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Lewis Architects Engineers z Courtesy THE NEW Elrod Center for Family and Community will feature a completely new building in a new location. The new structure will be located across the street from the current center, on the corner of Cherry and 6th Streets.
New Elrod Center plans unveiled By EMILY TERRY Features Editor
@EmilyMTerry The Elrod Center for Family and Community, a quaint element of Ouachita’s campus, will soon move into a new space in order to free up land on campus as well as help to better serve the community. “Ultimately, we know this house is sitting right in the middle of a very important piece of land for Ouachita,” said Ian Cosh, vice president for community and international engagement. The building became known as the Elrod Center in 1997 under the leadership of Cosh and has been the center for community projects for 16 years. “We know that sometime in the future, this building has to come down, which is really sad,” Cosh said. “But
instead of waiting for that to happen, it’s best to be proactive and get it in a permanent location and secure it for the future.” This new location will be on the corner of Cherry and 6th Streets, across the street from the current Elrod Center location. “One of the nice things is that it’s going to beautify the south entrance to the campus, which links the campus and the town together. Symbolically, it’s very important,” Cosh said. “And people won’t ask, ‘What’s that building for?’ like they do now.” Though plans have already been drawn for the new building, construction will not begin until all the funds have been raised for the project. “In an ideal world, we would get all the money raised by this year and could start on the building next
year,” Cosh said. A generous donation has already been given, which Cosh says is driving the project. “We’re off to a very good start and we know that with the help of the development office, we are very hopeful to have the funding in place this year and start building next year,” Cosh said. Once the building is open, Cosh says he looks forward to using the opportunity of revamping the location of the Elrod Center to take a look at refreshing other aspects of the program. “There’s a fresh start energy that comes out of putting a new building in place. The act of moving is going to give us an opportunity to kind of rethink and revisit,” Cosh said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean a lot of change will come of it, but it gives an opportunity to take a measure of the moment.”
A challenge that will certainly come from the move is leaving a house with a relaxed feel to go to a building without creating a corporate feel. “That may happen,” Cosh said. “Where the trick comes in is trying to hit the balance between feeling professional and warm. We’ll have to make it warm with the furnishings and décor. But that will be a challenge.” However, the switch will be a positive one that will impact a large portion of campus for years to come. “After I’m gone and Dr. Horne’s gone and probably most of the people who work here are gone, the Elrod Center will keep on going because they will have a beautiful building to continue on with the task,” Cosh said. “It’s a matter of being a good steward and making sure you leave the place better than you found it.” n
Helping shape Baptist Communicators Association’s national branding for years to come, Brooke Zimny was honored last week for designing BCA’s new logo. Zimny, Ouachita’s assistant director of communications, has been a member of BCA since 2011. BCA is a national professional development organization for Baptist communicators serving in such areas as editorial, electronic media, graphic design, management, marketing, photography and public relations. This year’s BCA annual workshop was held last week at the Capital Hotel in Little Rock with Arkansas BCA members hosting their colleagues from across the nation. Trennis Henderson, vice president for communications at Ouachita, served as program committee chair for the event held April 17-20. Serving with him on the program committee were Zimny, a 2008 Ouachita graduate, and Matt Ramsey, director of information and communication for the Arkansas Baptist State Convention and a 2003 Ouachita graduate, as well as Stella Prather, director of communications for Arkansas Baptist Children’s Homes, and Tim Yarbrough, editor of Arkansas Baptist News. “Led by program chair see ZIMNY z 2
Fine Arts hosts 36th Queen Piano Competition By TAYLOR TOMLINSON News Bureau
Ouachita’s School of Fine Arts will host the 36th annual Virginia Queen Piano Competition Friday, April 26, at 3 p.m. in McBeth Recital Hall in Mabee Fine Arts Center. The competition is free and open to the public. The annual competition “gives students a goal,” said Dr. Ouida Keck, coordinator of keyboard studies and Addie Mae Maddox Professor of Music. “It gives them the opportunity to see what musicians experience when entering competitions in the professional world of music once they graduate from Ouachita.” This year, eight students will compete. Each entrant will perform two compositions of contrasting style, with a total performance time of no more than 10 minutes. They will be judged by professional pianist Da-
