December 3rd, 2009

The Keene State College’s production of Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker (produced last fall) was awarded the 2009 Moss Hart College/University Theatre Division Award at the New England Theatre Conference last month.

The Moss Hart Memorial Award recognizes outstanding theatrical productions throughout New England of playscripts that “present affirmative views of human courage and dignity; that have strong literary and artistic merit; and that, in their productions, exemplify fresh, imaginative, creative treatment within the intent of the playwright.”

Director PeggyRae Johnson and KSC students attended the award ceremony at the conference. She reports that Michael Soldati (who played Horace Vandergelder) and Allison Lee Relihan (who played Minnie Fae) handed out pamphlets and answered questions about KSC’s Theatre and Dance program all day on Friday (High School day). On Saturday night, Michael, Allison, and Jes Berman (who played Dolly) and Jaime Pearsons (who played Mrs. Molloy) presented a scene, in costume, prior to the dinner.

PeggyRae Johnson (Theatre and Dance) and cast members from The Matchmaker with the 2009 Moss Hart College/University Theatre Division Award (courtesy photo)

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New Hampshire Magazine included President Giles-Gee on the 2009 “IT” list in the November 2009 issue. Each year the magazine creates a guest list for the “ultimate dinner party in the Granite State - an annual who’s who of the most fascinating and happening people in New Hampshire.” Calling Giles-Gee a “New Century Leader,” they write:
Dr. Helen Giles-Gee has presided over a wide range of activities since becoming president of Keene state College in 2005, including this year’s celebration of the school’s 100th anniversary. Courses have been revised and curricula transformed to ensure students acquire both the academic and technical skills graduates should have. The school has been endowed with two new academic chairs and has increased ties with area businesses and communities. “I think this puts us in position for the next 100 years to be an even better partner, not just with the Monadnock Region but with the state,” says the president.

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Bud Winsor and Sally Brown, President of the Monadnock Garden Club (courtesy photo)

Bud Winsor (Physical Plant) received the Garden Club of America’s prestigious Club Civic Improvement Commendation at the annual meeting of the Monadnock Garden Club on October 21. He was recognized for more than 30 years of experience as a horticultural professional in the Keene area and for his excellent contributions to the City of Keene as assistant director of the Physical Plant at Keene State College for the past 16 years.
 
The Keene State campus is open to the public and is a horticultural destination, attracting people from the region who regularly visit and stroll through the KSC Arboretum. Winsor helped create the KSC Arboretum brochure (available as guides for visitors to the campus), which documents the biodiversity of campus plants. He conducts field tours for grade-school students and has travelled with his staff to give a presentation titled “Creating a Sense of Place.”  
 
Winsor was also cited for professional development of his staff. Each of the 13 college employees he supervises is assigned a particular zone on the 180-acre campus, and he emphasizes continuing education for his staff. He also supervises many part-time KSC students, helping them to appreciate landscaping and design as both an art and a science.

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On Tuesday, October 6, Keene State was one of five New Hampshire businesses recognized with an Employment Leadership Award for demonstrating exceptional leadership, innovation, and/or a commitment to adopting hiring practices that improve employment opportunities for workers with disabilities in New Hampshire.

Keene State was one of 41 companies nominated by employment providers and partners throughout New Hampshire. Nominations were evaluated based on the company’s efforts to create opportunities that assist people with disabilities to develop the skills they need to obtain competitive employment, adopt inclusive hiring practices that allow people with disabilities to fairly compete for employment, and engage community partners to become a more diverse workplace. 

Among those on hand to congratulate and thank recipients for its diversified employment practices were Governor John Lynch; Fred Kocher of Kocher & Company, Inc.; Denise Sleeper, Administrator of the Granite State Employment Project; Nancy Rollins, Associate Commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services; and Robert Purcell, Principal/Owner of Brevan Electronics in Merrimack.

