Mary McDonnell!

Chances are, if you’re a huge huge nerd (nothing wrong with this), you’ve seen or at least heard of the show Battlestar Gallactica, a cult Sci-Fi series. It’s incredibly popular among a specific fan base, and from personal experience (don’t tell my friends) I can say that it’s pretty good. So I was pretty last week when Transy offered a pretty unique opportunity...

Anyways, every semester, Transylvania invites a prominent academic onto campus to deliver a lecture and visit classes as part of the Kenan Lecture series. Usually these people represent the sciences, the humanities, social sciences or otherwise. Rarely are representatives from the fine arts chosen as lecturers, just given the nature of the series. However, Transy really took a step in the right direction by inviting actress Mary McDonnell, who has acted in Battlestar Gallactica, Dances with Wolves, Independence Day and several theatrical productions, to speak this time around.

Mary teaching an acting class!

She spent last Wednesday and Thursday teaching acting classes, doing Q&A sessions and delivering her lecture. She commented countless times about the incredible level of maturity and tact within our campus’s student body. She said she loved it here and would even love to come back! (See, it’s not just me that sings Transy’s praises!)

I thought inviting Mary to be this semester’s lecturer really showed that Transy values the Fine Arts as part of the liberal arts curriculum, and is taking steps to further promote the arts on our campus. Hooray!

My friend Shannon and Mary!