January 21st, 2010

   In this issue:


•  A letter from the (new) editor
•  Owls to honor Brent Elwell Saturday
•  David Krakauer and klezmer quartet at the Redfern
•  Students accepted to New England College Intercollegiate Band
•  Rhodes Hall Computer Lab
•  Students publish on music education
•  Professional Activities
•  Family News
•  What’s happening on campus

A letter from the (new) editor

Thanks so much to the KSC community for your well-wishes after last week’s announcement. Robin Dutcher has done a fantastic job with this newsletter for nearly five years, and she leaves big shoes.

As I try to fill them:

  • Please be patient. I will likely make mistakes here or there. Please let me know when I do, and I’ll try to correct them promptly.
  • Give me feedback. There are a few changes potentially coming, and one that’s in effect immediately: Comments are enabled on all new posts. Please, take advantage of these new forums. And please, let me know what you love about Campus News, and what opportunities you see for improvement.
  • Give me news. I am happy to be able to share your news with the campus, but I will do that better if you share it with me. E-mail the Campus News address with your professional updates, personal news, opportunities to do good in the community, policy shifts — whatever you’d like to share with your colleagues.

Thanks again for your support.

Best,

Lucy Webb
Marketing and Communications

Owls to honor Brent Elwell Saturday

From Stuart Kaufman, Sports Information:

Keene State will honor Brent Elwell with a remembrance at halftime of the men’s basketball game against UMass-Boston on Saturday, January 23, at Spaulding Gym. The College also announced that it will donate the proceeds from the basketball doubleheader and accept donations to the Elwell Family Scholarship Fund that has been established at Keene High School.
Contributions may also be made to: Trustees of Trust Funds for the Union School District of Keene with a memo reference to “The Elwell Family Scholarship Fund” at 34 West Street, Keene, NH 03431.
Elwell, a Keene native and huge KSC sports fan, died January 5, from heart failure after a life-long battle with cancer. He was 33.
Diagnosed with leukemia and heart problems when he was three years old, Brent stopped growing at 4′9″, due to the radiation treatments he received. But that never stopped his growing involvement with KSC sports. That was his passion, and any fan who attended any Owl athletic event was likely to see Brent, helping out somewhere on the sidelines. Besides working and volunteering regularly over the years at KSC sporting events, Brent worked in various positions on campus, from helping in the mailroom 15 years ago to his most recent job in the bookstore.
Ned Elwell, Brent’s father, will speak at halftime along with Pat Hearn, a close friend of the Elwells and a member of the KSC Athletic Department staff.
“We’ve have lost our MVP but we know he’ll always be keeping an eye on all of his teams from up above,” said Hearn.
The Keene State basketball doubleheader begins with the women’s game at 1 p.m. The Owl men tip-off at 3 p.m.

David Krakauer and klezmer quartet at the Redfern

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From Bill Menezes, Redfern Arts Center

The internationally acclaimed clarinetist David Krakauer will bring his klezmer quartet to Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center, Wednesday, January 27, at 7:30 p.m. Krakauer will also conduct a lecture demonstration on the history of klezmer and its influences on American music at 2 p.m. at the Redfern. The lecture demonstration is free and open to the public.

For more on Krakauer, visit the Redfern site.

Students accepted to New England College Intercollegiate Band

Jim Chesebrough, Assistant Professor of Music, reports that Morgan Cyr (flute), Megan Fleagle (horn), Nathan Shower (trumpet), Lori Kjellander (clarinet), and Alyssa Comeau (clarinet) have been accepted as members of the New England College Intercollegiate Band. They will be rehearsing and performing at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts on April 9-10 with college musicians from across New England. The guest conductor will be Robert Sheldon.

Rhodes Hall Computer Lab

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From Kim Paré, IT Group:

Welcome back!

As a new semester begins at KSC, remember the Rhodes Hall Computer Lab has a new face this year. While one-half of the lab remains the same continuing to offer computers for basic student computing use, the other half provides students with an open, collaborative working space.

This mobile lab allows students to come together and work in groups comfortably and easily. New mobile tables and chairs allows students to form a “pod,” plug in their own laptop and view their work on a monitor attached to the wall. The lab accommodates both PC and Mac computers. Students can move portable white boards to their workspace to share ideas while brainstorming as a group and privacy screens are available for students who want more privacy. Encourage your students to use this lab whenever they have projects to work on with other classmates or have a study group where using their technology would be beneficial.

Students publish on music education

From Sandra Howard, Music Department:

I am pleased to announce that five of our finest music education students at KSC have recently been published in the latest edition of the Quarter Notes journal published by the New Hampshire Music Educators Association. The January 2010 issue is dedicated to the topic of general music.

Congratulations to Sandra and her students, Melinda Abodeely, Aly Ryder, Brian Heeran, Melissa White, and Hayley Duyon.

Professional Activities

Frank Mazzola, Director, Physical Plant Operations, was a guest panelist at the winter 2010 meeting of IFMA, the International Facilities Management Association in Boston.
Frank addressed numerous issues facing higher education facilities managers today, including keeping operating costs low, addressing deferred maintenance, and how the physical appearance of a campus helps recruitment. Over 200 facilities managers from higher education, hospitals, and commercial properties were in attendance.

Sander Lee, Professor of Philosophy, contributed an essay titled “Why Are They Our Red Sox?” ” in the anthology The Red Sox and Philosophy, edited by Michael Macomber, as part of the Popular Culture and Philosophy series published by the Open Court Press, 2010.

“Tov L’hodot” for choir and piano, originally written for the KSC Chamber Singers by adjunct faculty member Lainee Broad Ginsberg, will be released by Transcontinental Music Publications, which has published 7 of her choral works. Transcontinental has now sold 3,000 copies of Lainee’s “Oseh Shalom.”

Meriem Pages, Assistant Professor of English, has been awarded a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council to lead an interdisciplinary workshop on the “Teaching the Middle Ages” for New Hampshire educators June 28-29, 2010. The goal will be to address and explore the richness and diversity of medieval European culture and society as well as to examine and investigate the connections between past and present, medieval Europe and modern American society. Targeting the specific needs of middle-school and high-school educators, the workshop meets a critical need by providing professional development on the literature, history, and art of the Middle Ages, and is expected draw educators from around the state.
KSC faculty Stephen Lucey of the Art Department and Susan Wade of the History Department will present sessions, as will faculty from Plymouth State University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Matching funds are being contributed by the Office of the Dean of Arts & Humanities, Office of the Provost, English Department, History Department, Campus Commission on the Status of Women, and Alumni Association.

Candice L. Bosse, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies, delivered a keynote address, “La mujer nomada,” at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras. She was also invited to speak about feminism in a talk entitled “Feminismo: la diferencia o la igualdad” at the Universidad Pedagogica de Honduras.

Family News

We are sad to report that Warren Lodge, 86, father of Gloria Lodge, Academic and Career Advising, passed away on December 6, 2009.

What’s happening on campus

Please visit this week’s selected events; the coming week includes a variety of activities in honor of civil rights, David Krakauer’s klezmer performance, and a new film at the Putnam.