President Helen Giles Gee, Heather McGreer, Jane Warner, and Steve Bigaj represented KSC at the Employment Leadership Award ceremony on October 6. (Courtesy photo)

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From Colin Abernethy, Chemistry: For the second year in a row, the KSC Chemistry Lyceum has received an Honorable Mention Chapter Award from the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Education. The award recognizes the Lyceum for its educational, social, and outreach activities during the 2008-2009 academic year. Furthermore, the Lyceum was one of only 44 Student Chapters selected this year by both the Committee on Education and the ACS Green Chemistry Institute to receive a Green Chemistry Award.

 I would like to thank Ms. Jeudi Davis for the time and effort she gives in helping the Lyceum members plan and coordinate their activities; the Lyceum’s success is due, to a large part, on her continuing support.

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Paul Paltrineri, general manager of Zorn Dining Commons, was one of eight Sodexho employees named an “Everyday Hero” in June at a special event in Washington D.C.  Sodexho’s Heroes of Everyday Life award, now in its tenth year, honors employees who are making a difference in the fight against hunger in their local communities.

Paltrineri is chair of the board for The Community Kitchen in Keene, a nonprofit organization that provides food for local residents in need. He helps plan, organize, and staff fundraisers that raised more than $700,000 to fight hunger last year. Paul is also an advisor for the Keene State chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon, whose volunteer activities include working at the Community Kitchen.

“Paul’s commitment and dedication are remarkable,” a write up on the Sodexho Foundation website states. “While board members are expected to participate in as many fundraising events as possible, Paul has volunteered at every one since becoming a board member. In addition, he volunteers his time to work with 130 managers and staff members to support specific Sodexo/Keene State College initiatives that support the food bank directly.” The Sodexho Foundation has made a $5,000 grant to the Community Kitchen in Paul’s name.

For Paltrineri, who describes himself as a “political junkie,” an important bonus to the recognition and award was a behind-the-scenes visit to Capitol Hill. The award winners were given a tour and met with members of congress to talk about hunger.

“I was scheduled for 15 minutes of one-on-one-time with Senator Shaheen,” he said, enthusiastically describing a meeting extended into a longer appointment. “I talked about my work at Keene State and the Community Kitchen. The need is greater out there now, because of unemployment, and ­I get to see the benefits of these programs first hand.”

Paul Paltrineri (Sodexho) with U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen; courtesy photo

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KSC journalism students placed third in the Outstanding Student Reporting category of the Society for Environmental Journalists’ (SEJ) 2009 Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Melissa Ball, Randall Booth, Casie Brown, Meghan Foley and Ian Lord received recognition for their investigative package, “Getting The Lead Out,” which was published in the 5/8/08 issue of KSC’s student newspaper, The Equinox.

SEJ will honor the winners and present the awards on October 7 at an awards ceremony at the SEJ’s 19th annual conference. Nearly 800 journalists, academics, and others are expected to attend the five-day gathering.

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Dr. Candice Bosse, assistant professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies, has received a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Grant to facilitate the writing of her second book, Voices of Honduran Women: Here Women Do Not Write. Her first book, Becoming and Consumption: The Contemporary Spanish Novel, was published in 2007.

In July, Bosse will travel to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to conduct research in the Biblioteca Nacional, a key Central American national library, and to interview Honduran women poets. She will be completing work started in 2006, when she interviewed two Houduran poets, Lety Elvir and Claudia Torres. On this trip, Bosse will interview three more poets, exploring how each “articulates the creation of self” in relation to her role in Honduran society. She plans to use some of this material to create new courses in the Modern Language and Women’s Studies departments at Keene State.

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Lawrence M. Benaquist (Film Studies) is congratulated by the KSC Owl for 40 years of service at the Faculty and Staff recognition program on May 19. (Photo by Heather McGreer.)

See a see a complete listing of the Keene State employees honored for their service.

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From Stuart Kaufman, Sports Information: Tyler Kathan and Crystal Blamy were named Keene State College’s male and female Athletes of the Year at the College’s 2008–09 Athletic Awards Dinner held Sunday night, May 3, at Spaulding Gym.

Sarah McDougle received the Scholar-Athlete Award, and the Keene State women’s soccer team and men’s track squad were presented with the Don Carle Award for having the highest cumulative GPA among Owl teams. Because the athletic season is not completed, players from the previous spring are eligible for awards.

