By Earl Holland of the Daily TimesWhen a mechanical accident knocked the University of Maryland EasternShore's student radio station WHWK off the air, no one would've ever imag-ined the disaster would've led to such a moment of optimism.

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INSIDEPage 2Blunt Lecture SeriesSmall Farm Conference

Page 3Dingwall Wins AwardHoliday Fundraiser

Page 4Marine and Evnironmental

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Families

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UMES, in partnership with the University of CapeCoast, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science andTechnology, Golden Beach Hotels and the CentralRegion Development Commission, recently hosted itsthird biennial International Workshop in Accra, Ghana,where administrators, faculty and staff from some 20domestic and international universities considered“Capacity Building for Global Competitiveness inDeveloping Economies: The Nexus of TechnologyDevelopment and Transfer, Education and Culture.”

A cohort of Ghanaian government officials assembled to welcome President Thelma B.Thompson, her administrators and students as well as to help launch workshop proceedings.In attendance were the Honorable Alex Tettey-Enyo, minister of education; the HonorableKwesi Ahwoi, minister for food and agriculture; the Honorable Hannah Tetteh, minister oftrade and industry; the Honorable Ama Benyiwa-Doe, Central regional minister; the HonorableNii AmaALAshittey, Greater Accra regional minister; the Honorable Julianna Azumah-Mensah,minister of tourism; and the Honorable Kobby Acheampoing, deputy minister of tourism.

A communiqué resulting from the proceedings will detail best practices, lessons learnedand creative initiatives geared toward enhancing institutional leadership and managementcapacity at African universities; food security and food self-sufficiency: challenges andopportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa; creative partnerships to enhance research andengagement functions of institutions of higher learning for economic development; expanding

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UMES hosts third biennialInternational Workshop

UMES student disc jockeys junior Nigel Tatum, left, of Cheverly, Md., andsophomore Robert "Stretch" Bennett work the controls of the school'sonline radio Hawk Radio. After water destroyed the station's AM and FMtransmitters, a decision was made to becomeWeb-only. Photo by Joey Gardner

President Thompson awards the Presidential Medal to Dr.Francis Kofi Ampenyi Allotey, professor of mathematics,scholar, nuclear physicist and international consultant ininformatics for development.

Opting towards a more cost-effective route than an expensive repair ofits transmitters, WHWK, rechristened as "Hawk Radio," has evolved into a24/7 station that can be heard by way of a personal computer, laptop andother wireless devices.

"We were able to go from being a local radio station to a global onethat anyone can listen to as long as you have the Internet," said FredStephens, a member of the station's promotional team and a former WHWKgeneral manager.

WHWK-AM was created in the 1990s as both an outlet to UMES'campus community and an instructional facility for radio productionclasses. In the 2000s, the station added an FM signal that offered a clearersignal to the campus. The station moved away from the traditional over-the-air broadcasting after frozen water pipes broke and ruined both the AMand FM transmitters.

Instead of going through what could have been a long process inobtaining money to replace the transmitters, the decision was made to gothe route of becoming a Web radio station.

Once the station was connected for Internet capabilities, the next stepwas to fill programming. During the WHWK days, the station ran 12 hoursof live programming from noon, but would often have to rely on a CD thatwould be looped for continuous play until the next live shift the followingday.

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Roger R. BluntLecture Series

Michael Tardif, director of Inte-grated Project Delivery Systemsfor Grunley Construction Com-pany Inc., in theWashington, D.C.,metropolitan area, lectures on thetopic,“Integrated Project Deliveryand Building Information Model-ing: A Contractor’s Perspective”as part of the annual Roger R.Blunt Lecture Series.

Pictured at the Roger R. Blunt Lecture Series, from left, are: Gains Hawkins, vice president for institu-tional advancement at UMES; Dr. Leon Copeland, professor and chair of the Department of Technol-ogy at UMES; Michael Tardif, lecture series guest speaker; and Dr. Ayodele Alade, dean of the Schoolof Business andTechnology at UMES. Photos by Mathew Whittiker

Berran Rogers has acted as the program coordinator of the Small FarmOutreach andTechnical Assistance Program of the Maryland Coopera-tive Extension at UMES for the last year. Photos by Jim Glovier

Participants attend a workshop where they learned about nutrition prac-tices and parasite prevention in sheep and goats in a hands-on setting.

