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Groundbreaking Scheduled for Kent State’s New Center for Architecture and Environmental Design on Oct. 3

Pictured is the proposed design of Kent State University’s
new Center for Architecture and Environmental Design.

(Photo credit: WEISS/MANFREDI, lead designer, and Richard
L. Bowen & Associates, architect of record)

The groundbreaking for Kent State University’s new Center for Architecture and Environmental Design will be Oct. 3 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

The building will serve as the new home of Kent State’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, bringing all of the programs of the college under one roof. The building will be located between South Lincoln and South Willow streets, just south of the Lefton Esplanade and across the street from Franklin Hall.

Construction on the $47.8 million building, including $3.8 million from donors and Kent State’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, has an estimated completion date in 2016.

This new, approximately 107,000-square-foot structure will present Kent State as an economic and design force in Northeast Ohio and will consolidate the center’s students, including those in the construction management program, in one location, enhancing peer-to-peer learning that is vital in the design fields. It also will maximize the interaction of faculty, students and administration and aid in efforts to continue to integrate the campus and community. The building is designed to be a physical statement of what it means to be a designer in the 21st century, and will be at a minimum LEED Silver certified but is being designed to a LEED Platinum target.

“This building embodies scholarly thought with practical use, and, because of its strategic location between the campus and downtown Kent, it provides an actual as well as symbolic connection between these design requirements,” says Douglas Steidl, dean of Kent State’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

The idea of a link between the university and the city of Kent is reminiscent of the Centennial Master Plan for the city of Kent, which was developed by the college’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. That plan envisioned the university/city connection currently coming to fruition.

“We would hope that [a student] would arrive at this building fascinated, terrified, excited and hungry, and by the time they leave know that it has been their building,” says Marion Weiss, a member of the lead design team from WEISS/MANFREDI.

Kent State President Beverly Warren and Steidl will speak at the event, along with Weiss and Michael Manfredi, co-founders of WEISS/MANFREDI.

The new building is part of the “Foundations of Excellence: Building the Future” initiative, which involves the construction of new buildings, facility upgrades and establishment of dynamic, new spaces. The goal of this initiative is to create the most outstanding academic experience for students, faculty, staff, alumni and the greater community enriched by the university.

To RSVP for the groundbreaking event, visit http://foe.kent.edu/kent-state-university-college-of-architecture-and-environmental-design-groundbreaking/.

To learn more about Kent State’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, visit www.kent.edu/caed.

For more information about Kent State’s “Foundations of Excellence” initiative, visit http://foe.kent.edu.

American Artist of Towering Public Sculptures to Speak at Kent State

Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series presents free lecture on Oct. 9

Pictured is "Dance of the Cranes,"
created by contemporary American
sculptor John Raimondi. Raimondi will
speak at Kent State on Oct. 9 as part of
the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series.

The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series will host contemporary American sculptor John Raimondi for a lecture on Thursday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 pm in the School of Art Gallery. Raimondi’s lecture, titled, “The Evolution of Monumental Sculptures,” will recount the process in which he creates the mammoth bronze (and sometimes steel) sculptures, which soar as tall as 60 feet. The lecture is free and open to the public. The gallery is located in the School of Art Building at 400 Janik Dr. in Kent. Free parking is available in the Business Administration Building parking lot off Terrace Drive. A complimentary dessert reception will take place following the exhibition.

Raimondi is a creator of monumental works, which are solid in form and fluid in movement. His sculptures are known for their lyrical qualities. He is arguably the most successful creator anywhere of public sculpture on a monumental scale, with works in 27 states and several European countries.

Raimondi has completed more than 100 monumental sculptures for public, corporate and private collections worldwide. His current work, incorporating the myths and iconography of Native American Indians, uses the tension created by sweeping lines to evoke the courage and tragedy of a proud and noble people. Raimondi is of international distinction.

“I will be showing a 43-year history highlighting the monumental sculptures that I have done across the country and world,” says Raimondi.

“Students will definitely benefit from Raimondi’s strong and varied art background,” says Effie Tsengas, coordinator of the Schroth Series Lecture. “His vast knowledge comes from his avid art collecting.”

