CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE 2012
Student Presentations continued
3-3:15 p.m.
3:40-3:55
Bryant Suess
Kirby 110
“The Northern Klan: Social Club or Racial Menace”
Andrew Salyer
Kirby 110
“From Heavenly Harmony: English Music in Eighteenth-Century
America”
Ryo Tanaka
Schewe Classroom
“How Japanese Young People Compensate for Substitutable
Relations and Instable Life by Being Obsessed with Subcultures”
Samer Anabtawi
Schewe Classroom
“Fayyadism: the Political Tale of a Shining Economic Bubble”
3:20-3:35
3-3:55
Julie Stewart
Kirby 110
“Springfield Had No Shame…She Stood for the Action of the Mob”:
The Springfield Race Riot of 1908 and Early Twentieth Century Racial
Violence”
Multi-Disciplinary Student Art Show
Sibert Theatre
Phuong Nguyen
Schewe Classroom
“Water Puppetry - The Soul of the Vietnamese Countryside”
Andrea Kestner, Ross Barker, Bradley Shawgo
Whipple 201
“Forays in Rhetorical Criticism: Classical Approaches to
Contemporary Speeches”
Dessert Reception
7:30 p.m. — Cummings Dining Hall
Welcome
Dr. Elizabeth Tobin
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
Academic, Leadership, and Special Honors
Barbara Heintz Albach Memorial Award
Rose and Henry Arroll Scholarship
Vithal Ayyagari Science Award
Walter Bellatti, Sr. Honor Scholar Award
Donald R. Eldred Scholarship for Leadership in Campus Life
Charles and Dorothy Frank Travel Award
Helen Grandcolas Foreign Travel Award
Lucille S. Green Scholarship
Gertrude Hahn Travel Award
Robert C. Widmaier and Nicholas J. Capo Academic Achievement Award
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Peacemaker Award
Lincoln Academy Student Laureate
Rammelkamp Honor Scholars
Carole Ann Ryan Fine Arts Prize
Recognition of Student Presenters and
other Departmental and College Award Recipients
Dr. Elizabeth Tobin
Friday, April 27, 2012
10 a.m. to 12 noon – Student Presentations
1 p.m. – Honors Convocation
2 to 4 p.m. – Student Presentations
6 p.m. – Music Department Honors Recital
7:30 p.m. – Dessert Reception
CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE 2012
CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE 2012
Student Presentations
10-12 Noon and 2-4 p.m.
Honors Convocation
1 p.m. — Rammelkamp Chapel
Processional
Trumpet Voluntary in D by Jeremiah Clarke
Dr. Rudolf J. Zuiderveld, College Organist
(please stand)
Excellence
Dr. Elizabeth Tobin
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
Don P. Filson Faculty Award for Vision for the Future
Dr. Elizabeth Tobin
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
Academic, Leadership and Special Honors
Julian M. Sturtevant Campus Leadership and Service Award
Dr. Malinda Carlson
2011-2012 Class Marshals Announcement
Dr. Elizabeth Tobin
Phi Beta Kappa, Academic National Honor Fraternity Announcement
Dr. Steven Gardner and Dr. Patricia Kiihne
Harry Joy Dunbaugh Distinguished Professor Award
Dr. Axel Steuer
Alma Mater
Ruth Badger Pixley, Music by A. Boyd Pixley
(please stand)
Illinois dear Alma Mater
Ivy’d Beecher, Sturtevant
Here, we sing thy
Loving praises,
Here, renew our covenant.
Hail forever, Alma Mater
May thy children
Bring thee fame.
Hail forever, Illinois
In our hearts shall live thy name.
Closing Remarks and Announcements
Dr. Axel Steuer
President of the College
Recessional
Rigaudon by Andre Campra
Dr. Rudolf J. Zuiderveld, College Organist
(please stand)
10-10:15 a.m.
Melissa Trone
Parker 106
“The Use of an iPad on Learning and Enjoyment as a Classroom Tool”
Samer Anabtawi
Kirby 110
“Public Opinion in France toward the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: the
history, social make-up and political culture of France”
Allison McMinn
Schewe Classroom
“Dorothy Day as Servant Leader”
Lauren Reece
Whipple 201
“Edward Beecher and Cornelia, the significance of an unpublished novel”
10:20-10:35 a.m.
Kate McCreight
Parker 106
“Tinnitus and Stress Response”
Samantha Killebrew
Kirby 110
“Immigration Laws in Spain as a Reflection of Society”
Julie Stewart
Schewe Classroom
“Mugire Amahoro (Have Peace): Rwanda’s Progress toward Unity,
Prosperity, and Peace”
Alyssa Gerhardt
Whipple 201
“Memories and Meanings of a Frontier Mansion: The Preservation
and Public History of the Governor Duncan Mansion”
10:40-10:55 a.m.
Megan Stringer
Parker 106
“The Course of Borderline Personality Disorder across Adulthood in
Persons with Intellectual Disabilities”
Kathryn Stroud
Kirby 110
“Virgil and History: Betrayal of a Muse?”
History 205 Students
Schewe Classroom
“Illinois College in World War I”
Morgan Brown
Whipple 201
“Jacksonville Female Academy”
Joe Hogan
Whipple 201
“A Comparison of Atrocities: The American Civil War and Nazi
Germany”
11-11:55 a.m.
Michael Bates, Joseph Craven, Colin Duling, Alyssa
Gerhardt, Eric Joynt, Allison McMinn, Miriam Quezada,
Julie Stewart, Kathryn Stroud
Schewe Classroom
“Finding Our Voice, Taking a Stand, Leading the Way”
Theatre 262 Students
Kirby ICEBOX Theatre
“Sound and Lighting”
11:20-11:35 a.m.
Haleigh Ray
Parker 106
“A survey of the insects inhabiting the Florida Panther National Wildlife
Refuge, including first documentation of the Mexican bromeliad weevil,
Metamasius callizona (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)”
Scott Gnuse
Whipple 201
“Tracing the Experiences of Union Army Chaplains in the American
Civil War”
11:40-11:55 a.m.
Shanna David
Parker 106
“Survival assessment of Platanthera holochila (Orchidaceae)
seedlings in vitro and following re-introduction in Hawaii”
Tyler Hermens
Whipple 201
“Benjamin H. Grierson: Musician Turned Brigadier”
2:05-2:55 p.m.
Poster Session
Kirby Rotunda
Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Economics, History,
Modern Languages
Poster Session
Parker Rotunda
Biology, Education, Mathematics, Psychology
History 398 Students
Schewe Library
“Gems of the Illinois College Archives” (This is a display, not a
presentation or poster session.)
11-11:15 a.m.
Robert Rush
Parker 106
“Effects of Maasai Sedentarization on Rangeland Condition and the
Associated Impacts in the Amboseli Ecosystem”
Continued on back