April 4, 2005
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• Lyon SAFARI to celebrate fifth year • Mendelssohn’s Bach Recital of 1840 to be re-created by Lyon musicians • Lyon Community Orchestra in concert April 12 • New CDs bring back first folk festival • The Leatherwoods to perform April 14 during symposium • Dr. Browder speaks at library • Professor, student to present papers at AAS meeting • Ozark Foothills FilmFest under way • Lyon students, staff compete in Oklahoma piping competition • Lyon hosts regional History Day • Cooke, Hester earned TranSouth baseball honors
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26th Arkansas Scottish Festival will be held April 22-24 at Lyon College.
The 26th Arkansas Scottish Festival will be held April 22-24 at Lyon College. For the first time, the festival’s individual piping competitions will include a United States Piping Foundation (USPF) qualifying event. The Open and Amateur Grade I contests will be held Friday, April 22, and will serve as qualifiers for the USPF championship held in Delaware in June. The aggregate winner in each grade will be qualified to compete in the USPF event. The USPF amateur qualifier will begin at 10 a.m. Friday, April 22, and the professional qualifier will begin at 5 p.m. Advance tickets to the professional qualifier will be $20 and include refreshments. It will be held on the second floor terrace of the Lyon Building. The first Arkansas Scottish Festival Kilted Golf Tournament will be held Friday, April 22. A golf tournament was scheduled for last year’s festival but was canceled because of inclement weather. The kilts-optional, four-person scramble will tee off at 1:30 p.m. at the Course at Eagle Mountain. Registration information is available on the festival Web site, www.lyon.edu/scotfest. The festival will be held on the main campus for the second year in a row. Until last year, the festival had been held on the intramural field east of Bryan Lake. This year, that area will be used for parking if weather conditions permit. The annual “Big Show,” a student talent competition, will be staged Friday night at 8 p.m,. in Brown Chapel Auditorium. Festival gates open at 8 a.m. Saturday, April 23. The athletic, individual piping and drumming and Highland dancing competitions begin shortly thereafter. Competitors from several states come to the festival’s games, which are well-known as “the friendly games.” The Highland athletic competition provides the opportunity for men and women to test their strength in traditional Scottish fashion. The men compete in the caber toss (similar to carrying and then tossing half a telephone pole so that it does one complete rotation), sheaf toss, stone put, weight for height, weight for distance and hammer throw. The women compete in the caber toss, stone put, weight for height, weight for distance and rolling pin throwing events. The games will be held in the grassy area behind the Mabee-Simpson Library. Children’s games will be offered both Saturday and Sunday. The Highland dancing competition begins Saturday morning in Brown Chapel. The Highland Fling, Sword Dance, Irish Jig and Sailor's Hornpipe are among the dances that will be performed. Pipe bands and individual pipers and drummers will be competing or performing Saturday in Eastern United States Pipe Band Association (EUSPBA)-sanctioned events. All of the bands will march in the Parade of Clans and Massed Bands at the opening ceremonies at 1 p.m. Saturday in Couch Garden. Members of the various clans and societies will lead the parade, displaying their clan colors. The pipe band competition begins at 2 p.m. Saturday with an awards ceremony at 4 p.m. The sounds of traditional Scottish music and Ozark folk music may be enjoyed throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday. Alex Beaton, the popular Scottish entertainer, is set to appear again this year, his 18th year in a row at the festival. Another festival favorite, The Boatrights, a folk music group from Missouri, will also perform both days. Several Ozark craftsmen and artisans will demonstrate their skills and display and sell their work. The popular sheepdog demonstrations, featuring border collies that respond to whistled commands while herding sheep, will return this year. |
Another new feature this year will be a falconry demonstration, beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday in Couch Garden.
Food vendors featuring Scottish food and a variety of American favorites will be open throughout the festival.
The Feast and Ceilidh will be at 7 p.m. Saturday night in Becknell Gymnasium and will include food and entertainment. Tickets to the Feast and Ceilidh are $35. Tickets to a cocktail reception before the feast are $10.
On Sunday, April 24, gates will open at 8 a.m. and the vendor and clan booths will be open as well.
The festival offers visitors an opportunity to reflect on Scottish religious roots at 9 a.m. Sunday with the traditional Iona Worship Service in Couch Garden. The worship service resembles the traditional services held on the Scottish island of Iona. The Rev. Ralph Graham will be the guest speaker. Graham was vice president of development at Lyon when the first pipe and drum corps was formed and was instrumental in staging the first Ozark Highland Games, which evolved into the Arkansas Scottish Festival.
