Life briefs: Area Agency on Aging, AU Theatre, Richland Academy, Cleo Redd Fisher Museum
Area Agency on Aging 2023 Scholarship Program announced
The Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging announced its 2023 Scholarship Program. Trustees elected to provide three scholarship awards to individuals for higher education or certification programs benefiting the field of aging network. Scholarship amounts are: $2,000 for a student attending a four-year university; $1,000 for a student attending a two-year college or technical school, center of education or is pursuing a certification; and $1,000 for a student attending any type of higher institute of learning or certification and is a child, grandchild or stepchild of an actively employed (full time or part-time) Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging staff member.
Applicants must be a high school graduate (graduated in 2022 or earlier or hold a GED) and reside in Ashland, Crawford, Huron, Knox, Marion, Morrow, Richland, Seneca or Wyandot counties.
Details about the Scholarship Program, eligibility requirements and the application can be found on the Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging website. The deadline for applications is March 17.
For more information, contact Susie Danuloff at 567-247-7105 or sdanuloff@aaa5ohio.org.
AU theatre presenting “Once Upon a Mattress” Feb. 16-19
ASHLAND — The department of theatre at Ashland University continues its 2022-23 theme of “Standing Up, Standing Out” by presenting the musical comedy “Once Upon a Mattress” Thursdayp-Sunday, Feb. 16-19. Performances are in the Hugo Young Theatre, with the Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows beginning at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday’s matinee at 2 p.m.
“Once Upon a Mattress” is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale “The Princess and the Pea.” Teresa Durbin-Ames, associate professor of theatre at AU who serves as the director, describes “Once Upon a Mattress” as not “your typical fairytale, but fun for the entire family.”
Tickets can be purchased from the AU campus store in person or by going to ashland.universitytickets.com. Tickets are $2 for AU students, $5 for non-AU students and $10 for adults, faculty/staff and senior citizens. Tickets will not be available for purchase at the door.
College news and notes
● Megan Ziegler of Galion was one of more than 775 students awarded undergraduate and advanced degrees and certificates at Youngstown State University's Fall Commencement. Ziegler earned a Master of Science in Nursing in Family Nurse Practitioner.
Richland Academy of the Arts welcomes new visual arts instructor
Richland Academy of the Arts is excited to welcome visual arts instructor Barbie Waters to its staff. Waters has a bachelor of arts degree in fine art, with a painting and graphic design focus. She has worked as a graphic designer for 15-plus years serving small businesses and many area nonprofits.
She will offer two visual arts classes that have been designed with the homeschool student in mind, but all students are welcome. She will instruct Introduction to Visual Arts for students in grades 3-5 and Visual Art through Drawing for grades 6-9. Both classes begin Feb. 27.
For more information or to register, visit richlandacademy.com or call 419-522-8224.
British East India Company highlight of Loudonville museum talk
LOUDONVILLE — The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum in Loudonville continues its Speaker Series Feb. 20 with a look into the British East India Company and how the company forged an empire out of a mutiny against its own government.
Historian Dr. Christina Welsch, associate professor at the College of Wooster, will focus on a hidden history of disorder within the army. In 1809, over 1,200 white officers in southern India mutinied against the Company’s civilian government. British onlookers were horrified, condemning the violence as an act of treason that would lead to imperial collapse. Yet, the officers emerged from the chaos with increased power, while their opponents faced disgrace within colonial society.
Welsch's first book, "The Company’s Sword: The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644-1858" (Cambridge University Press, 2022), explores how military actors influenced the ideology of the colonial state in India. Her second project is an examination of the wars between the British Company and the Indian state of Mysore.
The program is free and open to the public. The event will be held Feb. 20 in the lecture hall of the Cleo Redd Fisher Museum, 203 E. Main St. in Loudonville. Doors open at 6:30 while the event begins at 7. For more information, visit crfmuseum.com or call 419-994-4050.
This article originally appeared on Mansfield News Journal: Area Agency on Aging scholarships available, Ashland U. play opens
