Family/Homecoming Weekend Offers Full Schedule

SALISBURY, MD---The following is a list of events for Family/Homecoming Weekend Friday-Sunday, October 24-26. Admission is free unless otherwise noted. For more information call 410-543-6030.

Friday, October 24

8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. – Family/Homecoming Weekend specials at the University Bookstore

9 a.m.-5 p.m. – Book fair at Blackwell Library

10 a.m.-4 p.m. - Sixth anniversary Sea Gull Century artists exhibit, Fulton Hall Gallery

10 a.m.-9 p.m. – Family Weekend registration and information center, Information Desk, Guerrieri University Center

10-10:50 a.m. – Open classrooms: Fundamentals of Communication with David Shuhy (Fulton Hall 136), Music Appreciation with Dr. Richard Johnson (Fulton Hall 245), Movement and Performance with Dr. Robert Smith (Fulton Hall 203)

11-11:50 a.m. – Open classrooms: International Business Statistics with Sumathy Chandrashekar (Holloway Hall 118), Introduction to Computer Systems with Mary Beth Flagg (Henson Hall 109)

Noon-11:50 – Open classrooms: Elementary Russian with Dagmar Berry (Caruthers Hall 108), World Civilizations with Kevin Birch (Henson Hall 101)

Noon – Luncheon with faculty emeriti and retired staff, Wicomico Room, Guerrieri University Center, reservations required through special mailing

2 p.m. – Golf: shotgun start, four-person scramble. $20 for 18 holes and cart. Open to everyone, including beginners. Soft spikes or tennis shoes required. Prizes awarded for closest to the pin, longest drive, highest team score and best team score. Pre-registration required. Wood Creek Golf Links, 9080 Executive Club Drive, Delmar, MD

5-7:30 p.m. - Dinner at the Commons, $8.50 for adults over 12, $7.65 for seniors 60 and over, $4.95 for children 6-12, free for children under 6

6 p.m. – Athletics Hall of Fame reception and banquet, Wicomico Room, Guerrieri University Center. Inductees are Doug Mock (1991), Vicki Miller Titus (1992) and Mike Esham (1993). Pre-registration is required.

6-8 p.m. – Fitness and fun with campus recreation, Maggs Center

7-9 p.m. – Coffee house with musician and history professor Dr. Wayne Ackerson, Gull’s Nest, Guerrieri University Center; Learning Can Be Delicious! dinner and lecture series. Topics are “Ingredients for Student Success” with Carol Williamson (Founders Room, Guerrieri University Center), “Membrane Lipids: The Fats of Life” with Dr. E. Eugene Williams (Frederick Room, Commons), “Literacy or Letteracy?” with Dr. Nancy Michelson (Calvert Room, Commons), “Shoretrends” with Dr. Memo Diriker (Worcester Room, Commons) and “The Unknown Liberal: Nixon and Civil Rights Policy” with Dr. Dean Kotlowski (Montgomery Room, Commons). Cost is $23.75 per person. Pre-registration is required; Alumni Pep Band rehearsal with Dr. Charles E. Smith Jr., Fulton Hall 112

8 p.m. - Concert with rhythm and blues singer Jamie Wallop, Holloway Hall Auditorium. A reception follows at 9:30 p.m. in the Social Room; Finding Nemo, Caruthers Hall Auditorium; SU Theatre presents Moliere’s Tartuffe, Black Box Theatre, $12 general admission, $10 non-SU students and senior citizens. SU ID card holders admitted free.

