January 28, 2005
|
• Internship information available • Holt wins Rotary scholarship • Community shares cultural foods and fun • Counts has Harlequin Theatre article published • Quapaw Quartet performs in Bevens • Pace awarded SILO research grant
|
Editor Ivory will be Patterson Lecturer Feb. 8
Ivory joined The Courier-Journal in 1997 after serving as executive editor of The News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware. He was named the Gannett Co.’s Editor of the Year for 1994 while executive editor of Florida Today, which was also named newspaper of the year. He is a nine-time winner of the President’s Ring, an award given to Gannett’s top 10 editors each year. The Courier-Journal was named a Gold Medal Newspaper, an award Gannett gives to its top newspapers, in 2003 and 2004. The newspaper was a finalist in 2004 for a Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category. Ivory is a four-time Pulitzer Prize juror. In 2004, Ivory won the Robert G. McGruder Award for newsroom leadership in the area of diversity and news content. The award is sponsored by the Associated Press Managing Editors (APME), American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) and The Freedom Forum. Ivory is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the ASNE. Ivory has been in the newspaper business since the summer of 1969 and has held a variety of editing jobs across the country. He started his career as a general assignment reporter at the Hot Springs, Arkansas, Sentinel-Record in 1969. He later became sports editor and government reporter. Ivory moved to the News-Star-World in Monroe, La., in 1979 as assistant city editor. In 1981, he was named city editor. Ivory became a member of the USA TODAY startup team in June 1982. He started as a state editor, then became night national editor to direct the paper’s national news coverage. In 1985, Ivory moved to the Jackson, Mississippi, Daily News afternoon newspaper as managing editor. Three years later he was named managing editor of both the Daily News and The Clarion-Ledger. The two papers were merged the following year into The Clarion-Ledger. While in Jackson, Ivory directed the news coverage that led to the re-indictment of the man accused of murdering Mississippi civil rights leader Medger Evers some 30 years earlier. The man subsequently was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Ivory was named executive editor of FLORIDA TODAY in 1993, and executive editor of The News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1995. He attended Hot Spring, Arkansas, public schools and received his B.A. degree in journalism from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia. He is married to the former Rosalind Jones of Malvern, Arkansas. They have two sons. The Hugh B. Patterson, Sr. Lecture Series was established in August 1977 by Hugh Baskin Patterson, Jr., former chairman of The Arkansas Gazette, in memory of his father. Patterson's gifts for this purpose have become part of the endowment to the college, with earnings designated for helping bring a nationally recognized journalist to the campus each year. |
The Office of Enrollment Services will host a preview day for high school juniors and seniors Saturday. Attendance is anticipated around 65-85 students plus an additional 100-120 family members.
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.
 |
|
|
Community shares cultural
foods and fun
The 7th annual Community International Night was held Saturday in Edwards
Dining Hall. This event is co-sponsored by Lyon College and the University
of Arkansas Community College at Batesville. Area residents shared in a
night of cultural foods, entertainment and fun. |
Holt wins Rotary Club Ambassadorial scholarship
Lyon College senior Justin Holt of Greers Ferry recently won an Ambassadorial scholarship from Rotary International. Holt plans to use the award to study biochemistry, biomedical-sciences, and molecular biology.
Holt was assigned to his first choice of location at James Cook University in North Queensland, Australia.
Holt said he applied for the scholarship to help him achieve three goals: “I will obtain a doctorate in a field of biomedical science in order to teach at the post secondary level and conduct research, travel the world in order to gain a greater understanding of people everywhere, and help as many people as I can along my way in order to make life as good as possible for as many people as I can.”
Candidates for scholarships from Rotary International need to possess, among other things, leadership skills, a proven record of success in their academics, and a personal commitment to community service.
The purpose of Rotary International’s scholarships is to promote understanding and amicable relations amongst people from different countries. Last year Rotary International awarded more than 1,100 Ambassadorial scholarships.
Counts has article on Harlequin Theatre history published
Dr. Michael Counts, associate professor of theatre and director of the Harlequin Theatre, has an article appearing in the January issue of The Independence County Chronicle. It is on the history of the Harlequin Theatre; tracing its beginnings in 1925 to the present. Included is a listing of each production since 1925, departmental and student awards and alumni activity in theatre, film and television.
 |
The Quapaw Quartet performs in Bevens
The
West Endowed Concert Series at Lyon College featured the Quapaw Quartet in
performance Tuesday in the Bevens Music Room of Brown Chapel. The quartet performed music by Mozart, Stravinsky and Ravel. Photo by Eric Stewart |
Pace awarded SILO
research grant
By Josh Manning
The
Arkansas Center for Public Affairs has awarded Dr. David Pace, assistant
professor of chemistry at Lyon College, a SILO (Science Information Liaison
Office) undergraduate research grant in the amount of $2,650. Lyon College is
matching $1,250 of the grant for a grand total of $3,900 in awards.
Pace and a student, sophomore Tim Akin of Jonesboro, will use the money on a project titled “Development of Novel Ionic Liquid Medicated Asynthetic Synthesis of alpha-Hydroxy beta-Amino Carboxylic Acid.” Pace and Akin will attempt to make a certain type of alpha-hydroxy widely used (but difficult to obtain) in certain medications for blood pressure, cancer treatment, and other applications.
