The Sonoma County Bach Choir will be part of a "rolling requiem" on an international scale on September 11 when Mozart's Requiem will be performed at 8:46 a.m. in Ives Hall 119 on the Sonoma State University campus.
Bob Worth, choral director at Sonoma State University, will conduct the 40-member choral group of students and community residents as part of several campus-wide ceremonies that day. Marilyn Thompson will accompany the choir. Soloists include Jenni Samuelson, Susan Witt, Lynne Morrow, Scott Whitaker and Bill Neeley.
The Rolling Requiem is a worldwide choral commemoration of all those lost and those who helped on September 11, 2001. Performances of Mozart's Requiem will ring the globe as choirs in over 125 countries begin performing at 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City.
The melody begins west of the International Dateline in New Zealand and the Philippines and travels through all the time zones on the planet until it completes the circle.
In events later in the day on the SSU campus:
Noon: The campus community will observe a moment of silence in the Stevenson-Darwin Quad.
2 p.m.: Nursing professor Sandra DeBella Bodley will discuss her involvement in Peaceful Tomorrows, an advocacy organization founded by family members of September Eleventh victims. Her 20-year old niece died in the crash of Flight 93. The discussion will take place in Darwin 143.
3-4:30 p.m.: Discussion groups will be held in the Jean and Charles
Schulz Information Center to provide acknowledgement, support and hope for the future.
7-7:30 p.m.: A candlelight vigil will begin between 7 and 7:30 p.m. in the Main Quad in an event sponsored by the SSU Alumni Association, Associated Students and Hate Stops Here. Jim Mobley and Ernie Alvarez of the Sonoma County Human Rights Commission will be guest speakers.
The public is invited to all events and is urged to arrive at the Requiem performance by 8:30 a.m.
For further information, contact Sharon Dzik, Student Affairs, (707) 664-3123.
NOTE: A list of the countries where Requiem events are being planned is available at www.rollingrequiem.org.
Scientists from Austria, Brazil, China, England, Spain, Iran, and the U.S. will describe their work in this fall's "What Physicists Do" public lecture series at Sonoma State University.
Lectures will be on Mondays at 4 p.m., from Sept. 9 through Dec. 2, in room 108 Darwin Hall on the SSU campus.
All but one of the foreign-born speakers now work in the United States. The exception is Ferdinand Cap of the University of Innsbruck, who will come from Austria to open the series on Sept. 9. A distinguished plasma physicist, he will describe conversations he had over the years with some of the greatest of twentieth century physicists, including Erwin Schroedinger, Werner Heisenberg, and Wolfgang Pauli.
Kent Cullers, director of research and development of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, will speak Sept. 23 on "Extending the Senses." The first totally blind physicist to earn a Ph.D. in physics in the United States, Cullers was the inspiration for an astronomer in the film Contact.
Ka-Ngo Leung of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will discuss his team's development of new compact neutron sources that are "small enough to descend into a borehole, provide neutrons for brain-cancer therapy, peer inside airport luggage, or perch on a laboratory bench."
Two speakers will discuss new technological developments at Sonoma State University. New faculty member Bryant Hichwa will describe the work he and his physics students will be doing with optical MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) for next generation switching devices, and Dean Saeid Rahimi will describe the eight new science and engineering laboratories which make up the Cerent Laboratories complex in recently-renovated Salazar Hall.
Other speakers will discuss using light to measure nanometer scale geometries, the next generation of radio telescopes, NASA's mission to seek extraterrestrial life, making movies of individual atoms and molecules, and measuring the size of subatomic collisions.
The series will conclude Dec. 2 with David Goldhaber-Gordon of Stanford University. The first recipient of an American Physical Society prize awarded biannually to an individual under age 30 for outstanding contribution to the knowledge of physics, Goldhaber will speak on "A Few Electrons in a Box."
SSU professor Joe Tenn, who is directing the series, expresses his gratitude to the donors who have made it possible to bring such distinguished speakers to SSU for the privately-funded series.
