A baccalaureate service will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 4, in Brown Chapel. The Rev. Dr. William W. Branch Jr., general presbyter of the Presbytery of Arkansas, will preach the sermon.

The baccalaureate service will be followed by the traditional Scots Walk, in which the graduates walk to Bryan Lake for a torch-lighting ceremony. Eighty-two seniors are scheduled to graduate in the Class of 2001.

John Miller grew up in Melbourne in Izard County, where he still resides, and received his B.S. degree from Arkansas State University in 1949.

He served as county and circuit clerk of Izard County before being elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1959.

During his 40-year career, he became one of the most influential members of the Legislature and helped shape regional and national public policy.

The board’s action is subject to approval by the Synod of the Sun, Presbyterian Church (USA). The terms of both will begin in July and end in 2005.

Mrs. Lamberth is active in civic affairs in Batesville, currently serving as a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville and as vice president of the Board of Directors of White River Medical Center. She is a past president of the Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce, and a former board member of the Arkansas Food Bank. She also serves on the Economic Development Foundation Board and the Independence County Education Foundation Board. She was selected Arkansas Volunteer of the Year for the Arkansas Recreation and Parks Association.

Mrs. Lamberth was an instructor of health, physical education and recreation and tennis coach at Lyon from 1988-1991, and was Teacher of the Year at Lyon in 1991. Her husband, Mark Lamberth, is vice president of Atlas Asphalt, Inc., and the former chair of Lyon’s Regional Advisory Board.

Dr. Tranum is a hematologist and oncologist who is president of the Arkansas Oncology Clinic, which he founded in 1978. He is actively involved with the Arkansas Cancer Research Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and taught at UAMS from 1970-1976.

Dr. Tranum received his medical degree at the College of Medicine of the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis. He and his wife, Sandra, are members of Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock.

The Lyon board also approved the election of Sam C. Cooke of Batesville to trustee emeritus status. Cooke went off the board last year and subsequently served as interim vice president of business and finance at the college until a new vice president was appointed earlier this year.

The 55-000-square-foot collegiate Georgian structure will house the biology, chemistry, environmental studies, mathematics, computer science, physics and psychology programs. It will be built in two phases with construction of the first phase scheduled to begin immediately.

The new building is named in honor of Lawrence H. “Larry” Derby Jr. and his wife, Marilyn, of Warren in recognition of their leadership gift to the college. Derby is a member of the Lyon College Board of Trustees.

The 12,000-square-foot tent was erected on the green near Brown Chapel to accommodate the large crowd consisting of donors, community leaders, students, faculty and staff of the college.

Lyon College surpassed its fund-raising goal of $80 million by raising more than $90 million in a five-year campaign that concluded in December. The campaign is one of the largest ever for a college of Lyon’s size.

This remarkable fundraising achievement was celebrated at the reception and dinner Thursday evening. The leaders of the campaign were presented with Founders’ Medals for “extraordinary commitment in advancing the mission and resources of Lyon College.”

Receiving Founders’ Medals were Mary and Robert Young III, Ginna and J.D. Simpson III, Jane and Frank Lyon Jr., Carolyn and Graham Holloway, Marilyn and Lawrence Derby, and Sis and Ferd Bellingrath Jr.

Lankford, a Lyon faculty member since 1976, was selected Arkansas Professor of the Year in 1991 by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

In a plenary session April 26, the board honored Lankford and two staff members who also are retiring at the end of the semester. Marilynn Chlebak is retiring as director of the APPLE Project/Upward Bound and Sandra Barnett is retiring as manager of the campus bookstore. A resolution was read by board chair Robert A. Young III, commending all three for their work at Lyon. They were also presented with chairs bearing the Lyon seal.

In other action in its meeting here last week, the board approved recommendations for tenure and promotion for two faculty members. Dr. Sally Browder, assistant professor of psychology, and Dr. Robert Gregerson, assistant professor of biology, were promoted to associate professor. Both also were granted tenure.

The list comprises books in a number of academic areas based on having received the best reviews in the previous year in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, a magazine that helps librarians and professors decide which books to order for libraries.

Choice says that their editors “single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works” to compile a list of “the best in scholarly titles” for the previous year. Criteria for inclusion on the list are “overall excellence in presentation and scholarship, importance relative to other literature in the field, distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form, originality or uniqueness of treatment, value to undergraduate students, importance in building undergraduate library collections.”

The first session will be June 4-15 and the second session will be June 18-29. Each session will run Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Courses will include the sciences, languages, world cultures, arts and crafts, culinary arts, computer sciences, dance, sign language and theater craft.

Recreational activities will include swimming, soccer, golf, tennis, sand volleyball, archery and kids’ games.

Children of Lyon employees will receive a 10 percent discount on camp fees.

For more information or an application, call 612-6490 or e-mail mcooper@lyon.edu.

Sports

Baseball

The Scots’ season ended on a winning note Saturday as they swept the Central Baptist Mustangs 18-0 and 12-2 in Conway. The Scots won 19 of their last 24 games and finished with a 39-26 record.

Nathan Read finished the year with a .407 batting average, the highest since Patrick Kircher hit .436 in 1997.

Senior Cody Hooten, of Sulphur Springs, Texas, played every position in the second game of the doubleheader against Central Baptist. He ended the game on the mound, replacing pitcher Kris Kirby in the fifth inning. Coach Kirk Kelley said he promised Hooten early in the season that he’d play him at every position before the season was over.

“When it was 12-2, the bases were loaded with two outs,” Kelley said. “I kept my promise, and I put Cody in there, and he struck out the last hitter.”

Lyon College Campus Calendar

10:30 a.m. Institutional Advancement Staff Meeting             Lyon, Citizens Bank Room

10:30 a.m. Rehearsal for Baccalaureate & Commencement             Couch Garden

(Rain Plan)             (Becknell Gym)

3 p.m. Inorganic Chem. Candidate Lecture (Dr. Beckford)             Lyon, Room 200

4 p.m. Reception for Dr. Floyd Beckford             Lyon, Flanders Reading Room

5:30 p.m. Alumni Dinner             Edwards Commons

7:30 p.m. Baccalaureate             Brown Chapel

Saturday, May 5

9:30 a.m. Commencement             Couch Garden

(Rain Plan)             (Becknell Gym)

Monday, May 7

9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cafeteria Plan Enrollment for 2001-2002             Lyon, Seminar East

11 a.m. Student Life Committee             Union Conference Room

Tuesday, May 8

9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cafeteria Plan Enrollment for 2001-2002             Lyon, Seminar East

3 p.m. Admissions Planning Team             Lyon, Worthen Bank Room

Wednesday, May 9

9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cafeteria Plan Enrollment for 2001-2002             Lyon, Seminar East

11 a.m. Scottish Festival Postmortem Meeting             Lyon, Citizens Bank Room

Thursday, May 10