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Western Carolinian Volume 68 Number 06

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  • Coulter Recital Hall | Coulter Building | November 11 | 8 p.m. Pianist Lillian Buss Pearson, associate professor of music at Western Carolina University, will present a recital of classical music at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Novy. 11, in the recital hall of the university's Coulter Building. The free concert is part of the Catamount Concert Series. Pearson has performed throughout the United States and England as a soloist and collaborative artist. She has appeared as soloist with Asheville and Jacksonville (Fla.) symphonies, the Breckenridge (Colo.) November 11 WCUs Veterans Day * Ceremony to Honor Regions Gold Star Mothers Gold Star Mothers mothers whose sons or daughters have lost their lives while serving in the U.S. armed forces will be the honored guests as Western Carolina University holds its third annual Veterans Day observance at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11. Sponsored by the campus organization WCU Veterans and Friends, the event will be held on the lawn in front of Westerns A.K. Hinds University Center. In case of rain, the observance will be held in the Grandroom of the University Center. Some Gold Star Mothers from the area are expected to attend the ceremony, said Joan Dickson, a Western student who is president and founder of WCU Veterans and Friends. President Woodrow Wilson first used the term Gold Star Mothers shortly after World War I to describe American mothers who had lost a son or daughter in the war. Gold Star Mothers residing in Western North Carolina who would like to participate in the Nov. 11 program are asked to contact Joan Dickson at (828) 293-8036, by e-mail at MD24568@wcu.edu or JoanieD1 @earthlink.net, or by regular mail at P.O. Box 2745, Cullowhee, N.C. 28723. ; Classical Piano Recital at WCU, November 11 Festival Orchestra, the Brandenburg (Fla.) Ensemble, Western Carolina Civic Orchestra and the National Chamber Players. The Nov. 11 recital will include works by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy and Chopin. Pearson will present the same program at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, in Lipinsky Auditorium at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Performing Arts Center in Waynesville. For more information, contact Western Carolinas music department at (828) 227-7242. November 12 WCU Lunch Series to Feature S.C. Writer John Lane Writer John Lane, a member of the faculty at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., will be the featured speaker Wednesday, Nov. 12, as the fall lunchtime cultural series continues at Western Carolina Universitys Mountain Heritage Center. Lane will speak about his book-length narrative Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River at 12:15 p.m. in the center auditorium. Place and wilderness have been critical themes in Lanes poetry, essays and fiction. A native of North Carolina, Lane has lived on a wilderness island off the Georgia coast, studied crocodiles in Central America and surveyed monkeys in the rain forest of Suriname. His outdoor adventure prose has appeared in Outside, American Whitewater and many other periodicals. Lanes first collection of essays, Weed Time: Essays from the Edge of a Country Yard, described his year living in a cabin near the Great Smoky Mountains. He teaches environmental literature, creative writing and film at Wofford College. The Mountain Heritage Center is joining with Ron Rash, the universitys new Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies, in sponsoring lunchtime cultural programs this fall. Those attending the free programs are invited to bring their lunch. Rash, a Pulitzer Prize- nominated writer and educator, is the universitys first John A. Parris Jr. and Dorothy Luxton Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies. The $500,000 Parris professorship was established in the summer of 2002 as the seventh endowed professorship at Western. For more information, contact the Mountain Heritage Center at (828) 227-7129. CAMPUS NEWS | ~] te ell ol ll al ow Pt st eset oc rags, i PA ea OO" te a a Og ne, lee ee ee ee Or Oe rat op at ee tt
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