October 9, 2006
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• Lyon College to host Kirkin’ o’ The Tartans ceremony • Arkansas Symphony concert scheduled Oct. 19 • Harlequin Theatre production to examine state sponsored torture • Wickes students show appreciation to Lyon • Needed: Jobs, Internships, & Mentors • Professor Valle's art on display in Kresge
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Lyon College to host Homecoming '06 Oct. 20-22
Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Mary Steenburgen, who will be given an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, was born in Newport, Ark., and raised in North Little Rock where she attended North Little Rock public schools. She was discovered in 1978 by Jack Nicholson when he cast her as his leading lady in a film he directed, Goin’ South. Mary currently lives in Malibu, Calif., with her husband, actor Ted Danson. Lyon College’s Homecoming ’06 weekend will run Oct. 20 – 22, beginning on Friday at 8 p.m., when a student talent showcase takes the stage at the Brown Chapel auditorium. Registration for a Fun Run at Becknell Gym kicks off Saturday’s activities at 7:30 a.m., and the run follows at 8 a.m., and a kids run starts at 8:15 a.m. The Office of Career Development will host an open house at 8:45 a.m., and the Office of Enrollment Services will host a breakfast for prospective students in Bradley Manor at 9 a.m. Throughout the morning, parent/faculty conferences and various reunions will be held on the Lyon Building Lawn and in various faculty offices. The annual Founders’ Day Convocation will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, in Couch Garden. Alumni awards will be presented during the convocation, including the Distinguished Alumni Awards, Honorary Alumni Awards, and the Patterson Decade Awards. The Lyon College Friend of Education Award will be presented to two educators: Ted Hall, superintendent of the Batesville School District, and Dr. Dorothy Landis Gray, professor emerita of music at Lyon. Distinguished Alumni Awards will be presented to R. Howard and Janie Hopkins of Morristown, N.J. Mr. Hopkins is 1962 graduate of Lyon College who went on to become a respected attorney and business executive. Mrs. Hopkins ’63 has long been active in the Presbyterian Church and in community service. Honorary Alumni Awards will be presented to Howard and Mary House of Batesville. Mr. House is a highway contractor and developer; Mrs. House has been active in community affairs and politics at the local and state level. They are the parents of Dianne Lamberth, a member of Lyon’s Board of Trustees. Jennifer Thompson and Shea Hembry, both ’96, will be honored as the Patterson Decade Award winners. Thompson is from Jonesboro and is currently living in San Marcos, Texas. Hembry hails from Newport and is currently pursuing an M.F.A. degree at Cornell University. Also at the ceremony, Dr. Virginia Wray will be installed as the William Clark Brown Jr. Professor of English. The Lyon College Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner will be held Saturday evening. Danny Daniels, Charlie Traub and Kristie Jenkins will all be inducted into the Lyon College Athletic Hall of Fame. Elmer Kirk will receive the Hall of Fame Service Award. Daniels played basketball for Lyon College. He comes from Brosely, Mo., and now lives in Batesville. Jenkins, a native of Cave City, played basketball and ran cross country while at Lyon. Traub, who comes from Batesville, played basketball for the College. As part of homecoming, the Lyon College Concert Chorale invites all former members of Arkansas College/Lyon College Choir to be a part of the Alumni Reunion Choir. Rehearsal will be from 2 – 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, in the choir room. Directed by Dr. Dorothy Landis Gray, the Alumni Reunion Choir will sing during the traditional Sunday morning Kirkin o’ the Tartans worship service the following Sunday morning. For more information, contact Joel Plaag, director of the Lyon College Concert Chorale, at (870) 698-4259 or e-mail jplaag@lyon.edu. At approximately 2:15 on Saturday, the Homecoming Court Coronation will be held at Huser Field between games by the men’s and women’s soccer teams, both of which will play TranSouth Conference rival Trevecca Nazarene University that afternoon. At 5 p.m., the Athletic Hall of Fame Reception will be held at Bradley Manor, immediately followed by the awards dinner at Edwards Dining Hall. Saturday’s schedule concludes with the Homecoming ’06 Dance, which begins at 9 p.m. in Becknell Gym. The Kirkin’ o’ the Tartans service opens Sunday’s activities at 10:30 a.m., in Brown Chapel. The Rev. Lee Kinney of Pine Bluff will deliver the sermon. A community brunch will follow the service at 11:30 a.m. in Couch Garden. Club 50 will meet at noon to celebrate the induction of the Class of 1956 in Edwards Dining Hall. The luncheon is by invitation only. Club 50 is an organization of alumni who graduated 50 years ago or more.Information for tickets to all Homecoming events is available at www.lyon.edu. Click on the Homecoming 2006 link to the schedule and ticket information. |
Lyon College to host Kirkin’ o’ The Tartans ceremony
Some say the ceremony is an American tradition, while others trace its roots back to 18th century Scotland, but despite its origin, the Kirkin’ o’ The Tartans ceremony is alive and thriving at Lyon College.
