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A Texas Wesleyan University - Office of Communications Publication |
April 11, 2007 |
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Texas Wesleyan Hosts Model Arab League’s Southwest Conference
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Public Meeting for Southeast Urban Villages
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International Sports Day: April 12 A Swede will teach the easy game of Kubb, loved by college-age students in Sweden as a way to relax and have fun. Kubb is similar to bowling, but with sticks instead of balls. Boule (or Petanque) is played in city parks throughout Europe. The French especially love this sport. It is similar to the game of horseshoes but with metal balls instead of horseshoes. Texas Wesleyan's own table tennis team will offer free lessons to help improve your hand at this sport, popular worldwide. Kubb and boule will be held on the mall, and table tennis can be found in the Boys and Girls Club across from the University on Rosedale Street. For more information about this international sports day, contact Betsy Johnson, coordinator of International Programs, at (817) 531-4965. |
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Open Mic Night: April 12
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Three Wesleyan Students Selected As Hatton Sumners Scholars
On behalf of the trustees of the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation, Texas Wesleyan is proud to announce the latest recipients of the Hatton W. Sumners Scholarship: Martin Garcia, who is majoring in English literature; Tiffany Hanzik, who is majoring in paralegal studies; and Tiara Nugent, who is majoring in English (creative writing concentration) with a minor in Spanish. All will be juniors in the fall.
Established in 1949, the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation is dedicated to the study and teachings of the science of self-government, to the development of leaders with a sense of community responsibility, and to the maintenance of the American constitutional principles and the quality of life afforded under those principles. In support of this policy, the Foundation established an endowed scholarship program at Texas Wesleyan in 1994. The Hatton W. Sumners Endowed Scholarship program provides not only a very generous scholarship to our students, but also a number of enrichment activities, including leadership training and educational opportunities each year. |
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New Arrival  Congratulations to Josh Lacy and his wife, Adrienne, on the birth of their daughter, Addison Leanne. Addison was born Tuesday, April 10; she weighed 6 lbs., 13 oz., and measured 19 inches long. Lacy is the sports information director for Texas Wesleyan. |
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Howard Payne University, Baylor University, University of North Texas and the United States Military Academy at West Point are among the schools competing against Texas Wesleyan University during the Model Arab League's Southwest Conference, which will be held April 12-14 at Texas Wesleyan. University teams, representing a specific country, will spend three days competing through role playing. For example, Texas Wesleyan will be Lebanon in the event, which operates like a mini United Nations. Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Palestine and Sudan are among the countries represented by other schools. The Model Arab League is a debate organization founded by the National Center of U.S.-Arab Relations for college students, who learn about the concerns of the Arab states. As many as 300 students are expected to be on campus for the conference. For more information, call Ayah Sayyed, secretary general for the conference, at (817) 807-8358.
The City of Fort Worth will host a public meeting to discuss economic development for the City of Fort Worth Southeast Fort Worth Urban Villages, including the Wesleyan-Polytechnic Urban Village, at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the Betty and Bobby Bragan Fellowship Hall, located at Polytechnic United Methodist Church. All those with an interest in the are are invited to participate in this discussion about market analysis for encouraging economic development for the Wesleyan-Polytechnic Urban Village.
The editors of Aries, Texas Wesleyan University's national literary journal, will host Open-Mic Night from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the University Club. Students, faculty, staff, and alumni are encouraged to participate, and the event is open to the public, so bring friends! Several forms are welcome, including poetry, spoken word, microfiction, photography, vocals, instrumentals, etc. There will be refreshments, door prizes, and raffle tickets for an MP3 player valued at $195. The 2007 editors - students Brittany Long, Shawn Poling, Jennifer Jones, Krystal Maldonado, and Carrie Yovanovitch - will also announce the winner of the poetry contest celebrating the month of April as National Poetry Month. For more information about the poetry contest or Open-Mic Night, contact Stacia Neeley at 
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Farewell Reception for Jan Bass
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Office of Admission Open House
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Chapel Speakers in April  Chapel is held every Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. in the Chapel of Polytechnic United Methodist Church, followed by a free lunch. Everyone is invited to participate and hear the following speakers during the month of April: April 17 - Chad Merrill, youth pastor at Christ UMC; April 24 - Katie Slaten, student. |
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Web-Enhanced Teaching: Using Technology Effectively in Face-to-Face Courses
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Ribbon Cutting Ceremonies Friday, April 20
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Alumni Reunion April 20-21
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Neeley Presents at Conference on College Composition and Communication |
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Wesleyan Chorale Performs Haydn's Mass in Time of War
