March 26, 2004 Announcements
International
Banquet and Culture Show
The biggest international gala of the year is coming to Utah
State University April 3, announced Maribeth Evensen-Hengge,
an advisor in the office of International Students and Scholars.
"Each spring international students at Utah State University
showcase cuisine from their countries in an international banquet,"
Evensen-Hengge said. "The event also features a cultural
show that is an added bonus."
The banquet begins at 7 p.m. in the Stevenson Ballroom of the
Taggart Student Center. The cultural show immediately follows.
Tickets for the April 3 event go on sale March 15 and are available
in advance at the Utah State Ticket Office in the Smith Spectrum.
Tickets will not be available at the door. Adult tickets are
$12. Tickets for students and children (under age 12) are $8.
According to Evensen-Hengge, Liz Allred, advisor for the International
Student Council, has worked closely with students and Taggart
Student Center chefs to create a special menu for the event.
"Liz and the students have worked very hard this year
to make sure that the recipes are authentic," she said.
"We have worked with Utah State chefs to get the correct
spices for the recipes. We’re taking extra time to make
the cuisine as authentic as possible."
The full news release detailing the International Banquet can
be found in the Utah State Today archives.
Evans
Award Winners Announced — Reception to be Held
Virginia Kerns, an anthropologist at the College of William
and Mary, and Ripley Hugo, a writer from Montana, are the recipients
of the Evans Biography and Handcart Awards, the Mountain West
Center for Regional Studies at Utah State University announced
March 11. The two authors will be honored at a public event
March 29 at Utah State University.
The March 29 event features short lectures by both recipients.
It is open to the public and begins at 7 p.m. at the David B.
Haight Alumni Center on the Utah State University campus and
will be followed by a reception and book signing.
Kerns is the recipient of the Evans Biography Award for Scenes
from the High Desert: Julian Steward's Life and Theory,
published by the University of Illinois Press. Steward is best
remembered in American anthropology as the creator of cultural
ecology, a theoretical approach that has influenced generations
of archaeologists and cultural anthropologists.
Hugo, a poet and faculty affiliate in the English department
at the University of Montana, is being awarded the Evans Handcart
Award for Writing for Her Life: The Novelist Mildred Walker,
published by the University of Nebraska Press. Hugo is Walker's
daughter. Hugo's biography of the author of 13 celebrated novels
is also her search for the writing life of a mother known to
her children as a socially correct middle-class doctor's wife,
rather than as the ambitious, imaginative, often struggling
novelist she was as well.
The $10,000 Evans Biography Award, which was established in
1983, recognizes outstanding research and writing of a biography
of a person who lived a significant portion of his or her life
in the region of the West that was historically influenced by
Mormon institutions and social practices.
The $1,000 Handcart Award, established in 1996, is given each
year to a biography of merit, often by an emerging author, that
contributes to an understanding of the Mormon-settled West.
The subjects and authors of the winning biographies in both
categories do not need to be affiliated with the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Evans Awards were endowed by the family of David Woolley
Evans and Beatrice Cannon Evans, both born in 1894.
For information on the March 29 event or on the Evans awards,
call the Mountain West Center at (435) 797-3630.
The full news release detailing the Evans awards and the winners
can be found in the Utah State Today archives.
Women
Over 65 Honored
The Women's Center holds its annual Honoring Women Over 65
program March 30 at 7 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center Stevenson
Ballroom. Libbie Baxter Maughan, Elizabeth L. Taylor, Ruth Hobson
and Edna Hinman will be recognized for their community contributions.
The program is free and the public is welcome.
The first recognition program was held in 1986. The program
serves to counter negative stereotypes sometimes associated
with aging and to create awareness of women who continue to
lead very active and productive lives in later years. These
women are recognized for their past and present achievements
and their commitment to community involvement in Cache Valley.
For more information, call Utah State's Women's Center at 435-797-1728.
The full news release detailing this event is available in
Utah State Today's archives.
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