And on Sunday, Oct. 22, Lyon will host the 25th annual Kirkin’ o’ the Tartans worship service at 10:30 a.m., on Sunday, October 23, in Brown Chapel at during Homecoming weekend. The public is invited to attend this traditional Scottish worship service.
Each year on the Sunday closest to Founders’ Day, Lyon hosts the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartans worship service so that faculty, staff and students and the Batesville community may gather in worship with the First Presbyterian Church of Batesville.
The purposes of this service are to rededicate the campus community to the service of God and to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and to remind us of our foundational ties to the First Presbyterian Church, Batesville. This is an important event in the life of the College.
The Reverend Lee Kinney, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Pine Bluff, will preach the sermon. Rev. Bob Cox, Rev. Nancy McSpadden and Dr. Walter Roettger, along with some campus ministry students, will participate in the service.
Dr. Russell Stinson, Josephine Emily Brown Professor of Music, will serve as organist.
The combined choirs of the First Presbyterian Church, Lyon College Concert Chorale, and the Alumni Reunion Choir under the direction of Dr. Dorothy Landis Gray will perform during the service. Ceil Smith, adjunct instructor of piano and music director, First Presbyterian Church will be accompanying on the piano for some of the numbers, and Barbara Reeve, adjunct instructor of strings will accompany on the violin. Pipe Major Jimmy Bell and Kenton Adler, a pipe band member, also will perform.
The word kirkin’ comes from the Scottish word for church, kirk.
Though the ceremony is a modern American tradition, its origins trace back to Scottish history. The Scots – both Catholic and Protestant – observed Sunday as the Lord’s Day, a day of rest and worship, when they wore their dress kilts, which were made of finer quality wool than their everyday attire.
Because of the significance of the family tartan in uniting the clans, a special event was held each year where the Scots, dressed in their finest tartans, rededicated themselves to service to God.
This service was known to have taken place during the time of the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s. However, following the failure of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 when the English defeated the Scots, the Disarming Act of 1746 forbade them from wearing their tartans. That gave birth to legends that Scots secretly took swatches of their tartans to church in the 18th century when the wearing of tartans was illegal. At a predesignated time in the service, clansmen and clanswomen would touch their concealed tartans while the minister blessed the cloth in Scottish Gaelic.
Those legends bloomed into reality on April 27, 1941, in Washington, D.C., when Presbyterian minister Dr. Peter Marshall presided over the first formal Kirkin’ o’ The Tartans ceremony. Marshall was also chaplain of the U.S. Senate, chaplain of the St. Andrew’s Society and subject of both a book and a movie called A Man Called Peter.
Central to the theme of kirkin’ is the presentation of the Tartans of Clan, Region and Regiment, symbolizing rededication of Scots everywhere to God’s service.
Following the Kirkin' service will be a Community Picnic in Couch Garden. Tickets may be purchased in advance from Tami Hall on the Lyon campus in the Nichols Building, on the Web site at www.lyon.edu, at Homecoming registration on Saturday at the Welcome Tent in Couch Garden, or at the Community Picnic on Sunday.
Tickets are $7 for adults, and $3 for children age 12 and under. For more information call Tami Hall at (870) 698- 4211 or e-mail her at:
thall@lyon.edu.For more information, contact Claudia Marsh at (870) 793-1767 or e-mail:
cmarsh@lyon.edu.Arkansas Symphony Orchestra concert scheduled Oct. 19
The
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will perform in concert Thursday, Oct. 19, at 7:30
p.m. in Brown Chapel Auditorium. First Community Bank, Lyon College and
the Batesville Symphony League will host the concert.
Directed by David Itkin, the orchestra will perform the Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2, featuring flute soloist Carolyn Brown (left), and the Beethoven Symphony No. 8. The event will be first in the activities associated with Homecoming Weekend.
Maestro Itkin will not present a pre-concert lecture as he has in years past. Instead, the North Arkansas Youth Orchestra will give a demonstration at 6:45 p.m. in Bevens Music Room prior to the ASO concert.
