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October 6, 2000 Vol. 53, No. 17


CHOIRS TO PERFORM 'THE SONG GOES ON: MONTEVERDI TO JAZZ'

The Drake Choir, Chamber Choir and Chorale, directed by Aimee Beckmann-Collier and Ryan Beeken, will perform music from madrigals to jazz at 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. The performance is free and open to the public.
DRAKE TO DEDICATE LANGUAGE LEARNING CENTER MONDAY

Drake University will formally dedicate the Jane E. Evans Language Learning Center in room 323 of Meredith Hall at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9.

A resident of Pebble Beach, Calif., Evans, LA'59, funded the center with a $250,000 gift to Drake. She will attend the dedication ceremony along with her husband, John, the retired president, CEO and chairman of Allied Insurance. Monday's dedication will be the first time the couple has been on campus since the center opened last fall.

Jane Evans will speak at the dedication as will Drake President David Maxwell, Drake Provost Ronald Troyer and Arthur Hughes, assistant professor of Spanish and director of the Evans Language Learning Center at Drake.
PROF. WORTHEN TO DISCUSS KIRSCHENBAUM EXHIBITION

Thomas Worthen, associate professor of art, will give a talk Tuesday, Oct. 10, in conjunction with the new Anderson Gallery exhibition titled "A Matchless Clarity: Paintings and Studies by Jules Kirschenbaum."

The retrospective exhibition, which presents more than 40 years of work by the distinguished artist and former Drake faculty member, will open Sunday, Oct. 8, with an opening reception from 2 to 4 p.m.
Worthen, a colleague of Kirschenbaum's for 30 years, is co-curator of the exhibition as is Marie Louise "Loulou" Kane, director of the Anderson Gallery.

Worthen's talk, which will start at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the gallery in the Harmon Fine Arts Center, is titled "Drawings by Jules Kirschenbaum: The Heavenly, the Earthly and the Stupid."

The exhibition will continue through Nov. 5. The gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
DRAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO OPEN SEASON TUESDAY

The Drake Symphony Orchestra, John Canarina conducting, will open its 2000-2001 season on Tuesday, October 10, at 8 p.m. on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. The concert is free and open to the public.

Faculty pianist Chiu-Ling Lin will the featured soloist in Rachmaninoff's popular "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini." In addition, Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony will be performed in memory of Patricia Shinehouse, Drake's professor of flute who died this past summer.

Rounding out the program will be the Overture, "The Fountain of Youth," by American composer/conductor Thomas Briccetti, and the Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" by Igor Stravinsky.
AMBASSADOR LARSON TO SPEAK AT DRAKE THURSDAY

Ambassador Alan P. Larson, under secretary of state for economic, business and agricultural affairs, will speak at Drake on Thursday, Oct. 12, before participating in the World Food Prize Symposium. His Drake talk, which will focus on agriculture, foreign policy and foreign trade, will start at 11 a.m. in room 102 of Meredith Hall. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Drake chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, an economics honor society.

Larson's responsibilities include the entire range of international economic policy. Before assuming his current post in November 1999, he served in other leadership positions such as assistant secretary and principal deputy assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs as well as deputy assistant secretary for international finance and development.

From 1990 to 1993, he served as American ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. Earlier in his career, Larson served in economic sections in U.S. embassies in Jamaica, Zaire and Sierra Leone. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Iowa.  
DRAKE BASKETBALL TIP OFF BREAKFAST SET FOR OCT. 27

Reservations are now being accepted for the annual Drake University Basketball Tip-Off Breakfast Oct. 27 at the Hotel Savery in downtown Des Moines.

The buffet breakfast will start at 7 a.m. with the program scheduled to start at 7:30 a.m. Athletic Director Dave Blank along with women's basketball coach Lisa Stone and men's basketball coach Kurt Kanaskie will be the featured speakers, previewing the upcoming basketball season.

The cost of the breakfast is $15 per person with an Oct. 23 deadline for making reservations. Checks should be made payable to the Drake Athletic Department and returned to Sally Corcoran, Drake Athletics, 2507 University Ave., Des Moines, Iowa 50311. For more information contact Brad Bross, assistant athletic director for external affairs, at x2228.
DRAKE BASKETBALL 'BULLDOG HAUNTED HOOPS' SET OCT. 29

Central Iowa area basketball fans can catch a sneak preview of the Drake University men's and women's basketball teams by attending the Bulldog Haunted Hoops at the Drake Knapp Center Sunday, Oct. 29.

Doors to the Drake Knapp Center open at 4 p.m. with festivities scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. Both the men's and women's basketball teams will be introduced to the public followed by 12-minute intrasquad scrimmages from each team.

Other activities include a Halloween parade, for kids 14 years and under; a three-point shooting contest involving members of the Drake women's team followed by a dunking display with members of the Bulldog men's basketball team. One lucky Drake student will have an opportunity to win one semester's tuition participating in a half-court shot.

All fans attending the Bulldog Haunted Hoops will get free Drake men's and women's basketball posters. Members of the Drake men's and women's basketball teams also will be available to autograph the posters.

Kurt Kanaskie, entering his fifth year as head men's basketball coach, has six returning letterwinners including two starters back from last year's squad which posted an 11-18 record. Senior guard Lamont Evans, named to the 1999-2000 All-Missouri Valley Conference Newcomer team, heads the list of returning veterans after finishing second in the league in assists. Drake will open a 15-game home season, playing host to the University of Iowa Nov. 21 at the Drake Knapp Center.

Lisa Stone, in her first year as head coach of the Bulldog women's program, inherits a squad which has four starters back from last year's team which finished 23-7 winning the Missouri Valley Conference regular season and tournament championships while advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in six years.

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