GEORGETOWN, KY – Chromaspheric Wanderer, an exhibit of works by multi-media artist John Mosher, opens Friday, February 1, in The Cochenour Gallery of Georgetown College’s Ensor Learning Resource Center, corner of College and Mulberry Streets. The opening reception is from Noon to 2 p.m. with an artist’s talk scheduled for 12:30 p.m. The exhibit continues through February.

Chromaspheric Wanderer: Works by John Mosher

Mosher weaves together personal narratives across different mediums to engage viewers in the process of meaning making. In ways similar to the navigation of hypertext links, as one makes associations between Mosher’s individual works, the tangled bits of information are reconstructed to create new stories.

John Mosher received his Master of Fine Arts and Master of Education from the University of Cincinnati and has taught numerous studio art courses at the university level. He is currently an instructor at Salisbury University in Maryland. He has shown his work extensively in galleries in and around Chicago, Cincinnati, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The Cochenour Gallery is open to the public during regular Ensor LRC operating hours. More information is available online.

Christel Broady

GEORGETOWN, KY – Christel Broady, Ph.D., Georgetown College Associate Professor of Education, will receive the D. Scott Enright TESOL Interest Section Service Award during the 2013 International Convention and English Language Expo in Dallas, Texas in late March. The annual award honors Dr. Broady’s work with the Elementary Education Interest Section of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).

Each year, all 21 TESOL interest sections, their steering boards, nominating committees, and leaders, are invited to nominate one leader to be recognized for their service to the professional organization, governing the discipline for English language learners worldwide. The TESOL awards committee, after careful review all of nominations, does then announce the overall winner of TESOL International.

Notification of this professional honor came as a huge surprise to Broady. “Thanks to my colleagues, wherever in the world they are, for nominating me for this award,” she said upon learning of her selection. “I am humbled and grateful.”

“Dr. Broady has worked for several years with the TESOL organization at the state and national levels,” said Dean of Education Yolanda Carter, Ph.D., when advised of the impending TESOL recognition. “She represents the college as a whole and the Education Department of Georgetown College positively in this capacity. We congratulate her for being recognized by her TESOL colleagues!”

The D. Scott Enright TESOL Interest Section Service Award is named for one late member of TESOL’s Executive Board and recognizes leadership. It includes a commemorative certificate and having the recipient’s name placed on a permanent plaque in the TESOL central office in Virginia.

Over 7,000 attendees are expected at the annual convention from all over the world to review the latest methods and anticipate future trends in the field of teaching English as a second or foreign language.

GEORGETOWN, KY – Georgetown College’s south campus student residence halls will get needed convenience and comfort improvements in 2013, thanks to a $500,000 grant the College is receiving from the James Graham Brown Foundation, Inc. Funds will go toward new strategic initiatives designed to improve recruitment and retention.

“Getting this news, following so closely on the heels of other recent positive developments such as being chosen as the site for the new Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs and receiving word of SACS reaffirmation of accreditation, gives Georgetown College a lot of good momentum heading into the new year,” said President Bill Crouch in announcing the Brown Foundation Board’s approval of the grant.

Plans include upgrades to bath and toilet facilities in existing residence halls in the College’s Mills Residence Park, as well as other campus-wide amenities like freshening of common areas and improvements outside the Cralle Student Center on the main campus. Renovations will begin in the spring.

“Once again the Brown Foundation has invested in our mission by helping us maintain an environment for intellectual, spiritual and social growth,” said an excited Todd Gambill, Ed.D., Georgetown College’s Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students, upon receiving word of the grant approval.

The south campus residence halls were originally constructed in the 1970s and are located in an area of campus between Jackson Street and Clayton Avenue named in honor of the late Robert L. Mills, who served as president from 1959 to 1978.

GEORGETOWN, KY – Georgetown College music student Nikita Taggart, class of 2015 from Cincinnati, Ohio, will be the featured artist for the Martin Luther King Day Celebration, Monday, January 21, at Chambers Avenue Christian Church in Georgetown. Her presentation of spirituals and gospel songs is part of the community-wide MLK Day celebration which begins with a Unity March at 4 p.m.

The route leads from the church on Chambers to Main Street, then right on Main to North Hamilton, right on North Hamilton to Bourbon Street, then right on Bourbon back to Chambers and then left.

A special part of the MLK Day program at the church will feature reflections by members of the local community on their life journey and times.  There will also be special music by Matthew and Michael Meier, Lexington home school students, and a performance of Liturgical Dance by the Chambers Avenue Youth Dancers.

Members of the community are invited to participate in the MLK Day Celebration. A reception will follow in Fellowship Hall of the church.

The program and MLK Day march are co-sponsored by the MLK Committee and Georgetown College.

Tid Griffin

GEORGETOWN, KY – Throughout his career, Georgetown College alumnus and upcoming Founders Day Convocation speaker William Tid Griffin has developed millions in revenues, leading international teams for firms such as GC Capital and the engineering firm Syska and Hennessy, where he served as Director of Strategic Relations. For the latter, he launched an international subsidiary focusing on hi-tech consultation, planning and build-out which resulted in $60 million in new business for the company in its first year.

Griffin later moved on to become Vice President of business Development at the prominent data and communications planning firm UIG, where he developed expansion and restructuring plans for NASDAQ and other data-intense companies.

After helping implement emergency power and communications to New York City’s downtown area during the aftermath of 9/11, for which he received an ICTV1 911 Hero Award, Tid traveled to Asia to launch 4cornersoftheworld, an importer of rare eastern arts and exotic music. He later returned to the United States to start Gryphon Environmental, LLC, where he is now Chairman and CEO, a company which seeks to provide technologies to help remedy the growing pollution of our planet.

Tid is returning to campus on January 22 as keynote speaker for Georgetown College’s annual Founders Day Convocation which, this year, is emphasizing entrepreneurship, especially since the College will be hosting the inaugural Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs in June.

The 1993 graduate, who majored in Biology and Business Administration and minored in Chemistry, is a self-described small-town boy from Kentucky who says, from childhood, it was instilled in him to visit places of interest.

Working with international companies, he has been able to broaden his travels and get to know unique people and places all over. For example, he took two years off to travel Asia on a motorcycle and to study deep mediation. Owning a home alongside the Annapurna Range on the lake in Pokhara Nepal, he spent a year’s time and energy in the thoughts of compassion, self-understanding and balance. To this day, one of his most enjoyable activities is motorcycling the Himalayas, which he continually returns to Nepal to adventure.

He is also an accomplished photographer who travels the top resorts and golf destinations in the United States and abroad to provide virtual tours for golf enthusiasts as well as professional photography to the resorts and golf clubs. His work has been published in the industry’s top magazines.