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A chance to serve and lead on a global scale has led three 2011 spring graduates of Eastern Mennonite University far from the comfort and familiarity of Harrisonburg to a newly opened academic center in the Adriatic Sea town of Lezhe, Albania. The Lezha Academic Center opened during the summer of 2011 and has 33…
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The face of hunger is forlorn, often frantic, at times unflinching. It is also increasingly familiar. Three years after the onset of a crippling economic crisis, 1 in 6 people in America is struggling with hunger, forced to go without food for several meals or even several days. And the problem is no longer confined…
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C. Phillip Barger, 83, FMS ’45 and a former trustee and executive committee member of the Fishburne-Hudgins Educational Foundation, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, in Charlottesville, Virginia. One of the school’s most loyal alumni, he was a charter member of the Colonel Young Brigade and with his son-in-law John Conrad had donated the…
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SSC will participate in the National Memory Screening Day on Tuesday, Nov. 15. An initiative of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA), National Memory Screening Day is part of the organization’s ongoing effort to promote early detection of memory problems, including Alzheimer’s disease. The effort also encourages the use of appropriate intervention, including medical treatments,…
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Award-winning author, speaker, coach and consultant Dr. Jarik Conrad will present “Hard Core Soft Skills: Transform Your Exceptional Potential into Extraordinary Performance” on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College. The program, sponsored by the office of multicultural services, is free and open to the public. “Each person has tremendous…
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Tracy Pyles is frequently criticized for not being able to play well with others. That’s a fair observation. Also fair would be the observation that Pyles thinks the current majority on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors is taking the county in the wrong direction, and playing nice isn’t going to get things moving in…
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I’m one of those “job creators” members of Congress profess to admire so much. Thirty-two years ago, my partner and I started a small business with $300 worth of old records and a booth at the local farmers market. We’re now the biggest independent music store in St. Louis and employ 22 people. Our annual…
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The race for the Beverley Manor District seat on the Augusta County School Board has a second write-in candidate. Chris Foschini announced on Thursday that he has launched a write-in campaign for the seat. Roger Zirkle, who had represented the district on the School Board since 2003, died this week after a long battle with…
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Today Gov. Bob McDonnell joined John T. Chambers, chairman and chief executive officer of Cisco and university presidents Alan Merten (George Mason University); Linwood Rose (James Madison University); Charles Steger (Virginia Tech) and Teresa Sullivan (University of Virginia) via Cisco TelePresence to discuss the progress of the 4-VA initiative and the pilot projects for instructional…
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If a kid steals a cookie, does it make sense to give him another and then hope that he won’t do it again? An army of corporate lobbyists is trying to convince Congress that after stashing nearly $1.4 trillion offshore to avoid paying the U.S. taxes they owe, they should get a massive tax discount…
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