The KSC Athletic Department also presented a special Life Challenge award to Erin Dallas of the field hockey team. Dallas, a two-time All-American, suffered a knee injury during the season and developed a post-surgical infection following an ACL operation in December. She spent over three months in the hospital and had 37 operations.

Making the presentation to Dallas, KSC athletic director John Ratliff announced that, in the future, the honor will be known as the Erin Dallas Life Challenge award.

In addition, 44 seniors and the 126-member KSC All-Academic team were also recognized.

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From Colin Abernethy, Chemistry: Elizabeth A. Neuhardt ’10 has been selected to receive a 2009 James Flack Norris/Theodore William Richards Summer Research Scholarship from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society. The award carries a stipend of $3,000 with another $500 for supplies and travel.

At the conclusion of her summer of research in my laboratory, Ms. Neuhardt will write a report for publication in The Nucleus (The newsletter of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society) and will also present her work at the Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC) in April 2010. The presentation of this award to Ms. Neuhardt will be made at the 897th Meeting of the Northeastern Section on May 14 at Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.

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Courtesy photo; Karen Jennings (Psychology)

Campus Compact for New Hampshire recognized KSC professor Karen Jennings, the Keene Head Start Program, and Jeremy French ’10 at the annual President’s Awards luncheon on April 14 in Nashua, NH.

Associate Professor of Psychology Dr. Karen Jennings was awarded the Presidents’ Good Steward Award. While attending graduate school at Boston University, Jennings volunteered at the Samaritans suicide hotline, and she has connected her KSC students with the Samaritans program of the Monadnock Region. By offering her students the opportunity to volunteer as a partial service-learning component to her classes, she has secured a number of volunteers each semester for the Samaritans suicide hotline.

The Keene Head Start program received the Presidents’ Community Partner Award for its work with the Keene State College America Reads program. Nine KSC work-study students gained valuable experience in the early childhood education field through engaged weekly classroom work at Head Start, and the preschool children benefitted from having college students involved in their education from this early age.

Jeremy French received the Presidents’ Leadership Award for his work with local community youth and the campus community. A junior at Keene State, he is a member of College for Every Student (CFES) and a big brother for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Monadnock Region, and he works with the Keene Recreation Department’s Coordinated Approach to Child Health Program (CATCH) after-school program. He also volunteered weekly for the Marlborough/Harrisville After-School Program. An active member of the Greek community, he has served as Secretary for Phi Mu Delta.

Campus Compact for New Hampshire is a statewide consortium of college and university presidents and private-sector partners committed to the civic purposes of higher education. The mission of Campus Compact for New Hampshire is to be a catalyst to integrate community service and civic responsibility throughout the academic and student-life goals of its member institutions.

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Graphic Design USA has awarded designer Lynn Roman (College and Media Relations) an American Inhouse Design Award for the invitation she created for the Thorne-Sagendorph Art 2008 Gallery Summer Show, “Leonard Weisgard and Others: An Illustrator’s Journey.”

The American Inhouse Design Awards showcases outstanding work by inhouse designers within corporations, publishing houses, non-profits, universities, and government agencies who deserve recognition for their creativity, for the special challenges they face, and for their contributions to their businesses and institutions.

Roman received a Certificate of Excellence. Her work will be eligible for publication in Inhouse Design Awards Annual, and on the GD USA website this year.

Lynn Roman’s award-winning invitation to the Thorne’s 2008 Gallery Summer Show

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From Connie Lester, Redfern: Keene State students, faculty, staff, and community members from the fall production of Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker participated in the Region I Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival held at Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Mass., in January. After attending all productions in each of the eight regional festivals, the national selection team awarded ten commendations for distinguished achievement to selected New England Festival Productions. Five of those commendations were awarded to The Matchmaker. They included Jenny Fulton, faculty member of the Theatre and Dance Department, for scene design; Kade Hill, for his performance as Cornelius Hackl; Ethan Selby, for his performance as Barnaby Tucker; Jamie Pearsons, for her performance as Mrs. Irene Molloy; and Allie Lee Relihan, for her performance as Minnie Fay.