Pictured at the annual Small Farm Conference, from left to right, are(kneeling) a conference participant; John Barga, Farm Service Agency,Dorchester County; Dr.Thomas Handwerker, director, Small Farm Insti-tute; Isaac Ballard, a part-time farmer; (middle row) a conference partici-pant; Janet McAllister, Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research andEducation (NE SARE) Professional Development Program; Jason Chal-landes, Regional SARE educator; Carol Delaney, Farmer Grant specialist,NE SARE; MatthewWhittaker, research specialist, Food Science Technol-ogy; (back row) Erroll Mattox, UMES Small Farm agent; Craig Mast,Calvert Soil Conservation District; Dr. Gladys Shelton, interim dean,School of Agriculture and Natural Sciences; Berran Rogers, UMES SmallFarm Program coordinator; Mark Rose, Assistant State Conservationist,NRCS; and OlgaWalter and Jennifer Snoddy, Southern Maryland Re-source Conservation and Development.

Small FarmConferenceHeld

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Some UMES students are raisingfunds this holiday season with a Buy-A-Book project to help provide textbooksand readers for East AfricanKyamulinga School students and theirteachers.

More than 200 pupils at theKyamulinga Public Primary Schoollocated in Uganda, East Africa, areattending classes in a brand new facilitythese days, due in part to the Buy-A-Brick project that yielded $8,000 indonations from UMES students whofounded the Hawk Children’s Fund(HCF). Closely akin to the Buy-A-Brickproject, the Buy-A-Book project goal is to raise cash and pledges totaling$4,000.

In cooperation with the organization Partnering for Africa’s Future (PAF),HCF has set its sights on addressing the lack of educational materials andproper teacher training that contributes to the low literacy rates amongUgandan children. A 2006 study conducted by the Ugandan Minister ofEducation and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation found that less than 7percent of the country’s children had the ability to fluently read, write, hearand speak their own language. Today, the national curriculum in Africa

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Dingwall wins covetedJefferson Award

Holiday Season Fundraiser Supports Literacy Project

WBOC TV’s Steve Hammond recently presented a coveted JeffersonAward to Brenda Dingwall for her many contributions to the community,with her work as director of two camps, the UMES’ “Reach for the Stars”summer camp and “Camp Agape,” among them.

“The fundraising efforts for both camps are primarily handled byBrenda Dingwall,” said David Warren, who nominated Dingwall for theaward. “Her genuine concern and love for all of these children have madean immeasurable impact on her community, her family and her friends.”

Steve Hammond ofWBOCTV surprises Brenda Dingwall with the Jeffer-son Award for her contributions to the community. Photo by Suzanne Street

The Jefferson Award, a Nobel Prize for public service, honors ordinarypeople who do extraordinary things for their communities. Sixteen local cit-izens will be awarded the 2010 Jefferson Award, which was created in 1972by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. Senator Robert Taft Jr., and Sam Beard.A local finalist will be selected in March to attend a June banquet in Wash-ington, D.C., that’s held annually in honor of Jefferson Award finalistsacross the nation. On the national level, five from the pool of local finalistswill be chosen by the Board of Selectors to receive the Jacqueline KennedyOnassis Award for “Outstanding Community Service Benefiting Local Com-munities,” and four national winners will be awarded as well. Past winnersof the national award include Cesar Chavez, Jimmy Carter, Walter Chronkite,General Colin Powell, Arthur Ashe, Paul Newman, Oprah Winfrey and Pey-ton Manning.

Dingwall is the equal opportunities director at NASA- Goddard SpaceFlight Center in Wallops Island, Va., where her job lends itself to her altruis-tic nature and to her expressed desire to see every human being treatedwith dignity. At UMES, the annual “Reach for the Stars” summer camp issponsored by the Space Flight Center and Worcester County. While thecamp serves traditional students, one-third of the camp’s residents are stu-dents with disabilities and one-third are students who are economically andsocially at risk.

