Our Trustees
are on campus this week.
As usual, their
plates are piled high. We’ll want to say hello and thanks for
their service, stewardship and financial contributions to the
Manchester community! Three trustees are completing their terms –
Chair Bentley Peters, Mike Jarvis and Freddie Bullock – we hope
we didn’t wear them out! The Financial Affairs committee meets
Thursday night, then breakfast with some of us Friday morning, a
Trustees Academy on marketing and enrollment, lunch with
students followed by standing committee meetings and a general
session. Wampler is their home base. Saturday morning is their
action session.
Meet the Campus Pastor candidates
this Wednesday and
Thursday. Special times for staff and faculty are below; one
candidate each day.
Wednesday, Oct.
25, at 3 p.m. in Holl-Kintner 113
Thursday, Oct.
26, at 1 p.m. in Winger 111
Children of North Manchester are in for goodies and screams on the Manchester College campus this week and next.
All five residence halls are greeting Trick-or-Treaters from 6
to 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30. Children can expect treats at any
door that sports a special Trick-or-Treat logo in Schwalm, East,
Garver, Oakwood and Helman residence halls. Children of all ages
are expected this Wednesday and Thursday night for the Haunted
Forest – think we ought to tell President Jo and Dave?
Check our home page for details.
Their calling
obviously is calling …
Last night, the
energy was zapping about the room as our Phonathoners gathered
$26,000 in one night of calling! That’s leadership, momentum,
and a hard-working batch of students. “Way to go team!” shout
wowed Phonathon leaders Janeen Kooi and Jennifer Perusek. It’s
for The Manchester Fund.
What do a
graveyard, art and music have in common?
You won’t want
to miss the spectacular music and art collaboration this weekend
at the season premier of the Manchester Symphony Orchestra.
Check out the story, from our home page.
Feeling a little ghostly?
Manchester Parks & Recreation needs you! This year’s Haunted
Forest, a spooky walk through the “haunted” forest on Manchester
College campus, is short on scary sites for the forest trail.
There’s still time for student groups, organizations, etc. to
put together a site before the dead rise at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow,
Wednesday night. Honest! The Haunted Forest, wildly popular,
takes place 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 25-26.
If
you can pull a site together (cash prize!) or volunteer, contact
Manchester Area Programs at 982-4919 or
nmprdirector@mchsi.com right away!
Service is our
mission! We know that.
We’ll find out
all kinds of neat ways we can help at the Volunteer Fair on
Wednesday, Oct. 25 from 5 to 6 p.m. in Link Gallery. The Office
of Volunteer Services is sponsoring this event to introduce the
campus community to local service organizations who need our
help. Get ideas for class projects, service events, or
volunteering. Swing by and bring a friend!
Some of the organizations to learn more
about at the fair:
ü
Brethren Volunteer Service
ü
Big Brothers/Big Sisters
ü
Southern Care Hospice
ü
Vernon Manor (Home for physically and mentally disabled children)
ü
Office of Volunteer Services
ü
Habitat for Humanity
Deb Hustin,
Stan Pittman and Jennifer Reichenbach
… We applauded them for their service at the All-Staff meetings
last week. Congratulations, and thanks for the memories!
And this pumpkin? Jen
Birner carved it to light up our morning meeting!
Deb Hustin
(ITS) – 20 years
Stan Pittman
(audio visual) – 20 years
Jennifer
Reichenbach (Aurora yearbook) – 5 years
We can do this!
Thanks to the dozen or so folks who signed up “on the spot” at the
All-Staff Meeting last week to do their part in raising staff
participation in The Manchester
Fund. Inch by inch, that percentage is rising!
There’s still time to get in on those reserved parking spots.
Remember the deal: A whole month of parking close to work, just
for select faculty and staffers who use payroll deduction to
donate to the College. We’ll have a couple more drawings for the
parking spots before the year is out. See Rita in College
Advancement to up our giving percentage. The first month of
parking is November.