Also on Sunday at noon, men in kilts will take the festival stage to compete for the honor of having the “bonniest knees” of the festival as determined by blindfolded judges.
Sunday events include athletic demonstrations, sheepdog and Highland cattle demonstrations, falconry, entertainment by Beaton and the Boatrights, and presentations on Scottish history and heritage. The closing ceremonies will be at 2 p.m.
The Arkansas Scottish Festival celebrates Lyon’s Presbyterian and Scottish roots. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) founded Lyon in 1872 as Arkansas College.
Advance two-day tickets are $16 for adults and $10 for ages 12-17. One-day tickets are also available in advance. Advance tickets for Saturday only are $10 ($12 at the gate) for adults and $6 ($8 at the gate) for ages 12-17. Sunday advance tickets are $6 ($10 at the gate) for adults and $4 ($6 at the gate) for ages 12-17. Children under 12 will be admitted free if accompanied by an adult.
To reserve tickets, send a check for the correct amount to Arkansas Scottish Festival, Lyon College, P.O. Box 2317, Batesville, AR 72503. Checks should be made payable to Lyon College. Ticket orders received after April 15 will be held at the main gate. For ticket information, call (870) 698-4211, e-mail ddevall@lyon.edu or visit www.lyon.edu/scotfest/.
Lyon SAFARI to celebrate fifth year
Lyon College’s S.A.F.A.R.I. summer program for youngsters who have completed grades K-7 will celebrate its fifth year with two sessions in June.
The first session will be June 6-17; the second will be June 20-July 1. Each session will be from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Students who have completed grades K-2 may elect to attend half-day sessions, either morning or afternoon. Students who have completed grades 3-7 attend for a full day.
Lyon S.A.F.A.R.I (Summer Academics – Fun and Recreation Included) is designed to provide students with enriching, challenging and enjoyable learning experiences in a variety of content areas.
A variety of recreational activities will also be offered, including swimming, archery, golf, Highland dancing and others. Students can create a daily schedule that matches their own interests and talents.
Students will sign up for three academic and one recreational course per session. Students may attend their choice of one or both sessions. Lunch will be provided as well as morning and afternoon snacks. Students attending the half-day sessions for K-2 may take one academic course and one recreational course or two academic classes.
Students in grades 3-7 may elect half-day sessions if they wish to attend a Lyon College sports camp that may be offered on the same dates.
For more information or an application, e-mail mcooper@lyon.edu or call (870) 612-6490. The application deadline is May 14. More information also can be found on the Lyon SAFARI Web page at www.lyon.edu/webdata/groups/safari/.
Musicians to re-create Mendelssohn’s Bach Recital of 1840
Lyon College faculty and students will perform a re-creation of Felix Mendelssohn’s Bach Recital of 1840 on Friday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Brown Chapel Auditorium..
Among the performers are Dr. Russell Stinson, Lyon’s Josephine Emily Brown Professor of Music and college organist, and students Robert Bailey, sophomore, and Skye Hart, junior.
Pieces performed will include “Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele” (Great Eighteen Chorales), Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, and Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
The performance is free and open to the public. A reception will be held immediately afterward in the Bevens Music Room adjoining Brown Chapel.
Lyon Community Orchestra in concert April 12
The Lyon Community Orchestra will perform in Brown Chapel Auditorium for a concert on April 12 at 7:30 p.m. Vocalists will join the orchestra in a performance of Mozart’s Laudate Dominum from Vesperae solennes de Confessore, featuring Anne Kootz of Star City, soprano soloist.
The varied program will feature large orchestra works, American Salute by Morton Gould, based on the “Johnny Comes Marching Home” theme; John Henry by Aaron Copland, based on the folk hero of the same name who worked on the Western Railroad, and Fiddler on the Roof Selections. Two other works by Tchaikovsky and Ravel will round out the program. The program is open to the public with a suggested donation of $3 per person.
The Lyon Community Orchestra is now in its fifth year under the direction of Barbara Reeve, adjunct professor of strings at Lyon, and string teacher at the West Magnet School for Visual and Performing Arts in Batesville Schools.
Reeve is no stranger to the scene of symphonic music in Arkansas. A 17-year veteran of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, she currently plays with the Pine Bluff Symphony, the Delta Symphony as concertmaster, and occasionally appears with the Arkansas Symphony.
