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Bullock, Mary Brown

A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE 
A Financial Overview of Agnes Scott College 
T hank you for your interest in Agnes Scott College. I am pleased to address Agnes 
Scott's mission, values, quality and distinctive- 
ness. Founded in 1889 in Decatur, Ga., by 
Presbyterian business leaders, Agnes Scott is a 
private, four-year college of liberal arts and 
sciences for women that is accredited by the 
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. 
The founding mission was not just to create a 
school for girls, but a school of the highest acade- 
mic standards. 
Over the years, and frequently at great cost, 
Agnes Scott has held to this focus. Based on a 
107-year history of excellence in education, 
today's Agnes Scott offers B.A. degrees in 23 
fields of study and three interdisciplinary areas. 
Agnes Scott values a commitment to women, 
to teaching and learning, to the liberal arts, to an 
appreciation of diverse cultures, and a commit- 
ment to a community that values justice, courage 
and integrity. We encourage spirituality, leader- 
ship and community service. These values pro- 
vide the framework from which our distinctive 
curriculum continues to evolve. 
While we retain our traditional liberal arts 
strengths, I look forward to providing ongoing 
leadership which will make the liberal arts at 
Agnes Scott more connected-emore interdiscipli- 
nary, more local and more global, and more sci- 
entific. To think across the disciplines keeps us 
from becoming too narrow, alerts us to questions 
of significance, and trains us for critical thinking 
INSTITUTIONAL GIVING OVERVIE\\" 
Year Business & Industry Foundations 
1994-95 $146,232 $454,550 
1993-94 $117,264 $480,973 
1992-93 $[87,273 $1,320,291 
1991-92 $189,528 $371,275 
1990-91 $202,890 $364,050 
in the new millennium. Our real test will come in 
our ability to implement focused new programs. 
This year we launched our new "Atlanta 
Semester." By this time next year, we hope to 
announce the creation of the Atlanta Science 
Center for Women, a collaborative venture. Both 
are designed to provide women with critical intel- 
lectual and leadership skills, ones well suited for 
the 21st century. 
Agnes Scott ranks in the top 10 among all 
liberal arts colleges in the percentage of graduates 
who obtain Ph.D.'s in education and is the pre- 
mier national liberal arts college for women south 
of Pennsylvania and east of California, as rated 
by U.S. News and World Report in 1995. 
We are at a crossroads ... the future is before 
us, looming, beckoning, challenging. It is time to 
grow. With your continued public support we will 
achieve our mission. 
Mary Brown Bullock '66 
President 
Ratings 
Moody's Investors Service = Aa 
Standard and Poor's Corporation = AA- 
FIVE-YEAR OVERVIEW OF ALUMNAE GIVING 
Year Total Alumnae Alumnae 
Giving Giving Percentage 
1994-95 $1,910,110 $1,149,993 40.0% 
1993-94 $1,965,847 $1,109,956 38.1% 
1992-93 $2,833,829 $1,147,411 39.0% 
1991-92 $1,791,022 $1,092,871 39.1% 
1990-91 $1,847,846 $1,133,228 40.5% 
FIVE-YEAR OVERVIEW OF ENDOWMENT 
Year Carrying Market Excess of % Change in MV 
Value (CV) Value (MV) MVoverCV from Prior Year 
June 30, 1995 $110,507,495 $251,560,163 $141,052,668 30.0 
June 30,1994 $113,720,966 $193,560,194 $79,839,228 (5.7) 
June 30,1993 $108,080,384 $204,592,711 $96,512,327 5.8 
June 30,1992 $105,445,590 $193,361,049 $87,915,459 21.6 
June 30,1991 $97,860,320 $159,032,378 $61,172,058 1.2 
1994-95 Annual Fund Report 
.................................................................................. 
Alumnae giving to the Agnes Scott Annual 
Fund in 1994-95 totaled $656,820 (excluding one- 
time bequests), with participation at 40 percent, 
the highest percentage in recent years. Total alum- 
nae giving to the Annual Fund, including 
$156,333 in bequests, reached $813,153. 
Corporations and foundations contributed a 
total of $217,211 to the Annual Fund and 
$600,782 to all funds. 
The Annual Fund supports faculty salaries, 
student financial aid, academic programs, depart- 
mental budgets, facilities maintenance, student 
activities and all the programs and services that 
contribute to an outstanding educational experi- 
ence. Alumnae contributed over 70 percent of 
the Annual Fund grand total of $1,176,118. 
