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Ouachita Baptist/Arkansas literally on national stage this past month

Started by OPoraquê, February 19, 2014, 10:12:23 am

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1.  Ouachita grad Barrett Baber (for those who remember the event, Baber was one of the survivors of the flight from D/FW to Little Rock that crashed in a severe thunderstorm in 1999, killing 11 passengers including an OBU student and the 12 year old daughter of OBU's choir conductor) wins the Grammy "Gig of a lifetime" award:  http://www.cbs.com/shows/grammys/gig-of-lifetime/

2.  Ouachita grad Jane Chu gets nominated by President Obama to head the National Endowment for the Arts:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/chu-nominated-to-head-national-endowment-for-arts/2014/02/12/34d23928-9450-11e3-9e13-770265cf4962_story.html  (She'll be something like the 12th non-interrim head of the agency since it was started in LBJ's era, and the first ever who received his bachelor's degree from a southern university.  Previous heads of the agency matriculated at places like Princeton, Stanford, Michigan and Yale.)

3.  24-year old Ouachita grad Jacob Watson, winner of several national singing competitions his senior year at OBU, is literally opening on Broadway now:  http://www.broadway.com/buzz/174547/casting-complete-for-broadway-premiere-of-violet-starring-sutton-foster-joshua-henry-colin-donnell/

Now, I hope that they (particularly Baber and Chu) aren't tainted by being associated with a horrible, horrible Grammy ceremony 2014 or the most horrible of American presidents Barack Obama.  It's easier to conform than reform in show biz.

Nonetheless, Arkadelphia (Chu), Marion (Baber) and Wynne (Watson), plus Ouachita Baptist, are representin' well right now!  :) :)

Uncle Ivan

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