Pace said that the research is needed because harvesting of these substances is problematic due to what he called “the chirality problem,” also known as the problem of “handedness.” He explained that this chemistry problem occurs in molecules that are identical in their chemical composition but are also mirror images of themselves in the real world—much like a person’s hands, which are identical in composition (they both have four fingers, a thumb, and a palm) but are mirror images of each other in reality. The problem drug makers face, and Pace and Akin are addressing, is that it is extremely difficult to separate these molecules from their mirror images.
Pace said the objective of his and Akin’s research is to bypass the problem of separation altogether and learn to synthetically create either chirality of molecule (“right” or “left” handed molecules). This would avoid the problem of separating the two different chiralities, and allow drug makers to use the synthetic molecules in medications requiring a molecule of specific chirality (handedness).
The issue of chirality is important to humans because the body reacts very differently to molecules of differing chiralities. For example, a common ingredient in cold medicines suppresses a cough, but if the ingredient is changed for its mirror image counterpart, the medication is then 10 times stronger than morphine.
The SILO Advisory Council sponsors the SILO Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. SURF’s purpose is to provide funding to encourage undergraduates to conduct in-depth research projects in their specific fields of study.
The grant will allow Pace and Akin to work on the project in
Lyon’s new Derby Center labs throughout the summer.
Sports
Basketball
The Scots fell to Union University 75-68 Thursday night in Becknell Gym. The Scots (9-7, 0-2) play Trevecca Nazarene at 4 p.m., Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Pipers defeated Union University 86-77 Thursday night in Becknell. The Pipers (12-7, 1-2) travel to Nashville, Tennessee, Saturday to play Trevecca Nazarene at 2 p.m.
Baseball
Scots prepare for season opener Feb. 1
(Courtesy of The Batesville Daily Guard)
By Michael Young, Guard Sports Writer
After a record-breaking season last year, the Lyon College Scots baseball
program is set to begin the 2005 season Tuesday afternoon in Conway with the
University of Central Arkansas Bears.
The Scots are coming off a season in which they set a school record for
victories with 43. Overall, they were 43-20. Their season ended with a 15-8 loss
to Martin Methodist in the TranSouth Conference Tournament.
Coach Kirk Kelley said he is optimistic about the upcoming season.
"We're coming off a great year," Kelley said. "We have some very good players
coming back this season."
The coach said senior first baseman-outfielder Jose Rivas, a 6-2, 220-pounder
from Venezuela, will be the player to watch.
Rivas is the first baseball player in Lyon history to be selected to the NAIA
All-America first team. Rivas' batting average was .409, with 17 home runs, 77
runs batted in, 57 runs scored, 92 hits, and a 22-game hitting streak that is
still active. All those numbers are school records. Rivas also won the
conference and Region XI Player of the Year Award.
Kelley said there are other standouts. Senior Danny Hurt and junior Brady Fath
will take turns behind the plate. The versatile Fath will also see playing time
at shortstop.
The probable starters in the middle infield are senior Matt Parker and junior
Nathan Baker. The corners will be covered by a mix of sophomore Andy Bettis and
juniors Sean Coker, Rob Webster and Sam Cooke.
Kelley said Webster will make an "immediate impact at third base."
Cooke, a Batesville High graduate, has completely recovered from nagging knee
injuries, Kelley said.
The outfield, anchored by Rivas, is likely to include sophomores Matt Byrd and
Mike Sanchez or junior Steven Wright. Kelley said they are his top four
outfielders, but Batesville's Tony Roepcke, a junior, and senior Thiago Bazler
are also "big role players."
On offense, Rivas, Cooke and Bettis make up the heart of the batting order,
according to Kelley, who added, "I like us, offensively."
Bettis recorded a .302 batting average and a .517 slugging percentage last year.
Cooke batted .300 in 46 games.
Wright and Coker will compliment the lineup, Kelley said. Wright, who runs the
60-yard dash in 6.75 seconds, is the likely leadoff man, according to Kelley.
The Scots' only weakness, Kelley said, is an inexperienced pitching staff.
Louis Raptopoulus, who won more than 30 games in four years, graduated, Josh
Dickey, a senior lefty, left school to pursue a front office job with the
Colorado Rockies organization, and southpaw junior Hal Skinner is out until at
least mid-February with a broken foot.
"That was a big blow to our club," Kelley said, referring to Dickey.
Kelley said senior pitchers Eli Arnett, Bill Pendergist and Jacob Martin need to
have good years for the Scots to be competitive. The coach added that he hopes
Brandon Qualls, a freshman right-hander from Cave City, will help the Scots. The
pitching will have to be good for the Scots to compete in a tough TranSouth
Conference.
Cumberland (Tenn.) is the defending national champion and NAIA preseason No. 1.
"Cumberland is the cream of the crop. ... The TranSouth is a phenomenal league.
It's loaded," Kelley said with a chuckle. "It's going to be a great race. It'll
be fun."
As voted by the TranSouth coaches, Lyon ranks fifth of the six teams in the
league. In order, the rankings are: Cumberland, Trevecca Nazarene, Union, Martin
Methodist, Lyon and Freed Hardeman.
Lyon's first shot at a conference opponent is scheduled for Mar. 26 against
Union in Jackson, Tenn.
The Scots' home opener is a doubleheader slated for noon Feb. 5 at Scots Field
against Henderson State. The teams are also scheduled to play a doubleheader
Feb. 6.
Bennie
Ivory, executive editor and vice president/news of The Courier-Journal in
Louisville, Kentucky, will present the 2004-05 Patterson Lecture at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 8, in Nucor Auditorium.