Gallman-DeRienzo

The Office of Academic Affairs is pleased to announce that Vivian Gallman-DeRienzo has been appointed director of the Charleston Metro campus and the Joint Base Charleston campus. Gallman-DeRienzo most recently served as the vice president for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs at Thomas University in Thomasville, Ga.

She has additional experience in two-year schools in South Carolina as vice president of Academic Affairs at Denmark Technical College and as director of Community Outreach and Advisement at Florence-Darlington Technical College.

Gallman-DeRienzo earned a doctorate in Higher Education Administration at the University of South Carolina and an MA in Human Resources Development at Webster University at Scott Air Force Base. She has earned several certificates in educational  leadership from Harvard University and the University of South Carolina.

Gallman-DeRienzo’s appointment is for the academic year 2013-2014. She will join Webster University on Monday, June 10.

Alumni showed their Gorlok pride at the baseball game.

The Charleston Alumni Association Chapter held its annual Alumni Family Night with the RiverDogs Aug. 17. The RiverDogs are a Single-A baseball team that has operated in Charleston since 1980 in the South Atlantic League.

The alumni received a nod on the scoreboard.

The family event, which included America’s pastime and fireworks too, was the last sporting event of the alumni season for graduates from Webster University Charleston campus location. (The Alumni Hockey Night is in January.)

Among the alumni attendees were: Bette Century Thomas ’03, Joyel Thomas ’12, Janette Brown ’98, Beverly Buford ’99, Josephine Freeman ’98, Sharon Wilcox ’06, Charlene Stephenson ’11, Edna Williams ’02 and Shanteisha Crabtree ’99.

Charleston staff members in attendance included Cheryl Rankin, Meg Cox and Debbie Grimes.

It was a family affair for Janette Brown ’98 (right).

Boston Fenton, Charlene Stephenson ’12

More than 30 Webster University friends, family and alumni of the Charleston Metro and Joint Base Charleston campus locations met last month to share in the first event of this alumni season.

The entertainment was a South Carolina Stingrays hockey game. Based in North Charleston, S.C., the Stingrays play in the ECHL and are affiliated with the NHL’s Washington Capitals and the AHL’s Hershey Bears.

According to Bette Century Thomas, CRC at Charleston, attendees dined and “caught up with each other, ‘net-weaved,’ shared dreams, shared life events, shared affirmations, met new friends and promised to not let this be the last time we come together to share the good times.”

The event was arranged by the Charleston Metro and Joint Base Charleston Alumni Chapter.

Joyce Brown, Karen Race ’04 and Debbie Brown

Soccer Made in St. Louis

Recent professional activities by Webster faculty and staff include:

• Growing revenues just as expenses increase: Are the Texas Rangers the new Philadelphia Phillies? A Forbes business of sports column asks that question and turns to the expertise of Patrick Rishe, Walker School of Business associate professor and sports economist.

• Soccer Made In St. Louis, a new book written by Dave Lange, adjunct professor in the School of Communications, covers the history, tactics and evolution of the world’s most popular sport in America’s first soccer capital — St. Louis. Starting with the first reported game in 1875, the book details the teams, players and organizations who brought home national championships at every level of soccer. Lange is a former sports reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and now teaches public relations courses at Webster. The book is published by Reedy Press.

•  Warren Rosenblum, History, Politics and International Relations, has been invited to deliver the annual Arthur B. and David B. Jacobson Lecture in Judaic Studies at Brown University Oct. 24, 2011, at 7:30 pm. His speech, “The Paradox of ‘Jewish Power:’ The Struggle Against Antisemitism in Pre-Hitler Germany” is free and open to the public at Brown’s Petteruti Lounge.

UPDATE: You can see video of Rosenblum’s talk here.

•  Holly Hubenschmidt, head of Instruction and Liaison Services, University Library; and professor Barbara Wehling, Nursing, presented a poster entitled “Enhancing Information Literacy Skills for RN to BSN Students” at the annual meeting of the Mid-contintental Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MCMLA) in St. Louis.  The poster focused on faculty/librarian collaboration to teach information literacy skills to nursing students.

• Nicole Roach, director of the Old Post Office campus in downtown St. Louis, was selected by Delux Magazine as one of St. Louis’ Women Power Players of 2011. The honor appears in their October 2011 issue.

• Ken Fox, adjunct faculty at the Charleston, S.C., campus, returned from teaching an MBA marketing course in Chengdu, China, with the inspiration to launch his Global Galaxy blog about international business through his firm, The Sounding Group.