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<div class="style10" align="left"> IN FOCUS: January 26, 2007</div>
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<div align="left"><b> TOP NEWS </b></div>
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<div align="left"><strong>IN MEMORIUM: DURWOOD FLEMING</strong></div>
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<p><strong>January</strong></p>
<p><strong>26-Feb. 17</strong> Fine Line: Mental Health/Mental
Illness, Fine Arts Gallery<br>
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<strong>26</strong> Women’s basketball vs. Oglethorpe, 6 p.m.<br>
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<strong>26</strong> Men’s basketball vs. Oglethorpe, 8 p.m.<br>
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<strong>27</strong> Swimming and Diving vs. McMurry, 1 p.m.<br>
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<strong>28</strong> Men’s lacrosse vs. Texas State University,
noon<br>
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<strong>28</strong> Women’s basketball vs. Sewanee, noon<br>
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<strong>28</strong> Men’s basketball vs. Sewanee, 2 p.m. <br>
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<strong>28</strong> Opera Theatre: <br>
“ Don Giovanni,” Jones Theater, 4 p.m.<br>
28 Winter flute recital, Caldwell-Carvey Foyer, 7 p.m.<br>
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<strong>29</strong> Guest artist concert: Andreas Klein, piano,
Georgetown High School Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m.<br>
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<strong>30</strong> Guest Artist Concert: Meehan/Perkins
Percussion Duo, Caldwell-Carvey Foyer, 7 p.m.<br>
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<div align="left">Durwood Fleming, Southwestern’s 12th President
who served from 1961 to 1981, passed away Jan. 22 after a lengthy
illness.
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Expressions of sympathy may be sent to the family in care of: <br>
Dr. Jon H. Fleming <br>
P. O. Drawer 38 <br>
North Zulch, TX 77872 <br>
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<div align="left"><strong>SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEETS CHALLENGE
GRANTS FOR NEW CENTER FOR LIFELONG LEARNING</strong></div>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>For more information on Thinking Ahead: The Southwestern
Campaign, visit <a href="www.southwestern.edu/thinkingahead">www.southwestern.edu/thinkingahead</a>.<br>
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Read the entire article <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/070122.html">here</a>.
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<div align="left"><b> EVENTS </b></div>
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<div align="left">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.
<p>Physics Department faculty and 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 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.</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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<div align="left">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.
<p>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 <em>New
York Times</em> 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. </p>
<p>The performance is free and open to the public, although
seating is limited. For more information, visit the website:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.mpduo.com">www.mpduo.com</a><br>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>The performance is free and open to the public. For more
information, call The Sarofim School of Fine Arts at 512-863-1379.</p>
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<div align="left"><strong>FACULTY FORUM</strong></div>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>Sodexho will provide a hot lunch for $4.25 per person and
coffee and tea will be available for 50 cents.</p>
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<div class="style8" align="left">MEDIA COVERAGE </div>
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<p align="left">The <em>Austin Business Journal</em>, the <em>Austin
American-Statesman</em>, the Wichita Falls <em>Times Record-News</em>
and KLBJ radio ran stories on Southwestern’s announcement of a $2
million gift for the Center for Lifelong Learning.<br>
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The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran a story on the death of former
Southwestern University President Durwood Fleming.<br>
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The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran a story by senior Rebecca Wyatt
on her study abroad experience in Spain last year.<br>
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<div class="style8" align="left">NOTABLES</div>
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<p align="left"><strong>Helene Meyers</strong>, professor of
English, presented a paper titled “Beyond the Diaspora/Homeland Divide:
Rebecca Goldstein’s <em>Mazel</em>” at the annual meeting of the
Association for Jewish Studies.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>A. J. Senchack</strong>, 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.<br>
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