Student publications available for pick-up
Yearbooks are still available in the Communications/Automotive Building, Room 125 and at the Devall Student Center information desk.
Books are free for full-time students and employees.
The Flare Magazine will also be available next week in CA 125.
The magazine features news stories, opinion pieces and photos by KC students writers and photographers.
Dance department to feature student choreography projects
The range of dance skills of the Kilgore College Dance Department will be on display at the department’s annual Spring Dance Concert 8 p.m. Friday, May 7, in Van Cliburn Auditorium.
“The concert will offer a variety of dance styles and techniques,” said Cathy Beckman, dance instructor. “The more traditional dances include ballet and students in the modern dance classes explore new ways to approach choreography that express a more personal point of view using ideas learned about dance in different cultures.”
Beckman said the tap and jazz dances show contemporary, popular styles including hip-hop.
A variety of music will be used, including Antonin Dvorák and Phillip Glass for the ballet dances, as well as Pink Floyd and Tan Dun for the modern dances.
The choreography is a mixture of the students and instructors: Cathy Beckman with the ballet, modern dance technique, improvisation/composition and performance students, and Shelley Wayne with tap and jazz students.
Tickets are $10 and $5 for students with KC I.D. The box office will open at 7 the night of the performance.
The dance department offers an intensive curriculum in ballet, modern, tap and jazz for beginning students as well as those who have had more extensive dance experience. Dance at KC prepares students who wish to enter the professional world upon graduation as well as those who want to continue their studies at a four-year college as majors in fine arts, physical education or dance education. All courses transfer to four-year universities.
- From Staff Reports
BSM to co-host retirement party
The Baptist Student Ministry and the Gregg Baptist Association will host a reception to honor Faye King, BSM secretary, who is retiring. The event will be held 12:30 p.m. May 18 at the BSM.
King has served at the BSM for nine years and in the criminal justice department for seven years.
“They decided to throw a party and then I was told that there was a news article to be written to draw even more attention to it,” King said. “So much for trying to slip by!”
- Brittany Gryder
Two students place in national contest
Two KC students received awards in the 11th Annual Design Contest for College Students sponsored by The Edmund C. Arnold Chapter of the Society for News Design at Michigan State University.
Longview sophomore Rick Gray received Second Place in Photojournalism, and Trent Calloway, now at Texas A&M-Commerce, received Honorable Mention in the Advertisement category.
“Rick Gray is one of our most outstanding photography students and his image that was recently awarded second place by the Society for News Design captured his sense of imagination creating an abstract quality that also satisfies a literal story,” said O. Rufus Lovett, photography instructor.
Calloway’s entry was an advertisement for Aramark which ran in The Flare last spring. Gray’s winning photo of a rain-speckled tuba ran in the 2009 Homecoming edition of The Flare.
“I was so very proud that two students from Kilgore placed in this national competition. Both Rick and Trent are talented and this recognition only confirms that,” said Bettye Craddock, communications instructor.
The 352 entries in 11 categories were judged by Chicago Tribune staff members.
KC was the only community college to place in the contest.
For more information about the contest or to see all contest winners, go to www.msusnd.org.
- Ashley Boswell