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AUDITIONS FOR CAREY DINNER THEATRE TO BE HELD MARCH 26

Auditions for cast and interviews with crew for the thirty-sixth season of Carey Dinner Theatre (CDT) are Saturday, March 26beginning at 10 a.m. in the Joe and Virginia Tatum Theatre on the Hattiesburg campus of William Carey University.

CDT presents two musicals in June and July. Each member of the company, both performers and staff, is paid. The financial package includes salary, tips (company members serve during dinner), and housing.

Those auditioning as performers will present a one-minute monolog from a modern prose play (no dialect), a one-minute vocal selection from a Broadway musical, and will participate in a dance audition. Each person who auditions should bring comfortable clothes for the dance audition. An accompanist will be available, but will not transpose. Taped accompaniment may be used.

Audition requirements for pianists include a prepared two-minute selection from a Broadway musical. Sight reading will be required.

Interviews will be held also for technicians, costume assistants, house-box office managers, and office assistants. Each person will complete an application and interview with staff. Portfolios are invited. Performers may also apply for staff positions.

Each applicant should bring a head shot to the audition/interview. For more information call 601-318-6218 or emailcdt@wmcarey.edu.  Contracts are issued as soon as possible after March 26 and are offered only to those who have graduated from high school by May 30, 2011. The company commitment is May 30 through July 25.

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PIANIST JOHN ELLIS TO PERFORM AT WILLIAM CAREY UNIVERSITY

Pianist John Ellis will perform in concert Monday, February 28, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in Dumas Smith Auditorium on the Hattiesburg campus of William Carey University.  The concert will feature Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17, and Franz Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage, Second Year: Italy. Dr. Ellis will also present a free master class featuring William Carey University piano majors on Tuesday, March 1, from 9 a.m.-11 a.m. on the Smith Auditorium stage.  The public is invited to attend.

Professor Ellis has taught piano at the University of Michigan since 2000.  He serves as Chair of the Piano Department and is also the Director of Graduate Studies in Piano Pedagogy.  In addition, he administers the preparatory department and the class piano curriculum.  He is in demand, nationally and internationally, as a master class clinician, adjudicator and lecturer on piano pedagogy.  His recent travels have taken him to the Tunghai Piano Festival in Taiwan, University of South Florida, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, and the University of Hawaii.  Professor Ellis speaks regularly on pedagogy topics to teachers groups throughout Michigan.  As a pianist, he has performed widely as soloist, lecture-recitalist, and collaborative artist.  He has recorded the piano music of African-American composer Arthur Cunningham for Equilibrium Records.

As a scholar in the field of pedagogy, Mr. Ellis combines music theory, musicology, and the humanities with the more traditional pedagogical methods.  He has worked with the Musical Signification Project of the International Congress on Musical Signification (ICMS) since 1996, presenting papers on musical meaning and pedagogy at the University of Bologna, the Université de Provence, the University of Helsinki, and the New England Conference of Music Theorists at Wellesley College. His articles have been published by CLUEB (Bologna)/International Semiotics Institute (Finland), and Acta Semiotica Fennica.

His primary teachers were Arthur Cunningham, the late conductor, composer and jazz pianist; Frank Iogha, a touring pianist and former professor at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York; Michel Block, the late pianist and former faculty member at Indiana University in Bloomington; and Constance Keene, the late pianist and faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music. He has served on the faculties at the Manhattan School of Music and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.  He has taught on the piano faculty of the University of Michigan All-State program at Interlochen and coordinated the piano program at the U-M Summer Arts Institute.

Tickets for the concert on February 28 are $10 general admission and $7 for seniors.WCU students, faculty, and staff are free.  Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance by calling Dr. Ellen Elder at 601-318-6179.

Filed under: Arts, Hattiesburg, William Carey, education, Entertainment/Culture, John Ellis, Music education, Piano, William Carey University

JCJC’s Diagnostic Medical Sonography program is accepting applications

ELLISVILLE – Jones County Junior College’s Diagnostic Medical Sonography (DMS) Program is now accepting applications for the fall 2011 semester.  The application deadline is April 22nd.

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The program at Jones is designed to train a sonographer to work in the general sonography setting and to proficiently perform each task.  Students will be exposed to the examination of abdominal organs, pediatric studies, obstetrics and gynecology, and the endocrine system.  JCJC’s DMS students are exposed to vascular sonography at clinical sites.

