Transitions
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Want
to know where all the acorns are buried on campus? Ask
Leslie Pettit '79 (college advancement), but ask her quickly! Leslie is
leaving us Friday, ending more than 18 years. From typesetting to
database entry to researching grants
and receipting donations … she has held all kinds of jobs! Leslie
has worked every International Fair, helped decorate campus for
Christmas, assisted with plays and made our alumni feel right at
home. Join a celebration of Leslie’s devotion to Manchester
College (and acorns) at a reception 3:30 to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22
in Wampler Auditorium. Her last day is this Friday.
Congratulations,
farewell to Leslie Augustyniak, assistant director of
admissions, on her new job as community development manager/program
specialist with the Girl Scouts of
Limberlost Council in Fort
Wayne. Leslie, an MC grad, joined the
admissions staff four years ago. Her invaluable work is the reason
many students are on campus today. Her last day is this Friday.
News to know
...
MCConnect is available for
mid-semester grade entry,
now until 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22. Adjuncts must submit their
hard-copy grade sheets to the Registrar by 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22.
All faculty must submit hard copies of their grades. Questions:
Registrar’s Office, x5234.
Alert!
No internet, no e-mail, no access to shared drives this Friday, Oct.
19. Nada.
Plan accordingly while ITS and telephone contractors work their
magic.
What to do with all that off-line
time this Friday,
in the throes of Fall Break? Dress for the day is “relaxed,” for
those who might want to get down and dirty. Some possibilities:
- Take well-deserved time off, using vacation
or floating holidays (with supervisor approval).
- Catch up on work that doesn’t require
networks or internet, assuming you’ve remembered to transfer
those files to our desktop, or a CD or a thumb/flash drive.
- Clean your office, your files, your hard
drive, your shelves …
- Got lots of confidential documents that
need destroying? Don’t waste time shredding, just haul them to
the special (one day only) guarded container on the north side
of the Ad Building on Friday. Our staff will personally take the
material for disposal and watch as it is destroyed.
- A second container in the same place will
take paper for normal recycling. So clean those files!
While
Coach Shannon Griffith is a prime suspect, the MEMO Lady has her
money on Doug Shoemaker. After all, he was the former Cheerleading
coach, and we think he gave Sami the ax when she gained too much
weight for the pyramids. What do you think? Check out the evidence
gathered by Manchester’s Finest, read the tips, or just get yer
jollies at the
Who Killed Sami Spartan website, authored by those scalawags at
The Writing Center.Think you can solve it? Oct. 31 is the deadline.
The cashier counter is closed Friday, Oct. 19.
We need the network to process transactions.
Our contact for the CIC Tuition
Exchange
Program
now
is Sherri Shockey, director of student financial services. Employees
who have not done the necessary paperwork for next year should
contact Sherri by Oct. 30. If you have contacted Dave McFadden (who
used to be the contact for the CIC program), he has given your
materials to Sherri.
Mark that calendar
…
Our trustees are coming, and we’re
invited to “audit” some of their
meetings. The Board of Trustees fall meeting is Friday and Saturday,
October 26- 27. The Board
Briefing Book
is available at the library for review. Here are committee meetings
we are welcome to attend, all 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26:
Academic
Affairs, Science Center 103
College
Advancement, Science Center 210
Enrollment Management, Science Center 218
Student
Development, Trochu Room, College Union
Soprano Debra Lynn has
selected a challenging and exciting program for her faculty recital
at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 24 in Wine Recital Hall.
American Art Songs and Arias
is the title. Expect variety, and her own writings.
Native
American performers will use the College mall as their
stage at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 26 for a special convocation. Ash
and Reuben Fast Horse will perform Lakota songs, dances and stories.
(Rain = Cordier Auditorium) The faculty business meeting at the same
time is postponed to Nov. 2.
The Fast Horse family also will perform at 8 p.m. on
Thursday, Oct. 25 in Cordier Auditorium. Both performances are free,
public and carry VIA credit. Here’s more about
Fast Horse.
