Morris College News

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St. John's UMC changes worship times, welcomes new pastor St. John's United Methodist Chuch's Sunday, June 14, service time will change to 11:15 a.m. Sunday school will begin at 10:15 a.m. The congregation will welcome the Rev.

Playwright Habib Tanvir, a legend of Indian theatre who brought folk drama on the stage, died on June 8, bringing about the end an era.

By KELLY GOOCH Staff Writer JACKSONVILLE -- Anyone of high school age or older is being encouraged to sign up for a stage combat workshop at Lon Morris College.

The finale of Dream On Dance Studio's recital. Angela Worthy always had a dream of owning her own dance studio.

The point of a commencement speech is to inspire the graduates to do great things with their new opportunities.

Following his keynote address during Morris College's May 8 commencement at the Sumter County Exhibition Center, Sumter native and House Majority Whip James Clyburn sat down for a brief but wide-ranging interview that touched on a variety of topics.

By Kelly Young kyoung@jacksonvilleprogress.com The city of Jacksonville's Public Works Department permitted only $258,960 worth of residential and commercial construction projects in April, the lowest total in more than a year.

Keith Gedamke / The Item Morris College President Luns Richardson confers an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree to Captain Leroy Bowman, a Tuskegee Airman, during the college's commencement ceremony Saturday morning at the Sumter County Exhibition Center.

Greece Kyle Carbone of Greece graduated this month from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

CHICAGO /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- President Michael P. Viollt and the Board of Trustees of Robert Morris College proudly announce that the institution has changed its name to Robert Morris University Illinois.

After a 20-year hiatus, the Roosevelt University Lakers are coming back. The Loop-based Chicago university, which has seen rapid growth in its undergraduate enrollment in the past few years and has around 7,700 total students, is relaunching an intercollegiate sports program it canceled 20 years ago.

By KELLY GOOCH Staff Writer JACKSONVILLE -- Friends and family will come together at Lon Morris College Saturday morning to see graduates walk across the stage.

By KELLY GOOCH Staff Writer JACKSONVILLE - Approximately 40 Jacksonville College students will graduate in front of friends and family this weekend.

The Rotary Club of Sumter-Palmetto will hold its annual Vidalia onion sale from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday on Wesmark Boulevard beside Farmer's Telephone Co.

Community leaders offered high praise for the job Sumter police officers do every day.

The Rev. Derwin Walker of First United Methodist Church of Murchison will preach his last sermon at the church at 11 a.m. on Heritage Sunday.

Sylvia Louise Atkinson Loney, 85, wife of Benjamin Franklin Loney, died on Sunday, April 19, 2009, at Tuomey Health Care System, Sumter.

By Kelly Young kyoung@jacksonvilleprogress.com At the request of the Jacksonville Public Library and in honor of National Library Week, several dozen community leaders and prominent citizens have selected a book which they have read recently that they have enjoyed.

Winners of "The Creative Written Word in the Digital Age" Essay Contest sponsored by the The University of South Carolina Sumter and the Sumter County Cultural Commission, asked students to write on the theme, "What knowledge, attitudes and skills do students need to be global citizens?" The winners have been announced as follows: 1st place: ...