Agnes Scott is most appreciative of the tremen- 
dous response received from donors whose 
generosity ensures that funding needs are met. 
Gifts and Bequests 1994-95 to all funds 
Sources 
Alumnae 
Foundations 
Parents & Friends 
Business & Industry 
TOTAL 
Total 
$1,149,993 
$454,550 
$159,335 
$146,232 
$1,910,110 
STATEMENT OF COLLEGE OPERATIONS 
I 99 5 Restricted & 1994 Restricted & 
Unrestricted Unrestricted 
Educational and General 
Student fees 7,176,155 6,580,102 
Federal programs 408,047 401,563 
Gifts and grants 1,498,233 1,521,206 
Endowment income 8,642,215 8,357,958 
Other sources 335,580 147,720 
Total educational and general $18,060,230 $17,008,549 
Auxiliary enterprises 2,821,313 2,673,293 
TOTAL REVENUES $20,881,543 19,681,842 
EXPENDITURES 
Educational and General 
Instruction 4,597,653 4,245,718 
Academic support 1,449,012 1,414,992 
Student services 1,770,410 1,627,014 
Institutional support 3,468,403 3,222,561 
Operation of plant 1,892,143 1,722,941 
Student financial aid 3,679,391 3,350,237 
Total educational and general $16,857,012 $15,583,463 
Auxiliary enterprises 4,018,521 4,096,292 
and transfers 
TOTAL EXPENDITURES $20,875,533 $19,679,755 
Excess of Revenues $6,010 $2,087 
over Expenditures 
The figures include current unrestricted funds and restricted funds only to the extent that they are planned and used in the ongoing operations of the College. For example, 
scholarships and professorships are restricted funds which arc included; one-time gifts and externally funded grants for special projects arc not included. 
1995 DECATUR CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS 
Anonymous 
Allied Holdings 
ARAMARK 
Atlanta Gas Light 
BankSouth Corporation 
Bicycle South 
BJ's Coffee House 
R.L. Brown & Associates, Inc. 
By Hand South, Inc. 
Cyndesign Group 
Dairy Queen of Decatur 
Decatur Realty Associates 
DeKalb Chamber of Commerce 
DeKalb Convention & Visitors Bureau 
Eddie's Attic 
Florence & Harry English Fund 
Hardee's of Decatur (Farley's Place, Inc.) 
The Family Jewels 
Fidelity National Bank 
The Final Touch Gallery & Books, Inc. 
First Union Corporation 
Follett College Stores Corporation 
The Food Business 
Georgia Federal Credit Union 
STEERING COMMITTEE 1994-95 
Decatur Campaign 
Clark E. Candler, chair 
Tom Adams 
Wallace Daniel 
Lyn Deardorff '84 
Bill Floyd 
Linda Harris '89 
Dick Roe 
Sarah Sloan 
Judy Turner 
Georgia Power Company 
Gwinnett Industries 
Forrest W. Hunter 
JTM Industries 
Kwik Kopy Printing of Decatur 
J. Smith Lanier & Company 
Markert & Pappas 
Maud Baker Flower Shoppe 
E. Terrell Meek 
Harriet McDaniel Marshall Trust 
McCurdy & Candler 
John McRae & Associates, Inc. 
Mick's Decatur 
Nations Bank 
Neighborhood Playhouse 
Ostrom Boiler Service, Inc. 
Pattillo Construction Company 
E. R. Partridge, Inc. 
Pye-Barker Welding Supply, Inc. 
Walter H. & Marjory M. Rich Foundation 
Richard Rothman & Assoc.,Ltd. 
Marguerite Smith Cleaners 
Smith Ace Hardware 
Sonitrol of Atlanta 
Stromquist & Company, Inc. 
Tres Bien Restaurant 
Trust Company/SunTrust 
Elizabeth Turner Catering 
Corporate and Foundation Friends of Agnes Scott College 
Anonymous (2) 
-Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. 
+Akzo Nobel Incorporated 
+Albemarle Corporation 
+Alcoa Foundation 
Alliance Theatre Company 
+Allied-Signal Foundation, Inc. 
Allied Holdings 
The Allstate Foundation 
American General 
American Security Group 
+AMGEN Foundation, Inc. 
