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The Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center Foundation has named Rebecca Lamb as its new executive director. A certified fundraising executive with more than 20 years experience in the nonprofit sector, Lamb will oversee efforts to secure contributions to the Foundation. The Foundation supports the state’s Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center which provides people with disabilities comprehensive, individualized…
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IVORY TOWER, N.Y. (Nov. 3, 2011) – Ahem. We demand an apology, and we demand it now. Seriously, no playing around. This Herman Cain thing is the last straw. Seriously, as if we wouldn’t want a presidential race with two African-Americans. You think we in the liberal media don’t get all lathered up over that…
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Augusta Health will open the Staunton Outpatient Center—a facility that will include an urgent care clinic, a laboratory and imaging services in one location—at 851 Statler Boulevard in February 2012. The urgent care clinic will be open seven days a week and staffed by Augusta Health Emergency Department physicians to treat acute illnesses, acute injuries…
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The Occupy Wall Street movement that has brought international attention to issues of income inequality and the redistribution of weatlh to the superwealthy has spawned sister movements in Staunton and Charlottesville. A newly-formed Occupy Staunton/Unify Main Street group is coordinating a rally on Thursday to support Communication Workers of America Local 2204 and its efforts…
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Was it Mother Nature’s idea of improvisation? Participants in the Anabaptist Communicator’s annual conference sat around tables in Martin Chapel at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, mesmerized by actor-playwright Ted Swartz’s reflections on what he believes makes a “good Mennonite actor,” while outside, snow began to cover the EMU campus. It was Oct. 28, too early for frozen…
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So many items around you when you have your first stroke go astray. Besides physical inabilities to conquer, you have to face true friendships and future friendships. What did I just say? When I had my strokes in May 2006, I discovered that people I thought were my friends distanced themselves from me. From what…
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Replacing the most successful class in EMU history is no easy task, but that’s exactly what men’s basketball coach Kirby Dean has on his plate for the 2011-12 season. Last year Eastern Mennonite finished 22-5 with a starting lineup of five seniors, including ODAC Player of the Year Todd Phillips. Over their four years, the…
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QUESTION: You did not have a game on Saturday. Did you spend it watching football? COACH LONDON: We had Saturday off – Thursday had the game and we got back early, early Friday morning. We had something later on that afternoon. I was able to kind of go through the channels a little bit, look…
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Antibiotics, jet travel, the Internet and GPS. Those are just a few things made possible by military investments that paved the way for mainstream commercial applications benefiting millions of Americans. The same process is going on with the military and renewable energy. And what makes the process today all the more beneficial is the human…
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Is James Madison really “the forgotten father of American environmentalism”? Andrea Wulf, design historian and award-winning author of “The Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation,” will discuss this topic at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the Health and Human Services Building on the JMU campus east of…
