


Produced by Lone Chimney Films in association with the People’s Heartland Foundation, the film told the story of the song “Home on the Range” and the national lawsuit and search to track down its original authors.įinally, history alumni gathered in the Tarcisia Roths Alumni Center and enjoyed an Italian buffet provided by Great Western Dining.

KAH attendees have a discussion with Ken Spurgeon and Mark Mannette. While Campus Ministry, ‘21 alumna Brianna Southworth and the ASC sisters teamed up to provide KAH guests with a Catholic heritage tour of the Newman campus, filmmaker Ken Spurgeon of Friends University held a screening of “Home on the Range” in the De Mattias Performance Hall. “Levente provided his own analysis of the situation in Ukraine, refugee issues, Hungary and the overall European perspective on this military crisis,” Golden explained. Kelly McFall commentates during a Zoom call with ’06 alumnus Levente Nyitrai. He was joined via Zoom by ‘06 alumnus and Ablah Award winner Levente Nyitrai, who currently works as the foreign policy and cyber attaché of the British Embassy Budapest. Later that afternoon, McFall served as a commentator during a roundtable discussion about Ukraine. “I had just finished producing and directing ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’ and just wrapped the filming of ‘Contested Plains,’ both projects back to back, so I was able to incorporate them into my presentation.” Current events “It was a great opportunity to share some of my thoughts and ideas on the subject of bringing history to life,” Mannette said. Mannette referenced ancient Greeks, Shakespeare and Friedrich Schiller along with contemporary movies and television shows to support his thesis that “people should try to come as close as possible to presenting history as it actually happened.”