The Diagnostic Medical Sonography curriculum is a one year program where students receive approximately forty (40) hours of classroom instruction, laboratory work, and clinical experience to prepare students for employment and advancement in the sonography field.  Didactic and laboratory instruction is offered at Jones County Junior College.  Clinical participation and scheduled rotations are offered at the clinical sites in Laurel, Hattiesburg, Waynesboro, Meridian, and Magee.

Admission requirements for the program include: prospective students must be accepted to or eligible for enrollment at Jones County Junior College; have a minimum composite score of 17 on the American College Test (ACT); have a minimum G.P.A. of 2.5; have a Bachelor’s of Science degree from an accredited institution in any field OR be a Registered Radiologic Technologist (A.R.R.T.) and in good standing with the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists or be registry-eligible with the ARRT; OR have completed any two year medical program that includes clinical rotations  AND must complete the Diagnostic Medical Sonography application package; must have completed Anatomy and Physiology I and II, and college algebra.

Graduates of this program will have the skills necessary for employment as sonographers under the direct supervision of a physician.  Students will be prepared to work in any sonographic setting and will be trained in all areas of general sonography. Upon completion of the program students will be eligible for the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography exam to become registered sonographers

For more information or to request an application packet call, 601-477-4289, or e-mail sonography instructor Wanda Finch at wanda.finch@jcjc.edu or visit the website at: http://www.jcjc.edu/programs/medicalsonography/index.php.

Filed under: Ellisville, Jones, Jones County, Laurel, Diagnostic Medical Sonography, education, Ellisville, Jones County Junior College, Medicine

HHS Student Paul Green Named National Merit Finalist

Hattiesburg High School Senior Paul Green has been named a National Merit Finalist! Over 1.5 million students participated in the 56th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, and of those approximately 15,000 (the top ONE PERCENT) were

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announced as Finalists by officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (nmsc). These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,400 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $36 million, that will be offered this spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award, students must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. Approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.

To become a Finalist, a student must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test. The student and a high school  official must submit a detailed scholarship application, which includes the student’s essay and information about the student’s participation and leadership in school and community activities.

  • Paul has performed in the HPSD’s Orchestra since fifth grade where he has served as Concertmaster.
  • For the past year, Paul has served as Concertmaster and soloist for the Southern Mississippi Youth Orchestra.
  • As a member of the HHS Speech and Debate team, he has earned several distinguished awards to include:
    • State Champion- Lincoln-Douglas Debater
    • National Catholic Forensic League- double-octafinalist in L-D Debate
    • State finalist in Original Orating
  • He has given back to his community through volunteer work with the Association for the Rights of Citizens with Disabilities.
  • Paul has been active in the theatre department at HHS as the Lighting Designer, Master Electrician, Light Board and Spotlight Operator, as well as playing the lead role in “The Good Doctor”.
  • He is an Assistant Senior Patrol Leader in the Boy Scouts of American.  He is currently a Life Scout working on Eagle Scout rank.
  • Recipient of the Civitan Citizenship Award in grade 12
  • As a Junior, he was selected as Exchange Youth of the Month
  • Paul has received the Highest GPA Award in grades 8-11 and presently maintains the highest GPA in his class of 261 seniors at HHS.
  • He is leaning toward engineering as his major, but has an interest in physics and music as well.
  • His first choice for college is Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
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WILLIAM CAREY UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR WRITES ENGINEERING GRAPHIC TEXTBOOK

Dr. Karen Juneau, assistant professor and chair of career and technical education at William Carey University’s Tradition campus, had her most recent book, entitled Engineering Drawing Problems: Workbook Series First Edition to Accompany Technical Drawing with Engineering Graphics, published in January 2011 by Pearson/Prentice Hall. In addition, Dr. Juneau has written another book published by Prentice Hall, Engineering Drawing: Problem Series 3, which has been revised for four editions.

All of Dr. Juneau’s books were co-written with a friend and former colleague, Paige Davis. Davis is the Assistant STEPCoordinator and Construction Management and Industrial Engineering Instructor at Louisiana State University.

Dr. Juneau’s new book is designed to be an educational workbook for high school students and undergraduate engineering and graphic engineering majors. The book covers a wide range of engineering graphic skills, from basic sketching to using the AutoCAD computer software.

Dr. Juneau said that “the idea of the book is to isolate target concepts with short exercises so that it is just enough material to see where students need additional instruction.”

Before coming to WCU in 2010, Dr. Juneau was an assistant and then an associate professor in the department of technology education at The University of Southern Mississippi from August 2003 to July 2010. She obtained both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial education from Texas A&M University before earning her doctorate of philosophy in career and technical education in 1997 from Louisiana State University, where she taught for eight years.

