January 9, 2006

Lusk, owner of the David Lusk Gallery in Memphis, moved to that city to attend Rhodes College, where he earned a degree in English/media/business.

He has been representing contemporary artists since 1988. Though he admits that selling contemporary art in Southern cities is an often difficult job, he said good luck has made the job easier.

“I’ve been lucky,” he said. “Lucky enough to work with good artists from across the country. And lucky enough to work with willing collectors from all over the place.”

For more information on the David Lusk Gallery, go to davidluskgallery.com.
 

Community International Night                                Saturday, Jan. 21           5 p.m.           UACCB

Library display honors Civil Rights leaders

Displays for January at the library will honor Daisy Bates, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.
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“Significantly, Daisy Bates and Rosa Parks—often called the mother of the modern civil rights movement—played pivotal roles almost simultaneously in their respective states of Arkansas and Alabama.”
The legacy of Daisy Bates, Linda Reed, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Spring 2000; 59, 1:Research Library pg. 76

“During the Little Rock school desegregation crisis, les than two years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott sparked by Parks, it was... Bates who had rallied the community, both in pressing integration upon Little Rock and Arkansas in her capacity as NAACP leader and in personally supporting and guiding the students and their parents throughout the crisis.”
The Legacy of Daisy Bates, Linda Reed, Arkansas Historical Quarterly; Spring 2000; 59,1;Research Library, pg. 80

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
___Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 Jan. 1929 - 4 Apr. 1968)___
Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 August 1963

The display will be in the lobby of the library in honor of Dr. Martin Luther Kings' birthday in January and to emphasize  Diversity Week at Lyon.

The write stuff: Graduate credits Lyon College for his career in journalism

By WIL SHANE
Lyon College News Bureau

2001 Lyon graduate Josh Baugh said he was never interested in a career in newspapers until he took his first journalism class at Lyon College.

That interest led him to graduate school and a job at a medium-size daily newspaper in Texas. And two weeks ago, he took over the position of higher education reporter for the College Station/Bryan, Texas Eagle, covering anything related to Texas A&M University except sports.

“Everyone thinks since I played baseball at Lyon that I’m just a sports guy, but I don’t have anything to do with sports here,” Baugh said. “I cover the main campus of A&M, its 12 campuses across the state and all its various agricultural agencies too. If it has to do with Texas A&M and it’s not sports, I cover it.”

Baugh, an English major with a concentration in journalism at Lyon, took his first job as a professional journalist at the Denton, Texas, Record-Chronicle, a daily newspaper with a circulation of about 17,000.

While working there, he worked on a master’s degree in journalism at the University of North Texas. In 2003, he earned the degree, and that led to his hiring as the higher education reporter at the Eagle. That newspaper has a daily circulation of about 30,000, Baugh said.

“My journalism classes at Lyon showed me that I wanted a career in this field,” he said. “Lyon is why I’m here now.”

Originally from San Antonio, Baugh came to Lyon after attending Tulane University for one year. Head baseball coach Kirk Kelley recruited him and convinced him that Lyon was where he belonged.

“He’s (Coach Kelley) so good at what he does,” Baugh said, “that he could literally go anywhere he wanted to.”

Kelley has totaled close to 400 wins in the 14 years he’s been at Lyon College. He’s worked as a Major League scout for the Baltimore Orioles, and is currently a scout for the San Diego Padres organization.

Another major influence on Baugh at Lyon College was Dr. Terrell Tebbetts, professor of English and noted authority on the works of many great authors, especially that of William Faulkner. His essays and critiques have been published in several highly respected journals and anthologies.

Tebbetts has been with the Lyon faculty for 35 years, and serves in many capacities, including as faculty co-sponsor for Alpha Chi and Kappa Sigma and as Chair of the Language and Literature Division.

“He’s really an amazing teacher,” Baugh said. “He’s like the teacher in Dead Poet’s Society. Even if you don’t like the subject he’s teaching, he makes it fun.”
Baugh said he took Dr. Tebbetts’ class on romantic poetry, a subject he had little to no desire to even study.

“I don’t like poetry, and romantic poetry is even worse,” he said. “But Dr. Tebbetts made it fun. I actually ended up liking the subject, and the class, too.”

Without Kirk Kelley bringing him to Lyon College, and without the influence of Dr. Tebbetts in regards to writing as a career choice, Baugh said he doesn’t know what path his life would have taken.

