The Harbinger
February 20, 2006
Health Fair will get your heart pumping
OK, everyone who has been holding their breath in anticipation of
the Hiram College Health Fair - A Celebration of Good Health - can
exhale. The fair is closer than the tops of your shoes.
You can see the tops of those shoes, can't you? No?
Well, the Health Fair, which is being presented this year in
cooperation with Geauga Regional Hospital of the University Hospitals
Health System, is the perfect place to address this situation and any
other health related issues.
The fair will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday, February 23, in the Kennedy Center
and continue until 2 p.m. From noon until 1 p.m., Ray Horner, the
morning show host on WAKR AM-1590 in Akron, will be in Kennedy Center
to do a live broadcast.
There will be something for everyone, regardless of the health
concern. These health care professionals will be on hand to answer
questions:
• Kelly Buchanan, M.D., Obstetrics/Gynecology – Women’s health and gynecologic care
• Anthony F. DiMarco, M.D., Pulmonary/Critical Care – Smoking cessation and sleep disorders
• Jean Friedman, R.N., M.S.N, W.H.N.P., Obstetrics/Gynecology – Women’s health
• Alan R. Graham, certified occupational therapy assistant and ergonomic compliance director - Ergonomics
• Adam A. Levine, M.D., Internal Medicine/Podiatry – General primary care and bone density analysis
• Michael A. Maschek, D.P.M., Podiatry – Arthritis and foot care
• Mark J. Meneszoon, D.P.M., Podiatry – Gait analysis
• Gregory C. Sarkisian, D.O., Orthopedics – Minimally invasive surgery and sports medicine
• Jeffrey F. Shall, M.D., Orthopedics – Minimally invasive surgery and sports medicine
• Paula B. Usis, M.D., Obstetrics/Gynecology – Women’s health care and gynecologic care
• Scott M. Zimmer, M.D., Orthopedics – Minimally invasive surgery (upper extremity)
There will also be something for everyone who has no health
concerns. There will be door prizes (including a $100 gift certificate
to the Red Maple Inn) and free healthy food. There will be giveaways
(including an iPod) and free healthy food. There will be games
(including the beer goggle game) and free healthy food. There will be
massages (hot oils not included) and free healthy food.
Nearly 40 community organizations, businesses, and health-related
vendors will be on hand. The Hiram College Terrier will be there, as
well, handing out Mardi Gras beads to all attendees. The fair is free
and open to the public.
Was it mentioned that there would be free healthy food, the kind
that won’t make those shoe tops more difficult to see? Well, there will
be.
Dyer's essay to appear in anthology
An essay by Joyce Dyer, "The Day I Stopped Hating Cheerleaders," will soon appear in a new anthology from the University of Iowa Press, After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School, edited by Maggie Anderson and David Hassler. A humorous piece, it recalls the day she set aside futile attempts at flips and splits for the iambs and anapests of John Masefield's poem "Sea-Fever."
Giving voice to silence
Silent films weren’t silent. Though the actors did not speak, music became a fundamental part of the experience, and it will be again at Hiram College.
On Sunday, February 26, at 3 p.m., the silent film “The Mask of Zorro” (1920) will be shown in Hayden Auditorium to the accompaniment of Tom Trenney on the organ.
Without a written score, Trenney will improvise an interpretation. Recognized by “Pipedreams” as one of the eight young “rising stars” in the world of organ music, Trenney graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music. He is director of music and organist at the First Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Michigan.
During the silent film era, piano, pit orchestra, and theatre organ were used to reflect the onscreen drama and drown out the noisy film projectors of the day. After Trenney enlivens “The Mark of Zorro,” he will introduce school children to the pipe organ in the Hiram Christian Church on Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. Home-schoolers are invited to attend with their parents.
On Monday, February 27, at 1:15 p.m., Trenney will offer an open lecture and demonstration in Hayden Auditorium.
The public is invited to all of these free events, which are funded by The Hiram Community Trust and Building Community through the Arts. For more information, call Sandra Tittle at 330.527.4039 or the Hiram College music department at 330.569.5294.
Madrigal Singers ready to hit the road
The Hiram College Madrigal Singers will present a concert on Sunday, February 26, at John Knox Presbyterian Church in North Olmsted, Ohio, at 4 p.m.
The concert is free and open to the public. This is one of ten concerts the group is performing on its 2006 winter tour. The singers will also give performances in Port Allegany, Pennsylvania, Boston, Massachusetts, Westford, Massachusetts, Lexington, Massachusetts, Peabody, Massachusetts, and Hollis, New Hampshire.
