMES Fall Theater Production7:30 p.m. Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts“Miss Evers’ Boys,” a 1992 stage play by David Feldshuh.Cost TBA410-651-6575

Foodies are in for a treat this fall at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The school’s Hotel andRestaurant Management program presents its annual Gourmet Dining Series with dinners Oct. 4, Nov. 1and Dec. 6.

New this year, said program chair Dr. Ernest Boger, is a Gourmet Dining Series ticket for $120per person, which includes all three meals – a savings of $30. Tickets for individual meals are $50 perperson. Tickets are on sale now.

The dinners are a final requirement in the Food Production coursework and practicum, Bogersaid. “Planning and management skills are emphasized as much as the culinary skills.”

This group of advanced culinary students is responsible for everything from the planning ofthe menu and ordering of ingredients to the food preparation.

“This year’s menu reflects the greatest variety in the history of the series as far as menuselection,” Boger said.

The first dinner Oct. 4 is themed, “A Night of Elegance” and features French, Italian andtropical cuisine. A seafood pumpkin bisque, foie gras roulade and Appleton rum mallardduck breast and tomato sorbet are openers. The entrée is a creamy dijon bouillabaisse ofsnapper, shrimp, octopus, scallops and calamari with filetto di bue alle (beef tenderloinwith black olives). The accompaniment is a sweet peas and carrot parmigiano reggianopolenta. The meal is topped off with a guava and passion fruit couverture chocolate cupwith raspberry sauce.

Culinary Adventurism Nov. 1 offers just that—something out of the ordinary. Themeal starts off with Bayou turtle and autumn squash bisque and if followed bywhiskey-brined grilled alligator tips flambé. A lemon sorbet clears the palate for asurf and turf comprised of a habanero lobster with a roasted bison medallion. Theentrée is accompanied by a caramelized onion scalloped potato and southerngreens. Dessert is an orange bourbon maple flan.

Photo credit: A 1963photo on page 1 of theSept. 6, 2013 edition ofThe Key was taken byJohn F. deHuarte.