Tubby Raymond, UD's head football coach, has been named the Vince Lombardi
Football Awards Foundation Coach of the
Year, in recognition of
his outstanding work in leading the Hens to several titles and championships over the last 33 years.
The award was presented at the Eastern football awards banquet Feb. 16 at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey. Given on the basis of lifetime achievement, the award was presented by Joseph Lombardi, foundation director and brother of the late famed coach.
Raymond holds a career record of 277-107-3, ranks second among active NCAAI-AA coaches and 10th on the all-time college coaching win list. He has led UD's team to three national titles, 15 NCAA playoffs, 13 Lambert Cup trophies, eight Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Team of the Year awards and five Atlantic 10 (Yankee Conference) titles. He has been named NCAA College Division Coach of the Year four times and Region Coach of the Year seven times.
The Blue Hens posted a 7-4 record last season and tied for second in the Atlantic 10 Conference Mid-Atlantic Division with a 4-4 mark. The team had its
11th straight winning season and missed the
postseason for only the second time since 1990.
Pianist Lisa Papili, AS '79, and tenor Gary Seydell, AS '90, returned to their alma mater for a joint concert during Winter Session, as part of UD's Performing Arts Series.
Papili has performed as a soloist, guest artist with symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles throughout the U.S. and Europe. At UD, she studied with David Brown, Michael Steinberg and Nancy Gamble Pressley. She earned her master's and
doctoral degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, where she was
a scholarship student with Constance
Keene and John Browning.
Seydell holds a master's degree in vocal performance and an artist diploma from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (CCM). He is a two-time winner of CCM's Normal Treigle Opera Scholarship and was awarded a University Graduate Scholarship.
Whether wrestling with other mascots or kidnapping the cheerleaders from an opponent, UD's mascot regularly wins giggles and cheers from fans. But, in January, YoUDee's performances landed the lovable Blue Hen in second place nationally at the Universal Cheerleaders Association's annual mascot competition, held in Disney World.
YoUDee beat out everyone but Aubie, the Auburn University tiger, which was the first-place winner last year as well. The Kentucky Wildcat came in third, followed by Sparty, the Trojan warrior from Michigan State. Cam the Ram from Colorado State University took fifth.
At the national competition, YoUDee presented a skit in which an ailing patient needed a shot of school spirit to revive.
Two years ago, YoUDee came in seventh in the national competition and last year placed 10th. It is considered an honor to be asked to participate. Selection of participants is based on videotapes submitted by the mascots for a preliminary UCA screening.
Also taking honors at the national competition were the UD cheerleaders, who placed third in the nation, and the UD dance team, which placed fourth.
Buying books from the University Bookstore can be as easy as opening your front door with the new online purchasing capabilities introduced onto the World Wide Web.
Both new and used textbooks can be reserved online and either shipped by UPS to your doorstep or picked up at the bookstore with a student ID.
The new system allows both students and staff of the bookstore to avoid the lines common at the start of a new semester.
Bookstore manager Diane Zabenko says the online reservation service is the wave of the future for book purchasing. To order from the web, go to <www.udel.edu/bookstore>.
Making books the old-fashioned way has its merits, especially for those who value the beauty of illustrations and bindings, as three alumni book artists do.
Steven Currier Daiber, AS '78 of Williamsburg, Mass.; David Moyer, AS '78 of Lebanon, Pa.; and Don Rash, AS '74 of Wilkes Barre, Pa., displayed their handmade books in the Department of Art Gallery in January.
Daiber is a naturalist who has spent much of his life collecting, dissecting and drawing the animal and plant life around him. His most recent publication is an illustrated new release of John Burrough's 1870 essay Speckled Trout. Released by Daiber's Red Trillium Press, the limited edition is offset printed and richly illustrated with 43 drawings, two watercolors of trout and a birch bark collage.
Moyer is a printmaker and one of the founders of Red Howler Press. He has a keen interest in the printed word and its relationship to the visual image. His potent black-and-white wood engravings enliven the page and shape the supporting text that revolves around an eclectic number of subjects.
Rash is a bookbinder trained in the European tradition. His work in binding and restoring can be found in rare book libraries and private collections in the U.S., Mexico and Europe.
Students from the Student Economic Association and the Business Students Association put down their pencils and picked up rakes to help elderly Newark residents collect leaves last fall. The students-put in touch with the senior citizens in need of help through the Newark Senior Center-spent a November Saturday disposing of leaves.
Student volunteers who helped senior citizens in 30 homes with autumn clean-up are (standing, from left) Douglas Niosi, '99; Sherman Mayle, 2001; and Anthony Di Meo III,2000; and (sitting, from left) Kristi Zecker, 2000; Rebecca Cunningham, 2000; and John Grant, 2002.
Delaware's fourth trip to a NCAA Tournament, held this year at the Charlotte, N.C., Coliseum, ended in a near-miss. Despite efforts by America East Player of the Year Mike Pegues, junior guard John Gordon and senior Tyrone Perry, shown here, the Blue Hens fell to the Tennessee Volunteers, 62-52. The Hens, under Coach Mike Brey, finished with a record of 25-6, the second best season in Delaware men's basketball history.
The University's student-run newspaper, The Review, now has a winning web site, after receiving one of six silver medals awarded nationally by the College Press Network.
To celebrate the accomplishments and dedication of college journalists in a new medium, College Press Network <http://www. cpnet.com> annually recognizes the best college online publications on the web.
Ssee what all the excitement is about by visiting The Review at <http://review.udel.edu>
Possibly the most diverse collection of Tertiary Period fossils known in Eastern North America can be found in Delaware.
The "Pollack Farm Fossil Site," a report available from the Delaware Geological Survey, lists a large collection of land mammal fossils found near Cheswold, Del., during the construction of Delaware Route 1 in 1991-92. The vertebrate fossils include bone fragments and teeth of fish, reptiles and mammals that inhabited land, fresh-water and marine environments. Bird bones also were collected from the site, and more than 100 species of mollusks were discovered.
The fossils were recovered from tidal channel deposits of shelly sand beds at the Pollack Farm. The sand beds are part of the Cheswold sand of the Calvert Formation that makes up the Cheswold aquifer, an important source of ground water in central Delaware.
For a copy of the report, call the survey at (302) 831-2834.
Tapping into various cultural and historical venues, the well-received exhibit of the works by influential African-American photographer Prentice Herman Polk, which originated at the UD Gallery at Old College, is on a two-year touring schedule.
"Through These Eyes: The Photography of P.H. Polk" celebrates the centennial of the birth of the important artist who taught photography at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1928 to 1938.
Alumni can see the exhibit on display at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Ala.; Iowa State University Museum, Ames, Iowa; the Atlanta History Center; the Carl Van Vechten Art Gallery at Fisk University, Nashville; the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution; the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis; the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Ala; and the Art Gallery of the University of West Florida, Pensacola.
A photographic essay of Polk's work and an excerpt from the gallery's exhibition catalog is included in a recent issue of The Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP.
-compiled by Laura Overturf, AS' 99