April 16, 2007
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• Lyon Honors Convocation is Tuesday • Pulitzer Prize winning journalist to speak at Lyon College commencement • SCARF forum to be held Thursday evening • Lyon College trustee slated to read from her book on Little Rock Central High crisis • Lyon alum sets up memorial scholarship fund for his sister • Sunday at the Arkansas Scottish Festival offers a full slate of action • Dr. Tebbetts to present program on historic homes of Batesville • Lyon student’s paper accepted to Arkansas Symposium for Psychology Students • Lyon College projects win new Space Consortium grants
Honors Convocation The Lyon College Honors Convocation will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, in Brown Chapel Auditorium. Outstanding students will be honored and members of honor societies will be recognized. The Alphi Chi Teacher of the Year will be announced. Awards also will be presented for intramurals, student life and campus ministry. Mary-Margaret Nester ’07 of Jonesboro will present the traditional "Reflections from the Senior Class." Dr. Russell Stinson and Robert Bailey ’07 of Ward will be the organists and the Lyon College Pipe Band will pipe in the processional.
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Lyon College student earns prestigious Fulbright Fellowship
Lyon senior Robert Bailey, like 36 Nobel Prize winners before him, has been
awarded a fellowship from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. |
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to speak at Lyon College commencement
An acclaimed journalist and columnist will soon pass lessons his
life has taught him on to a young crop of graduating seniors at Lyon College.
Paul Greenberg, editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, will take the podium at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 5, in Couch Garden to deliver his keynote address, "What I Should Have Learned By Now."
Some of the things Greenberg says he should have learned by now: "Always show good will; eliminate the negative, accentuate the positive, latch on to the affirmative, and don’t mess with Mister In-Between."
"When you’re sure you’re right, forget caution," he wrote in a recent editorial. "That’s about the wisest thing a publisher ever told this columnist."
Greenberg, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorials on civil rights in 1968, was born in Shreveport, La. A graduate of the University of Missouri, he writes a syndicated column and has been awarded various honors, including the H.L. Mencken Award, the ASNE’s Distinguished Writing Award, the William Allen White Award from the University of Kansas, and an honorary Doctor of Letters from Rhodes College.
In addition, he’s written radio essays for BBC’s State of the Union series. He’s served as a lecturer in history for Hunter College in New York City and as an adjunct faculty member for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
A widower, he has two grown children and lives in Little Rock.
Lyon College also will award Greenburg and sports legend and community activist Keith Jackson honorary doctorate degrees.
Jackson was born in Little Rock and attended high school at Parkview, where he was a three-sport letterman and Parade All American in football. He also played the cello with the Parkview orchestra. Keith attended the University of Oklahoma, graduating with academic honors and a bachelor’s degree in communications in three and half years.
In 1988, the Philadelphia Eagles made Jackson the 13th pick of the first round in the National Football League draft. He played in the NFL for nine years with the Philadelphia Eagles, the Miami Dolphins, and finished his career with a Super Bowl championship with the Green Bay Packers.
Jackson is also president of P.A.R.K., (Positive Atmosphere Reaches Kids), a non-profit organization serving junior and senior high school students who appear to be at risk of dropping out of school and or succumbing to the pressure of drugs, alcohol, sex, and/or gangs. P.A.R.K. provides after school tutoring, recreation, summer programs, and community service.
Jackson has also combined his college degree in communications and his professional playing experience to become a broadcast analyst with TNT television for one year, the Oklahoma Sooner football radio network in 1998, Fox Sports Network in 1999 and the Arkansas Razorback Sports Network in 2000. He continues his role as an analyst on Arkansas Razorback football radio broadcasts. He also serves as an inspirational speaker for groups such as churches, civic groups, corporations and schools.
Jackson and his wife, Melanie, have three children: Keith Jr., Kenyon and Koilan.
Commencement weekend will begin Friday, May 4, at 4 p.m., with the President’s Reception at Bradley Manor for seniors, their parents, faculty and staff, and at 5:30 p.m., an Alumni Dinner honoring the Class of 2007 will begin in Becknell Gymnasium.
Each graduating senior is entitled to three free tickets by making a reservation no later than Friday, April 27, and picking the tickets up in person. Additional tickets to the dinner cost $15 each. Some tickets may also be available at the door for $15.
The Baccalaureate Service begins at 7:30 p.m. in Brown Chapel., with the Rev. Alan Ford, a Lyon College trustee and pastor of First Presbyterian in Newport, as speaker.
Liturgists will be the Rev. Stan Wilson, director of Pastoral Care services for the Baptist Hospital System in Little Rock and father of senior Emily Wilson, and the
Rev. Nancy McSpadden, Lyon College chaplain.Commencement exercises begin Saturday, May 5, at 9 a.m. in Couch Memorial Garden, and a closed-circuit broadcast of the ceremony will be available in the Derby Center. In case of rain, the event will be held in Becknell Gymnasium.
