November 13, 2006
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• Lyon Community Orchestra to perform • Time of ASU game, Jonesboro reception changed • Exhibition at Lyon College showcases artist’s need to ‘create and destroy’ • Lyon College research team seeks ways to create atmospheric change on Mars • Professor represents Lyon College at technology conference • Lyon music department to sponsor 'Festival of Lessons and Carols' • Lyon juniors win AICU/UPS Foundation grants • Local group helps fund missionary
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Lyon College to host Preview day Friday for high school seniors and juniors Last month, more than 100 area high school students and their families spent the day walking around the campus Lyon College, and they walked away with an idea of how getting a liberal arts education there would benefit the rest of their lives. On Friday, Nov. 17, Lyon College will host its second Preview Day for high school seniors and juniors on campus. Lyon’s Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students Dr. Bruce Johnston and Denny Bardos, vice president for Enrollment Services, will welcome the visitors in Nucor Auditorium. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. at the Lyon Business and Economics Building rotunda, located on the north side of campus. The schedule of events for the day includes presentations by faculty on the academic programs of the College, lunch on campus, and campus tours. Other presentations will focus on state, federal and institutional financial aid. Parents and students will also have the opportunity to participate in separate student and parent discussion panels at 9:30 a.m. The Student Panel for Students will be hosted in the Alphin Board Room. Current Lyon College students will share their experiences at Lyon. This presentation and discussion is intended to let potential students meet the people who matter most at Lyon College– the students. At the same time, a Student Panel for Parents will be hosted in Nucor Auditorium. Current Lyon College students will answer questions from parents regarding campus life. In addition, College admission representatives will be present to answer questions. Other presentations scheduled for the day include: • 10:15 a.m. – The Liberal Arts Advantage: Preparing for Careers, Leadership and Service. Held in Nucor Auditorium, hosted by Dr. Robert Gregerson, Lyon’s Willie Dillard Bryan Associate Professor of Biology, Greg Maloney, Director of Career Development and Mr. David Brogdon ’93. The following workshops will be held concurrently at 11 a.m.: • Student Life Session in the Alphin Board Room. Tailored to students. Student leaders and the Directors of Residence Life and Student Activities will highlight the numerous opportunities you will be given as a Lyon student to become involved in student clubs, organizations, and activities. • Athletics, Becknell Gymnasium Athletic Director, Terry Garner, will outline what it takes to be a varsity athlete at Lyon College. Talk with the coaches and student athletes about their teams and programs. This session is recommended for students and family members. • Financing Your Student’s College Education, Nucor Auditorium This session, for parents only, features a brief overview of the federal financial aid process. A checklist and timeline will be provided as a resource. Alternative loan programs, Payment Plan Options and the College’s generous scholarship and grants program will be discussed. • 11:30 a.m. – Lunch in Edwards Commons Dining Hall. • 12:30 p.m. – Campus Tour This will give parents and students a closer look at one of the most attractive campuses in the South. • 1:30 p.m. – Wrap Up and Next Steps, Nucor Auditorium The event will conclude at approximately 1:30 p.m. The Preview Day is free to all interested students and their families and lunch is provided. To register for the event, call the admissions office at (870) 698-4250 or (800) 423-2542. The next Preview Day is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 28, 2007. |
Lyon Community Orchestra to perform
The
Lyon Community Orchestra will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, in Brown
Chapel Auditorium at Lyon College.
Musicians from Lyon College, Batesville and the surrounding area will present a program of holiday favorites called "Music for Holidays." The concert is free and open to the public.
The program opens with the "Radetsky March" by Johann Strauss, Jr., a number often associated with the Christmas season. This will be followed by "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," used in both of Disney's "Fantasia" movies. This number will feature the sound of the bassoon.
"The Nutcracker Suite No. 1" from the Tchaikovsky ballet evokes holiday cheer featuring many of the dance numbers from "The Nutcracker" and allowing several members of the orchestra to solo. "Bugler's Holiday" stars the trumpet section of the orchestra – John Barttelt, Christopher Barton and Carl Mason – in an upbeat showpiece by Leroy Anderson.
Savoring the spiritual side of the Christmas season, the soprano voice of Anne Kootz returns to the stage in Mozart's "Alleluia" from Exsultate Jubilate. Handbell ringers join the orchestra for "Carol of the Bells," based on a Ukrainian folk carol.
The concert is supported by Lyon College and Batesville Symphony League sponsors. The orchestra meets once a week on Thursdays from 6:30-8 p.m. throughout the semester. Barbara Reeve is the director/instructor.
