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Fall 2006 Alumni Magazine OUTREACH and NGAGEMEN E Hixson-Lied College teams with 4-H to bring arts across the state T LETTER FROM THE DEAN ear Friends, since that time more than a dozen of our D I hope this finds you all well and students in visual art, drama, music and film enjoying some restful and interesting summer have become involved. As an outgrowth of activities. Our lives here on campus this this program, we have also begun to establish summer and throughout the past year have short duration day camps in various counties been busy and exciting, as you will read in that focus exclusively on the arts, in which our this latest edition of our Alumni Magazine. students work with children of all ages. In fact, this entire year has been the busiest This past year marked a milestone for two since my arrival as Dean five years ago, and as of our faculty in the School of Music, Quentin you read through the pages that follow, I am Faulkner and George Ritchie, both of whom sure you will agree that our College is indeed have retired after long and distinguished prospering in so many interesting and varied careers. Since their arrival over thirty years ago, ways. Quentin and George have built and nurtured One of the focus areas for this edition of the our program of studies in Organ to a level that Magazine is that of outreach and engagement, has earned it recognition both nationally and which is among the top strategic priorities internationally. They both have also made of our College. In this regard, you will see significant and lasting contributions to the a featured article by Dr. David Myers from growth of the School of Music and the College Georgia State University, along with our for which we are all sincerely grateful. Indeed, cover story about a collaboration with the they will both be missed! Cooperative Extension Division in the College With the inauguration of our Donor of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. This collaboration Recognition Day Luncheon in the fall of 2004, we began a focused began as a conversation with Cooperative Extension Dean Elbert effort to recognize all those donors to the College have made a Dickey as to how our College could embrace the University’s land grant difference in the range and quality of scholarships, fellowships, and mission of outreach and engagement by partnering with Cooperative other opportunities that we are able to provide for our students. Extension on initiatives that would bring the Arts to communities in With this issue of the Magazine, we continue this focus through our various parts of the state. My goal was to have a process that would featured Donor Profiles of Ron and Chris Harris, Dan and Barbara involve both faculty and students from our College. Fortunately for Howard, and Jim and Rhonda Seacrest, whose generosity has enabled us, Dean Dickey was extremely receptive to the concept and over the the establishment of special initiatives in the Johnny Carson School course of the next six months he and I developed a plan for having of Theatre and Film, the Department of Art and Art History, and students from our College serve as interns in three residential 4- the School of Music, respectively. We plan to continue these Donor H summer camps. The plan was initiated in summer of 2003, and Profiles in future editions of the Magazine and Newsletter. CREDITS Fall 2006 art Directors sPecial thanks via mail: John w. 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PhotograPhy Katelyn KeRKhove ideas oR addRess edwaRd FoRde, chaiR, all PhotoGRaPhs by david e. myeRs chanGes may be sent in dePaRtment oF aRt college alumni Kathe c. andeRsen any oF the FollowinG and aRt histoRy boarD excePt as noted ways: susan bRasch adRienne dicKson 2 University of Nebraska-Lincoln LETTER FROM THE DEAN Let me also call your attention to our newly-formed donor “Circles” arrived, and it is our hope that next year’s publication will include that have been organized to better recognize alumni and friends photos of the completed project, along with details concerning the who are dedicated to enhancing the programmatic resources of the special dedication event that we are planning for the Fall of 2007. Stay Department of Art and Art History, the School of Music, and the tuned! Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. Each circle is designed Finally, let me remind you all to visit our College website often. A with four giving levels to encourage donors at every stage of life. Lists major redesign of the website was completed last fall, and we continue of contributors to the various Circles have been included in a special to make small adjustments to it on a routine basis to ensure that it section of the Magazine. keeps our extended College family, as well as our prospective students Last year at this time we were just concluding arrangements to have and their parents, well informed about all that is going on. Along these the Chiara String Quartet serve a three-year chamber music residency lines, be sure to read the story about the STARTS (Students in the Arts) in the School of Music. Since their arrival last fall, the members project, which was funded by a $25,000 University-wide Initiative for of the Quartet have not only established new benchmarks for the Teaching and Learning Grant, and matched in part by funds from the chamber music curriculum, but have also had a significant impact on Hixson-Lied Endowment. When completed, the project will result in our campus as a whole, as well as on the Lincoln Community. They an interactive webpage for newly-admitted students that should have began the year with featured performances for the NU Foundation a significant impact on the ease with which they make the transition to Board and as part of the Chancellor’s State of the University Address, becoming new members of our College student body. and have since become wonderful ambassadors for our College, as As always, we in the College remain truly grateful for all that you, well as for the University as a whole. This coming year they will be our alumni and friends, continue to do for our students and faculty. undertaking several initiatives that will embrace the outreach and We are indeed making great strides and accomplishing great things, engagement missions of the College, the University, and the Lied and to be sure, your participation and contributions have played a Center for Performing Arts. major role along the way. Please stay in touch with us, and be sure to I could not conclude my introductory remarks without telling you visit if you are in the neighborhood! that we are about to break ground for the expansion of the Temple Building that was made possible through Johnny Carson’s generous With warmest regards, gift. This expansion will include the construction of a new scene design shop, as well as a new black box/film sound stage, two high tech classroom and computer design spaces, additional side stage and storage areas, newly designed scene and lighting rigging, and for those of you with fond memories of UNL in its earlier days, the reopening of the “R” Street entrance to the building. As you will see later in the Giacomo M. Oliva magazine, the fences have gone up and the construction vehicles have Hixson-Lied Endowed Dean TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Story 18 Von Seggern Creates 56 College Welcomes 5 32 Ron and Chris Harris Marble Sculpture New Faculty The Hixson-Lied 34 Dan and Barbara 38 College of Fine 19 School of Music a 58 Arts Outreach and Howard and Performing Arts has Family Affair for Engagement in the Jim and Rhonda collaborated with Cooperative 36 Salistean University Setting. Seacrest Extension on a series of arts Guest article by David camps at 4-H camps across 20 Student, Stuntwoman E.