The festival brings students and faculty together to see some of the area’s strongest productions, participate in workshops, and compete in a variety of areas in theatrical performance, design, and production. Keene State College was honored to be one of five New England productions from the 116 adjudicated for inclusion in the festival.

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From Connie Lester, Redfern: Dr. Abigail Butler will receive the Keene State College Music Department’s 2008–09 Distinguished Alumni Award on May 2, during the KSC Concert Choir and Monadnock Chorus performance at 8 p.m. in the Main Theatre of the Redfern Arts Center. While visiting the campus, she will present workshops for Keene State music students.

Butler completed her undergraduate degree in vocal performance at Keene State in 1980, studying under music faculty member Carroll J. Lehman. She received her master of music degree from Midwestern State University in Texas and a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Arizona.

A member of the National Music Honor Society, Pi Kappa Lambda; the Music Educators National Conference; and the American Choral Directors Association, Butler is a native of Keene, N.H., and currently resides in Eastpointe, Mich., with her husband. She taught vocal and classroom music to grades K–12 for 13 years in New Hampshire public schools and served as guest conductor for state and regional junior high music festivals, in addition to adjudicating for the New Hampshire All-State Chorus and the New England Music Festival Association. Butler has appeared as soprano soloist with the Keene Chorale, the Monadnock Chorus, and various churches in New Hampshire and Texas.

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Three Keene State students, an eighth grader from Monadnock Regional High School, and a storyteller from Shelburne Falls, Mass. received awards at the 12th Annual Hildebrandt Holocaust Studies Awards Program on Monday, April 20, at Keene State College. The awards program, named for the late Charles Hildebrandt, who founded KSC’s Center for Holocaust Studies in 1983 and served as its first director, remembers the Holocaust by way of student and community art and scholarship.

Hannah Bush, 14, from Richmond, N. H., received the $300 Community School Award. The eighth grader at Monadnock Regional Middle School was recognized for her entry, an original song entitled “Be a Witness.”

David Arfa, from Shelburne Falls, Mass., received the $300 Community Member Award. His storytelling entry, “The Jar of Tears,” is based on the life of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapiro, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto. Rabbi Shapiro did not survive the war, but his sermons did – preserved in a milk jug, with a request that these teachings reach a wider audience.

Meagan Blais, a KSC Junior enrolled in Keene State’s new Holocaust and Genocide Studies major, will be one of the first undergraduate students in the U.S. to earn a B.A. degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Her personal essay, “Inheriting the Holocaust,” received a $500 award. The essay explores the burden of shame that accompanies bearing witness to the Holocaust, both personally as a scholar and for the generations that follow the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

KSC students Jessica Howard and Becky Midler shared a $500 award for “Unearthed Sense,” an original dance that they choreographed and performed. Their interest in the Holocaust began when they participated in “Inspired by Kaddish,” a dance performance this past fall, and continued after they viewed the Samuel Bak exhibit at the Thorne in November. The dance was representative of two individuals going through the same, but separate, struggle and takes place within a border of empty shoes.

For more information visit the website, or contact Margaret Barney, 8-2490, mbarney@keene.edu.

Courtesy photo; 2009 Hildebrandt Award winners (left to right): Hannah Bush, David Arfa, and Meagan Blais.

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As part of National Student Employment Week, each year Student Financial Services sponsors a program to select the college’s most outstanding student employee. This year Alex Trombley, assistant technical director in the Theatre and Dance department, received the award at a campus ceremony on April 16.

“The assistant technical director position is an incredibly demanding position,” wrote Craig Lindsay (Theatre and Dance), who nominated Trombley. “The technical director mentors the ATD through the process of all Theatre and Dance productions. Only students in good standing are offered the position, and it is only offered to one student at a time. It is a very visible and honored position among our students and faculty.”

Courtesy photo; President Giles-Gee and Alex Trombley at the Student Employee of the Year awards ceremony.