Raimondi says “I’ve been collecting art for as long as I’ve been making it.”

During Raimondi’s visit, he will do studio visits with a diverse group of art students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

What all these series have in common is Raimondi’s classical sense of design and craftsmanship, an aesthetic developed while studying at the Portland School of Fine and Applied Art (now the Maine College of Art), Massachusetts College of Art and Harvard University.

The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series has presented guest artists respected in the field of theatre, dance, visual arts, music and architecture. Now in its 13th year, the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series has brought such noted artists as Tony Award-winners Stephen Schwartz, composer of Wicked and many others; Next to Normal actress and Kent State alumna Alice Ripley; Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet; postmodern minimalist artist Richard Tuttle; artists and fashion designers Ruben and Isabel Toledo; internationally acclaimed dance company Ballet Florida; actor, dancer and arts advocate Ben Vereen; and the Limon Dance Group, just to name a few.

The Schroth series was established in 2002 by Cecile Draime and her late husband Max of Warren, Ohio, to honor their dear friend, Thomas Schroth (1922-1997). A noted regional architect, Schroth designed the Butler Institute of Art’s Trumbull museum in Howland, as well as numerous other award-winning projects. Schroth spent his life in Niles, Ohio, as a prominent architect and inveterate collaborator in the artistic life of the Mahoning Valley and Northeast Ohio. A world traveler, he saw human creativity as a window framing human experience. The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series brings diverse views through that window to the Kent Campus and community. The events are always free and open to the public.

Kent State School of Theatre and Dance Presents You Can’t Take It With You

Pulitzer-winning classic directed by Roe Green Visiting Director Kathleen F. Conlin

In a scene from the play You Can’t Take
It With You, Alice Sycamore (Kent State
student Madeline Drees) and Tony Kirby
(Kent State student Scott Miesse) share
a tender moment amidst her family's
eccentric chaos.

Kent State University’s School of Theatre and Dance begins it 2014-2015 season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning play You Can’t Take It With You. As part of the school’s annual Roe Green Director Series, the school welcomes Kathleen F. Conlin as guest director. The production runs from Friday, Oct. 3, through Sunday, Oct. 12, in Wright-Curtis Theatre, located in the Center for the Performing Arts, 1325 Theatre Drive on the Kent Campus.

For tickets, call 330-672-ARTS (2787), purchase online at www.kent.edu/theatredance or in person at the Performing Arts Box Office located in the Roe Green Center lobby of the Center for the Performing Arts, Monday – Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Tickets are $18 for adults, $16 for Kent State alumni, faculty and staff, $14 for seniors (60+) and non-Kent State students age 18 and under are $10. Tickets are free for full-time, Kent Campus undergraduate students. Groups of 10 or more can purchase tickets for $12 per person. The box office accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discover, checks and cash.

Written by George S. Kauffman and Moss Hart, You Can’t Take It With You explores the chaos of the extended Sycamore/Vanderhof/Carmichael clan whose New York house is a jumble of candy making, ballet dancing, firework building, snake wrangling and xylophone playing antics. You Can't Take It With You is a farcical comedy that examines what truly makes a happy life.

The production is directed by Conlin, the 12th annual Roe Green Visiting Director, who has enjoyed a multifaceted career as professional stage director, casting director, associate artistic director, university administrator and award-winning professor. She served for 22 seasons as associate artistic director and casting director for the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival, where she also directed Shakespearean and other classic plays, contemporary plays and a musical.

Conlin describes You Can’t Take It With You as a work that “touches the heart as well as the mind…[and] celebrates an American family who open their door to the rich tapestry of ethnic diversity.” Conlin also is enjoying her time at Kent State and finds students’ “eagerness to grow and learn, while creating a satisfying theatrical production, inspiring.”

The production and design team includes dialect coaching by Assistant Professor Courtney Brown, scenic design by Associate Professor Steve Pauna, technical direction by Ryan Patterson, lighting design by Yu (Leo) Lei, costume design by Mackenzie Malone, and sound design by Assistant Professor Charles J. Korecki. Hannah Graham serves as production stage manager.

