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Annual Christmas Concert Dec. 6
The SMWC Chorale and Madrigals will present their annual Christmas choral concert at 7 p.m. on Dec. 6, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception on the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods campus.
The concert will feature the SMWC Chorale and Madrigals, who, under the direction of R. Ryan Endris, visiting assistant professor of music, will perform works by Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Rutter, Elanor Daley and others. The concert will also feature guest artist Natasha Sexton, professor of music at Franklin College, as well as choirs from Terre Haute North Vigo and Terre Haute South Vigo high schools.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information about the Christmas Concert, call the SMWC Music and Theatre Information Line at 812-535-6211.
Learn how to keep earth
The SMWC Staff Development Committee offers members of the College community a chance to learn how to be better stewards of nature.
"Keeping Earth," a presentation by Candace Hack of the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, will take place from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. on Dec. 4 in the Faculty Lounge on the third floor of the Rooney Library. Hack's presentation will begin at 12:15 p.m. Bring a brown bag lunch. For more information, contact Julie White at jwhite@smwc.edu.
Lighting of the tree in Guerin
SMWC faculty, staff and students attended a tree lighting ceremony Dec. 1 in the Guerin rotunda. The swooping fabric displaying images of angels in an art project on loan from an alumna. Dave Behrs lit the first advent candle during the ceremony. Campus minister Carolyn Sur invites community members to decorate the tree throughout the rest of the semester.
The angel canopy, on loan from Suzanne Ginty, class of 1963, is painted on batiste cloth which gives a translucent, transcendent, other-world effect. The shorter banners [African and Asian] are 12 feet long and the [European / Irish ] banners are 24-30 feet long. They are assembled on a 24" quilters' hoop. Two thin dowel spreaders placed at strategic points keep the cloth from folding.
SMWC Art Gallery hosts art market
The SMWC Art Gallery hosts its Annual Art Market through Dec. 8. SMWC faculty, staff, students and alumnae turned in arts and crafts to sell in the market.
The art gallery will retain 10% of the total cost of the items sold by faculty, staff, and alumnae.
The Art Gallery is located in Hulman Hall, Room 132. Regular Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m.
If you have any questions, please call ext. 5265, email artgallery@smwc.edu, or stop by the gallery during gallery hours.
Prof, students go to conference
Sharon R. Boyle, associate professor of music therapy at SMWC, attended the national American Music Therapy Association Annual Conference in St. Louis, Mo., in November.
Boyle co-presented with other music therapy educators from the University of Dayton and Eastern Michigan University in a roundtable titled, "Teaching Undergraduate-Level Clinical Improvisation."
In addition, Boyle attended the Great Lakes Region Executive Board meetings as the state representative from Indiana.
Four SMWC undergraduate music therapy students also attended the conference: Amber Finch (in internship at Park Nicollett Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn.), Julia Lopez-Kaley (junior), Morgan May (second degree), and Jennifer Pinson (second degree).
Faculty, staff service honored
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College faculty and staff were honored for five, 10, 15, 25 and 30 years of service Dec. 1 at the annual President's Christmas Dinner in O'Shaughnessy Dining Hall.
Honored for five years of service were Lisa Behringer, Janet Clark, John McIntyre, Anneliese Payne, April Simma and Andee Swick.
Marking 10 years of service were Hila Cheesman, Kristy Fry, David Grabowski, Debra Light and Kathy Moon.
Reaching the 15-year mark were Gwen Hagemeyer, Lana Lytle and Chris Marks.
Those honored for 25 years were Brenda Carlyle and DJ Wasmer.
Marking 30 years were LeeAnn Case and Joanne Golding, SP.
Brown bag lunch series on grants
For those interested in grants, there's a brownbag lunch discussion Dec. 3 at noon on the second floor of SMWC's Rooney Library.
The Office of Development is hosting a monthly brown bag lunch series to share grant information. Each month spotlights a different grant program of general interest, followed by general discussion and Q & A related to grants.
Meet at the tables on the northwest end of the 2nd floor of Rooney Library, to learn about the Lumina Foundation and the Independent Colleges of Indiana Tech Fund, two very different Indiana-based sources of funding. Lumina is currently focusing on projects that increase the number of degree holding Hoosiers and the Tech Fund provides grants of up to $5,000 for innovative instructional technology.
Contact for the brown bag series is Susan Dolle, 535-5275.
SMWC gets $280K Lily Endowment grant
Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded a $280,000 Sustaining Grant to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College for the Initiative to Promote Opportunities through Educational Collaboration, an effort that was launched in 2004.
SMWC has also committed more than $300,000 to continue the initiative, which is focused on cultivating relationships with Indiana employers to increase employment and internship opportunities for students and alumnae/i and educating students and alumnae/i about Indiana employment opportunities.
Susan Gresham, director of Career Development at SMWC, said that since launching this initiative in 2004, the Career Development Center (CDC) has been working to promote the College's students, alumnae/i and programs throughout the state. Their work has resulted in more than 200 new Indiana sites that offer for-credit experiential learning activities to SMWC students. In addition, the CDC has worked to educate students and alumnae/i about these opportunities and has improved data management by implementing a customized web-based data management system to connect students, alumnae/i and employers with the CDC.
The College identified several goals for the continuation of the initiative, including the expansion of outreach efforts to distance learners in the College's Woods External Degree (WED) program and the cultivation of relationships with potential employers in the communities where these students live. The College also plans to research and deliver resources for supporting entrepreneurship and explore and expand technology utilization in providing information to students and employers.
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