University Rising on L-R’s app Since Lenoir-Rhyne announced a Capital Campaign to raise $65 million dollars, a video was created to shed some light on the topic. This video is now available through Lenoir-Rhyne’s iPhone and iPad application. Once you’ve downloaded the app, go to “Welcome to LRU,” then click on “University Rising campaign.” The video will appear in the bottom, right corner. To view it full screen, tap on the two arrows on the video status bar. Rising up to advance science. The New Science Complex will be a facility that * Inspires the pursuit of knowledge in science and technology * Will improve the lives of citizens of North Carolina and beyond. The Chapel Project. The new Chapel at L-R will be a light set on a hill that will influence and inspire students for generations to come.... universityrising.lr.edu
LENOIR-RHYNE
Alumni Newsletter Fall Edition II 2011
HAPPENINGS
Alumni and Friends Events Coming Up Fourth Annual Gingerbread Decorating Event Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011 Time: 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. Location: Lenoir-Rhyne University campus, Bears’ Lair Atrium Details: Options to purchase a gingerbread house, boy or girl, or tree are available. Decorations will be provided. Come enjoy this new tradition for L-R alumni, friends, and their children! $10 per item. Seating is limited to the first 75 people who RSVP Call 828.328.7171 or e-mail lru.director@alumni. lr.edu
Holiday Reception for Alumni & Friends in Columbia, S.C. Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011 Time: Beginning at 6:00 p.m. Location: Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary Alumni Hall (formerly the Chapel) Details: All are welcome to celebrate the holiday season with Lenoir-Rhyne and Seminary alumni and friends. RSVP to 828.328.7171 or lru.director@ alumni.lr.edu by December 5.
COMING SOON: February 17 & 18, 2012: The 50th-year reunion for the Delta Omicron chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha. April 13 & 14, 2012: Alumni Weekend 2012 (reunions for classes of 1952, 1957, and 1962, 90thyear reunion for the L-R Band, and so much more)
Holiday Reception for Alumni & Friends in Columbia, S.C.
Lenoir-Rhyne University Commencement Information
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011 Time: Beginning at 6:00 p.m. Location: Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary Alumni Hall (formerly the Chapel) Details: All are welcome to celebrate the holiday season with Lenoir-Rhyne and Seminary alumni and friends. RSVP to 828.328.7171 or lru.director@ alumni.lr.edu by December 5.
Friday, December 16, 2011, 7:00 PM P.E. Monroe Auditorium Commencement Speaker: Dr. Joshua Ring, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and the 2011 Raymond M. Bost Professor-of-the-Year Attendance is open and no tickets are needed. August 2011 and December 2011 graduates will receive their diplomas at this time.
Nominate a deserving Alumnus/a today for an Alumni Association Award. The catagories are: Clarence L. Pugh Distinguished Alumnus/a Award Opal L. Moretz Service Awards (Service to Alumni Association, Community, & University) Rising Star Young Alumnus/a Award To find out more about these categories and how to nominate someone, please go to:
http://alumnirelations.lr.edu/awards
What is The Alumni Society?
The Alumni Society was formed to advance those commitments of the University. And to embrace good fellowship throughout an ever-widening community of alumni. These alumni are drawn from myriad places, ethnicities, cultures, interests and all walks-of-life. They are bound together by the common experience of an extraordinary undergraduate and graduate education. Lenoir-Rhyne alumni form a community numbering thousands of men and women throughout the United States and around the globe. Together they represent the ages, nationalities, religious affiliations, sexual orientations, abilities, talents and viewpoints of the global society that L-R commits to serve. The Alumni Society consists of eight subcommittees: * Alumni Events Commission * Diversity Commission * Student Life & Parents Liaison * Young Alumni Liaison * Church Relations Liaison * Admissions Liaison * Athletics Liaison * Graduate & Evening College Liaison These committees work with those in faculty and staff positions on campus to enhance the Lenoir-Rhyne experience. To learn more about the Alumni Society, or to become a member of one of the subcommittees, go to: alumnirelations.lr.edu/alumni-society-home
National Accreditation Board to Visit LRU The College of Education and Human Services at LenoirRhyne University will host an accrediation visit by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) in April 2012. Interested parties are invited to submit third-party comments to the visiting team. Please note that comments must address substantive matters related to the quality of professional education programs offered, and should specify the party’s relationship to the institutiona (i.e., graduate, present or former faculty member, employer of graduates). We invite you to submit written comments to: Board of Examiners NCATE 2010 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20036-1023 callforcomments@ncate.org
