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LWC celebrating International Education week

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By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations

Lindsey Wilson College students are celebrating International Education Week this week. The week, a joint initiative of the U.S. departments of State and Education, seeks to promote and to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide.

Each day this week, LWC Director of International Student Programs Suzy McAlpine has planned an educational event designed to expose students, faculty and staff on the A.P. White Campus to the cultures, languages and customs of the more than 35 countries represented by more than 90 international students enrolled this school year at Lindsey Wilson.


2009-11-18 04:31:28 | Comments | Printable version

LWC fall festival will benefit Center for Courageous Kids

By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Affairs

COLUMBIA, KY - Area families can have a good time while helping out a good cause Saturday at Lindsey Wilson College.
Students in Lindsey Wilson's Health Learning Community are sponsoring a fall festival Saturday, November 21, 2009, in the college's Biggers Sports Center, 360 Spickard DR, Columbia KY. The event begins at noon CT. It is free and open to the public.

The fall festival will include inflatables for children, carnival games, a cake walk, corn toss tournament a face-painting for the kids.


2009-11-16 12:05:50 | Comments | Printable version

President Luckey: Something special is happening at LWC

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By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations

COLUMBIA, KY - Something special is happening at Lindsey Wilson College. That was the message LWC President William T. Luckey Jr. delivered Saturday at the college's 78th-annual Alumni Homecoming Banquet.

"I cannot recall a more exciting time in the life of this grand, old college," said Luckey, who is in his 27th year at LWC and 12th year as the college's eighth president. "There is a freshness and a vitality here that I hope you feel when you step on this campus. There is something special happening here, and I am grateful to all of you for the role all of you are playing to make this happen."


2009-11-09 11:06:12 | Comments | Printable version

The Poets Sing at Columbia Baptist Church Nov. 2, 2009


The Lindsey Wilson choral ensembles will present "The Poets Sing: Musical Settings of Distinguished Poems" 7onCT Monday, November 2, 2009m at Columbia Baptist Church, 201 Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY The concert is free and open to the public
By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations

Several years ago, Gerald L. Chafin's research in choral literature led him down an interesting path.

Chafin, who is Lindsey Wilson College associate professor of music and director of choral programs, began collecting musical settings of distinguished poetry. "By this, I mean well-known poems penned by the classical poets and were set to music years later," Chafin said.

Monday night, the community can hear "the poets sing."


2009-10-30 09:00:26 | Comments | Printable version

Record 705 at Lindsey Wilson Safe Halloween

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By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations

COLUMBIA, KY - A record number of area children and their family members attended Lindsey Wilson College’s 16th-annual “Safe Halloween” Thursday night. A total of 705 children and family members attended the two-hour event, which featured trick-or-treating through the college’s residence halls.

The residence halls’ themes varied from Disney movies in the all-female Phillips Hall to an asylum in Parrot Hall. The event was sponsored by the LWC Office of Residence Life.


2009-10-30 04:11:24 | Comments | Printable version

Edmonton, KY couple celebrates at LWC,
where romance started, in 1942


She was the beautiful girl from Waterview in Cumberland County. He was a basketball star from Tompkinsville in Monroe County. They met in 1941 at Lindsey Wilson College, and shared a first kiss one year later on the steps of the Admininistration Building, igniting a romance which is now one of the great love stories of our place and time. Through it all, there are great memories of Lindsey Wilson College.
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By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations

COLUMBIA, KY - Two Lindsey Wilson College alumni took a walk down memory lane Thursday afternoon on the A.P. White Campus.

Ruth and Cortez Butler, both of Edmonton, KY, drove to Columbia with their children, Tez Butler and Connie Coleman, also of Edmonton, to celebrate their wedding anniversary, which is October 23, 2009.


2009-10-23 06:22:03 | Comments | Printable version

Lindsey Wilson celebrates United Methodist heritage

Methodist ties: Lindsey Wilson was established in 1903 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South as a training school for Vanderbilt University.
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By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations

COLUMBIA, KY - Lindsey Wilson College was founded at the dawn of the 20th century. And on Wednesday afternoon LWC students, faculty and staff gathered in one of the college's oldest spaces, V.P. Henry Auditorium, to pledge that the college will be a "model" United Methodist institution in the 21st century.


2009-10-22 06:56:53 | Comments | Printable version

Catherine Wilson Center sponsors Breast Cancer Awareness March

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By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations

COLUMBIA, KY - The Lindsey Wilson College Catherine Wilson Center sponsored a breast cancer awareness march Tuesday afternoon in Columbia. More than three dozen people participated in the march, which began at the Norma and Glen Hodge Center for Discipleship the campus of Lindsey Wilson College and concluded at the Adair County Annex, Downtown on the Square.


