BREAKING BARRIERS
BANQUET
BANQUET
| 6:00 - 9:00 pm Reception Banquet First Floor, Henson Center Guest of Honor: Dr. Dolores R. Spikes President, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Greetings: Dr. Brenda Anderson Dean, School of Arts and Professions Greetings: Dr. Robert Johnson Executive Vice-President Greetings: Dr. Eucharia Nnadi Vice-President for Academic Affairs Greetings: Dr. Herman Franklin Vice-President for Student Affairs Greetings: Dr. Ronnie Holden Vice-President for Administrative Affairs Grace: The Reverend Charlotte Nichols Metropolitan Methodist Church Introduction: Dr. Richard Keenan Acting Chair, Department of English and Modern Languages Speakers: Ms. Mignon Anderson, Novelist, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Modern Languages Ms. Sandra Christian, Poet, Instructor, Department of English and Modern Languages Mignon Holland Anderson is a native of the Eastern Shore, Northampton County, VA. She left high school after the eleventh grade and completed her first year of college during what would have been her twelfth-grade year. She earned her B.A. in English from Fisk University, Nashville in 1966, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Ms. Anderson begins her seventh year of teaching Honors English Composition at the University of Maryland this fall. She is also Editor of the University literary journal Maryland Review. Ms. Anderson has published "Mostly Womenfolk, And A Man Or Two" (Third World, 1976), and numerous other short stories and articles. Sandra Christian has taught for the past eight years in the Department of English and Modern Languages at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. She holds a B.A. from Salisbury State University (1987) and an M.A. from Ohio University (1989) with a concentration in Creative Writing. Presently she is earning an M.F.A. in Writing/Poetry at Vermont College of Norwich University, Vermont with a graduation date of July 1999. Christian's publications include Tar River Poetry, Poetry Miscellany, Maryland Review, Memphis State Review and Iowa Woman. |
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