Notables

The "Be the Match Registry" on-campus registration drives saw record turn-out. The drives, sponsored by Phi Sigma Pi, Delta Sigma Pi and Phi Delta, had 92 new potential donors join.


Claire Drone-Silvers and Callyn Burges represented the Truman Eta Zeta chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, the classics honorary society, at the annual national convention in Atlantic City, N.J., April 10-12. Drone-Silvers was the megale grammateus, or national secretary for the meeting and the year, and Burgess attended as president of Truman’s local chapter.  

Rebecca Harrison, professor of classics, presented a paper “On Learning (and Teaching) Latin Verbs” at the 111th annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in Boulder, Colo., March 25-28. Her article, Exercises for Developing Prediction Skills in Reading Latin Sentences, in the Fall 2010 “Teaching Classical Languages” journal was voted one of the top seven articles in volumes one through three, according to a report in the latest issue of the journal and displayed at the meeting.