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| December 23, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Year-End 2011 | |
| At the close of 2011, Patrick Henry College looks back at a sterling year of God's grace in our community. We invite you to peruse the gallery below and remember with us the year's events. ...more | |
| December 19, 2011 | |
| Alum Forensics Champion Runs Debate Camps in AZ | |
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| December 19, 2011 | |
| Professors Help Students Experience Europe | |
| Dr. Doug Favelo is organizing a spring student trip to Europe. But he is not the first PHC professor to organize an international trip to enlighten PHC students in historical knowledge. Both Associate Professor of Literature Dr. Bonnie Libby and Associate Professor of Music Dr. Steven McCollum have led recent student trips to Europe. ...more | |
| December 14, 2011 | |
| PHC Debate Team Competes at Cambridge | |
| A small contingent of PHC debaters competed in British parliamentary debate in England on November 18-19 in a tournament hosted by Cambridge University. Facing competitors from schools across the globe, seniors Ian Reid and Zachary Enos and sophomores John Ehrett and Blake Meadows more than held their own against both undergrad and postgrad students in the highly-competitive international league. ...more | |
| December 07, 2011 | |
| Dominating Regionals, Moot Teams Advance Toward Nationals | |
| With last weekend's final two regional moot court tournaments in Florida and California complete, Patrick Henry College moves toward January's national ACMA Moot Court Championships having won all four regionals. ...more | |
| December 01, 2011 | |
| Alum Chris Ridley Elected to Public Office | |
| By a five-percent margin in a local election on November 8th, PHC graduate Chris Ridley (Public Policy, '07) won a city council seat in Napoleon, OH, becoming what many believe to be the first PHC graduate to be elected to office. ...more | |
| November 29, 2011 | |
| Lessons & Carols This Saturday | |
| A beautiful tradition at Patrick Henry College for the last five years returns this Saturday with two performances in the Barbara Hodel Center. The traditional launch to the Christmas season by the PHC Chorale, Lessons & Carols, will be open to the public on December 3, at 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. in the Barbara Hodel Center. ...more | |
| November 21, 2011 | |
| Alum Chris Beach Works His Way into Bill Bennett's Inner Circle | |
| "What am I doing here," is a familiar state of mind for Beach these days, whether it's hiking trails with his boss, Bill Bennett, the former education czar, staying in swanky hotels on a recent book tour, or simply bantering with his boss about news and politics on-air at Bennett's Morning studio in downtown Rosslyn, Va., across the Potomac from downtown D.C. ...more | |
| November 21, 2011 | |
| Students Campaign on Three Successful Races Over Break | |
| Despite looming paper and projects, 20 PHC students led teams of high school students in campaigns for key Virginia Senate seats over fall break. One candidate, Bryce Reeves, won a seat in the 17th district by a mere 288 votes. ...more | |
| November 16, 2011 | |
| Strong Start to PHC Moot Court Campaign | |
| Eleven teams from PHC traveled to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament at Regent University this past weekend, kicking off the College's annual run-up toward the national American Collegiate Moot Court Association (ACMA) Championships in Orange County, California. PHC teams beat out Regent, Liberty, and UVA to close out the tournament with all four spots in the semifinal round. ...more | |
| November 14, 2011 | |
| Work With Koch Foundation Illuminates Calling for Alumni | |
| Through development work with the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) as part of the Charles Koch Institute's internship program, PHC senior Natasha Malik says that she figured out her "comparative advantage"–what she is good at. ...more | |
| November 11, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: November Newsmakers | |
| Pictures by Art Cox CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu This photo gallery highlights some of the ...more | |
| November 08, 2011 | |
| Newsmakers Interview Series to Kick Off Second Week | |
| Featuring the College's Distinguished Chair in Journalism and Public Policy and editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine, November's Newsmakers interviews include a former Secretary of Education, the youngest op-ed writer in the history of the New York Times, the CEO of a pro-life advocacy organization, and an author and videographer. ...more | |