For tickets to the Alumni Dinner, contact Kay Rush, administrative coordinator to Enrollment Services and the Office of Alumni and Parent Services, at (870) 698-4240.
SCARF forum to be held Thursday evening
The annual SCARF presentations and awards ceremony will be held in the Bevens Room in Brown Chapel at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19.
Five submissions have been chosen to present their projects. After the presentations, the six members of the SCARF committee will meet to determine the winners.
The Lyon community is encouraged to attend and support the students.
Lyon College trustee slated to read from her book on Little Rock Central High crisis
A Lyon
College trustee has authored what critics call "the definitive history of the
Little Rock Central High crisis," and this week, she’ll visit the campus to give
a presentation on the work.
On Thursday, April 19, Dr. Elizabeth Jacoway will read from her book,
"Turn Away Thy Son," in Holloway Theatre at 7 p.m. A reception and book signing will follow in the Lyon Bookstore.As a doctoral student, Jacoway began the a 30-year quest for truth that has culminated in the release of her book
. Published by the Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, the book hit stores in January, marking the 50th anniversary of the Little Rock crisis.Born and raised in Little Rock, Dr. Jacoway earned a bachelor’s degree in history at the University of Arkansas. She earned both master’s and doctorate degrees in history from the University of North Carolina, and while searching for a topic for her doctoral dissertation, the idea of writing about the crisis first came to her.
The National Endowment for the Humanities eventually supported the project with a grant, and her work began in earnest.
She’s written five other books, primarily intended for academic audiences. "Turn Away Thy Son" was different in that she wrote it for a mass, general readership.
"This is a true American story for everyone," Jacoway said at the time of the book’s release. "Everyone should find it interesting. It’s written more like a novel than a standard history text, and it centers on 17 main "larger than life" characters.
It’s taken her 30 years to fully complete the work, partially due to the fact that the controversial subject matter requires that she be meticulous in her research and documentation.
"Turn Away Thy Son" is a 352-page hardcover book that sells for $28 in the U.S.
Lyon alum sets up a memorial scholarship fund for his sister
Andrea Joy Forrest was only 20 years old when a tragic car accident took her life last year, but her brother has established an endowed scholarship at Lyon College that will keep her name alive in perpetuity.
Robert Forrest ’97 and his wife Jennifer have established the Andrea Joy Forrest Endowed Scholarship Fund, in hopes of helping other bright, hard-working young women like Andrea fulfill their educational goals.
Andrea’s 21st birthday would have been April 20, and when people began asking Robert what they could do on behalf of Andrea and her memory, he thought of creating a scholarship in her name at his alma mater.
"This was the answer," he said.
Robert, who graduated from Lyon with a specially created major in biochemistry, went on to medical school at UAMS and now works as a forensic psychologist/pathologist.
The Memorandum of Agreement for the scholarship states that: "Andrea was a model student with an exemplary work ethic, both in the classroom and the community. It was not uncommon for her to work a forty-hour week while balancing a full college semester and equally full social calendar. She was a model daughter and sister, with an unmatched passion for friends and family. She demonstrated a high moral character that made an impact on all those around her."
In order to reflect the personal characteristics Andrea possessed, the recipients of the scholarship will be ideally be female students from Northeast Arkansas with a 3.5 or better GPA, and who held a job while in high school.
"That’s who Andrea was," Robert said. "It made sense to set the scholarship up that way."
Sunday at the Arkansas Scottish Festival offers a full slate of action
The 28th annual Arkansas Scottish Festival, slated to run from April 20 – 22, will draw to a close Sunday with a full day of action and entertainment.
At 8 a.m., vendor and clan booths open throughout the Lyon campus., and the festivities begin at 9 a.m., with a favorite Scottish tradition, the Iona Worship Service.
Dr. Kenneth S. Letterman, pastor of Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee, will preach at the Iona Worship Service, Sunday, April 22, on the Edinburgh Stage. Lyon College Chaplain, the Rev. Nancy McSpadden will assist Dr. Letterman in the service. Other participants will include students from Lyon Campus Ministries.
The Iona Worship Service was named for a special service held by the religious community on the Isle of Iona to celebrate the arrival of Christianity in Scotland. In 563 A.D., St. Columba sailed from Ireland and landed on Iona, a small Inner Hebridean island. There he founded a monastery and began the Scottish Conversion. In the sixth century, Iona was an oasis of Christianity in a largely hostile world. From the monastery, St. Columba was able to send monks out to the various clans and tribes of Scotland.
In recent times, a small religious community has been re-established on Iona, perhaps fulfilling Columba’s famous prophecy that Iona would always be "the luminary of the Caledonian regions."
