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Volume XVni, Issue 14^
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Dittmann to leave Meredith
Ifs official: The VP of Institutional Advancement leave Meredith after only a year.
D Now Meredith
faces a future without
the VP of Institutional
Advancement.
What will that mean
for the College?
JoNi Smith And
Christina Holder
Managing Editor, Editor In CNsf
The oificia] announcement
that the vice president of Insti
tutional Advancement is leav
ing the College was confirmed
by the Office of Marketing and
Communications which
released the statement yester
day afternoon.
Jane Dittmann, who beame
the vice president less than a
year ago in February 2001.
plans to move to London, Eng
land after her marriage this
summer.
During her time at Meredith.
Dittmann served on the Senior
Management Team, a body
composed of the vice presi
dents of the six main offices on
campus and the President of
the College.
Dittmann's main responsi-
bilites include working with
alumnae, parents, foundations
and corporations—focusing
much of her efforts on new
fundraising initiatives for the
College in light of the tuition
increase.
Now with the tuition
. increase in gear and . students
and parents worried about the
availability of scholarships.
Dittmann’s departure may
seem a inopportune to some.
Rosalind Reichard, vice
president of Academic Affairs
said while she and other mem
bers of the Senior Management
Team will miss Dittmann,
Dittmann has “put together an
at,” said Reichard. “is building
a team."
Reichard and other members
of Senior Management will be
meeting in the following weeks
and months to discuss prospec
tive candidates for Dittmann’s
vacancy.
One thing she is so good aty
said Reichardy
^Hs building a team.^*
excellent team” to cany out the Before arriving on Mered-
fundraising initiatives she ith’s campus last year,
began at the College. Dittmann held the position of
“One thing she is so good associate dean for advanrf*-
ment at the Trinity College of
Arts and Sciences at Duke Uni
versity-
Preceding her career at
Duke, she worked both with
public and nonprofit organiza
tions.
Dittmann received her bach
elor’s degree from Salem Col
lege in 1978 and her J.D. from
the Wake Forest School of Law
in 1981.
At deadline, Dittmann was
unavailable for comment.
Meredith’s quilt sends message of hope to
students in New York City college
Students and faculty sew a quilt and deliver it to Marymount Manhattan College
□ Meredith
representatives
travel to NYC to
present the quilt
over Christmas
break.
Tanesha Williams
staff Reporter
One man felt the need to
leave his job in California to
maneuver a crane through the
steel and rubble where the
Twin Towers once stood. One
woman felt the need to work all
day at her salaried job and then
volunteer her nights at the hos
pital. One group of third
graders felt the need to mobi
lize an entire elementary
school to collect school sup
plies for suffering Afghan chil
dren.
All are typical scenarios of
Americans in the weeks fol
lowing Sept. II, 2001, an
event that bound citizens
together in an overwhelming
display of servitude for those
coping with the grief.
Meredith College students
and faculty felt the need as
well, constructing a quilt for
the students at Marymount
Manhattan College, a liberal
arts school whose student pop
ulation suffered great losses as
a result of the attacks, shortly
after Sept. II. The quilt was
finished shortly before Christ
mas break and presented to the
college while students were or
Christmas break by members
of the Business and Fashiof
department.
'^Mary OtfiCTi«e Revelj^. a
junior lifelped start the pro
ject said that the idea came
after she attended a post-attack
Crosspoint meeting, a weekly
gathering of students spon
sored by the Meredith Christ
ian Association (MCA). She
and other students talked to
Lynn Wheatly, director of Vol
unteer Services, about making
a quill—and suddenly the quilt
was in motion to be sewn.
A handful of people gathered
together and worked on the
quilt diligently for two and a
half months.
"iS5«*wxr in
sHeves
th^ffil ei^penertc/ was chal
lenging because of limited
hands, yet rewarding.
“It was difficult because we
didn't have a huge number of
people. But it was fun and not
particularly hard!” recalls
Wray.
While the entire campus was
invited to get involved with the
quill, Revelle still feels that it
would have been easier with
more hands.
“We wished that we had
more help. We tried to get a lot
of people involved with the
design," says Revelle.
According to Wray, several
people did come up with differ-
lent designs for different
squares. Others involved in the
making of the quilt include
those in Environmental Sci
ences. especially Diane Ellis.
Wheatly ^lieves that the Envi
ronmental Science department
was critical in the construction
of the quilt.
"We could not have done it
without the help of the people
in Environmental Sciences,”
as Revelle says, “teaching us
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ON REFORM;
ON DECISIONS:
Gen ed reform might be
Senior transistion page 2
winding down
GRE page 5
page 4
Joni Smith page 7