March 12, 2007
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• Heasley Prize winner to present lecture and reading at Lyon College • Former Lyon College Trustee leaves legacy of service • Hogwarts Day to work its magic at Lyon College • Lyon to host screening of ‘Inconvenient Truth’ • Senior art exhibitions to be featured in Kresge Gallery • Blevins is featured speaker at Presbyterian Historical Meeting • Lyon grad tapped as executive director for United Way of Independence County • Winfrey appointed to Accreditation Review Council of Higher Learning Commission •Jazz Quartet to accompany Hitchcock classic • Kim Edmondson wins Women’s Sports Foundation/WBCA Graduate Assistant of the Year Honor |
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Bach Birthday Bash 2007 set for March 18
The college’s annual Bach Birthday Bash will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at the Christian Science Society at 18th and College streets in Batesville. Dr. Russell Stinson, the Brown Professor of Music and college organist, will perform "Fantasy in G minor," and "Prelude No. in C Major" from the "Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1."Guitarist Seth Flood will play both classical and Jimi Hendrix-style rock versions of some of Bach’s pieces, and Nathaniel Reinhardt and Robert Bailey also will be featured on organ. Choral director Joel Plaag and accompanist Ceil Smith will lead the Lyon College Concert Chorale. Bach was born March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Germany, and died in 1750 at the age of 65. He spent the majority of his working life in a Lutheran church position in Leipzig, as both organist and music director. Much of his music is overtly religious and many of his secular works also center on religious interpretations as well. His catalog of organ music has become the measure by which all later compositions for the instrument are judged. The Bach Bash event is free and open to the public. Heasley Prize winner to present lecture and reading at Lyon College
On Tuesday, March 20, Haruf will present a lecture in the Bevens Music Room at 11 a.m. And that evening at 7:30 p.m., he’ll give a reading of his work, also in the Bevens Music Room. A self-proclaimed "ministry brat," Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister. He grew up in eastern Colorado, where his novels are set. He studied literature at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, where he would later teach. He took graduate courses at the University of Kansas and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he studied with John Irving, Vance Bourjaily, Dan Wakefield, and others. For two years he taught English in Turkey as a member of the Peace Corps. He was 41 before his first piece of fiction was published, in Puerto del Sol. His most recent novels are "Eventide" and "Plainsong," winner of the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and a finalist for the National Book Award in 1999, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The New Yorker Book Award. His novel "The Tie That Binds" received a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. He retired from his teaching position at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and now lives with his wife, Cathy, outside Sedelia, Colo. Of the great popularity of his work, Haruf says, "I've been around long enough to know that this is in part a matter of luck. I don't think it's turned my head. Fame is very seductive and can be very dangerous if you're trying to get your work done." The Leila Lenore Heasley Prize is awarded annually to a distinguished representative of American or international letters, theater or cinema. Each spring, the Heasley Prize recipient gives a free public lecture, reading or performance at Lyon College. Dr. Martha Heasley Cox, professor emeritae of English at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif., established the prize in 1995 in memory of her sister, Leila Lenore, and in honor of other family members. Lyon College Writer-in-Residence Andrea Hollander Budy has chaired the committee since its inception. She also coordinates the Visiting Writers Series and the Lyon College Visiting Fellowship in Creative Writing. The lecture and reading are free and open to the public. |
Former Lyon College Trustee leaves legacy of service
An
area man whose successes in business and community service began at Lyon College
died Monday, March 5, leaving behind a legacy of community service and Christian
values.
Paul L. Bone, who served on the Lyon Board of Trustees from 1991 to 2002, was born May 27, 1934, in Mount Pleasant and graduated from Batesville High School. He was a 1956 graduate of Arkansas College, now Lyon.
During his time at the College, Bone served as Mr. Arkansas College for 1955-56, and as senior class president. In 1956, he was named a Second Team All American and was the second leading basketball scorer for the AIC that year.
His wife of 50 years, Faye Shoemaker Bone, graduated from
Arkansas College in 1958. She survives him, as does his son Steven and his wife
Pam and their daughter Abigail Bone; and his daughter Adrianne, her husband Andy
and their sons Charles and Matthew Wilbers.
He was preceded in death by his parents, the Rev. R.A. and Meda Edwards Bone.
