FEBRUARY 23, 2007
News
TONY PRICE RECEIVES AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO WOMEN’S ATHLETICS
EMPLOYEES RECEIVE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION GRANTS
NEW LIBRARY EXHIBIT FOCUSES ON SLAVERY
MAIL CALL! POSTAGE SERVICES NOW AVAILABLE AT COPY & MAIL CENTER
TONY PRICE RECEIVES AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO WOMEN’S ATHLETICS
Basketball Coach and Assistant Athletics Director Tony Price recently received a new award recognizing Massachusetts residents who have made significant contributions to women’s athletics.
Tony Price received a Heights Award from Jody Mooradian, Boston College associate director of athletics, at a recent women’s basketball game. Photo by John Quakenbos Photography.
“The Heights Award,” presented by The Massachusetts State Lottery and Boston College Athletics, was conferred to Price during a special ceremony at a Boston College women’s basketball game on Feb. 12. Price was honored for his longtime activism for inner-city youth athletics and for working “tirelessly to create opportunities and inspire others to become involved in women’s athletics,” according to a Mass. State Lottery press release.
Price began his career as a coaching volunteer at the Boston Community Center before becoming director of youth activities at Nuestra Comunidad in Roxbury, Mass., where he organized job fairs, tutorial programs, and sports activities for young children in the community. As director of youth and recreation at Lena Park Community Development Corporation, he established the community’s first women’s basketball program. Prior to joining Simmons College, Price was as an assistant coach at UMass-Boston for two seasons.
At Simmons, Price is the winningest head coach in the program’s history. In 2003, he was named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference’s coach of the year after leading his team to a school-best 16-9 record.
EMPLOYEES RECEIVE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION GRANTS
Simmons’s undergraduate Alumnae Association recently awarded Centennial Grants to three employees in support of four projects that enhance undergraduate and alumnae community development and the College’s strategic focus and initiatives.
“We were overjoyed with the success of our inaugural Centennial Grant program last year, launched in honor of the association’s 100th anniversary,” said Alumnae Association Executive Board President Suzanne Culver ’93. “We felt strongly that the programming was worth continuing this year.”
Each of this year’s recipients received $500, the maximum award amount. The grant recipients are:
• Susanna Flug, associate director of undergraduate service learning at the Scott/Ross Center for Community Service, in support of two projects.
The Colleges of the Fenway Boston Immersion Alternative Spring Break will give undergraduates the opportunity to spend their spring breaks in Boston, where they will learn about, connect with, and take positive action in the community. Incorporating the theme “Youth Empowerment in Roxbury and Mission Hill,” the week’s events will include feature leadership, diversity, and college access trainings; explorations of Boston’s past and present; discussions with local leaders; hosting an event for local youth; and volunteering each afternoon with two after-school programs. The goal is to help students better understand the assets and challenges of these communities, connect with local individuals and organizations, and develop an understanding of the context and leadership skills necessary to make community change.
In collaboration with student service learning assistants Emily Cohen ’07 and Wei Wong ’08, Flug will develop a student group to support and promote service learning across campus. The grant will help train a core group of students in leadership, group facilitation, diversity, and public speaking skills, enabling them to plan and lead student activities in support of service learning experiences.
• Teresa Nelson, the SOM’s Elizabeth J. McCandless professor of entrepreneurship, in support of sending select management students to a national business plan competition at the University of Colorado. The funding will be used to defer the costs of sending the undergraduates who write the winning business plan in their Management Senior Seminar course to the 2007 National Business Plan Competition at the University of Colorado in April. The grant will enable the students to showcase their accomplishments and place them on a national platform representing Simmons.
• Ali Kantor, director of athletics, in support of the Simmons Varsity Club spring event. The grant will bring together senior-year athletes and alumnae former athletes for a sporting event against the remainder of the undergraduates who comprise the varsity teams. The competition will be followed by a reception where the senior athletes will be inducted into the varsity club. The event will enable students to network with alumnae and to receive mentoring and role modeling.
The Centennial Grants were made available to undergraduate students and faculty, undergraduate student groups (clubs and dorms), academic departments, and staff members and organizations. The Alumnae Association will offer these grants again next fall.
For more information about the Centennial Grants, visit www.alumnet.simmons.edu or contact Eileen Seman, associate director in the Office of Alumnae/i Relations, at 617-521-2309.
NEW LIBRARY EXHIBIT FOCUSES ON SLAVERY
In celebration of Black History Month, the Simmons College Library is exhibiting Heather Johnson’s award-winning series, Reparations.
This series focuses on the emotionally damaging effects of slavery by digitally manipulating African American portraiture from the early 20th century. The original portraits, collected by W.E.B. Du Bois for the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle, include war veterans, teachers, businessmen, and schoolchildren, and demonstrate the existence of an emerging black professional class.
Reparations contrasts the hopefulness of an earlier African American generation that had been promised new-found freedom with the continued disparity blacks experience today. By digitally manipulating Du Bois’ portraits, Johnson is able to externalize the destructive and corrosive nature of racism.
Reparations is on exhibit in the lobby of Beatley Library on the first floor of Lefavour Hall during February and March.
MAIL CALL! POSTAGE SERVICES NOW AVAILABLE AT COPY & MAIL CENTER
Thanks to the Copy & Mail Center, you now can reduce your trips to the post office. The Copy & Mail Center now offers retail postage service through the U.S. Postal Service for your personal mailing needs. The following services are available:
• Domestic and International Mail
• Express Mail
• Priority Mail
• Parcel Post (packages)
• Media Mail
• Certified Mail and Return Receipt
• Delivery Confirmation
Please note: the Copy & Mail Center does not sell stamps, but they can be purchased at the Simmons bookstore.
The Copy & Mail Center accepts payment via Fenway Cash. If you have any questions, visit the center in MCB E002, call x2428, or email copymail@simmons.edu.
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