Staff Picnic!!!
We’re appreciated and we get to play and play and
play because of it!
The annual Staff Appreciation Picnic is noon to 3 p.m.
tomorrow,
Wednesday, June 14. We’re gathering on the mall. We’ll eat (bring
a dish or two to share), play some fun games, play bingo and
euchre, maybe a little badminton, bocce ball and croquet, maybe
race a trike, and maybe have a little surprise hunt for
scavengers. …. Come hungry! Come ready to party on! (Student
workers are invited to lunch; individual departments will decide
whether students return to their jobs to staff the office or
stay to play.) Staffers return to work at 3 p.m.
Don’t
you just love our A Cappella Choir’s signature song,
The Lord Bless You and Keep You? Now you can hear it anytime!
The CDs are here! The CDs are here!
Get them at the Campus Store, and soon, we hope, online through
Soundgate Productions, which produced the CD. The songs are from
the choir’s 2004-2005 repertoire; some from the Italy Peace
Tour. They include compositions by Deb DeWitt and Debra Lynn.
The CD is entitled evermore & evermore, from one of the
choir’s most-requested songs: Of the Father’s Love Begotten.
Thanks Debra, for leading and conducting this choir that’s so
great, it’s headed again to Carnegie Hall next spring!
Manchester, we
have Caller ID.
In case you did
not know it, assuming you have a phone with a little window on
it, we now have Caller ID for outside, long-distance calls, too.
And, when we call outside, those folks will see Mnchstr College
or something like that on their little windows, no matter what
our extension. Thanks Telephone Larry and the folks in IT!
It
was a full day,
starting shortly after 7 a.m., of setting up, counseling,
advising, placement exams, financial aid sessions … welcoming
almost 200 of our newest students and their parents to
Manchester College. Monday was the first (and probably the
largest) of four summer Advising and Registration days. The next
one is Saturday, June 17, then Wednesday, June 28 and Friday,
July 7. We saw lots of smiling families on campus, and we had a
few grins, too! Faculty and staff who participated, thanks for
all the hard work! (That's Beate Gilliar, associate professor of
English, who just completed final exams and is off for Germany!)
At least 19 groups, with more than 2,625 people
will meet in conferences and workshops on our campus this
summer, including the just-completed Alumni Days. In addition,
our Athletic Department is hosting the Dzurick Individual
Basketball Camp June 5-10 and the Jarman Wrestling Camp July
9-13. Others on the schedule:
Hagarstown High School
band camp, June 4-7
Summit City
Chorus, June 16-17
McCraken volleyball camp, June 19-23
Job’s Daughters, June 21-25
Bryan Adrian basketball camp, June 25-29
National Smokejumper Association, June 29-July 2
Memonfest, June 29-July 3
Indiana Association of Student Councils Summer Leadership
Institute, high school, July 5-9
Indiana Association of School Councils, Summer Leadership Camp,
junior high, July 6-9
United Methodist Women, July 11-15
Young Church Leadership Institute, July 17-22
Lapel High School
football camp, July 17-20
Indiana-Ohio Bible Conference, July 18-23
Winchester High School
band camp, July 24-28
Universal Cheerleader Association camp, July 26-29
Smith family reunion, July 28-31
Kentwood High School
band camp, July 30 – Aug. 5
Taiwanese American Foundation, Aug. 5-13
Didja
go to the zoo last Saturday???
Probably not,
or you’d know we got rained out of Manchester College’s Day at
the Zoo. SO … we get to do it again this Saturday, June 17!!
Wear your Manchester colors and check out the really big cats
and other critters at
The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo. Get discounted tickets from
our Alumni Office ($5 adults, $3 kids and over-60s). Rides are
cheaper for us, too, sponsored by Northeast Indiana Colleges and
Universities.
Metered
mailings
now are the responsibility of Quentin Moudy (Printing Services/SpartanPrint).
Direct your questions to him (Room 9 in the garden level of the
Ad Building) or the summer student assistant processing mail in
the room. However, Brenda Carver (publications and design) will
continue to coordinate large mailings that go through Shepherds
Services.
