The Harbinger

September 25, 2006



Homecoming Weekend 2006: September 29-30

 
Sport your Hiram gear this weekend at the gala Homecoming events. If you don’t have any Hiram gear, you can win some. Be the first person to email College Relations and correctly identify the two Hiram NCAC teams with only one loss so far this season (knock on wood). The first correct respondent wins an HC sweatshirt of their choice from the bookstore.

Go Terriers!

Following is a round-up of the Homecoming events (and don’t forget: Homecoming Weekend kicks-off with Campus Day on Thursday, September 28. Serve your community before engaging in the revelry.)





Friday, September 29

  • 6:30 p.m., William H. Hollinger Hall of Fame Reception (by invitation)

  • 7:30 p.m., Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony (by invitation)
  • 7 p.m., Volleyball v. Earlham, Price Gym
     
  • 9 p.m., Bonfire & pep rally, Coleman Center parking lot (305 entrance)

 

Saturday, September 30

  • 11 a.m., Homecoming Parade
    The homecoming court will be escorted in cars provided by Kepich Ford Mercury John Deere. Prizes will be awarded to the best float!

  • 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Pre-Game Lunch
    Music, food, fun (including a caricaturist), & prizes, Martin Fieldhouse, Coleman Sports Center

  • Noon, Volleyball v. Wittenberg, Price Gymnasium
    Women’s Soccer v. Earlham, Soccer Complex

  • 1:45 p.m., Time Capsule Burial, Roth Bell Plaza, Coleman Sports Center
    Celebrate the first anniversary of the Coleman Sports Center dedication and join Professor Emeritus Myrtis Herndon beneath the bell from Old Main. (Many thanks to Carlson Funeral Home for the generous donation of the burial vault.)

  • 2:00 p.m., Football v. Oberlin, Henry Field
    Men’s Soccer v. Earlham, Soccer Complex

  • 4:00 p.m., Volleyball v. Muskingum, Price Gymnasium

  • 7:30 p.m., Student Homecoming Dinner & Dance, south lawn of Gerstacker

 

 College Assembly recap

 
Members of the Hiram College community who attended College Assembly on Thursday, September 21, in the Kennedy Center Ballroom discussed how to inspire greater student participation in the College’s many co-curricular activities.

One suggestion for faculty and staff from faculty and staff: Be an example.

Not only were there empty chairs at College Assembly (attendance optional), but there have been too few seats filled at events ranging from athletics to theatre to music to the recent Chamberlain/Hopkins Symposium on Alcohol and Culture at Hiram College.

President Thomas V. Chema asked Vice President and Dean of Students Eric Riedel to lead the discussion concerning campus involvement.

“It’s not just Hiram,” said Chema, who is co-chairman of College 360°, a group of Northeast Ohio colleges that has staged events at which 6,000 students were anticipated and only 1,900 showed up.

The discussion included suggestions to survey students concerning the events they have attended in the first month of the semester – the Toga Party played well by all accounts – and to integrate events such as the Masumi Hayashi exhibit at Frohring Art Gallery into courses. There also was debate about the value of requiring students to attend a certain number of events per semester.

Natalie Sydorenko, instructor of communication and a Hiram alumna, said that one important facet of her education included how faculty members showed by word and deed the value of being a participating member of the College community.

“It can be cool to be caring and responsible,” Natalie said.

In other matters addressed at the College Assembly:

  • President Chema explained a reorganization of Board of Trustee committees, including elevation of the Student Subcommittee to full committee status. Jo Ann Barefoot, new chair of the trustees, also will have the Board spend more time addressing issues as a group rather than in committees.

  • Vice President for Institutional Advancement Tim Bryan and Associate Vice President for New Student Enrollment Jim Barrett moved from the success of recruiting the 2006 entering class to inviting help in recruiting the next class. The first admission overnight will be held October 26 and the first open house November 11.

  • Dean of the Weekend College Jane Rose reported a higher than usual number (77) of matriculating students among WEC’s enrollment of 300 and the largest (14) Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies class since 17 enrolled in the program’s first year. 2007 marks the Weekend College’s 30th anniversary year, and a number of events are being planned to celebrate that milestone.

  • Interim Dean Kathy Feather reported on the November 1-3 Education that Works Conference and encouraged faculty and staff to participate in meetings to learn more about the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program and the Centers of Excellence.

