Three Savannah College of Art and Design architecture student teams won the 2003 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Student Project Competition in Region IV of ASHRAE. The competition challenged architecture and engineering students to design a building called the B. J. Hall and Memorial Center on a college campus in Singapore. The winning students exhibited their winning projects and received their awards during the Charleston ASHRAE professional chapter meeting in Charleston Oct. 14.

In the Architectural Design category, the winning team consisted of Tori Thames and Jessica Baker. In the System Selection category, Paul McKeever, Michael Dougherty and David Winthrop made up the winning team. Phoebe Sang Ween Lee and Scott Beatty won in the HVAC System Design category.

In addition to these awards, the SCAD student branch was selected as the best in region IV and received the Buddy Williams Memorial Award. Region IV includes North Carolina State University, Duke University, Georgia Tech, Clemson University, among other colleges. The new SCAD student officers for 2003-2004 were also introduced. Carl McGartlin, Charleston chapter chairman for education and Chuck Curlin, ASHRAE Region-IV chairman congratulated the students and architecture professor Emad Afifi, who is the faculty advisor to ASHRAE SCAD, for their outstanding achievements in 2003-2004.

The College of Charleston’s chapter of ASHRAE attended the meeting as well. SCAD’s chapter is planning future joint events with them.

“The meeting was a huge success,” McGartlin said. I think we have two of the most active, and definitely most diversified, student chapters in the region and this showed in the enthusiasm of the 14 student members who attended.”


The SCAD Weight Watchers at Work group has lost a total of 73.4 pounds in three weeks. “Wow, that’s almost another person,” said Jamie Scholten, assistant to the director of the health and wellness department and organizer of the group. “Small, short person, grade-school age, but still … “ With 18 people in the group, the total loss averages out to four pounds per person. The group meets Thursdays, 1-2 p.m., in room 118 of Jen Library. To join the group, call 525-6971 or e-mail jscholte@scad.edu.


An illustration by alumnus Timothy Banks (B.F.A. illustration, 2002), titled “Doctor Hickery Dickery,” was selected for publication in issue No. 23 of CMYK magazine.


Marc Femenella, general manager of SCAD Radio, has been selected to participate in a National Public Radio journalism training project for college students at the National Student Media Annual Convention in Dallas Nov. 5-9. The project is part of NPR’s series of “Next Generation Radio” journalism training projects that are held across the country. Femenella and other participants will conceive, develop, report and produce stories for broadcast on NPR’s next generation radio Web site (www.npr.org/nextgen) and the College Broadcasters, Inc., Web site (www.collegebroadcasters.org). Femenella also serves as arts and entertainment editor for District, SCAD’s student newspaper, and has written for The Magazine and other college publications.