Lawrence
Today magazine, Spring 2007
In 2006, Lawrence introduced a visibility initiative called Focus
On: Chicago, a program to expand the college’s presence in an important
recruiting market and bastion of alumni support.
Following its success in the first year, the initiative is continuing in
2007, and the concept has been extended to the Twin Cities. Like Chicago,
the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area is a significant source of prospective
students and has a high concentration of alumni.
Here are the highlights of Focus On activities in the two cities. For more
information, visit www.lawrence.edu/news/focus_on/.
CHICAGO
February featured Viking basketball (Lawrence vs. Lake Forest) and a guided
tour of an exhibition in the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern
University that included works from Lawrence’s La
Vera Pohl Collection of German Expressionists, led by Frank Lewis, curator of the Wriston Art
Center Galleries.
March 3 Nancy Wall, associate professor of biology and associate dean of
the faculty, delivered a presentation on the human body, along with a tour
of “Body Worlds 2: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies” at
the Museum of Science and Industry.
March 10 The Lawrence Faculty Jazz Trio — Lee Tomboulian,
piano; Mark Urness, bass; and Dane Richeson, drums/percussion — appear
in concert at the Merit School of Music.
March 19 The Lawrence University Wind Ensemble, directed by Assistant Professor
of Music Andrew Mast, performs at the College of Lake County’s James
Lumber Center for the Performing Arts in Grayslake.
April 12 Edmund Kern, associate professor of history and author of The
Wisdom of Harry Potter: What Our Favorite Hero Teaches Us about Moral Choices, gives
a presentation on “The Phoenix in Harry Potter: the Metaphoric Power
of the Past” and leads a discussion of the Potter books at the Newberry
Library.
June 4 Faculty pianists Michael Kim and Kyung Kim will be heard at 8:00 p.m.
on Live From Studio One, WFMT 98.7 FM, Chicago.
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL
January 14 Associate Professor of Music Karen Leigh-Post ’79, mezzo
soprano, and organist David Heller ’81 presented a concert at Minneapolis’ St.
Olaf Catholic Church.
February 8, 10, 11 Cantala (pictured), the Lawrence
University Women’s
Choir, conducted by Assistant Professor of Music Phillip Swan, and the student
brass ensemble Fanfare performed at Stillwater High School. University Organist
Kathrine Handford joined them for an evening concert at Central Presbyterian
Church, St. Paul, and for worship services the next morning.
March 4 Timothy Spurgin, associate professor of English and the Bonnie Glidden
Buchanan Professor of English Literature, led a Freshman Studies-style discussion
of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and
John Coltrane’s “Alabama” at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
Participants also toured the exhibit, “Race.”
April 1 Timothy Troy ’85, associate professor of theatre arts and the
J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis Professor of Theatre and Drama, will host
a matinee showing and then lead a discussion of Brazil, a film by Terry Gilliam
that currently is a Freshman Studies selection.
April 29 The Lawrence Brass with Kathrine Handford, university organist,
will be heard in concert at the Church of St. Louis, King of France, featuring
performances by Conservatory faculty members John Daniel and Jeffrey Stannard,
trumpet; James DeCorsey, horn; Nicholas Keelan, trombone; and Martin Erickson,
tuba.
Early May A student and alumni community-service day, organized in cooperation
with members of SWAHP (Student War Against Hunger and Poverty), is planned.