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The Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs(PFMC) will hold its 90th Anniversary Convention at the Radison Hotel in Sharon April 24-26.
Mary Ellen Ulmer, Westminster College music librarian, will preside over the board meetings and convention, concluding her four-year term as PFMC president.
"We have two workshops planned," Ulmer said. "'Music IQ and You' presented by Patty Neeper of Trombino Piano Gallerie is scheduled at 2:30 p.m. Monday and 'Percussion in Motion' will take place Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. Registration is required for these workshops."
Entertainment features Christopher Atzinger, National Federation of Music Club 2005 Young Artist on the piano, and soprano Brenda Atzinger Monday at 8 p.m. The Westminster College Faculty Brass Quintet will perform prelude music before Tuesday evening's banquet at 7:30 p.m., and the evening will include a special celebration of the history of PFMC, which was federated in 1916.
Members from area clubs such as the Sharon Music Club, Schubert Literary and Musical Society of Oil City, Mercer Music Club, Lakeview Music Club, and Opus I Music Society will attend, in addition to representatives from other parts of Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to encourage American composers and performers to reach their highest potential. It is an affiliate of the National Federation of Music Clubs.
Contact Ulmer at (724) 946-6345 or e-mail ulmerme@westminster.edu for more information.
Four faculty members of the Religion Department of Westminster College will present "Religious Studies: An Interdisciplinary Discipline" as the final Faculty Forum of the fall semester Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 11:45 a.m. in Patterson Hall room 311.
Three Westminster College English professors, Drs. Elizabeth Ford, Deborah C. Mitchell, and Richard L. Sprow, will present a panel on "The Female Gaze" which is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 8 p.m. in the audio-visual classroom in Freeman Hall.
The Westminster College Science in Motion Program offers five workshops for area teachers this summer. All workshops are held in the Hoyt Science Resources Center from 7:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., and offer six Act 48 hours for each day of workshop attendance.
The workshop for elementary teachers is scheduled June 9-11. This workshop will begin with a full day of "Light, Color and Spectro-scopy for Kids" offered by Dr. Herb Retofsky from the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh. Other topics included in this workshop include, rockets, simple machines, the solar system, and metric measurement. Teachers will also have the opportunity to participate in a stream study with the staff of Jennings Environmental Education Center.
Dr. Bryan Rennie, Westminster College associate professor of religion, received the Mircea Eliade Centennial Jubilee Medal from Romanian President Traian Basescu while attending the sixth annual international European Congress of the History of Religions.
Westminster College students in Systems Analysis and Design and Software Engineering classes recently designed a new Website for the Lawrence County Community Action Partnership (LCCAP) as part of a service-learning project.
Two Westminster College senior mathematics majors made presentations at the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics held Feb. 8-10 at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
Eight teams from four area high schools competed in this year's High School Programming Contest Oct. 14. The event was hosted by the Westminster College Mathematics and Computer Science Department in conjunction with the Admissions Office.
Westminster College participated in Pennsylvania's One Book, Every Young Child program through Westminster's Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Westminster College will present "Voices from Within: A Celebration of New Music" concert Wednesday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.
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