“Arkansas Symphony has been very kind to remember me” says Reeve, who resigned from the symphony in order to devote her time to the Batesville community to develop the string program. She will be part of the orchestra premiering David Itkin’s “Exodus.”
Coupled with a very effective board, Reeve is current president of the Batesville Symphony League. Besides annually bringing the Arkansas Symphony to Batesville with the aid of Community Bank and Lyon College, BSL has committed to co-sponsor with Citizens Bank and Lyon a concert on the Riverfront for July 4, 2005. Joining the Community Orchestra for the event will be many of the school children enrolled in the Magnet program and those from local private string teachers.
Leaders in business and industry have an opportunity to show their support in sponsorship through annual fundraising. “We are currently looking for a few good sponsors to endorse the July 4 concert, putting a 45-piece orchestra in the newly constructed amphitheatre in Riverfront Park,” Reeve said. “Besides local core musicians, any community orchestra depends on being able to bring in professional musicians to round out the sections. Not every community has the right instruments in proper balance.”
Further plans include a cooperative effort with Batesville Dance Theatre and the community orchestra for a special Christmas concert.
“Not too many cities of Batesville’s size can speak of their own symphony and ballet with a self-perpetuating feeder system to support it,” Reeve said. “A chamber of commerce can attract better paying jobs to the area with higher skilled labor if the employer knows the community can offer the amenities of larger towns.”
New CDs bring back first folk festival
They were just
“timber cutters, farmers, housewives and all plain people of the hills.”
That’s how folk music legend Jimmy Driftwood described the performers at
Mountain View’s first Arkansas Folk Festival back in 1963. A new 2-CD collection
produced at Lyon College lets us hear for ourselves the music of those timber
cutters, farmers and housewives who helped launch the Arkansas Folk Festival
into Arkansas’s most popular spring event.
The CD collection, Sounds of the Ozark Folk: The 1963 Arkansas Folk Festival, features more than two hours of performances recorded in the old Mountain View High School gymnasium on those two April nights forty-two years ago. Among the musicians and singers featured in the collection are several of north central Arkansas’s best-known performers, including twin fiddlers Abbie and Apsie Morrison, Almeda Riddle, Ollie Gilbert, Neal Morris, Glenn Ohrlin, and Bookmiller Shannon. And, of course, Jimmy Driftwood emceed the festival and performed a few songs himself.
Sounds of the Ozark Folk was made possible by the recordings made by folklorist and Batesville native John Quincy Wolf, Jr. Wolf spent more than a decade recording folk musicians and singers in north central Arkansas and was largely responsible for introducing the world to Driftwood and other noted Ozark singers, such as Almeda Riddle and Neal Morris. After his death in 1972, his widow, Bess Millen Wolf, donated his folk music tapes to Lyon, formerly Arkansas College. This new CD collection marks the first time that any of Wolf’s recordings have been made available for sale.
Sounds of the Ozark Folk will be available in April. Visit the Lyon College Regional Studies Center’s booth on the Mountain View square during folk festival weekend (April 15-17) to take advantage of a special, one-time-only price of $15 per set. Those who are unable to attend this spring’s festival may relive the magic of the 1963 Arkansas Folk Festival and own a piece of Ozark history by sending a check or money order (made out to Lyon College) in the amount of $20 per set to: Sounds of the Ozark Folk, Lyon College Regional Studies Center, P.O. Box 2317, Batesville, AR 72503-2317. (Price includes costs of shipping and handling.) For more information please call the Center at (870) 698-4330 or contact the Center’s director, Dr. Brooks Blevins, at bblevins@lyon.edu.
The Leatherwoods to perform April 14
On Thursday evening, April 14, the
Lyon College Regional Studies Center will present a free concert by The
Leatherwoods, a Mountain View-based group that performs Ozark music. Composed of
natives of Stone and Izard counties, The Leatherwoods performs a mix of
traditional mountain string band music and bluegrass. The concert, which will
take place at 8 p.m. in Bevens Music Room, will be the concluding event of
Lyon’s two-day symposium, “A Legacy of the Folk: The Roots Recordings of John
Quincy Wolf, Jr.” For more information, visit
http://www.lyon.edu/wolfcollection/wolfsymposiumschedule.html or contact Dr.