| November 04, 2011 | |
| Alumni Use Talents to Serve Youth in China | |
| By Carissa Davis. CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu As the three PHC alumni toured the streets ...more | |
| November 03, 2011 | |
| PHC Women's Basketball Program Underway | |
| With a new coach and an excellent practice facility in the Barbara Hodel Center gym, women's basketball is gearing up for the spring semester. ...more | |
| October 28, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: 2011 Invitational Choir Festival | |
| The Patrick Henry College Chorale and visiting choirs regaled the campus community with a concert this Wednesday, following a morning of collaboration and mutual learning. Represented were the Trinity Christian School Upper School Choirs from Fairfax, VA, the PHC Youth Music Academy Choir, and the new PHC Men's Ensemble. View the gallery from the event. ...more | |
| October 28, 2011 | |
| Students and Alumni Find Calling Through Church Service | |
| For many students, serving in a local church is a means to become involved in the local community. With dozens of churches of all sizes in the northern Virginia area, the opportunities to serve are many and diverse. ...more | |
| October 24, 2011 | |
| Free Choir Festival Wednesday, 1:30 p.m. | |
| The Patrick Henry College Music Department invites the local community to attend a free concert on Wednesday, October 26, at 1:30 p.m. in the Barbara Hodel Center gymnasium. The concert will cap off the College's second annual invitational choral festival. ...more | |
| October 21, 2011 | |
| Debaters Compete at Yale This Weekend | |
| Fourteen PHC students are debating this weekend at Yale University in New Haven, CT. This marks PHC's first presence at a Yale tournament as they face teams from around the world in British Parliament debate. ...more | |
| October 18, 2011 | |
| Chinese Activist Liao Yiwu Visits Campus | |
| View this gallery from Monday evening's Coffeehouse event with Liao Yiwu, Chinese dissident. Liao Yiwu survived the Tiananmen Square massacre and jail in Communist China. His most recent book translated to English, God is Red, gives an account of Chinese Christians whom he met and interviewed. ...more | |
| October 14, 2011 | |
| Alumni & Students Shoot Feature Film | |
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| October 12, 2011 | |
| Patrick Henry Alumnus Honored at Michigan Capitol | |
| CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Kendell Asbenson (Government, '07) Michigan lawmakers have ...more | |
| October 11, 2011 | |
| Chinese Dissident to Give Presentation at PHC, Oct. 17 | |
| Patrick Henry College continues its Coffeehouse events with a man whom PHC's Dr. David Aikman, calls "a Chinese version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn." Liao Yiwu, who has suffered at the hands of Communist China because of his commitment to writing and speaking about its atrocities, will give a presentation in the Barbara Hodel Center Coffee Shop on Monday, October 17 at 7:00 p.m. ...more | |
| October 06, 2011 | |
| Homecoming Weekend Rainy But Heartwarming | |
| Defying rainy, cold weather, students took a break from studies to dress up, rock out, and show some class spirit this past weekend, making PHC Homecoming 2011 what many thought was the best homecoming yet. And in the end, the senior class accrued enough points to win the yearly spirit competition. ...more | |
| October 05, 2011 | |
| Alumni Time Capsule Sealed into Front Monument | |
| In spite of a steady pour of chilly rain, a mason had successfully bricked the Patrick Henry College Alumni Association's shiny silver time capsule into the College's front monument by the end of Homecoming Week, Saturday, Oct. 1. The rectangular metal box held what a committee of former students deemed a representative sampling of the College's first decade. ...more | |
| September 28, 2011 | |
| New WORLD Internships Offer J-Students Priceless Experience | |
| The arrival of Dr. Marvin Olasky, the College's new journalism professor and Distinguished Chair of Journalism and Public Policy, is expanding PHC's journalism program in exciting new directions. This past summer, several students interned with WORLD publications. ...more | |
| September 27, 2011 | |
| Homecoming Promises Array of Alumni/Student Events | |
