The Harbinger
April 25, 2005
Reminder: Free Launch Party for Tyst April 28
Tyst,
a new and unique Northeast Ohio arts organization, will launch its
inaugural summer season of Scandinavian plays this summer in Hayden
Auditorium. As part of the upcoming season, Hiram will host a free
Launch Party on Thursday evening, April 28th from 7 - 9 pm in the
Kennedy Center. Refreshments will be served. Scandanavian music will
be performed, Tom Chema and Tyst organizer David Benson will speak, and
actors from the troupe will be available. Everyone is invited to this
unique opening event.
Ticket prices for this summer's
performances range between $15 and $20. They are available from the
CITX Hotline at 216-771-1778. More information is available from Tyst’s
Cleveland office at 216-241-2510 or by e-mail at tystart@hotmail.com or their website at www.tyst.org.
John Drotleff to Conduct Concert
John
Drotleff, Adjunct Professor of Music and Conductor of the College Choir
and Madrigal Singers will conduct the West Shore Chorale and Orchestra
in a concert entitled "Songs of Prayer and Praise" on Sunday, May 1, at
7:30 p.m. The concert is the inaugural concert in the Chorale's new
home, the Magnificat Center for the Performing Arts, Hilliard and
Wagar, in Rocky River, Ohio. The center, which is right off exit 164
of Interstate 90 is about a one hour drive from Hiram. The new
facility is a 1000 seat state of the art auditorium with comfortable
seating, terrific acoustics and plentiful parking. Tickets are
available at the door.
The program presented by the 85 voice
adult chorus (with 8 Hiram alums singing) and 35 professional
instrumentalists is a tour of the "greatest hits" of the
choral-symphonic repertoire with highlights from the great oratorios
and masses of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Handel, Mendelssohn, and Faure.
John Drotleff has been on the Hiram faculty since 1998 and has directed the West Shore Chorale for 21 years.
Hiram College wins East Central Colleges Math Competition
A
team from Hiram College recently finished first in the 8th annual East
Central Colleges Mathematical Competition held at West Virginia
Wesleyan University. Representing Hiram, sophomores Mihai Cucuringu
(Romania) and Sylvia Stoyanova (Bulgaria) successfully answered seven
of the 10 problems offered during the three-hour exam, finishing with
76 points. Muskingum College was second with 70 points, Marietta third
with 64 points in the 11-team competition. The exam is written and
graded by a mathematician at Concordia College.
Each member
of the winning team received $50. Also participating from Hiram were
Kyle Foltz, Amanda Malensek, and James Lewandowski. Assistant Professor
of Mathematics Costel Ionita serves as the advisor to the Hiram teams.
Kapsar Wins Award
Senior
Nicole Kapsar has won the Robert Hall, Jr., prize for her paper “Books
not Bullets: The National Campus Peace Movement, 1934-41.” The Hiram
Historical Society awards the prize for outstanding papers on local
history produced in the History Department’s senior seminar; it is
named for a Hiram alumnus whose generous bequest to the Historical
Society funds the $100 that accompanies the prize. Nicole will receive
the award at the Society’s next meeting, Thursday, April 28, at 7:30
p.m. in the Century House (across from the Hiram fire station).
Everyone is invited to attend.
Special Election for Local Schools
Students
and staff who are registered to vote in the Hiram and Mantua areas are
reminded about the special election on Tuesday, May 3. The Crestwood
School District has an emergency levy for 4.87 mills on the ballot. For
more information about this issue, voters can go to the Crestwood
School District web site at http://crestwood.sparcc.org or attend an informational session at 7 pm this Tuesday, April 26 in the Crestwood Primary School Cafeteria.
Buddhist Scholar on Campus
Khenpo
Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche, recognized by Tibetan Buddhists around the
world as both a brilliant scholar and skillful spiritual master, will
present two free talks on Tibetan Buddhism at Hiram College on
succeeding Wednesdays. On April 27 at 7:00 pm, Khenpo will present
"Finding Freedom (part 1)." On May 4 at 7:00 pm, Khenpo will present
"Finding Freedom (part 2)." Although both will be on the same topic,
each is designed to be separate and self-contained. This incredible
opportunity is free and open to the public, and will be held at the
Fisher All-Faith Chapel and Meeting House.
Khenpo Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche entered the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan studies at Sarnath, near Varanasi, in 1969. There he followed a nine-year curriculum in Buddhist studies and general education under his principal teacher, Khenpo Palden Sherab, and other masters. His class work included Sanskrit, English and intensive studies in the textual traditions of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. He graduated with the degree of Acharya in 1978, ranking first overall among the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism represented at Sarnath. His Holiness the Dalai Lama honored his achievement with the award of a silver medal.