Professor to Explain “Why Everything You Know About the Bible Is Wrong” at Kent State, Oct. 6

Robert Fowler, Ph.D., professor of religion at Baldwin
Wallace University, will serve as keynote speaker for the
fall 2014 symposium of the Center for the Study of
Information and Religion, a research initiative of Kent
State's School of Library and Information Science.

Robert Fowler, Ph.D., professor of religion at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, will be the keynote speaker for the fall 2014 symposium for the Center for the Study of Information and Religion, a research initiative of the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University. His presentation is titled “The Gutenberg Parenthesis of the Bible or Why Everything You Know About the Bible Is Wrong.”

The symposium will be held at Kent State on Monday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. in Room 317 in the Kent Student Center. The event is free and open to the public.

In his keynote address, Fowler will use the Bible, a body of material that has seen every era of media history, as a textbook example to discuss the theory of the "Gutenberg Parenthesis."

Prior to the invention of the Gutenberg printing press, the Bible was not the printed book we know it to be today. Fowler will walk his audience through the four eras of human communication -- oral, handwritten, printed and electronic -- to demonstrate how the Bible is once again changing in the dawn of the electronic age.

“Living as we do today in a transitional moment between two grand eras in media history-- the ages of print and electronic communication -- circumstances have arisen in which we are able to better understand how humans communicated in each of these eras,” Fowler explains.

Scholars have observed how the transition into electronic culture seems to replicate a number of the attitudes and habits of ancient orality and the need to consider the likelihood that the printed Bible is a product of the intervening “Gutenberg Parenthesis.” The Gutenberg Parenthesis of the Bible can be seen as a relatively brief span of time in the vast history of the Bible, a momentary departure from the dominant media attitudes and habits that preceded it and that are re-emerging again in the electronic age.

Fowler earned his Ph.D. in Bible from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. For 34 years, Fowler has taught in the Department of Religion at Baldwin Wallace University, where he currently holds a position as professor of religion. For 21 years, he was the chairperson of the department. Among the courses on the Bible that he regularly teaches is "History of the Bible," which he describes as a survey of the media history of the Bible, from ancient oral culture to the electronic age.

Perhaps Fowler's best-known works are his literary-critical studies of the Gospel of Mark -- Loaves and Fishes: The Function of the Feeding Stories in the Gospel of Mark (Society of Biblical Literature) and Let the Reader Understand: Reader- Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark (Trinity Press International).

Fowler also is a member of "The Bible and Culture Collective," where he collaborated in the writing of The Postmodern Bible (Yale University Press).

Kent State’s Center for the Study of Information and Religion is a research initiative of the School of Library and Information Science. Its goal is to facilitate research on the various institutions and agents of religion. In addition to the annual fall symposium, the center hosts an annual spring conference that attracts scholars from around the world.

For more information about Kent State’s School of Library and Information Science, visit www.kent.edu/slis.

School of Visual Communication Design Hosts Type High Press Alumni Workshop, Alumni Events, Oct. 18-19

This Chandler & Price cast iron platen press, manufactured
in Cleveland in the late 1800s, is one of eight pieces of
vintage printing equipment still used by students and faculty
at Type High Press, the Kent State School of Visual
Communication Design's 1,000 square-foot letterpress lab.

The School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University invites alumni to sign up for one of three available time slots for a free Type High Press Alumni Workshop and participate in alumni social events during Homecoming weekend at Kent State, Oct. 18-19.

Type High Press Alumni Workshop
Saturday, Oct. 18, 8 a.m. – noon or 1– 4 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Meet with old friends and former classmates. Peruse the School of Visual Communication Design archives of work — perhaps you will find one of your student projects. Print a project of your own using one of Type High's eight presses and the school’s vast collection of wood and metal type and art cuts. Unplug, relax and reconnect with your tactile self.

Current Type High Press instructor Bob Kelemen will help with the equipment and materials and will share his vision for keeping letterpress instruction relevant in the 21st century. Kelemen is an accomplished printer, designer and design educator whose letterpress work has been recognized in regional and national competitions.