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Future Stars Award Winners Showcase Talents With Symphony Thursday

Three winners of the William T. Gower Awards Competition will be featured as part of the University of Southern Mississippi

The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Future Stars winners include, from left to right: Romina Monsanto, Pablo Sotomayor and Kathleen Westfall (Submitted photo).

Symphony Orchestra’s concert set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17 in Bennett Auditorium.

Showcasing exceptional student talent of the School of Music, this annual concert has become an audience favorite. The 2010-11 winners and “Future Stars” include Romina Monsanto of Venezuela; Pablo Sotomayor of Peru and Kathleen Westfall of New Orleans.

The three competition winners will perform the music that earned them distinction among their peers including Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor featuring pianist Sotomayor; Antonin Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B minor Opt. 4 featuring cellist Monsanto and “I Want Magic” from A Streetcar Named Desire by André Previn and “Manon’s Gavotte”from Manon by Jules Massenet featuring soprano Westfall.

Guest conductors include Southern Miss students Nathan Lambert and Ivan del Prado.

Ongoing for more than 23 years, the competition was renamed four years ago in honor of William T. Gower, former professor of music at Southern Miss and a widely respected woodwind musician.

Gower, who passed away in July 2003, was an inspiration to many budding musicians through his multitude of career performances at music conventions, high schools, colleges, and universities — often performing on a variety of instruments.

The competition itself is highly competitive within the ranks of the Southern Miss School of Music and quite rigorous. “These very talented students will be our stars of tomorrow,” said Dr. Jay Dean, music director of the Symphony. “Later in life, we will be able to say that we knew them when they were students here at Southern Miss.”

The Symphony’s 2010-11 season is sponsored by BancorpSouth.Tickets for the concert are $16/$18/$20 and may be purchased at the Southern Miss Ticket Office by calling 601.266.5418 or 800.844.8425.

Filed under: Arts, Featured, Hattiesburg, USM, Entertainment/Culture, Jay Dean, Symphony Orchestra, University of Southern Mississippi

Southern Miss Set to Host Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting

For the first time in school history, The University of Southern Mississippi will serve as the host site for the 75th Annual Mississippi Academy of Sciences (MAS) Meeting set for Feb. 17-18 at the Thad Cochran Center.

Elasri Mohamed

More than 400 research projects will be presented by a wide range of scientific educators, researchers and industry experts. The annual MAS conference represents the largest gathering of active scientific investigators in Mississippi.

“Hosting a prestigious meeting of this type is very important for recruitment of students and raising the profile of Southern Miss as a major research institution in Mississippi,” said Dr. Mohamed O. Elasri, associate professor of Biological Sciences at Southern Miss and current MAS president. “This allows other top researchers in the state to see the Southern Miss campus and the state-of-the-art research conducted here.”

A multitude of exhibits will be on display in conjunction with research updates from faculty and students throughout the Mississippi scientific community. Elasri points out that the meeting will also feature cutting-edge symposia on topics such as infectious diseases and genomics.

The annual Dodgen Lecture, which serves as the keynote address, will be presented by Laura Folse, director of science and technology for British Petroleum’s Gulf Coast restoration effort. Folse will offer reflections on the role of science and scientists in the energy industry and discuss the repercussions from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last April.

“Her lecture is both timely and relevant for scientists and the general public in our region and the rest of the nation,” said Elasri.

For more information about the annual MAS meeting contact Elasri at 601.266.6916 or visit www.msacad.org/

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WILLIAM CAREY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ANNOUNCES CLASS OFFICERS AND STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

Richard Calderone of Slidell, LA, vice president; Jessie McCallister of Irving, TX, treasurer; Seth Ladd of Soso, president; Akhila Rajaram of Albany, OR, class liaison; and Ryan Taylor of Orlando, secretary.

William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine (WCU-COM) announces the class officers and the COM StudentGovernment Association (SGA) officers for the 2010-2011 school year. Seth Ladd of Soso is class president; Richard Calderone of Slidell, La., is class vice president; Jessie McCallister of Irving, Texas, is class treasurer; Ryan Taylor of Orlando is class secretary; and Akhila Rajaram of Albany, Ore., is class liaison.

Jason DeFatta of Hattiesburg is SGA president; Brett Hyatt of Soso is SGA first vice president; Vish Patel of Cullman, Ala., is SGA treasurer; Natasha Batra of Martinez, Ga., is SGA secretary; and BJ Burns of Sparta, Tenn., is SGA second vice president and parliamentarian.

