22-Mar-12

Maynard: E&H is Refuge, Sanctuary, Battle Line

Emory & Henry is both a sanctuary for those in the exercise of their faith and a battle line in the preservation of ideas, according to the keynote speaker during Thursday’s Founders Day celebration at Emory & Henry College.The Rev. Charles W. Maynard, a 1977 E&H graduate, said that Emory & Henry, in the spirit of one of its namesakes, Bishop John Emory, provides a place for spiritual refuge in the midst of the human struggle. “The campus itself is a...

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23-Mar-12

College Celebrates Second Annual Give Thanks Day

On Thursday, March 29, Emory & Henry College students, faculty and staff will participate in the College’s second annual Give Thanks Day: Thanksgiving in March, coordinated by the Office of Institutional Advancement. The event highlights contributors to the E&H Annual Fund, which supports five major areas of the campus community: student achievement, faculty and staff, campus life, athletics and classroom technology. During the event, students, faculty and staff...

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23-Mar-12

E&H Alumni Association Honors Distinctive Alumni

The Emory & Henry College Alumni Association honored five alumni and an E&H professor during Founders Day activities at the College Thursday, March 22.The honorees included Lt. Col. Lewis “Bucky” Burruss, a 1965 E&H graduate and the recipient of the Carl and Ruth Looney Humanitarian Award; Ken Sorenson, a 1979 E&H graduate who was honored with the Distinguished Achievement Award; Tarah Taylor, a 2003 E&H graduate and the recipient of the A.L....

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23-Mar-12

E&H Dedicates Statues of Namesakes John Emory, Patrick Henry

As an Emory & Henry College student in the early 1960s, Gene Bane sensed that, in spite of the immense beauty of the campus, the grounds of his college lacked symbols that would embody the students’ pride in their institution.For many years, Bane, a 1963 E&H graduate, has been a long-time admirer of Patrick Henry, one of the College’s namesakes and patriot of the American Revolution. Bane’s passionate interest in Virginia’s first post-Colonial governor led him...

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27-Mar-12

Stanley's Poco Field Tells Story of an American Everyman

A book by the director of the Appalachian Center for Community Service at Emory & Henry College offers fresh thinking about the link between people and place, how they shape one another, and how they create opportunities for a new kind of citizenship for the twenty-first century.Dr. Tal Stanley, an E&H associate professor of American studies and public policy and community service, is the author of The Poco Field: An American Story of Place. The book, which was...

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28-Mar-12

Neff Center Garners MSP Science Grant

The William N. Neff Center for Teacher Education and the Science Department at Emory & Henry College, in collaboration with the Southwest Virginia Public Education Consortium and sixteen high needs school divisions in Region 7, have been approved for funding for a $220,000 Mathematics and Science Partnership competitive grant through the United States Department of Education and the Virginia Department of Education.The Contemporary Teaching of Science and the Nature...

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02-Mar-12

Kisselburgh Presents Raw Emotion in Byars Hall Gallery

Nancy Kisselburgh is currently presenting her senior exhibition, “Raw Emotion,” in the Emory & Henry Art Department in Byars Hall. Kisselburgh will host a reception and gallery talk on Friday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 pm.  Her large-scale drawings fuse the graphic nature of markers with extravagant colors to depict enormous animals that pop off the page. Each drawing brings the animals to life using a comic-book style of illustration. The exhibit will continue until...

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08-Mar-12

Emory & Henry to Participate in Campus Conservation Nationals 2012

Students will compete to reduce energy consumption on their campusEmory & Henry College will participate this spring in a nationwide competition among colleges and universities to reduce electricity and water use in residence halls.Emory & Henry will join more than 100 universities and colleges in Campus Conservation Nationals 2012, which will run from Feb. 6 to April 23. All institutions will compete in an attempt to achieve a cumulative national goal of...

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