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SOUTHEAST ALUMNI TO PRESENT AN EVENING WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Charles Brame, a native of Cape Girardeau and a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University will present an "Evening With Abraham Lincoln" Sept. 30 at 8 p.m. in Academic Hall on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University.
Brame is one of the most active and successful Lincoln impersonators in the nation. He has presented nearly 2,600 one-man shows and speeches on Lincoln throughout the country. He has also acted as Lincoln on television and in a number of movies.
Brame writes and directs all of his work. He holds a master of arts degree in American history and was a history teacher for approximately 30 years. He is a member of the Screen Actors' Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Brame, who now lives in California, has appeared in such movies as, "Happy Gilmore," and "Hot Shots 1." He has had guest appearances on the "Cybill Show," "The Tonight Show," and has made a number of Lincoln "voice-overs," and TV commercials.
Brame is the author of Honestly Abe: A Cartoon Expose of Abraham Lincoln, a unique book on the life and times of the 16th president. The book recently won the 1999 Benjamin Franklin Biography of the Year Award at a meeting in Philadelphia, Pa.
Brame's visit and presentation is sponsored by the Alumni Foundation of Southeast Missouri State University. He also will participate in the 55th reunion of the Cape Girardeau Central High School class of 1944 and will spend time with old friends and former students.
Signed copies of his book, Honestly Abe, will be available for purchase.
The program is open to the public and admission is free. For more information, call Southeast Missouri State University at (573) 651-2555.
JEANINE LARSON DOBBINS SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWED THROUGH FOUNDATION
Southeast Missouri State University President Kenneth W. Dobbins has endowed the Jeanine Larson Dobbins Scholarship through the Southeast Missouri University Foundation.
Contributions for this gift of $11,772 were begun several years ago during Dr. Kenneth W. Dobbins' previous tenure as executive vice president of the University.
Dr. Kenneth W. Dobbins is the newly appointed president of Southeast Missouri State University. He has served at Southeast since 1991. Jeanine Larson Dobbins is coordinator of the Missouri Statewide Early Literacy Intervention Program at Southeast.
Both Dr. and Mrs. Dobbins earned bachelor's degrees from the University of Akron in Ohio and master's degrees from Old Dominion University in Virginia. Dr. Dobbins earned his doctoral degree in higher education administration from Kent State University. Mrs. Dobbins received training from The Ohio State University as a Reading Recovery teacher leader. They have one son, Paul Larson Dobbins, who is a sophomore at Southeast Missouri State University.
Recipients of the Jeanine Larson Dobbins Scholarship may be full-time undergraduates or part- or full-time graduate students from in- or out-of-state. Undergraduate recipients must have completed 60 or more hours with a declared major in education. Graduate student recipients must have a 3.25 undergraduate grade point average with a declared major in education. Undergraduates must maintain a 3.25 grade point average and graduate students must maintain a 3.5 grade point average. The scholarship funds may be used for incidental fees, general gees, room, board, books, classroom materials and parking permits. The award also may be applied to additional living expenses.
The Scholarship Committee will determine the recipient.
This is the first year in which the scholarship has been awarded. Recipients are Cynthia Poston, a graduate student from Jackson, Mo.; Lindsey Minson, a graduate student from Glen Allen, Mo.; Angela Farley, a senior from Cape Girardeau; and Helen Williams, a senior from Bloomsdale, Mo.
DEDICATION OF FOUNTAIN SCHEDULED FOR OCT. 6
Southeast Missouri State University will dedicate the Kala M. Stroup FOUNTAIN ON THE PLAZA Oct. 6.
Southeast's Golden Eagles Marching Band will perform as a prelude to the dedication ceremony, which begins at 4:30 p.m. in front of Kent Library. Speakers for the 30-minute ceremony are Dr. Kenneth Dobbins, Southeast president; Donald Dickerson, president of the Board of Regents; Tanya Efken, Student Government president; Ronald Clayton, professor of art; Paul Klaus, landscape architect; and Dr. Kala M. Stroup, commissioner of higher education.
As a conclusion to the ceremony, Dobbins, Dickerson and Stroup are expected to unveil an inscribed plaque which will be placed with the fountain.
Stroup, for whom the fountain in front of Kent Library is named, initiated the fountain project through a substantial gift she and her husband, Joe, made.
Clayton, Klaus and Tom Hadler, project manager for facilities management, were the design team responsible for the overall look of the fountain. Clayton, the conceptual designer, is responsible for the overall arrangement of the fountain. He emphasized the use of only limestone and other rocks, plants and trees that are native to this area. Hadler worked out the details, such as plumbing, that made Clayton's idea work. Klaus advised in the placement of rocks, which were individually hand picked. Klaus and a team of his students also designed the landscape to complement the fountain.
