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January 22, 2007
Randy Robertson is the new Pearce High School athletic director and head football coach. He will attend tonight's Athletic Booster Club meeting at 7 p.m. in the Corral.
Coach Robertson has been with RISD for 19 years and is currently the assistant head football coach, defensive coordinator and assistant principal at Berkner High School.
Over the next several weeks, Coach Robertson will be transitioning from his roles at Berkner to Pearce High School.
Posted by Angela Chambers 
at 3:45 PM (E-mail this entry)
The first ever Blues and Jazz Festival, a vision of the late Larry Terry, a popular administrator at The University of Texas at Dallas, is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Jan. 26 and 27, at the school's Richardson campus.
The event will include a concert by famed saxophone player Leroy “Hog” Cooper, a theatrical performance, lectures and a panel discussion.
All proceeds will be donated to the Larry D. Terry Emerging Leaders Scholarship Endowment. Larry Terry, whose father was noted jazz and blues songwriter and guitarist Verbie Gene “Flash” Terry, was vice president of business affairs when he died in June.
Tickets are $20 for a Friday lecture and concert, $25 for a Saturday lecture and concert, and $40 for both events. Tickets are $5 per event for UTD students.
Ticket office hours for advance purchase are from 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
For more information, visit http://ah.utdallas.edu/season0607/terryjazzfest.htm.
The UT Dallas festival will begin 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, in the university’s Conference Center. Dan Morgenstern, who has worked in the jazz field for nearly 50 years and has received six Grammy Awards in Best Album Notes category, will discuss jazz in the Southwest.
Following the lecture, Leroy “Hog” Cooper will give a Ray Charles tribute concert. Cooper is a baritone sax player and Dallas native who has performed and recorded with a range of artists, including David “Fathead” Newman, Hank Crawford and Ray Charles. He was a member of the Ray Charles Band from 1957-76.
Morgenstern, Paul Oliver, Alan Govenar and Akin Babatunde will take part in a free panel discussion at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, in Jonsson Performance Hall.
Paul Oliver, a professor at the University of Oxford in England, will give a lecture at 7 p.m. Jan. 27 about pre-war African American vernacular music.
The festival will close at 8 p.m. with a theatrical performance, “Blind Lemon Blues”, in the University Theatre. The show pays homage to Blind Lemon Jefferson, who emerged in the 1920s as the biggest selling country blues singer in America.
Posted by Mark Macesich at 11:31 AM (E-mail this entry)
Rotarians from all four Richardson-area Rotary Clubs will attend the annual Foundation Alumni Dinner 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Park Cities club in Preston Center, located at the intersection of Preston Road and Northwest Highway.
For more information, call Richard Gilman at 972-690-0637.
Posted by Angela Chambers at 9:14 AM (E-mail this entry)
The Lake Highlands High School Highlandettes “Dancing with the Dettes” clinic, postponed last week due to inclement weather, has been rescheduled for 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, at the Lake Highlands Freshman Center.
Registration still is open, writes correspondent Wanda Campbell, and registration forms are available at www.highlandettes.com.
Forms may be returned to Shannon Harty at Lake Highlands High School.
For more information, contact Karen Karnes at karkarn2@sbcglobal.net or Kim West at crwest98@aol.com.
Posted by Mark Macesich at 6:00 AM (E-mail this entry)
