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Dr. Dennis Gibson (second from right), recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Member Award, is pictured with (from left) Dr. Jill and Paul Underwood of Underwood’s Cafeteria, and Dr. Cory Hines, HPU president. Members of Howard Payne University’s faculty and staff were recognized for their service during the 2020-2021 year at an annual personnel luncheon held on campus. Dr. Dennis Gibson, associate professor of chemistry and department chair, received the Outstanding Faculty Member Award. Hunter Sims, athletic director, received the Outstanding Staff Member Award. The outstanding faculty and staff awards are made possible by Underwood’s Cafeteria and Porter Insurance Agency, respectively. ....
Now is “the best of times,” and last year was “the worst of times,” Dillard s Inc. CEO William Dillard II said Saturday at the department store chain s annual meeting. ....
Amid COVID, spring show a new experience for Trumbull students Donald Eng FacebookTwitterEmail The Trumbull High Thespian Troupe rehearses its 2021 musical, “Working.”Contributed photo / Julie Spillane TRUMBULL A year after getting shut down just days before opening night, director Jessica Spillane and the Trumbull High Thespians Troupe are back in the same situation, this time hoping for a different ending. “We have had some stern conversations with the kids about protecting their health,” Spillane said. “We’re telling them, ‘We need you to be smart.’” Trumbull High is set to debut its 2021 musical “Working” April 30 in a live performance in front of a limited audience. Spillane estimated no more than 300 people would be allowed inside the 1,100-seat school theater. ....
26 February 2021 It’s rare and welcome to burst out laughing within seconds of hitting play but the Melvins “I Fuck Around” a juvenile cover of the Beach Boys’ “I Get Around” is a total giggle retaining all the layered bounce and sunshine of the original, with a tad more honesty about what much music of that time was actually about. The outro, with its keyboard sounds and demand to “stop fucking around!” is disarming and sets the listener up in good spirits. That refreshing sense of humor endures throughout the portentously titled Working With God. Even the press release was a hoot with casual asides directed at band members (“union jobs… must be nice asshole”), other bands (“it’s the album bands like Green Day and Metallica wish they could put out if they only had the guts”), and a tongue-in-cheek explanation for the title: “because it was time to get right with the lord.” ....
No audience? No problem. How this N.J. school is making a musical during COVID. Updated Mar 01, 2021; Facebook Share It’s just something you do, even when it’s never been done before. That’s how a senior of a high school in Hunterdon County explained his decision to try out for this year’s musical despite the fact that it will be different from every performance he’s done before it. “After doing the musical since my freshman year, it’s just a feeling I keep wanting to come back to,” Bryant Kessie, a student at Delaware Valley Regional High School in Frenchtown, told NJ Advance Media. “It’s never really mattered what the show is, or if there’s a role I want. I’m just way too happy to come to rehearsal, and I couldn’t get away from that, even if I tried.” ....