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2003-2004 Academic Year Service Activities
Craig Abrahamson is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Explorations in Teaching and Learninig (ISETL).
Virginia Andreoli Mathie is a member of the Board of Educational Affairs of the American Psychological Association, and Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2) representative to the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives.
JoAnne Brewster is the Secretary of the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology.
Bill Evans has served as a Crisis Action Team Member for the United States Air Force, Air National Guard since 1984, and as the Director of the annual National Chaplain Services Conferences 2000-2004. As a Lieutenant Colonel and Senior Wing Chaplain of a rapidly deploying fighter unit he provides pastoral care and counseling, advise leadership on key decisions, leads marriage & family enrichment, stress management, and suicide prevention workshops, and provides religious rites such as marriages and funerals for unit members and their families.
Joann Grayson conducted a 2-hour training module with Liz Hutchins of Harrisonburg-Rockingham Social Services District for a several hundred teachers in training who are required to attend a training on "Child Abuse and Neglect Recognition, Reporting and Responding". The session was conducted in JMU's Grafton-Stovall Theater.
Sherry Serdikoff, Jeff Andre and Joann Grayson graciously volunteered to judge behavioral science projects at the Shenandoah Valley Regional Science Fair March, 2004.
Sherry Serdikoff and Joann Grayson judged the Behavioral Sciences presentations at the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, March 2004.
Sherry Serdikoff is the President of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis (SEABA), the Founder and Interim President of the Virginia Association for Behavioral Analysis, and Program Chair fo the American Psychological Assoication, Division 25 meetings in Honolulu, Hawaii to be held in July 2004.
Cheryl Talley is a co-organizer and officer of the Harrisonburg and Rockingham County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She is also on the Board of Gemeinshaft Home, the Harrisonburg Democratic Committee, Hope Community Builders, Chair of the Harrisonburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority, and President of the Harrisonburg Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Service Sorority.
Summer mentoring program makes a difference . During the Summer of 2003, Joann Grayson sponsored a program in which our Psychology Majors worked with ten children who were under the care of local social-services agencies. The children participated in a dance program that involved choreographing and performing original dances for residents at the Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community. They also completed some volunteer work at the SPCP, went on a trip to a Museum, and had some fun at the local pool, Kline's Ice Cream Shop, Luray Caverns, the Zoo, horseback riding, etc. Our students contributed a total of 230 clock hours of time to these children, and they learned a lot in the process. Service learning helps our students and our community.
The Food Fight sponsored by our Psychology Peer Advisors was tremendously successful! $2962 was collected plus about 200 pounds of canned goods. The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and Mercy Corps is able to provide many dollars worth of food for each dollar donated, so the net result will be $44,060 worth of food aid will be available to those who need it as a result of the Food Fight event! That is a HUGE amount of support. This single event by a small group of students, encouraging the generosity of others, clearly will have a huge impact on many people in the valley and around the world. Congratulations Peer Advising on a job well done!
Peer Advisors , Psi Chi and Psychology Club members participated in this year’s Relay for Life, an campus-wide event that raises money for cancer research. Collectively psychology students raised about $2,500!
