Approximately 180 Drake alumni and faculty and staff members have volunteered
to sell Pepsi products at beverage tents during the Des Moines Arts Festival, which starts Friday, June 23, and continues
through Sunday in downtown Des Moines. A portion of the proceeds from the beverage
tents will help support activities of the Central Iowa chapter of the Drake National
Alumni Association, such as the Let's DU Lunch series.
Students in a graphic design class taught by assistant art professor John Fender
this spring came up with a variety of proposed street-painting designs for five 30-foot
squares on the Walnut Street Bridge. The designs all promoted awareness of the international
presence of The Principal Financial Group in Australia, Chile, Hong Kong, Mexico
and Spain.
The Executive Board of the Des Moines Arts Festival selected one student's design,
which will be painted on the bridge by children attending the festival. Peter Holm,
a junior graphic design major from Woodinville, Wash., has sketched out his winning
design on the bridge. He will be on hand to supervise the painting as will Connie
Wilson, a graphic design instructor at Drake. Holm's design features an abstract
flag in each square that's connected with a graphic element.
Another Drake student, Allison Bloss, an intern at Wilson's design firm, has devised
three different designs that will be painted by children on three MidAmerican Energy
trucks parked at the Locust Street Bridge during the festival. Her designs, which
she has outlined on the vehicles, promote safety awareness in regard to electricity
and natural gas. Bloss, a resident of Chesterfield, Mo., who recently completed her
senior year as a graphic design major at Drake, will be on hand to help the children
with the painting. DISCUSSION OF THE DARLING COLLECTION SET FOR SUNDAY
Christopher "Kip" Koss, grandson of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial
cartoonist Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling, will share his memories and insights
on his grandfather at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 25, in the first-floor reading room of
Cowles Library.
Koss, who has produced and donated to Cowles Library a searchable CD of the 6,800
cartoons in the Darling Collection at Drake, also will give a visual tour of his
grandfather's work.
Darling, who worked for The Des Moines Register from 1906 to 1949, chronicled such
momentous events as two world wars, the Great Depression and Prohibition. His cartoons
appeared on the front page of The Register almost daily and were syndicated in hundreds
of other newspapers across the country. DRAKE FINISHES FIFTH IN MVC ALL-SPORTS STANDINGS
Drake placed fifth in the 1999-2000 Missouri Valley Conference all-sports standings for men's and women's
competition, just missing fourth place by twenty-three hundredths of a point and
third place by forty-three hundredths of a point.
The Bulldogs recorded the highest finish of any private school (Bradley, Creighton,
Evansville) in the league, while also finishing ahead of state institutions Southern
Illinois and Wichita State.
Drake finished in the upper division of the Missouri Valley Conference in nine of
the 14 sports in which it competes, capturing conference championships in men's cross
country, women's basketball and women's tennis.
The MVC All-Sports Award is based on a school's average finish in each of the 19
sponsored championships by the league. Teams are awarded one point for first, two
for second, three for third, etc., and the total accumulated points are divided by
the number of sports in which a particular school competes.
Southwest Missouri State won the all-sports title with a 3.67 average, followed by
Indiana State (4.00), Illinois State (4.21), Northern Iowa (4.41), Drake (4.64),
Southern Illinois (5.00), Wichita State (5.17), Evansville (5.43), Creighton (5.69)
and Bradley (7.09). BEARDEN EARNS ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA HONORS IN TRACK
Drake University track standout Tracey Bearden of Brookfield, Wis., has been
named to the third team GTE Academic America University Division Spring Women's At-Large
team.
Bearden, a nine-time All-Missouri Valley Conference performer, was the only Iowa
collegian named to either the first, second or third team. The sophomore psychology
major has a 3.936 grade-point average.
The spring at-large team includes student-athletes who participate in either golf,
lacrosse, tennis, indoor and outdoor track or crew. Earlier, Bearden was one of 10
athletes named to the All-District VIII first team, which encompasses schools from
Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
It marks the third straight year a member of the Drake women's track team earned
third-team Academic All-America honors. Hurdler Brooke Divine was recognized in 1998
and Carla Sudbeck and Jennifer Runchey were cited in 1999.
Since 1990, Drake has had 24 student-athletes earn Academic All-America honors in
voting by the College Sports Information Directors of America ñ the most by any NCAA
Division I school in Iowa or any member of the Missouri Valley Conference.
Bearden was second in the 5,000 (17:08.08) and third in the 10,000 (36:33.67) at
the Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Championships in Wichita, Kan., May 18. Earlier,
she won the 5,000 at the 2000 MVC Indoor Championships while setting a UNI-Dome record
of 17:01.33. She was second in the 1999 MVC Cross Country Championships.