+Anderson Consulting 
ARAMARK 
+ARCO Foundation 
Armstrong World Industries 
A.TH., Inc. 
AT&T 
+AT&T Foundation 
The Atlanta Foundation 
Atlanta Professional Hockey Club, Inc. 
+The Bailey Foundation 
+ Bank South Corporation 
+ Barnett Banks, Inc. 
Lewis H. Beck Foundation 
+ Bell Atlantic Corporation 
+BellCore 
The BellSouth Foundation 
+ BellSouth Services 
Benwood Foundation, Inc. 
Bicycle South 
BJ's Coffee House 
+ Blue Bell Foundation 
+The Boeing Company 
+ Bowater, Carolina Division 
Bradley's Country Store 
+ Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation 
R. L. Brown & Associates, Inc. 
Jean I. and Charles H. Brunie Foundation 
Otis Burnham Family Charitable Trust 
+ Burroughs Wellcome Company 
By Hand South, Inc. 
Fuller E. Callaway Trust 
Daniel D. & Elizabeth H. Cameron Foundation 
+Campbell Soup Company 
Carolina Mills, Inc. 
+Central Presbyterian Church 
+Charnpion International Corporation 
+Charitable Gift Fund 
Charter Micro Applications, Inc. 
+Chase Manhattan Corporation 
+Chesebrough-Pond's, Inc. 
tChevron Oil Company 
+Citibank, N.A. 
Walter Clifton Foundation, Inc. 
+The Coca-Cola Company 
The Columbus Foundation 
Community Enterprises, Inc. 
+Corning Incorporated 
+Corning Glass Works Foundation 
+Cresrar Financial Corporation 
Cummins Engine Foundation 
Cyndesign Group 
Dairy Queen of Decatur 
Harry L. Dalton Foundation, Inc. 
+ The Danforth Foundation 
Davidson.College Presbyterian Church 
Arthur Vinings Davis Foundation 
Decatur Music Teacher's Association 
DeKalb Chamber of Commerce 
DeKalb County Convention and Visitors 
Bureau 
Dekalb County Department of Family & 
Children's Services 
Delafield Fund - New York Community Trust 
+The Delta Air Lines Foundation 
Delta Air Lines 
+ Destec Energy 
R. T. Dooley Construction Company 
+ Dow Chemical Company 
+The Duke Power Company 
+The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation 
Jessie Ball duPont Fund 
E. Q. Services, Inc, 
Eddie's Attic 
Electra, Inc. 
Nell & William Elkin Foundation 
Florence & Harry English Fund 
+ Entergy Services, Inc. 
+ Equifax Foundation 
+ Exxon Educational Foundation 
Farley's Place, Inc. 
+ Federal National Mortgage Association 
+ Federated Department Stores 
Fellini's Pizza 
Fidelity National Bank 
The Final Touch Gallery & Books, Inc. 
+ First Interstate Bank 
First Presbyterian Church 
+The First Union Foundation 
Focus Interior Contracting, Inc. 
Follett College Stores Corporation 
The Food Business 
+ Ford Motor Company 
+ Foundation for the Carolinas 
The Foundation for the National Capital Region 
The Foundation of Greater Greensboro 
Fountain Inn Presbyterian Church 
John and Mary Franklin Foundation 
+General Electric 
Georgia Federal Credit Union 
+Georgia-Pacific Corporation 
+Georgia Power Company 
+Georgia Gulf Corporation 
+Glaxo, Inc. 
+Goldman, Sachs & Company 
The Graves Foundation 
+GTE Foundation 
+Guardian Life Insurance Company of 
America 
+ Halliburton Education 
+ Hartford Insurance Group Foundation 
+HBO & Company 
+ Heller Financial, Inc. 
+ Hewlett Packard 
+ Hoechst Celanese Corporation 
+Home Depot 
+HUSCO International, Inc. 
Idlewild Presbyterian Church 
+ International Business Machines 
Isaacson's 
+ ITT Corporation 
JTM Industries 
JVM and JKM Foundation 
Kwik Kopy Printing of Decatur 
J. Smith Lanier & Company 
Sartain Lanier Family Foundation 
Gay & Erskine Love Foundation, Inc. 
Lowe Hereford Farms 
Markert & Pappas 
+Marsh & McLennan Co.'s, Inc. 
