January 7, 2005
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• Career Development to host ‘Life After Lyon’ day • TKE reunion set for Jan. 15-16 • Join the Lyon Pipe Band in New York City • Louisville editor to present the Patterson Lecture February 8 • Call for Professor of the Year nominations • Shots from Scots-ASU Indians game
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Retired AME minister, civil rights leader to speak during Diversity Week at Lyon
Dr. Casson will speak at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial convocation at 11 a.m. Tuesday, January 18, in Brown Chapel Auditorium at Lyon. He will also speak at a Diversity Week convocation at 7:30 p.m. the same day in Nucor Auditorium. The public is invited to both events and admission will be free. During his visit to Batesville, Dr. Casson also will deliver the message at a community celebration at 6 p.m. Sunday, January 16, at Bethel A.M.E. Church. Dr. Casson retired in 2001 after 48 years of active ministry in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He pastored 12 churches in Montana, Arizona, California and Washington, including the largest A.M.E. churches in Phoenix, Santa Monica, San Diego, Pasadena and Seattle. From 1998 through 2001, he served as Presiding Elder of the five states of the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference of the A.M.E. Church. During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins appointed Dr. Casson the Western Regional Director of the organization. He was one of the first three regional field directors appointed by Wilkins. The others were Medgar Evers in Mississippi and Vernon Jordan in Georgia. Dr. Casson also has been a leader in the ecumenical movement through the World Council of Churches and has been involved in the struggle for human rights with leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. Dr. Casson was appointed in 1999 to the Washington State Human Rights Commission, where he continues to serve. He also serves as chair of the Seattle City Civil Service Commission and on the governing committee for the Seattle Center. With degrees from Seattle Pacific University, Evangelical Seminary, a certificate from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and two honorary doctorates, Dr. Casson continues to promote the struggle for freedom and human rights. He has received numerous awards for his lifetime of service. Other Lyon College Diversity Week activities include a reception by the Black Students Association at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 17, in Bevens Music Room; a showing of the animated feature film, "The Point," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, in Nucor Auditorium; and Community International Night at 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, in Edwards Dining Hall. At the BSA reception, the Rev. Ricky Everett, pastor of Greater Morningstar Baptist Church of Newport and an alumnus of Lyon, will be the speaker. |
Career Development to host ‘Life After Lyon’ day
Lyon seniors are encouraged to attend “Life After Lyon” day Tuesday, January 11. This is a first-time event for seniors only. The event will take place in the Lyon building beginning at 8:30 a.m. with registration and a continental breakfast in the rotunda. Seniors will be given valuable information to help them in making decisions about their future.
TKE reunion set for Jan. 15-16
There will be a TKE reunion Saturday and Sunday, January 15-16, at the Holiday Inn Presidential Conference Center in Little Rock. Saturday activities begin with cocktails and dinner at 6 p.m. Sunday activities are still being planned. For more information contact Dick Behringer at (309) 484-2163 or e-mail dbehr@rowva.k12.il.us
Join the Lyon Pipe Band in New York City
Dear Friends,
We invite you to join the Lyon College Pipe Band and friends of the College in New York City for the Tartan Day Parade, April 2, 2005!
On Thursday, March 31 through April 4, 2005, we'll travel en masse to visit the city that never sleeps. Accommodations are at the landmark Rihga Royal, a JW Marriott Hotel (website http://www.rihgaroyalny.com) overlooking Central Park. The tour includes a brunch at the prestigious Tavern on the Green, a concert by the Lyon College Pipe Band, and the parade down Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) on Saturday.
There will be plenty of free time for you to take a carriage ride in Central Park, indulge yourself at Saks or Bloomingdale’s, visit the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building or take in a Broadway show. The price of the trip is an amazing $1,400 per person double occupancy and includes flights, transfers, brunch, tours, etc.
For more information, please contact: Claudia Marsh (870)793-1767 or cmarsh@lyon.edu or Shelby Moore at Four Seasons Travel (800) 334-5456 or (870) 793-1133. For details, go on-line to www.lyon.edu or http://www.gofourseasons.com
Space is limited. In order to receive the discounted price, we will need your reservation by Wednesday, January 12. We look forward to traveling with you and making memories together.
Peggy Roettger and Claudia Marsh
Ivory will be Patterson Lecturer in February
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.
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.
Call for Professor of the Year nominations
Institutional Advancement is now accepting nominations of deserving faculty for the 2005 Professor of the Year Award. Lyon College may nominate up to three outstanding faculty members for the award, presented annually by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and directed by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Lyon’s past Arkansas Professor of the Year winners include: Dr. Mark Schram, 2004; Dr. Helen Robbins, 2001; Dr. Robert Gregerson, 2000 and 2003; Dr. David Stricklin, 1999; and Dr. Terrell Tebbetts, 1992.
To be eligible, faculty must actively teach at least one semester during the 2004-2005 academic year, although they may be of any academic rank and teach full- or part-time. CASE advises consideration of the following criteria when nominating a faculty member:
*Impact on and involvement with undergraduate students;
*Scholarly approach to teaching and learning;
*Contributions to undergraduate education in the institution, community and
profession; and
*Support from colleagues and current and former undergraduate students.
To nominate a faculty member to the candidate pool, contact Gina
Garrett at (870) 698-4624 or at ggarrett@lyon.edu.
Deadline for nominations is Friday, January 21. Each nomination should
include a brief statement describing why the faculty member should receive the
Professor of the Year Award. Please include information and examples to
illustrate how a potential nominee stands out among his or her peers. The
College may nominate no more than three faculty members each year. An
administrative committee will select final nominees from the candidate pool, and
original nominators will be contacted for additional information at a later
date.
 Photos by Jason Marzewski |
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The Scots returned to action Monday night against Arkansas State University in a non-conference exhibition game at the Convocation Center in Jonesboro. The Scots lost to the Indians 76-57 but made a game of it in the second half. The Scots trailed by 22 points at one point but narrowed the margin to 13 with 4:07 left before NCAA Division I ASU closed on a 12-3 run. Norris Weintz and Jason Donaldson both scored 15 points to lead Lyon. Dalun Smith and Chris Wilkinson had 10 points apiece. Above left, Wilkinson controls the ball. At right, Donaldson puts up a shot while surrounded by ASU Indians. The Scots, 6-4, will host Central Baptist at 8 p.m. Monday in Becknell Gym. The Pipers are playing in the College of the Ozarks Classic in Branson, Missouri, today and tomorrow before returning home Monday for a game against the Central Baptist women. |
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The
Rev. Dr. Ellis H. Casson of Seattle, Washington, will be the featured guest
speaker January 18 during Diversity Week at Lyon College. Dr. Casson is a
retired African Methodist Episcopal Church minister and was a leader in the
civil rights movement of the 1960s.