ASO tickets are free to Lyon students, faculty and staff. They are available to the public at the following locations: Citizens Bank; Liberty Bank; Kendall Financial; First Southern Bank; Eastman; Eagle Mountain Assisted Living; Roller-Couch Funeral Home; ConAgra Foods, Harry Reeve, violins; KFFB 100.1 FM; Rick Reeve Bow Shop; Batesville Daily Guard; Atlas Asphalt Inc.; WRD Entertainment Inc.; GDX Automotive; Merchant’s and Planter’s Bank; ASCIIi mailing; and Select Shots.
Tickets may also be reserved in advance by e-mailing Keith Melson at First Community Bank at kmelson@firstcommunity.net.
Tickets may be picked up at the box office on the day of the concert.
Harlequin Theatre production to examine state sponsored torture
The issue of secret, illegal detention and torture will take center stage at Lyon College this fall when the Harlequin Theatre presents its production of "Death and the Maiden."
Performances will be held in the Holloway Theatre on Nov. 3, 4 and 6 at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2 p.m.
Written by Ariel Dorfman, the play is an intellectual thriller exploring the moral and ethical consequences of government-supported torture.
This production will be an entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to be held at the University of Central Arkansas Nov. 7-11.
The cast will include Emily Fleming as Paulina Salas; J.T. Tarpley as Geraldo Escobar; and Jance Floyd as Roberto Miranda.
Crew members include:
• Stage Manager -Tom James
• Asst. Stage Manager - Jason Bugeja
• Costume Construction/Make-up - Douglas Harding
•Asst. Costumes - Hunter Stillwell
• Props - Nell Tebbetts
• Master Electrician/Props Asst. - Amy Hancock
• Sound recorder/operator - Roger Simons
• Asst. Sound Recording - Dej Brauburger
• Light Board Operator - Melissa Kuehl
• Grips - Joe Sanchez, Shane Russell
• Production Photographer - Jessica Brents
• House Manager - Alissa Walter
Dr. Michael L. Counts will direct the production and Gary M. Harris will be as designer.
Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students/seniors. For reservations call (870) 793-1749.
Wickes students show appreciation to Lyon
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| Students in math teacher Gary Punchard's calculus class at Wickes High School wear Lyon t-shirts to show appreciation to the College for inviting them to the recent lecture by Jaime Escalante, the Hall of Fame math teacher. The students traveled from Wickes in south Arkansas to the Lyon campus for the September convocation. This photo is on Mr. Punchard's website, www.punchard.com/classes/calc/index.htm. |
Needed: Jobs, Internships, & Mentors
To Lyon College Alumni:
The Lyon College Career Services program is asking for input from Lyon alumni to help identify career and internship opportunities for current Lyon Students. Results of the alumni surveys clearly indicate that alumni would like to become more involved with Lyon, and this would be a great opportunity. If your company or organization has employment and/or internship opportunities that you would recommend, please contact Greg Maloney, Career Services Director, at gmaloney@lyon.edu; (870) 698-4207.
We are also actively seeking alumni to serve as mentors for current Lyon students. This would require a minimal time investment, such as periodic e-mails or lunch (if you reside in the area), but again, would mean a great deal to the student. For more information or to become a mentor, please contact Greg Maloney, Career Services Director, at gmaloney@lyon.edu; (870) 698-4207.
