The Harbinger
March 20, 2006
A celebration of the lives of Grace Chamberlain and Andrew Hopkins
The Hiram College
community will celebrate the lives of first-year students Grace Chamberlain (Kirtland)
and Andrew Hopkins (Champion) on Tuesday, March 21, at a noon service in the Hiram Christian Church.
Grace and Andy died as a result of injuries suffered in a March 2 automobile accident south of Burton. Evan DaSilva, another first-year student, remains hospitalized at Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center with injuries suffered in the accident.
The service has been organized and planned by Grace and Andy’s many student friends, with the advice of faculty and staff.
Chaplain Jon Moody will offer his reflections and guide the
service, during which members of the Hiram
College community will have an
opportunity to share memories of what these two talented students meant to them
and the College.
Grace’s Phi Beta Gamma sisters will lead the service in singing “Amazing Grace,” and there will be recorded music from the Hiram College Jazz Band for which Andy played alto saxophone. The recording includes a solo by Andy.
A slide show of photos from Andy and Grace’s Hiram College days will be presented, as will additional musical tributes. (Andy and Evan, talented musicians, were roommates.)
The Chamberlain and Hopkins families will have the opportunity to share their feelings during the service, which will close with the Hiram College alma mater, the first song sung by new first-year students and the last sung by graduates at each College commencement.
Mary Ann Brockett, Carol Donley honored at NEOUCOM cermony
Hiram
College Professor Carol Donley (pictured left) and Professor Emerita
Mary Ann
Brockett (pictured below right) were among five Portage County
educators honored on the evening of March 8 at the 2006 Educator of the
Year Awards Ceremony held in
the NEOUCOM Conference Center in Rootstown. The prestigious event was sponsored
by the Kevin Coleman Foundation.Brockett, professor emerita of communication, received a lifetime achievement award sponsored by Ben and Carlyn Bassham. She was nominated for the honor by Professor Linda Rea, chair of the communication department.
Donley, Professor of English and Co-Director of the Center for Literature & Medicine, was the College Educator of the Year, nominated by Dr. Sheryl Buckley, a Cleveland anesthesiologist and Donley's co-editor of The Tyranny of the Normal and What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders.
Each of the winners received $1,000 for the College and joined a hall of fame with 18 Portage County educators honored the previous four years. Other winners this year include: Ron Swearingen, Field High School, Non-Traditional Educator of the Year; Diantha Hilker, Crestwood High School, High School Educator of the Year; and Rhonda Kates, Windham Exempted Village Schools, Pre-K to Middle School Educator of the Year.
Otterbein offers teaching help
Veterans
and newcomers to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) are
invited to a day-long conference on April 8, at Otterbein College. The
event will bring together teaching professionals to discuss and share
their research and experience in the scholarship of teaching and
learning. The conference will feature Professor Stacey Lowery Bretz,
department of chemistry at Miami University, whose publications about
chemistry education research in the Journal of Chemical Education, the
Journal of College Science Teaching, and the Pearson Prentice Hall
collection, Chemists’ Guide to Effective Teaching, incorporate
methodologies from anthropology and sociology. The conference will also
include sessions featuring papers, posters, panel discussions, and
workshops. For more details and to register visit: http://www.otterbein.edu/academics/ctl/SoTLConference.asp
Additional questions can be directed to:
Amy Jessen-Marshall
AJessen-Marshall@otterbein.edu
Regina Kengla
RKengla@otterbein.edu
Deemer Symposium features global health justice
Hiram College will host three internationally renowned speakers as part of a symposium on global health care justice. The speakers will address issues related to the unequal distribution of health care resources around the world, including the availability of potable water, access to resources for managing the AIDS epidemic and treating people with HIV, and the disparity between access to health care for U.S. citizens versus those from poor countries.
The first speaker in the series, Gilbert Doho, Ph.D., (pictured right) will address the Hiram community on Tuesday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Ballroom.
Dr. Doho is an associate professor in the department of modern languages and literature at Case Western Reserve
University in
Cleveland, Ohio. He will discuss his use of theater as a means of
conveying important information about AIDS to audiences in the United
States and in Africa.The second speaker, Patricia Marshall, Ph.D., (pictured below left) will discuss her research into the issue of informed consent practices in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and the United States.
Dr. Marshall is an associate professor of bioethics at Case Western Reserve University. She will speak to the Hiram community at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, in the Pritchard Room of the Hiram College library.
Isaac Mwase, M.Div., Ph.D., M.B.A., (lower right) will be the concluding speaker in the symposium. An associate professor of philosophy at Tuskegee University, Dr. Mwase will addres
s the issue of disparity in health and
health care between U.S. citizens and residents of poor countries. He
will speak at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4, in the Kennedy Center Ballroom.This speaker series is the annual Hiram College Deemer Symposium, which engages the Hiram community in serious consideration of moral issues in the practice of science and medicine, business, law and government, education, and communication. The symposium was founded in 1986 through a generous grant made by Hiram College alumnus Kenneth Deemer '37 and his wife, Louise Deemer.
All three events in the Deemer Symposium are free and open to the public.
