From: WTVP TV 47 (Peoria, IL)
The program “Illinois: Art in the Works” recently profiled professor Bruce Polay — “Destined for music since age 4, Dr. Bruce Polay is the music chair for Knox College and the artistic director and award-winning conductor of the Knox-Galesburg Symphony. ‘I feel privileged to work both as a teacher and as a performer. My teaching certainly informs my work as a conductor, composer and pianist, just as my concert and creative experiences enhance and shape my classroom perspective.’ “… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Knox College men’s tennis player Walter Palmer has earned an award from the Midwest Conference for his dominance on the court. Palmer, a sophomore, helped the Prairie Fire defeat Simpson College and North Central College last Saturday at Lakeside Tennis Center. He’s been named the Midwest Conference Men’s Tennis Performer of the Week… Read more…
From: WQAD TV-8 (Moline, IL)
Contemporary politicians could learn something by revisiting the style of our 16th president, [according to Lincoln scholars Douglas Wilson and Rodney Davis,] retired Knox College professors, authors of four books about Honest Abe, and colleagues at the Lincoln Studies Center. “He learned that you don’t demonize your opponents,” Dr. Wilson said. “They’re people just like you.” Old Main is the last standing building from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates. While Lincoln actually lost that election, it set the stage for his successful presidential bid just two years later. And it forged a Knox-Lincoln connection for the ages… Read more…
From: Peoria Journal Star (Peoria, IL)
Knox College announced that actor and comedian Ed Helms will be the speaker at the 2013 Commencement exercises to be held in June. Helms is best known his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, his character Andy Bernard in the U.S. version of the hit television sitcom The Office, and his role as Dr. Stu Price in The Hangover films. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college founded, like Knox, by missionaries and social reformers… Read more…
From: New York Magazine (New York, NY)
[White House speech writer Jon] Favreau worked on hundreds of speeches, but it was a little-known 2005 graduation address at Knox College, a school of 1,400 students in Galesburg, Illinois, that he has pointed to in interviews as the Ur-text for many of the Obama-Favreau collaborations that followed.
Writer Reid Cherlin (who worked alongside Favreau as a White House spokesman) provides a sampling of lines from the speech [at Knox] that have had second lives: “At the end of the Civil War… big factories that were sprouting up all across America, we had to decide: Do we do nothing and allow captains of industry and robber barons to run roughshod over the economy and workers by competing to see who can pay the lowest wages at the worst working conditions?”… There is no community-service requirement in the real world; no one is forcing you to care… But I hope you don’t walk away from the challenge…” Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
In honor of Lincoln’s birthday on Feb. 12, the Knox County Historical Society opened the doors of the old Knoxville courthouse on Sunday and brought in two of the most nationally-renowned Lincoln historians, who both happen to be residents of Knox County, for an informal discussion about the beloved president…
Douglas Wilson and Rodney Davis, both retired professors of Knox College, have devoted much, if not all, of their retired lives to studying and preserving Lincoln’s legacy. With more than 100 combined years of experience at Knox College, the duo has established an impressive resume, which includes working with the Library of Congress and Stephen Spielberg on his most recent movie [”Lincoln.”]… Read more…