"Letterpress is alive and well in the education of design students," Kelemen says. "It provides a bond that students share far beyond their educational experience."

Type High Press is the letterpress lab in Kent State’s School of Visual Communication Design. It has been in existence since the late 1960s and has played a critical role in the design education of graphic design students at Kent State for decades. Through careful stewardship and generous donations, Type High Press has grown to be one of the largest, best-equipped university letterpress facilities in the country.

All are invited, from novice to expert, to join the School of Visual Communication Design to get their hands inky.

RSVP by Oct. 12 to Sanda Katila, acting director for the School of Visual Communication Design, at skatila@kent.edu or 330-672-7856, or Jennifer Kramer, APR, of the College of Communication and Information, at jlkramer@kent.edu or 330-672-2950.

Alumni Meet and Greet Reception
Saturday, Oct. 18, 5 p.m.

After the workshop, join the School of Visual Communication Design for an Alumni Meet and Greet reception at Glyphix student design studio located in downtown Kent at 138 E. Main St., Ste. 203. Hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be served.

RSVP by Oct. 12 to Sanda Katila, acting director for the School of Visual Communication Design, at skatila@kent.edu or 330-672-7856, or Jennifer Kramer, APR, of the College of Communication and Information, at jlkramer@kent.edu or 330-672-2950.

Glyphix 40th Anniversary Open House
Saturday, Oct. 18, 3-7 p.m.

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Glyphix student design. Embark on a tour of Glyphix and IdeaBase offices located in downtown Kent at 138 E. Main St., Ste. 203. Meet talented student staff members, view student and alumni work and enjoy student presentations. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Glyphix Creative Director Larrie King at lking32@kent.edu or 330-672-7856, or Jennifer Kramer, APR, of the College of Communication and Information, at jlkramer@kent.edu or 330-672-2950.

School of Visual Communication Design Building Tour
Saturday, Oct. 18, noon and 12:30 p.m. (meet in the Art Building)

Participate in an information session and guided tour of the School of Visual Communication Design.

RSVP by Oct. 12 to Sanda Katila, acting director for the School of Visual Communication Design, at skatila@kent.edu or 330-672-7856, or Jennifer Kramer, APR, of the College of Communication and Information, at jlkramer@kent.edu or 330-672-2950.

For more information about Kent State’s School of Visual Communication Design, visit http://www2.kent.edu/vcd/index.cfm.

You’re Invited to the Alumni Awards Ceremony

Kent State University faculty and staff are invited to attend the Alumni Awards Ceremony sponsored by the Kent State Alumni Association on Friday, Oct. 17. Held at the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center at 6:30 p.m., the ceremony will honor the following award recipients:

• Distinguished Citizen Award: Andy Baskin, ’90, College of Communication and Information
• Kent State Advocacy Award: John Garofalo, ’87, M.Ed., ’93, College of Education, Health and Human Services
• Outstanding New Professional Award: Lauren Kotmel, ’11, College of Arts and Sciences
• Professional Achievement Award: Patricia Shehan Campbell, Ph.D., ’81; College of the Arts
• Distinguished Alumni Award: Carter Strang, ’73, M.Ed., ’79, College of Education, Health and Human Services and the Honors College
  

Along with the alumni awards, one student award will be given. This year’s Golden Flash recipient is Bitrus Audu, a senior studying business administration and human resource management.

In addition to recognizing the deserving recipients, the ceremony provides an opportunity to network with distinguished alumni who have made exceptional contributions in their chosen profession, communities and at Kent State. Individuals interested in attending the event – or even purchasing tickets for outstanding student leaders – can find details and register at www.ksualumni.org/alumniawardrecipients. The registration deadline is Friday, Oct. 3.

Kent State’s Downtown Gallery Presents “Fired In Freedom”

The Kent State University School of Art Downtown
Gallery will present “Fired in Freedom,” a group show
featuring ceramic work, from Sept. 30 to Nov. 1.

