The Centre College football team will travel
to Innsbruck, Austria, this summer to play the Tyrolean Raiders of the
Austrian International Football League. The game is scheduled for June
10 and will be played at the stadium where the 1964 Winter Olympics
was held. The Raiders are ranked in the top 10 of all professional football
teams in Europe. The International League includes teams from Italy,
Switzerland, Germany and Spain. The NCAA has granted ten practices for
the Centre Colonels in preparation for the game. This is the first time
Centre has conducted spring football since 1972. Centre will open the
season September 8 against Earlham College at home.
Robert R. Llewellyn, Rhodes College philosophy
professor who served as interim dean of academic affairs during the
current academic year, has been named dean of the college. Llewellyn's
appointment came after a two-year national search. A Davidson and Vanderbilt
graduate, he has taught at Rhodes since 1969.
Next fall, a new course will be taught at Maryville
College, thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Center for Theology
and Natural Sciences (CTNS) Science and Religion Course Program. "Science
and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives" will be
offered as a Senior Seminar course. The course is the brainchild of
Dr. Drew Crain, assistant professor of biology, who wrote and submitted
the grant proposal last year.
Commencement Speakers
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
held its 148th commencement exercises on Sunday, May 20 at Harvey Browne
Memorial Presbyterian Church in Louisville, KY. The commencement speaker
was John J. Detterick, executive director of the General Assembly Council
of the Presbyterian Church (USA). During the commencement exercises,
the Devoted Service Award was presented to Detterick and to Mrs. Mamie
Jones, vice moderator of the Synod of Living Waters. Prior to commencement,
Dr. George D. Carter, Jr. delivered the Baccalaureate sermon at a 10:30a.m.
service in the Seminary's Caldwell Chapel. Carter is Director of Field
Education and Clinical Pastoral Education and Professor of Ministry
at Louisville Seminary.
U.S. Senator Bill Frist, a Republican from Tennessee,
was the speaker at Maryville College's 182nd commencement exercises
on May 20. Frist and Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions
Commissioner Fred R. Lawson, a Maryville College board member, were
awarded honorary doctorate degrees from the College during the ceremony.
"Keeping Faith Through Challenge and Change" was the title
of Frist's address.
Columbia Theological Seminary held its 2001
commencement exercises on Saturday, May 19 at Peachtree Presbyterian
Church in Atlanta. Degrees were conferred upon 106 students in four
of Columbia's five degree programs. The baccalaureate service was held
at Decatur Presbyterian Church on May 18. Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr., professor
emeritus of systematic theology at Columbia Seminary, preached the baccalaureate
sermon. His title was "The Alpha and the Omega," based on
Revelation 1:4-8.
Michael G. Helton, President of NASCAR (National
Association for Stock Auto Racing), was the speaker for King College's
134th commencement on May 8 in Bristol. Seventy-seven students received
degrees. Helton was appointed president of the multi-billion dollar
industry in December 2000 and is considered one of the most respected
officials in the industry. He is a native of Bristol, VA, and a 1975
alumnus of King College. The annual King College Baccalaureate worship
service was held earlier that day at Bristol's First Presbyterian Church.
Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee,
conferred degrees on 245 graduates in commencement ceremonies on May
5. Two members of the Class of 2001, Carmen Brown and George W. Darby,
Jr., gave the commencement address. Campus chaplain Stephen Weisz, gave
the commencement sermon.
On the same stage that has hosted Jimmy Carter,
Dick Cheney, Joseph Lieberman and many other luminaries, another historic
event will take place at Centre College as an individual student
will deliver the primary Commencement address. Senior Beverly Brooks
addressed her fellow classmates Sunday, June 3 at 3p.m. in the graduation
of Centre's 178th class. About 255 students are to graduate at the ceremonies
at Newlin Hall. Brooks, an international relations major, was chosen
to speak because of the strength of her presentation to the speaker-election
committee, her enthusiasm and her intense activity in the Centre community
the past four years. The Baccalaureate address will be given by College
chaplain and assistant professor of religion Rich Axtell.