“Lyon was a good choice for me,” he said. “Right now, I’m doing what I love, and doing it at a paper that I respect and enjoy working for. And I’m here because of Lyon College.”

Chemistry professor wins supplemental award grant

NASA and the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium believe in the chemistry research being performed at Lyon College, and the agencies backed up that confidence with cold, hard cash – twice.

Dr. Floyd Beckford, assistant professor of chemistry, together with student Trey Holt, crafted a grant proposal titled “Biochemical Studies of Organometallic Compounds,” which earned a grant last year in the amount of $7,750.

After Dr. Beckford and Holt submitted a revised budget justifying the need for additional funding, their project earned a supplement in the amount of $3,411.
Dr. Beckford said two of the traditional areas of chemistry are organic and inorganic. “Inorganic chemistry is typically associated with metals and their compounds,” he explained. “Simply put, organometallic compounds contain an organic portion linked to a metal. This results in synergistic chemistry, which is quite useful. The compounds offer a new class of potential pharmaceuticals that has antimicrobial activity. It is this concept that interests the funding agencies.”

The money is being used to purchase chemicals and supplies, pay for analyses of the compounds we make and for dissemination of the results from the research, he added.

The Arkansas Space Grant Consortium is comprised of 14 colleges and universities that cooperate to facilitate space research in Arkansas.

Available for projects at the K-12, undergraduate and graduate levels, the grants fund research proposals in the fields of math, science and education that are of interest to NASA.

Sports

Basketball

Columbia 82, Lyon 69
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A game-high 27 points by Norris Weintz was not enough for Lyon in their loss to Columbia at Southwell Complex. Jonathon Donaldson scored 23 points for Lyon.

Arnold, Castleberry sign with Piper volleyball

(Reprinted from the Batesville Daily Guard)

By Michael Young, Guard Sports Writer

Jonesboro Westside seniors Julie Arnold and Lauren Castleberry each signed a letter of intent recently to play volleyball at Lyon College. The duo has been playing volleyball together since third grade and is excited about adding another four years.

“We’re so excited. This has been so much fun the past few years, and now to get to go to college and play together, I can’t wait. It’s going to be a blast,” Arnold told the Jonesboro Sun. “We both wanted to go there (Lyon). We both loved the school and the volleyball girls, and we just can’t wait.”

Arnold and Castleberry have led the Westside Lady Warriors to three consecutive Class AAA state championship games. Westside finished runner-up each of those trips.

Arnold recorded a team-high 980 assists this season. Castleberry led the team with 341 kills.

Jonesboro High’s Katie Beineke also signed with Lyon recently. Beineke led the Lady Hurricane to the AAAAA-East conference tournament championship this season. She recorded an area-best 368 kills and added 72 blocks and 277 digs to her impressive stat totals.

“They’re going to push for starting time right off the bat,” Lyon Coach Justin Dee said. “All three of these girls are good enough that if they played this year, they would have pushed for Freshman of the Year in the TranSouth Conference. They are very, very talented and they will add quite a bit of depth to our bench. I never promise playing time or a starting spot, but all three should see a lot of playing time.”

With the addition of an extra bid for the NAIA Region XI Tournament, Dee said he expects his squad to be one of the three teams to represent the TranSouth next season.

“We have three new teams coming into our conference and the top three go to region,” Dee said. Lyon was in the top three this season, but only two teams received regional bids. “At the end of last season, our goal was to be in the top three so we can go to region (in 2006). But, with the addition of these three girls, our plans have changed. We have much higher expectations now. We want to give Lyon its first TranSouth Conference championship and we have a great shot at doing that. I think having them puts 10 more wins in our pocket.”

Ten more wins would mean a 30-win season for the Pipers, a feat they’ve never accomplished.

This season’s 20-19 record and a third-place finish in the conference was a program best for the Pipers.

Susie Harper, who finished her career ranked fourth on the NAIA all-time digs list with 2,718, is the only player lost to graduation from the record-breaking squad. She was named to the TranSouth all-conference first team.

Alison Sablick, who was selected all-conference second team, Alyson Boone and Madeline Homer will be the senior leaders on next season’s team.
Daria Paunovic, who joined Harper on the all-conference first team, and Jessica Sylvester will be juniors.

Harper, Boone, Homer, Sablick, Paunovic and Sylvester also shined in the classroom, each earning TranSouth Scholar Athlete recognition.

The 2006 season will kick off in August.
 

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