Appalachian State

BOONE—Safety Week is Sept. 8-11 at Appalachian State University.
With the theme “ASU: A Safe University,” activities will focus on measures individuals can take to help ensure their personal safety on campus and in the community.
Activities include “Shots Fired” training, which portrays actions to take if an armed person is reported on campus; RAD (Rape Aggressive [...]

BOONE—Children’s book illustrator and author Susan L. Roth will lead a workshop on found paper and fabric collage for area children, teachers and adults Friday, Sept.18, at 3 p.m. at the Watauga County Public Library.
Titled “Let’s Hold Hands” the workshop will teach attendees how to make self-portrait paper dolls using the medium of collage. The [...]

BOONE—The 7th Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition (AMPC) at Appalachian State University will open for registration and submissions Friday, Sept. 18.
Amateur and professional photographers 13 years of age and older are encouraged to submit at www.appmtnphotocomp.org prior to the competition’s close at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.
For more information, visit www.appmtnphotocomp.org, or call Outdoor [...]

BOONE—Tenor Jeremy Hunt will perform Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall at Appalachian State University. Admission is free and the public is welcome. Hunt will be accompanied by pianist Bair Shagdaron.
Hunt is an assistant professor of voice at the University of Central Florida.
In addition to works by Schumann, Grieg [...]

BOONE—The ViolasFour! string quartet will present a program of music for the viola  Sunday, Sept. 6 at 4 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall at Appalachian State University. Admission is free.
The violists are Eric Koontz, a member of the Hayes School of Music’s string faculty at Appalachian, Katrina Smith, Scott Rawls and Constance [...]

BOONE—Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music will present “Écoute: pieces of Reynaldo Hahn” Sunday, Aug. 30, at 8 p.m. Broyhill Music Center’s recital hall. Admission is free.
Baritone Norman Spivey performs the original one-man show on the life and music of French composer Reynaldo Hahn that draws on Hahn’s experiences and relationships – particularly those [...]

BOONE—Appalachian State University will conduct its monthly test of the campus siren warning system Friday, Sept. 11, at 3 p.m. The test has been moved from the first Wednesday of the month to coincide with Safety Week Sept. 8-11 at the university.
The Sept. 11 siren test will consist of a 75-second discontinuous air horn tone [...]

Appalachian State University will award honorary degrees to two university benefactors and volunteers during convocation Sept. 10. The ceremony begins at 10 a.m. in the Holmes Convocation Center on campus.
An honorary doctor of fine arts degree will be awarded to Thomas W. Reese of Hickory and an honorary doctor of humane letters degree will be [...]

BOONE—Joby Bell will present an organ recital Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall at Appalachian State University. Admission is free.
Bell is university organist and  an assistant professor in Appalachian’s Hayes School of Music.
The program includes “Toccata-Sortie” by Théodore Dubois, two  movements from “Symphony No. 6” by Charles-Marie Widor, [...]

BOONE-An adventurer turned humanitarian, a novelist, and three award-winning poets are featured guests of the fall 2009 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University.
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All events are free of charge and the public is welcome. For further information , call 828-262-2871 or visit www.visitingwriters.appstate.edu.
The series begins Thursday, Sept. 10, with Greg Mortenson, [...]

BOONE—An ordinary person who is living an extraordinary life will give the convocation address Sept. 10 at Appalachian State University.
Greg Mortenson, coauthor of the book “Three Cups of Tea,” will speak at the ceremony that begins at 10 a.m. in the Holmes Convocation Center. Mortenson’s book was the 2009 selection for the university’s Summer Reading [...]

BOONE – Local girls in grades 3 through 5 are invited to participate in Girls on the Run of the High Country (GOTR), a successful self-esteem building program for pre-adolescents.
Girls on the Run International, which began in 1996 in Charlotte, is a non-profit prevention program that encourages pre-adolescent girls to develop self-respect and healthy lifestyles [...]

BOONE—Lucinda McCray Beier is the new chair of the Department of History at Appalachian State University, and Nancy S. Love is the new director of the interdisciplinary studies degree (IDS) program based in University College. Both began their new duties at Appalachian in August.
Beier was a professor of history at Illinois State University before joining [...]

BOONE—Children’s book author and illustrator Susan L. Roth will be the featured author at the Carol G. Belk Library and Information Common’s annual library advisory board fundraising dinner at Appalachian State University.
The dinner will be held Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center. A reception begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by dinner [...]

BOONE–Appalachian State University has received a $375,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to implement a two-year South African Legislative Fellows Program (LFP) designed to strengthen understanding of the U.S. legislative process and enhance appreciation of the role of civic society and its engagement in the political process.
Appalachian [...]