The Harbinger

September 17, 2007

Convocation about surviving cancer on September 25 in KC at noon


Pictured left to right:

Todd Schroeder, composer and lyricist

Laurie Frey, co-creator and producer

Michael Barnard, co-creator and director

Eric Coble, author

The time we have on earth is short and valuable, and few things can emphasize this more than being diagnosed with cancer. How we react to our adversities, however, often determines their outcome. Cancer-survivor Laurie Frey reacted to breast cancer by collaborating with award-winning Cleveland playwright Eric Coble and created a musical titled Unbeatable, A Musical Journey. They will discuss their collaboration during Convocation in the Kennedy Center Ballroom at noon on Tuesday, September 25.

Based on Frey’s experiences, the lead character is a bustling business woman named Tracy, a stage-three cancer survivor stopped in her tracks by breast cancer. A musical about cancer is curious, but according to Kerry Clawson of the Akron Beacon Journal, this one works.

This is not Laurie Frey’s first experience with theater, for she has worked in the entertainment industry for 20 years with management her specialty. Her prior work on Broadway includes Phantom of the Opera, Fiddler on the Roof, and Les Miserables.  Frey is currently general manager for illusionist David Copperfield’s tours.

Playwright Eric Coble has several awards to his credit, including the Cleveland Arts Prize, the AT&T Orange Award, the National Theater Conference Playwright Award, and two Ohio Arts Council awards for excellence. The Center for Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities at Hiram has commissioned him for two projects, “The Machine Stops,” a radio play based on E.M. Forster’s short story, and the ballet “Luis,” based on Richard Selzer’s story of the same name.

 

Eighth fall Creative Nonfiction competition available to students  

First Place                           $300

Second Place                       $200

Third Place                          $100

 

Through generous funding from the Ralph and Marion G. Kroehle Foundation, Hiram College is able to offer its eighth fall competition in the genre of creative nonfiction. Criticism, reviews, and scholarly work do not qualify as creative nonfiction. Submissions must fall within the guidelines for the genre developed by the Associated Writing Programs (AWP):  “Factual and literary writing that has the narrative, dramatic, meditative, and lyrical elements of novels, plays, poetry, and memoirs.” In addition to meeting these guidelines, work must be original and unpublished (work that has appeared in a school publication, however, may be submitted to this contest).

The contest is open to all Hiram College undergraduates currently enrolled. Only one entry per person will be accepted. All prizes will be awarded, and honorable mention status will be given to any additional manuscripts of distinction. Manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced on 8 ½  by 11 paper. No manuscripts over 3,000 words will be accepted.

Two copies of the manuscript must be submitted. Each manuscript should include 1) a cover page with the author’s name, e-mail address, phone number, word count, and essay title; 2) a title page with the manuscript title only. The cover page will be removed before manuscripts are sent to the judge so that complete anonymity is insured. Page numbers should appear in the right-hand corner of every page, along with a header that consists of some word (or words) in the title.  If the author’s name appears anywhere other than on the cover page, the manuscript will be disqualified.

Manuscripts should be delivered to Joyce Dyer’s office (109 Hinsdale) no later than

3 p.m. on Friday, November 2, 2007. Winners will be announced no later than Friday, January 11, 2008. 



Community–orientated campus day coming soon

Associate Chaplain Jason Bricker-Thompson is working to create a community oriented campus day involving community-service activities that integrates faculty and staff with students. Campus day is usually secret and customarily announced the day it occurs. Jason has made it known, however, in order to encourage facility and staff participation in these events, that campus day will be sometime next week.

 

Sign up for community service activities at the KC welcome desk this week.

Community-Service projects incxlude:

  • Work with kids

  • Work with habitat for humanity

  • Paint a room

  • Make Halloween decorations for nursing homes

  • Compost with worms

  • Fix bikes

  • Work with wool

Drivers are needed for the Head Start program in Windham. This involves play interacting with younger children. Drivers are needed for two trips from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. or noon to 4 p.m.

Campus-day events held at the Kennedy Center

  • All day – Trade fair and eco clothing/goods sale

  • All day – Free fair-trade coffee and goodies

  • 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. – Continental breakfast

  • 11 a.m. – Guest speaker, Vilma Yanez, speaking on human rights in Columbia

  • 11:30 a.m. – Bread-and-soup lunch - proceeds benefit community service projects

  • 12:15 p.m. to about 4:30 p.m. – Community Service events at and leaving from KC.

  • 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. All-Campus Community Dinner (faculty/staff must pay)

  • 7 p.m. – Hiram Record Twister

 

Janis Breckenridge presents essay at conference in Montreal

Janis Breckenridge

Janis Breckenridge, assistant professor of Spanish, recently presented an essay titled “(Re)placing Memory: Commemorating the Desaparecidos in Kirchner’s Argentina” at the Latin American Studies Association International Conference in Montreal. This prestigious interdisciplinary organization is the largest professional association for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America, bringing together experts and scholars from all disciplines and diverse occupational endeavors. 

Janis discussed the significant shift in memory politics—from a culture of amnesia to a memory boom—coalescing within President Néstor Kirchner’s Argentina following the economic collapse of December 2001. As she explains, one of the most visible transformations taking place within Buenos Aires are recent efforts to mark public space and create lasting memorials in homage of victims of state terrorism. 

Her presentation analyzed three unique but interconnected post-dictatorship memory sites in Buenos Aires—el Parque de la memoria, el Club Atlético, and la Escuela de la Mecánica de la Armada—focusing upon the relationship between these public memorials and their textual representations.  Representing diverse projects undertaken by a variety of agents (from city and state government to human rights organizations to individuals), Janis shows how each site illustrates aspects of contemporary theoretical formulations regarding public space and collective memory even as they remain uniquely tied the nation’s literary landscape.

Janis’ research remains intimately linked to her upcoming study abroad course, “Monumental Memory,” which will be offered in Buenos Aires during December. After studying textual and film representations of Argentina’s ‘dirty war,’ Hiram students will travel to Argentina and have the opportunity not only to visit these memorials but also to directly interact with the artists, authors, survivors and human rights activists working to create such sites.

Rev. Alfredo Abad Heras, international peacemaker, visits Hiram

Rev. Alfredo Abad Heras

Alfredo Abad Heras, a pastor involved with the Presbyterian Church USA peacemaking program, will be hosted by Rev. Tom Nichols, former chaplain of Hiram College, from September 14-21. Each year Rev. Nichols hosts and international peacemaker to speak on peace issues.

Rev. Heras has been pastor in Granada and Madrid and has worked for 15 years with the European Council of Churches as well as the Spanish Evangelical Church (i.e., Protestant) on issues of church and society, religious freedom, and aid to refugees. Rev. Heras co-pastors his church with his wife, Esther, and holds degrees from the United Evangelical Theological Seminary in Madrid, the Faculty of Theology of Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Protestant Institute of Theology, Montpelier, France.

Rev. Heras will visit Jon Moody’s Christian social ethics class on Wednesday, September 19, and will stay for lunch. Jon Moody is extending an invitation for others to meet Rev. Heras in the food court from noon to 1:30 p.m.

 

Students can register at the Kennedy Center for the run for Grace and Andy

Hiram College students can run or walk in the Run for Grace & Andy on Hiram’s Three-Mile Square on Saturday, September 29 at 8:30 a.m. for the reduced entry fee of $10.

Proceeds from the run will go into the Fund for Grace and Andy and will be used to fund the College’s Andrew Hopkins Music Award and the Grace J. Chamberlain Price in Creative Writing.

Entry forms may be obtained at the Welcome Center in Kennedy Center. Students are asked to fill out the forms and return them to the Welcome Center. The entry fee of $10 will be collected at registration beginning at 7 a.m. at the Coleman Center on race day.

Grace Chamberlain and Andy Hopkins died as a result of a March 2006 automobile accident that also seriously injured Evan DaSilva, who is now a junior. The first-year students were in a car struck by a drunken driver with 11 previous DUI convictions. DaSilva and other Hiram students have formed a group called ID3 (I Don’t Drink and Drive) in response, and the College also sponsors the Chamberlain-Hopkins Symposium on Alcohol and Culture. The second symposium is scheduled for the 2008 spring semester.

Family and friends of Grace and Andy, along with Hiram students, faculty, and staff have chosen to celebrate the lives of Grace and Andy by not only advocating for tougher drunken driving laws and increased education on the dangers of drinking and driving but also through a run that will be slightly more than three miles and a one-mile walk in the place that Grace and Andy loved.

“Grace and Andy loved Hiram because it was so full of life,” said Grace’s father, Bob Chamberlain. “That’s what we want from this event – a celebration of life.”

 

Ping-pong tournament in KC

On Monday, September 17, at 8 p.m. in the Kennedy Center game room, there will be a ping-pong tournament open to all students, faculty, and staff. A cash prize will be awarded for first place. The program is sponsored by KCPB.

 

Fall Book Sale

 

The Friends of the Hiram College Library once again will host their popular book sales.  The first sale of the new academic year will be September 17 – 21. The sale is set up in the lobby of the library. All items are 50 cents each. The sale will be open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.



 

Welcome to Hiram - new employees

Marcia Bacon – Serials Officer, Library

Ashley Durst – Administrative Assistant to the Vice President and Dean of Students

This week at a glance

Monday, September 17

Library book sale all week - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Women's soccer - Geneva (PA) College - 4 p.m.

Ping-pong tournament - KC game room - 8 p.m.
Impact Peer Mentor Reception - 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Tuesday, September 18

Faculty Conversation - noon to 1:30 p.m.

Student Senate - 7 p.m.

APC - 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.

Wednesday, September 19

Women's soccer - at Baldwin-Wallace - 7 p.m.

Meet Rev. Alfredo Abad Heras - food court - noon to 1:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 20

Impact Peer Mentoring Program - Brown Fall Room - 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Friday, September 21

Movie night to Aurora theater - meet in KC lobby - TBA

Volleyball - Denison University - 7 p.m.

Saturday, September 22

Men's soccer - Wittenberg University - 2 p.m.

Women's soccer - at John Carroll - 1 p.m.

Volleyball - Hiram Quad match - noon

Football - at Manchester (IN) College - 1:30 p.m.

Cross Country - at College of Wooster - TBA

Greek party - KC Ballroom - 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Sunday, September 23

Women's soccer - Muskingum College - 1 p.m.


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