Archive for January, 2004
January 30, 2004
Please join the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations in offering good luck and best wishes to ANNE GLENN, who has submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation for a one-year planning grant to collaborate with members of the Greater Greensboro Consortium, a group of eight independent and public colleges and universities. The purpose of the grant would be to explore the formation of an Undergraduate Research Center in Chemistry using two pilot programs. Anne should have a response in six months.
January 29, 2004
The men’s basketball team hosts nationally ranked Hampden-Sydney Feb. 4 in a contest that will benefit the V Foundation for Cancer Research. The college will donate all gate proceeds from the Old Dominion Athletic Conference contest, plus other donations received that night, to the V Foundation, named for the late N.C. State coach Jim Valvano.
Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. in the Ragan-Brown Field House. Tickets are $4 for adults, $2 for youth. Guilford students will be admitted free with school identification, but faculty and staff members will be asked to contribute to the foundation.
Guilford takes a 10-7 overall record (6-4 ODAC) into games at Virginia Wesleyan Jan. 31 and fourth-ranked Randolph-Macon Feb. 1. Coach TOM PALOMBO’s Quakers have their best record after 17 games since 1982-83 and are a half game behind Virginia Wesleyan for third place in the ODAC standings. Hampden-Sydney (15-2, 8-2 ODAC) is ranked eighth in this week’s D3hoops.com NCAA Division III poll and one game behind Randolph-Macon in the league standings. This year’s preseason league favorites, the Tigers have reached the NCAA playoffs seven years in a row, highlighted by Final Four appearances in 1999 and 2003.
ESPN and Valvano established The V Foundation in 1993 at the inaugural ESPY Awards. Valvano, who won an NCAA title at N.C. State in 1983 and later joined ESPN as an analyst, died April 28, 1993, at the age of 47 after a 10-month battle with cancer. Since its founding in 1993, The V Foundation has raised more than $32 million for cancer research and funded 190 research grants nationwide. For additional information on The V Foundation for Cancer Research, call 1-800-4JimmyV or visit the Web site www.jimmyv.org.
January 29, 2004
The African American Studies Program plans two public events in February, which is Black History Month.
Ann Hunt Smith, a vocalist, lecturer, composer and music director, will perform “Black Music in Historical Perspective” Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. in Dana Auditorium. Smith has served as music director for the outdoor drama Pathway to Freedom and debuted her first work as a playwright, The Amistad Stage: Reflections, last summer. She has performed throughout the United States and Canada and in East and West Africa.
Guilford student musicians and the Steve Haines Jazz Trio will perform Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Dana Auditorium. Haines is a bass player and director of the Miles Davis Program in Jazz Studies at UNCG and his group has recorded several CDs.
Both events are free and open to the public at no charge. For more information, contact KAREN TINSLEY by calling 316-2318 or e-mailing ktinsley@guilford.edu.
January 29, 2004
Please be aware that due to safety issues and concerns, public safety switchboard operators do not share telephone numbers for students and employees. The operators connect callers directly to a campus extension and/or voicemail box. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Reginald Hayes, director of public safety, at 316-2908.
January 29, 2004
The Departments of Theatre Studies and Music will present the stylish musical revue Putting it Together by Stephen Sondheim Feb. 6 and 7 at 8 p.m. in Dana Auditorium.
The revue features songs from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Dick Tracy and others. It also features an exciting ensemble of some of Guilford’s brightest vocal talents.
The production is directed by JACK ZERBE, professor of theatre studies, and features the debut of WENDY LOOKER as musical director. Looker is choir director and lecturer in music. It is the duo’s first collaboration.
“The material is exceptionally good,” says Zerbe. “It’s smart and sophisticated, yet thoroughly tuneful and entertaining. Working on this piece has reminded me why Stephen Sondheim is known as the greatest living composer in American musical theatre.”
Putting it Together is the third production in theatre studies’ yearlong focus on human responses to a world in transition. The season concludes with the North Carolina debut of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses April 2-3 and 8-10.
Admission for Putting it Together is free of charge for faculty, staff and Guilford students and $5 for the general public at the door. Advance tickets are $1 more and may be reserved by contacting the theatre studies box office at 316-2414.
