Got your button? See Sandy Bendsen (admissions) in ADM 115 for your own personal Welcome button to greet our Class
of 2010 as they arrive. Some first-year student athletes already
are on campus. Can you feel the energy yet? Wear your nametag!
Say hi! Grin widely in that Manchester way. Walk a lost
newbie to his or her destination; make a new friend! Here’s the
schedule of arrivals:
Aug. 11 – Football team arrived
Aug. 14 – Residence hall assistants arrived
Aug. 16-17 – Fall teams arrive (today!)
Aug. 18 – International students begin arriving
Aug. 22 – Student orientation leaders (SOLs) arrive
Aug. 23 – New faculty workshop
Aug. 24 – Faculty workshop
Aug. 27 – New students move in
Aug. 29 – Returning students move in
Golf, we do that, with
student-athletes. MC’s women’s golf program is ranked nationally by Golf
Digest! Check out the
September 2006 issue: The
magazine ranks the College’s program 50th for
“Academics First.” Especially important to the ranking is how MC
ranks for its coaches/facilities – 77.
No. 1 Princeton
scored an 82, in comparison. Writes Golf Digest: “For
juniors who are excellent students first, golfers second, these
schools provide the absolute best education and an opportunity
to play.”
It pays to pick
up campus clutter …
consider what happened when Lisa Gregory (alumni relations)
picked up a scrap of paper in the visitors parking lot across
from the Ad Building: Scribbled on the back of the paper was a
handwritten note: Need
to make $700 gift to MC. “I’m not sure if the person that dropped this note has an
outstanding pledge they want reminded of or if this is just a
new pledge! Too bad there was no name on the note,” bemoans
Lisa. “I’d love to be able to call that person and remind them
of their note since they have now lost that reminder!”
Our Athletic Training Education Program is reaccredited for
another five years, reports the Commission on Accreditation of
Athletic Training Education. This means Manchester has
completed a comprehensive review and demonstrated compliance
with national standards, and that our graduating athletic
training majors (we have 32 + 15 newcomers) are eligible to sit
for the Board of Certification exam. Congratulations Mark
Huntington, Brice Bedke, Erin Foreman
(new!) and us!
The Welcome
Reception is for all of us!
Our new Welcome Reception format is a come-and-go
affair … but we’ll want to catch the introduction of new staff
at 5 p.m. Newbies since last September are welcome early,
of course, but will want at least to be at the Science Center by
4:40 p.m. to don their nametags. The reception is 4 to 6 p.m. in
the Physician’s Atrium. Some offices can’t close before 5
because of the press of business/students, but perhaps some
folks (and the newbies) can slip away …
Welcome to MC!
Penny J. Deal, Administrative Assistant, Office of Academic
Affairs; Rick Hammer, Track and Field Intern; Anthony W. Feher,
Adjunct Faculty, Exercise and Sport Sciences; Erin R. Foreman,
Instructor, Exercise and Sport Sciences
Want to learn more about the College and its programs and opportunities?
Join the Manchester Community Club, which gathers monthly for
dinner and programs about the College by faculty, students,
staff and alumni. There’s even interest groups in painting,
theatre, sightseeing, etc. The first program of the year is
Professor Emeritus Ken Brown of our Peace Studies program, at 6
p.m. on Sept. 6 in the Oakwood Hall great room. Annual dues are
$10. Dinner is $9. Make reservations with Charles/Susie Klingler
at 982-6470 or Jo Ann Schall at 982-6977 before Sept. 1.
These
folks know where all the meaty bones are buried. As another year begins, we celebrate the service, friendship and
talent of these nifty colleagues. We cheered them at the
All-Staff Meeting last week:
40 years –
Rita Schroll
(College Advancement)
25 years –
Betty Butterbaugh (Career Services, which also celebrated on her anniversary with a
cake)
15 years –
Jolane Rohr
(Admissions) and
Elbert Sammons (Physical Plant)
10 years –
Sandy Bendsen
(Admissions)
5 years –
Adam Hohman
(Admissions),
Julie Talz
(Residential Life),
Nancie Meyer (Campus Store)
What do door
prizes, College services and snacks have in common? The Info/Tech Fair! This is for us – all MC employees – to
learn about all the services the College has to offer, from
audio-visual, to printing, to ITS to PR to human resources, the
library, fund development, learning support, conference services
… you name it! Stop by Funderburg Library anytime to meet
informally with folks in our MC network between 9 and 11 a.m. on
Tuesday, Aug. 22.
One-stop shopping! And food.
Didja see the College’s entry in the Fun Fest window decorating contest?
