Shorter College News Archives

Shorter College's Roberts Hall will be transformed into dorm full of frights, as the Hill will play host to a Halloween Haunted House on Oct.

Sophomore Justyna Mudy dominated the field by nearly 45 seconds and sophomore Sarah Massey posted a 13th-place finish to lead No.

Shorter students Emily Tweedy, who plays Gretel, and Jasmine Habersham, in the role of Sandman, meet up in the forest during a scene from the upcoming opera.

Shorter College and visiting Bethel combined for four goals in an end-to-end first half, but neither side could find the net in the final half or two overtime periods as the squads settled for a 2-2 draw in the first-ever soccer match held at Shorter's new Ben Brady Field.

Shorter College rallied from a 1-0 match deficit and a 23-17 deficit in the fourth set to score an important 3-1 victory over Columbia College in Southern States Athletic Confer-ence volleyball action on Saturday afternoon.

A suspended Shorter College student was arrested Friday afternoon after he entered a room at Roberts Hall and removed items without permission, police said.

Shorter student Ashleigh Tatum helps Floyd County first and second graders color the Ghana flag.

Art majors from freshmen to seniors have entered their best creations to be displayed for everyone to see in the Shorter College Student Art Exhibit.

Students from Shorter College stand near trash collected alongside the Etowah and Coosa rivers and Armuchee Creek during the Rivers Alive cleanup Saturday.

After suffering a heart-wrenching loss at Lambuth last weekend, the Shorter College Hawks fought their way to a 45-10 win over the Knights of Kentucky Christian Saturday at Barron Stadium.

Shorter College freshman Leslie Welch notched a match-high nine kills to lead the Lady Hawks to a 3-0 win over visiting Southern Wesleyan University in Southern States Athletic Conference volleyball action on Wednesday night.

Since Tuesday night, 1.19 inches of rain has been recorded at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport and more is likely Thursday.

Fred Christopher has been named Credit Administration Assistant at Greater Rome Bank.

The Creative Arts Guild Noon Arts winter series will resume this week offering area residents monthly brown bag lunch performances free of charge.

In a partnership with Floyd County Schools, Shorter College will host Ghana Day on Oct.

Laura Banks, a sophomore at Shorter College , has been selected to receive a UPS Scholarship.

When wanna-be rockstar Robbie Hart is left alone at the altar, the wedding singer A - who was once called New Jersey's favorite - sets out to make every wedding as disastrous as his own.

Shorter College is holding a raffle with more than $6,000 in cash and prizes, to raise money for student scholarships.

Shorter College is hosting a haunted house on Halloween, Oct. 31. The haunted house at Roberts Hall is organized by Shortera s Frankenstein, Harry Potter and Friends Learning Community, which allows students to explore Gothic and contemporary literature, along with theatrical adaptations of thriller and horror genres.

Jennifer Williams, choral teacher at Rome High School, smiles after being named Rome City School's teacher of the year on Wednesday.

Nugroho and Ruddi Nefid are Indonesian students studying at Shorter and Berry colleges, respectively, while back home in West Sumatra their country is dealing with the devastation of a huge earthquake.

The death of Whitfield County second-grader Candy Chen last week from an illness related to the H1N1 Influenza-A is a sign that the flu isna t going to disappear anytime soon.

Monday, Sept. 27, 1959 Norwegian exchange student finds romance, marriage here It was just a year ago that pretty Jorunn Waage of Norway crossed the seas to study on a Rotary scholarship at Rome's Shorter College.

Update: Motorcyclist Cedrick Young is still recuperating at Floyd Medical Center on Thursday after suffering injuries following a crash with a pick-up truck late Monday night.

One example of the kind of deals getting done involves the Shorter College School of Nursing in Rome, Ga., about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta.