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Theatre & Dance Students at Kennedy Center Festival
Four KSC Theatre and Dance Design students recently presented their work at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and received great feedback from a panel of professional experts, who praised their designs. Alexandra Vendt, lighting designer for Agnes of God; Gary Beisaw, props designer for The Rocky Horror Show; and Michael Portrie, sound designer for The Rocky Horror Show, were nominated as finalist.
Gary Beisaw won the S.P.A.M. Award for excellence in stage properties for his design for The Rocky Horror Show.
Alexandra Vendt won the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas Award for excellence in design-technology for her lighting design for Agnes of God.
Riley Ahern is one of 36 semifinalists (out of 240 students) at the KCACTF.
Remember that Prof Who Changed Your Life?
Help them get the recognition they deserve: Nominate them for the 2012 Distinguished Teacher Award.
Each year the KSC Alumni Association recognizes an outstanding faculty member, based upon the following criteria: excellence in classroom teaching, encouragement of independent thinking, rapport with students in and out of the classroom, and effective student advising. If you know a faculty member here who fits that bill, send in a nomination. For more information, and a nomination form, visit the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teacher page.
Hurry, the deadline is 4 p.m., March 9, 2012!
President Giles-Gee Featured in Compact Current
KSC President Helen Giles-Gee, is featured on the front page of national Campus Compact’s newsletter, Compact Current. The article outlines Dr. Giles-Gee’s priorities of economic development, preparing students for global citizenship, and developing a new fiscal model of sustainability.
Tracy Minard ’10: Serving the Peace Corps in Bulgaria
Most students look for a college that’s far enough away from home, but not too far away. It’s nice to be able to get home for long weekends, or when the laundry gets too piled up. But Tracy Minard ’10 sure isn’t most students. She grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, and made her first long trip to Keene when she arrived as a freshman. She studied English and minored in writing, but even moving across a large continent didn’t assuage her wanderlust. She spent a semester abroad in Florence and did an internship with the Center for International Studies in Northampton, Mass.
But distant horizons still beckoned, and she joined the Peace Corps before she’d even graduated from KSC. It must not have been to out of character for her, though. When she told her friends what she’d done, they all responded, “Of course you’re joining the Peace Corps, Tracy!” Now she’s living in a small Muslim village in the Rhodopi Mountains in southern Bulgaria, teaching English to grades 2–8.
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In Memoriam: Professor Kristi Alvarez
Following a brave fight against cancer, former Associate Professor of Geography Kristin J Alvarez died peacefully in her sleep. Prof. Alvarez started teaching at KSC in the fall of 1999, earning a reputation as an excellent geography teacher and a leader in social science education, committed to broadening the geography education experience for students. She was also recognized for her integrity, work ethic, and indomitable spirit.
Dr. Alvarez left Keene State College in 2009 when she was offered a signature opportunity at the University of Redlands in California that allowed her to work with a local school district and a brand new high school to infuse geospatial technologies and spatial thinking into the curriculum.
Dr. Alvarez and her family maintained a Caring Bridge page for her. Enter kristinalvarez in the “Visit a Site” box.
Who’s Still Standing? —Anthony Bishop ’94
Remember Anthony Bishop ’94, former design/tech major at Keene State College? Well, he’s now the art director for the new NBC game show Who’s Still Standing? You can visit him on the set in this YouTube promo video (Anthony appears at the 2:26 mark). Check it out and drop him a big congratulations via the “Comments” link below.
KSC Awarded Grants to Protect Valuable Collections
KSC recently received grants to preserve and protect its most valuable collections and archived material.
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the College $5,560 for “Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan and Staff Training to Preserve Special Collections and Film Archives.” The project will help create a disaster preparedness and recovery plan for the College’s archives, special collections, and film holdings; provide staff with training in emergency preparedness and response planning; and prepare disaster supply kits. The College’s holdings consist of over 250 linear feet of archival and manuscript material and over 6,000 volumes of print and bound materials, covering predominantly the disciplines of history, literature, poetry, film studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, and anthropology. The Film Archives holdings include approximately 1,000 color and black & white motion-picture films.
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Women’s Soccer Team Wins NSCAA Academic Award
The National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) recognized the Owl women’s soccer team for their academic achievement. The Owls’ lofty 3.56 combined GPA for fall 2010 and spring 2011 puts them in elite company. Among the 572 teams recognized, including all three NCAA Divisions and NAIA, Keene State is ranked 22nd. The Owls are seventh among the 179 Division III teams honored, and had the second-best GPA in New England behind MIT. And they’re good athletes, too. They finished the season with a 15-7-3 record, captured the Little East Conference regular season championship and earned a berth in the ECAC New England tournament.
What’s New with You?
Don’t miss any of the news, opportunities, and events we bring your way! If your contact info has changed, or if we don’t even have old info, visit our Update Us! page so you won’t miss a thing. And tell your KSC friends!
Winter’s Best at Winterfest!
Some of the warmest memories of KSC have got to involve snow. Come to campus for the weekend of February 3–5, for more memory-making opportunities. We’ve got lots of things planned, including:
- snow tubing at Granite Gorge on Friday night
- one of Warren Miller’s spectacular ski films on Friday and Saturday
- a snow-sculpture contest
- men’s and women’s basketball (vs USM!)
- the ever-exciting rail jam
- KSC ski day at Mt. Sunapee on Sunday!
And that’s just some of the fun! Check out the full schedule on the Winterfest page, and start making your plans.
Come to Work at KSC
KSC is a great place to work, and we’re always happy to hear from alums or others in the extended KSC community who have the skills and experience we can use. We have several faculty and staff positions open. Here are a few:
- Experimental psychology, tenure-track assistant professor
- Political science, tenure-track assistant professor
- Health science, tenure-track assistant professor
- Safety and Occupational Health Applied Science, industrial chemist, tenure-track assistant professor
- Physical education, tenure-track assistant professor
- Teacher education-elementary education, tenure-track position
- Teacher education-early childhood education, tenure-track position
- Advisor, Academic and Career Advising
- Construction Specialist, NH OSHA consultation program
- Campus Safety officers
Find out more, and apply online on the Employment Opportunities page (updated regularly). For more information, contact Heather McGreer, assistant director of Human Resources, at 603-358-2471 or hmcgreer@keene.edu
Students to Serve in Jamaica in January
A group of KSC students are headed to Petersfield, Jamaica, for 10 days, to serve and learn with the Amizade Global Service-Learning and Volunteer Programs‘ community partners in the island nation.
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Where’d I See That?
OK, after the holidays, everyone needs a break. So this one’s soooooo easy. Where is it, and what’s it about?
If you think you know the answer, please write it legibly on a slip of paper and stick it inside a 1947 King 3B trombone and mail it, in the trombone’s original case, to Newsline, Alumni Center, 229 Main St., Keene, NH 03435. Or use the “comments” link, below.
KSC Film, Enter to Learn … Go Forth to Serve, Now Available on Amazon!
The remarkable film by Larry Benaquist and Lance Levesque (and a wealth of film students), Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve: The First Hundred Years of Keene State College, is now available at the KSC Bookstore, and on Amazon.com. That makes it easy for anyone to get a copy of this excellent record of the historic events that led from a normal school established in Keene in 1909 to train good teachers to the development of New Hampshire’s premier public liberal arts college. The film aired on New Hampshire Public Television several times this fall.
The KSC Bookstore’s Holiday Sale
Looking for a special gift for your favorite student or alum? Get yourself to the KSC Bookstore this Thursday & Friday (Dec 8 & 9) for the big holiday sale. 20% off all clothing, gifts, and glassware!