Governor’s School for the Arts

The class of 2014 poses on the steps of Old Morrison. LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University has enrolled 1,110 students for the 2010-11 academic year, including an entering class of 314 made up of 303 first-year students and 11 transfers. “This is a class about which we can be very excited,” said Brad Goan, director of admissions. “The academic quality of this group is outstanding. Moving forward, we want to accelerate the pace of diversification, but we made some excellent progress this year in recruiting students from outside Kentucky, and we held onto previous gains in the enrollment of minority and international students.” The entering class is the most academically-talented class in Transy’s history, with an average ACT of 27 and an average high school GPA of 3.8. Thirty-four are Kentucky Governor’s Scholars and Governor’s School for the Arts participants and six are National Merit Finalists. Twenty-one percent of the class comes from outside Kentucky and there are four international students from Korea, China, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. Eight percent identify themselves as members of a racial or ethnic minority, and 34 percent are first-generation college students. Transylvania, founded in 1780, is the nation’s sixteenth oldest institution of higher learning and is consistently rankedin national publications as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Lexington native Sully White is the guest director for Transylvania University Theater’s next offering, Rhinoceros, an absurdist comedy by Eugene Ionesco, and senior drama major Elizabeth Guy steps into dual roles as performer and assistant director. The play opens Thursday, February 18, in the Lucille C. Little Theater. Ionesco’s play is a wild and wacky satire on our willingness to be led over the cliff. In the play, the townspeople of a village suddenly experience a rampaging rhinoceros, and though some questions its meaning, most blindly see it as inevitable, and even choose to join the herd. Sullivan (Sully) Canaday White comes to Transylvania during her short-term break from Wofford College, where she has been on faculty since 2007. White spent five years as director of the Apprentice/Intern Company at Actors Theater of Louisville where she directed more than 50 shows including Proof, Fool for Love, and Reckless. She taught for several years at the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts, held on Transylvania’s campus,, and worked for the North Carolina Theater, where she designed a new Conservatory for Performing Arts. She has also worked in New York directing off-Broadway for the American Theater of Actors, New Georges, LaMaMa Experimental Theater of New York and the New York International Fringe Festival. Guy, a drama major from Salina, Kansas, has portrayed Iphiginia in Earthrock of Argos, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, Anna in Closer, Elmire in Tartuffe and Rosencrantz in

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