| Datebook
Today
Moravian Theological
Seminary celebrates Black History Month with a series
of lunchtime discussions. The first, “Lifting
the Voices,” features Sharon Brown, director of
institutional diversity, and Rev. Gerald Simmons, scholar-in-residence,
speaking on important black leaders in our history. 11:30
a.m., Saal, Bahnson Center. Diane Radycki, assistant professor
of art history, will guide the Moravian Reading Group
through printmaking and
connoisseurship,
using Albrecht Dürer’s “Woman of Babylon,” a
woodcut recently acquired by the College. 4:00-6:00 p.m.,
Snyder Room, HUB.
Friday, February 13
 A
day for music about luck and ill luck, fortune and misfortune.
The Wind Ensemble
under Jim Barnes will
perform a suite
based on Moby-Dick and one based on flight (featuring
the contrasting
stories of Icarus and the Wright brothers) by W.
Francis McBeth. (Now there’s a name with black cats
attached!) The program also includes “Incantation
and Dance” by
John Barnes Chance. 8:00 p.m., Foy Hall. $6. Ext.
1650.
Saturday, February 14
Artist-lecturer
in voice Yvonne Robinson, soprano, will celebrate Valentine’s
Day with songs of love from classics to Broadway. 8:00
p.m., Peter Hall.
$12, $6 students/seniors.
Ext. 1650.
Sunday, February 15
Honnie Spencer ’90,
a practicing physician and an accomplished pianist, plays
works by African-American composers
Nathaniel Dett, John Wesley Work, Margaret Bonds,
and Florence
Price.
4:00 p.m., Peter Hall. $12, $6 students/seniors.
Ext. 1650.
Tuesday, February 17
The second Seminary forum
for Black History Month features Debra Hepburn of Bethlehem,
Philip Lythcott
of Guyana, and Rev. David Bennett, our chaplain,
discuss the
stewardship of justice. 11:30 a.m., Saal, Bahnson
Center.
Mary Frances Berry, chair of the U.S. Civil
Rights Commission, speaks about the 50th anniversary
of the landmark desegregation
case Brown v. Board of Education. Rescheduled
from January 27, when she was snowed out. 7:30
p.m., Foy
Hall. Ext.
7847.
Friday, February 20
Members of Delta Omicron,
the music honorary, offer an evening of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
8:00 p.m.,
Peter Hall. $6. Ext.
1650.
Ongoing
“
My Friends My Brothers,” large-scale drawings of
dysfunctional families by Edgar Jerins. Through March 7.
Payne Gallery. |
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February
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A
Musical Offering:
Trustee
Fred Reinhard makes possible the broadcast
and recording of the 2003 Vespers service.
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Marching
On:
Education
professor Bob Mayer edits a sourcebook
on the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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She's
Got Game:
Women's
basketball coach Mary Beth Spirk oversees
her 300th winning game at Moravian. |
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Worthy
Causes:
Various
athletic department fund-raisers.
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Datebook:
Campus
calendar. |
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Media
Matters:
The
College in local print and broadcast media. |
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Gaudeamus:
Faculty,
staff, student accomplishments. |
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Objets
d'art:
Photo
collage of art faculty member Krista Steinke
in New York gallery. |
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Crank
Call:
New
mobile shelving for College archives. |
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