Well, Well!
Congratulations to Marcia Hicks as the first to complete her
Wellness Card. Marcia chose to lose weight for her one major
event. How? Our custodial supervisor will tell you she is eating healthy, controlling
her portions and exercising. Marcia says she’s full of pep and
feels wonderful.
Yule love how our baseball team is
raising money for a spring trip to Arizona.
It's time for the annual Christmas wreath sale ... honest! The
Minnesota balsam/pine wreaths and swags come in two diameters,
18 and 25 inches. They've got white-tipped pine cones and red
holly berries and a big ol' velvet bow. the team is
accepting orders until Oct. 27 with delivery the week of Nov.
13. Click here for the order
form.
Because of a wet and sloppy mall last week, the Drunk Driving
Simulation
now is 4 to 6 p.m. THIS Wednesday. Facts 4 Life seeks help
spreading the word to students.
Welcome to the
MC community!
Sandra C. Haist, Computer Science Adjunct; Cathie J. Markstahler,
Mathematics
Adjunct
Seats remain
on the bus for the Dec. 7 shopping trip to
Chicago. Contact the Alumni Office.
Click here for the whole story.
Still thinking about that King Tut trip
on Dec. 4 to Chicago? We’ll add yet another bus if more people
sign up. Already, more than 20 youngsters from a Fort Wayne
middle school are signed up.
Here’s the story and details.
Lessons and Carols, our Dec. 8 choir concert, has a change of venue.
We were on the road to Warsaw. Now we’re not, because of a
conflict up there. We’ll hear our choirs sing out at 7:30 p.m.
on Dec. 8 in Cordier Auditorium. Details to come.
Break out the
Black and Gold, for Manchester College Spartan Days
on Saturdays,
Nov. 11 and
Nov. 18. That’s when high school students of all ages and their
families/guests visit campus for tours and talks and lunch. If
you know a prospective MC student, send them to our website at
www.manchester.edu, or have them contact our Admissions
folks at 800-852-3648 or
visit@manchester.edu to register.
Her name is
Lydia.
Sammy Grinstead
has a little sister, Lydia, born Monday morning in Kosciusko Community
Hospital. All are doing super. Lydia is 20 inches, 7 pounds, 11
ounces. Happy thoughts to Melissa (College Advancement) and
Brad!
Human
Resources
Faculty and staff openings: Campus Pastor, Administrative Assistant
for Student Development, Tennis Coach Intern
Go to job descriptions
Take me to Spartan Weekly!
MC's weekly
update by Doug Shoemaker, sports information director
We know they’re
great coaches, but they’re also conference Coaches of the Year. MC women’s golf Coach Jeff
Kock is HCAC Coach of the Year for the third-straight
season as his team heads for the NCAA National Championships in
May. AND! Women’s tennis Coach Al
Flory led his team to a fifth-consecutive Heartland
Collegiate Athletic Conference championship, earning MC women
tennis players their first trip to the NCAA Championships, also
in May. (Why first with all those championships? ‘Cause the
conference has changed its scoring to match the NCAA scoring.)
The Hall of Fame luncheon is this Saturday.
See the Alumni Office for tickets, $15. We’ve five honorees this
year.
For more about them, click here.
Nelson T.
Potter ’34 Mt. Morris (posthumously) Baseball
Bob Scheer ’66
Contributor
DeAnn Booth
’92 Basketball,
Softball
Nick Primozic
’98 Wrestling
Nancy Sherrick
’90 Taylor Softball
Oldies but still goodies from recent MEMOs
What
does art and science have in common?
Professor Jim Adams will show us … with the unveiling at 4:30
p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26 of his three commissioned paintings for the
Physicians Atrium of the Science Center. Expect abstract, expect
bold color, expect big, expect “a significant stylistic
departure” from the work we have come to recognize from Jim.
Here’s just a peek …
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