Belmont alumnus Peter W. Rosenberger is the president of Nashville-based Standing With Hope, an evangelical prosthetic limb outreach to West Africa. Rosenberger recently partnered with comedian Jeff Foxworthy to film a video sponsored by AARP to offer a little humor as well as support to the more than 65 million Americans serving as caregivers.
“Clowning around one day while speaking about the subject of caregivers, I did my best Jeff Foxworthy imitation and delivered a one-liner of, ‘If you have a professional carpet cleaner on retainer—you might be a caregiver’,” Rosenberger said.
As the sole caregiver for his wife, Gracie Parker Rosenberger, who experienced a horrific accident her freshman year at Belmont in 1983, Peter Rosenberger has helped lead his family through decades of medical complications including 78 surgeries, multiple amputations, 60 physicians, 12 hospitals, 7 insurance companies and $9 million in health care costs. He and Gracie have been married for more than 27 years, and they have two sons.
“Drawing upon AARP’s desire to offer practical help, encouragement, and community, we saw this as a real opportunity to reach out to hurting hearts during November’s National Caregiver Awareness Month,” Rosenberger said.
Rosenberger is also the author of Wear Comfortable Shoes- Surviving and Thriving as a Caregiver, and he contributes a monthly blog to the AARP website.
Belmont alumna Kaileigh Bullard was crowned Miss Nashville 2014 on Nov. 9. The pageant was a first for Bullard, who will go on to represent Nashville in the Miss Tennessee pageant in June in Jackson, Tenn. During her year as Miss Nashville, Bullard will serve as an advocate for the city, the Children’s Miracle Network, and her platform, Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness, working with organizations such as the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America and Girls With Guts.
Despite the catchy, sing-along hook of the old TV theme song, a horse is not just a horse, of course. Rather, in the case of Dr. Judy Skeen’s First Year Seminar (FYS) on the topic “Cross Species Communications: Through the Eyes of Other Creatures,” horses are a gift to the education process, allowing Belmont freshmen a different way to interact with the campus-wide theme, Through the Eyes of Others.
A bright red door on the front porch of 1524 Compton Avenue welcomes visitors into a unique space on Belmont’s campus, the recently renovated home of the University’s 
In addition to paint, new artwork and lamps, the renovation also included new furniture in several rooms, a significant update to the kitchen and the addition of railings, tables and chairs to both the front and back porches. For a program that hovers around 180 students total, the porches are a particularly positive update as they provide additional gathering space for students throughout the day as well as for program events.
Curb College Dean Wesley Bulla’s research on noise exposure among audio engineers was recently cited in the AES Journal in Robert H. Ghent’s article, “Workplace Noise Regulations in the Music Industry, A Square Peg in a Round Hole.” Also, Bulla delivered a featured presentation titled “Time Machine: The Sound of Recording History” at the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, First Amendment Center conference “Soundscapes: hearing in the age of digital media” on Nov. 15.
Professor of Music Business Don Cusic recently spoke at the Southern Literary Festival about his book, Elvis and Nashville.
Curb College Coordinator of Sound Reinforcement and Live Events Lucas Boto is credited as the music adviser for the interactive Christian storybook app one of his family member’s created. 
