News to know...
NASA scientist Jim Gaier ’74 will discuss “Why go to the Moon?” for our convocation next Monday, March 9 at 10 a.m. in the upper College Union. (He's also a former chair of our Chemistry Department.) Here’s more.
No more U.S Mail box out front after March 10. That blue box in front of the Ad Building is averaging only about 10 pieces of mail a day, report local postal authorities. So, March 10, it’s history. (Nope, there’s no other U.S. Postal Service “mailbox” on campus.) Heather Gochenaur, our mail room supervisor, offers these alternatives for stamped outgoing mail:
• Mail slot by the student mail boxes in the lower College Union (that is taken to Post Office between 9:30 and 10 a.m. weekdays)
• “Stamped Mail” bin atop the mail slots in the Mail Room in the basement of the Ad Building
• The plastic bins our Mail Room employees carry back to our Mail Room in the College Union
Get help and help the Senior Class and the College at the same time. The Senior Class Gift committee is raising money for the Senior Gift by working for faculty and staff. Got a job needing done? Just e-mail their advisor, Jenny Perusek (college advancement) with the details and a wage estimate.
Mark your calendar...
Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. this Sunday, March 8. We advance our clocks one hour. That means we'll save energy after work, when we won't need our lamps and lights as early!
Reception 5 to 7 p.m. this Saturday for Worth and Ben Weller. Their exhibit, “Culture Chromatic” continues through March 29 in Link Gallery, surrounding Wine Recital Hall. The father-son photojournalists present their work from around the globe. Ben is teaching camera techniques on campus, and Worth, well, he’s just part of the fabric that is Manchester. Here’s the story, with links to their work.
Lunch and Learn is this Thursday, March 5. Come hear about the brand new YMCA facilities in Wabash. Noon to 1 p.m. in the Hoff Room, upper College Union. Bring your lunch.
Lil Sibs ’09 is Saturday, April 4. For a schedule of events, contact Shanon Green (student activities) or visit the Student Activities website.
Save the date for our International Buffet. It’s Sunday, April 5 in Haist Commons, College Union, with service from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Transitions...
Fanfare! Scott Humphries (music) has agreed to stay with us. He’s finishing up his doctorate in music education at Boston University and brings many years as a music educator in Virginia. Scott also will contribute to our new CORE program and continue to direct the MSO.
Coming this fall to a biology and religion classroom near you:
Kate Eisenbise joins our religion faculty. She expects to receive her Ph.D. this spring from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkley, Calif. (Her bachelor’s degree is from Earlham and her master’s is from Bethany Seminary, so this is familiar territory.)
Rachel Polando joins our biology faculty. She plans to receive her Ph.D. this May from University of Notre Dame University, with a specialty in immunology and infectious diseases.
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This is about silly hats and jump ropes. About 50 of our students led 150 second-graders at Manchester Elementary School through Read Across America and a Jump Rope for Heart fund-raiser on Monday morning. The energy! The giggles! A tip of the hat especially to SHAPE ((Sports, Health, and Physical Education club) and Student Education Association members, and MC students enrolled in kiddy lit.
All contracts involving the College and any outside vendor or business must be reviewed and approved by Jack Gochenaur, treasurer, before they are signed. As you plan your project timetable, please allow two business days for the review.
Manchester’s future teachers rock, and so does their SEA advisor! First-year student Brittany Oliver received one of only four Indiana Student Education Association scholarships. She’s the MC chapter co-president with junior Kelsey Morris, who is the Indiana SEA Outstanding Student Leader. (She also serves on the state executive board.) AND, Stacy Stetzel (education) is Outstanding Local Advisor for, among other attributes, her students’ praise of her “phenomenal professional and personal attributes.” Factoids: 232 MC students are education majors, including 80 SEA members.
Please continue to refer students you are concerned about to SuccessNet for intervention. Here’s the link, also on our Faculty/Staff page.
Tim Reed’s music travels far. This Thursday, March 5, his set of piano pieces, Five Misappropriations for Solo Piano, will be performed at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. On April 4, his electroacoustic work, The Point, will be performed at the Society of Composers national conference in Santa Fe, N.M. On April 18, his electroacoustic work, A Nonfunctional Teapot will be performed at the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States conference in Fort Wayne.
The Church Van is available every Sunday to take students to any local church. Click here for the schedule; the bus leaves from the Oakwood Hall entrance on East Street. Questions? Contact student chapel assistant Carol Fike or Pastor Steve Crain.
Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace is assembled and edited by our Julie Garber (former Plowshares director), and is filled with thought-provokers, from articles to book reviews to case studies. Current articles include “Religion and the Environmental Crisis,” and “The Politics of Love and War,” for example.
Tech...
Many people reading this have not set up a personal voice mail message. Why bother? Because your callers are receiving this cold, uninviting, uncaring message: Extension 5### is not available. Record your message ….” No name, no office, just the extension. Brrrr! “It only takes a moment,” sang Cornelius and Mrs. Molloy. Larry, Our Telephone Guy, offers Voice Mail Tips here.
Human Resources...
Faculty and Staff Openings: Assistant Professor of Economics, Assistant Professor or Instructor of Mathematics/Mathematics Education, Adjunct for one semester of intermediate German
Oldies but goodies from past MEMOs..
Have you seen the VIA schedule for spring? It’s chock-full of convocations, speakers, panels, movies. We’ll hear about energy resources, go to the Moon, play chess with a grandmaster (well, some of us will), feminism, personal finance and U.S. policy in the Middle East. Here’s the schedule.
SOC events. We’ve got style, walleye, dirt, alumni, high-tech and peaceful plants. And used books to share. Here’s the schedule, with all sessions at noon on Wednesdays in the Speicher Room of the upper College Union unless otherwise noted:
March 11 – Think Spring: Look for the Dirt, with Lisa Metzger
April 8 – Middle Eel River Initiative, with Jerry Sweeten
May 13 – Alumni Legacy, with Lisa Gregory
June 10 – Plant Exchange in the Peace Garden
Faculty Business Meetings 2009. All are on Fridays; all begin at 10 a.m. in Flory Auditorium: March 13, April 24 and May 8.
Faculty Professional Development Meetings. 10 a.m. in Flory, unless noted.
Friday, March 6 – Cooperative Learning
Friday, April 17 – Using Portfolios to Assess Student Learning (Wine Recital Hall)
All-Staff Meetings provide updates, celebrations of service and connections. We begin to gather at 7:30 a.m. for coffee and chat; the meeting starts promptly at 8 a.m. in Wine Recital Hall.
Thursday, March 26
Thursday, June 18
Thursday, October 22
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