Transitions …
Is it possible you have not heard
that Tom Jarman is retiring as director of athletics and
head wrestling coach on Aug. 1?
Here are the details, and reaction from the national and
HCAC level.
Jan
Fahs has submitted her resignation, effective at the end
of the 2007-2008 academic year, ending 12 years as a guiding force
not only in the Accounting and Business Department, but also to the
campus at large. Writes Dean Sharfman: “While I am very sad about
Jan’s leaving the College, I am respectful of her reasons of needing
to spend more time with her wonderful boys, David and Matthew. Jan
has worked tirelessly on behalf of Manchester and of her students,
and I am deeply grateful for all that she has accomplished. She has
been a strong advocate for the liberal arts and an innovator in the
teaching of business in the classroom.”
Shelly
Leifer, who has helped students and their families manage
their financial obligations to the College for the past five years,
is about to become the new assistant director of The Community
Foundation of Wabash County. We’ll celebrate her service and wish
her well on her last day here, 2 to 3 p.m. this Friday, June 29 in
the main hall of the Administration Building.
Welcome to Manchester College!
Carol G. Horn, Adjunct Instructor of Education; Judd A. Case,
Assistant Professor of
Communication Studies; Heather M. Varner,
Admissions Tele-Counselor;
Bonnie S. O’Connell, Director of Academic Support;
Joanna J. Conner,
Women’s Basketball
Assistant Coach;
Audrey N. Hampshire; Peace Studies Intern; Steven D. Crain, Campus
Pastor; Katie M. Laier, Associate Director of Recruiting;
Linda T. Karlin, Visiting Instructor of Accounting and Business;
Daniel J. Sprunger,
Baseball Coach Intern;
Stacy L. Erickson, Assistant Professor of English; Sara D.
Bowlin, Residence Hall Director, and ...
Sherri Shockey returns to Manchester
College as director of student financial services, after
slipping away in 1998 to serve in a similar role for the School of
Nursing of Lutheran Hospital and then St. Francis. She’s been with
Grace College for the past two years. The drive for the North
Manchester resident becomes much shorter on July 30. (She was a MC
financial aid counselor 1988-97.)
Mark that calendar …
All-Staff meets in a new place … the
College Union, for its summer meeting this Thursday, June
28. Refreshments and conversation begin at 7:30 a.m., the meeting at
8 a.m., in Conference Room 2, upstairs.
The end of the College’s fiscal year
is at hand … June 30 is the last day, for those seeking
to boost the staff and faculty percentage of giving. Grant-givers
(especially The Lilly Endowment) consider such employee generosity
in making decisions about funding programs, projects, etc. To give
to the College, contact
Rita Schroll in College Advancement, x5218.
Fireworks!
Music!
Eats! Once again, the College is hosting (and funding) a
Fourth of July Celebration for the community. The community band
strikes up at 8 p.m. next Tuesday, July 3 behind the PERC. Fireworks
at 10 p.m., tended by local firefighters.
Here's the story.
We’ll dedicate the College Union on
Homecoming Saturday, Oct. 6. Plan to gather at 10 a.m.
for the party. Planning also is under way for a community open house
that Sunday, with tours. A similar open house for the community for
the Science Center drew hundreds!
Faculty annual reports are due
July 2 to the Dean’s Office.
News to know …
We
have two new honorary members of the Board of Trustees,
both very familiar names: Bill Harper and Bentley Peters. These
former members of the Board will serve in an ongoing advisory role,
and hopefully, will join the Board as it meets on campus, to
participate in discussions. (They will not vote.) By their service,
Bill and Bentley made the College stronger, and undoubtedly will
continue to strengthen the College, notes President Switzer. Two
others continue to serve as honorary trustees: Gordon Keever and
Edgar Butterbaugh.
Our “events and reminders”
message is now history, defunct. Don’t forget to give the
MEMO Lady a heads-up when planning events or for help
spreading the news.
France, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico …
these are the countries our students will study in this fall and for
the full school year. Thanks to the advisors, mentors, coaches,
residence hall directors and other faculty and staff who helped make
this extraordinary opportunity a reality for Leslie Butterbaugh and
Colleen Hamilton, who are headed to Strasbourg, France; Laura Dell,
Anna Grady, Nicole Hammond, Adam Stokes, Jonathan Fagan and Jennifer
Moore, who are headed to Quito, Ecuador; Melissa Webb, who is off to
Barcelona, Spain; and Nick Kaufman, off to Xalapa, Mexico. Sixteen
students, including two 2007 grads, have returned from their time
abroad in Sapporo, Japan; Cheltenham, England; Athens, Greece,
Barcelona, Spain; Galway, Ireland; and Quito, Ecuador.
The coffee pot is on in the Campus
Store, filling in for The Oaks during the summer. Sippers
will find decaf and full-test.
