Knox in the News

From the Register-Mail:

Hundreds of families turned out Sunday afternoon despite lingering snow and wind for the 21st annual Easter egg hunt.

Sponsored by Hy-Vee and the Galesburg Recreation Division, the hunt was moved from Lake Storey to Lakeside Recreation Center. Children split into several age groups to grab any of about 10,000 eggs and candy in celebration of the upcoming holiday.

“New this year is the prize eggs are gold eggs,” said Elizabeth Varner, Galesburg recreation supervisor. “There also are tons of pounds of extra candy.”

There were about 100 prizes available to the children, with four grand prize bicycles.

Helping set up the eggs and hand out candy to participants were members of the Knox College football team.

The football team has helped with the Easter egg hunt for three years.

The team, says coach Andy Gibbons, participates in at least three community service projects each year.

“I tell the guys they’re very lucky to be going to college and playing football,” Gibbons said. “We want to give back and help out the community.”

The football team became involved with the Easter egg hunt because several of its players belong to the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and the fraternity’s members had previously helped at other city events.

From the Register-Mail:

To Knox College, Tim Heimann was family, and the extended members of that family started arriving early for Saturday’s 10 a.m. memorial service for the longtime former coach who died March 13 after a fierce bout with cancer.

By about 9:45 a.m. the 400 programs printed for the event were gone and the bleachers pulled out on one side of Memorial Gym and in the north end zone were filling rapidly. At 10:05, arrivals still trickled in and Topper Steinman, who led the service, asked people in the bleachers to squeeze together to make room for everyone.

“I know Tim would have loved it if we had crowds like this to see some of our games,” Harley Knosher, Knox’s former athletic director and professor emeritus of sports studies, said later. “This is a nice crowd.”

From WGIL radio news:

An official at Knox College says she’s probably known Tim Heimann the least amount of time, but he has impacted her life as much as anyone she’s known.

Knox Vice President for Advancement Beverly Holmes was one of those who spoke at Heimann’s memorial service yesterday on the basketball court named in his honor at Knox. Heimann died of cancer March 13th.

Holmes worked with Heimann in his most recent capacity as major gifts officer, and says she couldn’t help but often notice Heimann’s low-tech approach to his job. “He promised to learn to type, and actually check e-mail,” Holmes said while the audience laughed. “And he actually did learn how to reply to a few e-mails by typing.”

From the Peoria Journal Star:

Two Bradley University economics professors on Friday defended their economic impact study of the proposed Peoria Riverfront Museum and Caterpillar visitors center.

The study was criticized by fellow economists Thursday.

“After we looked at what they wrote about our study, we don’t see anything that would fundamentally change what we see as a wonderful opportunity for the community to build the museum on the Downtown block,” said Robert Scott, the chairman of the university’s economics department.

Said Joshua Lewer, the co-author of the study:

“We certainly stand by our work.”

On Thursday, the museum opposition group Citizens for Responsible Spending released two separate analyses of the Scott-Lewer study, one by Knox College economist Richard Stout, the other by the team of Lon Carlson and Frank Beck of Illinois State University.

From the Register-Mail:

After performing throughout the Midwest since March 1, the Knox College Choir will present its Home Tour Concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Kresge Recital Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts. The performance is free and open to the public.

The 55-voice choir is conducted by Laura Lane, professor and chairwoman of the music department and director of choral activities at Knox College. The group performed in Galesburg to launch the tour and also in Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin over the past few weeks.

The tour program features sacred and secular choral works, vocal jazz and folk songs from Haiti and Romania.

From the Register-Mail:

To be successful in a rapidly changing economy, Galesburg will need to develop a nimble workforce that is ready to adapt to evolving trends.

That was the message from the group of community leaders who spoke at Thursday’s Galesburg Advantage forum in Carl Sandburg College, which focused on creating a 21st century workforce….

All of the speakers spoke of the need to impress the importance of education on young people. But Knox College President Roger Taylor also emphasized the importance of parents in improving the performance of their children. He said the bulk of students who dropped out of the Gale Scholar program did so because of their “family situation or lack thereof.” The Gale Scholar program provides scholarships to Galesburg High School students from low-income backgrounds.