To the NMC Magazine Staff for being nominated for an award at the NMEAC/Bioneers- EOY (Environmentalist of the Year) award celebration. The staff has been invited to attend the awards event at the Park Place Dome. Thank you for creating a marvelous publication!
Submit kudos at: www.nmc.edu/departments/human-resources/kudos.html
Following are positions currently open at NMC. For detailed information on externally posted positions, please visit NMC’s web page at www.nmc.edu/jobs Information on internal postings has been emailed.
OPEN POSTINGS
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Instructor – Clinical Nursing (38-443)
Professional Staff (Full time)
Annual Giving Specialist (67-443)
Coordinator of Major Gifts (68-443)
Student Employee
Financial Aid-Office Assistant-Student Employee (62-443)
Resident Assistant (R.A.)-Student Employee (69-443)
White Pine Press Copy Editor-Student Employee (65-443)
White Pine Press Photographer-Student Employee (64-443)
White Pine Press Writer-Student Employee (66-443)
Supplemental Staff
Banquet Server-Hagerty Center (41-443)
Busser-Hagerty Center (72-443)
Bartender-Hagerty Center (73-443)
CLOSED PENDING OUTCOME
Support Staff – Full time
President’s Office Assistant (45-443)
Support Staff – Part time
Administrative Assistant – Center for Instructional Excellence (40-443)
Technical/Paraprofessional Staff – Full time
Academic Office Manager – Technical Division (56-443)
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Vicki Cook Interim Vice President of Finance and Administration 10 years
Brian Lewis Grounds 23 years
10th Annual NMC International Dinner
Thursday, April 12, 6pm
Get your tickets now for this amazing dinner event to be held at the Hagerty Center. Hosted by the International Club, this annual dinner will feature delicious cuisine from all 10 countries currently represented at NMC by our international student population.
You’ll enjoy conversations with our international students, performances by students from around the globe and a special guest performance by Juan Siddi Flamenco Theater from Spain.
Tickets are $30 for adults, $15 for students (with ID) and $10 for children ages 5-13 and are available in the Admissions Office, the Hagerty Center or by visiting www.nmc.edu/tickets. The event sells out each year — get your tickets early!
Saturday, May 5 — Reservations required.
Local art appraiser Don Butkovich will be at the Museum on Saturday, May 5, 2012, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. to verbally appraise your hidden treasures.
Each person with a reservation may bring a maximum of two items. The proceeds from the $8 fee (per object) will generously be donated to the Dennos Museum Center’s museum programming fund. Refunds are not available for canceled appointments.
Make a reservation online or call (231) 995-1573
Thursday, April 5, 7:00 pm – Free admission.
U.S. Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris, 25, leads his unit to fight a ghostlike enemy in Afghanistan. Wounded in battle, Harris returns to North Carolina and his devoted wife, to fight pain, addiction, and the terrifying normalcy of life at home.
This film will be shown captioned and there will be a sign language interpreter for the panel discussion.
Community Cinema is a community outreach project of CMU Public Television and the Dennos Museum Center. These screening events are part of the ITVS (Independent Television Service) Community Cinema program.
NMC alumni volunteers are needed on Barbecue Day, May 20, to help in the Alumni Quilt Tent.
Can you spare a couple hours? Your efforts to help sell quilt raffle tickets will support the George Comden Alumni Scholarship.
It’s a great way to meet & greet other NMC alumni on BBQ day!
Please contact Sonia Clem: sclem@nmc.edu ext. 51030
On behalf of the Board, President, Faculty & Staff at NMC, the President’s Office sent a floral tribute to the funeral of Jay Hooper’s mother. We received this note to share with you.
Tim, Board, Faculty and Staff,
On behalf of the entire family, I would like to thank you for the wonderful flower arrrangement at mom’s visitation and funeral. Having so many friends like you has made it easier to handle mom’s loss.
Thanks,
Marie and Jay
The It Gets Better Project is a response to a number of students taking their own lives after being bullied in school, the project’s creators wanted to create a personal way for supporters everywhere to tell LGBT youth that, yes, it does indeed get better.
NMC Student Life and NMC Pride is inviting students, faculty and staff to participate in an It Gets Better video. The video will take place in the Student Life Office, lower level of West Hall, and Emily Magner will be project editor. Anyone interested can contact Stephen Krygier at skrygier@nmc.edu or call 231-709-0971 to set a taping appointment.
ItGetsBetter.org, the official web site where the video will be posted, and on select NMC web pages, is a place where young people who are lesbian, gay, bi, or trans can see how love and happiness can be a reality in their future. It’s a place where straight allies can visit and support their friends and family members. It’s a place where people can share their stories, take the It Gets Better Project pledge and watch videos of love and support.
Student Life and NMC Pride is looking for anyone in support of the LGBT community and who is willing to share their own personal stories.
Please call Emily Magner for more information, 995-1118.
Hello NMC Faculty and Staff,
I would like to invite you to help us create an exhibition from the museum’s art collections and in doing so make some museum history! The exhibition title is Museum Collections: Community Curators.
For over 20 years, the college and the museum have worked to develop an art collection that can be used as a community resource for exhibition and teaching. This collection contains about 2000 works, half of which is Inuit art, and the balance a diverse collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, works on paper and other media by artists of state, national and international reputation.
For years we have shown this growing collection by selecting the works to be shown and presenting them in the galleries. This time we would like you to select the works to be shown and write a short paragraph (your interpretation) about the work from your perspective.
During the 2006 Community Curators exhibition, we invited about 50 people, representing a diverse cross section of the Grand Traverse community, to participate. This time around, we are inviting the entire community to participate, not only for the gallery exhibition, but also as a new, online exhibition.
From March 22, 2012 through the end of the exhibition, June 17, 2012, viewers can go online to our website, view the works, and offer their own interpretations of the works.
Selections need to made and interpretations entered by April 3 in order to be included in the physical gallery.
To learn more and to participate, go to this webpage: http://www.dennosmuseum.org/
This is also a great opportunity for your students and family, so feel free to pass on the information.
A special thank you to Steve Kellman for helping to setup the online gallery in SmugMug.
Have fun curating!
Diana Bolander
Curator of Education and Interpretation
Dennos Museum Center
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Jim Coughlin Science/Math Instructor 25 years
Tim Nelson President 12 years
Submit kudos at: www.nmc.edu/departments/human-resources/kudos.html
Following are positions currently open at NMC. For detailed information on externally posted positions, please visit NMC’s web page at www.nmc.edu/jobs Information on internal postings has been emailed.
OPEN POSTINGS
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Instructor – Clinical Nursing (38-443)
Professional Staff (Full time)
Annual Giving Specialist (67-443)
Coordinator of Major Gifts (68-443)
Student Employee
Financial Aid-Office Assistant-Student Employee (62-443)
Resident Assistant (R.A.)-Student Employee (69-443)
White Pine Press Copy Editor-Student Employee (65-443)
White Pine Press Photographer-Student Employee (64-443)
White Pine Press Writer-Student Employee (66-443)
Supplemental Staff
Banquet Server-Hagerty Center (41-443)
Busser-Hagerty Center (72-443)
Bartender-Hagerty Center (73-443)
CLOSED PENDING OUTCOME
Support Staff – Full time
President’s Office Assistant (45-443)
Support Staff – Part time
Administrative Assistant – Center for Instructional Excellence (40-443)
Technical/Paraprofessional Staff – Full time
To Linda Rea for helping a fellow employee make copies at the last minute. I appreciate all she does to go the “extra mile!” Thank you, Linda.
To Bonnie Shumaker for helping fix a formatting issue on an assignment. She did not give up until she got it right. Thank you!
To all NMC Faculty, Staff and Students for working together during the big snow storm on the weekend of March 2.
Specific kudos goes out to Student life staff for their handling of evacuation of students from East Hall due to the power outage and moving them to a local hotel for two nights. A special thanks to Marcus Bennett who stayed with the students for those two nights. Kudos to the Hagerty Center and Sodexo food service staff for working together to get the residence hall students fed at the Hagerty Center.
Kudos also to the faculty and students for flexibility in rescheduling final exams that were scheduled on Monday, March 5th!
Also blizzard related kudos goes to our maintenance, custodial and grounds crews as they worked over the weekend and continue to work on clean up!
