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Meredith College's Social Work Club Strives to Help Community Meredith College's Social Work Club is a service organization that strives to help the local community and bring knowledge of what social workers do to Meredith's campus. This semester, the club has been busy with a variety of service projects. On October 18-22, the club sold breast cancer awareness bracelets as a fundraiser for breast cancer research. The club has also just completed the Say So Suitcase project, which grew from a visit from a Say So (Strong Able Youth Speaking Out) social worker who told the club members about foster children having to carry their few belongings in trash bags. The project was a great success with the college community giving over 100 suitcases as well as cash donations. The club held a Box-A-Thon on October 23-24. The Box-A-Thon project raised money for Scotties's Place, which is an organization that helps homeless children. Participants collected donations for the number of hours they spent sleeping in a cardboard box from 7 p.m. on October 23 to 10 a.m. on October 24. The social work club has also volunteered to paint the children's room at Interact. "It went from a dingy, gloomy room to a bright, sunny playroom," said club president Melissa Pendergraft, '04. So far they have painted the room a bright yellow color and soon they will be going back to paint murals on the walls. Next semester, the club will help with the social work conference, "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Social Workers Make a Difference, which will be held at Meredith on March 18, 2005. The conference is for social workers to share stories and experiences on how they have affected North Carolina, and also to learn about how social work has evolved into a diverse professional field. In the future, club leaders are considering organizing a self-defense seminar. Another new project that Pendergraft has implemented into club meetings is reading from a book called, "Spirituality within Religious Traditions in Social Work Practice." She started reading from the book because social workers come in contact with many different people of diverse religions every day. Pendergraft said it is important "to have a basic understanding of their beliefs and values in order for us to be able to help them appropriately." For more information on the social work club, email mcswkclub@yahoo.com or visit www.meredith.edu/socwork/students.htm.
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Meredith Series Will Commemorate Novelist George Sand Meredith College will host four events during the month of November to celebrate 19th century female novelist George Sand and composer Frederic Chopin, in honor of the George Sand Bicentennial. All events are free and open to the public. On November 2 at 1 p.m. in Carswell Concert Hall, pianist Adam Wibrowski will conduct a master class. On November 3 at 7 p.m., Wibrowski will give a lecture titled "George Sand, Frederic Chopin and their Artistic Circle"in Carswell. Wibrowski has been the director of the Chopin Society in Nohant, France since 1993. He received his musical education with honors from the Superior School of Music in Kracow, Poland, and the Sorbonne in Paris. He performs recitals, chamber music concerts, television appearances, workshops, master classes and lectures throughout Poland and France, as well as many other countries including the United States. On November 9 at 7 p.m. a public screening of "Les Enfants du siecle"(Children of the Century) will be held in Kresge Auditorium. The film by Diane Kurys, starring Juliette Binoche, deals with the passionate love affair between George Sand and poet and playwright Musset. On November 11 at 7 p.m. Meredith students will present a literary and musical recital in Carswell. Excerpts from Sand's works and piano pieces by Chopin will be performed. Throughout the entire month of November, Campbell Library will have an exhibit of books reflecting George Sand's varied interests and accomplishments. Meredith students curated the exhibit. French Romantic writer George Sand (pseudonym of Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin) defied convention as a free-spirited author in 19th-century Paris. Sand was known for her numerous love affairs with prominent figures such as Chopin, poet and playwright Alfred de Musset, writer Prosper Merimee and artist Alexandre Manceau. The George Sand Bicentennial is a project led by Meredith faculty members Jim Fogle, Veronique Machelidon and Kent Lyman. Other events will be held in February 2005. For more information on the George Sand Bicentennial events, call the Department of Music at 919-760-8536.
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