The
theme was Mardi Gras – no stretch for designer Dan Chudzynski
and PR intern Kelli Griewank! It’s still there, in the window of
the Sports Café on Main Street. Grab a peek and an eat!
More great new web pages!
Check out
College Advancement’s new pages.
We
have a new server for the College website and related sites. Our pals in ITS will keep the old one up for a
couple of weeks. Expect possibly an interruption (couple of
hours) on Friday, Aug. 18. More info is forthcoming. Do not make
any structural or major design changes to our web pages during
this time. Updating text is fine. Address questions to
Rick Blevins.
Microsoft is warning of a bug
in some Windows versions that could lead to enormous computing
issues of the likes of the MS Blaster worm days in the early
2000s. This bug can spread lethally quick and cause irreparable
damage to PC files. Patching is required. While ITS is taking
care of our MC computers, home computers and student computers
are vulnerable until patched. Here’s a link to the Microsoft
security bulletins:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-Aug.mspx.
The
Manchester Investment Club will hold its monthly meeting at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 16 in
Funderburg Library. There will be no money to invest. The year
per share value grew 5.6 percent as of June 30. Prospective
faculty and staff members are welcome. – Richard Harshbarger,
Treasurer
Wow!
Yea!
Kudos
You’re Awesome! Thanks!
Kudos to
Deb Hustin
(ITS) from the athletic training staff. We had a critical
software problem prior to football players reporting for
testing, and Deb contacted tech support and fixed the problem in
short order – with 10 minutes to spare before the football
players arrived. Thanks, Deb!!! – Mark Huntington
Beverly
Ferry, executive director of the Wabash County Council on Aging,
recently was chatting about Manchester’s Lilly Endowment
internship program with a Ford Meter Box executive who serves on
her board. He told her he is “very impressed with the high
quality of interns Manchester College produces,” reports Marcia
Benjamin (communication studies). Both admire that our student
interns (Audrey Hampshire and Leanne Rakestraw)
from the Manchester
Chamber and the Learn More Center presented so professionally at
a recent Chamber “Before Hours” program. Cap feathers for MC,
its interns, and program leader
Liz Bushnell!
Human
Resources
Faculty and Staff Openings:
Assistant
Director of The Manchester Fund, Assistant Women’s Basketball
Coach, Assistant Wrestling Coach, Custodian, Campus Security
Officer (part-time), Publications Assistant, Men’s and Women’s
Tennis Coach Intern
It really is
easy, honest!
It’s time for exempt employees to join the electronic recording
– only for paid time off, etc. On Sept. 1, exempt employees will
replace those white cards (which we lost anyway) with ezLabor
and the help of our Alison Keating in ITS. Paid time off
includes bereavement, holidays, jury duty, sick days and
vacation. Training to come.
Not trained yet
in ezLabor?
Supervisors of
staff and/or students who have not trained in this electronic
recording system, contact
Allison Keating in
ITS,
x5432
Student employee supervisors: Because the pay period ends in the middle of the week, the last
day of “summer employment” is Friday, August 25. Students who
continue to work until classes begin need to notify
Carrie Makin (x5559) in HR and will be paid at the school
year rate of $5.25 beginning Saturday, August 26. Supervisors
with questions about summer housing credit for their student
workers should contact Carrie. The credit will be applied by the
end of September; the $200 bonus (or whatever amount due) will be
paid Sept. 30.
It’s time to post student job openings!
Fill in the
Student Employment Request Form and e-mail it to Carrie
Makin, who will post the openings on our website. Students now
can apply online, so we’ll get their applications via email
unless we pick up the hard copies at Human Resources. We also
can just update past postings. Contact Carrie.
Oldies but still goodies from recent MEMOs …
Employee Assistance Program on campus.
A representative from Bowen
Center will be on campus from 11:30 p.m. to 1p.m. on
Wednesday, Aug. 16, in the Plowshares Library, Calvin
Ulrey 206. The first five sessions are paid for by the
College. This service is completely confidential.
It
only takes a moment …
now that we have that song in the beans of the longtimers,
please take that moment and visit the online
Campus Directory to
ensure everything about you is exactly correct … phone, job,
campus address, etc. See … the link is right here; click on the
phone. Do we need to change something? Absolute deadline is Aug.
31, to
Crysta Borden in Human Resources, x5288.
40
cents … that’s our
new mileage rate for all personal vehicles (regardless of type),
effective July 1. It’s 42 cents for College-owned minivans and
52 cents for College-owned passenger vans.
To access the Group Administrators website
(www.groupadministrators.com),
enter your new ID number as your user ID and the last four
digits of your Social Security number the first time you log on.
You’ll then be prompted to change your password. (Those who
already have changed their password will retain that password;
only the user ID will change.)
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.
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