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May 19, 2014
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Making the Dream Real:
Clayton State to Hold Degree
Completion Open House June 3
Trivia Time
Tales of the
Ruby Slippers
by John Shiffert
You'd think everyone would know
about the Ruby Slippers. However,
that reference seems to have even
by-passed our own Dolores Cox,
who wore a pair of Ruby Slippers
when she played Dorothy Gale in a
Faculty Follies some years ago.
THAT Dorothy, and THOSE Ruby
Slippers. The ones she was wearing
thoughout most of the movie version
of "The Wizard of Oz." In all fari-
ness, it was something of a trick
question, since the several pairs of
Ruby Slippers actually made for
Judy Garland to wear in the movie
had an adventurous life, not that
what happened to them in the movie
was commonplace. As Dr. Kurt-
Alexander Zeller and Jill Ellington
pointed out, in the movie the Ruby
Slippers just kind of disappear from
the plot when she returns to
Kansas... so nobody knows what
happened to them.
Now, in L. Frank Baum's book of the
same name, her footwear wasn't
even a pair of Ruby Slippers, but a
pair of Silver Shoes, that she loses in
the desert as she is being wisked
back to Kansas.
Having said that, natives of Kansas
are not terribly fond of L. Frank
Baum, his book, or the movie. Why?
(And there are Bonus Points if you
know the back story...)
UHS Signs Agreement with
Clayton County Board of
Health to Offer Free HIV Testing
The Clayton State University office of
University Health Services (UHS) has
signed a collaborative agreement with
Clayton County Board of Health
(CCBOH) to offer free HIV testing on
Mondays from 9 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. at the
UHS clinic through the end of 2014.
This service began May 5 and will be
available every other Monday until the
start of the 2014 fall semester in August.
The next free testing opportunity is avail-
able on Monday, May 19. Starting with
the fall semester, free testing will be avail-
able every Monday from 9 a.m. to 2:45
p.m. through the end of December.
This is a walk-in testing opportunity; no
appointments are being scheduled for the
HIV testing. Anyone is eligible for this
free testing through the CCBOH collabo-
rative, including the community. CCBOH
will make arrangements for counseling
and treatment of anyone with positive
results.
If you have a friend, relative, or co-work-
er who could benefit from completing
their college degree, or if perhaps you
have some college credits, but no degree,
Clayton State University has an opportu-
nity for you.
All Georgians who have some undergrad-
uate college credits, but do not hold a col-
lege degree, are invited to attend the
Clayton State Degree Completion Open
House on Tuesday, June 3, between 5 p.m.
and 8 p.m., in room 101 of the Harry S.
Downs Center on the Clayton State main
campus in Morrow. Interested parties are
invited to drop in anytime during the
three-hour open house, which is designed
to provide information and on-site servic-
es to residents in the local community
who have already earned college credit
and are now ready to finish their college
degree.
Representatives from the following
Clayton State offices will be available
during the Open House to answer ques-
tions and provide information:
Recruitment and Admissions
Financial Aid
Registrar’s Office
Testing Center
Center for Academic Success
Academic Advising
Career Services
Veterans Resource Center
For more information, contact Dianna
Alsip at diannaalsip@clayton.edu.