Mass in Time of War (Missa in Tempore Belli), a 50-minute work composed by Franz Joseph Haydn, was written in 1796 at a time when Austria was waging a losing war against France as Napoleon, then a young general, continued to win every battle. Haydn, an Austrian, wished for the French to be driven from his homeland and included the sounds of canons and military fanfares in the Agnus Dei section to convey this time of war during the French occupation. The Dona Nobis Pacem that concludes the work is not only set as a prayer for peace but for Austrian victory. Besides the Haydn Mass scored for solo quartet and chorus, the Wesleyan Chorale will perform Nancy Faxon’s short motet Romans XII. This dramatic setting, from the letters of Paul, provides a contemporary balance to the Classicism presented with the Haydn Mass. The Wesleyan Chorale, conducted by Stephen Simons, professor of music at Texas Wesleyan, is an ensemble comprised of Wesleyan students, faculty, staff and alumni of the University. There is no charge for admission. Martin Hall is located at 1309 Wesleyan St. at the northeast corner of Rosedale Street and Wesleyan Street on the Texas Wesleyan University historic campus. For more details, contact the Texas Wesleyan Department of Music at (817) 531-4992 or go to http://www.txwes.edu/music/music/index.htm. |
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Spring Musical The Fantasticks, April 19-22
Tickets to the Saturday performance are available only through the Texas Wesleyan Alumni Office (817-531-4404).The Theatre Wesleyan Box Office can be reached at (817) 531-4211 Tuesday through Friday from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Tickets are $12 for general admission, $6 for Wesleyan faculty and staff and $5 for all students with ID. Group rates available. Tickets can be reserved by calling 817-531-4211 or emailing Beth Hargrove. |
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2007 Goostree Symposium: Keynote Speaker Annie Golightly, BA '94
Golightly has sung for four presidents (Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Demetrios B. Lakas, (Panama), and a president of Argentina), as well as Governor John and Nellie Connelly, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Chuck Connors, Leslie Nielson, Arnold Palmer, and the Notre Dame football team. She has worked with such greats as Tom T. Hall, Rex Allen, Rosemary Clooney, Arthur Duncan, Slim Pickins, Ace Reid, Hondo Crouch, and Boxcar Willie. And she’s the only woman known to ride horseback from Fort Worth to Montana on a cattle drive. Dreams of a White Horse, to be published this spring, tells the story of this cattle drive, a once-in-a-lifetime experience of self-discovery. The keynote speech, “The Drive to Dream,” will be followed by a luncheon at 1:15 p.m. in the Louella Baker Martin Pavilion. Tickets are required for the luncheon: $15 for general admission, $12 for Texas Wesleyan faculty and staff, and $8 for students. RSVP by Tuesday, April 17 to Jeannie Conner at jconner@txwes.edu or (817) 531-4404. |
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Golf Tournament May 7 |
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Science Activities with the Boys and Girls Club
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Softball High School Hall of Fame Induction
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Please join fellow Wesleyan faculty and staff in attending a farewell reception for Jan Bass, director of financial services. The reception will be from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 13, in the University Club in the basement of the Oneal-Sells Administration Building. Bass attended Texas Wesleyan and received her BBA in Accounting in May 1997. She served on the Texas Wesleyan Alumni Association Board of Directors for two terms. 
Texas Wesleyan University will celebrate its continued growth with two ribbon cuttings beginning at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 20. The first ribbon cutting will be for the Louella Baker Martin Pavilion, located at 1112 Wesleyan St. The second ribbon cutting will celebrate the Ed and Rae Schollmaier Science and Technology Center, located at 1205 Wesleyan Street. All events are open to the public. A reception will immediately follow at the Ed and Rae Schollmaier Science and Technology Center. Please RSVP to (817) 531-4404 or 
Stacia Neeley, associate professor of English at Texas Wesleyan, joined more than 3,700 other English professors at the national Conference on College Composition and Communication March 21-24 in New York, NY. Her presentation was titled "Rural Woman Hollering in an Urban Classroom: using Feminist Critical Pedagogy as Pedagogical Invocation in the Composition Classroom." Taking a cultural studies approach to writing instruction, the panel on which Neeley presented focused on using place as a fourth critical category in dialogue with social class, race, and gender to design projects that challenge today's college students to experiment with hybrid genres within academic discourse.
The Wesleyan Chorale will perform Haydn's Mass in Time of War and Nancy Faxon's Romans XII at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, in Martin Hall. 
Theatre Wesleyan presents the 53nd Annual Spring Musical The Fantasticks at 7:30 p.m. April 19-21 and at 2 p.m. April 22. 
Annie Golightly, a 35-year veteran of entertainment in the Metroplex, will be the keynote speaker for the annual Faye C. Goostree Symposium, set for Tuesday, April 24, at Texas Wesleyan. Golightly, BA ’94, will speak about her latest adventure – riding horseback from Fort Worth to Montana on a cattle drive - at 12:15 p.m. in Martin Hall. 
Texas Wesleyan University faculty and students provided hands-on activities for the Boys and Girls Club Northside children Thursday, March 29, 2007. The students, Blake Sonuga, Angela Velasquez and Kelly Peterson along with Francisco Sanchez, visiting assistant professor of chemistry;
Alumna Vanessa Urteaga, BS ’06, chemistry laboratory coordinator at Texas Wesleyan, will be inducted into her high school softball Hall of Fame. Born and raised in Garden City, Kansas, Urteaga played all four years of high school softball at Garden City Senior High School and was a 3-year letterman under head coach John Ford. Within those years, she was named 1st Team Honorable Mention for the Western Athletic Conference her sophomore year and received back-to-back 1st Team All WAC (Western Athletic Conference) her junior and senior year. Urteaga also received the Defensive Player of the Year Award her senior year. She graduated from Garden City Senior High School in May of 2001. The Softball Hall of Fame induction will be held April 27 in her home town of Garden City, Kansas.
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