The Harbinger
April 14, 2008
Alumni Weekend festivities - roast Jane Rose
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Jane Rose |
One of the great things about Alumni Weekend is - of course - reconnecting with old classmates, faculty, and staff members. Even better is doing so with some organized humor, anecdotes, and stories - all accompanied by food and frivolity! That's what just one of the events on Friday evening, June 13, promises.
The number “13” is a special one for Jane Preston Rose. She has been with the College for 13 years and she married her husband George on Friday the 13th. Now join friends and family on the 13th of June as we celebrate her retirement as Dean of the Weekend College. Enjoy an outdoor barbeque as Jane’s colleagues and former students share stories about working with her over the years. She might be retiring from her role as Dean, but Jane's not leaving the College - she's "retiring" so she can devote more time to teaching in her adjunct faculty position - so, we might be roasting Jane on Friday night, but we won't have seen the last of her, happily!
That just starts off the weekend's entertainment! Look at the full listing of events in the Spring 2008 issue of the Hiram Magazine, or call the Office of Alumni Relations at 800.705.5050. Better yet, look at events and register online on Hiram's new and improved Alumni web site. Go to alumni.hiram.edu, check out the events, and sign up to your heart's content. While you're online, why not update your profile, and send a class note?
Start planning now, and prepare to reconnect with tradition at Hiram.
Two Hiram College Spring Athletes Having Strong Individual Performances
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Whitney Dropsey |
Hiram College softball and sophomore outfielder
Whitney Dropsey (Ashland/Hillsdale) continues her streak of not having yet being struck out at the plate. As a freshman, Dropsey recorded 117 at-bats without having struck out and earned the 2007 NCAA Division III Toughest to Strikeout Award.
So far in 2008, Dropsey has continued that streak having still not struck out in 58 at-bats. She is currently second on the team in batting average at .328 (19-of-58) with a triple, a pair of doubles, five runs scored and two
runs batted in. She leads the team in stolen bases with six.Dropsey has now tallied 175 career at-bats in one-and-a-half seasons without being struck out.
Terrier baseball player and sophomore infielder Kyle Kovach (Garfield Heights) had
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Kyle Kovach |
an impressive individual performance this past week posting a .625 (10-of-16) batting average in four games played. In the second game of a non-conference doubleheader against Case, Kovach hit back-to-back home runs including a three-run home run and a solo home run. He finished the game four-of-five overall with three runs scored and four RBI.
In addition to his two home runs, Kovach also hit a double, scored five runs, and drove in six runs for the week.
His performance this week moves him into second place on the team in batting
average for the season at .375 (24-of-64). He is tied for the team-lead in home runs (two) and triples (one). He leads the team in hits (24), runs scored (16) and stolen bases (six). In addition, Kovach is third in doubles (four) and RBI (12).
Kristen Weidus presents paper at National Undergraduate Literature conference
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Kristen Weidus |
In early April, Kristen Weidus was juggling a lot. In addition to taking on her new role as Student Senate president, finishing up the 12-week, and preparing for the 3-week term, Weidus was at Weber State in Ogden, Utah, presenting a paper at the National Undergraduate Literature conference.
An English major, Weidus had submitted the paper she wrote for Kirsten Parkinson’s 400 level English course, Angel’s and Whores: Women in the Victorian Period. Weidus’s paper, entitled “The Female Epic,” used Elizabeth Barrett Browning's piece “Aurora Leigh”; Weidus “explored the significance of her utilization of the female heroine within an epic, to the genre and literature as a whole.”
Weidus says the conference was an excellent experience, and she enjoyed being able “to discuss different theories and ideas with students like myself who desire to learn about history, movements, and indirectly themselves through literature. Moreover, my paper went over really well!”
The experience has only whetted her appetite. “I definitely plan to submit a work or two to this conference, and maybe others, next year.”
Poetry contest winners to be announced on Friday, April 18
This Friday, April 18 the, at 4 p.m. in Bonney Castle seminar room, the winners of the national poetry contest for medical school students will read from their poetry. Named for the physician-poet William Carlos Williams, the poetry contest has been held annually for nearly 30 years. The winners are all medical school students who also make time for writing. The faculty mentor with the winners of the Poetry Contest will be Dr. Dagan Coppock.
Dagan Coppock, M.D., served as a Fulbright scholar in Ife, Nigeria, where he studied the divination poetry of Yoruba traditional healers. He received his M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine. While at Yale, he served as lead poetry editor of Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine. As an intern he co-edited Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience (2006). Last summer, Dagan was one of the presenters at the annual summer symposium at Hiram presented by the Center for Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities. He is presently a resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Everyone is welcome to attend the poetry reading. Refreshments will be served.
Other news at Hiram College
Math students receive "Meritorius" designation in modeling contest
Investment club takes first place in stock market investing competition
Student employees recognized for exemplary performance
Hiram College announces Juried Student Art Show winners
Michael Platt '63 wins Best Alternative Health Book Award
Hiram Happenings
Monday, April 14, 2008
Term Break, no classes
Softball @ Denison University – 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Term Break, no classes
Baseball vs. Westminster College – 1 p.m.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Spring 3-week begins
Grand Opening, Senior Art Exhibition – 5 to 7 p.m. – Gelbke Fine Arts Center
Softball vs. Allegheny College – 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Senior Art Exhibition – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Gelbke Fine Arts Center
Safe Space Training – 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Dix Dining Hall
Friday, April 18, 2008
Senior Art Exhibition – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Gelbke Fine Arts Center
Board of Visitors – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Pritchard Room, Library
Carlos Williams Lecture – 4 p.m. – Bonnie Castle
KCPB Casino Night – 7 to 9 p.m. – Kennedy Center Ballroom
John M. Watson Memorial Concert – 7:30 p.m. – Hayden Auditorium
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Senior Art Exhibition – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Gelbke Fine Arts Center
Weekend College Information Session – 10 a.m. – x5161 for location
Track and Field @ Kenyon College – 10 a.m.
Baseball @ College of Wooster – 1 p.m.
Softball @ Ohio Wesleyan University – 1 p.m.
Men’s Golf @ College of Wooster – 9 a.m.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Admission Open House – Kennedy Center
Baseball @ College of Wooster – 1 p.m.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Senior Art Exhibition – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Gelbke Fine Arts Center
Softball vs. Mount Union College – 3:30 p.m.
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