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Marshall's Pickled Pepper Players, a children's theatre group, made a tour of the U.S. gulf coast Nov. 25-Dec. 4 to perform for children displaced by hurricanes in 2005.

Student actors Elissa Horrell, left, and Samantha Elkins perform during Molly and Her Marvelous Mind for the Robertson After School Program in Hattiesburg, Miss.
The Pickled Pepper Players, along with representatives from Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Bogalusa, La., pose for a picture in front of their RV during the Gulf Coast Relief Tour. On the right is Dr. Rev. A. J. Lutey, who is a Marshall University alumnus.
Student actors Adam Stephens, left, and Karah Markins perform during Molly and Her Marvelous Mind at the Hope Drive After School Center in Hattiesburg, Miss.

Marshall professor of music Dr. Wendell Dobbs and Dr. Leo Welch, former professor of music at Marshall who is now at Florida State University, made a recording of American music from the era of John Marshall. Also participating on the recording was Linda Dobbs, soprano, also professor of music at Marshall.

Marshall University's Lewis College of Business will induct Paul E. Arbogast, Kathy G. Eddy, Timothy L. Haymaker, David Hofstetter, and Franklin P. Justice, Jr. into its Hall of Fame on Oct. 4.

Dr. H. Keith Spears, Vice President for Communications and Marketing at Marshall University, accepts a blue ribbon for Marshall's outdoor display from Pam Edwards, Special Projects Coordinator for the State Fair of West Virginia.

West Virginia native Dr. Shortie McKinney has been appointed dean of the College of Health Professions at Marshall University.

Marshall President Stephen J. Kopp, front left, joins Heritage Society members in a group picture taken during a brunch in their honor Aug. 2 at the Drinko Library. Kopp addresses Heritage Society members during the brunch.

Dr. Corley Dennison, dean of Marshall University’s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications, has been selected to the inaugural class of the JMC Leadership Institute, the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communications (ASJMC) announced.

Marshall, Verizon, and state officials pose with the oversize check representing Verizon’s gift to Marshall’s June Harless Center. From left, Dr. Stan Maynard, executive director of the Harless Center; Stan Cavendish, president of Verizon West Virginia; Sen. Robert H. Plymale; Dr. Rosalyn Templeton, dean of the College of Education and Human Services; Monica Hatfield, the chairman of the Marshall University Foundation board; Dr. Stephen J. Kopp, president of Marshall University; and West Virginia First Lady Gayle Manchin.

Brian Carrico has been named MU’s director of health and safety.

Marshall alumnus Chet May was a participant in the NASA ocean drift mission that took place in July of 1969. A documentary on the mission will be shown on The Science Channel on July 14, 2005 (check local listings). Photo credits: NASA.

Conversion of the playing surface at Marshall University's Joan C. Edwards Stadium from Astroturf to FieldTurf is on schedule.
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Sharon Porter, a Huntington resident and Marshall University graduate, is the new president of the MU Alumni Association.

Noted Civil War author Jack Dickinson has produced an exhibition catalog based on the unique holdings of the Rosanna A. Blake Library of Confederate History at Marshall University.

Two new staff members have joined Marshall Community and Technical College. Gary A. Pommerenck has been appointed Executive Director of Workforce Development and John Whiteley is the new Director of the Inland Waterways Academy.

State Farm’s Herman Dixon, Faye Zinn and Lisa Godwin join with Emily Hundley, Rudy Pauley and Ron Childress from Marshall’s Graduate College in a check presentation June 14 at the South Charleston campus.

Dr. Stephen J. Kopp, special assistant to the chancellor with the Ohio Board of Regents, and former provost of Ohio University, has been selected as Marshall University’s next president.

Marshall University's Yeager Scholars program has announced 11 members of its Class of 2009: Kristen Berry, Morgan Blubaugh, Brittany Duncan, Mary Hatfield, Lauren Hutchins, Anna Keffer, Jacob Kilgore, Laura Mitchell, Rebecca Minardi, Katherine Reasons, and Claire Snyder.

MU Interim President Michael J. Farrell (left), Gov. Joe Manchin and WVU President David Hardesty Jr. sign the agreement for the series of games between Marshall and West Virginia University. Standing in the back are (left) MU Head Football Coach Mark Snyder and WVU Head Football Coach Rich Rodriguez.

Dr. Rosalyn Templeton has been appointed dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Marshall University.

Dr. Paul J. Uselding, dean the past six years of the College of Business and Management at Saginaw Valley State University in University Center, Mich., is the new dean of Marshall University’s Elizabeth McDowell Lewis College of Business.

Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity reactivated its chapter on Marshall University's Huntington campus on May 1. From left: Susan Tams,Nikki Winter, Deanna Holderby, Ashli Spinks, Minna Aminzadeh, Callie Huff, Christina Riley, Melanie Baldwin, Meredith McCoy, Angela Crum, Amy Holliday, Beverly Miller, Vicki Stroeher, Jessica Bethel (behind Stroeher), LeeAnn Lykens, Patricia Green, Harriet Tucker.

