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On Campus
New Vice Presidents
Assume Posts
St. Lawrence welcomed two new vice
presidents to its administrative team
over the summer:
Tom Evelyn
Vice President for
Communications
Tom comes from Buck-
nell, where he was senior
director of news and
media relations and a key
leader in the university’s
communications and mar-
keting eforts since 2007.
He previously served as
interim assistant vice president and
associate director of news and infor-
mation at the University of Central
Florida, and before that, he worked
for 10 years as a reporter and editor at
newspapers in Florida and Georgia. He
has a B.S. in journalism with a minor
in philosophy from the University of
Florida and an M.A. in communication
from the University of Central Florida.
Jefrey Rickey
Vice President and
Dean of Admissions
and Financial Aid
Jef previously held the
same position at Earlham
College, where he in-
creased undergraduate ap-
plications and enrollment,
including signifcant
improvements in enrolling students
who represent geographic, ethnic
and international diversity. Prior to
Earlham, he was dean of admissions at
George Fox University, his undergradu-
ate alma mater. He has been active in
a number of national higher education
organizations and was a member of
the 2007-2008 National Commission
on the Use of Standardized Testing in
Undergraduate Admissions.
fyi
A University-specifc “app” for smart-
phones and tablet computers is SLU’s
newest student recruitment tool. Te new
app (short for mobile application sof-
ware) is available for free for the iPhone/
iPad/iPod Touch and for phones and tab-
lets with the Android operating system:
www.stlawu.edu/admis/mobile.
Bill Short, direc-
tor of the Higher
Education Op-
portunity Program
(HEOP) at St.
Lawrence, received
the Human Rela-
tions Award at the
33rd annual confer-
ence of the New
York State Associa-
tion of College Admission Counseling
(NYSACAC) in June. Te award is given
to an individual or program that champi-
ons access and facilitating post-secondary
opportunities for historically underrepre-
sented students.
An early literacy program, Branching
Out with Books, will be developed by St.
Lawrence and SUNY Potsdam through a
$25,000 grant from the Charles R. Wood
Foundation. In this pilot project, students
will work with small literacy outreach
programs in place at two area schools and
establish a program at the Akwesasne
Library on the St. Regis Mohawk
Reservation.
Assistant Professor
of Performance
and Communica-
tion Arts Ann
Marie Gardi-
nier Halstead is the
author of the play
Have You Filled
a Bucket Today?,
adapted from the
award-winning children’s book of the same
name by Carol McCloud. Te book and
play deliver “a wonderful anti-bullying
message,” Halstead says.
A Fulbright Scholar in Residence from
Sri Lanka and a Fulbright Teaching
Assistant in Chinese language will be on
campus in 2011-12. Harinda Vidanage, a
political scientist, has expertise in South
Asian politics, while Lei Tang comes from
Nankei University.
For more on these and other stories, go to www.stlawu.edu/news.
PENALTY BOX
In our summer issue, we provided the incorrect class year
of one of the student authors of our story on the Student
Interfaith Council. Mary McAfee is a member of the
Class of 2011.
Also in that issue, we lef the author’s name of of the
story on the “SLU for Peace” event. It was written by Beth
Spadaccini ’11.
We regret these oversights.
6 FALL 2011 . S T. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE