USCB's Golden Jubilee
Schedule of Events
August 2009
University Convocation: Celebrating the 50th Class
August 18, 2009 11:00 AM Gateway to Hilton Head Island Campus
September 2009
2009 Studio Art Faculty Art Exhibition
September 1- October 15, 2009
Opening Reception September 2nd 5:30-7:00pm
USCB Performing Arts Center- Historic Beaufort Campus
Sand Shark Invitational Fall Cross Country Meet
Saturday September 19, 2009 South Campus
October 2009
Lunch with Authors:
October 15, 2009 12:00 noon Colleton River Plantation Clubhouse, Bluffton
Author Ethan Canin, "a critically acclaimed marvelous author... one of the most satisfying writers on the contemporary scene," according to the NY Times, will speak about his new book America America. USCB Lunch with Author Series: Reservations required for all author and historic tours by calling 843-521-4147.
Special Speaker Dr. Timothy J. Lockley, Univ. of Warwick (UK)
October 27, 2009 at the Performing Arts Center, Historic Beaufort Campus – 1pm
November 2009
The 2009-2010 USCB Festival Series first concert of the season Sunday, November 1 at 5 pm, USCB Performing Arts Center, Carteret Street, Beaufort.
Join Edward Arron, Artistic Director and Host, and Rieko Aizaw, Corey Cerovsek and Toby Appel for an evening of Beethoven, Jean Françiax, & Schumann. Subscriptions for the 5 concert series beginning at $175 are available. Individual ticket prices start at $40. Call Staci Breton at 208-8246.
Golden Jubilee Special Event Opening Night Reception
Thursday, November 5, 6 PM The Spring Island Club
Join Chancellor Upshaw and honored guests Dr. Larry Rowland; renowned historian, Dr. Baer, Mr. Boser and Mr. Dykes as we celebrate the University’s 50th anniversary. At this exclusive cocktail celebration you have the opportunity to meet our guest speakers, enjoy indulgent delicacies, and bid on several very special items. For reservations and pricing call MJ Simmons at 208-8257
Art, Artifice & Acquisition
Friday, November 6, Performing Arts Center, Historic Beaufort Campus 10 AM, 11 AM and 2 PM
3 Speakers will present through the morning. Lunch will be provided. Click here for more information.
For reservations and pricing call MJ Simmons at 208-8257
Appraisal Day
Saturday, November 7 Heritage Classic Foundation Hall, Hargray Building, Hilton Head Gateway Campus, Highway 278 Bluffton 10 AM to 3 PM
Bring your treasure to Kelly Dykes and colleagues, of Certified Personal Property Appraisals. You may make an appointment for a time slot and bring one item for $25. You will be provided an appraisal. We have all heard of the Van Gogh in the attic. It may be your turn! For reservations call MJ Simmons at 208-8257
Executive Speaker Series
Presented by GulfStream
Friday, November 20, 2009, 1:30 PM
Heritage Classic Foundation Hall, Hargray Building
Hilton Head Gateway Campus
First in a three part series presented for the business community, Cyndy Nayer, Pres/CEO of the Center for Health Value Innovation, will speak on health care reform. A frequent guest on television, quoted source and featured subject in many news articles, Nayer also coordinates seminars and speaks nationally on a variety of topics. She has coordinated two national seminars on managed care and its relation to the Aging network, as well as developed pilots for the National Council on the Aging and one of its sponsors to facilitate dialogue between managed care, delivery systems, and seniors. She has served as lecturer for the St. Louis University Geriatric Summer Institute, the National Council on the Aging, the Missouri Governor’s Council on Aging, and the Club Industry.
Her topic is especially timely and of national interest. Free for members
For information on joining the Executive Speakers Series please call Myke McCutcheon at 208-8231 or mccutcheon@uscb.edu
Travel back in time with USCB
Saturday, November 14, 2009 9:30 AM – 5: 30 PM USCB Historic Beaufort Campus departure location
USCB historic bus tour of Revolutionary War sites led by Dr. Lawrence Rowland and Dr. Stephen Wise. For reservations call 521-4147
“Choices for Sustainable Living”, a workshop co-sponsored by the Center for Humans and Nature and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at USCB.
Saturday, November 14, 9:00 am- 4:00 pm, USCB Bluffton Campus, Hargray Building, room 156.