"Lyon College has lost a great friend," said Dr. Walter B. Roettger, Lyon president. "Paul Bone was a man of unusual integrity and great warmth. We are all the poorer for his passing. We'll miss him but treasure his memory."
Following graduation from college, Bone served as a teacher-coach for Batesville Junior High for a year before he bought Thriftway Foods in Clinton, a small grocery store that he built into a successful supermarket that he owned and operated for 37 years.
His other business ventures included farming, real estate development and cattle ranching.
His church family has been the First Baptist Church in Clinton since 1957.
His public service included roles as: director of the Clinton City Council; president of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce; board member for Affiliated Food Stores Inc.; chairman of the Arkansas Retail Grocers Association; two-time winner of Arkansas Grocer of the Year; National Grocers Association "Spirit of America" winner; board member of Clinton State Bank; member of the Clinton School Board; member of the Clinton Water and Sewer Commission; member of the White River Planning and Development Board; member of the Van Buren County Hospital Board; member of the Arkansas State Department of Health Advisory Board; past president of Clinton Jaycees; past president of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce; and, eight years in the Arkansas National Guard.
In 1990, he was elected to Lyon’s Athletic Hall of Fame, and in 1994, he was awarded the Lyon College Founders Medal. The Founders Medal is awarded in recognition of extraordinary commitment to advancing the mission and resources of Lyon College. Mr. and Mrs. Bone were among the initial group to receive the honor.
When he left the Board of Trustees in 2002, he was named an trustee emeritus.
Emeritus status is reserved for trustees who have concluded their final period of service as a trustee and whose service to the board has been especially outstanding. Trustees emeriti have advisory status to the board.
Funeral services were at First Baptist Church in Clinton on Thursday, March 8.
Hogwarts Day to work its magic at Lyon College
Lyon College, a leader in liberal arts education, will soon host an event based on the fictional school that trained one of popular literature’s most famous wizards.
On March 17, Lyon will host "Hogwarts Day" for the "Muggle Kids" of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Batesville.
The event is named after the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the fictional school of magic that is the main setting of the Harry Potter series.
The Lyon College Student Activities Council hosted the event last time, but this year Mortar Board, a senior honor society focused on service, has taken it over. Amber Hood, Mortar Board president, is serving as coordinator of the event.
"Hogwarts Day is a great event because college students tend to like Harry Potter just as much as the kids do," Hood said. "We have various booths set up with games and crafts."
The event, which will be held in Couch Garden (weather permitting), will also feature a cookout lunch, and in the afternoon participants will play Quidditch, a very popular game in the wizarding world, Hood said.
"I’m very grateful for the many campus groups and organizations that are getting involved this year," she said. "It gladdens me to see so many Lyon students wanting to carry out the College's mission of giving back to the community. The signs around town say we're a good neighbor in the community, and Hogwarts Day helps us really live up to that."
Lyon to host screening of ‘Inconvenient Truth’
Lyon College’s Residence Life and Student Activities will soon host a screening of an Academy Award-winning documentary film about climate change and global warming.
On March 15 at 6 p.m., "An Inconvenient Truth," directed by Davis Guggenheim and presented by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, will hit the screen in Nucor Auditorium.
The third-highest-grossing documentary of all time, the film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened in New York and Los Angeles in May 2006.
Both Gore and Paramount Classics, the film’s distributor, have pledged proceeds from the film to further educational campaigns about climate change.
"An Inconvenient Truth" is also the title of a companion book Gore authored, which reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Following the film screening, Dr. Tim Lindblom, Dr. Floyd Beckford and Dr. Catherine Bordeau will host a discussion period.
The event is free and open to the public.
Senior art exhibitions to be featured in Kresge Gallery
Chris Valle, Lyon’s assistant professor of art, has announced the dates for a series of senior art exhibitions to be featured in Kresge Gallery.
Jance Floyd’s "Eine abstrakte Ansicht vom deutschen Expressionismus" opens March 12 at 6 p.m.
Jennifer Cross will present "Recent Paintings" with an opening reception slated for April 3 at 7 p.m.
And Eric Bork’s "Characters at Play" opens with a reception on April 19 at 6 p.m.
For more information, contact Valle at 698-4336.