| Beginning Wednesday, Patrick Henry College students will kick off Homecoming 2011 by dividing themselves into one of four clichéd cliques -- "preps, hipsters, nerds, and jocks" – for a week of fun and unity-building, competing in a series of zany contests. ...more | |
| September 21, 2011 | |
| WORLD Magazine Week Launches with Stirring Interviews | |
| By the end of Wednesday in WORLD Week at PHC, Dr. Marvin Olasky, had interviewed South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, Arizona Congressman Trent Franks, Sagamore Institute President Jay Hein and best-selling Christian author Ann Voskamp. Read the overview of these first interviews here. ...more | |
| September 20, 2011 | |
| Dr. Hake Predicts the End of Postmodern Pride and Despair | |
| During the College's thirteenth Faith & Reason lecture this past Friday, PHC's Dr. Steven Hake argued that pride and despair have brought the western intellectual world to a low point, and that society is ripe for fresh, life-bringing ideas–a "Christian Renaissance." ...more | |
| September 15, 2011 | |
| View Free Constitutional Literacy Episode Here | |
| By Sarah Pride, photo by Art Cox CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu View Episode 1 for free - ...more | |
| September 14, 2011 | |
| Faith & Reason to Suggest Timeliness of Christian Renaissance | |
| PHC's longest-serving faculty member, Dr. Steven Hake, will present Patrick Henry College's thirteenth Faith and Reason lecture this Friday the 16th. Currently the Chairman of the Department of Classical Liberal Arts and Professor of Literature at PHC, Dr. Hake will deliver a lecture entitled, "We are Ripe for a Christian Renaissance." ...more | |
| September 12, 2011 | |
| WORLD Magazine Week at Patrick Henry College | |
| Patrick Henry College is excited to present "WORLD Magazine Week" with Dr. Marvin Olasky, next week, September 19-23, featuring live interviews conducted by the College's new Professor of Journalism, the inaugural holder of the College's Distinguished Chair in Journalism and Public Policy. ...more | |
| September 06, 2011 | |
| Students Invite Community to "Mission Abolition" Benefit Concert | |
| As part of an always entertaining schedule of events during Homecoming Week, Patrick Henry College's student-run International Justice Mission (IJM) club has arranged a "Mission Abolition" benefit concert on October 1. The Reilly band, a group known for its Christ-exalting lyrics and unique sound combination of rock and dueling violins, will perform. ...more | |
| September 01, 2011 | |
| Graduate Combines Passion for Politics and Life | |
| The back bumper of Eve Marie Barner Gleason's car broadcasts the two passions that have marked her life ever since a young age: the pro-life movement and local Republican politics. Gleason believes that "truth matters, ideas have consequences and every soul I encounter is immortal." ...more | |
| August 31, 2011 | |
| Dr. Montgomery Lectures World Congress on Human Rights | |
| Amidst a diverse audience of legal philosophers and lawyers, PHC's Dr. John Warwick Montgomery recently presented two intriguing papers at the 25th World Congress on the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy in Frankfurt, Germany. He challenged his audience on issues of human rights. ...more | |
| August 23, 2011 | |
| Earthquake Tremors Felt on Campus | |
| At 1:51pm Tuesday afternoon, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered 110 miles south of Purcellville in central Virginia sent a substantial tremor through the Patrick Henry College campus. No injuries or damage were reported. ...more | |
| August 22, 2011 | |
| Dr. Marvin Olasky New Distinguished Chair of Journalism | |
| CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 514-0852 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Dr. Marvin Olasky conducts a live interview at Patrick Henry ...more | |
| August 17, 2011 | |
| College Welcomes Largest Incoming Class | |
| Patrick Henry College woke from its comfortable summer routine this week and opened its doors to the hustle and energy of its largest incoming class yet. As of August 11, 108 new students had confirmed their enrollment. ...more | |
| August 15, 2011 | |
| Dana Blauvelt: Intern at Heritage Foundation | |
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| August 05, 2011 | |
| Alumna Teaches AP Classes Over Internet with PHC Prep | |
| Jennifer Schlaudt begins the day the same way she ends it: by checking her email. It formed her lifeline this past year to 39 students around the United States, whom she taught from her home in Texas through the online PHC Preparatory Academy. ...more | |
| August 01, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Drama and Mock Trial Camp | |
