Spring arts festival

* rofessionals, professors, and students presented their artistic talents at thethird annual LBC Spring Arts Festival onApril9 and 10. In addition to theartexhibition, there were other activities including apicnic, a concert, a film, a reception and a dramatic poem reading.

The artfestival was sponsored by DirectorofStudent Activities Bev Buffington It was coordinated by Becky Pruitt,asenior majoring intelevision.

Pruittstated that heroriginalgoal was to have anoutlet forstudent arts and toeducate the LBC and Lynchburg communities concerning the LBCarts program

Another goal was to incorporate community talent intotheshow This yearprofessional artists,including Buck Tyree and Stan Robinson, were invited to display paintings Illustrators and designers Bob Beasley and Steve Albachten joined photographer Les Schofer inadding localprofessionalism tothe occasion.

Selected as blue ribbon award winners were:oilpainting — Allison Brown;pastels Monica Parsons; pencil — John Shaw; stillphotography — Paul Kurtz;people — Paul Kurtz; andnature — Bryan Burton

Lynchburg Baptist College was founded in 1971. Since then, theschool has grown from 200students to 3,500, and Selah was there to captureit. The book started as nothing more than a scrapbook and has grown to an award-winning book. In 1982, Selah won national recognition forthe third year in a row. The school is no longer called Lynchburg Baptist College but Liberty BaptistCollege. As the school becomes Liberty University, Selah will continue to be committed topresenting aspects ofacademic, campus life.