Harriet McDaniel Marshall Trust 
Mattie H. Marshall Foundation 
+Martin Marietta Corporation 
+ May Department Stores Company 
McCurdy & Candler 
+McDonnell Douglas Foundation 
+The McGraw-Hill Foundation, Inc. 
Jon McRae & Associates, Inc, 
+Mellon Bank, N.A. 
+Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc, 
Metropolitan Atlanta Community 
Foundation 
Mick's Decatur 
+Milliken and Company 
+Mitre Corporation 
+ Monsanto Fund 
Montgomery Area Community Foundation 
+ Nations Bank 
+ Norfolk Southern Corporation 
North Decatur Presbyterian Church 
+Northern Telecom, Inc. 
+Northern Trust Company 
+NYNEX Family of Companies 
Ostrom Boiler Service, Inc. 
+Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation 
E.R. Partridge, Inc. 
The Peasant Restaurants 
+ J. C. Penney Company, Inc. 
+ PepsiCo Foundation 
+ Philip Morris, Inc 
+Philips Electronics North America 
Corporation 
+ Phoenix Home Life 
+ Pitney Bowes 
Presbyterian Church (USA) Foundation 
+ T. Rowe Price Associates 
+The Procter & Gamble Fund 
+ Providian Capital Management 
+ Prudential Foundation 
Pye-Barker Welding Supply Company 
Year Headcount of RTC FfE• of RTC 
& Traditional & Traditional 
Fall 1995 551 537 
Fall 1994 550 534.38 
Fall 1993 551 532.86 
Fall 1992 585 559.25 
Fall 1991 612 582.58 
*Full Time Equivalent Students 
AGNES 
SCOTT 
COLLEGE 
Board of Trustees 
Joseph R. Gladden, Jr. 
Chair 
George S. Branch 
Clark E. Candler 
J. Wallace Daniel 
Joyce K. Essien 
D. Gayle Gellerstedt '71 
Frances B. Graves '63 / 
James P. Hendrix, Jr. 
Nancy T. Hill '56 
Pierre Howard 
Anne R. Jones '46 
Rebecca B. Jones '63 
Walter M. Jones 
Manha W. Kessler '69 V 
Harriet M. King '64 
Kay L. Krill '77 
Gay B. Maloney '76 ✓ 
Clair M. Muller '67 v 
Jack R. Perry 
James D. Philips, Jr. 
Louise H. Reaves '54 
Sally A. Skardon '70 ✓ 
Jesse J. Spikes 
W. G. Tittle, Jr. 
Sara E. Vagliano '63 
Dan C. West 
E. Jenner Wood, Ill 
Ex Officio: 
Mary Brown Bullock '66 
Secretary of the Board: 
Lea Ann Hudson '76 
Corporate and 
Foundation Friends of 
Agnes Scott College 
(continued) 
+Quaker Oats Foundation 
+ Raytheon Company 
+ Revlon Foundation 
+ Reynolds Metals Co. Foundation 
The Rich Foundation, Inc. 
Walter H. & Marjory M. Rich Foundation 
Richard Rothman & Associates Ltd. 
+ Riverwest Ventures 
+ Rockwell International Corporate Trust 
+Rohm and Haas Company 
+Sara Lee Foundation 
+Scienrific Atlanta, Inc. 
Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center 
Securities Investment Club 
+Sentry Insurance Foundation 
Shaw Industries, Inc. 
+Shell Oil Company Foundation 
+Shenandoah Life 
+Siemens Rolm Communications} Inc. 
Hal L. and Julia T. Smith Foundation 
Marguerite Smith Cleaners 
Smith Ace Hardware Co. 
+SmithKline Beecham Foundation 
+The Sonat Foundation, Inc. 
Sonitrol of Atlanta 
+Southern Company Services 
+Springs Industries, Inc. 
+Sprint Corporation 
+State Farm Companies Foundation 
+Srate Street Bank & Trust Company 
Stromquist & Company, Inc. 
+Sun Life Assurance of Canada 
+Syntex USA, Inc. 
+Tenneco, Inc. 
+ Texaco Philanthropic Foundation, Inc. 
Texas Commerce Bank 
+Textron 
+Time Warner, Inc. 
+Towers Perrin 
Transus 
Tres Bien Restaurant 
+Trust Company of Georgia Bank/Suntrust 
+TRW Foundation 
Tull Charitable Foundation 
Elizabeth Turner Catering 
+United Technologies Corporation 
ffhe UPS Foundation, Inc. 