| Four-time Drama Camp director April Wright, a PHC alumna (2007), capped off the 2011 PHC Teen Leadership Camps season with a production of Get Smart, the 1967 play adaptation of an Emmy award-winning television secret agent satire. She was assisted by Ben Sayre (2010) and former PHC student Mari Davis. ...more | |
| July 28, 2011 | |
| CLA Major Prepares PHC Grad for High-Risk Counseling | |
| Nathaniel Boyd (CLA, '09) continues to balance his fun side with qualities of leadership and a maturing spirituality, serving as a Men's Ministry House leader with Christian Encounter Ministries (CEM), a residential program for broken and hurting young people between ages 16-25. ...more | |
| July 26, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Mock Trial Camp | |
| Pictures by Art Cox CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Last week featured the first half of Mock ...more | |
| July 21, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Youth Basketball Camp short | |
| Pictures by Art Cox CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu More than 50 young basketball players from ...more | |
| July 15, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Community Youth Soccer Camp at Patrick Henry College | |
| Pictures by Art Cox CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Nearly 40 soccer players, ages 8 to 13, ...more | |
| July 12, 2011 | |
| Meredith Schultz Accepts Trinity Forum Fellowship | |
| By Sarah Pride CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu For the past two years, PHC alumna Meredith ...more | |
| July 11, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Debate and History Camps | |
| Pictures by Art Cox CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu History and Debate camps highlighted week ...more | |
| July 06, 2011 | |
| Russell York Reaches Pacific | |
| Junior Alicia Constant writes for World Virginia that: "York, a 21-year-old senior at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., biked over 3,200 miles in 40 days across the United States to raise awareness and funds for Young Life's ministry to Ukrainian orphans." ...more | |
| July 01, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Debate and Vocation Camps | |
| Pictures by Art Cox and Sarah Pride CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Week three of Teen Leadership ...more | |
| June 29, 2011 | |
| Reich's Passion for TeenPact Carries Over to College Years | |
| Since 2003, Patrick Henry College sophomore Betsy Reich has participated every year but one in TeenPact's week-long classes on state government, and she has helped develop the program in Washington state and has traveled with TeenPact's volunteer leadership team. ...more | |
| June 28, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Congress & ConLaw Teen Camps | |
| Pictures by Sarah Pride, Olivia Linde, and Gillian Martel CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Our ...more | |
| June 22, 2011 | |
| Advent Film Group Offers Film Workshop, June 23-25 | |
| From Thursday through Saturday, June 23-25, more than 80 potential Christian filmmakers are thronging the Patrick Henry College campus for Advent Film Group's (AFG) fourth annual film workshop. ...more | |
| June 20, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Journalism and ConLaw Teen Camps | |
| Last week, Patrick Henry College hosted its first 2011 summer Teen Leadership Camps, under the guidance of Teen Camp Director Dominique Deming and her team of counselors. While Dr. Les Sillars headed up Journalism camp, in which high-schoolers created their own papers, Dr. Michael Farris led the first week of Constitutional Law camp. View the gallery below. ...more | |
| June 16, 2011 | |
| iGovern Camp Trains Youth to Lead as Citizens | |
| Students scurried about the dining hall soliciting votes, raising money and cutting deals. Snatches of conversation could be overheard about the latest legislation passed in the House, the filibuster ongoing in the Senate, or the third-party presidential candidate who just filed. It was a full-blown simulation of Capitol Hill, part of Generation Joshua's iGovern Summer Leadership Program, this year the largest summer camp ever held at Patrick Henry College. ...more | |
| June 15, 2011 | |
| Government Alumna Works Valuable Federal Clerkship | |
| When Dr. Robert Stacey asked Megan Kirkpatrick (Government, '06) in Freedom's Foundations class her sophomore year to relate her life ambitions, she replied, "to be a godly woman." Now, one Juris Doctor and a federal clerkship later, her goal is still the same. ...more | |
