News
Performing Arts Season Announced
The ASUMH Performing Arts Council is finalizing details for a number of outstanding performances during their inaugural 2011-2012 season. Set for September 8, 2011, is a return of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra featuring Philip Mann, Conductor. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra opened the Vada Sheid Community Development Center in September of 2010 after which Mann called Mountain Home "the warmest reception of any symphony orchestra, anywhere." Also planned is a performance of The Nutcracker by the Moscow Ballet. The Nutcracker performance currently is scheduled for November 21. A spring performance by the Golden Dragon Acrobats will round out the season on April 26, 2012. Season ticket packages and individual performance tickets will be on sale in late summer on the Vada Sheid Community Development Center website. For more information, call 508-6105 or visit www.thesheid.com.
.
Vada
Sheid Community Development Center Grand Opening Held September 9
Arkansas State University-Mountain Home (ASUMH) celebrated the grand opening of the Vada Sheid Community Development Center (VSCDC) on September 9. The VSCDC, now the largest building on the ASUMH campus, is a 65,000 square-foot building that will serve the north central region of Arkansas and be a catalyst for economic development.
The ceremony featured presentations by former Arkansas Governor and Senator
Dale Bumpers, Governor Mike Beebe, Senator Blanche Lincoln, Senator Mark Pryor,
Congressman Marion Berry and a presentation by Richard Sheid, son of Vada
Sheid, of a letter from former President Bill Clinton.
The building
includes the McClure Convention Center, Ozark Regional Arts Council Conference
Room, Haley Family Conference Room, First Security Amphitheatre and the Dale
Bumpers Great Hall. Also slated for the
building is a 4.500 square-foot Trout Nature Center which is scheduled to open
the end of next year.
Pictured with Arkansas State University-Mountain Home Chancellor Ed Coulter (left) are Bumpers, Lucretia Coulter and Governor Mike Beebe. For more information, contact the Office of Development at (870) 508-6105.
Risk Family Honored
During the Capital Campaign to raise money for the Health
Sciences Building and the Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Mike and Katie
Risk made a significant donation to ASUMH.
With the opening of the Vada Sheid Community Development Center, the
Risks asked that their gift be used for the finishing of a space in the center
named for close friend and family member Vada Sheid. Today, the building director's office suite
in the Vada Sheid Community Development Center is known as the Risk Suite. Both Mike and Katie Risk have been supporters
of ASUMH working tirelessly on events, fundraisers and committees. The university is grateful for the generous
financial support of Mike and Katie Risk and for their continued support of the
arts in our community.
Major Gifts Announced
At the 2010 ASUMH commencement ceremony, two major gifts to the university were announced by Chancellor Ed Coulter. The Cole Family Trust presented a check in the amount of $35,000 to honor Richard S. and Marjorie P. Cole.The bequest will name the Richard S. and Marjorie P. Cole Office Suite in First National Hall.
Another gift to ASUMH was made from the estate of Anna Mae Wright who died in August of 2009 at the age of 99. Mrs. Wright was a master weaver and a frequent visitor to ASUMH. Mrs. Wright left the college $180,000 which will be honored with the naming of the Anna Mae Wright Student Services Wing in McClain Hall. Making the presentation was Sandy Irby of First National Bank and Trust, pictured above with Coulter.
Gifts from friends like these allow the great work and growth of ASUMH to continue," said Ed Coulter, Chancellor of ASUMH. "We will honor these two families for their contributions to ASUMH in way that will forever remind us of their support and generosity. They will truly help ASUMH fulfill our mission to Create Opportunities and Changing Lives."