Nov 29, 2012 | Intercom
Each year the annual NMC Employee Holiday Party includes a food drive to benefit Father Fred Foundation patrons. This year we’ll start collecting items early so employees unable to attend the party have the opportunity to participate.
Donation boxes will be placed in offices throughout NMC’s campuses next week. Holiday Party Planning Committee members will collect all donated items on Thursday, December 13, the day before the party.
The Father Fred Foundation helps more than 6,500 local families, with over 15,000 food pantry visits each year. So far in 2012 they’ve seen a 16% increase in the number of people being served.
Below are lists of the items most needed to keep their shelves stocked. Thanks for caring enough to help!
Pantry Items:
Please help Father Fred Foundation work toward less sugar, salt and fat in pantry foods.
- Canned pork and beans
- Canned stews/chili
- Canned tuna/chicken packed in water
- Evaporated/powdered milk
- Lower sodium canned soups
- Canned fruit packed in water or its own juice
- Peanut butter
- Canned kidney/navy beans
- Canned pastas/hash
- Rice – all varieties
- Tomato sauce/diced
- Hot cereal
- Unsweetened cold cereal
- Pancake mixes/syrup
- Please, no expired food
- Donations of meat (wild or domestic) require special processing to be used by the food pantry. Please call (231) 947-2055, in advance, for details.
- Single-serving size options are useful for our homeless guests.
Personal care items:
- Bar soap
- Razors
- Deodorant
- Shampoo
- Diapers especially sizes 4, 5, & 6
- Baby wipes
- Feminine hygiene products
- Toilet paper
- Toothpaste and toothbrushes
- Laundry soap
Nov 29, 2012 | Intercom
Kudos, to Dave Sexton and KanDee Sheffer for their professionalism, hard work, and contributions at East Hall, the students and staff are very appreciate of both of them.
Kudos, to the Maintenance Services team, for the month of September, they allocated 104 transactions, had $.00 sales tax and all of their receipts and requisitions were received in the Business Office on time! Good job!
Thank you, to the Business academic area, for collecting over 400 items for the food drive. It helped us surpass our goal of 10,000 and reach over 18,000 items.
Thank you, to Lisa Blackford and class for helping us help our community by collecting food and household items for the local pantries. Thank you, for taking the time and resources to help! We appreciate it!
Thank you, Brandon Everest, for coming to help us unload the food for the Food for Thought project. We were excited you were there!
Thank you, to the Osterlin team, for collecting food for our class project! We have some great pictures of you building a huge can pyramid out of all the food you collected. Thank you, for coming together and helping our community!
For 10 years, Elizabeth Stevens has been organizing GirlTECH at NMC. This is a daylong non-traditional career seminar for 10th grade female students in collaboration with TBA-ISD. This year over 200 students from more than 20 school districts attended the event on Wednesday, November 14. Young women met with 10 different female professionals working in non-traditional career fields, such as aviation, maritime, construction, mechanics, information technology, law enforcement and engineering. Elizabeth worked
tirelessly and with great poise under pressure and not only represented NMC as an incredible female leader, but also promoted higher education and STEM career paths for these young women, all of whom could be future NMC students!
Nov 29, 2012 | Intercom
For information on positions currently open at NMC, please visit NMC’s web page at nmc.edu/jobs. Information on internal postings has been emailed.
Nov 29, 2012 | Intercom
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary. Please join us in congratulating them!
Dennis Christopher Custodian 24 years
Tony MacGirr Custodian 9 years
Gary Schettek Grounds 11 years
Nov 28, 2012 | Intercom
Relax in style in our new unisex sized women’s fashion flannel pants. We have tanks, tees and hoodies that coordinate with either pattern.
Not the girlie print type? These are also available in a black and white plaid and a green plaid for you or your significant other.
For a closer look at all four prints visit our website.
They can be found in the pants catalog. A great Christmas present! Don’t forget your 10% employee discount.
Nov 27, 2012 | Intercom
50 Years Ago:
- The State okayed a matching grant of $82,000 towards construction of NMC’s new science building (now Scholars Hall). Besides regular classrooms, the building is to contain two chemistry labs, a physics lab, and a large lecture hall.
25 Years Ago:
- The college built a lighted hiking/cross country ski trail. It was 2.5 kilometers long and 8 ft. wide and went in a loop starting in the woods behind the Oleson Center and ending up at the former tennis courts (now Cherry Lot). Student government contributed $2,000 towards the $10,000 cost.
5 Years Ago: Governor Jennifer Granholm visited NMC’s Energy Demonstration Center (see photo).
From the NMC Archives at the Osterlin Library
Nov 27, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
The FLU is here. The first cases of Influenza A diagnosed one week ago at Munson Medical Center. Influenza vaccine is still available at Health Services for $15. Be smart and avoid the flu during final exams. Get vaccinated!
Nov 27, 2012 | Intercom
Steve Balance, longtime NMC Faculty Member, has been honored by having a number of his photographs published in the magazine Diffusion, Unconventional Photography (Annual Volume IV, 2012).
Steve was awarded Honorable Mention for his work titled Selena, a photopolymer gravure print from an original Polaroid transfer.
He is a retired faculty member and presently teaches courses in digital photography, art appreciation and 2-D design here at NMC, while maintaining his photography studio in Traverse City.
Nov 27, 2012 | Intercom
Through the generous support of people like you, the Annual Campaign has become one of the leading sources of funding for NMC scholarships. Last year, faculty and staff contributions raised more than $34,000 which helped provide scholarships to more than 500 students and helped meet the need of student programs and services campus wide.
Each scholarship awarded provides another opportunity for a student to grow their dream. Every scholarship recipient’s financial burden is eased because you care enough to give. Your gifts to the Annual Campaign make it possible for more graduation gowns to be worn, more degrees to be obtained, and more lives to be changed through the power of achieving higher education.
You can give online at nmc.edu/give today or you can enroll in payroll deduction and have your monthly gift automatically deducted from your paycheck. Simply fill out the payroll deduction form you received and return it to the Foundation.
Please consider a gift and help today’s learners grow into tomorrow’s givers.
Nov 27, 2012 | President Updates
I would like to start out by paying tribute to a couple of dear friends to both NMC and the community, Art Schmuckal and Helen Milliken.
Thank you all for everything you do in pursuit of “Keeping Learning at the Center.”
Activities of Note: Faculty and Staff
This section recognizes the good work being done and linkages to the Strategic Agenda, Strategic Directions and Goals are provided where possible. (more…)
Nov 27, 2012 | Intercom
NMC’s Lean Champion training program is featured in the Grand Traverse Insider.
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Nov 21, 2012 | Intercom
Be a HERO ~ Make an Impact ~ Live United
We are at 46% of our $5,000 goal for the 2012 United Way Campaign! Thanks to some generous employees, we have raised $2,292 so far! Please consider a gift today.
Remember – you can donate to the NMC Annual Campaign through United Way by simply designating your gift to NMC on the United Way donation form.
Nov 21, 2012 | Intercom
Kudos to the Dental Assisting Class and Staff for collecting over 900 items for our BUS 231 class project, Food for Thought.
We hope you enjoy your Spaghetti Jim’s and we thank you for your help!
Nov 21, 2012 | Intercom
Kudos to Phil McCuien, for going above and beyond to help the BUS 231 class with our project! It was a freezing cold day and you did everything you could to help us with our trailer! Thank you for being so helpful and for going the extra mile!
Nov 21, 2012 | Intercom
Kudos to Sue DeCamillis, MaryAnn Linsell, Jeff Straw and Tom Willson for coming to help the BUS 231 class unload two trailers of food donated to our food drive. It would have taken us all day had you not taken the time from your busy schedules to help. The students were excited to see you there! Thank you for being such awesome people to work with!
Nov 21, 2012 | Intercom
Kudos to Ernie Dunham, for operating the forklift for us when Food for Thought delivered all of that awesome food! We would have never been able to load it without your help. You were patient and friendly. The student’s kept commenting on what great customer service skills you have!
Nov 21, 2012 | Intercom
Kudos to Lisa Cooper, Sarah Fuller, Jan Neumann and Rebecca Teahen for helping with the BUS 231 Food Drive project. You made it easy to collect the money and made the tax slips look awesome.