| June 14, 2011 | |
| Christy Ting: Classical School Teacher | |
| Christy Ting (CLA, '09) came to PHC with the specific goals of earning a CLA degree, learning to write integrated curriculum, planning a Liberty Ball and meeting interesting people. When she graduated a semester early, she had accomplished all that she had set out to do. ...more | |
| June 08, 2011 | |
| CLA Alum Uses Education to Counsel Troubled Youth | |
| While some might imagine PHC's CLA major doesn't bring as much adventure as, say, Strategic Intelligence, Anne Evans' post-graduation journey has led through three different states, grad school, and now an internship at a juvenile detention center. ...more | |
| June 07, 2011 | |
| PHC's York Keeps Pedalling Through Hardships | |
| So far, senior Russell York has endured innumerable flat tires, 2000-foot ridges throughout the Appalachians, and large dogs that have chased him into unwanted detours on his way to raise money and awareness for orphans in the Ukraine through a cross-country bike trip. Nonetheless, his blog is filled with entries expressing wry humor and thankfulness. ...more | |
| June 01, 2011 | |
| Swiss Filmmaker Chronicles Wilson Family's Ties to Purity Movement | |
| A Swiss film crew spent a day on campus last Thursday, May 26, interviewing PHC senior Colten Wilson and his wife, Anna (CLA, '09), for a segment of a full-length documentary underway about the Wilson family's involvement in launching an emergent purity movement. ...more | |
| May 31, 2011 | |
| Michelle Wright: Next Chapter for the India Intern | |
| In the spring and summer of 2010, Michelle Wright spent a difficult and eventful six months in India, helping Emmanuel Hospital Association in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh to construct a palliative care policy to treat that country's most desperately ill. This Q&A discusses what she has learned, and her immediate plans for the future. ...more | |
| May 23, 2011 | |
| Students Receive Scholarship for Heritage Foundation Program | |
| Each year, an anonymous donor provides four YPC memberships to deserving PHC students, at a cost of $250 per membership. The College's internship coordinator and Dean of Men, Jeffrey Thornhill, recently announced the recipients of the Young President's Club membership for the upcoming school year: Alex Harris ('12), Dana Blauvelt ('12), Nicole Frazer ('12) and Spencer Churchill ('12). ...more | |
| May 18, 2011 | |
| Video: Baccalaureate Service 2011 | |
| Video by Sarah Pride CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Watch the full Baccalaureate speech from ...more | |
| May 16, 2011 | |
| Commencement 2011 Highlights Moral Courage, Spiritual Integrity | |
| By David Halbrook; pictures by Art Cox CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu New alumni celebrate ...more | |
| May 16, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Last Days of Spring 2011 | |
| This gallery sums up events from the last few weeks of the Patrick Henry College spring 2011 semester. It includes photos from a student-run talent show and from the Baccalaureate ceremony for 2011 graduates. ...more | |
| May 10, 2011 | |
| Commencement to be Webcast Saturday | |
| This Saturday's Commencement exercises at Patrick Henry College, 11:00 a.m., May 14th, will see 58 young men and women cross the stage to receive diplomas. The ceremony will be webcast live at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time and will feature an address from American hero Col. Oliver North, a combat-decorated Marine, #1 best-selling author, and American hero. ...more | |
| May 04, 2011 | |
| Epic Bike Adventure Planned to Aid Ukrainian Orphans | |
| This summer, junior Russell York plans to forego the typical job setting and office chair of an internship for a bicycle seat as he pedals 3,200 miles across the country. York's epic bike ride is an effort to raise money for orphans in the Ukraine. ...more | |
| May 03, 2011 | |
| Interview with Commencement Speaker Oliver North | |
| "There are some people who read history, some people, like I do, who write history, and some people who make history." Those words were spoken by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, who will be the keynote speaker at Patrick Henry College's 2011 Commencement Ceremony, May 14, at 11 a.m. in Purcellville, Virginia. ...more | |
| April 29, 2011 | |
| Saturday's Chorale Concert Designed for Variety and Fun | |
