Holl-Kintner:
Home of Accounting and Business,
Education,
Communication Studies (and WBKE, Oak Leaves), Religion
and Philosophy, Modern Languages, Economics … eventually,
after we get the funding. College Advancement is working on it and would be most
happy to discuss naming possibilities with any and all
interested parties. We’ve got classrooms large and small,
faculty offices, entire floors, a conference center …. The plan
is to empty the third floor of the Administration Building, as
well as the Communication Building. When done, inside, Holl-Kintner will totally change, and become accessible!
This
is way, way cool …
Christer Watson (physics) is part of a nine-member team to gain
250 hours of observation using the orbiting
Spitzer Space Telescope to study the three-dimensional
thickness of the inner part of the Milky Way. The project is led
by Bob Benjamin of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, whose
study of the Milky Way has received considerable media
attention. Other investigators hail from the University of
Nottingham, University of California-Berkley, Instituut voor
Sterrenkunde and the Space Science Institute. Observing starts
in the fall and will be completed next calendar year. The grant
also funds a student summer research project at Manchester,
associated equipment and travel.
Manchester
College has earned $25,000 in seed funding for “Difficult
Dialog,”
an initiative to engage all first-year students in a
semester-long discussion of some of society’s most challenging
issues, emphasizing the skill of dialog and the improvement of
the quality of discourse on campus and beyond. We’ll begin the
discussion next fall. We, and Marian College, won the 2006 Ball
Brothers Foundation Venture Fund competition for the seed
funding. There were 25 proposals.
Here’s yet
another congratulations muttered through our tears …
Professor
Lindan Hill will become dean of the School of Education at
Marian College in Indianapolis on July 1. Our department chair
will leave us at the end of the month. Quoth Dean Sharfman:
“This is a wonderful opportunity for Lindy
to build a program and he is excited about the opportunity.
Lindy has served Manchester College very well in his five years
and was instrumental in helping us receive NCATE accreditation,
for which we are eternally grateful.” Their gain, our loss.
Gosh, I didn’t know that … Many of us do know that the winner of the Indianapolis 500
last weekend was Sam Hornish Jr. Stay with me now …. Sam zipped
past the Andretti dynasty just 300 yards from the brickyard to
win by
.0635 of a second. But did you
know that he is a member of the Church of the Brethren?????
Construction
Zone. Park somewhere else, Part II.
Just a reminder
that the parking lot on the south side of the College Union
(upper Union lot) is now reserved for the exclusive use of the
construction crew. Parking for us and visitors is available in
the lot north of the Union, or along East Street near Cordier
Auditorium. We trained for this on the Science Center.
June 10 is
Manchester College Day at the
Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo!!!!
Details to
come ….
Wouldn’t
this make a great gift?
Do you
needlepoint? Know somebody who does? MC is seeking a
needlepointer to create several of the pictured needlepoints for
staff appreciation gifts. (For a closer look, see Jill Biehl).
Contact
Alicia Redinger, x5436.
Service
learning.
That’s the subject of a project that Rusty Coulter-Kern
(psychology) will lead after winning a $3,000 Scholarship of
Engagement Faculty Grant from Indiana Campus Compact and Lilly
Endowment. The official title: Using Grounded Theory to
Assess Student Experiences in Service-Learning Courses.
Congratulations, Rusty!
Inclusion:
No Child Left on Their Behind.
Indiana Campus Compact also thought that title, and
the proposal, are rather catchy. Kim Duchane (health/physical
education) has received a $3,000 Scholarship of Engagement
Faculty Grant funded by Lilly Endowment for his project. Notes
ICC: “There were a large number of high quality submissions and
the competition was strong.” We are strong because we’re in
great shape!
I know! I know!
A waterpark!
A group of VPs
will begin looking at how to use the space in Calvin Ulrey after
the College Union is complete. Both Career Services and the
Campus Store are scheduled to move into the renovated Union,
allowing for some new occupants and reconfiguration of space. No
decisions have been made yet and the group intends to begin with
a very broad look at possibilities, says our executive veep,
Dave McFadden, who also is chairing the committee. E-mail him
with your suggestions. What a challenge, considering we all know
he has a sense of humor ….
Welcome to the MC
staff!
Jamie A. Gaston, Custodian; Mary Ann McWithey, Accountant;
Megan E. Harlow,
Summer Hall Director for Conference services; Kim Meyers,
instructor of communication studies; and ...
We
have a new face in the Dean’s Office
– Kim Meyer of Huntington, who will serve as Dean Sharfman’s
administrative assistant. She comes with experience in the
Admissions Office at IPFW, where she earned a degree in business
with a minor in psychology.
It’s time for the unveiling
(and hanging) of yet another historical mural restored by Jim
Adams* and his art students. You may recall that the first mural
rescued from the former La Fontaine Hotel is hanging high in the
Huntington County Historical Museum. This one was down in the
former pool area and you can imagine how wretched it looked. The
hotel now is restored into La Fontaine Center, which is
celebrating its 20th anniversary on June 11. The
unveiling begins at 2 p.m., in the center.
* 2002 U.S.
Professor of the Year
We get a threefer next year from the Brown family.
That’s gotta be kinda rare, don’t you think? Ken Brown, who
doesn’t understand the concept of retirement, will teach peace
and justice concepts. Son Michael continues in the philosophy
classroom. And … Daughter Katy, who begins in January as an
assistant professor of philosophy.
Yet
another of our grads heads off to international assignment …
Katie Leese is the recipient of a
French
Government Teaching Assistantship. She will teach French
elementary students near Rouen, in the north of France. Her
assignment runs October through April. Thanks to Janina Traxler,
who shepherded our May grad through the process!
Jacquilline Nagila will assume leadership of Multicultural Services
and campus diversity in mid-July 2006. She is completing her
master’s degree in international and comparative education at
Indiana University, where she is the diversity education
specialist and teaching assistant for Indiana University
Residential Programs and Services.
We’d like to advise you about Advising and Registration Days …
an opportunity to welcome our new students’ parents. The
reception on each of the four days is 4:30 to 5 p.m. in Link Art
Gallery and Wine Recital Hall lobby – on June 12, June 17, June
28 and July 7. The parents will have just left a brief wrap-up
session in Winger. Of course, many faculty members will be off
helping the students with their course registration, and will
not be available. But, if your schedule permits … come mingle!
Because she
just can’t get enough of that pace-setting music, President Switzer delivered the commencement address Wednesday night to
the Class of 2006 of Speedway High School, down Indy way.
Manchester College … we’re everywhere.
Congratulations
to Officers Fred Lucas and Harold
Napier
for their successful completion of the Emergency Medical
Technician course. This course is very challenging, but Fred and
Harold stuck with it, and are now certified EMTs!
We wish to
thank Manchester College
faculty, staff and students for expressions of sympathy
following the death of Charles's mother. Thanks, also, to
faculty and staff for the lovely plant.
– Charles and Dagny
Boebel
Thank you for
the magnificent planter.
It added color and comfort to the church and to our home. It’s
good to be remembered at a tough time! The Schalls –Jennifer
(IRC coordinator), JoAnn and Janine
Sweet!
Manchester College shows up in the most interesting places … even recipe books. On Page 21 of Just Desserts
cookbook of the Marion Church of the Brethren is a recipe for
Mandelbrot crisp almond bread, shared by our Jo, who was
solicited for the “celebrity corner.”
Let them eat …
lunch!
During the
summer, the Business Office will close for lunch from noon to 1
p.m. The office opens at 8 a.m.; closes at 5 p.m.
Human
Resources
Faculty and Staff Openings:
Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Assistant Men’s Basketball
Coach, Development Officer, Director of Performing Arts
Technologies, Admissions Counselor, Music Recruiting Intern,
Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach, Men’s and Women’s Tennis Coach
Intern, Volleyball Coach Intern, Custodian
Go to job descriptions
Summertime, and the living is eeeeee-zeeeeeee.
Actually, it’s EZLabor all the time. Pay periods end on the 8th
and 23rd of each month. That means we need to get our
EZLabor “stuff” completed by noon the following day. Here are
the dates we need to have our time reconciled in EZLabor, by
noon, for the rest of the year:
June 9 and 26
July 10 and 24
August 9 and 24
September 11 and 25
October 9 and 24
November 9 and 27
December 11 and 27
Wow!
Yea!
Kudos
You’re Awesome! Thanks!
Ever
wonder how all those grads get up there, in order? How they wind
among the chairs and people and not end up in the wrong row, or
seat? Gary Montel, master usher of Manchester College
commencement, is just one of our enormous team. He
doesn’t even know we took this photo. This cheer is for every
single person who helped send off our mission into the world on
May 21. And to greenhorn Terri Jones, who magnificently executed
Kay’s thick binder of Graduation Day to yet another successful
celebration.
Thank you and
high fives to MC Officer Clarence
Griese for his diligence in reuniting a lost child with
his parents following commencement. Clarence’s knack for working
with children enabled him to keep the child calm until the
parents were located.
Take me to Spartan Weekly!
MC's weekly
update by Doug Shoemaker, sports information director
Oldies but still goodies from recent MEMOs …
Summer
PERC and the Fitness Center schedules
from our keeper of
the PERC,
Wayne Chadwick:
Monday – Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
4:30 p.m. to 7
p.m.
Saturday – Sunday Closed
Golf cheaply, thanks to a friend.
In
the interest of wellness, a gift again is partially underwriting
Sycamore Golf Club corporate membership for full-time employees
of Manchester College. The membership covers green fees for
unlimited play. Employees pay on a sliding scale based on
their College income:
·
$50
per year if your income from the College is less than $25,000
·
$100 per year if between $25,000 and $35,000
·
$150 per year if over $35,000
MC
employees can get a family annual membership by paying an
additional $200 directly to Sycamore Golf Club. Individual
memberships are regularly $550 and family memberships regularly
$750 per year. Pay in our Business Office. Sounds too good to
be true? Dave McFadden at x5226 will make a believer out of you.
Mark your
calendars! for the all-staff meetings, intended to update us on College issues
and to strengthen our sense of unity and commitment to the
Mission. At these meetings, we’ll also recognize service, do a
Q&A with President Switzer and chuckle a bit, although not
necessarily in that order. All of the 45-minute meetings will
start promptly at 8 a.m., with coffee and sweets the half-hour
beforehand to give us a chance to chat up folks from other parts
of campus we rarely see.
Tuesday, August 8
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