SUMMER 2021!
Symphony of the Hills: Heart Beat to the Symphony
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KICK - OFF
June 3rd @ 6pm Schreiner University CCAC Ballroom |
Symphony Conductor, Gene Dowdy and Board President, Tim Summerlin will enlighten your evening beginning with a history of symphony orchestras in general, then give you the background to the Symphony of the Hills in Kerrville. Learn how the Symphony of the Hills provides children’s programs and development and what Schreiner University is doing with a new strings program. As part of your evening’s journey, you will have the opportunity to enjoy a brief performance by the symphony quartet.
Speakers: Jean Dowdy Ph.D & Tim Summerlin
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Biblical Manuscripts Encounter
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June 22nd @ 6pm Dietert Center
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Our presentation is based upon a 250 year old Torah scroll, the unaltered first five books of the Jewish and Christian Bibles. This scroll is exactly as all have been for thousands of years, having the exact same number of letters since first written. We have several other documents, papyrus fragments and artifacts that show the reliability of Biblical continuity and through the ages. Presentation of these artifacts and documents will concentrate on their consistency, great art and adherence to Scriptural insistence that none are changed so much as a letter over time. Insight into their writing, construction and preservation will come from close contact with them. As historical items, they have beauty and craftsmanship due to the most important spiritual documents of the ages.
Speaker: John Lusher
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Radio: Yester-year vs. Modern
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July 8th @ 6pm Dietert Center
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Do you remember "WKRP in Cincinnati"? Remember all the crazy and wild things the sit-com showed? Well you might be surprised that many of the things you watched on that show could have actually happened at a radio station during that time. Learn about the history of radio, how it has evolved over time and what the difference is now compared to yester-year. Rick and Tom will have you laughing about the craziness, the seriousness of logistics and what it really takes to run a radio station.
Speaker: Rick Phipps
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Hemingway’s Cuba
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July 20th @ 6pm Dietert Center
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When famed Nobel Prize recipient Ernest Hemingway left his beloved "Lookout Farm," Finca Vigia, in Cuba on July 25, 1960, he had no idea he would never again see the place he called home for over twenty years, his sanctuary where he had composed "The Old Man and the Sea," "A Moveable Feast" and "Islands in the Stream." The reasons for the abrupt departure remain mysterious. Some have suggested Hemingway had grown disenchanted with the brutal tactics favored by the revolutionary Fidel Castro. Others say Hemingway was ordered home by the US State Department for his own safety. More likely, the departure was carefully orchestrated by his concerned wife, Mary, who knew the great writer was battling crippling depression, anxiety and alcoholism. This lecture will focus on Hemingway's final days in Cuba and include a brief description of a recent trip by the speaker and his Schreiner University students to see Hemingway's Cuban house and his other famous literary haunts.
Speaker: William Woods Ph. D
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Native-Scaping in the Hill Country
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June 15th @ 2pm Dietert Center
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Texas landscape is a one of a kind terrain that many new home and land owners have a difficulty understanding. Let the Texas Parks & Wildlife and the Kerrville Master Naturalists teach you what it means to have Native-Scape in your yard. Learn the difference between native-scaping and zero-scaping. Learn about what plants grow better with and without water. This will be the perfect time to get ready for your next outdoor adventure in landscaping and the do's and don'ts in the Texas Hill Country.
Speakers: Texas Parks & Wildlife with Master Naturalists
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Storytelling: A Human Experience
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July 22nd @ 6pm
Schreiner University Junkin Campus Ministry Fellowship Hall |
We create narratives of our lives as we live them, telling ourselves and others our stories. Storytelling is basic to the human experience, and we can discover ourselves in the stories we tell. Storytelling is not just one activity among many; it is the central thread of being human. Neuroscience points to this through scientific discoveries about the brain, literature shows us the stories of the ages, and our community is a place to share our stories even as we create a community in the sharing.
Speaker: Kathleen Hudson Ph.D
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