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Dawn of a New Day on display at 2014 LWC Homecoming
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By Duane Bonifer
COLUMBIA, KY - The dawn of a new day at Lindsey Wilson College was on display throughout the college’s 2014 homecoming weekend.
A total of six individuals were also honored by the college during its 83rd homecoming weekend. Four individuals were recognized by the Lindsey WIlson National Alumni Association, and two alumnae were inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Athletic Hall of Fame.
The Lindsey Wilson community was also introduced to the new Blue Raider Bob, the college’s mascot. Thanks to a fund-raising campaign by the LWC Class of 2013, the college’s 17-year-old mascot received a makeover in the form of a customized mascot costume. The new Blue Raider Bob was introduced right before kickoff of the LWC-Kentucky Wesleyan College football game on Saturday night at Blue Raider Stadium. The original Blue Raider Bob was appointed LWC mascot emeritus.
The LWC National Alumni Association dubbed the event the “dawn of a new day.”
But in remarks earlier in the day at the Alumni Awards and Athletic Hall of Fame Celebration, LWC President William T. Luckey Jr. said that the 111-year-old liberal arts college recently experience the dawn of a new day.
“While I think our theme was meant to reveal a new costume for our mascot, Blue Raider Bob, a lot of us probably don’t remember having a mascot while we were at Lindsey Wilson,” Luckey told more than 200 guests at Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center.
Luckey also said that when award recipient and 2001 LWC alumnus Chris Estes of Lexington, KY, attended LWC, the college did not have a health-and-wellness center nor a sports park.
In the last 10 years, LWC has invested more than $50 million in an expansion of its A.P. White Campus, contributing to another kind of dawn of a new day at the college, Luckey said.
The one constant, however, over the years, he said, has been the commitment of the LWC faculty and staff.
“What we did have then -- and what I’m convinced that we still have today -- is a passionate and a nurturing and a committed group of faculty and staff who love this place and love its precious students,” said Luckey, who has been the college’s eighth president since 1998.
At the Alumni Awards and Athletic Hall of Fame Celebration, Givens received the Distinguished Alumnus Award and Estes received the Young Alumnus Award. The Rev. Howard O. and Dee Reynolds, both of Lexington, KY, were named honorary alumni.
Also at the Alumni Awards and Athletic Hall of Fame Celebration, two members from the Class of 2001 were inducted into the LWC Athletic Hall of Fame: Michelle Burns Perry of Indianapolis was the first volleyball player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame and Jessica Seamon of Smyrna, GA, was the first softball player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Perry’s induction coincided with the 20th anniversary of volleyball as an NAIA intercollegiate sport at LWC.
Also on Saturday, the LWC student body crowded a new homecoming queen and king. Katarina Simic of Malmo, Sweden, who represented soccer, was crowned queen, and Felix Casa Del Valle of Louisville, KY, who represented the Freshman Year Experience Peer Mentors, was crowned king.
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Six honored atLWC Alumni Awards, Athletic Hall of Fame
2014-09-14 - Cranmer Dining Ctr., 430 Helen Flatt DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer, LWC.
Six individuals were honored Saturday at the Lindsey Wilson College Alumni Awards and Athletic Hall of Fame Celebration, held in Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center as part of the college’s 2014 homecoming weekend. From left: LWC Athletics Director Willis Pooler; LWC President William T. Luckey Jr.; 1973 alumnus Kerry Michael Givens of Bowling Green, KY, who received the Distinguished Alumni Award; 2001 alumnus Chris Estes of Lexington, KY, Outstanding Young Alumnus; 2001 alumna and former softball player Jessica Seamon of Smyrna, GA, Athletic Hall of Fame; 2001 alumna and former volleyball player Michelle Burns Perry of Indianapolis, Athletic Hall of Fame; Dee and the Rev. Howard of Reynolds of Lexington, KY, Honorary Alumni; 1968 alumna LWC National Alumni Association President Carrie Lucker Farris; and LWC Director of Alumni Relations Randy Burns. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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Dr. Luckey addresses Alumni Awards and Athletic Hall of Fame
2014-09-14 - Cranmer Dining Center, 430 Helen Flatt DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer.
