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Campus Review
May 7, 2013
Musicale, held at the Buckhead home of
Atlanta Opera Guild Vice President
Claudia Barnes, sang a Clayton State
tune. Among the performers were Atlanta
Opera Guild scholarship winner and
Clayton State student Angie Plate, who
was accompanied by Clayton State Staff
Accompanist Alex Benford. Soprano
Plate, a native of Peru who now calls
Stockbridge, Ga., home, is a junior
Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance
major, studying with Dr. Kurt-Alexander
Zeller, coordinator, Division of Music and
director of Opera and Vocal Studies at
Clayton State. The Atlanta Opera Guild
scholarship winners receive $1000 to be
applied to their senior year of undergrad-
uate vocal studies.
Atlanta Opera Guild scholarship winners tenor
Joseph McBrayer (at left), from Kennesaw State
University, and soprano Angie Plate (center),
from Clayton State University, who both per-
formed at the Spring Musicale accompanied by
Clayton State University Staff Accompanist Alex
Benford (at right).
Orientation &
New Student Programs
Clayton State University’s Eighth Annual
New Student Convocation is scheduled to
take place on Friday, Aug. 9, from 10 a.m.
to 11 a.m. in Spivey Hall. This year’s
keynote address will be provided by
Clayton State’s president, Dr. Thomas
Hynes, Jr. The ceremony’s purpose is to
inspire, motivate and formally welcome
new students into the university commu-
nity. Clayton State faculty and staff who
participate in the procession portion of the
ceremony are kindly requested to wear
their academic regalia. Last year’s cere-
mony had its largest attendance for new
students, faculty and staff. If you have
questions regarding the ceremony, please
contact Celena Milner at (678) 466-5443;
Office of Orientation & New Student
Programs, Student Center, Room 218.
President
Clayton State University President Dr.
Thomas J. Hynes was a guest on the radio
show Atlanta Community Profiles on
Saturday, Apr. 13. The show aired on
Talk920AM at 2 p.m., and on
970AM/1400AM at 8 a.m., and will be
posted on the web site, atlantacommuni-
typrofiles.com for the next year. Hynes
was invited to appear on Atlanta
Community Profiles by Louis A. Wieland,
Jr., president of Community Profiles, the
official relocation magazines for FMLS
that are distributed by realtors and many
Chambers of Commerce throughout the
metro area.
Sociology
Clayton State University Associate
Professor of Sociology Dr. Kevin
Demmitt has co-authored the new
Human
Intimacy: Marriage, the Family, and Its
Meaning, 11 Edition
with Dr. Frank Cox,
professor of marriage and family courses
at Santa Barbara City College. Demmitt
published his first marriage and family
textbook in 1997, which was updated for
a second edition two years later, and then
a third edition in 2002. The publishers of
his first book, Cengage Publishers, then
asked him to update the 10th edition of
Human Intimacy: Marriage, the Family,
and Its Meaning
. The success of that proj-
ect allowed him to continue work with
this latest edition, which is used in
Clayton State’s Sociology 2293: Marriage
and Family course.
Theatre
Clayton State University Assistant
Professor of Theater Patricia Henritze’s
10-minute play
Destiny
, which premiered
at the EstroGenius Festival in New York
last November, has been chosen to be part
of the Georgia State University LGBTQ
Short Play festival this coming July. The
GSU Players and University Theatre at
Georgia State will be presenting three
nights of short LGBTQ plays, from July
25 to July 28, specifically plays not previ-
ously produced in Georgia. The plays will
be given a minimal production, using
mostly student actors at the Alumni Hall
Theatre in Dahlberg Hall on the GSU
Campus. Destiny, written by Henritze,
takes place on a stoop outside a wedding
reception in a time of change, of hope and
confusion, and features a disheveled
young bride and her reluctant maid of
honor pondering the questions of life:
Why wear panty hose? Is there more
beer? Is our life a series of random
events? Or is it destiny?
*****
Clayton State University Director of
Theatre and Assistant Professor of
Theatre Shontelle Thrash performed a
one-woman show at Georgia State
University’s Speakers Auditorium on Apr.
3. The show, entitled Mother to Mother,
was part of the South Africa Yesterday
and Today event sponsored by Georgia
State’s Center for Collaborative and
International Arts (CENCIA) program.
Thrash comments that the play was a,
“fun project. I had the chance to speak the
Xhosa language and play numerous char-
acters.”
Veterans Resource Center
The Veterans Resource Center (VRC) at
Clayton State University recently held a
mini Resource Fair to assist student veter-
ans and their family members.
Representatives from the Georgia
Department of Veterans Services, VFW
Post 5080, and Disabled American
Veterans (DAV), William E. Tate, Chapter
1 were available all day to answer ques-
tions and provide information and guid-
ance with regards to VA benefits and com-
pensation. During the event, Commander
Leon Booker, DAV, William E. Tate,
Chapter 1, presented Tina Lake, Veterans
Resource Center coordinator, with a
check for $400 to support operations at
the center.
(L to R) DAV, Chapter 1 members Calvin Harris
and John Causey; Tina Lake, VRC coordinator;
DAV, Chapter 1 Commander Leon Booker.
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