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PROMISE Team

For more information:

- Award page: http://diversityinengineering.com/

- PROMISE Word Press: https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/dr-renetta-g-tull-is-a-finalist-for-the-2015-gedc-airbus-diversity-in-engineering-education-award/

- Dr. Renetta Tull video for the GEDC Award: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8xFZv9dPSw&feature=youtu.be

- Dr. Renetta Tull's professional blog: https://renettatull.wordpress.com/professional/

UMBC's first pep rally occurred in November of 1967, just a little over a year after the campus first opened. The rally was deemed a success, having brought in "one of the biggest crowds of any school-time event th[at] year" with over five hundred people gathered in the gym to participate (The Retriever, Volume 2, Number 12: page 4). The UMBC cheerleaders helped to lead the rally and boost the crowd's spirits by introducing the team and the Retriever mascot, then referred to as Sam. Hosting this pep rally was one of the university's early plans to foster a renewed sense of school spirit on campus as well as increase student support at the university's basketball games.      

Learn More: 

-History of UMBC Research Guide 

-University Archives Webpage 

-Article in The Retriever (Volume 2, Number 12) on the first Pep Rally 

-Photograph in The Retriever (Volume 28, Number 13) of 1992 Pep Rally 

-Photographs and Article in The Retriever Weekly (Volume 43, Issue 24) of 2009 Pep Rally  

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"Student Action Party Hagy For President" pin. University Archives, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD) 

Las Meninas postcard, 2010. UPUB TI, University Archives, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD) 

Las Meninas, a play that touched on the subjects of race, gender, and culture in King Louis XIV's court, was the most recent production of UMBC's to appear at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), university theater's most prestigious competition. Six other UMBC plays have received recognition by the Kennedy Center in the course of the campus' existence, including Buried (2003), The Diary of a Scoundrel (1996), Spring's Awakening (1987), The Importance of Being Oscar (1986), and Play, Act Without Words II, Not I, Footfalls and Breath (1978).  The very first production of UMBC's to receive national recognition was the Performing Arts Department's production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in 1974. This was also the very first time a Maryland institution had been chosen to perform at the KCACTF. 

Learn More:

-History of UMBC Research Guide

-University Archives Webpage
-Theatre Department Production Materials in UMBC's Digital Collections

-Article in The Retriever on Las Meninas

-Article in The Retriever on You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 

-UMBC Theatre Website 

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In 1967, a group of ten sophomores and freshmen came together to create the first UMBC yearbook, entitled Skipjack. The students wanted to provide a unique outline to this first yearbook; instead of organizing it traditionally by events, organizations, and people, the yearbook staff decided to offer a chronological compilation of the beginning history of UMBC. Some of this history included early photos of UMBC under construction, a dedication to UMBC's first chancellor Albin O. Kuhn, photos from the "Opening Day" of classes, the birth of The Retriever newspaper, UMBC's first student government, Spring Week, and the Retriever mascot. After its first publication, Skipjack would only be published two more times, in 1969 and 1970. A few more yearbooks would be created throughout the years, The Golden Retriever in the late 70s and mid 80s and The Spotlight published 1988-1989, but the tradition of a yearbook would unfortunately never stick at UMBC. 

Learn More: 

-History of UMBC Research Guide

-University Archives Webpage

-Digital Collection of Skipjack Yearbooks 

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