Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent, will replace the late Tim Russert in this year's Bryan Series. She will present a program entitled "America and the World" with her husband, former Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at War Memorial Auditorium. Russert died suddenly on June 13.

Amanpour is best known for her reporting from war zones and hot spots around the world, ranging from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Balkans to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. Her work, the cornerstone for CNN's coverage of major international events, includes exclusive interviews with figures such as Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Yasser Arafat, Great Britain's Tony Blair and Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf.

Her recent work has focused on the production of a series of highly acclaimed long-form programs that have aired across the CNN networks. In 2007, she presented a six-hour series on the world's three leading monotheistic religions and their defenders, "God's Warriors."

Amanpour is the recipient of numerous honors, including two George Foster Peabody Awards and nine Emmy Awards. A native of London who lived in Iran as a child, Amanpour's family left that country after the 1979 coup. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

As assistant secretary of state and chief spokesman for the State Department, Rubin served as top adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and oversaw efforts to communicate with the public regarding foreign policy. Since leaving the State Department, he has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Columbia University, and is a regular commentator for the Financial Times, the BBC and CNN. He is a graduate of Columbia.

The 2008-09 Bryan Series opens with author Khaled Hosseini on Friday, Oct. 24. Following the Amanpour-Rubin program, the series continues with Salman Rushdie (Tuesday, Feb. 10) and Anna Quindlen (Tuesday, April 14).

Guilford students and employees will have an opportunity to pick up free tickets on campus approximately three weeks prior to each event.

For more information about the 2008-09 series, visit www.guilford.edu/bryanseries.

Herb Appenzeller to be Inducted to Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame
Submitted By: Ty Buckner

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HERB APPENZELLER, Jefferson-Pilot Professor of Sport Studies Emeritus, will be inducted to the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame later this year.

He will be joined by eight other inductees--UNCG women's basketball coach Lynne Agee, NFL standouts Jeff and Joe Bostic, high school football coach Dick Kemp, college and pro basketball star Danny Manning, newspaper writer Bodie McDowell, auto racer Ken Rush and baseball star Floyd "Pep" Young.

During Appenzeller's 31-year tenure as Guilford's athletics director, the Quakers captured national titles in men's basketball (1973) and women's tennis (1981). It was his vision that provided the impetus for the college to create one of the nation's first academic majors in sport management in the early 1980s.

Appenzeller is a member of several other Halls of Fame.

Kirsten Schrader Named Head Athletic Trainer
Submitted By: Dave Walters

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KIRSTEN SCHRADER has been named head athletic trainer, replacing MARY BROOS, who retired in May after 30 years in the position.

Schrader, a Greensboro native, spent the past four years as part-time assistant on Broos' staff. She worked with a variety of Quakers' teams and also served as an instructor in the sports studies department. In addition to her employment at Guilford, Schrader worked with Murphy-Wainer Orthopedic Specialists, taught courses at Greensboro College and served as the athletic trainer for Guilford Technical Community College's men's basketball team.

Guilford becomes the fourth institution where Schrader has served as head athletic trainer. She spent one year as the head athletic trainer at Lee College in Baytown, Texas, where she provided care for 36 junior-college student-athletes. From 2002-04, Schrader worked at Queens University of Charlotte where she oversaw athletic training services for the Royals' 16 varsity teams. While there Schrader designed two athletic training facilities and served as a clinical instructor for the school's National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) accredited athletic training program. She was Pfeiffer University's head athletic trainer from 1999-2001 and also taught athletic training courses.

Schrader graduated from Ragsdale High School in Jamestown, before earning a bachelor's degree in exercise and sport science from the UNCG in 1994. She completed an athletic training internship at Bellevue University while fulfilling requirements for a master's degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1997.

An NATA member, Schrader is a licensed athletic trainer in the state of North Carolina and a certified cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first-aid instructor. She lives in Greensboro with her husband, Jason, and their two children, Sophie and Millie.

IT&S Project Will Impact Service July 4-6
Submitted By: Virginia Ferguson
Date: 7/04/2008 - 7/06/2008

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IT&S will be switching to a new Network Storage System (home drives and share spaces) July 4-6. Although the change is expected to take only one day, services may be impacted through July 6. Consequently, the following campus IT services will be interrupted: desktop access to e-mail (Lotus Notes), access to share spaces, and access to connect to campus using Citrix or VPN.

For more information, click here.

If you have any questions, please call the Help Desk at 336-316-2525, come by Bauman 101, or e-mail help@guilford.edu.

Wendy Looker and Jeremy Truhel Announce Birth of Daughter
Submitted By: Virginia Ferguson

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Madeleine Elizabeth Truhel, daughter of Wendy Looker

WENDY LOOKER and her husband, Jeremy Truhel, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Madeleine Elizabeth Truhel, pictured at right. Madeleine was born Sunday, June 15, at 12:04 p.m. She weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces, and is 21 inches long.

Eric and Dasa Mortensen Welcome Son
Submitted By: Virginia Ferguson

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ERIC and Dasa MORTENSEN are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Søren Pejchar Mortensen.

Søren was born at 6:35 p.m., on Thursday, June 19 at the Women's Hospital of Greensboro. His birth-weight was 7 lbs., 15 oz., and he is 20 inches long.

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