For a free poster describing all thirteen lectures, see http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/wpd/, send e-mail to gayle.walker@sonoma.edu, or call (707) 664-2119.
Film and politics, genetic technologies and opera mark the range of dynamic courses offered this semester at Sonoma State University's Lifelong Learning Institute which opens classes on Sept. 9.
The program offers an eight-week fall session for the North Bay?s age 50 and better student population on Mondays through Thursdays. Institute membership is $150 for the session, allowing enrollment in up to four classes.
Prospective and returning students are encouraged to attend the Fall Open House on Wednesday, Sept. 4 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Person Theatre at Sonoma State University. This is an opportunity for students to meet the distinguished faculty and visit with fellow LLI students and to take a tour around the campus.
During the fall session only, students make take advantage of the Annual Membership with a one time fee of $400 for enrollment of up to four courses in each of the three (fall, winter and spring) eight-week sessions and attend LLI special events throughout the year.
"High quality education is crucial to the development and continuation of the LLI," Les Adler, Dean of Extended Education said. "We are proud to be able to offer our students not only a wide variety of courses but an extraordinary learning."
The nine courses for the fall session include:
* How Genetic Technologies Impact Our Lives (Biology ? Dr. Philip Harriman)
* Politics in Action-Election 2002 (Political Science - Kathleen Thompson Hill and Gerald N. Hill, J.D.)
* The Language of Poetry (Poetry/Literature ? Dr. David Bromidge and Cecelia Belle)
* Film and Politics: Leaders, Heroes and Followers (Politics and Film Studies ? Dr. Lou Miller)
* What is Language (Literature ? Dr. Gerald Haslam)
* Four Operas in Three Acts (Music ? Dr. Peggy Donovan-Jeffry)
* Corruption, Greed and Accountability in Corporate America (Business/Economics ? Robert Colman, J.D.)
* Inner Asia (Geography ? Dr. David Hooson)
* In Search of Personal Perfection: Humanist Ideals of the Italian Renaissance (History ? Dr. Robert Jefferson)
Students are encouraged to register for classes prior to the Open House.
For more information contact Barbara Brooks, LLI Coordinator at (707) 664-2691.
Dr. Ruben Arminana, president of Sonoma State University, will explore the importance of community building in his speech at the Fall 2002 University Convocation on Monday, August 26.
Dr. Arminana's comments will begin at 10 a.m.
Noel Byrne, Chair of the Faculty, opens the event at 9 a.m. in the Evert B. Person Theatre. He will be followed by Provost Bernie Goldstein who introduces the new faculty.
Other speakers include: Jen Minnich, President, Associated Students; Greg Tichava, Staff Employee Representative; and Victor Garlin, California Faculty Association representative.
A question and answer period closes the convocation.
Meetings at each of the academic schools are held in the afternoon.
NOTE: Copies of speeches by President Arminana, Provost Bernie Goldstein and Noel Byrne, Chair of the Faculty, are available at:
http://www.sonoma.edu/uaffairs/convocation/
Sonoma State University along with the University of California, Davis and California State University, Sacramento has applied for a planning grant that would be the first step in bringing a joint Doctorate of Education Program in Educational Leadership to the three campuses.
The goal of the program is to produce increasing numbers of leaders with critical skills to take action in advancing educational practice in pre-K-12 and community college environments.
There will be two strands to the planned program, one focusing on leadership needs of pre-K-12, and one on the needs of community colleges. In both strands, students will be actively engaged by faculty in research that addresses today's problems faced by schools and colleges.
"California is facing a severe shortage of effective, high quality educational leaders in pre-kindergarten through community college settings, " says Dr. Phyllis Fernlund, Dean of the School of Education at Sonoma State University.
"With a rapidly growing, highly diverse student population, monumental resource needs, and complex accountability issues, the state's educational system is experiencing acute pressure to retain and recruit qualified administrators at all levels," the Dean says.
Community colleges are also facing a significant shortage of educational leaders, and many of the same complex issues affecting K-12 public school administrators apply to community college administrators as well, Fernlund adds.