Lyon art professor chronicles his wife's cancer treatment in 'Volume Two' art exhibition
| An artist and his wife's “journey through the treatment of cancer” inspired
a series of paintings that are on display at Lyon College. “Nodular Sclerosis: Volume Two,” a painting exhibition by Chris Valle, assistant professor of art, will run Oct. 1 - 30 at Kresge Gallery on the Lyon campus, with an opening reception slated for Oct. 19 from 6 - 8 p.m. Valle will address the audience at 6:15 p.m. that evening. Nodular Sclerosis is the type of Hodgkin's disease that consumed Valle's wife, Athena's, lymphatic system. These paintings are derived from their journey through the treatment of this cancer. These paintings extend the work exhibited in the Kresge Gallery last March. Those early pill-shaped paintings began as internal investigations of the lymphatic system, cells, and nodules. As the work evolved, they started to take on fragments of landscapes. Now, in “Volume 2,” the paintings are full-blown landscapes that contain ambiguous spaces: there are clues to elements of landscape, but they never quite become clear enough to piece together where the viewer is. These ambiguous landscapes refer to that space where patients go when their bodies are physically and mentally drained, when they are on medication, when they go in and out of consciousness, pieces of reality fusing with visions of the imagination. The “floating islands” within the paintings symbolize the feeling of isolation that comes with the treatment of cancer. “Like many patients, Athena felt alone, like no one knew what she was going through,” Valle said. “I also felt alone, because I couldn't share Athena's experience.” In fact, Valle added, he was unable to do anything, and most of the time she was on so much medication that she was not coherent. “So I sat in the hospital room all alone with my wife's body, a body on the verge of shutting down,” he said. “When I looked at my wife there in that dark room, covered in IVs and blankets up to her neck, all I could see was a profile silhouette of her face. In certain paintings silhouettes of my wife's body become part of the islands expressing this isolation.” The plant forms in the work are derived from two sources: the lymphatic system with its plant-like structure and the plants and flowers Valle spent a lot of time viewing in Athena's hospital room. Other forms allude directly to the treatment process, such as IVs, cells, and abstract forms that symbolize the cure. “The religious iconography that appears in a few paintings alludes to our faith-which got us through this whole ordeal.,” Valle said. Valle's paintings have been exhibited nationally in over 60 exhibitions in 14 different states. He received his B.F.A in Art from Valdosta State University and his M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Florida. The exhibition is free and open to the public. |
 One of Professor Valle's paintings currently on display in Kresge Gallery. |
Soccer
Pipers shut out Berea
BEREA, Ky. -- Forwards Angelique Armenta and Sarah Ruegger scored two goals apiece and goal keeper Stephanie Henderson saved seven shots in a 5-0 shutout of Berea College Saturday in a nonconference road contest.
Coupled with a 10-0 win over Pikeville College, the win made Lyon 2-0 on their weekend Kentucky road trip. The shutout was Lyon's sixth this year.
Piper sophomore Sarah Poncher had one goal and two assists to bring her school record goal total to 10 and her school-record point total to 24. Aurora Alba also had an assist for Lyon.
Head Coach Chris McNaughton’s Pipers improve to 11-2 overall this season and had 22 shots in the game.
The Pipers host Harding University at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Huser Field.
Buford sets two school records in WBC rout
WALNUT RIDGE -- Freshman Greg Buford tied two single-season school records with a two-goal and one-assist performance in the Lyon College Scots’ 10-2 triumph over the Williams Baptist Eagles Tuesday at Walnut Ridge.
Buford scored his second goal of the game and his eighth goal of the season in the 59
th minute to tie the single-season school record for goals set twice by current senior Nick Jones in 2003 and 2004. The shot into the net also gave Buford 21 points this year, tying a single-season record set by current senior Steve Banks in 2004.Buford's outing against WBC gave the Mesquite, Tex. freshman goals in each of his last three games and five goals total during that same span.
Banks and Dustin White also scored two goals each for Lyon. Malaz Moustafa, Peter Smith, Andrew Nazdam and Dustin Horton also scored one goal apiece for the Scots. Smith and freshman Gabe LeBlanc also had two assists, respectively.
The 10 goals were a season-high for the Scots, surpassing five other two-goal outings during the 2006 campaign.
Dustin Horton (4-1-0) played 60 minutes in goal for the Scots, allowing one goal and notching one save.
Lyon improves to 6-5-1 overall. Williams Baptist falls to 0-8-1.
The Scots play Harding at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Huser Field.
Volleyball
Lambuth rallies to stop Lyon
Up two games to zero on Saturday, the Lyon College Pipers were on the verge of avenging an Oct. 3 loss to the Lambuth University Lady Eagles.
But from that point, the game unraveled for Lyon and Lambuth roared back to take the next three sets to earn a 3-2 victory, and a TranSouth season sweep of the Pipers at Becknell Gymnasium.
Lyon flattened the Lady Eagles in game one 30-19 and took game two 30-26, but Lambuth earned 30-26, 30-25 wins in games three and four, then closed out the match with a 15-13 triumph in the final set.
Freshman Lauren Castleberry of Bono paced the Pipers in kills with 16. Castleberry’s teammate Daria Paunovic added 15 kills and five aces. Ann Sullivan of Jonesboro led the team with 23 digs and Katie Beineke, also of Jonesboro, had four solo blocks.
Lyon setters Julie Arnold and Jessica Sylvester had 22 and 21 assists, respectively.
The loss sends the Pipers to 14-7 overall and 6-4 in the TranSouth. Lambuth improves to 14-8 and 5-3.
The Pipers host Bethel College at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Becknell Gymnasium.
An
acclaimed actress and Arkansas native will take center stage at Lyon College’s
Homecoming ’06 as keynote speaker and honorary degree recipient.