TC Honors Students Celebrate Christmas

Tusculum College Honors students and faculty gathered Friday, December 4, at the college's mother church, First Presbyterian in downtown Greeneville, for the annual Honors Christmas banquet. The Presbyterian Women of First Presbyterian Church provided a gourmet meal with a melt-in-your-mouth chocolate confection for dessert. Honors students Alex Wiedemann and Mitchell Taylor, both Tusculum College freshmen, played the piano and guitar respectively to provide accompaniment for a rousing round of Christmas carols. Alex also played several intricate works. A riotous game of Dirty Santa was played by all as fun gag gifts such as felt antlers and sets of Play Dough were playfully fought over. The evening concluded as students and faculty contributed canned goods and money for a food bank donation.

TC Basketball

Greetings everyone!

If you're in the Tusculum/Greeneville area (or plan to be), you should check out an upcoming basketball game.  Right now, the Pioneers are 3-4, Lady Pioneers are 3-1.  But the season just started!  Come cheer on the Pioneers this week...they're playing at home!

Monday, December 7, 2009

Men's Basketball: St. Catharine at Tusculum, 7 p.m., Pioneer Arena

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Women's Basketball: Tusculum at West Georgia, 5 p.m., Carrollton, Ga.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Men's Basketball: Lees-McRae at Tusculum, 7 p.m., Pioneer Arena

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Women's Basketball: Tusculum at District of Columbia, 2 p.m., Washington, D.C.

Men's Basketball: #5 Augusta St. at Tusculum, 4 p.m., Pioneer Arena (SAC/Peach Belt Challenge)

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Women's Basketball: Tusculum at Shepherd, 2 p.m., Shepherdstown, W.Va.

Also, keep in mind with the Christmas season, if you need to send us your transcripts for Spring, be sure to do that ASAP!!!!  Let your admission counselor know if you're planning to come and are working to get your transcripts sent to us (remember, if you're going to transfer, your transcripts have to be sent from your college/university in order for them to be official).

Let us know if you have any questions!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

~Nicole

Christmas Concert at TC

The Tusculum College Community Chorus will present a Christmas concert on Monday, December 14.
The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building on the Tusculum College campus.  The event is free and open to the public.
The first half of the program will feature compositions for the season from great composers ranging from Bach to Schubert to Gustav Holst.
The Schubert work is a setting of Mary’s song recorded in Luke, the “Magnificat,” and features a solo quartet along with the full chorus.  The solo quartet is Jill Jones, Jody Palm, Michael Forte and Kevin Flannagan.  Two additional soloists, Kritin Girton and Martha Wiley, participate in Gustav Holst’s composition, “Christmas Day.”
In the second half of the program, the chorus will sing a variety of familiar carols and shorter compositions, including “White Christmas,” “Go Tell it on the Mountain,” “Do You Hear What I Hear?” and “Mary Had A Baby,” with soloist Heather Burr.  To round out the program are the chorus’ traditional closing selections, “Still, Still, Still” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”
David Hendricksen is the conductor for the group, and James Winfree is the accompanist.
Please contact Hendricksen at 423-638-0409 or email at conductordavid@embarqmail.com or call Tusculum College Arts Outreach at 423-798-1620 for additional information.

International Exposure

One aspect many high school students look for when they are deciding what school to attend is the opportunity for international travel/study abroad programs. We realize this and place a high value on providing international exposure for every Tusculum student. If you haven't thought about traveling overseas, I would really encourage you to consider it.
At Tusculum, you will interact with students from almost 20 different countries, but that is not the extent of the international exposure here. Every student will be provided an opportunity to take advantage of some form of international travel.
To read about some of the places that our students and professors have already been, check out our Center for Global Studies web site by clicking on this link. This website will not only allow you to get in contact with the proper staff members to assist you, it will also give student and professor testimonials and pictures from places like London, Costa Rica, India, and Austria.


Aaron P

A Time to be Thankful

It's so hard to believe the holiday season is already upon us! It seems Thanksgiving has arrived early this year, but of course we all know that isn't possible, haha!
Tusculum College has a lot to be thankful for this year.... we welcomed two new counselors to the office back in January... the college's first female President in history took office in April... and we saw a record number of new students arrive on campus in August (370!). We are blessed with wonderful students, faculty, and staff all across our campus!
As we look ahead to 2010, we're excited about the students we are meeting duing the admission process, and eager to see who will arrive on campus next August!
On behalf of the Office of Admission and Tusculum College, we wish you and your family the best on this Thanksgiving, and hope you will be able to take the time to appreciate the things you are thankful for.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
~Becky

Open House success

Hi Everyone,


We wanted to thank everyone who helped make our Open House a success. We had over 200 visitors on our campus last Saturday morning. If you weren't able to make it to either to Open House, don't worry there are still plenty of opportunities to visit. We have one more Open House scheduled for our spring semester on March 20th. If you would like to attend the spring Open House, you can register online by visiting: https://www.tusculum.edu/mytusculum/iTusculum.php.

We also offer private visits throughout each week, and on Saturday mornings. You can schedule a visit by contacting our Campus Visit Coordinator, Becky Tankersley. You can find Becky's contact information by clicking on her picture to the right.

I hope everyone has a great holiday season.

Eric

TC's International Students Honored at Ceremony

The international flags in the Niswonger Commons Living Room at Tusculum College were revitalized with new flags representing the College's international student population in a ceremony on Friday, November 13. Five new flags were added to those that represent current students and alumni, and the ceremony was held as part of the College's International Education Week activities.

Tusculum College currently has 38 flags representing current and former students, including the five added in the ceremony. Currently enrolled students come from Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Argentina, England, Germany, Guatemala, Venezuela, Croatia, Honduras, Sweden, Taiwan and the Ukraine. The five new flags added included those for Chile, Finland, Israel, Serbia and Switzerland.

One additional flag for the Dominican Republic will be added later in the year, as a student from that country was recently identified, according to Bonnie Taylor, student life coordinator at the College and coordinator of the International Education Week events.

As part of the ceremony, which included several of the College's international students, senior Estefania Chavez of Honduras spoke to the group about attending Tusculum College and her experiences as an international student.

"I appreciate Tusculum and all the faculty and staff that have made it feel like home," she said. She added that in addition to her education, she has learned a lot about American culture and the cultures of the other international students she has come to know.

Brooke Haymaker, this year's vice president of the Student Government Association, also spoke and talked about how the international community at Tusculum really provides a diversity not found in other places. "Tusculum gives you not only an academic, but also a cultural education." Haymaker is a junior, pre-med major from Kettering, Ohio.

Finishing off the program were sisters Mary Ann and Adriana Vizcarrondo of Venezuela. Mary Ann, a senior business major told the group that Tusculum College was a good choice for her. "I like the small environment. Everyone is very supportive and made the transition very easy." Adriana, a junior business and economics major, agreed. "There was a culture shock at first, but the students here are very open to cultural differences."