Knox in the News

From WGIL radio:

Knox Galesburg Symphony will present a performance by the Knox-Galesburg Symphony Trio. featuring David Suda - violin, KGS principal cello Carolyn Suda, and KGS artistic director/conductor Bruce Polay, piano. The performance is at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 6 at Knox College in the Ford Center for Fine Arts, Kresge Recital Hall. At intermission, Bruce Polay will be available for autograph signing of his “Pictures For an Exhibition: Music by Bruce Polay” CD and the KGS’ “Golden” CD.

The KGS Trio, will perform Robert Schumann’s Second Trio in F Major, Opus 80, Ernest Bloch’s “Three Nocturnes,” and Anton Arensky’s Trio in D minor, Opus 32.

From the Register-Mail:

Where do local people go to eat? Check here each week to see who’s eating where and what’s on their plate. This week, we feature Stephen Schroth, assistant professor of educational studies at Knox College. Schroth also co-directs Junior Great Books and the Knox College4Kids summer program, both of which cater to elementary school children.

Favorite breakfast spot: The Rite Track Café. My friend and colleague Jason Helfer took me there for the first time after we appeared on the radio to promote College4Kids and I just loved it, especially the atmosphere and the menu. Best value around and a very laid-back environment. I love the vegetarian omelet with hash browns and white toast. Great coffee, too.

From the Register-Mail:

Knox College’s 29th annual International Fair will feature food and entertainment from around the world Jan. 30.

The fair will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the college’s campus, and this year’s theme is “Knocking Down Stereotypes.” The fair will feature an international buffet lunch, educational displays, a student talent show and an evening concert by a guest musical group, Funkadesi, a Chicago-based band whose music combines Asian, African, Latin and contemporary funk.

From KPLU radio (Seattle, WA):

Persistence, smarts and hard work do pay off. This is what the first class of the Rainier Scholars program is learning. The non-profit, based in Seattle’s Rainier Valley, mentors low income kids of color so they can be successful in the classroom and in life.We met some of these students back in 2004 when they were in middle school. One of them was Tiesa McElroy. The last time I saw McElroy, she was 13, shorter and pretty shy. It was the Spring of 2004 and she was just starting to see the results of the hundreds of hours of extra home work she was doing late into the night, which is a requirement if you want to be a Rainier Scholar.

“Why am I doing this, why am I doing this. Because all of the stuff I was learning at Rainier Scholars, I wasn’t learning any of that stuff in my schools and now that I’m in 7th grade, we’re just starting to get into a couple of the things I was learning in Rainier Scholars.”

McElroy stuck with it and today she’s in her first year at Knox College, a small private liberal arts school in Illinois. At 19, she’s still pretty soft spoken, but has a definite air of self confidence.

“Um I did pretty well in my first term.”

She’s on a scholarship and has over a 3.0 grade point average. I ask her if she’s declared a major.

“No, I’ve been thinking about a major, but I’m still undecided, so that’s what I call my major for now. But hopefully it will come to me.”

From the Register-Mail:

Knox College’s Old Main is the only original building that remains from the Lincoln Douglas Debates. But Knox philosophy professor Lance Factor set out to prove that the building itself has its own historic importance.

“It has its own identity, it has its own story,” Factor said.

In his newly-released book “Chapel in the Sky: Knox College’s Old Main and Its Masonic Architect,” Factor shows how the national historic landmark was designed with the architectural techniques and symbols of Freemasonry at a time when Galesburg was heavily anti-Masonic.

From the Register-Mail:

Knox College has been named as a top 50 “Best Value Private College for 2010,” according to the Princeton Review and USA TODAY.

The list, unveiled in the Jan. 12 edition of USA Today and on NBC’s Today Show, features 50 private colleges and universities.

Knox and the University of Chicago are the only schools in Illinois to make the top 50 Best Value private colleges…..

In December, Knox was ranked among the top 50 Best Values in Liberal Arts Colleges for 2009-2010 by Kiplinger’s.