Brooks Blevins – 870-698-4330 or
bblevins@lyon.edu.
Dr. Sally Browder, associate professor of psychology at Lyon, (standing) spoke on “The Gender Gap in Science” at Lyon’s Mabee-Simpson Library Thursday. Browder’s lecture was inspired by the controversial remarks Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers made in January that embroiled him in a still churning firestorm from the left. Photo by Eric Stewart |
Professor, student to present papers at AAS meeting Dr. Anthony K. Grafton, associate professor of chemistry, will be chairing a paper session, “Myxomycetes and Education,” at the annual Arkansas Academy of Science meeting at Hendrix College in Conway Friday and Saturday (April 8-9). Dr. Grafton also will present a paper titled “Bridging the Gap: Bringing Molecular Dynamics Calculations to Undergraduates Using a Powerful Web-based Interface.” Additionally, an undergraduate research student of Dr. Grafton’s, Patrick McLauren, will be presenting a paper titled “Calculated Differences in the Solvation of Chiral Solutes in Chiral Solvents.” He will also be presenting his work at the Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference at Henderson later this month. The paper was co-authored by McLauren, Dr. Grafton and Dr. R. David Pace, assistant professor of chemistry at Lyon. Lyon will be hosting next year’s AAS meeting in April 2006. Typically there are about 200 scientists and science students from around the state who come to that meeting each year. Dr. Grafton is chairman of the Local Arrangements Committee that will organize the event. Ozark Foothills FilmFest under way The art of film is celebrated at the Ozark Foothills FilmFest’s fourth season April 1-17. Details are posted on the festival’s Web site at www.ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org. Events will take place at various venues in the area. |
Lyon students, staff compete in Oklahoma piping competition
Several Lyon students and staff competed March 26 in Oklahoma City in the 1st Annual Oklahoma Solo Piping Debate. Scottish Heritage Director Jimmy Bell judged the event. Kenton Adler, academic services coordinator, won the Grade II 6/8 march and strathspey/reel categories as well as placing third in the slow aire/jig competition. Tristen Dean placed first in the 6/8 and 2/4 marches as well as taking third in the strathspey/reel category in the Grade III competition. Grey Abernathy placed second out of 21 competitors in the Grade IV piobaireachd, while Neil McCarthy was first in the Grade IV piobaireachd and third in the slow aire competition. Mr. McCarthy also was judged to be the most promising piper of the day and thus was awarded a new set of MacCallum bagpipes. Congratulations to Mr. McCarthy on this prestigious award.
Lyon hosts regional History Day
Over 100 students and six teachers from four Arkansas junior and senior high schools came to Lyon College February 24 to compete in the 24th Annual District II History Day.
Dr. Brooks Blevins, Lyon’s Director of Regional Studies, said, “History Day . . . is a valuable event, both for the students and Lyon College.” He added, “It spurs an interest in and participation in the study of history, and it exposes many potential college students to Lyon’s facilities and many of its faculty and staff.”
During History Day, students competed by submitting papers, documentaries and exhibits. Dr. Edward Tenace, Dr. John Weinzierl, Dean Covington, Kenton Adler and Dr. Frank Winfrey, all of Lyon College, served as head judges. These judges provided careful, constructive criticism to contestants. Students whose projects will go on to the state competition particularly appreciated the judges’ help in getting them ready for the next level, both in written evaluations and in interviews the judges conducted with all participants.
