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Professor joins Fine Arts faculty after almost 20 years

Ariel Thompson, Staff Writer • February 28, 2024

Melissa Derechailo has been working at Wayne State College for about 20 years, and she has been promoted to the music faculty this year. Derechailo has a bachelor’s degree in music education from...

There’s nothing like music

Sami Taylor, Lifestyles Editor • February 12, 2016

The Wayne State College Music Department will host three events in the next two weeks. The first event held is the second Annual Piano Day for students on Friday, Feb. 19, from 9 a.m. to 3...

Festival Honor Bands on Saturday

Joseph Lovercheck, Staff Writer • January 28, 2016

Wayne State College’s Music Department will host multiple high school students from Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota for the Festival Honor Bands on Saturday. Students will rehearse with one of three...

Come one, come all to the Gala

Lauren Deisley, Staff Writer • December 9, 2015

The annual President’s Holiday Gala will take place on Sunday, Dec. 13, at 2 p.m. in Ramsey Theater. This will be President Marysz Rames’ first Gala as president of the college. The...

Life with Lauren: Pull your head out of your apps

Lauren Deisley, Columnist • November 4, 2015

Text messaging, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Yik Yak; there are so many distracting apps on our phones for us to occupy our time with. We love knowing what everyone else is up to and we can’t...

‘Wit’ to hit the stage this week

Sami Taylor, Staff Writer • November 19, 2014

Wayne State Theatre will be performing Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Wit” this week. Vivian Bearing (Hope Pedersen), a demanding and uncompromising professor of 17th century English...

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