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The Spoken & Written Word

All this multimedia web stuff is pretty cool, but there remain few substitutes for the power of the pen. What follows are all original works of poetry and prose, diverse in style and content but all sharing one theme: they were each inspired by the people and the place that is Ashby Residential College at UNCG.

• Read article here about Ashby Residential College in latest Spring 2007 UNCG Magazine (PDF document)

The authors of these works maintain the sole copyrights. Please do not reproduce their writings without the express consent of the particular author and/or the Ashby Residential College at UNCG. Thank you.

Commencement  Addresses

• 2007: Dr. W. Allen Ashby's "What Is The Question?"

• 2006: Mr. Jeff Colbert's "Creating Community in a Non-Communal World"

• 2004: Dr. Robert M. Calhoon's "Welcome to Ashby Parlor"

• 2003: Dr. Timothy Flood's "Color, Ohana, Permanence & Change"

• 2002: Dr. Bennet Ramsey's impromtu declamations are not easily reproduced here

• 2001: Dr. Murray Arndt's "On Making Things New"

• 2000: Dr. Henry Levinson's "Democratic Individualism"

• 1999: Ms. Debbie Seabrook's "An Unknown Citizen Gets the Point"

• 1998: Dr. Susan McArver's--please send it, Susan!

• 1997: Dr. Robert J. Malone's "Cloud Watching"

Other Original Works by RC'ers

• Read the poem A Prayer for Emily Arndt
  by Tom Kirby-Smith

• Sarah Stevenson's "Hello from Russia" 

• Dr. Murray Arndt's "Make Haste Slowly"--UNCG's Founder's Day 2000 address

• Stephanie-Holt Helmer's "Stars" -- 2000 Cornelian Prize for short fiction

• Laura Maschal's "Snowstorm" -- 1999 Cornelian Prize for short fiction

• Jeff Colbert's "A First Trip to Valle Crucis"

• Andy Campbell's "The Case of the Maltese Chicken Slippers" 

From the 25th Anniversary Celebration (November 3, 1995)

• Dr. Murray Arndt's 25th Anniversary Address, "For Once, Then Something"

• Dr. Frances Arndt is the current Director, but her "Only a Rose but Unique in All the World" speaks well to the history of this place.

• Heidi Czerwiec (RC 1991-93) crafted a "Parsifal Villanelle to Residential College"

• Dr. Jim Helgeson's tribute to Warren Ashby, first Director and founder of Residential College: "In Memory of Warren Ashby"

The authors of these works maintain the sole copyrights. Please do not reproduce their writings without the express consent of the particular author and/or the Ashby Residential College at UNCG. Thank you.

Page updated: 11-May-2008

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