FACULTY MEMBERS IN THE NEWS four hours a day, at a slow pace, covering about 10
English teacher Jeff Simpson heads off on a miles, for about 10 days.”
three-week sabbatical to England, Wales and She also plans to visit Madrid and Barcelona,
Brittany this summer with his wife, former and from there, continue on to Sicily, Italy, the
librarian Valerie Simpson, and their son Will, 12. land of her paternal ancestors. “My Europe adven-
Simpson, who’s been teaching English at SG since ture will finish in Rome,” she says. She’ll spend the
1982, plans to spend time at a number of sites month of January back in Miami.
with literary significance. First up will be
Coleridge Cottage at Nether Stowey on the edge Associate Director of Admission and varsity
of Exmoor, where Coleridge wrote several major hockey coach Ryan Mulhern ’91 was inducted into
early works including “Kubla Khan.” Also the Rhode Island Scholar-
planned are visits to the Jane Austen Centre in Athlete Hall of Fame on
Bath; Dorset, the area that was the setting for Wednesday, June 11, at the
most of Thomas Hardy’s major novels; Tintern Providence Performing Arts
Abbey in Wales, the setting for Wordsworth’s Center. A Brown University
great poem; and Laugharne on the south coast of graduate and Haverford, Pa.,
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Wales, where Dylan Thomas lived. In France, the native, Mulhern was origi- H
family will visit an exhibition on the Arthurian nally drafted by the Calgary
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legends at the Champs Libres in Rennes. Flames in the eighth round as
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“I also hope to do a literary tour of Oxford that the 174th pick overall in the
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is run by Blackwell’s Bookstore,” Simpson notes. 1992 NHL Entry Draft. He
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Hockey coach and Associate
Expect a full literary report when he returns. went on to play in the ECHL
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and IHL and played three
Ryan Mulhern ’91
Head of the Spanish Department Mafalda seasons for the AHL’s Port-
Nula is currently on sabbatical until February to land Pirates. He was called up for three games with
visit several Spanish-speaking countries and to Washington during the ’97-’98 season.
spend time with friends and family. In July she
visited Costa Rica and Miami, where she and her Art teacher Gideon Webster and his former
husband Bob Nula, SG’s Human Resources direc- Rhode Island School of Design professor, Tucker
tor, have a second home. In August and September Houlihan, were the featured
she will travel to Argentina, her native country, to artists in the Hunter Gallery
pursue opportunities to establish a Spanish from March 25-April 25.
immersion program with a soccer-training compo- Their show, titled “Provi-
nent to be offered to students in the SG Spanish dence Old Growth,” was an
Department. She’ll also investigate the possibility exhibit of new objects crafted
of organizing a faculty trip, with emphasis on the from found materials, such
cultural component. In October and the first part as structural timbers, floor-
of November, Nula will travel to Spain to visit and boards and architectural
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walk a portion of the Camino de Santiago, an old items gathered in downtown
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pilgrimage route that starts in St. Jean Pied de Port Providence during demoli-
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and finishes in Santiago de Compostela, the burial tions. During a question-
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site of the apostle Santiago. “Most pilgrims are able and-answer session at the
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to walk the Camino in about four weeks,” reports opening on March 28, the
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RISD professor Tucker
Nula, “however, I do not intend to walk the entire artists described how they
Houlihan and art teacher
stretch, but rather a section of it, walking for about happened upon the old
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