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Table of Contents
A Message from Dean Gersham Nelson
Our Expanding African Origins
Public Art and the UCM Sculpture Collection
Carnegie in the Age of Communication
Emeritus Prole
Guest Artist Gift Inspires Students
Theatre and Dance: Momentous Success
Understanding Social Justice Through Film
North to Alaska
Fossils and Friends
Faculty Scholarship
World-Class Achievement
Musical Theatre
Modern Languages Through Film
A Legacy of Giving Back
UCM Music at the Kauffman Center
Heads Will Roll
Remembrances
Remembering John Lynch
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enior vocal performance music major Angelina DeFeo
|s the frst OM mus|c student to study abroad
in Florence, Italy. With great successes in UCM-
sponsored opera programs and vocal competitions behind
her, singing and studying opera in the country of its birth was
a logical step.
After researching UCM Study Abroad options, she enrolled in
intensive Italian language and music study at the Accademia
Europea di Firenze during fall 2011. When asked what she
has gained from study abroad, DeFeo shared that her goals
have become even clearer and more attainable in her mind.
She feels as if she is part of a global culture belonging to a
larger collection of citizens who strive for knowledge and
cultivation of self. Not only was DeFeo immersed in the
language, food and music of Italy, she also lived and studied
with many students from several different countries. Living
in Florence and traveling easily to Venice and Milan was
something she could not have imagined before.
One of the highlights of her stay was visiting the world-
famous opera house, La Scala, in Milan, where she was able
to observe an opera rehearsal. Knowing that the greatest
opera singers from the eighteenth century to present day
performed at La Scala, being able to sit in the balcony, to
explore not from a picture in a book or from a video but
in real time, made for her a profound experience. DeFeo
refected, 'To know that |t ex|sts, |t`s there, not just a fgment
of my dreams is incredible . . . almost sacred for me. She
added, It took my dream and made it more concrete.
In Florence, DeFeo performed in a production of Mozarts
Cos fan tutte at San Stefano al Ponte Vecchio, a church
dating back to the thirteenth century, as well as the American
Consulate General of the United States. DeFeo has returned
to the n|ted States |nsp|red and confdent about the future.

World-Class Culture
Firsthand
By Stella Dayrit Roden
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