Camp Agape, situated at Camp Mardela in Denton, Md., is also di-rected by Dingwall. The residential camp is reserved for young people ofparents who are incarcerated. Dingwall’s work has whittled away at the 80percent statistic representing young people who follow their parents toprison.

Dingwall recently earned a Master of Science degree in rehabilitationcounseling at UMES. She reside in Snow Hill with her husband David Ding-wall, pastor of St. Paul’s-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Ocean City, and herthree sons, Alex, Nick and Ian.

requires that children study their ownlanguage through what is equivalent tothe third grade in the U.S. and thenbegin to learn English.

The Kyamulinga School LiteracyProject, an outgrowth of thepartnership between PAF and HCF, willwork in collaboration with theKyamulinga School ManagementCommittee; the headmaster; theteachers; Katamba Joel, the school’sfounder; and Kibuuka Jane, a qualifiedteacher and headmaster of agovernment school in Africa, to turnthings around. In addition to

providing textbooks and readers to establish a reading library, the LiteracyProject goals include providing for all teachers proper training in reading,writing, listening and speaking skills; instituting policy and programs toincrease the reading culture at the school; and funding a three-year evaluationtool that will collect data and report at the end of each year the successes orareas of improvement that need to be undertaken.

To date, HCF has raised $2,500 toward its goal.For more information or to contribute to the Hawk Children’s Fund, visit

www.hawkchildrensfund.org.

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A group of juniorand senior studentsfrom colleges anduniversities across thenation studied marineand environmentalsciences in WoodsHole, Mass., whilegaining college creditthrough UMES through the newPartnership Education Program, or PEP.

“This program complements otherinitiatives in STEM and in the marinesciences in particular, which are offered atUMES,” said Dr. Paulinus Chigbu, directorof the Living Marine Cooperative ResearchScience Center at UMES.

PEP is designed to promote diversityin the science community of Woods Hole,home to six major marine researchlaboratories and thousands ofinvestigators who conduct researchworldwide, through a summer scienceinternship program. The students spentfour weeks in classes focusing on globalclimate change followed by six to eight weeks of hands-on individualresearch projects with a scientific mentor from one of the participatinginstitutions. Participating institutions are the Marine Biological Laboratory(MBL), the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, the Sea EducationAssociation (SEA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Woods HoleOceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Woods Hole Research Center(WHRC).

As head of the advisory committee for the Woods Hole ScientificCommunity Diversity Initiative signed by the six organizations in 2004, Dr.Ambrose Jearld Jr., a fisheries biologist at NOAA and the PEP programdirector, has spenthis career workingto make thescientificcommunity a morewelcoming place toindividuals withdifferentbackgrounds andexperiences. “Weneed a lot ofdifferent ideas andviewpoints, and weneed to berecruiting youngpeople into thefield,” Jerald saidof the diversityeffort. “Expandingthe opportunitiesfor young people

from underrepresentedsegments of thepopulation, who areinterested in science andmay not realize thepossibilities is what PEPis all about.” Jearld, anative of North Carolina,received his bachelor’s

in biology from UMES, attendedgraduate school in Oklahoma and hasworked at NOAA Fisheries since 1976.

Two out of the 16 PEPparticipants, Joe’Ella Caddle ofTrinidad, West Indies, and SamaraLawrentz of Nassau, Bahamas, aremarine science students from UMES.Caddle, a senior, studied the historyand ecology of Eel Pond at WoodsHole with research mentor Joel Sohnof MBL. Caddle, who loves to be outin the field, collected samples andidentified species in the pond andused the Woods Hole HistoricalCollection to discover history about

the source. “The skills and knowledge gained will help me to be moreprepared for graduate school and in deciding on my own researchproject,” said Caddle.

Lawrentz, a junior, learned to use image analysis software and imagingtechniques to estimate the reproductive health of monkfish with anotherresearch mentor Dr. Anne Richards of NOAA Fisheries. “I never did thisbefore, and although I am more interested in field work, it was a reallygood learning experience. I can use image analysis in many applications, sowho knows where [in her career path] it will lead,” she said.

