Jeff Bates
  • Early Childhood Education and Special Education
  • Class of 2016
  • Pine Grove, Pa.

Jeffrey Bates Selected to Participate In Lebanon Valley College's 18th Presidential Inauguration Art Installation

2013 Apr 18

Jeffrey A. Bates of Pine Grove, Pa. is one of 16 students selected to participate in Dr. Lewis Evitts Thayne's Presidential Inauguration Art Installation on display at Lebanon Valley College April 15-19. Bates is a freshman music education major and a graduate of Pine Grove Area High School.

The College celebrates the inauguration of its new president on April 19 at 4 p.m. Dr. Grant Taylor, associate professor of art history, has created a public art installation on the roof of the Neidig-Garber Science Center. Befitting the inauguration of a new president, the artwork examines the beginning phase of a journey. Viewers will hear emanating from the rooftop the voices of 16 LVC students individually describing the sense of excitement, hope, and fear that they once faced at the start of a personal journey. Interwoven within these unique stories, the same students have recorded early passages from classic journey-themed books and poems. Each student has selected an author based on their own cultural heritage or field of study. Reflecting the international scope of LVC, this literature is recorded in the language of origin, which includes English, Middle English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Nepali, and Arabic. While these voices are audible during the day, at night the voices activate a light display that engages the architecture of the Neidig-Garber Science Center, most prominently the three exhaust stacks so visible to the surrounding area.

Learn more about the art exhibit at www.lvc.edu/inauguration-art.

Lebanon Valley CollegeĀ® in Annville, Pa., welcomes 1,630 full-time undergraduates studying more than 30 majors, as well as self-designed majors. Founded in 1866, LVC has graduate programs in physical therapy, business, music education, and science education. Annville is 15 minutes east of Hershey and 35 minutes east of Harrisburg; Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore are within two hours. On the web at www.lvc.edu.