Patricia Gray retiring as Coventry Library manager: Press Run
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Posted Feb 19, 2021
Patricia Gray is retiring after 15 years as branch manager at the Coventry Village Library in Cleveland Heights. Gray introduced several programs while managing the branch and, upon leaving, said that plans are in place for refurbishing the branch s basement to add meeting rooms and upgrading its HVAC system. (Photo Courtesy of the Heights Libraries)
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CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio Heights Libraries has passed along word that Coventry Branch Manager Patricia Gray will retire March 1.
“Known for her compassion, perceptiveness and creativity, Gray nurtured the staff, programs and collections at the branch, and helped it grow into a neighborhood gathering place that reflects the eclectic needs and interests of the community it serves,” a library news release notes.
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Feb. 17, 2021
Ohio University College of Fine Arts student Bradley Nolan from Palos Verdes Estates, CA, has been named to OHIO s Fall 2020 Dean s List.
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More than 8,400 students qualified for the fall semester 2020 Dean s List at Ohio University, including main and regional campuses.
Over 40 states were represented on the Dean s List, including: Arizona, Connecticut, California, Florida, Illinois, Rhode Island, Texas and Ohio. Students also represented Ireland, Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Canada and many other countries.
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Due to COVID-19, OHIO students who earned 12 semester hours of credit, including at least six hours attempted for letter grades, with a minimum grade point average of at least 3.5 achieved this distinction.
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Last fall, when there was still a possibility that BU Athletics Bands would be able to perform at sports events, members gathered outdoors, in small groups, to practice. They decided to put the time to good use by producing a music video thanking the University’s hundreds of essential and frontline workers for all they’d done and continue to do throughout the pandemic.
The song they chose? Andrew Gold’s 1978 “Thank You for Being a Friend,” familiar to anyone who’s ever watched an episode of the 1980s NBC sitcom
The Golden Girls.
“We began arranging the music and teaching it to the BU Marching Band and Pep Band in small groups,” says Aaron Goldberg, a College of Fine Arts lecturer in music and director of Athletics Bands. “We then contacted our friends on the Dance and Cheer teams to be involved.”
Painting the presence of freedom
By ILANG-ILANG QUIJANO
– John Berger, writer and cultural critic
The absence of basic rights and freedoms. The void left by a person killed or unjustly imprisoned for their beliefs. Land that is taken away, intrepid voices that are stifled, entire cultures that are destroyed.
Such were the absences that several freshly painted murals along the University of the Philippines-Diliman’s Freedom Wall along Katipunan Avenue attempt to make present. They are the products of a live mural painting session organized by the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), SINAGBAYAN (Sining na Naglilingkod sa Bayan), and Sama-Samang Artista Para sa Kilusang Agraryo (SAKA) last February 14, in celebration of National Arts Month.
Intersection by Joey de Castro
Heart of the Fire by Jon & Tessy Pettyjohn
Bright Days and Peaceful Nights by Jomike Tejido
DUE to the pandemic, “Art in the Park,” the popular art fair held annually in the Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati, will be held online for the second time. The fair, known for having excellent artworks with a P50,000 price ceiling, celebrates its 15
th anniversary in this virtual setting. The fair will be held via
www.artinthepark.ph starting 10 a.m. on Feb. 21. New pieces will be uploaded on the site daily until Feb. 28.
The fair is held as a benefit for the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc. (MFPI), and, according to a statement, it has allocated P15 million to the National Museum for various initiatives such as infrastructure projects, staff development grants, and exhibition programs, among others. Trickie Lopa, one of Art in the Park’s co-founders, said in an e-mail to