Marian College News

The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis will open its 2009-10 Laureate Series Sept.

Ararat Rural City Council this week invited its young people to give voice to their concerns and aspirations.

Marian College on the city's near west side is now Marian University. School leaders officially changed the name this weekend.A They marked the change with a balloon launch, new signs, and banners.

Indianapolis Civic Theatre will conduct open auditions for the Andrew Lloyd Weber/Tim Rice musical epic "Evita" at 7 p.m. June 29 and 30.

EDGEWOOD - While his mother recovered from surgery, 6-year-old Lawrence Bowman was sent to Canada to live with relatives for six months and start first grade.

On the last day of the Junior Cert, students experienced a touch of the Med with exams in Latin, classical studies, ancient Greek and Italian.

Amy Nocton may have graduated from Northeastern, but she'll continue on as a Knight.

The Indiana high school boys and girls basketball All-Stars will play games against squads of Junior All-Stars on Tuesday night in preparation for this weekend's annual series against Kentucky.

Comedian Des Bishop will be pleased. He made it on to yesterday's Leaving Certificate Irish Ordinary Level paper -- but not without stirring a little controversy.

It started with volunteering at a makeshift elementary school in the Dominican Republic.

BRITAIN 'S Prince Harry made a surprise appearance 'as Gaeilge' yesterday -- on the Junior Cert Irish higher level paper 2. The young prince's beaming smile accompanied a passage about redheads on the paper.

Charles 'Lex' Bartlett, Erika Keasling, Amy Nocton and Nicholas Ringwald will each receive an education grant under the provisions of the Merton W. Grills Student Aid Fund administered by the department of the Wyane Bank and Trust Co.

OPINION: The girl forced to leave a private school may be bad PR for the school but her mother is surely in denial about economic realities, writes ORNA MULCAHY AN AUNT who has lived outside the country for decades showed a streak of bitterness recently when the subject of her convent school days in Dublin came up.

Indianapolis' Catholic archdiocese is a sprawling territory that stretches across Central Indiana -- from the borders with Illinois and Ohio -- and as far south as the Ohio River.

Registration is now open for the Sunday Night Run, an event benefiting the Right to Life of Indianapolis.

Tim Hendricks never wants to get a credit card. That makes him unusual for a college student, but a new credit card law enacted last week would give him plenty of company.

The following local students were named to the dean's list at Marian College for the fall semester: John Daniel Fisher, Larry Connor Motes II, and Jessica Michelle Winthrow, all Noblesville, and Heather Elizabeth Matthew and Loralee Suzanne Sweet, both Cicero.

The 78 students who received their diplomas Tuesday night at Washington Community High School joke among themselves about how no one expected much to come of them.

The following Fishers residents were named to the dean's list at Marian College for the fall semester: Stacey Rae Alexander, Gabriel C. Cotton, Thomas David Edgar, Marlo Mae Kalil, Morgan Renee Roddy and Jonathon Duane Shaw.

Greencastle senior Hannah Spencer has signed to play soccer at Marian College this fall.