October 8, 2004
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• Harlequin Theatre to present 'On the Verge' • Alpha Chi announces newest members • Plaag, Stinson to perform recital • Phi Mu dances for children's hospital • Vinson wins golf 'player of the year' award • Lyon hosts reception in Dallas • Library gives candy, promotes LinkSource • Preview Day scheduled for Oct. 16 • Students participate in printmaking workshop • Arkansas Symphony Orchestra to perform Oct. 31 • Students prepare for midterms • Scots visit Eagle Mountain Magnet School
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‘Lyon Night at the Races’ canceled due to rain Lyon Night at the Races has been canceled because tonight's races at the Batesville Speedway have been called off because of rain. Ticket holders will be admitted to next Friday night's races. LyonFest will include Kirkin' o' the Tartans worship service Each year on the Sunday closest to Founders’ Day, Lyon hosts the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartans worship service and gathers in worship with the First Presbyterian Church of Batesville. The purposes of this service are to rededicate the campus community to the service of God and to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and to remind us of our foundational ties to the First Presbyterian Church, Batesville. This year’s service is scheduled for Sunday, October 24, at 10:30 a.m. in Brown Chapel. The Rev. Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, pastor emeritus of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood and former Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, will preach the sermon. Faculty and staff are invited to don regalia and march in the procession led by Pipe Major Jimmy Bell and the Pipe Band. Dr. Russell Stinson, Josephine Emily Brown Professor of Music, will serve as organist for the service. In addition, this year the Lyon College choir will be singing with the First Presbyterian Church choir. Those of Scottish heritage are invited to celebrate their lineage by joining the procession and carrying their tartan banner. Faculty and staff who are marching should gather in the Alphin Building at 10 a.m. on October 24 to robe for the processional. Anyone who will be carrying tartan banners will gather in the small chapel at 10 a.m. If you plan to march, please respond to Claudia Marsh by calling ext. 1767 or send an e-mail to cmarsh@lyon.edu by noon on Wednesday, October 20, so that enough seats can be set aside for you in the Chapel.
The traditional brunch
buffet in Edwards Commons will be available following the service. Faculty and
staff tickets purchased in advance will be $8 for adults, and $4 for children 12
and under. In order to receive this discounted price, you must pre-register with
Deanna Devall by October 10. Tickets purchased at the door will be $10 and
$5. For more information
call Deanna Devall at ext. 4211 or email her at
ddevall@lyon.edu.  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. Above are the
cast members (from left) Gretchen West, Alyssa Starkey, Jason
Bugeja and Christina Cody. 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. This production
will be a participating entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre
Festival. |
Alpha Chi announces newest members
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Plaag, Stinson to perform recital Music faculty Dr. Russell Stinson and Joel Plaag will present their first piano-vocal performance collaboration on Friday, October 15, 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 timeless 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. |
Thirteen new members entered Lyon’s Arkansas Iota chapter of Alpha Chi in an induction ceremony held Saturday, September 25.
Alpha Chi is a national college scholarship honor society with more than 300 chapters in 45 states and Puerto Rico and some 300,000 members. The society recognizes juniors and seniors of good character whose academic achievement puts them in the top 10 percent of their classes.
Batesville area students joining this year are John Allison of Floral; Chris Estes, son of Karl and Susan Estes of Batesville; Tony Fortune, son of Mike and Melody Fortune of Newport; Skye Hart, son of Sean and Kathleen Hart of Mountain Home; Jessica Leasure, granddaughter of Robert and Cathy Leasure of Bradford; Elaine Slayton, daughter of Gary and Martha Slayton of Fairfield Bay, and Tyler Templeton, son of Michael and Ann Templeton of Tuckerman.
Other new members include Adam Long, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Long of Jonesboro; Christina Cody, daughter of Gary and Eleanor Brown of Dickinson, Texas; Joshua Manning, son of Eddie and JoAnn Manning of Crawfordsville; Blake Phillips, son of Max and Louise Phillips of Hot Springs; Jessica Scott, daughter of James and Patricia Scott of North Little Rock; and Ashley Turensky, daughter of David and Irene Gilge of Rogers.