The WCU-COM opened in August 2010, with an

Vish Patel of Cullman, AL, treasurer; Brett Hyatt of Soso; first vice president; Jason DeFatta of Hattiesburg; president, BJ Burns of Sparta, TN; second vice president and parliamentarian; and Natasha Batra of Martinez, GA, secretary

inaugural class of 110 students. The medical complex that houses the COM consists of three new, connected buildings that include state-of-the-art technology. The WCU-COM is the state’s second medical school and one of 26 schools of osteopathic medicine in the nation.

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26th Annual Southern Miss Coca-Cola Classic Rodeo Set for Feb. 18-19

A Bareback bronco rider at the St. Paul Rodeo ...

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The “Greatest Show on Dirt,” otherwise known as the Southern Miss Coca-Cola Classic Rodeo hosted by The Department of Recreational Sports, is coming to Hattiesburg Feb. 18 and 19, 2011.

Raymond Whitehead, M.D., orthopedic surgeon with Hattiesburg Clinic Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, will serve as Grand Marshal of this year’s event. Dr. Whitehead is a native of Hattiesburg, who received his medical degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, Ala. He completed a general surgery internship and orthopedic surgery residency at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Ga., followed by a fellowship in sports medicine, arthroscopy and arthroscopic reconstructive surgery at the Orthopaedic Research of Virginia in Richmond, Va.

Each year at the rodeo cowboys and cowgirls show off their elite skills in barrel racing, calf roping, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, team roping, and bull riding. The top riders qualify for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo which is held in Las Vegas, Nev. The Hattiesburg rodeo is a fundraiser for student scholarships and professional development.

usm“We are fortunate that the rodeo continues to be produced by Smith, Harper and Morgan Rodeo, the producers of the Dixie Nationals and provider of livestock to the National Finals Rodeo,” said Sid Gonsoulin, associate vice president for student affairs at Southern Miss.”Because of the quality and consistency of a professionally produced PRCA/WPRA rodeo, we have been able to provide scholarships annually to Southern Miss students.”

Lecile Harries, six-time Pro Rodeo Clown of the Year, will be making an appearance at the rodeo this year. Lecile, a 50-year rodeo veteran, works nearly 125 performances a year at the world’s biggest rodeos. He got his start as a bullfighter in the 1950’s and 60’s and helped transform the sport from thrill show to the skillful art it is today. He has also worked on various TV shows including a regular role on “HEE HAW” and movies like “The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James” and “W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings” with Burt Reynolds.

“Lecile’s comedic mannerisms, acts and jokes are copied by clowns and showmen across the globe,” declared Bob Lowe, retired director of Southern Miss Dining and Grand Marshal of the 18th Annual Southern Miss Coca-Cola Classic Rodeo. “For nearly half a century, Lecile’s bullfighting and comedic ability have saved many a cowboy and brought smiles and laughter to millions of people. He is truly one of rodeo’s legends.”

As usual, the Southern Miss Coca-Cola Classic Rodeo will be held at the James Lynn Cartlidge Forrest County Multi Purpose Center on Highway 49 South. Rodeo tickets are available at TJ’s Western Ware on U.S. Highway 49 in Hattiesburg. Tickets are $10 and all seats are reserved.

The rodeo is sponsored by Coca-Cola, Southern Beverage, Comcast, B-95, McMullan Motors, Polk’s Meat Products, Keith’s Super Stores, Forrest General Hospital, Landry and Lewis Architects, Copy Cats Printing, The Hattiesburg American, and Southern Miss Recreational Sports.

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Band clinic brings musicians to PRCC

POPLARVILLE – Approximately 230 musicians from 23 South Mississippi schools will be on the Pearl River Community College campus this weekend for the annual PRCC Band Clinic.

The middle and high school students will divide into two bands for rehearsals Friday afternoon and night and again on Saturday. The bands will be presented in concert at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Olivia Bender Cafeteria in Crosby Hall.

The PRCC Symphonic Band will perform for the students at 6 p.m. Friday, and the PRCC JazzCats will play at 11 a.m. Saturday. Both performances will be in the cafeteria.

Clinicians are Sheily Bell, band director at Dutchtown High School in Giesmar, La., and Anna Schwartz, band director at Ocean Springs Middle School.

The clinic began in the 1950s as the Lumberton Band Clinic and  is the oldest annual clinic in the state. The clinic has been held at PRCC since 1991.

The public is invited to attend the Saturday concert.

Filed under: Arts, K-12, Pearl River, Crosby Hall, education, Pearl River Community College, POPLARVILLE