Homecoming weekend at Chadron State College will have an added feature this year. The musical, “Honk,” will be presented by the CSC Theater and Music Departments. The dates are Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 6-8 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. in Memorial Hall.

• Date: September 28, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

Chadron State College will be hosting two education conferences focusing on diversity in mid-October. Nebraska Commissioner of Education Doug Christensen will be present for both events.

• Date: September 28, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

Tickets are available through Tuesday, Oct. 4 for the annual German Oktoberfest at Chadron State College. The event will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11in the Student Center. It is sponsored by the Campus Historical Forum.

• Date: September 28, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

Approximately 15 members of the Chadron State College concert choir are planning to sing in Carnegie Hall in New York on May 28, 2006.

• Date: September 28, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

Four couples who are associated with Chadron State College have established scholarships through the Chadron State Foundation that will assist students attending the college. Three of the scholarships will assist education majors while the fourth is to help a student wishing to participate in the college’s Study Abroad program that is being launched.

• Date: September 28, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

Chadron State College's 2005 Homecoming schedule.

• Date: September 28, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

A speaker at Chadron State College last week gave his audience a glimpse of two historic expeditions that provided a wealth of information about fascinating animals that once roamed the earth in vast numbers.

• Date: September 27, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

About 30 colorful and eye-catching watercolors by June Palmer of Hot Springs are on display in the Main Gallery of Memorial Hall at Chadron State College. She will discuss her work during a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28 in Memorial Hall. Palmer’s work in is corporate and private collections around the world. She said she never ceases to be awed by nature’s handiwork, and attempts to create on paper pieces that are similar so others can share that joy at all times.

• Date: September 26, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

The Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center at Chadron State College was awarded the 2005 Excellence in Publication Award for small museum exhibition catalog by the Mountain-Plains Museums Association at its annual meeting in mid-September in Omaha. The award was given for the Ray and Faye Graves Photographic Exhibition Catalog, published by Chadron State College, as a companion to the exhibit that was created by and displayed at the center last fall.

• Date: September 26, 2005
• Author: College Relations
• Category: Campus News

A Rushville teacher, Sherry Retzlaff, is the winner of the Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year Award for Nebraska for 2005. Retzlaff received the honor Friday morning during an all-school convocation in the Rushville Gymnasium. The award includes a $10,000 educational grant from Wal-Mart to be used by the Gordon-Rushville Schools. She also will be one of 50 candidates for Wal-Mart’s National Teacher of the Year Award, which will be presented later this year..

• Date: September 26, 2005
• Author: Con Marshall
• Category: Campus News