October 15, 2004
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• Students invited to LyonFest dinner/dance Oct. 23 • Plaag, Stinson to perform recital tonight • Harlequin Theatre to present 'On the Verge' • Lyon gives presentation at church meeting • Career Development office to host open house during LyonFest • Board of Trustees to meet on campus Oct. 22 • Adler, Bell participate in St. Louis piping games • Lyon well represented at AICU luncheon • Three to be inducted into Athletic Hall of Fame at awards dinner
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And the race is on ... again tonight Lyon Night at the Races at the Batesville Speedway has been rescheduled for tonight after being canceled last week because of rain. Tickets from last week will be honored. Lyon students, alumni, faculty and staff, and their immediate families, are invited to this special night at the speedway, located at Locust Grove, approximately seven miles west of Batesville on Highway 25. Tickets are free for the Lyon community and may be picked up at the office of alumni and parent services. The Batesville Speedway is a 3/8-mile red clay oval stock car racing track. The track opened in the early 1970s and was rebuilt in 1991. Students invited to LyonFest dinner/dance Oct. 23 A dinner and dance is planned for Saturday evening, October 23, during the College’s LyonFest to celebrate the achievements of the past 50 years at the Highland Road campus. The event will also observe the 10th anniversary of the college’s name change. Arkansas College, founded in 1872, became Lyon College in 1994. The dinner will begin at 7 p.m. in Becknell Gymnasium following a reception at 6 p.m. Tickets to the dinner are $20 each for adults and $10 for children 12 and under. Tickets to the reception are $5 each. Lyon College students will be able to attend the dinner using their meal plan card. However, they must RSVP to Deanna Devall at ddevall@lyon.edu or by calling (870) 698-4211 by Wednesday so planners will know how many are coming. It will be the only evening meal served to students that night. Students also are invited to the dance following the dinner whether they attend the dinner or not. The Townsmen, a 15-piece band, will perform swing music from the ’40s and ’50s. A DJ will play music from the past five decades and an entertainer will perform a tribute to Elvis. LyonFest is the annual fall celebration for alumni, students and their parents, friends of the college and the entire community. A full schedule of activities is on www.lyon.edu. Click on the LyonFest link on the home page. The Office of Enrollment Services will host a preview day on campus Saturday for prospective students. Junior and senior high school students from around the state and region have been invited to attend. Students and parents will have opportunities to attend academic sessions, receive financial aid information, take a campus tour and meet the admission representative from their area. Registration begins at 10 a.m. in the Lyon Building rotunda. Plaag, Stinson to perform recital tonight Dr. Russell Stinson and Joel Plaag will present their first piano-vocal performance collaboration tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Bevens Room in a program titled “Some Enchanted Evening - A Concert of Romantic Songs.” The program will feature Dr. Stinson’s rendition of several Chopin Preludes and a Brahms arrangement of the Christmas carol “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming” at the piano. Baritone Joel Plaag will present several sets of romantic love songs including “To Music,” by Schubert, selections from “A Poet’s Love” by Schumann and the Rogers and Hammerstein classic, “Some Enchanted Evening.” He will be accompanied by Dr. Stinson at the piano. Admission is free and a reception will follow. |
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Harlequin Theatre to present 'On the Verge' The Harlequin Theatre’s fall production is Eric Overmyer’s
“On the Verge,”
a surrealistic comedy about three Victorian women who trek through a continuum
of time, history, geography, feminism and fashion. At left, Gretchen West,
rehearses a scene from the play. The play will be performed at 8 p.m.
Thursday-Monday, October 22-25, in the Holloway Theatre. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for
students and seniors. For reservations, call (870) 793-1749. All faculty, staff
and students are admitted free of charge. However, reservations must be made by
calling the above number. This production
will be a participating entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
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Lyon gives presentation at church meeting The Presbyterian Women at Second Presbyterian Church of Little Rock held a meeting Tuesday, October 12, at the church. Tim Bruner, vice president of institutional advancement, gave a presentation about the college and Jimmy Bell, director of the Scottish Heritage Program, and Kenton Adler, academic services coordinator and webmaster, played the pipes for the group. Shown above are (from left) Sandra Tranum, moderator of the church, and Claudia Marsh, Lyon’s director of church relations. |
Career Development office to host open
house during LyonFest
As part of LyonFest, the Career Development office will host its first open house from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday, October 23. Parents, alumni and students are encouraged to stop by to meet Bethany Pitts, new director of career development, to explore the resources in the center and to share some refreshments.
Board of Trustees to meet on campus Oct. 22
The Lyon Board of Trustees will be meeting on campus Friday, October 22. Its annual fall meeting will begin at 9 a.m. with a plenary session in Nucor Auditorium. President Walter Roettger will give his report to the board at that time. The trustees will be in committee meetings throughout the morning, concluding with a second plenary session in the afternoon.
Adler, Bell participate in St. Louis games
Jimmy Bell, director of the Scottish Heritage Program and Kenton Adler, academic services coordinator and webmaster, attended the St. Louis games on October 9. Adler competed in solo contests, placing second in the Grade II March, third in the Grade II Hornpipe/Jig, and third in the Grade II Piobaireachd. Bell judged several solo and band contests.
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Among the Lyon College delegation at the 50th anniversary luncheon for Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities on Monday were (from left) Letitia Jones ’01; Martha Miller Harriman ’73 and Herbert C. Rule III, both members of the Lyon Board of Trustees. Mrs. Jones’ husband, David Jones ’99, also participated in a panel discussion prior to the luncheon on the importance of an independent college education and student financial assistance. Several other Lyon alumni, students, staff members and trustees also attended the luncheon. Dr. Robert Zemsky of the University of Pennsylvania was the keynote speaker. President Walter Roettger, who has served as chairman of the AICU for the past year, presided at the 50th anniversary meeting of the organization, which is the advocate for the 11 private colleges in the state.
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Three to be inducted into Athletic Hall of Fame at awards dinner
As a part of Lyon College’s annual LyonFest celebration, the college will host its annual Athletic Hall of Fame awards dinner on Friday evening, October 22, in Edwards Commons following a reception at Bradley Manor, the home of Lyon President Walter B. Roettger.
The reception will be at 4:30 p.m. with the dinner following at 5:30.
Scheduled for induction into the Hall of Fame are Beth Haizlip ’77 of Paragould, Stuart Smith ’82 of Batesville and Grace Catt McDowell ’91 of Frisco, Texas. Dick Bernard of Batesville and his late wife, Bonnie Bernard, will be presented the Service Award.
Beth
Haizlip graduated in 1977 from Arkansas College with a B.A. degree in biology.
She also received the Biology Award in 1977. She played basketball from 1973
through 1977. She was selected to participate in the 1976 Olympic trials for
basketball, made the All-State team, and was named Lyon’s Outstanding Athlete
for Basketball in 1975. She later received her M.S. in entomology in 1979 and
her M.S. in food science in 1984, both from the University of Arkansas. In 1988,
she received her M.S.E. in counseling and psychology from Arkansas State
University.
She is now a licensed professional counselor and has been a junior high science teacher and a psychotherapist at the George W. Jackson Mental Health Clinic in Blytheville, the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Osceola, and Woods-Mitchell & Associates in Jonesboro. She has also been a mobile assessor for northeast Arkansas at Pinnacle Pointe Hospital in Little Rock.
She is an elder at First Presbyterian Church in Paragould and has earned a green belt in karate.
Stuart
Smith graduated from Arkansas College in 1982. He received his B.A. in physical
education with a minor in social studies, and was recognized in Who’s Who
Among American College Students.
He began his teaching and coaching career at Batesville High School in the fall of 1982, then went to Van Buren High School in the fall of 1999. He returned to Batesville High School in the fall of 2002.