For these reasons SSU, U. C. Davis, and CSU Sacramento have decided to consider a high quality Joint Ed.D. Program in Educational Leadership that addresses the needs of both the pre-K-12 schools and the community colleges in northern California.
The three campuses have agreed to create a joint faculty work team, and the faculty work team will assemble an advisory committee drawn from educational leaders in the pre-K-12 schools and community colleges in the region.
The outcomes of the planning grant are: 1) meet with the advisory committee to consider regional educational needs, 2) conduct additional needs assessments as appropriate to inform academic and administrative program planning, and 3) prepare a Joint Ed.D. program development proposal in anticipation of a development grant submission for Fall 2002.
"A Passionate Journey: The Work of Pele deLappe" kicks off the Fall 2002 Arts and Lectures program at the University Library in the Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center at Sonoma State University.
The exhibit opens Monday, August 26 and runs through October 25. In celebration of deLappe?s unique journey, the University Library will host a reception on September 13 from 6 to 9 p.m. At 7 p.m., deLappe and cultural historian Bram Dijkstra will lead a discussion on art, politics, and life in turbulent times of the past century.
DeLappe, a life long social realist, is a lithographer, painter, cartoonist, activist, and educator admired for her ability to capture human emotions, both poignant and comical, and the conditions from which these emotions arise.
Now in her eighties and living in Petaluma, deLappe provides 21st century audiences a rare glimpse into the many intersections of art, politics, labor, and culture of the 20th century.
A fourth generation San Franciscan born in 1916, Pele deLappe studied at the California School of Fine Arts (now the SF Art Institute) and the Art Students League in New York and taught drawing at the California Labor School.
She maintained friendships with Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Jessica Mitford, Arnold and Lucile Blanch, Byron Randall, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, John Sloan, Charles Locke, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others.
In a life devoted to activism and marked by international travel, she met James Joyce at age 10, participated in the San Francisco Waterfront Strike of 1934, modeled for Diego Rivera?s Rockefeller Center mural, illustrated and wrote for such publications as New Masses, People?s World, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Marine Cook?s and Steward Voice, made seven trips to Cuba, and authored her autobiography, Pele: A Passionate Journey through Art and the Red Press.
"A Passionate Journey: The Work of Pele deLappe" presents artworks created throughout her life. Lithographs, drawings, paintings, and ephemera have been loaned from private collectors, art galleries, and museums such as the Palace of the Legion of Honor, as well as from the artist?s own collection.
This exhibition is part of the Fall 2002 Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center Arts and Lectures Program which is designed to enrich the intellectual, educational, and cultural life of the Sonoma State community.
The early Fall 2002 program is titled "Class Conscious Art and Writing of the 20th Century." In addition to the art exhibit, the University Library in conjunction with the SSU English Department will sponsor a lecture series examining the work of artists and writers who explore the lives of 20th century working class Americans. There will also be displays throughout the building.
The September 13 discussion facilitated by cultural historian Bram Dijkstra and deLappe, begins the weekly lecture series. Dijkstra is a Professor of Literature at UC San Diego and author of such books as "Georgia O'Keeffe and the Eros of Place," "Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin de Siecle Culture" and "Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality in Twentieth Century Culture."
Additional presenters in the series include: Deborah LeSueur and SSU Professor Julia Allen discussing the work of Meridel LeSueur, writer and cultural theorist; SSU Professor Kim Hester-Williams introducing works of Black Panther women writers; Rick Rivera, instructor at Modesto Junior College and former SSU student reading from his latest novel, "Stars Always Shine," which explores the relationship between a working class Mexican American man and an undocumented Mexican worker in western Sonoma Country.
The lectures are at noon on Wednesdays throughout September and October in Schulz 3001. A new art exhibition and lecture series will start in November.
The University Library Art Gallery is open Monday ? Saturday 10 am ? 5 pm. There is a $2.50 daily parking permit required to park on campus.
For further information, contact jean Wasp, Media Relations, (707) 664-2057.
