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2006 Press Releases

January

1/03/06 - Abraham Lincoln: Compromising Politician or Cunning Idealist? WC Professor Looks Anew at "The Great Emancipator"

1/03/06 - Local Community Members Invited to College Strategic Planning Presentation, January 17

1/06/06 - Drama Department Announces Schedule of Spring 2006 Stage Productions

1/06/06 - Christopher Ames Appointed New Provost and Dean of the College

1/10/06 - Drumming to a Global Beat: Ethos Percussion Group in Concert at Washington College, January 29

1/12/06 - C. V. Starr Center Director Ted Widmer Accepts New Position at John Carter Brown Library

1/13/06 - Celebrate the Release of Here on the Chester: Book Signing, Readings and Refreshments, January 25

1/13/06 - Urban Land Institute's Ed McMahon Explores the Dollars and Sense of Sustainable Development, January 25

1/16/06 - President's Address to the Kent County Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast

1/17/06 - Senator Birch Bayh Discusses the Separation of Church and State in Principle and Politics, January 30

1/18/06 - I Question America: The Fannie Lou Hamer Legacy Onstage at Washington College, January 31

1/19/06 - Genocide Ignored: Documentary Producer Peter Raymont Screens, Discusses His Film Shake Hands with the Devil, February 2

1/19/06 - More Like Not Running Away: Novelist Paul Shepherd Reads from His Fiction, February 8

1/24/06 - From Segregation to Success: Surgeon LaSalle Leffall Tells of His Personal and Professional Odyssey, February 21

1/30/06 - Paul Reed Smith Band to Play Prince Theatre, February 10

1/30/06 - Forensic Anthropology in the Service of Human Rights, Talk February 8

February

2/01/06 - Summerset Review Editor Joseph Levens Discusses Online Literary Journals, February 20

2/03/06 - Sustaining a Writing Career and Sustainable Energy: A Talk by WC Alumna Susan Luster '72, February 20

2/07/06 - Honest to Abe: Dr. Striner Reads from His New Book on Lincoln's Struggle to End Slavery, February 15

2/09/06 - College Honors Community and Campus Service at Annual Washington's Birthday Convocation, February 18

2/09/06 - Can Our Nation's Laws Protect Our Kids? History and Challenges to Policies for Children, Talk March 1

2/15/06 - Finalists Selected for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize

2/17/06 - So You Want to be a Journalist? James and Mollie Dickenson Offer the inside Scoop, February 24

2/20/06 - Through a Glass Darkly: Sam Lipsyte Reads from His Fiction, February 23

2/23/06 - Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on Stage at Washington College, March 2, 3 and 4

2/24/06 - Stringing Us Along: The Colorado Quartet in Concert, March 7

2/24/06 - Dissing the Master: "Signifying" from Frederick Douglass to Spike Lee, Tea & Talk February 28

2/27/06 - Lit House Celebrates the Arrival of Its New Penguin Classics Library, Hosts Harper's Wyatt Mason on "The Library and the Writer," March 8

2/28/06 - Wild Adventure and Science in the Old West, Talk March 7

March

3/01/06 - Prep those resumes! 2006 Washington College Career Fair, March 22

3/06/06 - Gift Establishes Alex. Brown Student Investment Program at Washington College

3/08/06 - Novelist Jonathan Franzen to Kick off College's Annual Sophie Kerr Weekend for Young Writers, March 31

3/09/06 - Walk and Bike for a Better World, Talk March 23

3/09/06 - Third Annual Janson-La Palme Lecture to Address Animals as Metaphor in Romantic Art, March 30

3/10/06 - Board of Visitors and Governors Approves Tuition Increase for the 2006-2007 Academic Year

3/13/06 - Waterfowling on the Chesapeake: Historical Perspective on a Maryland Tradition, March 28

3/14/06 - Up and Coming: Literary House Hosts Readings by Monique Truong, April 4, and Adam Haslett, April 18

3/20/06 - Over the River and through the Woods to Washington College's Stage, March 24 and 25

3/20/06 - Donald McColl Appointed First Underwood Professor in Art History at Washington College

3/21/06 - WC Drama Department Presents Sam Shepard's Buried Child Onstage, March 31 and April 1

3/22/06 - Join the "George Goes Green" Campaign to Conserve Energy

3/22/06 - Davor Ciglar's Art Exhibit Explores Translucency and Light, March 5 - April 14

