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Batter up to the plate for Gardner-Webb’s Annual Beep Ball Game event sponsored by the Noel Program for Students with Disabilities. Beep Baseball is an alternative form of baseball which uses beeping balls and bases, and in Bulldog Country the competition is on between the blind/visually impaired students and blindfolded faculty/staff at the University. Come out to the Softball Field on Friday, April 16, 2010 at 3:00p.m.and see if the students will be victorious for the 18th consecutive year. A social with food and games will follow the ball game at Frank Nanney Hall from 5:00p.m.-6:00p.m. For more information on this event, please contact Sandy Hammett, NOEL Program Disabilities Specialist, by phone at 704.406.3615 or by e-mail at shammett@gardner-webb.edu

Edward Allen Shifflette, III and Laura Anne Bowen were married on May 23, 2009 at Sedge Garden United Methodist Church in Kernersville, North Carolina. Eddie attends Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University and Laura is a Nurse at Duke University Hospital.

The Gardner-Webb University Department of Fine Arts proudly presents a unique lecture entitled “Melodic Treasures” to be held in Blanton Auditorium, located in Hamrick Hall on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 8:00p.m. Janey Pease, an Adjunct Professor for Gardner-Webb’s Departments of Fine Arts and Psychology will lead the presentation in Express Arts Therapy. Pease identifies Expressive Arts Therapy as a rapidly growing area that focuses on the healing effects promoted by the creative process. Physical, psychological, and spiritual well being is nurtured in interpretative movement, therapeutic writing, sculpting and pottery, painting, music, storytelling, and even ecotherapy, which involves interacting with nature and the outdoors. The lecture will survey the history, theory, and practice of expressive arts therapy, and will include poetry and music.

Jean Falls Moore recently retired from Cleveland Medical Associates after 42 years in the field of nursing. In addition to serving at a hospital in Anchorage Alaska, she has worked at Kings Mountain Hospital and Hendricks-Durham-Lee Clinic. Jean and her husband, Rick, have two children and three grandchildren.

Barbara Rose Blackburn and Peter Paul Hale were united in marriage on Saturday, December 19, 2009 at Providence Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is employed by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and he is employed by Law Practice Solutions. The couple will take a honeymoon trip to St. Lucia. They reside in Fletcher.

Gardner-Webb University’s Department of Fine Arts and the Center for Continuing Professional Education presents “Brass Fest 2010” to be held Saturday, April 17, 2010 beginning at 9:00a.m and culminating with a special performance by the world-renowned Carolina Brass at 8:00p.m. Through clinics, masterclasses, and performances, this workshop will provide practical learning experience that will contribute to the continued proficiency of music students and educators alike. Topics for discussion include Careers and Creating Opportunities in Music, How to Practice, Preparing for Auditions, Contest Festivals, Judging, Jazz Improvisation, and more! Music educators can earn one of live continuing education credit for ten hours of continuing education. Participants, please bring your instruments!

At Gardner-Webb University our students are committed to using what they learn both inside and outside of the classroom to transform the world around them. That dedication to helping others has earned us a place on the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college can receive for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Our students and faculty deserve all the credit. This honor goes to each person on this campus that identified a challenge, organized a group of committed individuals and worked to be part of the solution. Tutoring kids, managing afterschool programs, feeding the hungry—our students did all this and more. We believe that service is how we will meet the challenges of our time, and we are proud that our students exhibited the leadership needed to make an impact on future direction of our nation.

William "Richard" Ward passed away on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at his residence. He taught English at Sumter High School. Richard was an active member of Calvary Baptist Church. He is survived by his mother, sister, and two nieces.

Laura Cheree' Clontz will receive her Master's of Divinity degree with a concentration in Psychology and Counseling from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary on May 7, 2010. Laura is currently serving at First Baptist Church Colleyville in Colleyville, Texas as the Preschool Ministry Assistant, co-directing their specialized Pre-K and Kindergarten programming.

The C.O. and Eliza Greene Lecture Series presents Dr. Marva Dawn on “The Theology of Suffering” to be held on Tuesday, March 23 beginning at 9:30a.m.in Blanton Auditorium, located on the main level of Harmick Hall at Gardner-Webb University. Dr. Dawn is the Teaching Fellow in Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an internationally renowned theologian, author, and educator with Christians Equipped for Ministry who has preached and taught at seminaries and other religious forums throughout the United States and all over the world. An expert teacher in worship, Bible, community life, ethics, homiletics, and spiritual formation, Dr. Dawn continues to share her wisdom in over 20 books and 15 articles, some of which have won awards and others translated into Chinese, Korean, and Portuguese.