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Majors Fair
Wednesday, October 24
Panther's Den
11:00am - 2:00pm
Coffeehouse
Thursday, October 25
Panther's Den
8:00 - 10:00pm
Blue
Ridge Folklife Festival
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Saturday, October 27
Ferrum College Campus
10:00am - 5:00pm
Haunted
Forest
Tuesday, October 30
Chapman Pond Area
9:00 - 11:00pm
Moore
Hall Dedication
Friday, November 2
Moore Hall Entrance
12:00 - 3:00pm
Talent
Show
Friday, November 2
Panther's Den
8:00 - 11:00pm
Panther
Preview
Saturday, November 10
Ferrum Campus
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Paul
Plays It All
Wednesday, November 14
Panther's Den
8:00 - 9:30pm
Alumni
Events
October 27th
Folklife Festival
The Alumni Office of Ferrum
College invites you to join us
at the 34th Annual Blue Ridge
Folklife Festival
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& Package Deals
Thursday, November 15th
Richmond Alumni Chapter
Location TBA
6PM
Tuesday, November 27th
Roanoke Alumni Chapter
Abuelos
4802 Valley View Blvd NW
6PM
Thursday, November 29th
Washington, DC Alumni Chapter
Location TBA
6PM
Thursday, December 6th
Lynchburg Alumni Chapter
Location TBA
6PM
Alumni A big thank you goes out to everyone who came home to Ferrum this
weekend to make Homecoming 2007 a huge success! Check
out our photo gallery for a look at the weekend’s festivities! Keep checking our alumni calendar for updates on upcoming events! Details for our 2008 events will be listed soon. Please let us know if you would like to help coordinate a gathering in your area. We love to hear from you! Call us at 1-877-FERRUM1 or contact us via email at alumni@ferrum.edu. Keep sending those class notes! As always, please let us know if you need us! Student Justin Muse, Assistant Director of Student Leadership & Engagement Ferrum welcomed area churches to campus on the first day of classes, September 3, 2007, for students to partake in Praise on the Patio. This was the first event of the new school year for students who gathered around Franklin Hall to fellowship with the church families and each other. The Ferrum College Praise band also performed at the event, as this was the opening on their weekly program, The Church: A Contemporary Service of Praise and Worship. Also available were different inflatable obstacles courses and games and free food for everyone to enjoy. Around 400 students attended the event hosted by Student Leadership and Engagement and the Campus Ministry. On September 22, 2007, the Fall Jam bought students together for the soulful sounds of Rudy Currence and the Funk from local band Presha Point. Wiley Drive was blocked off for the event that was set up below Franklin Hall at the Picnic Area. Students and locals came out and enjoyed food, provided by Food Services, and great singing by the performers.
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Ferrum College SIFE Team Offers Financial Literacy
Seminars to Students and Community
Do you feel overwhelmed by credit card debt? Are you currently
unable to manage your finances? Do you know how healthy your finances
are? Do you know your credit score and how to protect yourself from identity
theft? If you have been tossing and turning at night worrying about
these financial issues and more, the Ferrum College SIFE teams wants
to help you. Read More...
Dear Ferrum Friends,
It’s that time of year again – time for Football, Folklife Festival, Ferrum Fund Phonathon, and fall homecoming festivities . Is it any wonder that this is the favorite season for so many? As with every issue of Fe, we continue to celebrate the achievements of our alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends. This issue is no exception. A highlight is the story about our own Tiffany Weaver, a junior majoring in biology, who was the only college student in the state given the honor of representing over 20,000 of her fellow Virginia TAG recipients at a recent meeting with Governor Tim Kaine in Richmond.
I also want to share with you some exceptionally good
news about our “Raising the Bar” fundraising campaign! Under the
leadership of Joe and Jane Stogner, co-chairs of the just-completed faculty-staff
portion of the campaign, we achieved 100% participation! Joe and
Jane and their group of dedicated volunteers deserve
accolades for this tremendous effort, as do our fantastic Ferrum employees
who showed through their unselfish giving that this truly is an extraordinary
place!
Sincerely yours,
Jennifer L. Braaten
President
Top
Stories
Folklife
Festival
The Ferrum College campus is gearing up
once again for the arrival of musicians, artisans and craftspeople from
all around the region for the 34th Blue Ridge Folklife Festival, October
27, 2007. The
Festival, an annual venue on the Crooked Road Music Trail, is “Virginia’s
largest celebration of authentic regional traditions,” bringing together
musicians and “moonshiners,” crafters 
and cooks, hot rodders and horse
handlers – all who have kept family, community, and regional traditions
as a way of life.
