Student Activities


Harpweaver

Students in the Department of English Language and Literature have developed the Harpweaver Club and in 1994 launched the first issue of The Harpweaver, a literary and arts magazine featuring poetry, prose, short dramatic works, visual art, and photography. The club hosts various activities from poetry readings, creative- writing workshops to annual trips to writing festivals. The Harpweaver establishes an important forum for creative expression in the Brock and Niagara communities, and offers students who are involved in the editorial and production process with opportunities for gaining valuable experience in the publishing field. The quality of the contributions and the rigour of the editorial standards of the first issue confirm our already high opinion of the students who major in English at Brock. Professors Elizabeth Sauer, Marilyn Rose and George Reecer advised and encouraged the students in their undertaking.


A new prize, the Canadian Authors Association Prize (for the best poem in The Harpweaver) was awarded to Peter Baltensperger, a former student. Professors Marilyn Rose and George Reecer assisted in the selection.

Other Activities

Graduates of the Department of Music are working in a variety of fields. Pianist Marguerite Witwoet has been working extensively in new music concerts in Banff, Toronto, and Vancouver. Recently, Jim Brown (composition), Tunde Takacs (flute), Erin Malone (musicology), and Paul Wiebe (musicology) have completed Masters degrees. Erin Malone, having taught at Memorial University for one term is now pursuing a Ph.D. in musicology at Madison, Wisconsin. A number of students have gone into various education programs, and are now teaching in the school system.

The Department of Music sponsors a number of performing ensembles, including the Brock University Mixed Chorale and the Brock University Women's Chorus. Students have further opportunities to acquire public performing experience through the Student Concert Series.

Recent graduates of the Liberal Studies Program include graduate Anna-Marie Bernhardt (1993), who went to York University to study English on an O.G.S.; graduate Meredith Browne (1993), who has gone to graduate studies in Fine Art at U.B.C., forgoing an O.G.S; and Mark Salter, who is working on an M.A. in politics at the L.S.E.

The Brock University Archaeological Society continues to operate its "Archaeological Outreach" program. In this program students in the Department of Classics visit regional secondary schools and stage practical demonstrations of the techniques of field archaeology, including "hands-on" opportunities for the secondary students. Voluntary donations from the secondary schools are then used to defray the costs of materials and to provide a scholarship for a Brock student participating in the Archaeological Practicum.

In February 1995, a former English/History student, Andrea Schutz, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto.