Lessons from South Africa
“Leadership and Reconciliation in aDividedWorld: Lessons fromSouth Africa” was the sub- ject of the Jennie Cutler Shu- mate Lecture on Christian Ministry given by James A. Joseph, former u.s. ambassador to South Africa fromJanuary 1996 toNovember 1999. South African PresidentThaboMbeki awarded Joseph theOrder of GoodHope, the highest honor the Republic of South Africa be- stows on a citizen of another country.
Joseph works with emerging leaders in southern Africa
through a joint appointment atDukeUniversity and the University of CapeTown.He has launched the u.s.-Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values, based in Durham, n.c., and in CapeTown, South Africa. Before serving in South Africa, Joseph was the first chair-
man of the board of directors of President Clinton’s Corpora- tion forNational Service.He also served three other u.s. presidents. The Jennie Cutler Shumate Lecture on ChristianMinistry
provides for an annual lecture by a prominentminister or layperson.The lectures have been delivered since 1940.
A career asset
Former tutors who have graduated in the past fifteen years over- whelmingly believe that their work helped them in college and later as professionals. More than 97 per-
cent of the respondents to an online survey felt that tutoring had a pos- itive effect on their per- formance in upper-level classes at LC, andmore than 60 per- cent have attended graduate school. Roughly 80 percent said their experi- ence in the Alton L.WilmerWriting Center was a key factor in admission to graduate school or in landing their first job, and 70 percent indicated that their experience had a positive effect on the level of responsibility they were given in entry-level jobs. Almost all these former tutors
agreed that discussing how to write papers with other students helped themdevelop their own writing skills,
and that this ability has proved useful in their careers. Jen La Plante ’09, of Lynchburg,
Va., and TimJackson ’10, of Danville, Va., the tutors who conducted the survey, presented the results at the Mid-AtlanticWriting Centers’ Associa- tion conference at the University of Delaware in April. All former tutors planning to attend Homecoming in October 2010 are invited to an event in theWriting Center in Hopwood Hall.
Art,music, theatre
A Daura Gallery exhibition of the Bogside Artists of Northern Ireland was complemented by a talk on Irish culture by Dr. Kate Gray, pro- fessor of English, and a showing of the film, Bloody Sunday, about the 1972 massacre in Derry. Musical offerings included “A Night at the Movies” by the Lynch-
burg CollegeWind Symphony and Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble, and a concert by the Lynchburg Choral Union featuring works by Mendelssohn and Duruflé. LC Concert Choir members formed the chorus of the Opera on the James production of The MerryWidow (right), for which Dr. Jong Kim, professor of music and director of choral activities/graduate studies in music, served as chorus master. Lynchburg College Theatre staged the musical Thoroughly Mod-
ernMillie and Is He Dead?, a hysterical farce by Mark Twain, adapted by David Ives. The DanceWorks Ensemble performed “Weather,” staff- and student-choreographed pieces in a variety of styles.
2009-10 (in addition to athletic events) | 1,000buckets of sediment hand-dredged from College Lake | $66,000raised for charitable causes by LC students in 2009-10 Fall 2010 LC MAGAZINE 7
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