Time of ASU game, Jonesboro reception changed
Lyon College will host a reception Saturday, Nov. 18, at the Arkansas State University Convention Center in Jonesboro before the basketball game between the Scots and the ASU Indians.
Game time has been moved to 3:05 p.m. because of a conflict with an ASU football game. The Lyon reception will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Meeting Room B (Lower Red Entrance) at the center, which is at 217 Olympic Drive in Jonesboro.
The college’s Office of Alumni and Parent Services and its Office of Enrollment Services will host the joint reception. All Lyon alumni, parents of students and alumni and friends of the college are invited. Prospective students and their parents are also welcome to attend.
Hosts for reception are Bill and Mary Bristow ’72, ’69; Kris and Melissa Richardson, both ’98; Ben and Jill Bristow ’03; and Ben and Dixie Owens ’59. Free tickets for the basketball game will be given away during the reception.
Call 870-698-4240 or e-mail krush@lyon.edu to RSVP for the event.
Exhibition at Lyon College showcases artist’s need to ‘create and destroy’
The mysteries of Catholicism and the conflicted feelings he felt
as a young child surrounded by non-English speaking emigrants left an indelible
impression on Harry Ally.
And those feelings inspired the artwork that will soon be on display at Lyon College.
The exhibition, "Harry Ally: Paintings and Drawings," will be on
exhibit in the Kresge Gallery on the Lyon campus from Nov. 1 – Dec. 9, 2006. An
Opening Reception and Artist Talk is slated for Thursday, Nov. 16 at 6 p.m.,
also in the gallery.
"For me, painting is the primal impulse to mark," he said. "It’s a visual record of the mind, the body, and the human spirit. For me, there is an urgency to both create and destroy. Maybe it’s out of sheer frustration that I work. Maybe it’s just to satisfy a need to violate or to contradict."
Ally’s work is largely rooted in Catholicism and influenced by his feelings as a child growing up in New Jersey during the 1950s and ‘60s.
"The church played an important role in our community," he recalled. "It had strange traditions, unexplained rituals, with mass spoken in the foreign language of Latin."
As a child, Ally grew up surrounded by non-English speaking relatives. His paternal grandfather came from Burma and his three other grandparents were from the Ukraine.
"There were always so many people living in our house and most of them were old, whiskery, and couldn’t speak English but, they all had another thing in common – they all worshipped the Lord and in broken English spoke of drinking the blood of Jesus," Ally said.
Those people stayed in the attic, in the cellar and in a shanty out back. They seemed very unusual with their foreign ways and strange language, and, the "ominous Roman Catholic Church" seemed to be central in their lives.
Ally said he didn’t understand them, the church or the nuns who supposedly educated the children of the church.
"In truth, they ruled over the children with fear tactics with physical and mental abuse," Ally said. "As a child I felt uneasy, insecure, and somewhat insignificant surrounded by all these strange elders."
Still, Ally’s family was pretty typical in the ethnic
neighborhood where most of the families had three generations living together
with the oldest generation always speaking some foreign language and most of the
families were part of the church.
Some of his recent paintings, Cain and Able and Pieta, are
obviously Biblical in nature. The Sister paintings and Nicholas
were about nuns in the church
Are the paintings cathartic in nature, an exorcism of past demons?
"The sisters are almost all red headed in my paintings," Ally said. "My wife has red hair. Then there are the solitary figures, standing alone with existential overtones. But there are other significant things as well."
There are scratches, gouges, and cuts referring to Catholicism, stigmata and the Blood of Jesus. There are small crosses and marks on canvas that refer to the Holy Trinity, bound torsos communicating a kind of helplessness to the figure. In some of the paintings some arms are missing in reference to antiquity and vulnerability.
After more than 30 years of being a purist, using the traditional and sacred painting medium of oils, Ally stopped.
"I now use mostly water-based paints combined with more earthly materials such as dirt, clays, tar, and other more common materials found in the earth," he explained. "As the saying goes, we were made from the earth and we shall return to the earth. Even the process of painting itself has meaning. It’s all a history of marks, stains, and revisions, like life, death and a resurrection."
Compositionally, the figures are always centralized, intentionally awkward, and staring out at the viewer creating a somewhat uneasy feeling.
"For me, everything goes back to the beginning, to my specific circumstances and to my experiences from my past," the artist said. "Obviously, the mysteries of Catholicism has had a strong influence on my art and the feelings that I felt as a young child being surrounded by so many strange non-English speaking emigrants tucked away in every corner of our house also left a strong impression. My life and my art are all a reflection of feelings seeded in the past. These are the feelings that continue to emerge and reappear in my work today."
The exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Lyon College assistant professor of art Chris Valle at (870) 698-4336.
Lyon College research team seeks ways to create atmospheric change on Mars
‘Planetary engineering’ could make the Red Planet inhabitable
The environment of Mars may not be able to sustain life as we know it, but research being conducted now by a Lyon College professor and three of his students could help change that within the foreseeable future.
Dr. David Thomas, associate professor of biology, and students John Boling, Tiffany McSpadden and Laura McWilliams began their search for ways to make life possible on Mars by sending some photosynthetic microorganisms to SHOT, Inc., in Greenville, Ind., which operates a facility that simulates the Martian environment.
Thomas said that the Martian environment includes springtime temperature variations from 25 degree Celsius to 80 degrees below zero Celsius. By studying how the organisms reacted to the Martian environment, Thomas and his team began to formulate an idea of what creating atmospheric and climatic changes on Mars would require.
"The atmosphere is also almost pure carbon dioxide, and has an atmospheric pressure of less than one percent of Earth’s," he said. "We’d freeze dry in it."
Mars lacks an Ozone layer, so the planet’s surface is pounded by ultraviolet radiation as well, Thomas added.
"We would need to make the atmosphere of Mars at least ten times thicker than it is," he said. "That would warm it up."
The warmer temperatures would in turn allow water to exist in a liquid form on the planet’s surface, which would create environments and ecosystems where new life forms could generate and sustain themselves.
Thomas said some of the technology for thickening the Martian atmosphere exists now.
"Things we do negligently now, like emitting greenhouse gases into the Earth’s atmosphere that create global warming, could help thicken the atmosphere on Mars," he said.
Though the technology to create that atmospheric change will take time to develop – approximately 50 years – Thomas said the work he and his team have done so far gives them a clear picture of how to begin engineering the planet for future habitation.
"We established the point we need to get to before natural life processes can take over," he said.
Dr. Thomas' research was published in August 2006 issue of the journal, Gravitational and Space Biology.
Professor represents Lyon College at technology conference
Dr. Paul Bube, Lyon’s W. Lewis McColgan Professor of Religion, recently attended a conference titled "Elevating Education with Educator" at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wis.
Bube and Dr. Patrick Houlihan, professor of music at Ouachita Baptist University, attended the conference as representatives of colleges in the Arkansas Faculty Development Collaboratives in Technology. The Arkansas' Independent Colleges and Universities (AICU) sponsored the trip.
"Educator" is the name of the course management system that several of the member colleges of the AICU decided to adopt after reviewing together alternative systems such as WebCT and Blackboard, Bube said.
"The conference offered us an opportunity to see how other colleges are implementing the Educator system in their teaching and learning environments," he said. "It also gave us the chance to learn about new tools that have recently been added to the system, and new tools that will soon be released."
Bube has been a member of the Lyon College faculty since 2001 after serving as professor of religious studies and chair of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at Kansas Wesleyan University.
Lyon music department to sponsor 'Festival of Lessons and Carols'
The soft,
melodic sounds of flutes and voices will soon celebrate the Christmas season in
Batesville with old fashioned carols and Bible stories.
On Sunday, December 3, at 4 p.m., the annual "Festival of Lessons and Carols," sponsored by the music department of Lyon College, will be held at the Christian Science Society of Batesville, located on the corner of College and 18th streets.
The program uses the traditional English format of nine
Christmas carols and nine Christmas readings from the Bible. The church features
superb acoustics and an internationally renowned Dutch pipe organ situated in
the rear gallery.
Performing the prelude and three of the carols will be the Lyon College
Flute Choir, under the direction of Laura Bauman Stinson. This ensemble is now
in its 10th year and numbers roughly 10 flutists. The group performs on flutes
at different pitch, including alto and bass flute. Its membership includes Lyon
students and faculty as well as community members.
Also participating will be two Lyon students, classical guitarist Seth Flood and soprano Katie Wheeler. Mr. Flood will perform a setting of "What Child is This" and accompany Wheeler on "Silent Night." Wheeler will also sing "O Holy Night."
At the organ will be Russell Stinson, the college Organist, who will play Christmas carols before the service, accompany the congregation on three carols, and perform a Bach postlude after the service.
The readers of the scripture passages include flute choir members Martha Beck, Megan Bullock, Jeanne Fitzgerald, and Anelisa Wood, Lyon student Seth Flood, English professor Dr. Terrell Tebbetts, and Batesville community members Connie Schirmer and Bob Williamson. George Lankford, a retired Lyon professor, will preside.
