The West Virginia University
Potomac State College/Community Concert Band will perform its annual Fall Concert
on Tuesday, October 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Church-McKee Arts Center
Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.
The band will perform a program with a variety of selections, beginning with
Frank Erickson's "Lyric Overture." The band will also
perform "Lindbergh Variations" by Robert Sheldon; "American
Symphonette No. 2" by Morton Gould; "Galop" by
Dmitri Shostakovich; "Sleepers, Awake" by J. S. Bach, and the
"Burst of Flame" Concert March by Richard Bowles.
The band will also perform a
Holiday Concert on December 4 in conjunction with the WVU Potomac State
College/Community Jazz Ensemble.
Students
from West Virginia University’s Morgantown campus and the Potomac State College
campus in Keyser spent spring break 2019 in the Kingdom of Bahrain, an island
located on the southwestern coast of the Persian Gulf, to attend the Royal
University for Women. PSC’s students included
Hosanna Barrett (second from left, standing) and Brittany Nelson (fourth from
left, standing).
Discover Potomac State Day,
an open house event, was recently held on the campus of West Virginia
University Potomac State College in Keyser, W.Va. During the event, Emily
Ratliff, left, participated in and won the photo challenge by tagging the
College at #DiscoverPSC. She won the Potomac State College sweatshirt she’s
wearing. She attends Hampshire High School. Campus President Jennifer Orlikoff
presented the PSC gear to Ratliff.
It’s a journey through the
America’s as the Vienna Boys Choir performs at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 29 at the Church
McKee Arts Center on the campus of Potomac State College as the Highland Arts
Unlimited season continues.
Approximately 40 West Virginia University Potomac State College
students volunteered to help plant trees on campus earlier this month. The
College received a Carla Hardy WV Project CommuniTree grant from Cacapon
Institute to plant 24 trees around the Administration Building, the Quad and
surrounding areas. The initiative was under the direction of Biology Professors
Vicki Huffman and Erin Cunningham. This is one of seven CommuniTree projects
that will be taking place this fall. Since 2012, CommuniTree has sponsored 233
tree planting projects in the Potomac Headwaters and planted more than 6,200
trees with more than 15,000 volunteers.
Nick Gardner, interim program coordinator for the WVU Potomac State
College library, demonstrates how easily accessible some local newspapers are
now that these have been digitized.
Could rehabilitating old railroad tracks
as tourism trails be the secret for revitalizing rural Appalachian communities?
Christiaan Abildso, PhD, who serves as an assistant professor at West Virginia
University’s School of Public Health certainly thinks so.
Nathan
Van Vranken, visiting instructor of geology and biology at West Virginia University
Potomac State College, holds a cast of an aspidorhynchid fish. Aspidorhynchids,
like Belonostomus, have been extinct
for millions of years and are recognizable by their needle-like snout. (Photo
credit: Nicholas Gardner, Mary F. Shipper Library)
West Virginia University Potomac State
College will recognize various individuals during Homecoming festivities this
fall. Among those being honored at the
awards banquet on September 28th is Charles H. Bishop, Jr., PhD
(1958), who will be recognized with the Alumni Achievement Award in acknowledgement
of his accomplishments.