The Home Savings and Loan Co. has awarded $500 scholarships to four YSU students. From the left are Patrick Bateman, executive officer of Home Savings and Loan; Sue Stricklin, vice president of marketing at Homes Savings and Loan; YSU students and scholarship recipients Patrick Reed, LaVonn Snipes, Daniel DeMaiolo and Megan Vendemia; Jim Ritter, director of undergraduate services in the YSU Williamson College of Business Administration; and Betty Jo Licata, WCBA dean. For more details, see News Brief below.

• YSU professor/poet wins Ohioana Book Award
• Spring semester 2009 opens with Welcome Back Week
• Homes Savings awards community service scholarships
• Board of Trustees schedules Executive Committee meetings
• Editor of manufacturing newspaper visits campus
• Music at Noon concerts set for January

Calendar
Monday, Jan. 11. First day of fall semester classes.

Monday, Jan. 11 to Friday, Jan. 15. YSU Campus Rec Open House, facility tours and new user orientation at the Andrews Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The events are part of Welcome Back Week. See News Brief below for more details on other events during the week.

Wednesday, Jan. 13, 12:15 p.m. Free Music at Noon concert in the Butler Institute of American Art features the Dana School of Music's Brass Chamber Music.

Thursday, Jan. 14, 7:05 p.m. Penguins women's basketball takes on Valparaiso in Beeghly Center. The Pens also host Butler Saturday, Jan. 16, 2:05 p.m. in Beeghly.

YSU professor/poet wins Ohioana Book Award
There is nothing conventional about William Greenway, and his poetry seems to encapsulate this fact. When asked the best way to describe his impressive body of work, the YSU professor of English and Georgia native chuckled, "I'm from the south, my momma didn't love me none."

Everywhere at Once, Greenway's seventh full–length collection of poetry, was honored with an Ohioana Book Award for Poetry at a ceremony in the rotunda of the State Capitol in Columbus last fall. This is the second time the poet has received the award—his book Ascending Order was the 2004 winner—and his third accolade from the Ohioana Library, having also won the 2001 Helen and Laura Krout Poetry Award in recognition of his contribution to poetry.

"I was surprised," Greenway said. "I didn't think I would get it because I had received the award in 2004. It was nice considering the living hell I had been through since July 2005. It was a like getting a 'survivor's reward'," he said.

Greenway's wife, former English faculty member Betty, suffered a severe stroke in July 2005, just days before the couple was to return from Wales in the British Isles. She was in a coma for two months, but has since made tremendous progress toward recovery and recently moved into an independent living apartment at Park Vista North.

  William Greenway

Poetry has been a consistent therapeutic tool for Greenway, who was inspired to write about familiar things by Georgia poet James Dickey.

"I had tried for a long time to mimic the style of Dylan Thomas until one day, I read Dickey and thought, 'He writes about Georgia, maybe I could write about Georgia, too'."

He was further inspired by the death of his father in 1976 at just 56 years old. "I just felt like I needed to tell his story. It wasn't pretty, and we were dysfunctional, but if I didn't write it down, we could all be gone and it would be like we never existed. I needed to make some kind of a mark."

Greenway, who has been a member of the YSU faculty since 1986, took a sabbatical in Swansea, Wales and traveled regularly to Amsterdam, France and Italy during the writing of his latest compilation.

"I never sit down and say, 'Okay, I am going to write.' Instead, I travel and put myself in a position to want to write—to become inspired. Poets are just people who have learned to listen to themselves."

With a bachelor's degree from Georgia State, a Ph. D. from Tulane University, three YSU Distinguished Professor Awards, 600 poems under his auspicious belt, and his works read by the likes of Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio's "The Writer's Almanac," and Edward Asner on the Grammy–nominated album Grown Old With Me, The Best is Yet to Be, what else has William Greenway to accomplish? "I hope to publish more. I'm a junkie for publishing. It's just something I've got to keep doing. It's as close as you get to instant gratification in this business."

Spring semester 2009 opens with Welcome Back Week
A student organizational fair, a campus rec open house, a seminar on quitting smoking and a drag show are among the events scheduled for spring semester 2009 Welcome Back Week at Youngstown State University.

YSU Campus Rec and Student Programming has organized Welcome Back Week to mark the start of the spring semester. The theme is "Winter Wellness: Know Your Resolution."

Among the prizes to be given out during the week are duffle bags, backpacks, t–shirts, skull caps, kayaking lessons and personal training passes, as well as two YSU parking passes and an iPod Nano.

For the full schedule of events, visit http://www.ysu.edu/reccenter/PDFs/Welcome_back_week%202010.pdf.

Home Savings awards community service scholarships
The Home Savings and Loan Co. has awarded $500 scholarships to four Youngstown State University students from the Williamson College of Business Administration who have demonstrated their commitment to community service through leadership activities, volunteer work and fund–raising endeavors.

"Home Savings believes that an important aspect of being a community bank is to develop strong roots in each community we serve, through both financial support and employee involvement," said Patrick Bevack, president and chief executive officer.

To become eligible, students had to be enrolled as a junior or senior in the Williamson College of Business Administration with at least a 3.0 GPA. Each student submitted a resume, cover letter, and complete description of community service activities during their college career. Applicants could not be a paid employee of a non–profit agency.

