Eden panorama highlights Illinois history at SIU
Christian Moe’s Illinois Sesquicentennial Play Make Her Wilderness Like Eden ran at Southern Illinois University theater on Memorial Day to fair crowds. The two hour show blends vignettes with 250 slide projections and 30 folk songs to sketch state history from pioneers to modern urban unrest, with strong performances led by Dennis Immel and Buddy Hymes.
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Eden
Christian Moe
Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois University Theater
Moe
SIU
School of Communications
Illinois
Colin Heath
John Peter Altgeld
Haymarket
Altgeld
Chicago
Dennis Immel
George Rogers Clark
Nathaniel Pope
Elijah Lovejoy
Ulysses S. Grant
John A. Logan
Gov. Altgeld
Buddy Hymes
Mike Fink
Booth
Lincoln’s
Paul Bahan
Lincoln
Greater Egypt approves renovation funds and staff actions
The Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission executive committee authorized up to 2100 for office renovations at 21114 W Main St Carbondale including materials and carpeting. They will bid the carpet work and explore a short term loan, and recommended to the full commission to seek county board approval to appoint mayors with voting power to the governing board.
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Greater Egypt
Greater
Commission
Jackson
Williamson
Franklin
Perry
Jefferson
SIU Acquires Slivka Sculpture of Dylan Thomas
SIU will hold a 3:30 p.m. reception in the Morris Library rare book room to announce the acquisition of a bronze bust of Dylan Thomas. The piece by David Slivka comes through the Architectural Arts Program, and is one of four casts from Slivka's plaster sculpture.
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Southern Illinois University
Morris
Dylan Thomas
David Slivka
SIU
Slivka
Katherine
Group begins work on Murphysboro park site
Murphysboro Community Action Committee members started clearing land at 17th and Gartside streets for a neighborhood park. Private citizens donated the land. city help will aid heavy clearing. Donations and Thrift Shop proceeds will fund equipment. Next meeting is 7 p.m. Monday at the Thrift Shop.
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Murphysboro
Community Action Committee
17Th
Gartside
Joe Gilliam
George Emsweller
Joe Williams
City of
Thrift Shop
Emsweller
Christopher Lions hear SII head on regional industry
Goffrey Hughes executive director of Southern Illinois Inc spoke to the Christopher Lions Club on area industrial development. He called Christopher the birthplace of Rend Lake noting the 1954 organizational meeting and outlined dam and intercity water system progress. Bleacher plans for Christopher park baseball diamond were approved and new officers will be installed next week.
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Goffrey Hughes
Southern Illinois Inc
Christopher Lions Club
Hughes
Christopher
Rend Lake
Christopher Park
Recreation talks set for June 5 in Carbondale
Illinois Recreation Council schedules an all day June 5 meeting at Southern Illinois University University Center River Rooms. Testimony by Owen Jamison Shawnee National Forest supervisor on George Rogers Clark Recreation Way and Lusk Creek Lake developments. Richard Jones Bend Lake Conservancy District director reviews lake projects. Geoffrey Hughes SIInc executive director briefs on regional needs. William Freeburg SIU recreation department vice chairman and George Smith Carterville council member noted.
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Southern Illinois
Carbondale
The
Illinois Recreation Council
River Rooms
University Center
Southern Illinois University
Owen Jamison
Richard Jones
Goffrey Hughes
Jamison
Shawnee National Forest
George Rogers Clark
Lusk Creek Lake
Jones
Bend Lake Conservancy District
Hughes
Southern Illinois Inc
Illinois Region 9 Tourism Promotion Council
William Freeburg
SIU Recreation and Outdoor Education Department
George Smith
Carterville
Southern Illinois Tau Kappa Epsilon members promote safety
Members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Southern Illinois University distributed leaflets to motorists on Wednesday urging safety over the Memorial Day holiday. They joined the Light Up and Live campaign as a public service project.
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Tau Kappa Epsilon
Southern Illinois University
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