{"id":3733,"date":"2012-12-27T11:56:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T16:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2012-12-27T11:56:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T16:56:39","slug":"this-month-in-nmc-history-for-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=3733","title":{"rendered":"This Month in NMC History for December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>40 Years Ago:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The college officially purchased the freezer building and adjoining office structure at the College Technical Center on Front St. (now Great Lakes Campus).\u00a0 The freezer building was to be used as a warehouse for college materials.\u00a0 See 2001 photo of freezer building partially demolished.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>25 Years Ago:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Early discussion was beginning regarding the possibility of NMC becoming the site of an international freshwater research center.<\/li>\n<li>With construction of a new museum set to begin, college administrators were in the process of forming a search committee and writing a job description for a museum director.<\/li>\n<li>NMC and Michigan Technological University announced the creation of a program to facilitate NMC graduates continuing their studies at MTU leading to a Bachelor of Science degree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5 Years Ago:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A difficult time for the NMC community with the sudden and untimely losses of Accounting Instructor Gordon Niemi on December 12\u00a0and Philosophy Instructor Jim Valovick on December 18.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_3735\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?attachment_id=3735\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3735\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3735 \" alt=\"Jim Valovick\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jim-Valovick.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jim-Valovick.jpg 180w, https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jim-Valovick-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Valovick<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3736\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?attachment_id=3736\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3736\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3736\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3736\" alt=\"Gordon Niemi\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gordon-Niemi.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gordon-Niemi.jpg 180w, https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gordon-Niemi-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gordon Niemi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>From the NMC Archives at the Osterlin Library<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was happening at NMC five, twenty-five and forty years ago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1180,1181,1184,1183,1182],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intercom","tag-freezer-building","tag-freshwater-center","tag-gordon-niemi","tag-jim-valovick","tag-museum-director"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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