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Campus Review
August 1, 2013
Trivia Time
Guy Fawkes Day
by John Shiffert, University Relations
Only the British could celebrate a failed
attempt to blow up Parliament and the
King of England.
Known as Guy Fawkes Day, after the gen-
tlemen who was arrested on Nov. 5, 1605
while guarding the explosives of the
“Gunpowder Plot,” this celebration has
hung around for more than 400 years,
which is a lot longer than Guy himself
hung.
By way of explanation; the Gunpowder
Plot was a plan by a group of English
Catholics to blow up both the Parliament
and King James I, with the goal of estab-
lishing a Catholic monarch on the throne
of England. Since old Guy was caught
red-handed with the black powder, and
since Parliament actually passed an act
making Nov. 5 a day of celebration
(apparently since the plot failed), well,
Nov. 5 has been Guy Fawkes Day in
England ever since.
Those with another reason to celebrate
Guy Fawkes Day this year will be; Jill
Ellington, Lou Brackett, Brett Reichert,
Vickie Smith, Rob Taylor and David
Ludley. However, only Smith has actually
been to a Guy Fawkes Day Party (which is
good for a Bonus Point.)
“I’ve actually been to a Guy Fawkes party
where an effigy was burned at the end of
the evening. I thought it was a little dis-
turbing…” she says.
Less disturbing, at least to four-time
Trivia Time champion Brackett, are the
standings in the race for the 2013 Tom
Eddins Virtual Trivia Trophy. Brackett has
a big lead with 29 points, well ahead of
second and third place former champions
Taylor (15 points) and Ellington (12
points). There’s also a whole group of
people between five and 10 points, includ-
ing Smith, Eddins, Kathy Garrison, Kurt-
Alexander Zeller, Dirk Morrell, Angelyn
Hayes and Kelly Adams.
Staying with British history, who was the
last British monarch to die on the field of
battle? (And there are Bonus Points avail-
able if you have any additional details.)
Send your answers, not to Prince George
(he’s too young to get email) but to
johnshiffert@clayton.edu.
national symbol, the Chengdu Panda
Base. That’s where Shiffert, who was also
adopted through CCAI in 1996, joined up
with Mary Hollowell to show their
Clayton State colors.
“I’m really excited to be able to learn
about Chinese culture and the language,”
says Shiffert, who is originally from
Longyan in the Fujian Province.
A former public school science teacher
and museum director of education, and a
member of the Society for the Study of
Social Problems, Hollowell was awarded
the 2010 Equity & Social Justice
Advocacy Award from the National
Association for Multicultural Education
(NAME), on the nomination by fellow
Clayton State faculty member, Assistant
Professor of Teacher Education Dr. Mari
Peachtree this year, and the only reason he
hasn’t run more is that he was otherwise
teaching at the University of Louisville
for 18 years prior to 1996.
Other notable runners included Associate
Vice
President
for
Enrollment
Management & Academic Success Dr.
Mark Daddona, who was running his 10th
Peachtree, and Associate Director of
Counseling Services Shiraz Karaa, who
was running her ninth.
“It was great weather,” says Karaa of the
2013 race. “Overcast, with a light drizzle
near the end. However, there was a quag-
mire in Piedmont Park.”
Photo Caption: Clayton State’s 2013 Peachtree Road Race finishers (with their Peachtree finishes). From left
to right; Mike Morrisey (Department of Natural Sciences lab manager – 5), Todd Birchfield (Network and
Enterprise Services – 5), Dr. Thomas Hynes (President – 16), Dr. Mark Daddona (Associate Vice President for
Enrollment Management &Academic Success – 10), Erin Nagel (Assessment & Marketing Librarian – 6), Yao
Seidu (student – 30+), Hugh Toro (Assistant Track and Cross Country Coach – 42), Luis Monge (alumnus –
5), Shiraz Karaa (Associate Director of Counseling Services – 9), Missing from the photo, but also finishing
this year were Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. Angleyn Hayes, Computer Science Lecturer
Sandra Jones and Associate Professor Dr. Christie Burton. (Erin Fender photo)
Roberts. Hollowell has also published The
Forgotten Room, a book covering an
ethnographic case study of a public alter-
native school which highlights solitary
confinement, in 2009. Following the pub-
lication of The Forgotten Room,
Hollowell became an advocate against
solitary confinement cells in public
schools, and her efforts, along with those
of other child advocates, led the Georgia
Department of Education to ban the prac-
tice of school seclusion on July 8, 2010.
Launched as part of a U.S. Government
initiative in 2006, NSLI-Y seeks to
increase Americans’ capacity to engage
with native speakers of critical languages
by providing formal and informal lan-
guage learning and practice and by pro-
moting mutual understanding through
educational and cultural activities.
Road Race, cont’d. from p. 1
China, cont’d. from p. 4