The Tennessean reports on Belmont University’s $3 million purchase of the Belmont Heights Baptist Church building and property adjacent to campus along Belmont Boulevard. The congregation will continue to use the church, but the purchase also gives the university expansion room.
University Buys Adjacent Church Property
NASHVILLE, August 27, 2003
Campbell University picks Belmont grad as assistant softball coach
The Dunn Daily Record in Dunn, N.C., reports that Kelly Van Houten, a former graduate assistant softball coach at Belmont University, has been named assistant coach for the Campbell University softball program.
“Kelly has proven to be a very dependable athlete and coach at the Division I level,” said head coach Drew Peterson. “She possesses a strong work ethic, has consistently demonstrated loyalty and teamwork, and I have no doubt she will continue with this at Campbell.” Van Houten joins the Fighting Camels after working with the Bruins for two seasons while she pursued her Masters of Education in Sports Administration.
Paisley gets four CMA nominations
Belmont University graduate Brad Paisley is nominated for four 2003 CMA Awards. Paisley is nominated for Best Male Vocalist, and Best Single, Song and Video for the song Celebrity. He is tied with Brooks & Dunn and Johnny Cash for receiving the second most nominations. Toby Keith leads with seven ominations.
The nominations were announced on the CBS Early Show Tuesday morning.
Daytona paper spotlights Belmont student/country singer
The News-Journal in Daytona, Fla., recently published a long profile of Belmont University student Dustin Seymour, a Daytona-area resident who is starting his sophomore year at Belmont majoring in vocal performance.
Inspired by such idols as RandyTravis, Trace Adkins, Phil Vassar and [Belmont alum Brad] Paisley, Seymour decided to attend Belmont University after graduating from Deland High School in 2002. While Belmont offers various degrees in its commercial music program
Denver and the Mile High Orchestra
The Toledo Blade reports on Community Spiritfest ’03,, which features several Christian musical performers including Denver and the Mile High Orchestra.
Denver Bierman, the Mile High Orchestra
First Belmont Students Begin Studying at Historic RCA Studio B
NASHVILLE, August 22, 2003 – It’s the place where Elvis Presley recorded Are You Lonesome Tonight? and It’s Now or Never, and 200 other songs. It’s where Dolly Parton recorded the country classic Jolene, and Roy Orbison put Only the Lonely and many of his other pop smashes down on tape.
What can you learn from a place like that? Students enrolled in Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business will find out starting this fall semester as the historic RCA Studio B on Nashville’s famed Music Row becomes a Belmont University classroom. There, where students enrolled in the university’s recording program will study recording techniques in a legendary setting that is laden with pop music history and oozes cool.
Save the Dates! New Complex Opening Events Slated
Belmont University will soon celebrate the completion of the Curb Event Center, the Maddox Grand Atrium, and the Beaman Student Life Center, the grand new complex on the campus’s southwestern corner. Several events are planned. Here is a tentative list – dates and times may change.