Admission is free and open to the public. For more information on the show, contact Stinson at (870) 698-4261.
Local group helps fund missionary who was once a Lyon faculty member
(Reprinted from the Batesville Daily Guard. Originally published Nov. 9, 2006)
By Janice Fae Mitchell, Guard staff writer
Dr. Roberta Bustin returned to Romania — a country due to join the European Union in January 2007 — but not before she presented a slide show to the Batesville Rotary Club.
Bustin is a missionary for the First Church of the Nazarene and a fellow Rotarian. (Bustin, a 1964 Lyon graduate, is also professor emerita of chemistry at Lyon College, where she served on the faculty for many years. She was Lyon's first Arkansas Professor of the Year in 1989.)
Romania is located near the Black Sea in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova and Bulgaria. Bustin lives and works in Sighisoara, which is in the middle of the country in Transylvania.
"It is a beautiful, beautiful city founded back in the 13th century," she said. "I just feel like I’m getting up every morning and walking out of the pages of a history book because I live in the old city."
She and her colleagues started a ministry in the village of Tigmandru located about 30 minutes out of Sighisoara in a rural area along a major European highway. Tigmandru is a multi-ethnic village of Hungarian, Romanian and Rroma (Gypsy) peoples. Bustin estimates the population at about 1,200.
She said the people are hard-working, bright and likeable, but many of them have little or no education, and because of the lack of jobs and other resources many are poor and leave the country to work.
"There are many challenges in the village," she said.
The missionaries began by renting a room in the community center and conducting Bible studies and other activities. About 100 children participate in the program and she is impressed with their good behavior and potential. Some of the children are in a tutoring program.
"A lot of the children really don’t have a very good beginning, coming from homes where the parents have not been to school and thus the parents don’t encourage them and don’t know how to help them."
Bustin said the missionaries soon realized it was a needy community and started searching for acreage to purchase and build a multifaceted ministry center. They found just what they were looking for off the main road. Locals dug the water well and made the cement blocks surrounding it, and building labor was provided by Christian organizations.
The four-story center’s structure is complete and the inside is being worked on. She said the building will have many things the community will benefit from, including a sanctuary, Sunday school room, sewing workshop (for local women to make and sell items to provide a family income), medical clinic, ecology laboratory (for water testing and health education), youth activity room, day care (which they hope to develop into a preschool/kindergarten center) and an apartment for the live-in pastor In addition, three greenhouses grace the land and gardens have been planted in the extra space.
The building will be heated with wood so they will plant trees and in teach planning for the next generation in the process.
"One of our dreams is to write a grant and buy a van, so we could take the children to Sighisoara for school," she said.
Bustin said a rotary club in Scotland is going to help furnish the medical clinic and the Batesville club and a group in Mountain View are helping with the sewing workshop.
President Audrey Pool presented Bustin with a check for
$2,600 — $1,300 from donations and a matching amount from the club — at the
conclusion of the program.
Volleyball
Lyon College places two on All-Conference team
Two Lyon College Pipers' volleyball players were named to the All-TranSouth
Conference second team and five were honored with TranSouth Scholar Athlete
designations.
Daria Paunovic, a junior outside hitter from Pale, Bosnia, and Katie Beineke, a
freshman middle blocker from Jonesboro, were honored with spots on the second
team All-Conference squad.
Paunovic led Lyon in kills and service aces during the regular season. It was
Paunovic's second selection to the All-Conference team, joining a first-team nod
in 2005. Beineke receives her first selection to the All-Conference team. The
Lyon freshman was second on the team in both kills and total blocks during the
regular season.
Piper seniors Alyson Boone, Alison Sablick and Madeline Homer and junior
teammates Paunovic and Ann Sullivan were named as TranSouth Scholar Athletes.
Pipers eliminated from tournament play by Union
LEBANON, Tenn. -- Union captured its second victory in a row against the Lyon
College Pipers in the TranSouth Tournament, winning 3-0 in the quarterfinals on
Saturday at the Dallas Floyd Recreation Center. Union's Lady Bulldogs swept the
Pipers (19-13) for the second straight time in the tourney -- 30-27, 30-23 and
30-23 -- to advance to the semifinals. Before the tournament began, Union had
not beaten Lyon, losing twice during the regular-season TranSouth Conference
double round-robin schedule. Lauren Castleberry led the Pipers in kills for the
second consecutive contest, notching 11 kills to go with 14 digs. Outside hitter
Daria Paunovic added nine kills and senior Alyson Boone had eight.
