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This edition of the Texas Wesleyan University School of Arts and Letters Newsletter offers profiles of alumni, students and faculty in addition to detailing the move of art classes to the historic firehouse, Texas Wesleyan's Darkroom Photography class, and study abroad opportunities.

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Page 1: Wesleynotes Volume 3, Issue 1 Fall 2015

Art classes move intohistoricfirehouse

Darkroom photography class stays old school

Dean’s Honor List

Texas Wesleyan bring music to the Modern

Alumni succeed in teaching and drama

Wesleyan students study abroad

Moliere Than Thou comes to Martin Hall

Student Profiles

Faculty Profiles

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Texas Wesleyan University recently completed the renovation of the old fire-house, and all art classes have moved to this historic building. The building is more than 100 years old.

Members of the art faculty believe that the historic building inspires stu-dents. The wooden ceiling, joists, and brick walls represent history. Art can-not be done without inspiration, so this building’s historical importance offers an opportunity, said Kathryn Hall, pro-fessor of art.

The building was built in 1893 as a firehouse. Every corner of the building has remnants of the old firehouse, such as a hole left by the fire pole, pay phone holes, and contact information on the walls. Wesleyan did not touch the walls because of the historical importance. In-

stead, new walls were built about a foot in front of the old ones. When the build-ing was constructed, the first floor was a stable for horses, and the second floor was the City Hall that had government offices until 1921.

After the 1950s, the building became a bakery that was called Partlow’s. The bakery occupied the building for 20 years. In the back, you can still see the Partlow’s sign.

Wesleyan purchased the building, and it belonged to the Theatre Department. They used it as a black box performance space.

Wesleyan President Frederick Sla-bach organized a meeting with faculty members and it was decided to move the art classes to the building. During the summer of 2015, Wesleyan finished

the renovation. In addition, the building was attached to the Central Texas Con-ference of the United Methodist Church.

The first floor is a classroom for art students, and the second floor has more classroom space and offices for profes-sors as well. In order to give more space to the students and professors, Wesleyan removed the stairs. Most of the art pro-fessors believe that studying in this kind of building develops the students’ cre-ativity.

Hall said that students have created fabulous art after they moved to this his-toric building. Moving to this building is like having a rebirth, she added.

“I really love to teach in this building because of the historical perspective, and it gives me enthusiasm,” Hall said. “I am happy with the change.”

Historic firehouse new home for art classes

Photos by Cenk TuncelBuilt in 1893, the home for Texas Wesleyan art classes once housed a stable and city government offices.

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Texas Wesleyan offered students the opportunity to study abroad and travel to Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia in the spring and summer of 2015.

Dr. Mark Hanshaw, associate dean of Arts and Letters, co-led the trip to Southeast Asia that took students to Qa-tar, Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia. The students left May 19 and returned June 2. Hanshaw said he has seen first-hand the transformative impact taking trips such as these has on students.

“It gives students a practical and direct connection to another part of the world,” Hanshaw said. “This connection serves as a continuing reminder that our world is much larger than our own commu-nity.” 

Valerie Spears, a senior mass commu-nication major, traveled on the South-east Asia trip and considered it “the op-portunity of a lifetime.”

“When I found out how cheap it was to study abroad at Wesleyan, I knew that God had laid this opportunity in front of me,” Spears said.

Spears said experiencing the foreign culture and food was an adventure that will stick with her forever.

“Being submerged, if only for two

weeks, in a foreign culture is something that I will never forget,” she said.

Brianna Kessler, also a senior mass communication major, said she also en-joyed the trip to Asia.

“I learned so much more about cul-ture, government, and religion than any book could ever teach me,” Kessler said.

Kessler was so positively impacted by the trip that she has decided take advan-tage of the travel opportunities Wesleyan has available next spring as well.

“I cannot wait to leave my little corner of the world again and experience a new country,” Kessler said. “In fact, I have decided to be a part of the spring 2016 Mother Russia study abroad trip.”

Kessler said her decision to study abroad was one of the best decisions of her academic career. She encourages other students to do the same.