Open to the public. Reservations call; 208-8247.
Lunch with Authors series:
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
November 19, 2009 12:00 PM Holiday Inn Beaufort, 2225 Boundary St.
This internationally acclaimed photographer will celebrate the 25th anniversary edition of her award-winning photo book Daufuskie Island. The book features fifty previously unpublished photographs and has been on exhibit world-wide. For reservations contact 521-4147
Guest Speaker Mark Danner: POSTPONED TO DECEMBER 4th
Thursday, November 19, 7:00pm, 156 Hargray
Danner is Professor of Journalism at the University of California and Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. In April 2009, Danner obtained a copy of the International Committee of the Red Cross's secret report on the American military's use of torture and published it in The New York Review of Books. He is the author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror. He has a new book out on October 13th: Stripping Bare the Body, which builds on pieces he has been writing for The New York Review of Books.
December 2009
Guest Speaker Mark Danner: (Rescheduled from November 19th)
Friday, December 4, 7:00pm, 156 Hargray
Danner is Professor of Journalism at the University of California and Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. In April 2009, Danner obtained a copy of the International Committee of the Red Cross's secret report on the American military's use of torture and published it in The New York Review of Books. He is the author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror. He has a new book out on October 13th: Stripping Bare the Body, which builds on pieces he has been writing for The New York Review of Books.
Lunch with Authors series:
Children’s Authors Panel
December 10, 2009, 12:00 PM Country Club of Hilton Head
Featuring Marjory Wentworth and her artist illustrator Leslie Pratt-Thomas with the book Shackles; Clay Rice, silhouette artist/author/songwriter with The Lonely Shadow and Margot Theis Raven, award winning children’s author with her latest book, Happy Birthday to You! The Mystery Behind the Most Famous Song in the World. For reservations contact 521-4147
USCB’s Festival Series Chamber Music Concert
Sunday, December 13, 2009, 5 pm, USCB Performing Arts Center, Carteret Street, Beaufort.
January 2010
USCB Studio Art Exhibition
January 18 - Feb 26, 2010 USCB Performing Arts Center, Historic Beaufort Campus
The studio art program presents the Chronicles of Beaufort, a portfolio exhibition of limited edition, fine art prints celebrating 300 years of Beaufort history. The exhibition will be a culmination of historic research inspiring images for the prints produced by students and faculty.
USCB Historic Lecture Series co-sponsored with B3C Tricentennial Committee
Fridays: January 15, 22, 29 and February 5, 2010 7:00 – 9:00 pm USCB Performing Arts Center, Historic Beaufort Campus
Historians featured: Dr. John McCardell Jr., Dr. Lawrence Rowland, Dr. Stephen Wise
The four lectures will cover the complete history of Beaufort County from the 1560 settlements to current days. For reservations contact 521-4147
Lunch with Authors series:
Maryann McFadden
January 21, 2010, 12:00PM Dockside Restaurant, Town of Port Royal
This is a must get-to-know author whose second book So Happy Together which deftly portrays all women who have lived the ‘sandwich generation’ and survived with a smile. Her first book My Richest Season was awarded the ‘best first novel of 2006’. For reservations contact 521-4147
February 2010
USCB Festival Series Chamber Music Concert
Sunday, February 14, 2010, 5:00pm
USCB Performing Arts Center, Carteret Street, Beaufort
Celebrate the occasion with fine music by Charles Wadsworth, Jeewon Park, Chee-Yun, Angela Jones-Rues, Courtenay Budd and Edward Arron as they perform pieces by Bach, Saint-Saёns, Amy Beach, Weber, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Piazzolla and Charles Wadsworth. Reservations: Staci Breton 208-8246.
First Annual Homecoming Game
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Sand Shark Field at the
Richard Gray Baseball Complex,
Hardeeville, SC
USCB Alumni, family and friends, please join us in celebration as the USCB Sand Shark baseball team
takes on the Embry Riddle Eagles.
10:30 Alumni coffee reception
12:00 First Pitch thrown
RSVP by February 5 to MJ Simmons -
843-208-8257 or luby@uscb.edu
Lunch with Authors series: Author Karen White
February 25, 2010, 12:00 PM
Sea Trawler Restaurant, 35 Fording Island Road Ext., Bluffton
Fabulous Southern novelist whose three 2009 books change genre, exhibiting her skills as an author of mystery, humorous page-turners to a romance novel covering eighty years and five generations. The last, The Girl on Legare Street, is a sequel to the first, The House on Tradd Street while the middle, The Lost Hours, reveals old family secrets in Savannah. For reservations call 521-4147.