What’s L-R up to? At Lenoir-Rhyne, we truly are rising up and doing things differently. That initiative takes creativity, attention to detail, intentional action, thoughtfulness and intelligence, and just plain hard work. Even in the worst of economic times, good, intelligent, thoughtful, hardworking individuals make fortunes. One only need look at our university, and he or she could rest his or her case. Take a look at some of the wonderful initiatives that have taken place at LenoirRhyne within the last decade: * New Lohr Learning Commons * Forty million dollars in campus improvements * New core curriculum * New common learning goals * New Institutional Values * Strong regional rankings * Solmaz Institute for Obesity * Free music concerts * High School Scholars Academy * Asheville Center for Graduate Studies * Seminary Merger—first Lutheran university in the country Doubled the number of Masters programs in 4 years * Moretz Sports-Athletic Complex * Renovation of Fritz-Conrad Residence Halls * Relocating the Registration Office for one-stop -shopping * Developing family oriented alumni programming * McCrorie Center * Mauney Hall / Shaeffer Conference Hall * Library, running track, and conference center free and open to the public * Visting Writer’s Series * L-R encourages and fosters spiritual development * Over 20,000 volunteer hours given in the community * 100% pass rate on national nursing examination * Women’s cross country, women’s softball, women’s soccer all in NCAA tournament * $47 million raised during a recession * Eight years of balanced budgets * Five straight years of record enrollment
Teaching Annual Giving to Students (tags) educates students about the importance of giving back to Lenoir-Rhyne once they become alumni. Want to know more? Check it out on Facebook! www.facebook.com/pages/Lenoir-RhyneUniversity-tags/155680684488921
* Increased alumni participation in giving * Wednesday Chapel Service with no conflicting scheduling and daily eucharist * Safe Zone Program
We could go on and on, but we want to show you that your alma mater is doing some great things. How will you be a part of it? http://lru.edu
Check out the new and improved Lenoir-Rhyne Alumni Website You asked and we listened. On Friday, November 11 the Lenoir-Rhyne Alumni Association launched a new and improved Alumni website. Some of the features now include alumni contact information (at YOUR fingertips), Class Notes submission, up-todate alumni and friends events, easy access log in, registration for events, and so much more. If you are familiar with the old way of logging into this site - when you needed a Constituent ID number - don’t worry, logging in to your information of the site will now consist of you creating a simple user ID and password. By April 2012 you will have the capacity to log in with your Facebook account. This site is truly a one-stop shop when it comes to alumni news, and we hope you will take full advantage of all it has to offer. Check it out, click around, and let us know what you think!
http://alumni.lr.edu/
How are we doing with SACS? The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools written report was submitted in early September. It presented a strong picture of a vibrant university. We will receive a report from off-site readers any day now. Following that we will compile a “Focus Report” to address the questions they ask. This Focus Report will go to the on-site visitation team which will come to Lenoir-Rhyne’s campus the end of February 2012. The on-site team will file its report, and we will respond as is appropriate. Final action to grant reaccreditation occurs at the SACS meeting in December 2012. We all owe a debt of gratitude to the many people who have worked long hours to tell our story.
A Gathering of Bears The LRU Nursing Class of 1971 recently held a reunion at the vacation home of Alice
Biggerstaff Loper in Dillsboro. Class members enjoyed remembering their college days, catching up on family and friends and sharing stories from their 40 years of nursing experiences. Old photos invoked many memories and much laughter! The clothing and hair styles may have changed, but the wonderful spirit of the group remains the same! (Front row, l to r) Sharon Watts Fretz, Reba Kelly Miller, Jane Mashburn, Jan Nash Roseman, Ceeya Patton Bolman (Back row, l to r) Anne Ryan Neary, Linda Chilton Gill, Shirley Huffman, Margaret Aldrich Morris, Alice Biggerstaff Loper, Becky Sink Schlein, Linda Wilson Ward Submitted by Becky Sink Schlein, Class of 1971. (Photo by Dana Roseman, husband of Jan Nash Roseman.