At 10 a.m., a series of events begin, including the working sheepdog demonstrations, always a crowd favorite at the festival. Handlers will explain how the dogs work and how each dog has a different effect on the herded animal.
Throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday, Alex Beaton, a renowned Scottish folk artist, will perform, as will this year’s headliner, Needfire, a five-piece Celtic rock band from Texas.
Needfire’s music is a unique mix of all original high-energy modern rock and traditional Scottish and Irish influences. The band combines the talents of an award-winning Grade I Highland bagpiper, Celt-rock fiddle, and tribal didgeridoo with electric guitars, bass and drums.
Comprised of seasoned performers whose music has been submitted for Grammy awards, won songwriting awards, and has appeared in movie soundtracks and television shows, "Needfire perfects the art of the rock n roll bagpipe," according to the Salina Journal.
Beaton is a guitarist and folksinger who makes more than 20 concert appearances annually across the U.S. Known for his powerful stage presence and sense of humor, Beaton frequently interacts and jokes with audiences while performing. He’s also known for his keen knowledge of Scotland's history.
Experience the excitement of falconry, a fascination that has enthralled people for 4,000 years. Falconry is an ancient art, thought to be one of the oldest sports in the world. Originating in the Far East around 2000 B.C., falconry spread westward, reaching the shores of Europe long before the end of the first Millennium. In Ireland and Scotland, falconry was already familiar by late Celtic times, from the seventh century on.
The exhibition will feature various breeds of raptors and explanations about the differences between hawks, falcons and eagles.
To be held in the Alphin Courtyard, a pipe band demonstration will feature a variety of pipers as they fill the air with their ancient melodies.
Children’s athletic events will be held on Couch Garden on Saturday and Sunday, giving the kids a chance to toss miniature sheaves and cabers for fun
.At 11 a.m., Couch Garden will be the site for the Independence Community Games. Local businesses are encouraged to enter three-person teams to compete for a one-of-a-kind traveling trophy, and special recognition by the Lyon College Pipe Band. Entry fee is $30 per team. To register, contact David Brogdon at: David@BadBoyMowers.com, or (870) 698-0090.
Proceeds benefit the Independence Fund, which provides scholarships for area students.
Events include: the Boniest Knees contest – not to be confused with Bonniest Knees; the Tater Teaspoon Trot; the Tartan TP Toss; and, the Kilted Three-Legged Race.
The Bonniest Knees contest, which will be held at noon on the Alphin Porch, is limited to men in kilts. Blindfolded female judges feel each competitors’ knees to choose the winner.
At 1 p.m., another Pipe Band demonstration will fire off, and the festivals awards and closing ceremonies will begin at 2 p.m. The gates close at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Two-day passes for the festival are $18 for adults, and $12 for students age 13-17. A Saturday only passes are $12 for adults in advance and $14 at the gate, and $8 for students in advance and $10 at the gate. Sunday only passes are $8 for adults in advance and $10 at the gate, and $6 for students in advance and $5 at the gate.
All children 12 and under accompanied by an adult get in free. For ticket or vendor information, contact Tami Hall at 698-4211 or Brandi Allen at 698-4382.
Dr. Tebbetts to present slide show, talk about historic homes of Batesville
A
public slide show and talk on the historic homes in Batesville is set
for 7 p.m. Monday, April 16, at Lyon College's Mabee-Simpson Library.
The program will be presented by Dr. Terrell Tebbetts. He has served
twice as president of the Batesville Preservation Association and
co-authored the book "Historic Homes of Batesville, Arkansas."
The slide program will focus on how to recognize and date the various
house types found in Batesville's historic neighborhoods.
"People hear words like 'Victorian' and 'bungalow' and wonder what they
mean," says Tebbetts. "This program will help them know exactly what those
and other kinds of house are.
"Once they see these slides, they should be able to drive down the
streets and say, 'Look, there's a Queen Anne Cottage' or 'My neighbor lives
in a Craftesman bungalow.'
"It's like knowing an oak tree from a maple or a robin from a grackle,"
Tebbetts concluded. "It's satisfying to have names for what's all around
you."
The program is free and open to the community. A reception will follow after the
presentation. For more information call: 698-4267
Lyon student’s paper accepted to Arkansas Symposium for Psychology Students
Lyon College psychology major Pam Shultz’s paper on the effects that parental abuse has on their children was accepted for presentation at the 23rd annual Arkansas Symposium for Psychology Students. The event symposium was Friday and Saturday at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, but Shultz, a senior from Melbourne, was unable to attend because her own parents are ill.
The purpose of Shultz’s study, titled "Types of Parental Absence and their Behavioral, Perceptual Effects on Children," was to assess the different situations and the specific effects parental absence causes. Data was obtained from six professionals. The professionals were from DHHS offices and ABC Homes in the state of Arkansas. The participants volunteered to complete a survey about their perceptions and opinions on the effects of parental absence on children.