The Kent State University School of Art’s Downtown Gallery announces “Fired in Freedom,” a group show featuring ceramic work by Megan Tuttle, Brinsley Tyrrell and John Klassen, Janet Varner, John Miyazawa, Dong Jun Shin, Andrew Simmons, Idris Kabir Syed, Ryan Osborne, Adam Klein, Eva Kwong, Kirk Mangus and Zachary Wollert. This group show will be presented at the Downtown Gallery, located at 141 East Main St. in Kent from Sept. 30 to Nov. 1. The reception is free and open to the public and will be held on Thursday, Oct. 2, from 5 to 7 pm.

All the artwork included in “Fired in Freedom” was fired in a wood kiln built by Tuttle, Tyrrell and Klassen on Tyrell’s farm in Freedom Township, Ohio. Tyrrell, whose farm has long been a place for regional, national and international artists to meet and work on artistic projects, is professor emeritus at Kent State’s School of Art. In recent years, artists from all over the country, and specifically from the Northeast Ohio/ Portage County area, have enjoyed working on and firing this wood kiln. The School of Art is pleased to be able to present some of the exciting research and scholarship happening with this unique group of individuals.

For more information, visit http://galleries.kent.edu or call the Downtown Gallery at 330-676-1549 or 330-672-1379 or email schoolofart@kent.edu.

A small catalog of the exhibition will be available for purchase.

This exhibition has been funded in part by the Ohio Arts Council.

University Libraries Hosts Legacy Scholarship Dinner

University Libraries will host the inaugural Legacy Scholarship Dinner on Thursday, Oct. 2, to honor scholarship winner Carissa Deeds, a Kent State University education major, and raise funds to endow a second annual student scholarship.

The fundraising dinner, open to anyone, including faculty, staff, students, residents and businesses, will be held at the Kent Student Center Ballroom at 6:30 p.m. Students from Kent State’s Center for the Performing Arts, Piano Studies, Jazz Studies, Musical Theatre, Opera Program and Theatre and Dance will perform at the event.

“The Friends of the Library donated enough money for us to create an endowment for the scholarship so that we can give a scholarship each year,” says Karen Hillman, director of public relations and marketing for University Libraries. “We’re having this fundraiser dinner so that we can endow a second scholarship to give away next year.”

The Legacy Scholarship is awarded each year to one student who writes an essay about the significance or impact the library has on the success of his or her academic or personal life.

The scholarship was created for students in good standing with the university who hold a grade point average of 3.0 or higher and have a financial need. Scholarship preference was given to student library assistants.

Deeds, the 2014 scholarship winner, has been employed by the University Libraries’ serials department since 2012. She is the first recipient of the scholarship.

“This is going to be a huge help financially,” Deeds says. “Because I am working on both a major in early education and a minor in sign language in four years, I am taking way over the credit limit. It’s a lot moneywise, but this scholarship will help me continue to pay for college and graduate on time.”

Those planning to attend must reserve tickets. Tickets are $75 each and include entertainment, dinner and a full bar. Only 300 tickets will be sold.

Table sponsorships also are available for $750, which will sponsor a student to attend and cover nine tickets. To sponsor the tables, call Hillman at 330-672-1886.

Those who wish to attend may purchase tickets up until the day of the event. Tickets can be ordered at www.kent.edu/library/legacy-dinner.

“We are super grateful for not only our library friends who support the scholarships, but our campus partners, especially in the Center for the Performing Arts, for partnering with us to make this a great event because we think showing people how talented our students are really makes people want to support a scholarship to help them to afford to finish school,” says Hillman.

For more information about University Libraries, visit http://www2.kent.edu/library/index.cfm.

Main Street Kent Presents Its First-Ever Kent Oktoberfest

The first and hopefully annual Kent Oktoberfest is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 4, from noon – 10 p.m. The event will take place on Franklin Avenue, from West Main Street to West Erie Street. This section of Franklin Avenue will be closed for the event, and local eateries will set up outside to sell their specially prepared German food to attendees. Food vendors will include Pufferbelly, Ray’s Place, Taco Tonto’s and scratch-free range food. Menu offerings will range from the “killer kielbasa and cabbage burrito” to “schnitzel on a stick.” A variety of beverages also will be available for purchase.