What will you do? Tell us at lru.director@alumni.lr.edu
Moving Pieces to Highlight Concert Band Performance Celebrating its ninetieth season of bands at LenoirRhyne, the 2011-2012 Concert Band will perform on Thursday, November 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the P.E. Monroe Auditorium on campus. The concert will feature the world premier of “Catastrophe & the Cure,” a composition for woodwinds, brass, and percussion by L-R faculty composer Luke Benton. The piece is based on the events of September 11, and captures the chaos of the events and the re-emergence of the American spirit. Also on the program is band director Dr. Daniel Kiser’s arrangement of “Benediction” by North Carolina composer, J. Mark Scearce. Dr. Scearce wrote “Benediction” as a piece of remembrance of Ivan Lorenzo Ingram, an unarmed black man who was shot by a Raleigh police officer. The composer was a coworker of Ingram’s mother. In addition, senior music education major Matthew Cochran will be performing Claude T. Smith’s “Fantasia for Alto Saxophone.” The piece is composed in a three-part form, where the lively outer sections are contrasted by a beautiful middle section with sweeping melodic lines. David Wortman, adjunct instructor of music education, will conduct the piece. Other pieces on the program will be Malcolm Arnold’s “Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo,” Percy Grainger’s “Ye Banks and Braes O’Bonnie Doon,” a fiery Spanish march “Lola Flores,” and Gliere’s “Russian Sailors’ Dance.” The Concert Band season will continue in the spring with a band alumni reunion. The event kick-off will be held on Friday, April 13, with a Concert Band and Wind Ensemble concert in P.E. Monroe Auditorium on the Lenoir-Rhyne campus. On Saturday, April 14, alumni are invited to participate in an alumni band rehearsal and an afternoon concert. The weekend will be a celebration of the hard work and dedication that has made Lenoir-Rhyne’s band program a success.
Annual “Christmas at LenoirRhyne” Concert to be held in December The Lenoir-Rhyne University A Cappella Choir, College Singers, Brass Ensemble and Handbell Ensemble will present this year’s “Christmas at L-R” concert event on Saturday, December 3 at 2:00 p.m. and December 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Hickory.
Concert Series Presents Soprano Soloist The Concert Series at Lenoir-Rhyne University will continue its 2011-2012 season with a free performance by soprano soloist Danielle Talamantes on Sunday, November 20 at 4 p.m. The concert will be held at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Hickory. With a number of sold out performances, Talamantes has quickly become one of the regions most sought after soloists. Her concert in Hickory will include works by Schubert, Granados, Leoncavallo, Respighi, and Duke Ellington.
Show support to Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Business Council members by supporting their businesses. Leadership Council ($10,000 and over) Broyhill Family Foundation Burroughs Wellcome Fund Charles A. Cannon Trust ELCA Foundation ELCA Vocation & Education Unit* George Foundation, Inc* The James M. Johnston Trust Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation The Moretz Foundation NC Community Foundation, Inc NC Synod of the ELCA North Carolina Arts Council North Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities Piedmont Educational Foundation The Unifour Foundation North Carolina Community Foundation
Executive Council ($5,000 - $9,999) Century Furniture Co. E.J. Snyder Family Foundation Hickory Furniture Mart James R. Alexander Trust Thrivent Financial for Lutherans United Arts Council of Catawba County
Directors Council ($2,500 - $4,999) ARAMARK - Facilities Management* Bank of Granite* Carolina Orthopaedic Specialists Catawba Valley Community
College Catawba Valley Medical Center* Corning Cable Systems* Duke Energy Frye Regional Medical Center HBF Lutheran Community Foundation Peoples Bank Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Hky Shurtape Technologies, Inc.
President’s Council ($1,500 - $2,499) A-1 Printing, Inc. ARAMARK - Food Service BB&T Blackwelder Properties, FLP* The Bolick Foundation CBSA Architects, Inc. CT Management Deloitte and Touche, LLP Greer Laboratories Hickory Mechanical, Inc. The Jackson Group, Inc. Lenoir Mirror/Jonas Foundation Lutheran Chapel Church The North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation PRISM Development LLC Resource Partners, LLC Schneider Mills Inc. Sherrill Furniture Co. Wachovia Bank (a Wells Fargo Company)
Associates Council ($1,000 - $1,499) A SignCo Adden Furniture B & M Mailing C. R. Laine Furniture Co. Capital Concepts Financial Group Century-Link Chair City Supply Co., Inc. Charlotte Paint Co., Inc. CommScope* Community One Bank David E. Looper and Company
The Dickson Foundation, Inc. Dixon Hughes PLLC Edward Jones-Steve Reese and Mike Bell First Citizens Bank Gastroenterology Associates, PA Hambrick Memorial Foundation Hancock & Moore, Inc. Hanes Industries, Inc. Hickory Construction Company Hickory Daily Record Hickory Dickory Dock Hickory Plumbing and Heating Co., Inc. Hickory Sheet Metal Co., Inc. Hickory Springs Manufacturing* Larry’s Carpet Installation Martin Starnes & Associates, CPAs McCreary Modern, Inc. Meisner Appraisal & Consulting Mike Johnson’s Hickory Toyota Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Mountain 1st Bank & Trust NC Association of CPA’s Patrick, Harper & Dixon, L.L.P. Piedmont Natural Gas RBC Bank Recycling Equipment , Inc. Sign Systems Inc. Snyder Paper Corporation St. Pauls Lutheran Church