Emerita faculty member Miriam Goder has let us know that her husband, Dr. Harold Goder, passed away December 30, 2008. Dr. Goder was a faculty member in Biology from 1962 through his retirement in 1998. Miriam, a Keene State faculty member in Music from 1962 to 1994, lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Please use the “Comments” link below to share your memories of the Goders with us.
Keene State will have three athletes competing in the 25th annual NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field National Championships at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terra Haute, Indiana, this Friday and Saturday (March 13 and 14). Sophomore Craig MacPerson (Derry, N.H.) is the top seed in the mile, sophomore Bryan Kolacz (Brentwood, N.H.) is the third seed in the weight throw, and senior Peter Najem (Derry, N.H.) is seeded sixth in the 800-meter race.
Kristine Trutor’s swimming prowess has earned her a berth in the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships. She’ll be heading to the University of Minnesota’s University Aquatic Center for the weekend of March 18-21 to compete. She qualified in the 100-yard backstroke and will also have the opportunity to compete in the 100 butterfly and 200 back events.
A shoulder injury held Trutor back during her freshman and sophomore seasons, but now she’s ready to go. In early December, she set three individual backstroke records to lead Keene State to its third-straight Little East Conference Championship. And in February, she won three individual backstroke races, swam on four winning relays, and earned Swimmer of the Meet honors, leading the Owls to their second-straight NEISDA crown.
Get ready for a wild night of dance and entertainment! Keigwin+Company, which last wowed Keene audiences in 2005, brings its latest creation, Elements: Water, Fire, Earth, Air, to the Main Theatre at Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center on Wednesday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. K+C combines physicality with theatricality, fusing art with entertainment.
Want a preview? Come to the Keigwin Kabaret on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:30 in the Redfern’s Alumni Recital Hall and get a sample of K+C’s kinetic hi-jinks style. The Kabaret “dishes up glamour, sex, music, and dance with kinky élan,” says the Village Voice. And, it’s free and open to the public.
Did you see the 2005 performance? What did you think?
For about two years, Keene State has been talking about moving to the Common Application for its application process. Good news: We got in!
What this means, practically speaking: Students who are applying to KSC starting in August will fill out the Common Application (plus a short Keene State supplement), and designate Keene State on their application.
Applicants get to apply to several schools (including KSC, UNH, and lots of other schools nationally, public and private) with just one form. And our admissions office can radically decrease the amount of data entry (and attendant time and money spent), since info from the Common Application goes right into our student information system.
Questions about the switch? Contact the admissions office.
KSC will now offer a baccalaureate degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The curriculum combines historical study with an interdisciplinary exploration of the Holocaust and other genocidal events and incorporates such disciplines as film, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, religious studies, and women’s studies. The major is currently accepting students for the 2009–10 academic year.
The 13-member Owl women’s swim team captured its second consecutive New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association (NEISDA) Championship at the Tripp Athletic Center Pool on the campus of UMass-Dartmouth on Sunday, Feb. 22. Keene State also won the NEISDA title in 2001.
An exhausted Owl squad mustered enough energy and determination during the demanding weekend competition to pull off the championship.
The Owls set four school records and established one meet and pool mark on Sunday. They won three races, including the 400 freestyle relay, the final race of the meet, to claim the crown.
Several Owl swimmers will know in two weeks if their provisional qualifying times will be good enough to get them a spot in the NCAA Division III championships that take place in Minneapolis March 18–21.
Did you see the 2009 Biennial Regional Jurors’ Choice exhibit at the Thorne? Keene artist Nicole Caulfield’s colored pencil work, Zen, depicting her oldest daughter, Katie, who attends Symonds School in Keene, won the People’s Choice Award as well as the Jurors’ Best of Show prize.
Get ready for a fantasy journey through a child’s vivid imagination as the Thorne and the Redfern collaborate to bring Sebastienne Mundeim’s Sea of Birds to campus on Thursday, March 12 at 6 p.m, 7:30 p.m., and 8:30 p.m. The story is based on a child’s memories of an Eastern European displacement camp during the Second World War.
Mundheim is known for integrating historical themes with lyrical storytelling that engages children and adults. Structured like Homer’s Odyssey and reminiscent of The Little Prince, the performance promises to transport audiences to a fantastical world, exploring history, memory, and the power of the imagination.
The public is invited to watch the set being installed at the Thorne from noon to 4 p.m., Monday, March 9, through Wednesday, March 11, and there will be a brief question-and-answer session with the cast and audience after the 6 p.m. performance.
Did you see the KSC production of Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker? It was so good that the cast and crew were invited to perform it at the 41st New England Region I Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival held at Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Mass., Jan. 27–Feb. 1. Professional respondents and student critics of the festival’s productions gave The Matchmaker a unanimous thumbs up. As did the audiences here on campus.
The festival brings students and faculty together to see some of the area’s strongest productions, participate in workshops, and compete in a variety of areas in theatrical performance, design, and production. Several KSC students and faculty were recognized for their work in The Matchmaker and other KSC productions.
