Services are pending for Hazel Marion Abernathy, 84, of Nacogdoches. Mrs. Abernathy passed away Thursday, March 22, 2012, in Nacogdoches, Texas. Arrangements are under the direction of Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors. Condolences may be offered at www.casonmonk-metcalf.
Mrs. Linda Faye Schreiber Craig, 58, passed away on March 2, 2012 in Nacogdoches, Texas. She was born on September 30, 1953 to parents Orbon Freeman and Faye Schreiber in Collins, Mississippi.
Family and guests are invited to a Celebration of Life service on Sunday, March 25, 2012 at the Vineyard Church, 4140Fm 1878 in Nacogdoches at 2:30 pm. with Jim Miller officiating. Final resting place is at Cooley Springs Cemetery in Mount Olive, Mississippi.
Mrs. Craig was a member of the Vineyard and had a big heart for other people. She had a wonderful smile that could soften the hardest heart. Linda was known as a loving mother, a faithful wife and loved the Lord whom she is now with.
Linda is preceded in death by her father, Orbon Freeman, dad, Gus Schreiber and son, James White.
She is survived by loving husband of 28 years, Richard C. Craig of Nacogdoches; sons, Jerry W. Jones Jr. of Nacogdoches, Clifton Craig and wife Charlie of Houston; mother, Faye Schreiber Kirkley of Mississippi; god-mother, Lavonia Freeland of Houston; brothers, Gus Schreiber, John Schreiber, Walter Schreiber all of Mississippi; sisters, Irene Carr of Florida and Linda Kaye Freeman of Copperas Cove, Texas.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Vineyard Church, 4140 Fm 1878, Nacogdoches, Texas, 75965.
Online condolences may be offered at www.casonmonkmetcalf.com
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Stephen F. Austin State University is participating in Operation Hat Trick, a national program created at the University of New Hampshire to memorialize Nate Hardy and Mike Koch, two U.S. Navy SEALs who died in Iraq in 2008. The original initiative focused on producing collegiate caps for soldiers who suffered head injuries. Now SFA fans who purchase officially licensed SFA caps with the Operation Hat Trick logo support the university and American military veterans by generating royalties to support SFA and the Veteran’s Administration General Post Fund.
Stephen F. Austin State University student Andy Collins recently tried out caps for sale locally that benefit Operation Hat Trick, a national program created at the University of New Hampshire to memorialize Nate Hardy and Mike Koch, two U.S. Navy SEALs who died in Iraq in 2008. SFA fans who purchase officially licensed SFA caps with the Operation Hat Trick logo support the university and American military veterans by generating royalties to support SFA and the Veteran’s Administration General Post Fund.
This focus and the New Hampshire program’s deep roots in ice hockey provided the inspiration for the Operation Hat Trick name.
“In ice hockey, if a player scores three goals in a game, it is referred to as a hat trick,” said John Branch, SFA assistant athletics director. “One of the Navy SEALS who died is the son of a professor at New Hampshire, one of the top ice hockey schools in the country.”
The OHT initiative has evolved into a national program with participation by more than 26 universities throughout the country and a new objective of raising funds for the VA General Post Fund.
“The primary objective for the OHT program moving forward is to build support and funds for our soldiers and veterans seeking medical treatment in VA medical centers.” said Dot Sheehan, founder and director of OHT.
The caps are produced under license by ’47 Brand, one of the country’s leading collegiate headwear manufacturers. In the initial product roll out, ’47 Brand is offering an adjustable camouflage version with SFA’s Angry Axe on the front. The SFA cap is now available for sale at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore in the Baker Pattillo Student Center.
“We are honored to participate in the OHT program and believe SFA fans will want to support the program by buying SFA co-branded caps,” Branch said. “We know our fans and alumni love SFA and appreciate our military, and this program allows them to support both at the same time.”
For more information, contact Branch at (936) 468-3501.
Dr. Robert Freeman, former director of the Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, and former dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, will give a lecture, “The Future of Music in America,” at 3 p.m. Friday, March 30, in the Music Recital Hall on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.
Freeman is the author of numerous articles on curricular reform for the arts in America and of the book “Towards a More Productive Education for Music.” He is currently a professor of musicology at the University of Texas at Austin.