He has coached baseball, football and track and field. He started the baseball program at Batesville High School in 1990. During his tenure as head baseball coach, he compiled a career record of 305 wins and 117 losses. He was the eighth coach in the history of Arkansas high school baseball to win 300 games. His teams won more games in the 1990s than any other high school program in Arkansas.
In 2003, his Batesville Pioneers won the state championship, a first in Batesville High history. His teams have won conference championships seven times and he was selected Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Baseball Coach of the Year in 1998.
Grace
McDowell received her B.A. in physical education from Lyon College in 1991. She
continued her education with a M.Ed. in physical education from the University
of Houston in 1996, and has done additional postgraduate work at Wright State
University and Arkansas State University.
In college she was awarded many athletic honors including cross country, track and basketball awards. She holds many of Lyon’s all-time scoring and rebounding records, and she was the District 17 NAIA Emile Liston Award Recipient in 1991.
She was also a member of Zeta Omega Sorority (presently Phi Mu), a member and president of the Physical Education Majors Club, and an active member in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
She is currently a teacher and girls basketball and track coach at Frisco High School in Frisco, Texas. She was head women’s basketball coach at Lyon from 1999 to 2002. She was also director of physical education at Lyon. She also coached at Pangburn High School, Houston (Ohio) High School, Miami (Ohio) East High School, Corning High School and Edison State Community College in Piqua, Ohio.
She is married to Dr. Derek McDowell, a former Lyon faculty member, and they have one daughter.
Dick
Bernard graduated from Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa, in 1965. A
partner and president of White River Insurance, he has served as president of
the Scots Booster Club. He also has been president of Batesville Kiwanis
Club (1991-1992), president of the Batesville Area Arts Council, served on the boards
of the Batesville Country Club and of First United Methodist Church. He is
currently the president of the White River Health System Foundation Board.
His wife, Bonnie Bernard, who died in January, attended Lyon from 1983 until 1984. She then received her R.N./B.S.N. degrees from Harding University in 1986. She was director of nursing process at White River Health System. She served on the original board of White River Health System Auxiliary in Batesville in 1975, and on the State Board of Nursing Executives. Mrs. Bernard also made endowed L.P.N. to R.N. scholarships possible.
Volleyball
Ceca Brckalo led the Pipers with 221 kills and 10 digs in a 30-3, 30-18, 30-16 victory over Philander Smith College in Little Rock Thursday night. The Pipers, 11-6 overall, were led in assists by Yllen Rosales with 22 and Chelsea Gilliam with 21.
The Pipers took the opening game against league-leading Union University Tuesday night but the Lady Bulldogs came back to win the next three sets at Becknell Gym. The Pipers won the opener 30-18 but Union rallied to win the next three 30-16, 30-16, 30-23.
Lyon fell to 4-3 in the TranSouth Conference. Union moved to 6-0 and 14-1.
Brckalo had 16 kills and Susie Harper had 19 digs. Gilliam and Rosales had 19 and 18 assists, respectively.
Soccer
In TranSouth Conference matches Saturday in Pulaski, Tennessee, the Martin Methodist Lady RedHawks defeated the Pipers 9-1. Claire Wetzel scored the goal for Lyon. The RedHawks beat the Scots 3-0.
In non-conference action in Jackson, Tennessee, on Sunday, the Lambuth Lady Eagles dropped the Pipers 4-0 and the Lambuth men won 2-1 over the Scots. Tim Akin scored the Scots solo goal; Nick Jones assisted.
The Scots are 7-7 overall and 0-2 in the conference. The Pipers are 3-9 overall and 0-2 in the conference.
Cross Country
The Scots finished fourth in the seven-team Ted Lloyd Bison Stampede at Harding University in Searcy on Saturday. Harding won the men’s division. Daniel Haney led Lyon with a ninth-place finish and a time of 27:29.
The Pipers finished sixth in the 5K women’s division. Harding won this event as well. Rachel Miesner led the Pipers with a 21:51 time and a 21st finish.
