MEREDITH TO HOST GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL EAST FOR THIRD YEAR
By
Christy Sadler, ’03
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This
summer, Meredith’s campus will again be filled with almost
400 academically gifted high school students for the 2002 session
of Governor’s School East.
These rising high school juniors and seniors will live and study
on Meredith’s campus for six weeks, from June 16-July 27.
Students are nominated to attend in one of 11 specific fields:
art, dance, choral or instrumental music, drama, mathematics,
natural or social science, English, Spanish or French. Students
will take non-credit courses in these areas, as well as interdisciplinary
classes.
Meredith faculty Larry Grimes, Pam Halverson and Walda Powell
will be teaching courses during the session. In addition, many
Meredith staff and offices will be serving in a support capacity.
Rosalind Reichard, assisted by Martha Harrell, is the Meredith
coordinator for this session.
The North Carolina Governor’s School program has two campuses:
Governor’s School East at Meredith and Governor’s
School West at Salem College in Winston-Salem. The program is
the nation’s oldest statewide summer residential program
for academically gifted high school students.
For more information, see the North Carolina Governor’s
School web site at www.dpi.state.nc.us/gs/. |
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MEREDITH
WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE RECEIVES GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP
Betty
Adcock, writer-in-residence at Meredith College, has been
awarded a Fellowship in Poetry from the John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation of New York, through the Foundation’s 78th
annual United States and Canada competition. The 2002 Fellowship
winners were selected from more than 2800 applicants.
Adcock, who has taught at Meredith since 1983, is the author
of five collections of poetry. Her most recent book is Intervale:
New and Selected Poems, which received the Dictionary
of Literary Biography’s Yearbook Award for a Distinguished
Volume of Poetry published in 2001.
Adcock has received numerous other honors, including a Pushcart
Prize, the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Texas
Institute of Letters Prize for Poetry, a Fellowship in Poetry
from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Individual
Artist Grant from the State of North Carolina. Her work is
widely published in magazines and appears in more than 15
anthologies. In addition to her position at Meredith, Adcock
is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
Adcock is one of only three North Carolinians to receive Guggenheim
Fellowships in 2002. The others are Jane Mead, poet-in-residence
at Wake Forest University, and Donald Reid, professor of history
at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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