ARTHUR BELLINZONI, as a result of his service on the Board of Directors of People for the American, Way, has been invited to join the national Board of Directors of GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). Based in New York, GLAAD works to advance an agenda of full equality for gays and lesbians.

BRUCE BENNETT’s essay, "Not Philosophers or Angels: An Appreciation of Gail White," was published in the Winter 1999 issue of Light. A feature article about Professor Bennett and Navigating The Distances, entitled "Better Verse," written by Bridget Meeds, appeared in the January 19, 2000, issue of the Ithaca Times. On January 22, he gave a reading for the Ithaca Community Poets at Tompkins County Museum. Professor Bennett’s book, Navigating The Distances, has gone into a second printing.

After many years in the pipeline, an essay CATHERINE BURROUGHS wrote in the early `90s on Keats’s poem Lamia and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Beautiful and Damned will be published this spring by the University of Georgia Press, in an edited volume called F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Perspectives.

SUSAN FORBES directed a summer camp for girls for the Wells College Conferences. The weeklong intensive performing arts camp offered courses in private voice and instrumental, tap jazz and modern dance, and in acting, improvisation and technical theatre. Thirty girls studied, rehearsed and prepared a 50-minute performance of selections from the musical Annie. Nancy Gilbertson also served as a private instructor. The camp will run again this summer (July 9-15); discounts for Wells community and potential scholarship and aid are available.

Professor Forbes produced and directed a black box production of absurdist drama entitled "Acts of Menace." This production brought two artists-in-residence to the Wells campus. The evening consisted of Harold Pinter’s "The Dumb Waiter," Joan Schenkar’s "The Lodger," and Jean-Paul Sartre’s "No Exit." Professor Forbes arranged for playwright Joan Schenkar to be in residence to see the production, to participate in an audience talkback about the work, and to offer a writing workshop. Schenkar is an Obie nominated playwright whose work is seen globally. In addition, the "No Exit" cast was completed with guest actor Jonathan Robinson, an accomplished professional actor who recently relocated to Syracuse. The production was attended by approximately 400 people over five performances.

Professor Forbes has been working toward completing a multi-media certificate course at the United Digital Artists center and agency in New York and Boston. She will soon be a certified multi-media artist with an emphasis on interactive design.

NANCY GILBERTSON gave a recital of piano music from Greece, Italy, Egypt, Israel, and Spain at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center on October 3, 1999. She has recorded and produced this same music on her first CD titled Mediterranean Magic, which she is releasing this month. It will be available in the Wells Book Store. The CD includes a first recording of the work entitled "Mektà in the Art of Kità by Egyptian composer, Halim El-Dabh. On February 3 she performed selections from the CD at the Civic Morning Musical luncheon recital at the Everson Museum in Syracuse.

SPENCER HILDAHL’s review of O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions: News Rituals in the Construction of Reality by Darnell Hunt (Cambridge, 1999) appeared in the November 1999 issue of CHOICE. His review of Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism by James B. Twitchell (Columbia, 1999) also appeared in that issue.

MILENE MORFEI presented a paper entitled, "Agentic and Communal Generativity Themes in the Possible Selves of Midlife Parents" in Nashville on February 4. The occasion was the first annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

SUSAN SANDMAN participated in a concert of English music for viola da gamba consort entitled "Frogwork" at the Iva Smith Gallery in Hammond, New York, on August 6, 1999. She also performed in the concert "Music of Shakespeare’s Time" on May 1 and July 23 at Wells College and, with Elizabethan Conversation and Friends, participated in a program of Baroque music by Bach and Marais" on October 1 at Wells. With the Schola Cantorum viol consort, Professor Sandman performed a concert of Ockeghem at the Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church in Syracuse on October 17. Her recording, "The Medieval Lady," has received favorable reviews in The American Record Guide, The Journal of Singing (published by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Pan Pipes and The Sunday Gazette (Schenectady, New York) and Muze (provides reviews for online merchants).

The Wells Concert Choir, directed by CRAWFORD THOBURN, was one of nine Central New York choral ensembles selected to perform in WCNY TV’s special telecast entitled "Holiday Harmonies." The program was broadcast three times during the holiday season and is now available on commercial videocassette from WCNY in Syracuse. The Wells Choir was the only collegiate ensemble chosen to participate.

On December 4, the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers performed as part of "Christmas in Aurora" at the Morgan Opera House. Later that evening they repeated this performance at Emerson Park Pavilion in Auburn for the annual Festival of Trees. On December 8 the ensembles presented their annual Holiday Concert in Barler, assisted by pianist Nancy Gilbertson. Featured on the program was Benjamin Britten’s "A Ceremony of Carols" with soloists Quinn Smith `03 and Nandani Sinha `03. The large collection of food donated by members of the audience as given to the Cayuga County food pantry in Auburn.

On December 12, the Concert Choir collaborated with the Men’s Glee Club of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and orchestra for two performances in New York City at the Church of the Good Shepherd in the morning and at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the afternoon. Featured work in both performances was the "Mass in G Major" (Jubelmesse) by Carl Maria von Weber. Nandani Sinha `03 was alto soloist.

In mid-December, the professional chamber choir Madrigalia from Rochester, conducted by Roger Wilhelm, presented performances in Auburn, Canandaigua, and Rochester of a program entitled "My Dancing Day," which featured five of my published compositions and arrangements.

MUIN UDDIN participated in the2000 Central Banking Seminar of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from January 10 through the 12^th in New York City. Among the numerous topics discussed at this 3-day seminar were: The Federal Budget Outlook, The U.S. Economic Outlook, The Formulation of U.S. Monetary Policy, The Global Economic Outlook, The European Monetary Union, Issues Facing the Federal Reserve, and the Environment for the Financial Services Industry.

JENNY YATES has been invited to participate on a panel of Syracuse professors and alumni on alternative career to academia for Ph.D.s in Religion on February 19.