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PT Students “Empower” Children
Belmont University Physical Therapy students planned and participated recently in two Sports Festivals for children with disabilities. Students worked with “Empower Me Day Camp” to put on an afternoon of games and sporting activities for school-age children. Empower Me Day Camp provides summer day camp for children with disabilities, as well as social and recreational activities throughout the school year. A second group of physical therapy students developed and led a morning of fun-filled gross motor activities for children at “High Hopes.” High Hopes is a non-profit therapy and education center that serves both typically developing children and children with special needs. Equipment for these Service Learning projects was provided in part by a grant from the Belmont University Service Learning Task Force.
Belmont University Names New VP For Spiritual Development
Dr. Todd L. Lake, currently the dean for university life at Baylor University, will become the new vice president for spiritual development at Belmont University in Nashville in January, the university announced today. “Dr. Lake brings a remarkable combination of knowing God’s word and doing God’s word,” said Belmont University president Dr. Robert Fisher. “I’m thrilled to welcome him to Belmont.
Pinter to Discuss, Sign New Book, a Memoir of Adoption
Belmont University Professor of English Dr. Robbie Pinter will read from and sign copies of her new book, For This Child I Prayed: Open Hearts, Open Hands, Open Adoption, a personal memoir of adoption, during a special convocation event Thursday evening on the Belmont campus.
Pinter’s book was published in November by Cold Tree Press. It describes the human impulses that lead one woman to place a child for adoption and another woman to adopt that child. They both face only one clear assurance – nothing is certain. The story is enlarged by biblical and cultural narratives that remind us how similar our human quests can be.
SunTrust, Belmont Partner to Return A-Sun Tournament to Nashville
The Belmont University athletic department announced that SunTrust Bank has been signed as the title sponsor of the 2005 SunTrust Bank Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Championship. The Atlantic Sun Conference will send its top eight men’s basketball teams to Nashville to compete for the conference’s automatic berth to March Madness. The entire event will again will be hosted by Belmont University March 3-5 in the Curb Event Center.
PBS To Broadcast Christmas at Belmont Concert Nationwide
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, will broadcast Belmont University’s annual Christmas at Belmont concert, making it available to millions of TV viewers across the country. PBS will carry the one-hour concert at 8 p.m., Wednesday, December 22. It will air a second time in the Nashville area on the PBS affiliate WNPT at 9 p.m., Thursday, December 23.
Sudden death of an executive may test how well a business has planned – The Tennessean
Dr. Jeffrey Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University, is one of the experts quoted in a story in the business section of today’s Tennessean about the need for succession-planning for family-owned businesses.
Curb Event Center Celebrates One Year
On November 14, Belmont University celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Curb Event Center with an open house for the community. The Curb Event Center treated guests to hot dogs, drinks and birthday cake. Guests were also treated to tours of the Curb Event Center, including all backstage areas.
Word turns to Van Hook to change ailing tune – The Tennessean
Jim Van Hook, one of Christian music’s most successful entrepreneurs, has been tapped to turn around Word Entertainment. Van Hook signed a multi-year contract as chairman and chief executive officer of Word, which suffered a major blow two months ago when it lost key distribution client Integrity Music Group to Provident Music Group, a Christian division of Sony BMG. Van Hook, 63, built Franklin-based Provident Music Group into one of the Christian industry’s three largest record companies as its longtime chairman and CEO before retiring and moving to a job at Belmont University. BMG acquired Provident in late 2002. Van Hook went into retirement the following spring, then four months later he was named the first dean of Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. He will keep that position while heading up Word.
Belmont University Dean Selected as Interim CEO of Word Entertainment
Van Hook, former chairman and CEO of Provident Music Group, which he founded in 1981 and sold to Zomba Music Group in 1994, was appointed Dean of the Curb College in the fall of 2003. He will assume the interim CEO role immediately. The dual role for Van Hook makes the Curb College the only college of music business with a dean who is active as an executive in the music industry.