For the PEP organizers, that is the kind of reaction they had hoped for.“We think theprogram succeededin providingopportunity forstudents, and wehope PEPsucceeded inchangingexpectations onmany levels,” saidJearld. “We stillhave a long way togo. PEP 2009 wasone group ofstudents, onesummer. Diversitydoesn’t comenaturally, and wehave to keep at it. Itis worth theinvestment.”

U.S. college students get credit at UMES formarine and environmental studies

New Woods Hole, Mass., program encouragesdiversity, self-discovery

Photos courtesy of PEP/NOAA

Joe’Ella Caddle Samara Lawrentz

Ambrose Jearld Jr.

Students from UMES were among the 600 students en-rolled at 47 public HBCUs that recently attended the 22nd an-nual anniversary weekend and gala in New York City.

This year’s theme, “TMCF at 22: Lighting the Path for To-morrow’s Leaders,” celebrated the achievements of the coun-try’s foremost visionaries, activists and organizations that usetheir status to affect positive change in their communities.

Hosted by actor Danny Glover, the gala is the pinnacle ofthe weekend’s annual activities, which includes a LeadershipInstitute Recruitment Conference and Career Fair, a fashionshow and an awards ceremony. The weekend also serves asthe organization’s largest annual fundraiser. Glover an-nounced that a record $6.2 million was raised at this year’sevent to assist in leadership development, development of pro-grams, scholarships and capacity-building for the HBCUs.

“Our supporters dedicated their resources in spite oflean times to show their commitment to the future of Amer-ica,” said Dwayne Ashley, president and CEO, Thurgood Mar-shall College Fund. “Their gifts will have an immediateimpact on investing in the national need to produce lead-ers.”

“Student leaders from UMES attended a selection ofseveral workshops each day geared toward preparing them for ThurgoodMarshall internships related to their fields of study,” said Aundra Roberts,UMES Honors Program assistant and the university representative accom-panying the students. The offerings this year were for STEM majors whichinclude science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and for educa-tion majors.

“This is the first year that they have invited education majors to bepart of this conference, since it has traditionally been focused around ma-jors that will enter into the corporate world,” said Phylicia Gibbs, a seniormathematics education major at UMES. “We learned about equity amongstudents, lesson planning, classroom management and many other issuesthat are faced in the classroom. It was an incredible experience that rein-

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Students attend Thurgood Marshall College Fund anniversary event

From left to right, Lisa Chance, a graduate education major; Ariel Jones a freshmanbiology major;Tanequa Wise, a freshman criminal justice major; Stacie Turner-Fooks, afreshman physician’s assistant major; Jennifer Whittington-Kenney, a graduateeducation major; and Alston Hill, a senior business education major; attend theThurgood Marshall College Fund Gala. Not pictured are Phylicia Gibbs, a senior mathmajor; Shakena Goode, a senior accounting major; and Kathleen Rhodes, a seniormath major.

Aundra Roberts, program assistant in theUMES Honors Program, accompanies thestudents to the event.

forced that education is the career that I wantto be in.”

Gibbs is president of the UMES Chapterof Habitat for Humanity, president of the NewOrleans Education Project, has served as anambassador for the Thurgood MarshallTeacher Quality and Retention Program, is astaff leader for the “In Honor Words”newsletter and has served as a student host-ess for the UMES Gala.

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higher education access and quality in Africa; and producing globallycompetent citizens.

Well ahead of what appears to be an emerging trend, presidentialinitiatives at UMES center on creating globally competent citizens at theuniversity that’s home to some 4,300 students. With more and moreinstitutions of higher learning augmenting their undergraduate studyprograms with study abroad opportunities, that emerging trend finds someuniversities establishing international cohorts equaling upwards toward 25percent of their student body and creating recruitment efforts that targetforeign students.

“The international perspective in higher education is crucial to thedevelopment of leaders who are sensitive to the role America plays in shapingthe national and international agenda,” said Thompson. “UMES aims toimbed internationalism in some curricula and to extend its concept ofinternational education through continuing education and cooperativeventures with foreign universities, government agencies, non-governmentagencies and private industry.”

