April 22 also marked two other celebrations. Besides being Earth Day, it was also "Women’s Day at MC," and a concert was the final event of a busy day on campus.

The busy slate of activities actually began on April 21, when several musical acts, including the Scotsmen and the Monmouth College Pipe Band, performed on Dunlap Terrace.

The Honors Convocation, which formally recognizes the scholastic achievements of Monmouth students over the past year, began shortly after.

In addition to the presentation of departmental awards and prizes, the Blue Key and Mortar Board honor societies recognized a freshman and senior man and woman of the year. Scholarship recipients and donors were also recognized.

That night, in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room of the college’s Stockdale Center, singer/songwriter Judy Gorman gave a Women’s Day concert titled "Let’s Celebrate: The Rising of Us All."

Gorman, who has performed with such artists as Pete Seeger and the Indigo Girls, is a frequent performer at festivals and universities throughout the United States and Europe, and she has also performed at the United Nations. She has just released "The Rising of Us All," a CD of "songs of peace and justice, women and work, struggle and celebration." It follows her previous CD, "Analog Girl in the Digital World."

The works on her current CD are described as "passionate, bluesy vocals and energizing songs with the vision that another world is possible."