From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
World reknowned artist and Galesburg native Dorothea Tanning died [January 31, 2012] at her home in Manhattan. Tanning was 101 when she died Tuesday. Considered a leading surrealist painter of the 1930s, Tanning led a whirlwind life in the international art world. She was married to surrealist painter and sculptor Max Ernst for 30 years… After she reached 80, Tanning again received attention as she concentrated on writing. She produced a novel, an autobiography and poems.
Tanning was born on Aug. 25, 1910, to middle-class parents in Galesburg, “a place where you sat on the davenport and waited to grow up,” as she put it in her autobiography, “Between Lives: An Artist and Her World” (2001). She lived at 420 Hawkinson Ave. during her childhood and attended Galesburg public schools.
Tanning attended Knox College with the Class of 1932. Tanning received accolades at a celebration of her life at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York last fall. Knox faculty member Robin Metz, director of the Knox Program in Creative Writing, participated in the Oct. 3, 2011, event… Knox awarded Tanning an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1988. The college’s Seymour Library houses a significant collection of Tanning’s work, including rare archival examples of her undergraduate art and writing. Read more…
From: Peoria Journal Star (Peoria, IL)
Knox College senior guard Ben Wetherbee became the school’s career leader in 3-pointers made in the Prairie Fire’s loss at Grinnell on Tuesday. Wetherbee made three 3s against Grinnell to up his career total to 187. He broke the school record of 184 held by Williamsfield’s Reggie Bowman, who played at Knox from 2000-2004… Read more…
From: MarketWatch (San Francisco, CA)
Anticipating 1,000,000 college visits in 2012, CollegeWeekLive will open its doors 365 days a year to create AlwaysON, a live channel where students and colleges meet online.
CollegeWeekLive AlwaysON features weekly expert presentations, unlimited access to colleges, unlimited chat sessions, and online visits organized by both colleges and high school counselors. The following schools are among the initial members of the exclusive beta launch… Knox College… Illinois Institute of Technology… University of Chicago… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Peter Schwartzman is a self-described Scrabble addict. He warns people not to bring up the topic unless they want to engage in a long conversation on the subject. And he has been sharing his love of the game with Galesburg for about the last year now with weekly games on Wednesday at Stone Alley Books.
“I’ve known Stone for a while and I just threw it out there [– the idea of playing a weekly game at the book store],” said Schwartzman, 43, chairman of Environmental Studies at Knox College and Galesburg’s 5th Ward Alderman… (Published in print edition, January 29, 2012)