Linkage agreements between international organizations and UMESbegan in the late eighties. To date, twenty-one international linkages havebeen forged– eight of them developed under the leadership of Thompson inaccordance with the overarching goal of the University System of Maryland toensure that undergraduate students develop the international perspectivenecessary for success in a global economy.

During the conference, the university established its first internationalalumni chapter and Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyi Allotey, professor ofmathematics, scholar, nuclear physicist and consultant in informatics fordevelopment, was awarded the UMES Presidential Medal Award for his role asan international giant. Known for his work on soft x-ray spectroscopy, Alloteyestablished the principle widely regarded as the “Allotey Formalism,” forwhich he received the Prince Philip Gold Medal Award in 1973. In Ghana heis regarded as “a phenomenal inspirer” in that he is responsible forinfluencing the study of physics and mathematics in Ghanaian schools,colleges and universities.

For more information on the third biennial International Workshop, visitwww.umes.edu/internationalworkshop2009 and click on 2009 WorkshopProgram.

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By Maggie Hayon, sports information assistant, and the Office of MediaRelations, Department of Intercollegiate Athletics

MEN’S BASKETBALLThe men’s basketball team coasted to a 91-38

exhibition victory over Division III Stevenson Universityin front of 1,731 recently at the William P. Hytche AthleticCenter.

Redshirt freshman Mark Robertson (Lakewood,N.J.) recorded 22 points, 17 of which were in the secondhalf, and five steals, both game-highs, in his first game ina Hawk uniform. He finished the game four-for-five fromthe 3-point range and nine-for-10 in field goals in 32minutes of play.

Four other Hawks scored in double digits asredshirt sophomore Hillary Haley (Oxon Hill, Md.)scored 14, juniors Freddy Obame Obame (Libreville,Gabon) and Jamal Edwards (Mays Landing, N.J.) both had 11, whilesophomore Tyler Hines (Sicklerville, N.J.) chipped in 10.

In addition to his 11 points, Obame Obame blocked two shots and hadfive rebounds in 14 minutes of play. Junior Kevin White (Brooklyn, N.Y.)had a game-high eight assists while also producing nine points. FreshmanSean Berry (Irvington, N.J.) grabbed eight rebounds to lead both teams.

BOWLINGThe bowling team posted a 9-1 mark in the first MEAC event of the

season. The Northern Division match-up pitted the Lady Hawks against theirrivals from the region, including two ranked squads in No. 6 Delaware Stateand No. 15 Morgan State. UMES had just one hiccup against the field in a1024-961 loss in team games to Delaware State on the first day of competition.

Other than that, UMES cruised to wins over Howard (1028-848), CoppinState (1066-807), MSU (996-917) and Hampton (1099-1032) in teamgames. Nine of the 10 Hawks on the roster saw action and combined theyposted 15 games of 200 or more. JuniorMaria Rodriguez (Ibague Tolima,Colombia) tallied four of those games herself in five tries, for a pin fall of1,100 and an average of 220.

Juniors Katherine Brown (Level Green, Pa.) and Kristina Frahm(Oswego, Ill.) both tallied three games over the two century mark with Brownposting an 887 pin fall in four games and the highest average of the team witha 221.75. Frahm tallied a 637 pin fall in three games with a 212.3 average.

Sophomore Paula Vilas (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) talliedtwo games over 200 and posted a 630 pin fall in three games with a 210average. Redshirt freshman Kaitlyn Young also bowled well with one 200plus game plus a 608 pin fall and an average of 202.67.

In baker games, UMES went a perfect 5-0, avenging their loss to DelawareState 736-701, while topping the remaining four MEAC teams.

VOLLEYBALLSophomore Christine Edwards (Lakewood, Calif.) recorded 10 kills

and a match-high, tying seven service aces, as UMES defeated Coppin State 3-0 (25-16, 25-10, 25-17) recently at the Hytche Center. The win improved theHawks to 20-6 overall (9-0 MEAC) and assures UMES of their third

Hawk Talk: A weekly recap of UMES Athletics

MEN’S BASKETBALL Travels to Springfield, Mo., to take on MissouriState at 9:05 p.m. on Fri., Nov. 20, The Citadel at 6:30 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 21,and Eastern Michigan at 6:30 p.m. on Sun., Nov. 22.

Takes on American at home on Sat., Nov. 28, at 2 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Travels to Brooklyn, N.Y., to take on Manhattanat 3 p.m. on Sun., Nov. 22, and Long Island at 5 p.m. on Tues., Nov. 24.

BOWLING Hosts the Eastern Shore Hawk Classic in Millsboro, Del., on Fri,Nov. 20, Sat., Nov. 21 and Sun., Nov. 22, beginning at 11 p.m.

Travel to Lebanon, Ill., for National Collegiate Team Match Games beginningat 8 a.m. on Fri., Nov. 27 and Sat., Nov. 28.

CROSS COUNTRY NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., on Tues.,Nov. 24. Times and competitors TBA.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Quarterfinals in Baltimore, Md., on Fri., Nov.20, with semi-finals on Sat., Nov. 21 and finals on Sun, Nov. 22. Times andcompetitors TBA.

UPCOMING COMPETITIONS

For complete recaps, results and news of Hawk athletics, visit www.umeshawks.com.

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consecutive 20-win season under head coach Don Metil.The Hawks outhit Coppin State .436-.069 and tied a season-high with 17

service aces, a feat UMES first accomplished on Oct. 23 at Howard.Seniors Whitney Johnson (Prince Frederick, Md.) and Caylin

Woodward (Garden Grove, Calif.) tallied nine and seven kills, respectively.Three Hawks had eight digs apiece as UMES led CSU, 33-25.

Freshman Karin Vikterlof (Orebro, Sweden), sophomore RebeccaPrado (Annandale, N.J.) and Woodward had eight digs each to lead the team.Redshirt junior Samantha Chukwura (Brooklyn, N.Y.) had three of theHawk’s seven block assists as UMES totaled 3.5 total blocks. Freshman BellaJade Romero (Arlington, Texas) had 21 of the team’s 38 assists.

During the same weekend of conference play, Edwards and Johnson eachfinished with double-digit kills as the Hawks completed an undefeated seasonin the MEAC with a 3-0 (25-14, 25-14, 25-18) win over Howard at the HytcheCenter. Edwards tallied 12 kills, four aces and three digs, while Johnson had10 kills, two aces and a block solo, helping UMES (21-6, 10-0) to their 12thconsecutive victory.

Senior Thonya Joseph (Bridgetown, Barbados) recorded a match-high.636 hitting percentage with seven kills. Woodward led all players with fiveaces. She also had seven kills, six assists and two digs. Romero had 27 of theHawks’ 36 assists to go along with four digs and an ace.

As a team, UMES outhit Howard, .372-.148. The Hawks tallied 16 acesto just one for the Bison.

The volleyball teamrecently designated agame as BreastCancer Awarenessnight. Pictured fromleft are Kathy Dekkerof the AmericanCancer Society andSharone Grant,director of the UMESStudent Health Center.

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Resident’s Life offers“A Day of Thanksgiving”

Two area directors in the Office of ResidenceLife at UMES, Clifton Harcum and Phillip Thomas,have spearheaded a community service project, “ADay of Thanksgiving” to present some 100 needyfamilies in Somerset County, as designated by theDepartment of Social Services, with a holiday meal.

“I just feel that it has been rough out here formany families, and I want to help those who mayneed some assistance,” said Harcum, an areadirector with the Office of Residence Life and agraduate student pursuing a degree in guidance andcounseling.

Harcum and Thomas looked to areabusinesses and the UMES community to contributeto the cause. Among the local businesses that havedonated are Dollar General, Food Lion, Shamrock,Superfresh and Sysco. The Princess Anne TownCommissioners and the Maryland Food Bank havealso lent their assistance. Organizations, Grove PhiGroove on campus and the Freemason East GateLodge #65 of Prince Hall, of which both Harcumand Thomas are members, have contributed.

Families that have received a voucher and instructions will pick up a boxof food items, one box per family, at the university. Food will not be served.

