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GSA session enters its final week at Transylvania

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Governor’s School for the Arts 2009 summer session comes to a close Saturday at Transylvania, highlighted by final student performances and graduation ceremonies. The final week will also feature an appearance by First Lady Jane Beshear on Tuesday. She will be on campus for a showcase performance at 1 p.m. Tuesday will also be College and Career Planning Day, with over a dozen colleges and universities on hand to meet with the GSA students. Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet Secretary Marcheta Sparrow is also scheduled to be on hand. The GSA will wrap up its 10th year on the Transy campus on Saturday, with final day-long performances in all disciplines preceding graduation ceremonies at 5:15 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium. Final performances, including those in instrumental and vocal music, musical theater, visual arts, drama, new media, and architecture, will begin at various campus locations at noon. All final day events are open to GSA parents, friends, and relatives as well as the public and media. Previous final day performances have attracted over 1,200 people to the Transy campus. Refreshments will be available at various campus locations near Old Morrison. Final performances will be held at the Mitchell Fine Arts Center, the Little Theater, the Shearer Art Building, the Haupt Humanities Building, Old Morrison and the Cowgill Center. A total of 225 high school students from 51 counties and about 85 high schools have been on the Transylvania campus since

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“Transylvania Treasures” wins international Gold Award

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LEXINGTON, Ky.–Transylvania Treasures, a publication dedicated to showcasing the rare and valuable items in Transylvania University’s special collections and medical and science museum, can now be considered a treasure in its own right. The thrice yearly newsletter was named a 2009 Gold Award winner – the highest award available – in a prestigious national competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Martha Baker, publications director at the 1,100-student liberal arts school, called the award significant. “The goal from the outset was to create a unique and attractive publication that would do justice not only to Transylvania’s impressive collections but also to its rich heritage.  This award shows we’re on the right track,” said Baker, who edits Transylvania Treasures. Additionally, Baker said, “it shows we stack up very well against works by colleges from across the nation, many of which are much, much bigger than Transylvania.” Duke Medicine also received a Gold Award in the same category, and Tufts University received a bronze. The three winners were chosen among 35 entries. This is not the first award for Transylvania Treasures, which has won state and regional CASE awards and a Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Thoroughbred chapter award. “This award is especially significant because it’s an international award,” said Baker. “CASE has 3,400 members from 61 countries all over the world.  We’re very pleased that Transylvania Treasures has been given this recognition.” Transylvania Treasures is a

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Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship holds second annual Student Congress at Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, June 20-27

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Fifty-one college juniors, from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, are in Lexington this week to attend the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship’s second annual Student Congress at Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, June 20-27. The students are recommended by the senior U.S. senator from their state and colleges and universities throughout the country and, while at the Student Congress, are exposed to a curriculum in diplomacy, dialogue, listening skills, negotiation and mediation. The curriculum, designed by Transylvania, the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce and the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at UK and Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, focuses not only on theory, but also on the practices of statesmanship, including Henry Clay’s ideals of debate, diplomacy, communication and beneficial compromise. Students will hear from top speakers, including Rusty Barber, U.S. Institute of Peace director of Iraq programs; John Marks, president and founder of Search for Common Ground, an international conflict prevention organization headquartered in Washington and Brussels; Ambassador George Staples; and Steven Hochman, assistant to former President Jimmy Carter and director of research at the Carter Center. Local speakers include U.S. District Judge and Transylvania alumna Karen Caldwell; Transylvania president Charles L. Shearer; Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce director Carey Cavanaugh; Lexington and Washington, D.C., lawyer Kent Masterson Brown; award-winning newspaper editor John S. Carroll; Lexington Herald-Leader cartoonist Joel Pett; and Transylvania professors Don Dugi and Scott

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Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship holds second annual Student Congress at Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, June 20-27

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Fifty-one college juniors, from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, are in Lexington this week to attend the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship’s second annual Student Congress at Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, June 20-27. The students are recommended by the senior U.S. senator from their state and colleges and universities throughout the country and, while at the Student Congress, are exposed to a curriculum in diplomacy, dialogue, listening skills, negotiation and mediation. The curriculum, designed by Transylvania, the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce and the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at UK and Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, focuses not only on theory, but also on the practices of statesmanship, including Henry Clay’s ideals of debate, diplomacy, communication and beneficial compromise. Students will hear from top speakers, including Rusty Barber, U.S. Institute of Peace director of Iraq programs; John Marks, president and founder of Search for Common Ground, an international conflict prevention organization headquartered in Washington and Brussels; Ambassador George Staples; and Steven Hochman, assistant to former President Jimmy Carter and director of research at the Carter Center. Local speakers include U.S. District Judge and Transylvania alumna Karen Caldwell; Transylvania president Charles L. Shearer; Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce director Carey Cavanaugh; Lexington and Washington, D.C., lawyer Kent Masterson Brown; award-winning newspaper editor John S. Carroll; Lexington Herald-Leader cartoonist Joel Pett; and Transylvania professors Don Dugi and Scott

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New Maestro Scott Terrell takes the baton to conduct the Lexington Philharmonic at Lexington’s patriotic concert on the steps of historic Old Morrison

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—New Maestro Scott Terrell begins conducting the Lexington Philharmonic in September, but he will first take the baton at the city’s annual patriotic concert on the steps of Transylvania’s historic Old Morrison on Friday, July 3, at 8 p.m. The annual concert features patriotic favorites from the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra and the Lexington Singers. The concert is free and open to the public and draws upwards of 5,000 people who set out their blankets and picnics from the steps of Old Morrison to the Carnegie Center in Gratz Park. The concert is sponsored by PNC Bank, Keeneland and the Kentucky League of Cities. The Young at Heart Jazz Band will perform in Gratz Park prior to the concert, beginning at 5:30 p.m., and there will be an ‘instrument petting zoo’ where children can see and play different instruments like those used by the Lexington Philharmonic. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or Penny Ebel in the mayor’s office at (859) 258-3100.