+U.S. Fidelity and Guaranty 
+USG Foundation, Inc. 
Video Tape Associates 
Vulcan Materials Company 
+Wachovia Bank & Trust Company, N.A. 
Wednesday Morning Study Club 
+ Westvaco Foundation 
+ Wheat First Butcher Singer 
Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation 
The Winston Salem Foundation 
+ The Xerox Foundation 
+Provided matching funds 
Other Facts 
• The community of Decatur, with a population of 
20,000, is six miles from downtown Atlanta. 
• An Honor System ensures social and academic 
freedom. The College has had a Phi Beta Kappa 
Chapter since 1926. 
• More than 85 percent of all ASC students receive 
some form of financial assistance. 
• The Blackfriars, begun in 1915, is the oldest con- 
tinuous theatre group in Atlanta. 
• McCain Library has more than 195,000 books, 
18,500 micro forms and 778 periodicals. 
• All computers and telecommunications systems on 
campus were linked together in 1994. 
• The campus is connected to the international 
computer network, Internet. 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 31, 1994 
Contact: Sara Pilger, Acting Director of Communications, 638-6294 
(404) 371~6294 
( 404) 3 71 ~6484 
AGNES SCOTT NAMES TWO NEW TRUSTEES 
Agnes Scott College named two new members to its Board of Trustees at its May 
meeting. D. Gayle Gellerstedt and Louise McKinney Hill Reaves will be filling current 
vacancies on the Board. 
Gayle Gellerstedt of Decatur, Georgia, is a 1971 Agnes Scott graduate with a major 
in psychology and a 1992 graduate of Georgia State University with a master's degree in 
the field of early childhood education. She has been a kindergarten teacher for 26 high-risk 
children at College Heights Elementary since 1992. Previously, Gellerstedt served as the 
Associate Director of the Institute for Fund-Raising Leadership of Coxe and Associates. 
She has also served as the past president of both the Agnes Scott Alumnae 
Association and the Junior League of Atlanta, Inc. Additionally, she is an elder at Central 
Presbyterian Church. She was recognized as one of Ten Outstanding Young People of 
Atlanta and named one of the most influential people in the city under the age of 40 by 
Atlanta Ma&azine in 1985. She is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta and Leadership Georgia 
and was recognized in the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers in 1993. 
Gellerstedt is the daughter of Lawrence and Mary Gellerstedt of Atlanta, both 
previous Agnes Scott College board members. 
Louise McKinney Hill Reaves of Stone Mountain, Georgia, is a member of the 
Agnes Scott class of 1954 with a major in English. At Agnes Scott she was recognized not 
only as a member of Mortar Board, but also as a member of Phi Beta 
Kappa. Reaves is currently serving as executive secretary for Sanders and 
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE ALUMNAE HONOR LOCAL RETIRED PROFESSOR 
As a tribute to her many years of service to Agnes Scott College, dedicated former 
students have established a fund in honor of former history professor Catherine Strateman 
Sims (Peachtree Road, Atlanta, 30305). The Catherine S. Sims Faculty Enrichment Fund 
will provide additional financial support for the professional growth of ASC faculty 
members. 
A long-time supporter of women's colleges, Sims graduated with honors in history 
from Barnard College in 1934 where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After a year spent 
at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, she earned master's and 
doctorate degrees from Columbia. She then taught at ASC for 22 years, with a 3-year 
leave during that time to serve as the dean of the American College for Girls in Istanbul, 
Turkey. She was dean of Sweet Briar College for nine years, returning to ASC as a 
visiting professor in 1975 and as interim dean of the college in 1989-90. 
Throughout her distinguished academic career, she has worked to uphold the 
standards of private education. She served as a senator of the Phi Beta Kappa Society for 
18 years and was a long-time member and chairman of the Committee on Qualifications. 
From 1982 until 1985, she was president of the Society. 
Ruby Rosser Davis '43, one of the many alumnae organizing the fund, says, "Dr. 
Sims has chosen the most caring avenue possible. She recognized the need 
for funds to subsidize research and professional growth among faculty 
members, and she knows that this will enrich the education of ASC 
students." 
