 Malone named new associate vice chancellor for human resources
Dibbert honored for 25 years of service to GAA
Ackland showcases work of faculty
Decorations & Distinctions
Campus Awards
Malone named new associate vice chancellor
for human
resources
Brenda Malone, who is currently vice chancellor for faculty
and staff relations at the City University of New York (CUNY), will become
Carolina’s new associate vice chancellor for human resources effective Aug. 1.
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Malone has more than 27 years’ experience in human resources
and labor relations. For the past 14 years, she has managed classification and
compensation, academic and non-academic labor relations, benefits, compliance
and diversity, payroll, and staff training and development for CUNY, a system
that includes more than 200,000 students and 30,000 full-time and part-time
employees.
“I am delighted that Brenda has agreed to come to Chapel
Hill,” said Richard Mann, vice chancellor for finance and administration. “With
her long and distinguished career in human resources administration, and the
level of experience in public higher education she brings, Brenda emerged as
the leading candidate in our national search to fill this position. She will be
a tremendous asset to our university.”
Malone succeeds Laurie Charest, who served as Carolina’s
associate vice chancellor for human resources from 1990 until she retired at
the end of January.
As associate vice chancellor, Malone will oversee benefits
administration, staffing, compensation, employee relations, training and
development, Human Resources Information Systems, work-family programs and
temporary staffing, with a central human resources staff of 75 and an annual $5
million operating budget.
Malone said she looked forward to her new role in Chapel
Hill.
“I have always admired UNC as a progressive and dynamic
institution that is committed to excellence,” she said. “I look forward to
leading the human resources team to provide services that are innovative,
service-oriented, strategically aligned with the University’s mission, and
responsive to the needs of the UNC community. Joining UNC represents an
extraordinary professional opportunity to contribute to the continued success
of this great University. I can’t wait to get started!”
In New York, Malone directed a $1.2 million budget and led a
unit of 70 employees. Among her many accomplishments, Malone managed the
development and administration of the standards, rules and policies guiding the
human resources and labor relations functions for the system’s 20 colleges and
professional schools. She also has experience in collective bargaining matters.
Before joining the New York educational system, Malone
served as deputy general manager and general counsel with Suburban
Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation in Detroit. She earned a
bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College and a law degree from Hofstra
University School of Law.
Dibbert honored for 25 years of service to GAA
When Doug Dibbert arrived on campus in 1982 to lead the
General Alumni Association, the GAA had 25,800 members and held records on
160,000 alumni. Today, the GAA reaches out to more than 71,000 members and
holds records on countless alumni.
For 25 years as president of the GAA, Dibbert, a member of
the class of 1970, has worked to cast the light on the achievements of fellow
alumni. But during a May 12 gathering of about 325 alumni and University
dignitaries at the annual alumni luncheon, it was Dibbert’s turn to stand in
the spotlight as Carolina honored him.
“Doug Dibbert has devoted himself to the idea that true
alumni are in perpetual reunion with Carolina, that she is one of the greatest
joys of their lives, and that the nurture of those encounters is as vital as
the ‘useful learning’ for which she was chartered,” read the citation.
In 1982, Dibbert joined a staff of 17 people in Alumni House
next to The Carolina Inn. The GAA moved into the George Watts Hill Alumni
Center in 1993 and now has a staff of 34. The GAA offers its members reunions,
Carolina clubs throughout the world, career services, outreach to current
students, sponsorship of lectures and other enrichment programs, alumni travel,
the bimonthly Carolina Alumni Review and a voice in University affairs.
Alumni such as Bill Aycock, class of 1965, said the GAA’s
growth is remarkable not for its volume but its quality, and is a testament to
Dibbert’s mastery of both the big picture and the smallest detail. State Sen.
Tony Rand, class of 1961, said Dibbert’s legacy will be the betterment “of what
we were created to be and what we are perceived to be.”
In 2001, the GAA established the General Alumni Association
Scholars with a gift of $500,000.
In honor of Dibbert’s 25 years of service, the GAA Board of
Directors added $50,000 to the GAA Scholars program, which now will designate
one recipient each year as the Douglas S. Dibbert Scholar.
Ackland showcases work of faculty
Beginning May 26, the Ackland Art Museum will present the
work of the faculty of the studio art program. In the new exhibit, titled
“Practicing Contemporaries,” more than 40 individual works will demonstrate 11
artists’ technical ability, creativity and artistic excellence through
sculpture, photography, prints, drawings, designs and other media.
Ackland Director Emily Kass said the exhibition would likely
be a standout among patrons of the museum. “We feel very privileged to be
exhibiting the work of these brilliant artists,” Kass said.
“Practicing Contemporaries” offers a rare opportunity to
explore the most recent work of Patrick Ray Day, Beth Grabowski, Jim
Hirschfield, Juan Logan, Mario Marzan, Kimowan McLain, Yun-Dong Nam, Susan
Harbage Page, elin o’Hara slavick, Jeff Whetstone and Dennis Zaborowski.
