<< CAMPUS NEWS Park Partners with Pioneer Services Foundation to Help Military Families Park and Pioneer Services have joined to provide access to Online education for active-duty military personnel and their dependents, Department of Defense civilian employees and retired military personnel. Through it’s foundation, Pioneer Services representatives offer scholarships designed to help military families earn college degrees through Park’s undergraduate and graduate degree programs. For scholarship application requirements and to apply, visit www.park.edu/pioneer or contact Scott West at (800) 745-7275 (PARK), ext. 6786.
storyteller character Junebug Jabbo Jones, the play has a national and international tour history of 49 states and five countries and engages audiences with the theme and importance of a personal story. O’Neal, the author of numerous plays, including Hurricane Season; Where Is the Blood of Your Fathers and When the Opportunity Scratches, Itch It, has entertained audiences throughout North America and Europe for the past 22 years. He is artistic director of the touring theater company Junebug Productions.
Park Hosts Centennial Celebratory Tour in Remembrance of Fela Sowande
music and philosophy are heard and studied around the world, and he is widely considered to be the most significant African composer, lecturer and music theorist of the 20th century. Park University, the African Chorus® and the International Consortium for the Music of Africa and its Diaspora hosted a celebration of Sowande’s life and music Oct. 22-24. The North American tour of the Festival of African and African-American Music brought musicians and musicologists from around the world to Parkville. Events included lectures, paper recitals, workshops, discussion groups and master classes. The Boys Choir of Kenya, the University City Symphony and the Cameron Youth Chamber Orchestra performed four concerts in the Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel on the Parkville campus and at the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Liberty, Mo.
Whiteman Student Receives U.S. Citizenship
Pioneer Services Foundation (PSF) President Pat McCarty presents a check to Park University President Beverley Byers-Pevitts on Sept. 13.
Social Work Department Closer to Accreditation The Council for Social Work Education has accepted a recommendation to grant a second year of candidacy to Park’s baccalaureate social work program. This step in the accreditation process was approved based on the program’s Benchmark II document and the second annual commissioner visit. The third commissioner visit is scheduled for March 24-25.
The year 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fela Sowande, one of the world’s most prominent composers and thinkers. Before his death in 1987, Sowande was Nigeria’s foremost composer and musicologist living and teaching in the United States. Today his
Lehjade Menchavez, a Whiteman Air Force Base Campus Center senior and senior airman with the 509th Bomb Wing, received her certificate of citizenship in September in Kansas City, Mo. Originally from the Philippines, she immigrated in March 2000 at the age of 19. After her first year in the United
International Students Become Farmers for a Weekend Twenty-one international students spent a weekend in Nickerson, Neb., participating in a cultural exchange with host families to learn about life in the heartland. Sponsored by Park’s World Student Union, the trip enabled students to experience the farming process firsthand. They rode horses and a combine, visited a working dairy farm and learned about feeding and branding cattle. They also went on a hayride and carved pumpkins around a campfire, while enjoying s’mores and hot chocolate.
One-Man Play Legendary dramatist John O’Neal performed his provocative one-man play Don’t Start Me to Talking or I’ll Tell Everything I Know on Nov. 3 in the Jenkin and Barbara David Theater. A collection of six folkloric talks performed by the epicSpring 2005 ‹‹
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