“I strongly believe everyone should experience other cultures,” Kessler said. “Any sacrifices you make to study abroad are well worth it.”

Katie Brown, a senior psychology ma-jor, agreed with Kessler’s advice. Brown traveled with Wesleyan for the first time in spring of 2014 to Ireland, and then again this past spring to Vienna and

Prague.“I wish I wasn’t graduating so I could

travel again,” Brown said. “It was hands down the best part of my college experi-ence.”

As a psychology major, Brown said she most loved visiting the Sigmund Freud museum that doubled as his home in Vienna.

“What I was learning in the classroom became real once I traveled to where a book was written, or to a museum that captured what an era was like,” Brown said. “It’s really important to remember that what we learn in a religion or litera-ture class was actually someone’s life at one time.”

Brown had applied for the Student Governement Association scholarship and was able to travel for free.

According Hanshaw, this is just one example of the support Wesleyan offers students who desire to study abroad.

“The university supports these pro-grams financially, so that they might be affordable to students,” said Hanshaw. “They will never again be able to have these truly unique offerings to experi-ence traveling the world for the costs as-sociated with these trips.” 

Photo courtesy of Katie BrownStudents enjoyed their trip to Europe.

Photo courtesy of Valerie SpearsWesleyan students spent a day at the Singapore Botanic Gardens last May.

Students travel to Europe and Asia

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Timothy Mooney calls himself an at-tention hound.

Being the youngest of four brothers, he says, he always needed to do some-thing to stand out.

“I was envious of attention,” Mooney says.

Since 2000, Mooney has been the cen-ter of attention on the stage by being the only performer on the stage via Moliere Than Thou, a comedy that revamps the works of the 17th century dramatist into a one-man show that, Mooney hopes, sheds more light on the man and his characters.

Mooney has performed Moliere on the Texas Wesleyan campus four times.

Moliere Than Thou was a success when it was performed at Martin Hall in Oc-tober.

Kasey Szamatulski, a junior English major and one of the audience volun-teers during the October performance, said she thought Moliere Than Thou was hilarious.

“I remember trembling. I was a little nervous, but mostly excited,” Szamatul-

ski said.Szamatulski said she didn’t expect the

play to be so informational, so that was an added bonus for her.

Mooney got his start when he was running his own theater company north of Chicago called Stage Two Theatre.

The theater did mostly original mate-rial, but the audience was drying up be-cause Stage Two was not producing rec-ognizable work. So the theater decided to work on Tartuffe by Moliere, Mooney said.

“I had been the assistant director of the production of Tartuffe at the Seattle Repertory Theater, so I had a vision of it to try and to write new words to the famous playwright,” Mooney said. “I wrote a new Tartuffe with the actors fixed in mind and put the funniest lan-guage I could think of into my imagina-tion of what the actors would say.

“I started Moliere with the new Tar-tuffe in 1997. I wrote a bunch of other Moliere adaptations and I wrote Moliere Than Thou in 1999, just before I started performing it in 2000.”

Mooney has been on the road with Moliere Than Thou since 2002.

“I broke off from my company to con-centrate on my writing and then I came up with the one man show along the way,” Mooney said.

Mooney was asked to do a lecture about Moliere, with a performance. He imaged that Moliere might actually be performing alone on stage. He came up with the idea that his entire cast got sick so he had to do a solo show.

“I do a lot of reciting alone, mostly in the car while I’m driving,” Mooney said.

Mooney has been performing this role for more than 15 years. He says it comes naturally now.

“I want to be spontaneous,” Mooney said. “I do drill the lines all the time quite a lot as its coming up to the per-formance.”

Mooney said that performing Moliere is “what I was meant to do.”

“I feel like I’m fully self-expressed in the process of enjoying the act of perfor-mance and I feel happy doing what I do, so I feel fulfilled in that way,” he said.

Kiffany Lyons, a freshman computer science major, said Moliere was very en-tertaining and she is glad she went.

“I haven’t been to a one-man show before, but my favorite part was when Kasey got up on stage,” Lyons said.

