Campus Events

What is Give Big to the Pig? Give Big to the Pig is a fun way for McKendree students, faculty and staff to share in the spirit of philanthropy. Besides being a cool keepsake, the purple pigs make it easy and painless to give a little something back – in a feel good and fun way to McKendree University. How do I participate? Fatten your pig. Feed them occasionally. They’re not picky – a steady diet of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills work! Then, bring your pig to any of our Purple Pig Roundups throughout the year. Need a Purple Pig? Purple Pigs are plentiful! Just email us at alumni@mckendree.edu or call (618) 537-6823. We will happily send one your way!

BY COURTNEY WINKLER, M.A.T. Adjunct Instructor On Veterans Day, local author Rhonda Tibbs spoke at McKendree University about her novel Song of the Snowman.  As a young girl, Tibbs was fascinated with the clouds in the sky and asked her father for one of her own. He not only gifted her with a “cloud,” but, more importantly, he sparked her imagination. Giving her a mason jar, he told his daughter inside the jar, was her cloud. Tibbs explained she would occasionally see rain falling from the clouds onto green pastures or dusty fields in need of quenching. Other days, she would see a village full of people beneath this cloud. The possibilities inside this jar were limitless. Thus, the creative mind of a writer was conceived resulting in an author who is working on her sixth novel.  As a devo...

PROVIDED BY LYN HUXFORD CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE (CPS)   From Nov. 13-22, CCS will be sponsoring Hunger and Homelessness Week. Don’t miss out on the events below!! Nov. 13-19 get a group to participate in the Canned Good Sculpture contest to win a copy of Orange is the New Black (up to 10 copies, announced at Empty Bowls) Contact  AMreynolds@mckendree.edu for more information. Monday, Nov. 17 participate in Change for Change around campus from 9-10:30 PM.  Sign up in the CCS Office or e-mail us! Tuesday, Nov. 18 join us for The Sleep Out in the quad from 6 PM-7 AM, view and discuss The Pursuit of Happyness in the Lair, and do a variety of other activities to learn about homelessness and opportunity. Wednesday, Nov. 19 at noon, join us in PAC 222 for Empty Bowls Brown Bag,...

PROVIDED BY THE HETT Promoted by the McKendree Review Come to the Hett in November and support McKendree's Music and Dance departments.

BY JESSICA TROUT Program Coordinator for the Lyn Huxford Center for Community Service Contributing Writer McKendree University’s Lyn Huxford Center for Community Service (CCS) is off to a running start.  Weekly programs are up and going five days a week with eight different programs serving the community.  CCS started the year with Into the Streets where about 500 people from McKendree’s community made their mark on 26 agencies. The CCS group completed their retreat at DuBois Center doing team courses and group activities. The athletic department seized an opportunity to work with Adaptive Sports Soccer Camp in Granite City, and the Art Club coordinated a Bowl-A-Thon in the Quad to benefit Empty Bowls, coming during Hunger and Homelessness Week. To get involved with CCS, please come b...

BY BENJAMIN RICHTER Contributing Writer The McKendree University Gallery of Art will be hosting its next show “Submerge and Surface: Paintings by Crystal Vicars-Pugh” from Oct. 9 to Oct. 25.  The gallery will host a reception with the artist at the gallery on Friday, Oct. 24, from 4 to 7 PM.  All receptions are free and open to the public. The gallery is located on the brick road in Lebanon, Ill. at 224 W. St. Louis Street. The gallery’s hours are 1-4 PM, Thursday through Saturday.  Amy MacLennan, one of McKendree University’s art professors, commented on Crystal Vicars-Pugh’s work which will be presented at the event: “In her series of paintings entitled "Submerge and Surface," Vicar-Pugh creates a metaphor for water in paint. Colors and textures ripple, concealing and revealing parts of...