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 IN FOCUS: January 26, 2007
 
* TOP NEWS *
	  	*CALENDAR *
*IN MEMORIUM: DURWOOD FLEMING*
	  	

*January*

*26-Feb. 17* Fine Line: Mental Health/Mental Illness, Fine Arts Gallery

*26* Women's basketball vs. Oglethorpe, 6 p.m.

*26* Men's basketball vs. Oglethorpe, 8 p.m.

*27* Swimming and Diving vs. McMurry, 1 p.m.

*28* Men's lacrosse vs. Texas State University, noon

*28* Women's basketball vs. Sewanee, noon

*28* Men's basketball vs. Sewanee, 2 p.m.

*28* Opera Theatre:
" Don Giovanni," Jones Theater, 4 p.m.
28 Winter flute recital, Caldwell-Carvey Foyer, 7 p.m.

*29* Guest artist concert: Andreas Klein, piano, Georgetown High School 
Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m.

*30* Guest Artist Concert: Meehan/Perkins Percussion Duo, 
Caldwell-Carvey Foyer, 7 p.m.

 


Durwood Fleming, Southwestern's 12th President who served from 1961 to 
1981, passed away Jan. 22 after a lengthy illness.

Memorial services will be Saturday, Jan. 27, at 11 a.m. at Highland Park 
United Methodist Church in Dallas and also Monday, Jan. 29, at 10:30 
a.m. at St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Houston, where he served 
as pastor from 1945 to 1961. Southwestern will also hold a service in 
Dr. Fleming's honor at a time to be arranged with the family.

At the family's request, memorials may be made to any cause or 
institution whose purpose is to challenge and minister to the human 
spirit, inform the minds of children and youth, or to alleviate human 
suffering wherever it is found. These include St. Luke's United 
Methodist Church, Southwestern University, The Perkins School of 
Theology at Southern Methodist University and The Methodist Hospital of 
Houston.

Expressions of sympathy may be sent to the family in care of:
Dr. Jon H. Fleming
P. O. Drawer 38
North Zulch, TX 77872

*SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEETS CHALLENGE GRANTS FOR NEW CENTER FOR 
LIFELONG LEARNING*

A $2 million anonymous pledge received this month will enable 
Southwestern University to claim $3 million in challenge grants and move 
forward with construction of an $11 million Center for Lifelong Learning.

The new building will house Southwestern's innovative Paideia® Program 
and bring together many key student services and programs into one 
location, including Academic Services, Career Services, the Cashier's 
Office, Counseling and Health Services, and the Registrar's Office.

Planning for the building started in 2002 after Southwestern received a 
$2 million "challenge grant" for the project from the Robert & Ruby 
Priddy Charitable Trust of Wichita Falls, which also provided the 
initial funding for Southwestern's Paideia® Program. This challenge 
required that the university raise $8.5 million in additional gifts and 
pledges for the project by June 30, 2009.

In April 2006, Southwestern received a second challenge grant for the 
project from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation of Tulsa, Okla. This 
challenge promised $1 million for the project if Southwestern could 
raise the remaining funds for it by April 12, 2007.

Southwestern received a $3.5 million naming gift for the project from 
the Perkins-Prothro Foundation of Wichita Falls. The new building will 
be named the Charles & Elizabeth Prothro Center for Lifelong Learning. 
Other grants include $1 million from the Grogan Lord Foundation of 
Georgetown, and gifts from the Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation, 
M.D. Anderson Foundation, Amon Carter Foundation, The Fondren 
Foundation, Hoblitzelle Foundation, The Kendeda Fund, JPMorgan Trust 
Company, and other individual donors.

Construction on the Center for Lifelong Learning is expected to start in 
early 2008. The building will be three stories tall and approximately 
40,000 square feet. It will be the first facility at Southwestern 
constructed using "green building" guidelines. This means natural light 
will be brought into all spaces to reduce the need for electricity, and 
energy also will be saved through the use of energy-efficient windows 
and heating/cooling systems. There will be minimal use of carpeting and 
finishes that release harmful chemicals.

For more information on Thinking Ahead: The Southwestern Campaign, visit 
www.southwestern.edu/thinkingahead.

Read the entire article here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/070122.html>.

 

* EVENTS *
Southwestern University will host a public viewing at the Fountainwood 
Observatory from 7:30-11 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27. The Observatory is 
located on the northeast side of campus adjacent to the Rockwell 
Baseball Field.

Physics Department faculty and observers from the Williamson County 
Astronomy Club (www.williamson-astro.org) will be on hand to guide 
visitors through their viewing experience. On this evening, a waxing 
moon will be two days past first quarter phase, and brilliant winter 
constellations such as Orion and Canis Major will begin to dominate the 
night sky. By 8:30 p.m., Saturn will be high enough above the eastern 
horizon to view.

Fountainwood viewing nights are always free and open to the public. For 
weather-related updates, call the Fountainwood Observatory hotline at 
512-863-1242.

 

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts presents the Meehan/Perkins Percussion 
Duo in concert Tuesday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. in the Caldwell-Carvey Foyer.

The Meehan/ Perkins Duo has grown out of a collaboration started in 1999 
as graduate students at the Yale School of Music. That initial meeting 
brought about the group So Percussion that the /New York Times/ hailed 
as "consistently impressive." In that time, they performed at venues 
such as the Bang on a Can Marathon, the BAM Next Wave Festival, the 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Miller Theatre, The Round Top Festival and the 
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, among others.

The performance is free and open to the public, although seating is 
limited. For more information, visit the website: www.mpduo.com

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Music Department, presents Southwestern 
University Opera Theatre, directed by Bruce Cain and assisted by David 
Utterback, in a performance of Mozart's comic drama "Don Giovanni" 
Sunday, Jan. 28, at 4 p.m. in the Jones Theater located in the Fine Arts 
Center.

The performance is free and open to the public. For more information, 
call The Sarofim School of Fine Arts at 512-863-1379.

*FACULTY FORUM*

David Stewart, assistant professor of religion, will lead the noon 
Faculty Forum titled "Reacting to the Past: A Complex Role-Playing Game 
Pedagogy" on Monday, Jan. 22, in the Lynda McCombs Room.

Sodexho will provide a hot lunch for $4.25 per person and coffee and tea 
will be available for 50 cents.

MEDIA COVERAGE

The /Austin Business Journal/, the /Austin American-Statesman/, the 
Wichita Falls /Times Record-News/ and KLBJ radio ran stories on 
Southwestern's announcement of a $2 million gift for the Center for 
Lifelong Learning.

The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a story on the death of former 
Southwestern University President Durwood Fleming.

The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a story by senior Rebecca Wyatt on her 
study abroad experience in Spain last year.

NOTABLES

*Helene Meyers*, professor of English, presented a paper titled "Beyond 
the Diaspora/Homeland Divide: Rebecca Goldstein's /Mazel/" at the annual 
meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies.

*A. J. Senchack*, holder of the Lucy K. Brown Chair in International 
Business and professor of business, attended the January 2006 conference 
of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. This year's 
New Orleans meeting on liberal education and democracy's big questions 
focused most prominently on efforts to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf 
Coast. Its two overarching questions were how to prepare students to be 
responsible citizens and leaders and to apply the lessons of Katrina and 
Rita to their local communities and institutional missions. Senchack's 
participation in this conference continues his current research interest 
in the relationship of liberal arts and business education and augments 
the efforts of the business faculty's two-year curriculum reinvention.




 
 
 
 
  	  	 

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