Volume 102, July 14, 2023 |
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President's and Dean's Lists Announced |
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Congratulations to Reinhardt Eagles earning President's List and Dean’s List acknowledgements for the Spring 2023 semester! Way to soar!
To earn President's List honors, students must have completed 12 hours during the semester, earning a GPA of 4.0, with no incompletes.
To earn Dean's List honors, students must have completed 12 hours during the semester, earning a GPA of 3.50-3.99, with no grade less than a B.
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MFA Faculty Wins Book Prize |
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Changes Press recently announced the winner of its Bergman Prize. Poet Laura Newbern, an adjunct MFA professor at Reinhardt was chosen out of nearly 1,200 submissions.
The Changes Book Prize awards $10,000 and a publishing contract to the author of a first or second collection of poems in the spring of 2024. The winning poet also receives national distribution, publicity, and a book launch event in New York City.
Newbern won for her second collection of poems, titled A Night in the Country. Her first poetry collection, Love and the Eye, was a finalist in the same competition last year when the prize was first debuted.
Newbern says being the winner is an especially exciting honor because the judge was poet Louise Glück, whose honors include the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize. Previously, her first book was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Kore Press First Book Award and she was also the recipient of a Writer’s Award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation.
In addition to remotely teaching Reinhardt’s creative writing graduate students, Newbern works full-time as an Associate Professor at Georgia College and edits the college’s journal Arts & Letters. She enjoys the summer residency at Reinhardt due to its intimate workshop setting and lively schedule of visiting writers. She added, “I see the students’ work getting sharper and gaining the tools to become better critics of their own efforts.” The poet says her third book is underway and that she’s her own biggest critic.
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Successful Garage Sale for PSOE |
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A recent event at Reinhardt’s Price School of Education (PSOE) was so successful, the Georgia Association of Teacher Educators (GATE) conference invited Professor Tami Smith to speak about it.
The second annual free indoor garage sale took place on campus this summer to help recent PSOE grads. Nationwide, teachers average spending $820 annually of their own dollars to get classroom supplies, especially new teachers.
PSOE professors reached out to retiring teachers, teachers leaving the profession, or anyone who had supplies they no longer needed and could donate. Once posted on social media, their idea snowballed! They traveled to collect the donations and even needed a trailer. After organizing and displaying all the cubbies, reading libraries, workbooks, classroom décor, and basic supplies, every lobby, hallway, break room, and copy room of the education building was filled.
Reinhardt alumni lined up at the door for the one-day event. They quickly fulfilled their needs, and even with zero cost, there will still many items remaining. Using social media, the event was extended a day and opened to all educators to benefit.
Smith is grateful for the outpouring of support, “The Price School of Education professors remember what it is like to start a new classroom. We know the cost vs the salary. Educators are family and we all take care of each other."
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Professor Leads Community Nature Hike |
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Reinhardt University Professor Donna Coffey Little recently led a guided history hike in Waleska. About 30 people walked the Flat Rock Cherokee Loop Trail in the Lake Arrowhead community.
Dr. Little told the group about the Cherokee who lived in Lost Town, now Lake Arrowhead, and about early settlers like the Pucketts, whose family cemetery is along the trail. The hikers also learned the history of Pine Log Mountain and the development of the Lake Arrowhead community starting in 1972.
A historical novel written by Dr. Little is in the process of being published. It is the true story of the interconnected Cherokee, white, and black Wofford family who lived at the foot of Pine Log Mountain exploring their years leading up to the Trail of Tears.
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Reinhardt Hosts FCA Camps |
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Over 700 Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) students and coaches came to the Reinhardt University campus to learn lessons on faith and leadership this summer. An added blessing of holding these camps is that our own student-athletes worked as leaders and mentors.
FCA is a worldwide ministry with the mission to lead every coach and athlete into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. One of the ways they accomplish this mission during the summer is by hosting leadership and sport-specific camps across America. Over the past few years, Reinhardt has become one of the premier locations for these camps in North Georgia. In June and this past week in July, FCA hosted a Leadership Camp, a Running Camp, and Football Camp on the Waleska campus.
The partnership with FCA camps began through the leadership of Bill Queen who runs the Reinhardt FCA. Reinhardt FCA is one of the many ministries that make up Reinhardt Campus Ministries. Through Queen’s leadership, hundreds of Reinhardt student athletes get encouragement and support during their time on campus. His connections with FCA led to many chapters choosing Reinhardt as their camp location.
Reinhardt Campus Ministries is thankful for the partnership with FCA and the investment FCA is making into the next generation of leaders.
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New Youth Choir Auditions
A youth choir is coming to Cherokee County, and all singers ages 10 to 14 are encouraged to schedule an audition in the next few weeks.
Nationally renowned choral conductor Dr. Martha Shaw will lead the Young Singers of Flint Hall.
The ensemble will rehearse in Flint Hall at the Falany Performing Arts Center on the Reinhardt campus Thursdays at 4:45pm, starting August 17.
Concerts will be in November and April.
This is a fantastic opportunity for young vocalists!
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Reinhardt Musical Theatre Intensive
July 17 - July 28
This two-week High school theatre day camp is open to last-minute sign-ups.
Camp mornings include voice lessons, workshops and master classes in areas including acting, singing, dancing and audition prep. Afternoons focus on rehearsing the show The Spongebob Musical Youth Edition. Lunch included.
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Falany Volunteer Luncheon
A lunch celebrating Falany volunteers will be held at Reinhardt's Gordy dining center Thursday, July 20 at 11:30 am.
Anyone who volunteers at the Falany Performing Arts Center and anyone interested in volunteering is invited.
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