At right: The Belmont Book Award, given for the best book on country music, is presented at the annual International Country Music Conference at Belmont University. Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music in America, edited by Paul Kingsbury and Alanna Nash, with picture editor F. Lynne Bachleda, won the award for calendar year 2006. Pictured, left to right, are F. Lynn Bachleda, Eddy Arnold, Paul
Kingsbury and awards chair Don Cusic.
Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music in America, edited by Paul Kingsbury and Alanna Nash and published by DK Publishing has been announced as the winner of the Belmont Book Award. The award given annually by Belmont University honors the writer and the editor of the Best Book on Country Music. The presentation occurred on Friday, May 25, at a special awards luncheon held during the International Country Music Conference held at Belmont May 24-26.
The book Will the Circle Be Unbroken is a project of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Foundation, whose photos were used extensively in this comprehensive history of country music.
“This book joins a line of distinguished books about country music since we inaugurated this award in 1996,” founder and chair of the Belmont Book Award, Don Cusic, said. “Will the Circle Be Unbroken represents the best of scholarly research in country music and the editors, Paul Kingsbury and Alanna Nash, are outstanding authors of previous books. In fact, Alanna Nash’s biography of Colonel Tom Parker and the Country Music Encyclopedia edited by Paul Kingsbury were previous winners of this honor.”
The award is determined by a blue ribbon panel of experts. Books published in the previous calendar year are eligible and a wide variety of books on country music are considered, from scholarly studies of various aspects of country music to biographies and autobiographies.
Belmont Book Award Winner Announced
Belmont Cornerstone Class Survey on Religion Published
The First Amendment Center sponsored the 2005 survey of religion news coverage in United States newspapers, undertaken by Pam Parry, APR, public relations program director at Belmont University, and 40 students in Parry’s junior cornerstone class titled “God in the News.”
Parry and the student researches revised a survey first conducted in 1999. The revised survey was mailed to newspaper editors, who were asked to complete the written survey and return it by mail. The Belmont students are listed by name in the acknowledgments of the study on the First Amendment Center Web site.
Click here to see the results of the Belmont students’ study.
Baseball Season Ends With 7-6 Loss In Conference Championship
Belmont (34-26) needed one win in two games on Saturday, but came up short against Jacksonville, dropping the doubleheader 10-4, and 7-6. Brady Manifold, Matt Reynolds, Kane Simmons and Daniel Wagner were named to the all-tournament team, as the team went 3-2 at the A-Sun championship.
In game one, Jacksonville struck first with two runs in the bottom of the first, and the Bruins managed just one hit through the first three innings. In typical Bruin fashion, Belmont tied the game in the fourth inning. Ben Petsch led off with a single and Derek Wiley moved him to third with a double. Kane Simmons followed with a sacrifice fly. Brady Manifold drew a two-out walk and Carlo Testa legged out an infield single to score Wiley and tie the game at 2-2.
JU led off the bottom of the fifth with a walk and a double. The Dolphins then regained the lead with a sacrifice fly, but stranded a runner at third, as the scoreboard read 3-2 through five. The Dolphins’ offense came alive late, as the team added three runs in the seventh and four more in the eighth to take a 10-2 lead.
Matt Reynolds led off the ninth with a single, and Wilson Tucker reached with a hit as well, before Derek Wiley drove in both runners with a double to center field. The runs would be the team’s last in the game, and made the score 10-4.
A-Sun first team member Charles Lee made the start for Belmont and threw 6.1 innings. He struck out two batters to move into sole possession of the career strikeout record, with 235 in his four years. He walked five batters and allowed five runs on six hits. It was his first loss as a starter, as Lee moved to 8-2 on the season.
Jimmy Stanley pitched the final 1.2 innings, and allowed five runs on eight hits. Stanley did not strike out any batters, and walked two.
Belmont took an early lead in game two, as Packy Elkins drew a walk and scored on a Wilson Tucker double in the bottom of the first. JU tied it in the top of the second, before Belmont scored two more runs in the second. Daniel Wagner doubled and scored on a Carlo Testa single. Testa scored on Packy Elkins’ single up the middle.
Jacksonville tied in the top of the third, but Kane Simmons launched his fifteenth homerun of the season over the right field wall to give the team a 4-3 lead through three. Pete Clifford struck again, however, with his second homerun of the day. The two-run shot put JU in the lead at 5-4 in the fifth inning.
Belmont squared things in the sixth, as Carlo Testa doubled and came in to score on Packy Elkins’ single to left field. JU scored in the seventh, but the Bruins tied it at 6-6 in the bottom of the frame. Jacksonville would score one more time, with a pair of two-out hits in the eighth to take a 7-6 lead. The one run lead would be enough as the Bruins were retired in order the final two innings.
Ben Meador started game two, and threw five innings. He allowed three earned runs, five total, on eight hits. He walked two and struck out three batters.
Josh Moffitt came on for the sixth inning and allowed one run on three hits over two innings of work. He did not walk any batters and struck out one. Eric Diaz allowed one run on a walk in just one third of an inning of work. He took the loss to finish the year at 1-2. Chris Manning closed out the game, allowing just one hit over 1.2 innings of work.
Belmont’s season ends with a 34-26 record. The team graduates 11 players this season.
Belmont, Doolittle Featured on MTV
MTV recently interviewed Dr. Jeff Kirk and Dr. Bob Fisher for a story on 1999 School of Music graduate, Melinda Doolittle. Click here to see the story which aired on MTV News.