  • Vice President and Dean of Students Eric Riedel reported a retention rate for returning students of 86 percent and said that important pieces of persistence – the term preferred to retention – are knowing each student so as to be aware of problems the student might be having and “modeling,” which means to show students what it is to be an educated person in a community that values sharing knowledge.

  • President Chema noted the College’s deficit this academic year is expected to be $1.8 million, a significant improvement from four years ago when the deficit exceeded $4 million. “Next year,” Chema said, “we hope to be out of the red ink.”

The president also provided updates on construction of the cell tower (once all regulatory approvals are given, the tower is expected to be brought in by helicopter); the pizza parlor (the basement has been remodeled but no date for opening has been set); retirement village (the attorneys have the final draft of the purchase agreement which will bring the College both an initial payment and subsequent payments as units are rented or sold at the site on the north edge of campus).

The schedule for future College Assemblies this academic year is:

  • November 2 at 12:30 p.m.
  • February 1 at 4:15 p.m.
  • April 5 at 8 a.m.

All College Assemblies will be held in the Kennedy Center Ballroom. 

 

Steven Bognar, award-winning independent filmmaker, to visit campus

 
Steven Bognar (pictured left), an award-winning independent filmmaker of documentaries and dramatic films, will visit campus on October 2 and 3 to discuss his body of work. Personal Belongings (1996), the story of his father’s Hungarian roots, was named one of the year’s top ten films by the Columbus Dispatch.

His most recent film, A Lion in the House, tells the story of five cancer-stricken children and their families as they contend with the disease and medical treatment over the course of several years. The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival this year to rave reviews and aired on PBS in June. Bognar is a native of Ohio. He lives in Yellow Springs.

On October 1, a public screening of Personal Belongings will precede his visit to campus. The film will be shown in Hinsdale 203 at 7 p.m. The screening is free and open to the public.

Campus events with Steven Bognar will include:

Monday, October 2

  • 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.: Class visit to Writing 313: Teaching and Supervising Writing
    Hinsdale 217

  • 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.: Lunch with students interested in filmmaking
    By invitation

  • 7 p.m.: Public film screening: “The Independent Films of Steven Bognar”
    Frohring Art 5

 

Tuesday, October 3

  •  9:40 to 11:40 a.m.: Class visit to Art 346: Advanced Photography
    Frohring Art 2

  • 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.: Convocation: “A Lion in the House: The Perils, Ethics, and Challenges of Documentary Filmmaking”
    Frohring Art 5

  • 2 to 3 p.m.: Class visit to Writing 220: Introduction to Creative Writing
    Hinsdale 217

  • 3 to 4 p.m.: Class visit to Communication 243: Photojournalism
    Hinsdale 110

Steven Bognar’s visit is sponsored by the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature and is funded by the Hiram Community Trust.


Connie Schultz on the campaign trail at Hiram


Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz will visit Hiram College on Wednesday, October 4, at 12:30 p.m. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Schultz has taken a temporary leave of absence from her column to assist full-time with husband U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown’s (D-Ohio) campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Congressman Brown is vying against Republican incumbent Mike DeWine in the 2006 elections.

Join her on the first floor of the Kennedy Center as she discusses the campaign.

Connie Schultz’s visit to Hiram is sponsored by the Hiram College Democrats.


Music Faculty Showcase on Wednesday


The Hiram College Music Faculty Showcase will be presented Wednesday, September 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Frohring Recital Hall. The concert highlights the music faculty and types of study available to Hiram students. Performers include Randall Fusco, piano; Qing Yang, cello; Paul Dreisbach, bassoon; Belinda Yaksich, tuba; José Gotera, baritone; David Duro, piccolo trumpet; Lee Ann Anderson, harp; Alissa Shuster, flute; Paul Petric, guitar; and Dale Lacan, guitar. Composers include Bach, Brahms, Telemann, Berlioz, Ravel, Morel, Osborne, and Harold Arlen. Free admission.  Frohring Music Building is located on Dean Street in Hiram.    

 

Hiram Historical Society presents play by Professor John Shaw on Thursday

 
The next meeting of the Hiram Historical Society will present a production of “Love and Marriage in the Western Reserve: The Garfield Case.” This play, the work of Professor Emeritus of English John Shaw (now deceased), explores the relationship between James A. Garfield (pictured right) and his wife, Lucretia, through excerpts from the letters they exchanged.

