The Harbinger
March 27, 2006
Meet award-winning poet and author David Brendan Hopes '72
David Brendan Hopes '72 is visiting Hiram
College on Monday, March 27, and
Tuesday, March 28. Dr. Hopes will lead a series of discussions about his 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 a convocation address on Tuesday, March 28, at 12:30 p.m. as well as the following:
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
• 12:30 p.m.:
Lunch with student writers (by invitation), Jagow Room
• 1:30 p.m.:
Visit to Assistant Professor Willard Greenwood's class, "Modern Poetry," Mahan
House
• 6:00 p.m. Dinner (by invitation), Alumni Heritage Room
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.
Deemer Symposium II: Tuesday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Patricia Marshall, associate professor of bioethics at Case Western Reserve University,will deliver the second of three lectures coordinated as part of the annual Deemer Symposium. Dr. Marshall will discuss her research into issues related to multiculturalism and the application of bioethics practices.
Dr. Marshall's current research activities include a
cross-cultural study of informed consent to genetic epidemiological research on
hypertension and breast cancer in the United States
and Nigeria.
She is a member of the investigative team for the development of a haplotype
map for the human genome at project sites in Nigeria,
Kenya, and South
Africa. Dr. Marshall is working with
colleagues on a multi-site study of effective strategies for hepatitis B
vaccinations for injection drug users, and she is developing a study of
informed consent practices in HIV clinical trials being implemented in Uganda.
Dr. Marshall earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University
of Kentucky in 1983.
The annual Hiram College Deemer Symposium 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.
Senior history students to make presentations
The history department's Senior Seminar presentations continue this week with three presentations on Tuesday, March 28, and three more on Friday, March 31.
All the presentations will be made in the Library Instruction Room on the third floor. Tuesday's presentation begins at 7 p.m. and Friday's at 6 p.m. The campus community is invited, and refreshments will be served.
Tuesday presenters and their topics are:
- Rebecca Szucs – "A Crack in the Closet Door: The Emergence of Visibility of the American Homosexual Male Community of the 1920s"
- Anastasia Whelchel - "'A Brothel and Greasy Spoon': The Romans and the Tavern"
- Ruth Zeager – "Patriotism through the Voices of Soldiers on Guadalcanal"
Friday presenters and their topics are:
- Ian Dixon – "Aryan Christ: Adolph Hitler and the Figure of Jesus amongst Three Religious Sects of the Third Reich"
- Hannah Good – "Class Segregation, Racial Discrimination, and
Depreciation of Property Values: The Case of the 1926 Euclid
Zoning Ordinance"
- Elizabeth Saunders – "The Stamp Act Crisis and Colonial Taxation"
Clarke to speak on future of biodiesel
Jim Clarke '91 will speak Thursday, March 30, at 12:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Center Ballroom as a part of the Hiram College Spring Convocation Series. His topic will be the interdisciplinary field of biodiesel fuel and the potential impact of college research on the development of alternative fuels.
Clarke graduated from Hiram
College with a bachelor's degree in
history and went on to earn graduate degrees from the University
of Houston and the University
of Michigan. In his role as a
marketing manager with Detroit Diesel Corporation, a DaimlerChrysler Company,
he has the opportunity to bridge the gap between product issues that Detroit
Diesel engineers might have and the demands of the company's customers.
Rachel Somoskey takes art show's top prize
Five Rachel Somoskey photographs have won the Alex and Tamara Brady Pendleton Best in Show Award in the 2006 Annual Student Juried Art Show. She received $250. Below is one of Rachel's winning entries, titled, "Chromatico."
Hiram College visiting artists Lee Renninger and Jeff Schmuki judged the competition, which is on display on the second floor of the Frohring Art Center.
Other award-winners were:
- Wendy Houlahan - Paul
A. Rochford Award for Excellence ($150) for a celadon creams and sugar bowl,
ceramic
- Christina Bell – Ellen Jagow Award for Painting ($150) for "My Spy," oil painting
- Michele Zychowski – Abigail Flint Award for Photography
($150) for a series of photographs
- Mason Milani – Award for outstanding work by a freshman or
sophomore ($150) for a photograph
- Kaitlin Catalani – Juror's mention ($50) for "Tea for One –
Quiet Time," ceramic
- Sarah McMahon – Juror's mention ($50) for artist's book
- Nicole Richmond – Juror's mention ($50) for "Petunia,"
softground print
- Adam Hardwick – Juror's mention ($50) for "Chino,"
drawing
- Kristen Galewood – Juror's mention ($50) for "Spider’s Silk:
View 1 & 3," drawing
- Charles Eppley – Juror's mention ($50) for "Plastered
Lawns," mixed media painting
- Emily Bosler – Art History Book Award for "A Trip in Search
of the Transcendent: The Art of Fred Tomaselli"
- Rachel Somoskey – Art History Book honorable mention for "The World
of Amy Cutler: Where Pigs Fly and Women Think for Themselves"
- Hikaru Naito – Art History Book honorable mention for "Gaze Toward Death: The Structure of Baroque Style"
Quick Hits
- The Hiram College Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combo, and Afro-Cuban
Drum Ensemble will present their spring concert on Wednesday, March 29, at 8:00 p.m.
in the Kennedy Center Ballroom.
Refreshments will be available for purchase from Terrier Sound members
and
will be served at your table. The concert is dedicated to Andy Hopkins,
former lead alto saxophonist. This event is free and open to the public.
- SEAC and AIBS are hosting a presentation on the ecological and social effects of the surface mining practice known as mountain top removal (MTR). Grassroots activists Dave Cooper of Kentucky and Judy Bonds of West Virginia (winner of the 2003 international Goldman Award in environmental grassroots activism) will present a slideshow, lecture, and discussion on MTR, its effects, and its alternatives. The presentation will be held on Thursday, March 30, at 6 p.m. in Colton 120.
Terrier Athletics: http://www.hiram.edu/athletics/index.html.