September 23,2005 | The Clarion
NEWS
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New Faculty
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Tropical Botanical Garden on the Hawai
ian island of Kauai, worked for the next
four years as a research ecologist for the
U.S. Forest Service on the Island of Hawaii,
then another four years as an assistant pro
fessor at the State University of New York
at Plattsburgh before coming to Brevard.
He graduated from Marlboro College in
Vermont, and then did his PhD in biology
at the University of New Mexico in Albu
querque.
Susan Nicholson is working in the
Music department, specializing in music
education and band. She grew up in Char
lotte, North Carolina. Nicholson’s favorite
thing about Brevard so far is the “friendly,
enthusiastic faculty and student body.”
Nicholson comes to Brevard from
Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode
Island, where she was an assistant profes
sor of music. She was also an adjunct fac
ulty member for one year at Winthrop Uni
versity in Rock Hill, South
Carolina. Nicholson received a bachelor’s
degree in music education and a master’s
in music education with an emphasis in in
strumental conducting from Winthrop Uni
versity. Her doctorate is in Multiple Wood
wind Performance from the University of
Miami.
Ronald Kiviniemi is working in the el
ementary education department. He was
bom in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but grew
up as the oldest of six children in the small
farming community of Scottsburg, Indiana.
He is married to Ann Harris Kiviniemi, who
recently retired after 33 year of teaching
kindergarten and first grade. Their son,
Marc, is an associate professor of Social
Psychology at the University of Nebraska.
Kiviniemi’s favorite thing about
Brevard is the people. He believes “it is
such a caring community”. He recently was
the principal of Pisgah Forest Elementary
School.
With 36 years of teaching and admin
istrative experience in the public schools
Kiviniemi has been able to work and travel
to variety of places: the Navaho Indian
Reservation in Arizona, Randolph County
WV, Roanoke County VA, and
Transylvania County NC. He has taught
second through seventh grades and has
been an observer/evaluator of teachers,
assistant principal and principal. This is
his first college teaching experience.
Kiviniemi received a BA in Elementary
Education from Berea College, an M.A. in
Middle Grade Education from Western
Carolina University, and an additional 18
beyond a Masters in Administration and
Supervision, also at Western Carolina.
Kathryn Gresham is teaching voice
and vocal diction in the music department.
She will also be the vocal coach for
Sondheim’s musical, Into the Woods, this
spring. Bom and raised in Denver, Colo
rado, Gresham is more than thrilled to work
and live in a mountain setting. Gresham has
no kids but she mentioned her “wonderful
parents, two older sisters, and seven neph
ews.” She is recently married, and her hus
band is working on his doctorate at the Uni
versity of Georgia.
Gresham has “found the atmosphere at
Brevard to be very stimulating: the students
are motivated, kind, and genuinely interested
in music, and my fellow faculty members arc
the same way.” She received her degrees from
Stanford University, Boston University and
the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her
undergraduate degree was a self-designed
major in Children and the Arts, and her other
two degrees are in voice. She comes to
Brevard after being a teaching assistant at
the University of Colorado during her doc
torate, and she has taught at a couple of
private high schools and community col
leges. This is her first tenure-track position.
In the theatre department, we have Fred
Young to welcome. And in the art depart
ment, Drew Van Lusk is teaching 3-D.
Paranormal
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said, it is of high importance to us to have
all the historical facts correct before we
even consider visiting a location...that in
cludes all sites on or off campus. We do
our very best to be skeptical about abso-
utely every opinion, comment, or sugges
tion of a supposedly haunted location; it
Would not be objective research other
wise. Anyone who intends to, as the ex
ecutive board said, make the society a more
entertaining” experience or scare others,
wi have their membership reviewed by the
club’s executive council.
No students or professors have
contacted the BCPRS with any reports of
paranormal activity lately “except for the
regular concerns about Ross Hall.” Yet the
people of BCPRS say they “enjoy the re
search” and would like to show BC that
“the realm of paranormal research is far more
than Hallo ween... and ghost stories.”
BCPRS has received official fund
ing from SGA, after turning in paperwork
and a constitution and getting approval
from the SGA senate, all of which, repre
sentative Christopher Dimond said, are
things all new clubs are required to do.
Also, Dimond said, to stay up and run
ning, BCPRS “is required to do one open
campus event and one service project each
semester. They are also required to assist
Campus Activities Board (CAB) with one
of CAB’S events.” Again, not just BCPRS,
but any club seeking SGA approval, is re
quired to do this. All clubs are also required
to submit a budget to SGA so the specific
amount of fiinding can be determined.
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