Dr. Steven Daniell, dean of the School of Arts and Letters, said the performance was outstanding and really funny.

“Moliere is his signature performance,” Daniell said. “I saw it first about 10 or 15 years ago at a French conference in Milwaukee back in 2006 or 2007, but it wasn’t the whole thing. After that, he was brought to the University of Mont-gomery for a liberal arts conference.”

Daniell says that Moliere is the funni-est thing that Mooney does.

“My favorite part was when Kasey went up on stage. I thought that was pretty hilarious. I also enjoyed the part where he was putting his whole dialogue into song with the ‘stop thief ’ scene,” Daniell said.

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Mooney charms in Moliere Than Thou

Photo courtesy of Tim MooneyTimothy Mooney has been performing Moliere Than Thou since 2000.

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Technology continues to change rap-idly, but there is at least one class at Texas Wesleyan that is proudly old school.

Darkroom Photography, FAR-2320-02, is taught by Terri Cummings and of-fered each fall.

Cummings, an associate professor art, says she loves teaching the class because it is so esoteric. She says the course is like magic, alchemy, with potions that you pour onto a piece of paper and new things that were previously invisible ap-pear.

The class, which has no prerequi-sites, satisfies a fine arts requirement for graduation, and can also be taken as an elective. It is a laboratory class in a dark

room with red lights, and specifically for learning how to shoot and process film. Digital photography is not included.

Pictures are processed and then print-ed through an enlarger onto paper, and then placed in trays of liquid to bring the image up. Because it is truly an old school course, people use it as a special-ized art form, rather than the only way of making photographs, which it used to be.

“Many people find that they love dark-room photography, and it is something that sounds interesting to students. I would encourage people to sign up for this class next fall,” Cummings said.

Cummings says she likes sharing this

knowledge and introducing something to students that she happens to find so enjoyable. Not everyone has the patience to do it, and not everyone has the desire to do it because it is a slow process.

Also, she said, many area schools have closed down their darkrooms.

Even though digital is much less labor intensive than darkroom photography, students get to experience and learn what it was like to develop pictures the “old way,” Cummings said.

Many students say it is quite relax-ing because they work in a room with red lights and you are able to hear water flowing in sync with the chemicals.

After completing the class, Wesleyan students can apply for access to the lab and work on their own photographs, Cummings said.

Cummings suggests that students who are interested in taking both darkroom and digital photography classes should take the darkroom photography class first, so they can see the difference be-tween digital and developing film.

The real expectation is that people will learn a creative skill that they can use the rest of their lives and also develop the ability to think about what they are seeing in different ways, because that is really what photography is all about, Cummings said.

Shrareh Asadi, a Wesleyan senior studying exercise science, is currently in the darkroom photography class and she loves it because she thinks it is old and different.

“People should take this class because you may never get to experience taking pictures with a film camera and learn the old way,” Asadi said.

Erica Heiser, a junior studying psy-chology, said the darkroom class is her first photography class, and she enjoys it because it is interesting and Cummings is nice.

“Film cameras are going to be long gone a few years from now, she said. “If you know how to do it; you can help people learn how to do it, too.”

Photo by Faisal AlotaibiA photogram created by Faisal Alotaibi for the darkroom photography class.

Photography class stays old school

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On Oct. 24, Texas Wesleyan’s Depart-ment of Music performed its seventh an-nual showcase concert.

The concert, held at Fort Worth’s Modern Art Museum, featured stu-dent choral and brass ensembles, a jazz combo, an opera workshop scene, and student solo performers in piano, voice, flute and string bass, as well as faculty solo performances.

The concert demonstrated how Wes-leyan students and faculty work closely and well together, holding true to the university’s Smaller. Smarter. campaign.

The concert began with an announce-ment of the event. More than a dozen men and women took the stage to per-form a harmonic melody, If Music be the Food of Love. The chorus was dressed mainly in black, with the women in long flowing skirts and the men in white shirts and bow ties.

A French horn trio, consisting of mu-sic student Luis Calderon, adjunct in-structor of music David Riddile and di-rector of instrumental studies Christine Beason, took the stage.