The scholarship recipients are:

Daniel DeMaiolo of Austintown is a senior with a double major in Marketing Management and Advertising and Public Relations with a minor in Multimedia and Web Design. DanielÕs community service activities include Student Trustee for the YSU Board of Trustees, The Giving Tree Service Project, Shantytown, Beatitude House, Hospice of the Valley, St. Jude's Up 'til Dawn, Relay for Life, MS Walk, World Vision's 30 Hour Famine, IHM Fries on Friday, Animal Charity, and the Residence Hall Association. Daniel is on the Dean's List and is a member of the YSU Honors and Scholars Program, Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key International Honor Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society.

Patrick Reed of Youngstown is a senior majoring in Management Information Systems. Patrick has been volunteering his time at the Greater Youngstown Point Inc. since 2002. He initially designed and implemented a local area network that enabled the Greater Youngstown Point to more efficiently assist their clients as well as meet the standards set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Since then, Patrick has been assisting the Greater Youngstown Point with all of their information technology needs. 

Megan Vendemia of Boardman is a junior with a double major in Marketing Management and Advertising and Public Relations with a minor in Communication Studies. Megan has been involved in numerous projects. She is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota– Alpha Nu (international music fraternity dedicated to music education) where she serves on the Public Relations Committee and the Awards Committee. She also volunteers at the Beatitude House of Youngstown and has helped organize parties for the residents. Megan is a member of the Ohio High School Speech League, American Marketing Association (AMA), Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), Williamson College of Business Administration Student Leadership Council, Economics Club, Ads Club and the University Symphonic Band. 

LaVonn Snipes of Youngstown is a senior majoring in General Administration with a minor in Nonprofit Leadership. LaVonn volunteers a great deal of his time at the Big Reach Center. On campus, LaVonn is on the Advertising Committee of the American Marketing Association (AMA), and Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE). LaVonn also serves as the secretary for the Students in Nonprofit Leadership Organization and has taken part in projects such as the United Way Fundraising Campaign, Hands–On Volunteer Fair, the Turkey Bowl Fundraiser as well as the Firstgiving Fundraiser.

Editor of manufacturing newspaper visits campus

  Richard McCormack

A breakfast lecture is scheduled for 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the DeBartolo Stadium Club in Stambaugh Stadium. The morning presentation is sponsored by the Williamson College of Business Administration and is part of the Williamson Symposium Lecture Series. For reservations, contact Christine Shelton at 330–941–3068 or cgshelton@ysu.edu. Free parking is available in the M24 parking lot on Fifth Avenue across from the stadium.

McCormack will also speak 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center. The evening program, titled ÒWorking–Class Communities and the Future of Manufacturing,Ó is sponsored by the YSU Center for Working Class Studies. The evening session is open to the general public. Free parking is available in the parking deck on Wick Avenue.

Copies of "Manufacturing A Better Future For America," a complimentary book edited by McCormack, will be available at both sessions.

McCormack of Allendale, Va., became editor and publisher in 1994 after creating Manufacturing & Technology News. The paper is read by executives in industry, government and academia on five continents. He has spent 22 years in Washington as a journalist covering science and technology, industry and government. He previously was editor of High Performance Computing & Communications Week, a journal he created while at King Publishing Group in Washington. He also was the founding editor of New Technology Week in 1987 and was editor of The Energy Daily in the mid 1980s.

He has interviewed such people as Robert Noyce, inventor of the integrated circuit; Seymour Cray, inventor of the supercomputer; and Edward Teller, inventor of the thermonuclear bomb.

McCormack has won numerous journalism awards for investigative, analytical and interpretive reporting and has appeared on C–Span, CNN and PBS. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications. He also is the 15–time winner of the National Press Club Golf Tournament.

Board of Trustees schedules Executive meetings
The Youngstown State University Board of Trustees' Executive Committee has called the following meeting to meet with the four final candidates in the search for a new university president:

• Sunday, Jan. 10, 5:30 p.m., Holiday Inn, Boardman, and Tuesday, Jan. 12, noon, Room 2036 of Kilcawley Center (Candidate: Dr. Aaron Podolefsky). 

• Monday, Jan. 18, 5:30 p.m., Holiday Inn Boardman, and Wednesday, Jan. 20, noon, Cochran Room in Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus (Candidate: Dr. Jack Maynard).

• Wednesday, Jan. 20, 5:30 p.m., Cochran Room in Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus, and Friday, Jan. 22, noon, Cochran Room, Kilcawley Center (Candidate: Dr. Cheryl Norton).

• Monday, Jan. 25, 5:30 p.m., Cochran Room in Kilcawley on the YSU campus, and Wednesday, Jan. 27, noon, Cochran Room, Kilcawley Center (Candidate: Cynthia Anderson).

Music at Noon concerts set for January
Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music, in collaboration with the Butler Institute of American Art, announces the January 2010 schedule of the Music at Noon concerts.

Performances are Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. at the Butler Institute of American Art. The concerts are free and open to the public and parking is free at the Butler.

            Performances for January:

• Jan. 13 – Brass Chamber Music – William Slocum, director.

• Jan. 20 – Guitar Ensemble – Francois Fowler, director.

• Jan. 27 – Jazz Combos – Kent Engelhardt, director.
  
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