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Naples, Florida
Luncheon with President Jill Beck

And a special presentation by Lawrence University Professor Daniel J. Taylor '63


Lawrence University Board of Trustee member Edie Andrew cordially invites you to a luncheon with President Jill Beck and a presentation featuring Professor Daniel J. Taylor '63

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
12:00 noon
$30.00 per person
The Ritz-Carlton
280 Vanderbilt Beach Road
Naples, Florida

Following the luncheon, Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics, Daniel J. Taylor '63 will delight us with his presentation, Rome and the Roman Forum.

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Sarasota, Florida
Friends, opera and Lawrence! What could be better?

Tuesday, January, 30 2007
2:00 p.m. High Tea

Ritz-Carlton
1111 Ritz-Carlton Drive
Sarasota, Florida

8:00 p.m. Opera

Sarasota Opera House
61 North Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, Florida

Join Lawrence University associate professor of music, Karen Leigh-Post '79 at the Ritz-Carlton for a delightful high tea and discussion of Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

Continue to enjoy the company of Lawrence alumni and friends at the Sarasota Opera House beginning at 8:00 p.m. for this operatic masterpiece starring Julie Makerov as Cio-Cio-San and Vanessa Carddi as Suzuki.

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Naples, Florida
Join us for a concert by Michael Kim

Tuesday, March 9, 2007
4:00 p.m. Concert
Reception to follow

Naples Yacht Club
700 14th Avenue South
Naples, Florida

Join Lawrence University associate professor of music, Michael Kim, at the Naples Yacht Club for a delightful afternoon of music.

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Naples, Florida
Luncheon with President Jill Beck

Monday, March 6, 2006
12:00 noon

The Ritz-Carlton
280 Vanderbilt Beach Road
Naples

$28 per person

Members of the Board of Trustees, Edie Andrew and Cyndy Stiehl, '89, cordially invite you to a luncheon with President Jill Beck.

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Meet Jill Beck

Members of the Board of Trustees
Edie Andrew, Steve Simon, '68, and Cyndy Stiehl, '89
Cordially invite you
To meet President Jill Beck
At a luncheon

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
12:00 Noon

$28 per person

The Ritz-Carlton
280 Vanderbilt Beach Road
Naples, Florida

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Weekend Opera Seminars

by Margaret Ozaki, '03, and Jennifer Mathews, '03

Join opera lovers and explore famous operas and composers!
Live performances each session!
Prepare yourselves for next season at the opera!

All sessions are held on Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

June 5-6

The Birth of Opera and Mozart’s Classics
The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutti,
The Magic Flute, La clemenza di Tito, Giulio Cesare

July 10-11

Bel Canto: Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini
The Barber of Seville, La cenerentola, The Elixir of Love,
Lucia di Larmermoor, La Sonnambula, I Capuleti e i Montecchi

July 17-18

Viva Verdi!
"The Big Trio”: Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata;
Aida, Otello, Falstaff

July 24-25

Puccini and Verismo
La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Suor Angelica,
Gianni Schicchi, Turandot

July 31-Aug 1

French Romanticists vs. Wagner
French: Carmen, Faust, Romeo and Juliet, Manon
Wagner: The Ring Cycle and leitmotifs

August 7-8

Strauss and a Potpourri of Modern Composers
Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Billy Budd, The Rake’s Progress, Porgy and Bess, and others
Berg and the Avant-garde; Return to “Mozart’s music”
Benjamin Britten, Communist music, “jazz” opera,
Gilbert and Sullivan, Johann Strauss, and musical theater

All classes will be held from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Location: TBA
Series subscribers: $225 for all six seminars
$50 per seminar

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President Richard Warch Farewell Tour

Members of the Board of Trustees
Edie Andrew, Cyndy Stiehl, and Steve Simon
Cordially invite you to
A luncheon to honor Richard Warch
During his 25th and final year as Lawrence University President

Wednesday, February 11, 2004
12:00 Noon

$28 per person

The Ritz-Carlton
280 Vanderbilt Beach Road
Naples, Florida

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An Evening of Art Song and Opera

Featuring
Jennifer Mathews, '03, mezzo-soprano
Margaret Ozaki, '03, soprano
Richard Bosworth and Richard Crofts, piano

Thursday, January 22, 2004
7:30 p.m.

Moorings Presbyterian Church
Music Center
791 Harbour Drive
Naples, Florida

The program includes works by Bellini, Bizet, Brahms, Fauré, Mozart, Schumann, Strauss, and Rachmaninoff.

Jennifer Mathews, a native of Naples, graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in 1999. She graduated from Lawrence with a Bachelor of Music degree in 2003 and currently studies with soprano Steffanie Pearce. In past summers, Ms. Mathews studied at Spoleto Vocal Arts Symposium (Spoleto, Italy), Brevard Music Festival (North Carolina), and Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan).

