Melissa Berkowitz, Staff Writer – Ron Mulliken ’82 will be the speaker for Lynchburg College’s Commencement Day on May 18. Mulliken, currently the vice president of sales for a leading mobile advertisement company called Marchex, has been employed in the advertising industry for over 30 years, LC’s Media Relations Director Shannon Brennan said. Mulliken has worked with many leading national media outlets, including The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly and Time [...]

Steven Schadoff, Staff Writer - Two Lynchburg College alumni, Michael Chagnon ‘09 and Ken Brande ‘10, are currently touring the East Coast with their band Mercutio. The band’s first full album, “Self Titled,” will debut Feb. 28 at the Phase 2 Dining & Entertainment venue in Lynchburg, Va. With Chagnon and Jeffrey Osborne on vocals and guitar, Brande behind the drums and Kerry Knight on bass guitar, the band performs [...]

Steven Schadoff, Staff Writer – Lynchburg College alumni Stephen Armstrong ’11 and Sarah Schaffer ’11 made a lifelong commitment to each other when Armstrong proposed to Schaffer at the heart of campus, Friendship Circle on Dec. 28, 2012. With nerves tingling and excitement brewing, Armstrong said he took Schaffer on a walk around campus. The couple made their way to Friendship Circle where Armstrong took a knee, pulled out a [...]

Chad Morris, Staff Writer – Former Lynchburg College Men’s Basketball stand-out Steven Echols ‘11 is continuing his basketball career professionally with the newly established Lynchburg Legends team of the American Basketball Association. During his senior season at LC, Echols was named to the 2009-2010 All-ODAC First Team by averaging 18 points, five rebounds and five assists per game, according to the LC Athletics webpage. He received All-ODAC honors three out [...]

Carley Dobson, Staff Writer – Owning his own bagel shop is not exactly how Lynchburg College alumnus Tom Selinger saw his future 34 years ago. After a 20-year career in the home building business, Selinger founded Jerry’s Bagels, which is located on Old Forest Rd and opened it Dec. 21, 2011. Selinger said the 20-employee business has had anywhere from 5,000-8,000 customers and, on good day, sells as many as [...]

Kenley Hoover, Staff Writer – This past Veterans Day Lynchburg College celebrated not only with a memorial service but also with a donation of the Mazzara-Daly Great War Collection to the Knight-Capron Library. The Mazzara-Daly Great War Collection is a donation of 160 titles, said LC Cataloger and Public Services Librarian Robyn Williams. The collection is a mix of primary sources of WWI poetry and autobiographies and secondary sources about [...]

Maggie Dakin, Staff Writer - Lynchburg College alumni Kathrine Switzer ’68 was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame on Oct. 1 in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Switzer is best known as the first woman to officially enter and run the Boston Marathon in 1967 which created an uproar when a race official tried to forcibly remove her from the competition for being female, according to Switzer’s webpage. Throughout her [...]

Dr. Clifton W. Potter Jr., Professor of History at Lynchburg College - Last Saturday while I was waiting for the academic procession to begin, a student asked me why I was carrying “a club” on my shoulder.  I replied that it was the College Mace which was carved from a beam of the original college building, Westover Hall. When the Marshal carries the Mace in the procession that begins Freshman [...]

Theresa Gillette, Staff Writer Lynchburg College seniors are currently being asked to donate money back to the school after graduation through a pledge campaign run by the Alumni Office, Annual Fund and SERVE Office. This is different than in years past, as the offices have all combined to ask students for one pledge, rather than three separate ones. This change was made in an effort to increase senior participation in these [...]

Megan Delp, Copy Desk Chief Lynchburg College revoked the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity Chapter house, located at 225 Vernon St., on Monday, April 11. Sig Ep is not allowed to apply for another chapter house until fall of 2012. On April 9 some of the brothers who lived in the chapter house had an unauthorized party in the house. The Sig Ep members did not fill out the proper paperwork to [...]