Setter Julie Arnold led the Pipers in assists with 18 and teammate Jessica
Sylvester had 12. Ann Sullivan was the team-leader in digs with 16.__Lyon, sits
at 19-13 overall and is currently ranked ninth in Region XI. The Pipers have to
wait until Monday, when the final regional rankings are released, to see if it
will qualify for the regional tournament. Only the top six teams from the region
will qualify, but Trevecca Nazarene (ranked 5th in the region) and Lambuth (7th)
were defeated before Lyon in the Conference Tournament. Whether the
quarterfinalist performance was good enough to get Lyon into the regional is
anyone's guess, according to Pipers' head coach Justin Dee.
"We're not sure," said Dee of his team's regional fate, "we had a few teams lose
before us in the conference tournament -- Lambuth and Trevecca, but that might
not get us in. I guess we'll just have to wait until Monday to find out."
Cross Country
Lyon's Palmer qualifies for National meet
Beau Palmer's ninth-place performance at the Region XI meet has qualified the
Lyon College cross country runner for the NAIA Cross Country Nationals on Nov.
18, at Louisville, Ky. Palmer, a freshman from Arlington, Texas, ran a time of
26:51.80 in the Regional XI meet.
Palmer has also been honored with the 2006 TranSouth Conference Newcomer of the
Year Award and was named to the All-Conference team for finishing among the top
seven runners in the TranSouth at the regional. “Our conference was full of
great new runners this year,” said Lyon College cross-country head coach Tim
Servis, “and Beau was the best new runner. This award is very prestigious and
very hard to get.”
Basketball
Golden Eagles clip Scots' wings, 78-55
SILOAM SPRINGS -- Shooting woes kept the Lyon College Scots at arm's length for
most of the night in a 78-55 loss to the John Brown University Golden Eagles
Saturday in a nonconference game.
Lyon shot 22-of-53 (41.5 percent) overall, 3-of-17 (17.6 percent) from the
3-point line and 8-of-17 (47.1 percent) from the charity stripe.
Junior point guard Trey Salley was the only Scot who scored in double figures,
collecting 18 points on 8-of-10 shooting from the field and was 2-of-2 from the
foul line.
JBU forward Cody Page led all scorers with 28 points and added eight rebounds.
Guard Adam Workman pitched in a double-double with 16 points and 12 boards. Joel
Tesis rounded out the Golden Eagles with double-digit scoring nights, scoring 11
points and eight rebounds.
Scots crown Royals, 75-67
Thirty-two points from the Lyon College Scots' bench made up for the absence of
leading scorer Jonathan Donaldson in a 75-67 victory over the Ecclesia College
Royals Thursday evening in a nonconference game at Becknell Gymnasium.
Donaldson sat out the game for a violation of team rules, but a team-high 15
points from Preston Butts and 12 points and six rebounds from freshman Alex
Kelly off the bench helped make up for his absence.
The Scots also got 13 points from starting point guard Trey Salley and 11 more
from starting forward Charles Black, who landed in double figures for the fourth
game in a row. Black also led the team with eight rebounds.
Lyon forward Levi Taylor pitched in nine points and six boards and center
Brandon Thomas added eight points. Matt Owens earned a game-high six assists to
go with four points and five rebounds.
Head coach Kevin Jenkins' Scots shot 16-of-31 (51.6 percent) from the field in
the first half en route to a 41-37 lead and hit 25-of-54 shots in the game (46.3
percent).
Pipers roll in second straight victory
The Lyon College Pipers made it two victories in a row on the season, winning
78-56 over the Central Baptist College Lady Mustangs Tuesday evening in the
Pipers' home-opener at Becknell Gymnasium. Lyon's win, coupled with victory the
previous weekend over Southwestern Christian, sends the squad to 2-1 overall.
The triumph was also the Pipers' second straight by 20 points or more.
Piper forward Maribeth Waters picked up a game-high 23 points and pulled down
eight rebounds. Lyon teammate Nikki Baker, of Batesville, shot 4-of-6 from the
3-point arc and 7-of-13 from the field en route to scoring 18 point. Guard April
Carter, coming off a 25-point performance on Saturday, added 14 points and
dished out seven assists.
Katrina Crawford led CBC with 22 points on 8-of-12 shooting. Jessica Cobb added
10 points and 11 rebounds.
The Pipers shot 28-of-70 from the floor and 10-of-29 from the 3-point arc.
Meanwhile, CBC hit only 18-of-49 shots and was 3-of-8 from 3-point land.
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