“When you are in a position to affect positive change you must; realizingthat your actions will speak louder than any words you can utter,” saidThomas, an area director with the Office of Residence Life and anundergraduate student in rehabilitation services.

For more information or to donate or volunteer, contact Harcum at 410-621-0497 or by email at chharcum@umes.edu or Thomas at 410-651-8306or by email at pmthomas@umes.edu.

Clifton Harcum

Phillip Thomas

Save the DateS e v e n t h A n n u a l

Awards Ceremony

Holiday Celebration

Tuesday, December 1

3 p.m.

Student Services Center Theater

Reception immediately followingin the SSC Ballroom

Open to allUMES faculty and staff members

Marilyn Buerkle, the club's advisor and a member UMES' EnglishDepartment, knew in order to maintain and increase the station'sfollowing, there had to be sufficient programming for off-hours such asovernights and when school is out.

"It's hard to promote a service if it's not consistent," she said. "Havingthe ability to have an automated service available helps us gather morelisteners and have a greater voice on the campus."

Earlier this summer, the station was equipped with software enablingfull automation for the station with a library of more than 4,800 songsranging from rock, hip-hop and R&B. Through the hawkradio.org Website, there is a catalog of the station's more than 4,800 songs wherelisteners can click on a song and have it played within minutes.

With the benefits the upgrades to the station have been for members ofthe club, members of the radio production class are also able to work

"We're trying to give the students real-world experience," said EricHammond, a technical advisor for the station.

Bill Reddish, who teaches the radio production class at UMES, said the

facility provides technological advantages with the myriad of softwareavailable.

"It gives students an opportunity to experiment with something theycouldn't do on their personal computer," he said.

As a result of the new format, Stephens said awareness of the stationhas increased throughout the campus community, leading to more peopleshowing up to the station's weekly meetings.

"We've seen an interest in the student radio that's been the highestwe've ever seen," Reddish said.

While the station has gained footing within the campus community,Hammond said one issue that prevails is trying to distinguish themselves.

"We're still fighting the battle of people confusing us with (UMES'public radio station) WESM or asking where we are on the airwaves," hesaid.

As for that day when WHWK ceased to exist, Buerkle said the accidentenabled the station to rethink its plans while expanding its reach.

"We were able to create an opportunity out of catastrophe," she said.

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NOVEMBER19 WIND ENSEMBLE FALL CONCERT

7 p.m.Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts

19 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ETHNIC FESTIVAL11 a.m.Student Services Center Ballroom

DECEMBER1 & 3 FALL FAMILY RECITAL

11 a.m.Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts

9-12 UMES GOSPEL CHOIR FALL REVIVAL7 p.m.Ella Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center

13 UMES GOSPEL CHOIR CONCERT5 p.m.Ella Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center

8-17 GRADUATING SENIOR SHOW9 a.m.- 5 p.m., Mon. through Fri.Mosely Gallery

10 OPENING RECEPTIONGraduating Senior Show4-6 p.m.Mosely Gallery

Homeowners can have their private well water tested for free during a two-hour Safe DrinkingWater Clinic slated for Saturday, December 5, at 9:30 a.m.at the Food Science and Technology Buildingat UMES.

Drinking water will be tested for pH, total Coliform bacteria, E. coli bacteria, nitrates and totaldissolved solids. Procedures for collecting the water sample are available with pre-registration prior toMonday, November 23.

The clinic aspires to teach participants how to avoid, detect and treat water contaminants thatmay affect the quality of their drinking water. Topics of discussion include: proper well maintenance;land use impacts; wellhead protection; water testing and interpretation; solving water problems; andwater conservation.

“Thousands of Delmarva residents rely on a private well system for their home drinking water,”said Corrie Cotton, research assistant professor, department of agriculture, food and resourcesciences, UMES. “The homeowner has the sole responsibility of managing the quality of their privatewell to ensure it meets drinking water safety standards to protect their family’s health.”

Sponsored by the UMES Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences, registration canbe made by calling 410-651-6630 or by e-mail at cpcotton@umes.edu.

UMES sponsorsSafe DrinkingWater Clinic