The Harbinger
April 30, 2007
Honors Convocation 2007
Schedule of Events
Monday, April 30
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Student Leadership Awards
4 p.m., Kennedy Center Ballroom -
Chemistry Department Awards
4 p.m., Coleman Room of Gerstacker Science Hall -
Biomedical Humanities Awards
4 p.m., Mahan House -
Alpha Society Dinner
5:30 p.m., Dix Dining Hall -
Honors Convocation
6:30 p.m., Hayden Auditorium -
All Campus Dessert Reception
7:20 p.m., Martin Common -
Music Department Spring Honors Recital
8 p.m., Hayden Auditorium
Tuesday, May 1
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Sigma Alpha Pi Awards Ceremony
7 p.m., Kennedy Center Ballroom
Tuesday: Author of book in Literature and Medicine series to speak at Hiram
On Tuesday, May 1, at 12:30 p.m., Dr. Jay Baruch will read
from his new book, Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers.
Baruch, who is an emergency physician and faculty member at Brown Medical
School, explores how illness can make patients strangers to their own bodies
and how medical professionals struggle with their own competence and
compassion. He enters the worlds of these people and gives voice to disturbing
self-discoveries as they are faced with difficult moral decisions.
Baruch’s book is the ninth in the Literature and Medicine
series from the Kent State University Press. He will be reading from Fourteen
Stories and talking about doctor-patient relationships.
This special convocation is sponsored by the Center for
Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities and will be held in the Kennedy
Center Ballroom.
Dyer to speak at NEOMFA commencement
Joyce Dyer, John S. Kenyon Professor of English and Director
of the Lindsay-Crane
Center for Writing and
Literature, will be the speaker for the first-ever graduating class of the
NEOMFA/Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts program. The NEOMFA program is the
result of more than a decade of work by faculty and administrators from the
four Northeast Ohio consortium universities: Cleveland
State, Kent
State University, the University of Akron, and Youngstown
State University.
A graduate reading and reception will follow Dyer’s remarks, which will focus
on the uniqueness of being a writer from the Western
Reserve. The event will be held at 3 p.m. on May 5, 2007, in the Kent State
University Student
Center, Room 306.
Accolades for Hiram’s Admission team
At a recent professional conference, several members of
Hiram’s Admission team were recognized for outstanding contributions to the
field of college admissions.
Counselors Bryan Collins ’05 and Ja’Alycia Roberson received
the “New Member Award” from the Ohio Association for College Admission
Counseling (OACAC). The awards, which were given during the association’s
spring meeting, recognize exceptional efforts by counselors who have been in
the profession for less than three years.
Director of Admission Sherman Dean was elected by his peers in the OACAC to serve as the small school delegate to the National Association of College Admission Counseling.
Assistant Director of Admission Angela Artman succeeded in earning Hiram a spot as an OACAC articulation site for the fall of 2008. Because of her efforts, in 2008 Hiram will host a college fair for high school guidance counselors from across the state.
In addition to these successes, Hiram’s admission staff headlined one of the conference’s most popular professional development seminars. Bryan Collins combined efforts with Assistant Director of Admission Leo Lewis ’00 and addressed the use of MySpace and other social networking sites as recruitment tools to reach out to prospective college students.
Terrier Scramble Golf Outing: June 15
Get a jump start on Alumni Weekend 2007 by playing in the 47th
annual Day with Hiram Terrier Scramble Golf Outing. The Terrier Scramble will
be held on Friday, June 15, 2007, at Sugar Bush Golf Club in Garrettsville. A shotgun
start is scheduled for 10 a.m.
If you’re not a golfer, make plans to attend the social hour
dinner at the end of the day. Social hour begins at 3:30 p.m., and dinner will
be served at 4:30 p.m. The day promises to be packed with fun for everyone!
Golf and dinner cost $125 per person. Dinner only is $25.