The International Fashion Show
on Friday, Oct. 26 will feature styles from at least 18
countries. The event starts at 7 p.m. in Wampler, a collaboration of
the Black Student Union, Asian Awareness Association, Hispanos
Unidos and International Association. The program is cancer
awareness, with a free-will donation to The Scout Fuller Fund for
Social Justice.
Tuesday, Oct. 23 is the Health Fair,
when we gather in the PERC for a wealth of wellness assistance,
testing, stretching, poking, goodie bags … 7 to 11 a.m. for all
students, faculty, staff, our immediate families and retirees of the
College. Insurance does not cover this. Make checks for tests out to
Manchester College. Collect a Wellness point.
Questions?
Tara Vogel, x5306 or Lana Groombridge,
x5353.
Thinking out of the box … class at
midnight. On Wednesday, Nov. 14, students in Jim
Falkiner’s class in Entrepreneurial Thinking also will think outside
the time zone when innovative thinker Kent Sweitzer lectures live
from his home in Hiroshima, Japan. We’re invited to join them, in
Science Center 102. Jim also is bringing Vera Bradley co-founder Pat
Miller to campus Oct. 24.
Here’s the story.
Notable
…
Tuscany recipes of Jo and Dave Switzer
were featured in Cook’s Corner in the Fort Wayne
Journal Gazette on Oct.
10, and atop the paper’s home page.
Here’s a link to the story, or see it on the bulletin board on
the garden level of the Ad Building. Thanks, Jo and Dave, for
spending time with the reporter and photographer!
Manchester College Community Club
will hear Scott Strode (communication studies) speak
about New Zealand and Maori Culture at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7
in the Speicher Room, College Union. Reservations ($10) are due by
Oct. 31 to Al/Barbara Williams, 982-4636, or Helga Walsh, 982-7287.
Human Resources
…
Faculty and staff openings:
Assistant Professor of Accounting and Business, Assistant Professor
of Accounting and Business (CPA required), Assistant Professor of
Economics, Assistant Director of Recruiting, Admissions Counselor,
Men and Women’s Head Tennis Coach, Campus Security Officer
Go
to job descriptions
Paid
time off balances were recently distributed to all staff
along with an attendance calendar. The
calendar sent to salaried staff was
incorrectly marked.
A correct form is now available on the
Human Resources
Forms web page under the “Leave” heading. Remember to track your
paid time off as well as enter it into EzLabor. See instructions on
obtaining this form on the website.
Spartan Weekly!
MC's weekly update by Doug
Shoemaker, sports information director
The Hall of Fame adds five Spartans
this Saturday, Oct. 20:
Dr. Stan Weller
’66, Becky
Kreps ’88,
Leanne Lake ’98,
Trey Holcomb ’98
and Josh Hardman ’00.
A reception in the PERC main office begins at 10:30 a.m., followed
by the 11 a.m. luncheon. For reservations: Alumni Office, x5223.
Here’s more about the
2007 Hall
of Fame.
Oldies but goodies from recent MEMOs
Sign up now for emergency alerts … please!
In a crisis, we need to touch bases with
every single one of us … those who have not registered their cell
phone numbers and e-mail (text message) addresses for instant alert,
please do so now. MC will use mass-notification only for
emergencies, such as serious violence or natural disaster. If your
wireless is Centennial, for example, your e-mail address is
your 10-digit phone number@cwemail.com
such as 2601234567@cwemail.com.
For details about providers,
click here.
Here’s the
All-Staff Meeting schedule. All begin at 8
a.m. sharp, following a 7:30 meet and eat. All fall on a Thursday.
The next meeting is soon, in Wine Recital
Hall.
October 18, 2007
June 19, 2008
January 17, 2008 October 23, 2008
March 13, 2008
Include PR
and the
MEMO Lady in your notices about seminars, colloquiums, special
lectures, programs. She’ll get them on the web calendar and help get
the word out! Contact
Jeri Kornegay (public relations), or the
MEMO Lady.
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