| This Saturday, April 30, 2011, from 7-8pm, come to Patrick Henry College's Barbara Hodel Center to enjoy the Music Department's Spring 2011 concert: "Now is the Time for Maying!" Featuring the PHC Chorale, PHC Chamber Orchestra, and small group performances from members of ensembles, it will be a free, fun, refreshing, and humorous concert that is bound to leave you happy that you came. ...more | |
| April 28, 2011 | |
| Students' NMUN Venture Earns "Outstanding Delegation" | |
| By the time they walked out of the closing NMUN ceremonies held in the actual United Nations General Assembly on April 21, PHC students had earned the distinction of Outstanding Delegation, an award only given to 19 out of the over 300 teams in competition. ...more | |
| April 27, 2011 | |
| Noted Intellectual Dr. Wilfred McClay to Lecture Thursday | |
| By Carissa Davis CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Dr. Wilfred M. McClay This Thursday, April ...more | |
| April 27, 2011 | |
| Admitted Students Enjoy Special Day on Campus | |
| The College's robust campus visits program has included six Prospective Student Days over the course of two semesters, which have welcomed over 120 students to campus. Last weekend's Admitted Student Day saw 34 students and their families (totaling 105 attendees) touring the campus, attending classes, eating in the dining commons and generally getting to know the culture and community of PHC. ...more | |
| April 20, 2011 | |
| Journalism Intern Wins "Best Sports Feature" in NY State | |
| A story from Bridget Degnan's summer 2010 internship with the Riverhead News-Review in Mattituck, NY, entitled "How Number 30 Quietly Made History in Riverhead," recently earned her the Best Sports Feature of the year by the New York Press Association. ...more | |
| April 20, 2011 | |
| Chancellor Farris Defends Bible in Debate on NPR | |
| CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu College Chancellor and founder, Dr. Michael Farris PHC Chancellor ...more | |
| April 15, 2011 | |
| Alumni Association Plans Time Capsule as Ten-Year Monument | |
| Images by Art Cox. Photos for poster collages provided by PHC Alumni Association. CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu ...more | |
| April 14, 2011 | |
| Friends Flock to PHC for Tenth Anniversary Celebration | |
| By David Halbrook. Photos by Art Cox. CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Dr. James Dobson A prominent ...more | |
| April 09, 2011 | |
| Revisit Childhood With Eden Troupe's Charlie Brown, April 7-9 | |
| By Sarah Pride. Poster by Ian Reid. Other picture by Diana Chamberlain. CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu ...more | |
| April 08, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Afternoon of the Arts | |
| Pictures by Betsy Reich CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Enjoy the photo gallery below, composed ...more | |
| April 07, 2011 | |
| New Student Body Leaders Stand for Unity and Justice | |
| By Sarah Pride CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu In the recent election season at Patrick Henry ...more | |
| April 07, 2011 | |
| Who's Who at PHC | |
| By Carissa Davis. Photos by Art Cox. CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu PHC Who's Who award recipients ...more | |
| April 05, 2011 | |
| Freshman's First Book Encourages Young Women | |
| A five-year journey for Patrick Henry College freshman Hannah Farver culminates this May with the publication of her first book, Uncompromising: A Heart Claimed by Radical Love, by Moody Publishers. ...more | |
| April 02, 2011 | |
| Matthew du Meé: Moot Court Champ and Harvard Law Grad | |
| Matthew du Meé arrived at Patrick Henry College in only its second year, having earned a perfect 1600 score on the SAT. During his years at PHC, he proved himself a champion public speaker, defeating a renowned moot court team from Balliol College, Oxford, with his partner, Rayel (Papke) McKennett, in a head-to-head duel, both at home and abroad. ...more | |
| March 31, 2011 | |
| PHC's Condrey Selected as "Gentleman of the Year" | |
| By Sarah Pride, with reporting by Gracy Howard (PHC Herald, 3/25/11) CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu ...more | |
| March 30, 2011 | |
| Call to Pens 2010-2011 Winners Announced! | |
| By Sarah Pride CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Patrick Henry College is pleased to announce ...more | |
| March 22, 2011 | |
| Studying CLA: Higher Up and Further In | |
| In the same way that PHC's comprehensive core curriculum exposes all students to the same wide diversity of subjects, from literature to physics, CLA majors alone sample an upper-level selection of courses from at least five disciplines. ...more | |