Golden Jubilee Community Celebration
Friday, March 5, 2010, 11:00am
Hilton Head Gateway Campus, Highway 278 Bluffton
Join USCB in celebrating 50 years of higher education in the lowcountry. Guest speaker Walter Edgar will capture the essence of education in South Carolina and our role in the state and Lowcountry. Open to the public, no reservations required.
Guest Speaker Andrew Delbanco - "What is College For?"
March 24, 2010, 7:15pm
Hargray Building Room 156 at the USCB Hilton Head Gateway Campus, Highway 278 Bluffton
Delbanco is Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia University. Winner of the 2006 Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates, he is the author of Melville: His World and Work (2005), which won the Lionel Trilling Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in biography. Professor Delbanco has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is working on a book on college education, to be published next year.
USCB Festival Series Chamber Music Concert
Sunday, March 28, 2010, 5:00pm
USCB Performing Arts Center, Carteret Street, Beaufort
International acclaimed artists, Gilles Vonsattel, Yehonatan Berick, Jose Franch-Ballester and Edward Arron will perform pieces from Schumann, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky. Reservations: Staci Breton 208-8246.
Lunch with Authors series: Historians Stephen Hoffius and Robert Cuthbert
March 10, 2010, 12:00pm
Dataw Country Club Carolina Room, Beaufort
These two men have preserved the 1930 articles of Chlotilde Martin in their book, Northern Money, Southern Land. The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin. Chlotilde’s grandson, Roger Pinckney, will also share stories of the eighty Lowcountry estates covered in the book. For reservations contact 521-4147
University Medallion Installation
Tuesday, April 6, Performing Arts Center Historic Beaufort Campus
Dr Pastides: President of the University of South Carolina, will speak at a formal ceremony celebrating USCB’s heritage, accomplishments and future. Public event, no reservations required.
Second Annual Student Research & Scholarship Day
Monday, April 19th, 1:00 PM, Hargray Lobby, Hilton Head Gateway Campus, Highway 278 Bluffton
Students, faculty, and community members are invited to the second annual Student Research & Scholarship Day. The research and scholarship activities of USCB students are showcased at this event. Participants and spectators will have the opportunity to enhance their knowledge base, form collaborations, enhance lines of communication, and develop new ideas in a friendly collegiate atmosphere. In addition, at 3:30pm, Dr. Mark Farmer (University of Georgia) will give a keynote address entitled, "The Tree of Life." Dr. Farmer is nationally and internationally known for his work on Cellular Biology.
Lunch with Authors series:
Author Said Sayrafiezadeh
April 21, 2010, 12:00 PM, Sea Pines Country Club, Hilton Head Island
Mr. Sayrafiezadeh shares his childhood as the son of a socialist candidate for the presidency of Iran and an avowed socialist mother working for the Iranian Revolution in America in his humorous and beautifully written memoir When Skateboards Will be Free. For reservations contact 521-4147
USCB Festival Series Chamber Music Concert
Sunday, April 25, 5:00 PM, USCB Performing Arts Center, Carteret Street, Beaufort
Celebrate the Festival Series grand finale and USCB’s Golden Jubilee. Performing pieces from Bach, Ives and Brahms will be Jeremy Denk, Yosuke Kawasaki, and Edward Arron. Reservations: Staci Breton 208-8246.
University Adwards Ceremony: 50 Years of Excellence
Historic Beaufort Campus, Performing Arts Center
Join us in this annual ceremony that recognizes student achievements. Date and time TBA
University of South Carolina Beaufort 50th Commencement
Friday, April 30th 6:00 PM Helen and Brantley Harvey Plaza, Bluffton Campus
A People of the Land – Lowcountry Portraits
April, 2010 Performing Arts Center, Historic Beaufort Campus
For 6 weeks, we'll host an exhibit by photo-documentarian Vennie Deas-Moore.
"Her work presents an "insider's" unromantic view of place and people seldom seen. She portrays the interconnectedness of culture, the value of work, a sense of stewardship of the land, and the symbiotic relation between the long time black and white cultures."
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