THE NEWSLETTER
THE NEWSLETTER is the Faculty/Staff newsletter of Stetson University, DeLand, Florida 32720, and is published each Friday. All items
for THE NEWSLETTER should be sent to Maggie Dobson, Office of the Provost, Box 8358, not later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday of each week.
Friday, April 9
Wednesday, April 11
Tuesday-Thursday, April 13-15
APRIL 9, 1993
IMPORTANT EVENTS
12:30 - 12:50 p.m.
10:00 a.m.
Good Friday--Chapel-EHA
David McDaniels--see below
Registration for Summer Session and
Fall Semester
ANNOUNCEMENTS
On Good Friday, April 9, there will be special service held in Elizabeth Hall Chapel at 12:30 - 12:50 p.m. All are
invited to come and participate in worship. On Wednesday, April 14, David McDaniels, Director of Campus
Chapters of Habitat International will be the guest speaker. From: Tessa Immich
On Monday, April 12, the Political Science Department will be hosting a Political Science Forum in rooms
204/205 of the Carlton Union Building. The time will be from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., and guests are encouraged
to bring their own lunch. The guest speaker will be Richard C. Bernhardt, the Director of Planning and
Development Department, of the City or Orlando. All faculty members and students are welcome to attend.
From: Anne Hallum
The Faculty Senate will meet Monday, April 12, 1993. Dinner will be at 6:00 p.m. in the Private Dining Room
of the Carlton Union Building. The meeting will follow at 6:45 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge. Dinner and the
meeting are open to all faculty. Anyone wishing to make a reservation for the dinner should call Jane Bradford,
ext. 7175 or 7190 before noon on Monday (cost $4.50)
The agenda for the April 12 meeting includes a Senate committee report from the Educational Policies Committee
on Oral Communications, discussion of a request from Students Transcending Homophobia, and consideration
of the timetable for decisions/meetings regarding the implementation of the two-semester calendar.
From: Jane Bradford, Secretary, Faculty Senate
Sign up for the April 15 Collegial Seminar of the College of Arts and Sciences, with Bethune-Cookman faculty,
by calling the department of history, extension 7535, and sending a check for $4 to Box 8344 before April 15.
The dinner begins at 6:00 p.m. followed by a presentation by Dr. Ann Jerome Croce, Assistant Professor of
American Studies. A summary of the presentation follows and an abstract will be made available to all who sign
up. The joint seminars are intended to promote communication between the two schools.
ABSTRACT:
"Your Home's Velvet Robe": Gardening Manuals and the
Construction of Gender and Class in Nineteenth-century America
The gardening manuals which proliferated in middle-class American homes from the 1840s through the 1870s
delineated "right" relations, both physical and ideological, between the family and its outdoor living space. The
manual writers characterized nature as female and intended the domestic garden to function for the family as
a spiritual and aesthetic guide much like the mother in the sentimental ideal. However, in their rhetoric and in
their designs themselves, they depicted the privileged qualities and physical spaces which the nineteenth century
associated with men and denigrated some of those which were associated with women. As with the issue of
class, the authors worked out nineteenth-century questions about gender roles through the gardens they planned.
From: Paul Steeves, Coordinator, Collegial Seminars
