- James Kent '14
- Hometown: Rockville, IN
- Major: Civil engineering
At Mount Union, you can major in a demanding professional field like engineering and still have the opportunity to branch out and get involved in other things.
- Alina Selby '14
- Hometown: Finleyville, PA
- Major: Mechanical engineering
The Kershaw Lecture
2011 Kershaw Lecture
Nature photographer Jim Clark presented the Myrtie Allen Kershaw Lecture on Tuesday, October 11 at the University of Mount Union.
Clark used his life experiences and love of photography to inspire others during his lecture titled, Life Through the Lens. He used five milestones to explain the lessons he’s learned and how they have made him successful as a person and as a photographer. Throughout his entire presentation, Clark used photographs to help tell his story. Read more.
About the Kershaw Lecture
The Myrtie Allen Kershaw Lectureship on Poetry and the Fine Arts was established in 1960 by a bequest from Myrtie Allen Kershaw of Kent, Ohio, who indicated in her will that such a fund should go to a college chosen by her friend and executrix of her estate, Elizabeth Clark Bell. Because of Mrs. Bell's personal interest in Mount Union, where she was a student in 1932-33 and where her uncle, Robert E. Stauffer, was a teacher and librarian for many years, she designated Mount Union to receive the fund. The income is used to bring periodically to the College a person of distinction, for one or more lectures on ancient or modern poetry, the fine arts, or music or for an original performance in one of these fields.
Past Kershaw Lecturers
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1960-61 |
John Ciardi, professor of English, Rutgers University |
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1961-62 |
Selden Rodman, poet, author and art critic |
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1963-64 |
William D. Snodgrass, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet |
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1964-65 |
Dame Alicia Markova, prima ballerina |
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1965-66 |
Herman Shulin, Broadway producer and director |
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1966-67 |
An Evening's Frost, a production featuring the works and letters of poet Robert Frost, starring Will Geer and with Anne Gee Byrd, Thomas Coley and Jack Davidson |
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1967-68 |
Benjamin Franklin, Citizen featuring the words of Benjamin Franklin, starring Fredd Wayne |
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1969-70 |
Boris Goldovsky, pianist |
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1971-72 |
William McVey, sculptor |
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1976-77 |
Fred Sherry and Charles Wuorinen, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, cellist and pianist |
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1977-78 |
Mitchell Stern, violinist and Robert McDonald, pianist |
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1978-79 |
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, vocalist |
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1996-97 |
William Albright, composer, organist and pianist |
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2004-05 |
Dragan Vukadinovic, senior creative designer, Hyundai/Kia American Design Center |
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2005-06 |
Die Audio Gruppe, art group that builds and performs with electroacoustic clothes and dresses |
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2006-07 |
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| 2007-08 |
Kenneth Huff, interdisciplinary visual artist working in a variety of traditional and new media |
| 2008-09 |
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| 2009-10 |
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| 2010-11 | Linden String Quartet |
| 2011-12 | Jim Clark, nature photographer |