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<div class="style10" align="left"> IN FOCUS: September 22, 2006 </div>
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<div align="left"><strong>RED AND CHARLINE MCCOMBS TO RECEIVE
2006 PRESIDENT'S PHILANTHROPY AWARD FROM SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY</strong></div>
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<p><b>September</b> </p>
<p> <strong>22</strong> Men’s soccer vs. Millsaps College, 2 p.m.</p>
<p> <strong>22</strong> Women’s soccer vs. Millsaps College, 4
p.m.<br>
22 Friday Night Live, Amalia Ortiz, 8 p.m., The Cove</p>
<p> <strong>24</strong> Men’s soccer vs. Rhodes College, noon</p>
<p> <strong>24</strong> Women’s soccer vs. Rhodes College, 2 p.m.</p>
<p> <strong>29</strong> Women’s soccer vs. University of Dallas,
2 p.m.</p>
<p> <strong>29</strong> Men’s soccer vs. Colorado College, 4 p.m.<br>
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<p align="left">Red and Charline McCombs of San Antonio have been
selected to receive the 2006 President’s Philanthropy Award from
Southwestern University. The award will be presented at a dinner on
campus Sept. 28. <br>
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Since 1971, the McCombs have given more than $8 million to
Southwestern. The McCombs also have given generously of their time. Red
McCombs has served on Southwestern’s Board of Trustees since 1987 and
was chair of the board from 1992 through 2000 during the historic
Leadership 2000 Campaign, which raised more than $91 million. He
currently serves as an honorary chair of Thinking Ahead: The
Southwestern Campaign, which has a goal of $125 million. Charline
McCombs was an inaugural member of Southwestern’s Board of Visitors.<br>
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Read the entire story <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/060919.html">here</a>.
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<div class="style11" align="left">PUBLIC NIGHT AT THE
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<p>Southwestern University will host a public viewing at the
Fountainwood Observatory from 8 to 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29. The
Observatory is located on the northeast side of campus adjacent to the
Rockwell Baseball Field.</p>
<p>Physics Department faculty and experienced observers from the
Williamson County Astronomy Club (<a href="www.williamson-astro.org">www.williamson-astro.org</a>)
will be on hand to guide visitors through their viewing experience. On
this evening, a 42 percent waxing crescent moon will be visible and
Jupiter will appear low in the southwest. The summer triangle, an
asterism consisting of the brightest stars of Cygnus, Aquila and Lyra,
will be visible high overhead. In the eastern sky, fall constellations
such as Andromeda are rising. Beautiful star clusters and ghostly
nebula will dot the region along the band of the Milky Way. </p>
<p>Fountainwood viewing nights are always free and open to the
public. For weather-related updates, call the Fountainwood Observatory
hotline at 512-863-1242. </p>
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<p>In anticipation of Robert Pinsky’s visit as this year’s
Writer’s Voice author, the library will sponsor a literary discussion
at the noon Faculty Forum Monday, Sept. 25, in the Lynda McCombs Room.
The discussion will be led by professors Shana Bernstein, Elisabeth
Piedmont-Marton, Eric Selbin and David Stewart. The campus community is
invited to come, eat and share your thoughts on Pinsky’s work.</p>
<p>Sodexho will provide a hot lunch for $4.25 per person and
coffee and tea will be available for 50 cents. Faculty, staff and
guests are welcome to attend.</p>
<p>*PLEASE NOTE* <br>
“ Pirate Bucks” can now be used to pay for Faculty Forum lunches for
those who prefer to pay this way. <br>
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<p align="left">The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran an
article on the collaboration between Fringe Benefits, a California
theater group, Southwestern and students from the Round Rock ISD high
schools to produce a play based on real-life situations of
discrimination witnessed by the high school students.</p>
<p align="left">The <em>Sun</em> also ran an editorial about the
relationship between Southwestern University and the Georgetown
community.</p>
<p align="left">The <em>San Antonio Express-News</em> and the <em>San
Antonio Business Journal </em>ran stories about Red and Charline
McCombs receiving the 2006 President’s Philanthropy Award.<br>
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<p align="justify"><strong>Jason Hoogerhyde</strong>, assistant
professor of music, had two compositions, “Ebullient Echoes” for flute
and “Hollow” for clarinet, performed at the College Music Society’s
National Conference in San Antonio Sept. 16. “Ebullient Echoes” will be
performed again Nov. 2 by flutist Elizabeth Shuhan at Ithaca College in
Ithaca, N.Y.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Helene Meyers</strong>, professor of
English, gave a talk to graduate students at The University of Texas at
Austin about applying for jobs at liberal arts colleges. This event was
sponsored by UT’s English Department as part of their placement program
for Ph.D. students.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>David Tabb Stewart</strong>, assistant
professor of religion and philosophy, has been invited to present a
paper at the Biblical Scholarship and Disabilities group of the annual
meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature titled “Deafness and
Temple Service: Why the Priests Don’t Need to Hear.” At the same
conference in Washington, D.C., during November, he will present “The
Politick Text: 17th Century Text-Reception of Leviticus in English” to
the History of Interpretation section. In December, Stewart will read
his paper “Stories as Shades: Bat-Yiftach as Specter for the Outrage at
Gibeah” to the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies in
San Diego, Calif. This study, dealing with a horrific story of rape in
the biblical world, grows out of his classroom teaching in his course
at Southwestern titled Gender, Sex and Violence in the Biblical World.<br>
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