| March 22, 2011 | |
| Katherine Kramer: Teacher Near D.C. | |
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| March 16, 2011 | |
| Watch Mousetrap This Week, Thurs. Through Sat. | |
| This week, Eden Troupe's production of Mousetrap runs from Thursday, March 17 through Saturday, March 19, with showings at 7:30 p.m. each evening as well as 2:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Buy your tickets now! ...more | |
| March 14, 2011 | |
| Student Club Will Host Two Visiting Lecturers This Week | |
| Taking advantage of the College's comfortable communal gathering spot in the Barbara Hodel Center Coffeehouse, the student Alexis de Tocqueville Society will this week host two guest lecturers. ...more | |
| March 09, 2011 | |
| Sentinels Season Ends with Slam Dunk | |
| Despite setbacks, Men's Sentinels Basketball continued to build momentum; teams they had lost badly to at the beginning of the season became beatable opponents in the season's second-half. The Sentinels won three of their last five games, and Fisher set a one-game scoring record of 41 points. ...more | |
| March 03, 2011 | |
| Elisé Kraft: With God, All Things Are Possible | |
| When Elisé Kraft hung up the phone with the admissions counselor from Yale Law School, she was stunned, scarcely believing she would be the first PHC student to attend Yale. She rushed to tell her friends, who started jumping up and down and screaming. ...more | |
| February 28, 2011 | |
| Faith and Reason Lecture Outlines "Two Kingdoms" | |
| In the twelfth Faith and Reason lecture at Patrick Henry College, Dr. David VanDrunen laid out a "two kingdoms" legal and political theory based on Reformed theological tradition. ...more | |
| February 24, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Vivaldi's Gloria | |
| Pictures by Betsy Reich CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu The Patrick Henry Chorale, Chamber ...more | |
| February 23, 2011 | |
| Faith and Reason Seminar to Discuss "Two Kingdoms" Friday | |
| Patrick Henry College invites the local community to attend our spring 2011 Faith & Reason lecture this Friday, February 23, in PHC's Town Hall. Guest speaker Dr. David VanDrunen from Westminster Seminary California will present his lecture, entitled "The Two Kingdoms and the Social Order: Reflections on Political and Legal Theory in Light of a Reformation Idea." ...more | |
| February 18, 2011 | |
| PHC Prof & Students Launch New "WORLD Virginia" Website | |
| By Grace Powell; originally published in PHC Herald, 18 February 2011. CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu ...more | |
| February 17, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: Last Spring Home Basketball Game | |
| Pictures by Art Cox CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Fans turned out in force last Friday, February ...more | |
| February 16, 2011 | |
| "Worthless!": Shame of a Female Birth in India | |
| Michelle Wright is a senior at Patrick Henry College. She spent six months in 2010 living in India and working with the Emmanuel Hospital Association during the country's torrential flood season. Her article published in WORLD Magazine explains the plight of many baby girls in India. ...more | |
| February 11, 2011 | |
| Audrey Jones: An Assistant Director for Heritage | |
| Even prior to graduating from Patrick Henry College in 2004, alumna Audrey Jones (Government) worked as a field director for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, managing eight counties in Florida. Recently, Jones appeared on TV as a spokesperson for the Heritage Foundation, giving viewers the conservative viewpoint on President Obama's idea of tax rebates for electric car buyers. ...more | |
| February 10, 2011 | |
| "Cross Examine" Chronicles Kyle West's Journey to PHC | |
| For two days in October, a film crew from Coral Ridge Ministries canvassed the Patrick Henry College campus alongside freshman Kyle West, capturing the new student's awkward early days at college. Years earlier, young cerebral palsy sufferer Kyle inspired thousands with his self-effacing innocent on Dr. Jim Dobson's Focus on the Family radio show. ...more | |
| February 08, 2011 | |
| Alum Wins Surfer Essay Contest | |
| Patrick Henry College alumnus Chris Beach will soon be taking an all-expenses-paid surfing trip with a group of pros, courtesy of Surfer magazine. Out of over more than 300 entries, his tightly-written and colorful essay describing a chance encounter in Costa Rica caught the "collective eye" of the judges, as the panel explained on their website. ...more | |
