The Ripon College Orchestra will perform the annual spring semester concert this coming Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 3:15PM in the Demmer Recital Hall at the Rodman Center for Performing Arts. The concert will feature music by Debussy, Holst, and Beethoven. Performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major is guest artist Nathan Birkholz. […]
The Ripon College Jazz Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 26, in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Jose Encarnacion will be the guest performer. Encarnación teaches jazz improvisation, small jazz groups and applied jazz saxophone at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton. He has performed jazz, salsa […]
Hannah Rosenthal, president and CEO of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation and daughter of a Holocaust survivor, will deliver a public talk, “Rising Anti-Semitism: It’s Real” on Tuesday, April 16, on the Ripon College campus. The presentation will begin at 4 p.m. in East Hall Little Theater. A reception will follow in Wensink Lounge in East […]
The Ripon College community will celebrate Earth Week starting on April 20th with a series of events to celebrate the College’s commitment to environmental sustainability: Saturday, April 20 5k Trail Run in the Prairie 10:30am Registration; 11:00am Start Ceresco Prairie In honor of Earth Week, the Environmental Group of Ripon (EGOR) and Ripon Outdoor Club […]
For those who were unable to join the conversation on Wednesday, April 10, you can listen to the Ripon College Telephone Town Hall with President Zach Messitte below, or you can download the mp3 using this link: Town Hall mp3 (Right Click and select “Save Link As…” to download the file) [iframe src=”//www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Friponcollege%2Fripon-college-spring-2013-telephone-town-hall%2F&embed_uuid=b96311c3-10e4-4bf7-8cec-edd2206fb9cb&stylecolor=980b0b&embed_type=widget_standard” frameborder=”0″ width=”480″ […]
Professor Leonard Uwiringiyimana, Executive Director of the Institute for National Transformation-USA (INT-USA), will speak on the Ripon College campus in East Hall, Little Theater on Thursday, March 28 at 7pm. Uwiringiymana’s talk, “Break the Boundaries of Ordinary to Become Extraordinary,” is co-sponsored by the Blue Mountain Project, the Cultural Diversity Club and Campus Christian Fellowship. […]
Award-winning author Robin Hemley will read from his fiction Tuesday, April 3, on the Ripon College campus. The presentation will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Heritage Room of Pickard Commons. Hemley is the winner of the 2012 Pushcart Prize and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. He has written 11 books of […]
The ninth annual Ripon College/Ripon Community (RC2) Run/Walk is set for Saturday, May 4. Registration begins at 6:30 a.m. with races starting at 8 a.m. Ripon Medical Center is returning as the event sponsor again this year, enabling race staff to offer electronic chip timing to the race. All proceeds support projects that help build […]
Author David McGlynn of Appleton, Wis., will be the featured speaker at the Friends of Lane Library annual meeting Wednesday, March 27, at Lane Library on the Ripon College campus. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed at 7 p.m. with McGlynn reading from his book “A Door in the Ocean,” an eloquent memoir […]
Artist Zane York of Brooklyn, N.Y., will give an artist talk at 7 p.m. Friday, March 22, in the lobby of Rodman Center for the Arts on the Ripon College campus. The talk will be in conjunction with an opening reception on his statement for “Wunderkammer” (Cabinet of Curiosities) in Caestecker Gallery. The exhibit will […]
One World Consort, a musical ensemble featuring a jazz quartet and a string quartet – will perform at Ripon College, Friday, March 22, as part of the 2012-2013 Chamber Music and Jazz at Ripon Series. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the Ripon […]
Deb Kupinsky’s exhibit, “Echo,” currently on display in the Caestecker Gallery in Ripon College’s Rodman Center for the Arts received a warm review in the Appleton Post-Crescent. The Crescent‘s Taima Kern writes that Kupinsky’s art, “brings a sense of wonder, and otherworldly interest to the table with a series of sculptures that require a closer […]
On February 6, 2013, Ripon College hosted political consultant and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove for a talk in Harwood Memorial Union’s Great Hall. You can watch the event in its entirety below: [iframe src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/pXAizvYU3IA?rel=0″ width=”600″ height=”450″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen]
With the public launch of the Imagine Tomorrow comprehensive campaign on February 1, Ripon College has been featured in a number of news outlets. Here are a few news highlights and video from the campaign launch event at the Woman’s Club of Wisconsin. Ripon Commonwealth Press – “Ripon College Racing Through $50 million Campaign” Fond […]
The Janus Trio comes to Ripon College on Friday, February 15, 2013, as part of the 2012-2013 Chamber Music and Jazz at Ripon Series. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall at the C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts on the Ripon College campus. The trio from Brooklyn formed in […]
Ripon College launched the public phase of its Imagine Tomorrow comprehensive campaign tonight, announcing that $35 million of the stated $50 million campaign goal has been raised since 2010. “Ripon has had such a positive and important influence on the lives and careers of so many people,” said President Zach Messitte. “The commitment of our […]
Artist Deb Kupinsky will give an artist talk at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in the lobby of Rodman Center for the Arts on the Ripon College campus. The talk will be in conjunction with an opening reception in Caestecker Gallery for the exhibit, “Echo,” which will run through March 1. Kupinsky is Uihlein Fellow […]
This year’s Founders’ Day award was presented to Gregory Marcus of The Marcus Corp. The award is presented annually to an individual or an organization in the Ripon community who exemplifies the ideals of the founders of Ripon College. The Marcus Corp., headquartered in Milwaukee, was founded Nov. 1, 1935, by Ben Marcus with the […]
In recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 21, Ripon College will hold a series of events: Inauguration Oath Screening 10:30 a.m., Monday, January 21,The Pub, Harwood Memorial Union. Watch as President Barack Obama renews his vow to lead the nation in his second term. MLK Week Brunch 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. […]
After Tuesday’s 56-38 win at Lawrence University, Ripon College’s women’s basketball head coach Julie Johnson now needs one more victory to become just the fourth coach in Midwest Conference history to win 300 career games. Her first chance to reach that milestone comes in Saturday’s home game against Grinnell, beginning at 1 p.m. With a […]
Ripon College Republicans and Pre-Law Society, with support from the Young Americans Foundation, are proud to present Karl Rove to speak at Ripon College on Wednesday, February 6, at 4:15 p.m. in Harwood Memorial Union’s Great Hall (300 W. Seward St, Ripon, WI 54971). A meet and greet will follow shortly afterwards from 5:30-6:30 p.m. […]