What a great way to demonstrate so many of the NMC Values! These attitudes are what make NMC a great place to work and live!
Tuesday, April 3, 7-8:30 p.m., in Oleson Center Room A/B
David Hill tells of several life lessons gleaned as he recounts Johan’s thrilling hero tale of survival during WWII when he was captured by the Germans while on a secret courier mission with the Norwegian Resistance.
Johan’s intense will to live and to retain his humanity enabled him to endure Nazi captivity for the remainder of the war in the worst of slave labor death camps: Natzweiler, Dachau and Mauthausen.
David met Johan, who became his mentor, while working on Johan’s organic farm in Norway. David has crewed in the Norwegian Merchant marines, managed a dairy her on a bio dynamic farm in Norway, and currently serves as the Executive Director of Concornd Academy in Petoskey, one of only nine Schools of Excellence in Michigan.
The event, sponsored by Michigan Global Awareness Consortium, is free and open to the public. For information, call 995-1155.
Romance, passion, majesty and timeless beauty will fill the air Friday, April 13, 2012 when the Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company, as part of their first national tour, brings the excitement of flamenco to the Milliken Auditorium of the Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College with the award-winning flamenco dancer and choreographer Juan Siddi at 8 pm.
Tickets are $25 in advance, $28 at the door, $22 for Museum Members. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Museum Box office at 231-995-1553 or on line at www.dennosmuseum.org.
Joined by an array of sensual and powerful dancers, singers and musicians from Spain, France and the United States, Siddi will present a mixed repertory program, including the stunning work, “Encuentro” which was nominated in San Francisco, CA in 2009 for an Isadora Duncan Award.
Honored recipient of Santa Fe’s 2011 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts, Artistic Director Juan Siddi and his Flamenco Theatre Company have made their mark in the world of flamenco with their unique, world-class artistry. The company has made appearances throughout the Middle East, Europe and the United States, and with their summer seasons in Santa Fe, NM.
Michael Wade Simpson of the Pasatiempo calls Siddi’s work “…a refined, intellectual… contemporary take on flamenco.”
Flamenco is a genre of music and dance that originated in Andalusia, Spain in the 18th century, influenced by Gypsy traditions going back to Rajasthan India. The development of flamenco can be traced back to the Middle Ages and the meeting and mixing of several musical traditions in Andalucia where African and Arabic music developed along with the Spanish guitar and its rhythms. During the Spanish Inquisition, groups of persecuted peoples – Romani, Greeks, Visigoths, Moors, and Jews – married their songs and dances of exile, despair, suffering, and also hope and celebration, with the ecstatic religious sounds of Andalucian music to produce flamenco, whose essence is duende.
Duende’s deep emotion is the ineffable mystery of life in art, song, music and dance. The Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca once said about duende: “The greatest artists of Spain, whether Gypsy or flamenco, whether they sing, dance, or play, know that no emotion is possible unless the duende comes. All arts are capable of duende, but where it finds greatest range, naturally, is in music, dance, and spoken poetry, for these arts require a living body to interpret, being forms that are born, die, and open their contours against an exact presence….It is truly deep, deeper than all the wells and seas in the world, much deeper than the present heart that creates it or the voice that sings it, because it is almost infinite.”
In November 2010, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) deemed flamenco a cultural treasure on its Intangible Heritage List. Since 2007, Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company has interpreted flamencoʼs depth and passion in highly regarded venues throughout Europe, the Middle East and the United States. Today, the Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company is one of the top flamenco companies in the United States.
Artistic director, choreographer and principal dancer Juan Siddi will be joined by a cast of some of Spainʼs most authentic and world-class artists of today, among them singers Coral de los Reyes and Jose; guitarist Jose Valle, “Chuscales”; and cellist Michael Kott. Siddiʼs colorful array of female dancers will interpret his choreographies to traditional and original musical scores created by the talented cast of musicians.
Justin Nadir, executive producer and managing director for the company, says, “We are very excited to share the unique talent and artistry of the Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company throughout the United States. A greater awareness of flamenco’s richness has been recognized over the past several years, and Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company brings to audiences an unparalleled and world-class experience.”