Volume 5: Issue 16| February 5, 2024

Gospel Concert

WT Symphony Orchestra and Amarillo Mass Choir; Event #1

Donnell Hill, James "Bishop" Tudman, and Mark Bartley, directors

Music of CeCe Winans, Tasha Cobbs, Walter Hawkins, and more

Featuring national recording artist Michelle Brooks-Thompson

and special appearances by Devlon Jones, Teresa Webb, and SUA - Sisters Under the Anointing. Thursday February 17 at 7pm at New Lights Ministries.

No admission charge.

Nominations for 2024 Alumni Award

The Distinguished Alumni nomination period is open now through March 1.

The WT Distinguished Alumni Award, first presented in 1970, honors outstanding alumni who have made significant contributions to society, and whose accomplishments, affiliations and careers have honored the legacy of excellence at WT.

Nominations may be filed online at buffalum.com/distinguished-alumni-awards.html. Supporting materials may be sent to Hall at rhall@wtamu.edu.

Those selected as 2024 Distinguished Alumni will be announced in August and celebrated in the fall at the Phoenix banquet during Homecoming Week.

To learn more, click here.

She Loves Me

Celebrate Valentine's Day with the romantic comedy She Loves Me, set in a 1930s European perfumery. It is here that we meet two shop clerks, Amalia and Georg, who often bicker while at work. The one thing they have in common is responding to a "lonely hearts advertisement" in the newspaper. Then they both fall in love with an unknown admirer, both living for the day they receive a letter in the mail. As these two clerks set out to discover who is writing their letters, we meet a cast of characters that only enhance this charming musical.

Buy tickets here.

Radio Shows

Latina Poets Explore American Dream

Two influential Latina poets will share their poetry and writing advice Feb. 6 as part of West Texas A&M University’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

Poets Janel Pineda and Sara Uribe will present “Dreaming America through Latinx Poetry” in two events, both of which are free and open to the public.

Pineda and Uribe will lead a discussion of writing and poetry at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Blackburn Room of Cornette Library, then will host a poetry reading at 6:30 p.m. in the Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex Recital Hall, both on WT's Canyon campus.

Dr. Andrew Reynolds, WT professor of Spanish, said these events center on Hispanic poetic expression today and the many ways to imagine the American dream through literature and performance.

To learn more, click here.

The Legacy

Deans Discussion

The deans, or their representatives, of WT’s six Colleges will take part in the Alumni Association’s Dean’s Discussion meetings via Zoom.· Discussions, which will run from noon to 1 p.m., are scheduled as follows:

· Feb. 6: Dr. Jessica Mallard, dean of the Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities; register here;

· Feb. 7: Dr. Emily Hunt, dean of the College of Engineering, and Drs. Pam Lockwood and Vinitha Subburaj, associate deans; register here;

· Feb. 8: Dr. Kevin Pond, dean of the Paul and Virginia Engler College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences; register here;

· Feb. 12: Dr. Holly Jeffreys, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences; register here;

· Feb. 13: Dr. Amjad Abdullat, dean of the Paul and Virginia Engler College of Business; register here;

· Feb. 20: Dr. Gary Bigham, dean of the Terry B. Rogers College of Education and Social Sciences, and Dr. Kenneth Denton, associate dean; register here.