Clark Honors College Kicks Off 50th Anniversary Celebration
Alumni, resident and affiliated faculty, students, and friends of the Robert D. Clark Honors College are invited to join us in celebrating our fiftieth anniversary throughout 2010. Information on upcoming events, historical sketches of the past fifty years, and profiles of CHC alumni (updated bi-monthly) can be found on the 50th Anniversary website.
The Eugene-area celebration began in February with Avenue Q, a Tony Award-winning musical based on a book by 1993 CHC graduate Jeff Whitty. Over a hundred alumni, students, faculty, as well as the Avenue Q cast and crew, attended the party and kicked off the celebration in high style!
In early May, prize winning author and 1989 alumna Ana Maria Spagna will visit campus to read from her second book Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus, winner of the 2009 River Teeth literary nonfiction prize.
Friendly Hall, constructed in 1893 as a men's dormitory, provided the first home of the honors college — in the basement.
As part of the Oregon Bach Festival this summer, join Professor Emerita and former CHC director Barbara Corrado Pope as she presents two Inside Line talks that explore Verdi’s lifelong desire for a liberated and unified Italy, as well as the history of the European salon and its role in the rise and fall of women’s power. School of Music Professor Stephen Rodgers will deliver a third Inside Line talk on Wilhelm Müller's poetic cycle, and how Schubert transforms Müller's words into
Die schöne Müllerin. In late July and early August, join three UO Shakespearean scholars and travel to Ashland to participate in workshop discussions, a backstage tour and see plays presented at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. More information on these spring and summer events is available on the CHC 50th Anniversary website.
Any questions, suggestions, and comments should be directed to Renee Dorjahn, CHC 50th Anniversary Coordinator, at CHC50@uoregon.edu.