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III will be the keynote speaker at Marshall University’s 2005 Commencement at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 7, at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena. Manchin, along with Joanne Jaeger Tomblin, president of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College, and Atlanta banker Richard D. Jackson, also will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree during the ceremony.

Marshall University Interim President Michael J. Farrell is one of 18 lawyers and judges who will be honored Thursday, April 28, during the West Virginia Bar Foundation’s seventh annual Foundation Fellows Dinner at the Marriott Hotel in Charleston.

Marshall University graduate student Vince Payne of Hansford, W.Va., was named the college radio sportscaster of the year during the Third Annual Broadcast Educators Association Festival of Media Arts Student Audio Competition Ceremony April 21 in Las Vegas.

Michael Misiti, a junior from Beckley, W.Va., was inaugurated as Marshall University’s student body president during a ceremony Saturday, April 16, in the Robert Hartley Big Green Room at Cam Henderson Center. Nicki Brown, a junior from Greenup, Ky., was sworn in as student body vice president.

Michael Misiti and Nicki Brown are sworn in as president and vice president, respectively, of Marshall University’s student body during a ceremony on April 16. Student Government Association Chief Justice Marium Rauf, left, performed the ceremony.
Michael Misiti of Beckley, W.Va., is Marshall University’s new student body president.

Marshall alumnus and Tri-State Area native Mark Snyder has been appointed Marshall University's new head football coach.

Marshall University student Jessica Crouch, a senior graphic design major from Scott Depot, W.Va., recently received an ADDY Award for creative excellence in the art of advertising.

Dr. Karen Mitchell, a Marshall University mathematics professor, has been named the West Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics (WVCTM) 2005 College/University Mathematics Teacher of the Year.

Jones Soda Co. has selected two photographs taken by Marshall University student Nicole Young of St. Albans, W.Va., to appear on two of the company’s soda labels. The photo that was chosen for the root beer label is a color photo that Young took of the Roanoke Star, which is a neon star on the top of Mill Mountain in Roanoke, Va. The photo on the orange and cream bottle is a black and white one of Young’s boyfriend’s record player.

Stanley Harper, a 16-year veteran of the Marshall University Police Department, has been promoted from patrol officer to sergeant.

McRae Pennington, a Greenup County, Ky., native, is the new Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Marshall.

Dr. Corley Dennison, interim dean of Marshall University’s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications for the past year, has been named permanent dean of the School.

Kelly Terry, who has taught in the Marshall Community & Technical College’s Physical Therapist Assistant Program as an adjunct faculty member for the past four years, is the program’s new Academic Coordinator of Clinical Education.

Marshall University students Zachary Tackett, Justin Swick (left) and Derek Gregg earned two of the three awards presented today by the West Virginia Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (WV EPSCoR) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Undergraduate Researcher of the Year competition at the Capitol.

Dr. Betty Jane Cleckley, Vice President for Multicultural Affairs at Marshall University since 1989, has been named a Distinguished Alumna in the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette University.

Marshall University professor Dr. Jennifer Mak will receive the Mabel Lee Award from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance on April 14.

Five Marshall University students, representing four projects, are among 14 finalists for West Virginia Undergraduate Researcher of the Year, which will be announced Tuesday, March 1 during a reception following the second annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol in Charleston. The MU finalists are Drew Clark and Zachary Tackett of Proctorville, Ohio, along with Derek Gregg of Barboursville, Justin Swick of Chesapeake, Ohio and Kelli Hall of Huntington.

Dr. Lynne Welch, professor of nursing and dean of the College of Health Professions at Marshall University, will take part in a tsunami relief mission Feb. 16 through March 4.

Otis (Ott) Adkins, a self-described big Marshall fan, arranged for one of the working locomotives his company, Ohio River Terminals, Inc., uses to be painted Marshall green and white and feature the Thundering Herd logo.

The children of Jack Fitzgerald and Sue Moses have made a substantial gift to Marshall University to honor their parents. Jack Fitzgerald Moses and his wife, Sue Moses, wearing the green Marshall jackets, pose around a rendering of the new Erickson Alumni Center. Behind them are, left to right, Tom Harris, president of the Marshall Alumni Association; sons Jack Moses and Bob Moses; Marshall interim president Michael J. Farrell, daughter Barbara Moses Adkins and son Steve Moses.

Hugh Masekela, a legendary musician who has been hailed as both a prodigiously talented giant of jazz and world music and a pioneer in bringing the voice and spirit of African music to the West, is coming to Marshall University Monday, Feb. 7 for a series of workshops, media presentations and a performance.

The Rev. Dr. Teresa Snorton, executive director of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc., of Decatur, Ga. will give the keynote address at the 12th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Monday Jan. 17.


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