Are you looking to expand your awareness of current topics? The “Great Decisions” program, a nationwide forum of the Foreign Policy Association (FPA), focuses on impartial, thought-provoking analyses of issues concerning U.S. policymakers, and it has just received a Pepsi-KSC Partnership Grant. The 2009 “Great Decisions” program includes
• Afghanistan and Pakistan, March 12
• Egypt: Key Ally in the Middle East, March 26
• Global Food Crisis, April 9
• The U.S. and Rising Powers, April 23
Each discussion will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Rhodes N120. The series is free and open to the public and includes an open discussion period. “Great Decisions” is designed to encourage thoughtful, non-partisan conversation among community members.
Attend a lecture or two, and tell us what you think.
Here at Newsline, we get our information from a variety of sources: We get news from individuals on-campus and off-, but also from the other excellent publications we have at KSC, including Campus News and The Equinox.
So when the folks from The Equinox asked if they could use this space to remind you of what a great resource they provide, there was really no way we could say no. From Ian Lord, managing editor:
The Equinox is more than just a newspaper.
Since 1929, The Equinox has been the student voice at Keene State College, delivering hard news, student life and arts and entertainment coverage, sports updates and insightful opinions and columns.The Equinox has expanded to the Internet, delivering breaking news coverage and exploring the realms of new media. As newspapers all over the world use new technology to deliver news, so has The Equinox.
On our website, you’ll experience multimedia journalism at its finest. Professionally produced video, podcasts and photo galleries provide different angles to our print material.
And as always, The Equinox maintains the highest standards in journalism and business practices.
Not only are we an award-winning college newspaper, but we provide affordable advertising for campus groups and the Keene community, as well as a forum for the public voice.With a dedicated group of editors and staff members, The Equinox looks to go one step further, and continue with its tradition of excellence.
The Equinox can also be found on Facebook and Twitter and our staff blog.
Remember: “If it’s in the news, it’s in the ‘Nox!
The Biology Department faculty, staff, and students mourn the loss of their newest faculty member, Dr. Hanna Kolodziejski, who died at the age of 32 at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston on Feb. 3, 2009. She will be sorely missed.
Dr. Kolodziejski, known to her students as Dr. K, was a brilliant young neuroethologist who had just earned her Ph.D. from Indiana University before accepting the position of Assistant Professor of Biology at Keene State in the fall of 2007. In her short time here, Hanna demonstrated that she was a dedicated and incredibly talented teacher and mentor of undergraduates, as well as a most excellent colleague.
When word of Dr. K’s illness went out last fall, the campus rallied to support her with a remarkably successful bone marrow drive, which registered 195 donors.
We welcome your memorial comments regarding this inspiring teacher. Please use the “comments” link below.
Special thanks go out to those alums who shared their email usage information and opinions with us. We had a phenomenal response — more than 800 alums responded to our survey! Now, we are compiling the information with other institutional data such as the surveys done at graduation. The Alumni Relations office conducted the survey to assess alumni interest in potential e-mail service options, and to learn how you’re using e-mail already.
As an incentive for folks to fill out the survey, initial respondents names were entered into a drawing for one of four iPod Shuffles! The winners’ names were drawn by the KSC Alumni Association Board of Directors during their quarterly meeting on January 24th. The winners are:
Congratulations, all!
Interested in the survey results? You can view them here.
And if you didn’t have a chance the first time around, it’s not too late! Click here to take the survey. Please visit our survey site to give us your feedback, too.
Keene State College is saddened to announce that Cornelius Railey (Bud) Lyle II M’61 died Sunday, January 25, at the Special Care Unit at Rivermead in Peterborough, N.H. Dr. Lyle, who worked for several newspapers around the country after his discharge from the U.S. Army in 1946, taught English and journalism at the College from 1961–1986 and founded the journalism program and major. He was awarded the KSC Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teacher Award in 1978.
If you click on the “More information” link, below, you’ll read a nice remembrance of Dr. Lyle from one of his former students. We’d love to hear from other alums who remember this great professor! Please use the “Comments” feature on this page.
Eight of the regional artists selected to participate in the Thorne’s Biennial Regional Juror’s Choice Exhibition received awards at a Jan. 23, reception opening the exhibit.
Nicole Caulfield of Keene won the Jurors’ Best of Show Award for Zen, a colored pencil work. The $500 prize for this award is sponsored by the Friends of the Thorne.
Patricia Shappler of Bedford, N.H., was awarded second place of $300 for Heading Downtown, an acrylic painting.
Ronnie McClure of Canterbury, N.H., received third place of $200 for Crossing, an ink and colored pencil work on rag paper.
In addition to the top three winners, the following artists received honorable mentions, which include a $25 cash award:
Come to campus and see this impressive exhibit, and cast your vote for a People’s Choice Commendation. The artist winning this $100 prize will be announced February 12.