Margaret Ozaki graduated magna cum laude from Lawrence University with a Bachelor of Music degree in 2003 and spent last summer as a Janiec Opera Company apprentice at Brevard Music Festival. Ms. Ozaki is a current and native resident of Colorado.

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Lawrence University Men's Basketball

Wednesday, December 17 vs. Palm Beach Atlantic U. @ 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 18 vs. Carthage College @ 8:00 p.m.

Palm Beach Atlantic University
Greene Sports Complex, corner of Dixie Highway and Gruber Street
Located in West Palm Beach on the intracoastal waterway

Palm Beach area alumni, parents, and friends are invited to cheer on the Vikes as they participate in the Trip Sports Cruisin' Classic. The visitor parking lot is accessible from Acacia Street, which is one block south of Gruber Street.

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Annual Luncheon with President Warch

Lawrence Trustees Edie Andrew, Cynthia Stiehl, C'89, and Steve Simon, '68 cordially you to a luncheon at The Ritz Carlton.

Tuesday, February 18, 2003
12:00 noon

The Ritz Carlton
280 Vanderbilt Beach Road
Naples, Florida 34108

$25 per person

All alumni, parents, and friends of Lawrence University are invited to attend a luncheon featuring President Richard Warch as he begins is 24th year as the college's president.

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Music by Allen Gimbel

Saturday, October 19, 2002
3:00 p.m.

Ver Lea Rinker Hall
Palm Beach Atlantic University
West Palm Beach

As a way of saying "thank you" to our teacher and friend, we present this concert of chamber music by Allen Gimbel. We know Allen from our days at Lawrence University. He was our theory and composition teacher for four years, and both of us greatly benefited from his outstanding knowledge of music and his passion for teaching. Those of us who were fortunate to study composition with him also learned of his considerable talent and prestige as a composer. We mention this only to underscore a fact of Allen's personality, that unlike other composers who teach, Allen never foists his music on his students. You are left to discover it on your own. Join us on October 19 as we introduce Allen Gimbel's music to a new audience of listeners in Florida.

--Brooke Joyce, '95, and Jeffery Meyer, '96

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Ed and Edith Andrew, Lawrence University Trustee cordially invite you to attend a luncheon at the Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club featuring the presentation

Envisioning the Campus of Tomorrow
with President Richard Warch

Monday, February 11, 2002
12:00 noon

Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club
851 Gulf Shore Boulevard North
Naples

$20 per person

In October 2001, The Lawrence University Board of Trustees approved preliminary plans for the siting of the new residence hall and a future campus center which will substantially enhance the college's residential life facilities. In his presentation, "Envisioning the Campus of Tomorrow," President Warch discusses recent renovation and construction projects at Lawrence and shares some of the exciting plans for the future of the campus and the reasons that prompt them.

Richard Warch has served as president of Lawrence University since 1979. During his tenure, the college's endowment has grown from $25 million to $176 million, and many campus buildings have been constructed or have undergone major renovations including Buchanan Kiewit Recreation Center, Lucia R. Briggs Hall for the Social Sciences, Lawrence Memorial Chapel, Main Hall, Science Hall, Seeley G. Mudd Library, Shattuck Hall of Music, Youngchild Hall of Science, and Wriston Art Center.

All alumni, parents, and friends of Lawrence University are invited to attend.

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Lawrence Baseball and Softball Teams
Compete in the Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic

March 24-30, 2001
Game times listed below

Terry Park, Cape Coral Sports Complex, and Lee County Sports Complex
Fort Myers, Florida

The Lawrence University Alumni Association of Florida warmly invites all alumni, parents, and friends to cheer on the Viking baseball and softball teams at the Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic. The 11th Annual Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic offers college and university women's softball and men's baseball teams an opportunity to participate in a tournament during their spring break in a warm climate. This month-long event has grown in size from only 12 teams competing the first year to over 250 teams currently competing annually.

"This will be an exciting tournament for the [baseball] team - to come out of it with a number of wins will mean we're really solid," says head coach Korey Krueger, '95. The majority of the Viking baseball team is young -- freshmen and sophomores -- and last year ended the second half of the season on a winning roll. A Viking player to watch is Jeremy Tollefson, '03, (from Middleton, Wisconsin) at shortstop, who was named to both all-Conference and all-regional teams during his freshman year.

The Lawrence University Fastpitch team is extremely young this season. A senior class of eight graduated last year, and of those players, six were four-year starters. Under the leadership of head coach Kim Tatro, the team has maintained a rich tradition over that last four years...winning Midwest Conference Championships in '97, '98, and '99. With nine new players on the roster, one might call it a "re-building" year, but there is a lot of talent in the freshman class and they will likely be a team to contend with by the end of the season.

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