Remember to obtain a Purchase Order
for anything that costs more than $1,000,
including internal
printing services. Quentin Moudy, in the basement of the Ad
Building, is our source for purchase orders.
Hopefully, you received the latest
Alumni and Friends e-newsletter from the College. If it
got lost in your
queue,
click here for the link on our Alumni pages. If you do
not think you are on the distribution list,
click here to subscribe
Our new students can’t wait to get
here! This is Dan Beedle of Demotte, who is going to
major in athletic training and soon don a Spartan tennis shirt.
→ →
Access Nexus, the latest
edition of the newsletter for Accounting and Business,
here.
Tech stuff …
Do you still
see this
on
your PC? You shouldn’t.
If the icon shows up when you log on or appears on the bottom right
corner of your screen, by your clock,
contact Helpdesk at x5454 or
click here, so ITS can update your
PC to Microsoft Forefront Client Security, which replaces McAfee.
Our new voice mail system is up,
but some are still encountering challenges, which our ITS team is
chipping away. The old voice mail is gone. Access voice mail via the
web using
MCMail. We need a .wav file player like Windows Media
Player or iTunes installed to play the voice mail attachment we
receive in our e-mail (and speakers or headphones). We also need
speakers or headphones. Access our web-based voice mail
configuration system
here. The name and password = our office PC logons.
Click here
for instructions for installing Outlook View Mail, to receive and
listen to voice mail messages from Outlook. Close Outlook before
installing. Or, ask the very capable
Help Desk to do it (no need to contact Larry
the Telephone Guy directly).
ITS needs our fax facts …
Have you reported your office fax machine to the
ITS Help Desk so its number is recorded in our new long
distance system?
Notable …
Congratulations to Scott Stan,
our women’s soccer coach and assistant professor of exercise and
sport sciences, on earning a master of arts in education from the
University of Phoenix.
The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
is the oldest writers conference in America, founded by Robert Frost
in the 1930s … and Jonathan Watson (English) has been accepted! Only
one in five applicants is accepted, based on a submitted manuscript,
for the Aug. 15-26 conference in Middlebury, Vt. Congratulations,
Jonathan!
What books are on your nightstand?
The MEMO Lady has a small stack of short story
collections loaned and recommend by friends, James Chace’s
1912, and Evanovich
trash. But what about you? Anything in your summer stack to
recommend to Jo for her monthly message? What about a children’s
book? Or a treasured read from the past? Send your recommendation
(author, title, brief paragraph) to
president@manchester.edu.
Human
Resources
Faculty and staff openings:
Director of Athletics, Director of Residential Life/Associate Dean
of Student Development, Director of the Writing Center, Visiting
Instructor/Assistant Professor of Music, Associate Development
Officer, Women’s Volleyball Head Coach, Campus Store Assistant
Manager, Assistant Stage and Audio Video Technician, Web Designer,
Student Accounts Specialist, Admissions Counselor, Secretary for
Athletics/Exercise and Sport Sciences, Women’s Softball Coach
Intern, Football Coach Interns (2)
Go to job descriptions
EzLabor alert: Remove the
4th of July from student timesheets after returning from
the holiday. If you remove it beforehand, EzLabor will stubbornly
add it back in.
Oldies but still
goodies from recent MEMOs ...
It’s my place, too! … is
the place for prospective students, parents and other visitors to
meet Manchester
College faculty and staff.
Like “my
place@mc,” which introduces some of our current students,
“my
place too” is filled with a
variety of testimonials that help tell the
Manchester
story. Please add your comments to “my place too.”
Just click on the “Add a new profile” link, answer the
questions, and upload a photo if you have one.
No more long distance codes!!!
On June 15, we made the switch. Now, we only dial 9 for an outside
line, and 1 + Area Code + Phone Number when calling from campus
offices. Campus telephone services will monitor LD calling for
abnormal patterns. To make personal LD calls, we need to buy pre-paid or carrier
calling cards from a store or the Campus Store. (Resicom also will
end.)
MC employees injured on the job during
summer
should contact Dale Metzger, x5061, in the physical plant or
Security, x5999, during the work week (7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday
through Friday. On weekends and after hours, notify Security and
contact Dale on the next business day. After Aug. 1, the contact is
our nurse, Tara Vogel.
Deep cleaning.
Deep, deep cleaning … that’s what’s in
store for our offices and windows this summer. Whole large crews of
custodians will arrive equipped to swoop through our buildings on
specified days. We need to prepare for them by removing items from
the floor, desk and windowsills that would hamper their efforts to
do the best, swiftest job possible. Here’s the remaining schedule:
Clark July 16-20 Window washing,
floor waxin
Calvin Ulrey July 16-20 Window washing,
floor waxing
Administration July 9-20 Deep cleaning
Administration July 23-27 Window washing,
floor waxing.
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