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THE NEWSLETTER is the Faculty/Staff newsletter of Stetson University, DeLand, Florida 32720, and is published each Friday. All items
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OCTOBER 4, 1991
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Friday, October 4
Wednesday, October 9
Friday, October 11
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Open House—Career Services
Chapel—Dr. Clyde Fant
Summer Grant Workshop—PDR
Collegial Seminar—PDR
10:00 a.m.
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Noon
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CAREER SERVICES—Open House, Friday, October 4, to see the new facilities, meet the new
staff, and discover the resources which are available to students and faculty. Join us
from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. From: Dawn Rodak, Director, Career Services
FACULTY/STAFF BIBLE GROUP: You are invited to attend an informal Bible discussion on
Tuesdays from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Coffeehouse, Carlton Union Building. Bring your
lunch, a Bible, and an interest in the Christian faith. One objective of the group is
to consider contemporary issues from the perspective of the Scriptures.
From: Sims Kline
October's Collegial Seminar sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences will be at noon
on Friday, October 11, in the Private Dining Room. The presenter will be Dr. Roberta
Favis, Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Art. The presentation is the
second in the loosely related fall series of seminars touching upon academic approaches
to multiculturalism and gender studies.
ABSTRACT: "Worthington Whittredge's Sewing Time: The Patchwork of the Union Restored."
This paper proposes that a painting by Worthington Whittredge executed in 1865 was
intended by the artists as a celebration of the end of the Civil War and specifically
of the Emancipation Proclamation. It examines the convergence of a number of streams
of imagery in a picture of an African-American woman who is shown sewing at a window,
engaged in piecing a patchwork quilt. The figure at the window fits into a common
Romantic topos of images of hope and aspiration. The sewing woman exemplifies a
traditional mode of expressing (and controlling) the role of women as embodiments of
domestic virtues. The choice of such a "tamed" and domesticated type for portraying
the new status of Blacks also seeks to contain and counteract any threatening qualities
associated with the race. Finally, the patchwork quilt provides an emphatically
American and even African-American note in a genre otherwise derived from European
traditions.
From: Paul Steeves, Coordinator, Collegial Seminars
CORRECTION—SUPPORT STAFF MEETING. The first meeting of the fall semester is Tuesday,
October 8, at noon in rooms 204/205, Carlton Union Building. Dr. Ann Morris, who is the
Assistant to the Provost for Women's Concerns, will be joining us. She will speak to us
on this topic and is most interested in hearing about your suggestions and concerns.
Everyone is encouraged to attend—bring up a lunch. From: Nancy Wilton, Coordinator