2009-10-22 04:51:44 | Comments | Printable version

LWC will hold 16th Annual Safe Halloween, Oct. 29, 2009

"This is one of the big events for our students each year"
-DIRECTOR of RESIDENCE HALLS ANDY MACALLISTER

By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Affairs

COLUMBIA, KY - Halloween will be celebrated Thursday, October 29, 209, at Lindsey Wilson College for Southcentral Kentucky children. On that day, Lindsey Wilson College will hold its "Safe Halloween," an annual event that gives the region's trick-or-treaters an opportunity to collect candy in Lindsey Wilson's residence halls.

Parents and guardians can bring children to the lobby of Lindsey Wilson Cralle Student Union Building, 420 Spickard DR, Columbia, KY, from 6-8pmCT on Thursday, October 29, 2009.


2009-10-20 10:26:33 | Comments | Printable version

Garry Coomer heads ribbon cutting
for LWC Physical Plant Operations Building


Mr. Coomer wields the big scissors to officially open the new building. Adair Countian whose career at the college now spans almost 39 years shares spotlight with President Bill Luckey, Chancellor John B. Begley, and Director of Plant Operations Mike Newton. Roster of Physical Plant Department's 44 employees is included with story. Several photos are being posted with full story.

By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Affairs

COLUMBIA, KY - After working at Lindsey Wilson College for almost 40 years, Garry Coomer has a new office.

Coomer, who has worked in the LWC Physical Plant Operations since April 1971, cut the ribbon Thursday morning, October 8, 2009, and and helped dedicate the college's newest building, a 6,000-square-foot physical plant building.


2009-10-09 05:08:13 | Comments | Printable version

Great civil rights champion Clarence Jordan at LWC tonight

Southern Baptist Pastor-Actor Al Staggs gives stirring one-man performance at the Hodge Center, 402 Helen Flatt DR, Columbia, KY. about the iconic leader who founded Koinonia Farms (where Habitat for Humanity came into exitence) and who translated parts of New Testament into "the Cotton Patch Gospels

By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations

COLUMBIA, KY - Area residents will have an opportunity tonight, Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at Lindsey Wilson College to learn about one of America's great civil rights champions of the 20th century.

"Clarence Jordan and the God Movement" will be performed by Al Staggs at 7pmCT Tuesday, October 6, 2009, in the Norma and Glen Hodge Center for Discipleship, 402 Helen Flatt DR, Columbia, KY. The event is part of the 2009-10 Lindsey Wilson Cultural Affairs Series and is free and open to the public.


2009-10-06 02:47:00 | Comments | Printable version

LWC Women's Soccer Hosts Top-5 Battle Friday vs William Carey

By Dan White, Asst. LWC Sports Information Director

The mettle of the second ranked Lindsey Wilson College women's soccer team is put to the test on Friday as it hosts fifth ranked William Carey (MS) University in a battle of NAIA top-five teams.

The Blue Raiders, who jumped from third to second in Tuesday's NAIA Coaches' Top 25 Poll, will kick off against the Crusaders at 7pmCT at Walter S. Reuling Stadium, 151 Blue Raider DR, Columbia, KY..


2009-10-02 05:24:31 | Comments | Printable version

Civil rights champion Clarence Jordan to be portrayed at LWC

Southern Baptist Pastor-Actor Al Staggs gives stirring one-man performance at Hodge Center about the iconic leader who founded Koinonia Farms and who translated parts of New Testament into "the Cotton Patch Gospels

By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations

COLUMBIA, KY - Area residents will have an opportunity Tuesday night at Lindsey Wilson College to learn about one of America's great civil rights champions of the 20th century.

"Clarence Jordan and the God Movement" will be performed by Al Staggs at 7pmCT Tuesday, October 6, 2009, in the Norma and Glen Hodge Center for Discipleship, 402 Helen Flatt DR, Columbia, KY. The event is part of the 2009-10 Lindsey Wilson Cultural Affairs Series and is free and open to the public.


2009-09-30 04:36:04 | Comments | Printable version

LWC installs Address Markers for student housing

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By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Affairs

Members of the Lindsey Wilson College Office of Residence Life recently installed Address Markers in front of buildings that have been converted into student housing for the 2009-10 school year.