This
event is part of the Bhutan Studies program led by Kerry Skora which
includes taking Hiram College students on a pilgrimage to Bhutan where
students receive college credit. Hiram presently has one Bhutanese
student and hopes to have several more over the next few years.
Professors Skora
and Alpern are planning to lead a group of 15-20 students to Bhutan in
2006. Khenpo Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche will also be a visiting scholar
on campus for the 3-week. He will be co-teaching a course with Kerry
Skora on Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy. For more information, contact Kerry Skora.
Music authored by Marjorie Shontz Adams to be performed
On
Friday April 29 at 7 p.m. musicians from Eastern Kentucky University in
Richmond, KY, will perform works for piano and voice composed by Hiram
alumna Marjorie Shontz Adams. Marge graduated from Hiram in 1944. While
not a music major, Marge has been composing for years. She and husband,
Prof. Charles Adams were fixtures on the Hiram Campus for 30 years,
Marge as head of the Hiram College Library music room for 10 years and
Chuck as Professor of Spanish and the first Director of the Office of
International Education, the forerunner of the Center for International
Studies.
The concert will be held in the auditorium of the main building of Copeland Oaks Retirement Center in Sebring, Ohio.
Poetry Reading
Hiram
once again will have the winners of the national poetry contest for
medical school students come to read their winning works. With them
will be the physician-writer, Dr. Audrey Shafer from Stanford
University who judged the contest. First place winner is Joanna Pearson
from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Second Place is
Manesh Dagli from New York University School of Medicine. Please come
for a special afternoon in the Coleman Room, 4:00 on this Friday the
29th. Goodies will be available.
Sports Update
Two special events are slated for this week.
On
Thursday, the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) will host its
annual Student-Athlete Appreciation Day. The event is open to the
entire campus, with dinner served at 5PM in the Coleman Sports Center,
and a special awards ceremony and entertainment beginning at 6PM.
Deejay David Doney will provide the entertainment for the evening.
On
Sunday, the athletic department will host its First Annual Senior
Student-Athlete Award Banquet. The semi-formal event, held in the
Kennedy Center Ballroom, will honor senior students who have
participated in varsity intercollegiate athletics during their time at
Hiram, and is for the seniors, their families, College administrators,
faculty, staff, and alumni. Tickets are $25 each and some are still
available. Get yours today! Call the Alumni Relations office at
330.569.5283 or visit http://www.hiram.edu/athletics/ssaab.html.
The women’s track & field team was represented at the NCAC
Heptathlon over the weekend by senior Julie Feather-Faber (pictured) and
first-year Kari Solomon. Feather-Faber won the heptathlon easily,
scoring 3558 points (168 points more than the next competitor). Solomon
finished 9th. The team travels to Ohio Wesleyan for the NCAC
Championships on Friday and Saturday.
The
baseball team split with W&J last week and beat Westminster,
improving their record to 16-11 overall and 6-2 in the NCAC East. A
four-game series with Wooster scheduled for Saturday and Sunday was
postponed due to the rain and snow, and at least two of those games are
scheduled to be made up this week (dates and times are still being
decided). On tap this week is Thiel, scheduled for Wednesday, though it
may be bumped in order to make up the Wooster games. The NCAC
Semi-Finals begin on Saturday. Stay tuned to learn whether Hiram will
make the tournament.
The softball team lost two games to
Westminster and swept Oberlin last week, improving their record to
11-16 overall and 3-7 in the NCAC. A doubleheader with Wittenberg was
postponed from Saturday, and is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday.
Senior Amanda Weigand was selected as the SAAC Student-Athlete of the
Week. This week’s schedule includes makeup games with Wittenberg, which
will bump the originally-scheduled game with Grove City, and a
doubleheader with Ohio Wesleyan on Saturday. The NCAC tournament begins
next week.
The men’s golf team finished 12th of 15 teams at the
Ohio Wesleyan Strimer Memorial Invitational over the weekend. Sunday’s
round was canceled because of the snow, causing Saturday’s results to
be final. Hiram beat Oberlin and Kenyon in the tournament. First-year
Craig Blaustein tied for 13th place overall out of 90 golfers. This
week the men travel to Wabash for the NCAC Championships on Friday and
Saturday.
The women’s golf team was scheduled to compete last
week at Waynesburg, but the event was canceled. The season is now
finished, with the women having competed only once this spring and
ending with a record of 0-1.
The men’s track & field team
was represented at the NCAC Decathlon over the weekend by junior Chris
Stevenson, who placed 5th overall with 4591 points. The team travels to
Ohio Wesleyan for the NCAC Championships on Friday and Saturday.
The
men’s tennis team beat Bethany and lost to Wooster last week, improving
their record to 1-8 overall. This week they host Notre Dame College on
Wednesday in the final match of the season.
The women’s tennis
team lost to Kenyon and Wooster in their final two matches last week,
finishing the season with a record of 1-7 overall.