The artists embrace distinct themes and questions in their
work for an exhibition that reflects the excellence of the faculty and the
diversity of these contemporary artists. Showcasing finished works and
elaborate designs for long-term projects, the exhibition explores each stage of
the creative process — from conception to completion — for each of
these “Practicing Contemporaries.”
Sculpture and installations
Patrick Ray Day translates drawn lines into welded and
forged steel sculptures that become energetic, abstracted figures and rhythmic
geometric compositions. Retired Thunderbird, a 6-foot-high figure showcased in
the exhibition, was inspired by the drawings from Dr. Seuss’s children’s books.
Jim Hirschfield is known for transforming public spaces with
large-scale sculpture and installation art. For “Practicing Contemporaries,”
Hirschfield exhibits two drawings for architectural columns and a photograph of
the finished installation in Houston, Texas. In addition, three smaller bronze
sculptures suggest garden topiaries.
Juan Logan confronts the psychological and social legacies
of American racism that continue to reverberate through American culture today.
For the exhibition, Logan presents one large and three smaller heads that serve
as metaphors for mind and imagination.
Born in Puerto Rico, Mario Marzan is concerned with climate,
history and memory.
Inspired by the cycles of destruction and reconstruction that the islands’
hurricanes produce, Marzan’s abstract drawings evoke the violence and calm of weather patterns over
the Caribbean Sea.
Painting
Kimowan McLain evokes an enigmatic history in his painting
of a wall in an old cotton dyeing factory in Saxapahaw. Silhouettes of heads
above a door evoke the laborers who worked there many years ago; the
translucent windows suggest a lighted interior; and McLain’s dense surface of
greens and blues forms a sensuous ground for the dark heads and the artist’s
lettering and drawing.
Yun-Dong Nam takes a more abstract direction with a diptych
in red and black. Nam, best known as a ceramic artist, has chosen to exhibit
paintings in “Practicing Contemporaries.”
In multi-layered tempera paintings, Dennis Zaborowski
remembers his upbringing in a Polish-Catholic neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio.
Churches and factories dominate an urban landscape, accompanied by haunting
family figures drawn in white. Domestic dramas are suggested though lively
drawings. Figures appear to dance or float in space while witty details invite
closer inspection.
Printmaking
Printmaker Beth Grabowski grapples with questions of
identity in a series of portraits of her adolescent daughter. Using computer
technology to generate and manipulate images, Grabowski playfully and lovingly
distorts her features. The resulting portraits suggest that as adolescents
develop new skills and interact with the world, they can project multiple
identities. Grabowski’s series is a reminder that even for the most observant
parents, the adolescent years can remain a mystery and a wonder.
Photography
Susan Harbage Page is concerned with the persistence of
racism in a new series of photographs exploring contemporary variations of a Ku
Klux Klansman’s hood. Page’s work investigates subtle assumptions that
infiltrate our daily lives. Having studied Ku Klux Klan uniforms at the North
Carolina Museum of History, the artist fashions new Klansmen uniforms from
contemporary fabrics and asks viewers to question which patterns, remnants and
threads of Klan racism possibly still persist today.
elin o’Hara slavick captures gratitude and happiness in a
selection of recent photographs. Taken during the artist’s travels in Germany
and at home in North Carolina, slavick captures light filtering through a blue
curtain reminiscent of a church window and the reflection of a surrounding
village in the glass storefront of a German shop.
Jeff Whetstone found a rich mine of photographic subjects in
the rarely seen caves of his native Tennessee. From as deep as three miles into
the earth, Whetstone reveals ancient geologic forms and graffiti left by
previous adventurers. Some graffiti is made with cursive script characteristic
of the 1860s, overlaid with spray paint from the 1960, which he dated using the
color of the spray paint.
For more information on the Ackland’s collections, visit
www.ackland.org.
Oscar Barbarin
L. Richardson and Emily Preyer bicentennial distinguished
professor for strengthening families in the School of Social Work, Barbarin was
named by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve on the Panel on Early Learning
during the National Summit on America’s Children, held May 22 in Chapel Hill.
In her invitation to Barbarin to serve on the panel, Pelosi
cited his “expertise on children’s issues that has provided our nation with
invaluable service.”
Division of Student Affairs
Stephen Flannery
Steve Lofgren
Flannery, storeroom manager for Campus Health Services, and
Lofgren, assistant director, Facilities Services for Housing and Residential
Education, were recognized with Excellence Awards May 10 at the division’s
end-of-year celebration.
Peggy Jablonski, vice chancellor for student affairs,
presented them with monetary awards and plaques.
Flannery was cited for his work in reorganizing stock and
updating the computer inventory system.
Lofgren was cited for his work in the reopening of Morrison
Residence Hall in the fall semester.
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