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GREENSHEET HIGHLIGHTS • Stricklin elected chair of AHC board • Davis receives summer research fellowship • Summer publication schedule for GreenSheet Online! • Summer school registration is May 23 • GreenSheet photo of the week
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Stricklin elected AHC board chair
Stricklin is serving his second three-year term on the 24-member board that governs the AHC, a nonprofit corporation. The board meets three times a year – in April, August and November. The chair is elected for a one-year term and is eligible to serve two consecutive terms. Stricklin has been a member of the Lyon College faculty since 1996. His areas of scholarship and expertise include oral history, Southern culture, American religion, and vernacular music. He received the Arkansas Professor of the Year award in 1999 from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Bob Bailey, executive director of the AHC, said, “The Arkansas Humanities Council is an advocacy organization that promotes public understanding of, and the use of, the humanities for community improvement and personal enrichment.” The AHC awards grants to nonprofit groups and organizations in support of humanities programs, provides training and technical assistance to grantees, and strategies for managing the programs. The AHC’s grant program ranges up to $25,000, with an average grant of $7,500. It also has a planning grant program, which provides grants up to $1,000 as well as staff support and expertise to organizations that are preparing project proposals. “We place a premium on good planning,” Bailey said. The AHC also awards educational mini-grants of up to $2,000 to public school teachers for various programs in the humanities. The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation funds this program. For more information on grants, including deadlines and application procedures, call (501) 221-0091, e-mail ahc@aristotle.net or visit the AHC Web site at www.arkhums.org. Among the projects supported by the AHC are oral history projects and those focusing on community heritage. “We give special attention to ad hoc community-based groups,” Bailey said. For example, the AHC has helped alumni associations
of black private schools that operated during the era of segregation to
document their heritage. One of them produced a 30-minute documentary. The National Endowment for the Humanities is a substantial source of funding for the AHC, but private fundraising is an increasing share of its revenue, Bailey said. |
Davis receives summer research fellowship
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Anthony Davis, a Lyon College senior from Judsonia, has received an undergraduate summer research fellowship from the Deep South Humanities Center at Tulane University.
His research project is titled, “Mental Maps: Constructing Digitized Versions of Imagined Landscapes in the Deep South Region.” The project, which will run from June 1 to July 31, will require research in Batesville, Jonesboro and New Orleans. Dr. David Stricklin, associate professor of history at Lyon, will be Davis’ mentor for the project.
Davis will use computer-mapping software (Geographic Information Systems) to create digital versions of various “mental maps” in the region.
In his project proposal, Davis said he hopes to accomplish two things. “First, it will demonstrate ways that computer-generated mapping systems can be produced at a relatively low cost,” he said. “Second, it will make visible one of the hardest things to communicate; namely, the maps people carry around in their heads.”
Davis will examine three examples of such mental maps: the town boundaries of the small Independence County community of Desha, definitions of the Mississippi Delta, and the distinguishing characteristics of the neighborhood jazz of New Orleans.
“In the first case,” Davis said, “I propose to use oral history materials in the Regional Studies Collection at Lyon College to explore how the residents of Desha, Arkansas, conceive of the boundaries of their hometown. Desha has never been incorporated, but residents of the community who were interviewed for an oral history project conducted by Lyon College students were asked how they defined the boundaries of Desha. I want to create a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) map that depicts their answers to this question and see if they correlate to other factors.” Lyon’s Regional Studies Center Director Brooks Blevins has agreed to help with the project, Davis said.
In the second case, Davis will use materials in the Delta Studies Center at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro to compare official maps of the Mississippi Delta region with evidence from interview materials and other resources to explore how people who live in areas identified as being in the Delta understand this identification. Delta Studies Center Director Peggy Wright has agreed to help with this project, he said.
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Derby getting its wings The steel framework is going up for the Phase II wings of the Derby Center for Science and Mathematics. The Bellingrath Wing opened to students in January and the remaining two wings are scheduled for completion by the end of this year.