The induction ceremony was followed by a banquet in the Bevens Room, with some 50 attending, including the inductees, their families, current members, and Lyon College faculty advisers Drs. Ron Boling, Catherine Bordeau, Tom Carpenter, Terrell Tebbetts and John Weinzierl. Also attending were Dr. John Peek, Dean of the College, who congratulated new members on their election to the society, and Dr. Tim Lindblom, 2004 Lyon College Alpha Chi Professor of the Year, who delivered the keynote address following the banquet.
The chapter meets every Monday at lunch to hear programs by both students and faculty. They also travel to annual Alpha Chi conventions to present research and creative work and to compete for scholarships and fellowships. Lyon’s award-winning chapter has won some $13,000 in scholarships over the last eight years and has seen five members publish their work in Alpha Chi’s national journal, The Recorder.
Officers for 2004-05 are President Rebecca Sharp of Evening Shade, Vice President Skye Hart of Mountain Home and Secretary Laura Lofton of Hughes.
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Phi Mu dances for children's hospital
Phi Mu hosted
its annual
Dance Marathon last weekend in Becknell Gymnasium from 1 p.m. Saturday to 1 a.m.
Sunday to raise money for Arkansas Children’s
Hospital. This year’s
theme was “The Fifties.”
Included in the marathon were music, games, contests and movie clips from that decade. Dance
Marathon is a celebration of all the funds that Phi Mu has raised for Arkansas
Children’s Hospital from
soliciting businesses, sending out letters and doing fundraisers.
Photo by Eric Stewart |
Vinson wins golf 'Player of the Year' award
John Vinson, avid Batesville golfer and Lyon College’s Network Services Coordinator, recently won the Mid-Senior Player of the Year award from the Arkansas State Golf Association.
Last
t weekend Vinson, 53, finished second in the ASGA Mid-Senior Championship Tournament at Sage Meadows Golf Course in Jonesboro. The second-place finish gave him enough points to win the Player of the Year award for the second consecutive year. He has also been on the Arkansas Cup Team six times (the Cup Team plays the Arkansas professional team each year and participates in the Mid-South Cup Matches playing the best amateurs from a six state area).Vinson, however, said, “I guess my crowning achievement was qualifying for the United States Golf Association’s Mid-Amateur held at The Dallas Athletic Club in 1997. It was quite exciting to participate in a national tournament.”
The ASGA sponsors tournaments throughout the year and allots points for a player’s finish in each tournament (80 points for first, 60 for second, 50, 40, 30, 20, 16, 12, 8 and 4 for a 10th place finish) with the culmination being the Mid-Senior Championship at the end of the year (the points for this tournament are more than the others). The player with the most points at the end of the year wins the Player of the Year award.
Vinson played in 10 of the 20 events used to determine the player of the year. He finished first, four times; second, three times; third, two times; and seventh, one time.
The son of two golfers, Vinson grew up on an Air Force base near a golf course
where he says the base’s junior golf program was excellent. He began playing at
age eight and recalls that he and his brother played the same two holes behind their
house everyday. His son, Josh Vinson, is a member of the Scots golf team.
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| Lyon hosted a reception in Dallas Tuesday for
alumni and friends. Pictured above from left are: Karen Ehman; Tim
Bruner, vice president for institutional advancement; Frank Ehman,
Peggy Roettger, assistant director of alumni and parent services;
Shelby Linson; Walter Roettger, president; and Billie Linson,
parents of Billy Linson '02, a former Scot basketball player. |
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Library gives candy, promotes LinkSource
The campus library is giving candy away in October to promote a new product called: LinkSource. If you go to the front desk at the library and ask the librarian to show you what LinkSource can do, you'll get some candy! The good stuff!