January 28, 2004
Noted musician Jin Hi Kim will lecture on Korean music and perform on the indigenous Korean instrument, komungo, in Freeman Asian Arts Festival events Feb. 10 and 11.
The lecture, “Introduction to Korean Music: Melding Memory, Heritage and Passion,” is Feb. 10 at 6 p.m. in the second-floor gallery of Founders Hall. The concert, “Komungo Muse & Permutations,” is Feb. 11 at Noon in the Guilford College Art Gallery in Hege Library. The events are free and open to the public.
Jin Hi Kim’s komungo music represents an evolution of the instrument into the 21st century, a development she has pursued over 20 years. She has created a wide array of pioneering compositions for komungo not only as a soloist but also in collaboration with leading Western contemporary classical musicians, orchestra, jazz musicians, improvisers and computer MIDI system for the world’s only electric komungo.
Komungo is a six-stringed fretted board zither that originated in the 4th century in Northern Korea. Komungo was mainly used in the court music orchestra and kagok ensemble for aristocratic lyric songs. Traditionally, male Confucian scholars performed komungo as a meditation.
Kim studied and practiced traditional Korean music with masters from the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts and with Korea’s leading ethnomusicologists. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in Korean Traditional Music at Seoul National University before coming to the United States. Subsequently, she studied with composers John Adams, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley and David Rosenbloom and earned a master of fine arts in electronic music/composition at Mills College (Calif.).
Kim’s work has been presented on the main stages of significant cultural centers including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Royal Festival Hall in London. She has appeared as a soloist for her compositions with a variety of orchestras.
Kim received the Award for Music Composition for 2001 from the Foundation For Contemporary Performance Art in New York City. The Korean National Broadcasting System premiered an hour documentary film on Kim in 2001.
This project received financial support from the Freeman Asian Studies Grant and The Korea Society. The Korea Society is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) organization with individual and corporate members that is dedicated solely to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea.
For more information, contact TERRY HAMMOND, director and curator of the Guilford College Art Gallery, by calling 316-2438 or e-mailing thammond@guilford.edu.
January 28, 2004
You are invited to hear fellow students, faculty, staff, and visitors reflect on their spiritual journeys and their struggles. College Meeting for Worship takes place each Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Moon Room of Dana Auditorium. MATT GEIGER ’04, a history major, will lead worship Feb. 1. All are welcome!
January 28, 2004
Friday Noon brown bag lunch discussions continue in the Hut this week. The Jan. 30 discussion will reflect on the campus presentations of John Woolman scholar, Michael Birkel, and philosopher and scholar of Islam, Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
The Feb. 6 lunch discussion will present options for spring break service trips, including a return trip to Hyde County, N.C., with Friends Disaster Service.
January 28, 2004
An essay written by EVAN WELKIN ’07 for the GCRO Caw, the campus ministry newsletter, has been reprinted in the February issue of Friends Journal, an international Quaker monthly magazine. The article from an October issue of the Caw reflects on Evan’s fall break experience with the Friends Disaster Service, responding to the devastation of Hurricane Isabel.
January 28, 2004
SAVIO NAZARETH ’03 earned his first professional tournament victory Jan. 22 by winning the National Golf Association Hooters Tour Winter Series event at Wekiva Golf Club in Longwood, Fla. Nazareth shot a 15-under-par 201 in the 54-hole event, better than the 101 other competitors. He received $10,000 for the win and moved into eighth place on the Winter Series money list with $12,337.
The Winter Series is comprised of 13 54-hole events in Central Florida and runs from November through February. Each tournament has a 36-hole cut and a maximum field of 102 players. Nazareth has played in five of nine events and made the cut four times. The next tournament is Jan. 27-29 at the Stoneybrook Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla.
Nazareth concluded a brilliant college career by leading coach JACK JENSEN’s Quakers to the 2002 NCAA Division III national championship. He finished 18th at the national tournament to secure All-America honors for the second straight season. The Tanzania native graduated with three Guilford golf records, including career stroke average (72.981). He was the Old Dominion Athletic Conference’s Golfer of the Year in 2001 and 2002.
