Blackburn College prepares for homecoming festivities, October 3-5

Blackburn College
prepares for homecoming
festivities, October 3-5
students in the news
Three Macoupin County students have been selected to be
managers of the Blackburn College work program for the 201415 academic year.
- Briana Rae, a senior accounting manager of Staunton, is manager of the administration department;
- Haley Welch, a senior communications major of Palmyra, is
manager of the academics depart-
ment; and
- Nathan Wilson, a junior computer science major of Nilwood,
is manager of the technology services department.
The students on campus work
a minimum of 10 hours a week in
exchange for discounted tuition.
The managers of each department
run their departments, making decisions of hiring, scheduling, and
department-wide policy.
The Blackburn College band
will present its fall concert at 7
p.m., Monday, Oct. 6, in Bothwell
Auditorium. The concert is free
and open to the public.
The performance list will include Second Suite in F for Military Band by Gustav Holst, Eljen
a Magyar by Johann Strauss, In
Storm and Sunshine by J.C. Heed
and Melody Sharp March by Karl
King. Also included on the program will be Leroy Anderson’s
Blue Tango and a Frank Sinatra
medley, Salute to Ol’ Blue Eyes,
arranged by John Moss.
The second half of the program
will feature the Blackwater String
Ensemble, four sisters who have
been playing weddings and ceremonial events together since
they were in elementary school.
The sisters, Rebekah Gamble
Philbrick, Mary Gamble Lueking,
Martha Gamble Robinson and
Rachel Gamble, will perform Two
Duos for Two Violins by Ignace
Pleyel and Duet for Two Violins,
Op. 29 by Giovanni Battista Viotti.
The Blackburn College band
includes both Blackburn students
and musicians from the greater
Carlinvlle comity. Director of
the band is Tom Philbrick, who
is also band director at Southeast
High School in Springfield and
the Springfield Municipal Band.
For more information, contact
the Department of Performing
Arts at (217) 854-5704 or [email protected].
By Daniel Winningham
Blackburn College has a series
of events lined up for its annual
homecoming weekend, set for
Friday through Sunday, Oct. 3-5.
For the first time, Blackburn is
hosting a carnival/midway which
is part of a carnival theme for
this year’s Homecoming, making
the event a little different from
past homecomings and injecting
a little fun, said Blackburn director of public relations and marketing Peter Oswald. “Of course,
the carnival rides are open to the
community also,” Oswald said.
Planning for homecoming
takes place all year long, Oswald
said. Beginning with a review of
the homecoming events following the weekend, plans begin to
be made for the following year.
“As with any annual event,
some changes occur from year
to year, to make the event even
more successful or ‘fresh’ for returning alumni,” Oswald said.
Here’s a schedule of events for
the weekend:
Friday, Oct. 3
• Golf outing at the Carlinville
Country Club, 10 a.m.;
• Carnival and midway at the
main gate, 4 to 7 p.m.;
Blackburn band to
perform fall concert Oct. 6
Blackburn luncheon focuses on work program
By Daniel Winningham
Blackburn College prides itself
on being one of just seven work
college’s in the nation.
Rob Weis, the college’s associate dean of work, provided an
in-depth look into the school’s
work program — the only student-managed one — at a community luncheon Sept. 24.
His talk, titled “Innovations in
the Work Program: How Could It
Affect You?,” gave those in attendance a more detailed explanation of the work program.
Weis said the work program
provides a service not just for
the college but the entire community.
The work program’s student
manager this school year is Carly Vunetich. She oversees the 12
different departments along with
Shane Rogers.
Students participating in the
work program are required to
work at least 10 hours per week
or 160 hours per semester. While
most involved in the work program have the work credited toward tuition costs, the possibility
of getting paid hours exists.
A job fair is being planned for
the spring of 2015.
“We’re trying to create as
many opportunities as we can to
benefit students,” Weis said. “We
want to take the work program to
a new level.”
Weis said discussions are un-
derway as far as moving more
employment opportunities away
from campus.
Weis said this year there are
524 students involved in the
work program, which is up 28
students, or about 5.6 percent,
from the 2013-14 school year
when there were 496 participants.
A little more than 120 students
in the work program are commuters, Weis said.
Weis, who began at Blackburn
in 2004, originally started working as a college counselor.
Prior to being employed at
Blackburn, Weis was involved
with career services at Maryville
University.
• Athletics award dinner at Reno’s, 5:30 p.m.;
• Nifty Fifty’s Dinner at Mahan
Atrium, 6:30 p.m.; and
• Talent show at Bothwell Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 4
• Beaverthon “Paint Run” at
Ludlum Hall, starting at 8:30
a.m.;
• 40th class reunion breakfast
at the Demuzio Campus Center,
starting at 8:30 a.m.;
• Alumni College at Olin Lecture Hall, 11 a.m.;
• Alumni luncheon at Snyder
Atrium and Mahan, Kids’ dinner
at Olin 115, noon;
• Carnival and midway, 10 a.m.
to 7 p.m.;
• Women’s soccer vs. Fontbonne, 1 p.m.;
• Men’s soccer vs. Fontbonne,
3 p.m.; and
• Celebration of classes dinner at Snyder Atrium and Mahan,
Kids’ dinner at Olin 115, 5 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 5
• Heritage Society breakfast at
the McKinley House, 9 a.m.;
• Ecumenical worship service
at Clegg Chapel, 10:30 a.m.; and
• Alumni baseball game, 1 p.m.
Tell ‘em you
saw it in
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Dr. Wang, pictured, has been a member of the Blackburn College music faculty since 2009.
Blackburn music professor to
perform solo piano recital Oct. 8
Blackburn College adjunct music professor Dr. Pei-I Wang will
perform a solo piano recital beginning at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 8,
in Clegg Chapel. The recital is free
and open to the public.
Dr. Wang will perform Mozart’s Piano Sonata in C major, K. 330 and Rachmaninoff’s
Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor,
Op. 28, as well as selections by
Franz Liszt, Earl Wild and Taiwanese composer and conductor Gordon Shi-Wen Chin. She
will perform on Blackburn’s new
Steinway Model O grand piano,
donated by a private donor as part
of Blackburn’s recent acquisition
of new pianos built and designed
by Steinway and Sons, leading to
the college’s designation as an
All-Steinway School.
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