The day’s winners were:
Senior Historical Papers
1st A Patriotic Big Brother - Tice Brown, Batesville
2nd Protest Music:
Communicating Revolution - Sam Covington, Batesville
3rd
Cryptography: Communicating Through Codes During WWII - Sarah Walter, Batesville
Junior Individual Exhibit
1st History of
the Radio - Eli Crider, Izard County
2nd
Communication of the Pony Express - Montana Guthrie, Izard County
3rd Stone Henge:
A Mystery - Dusty Maloch, Izard County
Junior Group Exhibit
1st Comforting
Communication: FDR’s Fireside Chats - Orrie Allen, Derek
Jones, Sam Sutherland, Tyler Cornwell, Cody Meade, Tuckerman
2nd Signs of
Hope: The Underground Railroad - Colton Phillips, Sam
Porter, Tuckerman
3rd Sign
Language Communications - Charlene Smith,
Brittany Schrable, Sarah Liggett, Izard County
Senior Individual Exhibit"
1st Branding:
Language of the Open Range - Allison
Cantrell, Batesville
2nd
Underground Railroad: Conversing in Code - Stephanie
McSpadden, Batesville
3rd Women’s
Rights - CaSondra Smith, Izard County
Senior Group
Exhibit
1st Cable TV: An Arkansas Landmark
- Rob Clausen,
Landon Russell, Cash Jiles, Danny Adams, Hunter Gates, Tuckerman
2nd Can You Hear
Me Now? … Good! - Callie Wagner,
Emilie Caldwell, Tuckerman
3rd Operation
Fortitude South: Deception at Pais De Calais - Kevin Peek,
Zachary Waldrip, Batesville
Junior Group Documentary
1st Words That
Stirred a Movement: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Claire
Caldwell, Amanda McGhee, Abbi Graham, Ashley Miller, Whitney Hembrey,
Tuckerman
2nd Protest
Music of the Sixties - Gina Elliott,
Colton Thornton, Ashton Barnes, Tuckerman
3rd Fanning the
Flames: WW II Propaganda - Katie Mitchell,
Alli Easter, Tuckerman
Senior Individual Documentary
1st Espionage
Spies (not) the Art of Silence - Keith Lewis, Izard County
Senior Group Documentary
1st HA-NEH-AL-ENJI:
The Codetalkers - James Cap, Eric
Morgan, Brett Haney, Izard County
2nd Communication in Prison Camps - Seth Hall,
Jeremy Tanner, Steven Haney, Izard County
3rd Freedom of
Expression: A Burning Question - Jake shipman,
Justin Tharpe, Trevor Stevenson, Tuckerman
Junior Individual Performance
1st Sojourner
Truth: Her Words and Works - Danielle Wright, Tuckerman
Junior Group Performance
1st Students and
Symbolic Speech: Tinker vs. Des Moines - Kati Clausen,
Jasmine Jackson, Abby Russell, Kelsey Baker, Jill Wagner, Tuckerman
Senior Individual Performance
1st Uniting a
People: The Power of Slave Songs
2nd The Great
Communicator: Ronald Reagan
Senior Group Performance
1st Communicating the Ideas of Women’s Liberation: Betty
Freidan and the Feminine Mystique - Megan Gardner,
Andrea Fraser, Sheena Allen, Krystyn
Lancaster, Tuckerman
2nd Communicating Beyond Expectations:
Women Speak - Lacy Aitkens,
Kryston Hall, Patty Ireland, Penny Ireland, Janee Nunemaker, Apple Phillips,
Katy
Stoner, Newport
3rd “scams,
lies, and audiotapes…The Downfall of Richard Nixon”
- Amanda Jones,
Rodney Stevenson, Lindsey Williams, Tristen Mount, Brett Ivy,
Tuckerman
Baseball
The Scots won three games at Martin Methodist over the weekend. On Sunday, the Scots won 6-5. On Sunday, they swept a doubleheader 10-8 and 7-6.
The Scots are scheduled to play Ouachita Baptist at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Scots Field.
Cooke, Hester earned TranSouth baseball honors
JACKSON, Tenn. - Sam Cooke of Lyon College and Josh Hester of Freed-Hardeman University have been named the TranSouth Conference Player and Pitcher of the Week respectively. These awards are for the week ending March 26.
Cooke, a 6-foot-2 junior outfielder from Batesville, Arkansas, earned the TranSouth Player of the Week honor as he led the 9th ranked Lyon College Scots to a 4-1 record for the week, including taking two of three games at Union University in their conference opening weekend. On the week, Cooke hit .688 as he went 11-for-16 in the five games, while recording at least one hit in all five games. He tallied eight RBI, five runs, four doubles, and one walk. He posted a slugging percentage of .918. On the season, Cooke is hitting .452. Lyon on the year is 33-7 overall and 2-1 in league play.
Hester, a 6-foot-3 right hander from Huntsville, Alabama, earned the TranSouth Pitcher of the Week honors with a complete game shutout performance at No. 17 Trevecca Nazarene University. In that game, Hester pitched 7.0 innings, allowing just five hits and no runs while striking out five batters and walking none. On the week, He went 1-0 with nine innings pitched over two appearances. He recorded eight strikeouts, no walks and allowed just six hits. On the season, Hester is 7-1 and has a 1.32 ERA in 47.2 innings pitched. Freed-Hardeman is 19-11 overall and 1-2 in TranSouth play.