A beer truck featuring the popular Spaten Oktoberfest, and several other types of beer, also will be situated on Franklin Avenue. At the event entrance, Oktoberfest beer mugs will be on sale, featuring Main Street Kent’s “Hans the Black Squirrel” and the Spaten Oktoberfest logo. For $10, event goers can purchase a mug and one beer ticket. Additional beer tickets will be available for $5 each. Only 500 of the special event mugs will be available!

Main Street Kent is partnering with the Kent Jaycees for this event, with House of LaRose being the lead sponsor. Also sponsoring the event are the following local businesses and organizations: Acorn Alley, PARTA, College Town Kent, Central Portage County VCB and Star of the West Milling Co. Hometown Bank has graciously sponsored the Doppel Adler Band to perform at the event.

There will be games for adults and children, fun photo opportunities and a packed entertainment schedule for the entire day. Woodsy’s will be on-site making the event top-notch, as the acts perform from noon to 10 p.m. as follows:

Entertainment schedule
Noon-3 p.m. – Doppel Adler Band
1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m. – German Family Society Dance Performances
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. – Roger Hoover and The Hurt
6 p.m. – TwistOffs
8 p.m. – Café 80s

Proceeds from the event will benefit Main Street Kent, the nonprofit organization dedicated to the revitalization of downtown Kent. Visit www.mainstreetkent.org or call 330-677-8000 with any questions.

Register for the Fall 2014 Bowman Breakfast By Oct. 1

Kent State University President Beverly
Warren is the featured speaker at the
fall 2014 Bowman Breakfast on Oct. 8.

Kent State President Beverly Warren to reflect on first 100 days at Fall 2014 Bowman Breakfast

The fall 2014 Bowman Breakfast will take place at Kent State University in the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Wednesday, Oct. 8. Doors open at 7 a.m., breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m., and the program will follow at 8 a.m.

The featured speaker is Kent State President Beverly Warren. Warren will speak on the topic “Reflections on 100 Days as Kent State President and Kent Resident.”

The cost to attend is $10 per person, payable by cash or check at the door only. Invoicing is not available for this event. Reservations can be completed online or by contacting Mary Mandalari at 330-672-8664 or mmandala@kent.edu no later than Wednesday, Oct. 1. No shows will be billed. If you find you cannot attend, please contact Mandalari to cancel your reservation by Oct. 1.

Warren became Kent State’s 12th president on July 1, 2014. As the university’s chief executive officer, Warren oversees one of the nation's largest university systems. Kent State's eight campuses provide more than 300 academic programs to more than 41,000 undergraduate and graduate students from throughout Ohio and the nation, and from approximately 100 countries. One of the largest employers in Northeast Ohio, the university employs more than 5,700 full- and part-time faculty and staff.

Prior to coming to Kent State, Warren had served as provost and senior vice president at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) since 2011. She arrived at VCU in 2000 as a professor and head of the School of Education’s Division of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and went on to serve as dean of the School of Education. Before joining VCU, Warren held faculty positions at Smith College in Massachusetts; Auburn University in Alabama; Appalachian State University in North Carolina; and Lander University in South Carolina.

Warren is an internationally respected and widely published scholar in the fields of education and exercise physiology. Her most recent research focused on urban education, including access and success for urban youth, the preparation of teachers for urban environments and coordination of education through P-20 initiatives. She is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. She was elected to the Board of Trustees of the American College of Sports Medicine in 2004 and is a former president of its Southeast Chapter.

A North Carolina native, Warren earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Master of Science degree from Southern Illinois University. She holds two doctorates, an Ed.D. in administration of higher education from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. in exercise physiology from Auburn University.

Kent State is committed to making its programs and activities accessible to those individuals with disabilities. If you or a member of your family will need an interpreter or any other accessibility accommodation to participate in this event, contact the university’s accessibility liaison, Jacqueline Gee, by phone at 330-672-8667, by video phone at 330-931-4441 or via email at accessKSU@kent.edu.