For more information and to make reservations, please contact Gery Henkels at
330.569.5190 or go to hiram.edu/adaywithhiram.
All proceeds from the Terrier Scramble benefit Hiram’s student-athletes and the athletic department at Hiram College.
Winners of the 2007 Vachel Lindsay Prize in Poetry
Grace Butcher, judge
The winners of this year’s Vachel Lindsay Prize in Poetry
are:
- First prize: Ben Busch ($300)
- Second prize: Jessica Hammack ($200)
- Third prize: Adam Clarke ($100)
- Honorable mention: David Kniceley
The Vachel Lindsay Memorial Poetry Prize was established in honor of Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (pictured left), a distinguished poet and alumnus of Hiram College.
Hammack and Hyden receive scholarships to attend writers workshop
Senior Jessica Hammack and Hiram College alumna Amberly
Hyden ’06 were awarded scholarships to attend the 30th Annual Appalachian
Writers Workshop this summer through funding given to the Lindsay-Crane Center
for Writing and Literature by the John L Davis Grant.
The workshop, held from July 29 – August 3, at Hindman Settlement School on the Forks of Troublesome Creek in Hindman, Kentucky, is one of the best-known regional conferences in the nation. It focuses on writers and writings about the Appalachian region. Seminars, one-on-one conferences, mountain music, and readings by staff and participants are integral features of this mountain institution. Writers gather informally part of every day to talk about writing and to eat fresh vegetables donated by the director from his impressive garden.
This year’s staff includes Robert Morgan (Gap Creek), Sharon McCrumb (The Rosewood Casket), Lisa Alther (Kinflicks), Lee Smith (On Agate Hill), Silas House (A Parchment of Leaves), Meredith Sue Willis (Higher Ground), Gurney Norman (Kinfolks), Kay Byer (Black Shawl), and many others. Joyce Dyer will be a member of the workshop staff, representing the genre of memoir.
Last issue of The Harbinger on May 7
The last issue of The Harbinger for the 2006 – 2007 academic
year will be published on Monday, May 7, 2007.
The Harbinger is published weekly during the academic year by the Office of College Relations, Hiram College, and contains news, events, and other items of interest to the campus community. Submissions should be sent to Director of College Relations Steve Love at lovesh@hiram.edu.
Welcome to Hiram!
Dawn Pignaloso – Housekeeper, Hiram Inn
This Week at Hiram
Monday, April 30
- WEC 30th Anniversary Celebration! (dessert reception)
12:15 p.m., Second Hinsdale
- Student Leadership Awards
4 p.m., Kennedy Center Ballroom
- Chemistry Department Awards
4 p.m., Coleman Room of Gerstacker Science Hall
- Biomedical Humanities Awards
4 p.m., Mahan House
- Alpha Society Dinner
5:30 p.m., Dix Dining Hall
- Honors Convocation
6:30 p.m., Hayden Auditorium
- All Campus Dessert Reception
7:20 p.m. Martin Common
- Music Department Spring Honors Recital
8 p.m., Hayden Auditorium
Tuesday, May 1
- Convocation: Dr. Jay Baruch, author of Fourteen Stories:
Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers
12:30 p.m., Kennedy Center Ballroom
- Softball @ Thiel College
3 p.m., Greenville, Pennsylvania
- Baseball v. Kenyon College (doubleheader)
5 p.m., TBA
- Sigma Alpha Pi Awards Ceremony
7 p.m., Kennedy Center Ballroom
Wednesday, May 2
Thursday, May 3
- Track & Field @ NCAC Outdoor Championships (Ohio
Wesleyan University)
10 a.m., Delaware, Ohio
Friday, May 4
- Track & Field @ NCAC Outdoor Championships (Ohio
Wesleyan University)
10 a.m., Delaware, Ohio
Saturday, May 5
- Baseball @ NCAC Semifinals
TBA
Sunday, May 6
- Baseball @ NCAC Semifinals
TBA
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