Lindsey Wilson College President William T. Luckey Jr. addresses the Alumni Awards and Athletic Hall of Fame Celebration Saturday morning in Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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Six honored at LWC Alumni Awards, Athletic Hall of Fame
2014-09-14 - Cranmer Dining Center, 430 Helen Flatt DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer.
Six individuals were honored Saturday at the Lindsey Wilson College Alumni Awards and Athletic Hall of Fame Celebration, held in Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center as part of the college’s 2014 homecoming weekend. From left: LWC Athletics Director Willis Pooler; LWC President William T. Luckey Jr.; 1973 alumnus Kerry Michael Givens of Bowling Green, KY, who received the Distinguished Alumni Award; 2001 alumnus Chris Estes of Lexington, KY, Outstanding Young Alumnus; 2001 alumna and former softball player Jessica Seamon of Smyrna, GA, Athletic Hall of Fame; 2001 alumna and former volleyball player Michelle Burns Perry of Indianapolis, Athletic Hall of Fame; Dee and the Rev. Howard of Reynolds of Lexington, KY, Honorary Alumni; 1968 alumna LWC National Alumni Association President Carrie Lucker Farris; and LWC Director of Alumni Relations Randy Burns. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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Prof. Chafin directs LWC Singers Alumni Choir
2014-09-14 - Cranmer Dining Center, 430 Helen Flatt DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo. Lindsey Wilson College Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities Gerald L. Chafin directs the Lindsey Wilson Singers Alumni Choir Saturday morning in Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center. Duane Bonifer, LWC
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Homecoming Court / 2014 Dawn of a New Day Homecoming
2014-09-14 - Blue Raider Stadium, 928 Russell Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Katarina Simic of Malmo, Sweden, who represented soccer, was crowned 2014 Lindsey Wilson College homecoming queen, and Felix Casa Del Valle of Louisville, KU, who represented the Freshman Year Experience Peer Mentors, was crowned king during halftime of the LWC-Kentucky Wesleyan College football game Saturday night at Blue Raider Stadium. From left: Will Rich of Columbia, representing the Bonner Scholars; Ashli Dickerson of Madisonville, KY, Freshman Year Experience Peer Mentor; escort Derrick Kisita of Kampala, Uganda; Eunice Mukaz of Louisville, KY, Residence Hall Council, first runner-up queen; Anthony Horne of Louisville, KY, basketball, king first runner-up; 2013 LWC Homecoming Queen Dariann Smith of Columbia; LWC President William T. Luckey Jr.; Simic; Casa Del Valle; Yuta Namura of Tokyo, soccer, king second runner-up; Bailey Scott of Auburn, KY, Bonner Scholars, second runner-up queen; Katie Stone of Columbia, cheerleading; and Joey Harris of Somerset, KY, cheerleading. - DUANE BONIFER, LWC
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Katarina Simic is crowned 2014 Homecoming Queen
2014-09-14 - Blue Raider Stadium, 928 Russell Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. Lindsey Wilson College student Katarina Simic of Malmo, Sweden, is crowned 2014 homecoming queen by LWC President William T. Luckey Jr. during halftime of the LWC-Kentucky Wesleyan College football game Saturday night at Blue Raider Stadium.
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Congratulating Katarina Simic
2014-09-14 - Cranmer Dining Ctr., 430 Helen Flatt DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo. Katarina Simic of Malmo, Sweden, is congratulated by fellow Lindsey Wilson College student Felix Casa Del Valle of Louisville, KY, after the two were crowned homecoming queen and king, respectively, during halftime of the LWC-Kentucky Wesleyan College football game Saturday night at Blue Raider Stadium. - DUANE BONIFER, LWC
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Carrie Lucker Farris performs coin toss
2014-09-14 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer.
