Local Limelight: Movers & Shakers
Community leaders, legislators, business organizations, and Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) employees and students joined together on Saturday, Oct. 28, to celebrate 45 years of academic and community achievement at the A Toast to AACC: A Taste of AACC fund-raising event. More than 200 people attended the event sponsored by the AACC Foundation, Inc., on the Arnold campus. The semiformal affair also featured a VIP reception. The celebration raised funds to benefit academic programs and student scholarships. It included performances by the AACC Dance Company and the AACC Moonlight Troupers Drama Club. Throughout the evening, guests strolled through themed cafes highlighting the college’s programs and initiatives.
Chip Bullen, a member of the AACC Foundation, Inc., board, and his wife, Jeannie, of Annapolis, enjoy the festivities. |
From left, Salvadore and Suzanne Vitale of Virginia Beach, Virginia, visit Gina Serio of Halethorpe, assistant, School of Business, Computing and Technical Studies, who helped staff the Café Business. |
From left, Sue Lindsay of Annapolis, a member of the AACC Foundation, Inc., board, revels in the evening’s entertainment with AACC President Martha A. Smith, PhD, and Stacey S. Heckel of Severna Park, executive director of the AACC Foundation, Inc., and the college’s director of development. |
From left, Rose Colucciello of Arnold, one of the original twelve faculty members at AACC; Richard Faircloth, PhD, of Alexandria, Virginia; and AACC professor of biology and 1976 AACC alumna Dr. Maria Colucciello, also of Arnold, reunite during the 45th anniversary celebration. Faircloth was Maria Colucciello’s adviser when she was a student at AACC. |
On Wednesday, October 25, the Wiley H. Bates Middle School Board of Visitors hosted an open house. The open house was the first step taken to increase community involvement and to spread a positive message about the school. Fifty invited guests—parents, community leaders, elected officials, and business people—joined students and faculty for conversation and a tour of the school. Guests were asked for their commitment to participate in an ongoing discussion throughout the 2006–07 school year. Discussions will focus on how our community might support goals for student success. The event brought out the best in our great city of Annapolis.
Lilly Openshaw; Linell Bowen, director of Maryland Hall; and Mayor Ellen O. Moyer. |
Student Tiffany Stocks; the Honorable Barbara Samorajczyk; student Orlando Johnson; art teacher Catherine Caple; student Sawdatou Drame. |
The Honorable Barbara Samorajczyk; Anne Arundel Board of Education member Eugene Peterson; AVID teacher Kristen Kyser; Jeff Macris, volunteer parent, Annapolis Public Schools |
Parent volunteers Lashon Trusty and Tiqua Simms. |
Anne Arundel County Board of Education member Enrique Melendez; Eric Sullivan, chairperson, Countywide Citizens Advisory Committee (C-W CAC); Susannah Sullivan; Carlesa Finney, director of equity assurance and human relations, Anne Arundel County Public Schools. |
Dr. Michael Parker, local historian and author; Pastor Sheryl Menendez, founder, Restoration Temple; principal Diane Bragdon, Wiley H. Bates Middle School; the Honorable Michael Busch; the Honorable John Astle. |
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The United States Naval Academy Men’s Glee Club presented a special homecoming concert on October 13 in Alumni Hall that included a special tribute honoring retiring music director Dr. John Barry Talley for 35 years of dedicated service to the Naval Academy and Brigade of Midshipmen. Talley joined the Naval Academy staff in 1971. During the past 35 years he has conducted more than 4000 performances by Naval Academy musical organizations, including more than 100 nationally broadcast television appearances. Talley’s contributions to the Naval Academy include the establishment of the Women’s Glee Club, the Gospel Choir, the Chapel Chorale, the Distinguished Artists Series, the annual Spring Oratorio, and the Messiah telecasts and the direction of the Winter Musical.
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The Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Conference and Visitors Bureau (AAACCVB) held a victory celebration for newly elected state and county officials at its 26 West Street Visitors Center on November 21. The reception was designed to congratulate the officials on their November 7 electoral victory, to introduce them to the AAACCVB membership, and to unite elected officials already in office. Among the individuals attending the 5 p.m. event were (from left to right) AAACCVB board members Debbie Gosselin and Willie Flowers, AAACCVB president and CEO Connie Del Signore, Maryland State Senator John Astle (32nd District), Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, Sheriff Ronald Bateman, and Maryland State Delegate Pamela Beidle (32nd District).
Maryland Therapeutic Riding (MTR), a nonprofit located in Crownsville, recently held its 6th Annual Musical Tribute to John Denver at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts on October 27–28. Produced by Music Unites the Soul of Everyone (MUSE), the annual concert has been a creation of Kenn Roberts, who is also a member of the Hard Travelers band. The gala weekend included a Spurs and Sparkles dinner and auction at the Riding Center. Highlights of the VIP reception before the concert were a champagne raffle for a diamond necklace donated by WR Chance Diamond Jewelers and tastings by the Great Chefs of Maryland. Aided by silent and live auctions headed by Ginna Quinn and Sherry Krum, who are both volunteers for MTR, MTR raised more than $205,000 throughout the concert event.
(Left to right) Kate Worsham, director of riding at Oldfields; Wally Pinkard, concert honorary cochair; Stefanie King of Oldfields; and Mary-Ann Pinkard, concert honorary cochair.
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(Left to right) Sherry Krum, auction co-chair, Annapolis, and Ginna Quinn, auction chair, Annapolis.
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Kenn Roberts performing with the Hard Travelers.
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Calvin and Connie Gray, of Centreville, Maryland, won the diamond necklace. |
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