Blevins speaks at Presbyterian Historical Meeting
Dr. Brooks Blevins was one of the invited speakers at the annual meeting of the Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest (PHSS) at Grace Presbyterian Church in Little Rock on Saturday, March 10. Dr. Blevins delivered an address on the history of Lyon College.
The PHSS is an agency of Cumberland Presbyterian Churches and of the Presbyterian Churches (USA) in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. The PHSS exists to "stimulate and encourage interest in the collection, preservation, and presentation of the Presbyterian and Reformed heritage in the four-state area."
Other presentations at the PHSS annual meeting addressed the history of Little Rock’s First Presbyterian Church, Ferncliff Camp & Conference Center, and the University of the Ozarks. For more information on the PHSS, write to Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest, 4807 San Felipe, Houston, TX 77056.
Lyon grad tapped as executive director for United Way of Independence County
The United Way of Independence County sorted through 15 resumes in its search for a new executive director, and they chose a Lyon College graduate. Karen Steele went to work at the end of February, taking over a position vacated when then-director Linda Maloney resigned to relocate out of state.
A 2002 graduate of Cord-Charlotte High School, Steele graduated from Lyon in 2006, earning a bachelor of arts in economics. She and husband, Nick, live in Sulphur Rock. Steele has previously held positions in the business office at Newport’s Harris Hospital as a registrar, and has also worked in retail.
She said she feels Lyon has done an excellent job in preparing her for her new job.
"The professors at Lyon pushed me to think outside the box," she said. "We had to analyze and organize problems differently than most students who just memorized and regurgitated. I credit this to the different approach of teaching at Lyon".
She praised the entire faculty, but singled out the efforts of Dr. Md. Mahbubul Kabir, assistant professor of economics, and Dr. Terrell Tebbetts, the Martha Heasley Cox Chair of American Literature.
"They both not only helped me in the classroom, but also were great mentors and friends," she said.
Steele hopes to see the community grow and prosper thanks, in part to the efforts of the United Way.
"The United Way has 15 partner agencies that are very beneficial to the residents of the community," she said. "I hope to see greater growth in donations and volunteers as we work to get the word out that everyone benefits from United Way and local agencies."
Although needs vary, a donation to United Way makes it possible for local agencies to meet the needs of the community, she added.
"This year I hope to see the community really come together and become a caring community," Steele said.
Winfrey appointed to Accreditation Review Council of Higher Learning Commission
Dr. Frank L. Winfrey, The Clark N. and Mary Perkins Barton Professor of Management at Lyon College, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Accreditation Review Council (ARC) of the Higher Learning Commission. The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) is one of two commissions of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), which was founded in 1895 as one of six regional institutional accrediting entities in the United States. The Higher Learning Commission accredits and grants membership in the Commission and in the North Central Association to degree-granting educational institutions in the North Central region composed of Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Mexico, South Dakota, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Wyoming.
As a member of the ARC, Dr. Winfrey will be a part of the Higher Learning Commission's distributed decision-making processes serving on Readers Panels and Review Committees. A Readers Panel consists of two reviewers who review all material related to an accreditation evaluation visit. Each panel member reviews the materials, and sends to the Commission office his/her recommendation regarding the appropriateness of the accreditation team's recommendation to Commission policy and practices. Review Committees meet three times a year as a six-member panel to discuss the recommendations of an accreditation team visit. During those meetings, the Review Committee holds a hearing with representatives of the institution and the team, and makes a decision about appropriate Commission action.
Jazz Quartet to accompany Hitchcock classic
The Doug Talley Quartet, often compared to the Modern Jazz Quartet, will perform their original jazz score for Alfred Hitchcock’s silent classic, "The Lodger," at the Ozark Foothills FilmFest on Friday, March 23. The screening/concert is set for 7:30 p.m. at Independence Hall on the campus of the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville. Admission is $10/$8 for senior adults and students of all ages/$6 for members of the Foothills Film Society.
The group will also will host an informal lecture/demonstration that seeks to increase listeners' understanding and appreciation of jazz music earlier that day. "How to Listen to Jazz" is set for 4 p.m. at MorningSide Coffeehouse, 106 Saint Louis St. Admission is free.
