The UVI Theatre Choral Reading Ensemble provided a rousing reading of "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson at UVI's Symposium on Spirituality and Professionalism on Thursday, March 5, 2010. The Symposium, an Inaugural 2010 activity, featured a panel consisting of UVI President Dr. David Hall, UVI Associate Professor of Mathematics Dr. Rosalie Dance, UVI Dean of Nursing Dr. Cheryl Franklin, UVI Assistant Professor of Management and Marketing Dr. Lonnie Hudspeth and UVI Professor of Psychology Dr. Patricia Rhymer Todman. Inaugural 2010 activities continue throughout March, with the highlight being the installation ceremony set for Saturday, March 6, at UVI's Reichhold Center for the Arts. For information of other Inaugural 2010 activities visit the UVI web site - http://www.uvi.edu/.
UVI's 2010 cheerleading squad made its debut at the Bucs and Lady Bucs homecoming games against Metropolitan University (UMET) on Saturday, Feb. 20, in front of a large crowd at the Sports and Fitness Center on the St. Thomas campus. Squad members are, from left, back row: Kai Morson, Brittany Sec'Quoria Smith, Lessley-Ann Gumbs and Darryl Williams, Jr.; front row: Tricia Greaux, Tasha Richardson, Marisha Perkins and Nykeema Joseph. The squad's coach is UVI alumna Ubaldina Ottley. The UVI Buccanners men's basketball team won two home games over the weekend, downing Polytechnica in an exciting comeback on Friday and dominating UMET on Saturday. UVI's Lady Bucs varsity basketball team lost their Saturday game to UMET.
UVI President Dr. David Hall, center, presides over the presentation of $3,000 checks to local non-profit organizations Kidescope, Inc., at left, and the Gentleman’ Club of Addelita Cancryn Junior High.
Members of the celebrity squads helped raise $6,000 for Virgin Islands non-profit organizations in a game following the annual “Past-Present” game at UVI on Jan. 30.
Virgin Islands First Lady Cecile deJongh, second from left, and UVI President Dr. David Hall, back-right, were among supporters attending the kickoff of the Virgin Islands’ Big Read 2010 program on Friday, Jan. 22, on St. John. The V.I. Big Read is part of a national effort to spur a return to reading. It is sponsored by the Virgin Islands Council on the Arts in partnership with the Department of Planning and Natural Resources – Division of Libraries, Archives, UVI’s Reichhold Center for the Arts and the UVI IT Learning Resources & Student Technology and Services Area, the Department of Education and the V.I. Police Department. UVI students are invited to participate in an essay contest held in conjunction with the Big Read. Students can register at UVI’s libraries on St. Croix and St. Thomas from Jan. 25 through Feb. 12. The contest ends March 3. Winners will be announced during UVI’s Charter Week activities in March.
About 200 public and private school students took part in an artists-in-residence session hosted by UVI’s Reichhold Center for the Arts on Jan. 15. Members of the Soweto Gospel Choir gave a short version of the performance they planned that evening for the general public. Reichhold co-director Denise Humprhey said students were given informational sheets on the choir before they took part in the special performance so they could ask questions afterwards. Performers were asked about their musical careers, their South African homeland, and the places they had traveled as part of the group and whether they perform rap music … they do.
Dr. Eustace Esdale, Dean of the UVI Business Division, asks students to signal their intention to study business during the Spring 2010 semester. Close to 100 students attended a Tuesday afternoon presentation covering what it takes to succeed academically as a UVI student. The presentation was part of a day long orientation for new, international, and transfer students who will join the student body when classes begin Jan. 11.