Saturday, October 25

8 a.m.-5 p.m. – Registration and Information Center, Information Desk, Guerrieri University Center

8:30-11 a.m. – Academic Festival, campus side, Henson Hall

9 a.m. – Cross country reunion 5K run, Salisbury City Park, reservations required through special mailing; Free continental breakfast, Alumni House

9 a.m.-2 p.m. – Tours of the Alumni House and Miller Alumni Garden; art book fair, Concourse, Guerrieri University Center

9 a.m.-5 p.m. – Book fair at Blackwell Library

9-11 a.m. – Book signing of Salisbury: From Normal School to University by author Sylvia Bradley, Alumni House

9:30 a.m. – SU Alumni Association Meeting, Alumni House

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Family/Homecoming Weekend specials at the University Bookstore

10-11 a.m. – New Student Seminar Outdoor Program slide shows, Guerrieri University Center: Arcadia Cycling (Wicomico Room), West Virginia Whitewater Adventure and Nantahala Creative Leadership (Nanticoke Room A), Algonquin Canoe (Wicomico Room)

10 a.m. – WSSC-WSUR 30th anniversary reunion, Pocomoke Room, Guerrieri University Center

10-11:30 a.m. – Continental breakfast for political science alumni and faculty, Fulton Hall 259

10 a.m.-noon - Open house for geography and geosciences alumni and faculty, Henson Hall 156

10:30 a.m. – Campus Tour, leaves from Alumni House

10:30 a.m. – Library assistants reunion, Blackwell Library, reservations required through special mailing

11 a.m.-4 p.m. – Block party at Wayne Street and the Intramural Fields

11 a.m.-1 p.m. – Tent reunion for classes of 1981-1985, Intramural Fields, reservations required through special mailing

11 a.m. - Brunch with President Janet Dudley-Eshbach, Gull’s Nest, Guerrieri University Center, $19.95 for adults, $9.95 for children 6-11

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Open house at Admissions House

11:30 a.m. – Homecoming/Family parade. Begins at St. Martin’s Hall and continues through campus toward Sea Gull Stadium; Class of 1953 reunion luncheon, Worcester Room, Commons, pre-registration required; Pick-up games at the Intramural Fields; Family Weekend Hospitality Tent open, Sea Gull Stadium; Sixth anniversary Sea Gull Century artists exhibit, Fulton Hall Gallery

Noon-6 p.m. – Fitness and fun with campus recreation, Maggs Center

1 p.m. – Football: SU vs. Newport News, Sea Gull Stadium; Women’s Soccer: SU vs. Eastern College, Soccer Field

3 p.m. – Finding Nemo, Caruthers Hall Auditorium

4 p.m. – Black alumni reception, Gull’s Nest, Guerrieri University Center

4:30 p.m. – Class of 1963 social hour and dinner buffet, Worcester Room, Commons, reservations required through special mailing

5 p.m. – Lambda Society Rainbow Reunion – Bellavance Honors Center, pre-registration required; cross country reunion, 300 Whitman Dr.

5-7:30 p.m. – Recipes From Home dinner, Rotunda and Bistro, Commons, $8.50 for adults 12 and over, $7.65 for seniors 65 and over, $4.95 for children 6-12, free for children under 6

5:30 p.m. – Graduates of the Last Decade alumni reunion, Brew River, reservations required through special mailing

6 p.m. – Classes of 1973 and 1978 social hour and light fare, Bay Star Cruise, reservations required through special mailing

8 p.m. – Finding Nemo, Caruthers Hall Auditorium; SU Theatre presents Moliere’s Tartuffe, Black Box Theatre, $12 general admission, $10 non-SU students and senior citizens. SU ID card holders admitted free.

“Tune In” musical comedy game show, Holloway Hall Auditorium, $1 per person

Sunday, October 26

10 a.m.-2 p.m. - Family/Homecoming Weekend specials at the University Bookstore

11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. - Brunch in the Commons, $6.95 for adults, $3.55 for children 6-11

Noon-2 p.m. – Phi Eta Sigma freshman honor society induction ceremony and luncheon, Commons, Bistro, by invitation only

Noon-4 p.m. – Sixth anniversary Sea Gull Century artists exhibit, Fulton Hall Gallery

2 p.m. – Lambda Eta Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau international nursing honor society induction ceremony, Worcester Room, Commons; SU Theatre presents Moliere’s Tartuffe, Black Box Theatre, $12 general admission, $10 non-SU students and senior citizens. SU ID card holders admitted free.

8 and 10 p.m. – Finding Nemo, Caruthers Hall Auditorium

For more information call 410-543-6030 or visit the SU Web site at www.salisbury.edu.