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vid Allen Wehr, a former Ouachita artist-in-residence. Wehr also will perform a solo concert at 7:30 p.m. in McBeth Recital Hall April 28. The first-place winner will receive $600 and their name will be engraved next to those of the previous winners on a plaque on display in Mabee Fine Arts Center. Second- and third-place awards, as well as honorable mention awards, will also be recognized. The competition was started by one of Ouachita’s former piano professors, Virginia Queen, who served at Ouachita for more than 40 years. The purpose of the competition is to “motivate the piano majors and minors to excel in performance,” Keck said. Students who will be competing include: Katie Butts, a sophomore computer science major and music minor from Sao Paulo, Brazil and Jordan Denniston, a junior
music major from Plano, Texas; Lauren Johnson, a freshman worship arts major from Rancho Mirage, Calif.. Sean Jackson, a sophomore music composition major from Livingston, La. will also be competing as well as Christopher Mazen, a senior worship arts major from Shreveport, La.; Courtney Stanage, a junior piano performance major from Hot Springs Village, Ark. In addition to these, Sarah Stiles, a sophomore biblical languages major and music and Christian studies minor from Aubrey, Texas and Jillian Turner, a sophomore piano and vocal performance major from Fort Worth, Texas will be competing in the competition. For more information about the Virginia Queen Piano Competition this Friday, contact Dr. Ouida Keck through email at kecko@ obu.edu or through phone by calling (870) 245-5352. n
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After venturing overseas to perform in the British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles, the senior members of the rhythm section made their last appearance at the spring jazz band concert.
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There are many questions students face when entering college and even more as they begin the voyage into the “real world.” What am I doing, where am I going and how do I get there? Where do my priorities lie and what will happen if I can’t do it all? Before getting too bogged down, students can rest assured that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Career Services is available as a launching point for every Ouachita student, no matter their classification. Whether you are an upperclassman preparing for your life ahead or a freshman that doesn’t know where to begin, you are not on this journey alone. Career Services is an organization at Ouachita whose main goal is equipping students with the answers, opportunities and connections needed to succeed both on campus and off. It’s never too early to start taking advantage of all that Career Services has to offer. “I really hope that more people will get involved with Career Services as a freshman or a sophomore,” said Aly Smith, a sophomore Mass Communications major, “be-
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On Jul. 30, 2012, Dr. Jay Curlin, professor of English, had a poem featured in The New Yorker. Curlin never submitted the poem, but after a remarkable set of circumstances, The New Yorker’s poetry editor, Paul Muldoon, contacted Curlin and asked him whether he might publish it in the magazine. The poem, entitled “Evidence of Things Not Seen,” was written in the fall of 2010 to feature By Tanner Ward two words that appeared in the Editor-in-Chief Daily Word Game utilized by ight students and two professors got what will professors to enhance students’ probably be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in vocabulary. The words were May. They, along with a community member, were “Higgs-Boson,” the legendary granted an almost unheard of invitation to tour god particle and “hirsute,” a Saudi Arabia, a country typically closed to tourism outword meaning hairy. The poside of religious purposes. em’s title is a reference to the Dr. Barbara Pemberton, associate professor of Christian Bible verse Hebrews 11:1. missions and one of the professors who attended, said “After a couple of years of the trip was the result of years of talks between herself, playing the daily word games, a tour company in Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Arabian [Jay] would put [them] in his Nicole McPhate z The Signal embassy in thethe United Theofcertainty of the trip was in the reading in poems he STUDENTS ENJOY newStates. features Dr. Jack’s Coffeehouse recentlyquizzes renovated Evans Student Center. The first president’s unknown evenhelp to the last minute. wrote that he called lexical iconic mutton chops to reinforce the sense of school heritage among students.
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son, vice president of communications. “He was elected president in 1886 at age 29 and was responsible for recruiting students, hiring faculty and developing the Arkadelphia campus.” As Ouachita’s first presi-
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Seniors Michael Curtis, a music major from Wylie, Texas, Chris Mazen, a church music major from Shreveport, La., and Zach Zucha, a business finance major from Wylie, Texas, made their final appearance at Ouachita on the stage of Jones Performing Arts see JAZZ z 2
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