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ATTIRE FOR THE WEEKEND IS INFORMAL
The Parents and Family Weekend Schedule of Events is subject to change. Upon arriving in Lexington, please check in at the Elrod Commons Living Room to register and receive a copy of the latest schedule and special notices.
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7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.) | Lecture by Aron Ralston, The Real Life Story Behind the Movie 127 Hours NEW!
Keller Theatre, Lenfest Hall
An experienced climber and avid outdoorsman, Ralston was descending a remote Utah canyon alone when an 800-pound boulder broke loose, crushing his right hand and pinning him against the canyon wall. After nearly five days - without water and with no hope of escape - Ralston made a life-or-death decision. He chose life by severing his arm below the elbow, rappelling a 65-foot cliff out of the canyon, and trekking seven miles to find his would-be rescuers. Ralston documented his life-altering experience in the New York Times best-selling memoir, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, which has been adapted for the big screen by Danny Boyle, the Academy Award-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire. The film stars James Franco as Ralston, and his performance, as well as the movie, have been nominated for numerous awards. As an inspirational speaker, Aron Ralston moves audiences with his unforgettable story. An ordinary man pushed to the limits, Ralston demonstrates the human capacity for the extraordinary. He takes you on a riveting journey in which courage, perseverance, and human will defy the inevitable outcome. The talk is free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by Contact Committee and the Washington and Lee Outing Club. For more information go to: http://contactcommittee.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/aron-ralston/
8 a.m. | Classes Begin
Parents are welcome to join students in the classroom.
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Financial Aid Conferences
Financial Aid, 23 University Place
Fifteen-minute appointments with financial aid officers. Appointments must be made in advance through the Financial Aid website or by calling Martha Rowsey at (540) 458-8717.
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. | Registration
Elrod Commons, Living Room
Stop by the registration table, meet other parents, enjoy refreshments and pick up your Parents and Family Weekend tote, which will include the latest schedule. Your student may pick up the tote for you.
9:05 a.m. - 10 a.m. | Physics Fest
Science Center, Howe Hall 208
Student demonstrations of physics phenomena for parents and others.
10:10 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. | Physics Fest
Science Center, Howe Hall 208
Student demonstrations of physics phenomena for parents and others.
1 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Student Affairs Report to Parents, Current Happenings at W&L
Elrod Commons, Stackhouse Theater
Sidney Evans, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, and Division of Student Affairs staff.
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Study Abroad Project Presentations
Leyburn Library, Main Floor
1 p.m. - 3 p.m. | University Registrar Appointments
Early-Fielding
The University Registrar will be available for 15-minute appointments. Please email registrar@wlu.edu with a preferred time.
1:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. | Greek Life Q&A
Elrod Commons, Stackhouse Theater
Fraternity and sorority leaders, along with Student Affairs staff, will be available to answer general questions. Session is geared toward parents of first-year parents.
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | R. E. Lee Research Student Presentations
Leyburn Library, Main Floor
Students will be available at their posters to discuss summaries of their summer research projects. Posters will be on display throughout the weekend.
2 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Fraternity Q&A
Elrod Commons, Stackhouse Theater
Fraternity leaders, along with Student Affairs staff, will be available to answer fraternity specific questions. Session is geared toward parents of first-year parents.
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Open House
Reid Hall, Room 207
Journalism Department
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Open House
Elrod Commons, Room 214
Learn about the Shepherd Poverty Program and how it offers the opportunity for students to learn about the issues of poverty and human capability, and to serve others locally, throughout the country and abroad.
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Open House
Elrod Commons, Room 301
Career Development Center
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Open House
Science Center Addition 213
Geology Department. Come see the geology department and meet geology faculty -- and have a treat!
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Open House
Parmly Hall 229
Psychology Department. Come see the psychology department and meet psychology faculty -- and have a treat!
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Open House
Parmly Hall, Cognitive Neuroscience Labs, P141 and P143
Neuroscience Department. Come see the neuroscience labs and meet neuroscience faculty -- and have treats!
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Open House
Baker Hall 207
Philosophy and Religion Departments
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Open House
Keller Theatre, Lenfest Hall
Department of Theater and Dance.
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Open House NEW!
Newcomb Hall
The History Department, Sociology/Anthropology/Archaeology Department, Teacher Education, and the East Asian Studies Program invite you to our Open House. Come to our front hall where we'll have cider and snacks and signs to the offices of faculty who look forward to visiting with you.
2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Appointments with Faculty and Administration
Individual Offices
2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Senior Majors' Capstone Projects
Payne Hall, Mason Taylor New Room
Join English professors and senior majors for presentations of capstone projects and conversation. Refreshments will be served.
3 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Lecture and Book Signing with the co-authors of "Secretariat's Meadow: The Land, the Family, the Legend"
Elrod Commons, Stackhouse Theater
Join the authors of "Secretariat's Meadow: The Land, the Family, the Legend," Kate Chenery Tweedy and Leeanne Meadows Ladin, for a talk about their pictorial history of the great racehorse Secretariat, the historic Virginia farm, and the Chenery family. Kate's mother, Penny Chenery, wrote the foreword and contributed over 200 photos from her private collection. They will also talk about their new book, "Riva Ridge: Penny's First Champion." Kate's grandfather and Penny's father, Christopher Chenery, was a member of the W&L Class of 1909 and served on the W&L Board of Trustees. Both books will be available for purchase. A signing will follow the presentation, which will include thrilling videos of Secretariat's Triple Crown races. Sponsored by the University Store.
3 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Open House
Huntley Hall, Reading Room
Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics
3 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Open House and Tours
Howe Hall, Room 208
Physics and Engineering Department
3 p.m. - 4 p.m. | Sorority Q&A Session
Alpha Delta Pi House
Sorority leaders, along with Student Affairs staff, will be available to answer questions. Session is geared toward parents of first-year students.
3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Open House
Tucker Multimedia Center, Tucker Hall, Room 408
Modern Languages and the Tucker Multimedia Center for Foreign Languages. Languages are at the core of a world gone global. Come and learn how languages and language learning technologies are combining efforts to promote communication skills in a new-found era of global learning.
3:15 p.m. | Reception
Robinson Hall, Room 2
Mathematics Department
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Open House
Science Center Addition, 3rd Floor Lounge
Chemistry Department
3:35 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Student Presentations of Summer Research
Robinson Hall, Room 6
Mathematics Department
4 p.m. - 5 p.m. | Global Learning and Study Abroad at Washington and Lee
Elrod Commons, Stackhouse Theater
This session will introduce W&L's strategic initiative in global learning and some of its innovative features including how we are making study abroad an integrated academic experience for W&L students.
4 p.m. - 5 p.m. | Sorority Open House
Frank Parsons Way
The Panhellenic Council invites all first-year women and their parents to tour the sorority houses. Families are free to enter the houses for a self-guided tour.
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | President's Open House
Lee House
Please join President and Mrs. Ruscio for an open house and reception for first-year and transfer students and their parents.
5 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Open House
5 University Place, The Red House (EALC)
East Asian Languages and Literatures Department. A Taste of Asia - Delicious East Asian food along with its culture will be introduced.
5 p.m. - 7 p.m. | Shabbat Services and Dinner
Hillel House
Hillel sponsors a Shabbat Service and dinner once a month and is open to all students, faculty, staff, and members of the Lexington/Rockbridge community. Shabbat Services start at 5 p.m. and dinner will immediately follow. Please RSVP for dinner to Brett Schwartz at (540) 458-8443 by no later than Wednesday, October 31, 2012
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. | Parents Leadership Council Welcome Back Reception
The Morris House
Sponsored by University Development. By invitation.
7 p.m. | Commons Movie
Elrod Commons, Stackhouse Theater
The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13)
Free Admission. Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and John W. Elrod University Commons.
8 p.m. - 10 p.m. | Parents and Family Weekend Choral Concert
Wilson Hall
Featuring the W&L Chamber Singers, Men's Glee Club and Cantatrici.
Tickets are free but required. Contact the Box Office Monday-Friday from 9-11 a.m., 2-4 p.m., or two hours prior to the performance. (540) 458-8000.
7:30 a.m. - 9 a.m. | Parents and Family Weekend Morning Run REVISED!
Lee Chapel Entrance
If a morning stroll through the historic neighborhoods of Lexington is appealing, join Courtney Ridenhour '13 for a three-mile jog. All fitness levels are encouraged to join and enjoy the sites and sounds of a crisp fall morning.
8:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. | The President's Society Breakfast
Evans Dining Hall
By invitation.
9 a.m. - 11 a.m. | Appointments with Faculty and Administration
Individual Offices
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Registration
Elrod Commons, Living Room
Pick up your Parents and Family Weekend information tote. Your student may pick up the tote for you.
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Financial Aid Conferences
Financial Aid, 23 University Place
Fifteen-minute appointments with financial aid officers. Appointments must be made in advance through the Financial Aid website or by calling Martha Rowsey at (540) 458-8717.
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Applied Music Recitals
Wilson Hall, Concert Hall
Tickets are not required.
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Japanese Tea Room Demonstrations
Senshin'an Tea Room Watson Pavilion
Stop by for as long as you like to observe a traditional tea ceremony and enjoy a sweet and a bowl of tea.
10 a.m. - beginning of 3rd Quarter of the Football Game | Tailgating NEW!
Law School Lawn
Email gab@wlu.edu to register.
10:15 a.m. | President's Report to Parents
Lee Chapel
Kenneth P. Ruscio '76
11 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Career Conversations (for parents of freshmen and sophomores)
Science Center G14
Join members of the Career Development Center staff as they discuss important skills and qualities that employers look for in college graduates.
11 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Career Conversations (for parents of juniors and seniors)
Science Center A114
Join members of the Career Development Center staff as they discuss important skills and qualities that employers look for in college graduates.
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch on the Green
Cannan Green (Rain Location: Marketplace in Elrod Commons)
Cost is $9.50 per person. Tickets for lunch are available at registration (cash, check or student food debit) and at the time of the lunch.