LinkSource is an open URL resolver, meaning it will connect the student’s citation or abstract to full-text if the library subscribes to it. It’s a valuable research tool that academic libraries are using to optimize their full-text electronic holdings. In other words, it is a short-cut to full-text articles online.
Preview Day scheduled for Oct. 16
The Office of Enrollment Services will host a preview day on campus Saturday, October 16, 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.
Students participate in printmaking workshop
Artist Shelley Gipson hosted an
“ImagOn”
printmaking workshop at Lyon September 28. ImagOn is a light-sensitive film that
is used to create an intaglio printing plate with non-toxic, dry film
technology. The plates can be used for all photo-generated imagery from
halftones to computer-generated images, even simple photocopies. Painting and
drawing techniques can also be achieved by working with drafting Mylar. Eighteen students participated in the workshop. "This was a valuable experience
for our students," said Chris Valle, assistant professor of art. "With this process an intaglio plate can be completed and
printed in the same day--a plate takes weeks to prepare in a normal intaglio
etching. Most importantly the ImagOn process eliminates the use of ferric
chloride (an acid)."
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Adam Penman points out the
answer to Laura Coblentz as they prepare for midterm examinations that
were held this week. |
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra to perform Oct. 31
In a departure due to a Classical Series Concert conflict in Little Rock, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will not appear as a finale to the LyonFest activities this year. Instead, the Batesville Symphony League, Lyon College and First Community Bank will host the annual event the following weekend on Sunday, October 31, in Brown Chapel.
Featuring David Itkin, music director and conductor, and principal cellist Melita Hunsinger, the Arkansas Symphony tour orchestra will perform Mozart’s Overture from Cosi fan tutte, the Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 “Italian,” and the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor.
Tickets for the 1:15 p.m. lecture by Maestro Itkin in Bevens Music Room and the 2 p.m. concert in Brown Chapel are available from the following locations: Batesville Daily Guard, Elizabeth’s Restaurant, First Community Bank (Main), Massey Music and The Citizens Bank (Main). Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for students under 18. Lyon College students, faculty and staff are admitted free with ID.
Volleyball
The Pipers swept the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff Lady Golden Lions 30-25, 30-23, 30-13 Tuesday night in Becknell Gym. Ceca Brckalo had 14 kills, Susie Harper contributed 20 digs, Chelsea Gilliam had 19 assists and Yllen Rosales added 16 assists.
The Pipers, 10-4 overall and 4-1 in the conference, were to visit Martin Methodist in Pulaski, Tennessee, for a conference match Thursday night. The next home game will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday against Union University.
Soccer
The Scots lost to Cumberland University 2-0 Saturday in Lebanon, Tennessee. They are scheduled to play Martin Methodist in Pulaski, Tennessee, on Saturday. Next home game will be Thursday at 2 p.m. against Union University. The Scots are 7-5 overall and 0-1 in the TranSouth Conference.
The Pipers lost to Cumberland 2-0 Saturday. They will play Martin Methodist Saturday at noon in Tennessee. The Pipers (3-7, 0-1) will play at home October 23 against Trevecca Nazarene.
Scots visit Eagle Mountain Magnet School
The
Lyon College Scots basketball team was one of 40 work groups that participated
in Lyon College’s Service Day 2004. Nine upperclassmen visited Eagle Mountain
Magnet School and provided leadership to the school’s physical education
program. Freshmen members of the team served on work teams with their freshman
mentor groups at a variety of work sites in Batesville and throughout
Independence County.
While at Eagle Mountain, the Scots conducted a basketball clinic for 2nd and 3rd grade students. Ian Cathcart and Dalun Smith instructed the students during the ball-handling drills. Cortney Brown and Ty Sims took the kids through dribbling drills. Brandon Lee and Andrew Shepherd refined the passing skills of the students. Norris Weintz, Jason Donaldson and Chris Wilkinson taught the youngsters the proper way to shoot the basketball.
Between the clinic sessions, the Scot basketball players ate lunch with the elementary students in the school cafeteria and then convened to the playground where a fun time was shared by all.
