Education students surveyed individuals
at Old Town Winchester’s walking
mall, Winchester Congregational
Community Action Project (CCAP)
office and Handley Library in September.
Students in secondary education methods
and orientation to teaching classes, led
by Director of Teacher Licensure and
Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
Mary Bowser, Ed.D., collected data that
will assist grant-writing efforts for Literacy
Volunteers-Winchester Area, a United Way
partner agency. More than 30 students
conducted over 150 surveys.
HEALTH
PROFESSIONS
Three athletic training graduate students
— Carina Stern, Nick Erdman, and Kelsey
Steele — and their professor, Director and
Associate Professor of Athletic Training
Rose Schmieg, D.H.Sc., sat for and passed
board exams to become certified sports
nutritionists. The certification exam is
proctored by the International Society of
Sports Nutrition (ISSN), recognized as the
only not-for-profit academic-based society
dedicated to sports nutrition and growing
the science of applied nutrition.
NURSING
Nursing school faculty and staff moved
into the new Health & Life Sciences
Building just two days before school
began on Aug. 25. On their first day of
classes, students walked through colorful
balloon arches at both entrances and
enjoyed donuts and coffee with President
Tracy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D., and Vice
President for Student Life Rhonda
VanDyke Colby, D.Min. Nursing students
started using simulation labs right away,
under the direction of Assistant Professor
and Simulation Coordinator Mary
Dorsey, M.S.N., RN, while respiratory
classes utilized the new video technology
conferencing equipment.
PERFORMANCES
Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre’s
(SSMT’s) 2014 season featured four
audience-pleasing shows and record
8
attendance from June 11 through
Aug. 3. This season’s lineup featured
“Man of La Mancha,” Monty Python’s
“Spamalot,” Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
“The King and I” and “Mary Poppins”
the Broadway musical. Alumnus Richard
Costa ’86 returned to direct “Spamalot,”
and actors Stephen Paul Cramer (Jean
Valjean) and Christopher Sanders (Javert),
who starred in 2013’s “Les Miserables,”
returned this season to portray King Arthur
in “Spamalot” and Don Quixote in “Man
of La Mancha,” respectively.
Performing Arts Live, the region’s premier
concert series, kicked off its season
with Anonymous 4, the internationally
acclaimed female a cappella ensemble. The
group performed “Grace and Glory,” a
historically rich program of 13th century
French motets, American shape note tunes,
gospel songs, and folk hymns.
World of the Piano opened its season with
a performance by Italian pianist Antonio
Pompa-Baldi, winner of the Cleveland
International Piano Competition, who
performed works by Liszt, Chopin,
Lyapunov and more.
Shenandoah Theatre Lab opened the fall
season with “In the Red and Brown Water,”
a coming-of-age story about a young
woman in a small Louisiana town. Directed
by Associate Professor of Theatre Kirsten
Trump, M.F.A., the performance featured
blues guitarist Billy Thompson.
Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony
Orchestra, led by Professor, Artistic
Director and Conductor Jan Wagner,
opened its season with “Rachmaninoff
and Shostakovich,” featuring renowned
pianist Vanessa Perez, who performed
Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No. 2
in C minor, op. 18,” and Shostakovich’s
“Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 47.”
Shenandoah Conservatory Wind
Ensemble began its season with “Common
Ground,” a musical celebration of the
200th anniversary of the national anthem.
Works included Carolyn Bremer’s “Early
Light,” guest composer Kristin Kuster’s
“Interior,” John Mackey’s “Aurora Awakes”
and Stephen Michael Gryc’s “Masquerade
Variations on a Theme of Sergei Prokofiev.”
Shenandoah Conservatory Jazz Ensemble,
directed by Associate Professor of Jazz and
Trumpet Craig Fraedrich, M.M., opened
its fall season with a tribute to “The Music
of Sammy Nestico.” During a decades-long
career, Nestico was a big band trombone
player and arranger, television and film
industry composer and arranger, commercial
jingle composer and music educator.
Shenandoah Conservatory’s EDGE
Ensemble ignited its second new music
season with “Words, Words, Words,”
featuring works utilizing sampled, prerecorded and live human voices at the
Bright Box in Old Town Winchester. Full
of meaning and mystery, the program
included Randall Woolf ’s “Everything is
Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy, in partnership with George Washington University and Loudoun County Public Schools,
hosted the sixth annual GO GIRL (Genomic Opportunities for Girls in Research Labs™) educational outreach program in June.
Photo: Jason López