The show continued with an opera piece, Standchen, written by Richard Strauss. The piece was performed by Keith Critcher, an adjunct professor of music, on the piano and Julie McCoy, associate professor of music, singing so-prano.

McCoy, who teaches private voice les-sons on campus, coordinated the show.

“The annual concert is an opportunity for stu dents to perform off campus and enjoy broader exposure in the commu-nity,” McCoy said.

The concert continued with Critcher again on the piano and music student Hayley Eaker on the flute.

The showcase continued with a piano

solo by Jose Cubela, adjunct instructor of music.

Dr. John Fisher, professor of music, later joined him in a duet on the grand piano.

The most entertaining element of the show was Una Voce Poco Fa performed by music student and a mezzo-soprano Avary Vaughn, accompanied by adjunct instructor of music Marco Cuevas on the piano. Vaughn’s voice filled the au-ditorium.

The audience was moving and bounc-ing with her.

The concert continued with playful piano sounds, strong powerful voices, trumpets, and a bassoon.

The showcase ended with Wesleyan’s jazz combo. Lou Carfa, adjunct instruc-tor of music and the director of the com-bo, created a playful bouncy tune with his hand gestures and body movement.

Photo by Michael BañosThe French horn trio of (from left to right) David Riddile, Luis Calderon and Christine Beason performed at the Modern in October as part of Texas Wesleyan’s seventh annual showcase concert.

Music faculty, students showcase talents

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Austin Craven graduated from Texas Wesleyan in 2008 with a BFA in music perfor-mance. He focused primarily on classical guitar during this time. However, after graduating he found himself struggling to survive and unable to find a job. He was invited to move to Dubai and live with some friends. After 30 days in Dubai, he needed to leave the country. He logged onto Facebook and posted something about wanting to visit Europe. A Facebook friend invited him to stay with her in Prague. Having landed a few odd jobs while in Dubai, he was able to buy a ticket to the Czech Republic, and a couple of days later he was meeting a complete stranger. He began to grow homesick and really missed his friends and family. When he landed at DFW International Airport, he had less than a dollar to his name. He began looking for a job. A friend suggested that he apply to be a substitute teacher. He was desperate so he gave it a try. He was hired and within a week of working as a substitute, he fell in love with it. He knew, for the first time ever, that he was doing what he was supposed

to be doing. He spent the better part of three years slowly becoming certified to teach high school. In 2012 he accepted a position teaching high school English as a second language. Craven has been teaching since then and can’t imagine doing anything else. “I love teaching with such passion and I feel so lucky to make money doing something that I enjoy,” said Craven.

John Humphrey enjoyed his time at Texas Wesleyan immensely. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with department honors. During his time at the university he had a freelance article published in The Rambler. His research paper, The Rhetoric of Dialogue, was selected and presented at Oklahoma University’s Language and  Linguistics  Student Conference. Humphrey also had the honor of being the first President of Texas Wesleyan’s creative writ-ing group P.E.N. (Phi Epsilon Nu). He was given the opportunity to have his play, Gra-ham’s Grail, taken to New York with Theatre Wesleyan’s Playmarket production. There it received a staged reading at Rattlesticks Theater. Humphrey lives by the quote, “Find your passion; find a way to use that passion to help others.” Consequently, he has stumbled into teaching. Presently, he is working as a substitute teacher, but has begun his teaching certifi-cations. He has also has completed his second play, Brotherly Love.

Amanda Hand has been teaching preschool music for the past three years. As the mom to two young children, she knew it was time to go for a bachelor’s degree. She arrived at Wesleyan in August 2011. The Texas Wesleyan Department of Music turned out to be a perfect place for her to grow as a musician, educator and person. She developed close work-ing relationships with her professors, who assigned challenging work but never left her to drift alone. Hand wrote a paper about the relationship between music and emotions throughout history, and current research on the topic. Dr. Ilka Araujo, assistant professor of music, encouraged her to expand it into a presentation for University College Day 2013. The UCD presentation was exhilarating and cemented her decision to become an educator. She graduated in 2015 with a bachelor of art in music with all level certification. Through her student teaching contacts, she accepted the music position at Sagamore Hill Elementary School in Fort Worth before graduation. She is currently ending her second six weeks of