The summary of her paper, posted on the Symposium Web site, states that results indicated many professionals agree with the causes and behavioral problems associated with parental absence. Professionals agreed the point in life when behavioral problems occur is age 10.
However, they claim problems are beginning at an earlier age. This study and previous studies show that parental loss affects children of all ages, regardless of the type of absence.
Lyon College projects win new Space Consortium grants
Two projects a pair of Lyon College students are performing in collaboration with Dr. David Thomas and Dr. Floyd Beckford have earned more than $15,000 in collective grants.
The Arkansas Space Grant Consortium awarded Dr. Thomas, associate professor of biology and Lyon’s ASGC campus representative, and student Katherine Marie Crowell earned $7,657 in grants for the research project, "Directed Selection for Mars-tolerant Microorganisms." For their project, Thomas and Crowell will attempt to adapt photosynthetic bacteria and algae to conditions similar to those on Mars.
Dr. Floyd Beckford, assistant professor of chemistry, and student Sheena Highsmith earned $7,657 in grant funding for their project "Carbon Sequestration in the Woodlands of Lyon College." This project will look at various aspects of carbon cycling using the forests of Lyon College as a model system.
The NASA-funded Arkansas Space Grant Consortium consists of 14 Arkansas colleges and universities, local aerospace industries, and state science and education agencies. The ASGC actively promotes the involvement of the state of Arkansas in NASA and aerospace activities.
Lyon College Athletic Awards Night
Lyon College's annual athletic awards night is scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight in Edwards Dining Hall. There is no admission charge for this event and coffee, tea and desserts will be served.
Lyon takes series sweep from Lambuth
The Lyon College Scots completed a three-game sweep of the Lambuth Eagles with a pair of one run wins in a TranSouth Conference twin bill Sunday at Scots Field. The Scots won 7-6 in the first game and 3-2 in the second contest to improve to 34-10 this season. Lyon also sends its record to 11-10 in the TranSouth Conference, good for fifth place and seven games behind first-place Trevecca Nazarene. Lambuth falls to 17-28 and 4-16 in league play. Shortstop Justin Frost led the Scots in the first game of the doubleheader, driving in two runs with two hits, including a double. Drew Kellums also had two RBIs with a single and Brent Moss picked up two base hits with a stolen base. Nick Salahub (2-0) earned the game-one win, pitching 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief in the place of starter Jerry Farina. In game two, Lyon scored two runs on a pair of bases-loaded walks in the bottom of the sixth to hold off Lambuth. Jeffery Matlock and Justin Cunningham drew the deciding bases on balls for the Scots. Justin McGarity (5-4) went the distance on the mound for Lyon, throwing seven innings of five-hit ball with two strikeouts and a walk.
The Scots host Henderson State at 3 p.m. Wednesday in a nonconference game. Lyon will travel to McKenzie, Tenn., Friday for a three-game weekend series against conference opponent Bethel College.
Scots collect 14 hits in 10-2 win over Lambuth
Mike Sanchez, Drew Kellums and Andy Bettis combined to drive in six runs and helped lead the Lyon College Scots to a 10-2 victory over the Lambuth Eagles Saturday in TranSouth Conference play at Scots Field. Sanchez finished 3-for-5 with three runs scored and a solo homer, Kellums picked up two hits and doubled in a pair of runs and Bettis had three RBIs on a double. Justin Brown and Justin Cunningham also collected two hits apiece to contribute to the Scots' 14-hit attack. Lyon swiped four bases on the diamond, Brent Moss stole two bases and Wil Moore and Sanchez had one apiece. Derek Bond (8-1) picked up his team-leading eighth victory of the season, pitching a complete-game five-hitter. He struck out three with one walk and two earned runs in nine innings of work.
Brauburger places 11th at TranSouth event
OLD HICKORY, Tenn. – The Lyon College Pipers finished fourth place in a four-team field, shooting a two-day total of 913 in the TranSouth Conference Golf Tournament at Hermitage Golf Course April 9-10.
Piper golfer Diedra Brauburger ended the tournament in 11th place, shooting a second-day 92 to finish at 187 for the tournament.
Trevecca Nazarene was crowned the TranSouth champion with a two-day total of 671. Betsy Beaver of Trevecca was the tournament's individual medalist.
Knowles finishes in 17th place
OLD HICKORY, Tenn. – The Lyon College Scots finished in sixth place, shooting a two-day total of 664 in the TranSouth Conference Golf Tournament April 9-10 at Hermitage Golf Course.
Scot golfer Jonathan Knowles ended the tournament in 17th place, shooting a second-day 78 to finish at 160 for the tournament.
Bethel was crowned the TranSouth champion with a two-day total of 612. Beau Brown of Bethel was the tournament's individual medalist.
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