Holy Names University’s 140 th Anniversary celebration continues in the coming months with several events, including an important fundraising golf tournament and two summer academic programs expected to draw students from across the country.

The 7th Annual Red Rose Invitational Golf Tournament, which provides scholarship funds for HNU students, is scheduled for Monday, May 19 th, at the Sequoyah Country Club in the Oakland Hills.

Other events that are part of the ongoing celebration are:

• The Master Guild Concert, May 25
• The 40th Annual Kodaly Summer Program, July 7-16
• Sophia Center’s annual Summer Institute, July 17-20

The Master Guild music concert will start at 7:15 pm on Sunday, May 25, in the Regents’ Theatre of the Valley Center for the Performing Arts on campus. Presenting professional chamber music will be Axel Strauss and Amy Hiraga, violins; Peter Wyrick, cello; and Roy Bogas, piano. The program also will include the Elgar Piano Quintet and the seldom played String Quartet No. 2 by Ernest Bloch. Admission will be $20 general; $15 sernios; $5 students and free to HNU faculty, staff and students.

Trustees Steve Callaway and Matt Heafey are co-hosts of the golf tournament and they are inviting friends and associates to join in for a fun day at the links and to help support Holy Names University’s Mission Scholarship Fund, which raised over $95,000 last year. Please contact Aaron Castillo, Director of Annual Giving at Castillo@hnu.edu or 510.436.1014.

The Kodaly music Summer Institute offers Kodaly Certification at Levels I, II and III. Coordinator Fran Smith notes that HNU was the first institution of higher learning to grant an advance degree in Kodaly music education. Featured at the 40 th Anniversary Summer Institute will be Erzsebet Hegyi, presenting Ear Training with 20 th Century Art Music, July 14-18.

For more information contact Anne Laskey, MA. Director of the Kodaly Music Program at HNU: 510.436.1234 or laskey@hnu.edu, or click here: http://www.hnu.edu/academics/documents/2008_Kodaly_Summer_Broch_WEB.pdf

The 11 th annual HNU Sophia Center Summer Institute July 17-20 will celebrate the work of Thomas Berry, who has taught at the center and whose work informs much of its curriculum. The event is titled, “Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology.”

Featured presenters include: Stephen Dunn, CP, PhD; John Grim, PhD; Diarmjid O’MNurchu, MSC, PhD; Brian Swimme, PhD; Mary Evelyn Tucker, PhD; Bernadette Bostwick, SGM; Drew Dellinger, poet-teacher; Mary Southard, CSJ; John Surette, SJ; Gail Worcelo, SGM, MA; Jim Conlon, PhD, with music by Dianne Forrest, MA. There also will be a Post-Institute Retreat from Sunday evening, July 20 through noontime Tuesday, July 23, “Experiencing Thomas’ Cosmological Vision,” conducted by O’Murchu and Worcelo.

For more information about the Sophia Summer Institute and Retreat, contact Conlon at 800.794.8813, or click here: http://uniquewebdesignandprinting.com/sophia/summerInstitute.html

The university’s 140 th Anniversary Celebration will culminate on September 7 with a joint celebration of Holy Names University and Holy Names High School, both 140 years old this year. That event will be a gala reception and awards ceremony at 4 pm atop the Kaiser Building in Downtown Oakland.