spring 2014 / 13
STUDENTNEWS
“I had the amazingopportunity to
venture to ‘TheGreatWhiteWay’
[Broadway], where I tookdance
classes fromworkingprofessionals,”
saidReese, whose career goal is tobe
aBroadwayperformer. “Duringmy
time inNYC, I stayedwith an actor
workingonBroadway.”
ElizabethHagale
is amedia and
film studiesmajor fromHuntsville
whose senior seminar paper, “The
LizzieBennetDiaries: ATransmedia
Love Story,”was accepted into the
2014 Society forCinema andMedia
StudiesUndergraduateConference.
Only30 students are selected to
attend the conference, whichwas
heldApril 18-19 at theUniversityof
Oklahoma.
The three studentwinners of
the annualDorsey and Frances
WhittingtonCompetition at
Birmingham-Southernperformed
on campuswith theRedMountain
ChamberOrchestra. First-year
baritone
NickdeCastro
of Baton
Rouge, La., sang “Der Vogelfänger
bin ich ja” fromMozart’sDie
Zauberflöte; sophomore tubist
WesleyChambers
of Atlanta
played theopeningmovement of
theConcerto inE-Flat forHorn, also
byMozart; and soprano
Elizabeth
Drugan
, a junior fromNaples, Fla.,
sang “Monica’sWaltz” fromThe
MediumbyGian-CarloMenotti.
Rather thanheading to thebeach
for springbreak,March17-21,
manyBSC students participated
in intensiveweeklongpublic
service experiences inBoston and
D.C. One group served inmission
facilities and volunteered for a
financial literacyprogram inBoston
to gain adeeper understanding
of the influence and impacts of
homelessness aswell as theways
inwhich the city addresses the
problem. Another team traveled
toD.C. to serve in foodbanks, visit
nonprofit advocacy agencies, and
explorepublic policies in a seminar
program.
L to r: Nick de Castro,Wesley Chambers, and LizDrugan
Hagale
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