The Contours featuring Sylvester Potts

A little Motown soul and jazz will add to the variety of music performances at Music Fest 2013.

The Contours featuring Sylvester Potts and Alexander Zonjic with The Motor City Horns will take the stage at the free music festival Friday, Sept. 13 on the lawn outside Memorial Field House on The University of Toledo Main Campus.

The Contours featuring Sylvester Potts are best known for their 1962 hit “Do You Love Me?” written by legendary Motown CEO Berry Gordy. The song was featured in the film “Dirty Dancing.” The group performs 60s and 70s hits as well as songs from the movie’s soundtrack.

Alexander Zonjic is a well-known jazz flutist who returns to Music Fest to perform music from his most recent “Doin’ the D” album and other favorites. He learned his craft at the University of Windsor and as second flutist in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

He will be joined by The Motor City Horns, who tout themselves as “Detroit’s Most Versatile Musicians” and have performed with artists such as Bob Seger, The Temptations, Justin Timberlake and The Four Tops.

Alexander Zonjic

The Contours featuring Sylvester Potts will perform 4:30-5:30 p.m. and Alexander Zonjic with The Motor City Horns will take the stage 6-7 p.m.

The Detroit artists are in addition to previously announced performers ska-punk band Reel Big Fish, country singer Josh Gracin and local rock band The Lonely Friends, who won the UT Local Band Challenge

The final performer to complete the Music Fest 2013 lineup will be announced Monday.

For more information about Music Fest 2013 visit utoledo.edu/musicfest or follow the event on Facebook at facebook.com/UTMusicFest.

Click here to download a photo of The Contours featuring Sylvester Potts and here for Alexander Zonjic.

Media Coverage
The Independent Collegian (Sept. 11, 2013)

Large rocks, logs and other natural materials are being added to the Ottawa River on the main campus of The University of Toledo as the final phase of a restoration effort of the waterway.

The latest improvements began last month with clearing the riverbanks and removing non-native invasive plants by student workers with the Maumee Corp from Partners for Clean Streams. Crews with Ecological Restoration Inc. are now working in the river with heavy equipment moving large materials into place in the water for aquatic habitat.

The final phase of restoration of the 2,700 feet of the Ottawa River that runs UT Main Campus is expected to be complete by Aug. 12.

“This phase will focus on aquatic improvements, including adding large rocks and logs to mimic natural water flow and get a ripple effect in the water,” said Dr. Patrick Lawrence, professor and chair of the Department of Geography and Planning, and chair of the President’s Commission on the River.

“Right now the river is essentially uniform with very limited ripples or turbulence. Adding these natural materials will also make for more diversity to the aquatic habitat giving fish and other aquatic organisms more places for nesting, spawning, food and shelter.”

** MEDIA OPPORTUNITY **
A photo and media opportunity will be noon Friday, Aug. 9 on the bank of the Ottawa River behind Savage Area. Parking will be available in lot 3.

Crews will be working in the river allowing for opportunities to view and tour the work completed to that date and officials involved with the restoration will be available for interviews, including Dr. Lawrence; Matt Horvat, Maumee River coordinator with the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments; David Derrick, research hydraulic engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Dave Hales, president of Ecological Restoration.

The restoration is funded with a $235,000 grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and a $151,000 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The project also involves the assistance of Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, EnviroScience, Partners for Clean Streams, Ohio EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The restoration work for the 2,700 feet of the waterway that runs through Main Campus is expected to be complete by Aug. 12.

For more information on this project visit www.utoledo.edu/river/commissions or contact patrick.lawrence@utoledo.edu.

Media Coverage
WNWO, WTOL 11 and 13 ABC (Aug. 13, 2013)
The Independent Collegian (Aug. 14, 2013)
The Blade (Aug. 18, 2013)

New students in The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences will receive their traditional doctor’s white coats during a welcome ceremony 2-5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8. in Nitschke Hall Auditorium.

Dr. Jeffrey P. Gold, chancellor, executive vice president for biosciences and health affairs, and dean of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, will officiate the ceremony in which 175 medical students will receive their white coats.

The annual white coat ceremony is a rite practiced at medical schools across the country as a way to welcome students to the clinical aspects of medical practice and impress upon them the importance of professionalism and humanism in the field of medicine.

Media Coverage
WTOL 11 and 13 ABC (Aug. 14, 2013)

Josh Gracin was first introduced to the world as the country-singing U.S. Marine in the second season of “American Idol.”

Gracin

Fans now know him as the artist behind hit songs such as “Nothin’ to Lose,” “We Weren’t Crazy” and “Stay with Me (Brass Bed).”

As he tours the country for the Josh Gracin Drink it Gone Summer Tour, he will stop in Toledo next month to take part in Music Fest 2013 at The University of Toledo.

The free outdoor music festival will take place Friday, Sept. 13 on the lawn outside Memorial Field House on UT’s Main Campus and will feature Gracin along with the ska band Reel Big Fish and a variety of other to-be-announced musical guests.

Gracin, a native of Westland, Mich., earned a fourth-place finish on the popular singing competition show that crowned Ruben Studdard the American Idol that season. After completing his military service in 2004, he began his music career releasing three albums, including his self-titled debut that was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Gracin’s newest single “Drink it Gone” was released in May and he is currently writing and recording his next album.

Toledo area fans will have the opportunity to hear Gracin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13 at Music Fest 2013 at UT.

Stay tuned for future performer announcements and the complete lineup.

For more information about Music Fest 2013 visit utoledo.edu/musicfest or follow the event on Facebook at facebook.com/UTMusicFest.

Click here to download a photo of Gracin.

Media Coverage
The Independent Collegian (Sept. 11, 2013)

BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ MEETINGS

Monday, Aug. 12, 2013
Driscoll Alumni Center, Board Room
2:00 p.m. Finance and Audit Committee Meeting
3:00 p.m. Trusteeship and Governance Committee Meeting

Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013
The Hotel at UTMC, Faculty Club Room
7:30 a.m. Clinical Affairs Committee Meeting
9:00 a.m. Academic and Student Affairs Committee Meeting

Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013
Libbey Hall
5:30 p.m. Board Social Dinner

Any questions may be directed to the University Communications Office by calling (419) 530-7832 or via email at jonathan.strunk@utoledo.edu.

Joan A. Stasa
Secretary, Board of Trustees
Aug. 1, 2013