The tour program will also be repeated in Hiram on Sunday, March 19, at 4 p.m. in Frohring Recital Hall.
Included on the program will be choral music of all styles and periods, both sacred and secular. Featured composers will include Scarlatti, Standford, Lotti, Dawson, Morley, Hassler, and Debussy. There will be compositions in Latin, German, Spanish, and French. The program will also include madrigals, folk song arrangements, and popular standards.
The Hiram College Madrigal Singers, a vocal chamber ensemble of 16 voices selected from the College Choir, is one of nine music ensembles on the Hiram campus. The Madrigal Singers are well known for their “Yuletide Revels,” an elaborate recreation of a Renaissance Christmas festival, a 37 year tradition on the campus. During the spring term, the Madrigal Singers perform vocal chamber music of all types from early music to vocal jazz.
During the past five years they have sung in13 states, including the cities of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, and at the Kennedy Center and the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and several venues in Florida. Part of the Madrigal Singers, Save the Goats (a men’s ensemble), will also perform several selections.
True to the liberal arts tradition, the singers in the group come from various college departments. The sixteen students who make up this year’s ensemble have majors in computer science, biomedical humanities, Spanish, mathematics, music, theatre, biology, creative writing, communications, political science, history, English, and philosophy.
John Drotleff, the conductor of the Madrigal Singers, has been a member of the Hiram faculty for eight years. Drotleff has conducted choirs in Northeastern Ohio for many years in middle school, high school, college, church and community settings, and has served as a guest conductor and clinician for numerous musical groups and educational organizations.
He also conducts the Cleveland’s West Shore Chorale and Orchestra, a large adult masterworks chorus. He is past president of the Ohio Choral Director’s Association and a recipient of their Distinguished Service Award.
Quick hits…
- OK, Valentine’s Day is history. That doesn’t mean a person can’t have a little romance in his or her life. The Friends of the Hiram College Library February book sale
began today and is filled with romance, mystery (isn’t all romance a
mystery?), and humor (some romances turn out to be laughable, don’t
they?). Every book is 50 cents, and the sale racks and carts are
replenished throughout the day. The sale continues through Friday,
February 24. The hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Wednesday when sales
will continue until 9 p.m.
- First-year Ryan King reigned as the first Sugar
Daddy of the reconstituted Sugar Day celebration. Ryan has such a good
and strong voice that he is his own best amplification. Not even Simon
Cowell would dis Ryan.
- This Saturday, February 25, is Trustee Scholars Day.
One hundred prospective students and their parents/guardians will be on
campus to compete for one of Hiram's top academic scholarships. If you
see any nervous-looking high school students on Saturday, please extend
to them a hearty Hiram "Hi."
- Can you bring the heat? Or do you prefer the sweeter approach found
in Cincinnati? Do beans belong? Or are you a meat-only cook? And if so,
is the meat chunked or ground? Whatever your approach to chili, Hiram’s 16th annual Chili Cook-Off on February 28 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the KC Café is
for you. Those interested in competing should email Emily Clark at
clarkee@hiram.edu by 5 p.m. February 22 with the following information:
name of entrant(s), contact information (phone and email address), and
favorite color. For more information, contact Clark or Maggie
Wilterdink at wilterdinkm@hiram.edu.
- Tuesday, February 28, during the convocation hour (12:30 p.m.), Hiram College alumnus and leader in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Dr. William H. Edwards '79
will speak to the campus about Hiram's 150-year relationship with the
Christian Church. Dr. Edwards' presentation is titled, "Hiram College
and the Disciples of Christ: The Vision of the Christian Church in
Ohio" and will be held in the Kennedy Center Ballroom.
- Don Farrell, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he is the controller for General Motors Corvette Assembly Plant, wrote to express appreciation for the Hiram College memorabilia he received for writing two verses of the new Terrier Fight Song. Farrell, who heard about the contest from Doug Gruber '82, a friend who is a Hiram graduate and a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame, received his education at Penn State University and Notre Dame University. When his Hiram items arrived in Bowling Green, including a Hiram sweatshirt and HC wall rug, his wife said: "There's a lot more in that box than Penn State or Notre Dame ever gave you for free." Farrell agreed. "You can now consider me as one of the first, if not the first, 'subway alumnus of Hiram.'"