Fall Open House Schedule

Friday, November 11, 2011

7:45-8:15 Registration at Hough Quad

A light breakfast will be offered until 8:30 a.m. on the Fox Hall patio.

8:30 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Information Session at Miller Auditorium

Learn what the Eckerd experience has to offer you! During this information session, we will cover all the aspects that make an Eckerd education a unique academic experience.

9:30 – 11:30 a.m. Information Fair at Fox Hall

Representatives from different academic majors and various programs will be available to chat with prospective students and their families.

9:30 & 10:15 a.m. Campus Tours (tours will begin at 9:30 and 10:15).

Become familiar with our beautiful waterfront campus by taking a student led tour. Tours starting at 9:30 will leave from Miller Auditorium, and tours beginning at 10:15 will leave from the front of Fox Hall. The tour will include a dorm room, an academic building, the library and much more! Tours were pre-assigned in order to ensure equal-sized groups, so please DO NOT change groups!

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Workshops

Sessions will begin at 11:30 and 12:15. Each session is 30 minutes long, allowing you to attend two sessions. You may want to split up as a family to attend more than two!

• Financing an Eckerd College Education - Miller Auditorium
  No clue what the FAFSA is? Curious about billing options? Find out more regarding financial aid with Eckerd
• The Admission Process - Triton Room
  Learn more about the college interview and admission process, straight from Eckerd admission counselors!
• International Education - Presidents Dining Room
  Discover Eckerd’s many options for study abroad and other international education opportunities
• Student Only Boat Tour (12:15 session ONLY) - Waterfront

1:00 – 2:00 Lunch and closing remarks at the Waterfront

Stay for lunch catered by our very own Bon Appétit and interact with current students, faculty and staff while enjoying hands-on activities at the Waterfront (including more boat tours 1:15 & 1:45)

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Saturday, November 12, 2011 (OPTIONAL EVENTS)

Creative Arts Collegium – Celebration of the Arts

Gallery Talk | Arthur Skinner '72 and Kirk Wang
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Elliott Gallery

The work of residential Visual Arts faculty and staff will be on display in the Elliott Gallery at the Ransom Arts Center. Featured artists will be Emily Ayers '05, Marita Contreras, Lisa Kirksey, Betsy Lester '93, Brian Ransom, Rebecca Skelton, Arthur Skinner '72 and Kirk Wang. Media represented will include painting, sculpture, ceramics, drawing, photography, mixed media and video.

Organ and Chamber Music Recital | Zachary Johnston '11 – Organ and Eckerd College Chamber Orchestra Members
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Wireman Chapel

Zachary Johnston '11 is originally from St. Paul, Minn., and graduated from Eckerd College with High Honors in May 2011. He began teaching himself pipe organ when he was 14. Upon being admitted to Eckerd, he began studying with Dr. Linda Pointer and then Thomas Hall. Currently, Zach is residing in Tallahassee, Fla., where he studies choral conducting with Dr. Andre J. Thomas at Florida State University.

Tales from the Upper Amazon: Music inspired by my fellowship in Peru | THE BRIAN RANSOM CERAMIC ENSEMBLE
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Wireman Chapel

The Ceramic Ensemble features original musical instruments created by professor/artist/musician/composer Brian Ransom, and each utilizes vapor-fired ceramic as its principle resonators. The ensemble features invented winds, horns, flutes, reeds, strings (such as a ceramic harp and guitar) and drums, as well as other original percussion and clay sounding sculptures that employ water and electronics.

Poetry and Fiction Reading | Sterling Watson '69, Scott Ward, Tracy Crow '02 and Daniel Vilmure
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Roberts Music Center

The Writing Workshop at Eckerd College presents a reading by four current faculty members. Tracy Crow '02, our journalism professor and faculty adviser to the College's student newspaper, The Current, will read from her forthcoming memoir, Eyes Right: Confessions from a Woman Marine. Daniel Vilmure, the newest addition to our faculty, will read from his memoir-in-progress, Lawrence of Suburbia. Scott Ward, Chair of the Creative Arts Collegium, will read from "Rebel," his long-poem-in-the-making about the U.S. Civil War; and Sterling Watson '69, director of the Eckerd College Writing Workshop and co-founder/co-director of The Eckerd College Writers' Conference: Writers in Paradise, will read from his new novel, Fighting in the Shade.

Come to the Cabaret! The Pearl in the Hogwaller | Becca McCoy '00 and James Weaver
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Roberts Music Center 104

The Pearl in the Hogwaller, a new cabaret, features popular local performer Becca McCoy with James Weaver on the piano. The 60-minute show features an eclectic array of music, from Stephen Sondheim to Carrie: The Musical, Indigo Girls to Pippin, all sung in Becca's inimitable style.

Passion Play (Part One) by Sarah Ruhl | Directed by Cynthia Totten – Eckerd Student Production
8:00 p.m. | Bininger Theatre

Passion Play examines the intersection of the human and the sacred as the villagers strive to lead the holy lives of the biblical figures they portray. With lyrical humor and poignancy, the play explores the mysterious profundity of faith, the politics of censorship and what it is to be an actor, how the roles we play shape our lives.
Sensitive subject matter. Audience discretion is advised.
Admission: FREE