The Bowman Breakfast, a tradition since 1963, is sponsored by Kent State and the Kent Area Chamber of Commerce.

Kent State University Exhibits "Coming of Age at Kent 1967-71: A Pictorial of Black Student Life"

An exhibit of the photographs of Kent
State University alumnus Lafayette
Tolliver will be presented from Oct. 6-23
at Ritchie Hall.

Kent State University Libraries, in partnership with the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Department of Pan-African Studies, presents "Coming of Age at Kent 1967-71: A Pictorial of Black Student Life," an exhibit of the photographs of Lafayette Tolliver.

Tolliver is a Kent State alumnus who attended the university from 1967-71, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in photojournalism. He served as a photographer and columnist for the Chestnut Burr yearbook and the Daily Kent Stater campus newspaper. He was often called upon as an informal photographer for many activities sponsored by black student organizations during his tenure at Kent State and served as one of the founding members of Black United Students. Due to his extensive campus involvement, Tolliver produced thousands of photographs, many of which were never published or otherwise made accessible to the public until now. Tolliver donated his collection of prints and negatives to Kent State’s Special Collections and Archives in January 2014.

The exhibit will include selected images that depict the wide breadth of the black student experience during the late '60s and early '70s at the height of the black campus movement. The exhibit will take visitors on a journey from the birth of young love, to the spirit of competition through athletics, ending with victory through protest.

The exhibit runs from Oct. 6-23 and is free and open to the public during gallery hours. The reception with remarks by Tolliver will take place on Saturday, Oct. 18. Remarks begin at 11 a.m. at the Ritchie Lecture Hall (Room 214), with the reception to follow from 12:30-2:30 p.m. at the Uumbaji Gallery (Ritchie Hall, Room 134).

Attendees of the opening reception are asked to register by completing an online RSVP by Sept. 30 at http://bit.ly/tolliver.

For questions, contact Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, university archivist, at lhughesw@kent.edu or 330-672-1639.

For more information about Special Collections at University Libraries, visit www.library.kent.edu/specialcollections.

“Thank-A-Giver (T.A.G.) Day” to Be Held at Kent State

Kent State University’s Annual Giving and Donor Services departments are sponsoring “Thank a Giver (T.A.G.) Day” on Wednesday, Oct. 1, on the Kent Campus as a way to acknowledge and thank the many generous donors, alumni and friends who help support Kent State and its students.

The event will include food, raffle prizes, music and fun from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Risman Plaza. There also will be a giant “thank you” card for students to sign and convey their appreciation to donors for their support. FLASHanthropy, a student organization that promotes the importance of “paying it forward” to support the future of Kent State, will host the event with the Annual Giving and Donor Services departments. Faculty and staff donors will receive special T.A.G. Day lanyards and will be encouraged to wear them throughout the day so that students can identify them as donors and thank them personally.

“It’s terrific to see our students come together like this in a fun, informal way just to say thank you to all of our Kent State supporters,” says Albert Melfo, Kent State’s director of annual giving.

Open to all students, faculty, staff and the donor community, T.A.G. Day will celebrate the spirit of philanthropy in action with special tags scattered throughout campus that point out the many ways that donor support impacts every student’s education – from scholarships and grants to buildings, programs and equipment.

“T.A.G. Day is a great way for students like me to properly thank our donors, whose generosity contributes to keeping the university running every day,” says Andrew Cappuzzello, senior FLASHanthropist and integrated mathematics major at Kent State. “Our generation is trying to make philanthropy and paying it forward a priority. T.A.G. Day is one more way for us to get our message of goodwill out and to say thank you.”

“Private support from donors has a profound impact on the lives of Kent State’s students and faculty, and the quality of our academic and athletic programs,” says Valoree Vargo, executive director for donor services. “This special day of recognition and thanks is important to acknowledge the people who make such a difference in the lives of so many others.”

For more information about T.A.G. Day, contact Taylor Police at tpolice@kent.edu or 330-672-1427.