On Saturday, Dec. 4, the 2006-07 NCAA tournament Sweet-16 men’s basketball team was the second in KSC basketball history to have a banner dedicated in honor of its outstanding season. The ceremony took place prior to the 3 p.m. KSC/UMass-Dartmouth game at Spaulding Gym. Which the Owls won, by the way.
Did you see this awesome team play? Did you attend the banner ceremony? Use the “comments” link to tell us about it.
Economics adjunct faculty member John Hackett died at his Keene home on Thursday, November 18. Dr. Hackett joined the KSC faculty in 2004 after a distinguished career in economics and taught a variety of courses, from intro sections to those on public policy, financial economics, and financial analysis. He also contributed to the Integrative Studies Program through a course in quantitative literacy. His earlier professional life included positions as CFO of Cummins Engine Co, Assistant Vice President and Economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Managing General Partner of CID Equity Partners of Indianapolis (a venture capital company that he helped organize), and board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and various publicly traded companies. He was VP of Finance and Administration at Indiana University-Bloomington, where he also served as an adjunct member of the faculty of the Department of Economics. Dr. Hackett authored or co-authored books, chapters, and articles on economic and corporate finance. He wrote Race to the Bottom, a fictional history of the rise and decline of a Midwestern company and its community.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) and served on the Board of Trustees of Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. He also served on the Visioning Committee for the Master Plan for the city of Keene.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that gifts be made in memory of Dr. Hackett to the Leelanau Conservancy, 105 North First Street, Leland, Michigan 49654, or to the Indiana Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, 620 Ohio Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, or to Hospice at Home Healthcare and Community Services, 312 Marlborough Street, Keene, NH 03431.
The wheel of the College’s master plan is still turning, and now it’s time for renovations to begin on Butterfield Hall and the Adams Technology Building. According to VP for Finance and Planning Jay Kahn, work will begin on them in the summer of 2011 and continue for a year, thanks to help from USNH. Although the College realized a few years ago that these buildings were in need of upgrade, others, including Fiske, Huntress, and the MAC, were put on the list first.
Butterfield Hall and Adams Technology Building include facilities for the Safety and Occupational Health Applied Sciences, Sustainable Product Design and Innovation, and Architecture departments. Butterfield also houses the National Grange Mutual (NGM) Safety Center.
Keene State College is a founding member of the Presidents’ Alliance to Improve Student Learning, a national initiative to encourage “college and university presidents to ‘stand up’ individually and publicly reveal what their institutions are doing to measure student learning and to commit them to regularly reporting on their forward progress.”
Presidents’ Alliance members represent all sectors of U.S. higher education, including two- and four-year, public and private colleges and universities. Through the Alliance, KSC President Helen Giles-Gee joins more than 70 college and university presidents in signing an agreement to expand our ongoing efforts to gather and report evidence of student learning and use it to achieve desired learning outcomes. Continue reading KSC Joins the Presidents’ Alliance to Improve Student Learning
Stephanie Moravick Carter ‘81 has been named the 2010 Health Education Teacher of the Year by the Maine Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. She received the award at a ceremony in Rockport.
Stephanie has been teaching at Messalonskee High School in Oakland, Maine, for 15 years and holds a bachelor’s degree in physical and health education from KSC, a master’s degree in education from the University of Maine, and a master’s in technology education from Thomas College. She lives in Fairfield.
Evelyn M. Hunter, 93, of Westmoreland, NH, died peacefully Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010, at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital after a short period of failing health. She collected and organized student loans at KSC in Student Loans Accounts when that office was housed in Elliot (the space Admissions currently occupies), retiring in 1983. She was very proud of her success record and the rapport she had with the students. Evelyn was creative and passionate about art and color. She enjoyed such creative endeavors as weaving, knitting, photography, spinning, and sewing.
A celebration of Evelyn’s life will be held at the United Church of Christ in Westmoreland. Services will be held at 12:30 on Sunday the 28th. In honor Evelyn’s love of color, guests are invited to wear bright colors. Contributions can be made in her name to the Monadnock Humane Society, 101 W. Swanzey Rd., West Swanzey, NH 03469.
You might think it’s a long way from Appian Way to Hollywood, but the distance got a lot shorter last month when Film Studies Professor Emeritus Larry Benaquist traveled with KSC Sr. Major Gift Officer Sean Gillery ’89 to reconnect with film studies alums in California. Dr. Benaquist got to see what several of his successful students had done with their degrees, and the duo got tours of the fabled Warner Bros. lot and Dreamworks studios.
The KSC community is saddened to learn of the unexpected passing of Lisa Henkel from heart failure on October 30. Lisa was a student, an alumni, an employee, and the beloved daughter of KSC music lecturer Sussan Henkel. Lisa was also an inspiration. She worked in the Office of Disability Services using adaptive technology, helping to develop materials in Braille for vision impaired students. Her particular talent was in translating math and music, a difficult enterprise requiring knowledge and skill but made effective by her connection to the students she served.
Memorial services were held this morning (Nov. 4) at 10 a.m. at the Unitarian Church in Keene.
In September, we told you about the CANstruction competition, in collaboration with The Community Kitchen and Scully Architects, where groups use canned goods to design and create clever structures. Three teams created remarkable sculptures in the Student Center atrium on Monday (Nov. 1). If you didn’t get a chance to see them, you can catch them in today’s Candid Campus gallery.
And don’t forget to use the “comments” link to tell these clever and socially conscious designers that you appreciate their worthy efforts.
Dare I ask if anyone remembers the old TV Western, The Guns of Will Sonnet? Com’on, it wasn’t that long ago. Anyway, the main character was a tough old timer who would warn his opponents that he was the fastest gun alive. “No brag, just fact,” he would add.
I often think of that line when faced with a remarkable achievement. Several of our recent grads have gone on to notable careers in the sciences and arts, and they credit their education here for getting them where they are today. The Office of Sponsored Projects & Research has collected several of those stories, and they’re well worth reading as testimonies of the very talented students KSC attracts and the excellent instruction they receive here. No brag, just fact.
It is possible—with your help! The Alumni Association is looking for five or six alumni to join a committee with students to guide our plans for our first Alumni/Student Winter Carnival Homecoming scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Feb. 4 & 5, 2011. We are dreaming big and need your help in the planning and activities. Ice skating, a bonfire, broom hockey, men’s and women’s basketball, the Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner, snow sculptures along Appian Way, KSC tubing night at Granite Gorge—imagine the possibilities. It can all come true, if you pitch in a little of your time and a lot of your enthusiasm! To volunteer, please email Patty Farmer.