1 p.m. | Football
Wilson Field
Washington and Lee vs. Hampton-Sydney College
3 p.m. - 4 p.m. | A Grand Tea
Elrod Commons, Room 114
A special welcome reception for W&L grandparents.
6 p.m. - 8 p.m. | A Cappella Concert
Lee Chapel
Featuring Southern Comfort, JubiLee, Washingtones and General Admission.
Tickets are free but required. Contact the Box Office Monday-Friday from 9-11 a.m., 2-4 p.m., or two hours prior to the performance. (540) 458-8000.
7 p.m. | Office of Diversity and Inclusion Parents' Dinner
Evans Dining Hall
RSVP by October 26, 2012 to Sarah Walker at swalker@wlu.edu.
7 p.m. | Commons Movie
Elrod Commons, Stackhouse Theater
The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13)
Free Admission. Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and John W. Elrod University Commons.
8 p.m. - 10 p.m. | University Wind Ensemble Concert
Wilson Hall
Tickets are free but required. Contact the Box Office Monday-Friday from 9-11 a.m., 2-4 p.m., or two hours prior to the performance. (540) 458-8000.
2 p.m. | Commons Movie
Elrod Commons, Stackhouse Theater
The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13)
Free Admission. Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and John W. Elrod University Commons.
JOHN W. ELROD UNIVERSITY COMMONS LIVING ROOM
Please stop by the table in the Elrod Commons living room to see the programming activities of LIFE peer health educators, One in Four, SPEAK, Active Minds, Traveller, Campus Community Coalition, and Peer Counselors. These groups work to enhance the efforts of the Division of Student Affairs in promoting a safe campus environment. Sponsored by Student Health and Counseling, Division of Student Affairs.
LEE CHAPEL AND MUSEUM, OPEN VISITATION
Friday, November 2, 2012 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday, November 3, 2012 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Sunday, November 4, 2012 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
LYKES ATRIUM, WILSON HALL
"Then & Now: Photographs after Michael Miley"
In 1866, Rockbridge County native Michael Miley (1841-1918), opened a photographic studio in Lexington. Over the next fifty years he photographed extensively, creating a vast catalogue of images documenting the landscape, development and citizens of Rockbridge County in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Maury Gortemiller's 2012 Spring Term class (Rephotography: Appropriating the Established Image) researched Miley's historical imagery of Rockbridge County and rephotographed the scenes, remaining as faithful as possible to the camera equipment, point of view, time of day and atmospheric conditions. The project portrays a unique community capable of both vast change and steadfast preservation.
Friday, November 2, 2012 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
MCCARTHY GALLERY, HOLEKAMP HALL
Art Exhibit: Frank Hobbs
The exhibition of landscapes and figures will be on view in the McCarthy Gallery of the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, in Holekamp Hall. Hobbs, a native of Lynchburg, Va., is associate professor of painting and drawing at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. From 1989-2004 Hobbs resided in Staunton, where, in 1992, he and four artist friends began the Beverley Street Studio School. He taught drawing at Washington and Lee from 1997-2004. Hobbs is best known for his landscape paintings of Virginia. Since moving to Ohio in 2007 his focus has shifted to his new environment. The exhibition at the McCarthy Gallery will include the artist's interpretations of the Ohio landscape, work from Virginia and Italy, and a group of figure paintings from a series painted in Italy in 2010. The exhibit will run from October through December.
Friday, November 2, 2012 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
REEVES CENTER
The Reeves Center displays Washington and Lee's ceramics collection, which spans over 4,000 years of human history. The collection includes ceramics from Asia, Europe and America, and is especially rich in Chinese export porcelain made for the American and European markets between 1600 and 1900.
Friday, November 2, 2012 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
R.E. LEE POSTER SESSION
Research students will display summaries of their projects (Leyburn Library, Main Floor). Posters will be on display throughout the weekend. Students will be available from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Friday to discuss their projects.
STANIAR GALLERY, WILSON HALL
Art Exhibit: Brent Green
The work of filmmaker/animator Brent Green always begins with a story that is crafted word by word until it transcends the language to become part of a unique process of art-making. Green's films evolve from detailed, hand-drawn storyboards, which can take the form of paintings on anything from window frames to cardboard. Often morphing into sculpture, or even song, the narratives solidify until they form the basis for his "DIY folk-punk" animated films. This exhibition showcases the development of this young artist's ideas as he uses all forms of media at his disposal to embody the wonder, urgency, political angst and hope that are at the core of his work. Green's critically acclaimed films have been screened at numerous prestigious venues including The Museum of Modern Art (NYC), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), The Hammer Museum and J. Paul Getty Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA).
Friday, November 2, 2012 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday, November 3, 2012 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday, November 4, 2012 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Annual Book Sale at Leyburn Library, Main Floor
(Acceptable forms of payment - cash, check, General debit/charge. Credit cards will not be accepted.)
Friday, November 2 - Sunday, November 4, 2012
UNIVERSITY STORE
Located in the Elrod University Commons
The University Store hours:
Friday, November 2, 2012 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Saturday, November 3, 2012 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, November 4, 2012 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
ATTIRE FOR THE WEEKEND IS INFORMAL