Hilltop Photo of the Week
Welcome to Birmingham-Southern’s “Hilltop Photo of the Week” web page and archives. Each week at this site, we’ll feature a photo that depicts some aspect of life on the Hilltop campus, along with brief information about what is taking place in the Photo of the Week.
The college welcomes submissions to be considered for the Hilltop Photo of the Week. Scanned or digital photos can be e-mailed to the Office of Communications at bwagnon@bsc.edu, or photographic prints may be sent through campus mail to Box 549004. Please limit photo submissions to those that depict some aspect of the BSC experience, and be sure to identify what is taking place in the photo, along with location and people involved.
View the Photo of the Week archive here.
A photo or two
April has been a busy month on the Birmingham-Southern campus, and this week, we feature two photos, both of them involving student activities.
A Grimm classic—Birmingham-Southern College dance, music, and theatre students will bring Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera “Hansel and Gretel” to the stage April 21 at 7:30 p.m. and April 23 at 4:30 p.m. in the College Theatre, Mainstage. A BSC student cast of 16 will perform the opera, based on Grimms’ classic fairytale, accompanied by members of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Joseph Hugh Thomas Professor of Music Dr. Lester Seigel. Jessica Rushing (kneeling left) of Semmes will play the role of Hansel; Erin Wakeman (kneeling right) of Mobile will portray Gretel. Sarah Schiesz of Florence is the Witch. General tickets, now on sale, are $10 ($5 for college students) and available at the College Theatre Box Office. To purchase tickets, or for more information, call the Box Office at 205/226-4780.
A welcome alternative—Birmingham-Southern students Susan Fant of Gadsden (right) and Miriam Smith of Mountain Brook measure a square of sheetrock as part of an alternative spring break project in Moss Point, Miss. Four of the college’s staff members accompanied a group of 11 BSC students to Moss Point March 25-31 to work with Safe Harbor United Methodist Church doing demolition and rebuilding on homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Fant is a freshman accounting major; Smith is a sophomore English major. The college’s Office of Service Learning sponsors a weeklong alternative spring break each year.