Monty Siekerman recalls Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech at Ohio Northern University. A chapel service Thursday morning commemorated the civil rights Icon’s visit to campus 50 years ago. He was assassinated in Memphis three months later. Siekerman headed publicity for the University at the time.
Joel Weaver, a pharmacy graduate who retired as an anesthesiologist, is at right in the picture. He was a student at ONU at the time. Thursday’s service, organized by Chaplain MacDonald, included comments from two other professors who taught at Northern at the time and two other students.
A choreographers showcase dance performance will be held at the Freed Center on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 3 and 4. The showcase will feature ONU students dancing to a variety of music from ballet to hip hop. Choreographers are from off campus as well as ONU faculty and students.
The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $5 for students and children.
Choreographers Nathan Andary, DeMarcus Akeem Suggs, Matthew Roberts and Alexandra Stillianos will be joined by ONU faculty choreographer Elizabeth Cozad.
The 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech at Ohio Northern will be commemorated with a forum of six people who heard his talk here. The program, which will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Freed Canter, is free and open to the public.
Panelists include:
Terry Keiser, who taught biology
Alfred Cohoe, who taught psychology
Monty Siekerman, who was director of public information
Sadicka White, a student then
Bob Parsons, a student then
Joel Weaver, a student then.
Here is the next PaintINN project to be held at The Inn on Thursday evening, Feb. 22. For details about the project or to make reservations, call 419-772-2500.
Flight of Obscurity XV, a sculpture installation by Nathaniel Foley, is now on view in the Elzay Gallery of Art from Jan. 16 until Feb. 23. Gallery hours are 1–4:30 p.m. daily while classes are in session.
An artist talk is schedule for Thursday., Jan. 25, at 5:30 p.m. in the Elzay Gallery.
Nathaniel Foley received his MFA in sculpture from Miami University, and is currently teaching at Tiffin University and Owens Community College. Having grown up in a family of pilots, he was inspired by the imagery of flight and airplane model-building from an early age, and often utilizes the techniques of aviation construction in his sculpture.
ONU Professor Kevin Hill teaches a law and culture course during the law school January term.
While in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand, students meet with Buddhist monks at the university in Battambang, visit the Bayon temple in Angkor Thom, and meet with defense counsel and prosecutors at the Genocide Court in Phnom Penh.
