Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts
The Story
Set in the 1940's the World is at War. But in the midst of a country manor a different drama is playing out. Professor Digory Kirke (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe) has invited many of the notable names of the era to the party to listen to Dr. Gonner's findings. Dr. Ima Gonner has discovered through her research that much of the literature is not what it seems. Will she live to tell the tale?
8:00 The doors open 80 players can be admitted.
8:00-8:30 Food and Costume contest
8:30 The game begins....
Any questions? Contact library@cairn.edu.
~LAS
One of the first things you will notice as you step through
the wooden doors of the library are the colorful paintings on the wall facing
you. These paintings all carry a story, each of them unique. Art has a funny
way of expressing stories. Each piece adds a part to an even bigger story that
the curator tries to tell. And art, being a very subjective topic, will lead
you to interpret the story differently from you brother standing next to you
and your sister across the room.
And to think that just a few years ago, our library had very little to offer in the aesthetic realm. Our school has changed a lot. It's constantly ebbing and flowing, out with the old, in with the new. Soon, students will register for classes next semester, finish the semester strong, leave for the summer, and come back again in the fall. I know this next fall will be different. I know for sure that there will be new students who will contribute to a new PBU community culture. I know some of my favorite professors will be gone, and there will be new professors to fall in love with. Yet, loss is still a hard thing to deal with. Several of our students have been personally hit with this emotional tear, speechless, confused, angry, numb. Dr. Hirt, dean of the Bible department, has been struggling with cancer since last year. We've just been informed that Lisa Weidman, Director of Communications and Marketing and a key catalyst for the appearance of fine arts on campus, has a rare form of cancer. Unlike Dr. Hsu's death, theirs will be expected. We will have a little bit longer to celebrate our last times with them,
stories ebbing and flowing.
I wonder what stories Lisa intended to share with each piece of art she contributed to for our campus. I wonder what stories she will be sharing in heaven, stories that God has embedded on her heart, full of color and wonder and so much beauty, full of ebbs and flows.
~Hanah Bae
And to think that just a few years ago, our library had very little to offer in the aesthetic realm. Our school has changed a lot. It's constantly ebbing and flowing, out with the old, in with the new. Soon, students will register for classes next semester, finish the semester strong, leave for the summer, and come back again in the fall. I know this next fall will be different. I know for sure that there will be new students who will contribute to a new PBU community culture. I know some of my favorite professors will be gone, and there will be new professors to fall in love with. Yet, loss is still a hard thing to deal with. Several of our students have been personally hit with this emotional tear, speechless, confused, angry, numb. Dr. Hirt, dean of the Bible department, has been struggling with cancer since last year. We've just been informed that Lisa Weidman, Director of Communications and Marketing and a key catalyst for the appearance of fine arts on campus, has a rare form of cancer. Unlike Dr. Hsu's death, theirs will be expected. We will have a little bit longer to celebrate our last times with them,
stories ebbing and flowing.
I wonder what stories Lisa intended to share with each piece of art she contributed to for our campus. I wonder what stories she will be sharing in heaven, stories that God has embedded on her heart, full of color and wonder and so much beauty, full of ebbs and flows.
~Hanah Bae
Wow! Where has the semester gone?! It feels like just
yesterday that I moved in and got ready for my first semester. Time seems to fly by pretty fast the older we get and as such we lose time to do the things we enjoy doing. I know
that for me I have found less time to do the one thing I like the most-
reading. I have always loved to sit down on a rainy day and delve into the
world of my current favorite author. I
could lose myself for hours in C.S. Lewis’ mythical lands and Jane Austen’s
romances. But now all my time is taken up with homework, studying, and hanging
out with friends. Don’t get me wrong I like being able to do productive things
but reading gives you chance to step out of your world and into someone else’s.
Reading provides an opportunity for you to expand your worldview and at the
same time, enjoy the expansion.
When I
first started working here at the library, I was amazed at all the books I saw.