The New York Times has called the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival
“thoroughly authentic.” Nearly 50 artisans will demonstrate traditional
hand skills from tatting to blacksmithing and will also sell their wares. Other
exhibits include the 19th annual Mountain Comforts Quilt Show (over 100
quilts were entered for judging in last year’s contest). Horse
pulls, coon dog contests, sheep herding, oxen driving and the Virginia
State Championship Mule Jumping Contest are just a few of the varied
and colorful events that will be going on throughout the day. “This is
the premiere showcase of old-time traditions that are still a part of
Virginia’s rural lifestyle,” said Roddy Moore, Director of Ferrum College’s
Blue Ridge Institute & Museum, the official State Center for Blue Ridge Folklore. Read
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Ferrum
College Joins New Web-based Project to Provide Information to Students
& Parents
Ferrum
College, along with hundreds of other members of the National Association
of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), has joined a national
initiative to provide prospective students and their families with clear
and concise information on individual institutions. This information
will be presented through the University & College Accountability
Network (U-CAN) a Web-based project with a commitment to information
transparency and accountability.
Despite the many and varied sources of college information, focus groups
with higher education consumers show great concern about the lack of
proper information to make the right college choice. It was consumer
and political demand that sparked the development of U-CAN, which is
unique in the fact that it is the first nationally coordinated effort
by institutions themselves to collect and report data directly to students
and their families. Recently, the project gained attention when dozens
of colleges and universities publicly announced their decisions not to
participate in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of America’s
Best Colleges. Read
More...
Ferrum
College Holds Communications Board Forum
Where should the line be drawn regarding freedom of the press
versus a defendant’s rights? When the media takes an interest in a legal
matter, is the objectivity of the judicial system challenged? Is it possible
for items such as personal blogs and comments posted on Myspace and Facebook
to be harmful to one’s chance at a fair trial?
These questions and more were raised during the Communications Board
Forum held October 1st in the Panther’s Den. Panelists included
Franklin County Commonwealth Attorney Cliff Hapgood,
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Ken McCreedy, and
WSLS Channel 10 reporter Scott
Leamon. The
theme for the discussion centered around the impact of the media on the
justice system. Each panelist commented on their areas of expertise,
and the forum was then opened up to questions from the audience. Recent
high profile news stories were also discussed, including the Jena 6 controversy,
the arrests of Michael Vick and O.J. Simpson, the Virginia Tech tragedy
and the Iraq War. A podcast of the forum is available at http://ferrumradio.blogspot.com
Ferrum
College Student Meets with Governor Tim Kaine in Richmond
Ferrum College student, Tiffany Weaver,
was the only college student in the state of Virginia given the honor of
representing over 20,000 of her fellow Virginia TAG recipients at a recent
meeting with Governor Tim Kaine in Richmond.
Weaver, a junior majoring in biology, met with Governor Kaine during a Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia (CICV) meeting in Richmond on Friday, October 12th. During the meeting, several CICV presidents, including Ferrum’s president Dr. Jennifer Braaten, met with the Governor to discuss the state’s Tuition Assistance Grant (TAG) program and the group’s commitment to access and affordability to a college education for Virginia students. Weaver was introduced to the Governor and spoke about how TAG helped turn her dream of attending college into a reality. “I really felt honored and privileged to be given the opportunity to tell my story,” says Weaver. “If it wasn’t for the TAG program, I would not have been able to afford a college education.”
Weaver is a first generation college student in her family. She says her parents would have struggled to come up with the money to send her to college. After graduating from Franklin County High School Weaver looked at several colleges in Virginia but says she found a home here at Ferrum College. “The minute I stepped on campus I knew I wanted to go to school at Ferrum. The campus was beautiful, the people were genuine, and there was always a friendly face.” More importantly, she says, was the attention she received from the financial aid office. “They sat down with me and went over all my options,” she says. “Once they estimated the cost, I was amazed. I realized for the first time that I actually could afford a college education.”
CICV was instrumental in starting the state’s TAG program. TAG provides annual grants to Virginia residents who are full-time students at eligible private colleges and universities in Virginia.
Weaver is a Bonner scholar, co-captain of the cheerleading squad and
volunteers with countless community service projects. She plans on attending
medical school after graduation and hopes one day to become a forensic
coroner.