The lecture is free and open to the public. The Music Recital Hall is located in Room 160 of the Wright Music Building, 2210 Alumni Drive.
Freeman, who is also a pianist, will be on campus to perform the next day in the Isidor Saslav Strings Scholarship Benefit Concert, which honors the former director of strings at SFA and features many acclaimed musicians from across the country who are Saslav’s former classmates, directors, students and/or colleagues.
The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Cole Concert Hall, which is also located in the Wright Music Building.
Individual tickets for the concert are $25 each. Patrons can also choose to make a contribution of any amount towards the scholarship. To purchase tickets and/or make a contribution, please call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS.
The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre will present a student-directed production of Yazim Reza’s “Art” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 30, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 31. All performances will be in the Downstage Theatre located on the first floor of the Griffith Fine Arts Building.
In this one-act play, the relationship between three friends is threatened over an expensive abstract painting one of them has purchased, explained Corpus Christi senior Kory Pullam. “As the three men engage in an ongoing debate over the painting’s value, emotions run high and the conflict escalates to the point of nearly destroying the friendship.”
The play is recommended for mature audiences.
Cast members include Mesquite junior John Lisi, Nacogdoches sophomore Bailey Wier and Lancaster freshman TaDarius Jones.
Previously at SFA Pullam directed “Red God” and assistant directed “Rabbit Hole.” He portrayed Willie in “’Master Harold’ … and the boys,” Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Kulygin in “Three Sisters.”
In student-directed productions, Pullam has appeared in “Wine in the Wilderness” and “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad.”
Tickets for “Art” are $3 each. For tickets or more information, please call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS.
Members of the Stephen F. Austin State University music faculty will present music by Stefan Cwik, Darius Milhaud, Ferenc Farkas and others during “Coleidoscope” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
“The recital’s title reflects my colleagues and my wish to honor our invaluable patrons, Ed and Gwen Cole, during this kaleidoscope of chamber music,” said cellist Dr. Evgeni Raychev, the event’s organizer.
Joining Raychev will be violinist Jennifer Dalmas, flutist Christina Guenther, clarinetist Christopher Ayer, bassoonist Susan Nelson and pianists Geneva Fung and Ron Petti.
The performance is part of the SFA School of Music’s Cole Performing Arts Series. Cole Concert Hall is located in the Wright Music Building, 2210 Alumni Drive.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and $2 for students. For tickets or more information, please go to www.finearts.sfasu.edu or call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS.
The Caliendo Barcellona Flute Guitar Duo will present a guest artist recital at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in the Music Recital Hall as part of the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music’s Cole Performing Arts Series.
“The program will be a thrilling synthesis of composer/guitarist Christopher Caliendo’s world music,” said SFA Associate Professor of Music Christina Guenther. “His compositions encompass a variety of genres, including tango, gypsy, flamenco, jazz, classical, samba and bossa nova.”
Caliendo is the only composer to have received two commissions from the Vatican. Other career highlights include two Heritage Awards from the Academy of Motion Pictures for his original soundtracks for 20th Century Fox and his composing/orchestrations for “Dallas,” “Knott’s Landing, “Paradise” and “Guns of Paradise.”
Barcellona is professor of flute and director of woodwind studies at the Cole Conservatory of Music, California State University Long Beach and flutist with the internationally acclaimed Westwood Quintet. He maintains an active performing career and received a Grammy nomination for his solo album, “Is This the Way to Carnegie Hall?”
The Music Recital Hall is located in Room 160 of the Wright Music Building, 2210 Alumni Drive.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and $2 for students. For tickets or more information, please go to www.finearts.sfasu.edu or call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS.
The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art will present an artist lecture by Vincent Falsetta, professor of painting and drawing at the University of North Texas, at 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 26, in the Art Building, Room 106. Admission is free and open to the public.
Eight of Falsetta’s paintings are currently on display at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches as part of the “Silent Transmissions” exhibition, which will run through Saturday, March 31.
On the artist’s website, he writes that his distinctly abstract paintings “tend to suggest waves of sound, water, light or seismic activity.”
His paintings are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Galleria Cavallino in Venice, Italy; Neiman-Marcus in LasVegas and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, Utah, to name a few.
For more information, please call (936) 468-1131.
