Please check out our new video, featuring alumni, students, and staff. The video’s just over nine minutes long; take a look, then come back here and let us know what you think. Who did you recognize? How does it reflect your KSC experience?
(The link above takes you to the standard high-definition version. If you have a slower connection, or want closed captioning, or both, there are other viewing options available at that site.)
Alum Jon Sharpe ‘98 from United Staging and Rigging will hold a rigging workshop on December 11 at 1 p.m. for students and interested theater and dance alumni. Jon has been with USR for ten years and will share his considerable expertise in this highly technical field.
Interested? Contact Craig Lindsay in the Keene State Theatre and Dance department.
The National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) recently announced its picks for its All-America team, and two Owls were on it. Carly Benning, a senior from Brewster, Mass., was named to the second-team, while Erin Dallas, a senior from Marlow, N.H., was a third-team selection. She was also named to the first-team of the womensfieldhockey.com All-America squad.
A first-time All-American, Benning led the Little East Conference in points (58) and goals (27). She had a knack for netting the decisive score this season, notching game-winning goals in 14 of Keene State’s 18 victories, and is the seventh Owl to reach the coveted 100-point career milestone.
Dallas becomes the first player in the program’s history to become a three-time All-American. She earned first-team honors the past two seasons as a midfielder and was recognized for her skill on defense this season. She is the first student-athlete in the history of the Little East to be honored as both the Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year in her career and is a three-time first-team All-Region and All-LEC pick.
If you’ve been following Erin’s remarkable – miraculous, really – career, you know that she returned this season after a life-and-limb-threatening illness last winter.
How would you like to enrich your life? Learn a new language? Pick up some new career skills? Take up painting or drawing? Study a subject simply because you love it?
Check out KSC’s Continuing Education and Extended Studies programs. In just two lessons a week for six weeks, these online, noncredit courses can help you get where you want to be. Classes begin monthly with the next set of ed2go courses running December 9, 2009, to January 29, 2010.
Continuing Ed also offers more than 200 online career training certificate programs, and its Distance Learning Program for Educators features fully accredited classes, including managing disruptive behavior; coping with aggressive behavior in classrooms; school violence; and harassment, bullying, and cyber-intimidation in schools.
Have you tried any of these courses? Use the “Comments” link below to tell us about it, por favor.
If you’re in the area and looking for a reason to get back on campus while giving back to the community, here’s your chance!
The KSC Thanksgiving Basket Drive is on; it’s the annual push to ask the entire KSC community to help put together baskets for this holiday season. The collection of Thanksgiving Baskets will be on Monday, November 23, in the West Dining Area of the Young Student Center, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
KSC contributions are distributed to families with children under 5 years of age in local communities. Last year, this effort collected a record 158 baskets! As of October 23, local organizations had received over 1,700 requests for Thanksgiving baskets, and that number is expected to increase.
New this year, there will be donation boxes set up in the Gym, Library, Science Center, and Student Center until the day of the drive for gently used winter outerwear and additional last minute food items to be donated to the Community Kitchen.
If you are interested in participating in this event, need more information, suggested menu items, or pledge forms, contact KSC Human Resources at 603-358-2406.
It’s time once again for the annual MERRY TUBACHRISTMAS concert here at KSC, and the deep, resonant call is out for all professional and amateur tubists to join the band!
The Keene TUBACHRISTMAS orchestra (courtesy photo)
The concert will be held on Sunday, December 6, at 1 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room of the L.P. Young Student Center. It’s free and open to the public. The performance will feature traditional Christmas carols especially arranged for TUBACHRISTMAS by American composer Alec Wilder.
Dr. Jim Chesebrough, band director at Keene State College, will direct the 19th Keene TUBACHRISTMAS. All area tuba, euphonium, and baritone horn players are invited to perform. Rehearsal will take place in the Mabel Brown Room at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 6. Performers pay a $5 tax-deductible fee to the Harvey Phillips Foundation. For more information, please contact Dr. Chesebrough.
Photo by Lynn Roman
Sixteen non-art-major students from Richard Carlson’s Color Design and Painting, an Integrative Studies Perspective course, produced a colorful, abstract mural that was unveiled this month in the classroom area hallway of the newly renovated Huntress Hall. The students were asked to consider several site-specific design factors, including the lobby’s shape, current wall colors, pedestrian traffic flow, and the history and techniques of other wall paintings, as they created the mural. They did a great job – the next time you’re on campus, take some time to check it out.
The 2009 ECAC Women’s Soccer Champions (photo courtesy of Brandeis University)
After 110 minutes of scoreless play, the second-seeded KSC women’s soccer team connected on four of their five penalty kicks to capture the ECAC New England tournament crown from top-seeded and two-time defending champion Brandeis University 4-2 in Waltham, Mass. on Saturday, November 14. KSC sophomore goalkeeper Megan Dempsey, registered her third-straight shutout and was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player.
As a part of this year’s Diversity Dialogue series, there will be a discussion on veterans at Keene State on Tuesday, November 10, from noon-1:15 p.m. in the Mountainview Room in the Student Center. This dialogue will be done in recognition and honor of Veterans Day, with a light lunch provided. Kent Drake-Deese, Director of Residential Life and Housing, and Michael Ward, Administrative Assistant-Student Center, will be facilitating the conversation. All are welcome, and alumni who are veterans are particularly invited to participate.
For more information, please contact Dottie Morris, Chief Officer for Diversity and Multiculturalism.
This Saturday afternoon, the Mason Library is having its piece of the Centennial pie.
Library tours will start at 1:30 p.m.; Ernest Hebert ‘69 (also a former Keene State writer-in-residence and honorary degree recipient, Keene native, and author of ten books, including the Darby series) will give a talk entitled “Keepers of the Flame” at 2.