teaching elementary music. On weekends and school breaks, she writes and records music with a friend under the name Penta-con Six. She relies heavily on the theory and analysis skills she gained at Wesleyan with Dr. John Fisher, professor of music and the vocal technique Allison Ward , adjunct instructor of voice, taught her. One small moment at Wesleyan stands out for Hand. After making a B on a sight singing test in Aural Skills I, Hand recalls Dr. Jerome Bierschenk, music department chairman, say-ing, “I think you are a diamond in the rough.” Hand said that “those encouraging words continue to resonate, as I strive daily to refine my edges so I can shine to my full potential.”

Alumni succeed in teaching and drama

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When senior religion major Shelby Nowland isn’t focusing on breaking the preconceived notions people may have toward religion majors, he enjoys be-ing outside and around friends experiencing life. “A part of me really enjoys doing things outdoors like horseback riding, hiking, camping,” Nowland said, “but also I really don’t like doing all the typical college things or what people think is the college experience. You’re not going to find me going out to the club at a wild party. I’d much rather go out with my friends to the museum or to the zoo.”

Zahraa Saheb is the perfect example of a student with a story to tell. Saheb, vice president of the Student Government Association, volunteers with Stu-dent Engagement and is also an assistant to Dean of Students Dennis Hall. She’s very involved not only because she’s an awesome student but because she and her six sisters have to provide for their family due to their parents’ disabilities. “They don’t know my background of where I came from six years ago when I came here as a political refugee [from Iraq] after having lost ev-erything and after my brother was killed in front of our house and my dad was persecuted by terrorists,” she said. “We had to leave our home and go into hiding and things like that. People don’t know all that goes on in my daily life.”

Music major Alex Lopez is the epitome of students being involved on cam-pus. Lopez is a Golden Rams tour guide, member of the Wesleyan Choir, and a pitcher for the baseball team. Outside of Wesleyan activities, Lopez enjoys spending time with his family, friends, and being a true Texas Rangers fan. Everyone has values they try to uphold, and Lopez’s top three are humility, love, and the platinum rule. He also has a knack for gardening. “Kind of ran-dom but I got into gardening in high school for no apparent reason I was helping a third and fourth grade class with one of our professors at my home school association,” Lopez said. “We had a little garden that we had outside of the church that we held our class.”

Student Profiles

Shelby Nowland

Zahraa Saheb

Alex Lopez

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Spanish major Alejandro Hernandez is a commuter student with a love for teaching Spanish. He even has hopes to teach in another country. Hernandez enjoys playing basketball and sketching. He has also volunteered for a reading and science camp where children from other countries attend to learn more about education. “It’s fun, man,” he said. “You get to see a lot of kids from other worlds. Some of them have only been here for one day or one week.”

Theatre major Carlos Brumfield is electric on the stage at Texas Wesleyan. Brumfield is heavily involved in organizations on campus, including Phi Ep-silon Nu (PEN), the Gay/Straight Alliance and Alpha Psi Omega. He is also a resident assistant, a Golden Rams tour guide, a Ram Camp leader and part of the award-winning Theatre Department. Brumfield enjoys spending time with family and playing video games. “I love video games whenever I get the chance to play them,” Brumfield said. “I like spending time with my family. I like really childish things like playing in parks and taking walks.”

Mass communication major Sachiko Jayaratne is getting the most out of her Wesleyan experience. Jayaratne is a student reporter for The Rambler Me-dia Group, part-time student worker for Student Engagement, a member of the Student Government Association, and a member of the 11-time national champion table tennis team. When Jayaratne isn’t being so involved on cam-pus she’s hanging out in downtown Fort Worth or playing her guitar. “Some-times during the weekend I would visit Guitar Center and just jam,” Jayaratne said. “Sometimes I would go to downtown Fort Worth and just take pictures.”