Moore Hall
Returning students are happily settling into Moore Hall, the new state-of-the-art apartment-style residence hall and “twin” to Arthur Hall. Moore Hall, which officially opened its doors this fall, is named in memory of R. Stuart Moore, a former trustee and one of Ferrum’s most generous benefactors. Moore, who felt a need to help students who did not have the financial means for a college education, left a gift of $7.75 million to Ferrum College when he died in 1992. The gift was the largest in the college’s history and helped set up two independent trusts that fund both endowments for scholarships and operating costs. Moore also left the school his extensive art collection, 117 paintings that he collected over his lifetime. Those paintings can be seen in both the President’s home and John Wesley Hall.
Ferrum Student Receives
Scholarship
Congratulations go out to Samantha Naff, Ferrum Accounting student, who was selected
to receive a $500 scholarship from the Roanoke Chapter of the Virginia Society
of CPAs (VSCPA) at their annual Student Night dinner on September 27.
Other Ferrum accounting students in attendance were Rusty
McPeak, president
of the Accounting Club, Bertha Kouffer, Jimen Martinez,
Tabitha Brown, and Theresa Minor Terry. The students also
met several Ferrum accounting graduates who are now working in the Roanoke
area including Brad
Davis '94,
the second Ferrum graduate to earn the CPA designation.
Ferrum Outdoors!
The Fitness Center has a brand new addition. It has been a long-standing
goal of the Ferrum Outdoors program to be housed in a central location.
By fall break, construction will be complete on the Ferrum Outdoors office
and storage facility located behind the Fitness Center. This new facility
will act as a hub for on-campus outdoor activities with the bouldering
wall, trailhead for mountain biking/hiking trails and a Frisbee golf
course. Ferrum Outdoors will also act as resource center for students
to create and outfit their own adventures! Dan Caston,
Coordinator of Ferrum Outdoors and Instructor of Parks, Recreation and
Tourism says he’s excited about the new facility and hopes more students
will get involved. “We’re in such a beautiful part of Virginia with so
many great things to do, it just makes sense to encourage students to
get outside!”
Athletic
Events & Updates
Baseball Honored with Championship Ceremony
The 2007 Ferrum College baseball team was honored on Saturday,
Sept. 29 in commemoration of its USA South Athletic Conference championship
season. During the ceremony, held at the halftime of the Ferrum-Averett
football game, each member of the baseball team was presented with a
championship ring. Dr. Lee King, Ferrum Vice-President for Institutional
Advancement, assisted with presentation of the rings.
Included in the ceremony was the presentation of Brett Thomas' NCAA Division III statistical champion plaque as the nation's leader in home runs. Thomas batted .387 last season with 10 doubles, three triples, 15 home runs, and 65 RBI. He earned All-America second team honors last year, the 21st baseball All-American at Ferrum. Thomas is only the second player from Ferrum to win the NCAA home run statistical championship, joining former All-American Pat Daly, who earned the honor in 1998 with 24 home runs.
The Panthers baseball team closed out the regular season in 2007 as co-champions then ran the table at the 2007 USA South Tournament and claimed the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament. Ferrum hosted an NCAA Regional for the first time on campus and drew the largest field possible, a seven-team event. Ferrum was eventually eliminated in the championship game, falling 6-5 in 12 innings to eventual NCAA runner-up Emory University. The Panthers' final record was 27-18.
Coach Abe Naff retired from coaching last spring following the playoffs, but remains as Director of Athletics at Ferrum. Naff closed out his career with a 643-236-3 career coaching record, for an impressive 73 percent winning record. Naff averaged over 28 wins a year over a 23-year career as the Panthers’ skipper. Naff's honors include 10 trips to the NCAA playoffs, 10 conference championships, seven regional runner-up finishes, five Virginia Small College Coach of the Year awards and four USA South Coach of the Year awards. He is a member of the Salem-Roanoke Baseball Hall of Fame and the Lynchburg College Sports Hall of Fame.
Ferrum student athletes are enjoying many of the recent campus renovations,
including a new practice facility, which was developed from January to
July 2007 and has been used extensively by the Panthers. A new
press box has been installed and will be in place in time for the 2008
season. New lights have been installed at both the practice field and
the softball field.
Radio Station Moving!
Ferrum College’s student radio station, FerrumRadio.com, is moving out of the Fitness Center into new studio space in Bassett Hall! The student D.J’s, under the leadership of station manager Kelly Payne, will be broadcasting completely off a new iMac computer with new broadcasting software. The D.J.’s will not only be featuring the latest and greatest jams from iTunes, but will also be creating student podcasts. Check it out at http://www.FerrumRadio.com today!
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October 12, 2007
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October
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October 2007
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Ridge Clay Invitational
September
2007
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September
2007
Moore
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September
2007
Betsy
Bannan Art Exhibit
September
3,
2007
Initiation
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August
29, 2007
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