Roanoke College in the News

February 2012

February 3, 2012 - Our Valley Org
Local residents celebrate Year of the Dragon
SALEM ? A silk “lion” wove and danced its way through a throng of happy college students, adults and children in the Wortmann Ballroom at Roanoke College. The traditional Lion Dance performed by Chris Spoon and Johnny Hsu from the Shaolin Martial Arts Academy in Roanoke marked the conclusion of the Lunar New Year Celebration at Roanoke College on Jan. 26. The Lion Dance at the conclu

February 3, 2012 - Roanoke Times
Rumsfeld defends legacy on book tour
Donald Rumsfeld mused on the future while defending his past during a sprawling, one-hour conversation in Roanoke on Thursday. The two-time former U.S. secretary of defense and architect of last decade's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq under President George W. Bush appeared at Jefferson Center to promote his memoir "Known and Unknown." More than 350 people listened as Rumsfeld spoke with Roano

January 2012

January 29, 2012 - Roanoke Times
Roanoke men earn 1,300th win
Roanoke 81, EMU 79 HARRISONBURG - Junior forward Zach Barrett scored a career-high 18 points and fellow ex-Hidden Valley standout Logan Singleton scored on a layup with two seconds left to lift Roanoke to an 81-79 ODAC victory over Eastern Mennonite on Saturday night. The victory was the 1,300th in program history, allowing the Maroons to become the 21st Division III school in the nation with th

February 2012

February 3, 2012 - Salem Times Register
RC's Graves named Athlete of the Week after meet in Ohio
The Roanoke College men?s and women?s Track & Field squads competed in the Marietta (Ohio) College Open last Saturday with nine colleges competing from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Maroons recorded nine first-place and eight second place finishes at the meet. Leading the women with a pair of top finishes were junior Carmen Graves, junior Meagan Tolley, and freshman Hop

January 2012

January 4, 2012 - The Roanoke Times
Point/Counterpoint: The bad news: Joblessness is hard to shake
By Alice Louise Kassens Kassens is associate professor of economics at Roanoke College. The U.S. labor market looks bleak going into 2012, particularly for older Americans and minorities. The total unemployment rate for the third quarter of 2011 was 9.1 percent, a reduction of 0.4 points from a year before, but much above the optimal unemployment rate of close to 5.5 percent. For blacks, the u

January 3, 2012 - The Roanoke Times
Ramirez puts a little jingle in Maroons' step in men's basketball
Coach Page Moir and his Roanoke College men's basketball team got a nice Christmas present. They finally got to tear it open and show it off Saturday afternoon at Bast Center. Thanks in large part to a lift supplied from newcomer Julian Ramirez, the Maroons were able to cruise to a rare stress-free victory, leading all the way in an 81-63 nonconference victory over Covenant. Finally making

January 4, 2012 - The Roanoke Times
Names and Changes
- Morris Cregger is the new chairman of the Roanoke College Board of Trustees.

January 3, 2012 - The Roanoke Times
Lynn Eckman was known for love of books
Lynn Eckman was a lover of words, literature and reading ? a bibliophile. The retired Roanoke College foreign language professor and longtime Roanoke Times book reviewer died Tuesday of a heart-related complication. She was 83. Her son David Eckman, the owner of Spike's Restaurant in Grandin Village, said his mother had been treated for lung cancer. She also suffered from chronic obstructiv

January 3, 2012 - The Roanoke Times
Roanoke College finds new appreciation for old-style mortarboards
If you own an older home, you'll understand this. You don't really know exactly what you've got until it falls apart. And make no mistake: Things fall apart. That's what you put up with in an older home. So it is with the home that Roanoke College has occupied since the mid-19th century. Since August, workers have removed the entire west wall of the college's administration building,

January 4, 2012 - The Roanoke Times
Evelyn Faith Ball Eckman
Evelyn Faith Ball Eckman, 83, of Roanoke, died December 20, 2011. She was born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, daughter of the late Bert and Mahala Ball. Her husband, Guy Ellis Eckman, Jr., and a son Guy Ellis "Ted" Eckman III also preceded her in death. Lynn Eckman could never have been the best kept secret in the world because she pretty much knew most people in the world; and those she had not me

January 4, 2012 - The Roanoke Times
Christmas during war
By John Long Last month, I took a look back at Thanksgivings in our area during World War II. So I thought it worth taking another look back to see how a valley at war spent the Christmases during the biggest conflict in human history. 1941: The terrible news of Pearl Harbor is only weeks old, and the smoking wrecks halfway across the globe fill Virginians with a sense of dread. No good news

December 2011

December 7, 2011 - Radford News Journal
RC win over Goucher makes Moir ODAC's All-Time winningest coach
SALEM – Page Moir is now the all-time winningest basketball coach in Old Dominion Athletic Conference history. Moir passed the late coach Bob Johnson, who was a legend at Emory & Henry, for the most career wins by an ODAC coach when the Maroons beat Goucher College in Salem last Sunday, 90-86. With the win Moir now has 370 career wins as an ODAC coach, all with Roanoke College. It was

December 7, 2011 - Staunton News Leader
Big money flowing in Va. Senate race
WASHINGTON ? Former Govs. Tim Kaine and George Allen have raised substantially more campaign money than anyone else vying for Virginia's open Senate seat, federal records show. Kaine, former head of the Democratic National Committee, had more cash on Sept. 30 ? $2.5 million ? than any of the eight other candidates who have filed with the Federal Election Commission. Allen, a Republican who also s

December 3, 2011 - WDBJ 7 Roanoke
One of the toughest colleges to earn an "A" is in our area
SALEM, Va.— There are no easy "A's" at Roanoke College. Sophomore Robert Hillman told News 7, "I think I've gotten one A, just one, yeah."

January 2012

January 4, 2012 - WDBJ7.com
An early look at Tuesday's races
NEWS7 has wall-to-wall coverage of tonight?s elections. Tune in toNEWS7 at 5, 6 and 11 on Your Hometown Station. Also catch NEWS7 at 10 on MY19. In between, we will be live streaming political analysis of tonight?s races with Roanoke College professor Harry Wilson on WDBJ7.com. In the meantime, here?s a preview of some of the races: