The annual Christmas vespers service at Wilson College will be held at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, in Thomson Hall's Alumnae Chapel.
The service will feature scripture readings by students, faculty and staff; a brief sermon by Wilson's chaplain, the Rev. Derek Wadlington; and three songs performed by the Wilson College Choir. In addition, everyone will sing carols, including O Come O Come Emmanuel, What Child is This, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Joy to the World, Night of Silence/Silent Night and Angels We Have Heard on High.
An offering collected during the evening will go to several local nonprofit agencies that have partnered with the college in service-learning portions of students' First-Year Seminar.
After the service, refreshments will be served in the newly remodeled Sarah’s Coffeehouse on the lower level of Lenfest Commons.
Wilson College recently announced the winners of the college’s 8th annual juried high school student art exhibition. The top three winners are all students at Greencastle-Antrim High School:
• First place - Hannah Brechbiel, a 10th-grader, won a $200 prize for her stoneware sculpture of a skull entitled Dexter Skull. • Second place – Senior Collin Horan won a $100 prize for his photograph, Chimes. • Third place - Madison Sherrill, also a senior, won a $50 prize for a graphite and charcoal drawing called Zoe’s Portrait. • Honorable Mention – Kaila Gray, a GAHS 11th-grader, for a ceramic piece entitled William Allen Carter. • Honorable Mention – Liam Halsey, a senior at the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts in Hagerstown, Md., for his plastic spoon sculpture, Spoons.
Wilson received more than 140 submissions of artwork from students in Franklin, Fulton, Adams and Cumberland counties in Pennsylvania and Washington County, Md. Twenty-four entries were chosen for the exhibition, which is on display from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in Wilson’s Bogigian Gallery, which is located on the second floor of Lortz Hall. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will continue through Dec. 7.
Wilson’s dance ensemble, Orchesis, will present its fall performance at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9 and 10, with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. The show, which is open to the public, will be held in the Appenzellar-Buchanan Dance Studio in Davison Hall.
Performances feature dances choreographed by undergraduate students, with guest performers from Shippensburg University. Tickets are available at the door and prices are $10 for general admission and $3 for seniors and students with I.D. Children under 12 get in free.
Author Alicia Drumgoole will read from a selection of her works of fiction as part of the Wilson College Writers Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in the college’s Hankey Center. The 30-minute reading is free and open to the public.
Drumgoole, an assistant professor of English at Hagerstown Community College, recently published her first novel, Premonition, under the pen name Agnes Jayne. She holds bachelor’s degrees in English and political science from Binghamton University and a graduate degree from the State University of New York at Albany. She began her writing career as the Richard J. Roth Journalism Fellow at the New York State Senate and, in addition to her novel, has published short works of fiction and poetry in various magazines.
On Oct. 20, 2018, the Wilson College Board of Trustees approved identifying Wilson graduates as alumni instead of alumnae/i in all institutional messaging and publications. This action brings the College’s institutional voice in line with its strategic goals and supports Wilson’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity on campus. It does not impact any requirements of the Alumnae Association of Wilson College (AAWC), which is a separate 501(c)(3) organization.
The change will be phased into all written and electronic materials as updates and reprints are needed.
The Wilson College Veterinary Medical Technology Club will hold its popular dog washes from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 3 and 4, in the college veterinary building near the main entrance to campus. The dog washes are open to the public. The cost is $10 for small dogs, $15 for medium dogs, $20 for large dogs and $25 for extra-large or double-coated dogs. The price includes ear cleaning, nail trim, bath and blow dry—all of which will be performed by VMT Club members.
Owners must present a paper copy of their dog’s rabies vaccination.
For more information, contact VMT Club President Shanelle Spotts at shanelle.spotts@wilson.edu.
Wilson College will hold a reception from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, to mark the opening of an exhibition of art created by area high school students. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will continue through Dec. 7 in the Bogigian Gallery, which is located on the second floor of Lortz Hall.
The exhibition, the eighth of its kind at Wilson, will include 25 works of art that were accepted for the exhibition from more than 140 submissions from students in Franklin, Adams, Cumberland and Fulton counties in Pennsylvania and Washington County, Md.
Cash prizes of $200, $100 and $50 will be awarded for first, second and third places, respectively, and other works of note will receive honorable mention. In addition, monetary scholarships will be offered to winners who enroll at Wilson.
Students are encouraged to offer their works of art for sale during the exhibition, which is presented by Wilson’s Division of Arts and Letters.
Bogigian Gallery, named in honor of Wilson College benefactor Hagop Boggigian, is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free. For more information or an appointment, contact Professor of Fine Arts Philip Lindsey at philip.lindsey@wilson.edu or 717-264-4141, Ext. 3305.
Speaker Chad T. Lower will discuss some of the latest developments at NASA from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the John Stewart Memorial Library at Wilson College. The talk is free and open to the public.
Lower, Wilson adjunct instructor of mathematics, is a volunteer with NASA’s Solar System Ambassadors Program, a public outreach effort to communicate the excitement of space exploration.
During his presentation, he will talk about NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, a new atomic clock is planned for use on future space missions. The clock is expected to be launched into orbit around the earth on or around Nov. 19 while testing of the clock continues, according to Lower.
Lower will also discuss developments with the NASA spacecraft InSight, which was launched May 2018 en route to Mars. The spacecraft is expected to land on Nov. 26.
Wilson College will host its annual Arts Day - an educational and fun-filled day of free events that encourages everyone to appreciate and celebrate interdisciplinary arts - on Wednesday, Oct. 10. The day-long event, which is held at locations all over the campus, is free and open to the public.
One of the highlights this year is the return of steamroller printmaking, where a paving roller is used to make prints from giant woodcuts - blocks of wood in which cuts are made so the lines to be printed stand out in relief. Steamroller printmaking will be held from 9 a.m. to noon in front of Lenfest Commons.
Arts Day includes all-day events and scheduled events, including art exhibitions, pottery demonstrations, a film, vocal and dance performances, social justice display, poetry and other book readings, making a handsewn book, equestrian performances and more. A complete schedule of events is available at https://wilson.edu/wilson-college-arts-day-2018.
The Wilson community established Arts Day to celebrate the visual and performing arts and provide an opportunity for everyone to take note of the impact of the arts on our daily lives.
Wilson Instructor of English Matthew Diltz McBride will open the college’s annual Writers Series with a reading from his book of poetry, City of Incandescent Light, at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, in Warfield Hall’s Allen Auditorium. The 30-minute reading is free and open to the public. Coffee and doughnuts will be provided.
The newest member of Wilson’s English department, McBride earned his doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, a Master of Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University and a bachelor’s degree from Capital University. He is the recipient of Bowling Green’s Devine Fellowship for writing, the University of Cincinnati’s George Elliston Fellowship for doctoral studies in poetry, an Ohio Arts Council Grant and a Writers in the Heartland residency program for emerging and established writers.
