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Chapel CDs Join Digital Music Revolution

The Westmont College Worship Team has made the leap to iTunes. Music from all five chapel CDs dating back to 2004 are available for purchase and download through the iTunes Store. Joel Patterson, Westmont director of music and worship, says Westmont now has a significant, permanent presence in the international music market and thus a greater presence in the world. more

Westmont Offers New Summer Art Camp

Space is still available at the newest ThinkCamp, Creative YOUth Project, which is a fine art camp for children age 7-14 that begins Monday, June 29. It’s co-directed by Dan Barnett, director of the Visual Art and Design Academy at Santa Barbara High School, and Josephine Tournier Ingram, a local designer and Westmont instructor. more

Warriors Sports Media Guides Win Contest

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and Sports Information Directors of America (SIDA) honored Ron Smith, Westmont sports information officer, and his staff for two of this year’s Westmont media guides. The publication contest winners were announced at the 2009 NAIA-SIDA convention June 20. more

Teens to Perform Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella”

About three dozen junior high and high school students enrolled in Westmont’s Bravissimo!, an 11-day musical theater camp, will perform Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” Thursday, June 25, at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Porter Theatre. Tickets are $5 and can be reserved by e-mail to thinkcamps@westmont.edu and picked up at the door. “Cinderella” is co-directed by Miller James, local playwright and Westmont theatre arts instructor, and Rebecca Hodson, Westmont music instructor. more

Reds Pick Crabbe in MLB Draft

Westmont right-handed hurler Tim Crabbe was selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the fourteenth round of the 2009 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. “It’s exciting,” said Crabbe about the selection. “There are still a lot of questions. I have more years of (college) eligibility so I need to negotiate with the Reds tomorrow and over the weekend. I’ve got to look at every situation. I’ll talk it over with my parents and make a decision.” more

Exciting Future for Baseball Takes Shape

Westmont has hired Robert Ruiz as head coach of Westmont baseball. As Azusa Pacific University’s assistant and associate head coach for the past five years, he helped win 36 or more games in three of the past five seasons. Ruiz coaches the Warriors at a time of great change on the field as well. Heavy equipment has leveled the backstop, bleachers and dugouts at Carr Field. A giant sifting machine has been sorting top soil, removing the rock from dirt. more

Homes Rise from Ashes

Westmont officials are praising Santa Barbara city and county planners and building officials for expediting the reconstruction of buildings and homes destroyed in the November Tea Fire. Construction workers are making extensive progress rebuilding the 14 Las Barrancas faculty homes leveled in the blaze as well as the three structures in Clark Hall that burned. While the floor plans remain the same for the Las Barrancas homes architect Gil Garcia has incorporated code upgrades for the new homes. more

Student Essays Analyze Financial Crisis

Recent Westmont economics and business graduate Kayla Stilwell of Bakersfield, Calif., won $500 for her first-place entry in a campus-wide essay contest about economic liberty and the financial crisis. Stilwell’s essay, “Government Failure and the Ensuing Crisis,” explores the reasons behind the financial crisis and evaluates the role of previous federal government policies. The Westmont Economics and Business Department and the economics honorary society Omicron Delta Epsilon (Alpha Pi chapter) sponsor the annual essay contest. more

Mayor, NBA All-Star Inspires

About 200 people were treated to an inspiring message from Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson on Sunday evening at Westmont Athletics Presidential Scholarship-Challenge dinner. The former NBA All-Star told stories from both his youth and his playing days and encouraged his audience to live lives of service to others. more

Designers with a Cause

Students in Westmont’s Publication Design course taught by Professor Scott Anderson designed the 2008 annual report for Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. At the request of Matt Neal, a former college staff member who is married to a Westmont alumna, they carried the project from concept to finished product. Neal works in development at the Cancer Center. “A topic that is always covered in my publication design classes is the importance of doing pro-bono work, of using your talents to serve your community,” says Anderson, who is also an award-winning designer and illustrator. more

Out Of The Ashes To The Cosmos

Westmont students and faculty will be able to conduct cutting-edge research on rare nuclear isotopes when the Department of Energy builds a $550 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University in the next decade. MSU and Westmont have drafted a memorandum of understanding outlining their research collaboration, and Westmont has joined the Alliance of Undergraduate Rare Isotope Research Institutions. more

Historian Installed As Social Science Chair

Richard Pointer, Westmont professor of history, will be installed as the first recipient of the Fletcher Jones Foundation Chair in the Social Sciences during a day of free, public events Wednesday, March 4. The inauguration of the chair, which will rotate every four years among deserving faculty within the social science division, will be held in Murchison Gymnasium at 10:30 a.m. Shirley Mullen, former Westmont provost and current Houghton College president, will take part in a panel discussion, “What is History Good For?” in Porter Theatre at 3:30 p.m. more

Westmont Receives $1.5 M for Sciences

The T.B. Walker Foundation, an anonymous donor and others have committed $1.5 million to Westmont toward the creation of the college’s first endowed chair in the natural and behavioral sciences. The T.B. Walker Foundation Chair in the Natural and Behavioral Sciences will honor the work of an outstanding faculty member in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering/physics, mathematics or psychology. more