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January 16, 2009

BELMONT NEWS


Belmont Celebrates Forty Years of Women's Basketball
Belmont University will celebrate 40 years of Belmont Bruins Women’s Basketball at a reunion event on Jan. 24, 2009. Over 80 women from 11 states are scheduled to attend a luncheon on that day and will later be honored at the Women’s Basketball game vs. Kennesaw State at 5 p.m. All former members of the women’s basketball program are invited to attend. Contact Kelly Fish in the Office of Alumni Relations at 615-460-6077 for more information.

United:For Change to Hold Kick-off Event at Belmont Monday
Student-founded organization to raise money for needy children worldwide

Charity organization UNITED: FOR CHANGE announced today that it will hold its kickoff event featuring special musical guests on Mon., Jan. 19 at Belmont University. The 3-5 p.m. launch party will be held in Belmont’s Massey Performing Arts Center and coincides with President-Elect Barack Obama’s call for a national day of service.

united_logo_black2.jpgUNITED: FOR CHANGE, founded by Belmont junior Joshua Maisner, is a movement to raise awareness of impoverished children worldwide and to create a sustainable financial model for college-age students to be part of the solution in helping eradicate children’s poverty. Each Belmont student will be asked to contribute their spare change each week. If each of the university’s 5,000 students donated $1 per week toward the effort, UNITED: FOR CHANGE could raise its goal of $100,000 over the course of the 20-week spring semester. The money raised will benefit four charities that impact children locally, nationally and internationally: Safe Haven Family Shelter, Feed the Children, African Leadership and World Vision. Click here for more on this story.

Alumnus Todd Williamson Returns to Belmont
Belmont University alumnus Todd Williamson returns to campus with the opening of his art exhibit "Blurring the Lines." Williamson graduated from Belmont in 1988 with a Bachelor of Music.

ibecome.jpgOn Wed., Jan. 28 at 3:30 p.m., Williamson combines his musical and visual arts talents with a performance in Harton Hall. The performance is a combination of three elements: music written by Greg Walter, a Williamson painting that is slowly revealed and a mirror attached to the back of the canvas to reflect the audience as it slowly turns. The purpose of the performance is to show the audience the influences and emotions that a visual artist feels when creating an original piece of artwork.

After the performance, the opening reception will take place in the Leu Art Gallery at 4 p.m. Williamson’s exhibit, "Blurring the Lines," examines the question, “What influences an artist to keep painting?” The performance and opening reception are free and open to the public. For more information, call (615) 460-6770. "Blurring the Lines" will be in the Leu Gallery through April 2, 2009.

Belmont to Celebrate MLK Day with Week of Special Events
In celebration of the Jan. 15 anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth date, Belmont University will be holding its 13th annual series of Commemorative Programs over the course of the next several weeks. The university’s commitment to Martin Luther King Week through classroom and special events began in 1997 and continues to grow today with Belmont observing the MLK holiday with widely varied events. Most events are open to both the Belmont community and the general public at no charge unless otherwise noted. For additional information, visit Belmont’s MLK Web site at www.belmont.edu/mlk.

Scarlett Leadership Institute Announces 2009 Business Workshops Schedule
Expanding upon its already successful member programs in leadership development and corporate management education, the Scarlett Leadership Institute at Belmont University announced today the launch of a series of workshop sessions that will be open to the broader business community. All of the Institute’s programs, including the new workshops, model a "learn it today, apply it tomorrow" mindset where students and organizations are encouraged to learn not only from world class leaders, but from each other. Click here for the rest of the story and the schedule for the Institute’s 2009 workshops.


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