From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Jay Redfern of The Register-Mail reports: “Galesburg High School and Knox College graduate Caitlin Muelder will appear on the Feb. 4 episode of 90210 on the CW network. Muelder, a 1992 Galesburg High School graduate, will play the role of a marriage counselor on the episode titled ‘Here Comes Honey Bye Bye.’ …
“She was kind enough to fill me in on her role and her rising acting career. ‘One way I have always measured ‘success’ is by how well everyone from the bottom up is treated, and how happy they are at their job. And at 90210, it was clear to me that it is a very happy show. Everyone from the cooks at the crafts service table, to the stars of the show, up to the director were all gracious and warm and welcoming and generous and really on top of their stuff. I just loved working on it…’ Muelder has also filmed a pilot, several web series, appeared onstage at Second City LA, and was one of the co-leads in the critically acclaimed production of Merisa Wergzyn’s Ten Cent Night.” Read more…
From: Muskegon Chronicle (Muskegon, MI)
For its next exhibition, the Fire Barn Gallery in Grand Haven will showcase the works of international artists Tony Gant and Lynette Lombard. A landscape painting by artist Lynette Lombard, who will show 20 of her paintings at the Fire Barn Gallery in Grand Haven Jan. 24 to Feb. 16. The artists, who are married and work as professors at Knox College in Illinois, will display their work alongside each other in an exhibition called “Educating a Generation — An American Renaissance.”…
Gant and Lombard have each shown their work in galleries in New York City, around the Midwest and the globe, according to a press release about the event, but they typically do not exhibit their work together…. Lombard, a landscape painter, will display about 20 of her works. Gant said his piece will be similar to an outdoor installation he plans to build at Rosa Parks Circle in Grand Rapids from Jan. 21 to 23… Read more… Also reported by the Fire Barn Gallery… Read more…
From: The Wall Street Journal (New York, NY)
Douglas Wilson, professor emeritus and co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, writes in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal: “Now that Steven Spielberg’s new film, Lincoln, has sparked extraordinary interest in Abraham Lincoln as a behind-the-scenes persuader, it may be a good time to take a look at an aspect of his most persuasive writing.
“In virtually all the most memorable passages of Lincoln’s writings, there is a feature that plays a critical role—namely, the rhetorical use of the negative. This is not to say that Lincoln was a naysayer or negative thinker, but rather that he demonstrated an acute understanding of the power of negation in language and was unusually adept at putting that force to use…” Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
James Naismith, who devised the game of basketball in 1891, [spoke at] the Knox College basketball banquet held on the campus at Seymour Hall during late March 1927. Knox College Athletic Director Earl Jackson and first year basketball coach Dean Trevor were credited with enticing Naismith to visit Galesburg…
Knox College President Albert Britt served as toastmaster and introduced Naismith, [who] told how he is often amused about how basketball had changed since its infancy. He shared that he first tried variations of football, soccer and even lacrosse before suggesting a sport that initially featured a peach-type basket… Read more…
CNN anchor Christine Romans, who spoke at Knox on Jan. 17, mentioned her visit to campus on the subsequent edition of her program on personal finance, Your Bottom Line: “This week, I had the honor of speaking to students at Knox College, a private liberal arts college, in Galesburg, Illinois. Here’s what I told them: there are four available workers for every job in this country. I said, ‘look around you, look around you in that room. You got to beat out three of those classmates just to get hired. You still have a golden ticket. You’re just going to have to work harder to get it punched’…” 