The Doug Talley Quartet, based in Kansas City, consists of Talley on saxophone, Wayne Hawkins on piano, Tim Brewer on bass, and Keith Kavanaugh on drums. The group has performed at jazz festivals around the country and has recorded four CD’s, including the acclaimed Kansas City Suite.
"The Lodger" was made following Hitchcock’s visit to Germany and its richly textured, fog-enshrouded atmosphere owes a great deal to the German Expressionist cinema. In the words of Hitchcock scholar Donald Spoto, "'The Lodger' is in every way a remarkable achievement. Witty, visually inventive, genuinely disturbing despite its conventions, understated and economical (especially in its use of dialogue intertitles), it withstands multiple viewings and is virtually a textbook for Hitchcock's later work. There is, most of all, his favorite theme: an innocent man wrongly accused of a crime." The film has recently been restored by the British Film Institute.
This will be the third time the festival has presented silent films with live musical accompaniment. The Alloy Orchestra performed at the 2004 and 2005 festivals along a number of films including Buster Keaton’s "The General" and Douglas Fairbanks "The Black Pirate."
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Festival programs continue in Batesville through Sunday, March 25, and in Little Rock March 29 through April 1. The complete schedule is available online at
www.ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org. Print copies of the schedule are available at MorningSide Coffeehouse, Daylight Donuts, Janine’s Café, UACCB, and other locations around Batesville and at the Market Street Cinema in Little Rock.Ozark Foothills FilmFest is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit educational corporation, founded in 2001. Sponsorship contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. First Community Bank of Batesville is the organization’s founding sponsor. Presenting sponsors are the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville, Lyon College, and the Arkansas Department of Economic Development.
Kim Edmondson named the Women’s Sports Foundation/WBCA Graduate Assistant of the Year
ATLANTA, Ga. - Kim Edmondson of the University of Arkansas at Monticello has been named the 2007 Women’s Sports Foundation/Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Graduate Assistant of the Year as selected by the Women’s Sports Foundation. The award, along with $1,000, is presented annually to a female graduate assistant coach to recognize her contributions to a collegiate women's basketball program and her commitment to becoming a coach of women's basketball. The $1,000 will be awarded to the University of Arkansas at Monticello women’s basketball program.
"We are proud to announce Kim Edmondson as the 2007 recipient of the Women’s Sports Foundation/WBCA Graduate Assistant of the Year Award," said CEO Beth Bass. "We are always supportive of those individuals who are pursuing a career in coaching and we wish her the best as she continues to build the foundation for a successful coaching career."
"We are proud to support the continuing development of future coaches and to celebrate the spirit of women’s basketball," stated Donna Lopiano, Women’s Sports Foundation CEO.
Kim Edmondson is in her first season as a graduate assistant coach with the Cotton Blossoms basketball team. Serving as the only assistant for the UAM squad, Edmondson jumped on board quickly to learn her major duties, which include coordinating academic schedules, conditioning, recruiting and coaching the guards.
Prior to joining the UAM coaching staff, Edmondson was a letterwinner at Lyon College in Batesville, earning Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2003-2004 and 2005-2006, while being named a TranSouth Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete in three consecutive seasons (2003-2006).
Edmondson prepped at Gentry High School for coach Norman Mitchell and was a two-time All-Conference honoree after averaging 15 points, five rebounds and two assists per contest. A native of Gentry, Edmondson is a 2006 graduate of Lyon with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and Political Science. She is pursuing a Master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling.
Edmondson will be formally presented the award at the 2007 WBCA Awards Luncheon presented by State Farm and Jostens on Tuesday, April 3, 2007, at 12:00 p.m. (ET) in the Crowne Plaza’s Grand Ballroom. The 2007 WBCA Awards Luncheon presented by State Farm and Jostens is during the WBCA National Convention, held in conjunction with the 2007 NCAA® Women’s Final Four® in Cleveland, Ohio.
