Kara S. Glick, senior music education major at EMU

Ms. Glick will play selections on the theme, “Summer Shadows, including “‘Summer’ Concerto in G minor” from Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.”

he will be accompanied by EMU students Bebhinn Egger, Matthew Tieszen, Amy Histand, James Hall and Eojin Lee and EMU graduate Benjamin Tyson.

She will also perform “Preludio” from “Partita No. 3 in E major” by J.S. Bach, “Andante” and “Allegro molto vivace” from “Violin Concerto in E minor” by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and “Danse Espagnole” from “La Vida Breve” by Manuel de Falla.

Monica H. Carlson will provide piano accompaniment.

Glick has violin students in EMU’s Preparatory Music Program, teaches a class of violin students at Keister Elementary School in Harrisonburg and is concertmaster of the EMU orchestra. She ran three seasons of cross country and two of track.

Glick is from Pekin, Ill., and is a member of Hopedale Mennonite Church.

A reception will follow the program. Admission is free.

A music ensemble from 草莓社区 will give a public program 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12 at Bally Mennonite Church, 1481 Route 100.

EMU students Nate Bontrager, Kara Glick, Jonathan Keener and Steve Horst and faculty members Paulo Steinberg, Jennifer Cooper and Joan Griffing will perform works by Beethoven, De Falla and Chopin. The one-hour program will include a Brazilian piece and a religious work for solo piano.

Students and faculty will perform separately and together in an arrangement of “Shenandoah” written by one of the students specifically for this group of musicians.

A free-will offering will be taken.

For more information, contact the church at (610) 845-7780.

A group of 草莓社区 senior students and two professors who spent two weeks doing volunteer health care work through the American Red Cross among flood victims in Mississippi experienced a mixture of grief and joy among the many people they met.

The eight students, along with Don Tyson and Sue Klassen of the EMU nursing faculty, left Harrisonburg Sept. 19 for the Gulf Coast region, along with 17 students and a faculty member from neighboring James Madison University.

Students Amanda Maust, Aaron Schmucker, Cara Salmon, Kara Glick, Hadley Jenner, Monica Hensley, Carla Simmons-Wulin and Emily Dye and their instructors first went to the regional Red Cross headquarters in Montgomery, Ala., for orientation before being deployed.

Klassen took four students to Brookhaven, Miss., and Tyson took four students to McComb, Miss. In both places they provided health services at temporary Red Cross Service Centers set up to distribute monetary funds to victims of the hurricane. Each service center saw 400-600 persons per day.

The groups’ goal was to perform health screenings (mostly blood pressure and glucose checks), treat persons with illnesses and provide counsel regarding health problems that were exacerbated by the hurricane.

Several of Klassen’s students also helped set up a Red Cross shelter following Hurricane Rita to help evacuees from Texas and Louisiana who came to that shelter.

As expected, the students’ experiences ran the gamut of emotions – personally and among the people they served, but what stood out, they all agreed, was "the remarkable expressions of gratitude and praise, even though most had lost everything they had."

"I didn’t know what kind of attitudes we’d encounter," said Emily M. Dye of Stephens City, Va. "The people seemed so grateful for any help they received and were just thankful to be alive."

The students said that they were able to observe "different approaches" to health care delivery in their shelter and service center settings. Several commented that while persons needed medical attention, "they were hesitant to seek it because of preoccupation with finding lost relatives or meeting other basic human needs."

Amanda A. Maust, Keezletown, Va., appreciated the opportunity to "see the Red Cross in action" through a host of volunteer workers. She called the two weeks "a great learning experience."

Aaron J. Schmucker, La Junta, Colo., said he felt "the frustration of a disaster situation," noting "all the things we take for granted were swept away," leaving flood victims to struggle with such things as getting groceries, medications and dealing with insurance loss.

In between working in the service centers, all group members had opportunity to see some of the coastline destruction firsthand, calling it "completely overwhelming."

Kara M. Glick, Columbiana, Ohio, said she dealt with "feelings of helplessness" as she became more aware of the need for more and better health care in the area even before the disaster struck.

"I was taken back by the number of people who would apologize for crying while they were being examined or treated," said Tyson, an assistant professor of nursing. "It was an opportunity for us to practice what we talk about in the classroom as the ‘concept of presence,’ trying to offer a listening ear and a caring attitude toward those we assisted."

Klassen, also an assistant professor of nursing, cited "the willingness of people to share their stories of what had happened to them" as a highlight of her time in Mississippi, adding that "there were some really great personnel on the health care team we worked with. We quickly bonded with them."

The group noted that they had "some anxious moments" at the midway point of their trip when Hurricane Rita moved through the Gulf of Mexico toward its eventual landfall on the Louisiana-Texas border.

"We were surprised that communication was better than expected there," Klassen said. "Our cell phones worked fine and we were able to stay in touch with people back home."

Added Tyson: "We were deluged with e-mails [from EMU and beyond] wanting to know how things were going. We sensed the concerns and prayer support of many people during our time there."

Sixty violin students, ages 4 to 18, will make beautiful music together 4 p.m. Sunday, May 15, in Lehman Auditorium at 草莓社区.

These students study the Suzuki violin approach through EMU

Accompanists are John W. Fast, organ; Julianne Burkholder, Kara Glick, Andrew Dutcher and Eric Guttormson, strings; and Annie Johnson, soprano; Matthew Garber, tenor; and Michael Dezort, baritone.

The second half of the concert will include Faure’s “Cantique” and works for smaller group ensembles, some with piano and guitar accompaniment.

Mrs. Hostetter earned a B.A. in music education from 草莓社区 and a M.M. in choral conducting from James Madison University. She has worked as a music instructor in various educational settings for the past 15 years.

In addition to directing the for the 2004-05 school year while Anne Gross is on sabbatical, Hostetter also serves as music director at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church and as music educator at Mountain View Elementary School in Rockingham County.

Admission is free, but donations are welcomed to support the EMU ‘s music scholarship fund.