Dear Campus Community,

We have been tracking the weather conditions and based on current predictions there is a chance of severe weather moving into the Louisville area while classes are in session this evening.  If you are on campus tonight please know the Severe Weather Shelter location in your building should we experience severe weather conditions.

Mansion East – Basement

Mansion West – Basement

TSAC – Interior Bathrooms

CHNS – Basement

Egan Leadership Center – Interior Bathrooms

Morrison Hall – Basement

Library – Basement

Teilhard Hall – Basement

We will continue to monitor the weather and in the event of a call to take shelter we will send an announcement via our E2Campus Mass Alert system.  If you are not signed up for our Mass Alert System then please sign up here. https://www.e2campus.net/my/spalding/

We will have extra Campus Safety staffing each building to be sure that all students, faculty and staff take shelter if necessary.  In the event of a call to take shelter PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE HOME.

Be safe and we’ll keep you informed as the evening progresses.

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In honor of Memorial Day the Spalding University Student Veteran Organization is sponsoring a photograph exhibition on Thursday, May 26 in the Mansion courtyard. The photographs illustrate the courage, dedication and sacrifice of our soldiers,  including World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, military families and supportive communities.

For questions, please contact:

Trina Reaves, MSBC, Spalding University Ed. D. Student
President, Spalding University Student Veteran Organization
School of Communication, Part-time Instructor
treaves@spalding.edu

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Brown, a freshman, threw the first perfect game in USCAA World Series history as Spalding (29-12) beat Rochester (Mich.) College 3-0 at Old Orchard Park, Maine. See the full story as featured in the Courier Journal.

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Spalding University’s Festival of Contemporary Writing, the state’s largest fall-spring reading series, will be held May 14-21, featuring free readings by faculty, guests, and alumni of Spalding University’s brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing program. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the program.

Festival of Contemporary Writing events will be held at Spalding’s Egan Leadership Center lectorium, located at the corner of Fourth and Breckinridge streets, and at the Brown Hotel (335 W. Broadway) as noted. Plenty of free parking is available for the campus readings. Authors may or may not read from the work listed below.

7:30-8:45 p.m. Saturday, May 14 (ELC Lectorium)

- Luke Wallin (creative nonfiction, fiction), Conservation Writing: Essays at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture

- Kira Obolensky (playwriting, fiction), Raskol

- Joyce McDonald (writing for children & young adults), Devil on My Heels

- Robin Lippincott (fiction), In the Meantime

- Debra Kang Dean (poetry), author of Precipitates

- Sheila Callaghan (screenwriting, playwriting), staff writer for The United States of Tara

2:30-3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 15 (ELC Lectorium)

- Dianne Aprile (nonfiction), The Eye Is Not Enough: On Seeing and Remembering

- Helena Kriel (screenwriting), Skin

- Silas House (fiction), Eli the Good

- Kathleen Driskell (poetry), Seed Across Snow

- Sena Jeter Naslund (fiction), Adam & Eve

7:30-8:45 p.m. Sunday, May 15 (ELC Lectorium)

- Julie Brickman (fiction), What Birds Can Only Whisper

- Eric Schmiedl (playwriting), Browns Rules

- Jeanie Thompson (poetry), The Seasons Bear Us

- Philip F. Deaver (fiction), How Men Pray

- Louella Bryant (fiction; nonfiction), Full Bloom; While in Darkness There Is Light

- John Pipkin (fiction), Woodsburner

7:30-8:45 p.m. Monday, May 16 (ELC Lectorium)

- Richard Goodman (nonfiction), A New York Memoir

- Neela Vaswani (fiction; nonfiction), Where the Long Grass Bends; You Have Given Me a Country

- Kirby Gann (fiction), Our Napoleon in Rags

- Lesléa Newman (writing for children & young adults), Just Like Mama

- Brad Riddell (screenwriting), The Plebe

- Eleanor Morse (fiction), An Unexpected Forest

6:00-7:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 17 (ELC Lectorium)

- K. L. Cook (fiction), The Girl from Charnelle

- Nancy McCabe (nonfiction), After the Flashlight Man: A Memoir of Awakening

- Sam Zalutsky (screenwriting), You Belong to Me

- Rachel Harper (fiction), Brass Ankle Blues

- Charlie Schulman (playwriting, screenwriting), The Fartiste

6:15-7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 19. Celebration of Recently Published Books. (Secretariat Room, 1st Floor, Brown Hotel, 335 W. Broadway)

- Molly Peacock, The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72

- Daly Walker, author of Surgeon Stories, Fleur-de-Lis Press’ latest book

- Maureen Morehead, author of The Melancholy Teacher

- Roy Hoffman, author of Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations

Book signing to follow. Books provided by Carmichael’s.

4:15-5:30 p.m. Friday, May 20 Celebration of Recently Published Books by Alumni. (Citation A & B, 1^st floor, Brown Hotel)

- Kelly Creagh (young adult), Nevermore

- Sonja de Vries (poetry), Planting a Garden in Baghdad

- Stacia Fleegal (poetry), Versus

- J. J. Gumbs (fiction), The Jamerican

- Cyn Kitchen (fiction), Ten Tongues

- Loreen Niewenhuis (creative nonfiction), A Thousand‑Mile Walk on the Beach: One Woman’s Trek of the Perimeter of Lake Michigan

- Barbara Sabol (poetry), Original Ruse

- Vickie Weaver (fiction), Billie Girl

- Charles Dodd White (fiction), Lambs of Men

Book signing to follow. Books provided by Follett Bookstore (Spalding University).

2:15-3:15 p.m. Saturday, May 21 MFA alumni read from works-in-progress (ELC Lectorium)

- Adriena Dame, fiction

- Bridgett Jensen, creative nonfiction

- George Schricker, writing for children and young adults

- AshleyRose Sullivan, fiction

- David Harrity, poetry

- Jenn Sherlock, writing for children and young adults

- Nathan Gower, fiction

The reading schedule may change without notice. Check the website for updated information: www.spalding.edu/mfa. For more information, call 502-585-9911, ext. 2423 or 800-896-8941, ext. 2423 or email mfa@spalding.edu.

Spalding’s four-semester, brief-residency MFA in Writing combines superb instruction with unparalleled flexibility. The Program offers concentrations in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, writing for children and young adults, screenwriting, and playwriting. Students begin the semester in the spring, summer, or fall with a 10-day residency in Louisville or abroad, then return home for an independent study with a faculty mentor for the rest of the semester. Students may customize the location, season, and pace of their studies. See www.spalding.edu/mfa for more information.

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Spalding University offers a comprehensive program of varsity level athletics to meet the diverse interests of our student-athletes. As an NCAA D-III institution, the Spalding Golden Eagles compete in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. To highlight these programs and our athletes, we have launched a new athletics site at http://spaldingathletics.com/. Check it out!

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