University Marketing and Communications Recognized at State Conference
Belmont’s office of University Marketing and Communications received seven awards at the Tennessee College Public Relations Association (TCPRA) annual awards competition. UMAC received the following awards:
– Belmont FYI received Gold in the Newsletter Category
– The Housing Guide, designed for Residence Life, received Gold in the Brochure Category.
– The “What’s your Story” piece, designed for Towering Traditions, received Bronze in the Brochure Category.
– The 2006 Presidential Report, “Impact,” received Gold in the Annual Report Category.
– A photograph from Mixed Bill received Gold in the Photography Category.
– A photograph of the Inman Health Sciences Building received Bronze in the Photography Category.
– The 2006 Christmas at Belmont DVD received Silver in the Specialty Item Category.
Belmont Bigs Participate in Fundraiser
The Belmont Chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee recently cheered on the Team Rio 2007 half marathon. Team Rio presented by Arby’s is a fund-raising group that recently raised $120,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee.
Eight Students Graduate from Engaged Scholars Program
The Engaged Scholars Program graduated eight students during the May commencement ceremony. Those students were Will Daniel Cromer, Kelly Marie Deweese, Brittani Carol Kendrick, Chegameh Korvandi-Geledar, Erin Louise Mullen, Molly Kathleen Smith, Jared Michael Weatherholtz and Brianne Nichole Wells.
Bruins Baseball Wins a Wild One Against Mercer To Remain Perfect In Tournament
Wilson Tucker hit an enormous three-run homerun to give Belmont its first lead of the game, and Derek Wiley drove in the winning run in the 10th, as Belmont (33-24) defeated Mercer 4-3 in 10 innings to become the only undefeated team remaining in the Atlantic Sun Championship Tournament.
Mercer collected its second, third and fourth hits of the game in the sixth inning, and took a 2-0 lead to break the scoreless tie. Belmont then came from behind in the next half inning, just as they did in Wednesday’s win against Jacksonville.
Brandon McCall led off with a walk, and Mercer pulled starter Blake Quarles in favor of first team all-conference reliever Cory Gearrin. Matt Reynolds then reached on a fielder’s choice and Packy Elkins hit an infield single to the shortstop, to bring Wilson Tucker to the plate.
Belmont’s career homerun leader, Tucker came through with perhaps the biggest homerun in his career. While being cheered on by a raucous Bruin dugout, he crushed a ball out of the park in left field to give Belmont a 3-2 lead in the seventh. The blast was just the first extra-base hit allowed by Gearrin in over 40 innings this season.
Ben Petsch led off the 10th inning with a walk, and stole second before scoring on Derek Wiley’s double to the right field corner, to allow the Bruins to regain a 4-3 lead. The Bears went down in order in the bottom of the frame as Belmont held on for the win.
Carlo Testa made the start for Belmont, and allowed just one hit through five innings, and left the game after six innings. Testa allowed two runs on four hits with a walk. He struck out two batters before exiting the game.
Ben Meador walked one and struck out three over two hitless innings to preserve a 3-2 lead in the seventh and eighth innings. Meador struck out Josh Thompson and Mike Armstrong to end the eighth inning.
Chris Manning pitched the ninth and 10th innings for the Bruins to move to 3-0 on the season. Manning allowed one run on three hits in the ninth inning, but retired the side in order in the 10th and ended the game with a dramatic strikeout of cleanup hitter Mike Armstrong.
Belmont will play the winner of Thursday’s elimination game between Mercer and Stetson at 6 p.m. central time. If Belmont wins the game, the team will advance to the championship game on Saturday.
Belmont Alumna Rachel Smith Competes In Miss Universe
On Monday, May 28, at 8 p.m. CT on NBC, Belmont alumna, Rachel Smith (’06), will compete in the Miss Universe pageant. She was crowned Miss USA in March 2007. For more information on the pageant and on her latest visit to Belmont as Miss USA, click here.
Massey School Celebrates 20 Years, Honors Outstanding Alumnus
The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University celebrated its 20th anniversary with a reception at the Nashville restaurant Watermark and awarded Dr. Richard Treadway (Massey ’99) with the inaugural Outstanding Alumni Award. Treadway is a physician who specializes in the treatment of psychiatric patients and in the management of health care systems.
Treadway serves as chairman and CEO of Treadway Enterprises, LLC, the parent company of Treadway Clinic, Treadway Properties and Treadway Capital. Between 2002 and 2005, Treadway Clinic provided psychiatric care to the 3,000 inmates of the Criminal Justice Center of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville. Treadway Properties is involved with the ownership and management of commercial real estate; Treadway Capital is engaged in investments in startup health care companies and banks.
Treadway obtained his undergraduate degree in English from Vanderbilt University. He also attended the Vanderbilt School of Medicine and served an internship in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt. He obtained his psychiatry residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Southern Psychiatric Association.
Treadway has served as a member of the Massey School Board of Advisers at Belmont. He was the founder and a member of the board of directors of the Canby Robinson Society, which benefits Vanderbilt University Medical Center; founder and president of the Luton Society, providing support for the Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry; and founder and a member of the board of trustees of Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital.
The Massey School has over 1,300 alumni, with over 1,000 located in the Nashville area. The master of accountancy program is the second largest in the state behind the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. The Princton Review has named the Massey School one of the top business schools in the country for the third consecutive year.