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AGNES 
SCOTT 
COLLEGE 
Decatur, Georgia 30030-3 797 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 24, 1994 
Contact: Sara Pilger, Director of Communications, 404-638-6294 
INTERNATIONAL DANCERS, CHOREOGRAPHERS, AND NEW STUDIO 
INAUGURATE KESSLER DANCE PROGRAM AT AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 
The Martha Wilson Kessler Dance Program at Agnes Scott College is underway 
this fall with a full complement of programming and new physical facilities. Following the 
complete renovation of the Kessler Dance Studio and the appointment of visiting artists this 
fall, the Kessler Program will highlight dance at Agnes Scott for years to come. 
Agnes Scott College received an accumulated gift of $368,800 dollars as a gift from 
Richard and Martha Kessler in honor of Martha, a 1969 graduate of Agnes Scott and a 
trustee since 1986. The gift has established the Martha Wilson Kessler Dance Studio, 
providing funds for facility and program enhancement over the next five years. The Kessler 
Dance Studio was dedicated in April then renovated over the summer. 
Part of the gift was used to make performances possible in the Kessler Studio by 
adding a lighting and sound system, teasers and tormentors, a new marley floor, and 
motorized shades. The funds have also been used to purchase instructional equipment 
including video recording equipment, tapedecks and CD players, pilates and two new 
studio pianos. 
Of the remaining portions of the gift, $100 thousand was allocated to the College's 
endowment for the program and the balance is being used to provide residencies by visiting 
artists, ballet and modem dance accompanists, commissions of choreographic works, and 
student internships. Programmatic changes in the dance program began in the fall of 1993 
with the residency of Jane Comfort, New York choreographer, who has 
worked with Merce Cunningham, Maggie Black, and Janet Panetta. She set 
(over) 
a new dance for Agnes Scott's Studio Dance Theatre titled "Pretty Is As Pretty Does." Also 
Jude Woodcock and Robby Barnett, two of four artistic directors for Pilobolus, worked at 
Agnes Scott last spring in a four-week residency to adapt a Pilobolus piece for Studio 
Dance Theatre. 
A private inaugural performance in the newly refurbished and state-of-the-art 
Kessler Dance Studio is planned for 8:15 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 3. Titled "Pivotal Points," 
the performance features visiting artists Simi and David Roche and the Ronin/Redfins from 
the University of Adelaide in Australia, in concert with Agnes Scott's own Studio Dance 
Theatre. Ronin is the "pick-up company" from the University of Adelaide comprised of 
eleven dancers, including the Roches. Redfins is the musical ensemble of five jazz-rock 
musicians which has worked as composers for live dance performances and as the 
accompanists for dance classes at Adelaide University for 11 years. 
This spring Simi and David Roche are the visiting artists-in-residence in the Kessler 
Program. The Roches are currently on the faculty at the University of Adelaide. David is 
the senior lecturer and head of the department of dance, as well as the co-director of 
"Champagne Fairs" in the Madley Dance Space. At Agnes Scott this fall as a visiting artist- 
in-residence, David is a former dancer with the Pearl Lang Dance Company and the Martha 
Graham Apprentice Company, among many others. He has taught at Florida State 
University, where he founded and directed the FSU Dance Touring Theatre. Other teaching 
experience includes work with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre and as a visiting 
artist in schools around the U.S. He has set numerous pieces during his career and will 
choreograph a piece for Studio Dance Theatre to be performed at its spring concert. 
Simi is a tenured lecturer in dance at the University of Adelaide and coordinator for 
the touring programme of the dance department. Having set nearly 40 pieces, Simi has built 
on her experience teaching and performing modern dance in colleges across the U.S. 
including Florida State University, the University of Utah, and in Boulder, Colorado, and 
(more) 
Toronto, Canada. Her dance experience includes work with Merce Cunningham, Bella 
Lewitsky, Martha Graham, Pearl Lang, among many others. While at Agnes Scott, Simi 
will set an original piece for the Nov. 3 concert titled "Women Without Shoes" based on a 
phrase from the History of Atlanta -1879 in which the only reference to the female 
population is as "pioneer babes" and "women without shoes." 
The Roches will teach a modem dance master class open to experienced dancers in 
the Atlanta area from 1:30-3:30 p.m., Nov. 4, in the Kessler Dance Studio in the Alston 
Campus Center. Dancers at the intermediate level with several years of dance experience are 
invited to register for the class by calling 638-6430. The cost is $8. The class, led by David 
Roche who will be assisted by Simi, will be accompanied by Red.fins. Class size is limited 
due to space. Booking in advance is essential. 
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