Posing in ceremonial costume native to the Republic of Kazakhstan, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania President Dr. Frank G. Pogue (center) welcomes Amirlan A. Kussainov (right), president of Kazakh-American University, and Nurzhauar Issayeva, head of that school’s international department. Kussainov and Issayeva led a group of 16 students on a two-week tour of Edinboro and the greater Erie area to improve the students’ understanding of the English language and American society. Kussainov said that he was also discussing possibilities of formalizing an exchange agreement between Kazakh-American University and Edinboro, as well as with several other U.S. institutions. The costume Pogue donned, according to Kussainov, was once worn be Ablai Khan, the khan, or king, who ruled that region during the 15* century. EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Office of Public Relations and Publications Edinboro, PA 16444 (814) 732-2745 or 2929 Fax (814) 732-2621 August 4,1998 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE; BETH ANN SHICK APPOINTED AT EDINBORO Beth Ann Shick of West Middlesex, Pa., has been appointed coordinator for conununity development and residence hall coordinator at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her appointment she was an area coordinator for Robert Morris College. Shick is a graduate of Gannon University where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science. She holds a master’s degree in student personnel services from Slippery Rock University. -30BKPtcsw A member of the State System of Higher Education EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Office of Public Relations and Publications Edinboro, PA 16444 (814) 732-2745 or 2929 Fax (814) 732-2621 August 11, 1998 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE; SHEENA GLOVER APPOINTED COORDINATOR AT EDINBORO UNIVERSITY Sheena L. Glover has been named coordinator for University programming and Greek affairs at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her appointment, Glover was chairperson of the computerized technology department at Antonelli College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In her new position she will oversee student activities, advise fraternities and sororities, and provide a broad spectrum of student programs. Glover is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi where she earned a bachelor’s degree in business education technology, a master’s degree in higher education administration, and an Ed.S. degree in higher education administration with cognates in college student personnel and adult education. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities 1995, and received a best of show citation at the Mississippi Association of Housing Officers in 1997. Glover is actively involved with Delta Sigma Theta sorority. -30BKP:csw A member of the State System ofHi^er Education August 18, 1998 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EDINBORO PROFESSOR MAKES PRESENTATION IN GERMANY Marty Mitchell, a professor in the biology and health sciences department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, made a presentation at the Xnith Ecdysone Workshop in Jena, Germany. His address was “Ecdysone 20-Monooxygenase activity during embryonic and postembryonic development of the tobacco homworm, Manduca sexta.” The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology. -30BKP:csw August 18,1998 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ART EXHIBIT MARKS PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL MILESTONE The recent art exhibition of ceramic work by Megan Dull, S.N.D. at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania’s Bruce Gallery was not only a milestone in her career as an artist and educator, it also was a visual manifestation of her journey as a person. The exhibition, which ran August 4-15, was the culmination of three years of work by Dull for her master’s of fine arts degree. It was also an insight into her explorations of dreams and spirituality, and how she transforms those ideas into works of art. “Art for me is a vehicle for making concrete unseen realities - aspects of what it means to be human that cannot be contained with words,” explained Dull. Her dedication to the spiritual began when she joined the Sisters of Notre Dame after graduating from high school in the Cleveland area. She allowed her artistic skills to flourish by earning a B.A. degree in art education from Notre Dame College of Ohio in 1971 and later a master’s degree from Case Western Reserve University. During her career she has served as an artist/ designer/illustrator for a religious pubhcation for three years. She taught at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, for six years, and was the art department chair during her five years at Regina High School in South Euclid, Ohio. In 1985 Dull became an adjunct faculty member at Notre Dame College. -more- ART EXfflBIT MARKS MILESTONE, Continued Page 2 In 30 years of living within a religious community of Catholic women. Dull said her way of life has undergone a constant evolution. She has been inspired not only by traditional Catholic teachings, but also by Native American spirituality and, most significantly, Carl Jung’s insights into depth psychology, archetypes, the shadow and the unconscious, and the power of dreams to connect with the divine. Her most recent works were largely inspired by a dream Dull had a little over a year ago. “I dreamed I was holding an enormous, heavy fish in my hands,” said Dull. “The fish represented my own creativity. It told me that hands have an intelligence. It affirmed the trusting of that inner gift.” The idea of hands having their own innate sense is important to Dull’s work. She works with clay, a medium with roots in the deepest psyche of mankind. “Clay is a material potent with human experience from the earliest times. I am enlivened by the clay. I value the tactile interaction, its very physicality. Without question, this material evokes for me levels of meaning that are far deeper than mere surface pattern or sensitive form.” Dull said she has long been responsive to art created very early on in human history. One of her pieces uses figures that greatly resemble the Venus of Willendorf figurine created thousands of years ago in Europe. The female figure can be found in almost all of Dull’s works. “There is very little allusion to the masculine,” explained Dull. “I use the feminine figure because it is the experience of my own person.” She prefers to use the term feminine rather than female because female implies a single gender, whereas feminine is a quality of being that works with masculine. Also prevalent in her works is the image of water. She sees it as representing the unconscious and the fountain - the wellspring of life and all creativity. It is an image that expresses her own experiences of bringing her inner feelings to life. “When I began to do work here at Edinboro I struggled enormously because I could not make literal the ideas I was thinking about. What happened over the course of time was I began to make work that would speak of a far deeper reality than my mind would have predetermined,” she said. “Little by little I began to trust that.” -30BKP:csw 9I am my own Persephone se