Baseball
Frost helps Scots take series with Union
JACKSON, Tenn. - Lyon College shortstop Justin Frost went 3-for-4 with 3 RBIs to
lead the Scots to an 8-4 victory over the Union University Bulldogs Saturday in
TranSouth Conference baseball action at Fesmire Field. Scots' third baseman Andy
Wahl also went 3-for-3 and catcher Drew Kellums added two hits to contribute to
the team's 12-hit attack. Mike Sanchez, Wahl and Matt Byrd each drove in a run
for Lyon. Lyon's win gave the Scots (21-1, 5-1) a 2-1 series victory over the
Bulldogs (12-6, 3-3). Jeffery Matlock (4-0) earned the win on the mound for
Lyon, pitching 5 2/3 innings with six walks and three strikeouts. Relief pitcher
Derek Bond threw the remainder of the nine-inning contest, striking out two with
two walks.
Scots split with Union, winning streak ends at 19
JACKSON, Tenn. - The Lyon College Scots' school-record 19-game winning streak
came to an end at the hands of the Union University Bulldogs in TranSouth
Conference play on Friday night at Fesmire Field. The streak ended with a 6-3
loss to the Bulldogs in game one, but the Scots (20-1, 4-1 in TranSouth games)
rebounded to take a 9-2 victory in the nightcap. Union took game one behind the
pitching of starter Greg Abram (3-2), who tossed a complete game five-hitter
with five strikeouts. Lyon's Justin McGarity (4-1) suffered the loss, lasting
just 3 2/3 innings while allowing six hits and five earned runs.
Mike Sanchez and Jeffery Matlock each had an RBI for the Scots.
A host of Scots piloted the team to victory in game two, led by starting pitcher
Jerry Farina (5-0), who threw his third complete game of the season.
Lyon first baseman Andy Bettis collected three hits while teammates Mike Sanchez
and Justin Brown had two each. Scots' catcher Drew Kellums and Justin Frost
drove in two runs apiece.
Scots extend pair of streaks against Brevard
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The Lyon College Scots, ranked No. 6 in the initial NAIA
Baseball rankings of the season, extended a pair of streaks with a 2-0 victory
over the Brevard College Tornados Wednesday in nonconference play. Lyon (19-0)
kept its school-record, season-opening 19-game winning streak alive, and also
extended a 19-inning scoreless streak dating back to Mar. 5. Scots' pitchers
Mike Sanchez, Matt Creamer, James Coulter, Bryan Nesbitt and Nick Salahub
combined for a five-hit shutout of the Tornados. Sanchez made the start and
tossed three innings of three-hit ball. Creamer (1-0) earned the win pitching
two hitless innings. Coulter struck out five in two innings of hitless work and
Nesbitt struck out two in the eighth. Salahub pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his
third save of the season. Brent Moss drove in one of the Scots' two runs, while
Kody Cox scored the other run on a double steal. Lyon managed just five hits off
the Tornados (11-8) -- and only one off relief pitcher Seth Laughter, who threw
the final seven innings in place of losing starter Shane Galloway.
Scots triumph again, Bond shuts out Brevard
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Lyon College starter Derek Bond kept the Scots'
school-record, season-opening winning streak sailing along the Gulf Coast with a
3-0 shutout of Brevard College Tuesday in a nonconference game.
The Scots (18-0) have won their first two games on the Gulf Coast swing, running
the school's season-opening winning streak to 18 games.
Bond (4-0) was masterful in his Tuesday turn on the mound, striking out 13
batters while throwing a complete-game, four-hit shutout.
Andy Wahl, Justin Brown and Mike Sanchez each drove in a run for the Scots.
Scots vs. Spring Hill
MOBILE, Ala. -- Lyon College starter Brian Carr weathered an early storm on the
mound and Scots' outfielder Brent Moss doubled and homered in a 9-5 triumph over
the Spring Hill College Badgers Monday in nonconference play at Stan Galle
Field. Carr (2-0) pitched seven solid innings of five-hit ball, striking out
four while allowing three runs with five walks. Sam Neal pitched 1 2/3 innings,
allowing two runs on three hits. Freshman Nick Salahub pitched the final 1/3 of
an inning, giving up a single before recording the final out. Moss was 2-for-4
with two RBIs. His home run -- a solo shot in the top of the seventh inning --
was his third of the season.
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s 322nd birthday will soon be here and
Lyon College’s faculty and students are throwing him a "bash."
Novelist
Kent Haruf, this year’s Leila Lenore Heasley
Prize winner, will soon visit Lyon College to share his thoughts and insights
into the world of literature.