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From Colin Abernethy, Chemistry: Elizabeth A. Neuhardt (Chem ’10) has won a New Hampshire EPSCoR Student Travel Award of $500 to present the results of some of her recent research at the American Chemical Society National Meeting (August 16–20, 2009).

The EPSCoR Student Awards are given to support undergraduate student research in the physical sciences, mathematics, computing science, and engineering and to encourage these students to attend a national meeting or conference to present a paper or poster. Awards are based on merit, integrity of the research, and financial need, as determined by the student’s home institution. Students in degree programs at two-year and four-year colleges in N.H. are eligible. Participation in a college symposium, conference, workshop, seminar, or competition is necessary in order to prepare for presentation at a professional or academic meeting.

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The Society for Collegiate Journalists (SJC) has announced that the Keene State College student newspaper, The Equinox, received 12 awards in the national 2008 SJC competition, the second highest number of print journalism awards in the annual national competition. This is the second consecutive year that Keene State College journalists have received SJC awards.

“I am more than pleased,” said KSC President Helen Giles-Gee as she congratulated the students in an email. “I am ecstatic at this demonstration of exceptional talent. I am so proud of all of you and how well you represent Keene State College.”

The Society for Collegiate Journalists is a national society of collegiate mass communications. With more than 100 college and university chapters, it is the nation’s oldest organization designed solely to serve college journalists.

The Equinox is a weekly newspaper that is entirely student-produced. It has been publishing since 1929. Award winners (with judges) are:

• News Stories, Second Place: Katie Gilligan, “Proposed Ordinance Targets Disorderly House.” (Robert Naylor, Director, Career Development/News, Associated Press, New York, New York)

• Editorial, Honorable Mention: staff, “KSC Students Left in the Dark Again.” (Pat McCubbin, Cleveland Plain Dealer)

• Series, First Place: Meghan Foley, Melissa Ball, Ian Lord, Randy Booth, Casie Brown, “Getting the Lead out: CDC Playground Lead Contamination,” (Robert Naylor, Associated Press); Series, Second Place: Meghan Foley, “Unions Seek to Organize Operating, Professional Staffs,” (Robert Naylor, Associated Press)

• Sports News, Honorable Mention: Sean Berry, “KSC Implements Own Drug Testing Policy,” (Glen Kemery, senior editor, Yahoo! Sports)

• Sports Features, Honorable Mention: Randy Booth, “I Felt Like I Had No One,” (Glen Kemery, Yahoo! Sports)

• Graphic illustration, Third Place: Tyler Donnelly, 10/23/08 Equinox (Clay Bennett, editorial cartoonist, Chattanooga Times Free Press)

• Photo Essay, First Place: Ryan McKernan, “Shut Down the SOA,” (Sterling Chen, feature page design, The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Sports Page Layout, Third Place: Randy Booth, 12/4/08 Equinox, (Sterling Chen, Philadelphia Inquirer); Honorable Mention: Randy Booth, 10/30/08 Equinox, (Sterling Chen, Philadelphia Inquirer).

• Inside Page Layout, Hard News, First Place: Randy Booth, 10/23/08 Equinox, C-2, (Sterling Chen, Philadelphia Inquirer); Third Place: Randy Booth, 10/23/08 Equinox, C-4, (Sterling Chen, Philadelphia Inquirer)

For more information, visit www.keeneequinox.com

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Photo by Mark Corliss. On March 30 President Giles-Gee honored four NH women at the “Outstanding NH Women: Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet” awards ceremony. You can read more about the awards here; (left to right) President Helen Giles-Gee, Rachel Rouillard, Bonnie Riley, Mary Jensen, and Annelies Spykman.

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Dr. Mark Long, associate professor of English and American Studies, is the 2009 recipient of the Faculty Distinction in Research and Scholarship Award. This award recognizes contributions to research and scholarship at Keene State College.

Dr. Long joined the faculty in 1998 after two years as a post-doctoral teaching associate at the University of Washington. He teaches American literature, with an emphasis in poetry and poetics; American studies, with a special interest in literature and the environment; and expository writing, with a focus on the teaching of first-year writers. He has also taught in Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and, for the past six years, has co-facilitated a faculty institute on the teaching of writing at Keene State College.

Dr. Long’s scholarly work is concerned with 20th-century American poetry, environmental writing, and the teaching of reading and writing. He also writes about the profession of English studies, with a continuing interest in making visible faculty work in small college departments. Dr. Long’s most recent publications include an essay on bioregionalism in the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism, a collection of essays, Teaching North American Environmental Literature, and a forthcoming special issue of the journal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture dedicated to teaching in the small college department. In addition to his scholarly writing, Dr. Long has delivered over one hundred presentations – from international and national conferences to book discussions at public libraries throughout New Hampshire. He serves as associate editor for the English studies journal, Pedagogy, and the coordinator of the Mentoring Program for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE-US). More information about Dr. Long’s professional activities is available on his web page.

Photo by Mark Corliss; Dr. Mark Long

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From Margaret Barney, Cohen Center: Dr. Henry Knight, director KSC’s Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies, will be the keynote speaker of the 12th Annual Hildebrandt Holocaust Studies Awards Program. His lecture, “Know Before Whom You Stand,” will start at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 20, in Alumni Recital Hall at the Redfern Arts Center.

The Hildebrandt Awards Program is a Keene State event that remembers the Holocaust by way of student and community art and scholarship. The awards are named for the late Charles Hildebrandt, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at KSC, who founded KSC’s Center for Holocaust Studies in 1983 and served as its first director.

The award categories include Keene State College student entries and junior and high school student entries, as well as entries from the greater Keene community. Each year students and members of the local community are invited to submit essays, historical analyses, stories, poems, musical compositions, dance, film, theatre, and visual arts exploring and expressing their own personal relationship to or reflections on the Holocaust.

Awards totaling $1,000 will be distributed among the top three KSC entrants, $300 for community members, and $300 for junior/senior high school entries. In addition to Dr. Knight’s talk, winning entrants will share their submissions. The event, sponsored by the College’s Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies, is free and open to the public. For more information visit the website, or contact Margaret Barney, 8-2490, mbarney@keene.edu.

Courtesy photo; Dr. Henry F. Knight

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KSC student Joe Meany, president of the Chemistry Lyceum, received the Honorable Mention Award on behalf of the Lyceum at the American Chemical Society’s National Meeting, in Salt Lake City, Utah, in March. Meany presented a poster describing the Lyceum’s activities during the ’07–’08 academic year, “Phoenix rising: The revival of an SAC at an undergraduate institution.” The coauthors of the poster were J. L. Davis, M. L. Croteau, S. W. Ayers, J. Symmonds, and C. D. Abernethy.

Courtesy photo; Joe Meany (right) receives an honorable mention award on behalf of the KSC Chemistry Lyceum from Dr. Thomas Lane, President of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

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Robert Kostick’s graphic design students took their work out for public review this month when 24 student posters were displayed at Prime Roast Coffee on Main Street for the week of spring break. Stephanie Beck, a student in the class, organized the contest, and 110 viewers cast votes for the poster that would advertise the annual Graphic Design Senior Portfolio Review. (Shown is Ty Keeler’s winning design.)

More than 20 graphic design seniors will open their portfolios and showcase their best design work on Friday, April 17, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Media Arts Center.
For more information, contact Robert Kostick, 358-2906.

The winning graphic design review poster by Ty Keeler.

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Keene State College will host its 19th annual celebration of New Hampshire women’s accomplishments and creativity, “Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet,” on Monday, March 30, at 7 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room, Student Center. A dessert reception will follow the program, which is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the President’s Office and the Campus Commission on the Status of Women, this annual event recognizes women who have made extraordinary contributions to our college, regional, and state communities.

The President’s Outstanding Women of New Hampshire Awards are based on exceptional service and leadership, especially in the area of equality for women. This year’s award recipients are: Bonnie Riley, Monadnock Region Community Award; Rachel Rouillard, State of New Hampshire Award; Annelies Spykman, Keene State College Student Award; and Mary Jensen (staff), Keene State College Award.
Find out more about the award recipients here.

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