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Steven Fischer, instructor of saxophone, is earning his doctorate in music and has inhabited Professor John Bleuel’s office this semester as a guest conductor. Fischer is a graduate student at UGA and will earn his Doctorate of Musical Arts this December. Fischer conducted this month’s Sax Ensemble in the Dangle Theatre to a packed house. The concert was so good, audience members grumbled that it was too short.

Kudos

Retired Spanish professor Dr. Cecilia C. Lee had her book "El Sueño de la Razón y la pesadilla de la Historia en las trilogías de Carlos Rojas / The Dream of Reason and the Nightmare of History in Carlos Rojas’s Trilogies" published this year. The book explores the narrative art of Spanish writer Carlos Rojas (1928- ) based on the analysis of his Trilogies written between 1978 and 1995. The book is written entirely en Español.

Sunil Hazari, associate professor of management, and Sandra Thompson, co-director of the business education program in management, presented "Investigating Factors Affecting Faculty Use of Multimedia in Courses" at the 2008 Delta Pi Epsilon National Conference in Chicago this November.

Kudos features UWG faculty and staff articles and book publications, conference attendance and presentations, grants, organizational leadership and awards. E-mail your news to the Campus Chronicle editor.

Campus Talk

The UWG National Alumni Association named new members to its board of directors. New members began a three-year term at homecoming.

Ellis M. Davis ‘78, ‘80 of Lithonia; Nichole Dyer ‘05, Carrie Green ‘06, Dusty Hightower ‘04, Artagus Newell ‘97, ‘05, Deaidra Wilson ‘89, Joy Butler ‘66 of Carrollton; Eric Hurley ‘94 of Powder Springs; Mary Martin ‘04 of Atlanta; Mike Miller ‘95 of Douglasville; Michael Moseley ‘96 of Villa Rica; and James Richards ‘03 of Newnan have all been appointed to the 36-member UWG National Alumni Association Board of Directors, the official governing body of the association’s 54,000 alumni.

Obituary:

• Dr. Tracy Stallings, former director of College Relations, honorary lifetime member of the University of West Georgia Foundation, Inc. Board of Trustees and administrator at UWG for 35 years, died on Nov. 18.

Stallings was recognized by the UWG National Alumni Association with the Outstanding Alumni Award in 1981 and the Achievement Award in 1992. The institution awarded him its highest honor, the Founders Award, in 2001.

The next issue of Perspective, the UWG alumni magazine, will contain an extensive feature on Stallings and his life of service to UWG, the city of Carrollton and to the state of Georgia.

Campus Talk features UWG faculty and staff announcements of marriages, births, new hires, promotions, transfers, retirements, trips and volunteer work. E-mail your news for publication consideration to the Campus Chronicle special sections editor.