Thanks to her great grant-writing skills,
Mary Chrastil
(College Advancement) helped us reap $17,440 from the Leah M.
Sundheimer Foundation’s generosity for automatic door systems
for a residence hall. Our students with disabilities, including
those with sports injuries, will appreciate these aids!
So …
what’s SOC got in store for us this summer?
Glad you
asked. We will eat. Then we will eat again, and yet again! In
between, we’ll gather, chatter and scatter. Here’s the latest
plan from the Staff Organizational Committee:
Wednesday,
June 14 – Staff Picnic
Wednesday,
July 12 – Pie, Fruit and Muffin day
Wednesday,
Aug. 9 – Ice Cream Social
Ready
for a little patriotism,
and
a few thousand flying sparks?
The College’s annual Fourth of July Celebration starts
at 8 p.m. on Monday, July 3, when the Manchester Civic Band will
strike up. The fireworks start at 10 p.m. Because it is not
going to rain, we won’t tell you that we’d do it at the same
time and place on the actual Fourth. Our College donated $5,000
for this community celebration. Local firefighters will manage
the fireworks. How’s that for town-gown relations!
Welcome!
Ben Leiter, Peace Studies Intern (Aug. 21)
You
may be instrumental to a new band for the community. Junior Aimee Gerdes is doing an internship in
North Manchester this summer, charged with setting up a New
Horizons Band for those who are not really over the hill, just
over 50. She’s wondering if any of us have any instruments to
donate to the band. She can provide tax-deduction information.
Contact Aimee at
angerdes@manchester.edu or 574-339-3393.
Scheduling
in Outlook. This is a
course for beginners as well as those in need of a brief
refresher. It will take place in Clark Computer Center’s
Training Lab (G104) from 10 to 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 27.
Contact
Allison Keating, x5432 to make your reservation.
Ever the alert reporter,
your Memo Lady
noticed last week that our main entrance is different! Yup, the
tall evergreens are gone, replaced with landscaping and big,
honkin' rocks. When? "Maybe six weeks ago," says Groundskeeper
Good. Gives us a fresh, new look, don't you think?
Plowshares
Conference Room.
That’s the neat
circle-tabled room upstairs in Calvin Ulrey. The Video
Conference Room is in Clark. That’s got all kinds of whiz-bangs
and nearby ITS people who know what to do with that “stuff.”
Let it be known: We are
dropping “Plowshares” from the Clark room name. We were too
easily confused.
Video Conference Room = Clark
Plowshares Conference Room = Calvin Ulrey
Ingrid Rogers
(modern languages) has received a $5,000 Faculty Fellowship from Indiana Campus Compact, via Lilly Endowment Inc.
“because of the potential in your proposal for the advancement
of service-learning.”
“The Graduation Pledge is thrilled to announce that one of our outstanding graduating seniors, Zack Burton,
will be working full-time as a co-coordinator for the project,”
reports Neil Wollman (Peace Studies Institute). Zach will work
off-campus, not part of the College. He begins in the fall.
Junior Andrew Leavens, via a Campus Compact/Americorp grant, is
working full-time over the summer on campus, in AD327.
The Manchester
Investment Club
will meet at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, June 21 in Funderburg Library.
Note the change in time and place. The yearly gain in per share
value was 17.6 percent in April. This increased the share to an
all-time high. There will be money to spend. – Richard
Harshbarger, Treasurer
Human
Resources
Faculty and staff openings:
Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Administrative Assistant for
Academic Affairs and Music, Custodian, Campus Security Officer
(part time), Track and Field Intern, Tennis Coach Intern,
Volleyball Coach Intern, Director of Performing Arts
Technologies, Development Officer
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!
They’re
coming to Manchester College by the hundreds … really!
With the
International Fair, commencement, Alumni Days and Registration &
Advising Days, we’ve already had hundreds of visitors. (That’s
more than droves, right?) “… and each of them found a warm
welcome to a beautiful place,” says President Jo, who thanks
every single one of us for extending that welcome.
Take me to Spartan Weekly!
MC's weekly
update by Doug Shoemaker, sports information director
Oldies but still goodies from recent MEMOs …
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.
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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