Alejandro Hernandez

Carlos Brumfield

Sachiko Jayaratne

Student Profiles

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Dr. Jeffrey DeLotto, Professor of English, specializes in creative writing. Three of the books DeLotto has published have been poetry.

DeLotto has been at Wesleyan for 32 years; he has also taken several sab-baticals. His favorite part of being an English professor is that it doesn’t feel like a job, just what he does. “They pay me to tell people about the wonders of beauty and truth,” DeLotto said. “They pay me to tell the truth about litera-ture, about life, about philosophy and history, about student papers. It’s rare that someone gets to do that for a living.” In his free time, DeLotto enjoys sail-ing. His sailboat is a 1981 model and with his family he has sailed hundreds of miles. During one of his sabbaticals, he sailed up the Texas coast and on to Louisiana and Florida.

Dr. Amy Bell, associate professor of Spanish, has been at Wesleyan for 14 years. She said her interest in languages led her to Spanish. She is from Tusca-loosa, Ala. but feels that Wesleyan is a good fit for her idea of a more person-alized learning and teaching environment. Bell enjoys traveling and reading for her hobbies. She loves discovering new places and visiting old ones. Bell says this is also why she likes to read. “It’s like traveling in your mind,” Bell said. Bell encourages her students to take time outs. “Life is more than the next text message, the next Tweet, the next status update, etc.,” she said.

Dr. Bruce McDonald is an associate professor of religion, philosophy, and humanities. He has been at Wesleyan for 20 years. McDonald was a pastor for 17 years in Vermont and New York before going back to school to get his doc-torate from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He felt that teaching was where he was supposed to be. McDonald loves early church history and the New Testament. He wrote his dissertation on the history of a difficult passage in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 in the Bible. McDonald’s first degree was in classi-cal music and he feels that music is a part of him. He says he is a noncreative cook, but believes he has a good eye for the right recipe. He bakes all his own bread and desserts. He loves to travel and considers traveling and travel pho-tography to be his hobbies aside from cooking and music. McDonald says he is a Northern Hemisphere man as far as where he really enjoys traveling.

Faculty Profiles

Dr. Jeffrey DeLotto

Dr. Amy Bell

Dr. Bruce McDonald

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Terri Cummings, an associate professor of art, has worked for Wesleyan for the past 12 years most recently in the Mass Communications Department. Cummings loves teaching photography because she says “it allows students to reach other portions of social media.” Cummings discovered her love of photography while earning her undergraduate degree in visual arts fibers from The University of Texas at Arlington. Cummings’ favorite thing about teaching at Wesleyan is that she likes the friendly atmosphere and the great sense of community where faculty members actually like to teach. Cummings encourages all faculty, staff and students to take a photography class because it fosters personal expression and creative critical thinking. Her hobbies in-clude traveling, caving, and racing vintage cars.

Richard Haratine, visiting professor of theatre, has been at Wesleyan for six years and has a background mostly in performance for the stage. He grew up in Bradenton, Fl., but chose Texas to be close to family. Haratine first devel-oped a love for theater when he was about 14 and auditioned for a play at a local community theater. He says theater is his second home and in college he preferred the concentration of voice and movement for theater. Haratine encourages his students to “never forget their own story” and to laugh a lot. He also feels that teaching theatre has become just as important as being a performer. He can be found in local theaters, where, he says, he practices what he teaches.

Dr. John Fisher, professor of music, has been at Wesleyan for 29 years. He and his wife moved from South Dakota to Texas in search of a warmer cli-mate. Fisher says his mother started teaching him piano at age seven and he has always had an inclination for music from a very young age. Fisher has an annual dual piano concert with Dr. Bruce McDonald at Wesleyan that they have been putting on for the past 10 years. He says although he does love mu-sic, it is his profession, not his hobby. Fisher’s hobby is framing art for places he has been. One of his more recent pieces, The Woman in Gold, came from his recent trip to New York. Fisher also participates in the study abroad trips with Wesleyan. One of his sayings is, “Life is good. Let it go.”

Faculty Profiles

Richard Haratine

Terri Cummings

Dr. John Fisher

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