HEMINGWAY, FAULKNER SCHOLAR TO VISIT SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE
H.R. Stoneback, premier Hemingway scholar and an internationally known Faulkner scholar, will be visiting Southeast Missouri State University Oct. 11-12 in conjunction with the University's Hemingway Centennial Celebration.
Stoneback is professor of English at State University of New York in new Paltz, as well as a former director of the American Center for Students and Artists in Paris, France, and a contributor to A William Faulkner Encyclopedia from Greenwood Press. Stoneback also has been awarded Fulbright Scholar appointments to China and France. He is an internationally published poet and author of several books, both critical and creative. His works include Singing the Springs & Other Poems, Cartographers of the Deus Lock, Hemingway's Paris; Our Paris? and For We Have Had Song in These Places.
Stoneback will be reading from his poetry at the Kent Library Little Theatre on Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. and will be presenting a lecture entitled "Faulkner, Hemingway and Place: A Hemingway Centennial Meditation" on Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m., also in Kent Library Little Theatre. Stoneback's visit is sponsored by Journey magazine, Student Government, The Faulkner Center, and the Department of English at Southeast. Both events are open to the public.
GUY AND CLAUDINE PINCKLEY TO BE NAMED "FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY"
Guy and Claudine Pinckley will be named the 1999 "Friends of the University" Oct. 9 by the Southeast Missouri University Foundation.
The award will be presented at the annual Copper Dome Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in the Student Recreation Center. The award is presented annually during Homecoming weekend. The "Friend of the University" award, which recognizes those who support and are closely associated with the mission, purposes, plans and programs of the University, is the highest honor bestowed by the Southeast Missouri University Foundation.
Since the opening of the Harry L. Crisp Bootheel Education Center in 1988, Guy Pinckley has been a member of the Bootheel Education Center Advisory Board. As a partner of Falcon Communications in Malden, he encourages his employees to attend the Bootheel Education Center and has established a program to pay for their education.
Claudine Pinckley has organized very successful annual fund-raising dinners for the Bootheel Education Center that has helped in raising $1 million in seven years.
"Guy and Claudine have been pivotal in helping to raise private funds, and more importantly, in providing vision and leadership in the development of the Crisp Center," said J. Wayne Davenport, vice president for University Advancement and executive director of the Southeast Missouri University Foundation.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Pinckley are active in community affairs and have been named Malden's "Citizen of the Year." They are the directors of the Bootheel Youth Museum. Together they have coached soccer and basketball for the Optimists Club's Children's Program. They are also members of the President's Council through the Southeast Missouri University Foundation.
Guy Pinckley was born in Louisville, Ky., and attended public schools in Kentucky and Tennessee. He also attended Tennessee David Liscomb College in Nashville, Tenn. Pinckley served four years in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He has served 30 years as a partner of Falcon Communications in Malden.
Claudine Pinckley attended schools in Clarkton and Malden. She is vice president of Malden State Bank. She is the past president and director of the Malden Chamber of Commerce, the past director of the Malden Community Board and the Dunklin County Red Cross, a member of the Malden Betterment Committee of the Downtown Merchants Association, and the neighborhood chair of muscular dystrophy, cancer and heart drives. Mrs. Pinckley also was the recipient of the Southwestern Bell National Volunteer Award.
She also is active with the Southeast Missouri University Foundation, serving on the board of directors and as a joint chair of the Foundation's "125 Years -- Prologue to the 21st Century" campaign.
The Pinckleys are only the second couple to be honored with the Friend of the University award.
The couple currently resides in Allardt, Tenn., but they visit their family and the Center in Malden often. They have two children, Jane Ramp and Mitchell Green, and three grandchildren, Ashli Green and Jakob and Caleb Ramp.
RIVER CAMPUS BOARD OF MANAGERS TO CONVENEThe initial meeting of the River Campus Board of Managers will be held Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to noon in Dempster Hall Room 102 on the Southeast Missouri State University campus.
The Cooperative Agreement for the St. Vincent Seminary Property between the City of Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri State University states that both the City Council and the Board of Regents shall each appoint three members to the River Campus Board of Managers. Two of the initial terms are for three years, two are for two years, and two are for one year. Subsequently, each member of the Board of Managers will be appointed for a three-year term.
City representatives on the Board are Ruth Knote, Dennis Vollink, and Jerry Ford. University representatives are Pauline Fox, Vice President for Administration and Enrollment Management; Thomas Swayne Bird, architect from Charleston; and Jerrianne Wyman, Southeast alumna and member of the Old Town Cape Committee.
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