He was elected by the Board of Directors during the group's annual meeting in July in Williamsburg. Dr. Patrick Barber, Professor of Chemistry , spent a week in June at a National Science Foundation program on chemistry and art at Millersville State University in Pennsylvania. He worked for two months this summer in the Preformulations group at the Pharmaceutical Research and Development Laboratory of Whitehall-Robins in Richmond, where he met five Longwood alumni working there. The Blessing as a Rite of Passage in Adolescence, based on an empirical study of parent-adolescent relationships, in Adolescence , and Undergraduate Student Perceptions of the Impact of Faculty Activities on Education , in Teaching of Psychology . The class met with professors and graduate, undergraduate and secondary school students in Paris, Lucerne, Zurich, Genoa and Rome.
Plans are for next summer's class to study in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
This past year Dr. Cormier published several reviews in Choice magazine of new websites related to Classical and Medieval studies. They have been collected into a sub-section of the annual Choice Supplement, which gathers hundreds of such reviews in all areas of learning and is aimed at reference librarians. This exhibition of juried artwork will be on display at the Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives in Washington, D.C., from Sept. 17 through Jan. 7, 2000. It includes contributions by Dr. Martha Cook , Professor of English, and Dr. Gordon Van Ness , Associate Professor of English . The first book-length study of Hoffman, who lives at Charlotte Courthouse and has published novels and stories for almost 50 years, it will be published in the spring.