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Maggie McNamara ’11 (left) helps SBC theater technical director Krista Franco with her ropes Thursday, April 17 atop a tree in the Prothro courtyard. The activity was part of collaboration between SWEBOP and Lynchburg College’s New Horizons Outdoor Adventure and Leadership Programs. According to SWEBOP director Laura Staman, the two colleges will be doing more joint programming in the future.
SBC President to Retire in 2009
05/01/08
Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld announced on April 26 that she will retire from her position as president of Sweet Briar College in June 2009. She will leave a community deeply grateful for 13 years of distinguished service, during which she guided Sweet Briar through both good and difficult times. She has chosen this time in large measure because of a successful strategic plan implemented four years ago that has allowed the College to flourish. more >>
Retire? Spirited ‘Ms. Pat’ Redefines the Word
05/01/08
Being a spirited and spiritual place, spirits tend to stick around the chaplain’s office at Sweet Briar. They are the lively echoes of staff and students — and the occasional cat or dog — who worked and laughed there, made their marks on how things are done, and moved on to something new. Patience “Pat” Caldwell Richeson, an assistant to three different chaplains over 17 years, promised more than the suggestion of her presence after she retires on May 9.
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Remember the Battle of La Margarita?
05/01/08
“Only at a women’s college can you have a trebuchet sling be a brassiere cup,” Sweet Briar assistant professor of engineering Scott Pierce observed, watching his students maneuver their medieval-era weapons into launch positions.
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Announcements/Events 05/01/08
Rainville Named Founding Director of Tusculum Institute 05/01/08
SweetPEAS Taking Up Collection for Disaster Relief in Tornado-struck Suffolk 05/01/08
Archaeology Club T-shirts to Benefit Monacan Museum more >> Department News 05/01/08
Media Update 05/01/08
New Witcombe Video Asks ‘What is a Feminist?’ 05/01/08
Sweet Briar Art Gallery Selected for Assessment Program more >> At the Library
Fergus T-shirts for Sale
Sweet Briar College Friends of the Library is selling T-shirts printed with their favorite veiled chameleon, Fergus. The brightly colored reptile is a favorite with students, staff and faculty and even has its own Facebook group.The T-shirts are light green with Fergus in dark green and aqua, and the artwork (pictured at right) was done by studio art professor Laura Pharis’ son, Buck.
Shirts are $15 and all proceeds go to the book fund of the SBC Friends of the Library. For more information or to purchase a shirt, contact Lisa Johnston, associate director of Cochran Library at lnjohnston@sbc.edu or Ext. 6306.