Betsy Bauman of the Hiram College Department of Theatre Arts will direct students Dan Safko and Toni Goldberg in this two-person drama, presented as reader’s theater.

The performance will take place Thursday, September 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hiram Christian Church. Everyone is invited.

 

Cathcart to present paper at State Department

 
Adam Cathcart (pictured left), assistant professor of history, is presenting a paper on Tuesday, September 26, at the U.S. Department of State. His paper, titled, “Musical Diplomacy in the Opening of China, 1971-1972,” is part of a conference of diplomats and scholars regarding the transformation of U.S.-China relations. (More information about the conference can be found at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/70893.htm.) 

This past summer, Cathcart presented papers in Mandarin at two conferences in the People’s Republic of China, researched in the archives of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and published peer-reviewed journal articles in Madison Historical Review and Studies on Asia. This month, his essays on teaching Asian history at Hiram appeared in Asian Studies Newsletter and ASIANetwork Exchange. 

 




Goodner touts value of undergraduate research


On Friday, September 15, 2006, Associate Professor of Biology Brad Goodner presented a seminar titled, “Massively Parallel Undergraduates for Comparative and Functional Genomics,” to the biology department of Hope College in Holland, Michigan. The seminar focused on the involvement of Hiram College undergraduate students (as well as local high school students) in novel research both within and beyond courses. Goodner will present the same seminar at the University of Akron on October 5.

Huehner’s work featured in Lakeland Show


Hiram College Professor of Art and Environmental Studies Marty Huehner (pictured right) was invited to submit pieces for inclusion in a show at the Lakeland Community College Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibit—titled “Director’s Choice: Clay”—features several works by Huehner, including wood fired tea bowls, a wood fired vessel, and two textural compositions titled Trees along the Creek and Birth of Pebbles. The show opened on Friday, September 22, and will be available until Thursday, October 26. The show is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Mary Urbas, Lakeland gallery coordinator, at 440.525.7029. Preview the show at www.lakelandcc.edu/gallery.


Cross Country will race for the cure


The Hiram College men’s and women’s cross country team will again participate in the Komen Northeast Ohio Race for the Cure, to be held on October 14, 2006, in Cleveland. The team’s goal is to raise $1,000 for cancer research. Interested parties who wish to sponsor a team member may contact any team member. Sponsorships may also be made through the team’s race website: http://race.komenneohio.org/site/TR?pg=personal&fr_id=1000&px=1007542



This Week at Hiram


Tuesday, September 26

  • Men’s Soccer @ Oberlin
    4:30 p.m., Oberlin, Ohio
     
  • Volleyball @ Allegheny
    7 p.m., Meadville, Pennsylvania 

Wednesday, September 27

  • Hiram College Music Faculty Showcase
    7:30 p.m., Frohring Recital Hall

Thursday, September 28
CAMPUS DAY

  • Cross Country v. Hiram Invitational
    4:30 p.m., Hiram Fields

  • Women’s Soccer @ Bluffton
    4:30 p.m., Bluffton, Ohio
     
  • Reader’s Theatre: “Love and Marriage in the Western Reserve: The Garfield Case”
    7:30 p.m., Hiram Christian Church (presented by the Hiram Historical Society)

  • Comedian Owen Smith
    8 p.m., Hayden Auditorium

Friday, September 29
HOMECOMING WEEKEND

  • Volleyball v. Earlham
    7 p.m., Price Gymnasium

Saturday, September 30
HOMECOMING WEEKEND

  • Men’s Golf @ Wittenberg Invitational
    10 a.m., Springfield, Ohio
     
  • Homecoming Parade
    11 a.m., Village Streets
     
  • Homecoming Tailgate Lunch
    11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Martin Fieldhouse
     
  • Volleyball v. Wittenberg
    Noon, Price Gymnasium
     
  • Women’s Soccer v. Earlham
    Noon, Hiram Soccer Complex
     
  • Football v. Oberlin
    2 p.m., Charles A. Henry Field
     
  • Men’s Soccer v. Earlham
    2 p.m., Hiram Soccer Complex
     
  • Volleyball v. Muskingum
    4 p.m., Price Gymnasium
     
  • Homecoming Dinner & Dance
    7:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 1

  • Men’s Golf @ Wittenberg Invitational
    10 a.m., Springfield, Ohio

  • Film screening: Personal Belongings by Steven Bognar
    7 p.m., Hinsdale 203

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