Jan, you went out of your way with helping us with our check and our shopping trip! Thank you!
Nov 21, 2012 | Intercom
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary. Please join us in congratulating them!
Crystal Bailey Office Manager - Hagerty Center 2 years
Don Cunningham Director of the University center 8 years
Ed Steiger Courier 33 years
Nov 21, 2012 | Intercom
For information on positions currently open at NMC, please visit NMC’s web page at jobs.nmc.edu Information on internal postings has been emailed.
Nov 21, 2012 | Intercom
Ann Elizabeth Geht (formerly Ann Townsend) joined NMC in the position of Instruction Librarian on November 19, 2012. She can be reached at
231-995-1973 or
ageht@nmc.edu.
Ann and her husband Jan moved to Traverse City in October after spending the past six years in Washington, D.C. Prior to moving back to her hometown, Ann worked as a librarian at Montgomery County Public Libraries and at American University. She and her husband have two young daughters, Audrey (3) and Joanna (1 1/2). Ann is delighted to be back in the Traverse City area with her friends and family.
Nov 20, 2012 | Intercom
Kudos to Peggy Johnson, for mastering an exceptionally difficult piano score for choir rehearsals, and then also the viola score for the performance of “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace”
Nov 20, 2012 | Intercom
Kudos to Jeff Cobb, for his extraordinary effort in organizing, and his brilliance in conducting the orchestra and choirs in “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” on Veterans Day, as part of the community’s Mel Larimer Concert Series.
Nov 19, 2012 | Intercom
TC saves has an offer for NMC employees<
If you live in town, you probably have heard about TC Saves—the city-sponsored program making your neighbors’ homes more comfortable while lowering their utility and heating bills.
All NMC employees, no matter where you live, can take advantage of TC Saves’ comprehensive home energy assessment.
TC Saves is offering their advanced, diagnostic service for just $100—two-thirds lower than their typical price.
The diagnostic service is a thorough, accurate analyses of exactly how and how much energy your house wastes. They also offer access to low-interest loans for insulation, windows, appliances, and other measures the assessment suggests for staying cozy and saving money.
For more info, visit tcsaves.com
Nov 19, 2012 | Intercom
NMC is supporting the efforts of the Grand Vision Energy Network to create a regional energy plan. It is important to us so we hope you will help us by taking a few minutes to complete the following survey to help plan for our region’s future. The Grand Vision
www.thegrandvision.org has brought together more than 12,000 citizens who care about the quality of life in Northwest Michigan. One of the outcomes of this work has been the creation of the Grand Vision Energy Network comprised of individuals, businesses, non-profits, and local units of government that are currently working toward developing a regional energy plan. Please help guide our shared energy future by completing the survey…in just 12 minutes.
To thank you for your time, you have the option of entering a sweepstakes to win a Crystal Mountain Resort & Spa Season Ski or Golf Pass.
To complete the survey, please click on this link/go to this site: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EnergyNetwork
Thanks so much for your participation,
NMC and The Grand Vision Energy Network
Nov 19, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
NMC business students held a massive distribution day for area food pantries Friday, Nov. 16, delivering the 18,000 food and household items they collected over the past month just in time for Thanksgiving.
Distribution Day
The Food for Thought Fill the Pantries food drive was organized by Kristy McDonald’s Business 231 students as a semester-long project enabling them to learn how to communicate professionally while also helping the community.
As reported in the Traverse City Record-Eagle, food insecurity has become the region’s largest social issue. From 2007 through 2011, food pantry visits in the Grand Traverse area climbed by 83 percent.
Students invited 30 area businesses to conduct internal food drives, emphasizing the
Dental assisting collected the most on campus.
importance of healthy food. Food was also collected on campus, with the Dental Assisting Program winning the prize for most donations, at more than 900. Students also held collection days at Walmart, two Tom’s Food Market locations and at Family Video locations. Cash donations –totaling $3,000 — were also collected online. The class thanks everyone who donated and sponsored the event. Happy Thanksgiving!
