Heritage Month 2012

Art Show “Smoke and Mirrors”
9 a.m.-6 p.m., Mon.-Fri. and 10 a.m.-2p.m., Sat.
Bryan Oliver Gallery, Ernst F. Lied Center for the Visual Arts 
The exhibit, which runs through Feb. 11, features works by Whitworth’s art faculty.

Founder’s Day Convocation
11 a.m., Cowles Auditorium
Each semester begins with Opening Convocation, which features music, faculty in academic regalia, and an opportunity to honor top students. Provost Michael Le Roy, ’89, and Campus Historian and Professor of History Dale Soden will speak.

Whitworth Pirates Basketball vs. Puget Sound
Women at 6 p.m., men at 8 p.m., Whitworth Fieldhouse, $10 admission

Alumni Night at the Fieldhouse
Whitworth Pirates Basketball vs. PLU
Women at 4 p.m., men at 6 p.m., Whitworth Fieldhouse, $10 admission (free for alumni)

Jonathan Adelman Lecture, “The Real Israel: What You Haven’t Heard and Don’t Know”
7 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre, Weyerhaeuser Hall (free to the public)
A full professor in the Josef Korbel Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, Professor Adelman served as the doctoral dissertation advisor to former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. He is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, in Washington, D.C. Since earning his doctorate from Columbia University in 1976, Adelman has written or edited 10 books on international affairs. Among his influential works is The Rise of Israel: A History of a Revolutionary State (2008).

Art Show “Smoke and Mirrors” Closing Event
6 p.m., Bryan Oliver Gallery, Ernst F. Lied Center for the Visual Arts
Closing artists’ panel discussion featuring Whitworth art professors Scott Kolbo, Gordon Wilson, Katie Creyts, Brytton Bjorngaard and Stephen Rue.

Glen Hiemstra and Dave Brown
“The Lindaman Era: Whitworth in the ’70s”
7 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre, Weyerhaeuser Hall (free to the public)
Led by Christian futurist and 14th Whitworth President Edward B. Lindaman, whose previous professional experience was in the aerospace industry, Whitworth in the ’70s was challenged to look back at its heritage and forward to a very exciting future.
Join two alumni of the era whose diverging professional and spiritual paths – and enduring friendship – capture the essence of this fascinating decade on campus.

Glen Hiemstra,’71, founder and owner of Futurist.com, is dedicated to disseminating information about the future to assist individuals, organizations and industries in effective strategic planning.

Rev. Dave Brown, ’76, is the pastor of Immanuel Presbyterian Church, in Tacoma. A graduate of Princeton Seminary, he has served at three churches prior to Immanuel. In the 1990s, he left parish ministry and was a staff member for the National Council of Churches Committee on Public Education.

Gospel Explosion
7 p.m., Seeley Mudd Chapel (free to the public)
Join Whitworth students and choirs from all over Spokane for this annual campus celebration of Black History Month.

George F. Whitworth Honors Banquet
5 p.m., Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln St., Spokane
Please join us at Spokane’s Lincoln Center for the annual George F. Whitworth Honors Banquet and program, featuring student musicians and others, as we celebrate Whitworth’s enduring mission and those who sustain it.
Cost: $35 per person. 

RSVP to Nancy Kessler at 509.777.3449 or nkessler@whitworth.edu

Whitworth Choirs Valentine’s Concert
7 p.m., Quall Hall, Whitworth Community
Presbyterian Church

The Whitworth Choir, the women’s choir and the men’s chorus will perform a pre-Valentine’s Day concert.

Leonard A. Oakland Film Festival
7 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre, Weyerhaeuser Hall (free to the public)
Film No. 1: What Poor Child is This?
T.N. Mohan, director, 2011 

The first night of the fourth annual LAO Festival opens with the premier of this 90-minute documentary about the plight of the poor in America. Produced by Whitworth President Beck A. Taylor, the film features insights from an array of national authorities, as well as suggestions for improving the future of America’s poor. 

Midnight Movie No. 1: Young Frankenstein
11 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre, Weyerhaeuser Hall (free to the public)
Mel Brooks, director; rated PG, 1974
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein, in this classic comedy.

“Why Whitworth” Day - Admissions Event
9 a.m.-3 p.m., Hixson Union Building Conference Rooms
This program is especially designed for prospective students and their parents. 
Contact 509.777.4870 for reservations, or register online at www.whitworth.edu/whywhitworth.

Leonard A. Oakland Film Festival
7 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre, Weyerhaeuser Hall (free to the public)
Film No. 2: Breaking Away
Peter Yates, director, rated PG, 1979
This movie is a perfectly calibrated blend of sports thrills, you-can-do-it inspiration, coming-of-age sensitivity, Midwestern authenticity, tender young romance, and smart, cusp-of-the-’80s humor. The four buddies at the heart of the story, high school grads who are working-class townies surrounded by the gownies who attend the big university in their Indiana town, don’t know what to do next with their lives. Their options feel stunted. But one, at least, has a dream.

Midnight Movie No. 2: Bad News Bears
11 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre, Weyerhaeuser Hall (free to the public)
Michael Ritchie, director, rated PG, 1976
An unflinching and hilarious look at the underbelly of Little League baseball in Southern California.

Whitworth Pirates Basketball vs. Willamette
Men at 6 p.m., women at 8 p.m., Whitworth Fieldhouse, $5 admission

Leonard A. Oakland Film Festival
7 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre
Film No. 3: Secret International Film
Rights were still being secured at press time. Enjoy a contemporary international film that explores Europe in the ’70s.
The program opens with winners of the 2012 student-made short-film contest.

Midnight Movie No. 3: Harold & Maude
11 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre
(free to the public)
Hal Ashby, director, rated PG, 1971
A young man with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby’s cult black comedy.

“Why Whitworth” Day - Admissions Event
10 a.m.-3 p.m., Hixson Union Building Conference Rooms      This program is especially designed for prospective students and their parents. 
Contact 509.777.4870 for reservations, or register online at www.whitworth.edu/whywhitworth.

Art Show: “Infinitesimal”: A Site Responsive Installation by Gerri Sayler
Reception: 5-6 p.m.; Lecture by the artist at 6 p.m.
Bryan Oliver Gallery, Ernst F. Lied Center for the Visual Arts
A Moscow, Idaho, artist, Sayler uses fibers as sculptural media to explore cycles of nature and the nature of time.
Opens Feb. 21 and runs through April 5

J. William T. Youngs Lecture
“Expo ’74 and the Transformation of Spokane”
7 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre (free to the public)
Youngs, a professor at Eastern Washington University, has taught U.S. history courses, including Pacific Northwest history, in a variety of fields.
His major publication: The Fair and the Falls: Spokane’s Expo ’74, Transforming an American Environment (Cheney: Eastern Washington University Press, 1996) – a Washington State Governors Writers Award honoree, chronicles the planning and expectations for Expo ’74, which transformed the downtown of Spokane, the smallest city ever to have hosted a World’s Fair, from a railyard to a showplace. Youngs will also highlight Whitworth’s role in the World’s Fair.

Great Decisions Lecture 
Mary Verner presents “The Geopolitics of Energy”
7:30 p.m., Robinson Teaching Theatre,
Weyerhaeuser Hall

Mary Verner has served the Spokane community in
a variety of ways over the last decade, including as mayor, city council member, and director of natural resources and executive director for the Upper Columbia United Tribes. Sustainable relationships with our environment have  always been at the top of her agenda, building on her master’s degree in forestry and environmental studies from Yale University and her Juris Doctor degree in environmental/natural resource law from Gonzaga University.