Campus and community briefs
Local winds quintet offers free concert
Logan Canyon Winds, a local winds quintet, is opening its concert season Sunday at 4 p.m. at Utah State University.
The concert is in the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium with a varied program for woodwinds. The concert is free, thanks to a generous grant from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.
The quintet consists of Leslie Timmons, flute; Nicholas Morrison, clarinet; Craig Knutson, horn; and Carolyn Bodily, bassoon. Guests joining the performance include Kathryn Rafalowki on the oboe and Dennis Griffin on percussion. The group will perform five pieces, all original wind quintet selections, including the “Hindemith” quintet from the World War II era and the centerpiece of the program, Richard Willis‚ “Colloquoy,” in which Griffin will perform a solo on the percussion.
“Watching Dennis perform this piece makes one wonder whether the performance is a concert or a gymnastics meet,” Morrison said. “He has to play about 20 instruments, from the tambourine to the tuned Swiss cowbells.”
For more information about the Logan Canyon Winds or the November concert, contact Morrison at the USU music department at 797-3506 or by e-mail at Nicholas.Morrison@usu.edu.
USU Education Week features pie-eating
A variety of activities are featured as part of Education Week, including a pie-eating contest for students and faculty on Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m. in the Sunburst Lounge.
Students are invited to help assemble school supply kits for Peru children at 5 p.m. in the Emma Eccles Jones Education Building. The Student Activities Board is then hosting QuickWits at 7 p.m. in the Sunburst Lounge.
Thursday, a sign language workshop will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the Sunburst Lounge. A 5K Fun Run begins at 5 p.m. All interested students should meet at the southwest corner of the Stadium. At 7 p.m., students can enjoy the MB Guitars Unplugged concert in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom. Admission is $3.
Extension names Tooele director
Utah State University Extension recently named Kathleen Robinson as Tooele Campus director and regional department head.
Robinson has been employed with USU since 1990. She has been director of Continuing Education Innovative Programs and Assessment since 2002. Prior to that, she was director of the Southeast Center, which includes centers in Price, Moab, Castle Dale and Blanding.
“We are pleased to have Dr. Robinson in this position,” said Weldon Sleight, associate dean for Continuing Education. “Since she has completed bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees while working full time and raising a family, she is in a wonderful position to advise adult students in the Tooele area who may not think it is possible to complete a university degree. She personally understands students who have to juggle a job, family and community activities, and this will be an asset to her position as director and regional department head.”
Synecdoche to hold public taping in Logan
Works by authors from the Great Salt Lake Book Festival will be featured during Utah State University English department’s program, Synecdoche. The public is invited to attend taping sessions on Sunday at Chapter Two Books, 130 N. 100 East in Logan. The first session will tape at 4:30 p.m., with a repeat reading and taping at 7 p.m.
USU English faculty member and Synecdoche producer Marina Hall said the audience response becomes an integral part of the recorded program.
“Laughter, sighs, applause – they all add emotional depth to the dramatic readings,” she said.
Paige Smitten of the department of English at USU will read an excerpt from Judith Freeman’s Red Water, a historical novel with Utah’s infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre at its center. Artemis Preeshl, assistant professor of theater arts at USU, will present a selection from author Ellen Meloy’s Anthropology of Turquoise.