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GREENSBORO, NC
Quaker Artist Melanie Wiedner returns to Guilford
Alison Duncan
Staff Writer
"Enter Fire." "God loves you
and wants to talk to you."
These were Quaker artist
Melanie Wiedner's messages
in her visit to campus Feb. 6 -
12.
Wiedner spoke at a range of
events including the weekly
College Meeting for Worship
at 1 p.m. Feb. 8 in the Moon
Room, and a workshop on
understanding fear at 3:30
p.m. Feb. 8 in the Gallery of
Founders Hall.
She attended several class
es, including Hege Professor
of Art Adele Wayman's
Sacred Images and Altars
and Assistant Professor of
Financial officers step down
Mary Layton Atkinson
Editor-in-Chief
With the budget committee's
work on the 2004-2005 budg
et complete and the docu
ment on its way to review by
the Board of Trustees this
weekend, two key committee
members are stepping down
from their positions at the col
lege.
Phil Manz will step down
from his position as the col
lege's vice president and chief
financial officer, effective
March 1.
"Guilford thanks Phil Manz
for his efforts the past several
years," President Kent
Chabotar said in a press
release early this month.
"Along with other administra
tors, he has helped the col
lege make good progress
toward its financial goals.
We've turned the corner and
are well on our way to being
financially viable for the
future."
Manz, who was appointed
vice president and CFO at the
college in 2000, will remain
part-time chief investment
adviser to the college, accord
Sociology and
Anthropology
Kathryn Schmidt's
Gender Violence
class Feb. 10. She
also gave a talk on
discernment as a
process at 7 p.m.
Feb. 11 in the Gallery.
Wiedner also gave
a workshop for non
students on under
standing fear all day
Feb. 8, and had hour
long counseling ses
sions with individuals
throughout her visit.
Throughout all of her pre
sentations, she encouraged
people to "Sit with fear and
really listen to it (asking) is
ing to Chabotar. He has also
accepted a position as the
CFO of the Community
Foundation of Greater
Greensboro, "a charitable
organization dedicated to
strengthening the community
for present and future genera
tions," according to the orga
nization's Web site.
Jim Vroom, Guilford's asso
ciate chief financial officer, is
also leaving the college;
Chabotar announced Vroom's
resignation on Feb 4. Vroom
led the college's financial
reporting and annual audit
process, and had oversight
for the Offices of Accounting,
Student Accounts and
Purchasing.
Chabotar appointed Jerry
Boothby, who joined the col
lege's administrative staff as
director of institutional
research and assessment in
August, as acting vice presi
dent and chief financial officer
at the college Feb. 4. Boothby
has 30 years of administrative
experience in higher educa
tion, including 11 years with
Chabotar at Bowdoin College.
"(Boothby) is very qualified
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MAGGIE BAMBERG/GUILFORDIAN
Melanie Wiedner displays artwork
there something true in the
middle of it that we can learn
from."
In both of her workshops,
participants made collages of
for the position." Raymond
Johnson, budget committee
chairman, said. "We will cer
tainly not lose any expertise in
the finance area by having
Jerry fill the position. I have
nothing but high praise for
him in the finance area and
institutional research."
Boothby and Chabotar will
share administrative respon
sibilities for the bookstore,
dining services, and facilities
and human resources, which
were formerly under Manz's
supervision, on a temporary
basis. Chabotar has stated
that he may continue to
restructure leadership in the
finance area after further
assessment.
"I can say that I look forward
to working with Jerry Boothby
and am anxious to see what
financial restructuring, if any,
might take place," Jason
Terry, Community Senate
Treasurer and budget com
mittee member, said. "I
believe that the college is well
on the way to financial equilib
rium, which will put us in a far
greater position to improve
the college in the long term."
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what their "fear mon
ster" looked like, then
created images of
what the angel, as a
messenger through
fear, could be telling
them. For example,
fear of intimacy could
be an invitation to
take things slow and
protect one's heart.
"I am in the process
of discernment
myself," Wiedner
said. She is moving
from Pendle Hill, a
Quaker center for study and
contemplation, where she is
an artist in residence, but she
does not know where she is
going.
Tatum to speak on identity
Continued from Page 1 Chabotar and Tatum have
and faculty member at Mount
Holyoke College for 13 years.
Eventually, she became a
dean of that college.
Santes Beatty, Director of
African American
Affairs &
Multicultural
Service, says
Tatum is "eye
opening, revolu
tionary, and help
ful in every facet
of education."
Beatty and
Judy Harvey,
Director of
Multicultural
Education, use
Tatum's book in
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Dr. Beverly Tatum
their Anti-racism Seminar, and
Harvey says other faculty
members have used it in their
classes as well.
"I encourage everyone to
read her book," Harvey said.
"It is very readable, with lots
of quotes from students in her
own classes."
Harvey said the Steering
Committee of the Anti-racism
Team wanted Tatum to come
to the college.
College President Kent
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Sara Beth Terrell, the direc
tor of the Guilford Initiative on
Faith and Practice, invited
Wiedner to campus. "Besides
being a gifted artist, she is a
gifted spiritual director," Terrell
said.
"The thing that impressed
me about her was that she
was very articulate about her
spiritual practices and artistic
practices, both independently
and how they connect,"
Wayman said. "Students real
ly responded to her."
"I loved her," junior Laurel
Willoughby said. "I was most
impressed with her leading
Meeting for worship. There
was no part of her trying to put
on a show."
agreed to trade time at each
other's colleges. Chabotar will
meet with Spelman College's
administrators and trustees
and give a presentation on
r: u* L
finance in higher
education.
"I'm very happy
that Kent has
these skills to
trade and that the
exchanges are
bringing us such
outstanding
speakers," Harvey
said. "It's a real
gift to the college."
Beatty hopes
that Tatum's
speech will raise
consciousness and force peo
ple to "engage in deep
thought of how we classify
ourselves."
"Racism and the develop
ment of racial identity are so
complex," Harvey said.
"We're hoping that Dr. Tatum's
talk will give the Guilford com
munity another entry point
into thinking about how race
as a concept and racism as a
practice work in the U.S., in
Greensboro, and at Guilford."