Stories from Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Asaundra Pickett, DePauw associate athletics director for internal operations and director of the Welch Fitness Center, has been selected to the NCAA’s 2022-23 Pathway Program, which is a yearlong initiative designed to prepare senior-level athletics administrators for the next career step as directors of athletics or conference commissioners. She is one of 22 individuals chosen, including just five in Division III...

Even as the artists for the upcoming Putnam County Mural Festival were being unveiled, festival organizers were thinking of a way to make the project bigger. While nothing is set in stone (or even high-quality, durable latex for that matter) progress is being made on possibly adding a sixth wall to the festival...

Joel Karabo Elliott is an American / South African multi-instrumentalist, steward of the global ensemble Roots Grown Deep, and composer of what he terms “musical ecology”. He is this week’s featured performer in the Greencastle Summer Music Festival, a series of free indoor concerts held Wednesdays at 7:30pm in the air-conditioned sanctuary of Gobin Church...

Kimball Alan Wilson passed away suddenly on Dec. 15, 2021, in West Hollywood, Calif. Due to Covid Restrictions at that time, a memorial service could not safely be held. His siblings, Barbara Wilson, Diane Bratton, Gregg Wilson and Lori Wilson, along with his husband, Ayn Baltazar-Wilson, would like to invite all those who knew Kimball to join them in a “Celebration of Life” this Sunday, June 12 in Crawfordsville...

Director Jack Randall Earles will hold two sessions of auditions for the musical “Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” The first will be Sunday, June 12, at 3 p.m. The second will be Monday, June 13, at 7 p.m. Both will be at the Michael McClaine Rehearsal Center at the Putnam County Playhouse...

Nancy Ellen Rockhill Walters, 95, of Tempe, Ariz., died Thursday, June 2, 2022, at Friendship Village Tempe. A small family service will be held at a later date at Stilesville Cemetery in Stilesville. Nancy was born April 23, 1927, to Howard and Muriel (Rector) Rockhill. She graduated from Greencastle High School; DePauw University, B.A.; and Indiana University, Ph.D...