Tabor College announces schedule for homecoming 2005 years ago
Tabor College alumni and friends are invited to Homecoming 2005 from Oct. 13-16. This year's theme is "Carried Along."
The Tabor Drama and Music departments will open homecoming festivities Oct. 13 with a performance of the seven-time Tony Award-winning musical, "Big River." The musical, featuring acoustic country and bluegrass music with a good, heartwarming story of freedom and friendship, is based on the classic American novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" written by Mark Twain.
The cast will present four performances: at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13, 14, and 15, and at 2 p.m. Oct. 16.
All performances will be held in the Tabor Chapel-Auditorium. General admission seating is $8 and student tickets are $6. Reservations for tickets can be made through the Student Development Office at 620-947-3121 ext. 1033.
New this year will be a Tabor History, Arts, and Book Tour Oct. 14. The tour will begin at the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies with CMBS director Peggy Goertzen. Bruce Plank, associate professor of art and design, and Shin-Hee Chin, assistant professor of art and design, will lead tours of the Art Gallery, featuring a new children's mural located on the second floor of the Library. Following that, an art installation by Chin, titled "The Still Mind," will be on exhibit in the Historic Church. The three-dimensional pieces will be on display Oct. 14-16.
Tour participants will then have a choice of three activities at 3 p.m.: tour the art room in the lower level of the H.W. Lohrenz building, featuring works by current students; learn how the CMBS database can assist researchers; or browse books for sale in the library.
A special session of 60+ Learning in Retirement, to be held at 10 a.m. Oct. 14 in the Wohlgemuth Music Education Center Lobby, will feature Dr. Edwin G. Wiens. His presentation, "A Retired Christian Internist's Perspective on Stem Cell Research and Its Applications," will focus on ethical and Christian dimensions of the subject.
Wiens is the former Chief of Staff at Fresno (Calif.) Community Hospital. He attended Tabor College for two years, then transferred and graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., with bachelor's and doctorate degrees in Medicine.
Tabor College cheer squad will hold "Lit' Cheer Camp," a cheerleading clinic Oct. 15 for children ages three to 12 years old interested in cheerleading. Participants will learn cheers, jumps, and mini stunts and then perform them during the third quarter of the homecoming football game against McPherson College, which begins at 2 p.m. The clinic enrollment fee is $20 and will include poms and hair ribbon.
The cheer squad also will paint faces prior to the football game and at halftime. Buttons, featuring all current athletes, also will be available for sale.
The new homecoming lunch buffet, offered from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 15, will feature a traditional Dutch meal. Menu items will include Hillsboro sausage, verenika, oven-fried chicken, sliced ham, ham gravy, diced white potatoes, corn, green beans, coleslaw, pie, and cherry moos. The meal will be served in the cafeteria and Memorial Mall with overflow seating available in the Bluejay Lounge.
The Homecoming barbecue will be served following the football game from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria and Memorial Mall. Barbecue beef sandwiches, grilled hot dogs, baked beans, potato casserole, various salads, and cookies will be on the menu. Advance tickets are $4.75 for adult and $2 for children ages 3-10. At the door, tickets will be $5.75 for adults and $3 for children. Children under three are free.
An alumni baseball game will conclude homecoming day. A noon buffet will be offered in the cafeteria on Sunday.
For more information or to register, call the alumni office at 620-947-3121, ext. 1708, or log on to Tabor's website at www.tabor.edu.
