Volume 5: Issue 22 February 26, 2024

Epically Awful Verses Sought for WT’s Annual Bad Poetry Contest

Shocking sonnets, lame limericks and odious odes all are welcome at the 2024 West Texas A&M University Bad Poetry Contest, presented by Brick & Elm magazine.

The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. March 1 in the Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex Recital Hall on WT’s Canyon campus.

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Historian to Offer Insight into Oil and Gas Heritage in Texas at WT Lecture

An expert on the broad implications of fossil-fuel extraction and the pivotal role of midsize cities like Amarillo will speak Feb. 29 at West Texas A&M University.

Dr. Alan Lessoff, the University Professor of History at Illinois State University, will present “The Texas Petroleumscape and the Urban-Industrial Heritage of Oil and Gas” at 6 p.m. Feb. 29 in the Hazlewod Lecture Hall at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, 2503 Fourth Ave. in Canyon.

Admission is free.

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Art Exhibition

WT Professor, Wife Set Up Endowment for Scholarships, Program Support

Gifts from a West Texas A&M University history professor and his recently retired wife will provide significant scholarship support for students in history and the arts.

Dr. Bruce Brasington, WT’s Twanna Caddell Powell Professor of History, and Darlene Brasington, former academic documentation coordinator for the Paul and Virginia Engler College of Business, have given $25,000 to establish the Brasington Family Scholarship Endowment for History and have set up a $500,000 bequest through the I Am WT–Leaving a Legacy program.

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WT Concert Band to Pay Tribute to Charleston Victims in Powerful Performance

A piece honoring the victims of a horrific tragedy is the centerpiece of the West Texas A&M University Concert Band’s first spring concert.

Omar Thomas’ “Of Our New Day Begun” pays tribute to the victims of a June 2015 domestic terrorism attack on the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The performance will begin at 5 p.m. March 3 in Mary Moody Northen Recital Hall on WT’s Canyon campus and will be livestreamed on the WT School of Music’s Facebook page. Admission is free. For information, call 806-651-2840.

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All-State Choir Camp

First annual Eric Barry vocal competition sign-ups close March 1st.

Poetry contest: opens January 30 and closes March 1.

Bad Poetry Competition: March 1st at 6:30 in FAC Recital Hall.