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Campus Review
May 7, 2013
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Alumni
Luis Monge, a former Clayton State
University student and track & field/cross
country athlete, reported via his Facebook
account that he was safe following the
Apr. 15 bombing at the Boston Marathon.
Biology
Reynolds Nature Preserve’s annual Wild
Azalea Festival was held on Apr. 6, and
the Clayton State University Biology
Department played a major role, taking
part in three service learning projects,
including Dr. Barbara Musolf and Tri
Beta members providing educational
material about invasive plants, Dr.
Christopher Kodani and students present-
ing an adopt-a-spring protocol, and Dr.
Jere Boudell doing a presentation on
stream restoration. In addition, Boudell’s
SEEDS students discussed ecology and
ecological issues.
College of Business
The AACSB-accredited College of
Business (CoB) at Clayton State
University’s Summer Entrepreneurship
and Business Academy (SEBA), spon-
sored by PEI, a Stockbridge-based logis-
tics firm, is intended to give high school
students a taste of college life. Dr. Beverly
Wright, program director, and Dr.
Alphonso Ogbuehi, professor of market-
ing & global strategy, along with CoB
Career Advisor Sanford Dennis, recently
visited public and private high schools to
talk about the current state of business,
entrepreneurship, and also discuss their
summer academy, which is designed to
help prepare students for the future by
providing a unique and exciting hands-on
learning experience. This year’s program
runs from June 16 through June 21 and
will once again be held on the Clayton
State campus in Morrow.
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Dr. Alphonso Ogbuehi, faculty member of
the Clayton State University’s College of
Business, was honored with becoming a
member of Georgia State University’s
Robinson College of Business Advisory
Council for the Southeast U.S. Higher
Education Consortium for International
Business earlier this year. Ogbuehi is
pleased with his engagement with GSU’s
Robinson College of Business, his position
on the 13 memberAdvisory Council, and the
subsequent opportunity to serve as a judge in
the inaugural International Business Case
Competition organized at GSU Robinson’s
Center for International Business Education
and Research (CIBER).
Dual-Enrollment
Clayton State does not have a women’s
gymnastics team among its successful
NCAA Division II athletics program.
However, a Clayton State student won a
Georgia State championship in the vault in
the Apr. 21 2013 AAU State Gymnastics
Meet, held at the Cobb Civic Center in
Marietta. Maggie Shiffert, 17, is a sopho-
more at Clayton State and a junior at
Northgate High School in Coweta County.
One of the University’s 200-plus dual-
enrolled students, she competes as a high
school student in AAU gymnastics for the
Newnan School of Gymnastics (NSG), as
well as being a member of the Northgate
gymnastics team. Competing at the Prep-
Optional Two level for NSG in the Apr. 21
state AAU championships, she scored a
9.45 in the vault, winning the 15-18 year
old age group by twenty-five-thousandths
of a point over Cierra Swiney of the Elite
Gymnastics team from Milledgeville, Ga.
English
Shannon Polson, one of the Clayton State
English Department’s past Outstanding
Senior majors has signed a letter of intent
with Henry County Schools to teach at the
secondary level. “Shannon is a perfect
example of, yes, I will say it, Dreams.
Made Real,” says Dr. Gregory
McNamara, Clayton State associate pro-
fessor of English. “I wrote once in a letter
of recommendation for Shannon that I had
never seen a book torn up at the end of the
semester the way she had. She is a vora-
cious reader and what is more, she is mas-
sively appreciative of the education she
has had through our fine department.
Lately I have reflected with pleasure that
we have some majors who are truly enam-
ored of our beautiful discipline. Shannon
is one of these and she has and will take
this belief into our local schools.”
History
Clayton State University’s Alpha-Nu-Psi
Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national
history honor society, honored Colleen S.
Hartmann, a Middle Grades Education
major from Forest Park, Ga., with her ini-
tiation into the society at its annual meet-
ing in April. An added treat for the
evening was a talk by author and historian
Victoria Wilcox on, "Gone with the Wind
Goes West: The Surprising Southern
Heritage of Doc Holliday." Wilcox is
founding director of Georgia's Holliday-
Dorsey-Fife House Museum, the antebel-
lum home of the family of Doc Holliday.
Library
95 years of service! Clayton State Library
faculty and staff recognized at the annual
Service Awards Day included: Katherine
Ott (five years) (not pictured); Joan Taylor
(10 years); Laura Herndon (15 years);
Heidi Benford (20 years); Heather Walls
(20 years); and Barbara Dantzler (25
years).
Loch
Dedicated scouters of Loch Ness in the
Scottish Highlands spend years searching
for the Loch Ness Monster. Too bad
Nessie isn’t as social as Clayton State’s
Loch, who was spotted at the 2013
Reese’s College All-Star Game at the
Georgia Dome on Friday Apr. 5. The
Laker mascot, along with mascots from
other Georgia colleges and universities,
was invited to “Mascot Mania” during the
All-Star Game. Loch represented Clayton
State well during a pre-game performance
by the Gym Class Heroes, and during
halftime where he bounced along court-
side, pepping up the audience with Laker
spirit. Alongside other mascots like Buzz
from Georgia Tech, Loch was shown on
the telecast of the game on Sunday after-
noon on CBS-TV. The TV exposure, how-
ever brief, gave Loch the opportunity to
inspire and energize audiences at home.
Music
The recent Atlanta Opera Guild Spring
Across the Campus...