I was in heaven! (Or something relatively close.) And when I found out that the
Juvenile section had books I had loved reading when I was homeschooled, I had a
hard time containing my excitement. One particular afternoon I remember
shelving some books in the Juvenile section and I came across a book that my
mom had read to my siblings and me when we were kids. I remember this book all
too well because it was a mind game book that I didn’t understand as a child.
So I decided to re-read the book and see if I could figure it out. The book, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, is a
story about a rich business owner who is found dead in his estate. In his will
he invites a seemingly random collection of people to a game of whodunit. The
prize is his mass fortune. Each person is paired up with another “heir” and the
couple is given a set of clues that is supposed to help them figure out who
murdered the rich man. This book is filled with laughable drama and dialogue,
mind bending twists and turns, and even a few explosions! I invite all of you
to join in the madness to figure out who murdered Mr. Westing and why over
Christmas break. It is a short and enjoyable read that allows you to
expand your mind without hurting it too much! It can be found in the Juvenile section under PZ7.R375 Wes 1997.
Have a great break and Merry
Christmas!
~Jenny Dunning~
I have been at PBU for 10 years this semester. I started my undergraduate work in Fall 2001, I lived in Davis Dorm with a wonderful group of women who loved adventure and had huge goals for the future. It is has been a privilege seeing how their lives have changed and the paths they have taken in the last 10 years. I have remained at PBU to work in the library as my life has always revolved around books, my parents and grandparents fostered this love in me and my work as a librarian here at PBU is rewarding as I get to help students at PBU learn and exceed in their academic studies.
During my undergraduate years a large percentage of my friends consisted of music majors and through them and my cousin in the honors program I was introduced to Dr. Hsu. My first thoughts on Dr. Hsu was that he was brilliant on the keys, he played superbly and yet was one of the most approachable men I have ever met. I worked in the library and it was months before I realized Dr. Hsu and the Dr. Hui's were all related, I think it finally sunk in when I was invited to Ms. Stewart's house for one of the holidays I couldn't get home for that year.
In the last 10 years I have been blessed to know and to learn from Dr. Hsu, not piano (I am a hopeless cause there), but rather in his wisdom and love of the Lord. My roommate for many years was a music major and when several of my classmates and Dr. Hsu's personal assistants had left the area my roommate and I would on occasions take Dr. Hsu home. Those trips were always interesting and filled with grand conversations. I especially remember one trip out to a friend's wedding in Shoamokin, PA when my roommate and I took Dr. Hsu out there so they could play a duet together for the wedding. Dr. Hsu was internationally known and yet he was always so involved in his students and former students lives that he would frequently play at their weddings and events. He is a man who left a deep impact on the people in his church and here at PBU. Even when he wasn't feeling well he would always have a smile and a kind word.
We will miss Dr. Hsu, but we also know that he is with the Savior he loved so well. He spent almost 40 years with the students at PBU, investing and sending them out to the field. I am sure if you asked him how the time went he would say quickly, and yet what a wonderful investment.
~Laura Saloiye
From the PBU Facebook site:
Dr. Samuel Hsu Memorial Visitation Wednesday, December 7, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Dunn-Givnish Funeral Home in Langhorne, PA, the family will receive visitors. Memorial Service Thursday, December 8, 10:00 am at Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA. There will be a prelude beginning at 9:30 am with former students of Dr. Hsu playing. The service will also be simulcast at Philadelphia Biblical University in the Chatlos Chapel.
Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys . . . libraries have been the gateway to thousands of murders over the years; murders on trains and planes, murders in the library and murders at parties. There is an entire subset of the fiction genre devoted to such alarming mysteries. The librarians of the Masland Library want our students to join the national past-time of solving crimes and will host our own murder and masquerade this Friday, September 26.
Students will begin the night mingling with the accused at a Masquerade party. Sometime during this party our beloved Professor Dodgson will be murdered. It is the student’s job to follow the clues in pursuit of the killer.
Join the fun this Friday at 9:00 pm in the lobby of the Masland Library. There is a sign-up at the Readers’ Services desk. Space for this event is limited. Come as you are or dress up in a grand masquerade style--the choice is up to you! 
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