Poet, playwright, and professor David Brendan Hopes '72, to visit Hiram College
Award-winning
poet and author Dr. David Brendan Hopes '72 will visit Hiram College on
Monday, March 27, and Tuesday, March 28. During his stay, Dr. Hopes
will lead a series of discussions about his diverse body of work, which
includes the award-winning memoir, A Childhood in the Milky Way, and the recently published volume of nature writing, Bird Songs of the Mesozoic. His first full-length collection of poetry, The Glacier's Daughters,
won the Juniper Prize and the Saxifrage Prize. Currently, Dr. Hopes is
a professor of language and literature at the University of North
Carolina at Asheville.
Events will include:
Monday, March 27
• 9:30 a.m.: Visit to Professor Denny Taylor's class, "American Gardens and Gardening," Colton 211
• 11:00 a.m.: Visit to Professor Joyce Dyer's class, "Nonfiction Writing," Hinsdale 217
Tuesday, March 28
• 9:40 a.m.: Visit to Professor Mary Quade's class, "Introduction to Creative Writing," Hinsdale 217
• 12:30 p.m.: Convocation: "Reading the Landscape," Kennedy Center Ballroom
• 1:30 p.m.: Book signing, Kennedy Center Gallery
• 2:30 p.m.: Visit to Professor Mary Quade's class, "Introduction to Creative Writing," Hinsdale 217
• 4:30 p.m.: Forest walk, Field Station
• 6:00 p.m.: Dinner, hosted by Friends of the Hiram Gardens, Observation Building
• 7:00 p.m.: Reading by the author, Observation Building
Students, faculty, and staff who would like to attend the dinner on Tuesday evening are asked to R.S.V.P. to Jennifer Schuller, associate director of alumni relations & annual giving, at: schullerjn@hiram.edu.
Seniors to present history papers
The History Department invites the campus community to attend the first presentations of the history senior
seminar on Thursday, March 23, at 7 p.m. in the Library Instruction
Room. Three seniors will talk about their research projects:• Shannon Hughes, “Generally Advertising the Legacy of the Freedom of Press: A Study of the General Advertiser and Benjamin Franklin Bache.”
• Nate Koven, “From Fyrds to Feudal Levies: The Medieval English Military and the Medieval English State.”
• Hannah Nutt, “Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Grenada, Mississippi.”
Pictured at the right is "Old Main" appearing on the History Seminar's program cover, being the original building of the Hiram Eclectic Institue in 1850.
Students' photographs accepted into prestigious Oberlin art show
Traditional student, Rachel Somoskey (a junior) and weekend college student, Robert Puckett, both had prints accepted into the 26th Annual Six State Photography Show that runs from March 5 – April 1, 2006 at the FAVA Gallery in Oberlin, Ohio. FAVA stands for Firelands Association for the Visual Arts and is located in the New Union Center for the Arts 39 S. Main Street, Oberlin, Ohio.
Rachel's print, titled "Barrels,” is 13x17, shot with a digital camera and printed archivally with the Epson 2200 digital printer. Robert's "Nude" was shot with an 8x10 large format camera and printed in platinum.
The show was curated this year by Robert Palmer, emeritus professor from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
The show is funded by the Ohio Arts Council. It is prestigious for students to be juried in as the
quality of the show is high, with many professional photographers and photography faculty
also entering.
Winners announced for the Barbara Thompson Short Fiction Awards
There
will be a public reception to honor the 2006 winners of the Barbara
Thompson Short Fiction Award on Wednesday, March 22, at 4:15 in the
Writing Center (217 Hinsdale). Please come to congratulate Hiram
College's talented writers and hear them read from their work. Refreshments will be served.Place Winners
1st Prize: "Ballerina Blues," by Nicole Richmond ($500)
2nd Prize: "From Wichita to Detroit," by Brittany Stone ($300)
3rd Prize: "Sing the Soul," by Eli Walker ($200)
Honorable Mentions
"The Anniversary Pig," by Daniel Brown (book prize)
"Blueberry Penance," by Alana Christlieb (book prize)
"The Doctor's Wife," by Torrie Ohlin (book prize)
"Gerald," by Jessica Graves (book prize)
News Quips...
The Office of Campus Involvement is now seeking nominations for the 2006 Excellence in Leadership and Involvement Awards. These awards are designed to honor individuals, student organizations, and advisors that have made outstanding contributions to their communities through their involvement, service, and leadership development. Nomination forms are available in the Office of Campus Involvement or by emailing LeAnn Starlin at starlinlf@hiram.edu. Nominations are due by Wednesday, April 5.
The Friends of the Hiram College Library began their March book sale today. It will continue every day this week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. except on Wednesday when the sale will continue until 9 p.m. All books are 50 cents.
Vice President and Dean of Students Eric Riedel may make everyone forget Bob Barker during the Hiram College’s annual version of Price Is Right game in Hayden Auditorium on Monday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. Come on down!
Professor Linda Bourassa will be presenting a talk in Warren at the Public Library on April 8th at 2 pm called “Pods Behaving Badly: Jack Finney’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” The talk will involve the novel vs. the original film and be followed by short film clips from two of the adapted films and from the current television show “Invasion.” Warren-Trumbull County Public Library 444 Mahoning Avenue NW Warren, Ohio.