Volume 30, No. 27
April 2, 1999
Contact: Public Relations 662-4848
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PR Office "Imagine" campaign takes two awards
The Mansfield University Public Relations Office has taken two awards in a
national competition.
The competition was the 14th annual Admissions Advertising Awards. Mansfield took a bronze award for its billboard, "Imagine," and a bronze for the admissions poster, also titled "Imagine."
Over 1,600 entries were made by colleges and universities throughout the United States, said Dennis Miller, director of public relations at MU.
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The billboard and poster are just parts of our whole Imagine theme which runs throughout all of our promotional materials and our advertising," Miller said. "It's an honor to be in the top three winner positions in these categories. There was a lot of competition. It also says we're right on the mark in our marketing efforts."The billboard was designed by MU designer Sheran Lawton. The poster was designed by Passmore Design or Wellsboro, PA, at the direction of the PR office.
Concert Choir prepares for European tour
The Mansfield University Concert Choir, under the direction of Peggy Dettwiler,
will present a concert Sunday, April 11, at 3 p.m. in Steadman Theatre. This concert will
be the last of seven performances by the group during their spring tour in preparation for
their second European Tour in May.
The program will include selections from the Renaissance to the 20th Century, from the motet to the spiritual. Performing in six different languages, the Concert Choir will present works from Italy, Germany, Austria, Argentina, New Zealand, Canada, Sweden, and the United States.
Compositions celebrating the 900th anniversary of the birth of Hildegard von Bingen and the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Gershwin are included among others by Palestrina, Handl, Bruckner, and Moses Hogan. The featured work is a powerfully expressive composition by the young composer, Eric Whitacre, called ACloudburst.@ This presents a Spanish poem by Octavio Paz in a vivid portrayal of a rainstorm . Students will accompany the choir with a variety of instruments including bongos, hand chimes, oboe, and maracas. Be prepared to hear some vocal jazz and gospel styles as well!
The Concert Choir is a highly select ensemble of 48 singers representing some of the finest talent from the American Northeast. While most of the singers in the present ensemble are undergraduate music majors, membership is open to all students at the university. The Concert Choir has achieved a reputation of excellence having been invited by taped audition each of the last six years to perform at state, regional, national, or international choral conventions.
The choir performed at the Pennsylvania State Music Conferences in 1993 and 1998, the Music Educators National Convention in 1994, and the MENC Eastern Division Conventions in 1995 and 1997. The choir toured Europe in May of 1996 and were among the finalists in the "Florilege Vocal de Tours" International Choral Festival in Tours, France. Of the 27 choirs from around the world who performed at the festival, the Mansfield University Concert Choir was the only one from North America.
The choir will take its second European Tour, which includes performances in Rome, Florence, Venice, Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Munich, this May. The Concert Choir has been praised for their depth of feeling, warm vocal color, and diverse repertoire.
Social Work students travel to New York
On Monday, March 29, 32 students from the social work program's Community Organization and Senior Seminar classes
traveled to New York City to observe inner-city social service delivery systems.
In collaboration with New York University's School of Social Work, the trip provided students an opportunity to interact with NYU students and faculty and to observe services provided at Greenwich House's methadone maintenance clinic and outpatient alcohol treatment center.
Additionally, the students took part in a tour and lecture at the Educational Alliance, a 100-year-old neighborhood settlement house providing a wide array of services to all age groups.
The trip allowed students to compare urban social service delivery to that found in rural settings, and exposed them to a wide range of diversity.
The trip was funded by an MU Curriculum Enrichment Project grant. Faculty accompanying the students were Daniel Kasambira, Rhonda Keller, Gale Largey and Nancy Sidell, all of the Department of Social Work, Anthropology and Sociology.
Arrangements were coordinated by Peter Malinow of NYU=s School of Social Work and Nancy Sidell, Social Work Program Director.
Saturday, April 10, 8 p.m., Steadman. Under the direction of Michael Galloway, music, the award-winning MU Jazz Ensemble will perform selections by some of today's top big band composers and arrangers, as well as arrangements originally performed and record by the top professional big bands of the modern jazz era. Popular standards on the program include the George Stone arrangement of "Just You, Just Me" and the Steve Wright arrangement of "Secret Love." Among the classic jazz tunes being performed is Clifford Brown's "Joy Spring" featuring Andre Canniere on trumpet and vocalist Meghan Galloway. Originally an instrumental, Jon Hendricks added lyrics not only to the tune but to Brown's recorded solo as well. In addition, David Caffey's "Blizzard Bop" is based on Tadd Dameron's jazz standard "Ladybird." The tune features the outstanding sax section with soloists Canniere and tenor saxophonist Eric Griffin. Finally, drummer Matt Stein, Griffinand guitarist Les Fowler are featured in a terrific Bennett Friedman arrangement of Chick Corea's funk tune "Nite Sprite." Jazz originals include Mike Steinel's Latin tune "Samba De Los Gatos" and Dave Robertson's "Purple Stick," which will provide a dramatic close the concert. In addition to solos by Canniere, Griffin, Fowler, Stein and bassist Matt Gehringer, the tune features every section of the band at one time or another.
SCHOLAR'S
SPOTLIGHT
Brad Holtman, foreign languages, attended a two-day conference of German
educators in State College. The event was the result of a SSHE grant written by a
Bloomsburg colleague on which Holtman collaborated. Holtman also brought in the cultural
attaché of the German Embassy in Washington to participate in the session. Conference
discussions, the first in a projected series of such meetings, were targeted at
strengthening SSHE German programs and ties to high schools throughout the state.
Frank Brown, technical resources, retired effective March 26. Vince Sinagra is a new assistant football coach. Richard Alexander has joined the staff as a carpenter.
MU junior field hockey player Alyssa Gates of Windsor has been selected to participate in the third annual NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference to be held May 31-June 4 at Disney's Wide World of Sports and Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference prepares a diverse group of student-athletes to take an active leadership role on their campuses and communities. A total of 300 student-athletes have been invited to attend the 1999 NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference. Student-Athletes were nominated from the NCAA member institutions that participate in the CHAMPS/Life Skills Program. Gates, a member of the field hockey team, was selected from approximately 850 nominations. In addition to field hockey, Gates is also the team manager and videographer for the women=s basketball team. A communication/broadcasting major, Gates is also a member of Lambda Pi Eta, the national communications honor society.
THE BOTTOM LINE
"Seneca closed the vast circle of his
knowledge by learning that a friend in power was a friend lost."
Henry Brooks Adams in "The
Education of Henry Adams."