3/28/06 - WC Chapter of Habitat for Humanity Participates in Alternative Spring Break

3/28/06 - Hovering Nuns, Flying Witches: Carlos Eire on Writing the History of the Miraculous, Talk April 4

3/29/06 - 300 Years from Here: Chestertown History Weekend Celebrates Tercentennial Year of Historic Cononial Town, April 21-22

3/29/06 - Making Sense of Immigration Reform and Its Local Impact, Panel April 6

3/29/06 - Irish Writer Mary Morrissy to Read from Her Work, April 13

3/30/06 - WC's Kim Last to Appear on CBS Early Show, April 3: Junior Receives Scholarship from New York Women in Communications

3/31/06 - Measuring the Pulse of the Political Blogosphere, April 5

April

4/04/06 - Aaarrrgh! The Barbary Pirates and American Independence in the Atlantic, Talk April 12

4/05/06 - Lonesome West Closes WC Drama Department's Spring Season, April 7 & 8

4/06/06 - Living Waters, Still Life: The Chesapeake Photography of Mike Price on Exhibit, April 20-May 7

4/07/06 - Search for Lost Tockwogh during Washington College's Summer Field School in Archaeology, May 22-June 30

4/10/06 - In Step with Spring: WC Dance Company in Concert, April 20-22

4/12/06 - Baltimore Sun's Michael Sragow Discusses the Film Criticism of Mid-Century American Master, James Agee, April 26

4/13/06 - Piano Virtuosa Inna Faliks Closes 2005-2006 Concert Series, April 29

4/17/06 - National Trust President Richard Moe to Give Keynote Address at Chestertown History Weekend, April 21

4/25/06 - Using Biology Against Bioterrorism: 2006 Sigma Xi Lecture, April 27

4/25/06 - Film Director Whit Stillman to Show, Discuss Metropolitan, April 28

May

5/01/06 - $50,000 George Washington Book Prize to be Awarded May 23 at Historic Mount Vernon

5/03/06 - Joyell Johnson Named First Recipient of the Vincent Hynson Scholarship at Washington College

5/10/06 - Author, Essayist Joshua Wolf Shenk to Head O'Neill Literary House

5/16/06 - Fall Semester 2006: New Black Studies Minor

5/19/06 - College Honors Chris Matthews, Mortimer Caplin, and Alumnus Jean-Francois Seznec '70 at 224th Commencement

5/19/06 - Caplin, Matthews Exhort Grads: "Get In the Game"

5/21/06 - In Memoriam: Michael Bailey, Professor Emeritus of Economics

5/21/06 - Maryland College Awards Nation's Largest Undergraduate Literary Prize at 224th Commencement

5/24/06 - 2006 George Washington Book Prize Awarded to Stacy Schiff for A Great Improvisation

June

6/28/06 - Marx Meets Buddha as WC Philosophy Professor Explores the Spiritual Dimensions of Humanistic Socialism

July

7/05/06 - College Appoints Historian, Essayist Adam Goodheart to Head C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience

7/18/06 - WC Art Professor Studies Early Christian Sculptures during Summer Research at Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks

7/31/06 - WC Senior Astra Haldeman Receives $26,000 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for Post-Graduate Studies

August

8/04/06 - Ben Franklin's French Adventure: George Washington Book Prize Celebration Honors Author Stacy Schiff, September 14-15

8/04/06 - New "Millennial Generation" Dining Services Set for WC Students

8/15/06 - Fall Convocation Welcomes Freshmen, Honors Ambassador and Presidential Historian David Abshire, August 24

8/21/06 - Archaeologist John Seidel Appointed Interim Director of College's Center for the Environment and Society

8/23/06 - Twenty-six New Faculty Members Join Washington College

8/24/06 - New Clarence Hodson Prize Supports Independent Student Research, Study, or Internships Anywhere in the World

8/28/06 - Washington College Named to Princeton Review's Top Northeastern Colleges for 2007

8/30/06 - Drawing Lethe: Professor Monika Weiss Presents Multimedia Art Performance in New York City, September 9

8/30/06 - Darnell Parker Appointed Director of Multicultural Affairs

September

9/05/06 - Monopolizing Monologue: Master Storyteller Mike Daisey Turns Accepted History on Its Head, September 20

9/06/06 - Poet Michael Collier Shares His Dark Wild Realm, September 12

9/07/06 - Just out of the Fringe, Father Joy on Stage at Church Hill Theatre, September 8 and 9

9/08/06 - Poet, Author Raymond Federman Pays Tribute to the Memory of Friend, Samuel Beckett, September 19

9/12/06 - 100 Voice Choir Gospel Concert Set to Raise Spirits, Honor Alumnus Vincent Hynson '87, October 7

9/12/06 - WC Drama: Schedule of Fall 2006 Productions

9/13/06 - WC Professor's New Book Examines Women's Paths from Local to National Political Power

9/15/06 - Flutist Harold Jones Opens 2006-2007 Concert Series, September 24

9/25/06 - Harnessing the Power of Wind to Turn the Tide of Global Warming, Talk October 3

9/27/06 - In Memoriam: Former College President Charles H. Trout

9/29/06 - Acclaimed Novelist Larry Woiwode Reads from His Works, Oct. 10

October

10/03/06 - Centenary Celebration: Renowned Actor Barry McGovern Reads Beckett, October 16

10/04/06 - Distinguished Scholar Discusses Poetry and the Call for the Abolition of Slavery, October 9

10/04/06 - A Fairytale with a Trailer Park Twist: Drama Department Stages Cinderella Waltz, October 6, 7 and 8

10/06/06 - Iran and the Balance of Power in the Middle East, Panel Discussion October 18

10/06/06 - Who's Really on First? Gay MLB Umpire Talks about the Issues of Sexual Orientation in Public and Private Life, October 10

10/10/06 - Washington College's Ducks Unlimited Chapter Holds Second Annual Benefit Banquet, October 28

10/12/06 - College Calls for Nominations for President's Medal and Distinguished Service Awards

10/17/06 - WC Drama Department's Production of Metamorphoses Transforms, October 20 and 21

10/19/06 - Mirth, Innocence, and a Dash of Life—Scholar and Novelist Maureen Howard Reads from Her Works, October 24

10/19/06 - Centenary Celebration of Beckett Continues with MLA's Marjorie Perloff, October 30

10/20/06 - Ben Folds Breaks out the Beats at Washington College's Lifetime Fitness Center, November 18

10/23/06 - Newsday's James Pinkerton and Election 2006, November 27

10/26/06 - Lost Culture: Scholar to Examine the Middle East in Two Lectures, November 8

10/27/06 - An Abbess and Her Garden of Delight: Medieval Historian Investigates Gender and Spirituality, November 9

10/27/06 - Ships Ahoy! C.V. Starr Center Lectures Scheduled for Chestertown's Downrigging Weekend, November 5

10/28/06 - Student Programmers Score High in ACM Contest

10/30/06 - Celebrate GIS Day at Washington College, November 15 and 16

10/30/06 - Peter Pan Syndrome on Stage: WC Drama Department Presents Boys' Life, November 2, 3, and 4

10/30/06 - Columbia's Musick Plays "The World of George Washington," November 11

10/31/06 - Phi Beta Kappa Awards Chapter to Washington College

November

11/01/06 - Goodfellow Lecture Examines Northern Echoes of the American Revolution, November 20

11/02/06 - Samuel Beckett in Today's Cultural Climate, November 13

11/08/06 - International Education Week Engages in Global Partnerships and Opportunities, November 13-17

11/08/06 - WC Drama Department Presents a Deadly Classic—Arsenic and Old Lace Performed, November 10 and 11

11/09/06 - Wassail, Wassail! WC Music Department Delights at Their Annual Renaissance Christmas Dinner, December 1 and 2

11/13/06 - Tea and Talk Reading Reveals Radical Revisioning in African American Writing, November 15

11/13/06 - A Firsthand Reading with Novelist Katherine Min, November 30

11/14/06 - New York Yankees Coach on Campus, November 14

11/14/06 - WC Drama Department's Schoolgirl Figure Tackles Weighty Issues, November 16, 17, and 18

11/14/06 - The New George: CSI Techniques Used to Put a New Face on Our First President November 30 and December 1

11/21/06 - WC Art Professor Examines Whistler's Gold Scab, November 29

11/30/06 - Hodson Trust Awards $4.5 Million to Washington College for Scholarships, American History Center

December

12/11/06 - New Hampshire Writer Appointed Associate Director Of O'Neill Literary House

12/14/06 - Mills Named New Media Relations Director For Washington College

12/15/06 - Washington College Announces Spring 2007 Graduate Courses in English, History, and Psychology

12/21/06 - Starr Center Donates 50+ New Washington-Era History Books to Miller Library

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