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The last service learning project in Small Group
Communication (COMM 2220) occurred today. Lahoma Williams, Heather
Griffin, Cinque Ajose, and Dreu Smith raised nearly $300 for gift basket
items for cancer patients at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. The baskets
were delivered last month.
These students independently worked with Phoebe’s
Volunteer Services Department and interviewed cancer patients to determine
their needs, such as socks, hard candies, crossword puzzles, lotions, etc.
Then, they selected, organized, and executed all fundraising efforts. If
you see them, please offer these students a hearty “congratulations” for
their selfless work.
This year’s Small Group Communication course efforts
were once again rich in charitable outcome, but most importantly, students
learned first-hand about teamwork, healthy communication, conflict, and,
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Dr. Shingleton Retires
By Margaret Moss
With fondness and thanks, Darton bids adieu to one of its most esteemed
professors, Dr. Royce Shingleton, who will retire in December 2002.
As a Professor of History at Darton for over 25 years,
Dr. Shingleton has taught an estimated 10,000 students on this campus.
Joining him in retirement is his wife, Ruth, Assistant Professor and
Program Director of Health Information Technology at Darton since 1994.
A native of North Carolina, Dr. Shingleton holds a
Ph.D. in history from Florida State University. He titled his dissertation
Rural Life in the Old South: The British Travelers’ Image, 1820-1860.
Dr. Shingleton’s first book, John Taylor Wood: Sea Ghost of the
Confederacy was reprinted for a National Historical Society Book Club
selection. He received an Atlanta Foundation grant for his second book,
Richard Peters: Champion of the New South. His third book, High
Seas Confederate: The Life and Times of John Newland Maffitt, won the
Clarendon Award. Included in his publications are some fifty articles and
book reviews in journals, newspapers, and reference books.
The subject of a biographical essay in the Naval War
College Review, Dr. Shingleton is lauded as one of the nation’s best
historians on Civil War naval developments. In the Review there was
praise for the “deceptively easy prose, flowing narrative and...linkage
between resources, decisions, and events” in Dr. Shingleton’s writings.
Among the numerous awards Dr. Shingleton has received
are the Southeastern Writers Association Award for best non-fiction.
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