Archive for June, 2008
Choirs Exchanging Song, Culture
June 26th, 2008 | Press Releases
Forty-eight music students, three professors and one staff member recently returned from Central America, where Westmont choirs sang and served with locals in Guatemala and Costa Rica. The choirs tour each summer, traveling internationally every third year. Westmont students emceed concerts entirely in Spanish and sang in both English and Spanish.
The tour began with performances [...]
Foundation Welcomes Four New Members
June 26th, 2008 | Press Releases
The Westmont Foundation welcomes four prominent Santa Barbara residents to its board. Brad Frohling, Andria Kahmann, Bill Loomis and Alice Van de Water join the 26-member board whose mission is to cultivate ties between the community and Westmont.
Frohling, who graduated from Westmont in 1994, is a senior sales associate for Radius Group, a commercial real [...]
Pointer Awarded Social Science Chair
June 17th, 2008 | Press Releases
Rick Pointer, Westmont professor of history, has been selected as the first recipient of the newly established Fletcher Jones Foundation Endowed Chair in Social Science. The Fletcher Jones Foundation created the chair to rotate among deserving faculty within the social science division. Pointer will occupy the chair for the next four years, beginning in fall [...]
MBAR Gives Green Light to Westmont
June 17th, 2008 | Press Releases
The Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR) granted preliminary approval for all of Phase I of the Westmont College Master Plan. The first part of the project will add a new art center, science building, chapel, observatory and residence hall while reconfiguring the campus road and athletic fields. College officials will now work with the [...]
Tour Kicks Off For Famed Wardrobe
June 11th, 2008 | Press Releases
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition” opened at a VIP event June 5 at the Arizona Science Center in downtown Phoenix, kicking off a five-year world-wide tour that includes Westmont’s famed C.S. Lewis-owned wardrobe. The wardrobe, usually housed in Reynolds Hall on Westmont’s campus, is prominently featured at the beginning of the exhibition, which includes [...]