With a record 872 students living in campus housing this school year, the college has temporarily housed about 50 students in buildings along Fairgrounds and Lindsey Wilson streets. To ease the campus housing crunch, Lindsey Wilson is building a 186-bed, 42,000-square-foot residence hall, which will be opened for the 2010-11 school year.


2009-09-29 16:07:01 | Comments | Printable version

Lindsey Wilson will have five open houses Fall 2009, Spring 2010

By Duane Bonifer

COLUMBIA, KY - Prospective Lindsey Wilson College students and their families will have five opportunities to visit the college at Open Houses during the 2009-10 school year. Lindsey Wilson will host an Open House on: October 3 and November 14, 2009, and January 30, March 27 and April 24, 2010, with each starting at Lindsey Wilson's award-winning Cranmer Dining Center, 430 Helen Flatt DR, Columbia, KY


2009-09-25 10:52:55 | Comments | Printable version

Professor Day says PBS series shows value of U.S. Parks

"When you look at it today, you can see what a great idea it was to create a national park in the Smoky Mountains because it's an incredible resource for our region."
-TRICIA DAY, Ass't Professor of Recreation, Tourism, and Sports Management at Lindsey Wilson College

COLUMBIA, KY. - A Lindsey Wilson College professor will be among the millions of Americans who plan to watch the PBS series The National Parks: America's Best Idea.

The six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan explores the history, evolution and cultural significance of the U.S. National Park Service.


2009-09-24 17:07:29 | Comments | Printable version

LWC residence life staff fundraising roadblock this weekend

By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Affairs

COLUMBIA, KY - Members of the Lindsey Wilson College residence life program will brave the elements this weekend to stop traffic for a good cause.

The students and professional staff members of the LWC Office of Residence Life will hold a roadblock from 10am-2pmCT, Friday and Saturday, September 18 and 19, 2009, on KY 61 S. in front of Walmart. The roadblock is being held to raise money for a service trip the LWC residence life office will take next month during the college’s fall break.

For the last 10 years, LWC’s residence life office has worked with God’s Love We Deliver of New York City. The non-profit group delivers meals to New York City residents with terminal illnesses who are unable to cook for themselves.

For more information about this weekend’s roadblock, contact Lindsey Wilson Women’s Area Coordinator Heather Davis at davish@lindsey.edu or (270) 384-8375.


2009-09-18 08:11:28 | Comments | Printable version

LWC A.P. White Campus celebrates Malvina Farkle Day

'Today we made a difference.'
-DAVID GRIGSBY, LWC Cyling Coach
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By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Affairs

Lindsey Wilson College student Token Percell received a rude awakening Wednesday morning. Shortly before 7:00amCT, Percell sprang out of his bed when he heard fire alarms, people speaking through bullhorns and fists pounding on doors.

"I didn't know what it was at first," said Percell, a freshman from Bowling Green, KY. Then he realized the occasion for stirring students shortly after dawn. It was Malvina Farkle Day on Lindsey Wilson's A.P. White Campus.


2009-09-17 06:54:02 | Comments | Printable version

Mary Beth Jewell, Canmer, KY, new editor of LWC The View

By Duane Bonifer

The editor of the Lindsey Wilson View, is Mary Beth Jewell. The View, is the student newspaper of Lindsey Wilson College, The first issue of the 2009-2010 school year was published last week.

Jewell, a communication senior from Canmer, KY, is serving her first year as editor of the monthly student-run paper.

"Everyone works well together, and it's been a blast to work with the entire staff," Jewell said. "I'm excited about my role with the paper, and I'm looking forward to where we can go from here."

Jewell said she is also encouraged by the possibilities of the View's new Web site, raiderview.com.

"It's going to be a great way to reach out to students and the community," she said. "With everything going to the Web these days, it's going to help all of the students with their career goals in journalism."

Print copies of The View, which is free, can be picked up all over the A.P. White Campus, including the Cralle Student Union Building, Holloway Building and Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center.


2009-09-15 04:46:52 | Comments | Printable version

LWC to break ground on new $7M residence hall today

Total number of students living in residence halls is about 872 this year. School had over 20% increase in students living on campus in 2009 over 2008

By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations

COLUMBIA, KY - Lindsey Wilson will break ground on a new residence hall at 11amCT on Wednesday, September 2, 2009. The ground-breaking ceremony will take place on the sidewalk in front of Richardson Hall, which is located at 279 Spickard DR, Columbia, KY

This is the first residence hall Lindsey Wilson has built since Richardson Hall opened in August 2001.


2009-09-02 03:41:38 | Comments | Printable version


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