Yearly Archives: 2008

1. Visiting Art Professor Eddie Dominguez at Highlands University

   Nationally known artist Eddie Dominguez is working with fine art students on the Highlands University campus as part of the new Nina Tesla Ballen Visiting Professor Gift Program. The program includes events for the public.David Lobdell, Fine Art Department professor and program coordinator, said Dominguez is the first to visit the Highland’s campus as part…

2. Gospel Night

   Gladys Hightower sings “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” Nov. 5 in New Mexico Highlands University’s Sala de Madrid Building. Hightower joined Highlands students and community members for a gospel night, sponsored by the university’s Black Student Alliance.

3. Highlands University Rodeo Team Fundraiser Nov. 8

   The Highlands University rodeo team will hold a fundraising dinner, team rodeo, and dance Sat., Nov. 8, at the Santa Fe Trail Event Center, 29 Airport Road, Las Vegas.Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for the custom-catered beef brisket dinner with all the fixings by Lee Daniels, an award-winning chuck wagon cook-off champion from Wagon Mound. …

4. Highlands University Sponsors 17th Annual Back to School Family Institute

5. Faure Festival

   Ilfeld Auditorium will resonate with the music of Gabriel Urbain Fauré Nov. 16th at 3 p.m., when the New Mexico Highlands University Concert Choir presents A Fauré Festival.  Under the baton of Andre Garcia-Nuthmann and accompanied on piano by Lydia Madrick, the choir will perform the Fauré Requiem, the Pavane in F Sharp minor Op….

6. Out of Their Shells

   The “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” won first place in the group category at the Highlands University Halloween costume contest sponsored by Campus Life.  The turtles are all graduate students in clinical psychology:  Trevor Taylor, Sheri Nsamenang, Stephanie Metarelis, Jackie Marcinak, and Kristin Esquibel.  Winning first place in the individual category was a crowd-pleasing baby skunk,…

7. Highlands University President James Fries Inaugurated

   Dr. James Fries was inaugurated as the 17th president of New Mexico Highlands University Oct. 24 at a public ceremony in the campus’ historic Ilfeld auditorium.Fries brings more than 24 years of successful higher education administration experience to Highlands University, including serving as the university’s interim president from 2001-2002. He is a president emeritus at…

8. Homecoming Videos

9. Santo Nino de Atocha Dancers at Highlands

   The Santo Nino de Atocha dancers perform in front of the Donnelly Library on the New Mexico Highlands University campus Oct. 29. The group of 21 indigenous Mexican heritage dancers and drummers is based in Albuquerque.  The dancers range in age from 10 to 60 and most are from Mexico.   The Crossroads Art Club of…

10. Six Distinguished Highlands University Alumni Named

    The Highlands University Alumni Association named six distinguished alumni for induction in 2008 at an alumni banquet Oct. 24 during homecoming week.  “As alumni you are the success stories of our institution,” said Highlands University President Jim Fries.Jim Mandarino, the university’s alumni affairs director said:  “For more than 20 years, the Highlands Alumni Association has…

11. Performing Arts Club Comedy Show

    HU Singers and the Performing Arts Club will be presenting a comedy show Nov. 7 and 8, at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. in Ilfeld Auditorium.  The program, titled “LOL :- ) Broadway” will include musical numbers from The Producers, Into the Woods, Company and Avenue Q. Into the Woods is a…

12. Cowboys Take Travelling Trophy

13. Homecoming Student Pageant

14. Madrigal Choir performs Brahms In Love

    Highlands University’s Department of Music will present an afternoon of romantic waltzes and lively gypsy songs when the Madrigal Choir performs Brahms In Love in Ilfeld Auditorium, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m.Directed by André Garcí­a-Nuthmann with Linda King at the piano, the all-Brahms program includes vocal works, “Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes”, a portion of “Ein Deutches…

15. Class of ’58 Luncheon

    Melvyn E. Huckaby films his former classmates Oct. 24 during New Mexico Highlands University’s Class of ’58 luncheon at the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas.New Mexico Highlands alumna Adeline Sanchez-Chavez shows off a photo of her and her two brothers taken when they were students at the university.

16. Major Donors Luncheon

17. Painting of the H

18. Campus improves security

19. Gene Torres Piedras Classic winners

    Thirty-two local golfers played in the 2008 Gene Torres Piedras Classic Oct. 11 and 12 in the first tournament since Highlands University opened its newly-designed Gene Torres Golf Course in August.”The new golf course showed its teeth and gave the players a good challenge,” said Steve Watson, the new golf pro for the course. “The…

20. Laser Show in Ilfeld

    Ilfeld Auditorium lights up during Paramount’s original LaserSpectacular Oct. 10. The light show was set to the music of Pink Floyd.