May 1st Registration

Just a Reminder
If you are Planning on coming to the May 1st (Mud Pig Day) Registration please contact Carrie Camden.

1.800.872.0175

Snow

• 70 degrees last Friday
• Snow Today
• Back to 70 on Wednesday.

Odd weather to say the least, but it is beautiful!

Helen's World ~ Volume 2

Hello and I hope you have had a wonderful day. Let me see where should I begin about life at BC right now? Well, our Spring Formal went off with a "splash"! Everyone seemed to enjoy it and have a great time the entire night. I am a member of the Student Union Board and we put on any big events for the campus body. It was a long...long day that Friday. We actually began decorating and making decorations days and even weeks ahead of time, just because it gets so hectic a few days before the dance. Our theme was "Under the Sea" and we felt like we were going to see fish, whales, and dolphins in our sleep because of what we were working with for decorations. That and we were DEFINITELY sick of seeing the color blue! Wow, it was a lot a blue! But, students loved the decorations and the theme, so it was worth our blue insanity.

On another note, winter is officially over and spring is here to stay...at least until summer. Walking around on campus in the 72 degree weather, I feel like a obsessive poet...."The flowers are all in bloom and the animals are all a flutter as they mingle happily on the Bluefield campus". Man, where did that come from?And I'm not even an English major!
The weather is beautiful though, especially compared to the cold, icy winter that Bluefield faces every year. Every one is ready for winter to arrive by the time summer is over. Everyone is ready for the snow to fall and cover the mountains, but we are really ready for spring once winter is brought to a close.

The Bluefield College campus and community is right in the middle of Holocaust Remembrance month. All month long, we have been focusing on the events of the Holocaust and it's survivors from that raged time of hatred. The Drama Department has just finished it's astounding performance of "The Diary of Anne Frank", the tale of Anne Frank and family through her diary. The play was amazingly done and I marveled at how the actors and actresses really became their character that they were portraying. By the end of the play, I was emotionally and mentally tired. It really seemed to take me into the horrible times and wrap me into the characters lives that they bravely faced everyday and every night. Every area and department here on campus is involved in this look into the Holocaust and we are all entranced in the immensity of its horror and hope through it all. It has been an incredible and startling experience so far and I am usually eager to see what I can experience in the next event geared toward the memorial of those from the Holocaust.

Well, that's all from me this time around. I hope you have a pleasant day, I know I will in this wonderful weather here, and until my next blog, happy spring!
~Helen

Bring on the Noise

Wonderful, new noises will be coming from Harman Chapel in the fall. Yesterday, Bluefield College introduced the new Instrumental Program which will be headed up by Dr. Andrew Necessary, who comes to us from Concord University. Dr. Necessary received his bachelors from Elon University and received his masters and Ph.D. from UNC. Dr. Necessary shows excitement for bringing in several instrumental ensembles, such as creating a jazz band. This is an exciting time for the music department and if you have any questions about this program feel free to ask!

Holocaust Symposium Begins

Tuesday night BC held a reception for Max Kammer who documented WWII with his camera. Kammer is a Bluefield, WV resident who was just a teenager when he captured the cold truth of the Holocaust and can share his story to this day. The display in Landsdell Hall depicts grim, brutal scenes of the Orduf and Buchenwald Concentration Camps.

In the Science center the Virginia Holocaust Museum brought their “Dame Mary Baracco: Torchbearer of Freedom” display from Richmond. Mary Baracco was born an U.S. citizen but later moved to Europe to be a Freedom Fighter. She was betrayed and then captured by the Gestapo. Mary, at the age of 19 was sent to four different prisons and then to the Breendouck Concentration Camp where she endured torture and sterilization. Mary survived the holocaust and documented her ordeal through painting and scrapbooking artifacts from her life.

Thursday, the Bluefield College Theatre Department opened the Diary of Anne Frank. The production depicts the true story of Anne, who was a Jewish, happy-go-lucky 13 year old who documented her life in hiding. Freshman, Caleigh Keith, who portrays Anne, had the audience laughing at one moment then in tears the next. Historic videos and pictures from the War were shown on screens during the production, which punctuated the reality of the horrors. As photographs of Anne streamed on the screens at the end of the production, the audience in respect remained silent.

“Despite of everything, I believe that people are really good at heart” ~ Anne Frank