Lindsey Wilson College National Alumni Association President Carrie Lucker Farris of the Class of 1968 prepares to toss the coin for the LWC-Kentucky Wesleyan College football game Saturday night at Blue Raider Stadium.
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Homecoming 2014
2014-09-14 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. Lindsey Wilson College President William T. Luckey Jr. is joined by 2013 LWC Homecoming Queen Dariann Smith of Columbia, left, and 2014 LWC Homecoming Queen Katarina Simic of Malmo, Sweden, and 2014 Homecoming King Felix Casa Del Valle of Louisville, Ky., during halftime of the LWC-Kentucky Wesleyan College football game Saturday night at Blue Raider Stadium.
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Homecoming 2014: Hall of Fame Inductees
2014-09-14 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. Lindsey Wilson College Director of Athletics presents a brick paver to LWC Hall of Fame inductees and 2001 LWC alumnae Michelle Burns Perry of Indianapolis, left, and Jessica Seamon of Smyrna, Ga., before the start of the LWC-Kentucky Wesleyan College football game Saturday night at Blue Raider Stadium. The brick pavers will be placed in the LWC Alumni & Friends Walkway.
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Homecoming 2014: Alumni Association Honorees
2014-09-14 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. The four individuals honored by the Lindsey Wilson College National Alumni Association at the 2014 homecoming are recognized during the the LWC-Kentucky Wesleyan College football game Saturday night at Blue Raider Stadium. From left: 2001 alumna Chris Estes of Lexington, Ky., who received the Outstanding Young Alumnus; 1973 alumnus Kerry Michael Givens of Bowling Green, Ky., Distinguished Alumni Award; and Honorary Alumni the Rev. Howard O. and Dee Reynolds of Lexington, Ky.
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Doubles Ping-Pong Champions Smith and Stearns
2014-09-14 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. A pair of Lindsey Wilson College students from Russell Springs, Ky., won the doubles title of the 14th-annual Morris Shepherd '53 Ping Pong Tournament Friday in the Cralle Student Union Building: Derek Smith, left, and Nathan Stearns.
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Homecoming 2014: Ping-Pong Finalists Giurgoiu and Smith
2014-09-14 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. Boydan Radulescu of Giurgoiu, Romania, left, won the singles title of the 14th-annual Morris Shepherd '53 Ping Pong Tournament over Derek Smith of Russell Springs, Ky., Friday in the Cralle Student Union Building.
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Homecoming 2014: Top Three 5k Runners
2014-09-14 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. The top three male finishers of the sixth-annual Lindsey Wilson College Running with the Blue Raiders 5K Run/Walk, held Saturday at the Doris & Bob Holloway Health and Wellness Center were, from left: Adam Womach, first place; Tyler Absher, second place; and Greg Mendondorp, third place.
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Homecoming 2014: Lisa Coffee
2014-09-14 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. Lisa Coffee was the third-place female finisher of the sixth-annual Lindsey Wilson College Running with the Blue Raiders 5K Run/Walk, held Saturday at the Doris & Bob Holloway Health and Wellness Center were. Not pictured: first-place finisher Maggie Coleman and second-place finisher Tiffany Cloud-Mann.
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Homecoming 2014: Top Three 5k Walkers
2014-09-14 - Holloway Wellness Center, 299 Williams Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer.
The top three walk finisher of the sixth-annual Lindsey Wilson College Running with the Blue Raiders 5K Run/Walk, held Saturday at the Doris & Bob Holloway Health and Wellness Center were, from left: Juley Spinks, Rolan Lewis, and Kimberly Pelly. - DUANE BONIFER.
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Homecoming 2014: Randy Burns drives Old Bob to Retirement
2014-09-14 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. The original Lindsey Wilson College Blue Raider Bob mascot is driven from Blue Raider Stadium in the Bob-Mobile by LWC Director of Alumni Relations Randy Burns before the start of the LWC-Kentucky Wesleyan College football game Saturday night.
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