| February 08, 2011 | |
| British Parli Team Makes Strong Showing in NYC | |
| Enjoying their relatively recent involvement in the British Parli league, PHC debaters recently placed third at a competitive tournament in New York City. In so doing, the third-place team had the opportunity to argue in front of a secular audience for the value of the family. ...more | |
| February 04, 2011 | |
| Alum's Leesburg Documentary Shown in Town, Feb. 5 | |
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| February 01, 2011 | |
| Internship Profile: Gracy Howard | |
| Most newspaper interns I talked to complained about how boring internships were–they made coffee and copied papers all summer. But after twelve weeks working at the Idaho Press Tribune, I can say that my experience there was one of my best memories of the summer. ...more | |
| January 31, 2011 | |
| Eden Troupe to Produce Mousetrap and Charlie Brown | |
| Sophomore Meredith Mantel and second-semester freshman Sarah Henderson are co-directing Agatha Christie's Mousetrap, scheduled to perform March 17-19. In contrast to this suspenseful "who-dun-it," juniors Amy Kucks and Marjorie Somerville are co-directing the whimsical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, for performance April 7-9. ...more | |
| January 27, 2011 | |
| Photo Gallery: January Snow | |
| A heavy snowfall hit northern Virginia in late January, 2011. View some of the beauty and imagination displayed on the PHC campus after our grounds crew cleared the roads and sidewalks. ...more | |
| January 25, 2011 | |
| Home Mock Trial Tourney Builds Team Experience | |
| PHC recently hosted colleges from across the nation in its first home mock trial tournament. Both home and visiting schools found the tournament valuable preparation for upcoming mock trial regionals. ...more | |
| January 24, 2011 | |
| Biblical Emphasis Week Teaches to Love God's Word | |
| After three days of special lectures and Bible teachings by Dr. Gareth Cockerill, Patrick Henry College's first Biblical Emphasis Week came to an end, reinforcing hopes by the College administration that students would recommit themselves to studying God's Word with greater zeal. ...more | |
| January 20, 2011 | |
| Professors Kick Off New Cultural Lecture Series in Alexandria | |
| CONTACT: David Halbrook Patrick Henry College (540) 441-8722 OfficeOfCommunications@phc.edu Professors of Patrick Henry College will brave the Virginia ...more | |
| January 17, 2011 | |
| PHC Three-Peats, Winning Fifth Moot Court Nationals Title in Seven Years | |
| Building on an increasingly formidable legacy of success in collegiate legal debate, Patrick Henry College traveled to New Orleans, January 14-15, and brought home the College's fifth national moot court championship in the past seven years. ...more | |
| January 13, 2011 | |
| Mock Trial Team to Host Home Tournament | |
| Next weekend, January 21-22, Patrick Henry College will host its first home mock trial tournament. Dr. Frank Guliuzza, a PHC moot court coach who also serves on the executive board of the American Mock Trial Association, says that the tournament will provide PHC's mock trial competitors with essential experience before they enter qualifying tournaments later in the spring. ...more | |
| January 11, 2011 | |
| Biblical Emphasis Week to Ground New Semester | |
| Patrick Henry College will kick off its spring semester and first full week of chapel services with a Biblical Emphasis Week, January 17-19, following a tradition that PHC President Dr. Graham Walker has seen instituted at other Christian colleges. ...more | |
| January 11, 2011 | |
| Montgomery Sheds Gospel Light Overseas | |
| Over the holidays, after PHC's Dr. John Warwick Montgomery traveled back to his spring and summer home in France, he delivered a French-language Christmas message to nearly 800 people at the Baslique du Sacré Coeur in Marseille. Alumna Kelly Orsini (Gov: IPP, '08) helped arrange the event. ...more | |
| January 04, 2011 | |
| Library Adds Space, Updates Academic Tools | |
| Students returning to campus for the spring 2011 semester will discover a new staircase connecting the top-level Library Study Center in Founder's Hall with the library's bottom-floor volumes, references and resources. ...more | |
| January 03, 2011 | |
| New Equipment Provides Major Upgrade for Fitness Center | |
| The H. Kyle Seale Fitness Center in the Barbara Hodel Center has been significantly upgraded with the recent addition of approximately $14,000 worth of high-end exercise equipment. ...more | |
