Seniors Jamie Foglesong, soprano, and Marcos Galvez, tenor, will be presenting their senior recital on Friday, April 27, at 7 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall. Continue reading
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Concert Band to hold spring performance
Linfield College will host a spring band concert Tuesday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield. Continue reading
Seth F. Wollam is Linfield College’s Marching Band Director
Linfield College has announced that it has hired Seth F. Wollam as its inaugural marching band director. He will start full-time in August 2018.
Wollam is an 18-year veteran of music education and band leadership. He is currently in his fourth year as the Director of Bands at Lock Haven University in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. While at Lock Haven, Wollam led and conducted the athletic and concert bands and community orchestra, as well as taught applied saxophone clarinet, and percussion, as well as individual advanced music studies in marching band techniques, music history and introduction to music. Continue reading
Jonasson lecture to focus on Civil War monuments
David W. Blight, a professor of American history at Yale and the director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, will present “Monuments and Memories: Has the Civil War Ever Really Ended?” on Wednesday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in 201 Riley Hall at Linfield College. Continue reading
Susan D. Hyde to deliver Linfield College commencement address
Susan D. Hyde, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley and a 2000 Linfield graduate, will deliver the commencement address to the class of 2018.
More than 640 Linfield College graduates will be honored during commencement exercises Sunday, May 27, at 10 a.m. in the Linfield Oak Grove.
Linfield students and faculty to present annual Cello Extravaganza
Linfield students and faculty will showcase an eclectic range of classical and non-classical pieces in an upcoming concert. The Linfield Cello Ensemble will present the annual Cello Extravaganza on Saturday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield College. Continue reading
Linfield College lowers tuition rate for online certificate programs
Linfield College students in online certificate programs will see a reduction in price beginning this summer. Linfield has reduced its per-credit fee for its online certificate programs by 49 percent, from $495 per credit to $250 per credit. This reduction in tuition will start with the 2018 summer term which begins on June 18.
Reyna Grande: Finding home
Reprinted with permission of the News-Register. • By Tom Henderson, March 29, 2018
Writer Reyna Grande spent much of her childhood living in cardboard homes that turned to mush in the rain.
Scorpions crawled along the wall. The sight of them haunted her. “I felt I had a kind of scorpion inside me that was stinging my heart again and again,” Grande said.
As she prepares for a visit to McMinnville, the author wants her readers to feel that sting — the pain of a 4-year-old girl separated from her parents.
Huntsberger presents ‘Waiting for Peace’ in Linfield faculty lecture
Michael Huntsberger, associate professor of mass communication, will present “Waiting for Peace: Creating a Documentary for Interactive Multimedia” on Wednesday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in the Fred Meyer Lounge in Riley Hall at Linfield College. Continue reading
‘Why Frederick Douglass Matters’ symposium hosted at Linfield College
The life and work of famed social reformer Frederick Douglass will be celebrated with a day-long symposium honoring the 200th anniversary of his birth. The symposium will be held Friday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Nicholson Library at Linfield College. Continue reading