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In the third example, Davis proposes to use materials in the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University to create map representations of oral history testimony about the differences in jazz as it developed in neighborhoods in New Orleans. Dr. Bruce Raeburn, director of the jazz archive, has agreed to assist with the project.
“He is one of the few people who has written about the effects of neighborhoods on the development of jazz in New Orleans,” Davis said. “A digital mapping system could make it much easier to explain this phenomenon to people.”
Davis said, “Putting mental maps into digital form can take advantage of the new age of computer mapping and help show how historical research can benefit from this new technology.”
The Deep South Humanities Center is one of ten regional research programs founded through the National Endowment for the Humanities. The center is based at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Lyon summer school
registration is May 23
Lyon College will hold its registration for summer school Friday, May 23, from 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Nichols Building. Late registration, with no penalty, will
be Tuesday, May 27, from 8 - 10 a.m. in the Nichols Building.
Non-Lyon students must be admitted to the college before they can register. They
may contact the Admission Office at (870) 698-4250 for directions regarding the
admission process. Once admitted, they may pre-register with the Registrar in
the Nichols Building during regular office hours, or they may register on May
24.
Here is the schedule of summer courses:
May 27 - July 3
BIO 100 Biology in Context, 10-11:15 a.m. Monday-Friday. The instructor is Dr.
David Thomas.
BIO 100L Biology in Context Lab, 8-10 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Dr. David
Thomas.
THE 101 Introduction to Theatre, 8-9:15 a.m., Monday-Friday. Professor Gary
Harris.
PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology, 9:20-10:35 a.m., Monday-Friday. Professor
Nikki Yonts.
ART 101 Introduction to Visual Arts, 10:45-noon, Monday-Friday. Dr. Scott
Karakas.
HIS 201 Western Civilization I, 10:45-noon, Monday-Friday. Dr. Edward Tenace.
MTH 101 College Algebra, 1-2:15 p.m., Monday-Friday. Dr. Samuel Weston.
HIS 202 Western Civilization II, 1-2:15 p.m. Monday-Friday. Dr. Edward Tenace.
JRN 102 Introduction to Photography, 3-4:40 p.m., Monday-Thursday. Jason
Marzewski.
May 27 - June 9
PED 109 Beginning Tennis, 10-11:30 a.m., Monday-Friday. Coach Be Pham.
May 27 - June 11
PED 101 Physical Fitness, 8-9:15 a.m., Monday-Friday. Coach Kirk Kelley.
May 27 - June 13
HIS 382.02 Special Topics: Ozark History and Culture, 1-3:45 p.m.,
Monday-Friday. Dr. Brooks Blevins.
May 27 - June 16
PED 111 Aerobics, 7-8 a.m., Monday-Friday. Coach Michele Jacobs.
June 2 - June 20
HIS 382.01 Special Topics: The History of Terrorism, 9:20-11:35 a.m.,
Monday-Friday. Dr. John Weinzierl.
EDU 305 Special Topics: Sociology of Education and Race in America, 8-10:15
a.m., Monday-Friday. Dr. Tom Carpenter.
June 9 - 20
PED 119 Basic Golf, 9-10:30 a.m. Monday-Friday. Coach Brian Krug.
Lyon may offer additional courses if there is sufficient student demand and
qualified instructors can be found. Normally, six students is the minimum
enrollment for a course to be taught. Lyon reserves the right to cancel a course
in which fewer than six students enroll.
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 Feeling ‘kneedy’ The Bonniest Knees Contest is a Sunday afternoon favorite each year at the Arkansas Scottish Festival, and this year was no exception. A large number of contestants bared their knees for the blindfolded judges (members of the Pipers basketball team) April 27. Pictured here is perennial contestant Louis Torfason, a.k.a. Torf the Kiltmaker, who appears to really enjoy this event. Torf was first runner-up this year to winner Bruce Cook. |
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Dr. David Stricklin, associate professor of history
at Lyon College, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the
Arkansas Humanities Council.