Forget taking 186 students from three high schools and Brazosport College to dinner and Houston Grand Opera!  Sandra Petrovich really surpassed the mark when she took 30 students, their families, and friends on a tour of Italy and Greece. Dual credit students from Columbia High School joined their fellow BC students, family members, and friends from as far away are Minnesota and Illinois. Traveling on three different flights, the group reassembled in Rome. The tour included the Vatican, seeing the Pope, the Coliseum, the Forum, and more. The group then went to Pompeii and crossed the Adriatic Sea on a night ferry from Brendasi, Italy to Patras, Greece. In Greece, students and family alike enjoyed ancient Mycenea and the Tomb of Agamemnon, ancient Olympia where the Olympics were first held, Epiduras with its ancient theatre,  ancient Delphi, Athens, and then a four day cruise of the Greek Islands and Turkey. Places they visited were Mykonos, Patmos, Crete, Rhodes (and Lindos), Santorini, and Kusadasi (including ancient Ephesus).  It took a lot of coordination to bring it off, and everyone seemed to have a good time. Brazosport College students managed to get first hand experiences of other cultures from dickering in a bazaar in Turkey to eating foreign delicacies such as stuffed grape leaves  (Dolmas) in Greece.  They even learned to do traditional Greek dancing at Greek night in Athens, as well as seeing first hand where the ancients walked.  Joining the tour were Dr. Alisa Petrovich and professor Beatriz Darst from Brazosport College.  As one student remarked at the Athenian Acropolis, “I can’t believe I’m seeing what you told us about!.”

This picture is from Mycenae’s Tomb of Agamemnon and it has most of the group. Mycanie.JPG   

What's Happening @ BC? 

   Stop by the BC Art Gallery and enjoy the works of Brazosport College's own Sandra Baker.  Her show, entitled  “Landscapes of the Imagination” runs through September 12.  This show is a collection of the sensuous, colorful, and imaginative monoprints that Sandra Baker is well-known for, along with some of her extraordinary photographic images of Irish landscapes.   This beautiful show conveys a sense of tranquility, peace, and a means for contemplation.   

The Clarion continues its Cool Summer Matinee Series with Jawad & Ken, a demonstration of two basic elements of music:  rhythm and melody.   This performance will be on July 23 at 1:30 p.m. in The Clarion.  Tickets are $3.00 and are available at The Clarion box office on online at Clarion.aspx

Then, on July 30 at The Clarion at 1:30 p.m., the AD Players will present Bartholomew's Reading Adventure.  Tickets are $5.00 and are available at The Clarion box office or online at Clarion.aspx

  Brazosport College's Vocational Nursing Certification Ceremony with be held in the Corporate Learning Center on July 24 at 7:00 p.m.

 The BC Drama Department presents Shakespeare in the Glen, Troilus and Cressida, beginning July 24 at 7:00 p.m.  Performances will run Thursday thru Sunday for two weekends.  For more information, contact the Drama Theater box office at ext. 3271.

 

 

There will be no Kudos next week.  I will be out of the office all week, so you will be on your own to ferret out news!

 

Week of July 21-24, 2008

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