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December
Commencement This Weekend
Meredith
College will hold winter commencement exercises on Saturday,
December 13, featuring an address by Exploris co-founder Anne
Bryan, ’71. Approximately 128 bachelor’s degree
candidates and 22 graduate degree candidates are expected
to participate in the ceremony. These numbers include graduates
who completed their degrees in August and December 2003.
Commencement will begin at 10 a.m. in Jones Auditorium.
Visit www.meredith.edu/commencement/default.htm
to read profiles of some notable graduates.
Basketball
Coach Carl Hatchell Notches 250th Career Victory
By
Andrea Weaver and Kristen Scott, ’05
 The
Meredith College basketball team presented Coach Carl Hatchell
with his 250th career victory on Nov. 25 by defeating Greensboro
College 81 to 76 in their home opener.
"This was a total team effort tonight and I am really
happy for the kids. They are the ones who play the game –
I have yet to hit a jump shot, but it is still a nice accomplishment,”
Hatchell said in an article published Nov. 26 by the Raleigh,
N.C., “News & Observer.”
Hatchell, who is beginning his 16th season as the Angels’
head coach, has a career record of 250-101. Meredith College
competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
in Division III as an independent.
Read the Meredith basketball season outlook, review team statistics
and see the 2003-2004 team roster on the basketball
web pages.
Meredith
Art Faculty Member Receives Award from State of North Carolina
Artist
Mary Ann Scherr, an adjunct faculty member in Meredith’s
art department, is one of six distinguished North Carolinians
to receive the 2003 North Carolina Award, the highest civilian
honor the state can bestow.
Scherr, who received the 2003 North Carolina Award for Fine
Arts during a December 1 ceremony, has been on the leading
edge of metalsmithing for over 50 years, but she still seeks
new breakthroughs in her work. She is an internationally recognized
designer, educator and metalsmith who pioneered the use of
exotic materials in jewelry and art.
Among many career highlights, Scherr was commissioned by the
U.S. Steel Corporation to design a collection of stainless
steel jewelry as part of a proposal to the government to switch
from silver coins to stainless steel coins. She also developed
a series of electronic human health alerts, encased in jewelry
and known as “Body-Monitors,” for which she earned
patents. In addition, she developed and copyrighted a unique
process for etching metal.
In 1979, she became director of the Product Design Department
at Parsons School of Design. Along the way, she continued
producing her one-of-a-kind jewelry for such clients as the
Duke of Windsor, Liz Claiborne and Chelsea Clinton. Her works
have traveled the globe, with exhibitions at the Vatican Museum
of Contemporary Art in Rome, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York, the Smithsonian and the White House, among others.
She has been featured on major television shows and in more
than 120 publications. Her honors include Fellow of the American
Craft Council to Lifetime Achievement from the National Museum
of Women in the Arts.
Created by the General Assembly in 1961, the North Carolina
Awards has been presented annually since 1964. Since then,
more than 200 outstanding North Carolinians have been selected
as award recipients from nominations that come from citizens
throughout the state. Presenting the 2003 awards were Governor
Mike Easley and Lisbeth C. Evans, secretary of the Department
of Cultural Resources.
Other 2003 recipients of the North Carolina Award include
William Thornton, North Carolina’s first astronaut, poet
Jaki Shelton Green and former Governor Jim Hunt.
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Charletta
Sims and Kelly Scott, members of Meredith’s Student Development
staff, have both recently earned awards.
Kelly
Scott, assistant director of student activities and leadership
development, has received the Outstanding New Professional from
the NC College Personnel Association.