Greetings from Bryan College!
One main focus this month is Bryan’s heritage. We celebrate Heritage Week March 24-29, with two special chapel services and the world premiere of “Inherit the Truth” (see related story).
Scripture is full of admonitions to remember what God has done, and this emphasis on our heritage as a college, and the life of William Jennings Bryan, for whom the college is named, is particularly appropriate. God used Mr. Bryan in a dramatic way to influence the world in his day, and has blessed Bryan College in ways we must remember and pass on to new generations of students.
We invite you to join us for these special events, or to come back to campus any time you can. We’d love to see you!
March
March 24 – Heritage Week Chapel, highlighting aspects of Bryan College’s history. Rudd Auditorium, 11 a.m.
March 26 – Heritage Week Chapel, focusing on the life of William Jennings Bryan. Rudd Auditorium, 11 a.m.
Repertoire – Featuring guest pianist and Bryan alumnus Jason DuRoy. Rudd Auditorium, 4:30 p.m.
March 27 – Seniors preregister for the fall 2008 semester.
8 p.m. – Mikechair Concert
March 28 – Concert Series Concert: “Voices Uplifted.” Music of Bryan’s Women's Chorus, Chorale and Chamber Singers. Rudd Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
March 29 -- World Premiere of “Inherit the Truth.” Heritage Week concludes with a special showing of Bryan’s reenactment of the Scopes Trial. Rudd Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
March 31 – Juniors preregister for the fall 2008 semester.
April
April 2 – Sophomores preregister for the fall 2008 semester.
April 4 – Junior-Senior Banquet, at a location to be announced that day.
April 7 – Freshmen preregister for the fall 2008 semester.
April 9 – Vocal recital of senior Ryan Traub. Rudd Auditorium, 4:30 p.m.
April 10 – Illuminate overnight campus visit event for prospective students.
April 11 – Highlight one-day campus visit event for prospective students. Contact the Admissions office for more information.
March 14, 2008
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Break for Change reaches around the world
Nearly 140 Bryan College students have spent their spring break, March 8-15, in ministry programs in the United States and four foreign countries, continuing a long-standing tradition of spring service.
Seventy-four students in six teams are part of Bryan College’s Break for Change ministry outreach. The Bryan Chorale with 44 students have performed throughout Georgia and Florida on its annual spring break tour. Members of two Worldview Teams traveled through Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, presenting programs about contemporary culture and biblical worldviews to high school students.
Dr. Travis Ricketts, director of Practical Christian Involvement, the umbrella organization for Break for Change (BFC), said BFC is an “alternative for students to actively develop their walk with Christ while learning how to love and serve people that may be different from them.”
This year’s destinations include:
- Juigalpa, Nicaragua, where students will work with Chosen Children Ministries in an orphanage, repairing homes and churches, and running sports camps and Bible clubs.
- Latvia, where students will cooperate with local churches in youth outreach through film making and teaching English.
- San Diego, Calif., where students will work with City of Refuge ministry in services including ministering to the poor and homeless, sharing food and talking to people on the streets, and running bread lines at schools.
- Opelousas, La., working with the Hope for Opelousas ministry in the areas of racial reconciliation and home repair.
- Birmingham, England, working with Operation Mobilization in evangelism, community outreach in a Muslim area, and open air and youth ministry.
- Honduras, where members of the men’s soccer team will be evangelizing through playing soccer and giving personal testimonies.
Cal Thomas boosts scholarship program
A Bryan College education trains young people to “spend their lives being a light to the nations,” and the William Jennings Bryan Opportunity Program extends that possibility to students with significant financial need, columnist Cal Thomas told an appreciative audience March 11.
Mr. Thomas, featured speaker at a fund-raising dinner with more than 150 friends of the college present, encouraged support for the scholarship program because “It combines academic quality with the mind of Christ and the attitude of Jesus. We are taking people who don’t have the financial resources and giving them an education they would not be able to get anywhere else.”
In his talk he ranged from topics including education: “A real education used to include Biblical truth;” ethics: “We’re overflowing with ‘stuff,’ yet we are bankrupt in integrity and a moral code;” the war in Iraq: “We better win in Iraq. These people kill because they believe the only way to get to heaven is to kill an infidel Jew or Christian;” to the presidential election. “This election is important, if for no other reason than judges who will be appointed. Hillary and Obama are radical leftists.”
But his focus was encouraging personal faith in Christ as a solution for the moral problems confronting individuals and the nation today. Citing Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation of a day of prayer and confession during the War between the States, Mr. Thomas said, “That is the way back, not through Washington, D.C. Politicians can’t impose morality on themselves, let alone on the country.”
He recounted his testimony of faith in Jesus, from the time when he was fired by NBC and began to understand his dependence on Christ for the satisfaction he had attempted to find on his own. Today, he said, he regards himself as “a missionary to my colleagues in the media. Even though many of them reject what I stand for, they respect me because they know I care for them.”
Bryan President Dr. Stephen D. Livesay said the William Jennings Bryan Opportunity Program is helping some two dozen Tennessee students earn their college degrees, with the hope that they will remain in the area and offer a spiritual and social example to the state. Funds raised at the banquet will expand the program and make it available to more deserving students, he said.
Presidential, Dean's Scholar candidates vie for grants
Nearly 175 prospective students visited campus in February for the annual Presidential Scholarship and Dean’s Scholarship competitions, competing for Bryan’s top academic scholarships.
Kim Tuttle, special events coordinator for the admissions office, said the programs included campus tours, a banquet for the students and their parents, and interviews with faculty members as part of the selection process. Paige Ratzlaff, student government president, challenged the Presidential Scholar candidates to carefully consider their choice for college, and Presidential Scholar Faith Ammen told the Dean’s Scholar candidates they could not find a better education than they would at Bryan.
Michael Sapienza, director of admissions, said nine Presidential Merit Scholarships and eight Dean’s Merit Scholarships were awarded following the candidates’ interviews with faculty and staff.
“These are exciting events for Bryan College as we get to know some of the outstanding students who are considering enrolling next fall,” Mr. Sapienza said. “We appreciate the hard work of the interviewing committees and the current students who do such a great job of making our visitors welcome.
“We are very encouraged by the response of the students and their families and believe many of these Presidential and Dean’s Scholars will choose to enroll this fall.”
College to celebrate Heritage Week March 24-29
Bryan College will celebrate Heritage Week March 24-29, with special programs on college history, William Jennings Bryan, and a world premiere of the Scopes Trial DVD “Inherit the Truth.”
Dr. Richard Cornelius, who, along with Tom Davis, is coordinating planning for the week with a committee of students, said students requested the chapel programs, and enthusiastically endorsed the idea of the DVD premiere.
“The student leadership said they felt many students know very little about the history of the college, and even less about William Jennings Bryan the man,” he said. “We have arranged for four alumni to speak in chapel on March 24, about their memories of the Bryan College they attended. We’ll then show a video about the February 2000 fire since most of today’s students have very little firsthand knowledge of that event.”
The March 26 chapel will feature an A-V program on the life of William Jennings Bryan. “It seems most students know about Bryan only in connection with the Scopes Trial,” Dr. Cornelius said. “That is a shame, because Bryan has been named by an Atlantic magazine panel of ten notable historians as the 36th most influential American of all time.”
The week’s activities will conclude March 29, with the premiere of “Inherit the Truth,” the DVD of the annual Scopes Trial reenactment, filmed in the summer of 2007.
The Monday and Wednesday sessions will be at 11 a.m., and the Satuday DVD premiere at 7:30 p.m., all in Rudd Auditorium. All are open to the public without charge.
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